Reply #29: This is really horrible. To get somebody fired in the Bush economy

[mistertrickster]

is not so easy to bounce back from. It's not like the 60's where you could just hitch-hike from one good manufacturing job to another.

In addition to all the concerns noted so far, I have another one: stealing someone's log-in name (or fabricating a new one), then posting a bunch of fictious crap that will get them in trouble.

For instance, the FReep (a so-called libertarian--wow, talk about a contradiction--"I want everybody to be able to do what they want without interference unless they do something I don't like, then I sic authority on them) is named Lane Flynn. He went to Vanderbilt University and quite a lot of on-line information has already been gleaned on the rat bastard.

Now let's just say--AND I'M NOT ENCOURAGING ANYBODY TO DO THIS--(I'm not even pretending to not encourage anybody so that will actually do this--DO NOT DO THIS)--let's just say that somebody could take all the known information about the aforesaid Mr. Flynn and create a believable web persona that would then post encouraging words to The World Communist Workers of the World or even an Al Qaeda website.

Those fake posts could be turned over to authorities or Mr. Flynn's boss as evidence of treason and hatred for his country. Mr. Flynn would rightly complain that he isn't really an Islamic Communist terrorist, but who's going to believe an Islamic Communist terrorist?

Anyone with a web history could be a victim of the same thing that happened to misanthrope.