Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book

mykos writes "Remember when the Pentagon said they were arranging a taxpayer-funded, government-sponsored book burning a couple weeks ago? Well, they made good on that threat, purchasing 9,500 copies of the book to be destroyed. The publisher, St. Martin's Press, has redacted anything the Pentagon told them to redact in the upcoming second run of the book. They Department of Defense has not yet paid for the burned books, but says they are 'in the process.' Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham gave this statement: 'DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security.' Whew, looks like we're safe now."

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30000 Complaints about Directv

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Talk about censorship

[LurkerXXX]

Mod parent up.

Re:Talk about censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

It's "somebody".

Re:Did the author get any from print run?

[Yvan256]

I got both copies right here. In the original version, Han shot first.

Re:Talk about censorship

[drinkypoo]

I can just imagine Slashdot ~80 years ago: "They weren't mistreating the Gypsies and Jews. They were just asking them to carry IDs and wear the symbol of their religion on their sleeve. There's nothing with that."

Well, I don't care about the gypsies, because I don't live in a caravan.

And I don't care about the Jews, because I like to eat pork.

Hey, how dare you take that book away from me? If you don't give it back I'll... hey, where did all the Jews and Gypsies go? I was hoping those guys would stand up for me as fellow downtrodden. I sure can't count on these television-watchers to help me... They're not going to get upset unless someone takes away their Faux News.