Cyberterrorism in "Livingston (Lying) Out Loud"

“This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.” When members of a community can no longer, even in jest, talk honestly with each other without being censored on line by what can only be called a blatant form of intimidation and there is no refutation of falsehoods, then they face their collective loss of Constitutional rights. The battle for freedom is mostly fought, ironically not in the streets of Bagdad, but at the local level and here the kind, honest and fair-minded Livingston residents must not yield to the machinations of a twisted mind like the author of “Livingston Out Loud.” Her ramblings do not represent our community and it is an outrage that she uses our name in her tirades. There may be a reason that author could have been given a golden corporate parachute, lost any local businesses attempted, was on local boards for a very, very short time before finally being rejected, and generally is shunned in the community in spite of her personal endorsement by the local paper and her good friend Vicki Blakeman. Local people call the blog site “Livingston Lying Out Loud” because the blog site contains more half truths than a month of Bill O’Reilley comments on Fox News and the author of those also half lies, apparently has no conscience and certainly no sense of human decency. Generally speaking, Livingston community members have stopped looking at the blog site mostly because of its malicious nature, but apparently the author, lost in what seems to be her narcissistic belief that she runs this community with a poison pen, and lost in intellectual self-message, continues her path of attempting to harm the lives of others with no accountability---thus far. But the people she supports most and from whom she gets the greatest part of her encouragement in her efforts at cyberterrorism, Vicki Blakeman, Steve Caldwell, and Mary Beebe, may well be also harmed by the authors tenor in her writing in the long run. One can only hope that during a George Bush administration, with its Patriot act, its attempt to take away first amendment rights, and its attack on innocent people, that the trickle down effect of his policies to the local level can be reversed by the good intentions of those Montanans who would stand up for basic human rights on either side of the political spectrum.