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Friday
Apr092010

Anne Jackson is Liam Neeson .... sort of .... 

Way back in 2008, Liam Neeson starred in a movie called Taken. Basically, an ex-spy's daughter Kim (Maggie Grace of Lost) gets kidnapped during a trip to Europe and is hurled into the ruthless world of sex trafficking, a world in which such girls often disappear.

Neeson spends much of the rest of the movie kicking you-know-what, sustaining little more than a wound or two here and there -- enough to wear a sling at the end of the movie, if my memory's right -- while destroying the bad guys and saving his daughter. 

On April 5, Anne Jackson (aka @flowerdust), a Christian author and blogger, launched a trip in which she's going Liam Neeson on the sex traffickers of Russia and Moldova.

She's not carrying a gun, and she's not killing anyone, but she's trying to

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