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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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Similar happenings at Defcon this year. A so called hacktavist ( he wasn't he was just a tool ) went on and on about how he was going to fuck up the RNC in NYC. Someone said something about what about if they arrest you or take away ( something ) and the guy made a comment about bombs and so on. He was hauled away.

On the one had it's stupidity to even talk about stuff like that. Anyone with a brain can differentiate what to say and waht not to say - however as the fed pointed out - every report has to be investigated. This rule has been around for a LONG ass time.

There was a comment in a friends LJ about what would happen to him if he wrote a piece about exactly where in hell Dante would put a particular political figgure. Heh.

This reminds me of when I was in the military, and over a holiday many of us flew home. We were told expressly " If you see a friend of yours named jack, say HELLO , not hi ".

We live in scary times, and we need to take that into consideration daily. That does not mean we hide under the blankets in our plastic and duct tape rooms and never speak our mind, but it does mean that when we speak our minds we do it intelligently and with forethought for the new world we live in.