Report from the Middle :: "Internet Warfare"

What could be more natural than warfare... now explained in context of the Internet. A Cold War term from those days in Russia -- "Ideological Aggression" -- has tripped up interested MooPig Report from the Middle Editors.

First Heard on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124288271

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123979347

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125598665

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121233848

From this last LINK on chemical warfare as practiced by plants, yes flora, in nature:

" ... In his 1844 story "Rappaccini's Daughter," Nathaniel Hawthorne described an elderly doctor who tended a mysterious walled garden of poisonous plants. The old man's demeanor in the presence of his shrubs and vines "was that of one walking among malignant influences, such as savage beasts, or deadly snakes, or evil spirits, which, should he allow them one moment of license, would wreak upon him some terrible fatality. ... "

And like the plant kingdom -- " ... A tree sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed stops the heart; a shrub causes intolerable pain; a vine intoxicates; a leaf triggers a war: a Kudzu vine strangles a forest. Within the plant kingdom lurk unfathomable evils. ... " -- it turns out other would-be Internet developing countries consider the USA styled Internet a weapon.

Also, our Internet, other nations consider it an American form of subversion. Internet highways are considered subterfuges of mind control. Yes, it is happening; but is it armed aggression?

We build a tower to Babble and reap the destruction, that is, if it all be interfered with by reverse ideological aggression. This puts a new debate out there for brain industries to mull; but the outcome will depend on the legitimacy of the Internet as part of indirect, economic or ideological aggression. Truthfully, it does encompass all three forms of unarmed aggression. How will others react to perceived or proven aggressions? Will they initiate armed retaliation, or simply unplug the culprits?

That's our Report from the Middle: where the Men are all good-looking, Women are cleaved and strong, and Children are all above average.