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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.

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I'd heard about this, but hadn't read it yet. Thank you. I am linking to it, now, too.

This is particularly chilling for those of us who fact-check and do copyediting research for books. Think of what the Homeland Security people would think if they took a look at some of my research patterns on any given day -- for a book about the Middle East. Or terrorism in a historical context. Or crytography. Or computer hacking. God. That's frightening.