1943 Student story is a hoax
A U Mass student reported that agents from the Department of Homeland Security had visited him at home simply because he had tried to borrow Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book" for a history seminar on totalitarian goverments."The story, first reported in last Saturday's New Bedford Standard-Times, was picked up by other news organizations, prompted diatribes on left-wing and right-wing blogs, and even turned up in an op-ed piece written by Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Globe.
But yesterday, the student confessed that he had made it up after being confronted by the professor who had repeated the story to a Standard-Times reporter."
Story here. HT Conservator
Even Ted Kennedy was taken in and commented on it in his column blaming the Bush administration's intrusion on civil liberties. Laura Capps, a Kennedy spokeswoman, said even if the student's story was a lie, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance. My, that has a familiar ring to it doesn't it--sort of like the forged documents and Dan Rather. The truth doesn't matter--only the assertion that it could be true.
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When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Manhattan, I once bought a copy of Mao's Little Red Book in a local Chinese store. I bought it with my own money simply because I loved the color and feel of the cover. When I brought it home, my mother was horrified and the book was taken from me. I remember being absolutely heartbroken.
I wonder if that's on my permanent record somewhere?? LOL!!
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