It's curious how it doesn't appear anymore on the MSN feed, but, there was a major cyber attack on the CIA's website that took it offline for hours yesterday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9076314/CIA-website-hacked-in-attack-claimed-by-shadowy-cyber-group-Anonymous.html

It is reported that Anonymous claimed responsibility, although it does not appear on the website Anon Ops, although my warning now does.

That's because more importantly, there was a major attack on the Alabama Department of Homeland Security, in which the names of 46,000 Alabamians were compromised.

I'm not in favor of the Alabama immigration law as it stands, the alleged partial motive of the act of cyber terrorism on the State of Alabama, although President Obama in his State of the Union Address very wisely and generously offered Republicans who like such laws a chance to do immigration reform correctly, correctly in the sense of immigration in my analysis clearly being by far a Federal Question under an Original Intent analysis of the "preemption doctrine" raised by any of the Several States immigration laws.

I'm even less in favor, however, of cyber-terrorists taking out Alabama governmental websites and releasing information of folks from Alabama that has no business being distributed to the Internet, as that is an act of terrorism against the State of Alabama which undermines the democratic process here, and on the immigration issue could easily backfire, as you might get people's back up, potentially totally counter-productive when there's clearly a consensus in Alabama to back out of the law as gracefully as can be done, if because of the "manners" of Alabama, its like watching a kabuki dance, Southern style.

Thus, if its forensically confirmed, I'm also in favor of Anonymous members getting a small dose of their own medicine, once, like our own denial of service attack against Anon Ops.

Attacking the CIA's website isn't ok either of course, and in an of itself would justify an act of cyber retaliation against Anonymous if causality was firmly established, just as maybe there's a lesson for folks in Alabama that like it or not, we're more part of the country than sometimes people here want, especially when you look at the last target: Mexico.

Its pretty obvious that Anonymous or not, maybe a foreign power, in that cyber attack, someone was trying to alter American relationships with Latin America in a way that can't be good for anyone here in Alabama or the rest of the country.

Alabama can't pass a law like the immigration law and ignore its potential to cause itself and the rest of the country problems overseas that aren't worth the alleged benefit in the first place.

Since immigration by definition involves foreign powers, that's a reason right there for the Several States to defer to the Federal Government on immigration matters, even as the laws themselves ought to be taken as the "firebell in the night" that enough of the Several States are tired of current Federal immigration policy that some things need to change with that policy too.

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