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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Knowledge versus military power

[Anonymous Bullard]

Knowledge is power, more power than any firearm or bomb can give you.

Well the Tibetans, and anyone with access and interest in non-CCP-revised history books, know that Tibet is only "inalienable part of Chinese empire" because certain Mao Zedong sent his battle-hardened communist party army to invade it in 1950. Tibet had decided to give up militarism in favour of buddhist studies centuries earlier (they even invaded China's imperial capital once, but that was settled for an eternal peace and respect for each others' sovereign borders...) so they were easy prey for their indoctrinated and military-expansionist neighbour.

A few years later it took a massive UN-backed military expedition to save South Korea from being overran by the Maoist China-backed North. Tibet fell and remains under brutal occupation and genocidal policies by China, while in South Korea people are free.

If there is no cost involved in destroying one's neighbour (Tibet is actually being ripped off of its natural wealth), be it a trade blockade or military action, knowledge alone provides no protection to the victims.

Of course, in Tibet the occupying chinese are doing everything to distort and suppress information and communications to prevent the people from organizing uprisings, but even when they do rise up there are people like Hu Jintao (China's current Party supremo aka Butcher of Tibet for his brutality as the chief chinese CCP head in Tibet) who have no qualms about using military firepower against unarmed people.

It is extremely tragic that the Tibetans' non-violent struggle for freedom is being doomed by the indifference (and preference to do business with their occupiers instead) of the West. What would you do if you were a Tibetan under the dire circumstances? Knowledge hasn't helped and even if they had guns the chinese have a massive military superiority at every imaginable level.

It ain't easy being a freedom fighter these days. I mean terrorist of course...