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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."
Due to popular demand, St. Martin's Press has just announced they will start a second printing run of the book, Operation Dark Heart.
Wasn't one enough? We knew they were going to shred the things during the first article, where after a bunch of arguing, everybody eventually settled down with the real story and the relatively innocuous explanation.
Did we need to go through it again?
I guess so.
Oh well, I'm going to go shred some copies of the Wilderness Survival Guide. That'll teach you.