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[rm]

I didn't have much to say when the LJ person got a visit from the Secret Service or FBI or whatever because of things said in their LJ, mainly because it's not the first time it's happened, and I didn't think I, or anyone else, was surprised by now. It also didn't strike me as that weird -- unfortunate sure, and a bit silly, but it's how you don't joke about bombs in airports -- there are just some things we don't say anymore, and the reality of that is probably a different discussion for a different time. Here we are now.

Then there's this -- which is unbelieveably freaky to me:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/resonant8/71077.html

Summary: Romance novelist's house is raided due to research she was doing on terrorism in Cambodia for a fiction project. Read it.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

The only thing notable about the first event was that an LJ person felt the need to report it, and like the other similar case I know about, it seemed like more a way of fucking with someone's life than general concern, which just makes the whole affair stupid all the way around.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

Yeah, something similar happened to artvamp a few years ago- someone reading her journal decided to take a humorous comment she had made and report it as a terroristic threat. The feds came to her door and just sat and talked with her, telling her that they had to investigate every report no matter how silly it seemed, etc.

The whole thing was stupid, and the hysteria being generated is stupid too. Argh.