Annie J. writes a blog called anniej’s livejournal<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, which was Annie J.’s journal is a pop culture fandom diary about, among other things, “porn, If you take a look at her diary (click the link), you’ll see it’s chatty, very well produced, pretty I know nothing about Annie J. except what she says in her “about me” note — she was born Here’s her story <\/P> A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory I was wrong.<\/P> At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother’s front door to talk to me Obviously, I cannot link to the original LJ post that I made, because I have removed it from After having consulted an attorney to make sure that speaking about what happened to me <\/P> Annie J. then adds a She emphasizes that the Secret Service did not come looking for her as part of a federal To judge by her statement, however, it’s pretty obvious she does feel intimidated. Which is Question: Was what happened to Annie J. just a fluke? A friend of mine with a law degree, Other questions: In the wake of the election, will a Justice Department led by Atty. Gen. John Lastly, as a point of information: Annie J. uses the terms “FBI” and “Secret Service” Annie J. writes a blog called anniej’s livejournal, which was brought to my attention by a friend. Subtitled “the moon & antarctica,” it lives on a popular online publishing site. Annie J.’s journal is a pop culture fandom diary about, among other things, “porn, werewolves, wizards, gay boys fucking, and the hotness of David Thewlis” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbrought to my attention by a friend. Subtitled “the moon & antarctica,” it lives on a popular
\n
\nwerewolves, wizards, gay boys fucking, and the hotness of David Thewlis” and, not least, Harry
\nPotter. (That’s her own description.) Unfortunately, she posted something political not long ago
\nthat brought the Secret Service to her door.<\/P>
\n
\nordinary fandom stuff, not at all pornographic as far as I could tell, not even the slightest bit
\nkinky. <\/P>
\n
\nNov. 6, 1981, in South Carolina — and what I can deduce from her postings. I also don’t know
\nwhat she said in the post that got her into trouble. She’s taken it down to avoid further
\ninvestigation, she says, and to protect the privacy of people who commented in response.<\/P>
\n
\nthe election needless to say), which I find entirely credible:<\/P>
\n
\nFor all my LJ-loving friends, this is a word of warning, a word to the wise,
\nand a word of utter exhaustion after the wringer I’ve been put through in the last twenty-four
\nhours.
\n
\n
\nthings about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. We laughed, we
\nranted, we all said some things. I thought it was a fairly harmless (and rather obvious) attempt at
\nhumor in the face of annoyance, and while a couple of people were offended, as is typical
\nbehavior from me, I saw something shiny and forgot about it, thinking that the whole thing was
\nover and done and nothing else would come of what I said.<\/P>
\n
\n
\nabout what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat
\nto his life. After about ten minutes of talking to me and my family, they quickly came to the
\nconclusion that I was not a threat to national security (mostly because we are the least threatening
\npeople in the entire world) and told me that they would not recommend that any further action be
\ntaken with my case. However, I do now have a file with the FBI that includes my photograph, my
\ne-mail address, and the location of my LJ. This will follow me around for the rest of my life,
\nregardless of the fact that the Secret Service knows that I am not a threat.<\/P>
\n
\nmy LJ to protect myself and those who commented in that thread from receiving any further visits
\nfrom the FBI. [See point of information below.]<\/EM> I apologized for the
\nmiscommunication, though I did not<\/I> apologize for voicing my opinion of George W.
\nBush. I will never apologize for speaking my mind. I will, however, apologize when I say
\nsomething [the] wrong way and for unintentionally offending\/threatening someone, because I am
\nan extremely nonviolent person.<\/P>
\n
\nwill not incur another visit from the Secret Service, I am making this public post to tell you all
\nseveral things.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nadvice. She repeats that she is a non-violent person, and says 1) she has never had any military or
\nweapons training; 2) she would never harm anyone, let alone the president, and would never
\nencourage anyone else to harm him; 3) she wants to warn people to be careful about what they
\nsay on the Internet; 4) she’s concerned about having an FBI file because she doesn’t know what it
\nwill mean for her future.<\/P>
\n
\nfishing expedition, but because somebody denounced her. The FBI “received a report about my
\npost,” she writes, from somebody who had visited her site (whom she suspects she knows). She
\nsays she doesn’t believe her rights were violated by the Secret Service agents who visited her, and
\nshe’s not now considering filing a complaint. She also claims she doesn’t feel intimidated.<\/P>
\n
\nnot surprising. I’d bet most of us would feel intimidated if paid a visit by the Secret Service.<\/P>
\n
\nwho regularly writes about the machinations of the U.S. government, says he’s not surprised by
\nwhat happened to her. It’s not usual for citizens to be investigated by the FBI or the Secret
\nService, but it’s not that uncommon. <\/P>
\n
\nAshcroft be freshly emboldened by the religious-right Moral Majority mandate of 59 million
\nvoters? Will FBI or Secret Service visits become all too common? Will friendly agent drop-ins
\nbecome usual? Will denunciations become the norm? Is it paranoid to ask?
\n
\ninterchangeably, which gives the wrong impression. They are not one and the same. The
\nJustice, charged with various law-enforcement duties. It’s top priority once was to investigate
\ncrime. Now it’s to protect the U.S. from terrorist attack. The
\ncharged with protecting the president and the vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"