Words and Their Consequences
In Which GN Reveals How Little It takes to Produce Excitement in his Life:
Prior to becoming the blogger known as Grouchy Neocon, I was blogging more or less under my own identity. But that was quite some time ago...
About three weeks ago I received a call from a guy whom I shall refer to as Mr. X. Since I also happened to be casting about for a new job at that time, (and I still am) I was kind of excited about the call. Unfortunately, the guy didn't leave his phone number. He called again a week later and still didn't leave his number. Finally, after a few weeks he left two phone numbers.
I called the number and received a voicemail but the announcement didn't say the name of the person or the name of the company. Very suspicious.
I suspected some sort of telemarketer or aggressive sales type and promptly forgot about it.
Until last night when I received a message on the home answering machine. This time the guy said the name of his company. It turns out he doesn't work for a company. He works for the US Govt. and not just any branch of the US Govt. He works for Military Intelligence.
This is pretty exciting stuff. For some odd reason, probably having to do with some weird male need to be macho, I love military stuff and know far more about it than is normal for someone not actually in the military.
I was dying to find out what this guy wanted, but now that I wanted to talk to him he wasn't answering his phone. I had to wait until this morning to find out.
He was looking into some posts made on my former blog about some force protection procedures for military units overseas. He was especially interested in what a few of the commenters were saying. Apparently someone said too much and they were looking for that person.
I'm patriotic in the extreme. My pseudonym is "neocon" so I guess that would be a tip-off. Anyway, I offered to provide whatever information they wanted.
I'm a little disturbed by the fact that they are trolling blogs looking for secrets when there are probably a lot worse people to be rounded up, but that really isn't any of my business. For whomever they are after, words will have some consequences.
Prior to becoming the blogger known as Grouchy Neocon, I was blogging more or less under my own identity. But that was quite some time ago...
About three weeks ago I received a call from a guy whom I shall refer to as Mr. X. Since I also happened to be casting about for a new job at that time, (and I still am) I was kind of excited about the call. Unfortunately, the guy didn't leave his phone number. He called again a week later and still didn't leave his number. Finally, after a few weeks he left two phone numbers.
I called the number and received a voicemail but the announcement didn't say the name of the person or the name of the company. Very suspicious.
I suspected some sort of telemarketer or aggressive sales type and promptly forgot about it.
Until last night when I received a message on the home answering machine. This time the guy said the name of his company. It turns out he doesn't work for a company. He works for the US Govt. and not just any branch of the US Govt. He works for Military Intelligence.
This is pretty exciting stuff. For some odd reason, probably having to do with some weird male need to be macho, I love military stuff and know far more about it than is normal for someone not actually in the military.
I was dying to find out what this guy wanted, but now that I wanted to talk to him he wasn't answering his phone. I had to wait until this morning to find out.
He was looking into some posts made on my former blog about some force protection procedures for military units overseas. He was especially interested in what a few of the commenters were saying. Apparently someone said too much and they were looking for that person.
I'm patriotic in the extreme. My pseudonym is "neocon" so I guess that would be a tip-off. Anyway, I offered to provide whatever information they wanted.
I'm a little disturbed by the fact that they are trolling blogs looking for secrets when there are probably a lot worse people to be rounded up, but that really isn't any of my business. For whomever they are after, words will have some consequences.
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10:01 PMHere is my write up on your telephone call. Found a bit out about the military intelligence unit there. They sure seem busy.
http://noquarters.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_noquarters_archive.html#112274395416513682
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