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Little Red Book Draws Government Attention
narcolepticjim writes "An unnamed Dartmouth student was visited by Homeland Security for requesting a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book for a class project." From the article: "The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said."
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I'm not fat, just big boned...
...at least he got material for his research paper on fascism and totalitarianism.
Thanks, I'll be here all day.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
I don't think they can visit 100,000 people.
Not yet, but if your plan works the DHS will get increased funding for more agents to investigate the "epidemic of thinking".
Trolling is a art,
And I'm proud to be an American.
Where at least I'm told I'm free.
I won't forget the third-grade class
that ingrained it into me,
and I'll proudly stand up,
next to you, though I don't know what it means.
Oh, there ain't no doubt who runs this land.
God Bless the bourgeois.
I wrote that in my head when I had to work at K-Mart the day after the 9/11 attack, telling people constantly that we were out of flags (what, you didn't care about them a week ago?), and hearing patriotic music blaring on the radio.
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They don't mind people reading the book. The reason they came after him was that he was trying to get it from the library. They won't have cared if he'd just bought it from Amazon like a normal person, but he had to try and deprive Chairman Mao's estate of their royalties, and there's no way the Feds can turn a blind eye to that, especially when they're pushing China to crack down on that sort of stuff.