¢ Lawrence native and novelist Sara Paretsky writes about how the war in Iraq has affected her work in an essay in the Chicago Tribune. She recounts that she was asked to change a speech topic on the Patriot Act at the Toledo (Ohio) Public Library because event organizers thought the issue was too sensitive._ Confrontation scares me; when the Toledo library asked my speakers bureau to help rein me in, I thought seriously about changing my talk. Then I thought of the times — too many of them — that I had caved in to this kind of pressure, and remembered the sense of degradation I suffered afterward.__When Disney made a movie based on my detective, I caved in to studio pressure not to talk about my experience with the moviemakers. When editors have cut scenes from my books that they found offensive, I’ve let it go without an argument. The many times as a young adult I let my parents veto any moves away from their authority still sit uneasy in my gut 40 years later.__The lecture I planned to give in Toledo addressed issues of censorship and silence. If I let my voice be muffled, could I ever speak in public again?_