[Infowarrior] - Auto-Immune War

[Richard Forno]

Accidental Guerrilla: Part 1, Theoretical Framework
http://yorksranter.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/accidental-guerrilla-part-1-theoretical-framework/


Accidental Guerrilla; Part 2, Strategy
http://yorksranter.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/accidential-guerrilla-part-2-strategy/

"The reason why biology should get dragged in here is that we are to  
be destroyed by the over-reaction of our own security system, just as  
auto-immune diseases turn the immune system on the body. This is a  
crucial concept, and it is one whose implications cascade through all  
kinds of other problems, from grand strategy down to airport security  
measures.

Specifically, auto-immune war is a strategy, but its tactical  
implementation is the creation of false positive responses. Security  
obsession gums up the economy with inefficiencies. Terrorism  
terrorises the public; security theatre keeps them that way. As  
Kilcullen points out, every day, millions of travellers are  
systematically reminded of terrorism by government security  
precautions. Profiling measures subject entire communities to  
indignity and waste endless hours of police time. Vast sums of money  
are spent on counterproductive equipment programs and unlikely techno- 
fixes. National identity cards and monster databases are the specific  
symptoms of this pathology in the UK, just as idiotic militarism is in  
the US."