We have met the enemy... and they are, apparently, us

From TruthOut (via After Downing Street):

By William Rivers Pitt, www.truthout.org

They called it "Cyber Storm," and it was a war-game exercise run last week by the Department of Homeland Security. The war game had nothing to do with testing the security of our shipping ports, borders, infrastructure or airports. "Cyber Storm" was testing the government's ability to withstand an onslaught of information and protest from bloggers and online activists.

"Participants confirmed," wrote the Associated Press, that "parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events."

The full article is linked in the title.

And if you are from CA, please read this article from BlackBoxVoting.org and take action. If you are not, but know someone who is, please pass this link along to them.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/19353.html