Dr. Jim Ellsworth
@EINS_Institute@infosec.exchange
I'm a retired, General Officer level U.S. Army Intelligence leader who's been in INFOSEC since the 1980s, when it was mostly mainframes & Novell. Certifications came after, when I was off leading in the PSYOP / counternarrative side of IO, so I don't have any & cannot claim to be any sort of technical expert--but I can still (in sha' Allah) talk intelligently with folks who ARE technical experts & help connect such discourse to strategic outcomes. I'm also coming onboard as Associate Director of an academic Global & National Security Policy Institute, a Twitter refugee sold on the fediverse as the most resilient architecture to avoid getting co-opted by billionaires or governments, an observant Muslim & aspiring alim, and a senior EDUCATIONAL Technology scholar. As I said in my old Twitter bio, "Yep--weird." :-D
infosec.exchange
What we're seeing is a transitional strategy. First, this functions--along with the #ICEtapo's #CrimesAgainstHumanity--as part of the broad pattern of fascist oppression by which they seek TO PROVOKE a violent anti-fascist response they could exploit to try to invoke the Insurrection Act, ideally before the crucial midterms they expect to lose.
Second, they're laying the groundwork--should they succeed IN SUPPRESSING those midterms--for the final, consolidation phase of their #TurdReich, so that when this "long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinc[ing] a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism" eventually DOES provoke 'We, the People' to an armed, anti-fascist response, they can use the power of FTO designation, antiterrorism laws, and sentencing guidelines (as weve seen in that one incident in Texas) to try to crush the nascent #resistance.
https://theconversation.com/the-antifa-terrorism-threat-the-trump-administration-describes-does-not-exist-287748
