No warnings please, we’re American
On slashdot today, it was reported that US government officials had issued a warning to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw a posting on a Jihadist Web site.
This news isn’t all that earth shattering really: we know that Islamist Jihadi would like few things better than to launch an electronic attack on th New York Stock Exchange. To me, it looks like business as usual. Government doing its job in warning potential victims of an attack.
To many on slashdot, however, this event is steeped in the shadowy stuff of the politics of fear. Apparently the appropriate response to a threat is not only to ignore the threat but also to conceal that threat from the potential victims. The fact that the US government saw fit to fulfil what is arguably one of its most important responsibilities seems to some people to be evidence of a deep and dark conspiracy of cooperation with terrorists to strike fear into the hearts of Americans.
Given their theories about why the US government might want to terrify it’s populace though, I think they ought to be looking a little closer to home for someone who wants to control Americans through the use of fear.
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