Oh my fucking god.

[emmagrant01]

Okay, look: if you support the current US administration and nothing will shake you in that belief, just cruise on by. Otherwise, read on.

Have you ever made a snarky comment about Bush on your LJ? Have you ever ranted about politics? Have you ever criticized the government? Think you have some right to freedom of speech on your own LJ?

Think again.

Got the link via _inbetween_, btw.

Comments

[helens78]

I'm not afraid of the FBI randomly knocking on my door to ask me a few questions about things I've said about the president. That's not what happened here. Someone decided playing drama queen on LJ wasn't good enough, and they reported this chick's journal to the Secret Service as having death threats against the President on it. That'd get you in trouble no matter who was in power.

*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Dear LJ drama queens: Could that be less funny? No, I don't think so.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the whole "reporting" thing that gets me. You could probably take something *I* said out of context and the same thing could have happened to me, you know? Annie pissed somebody off, and this was the result. Given the powers granted by the Patriot Act, I'm not convinced it couldn't happen to more of us.

As I said somewhere above, I have issues with censoring of any kind of speech, even hate speech. I'm uncomfortable with a lawyer, or the government, or anyone else deciding what someone can or can't say. This just hits a little too close to that -- someone (LJ Drama Queen, as you put it) decided s/he didn't like what Annie was saying, and took a pretty drastic step to silence her.

It's just... beyond words. *shudders*

[helens78]

*hugs bunches*

I've cut people off for making one too many joking death threats against "all MS employees"; they make me uncomfortable, since friends and family fit in the category of "all MS employees". But there's such a big difference between cutting off contact with someone, but leaving them alone to say whatever crap they feel like, and sending the FBI after them. o_O I can't imagine sending any government after anyone, let alone this one. Just awful awful awful. *shakes head*