Watch what you check out at the library.

[genieroze]

Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer

NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book."

Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program.
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.

The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further.
"I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said. "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the visit, as I understand it."

Although The Standard-Times knows the name of the student, he is not coming forward because he fears repercussions should his name become public. He has not spoken to The Standard-Times.


http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm

[soothsayer]

1. omigod we're still fighting the commies! that's hilarious

[madeline_con]

3. What's NOT funny is that taxes pay for this insanity. n/t

[Supersedeas]

7. this book is on the watch list

[madeline_con]

2. Wow! I must be on a "watch list," also.

I've spent time abroad and recently checked out Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". ;)

[oldtime dfl_er]

5. you're being wiretapped

as a threat to amurkin security!

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/658010

[rpgamerd00d]

4. People still use libraries ?

Who knew!
:D

[Sequoia]

6. I have my very own copy that I found at an old bookstore.

Fear the Red Star people. Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. I bought my little Little Red Book from a Black Panther 37 years ago

I wonder if Hoover's boys are still following me?

:rofl:

[Sequoia]

15. For a dollar right?

I read about that and was really excited when I found mine. Because it's a part of history.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. Yep, one big fat dollar

and to think I was duped into helping a fledgling political/social party with that nominal donation to help pay the rent and run the breakfast programs, when much to my chagrin, I was informed by the FBI that that money was being spent on buying arms - or some other nonsense. Hey, that makes me a terrorist, right?

:rofl:

[suffragette]

9. "Dr. Williams said he had been planning to offer a course

on terrorism next semester, but is reconsidering, because it might put his students at risk."

Who needs to burn books when you can scare people from checking them out and cause professors to "reconsider" whether or not they should offer a course?

The senior at UMass is far from the only peron who should be chilled by this.

[SkiGuy]

10. It was 4 students actually..

but it was only this one mentioned because his dad came forward. (spoke with someone at UMASS library). After she confirmed the story, I called 2 local (RI, southest MA) news stations to (hopefully) air it.

[welshTerrier2]

11. from the movie "Blast from the Past" - "We give up?"

ADAM
Dad, I don't know how to tell you
this. And I was going to wait a while,
but I think...Dad,there was no bomb.
A plane crashed into our backyard. I
looked it up in old newspapers.

CALVIN
(after a while)
You're sure?

ADAM
Positive. The Soviet Union collapsed
without a shot being fired. The Cold
War is over.

CALVIN
That's what everybody believes?

ADAM
Yes, sir. It's true.

CALVIN
What? Did the politburo just one day
say - "We give up?"

ADAM
Yes. That's kind of how it was.

CALVIN
Uh-huh.

Adam throws the ball, but Calvin makes no attempt to
catch it.

CALVIN
My gosh, those Commies are brilliant!
You've got to hand it to 'em! "No, we
didn't drop any bombs! Oh yes, our
evil empire has collapsed! Poor, poor
us!" I bet they've even asked the
West for aid! Right?!

ADAM
Uh, I think they have.

CALVIN
Hah!!! Those cagey rascals! Those sly
dissemblers! Those, uh...
(he can't think of another
description, so he moves on)
They've finally pulled the wool over
everybody's eyes!

[neweurope]

12. That's not funny at all. And how in hell did they know that the young man

had spent "significant time aboroad"? And what the hell is "significant time" abroad? Significant as to what? I'd be scared - very scared.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[BurtWorm]

13. I only have The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib checked out now.

Do you think I have to worry?

:evilfrown:

[JohnyCanuck]

14. Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it.

In the article Brainwashing America, which discusses propaganda/brainwashing techniques being used on Americans, the author, Dr. Norman Livergood, analyzes an Ad Council series of video clips designed allegedly to "effect positive social change." Regarding one video that portrays an incident in a library, Dr. Livergood notes:

The other one I'll analyze here is one in which a college age kid goes into a library and hands a list of books on a request slip to a female librarian.

The boy says to the librarian, "I can't seem to find these books anywhere."

The librarian types them into the computer and says, "These books are no longer available."

He says, "I didn't know."

The librarian says, in an accusatory tone, "May I have your name please?"

"Why?" the boy replies.

As he walks away, he's seized by two men.

"What did I do?" he asks in desperation.

"We just have a couple of question."

We hear the kid gasping as they roughly drag him off.

The "message" ends, as all six do, with the tag: "Freedom. Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it"

Some rather bright people have taken the "message" of this video clip to be:

"Thank God, that can't happen in America." And based on that reading of the communication, they assume that the showing of the video on national TV is a positive thing.

You can only believe that "message" if you don't know that the F.B.I. is already checking libraries to see what people are reading. In other words, that isn't a scene of a non-reality but of a very present reality.

http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm

[MissB]

17. Everyone should request a copy of that book.

[genieroze]

18. Everyone a DU should order a copy, that will keep these a-holes busy

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083512388X/103-1624382-5107026?v=glance&n=283155