It’s All About Peace. Of Mind. For Paranoid Neocons.
Again I say, “Warrants, schmarrants. What could possibly go wrong?”
Oh. (Via Digby.)
I think we may have underestimated Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney. All this scary dirty hippie talk isn’t just rhetorical:
Last February the Department of Homeland Security oversaw a large-scale international cyber terror simulation involving 115 public and private organizations in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, all testing their ability to coordinate with one another and respond to computer-driven attacks. It was called Cyber Storm.
Nobody’s said much about the results, or the details of the exercise scenario. But a newly-published DHS PowerPoint presentation on the exercise reveals that the real terrorist threat in cyber space isn’t from obvious suspects like al Qaida types or Connecticut voters; it’s from anti-globalization radicals and peace activists.
This is for real, apparently. The government is actually spending money doing simulations of potential terrorist attacks by peace activists.
As of Monday, I’ll be done with the summer of luggage and back in hippie country for the duration. (Light posting til then.) I’ll have to remember to watch my back.
