Marine's Girl being silenced-- or not?


Posted by Helena Cobban
November 16, 2003 4:11 PM EST | Link
Filed in Antiwar

Folks-- Marine's Girl, who has been writing a great blog for the past 5-plus weeks that provides "Insight on being the girl friend of a Marine in Iraq. Opinions of news items of the day, politics, and relationships" is being intimidated into silence.

I've only had a link up to her blog for a few days, though I've been reading it quite a while longer. She's taken down most of the content that was previously on the blog. But if the blog is still up on the web at all, you should go read this, and this-- as well as anything else you can still find up on her blog.

"First they came for the Jews, and no-one said anything... " You know how the rest of that goes.

Don't let them do anything to this plucky, insightful person or her boyfriend! At the very least, send her a message of support.

Update, Monday a.m.: So it seems that MG actually has powerful supporters within the USMC, as well. Check this. I guess it's not quite all handled yet, but it looks on the way to being so.

Great news, MG! And please, please, get all that content that you'd taken down back up onto your blog a.s.a.p. You and your guy are our Hemingway so far, for this war!



Comments
Comment from... Marinegirl, at November 17, 2003 11:25 PM:

I don't have all my old content anymore. Some I have recovered via Google but for anything that contained links, I'll have to find those again before I can post those again.

I wasn't expecting a rescue so had just saved a few posts in a text file, the rest I just deleted. I thought anyone that arrived at the "Gunney's " request would automatically think of me as the enemy. I had no idea it will all end up turning against him.

The latest is the "gunney" posted on a news group asking for assistance from "Black Hat" hackers to assist him on a project "for the war effort" apparently he has something else planned. I will forward evidence on request.

Comment from... helena, at November 18, 2003 12:28 PM:

Go girl!

(Maybe Gunney's hoping to put a fake site that pretends to be yours, like someone did against Riverbend? Maybe he WAS that someone? Could anyone out there tell us?)

Comment from... Alex, at November 18, 2003 12:45 PM:

FYI, much of the material taken for the fake Riverbend blog was taken verbatim from "healing iraq" ( http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ ) a bona fide Iraqi blog that's been up for at least a month or two.

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