Marine's Girl deals with real life
I was pretty upset a couple of weeks ago when I tried to go to Marine's Girl's lovely blog and found it had been hijacked...
Maybe by the same nasty anti-peacenik gremlins who hijacked Riverbend's blog ways back when? Those blogjackers also put some anodyne, fake "Buddhist"-style pablum onto what had previously been a great, vividly antiwar site.
I emailed MG asking her if she knew what had happened. She replied, "I don't know what happened. It's not mine anymore, that's obvious. Perhaps this is for the best as [her guy] is home now and I wasn't updating very often anyway."
Oh, MG, I miss your voice!
But I understand you have a lot to do in your real life these days... Like getting better, looking after Danny, looking after your guy... I hope you two will get married and make a wonderful life together.
I hope to heck they don't send him to Iraq or any other war zone again.
I also hope you kept good backup archives of all the great posts you put onto "Across the river" throughout those 18 months or so that you ran it? Those are really important and poignant documents. Maybe once you have more energy you could import them back into another blog, on a safer server, and resume blogging? (It strikes me that Blogspot seems terribly vulnerable to the blogjackers, btw.)
Anyway, dear Michigander friend-- I hope your health improves as much and as fast as possible. Comfort, strength, and joy to you and your family!
Look Helena, you and your readers should know there is a law against what I suspect happened to MG and Riverbend's websites. And that law, 18 U.S.C. 1030, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, have a private right of action against violators of the Act. Now it is no easy thing to find out who is hijacking the site...but in theory it CAN be done. And then...bam, you bring a CFAA violation against them if the damages can pass 5000 US dollars. This is the area of law I focus on. I have written before to Juan Cole on the same issue when people were messing around with his site.
Thank you for your concern Helena and Jon. It's ok though as we are pretty busy now anyway. My guy is home now and hopefully will be able to discharge this time. We are concentrating on that so he can avoid even more tours in Iraq.
Hi MG -- Glad to hear you're ok!