How does one prepare
for cyber warfare?
There are no longer fronts
where soldiers block the way
onto civilian grounds of safety.
We are all on the front;
dependent upon technology
for gas and electricity,
for information and news
which could keep us safe
to stay in place.
How do we connect
with family, friends, police,
fire houses, doctors and EMTs,
and get help in an emergency ?
How do we get food on shelves
when distribution channels
get entangled with cyber bullets?
How do we bring water out of taps
when treatment plants are trapped
by foreign intervention
of service connection?
Cyber warfare is a world war.
It has already begun.
Prepare for it to get worse.
There is nowhere to run.
Cyber bullets do not replace
bullets made of lead,
nor rockets, missiles and tanks.
Cyber bullets are simply new
ways to injure, maim and kill.
We are all on the front lines.
The cyber siege has begun.
There is nowhere to run.
We are all on the front.
Worse, the enemy is also within
our congress, state legislatures and courts,
the propaganda machine
of the right-wing Republican Party
funded by American oligarchs,
media-blitzed krieged by FOX
and other talking point right-wingers,
with fingers in the pie
of democratic institutions.
Such patriots of greed hide
in plain sight
cheered with delight
by MAGA white male supremacists
who use Trump as their poster boy,
inciting and inviting
secession from democracy
in favor of autocracy.
We are all on the front.
annarino writes 