The Hazard of Blogging (#179, Topic O)

Commenting on an earlier entry (#173), Anonymous said: Democracy ... is a condition where you can write your thoughts freely on the blog, and no one knocks down your door ..." Well said. In today's Washington Post, the lead article is on a CIA software contractor, who, using the code name Covert Communications, began to write her blog in May -- some 2 months ago -- for the intelligence community. It was a smash hit. Despite the fact that only those with top-secret clearance may access her posts, an entry on food (Morale = Food) drew 890 viewers. Then, on July 13, she wrote one on the Geneva Conversation -- and, according to WP, "a jab at Secretary of State Condoleezza's trip to Europe late last year when she defended U.S. policy on secret detentions and interrogations." She was called into a CIA conference room. There, she was told that what she wrote "worried 'the seventh floor' (where the director and his management team have their offices)." She apologized, figuring that "she would get reprimanded and her blog would be eliminated." Not so. Her badge was seized and she was fired, by the contractor who contracted her services. Well, it is only a job. No one knocks down her door. For one who is retired, such as myself, with no job to go to or from which to get fired, what can I look forward to if I miswrite?