NSA Stirs Concerns of Anonymous' Future Plans

     I read several articles regarding this situation, but I think that this one from The Atlantic summarized it the best.  Basically the director of the National Security Agency, Keith Alexander, is trying to convince our government that Anonymous has the ability to and will hack into power grids and shut them down in attempts to gain power.  This story has red herring written all over it.  Those of us who have followed the Anonymous saga know that they only work towards sending political messages to those who attempt to limit or obstruct our freedom.  They never do anything that would adversely affect regular citizens; such as shutting off their power.  We even have further evidence of this tall tale by the postings on the web after this story surfaced.  According to a post on the Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account, @YourAnonNews, Anonymous wrote "NSA head engages in alarmist rhetoric & fear-mongering" and "why would Anons take out power grids when lives depend on them?"  These statements are posted on a known media source that Anonymous uses to communicate with the rest of the world and they do coincide with the general ideals of the Anonymous movement.  I have to agree with these comments as well as The Atlantic when I say that this type of defamation of character falls right in line with what our government told us about Iraq after 9/11 and what we're being told about China right now.  We were driven to reaction from the creation of fear after 9/11.  We gave the federal government so much power because we wanted to be protected from the "terrorists".  Now that the people are using the tools of modern free speech to work together and have an impact on the world, government leaders are once again trying to create a sense of fear into the public to get us to, once again, give them more authority over the freedoms that we have.  I am not buying it!  With all of the "piracy" acts and the "privacy" acts going on, I think our government is going to try to slip a slick one in somewhere and end up getting the ability to monitor and control our online lives.  The cyber realm is a new frontier and it appears that politicians are vigorously fighting for the ability to control and dictate it...thanks to groups like Anonymous, the rest of us are being made aware of this and are willing to vote based on these actions.  The bottom line is that Anonymous has done nothing that promotes violence, nothing that disrupts the typical person's day, and has gone out of their way to protect those whose rights have been violated by local police officers abusing their power.  These scare tactics have been a part of politics since before I was born and probably a great deal longer.