INSTEAD OF SACRIFICING 100S OF 1,000S OF OUR SOLDIERS (maybe millions) AND EVEN MORE INNOCENT VICTIMS, CAN WE NOW FIGHT A JUST WAR WITH THE INTERNET?

 President Eisenhower warned us long ago about the military complex that had to be controlled and watched by US Citizens.  Congress has led us to unjust wars to improve the economy, to receive millions (maybe billions) from lobbyists who represent the companies that would benefit from war, etc.  Recently, some generals have lobbied congressmen to support the military complex even more.

 “To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America’s prayerful and continuing inspiration:

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.” Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (click below for entire speech). 

The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it might have infected the Iranian uranium enrichment complex at Natanz.

The report, released Friday by Symantec, a computer security software firm, said there were three waves of attacks. Liam O Murchu, a security researcher at the firm, said his team was able to chart the path of the infection because of an unusual feature of the malware: Stuxnet recorded information on the location and type of each computer it infected.

Such information would allow the authors of Stuxnet to determine if they had successfully reached their intended target. By taking samples of Stuxnet they had collected from various computers, the researchers were able to build a model of the spread of the infection. They determined that 12,000 infections could be traced back to just five initial infection points.

Between June 2009 and May 2010, the program took aim at specific organizations in Iran on three occasions, Symantec research noted in an update of a research report the company published last year.

The Symantec team said it had collected five Internet domains that were linked to industrial organizations within Iran. They said because of the company’s privacy policies, they would not disclose the domain names.

 For much more click on: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/science/13stuxnet.html?ref=computermalware
Ike’s farewell address: click on: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?page=transcript&doc=90&title=Transcript+of+President+Dwight+D.+Eisenhower%27s+Farewell+Address+%281961%29 

I am a Minnesota college student currently studying at Winona State University, majoring in Law and Society, with minors in History and English.

 1. A rigged election: If I felt that an election had been tampered with to the point of being rigged, then this must be protested with violence if necessary.

 2. Censored Press: Restriction of press freedoms are guaranteed by the United State’s Constitution, such restrictions, unthinkable as they are, would be intolerable.

3. Consistent Police Brutality: This in no way validates inconsistent police brutality; the police have a dangerous line of work, skulls get cracked. But, if the citizenry are being harassed, arrested, pummeled, fined, and/or bullied without due cause, then action must be taken.

 4. Food shortages: Whether protest could alleviate starvation is entirely relevant, as there is no point in protesting for food when there is none. If there is food and people are starving, not only has the government failed, but society as a whole has failed.

5. Unjust War: A war truly without justification; the attack of a friend or a peaceful nation. This would be a cause for absolute protest and rejection of the war-mongering of the state. While I disagree with the current wars my nation is involved in, I am able to discern casus belli in my nation’s actions.

— Richard W