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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."
... and this kind of stuff is news to me. I'm not going to the library from now on.
yeah good idea!
why let some low life internet punk get anything for your hard work... clicking on the link he supplied.
That's time you'll never get back! Might as well just not let anyone get credit for it... that'll learn him!
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
Others disagree.
Kill tally: 14 to 20 million deaths from starvation
"responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime"
You can find more for themselves.
Besides, even if Mao were actually harmless, why all the fuss? Did the agents confiscate the book? Did the threaten the reader? If not, then what's the big deal with them stopping by to see who was reading the book, and why?
"Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest that I am hard to turn" -- A Scots-Irish prayer
Did they beat the kid up? NO.
Put him in jail?
NO.
Search his house for MP3s? NO.
They came by and asked him some questions.
Your chicken little hysteria is doing more harm then good here. Let's save the concern for when the govt. does do things wrong, like Ruby Ridge, Waco, No knock warrents on the wrong address, using MADD personel to man roadblocks, etc.
There is the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Hand wringing about nonissues ends up making the public insensitive to REAL problems.
And don't quote Pastor Martin Niemöller at me either. People are not being rounded up and taken away.
Communism is a political philosophy dedicated to overthrowing *all* governments in the world and replacing them with proliterian dictatorships. Failure to understand how one's being "a communism" can be interpreted as subversive by *any* goverment demonstrates your overwhelming ignorance, unless you, in fact, are a "communism" youself.
Regarding the need for a revolution, I shall defer to the Beatles: "...and if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao/you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow." Clearly Homeland Security follows the Lennon/McCartney precedent for this issue.