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John Cole is a Steelers fan and former die-hard Republican who edits and writes a blog called Balloon Juice, which is mostly (but not exclusively) about national politics. (Warning: Those of you with delicate constitutions will find some bad language there.)
I stumbled onto it quite by accident, and it's become a must-read for me every day. And almost daily, I find something worth quoting, but these passages from last Thursday were especially pungent. I'm sure they'll fire some of you up:
One thing that even the dim bulbs in the media should understand by now is that there is in fact a class war going on, and it is the rich and powerful who are waging it. Anyone who does anything that empowers the little people or that threatens the wealth and power of the plutocracy must be destroyed ...
You have to understand the mindset --- they are playing for keeps. The vast majority of the wealth isn't enough. They want it all. Anything that gets in their way must be destroyed. They don't care if they poison every stream or crack the foundation to your house or if your daughter dies getting a back-alley abortion or if everyone in your mining town has an inoperable tumor. They just don't give a s--t.
And they are well-financed, have a strong infrastructure, a sympathetic media and entire organizations dedicated to running cover for them. They've even created their own mythical ideology in which they are superhero Galtian overlords, and this lets a few rubes who babble ignorantly about the free market get to feel like they are playing along, when they are really just being played.
It's these guys versus all of us, yet half the people being rogered (Republicans and glibertarians and hell, half the Democrats) have been convinced the other side is a bigger threat to their well-being than the people with all the power, money and resources.
Ars Technica ran a few pieces in the past week about the latest Anonymous exploits. For those readers who are somewhat technically-minded, it provides a frightening look at how American companies conduct their business.
While I don’t agree with a lot of their motivations and/or tactics, it is inarguable that the fallout from the Anonymous attack on HBGary is of critical importance.
This is how the next war will be fought, people. And American companies have been practicing on us.
(http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars)
John - February 17, 2011
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