Hell yes we want to keep an eye on anybody reading that pernicious garbage. Mao Tse Tung was evil while he lived and there is no reason to allow his evil to live on long after his arrival in hell.
Saying he was "visited" by agents doesnt mean it really happened. I was visited by the Swedish female volleyball team last night dont you know.
Has this story been corroborated or is it one the many ant-Patriot Act red herrings that sprouted up everywhere before the Senate vote?
"I think of David Horowitz’s “Campus Watch” operation, and Lynn Cheney’s “American Council of Trustees and Alumni,” both designed to discourage dissent in academe."
Actually Horowitz and his group are the real campus dissenters. The "academe" want to discourage the dissent from the right.
Or is it because the student's name is "Mohammed Ali Mohammed Baba" and the fact he's a camel-jockey studying terrorism makes him suspect?
"The student's name is being withheld 'because he fears repercussions should his name become public.'"
In otherwords, he doesn't exist. *Rolleyes*
He ordered the official "Little Red Book" which was housed in China. He didn't order a copy, or one situated in the US. He ordered the one from CHINA. No wonder he got visited.
No agenda here......
This carefully planted story is total Bull. And, getting very little traction, I might add.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...."
I'd pay attention to those who I quote if I were you. The author of this piece also writes for Counterpunch. And "Dissident Voice is an internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The goal of Dissident Voice is to provide hard hitting, thought provoking and even entertaining news and commentaries on politics and culture that can serve as ammunition in struggles for peace and social justice."
I still do not believe this story.
These are the same moonbats who claim President Bush was behind the 9-11 attacks.
I see this as a concocted story to refute the statements that the Patrior Act has never been used to spy on anyone's library usage. I would bet it is a bald-faced lie.
dissidentvoice.org a very reputable source.
...Kirk Whitworth, a spokesman for the DHS—the U.S. cabinet department that oversees the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, the Secret Service, and Citizenship and Immigration Services, among others—said in the December 21 Standard-Times that the story seemed unlikely. “We’re aware of the claims,” he said. “However, the scenario sounds unlikely because investigations are based on violation of law, not on the books and individual[s who] might check [them] out from the library.”
An earlier report that the incident occurred at the University of California at Santa Cruz has proven false.
LOL!
1)UMass Dartmouth does not use SSN's for student ID's. An interlibrary loan request by SSN would seem to violate the University's own privacy policies (Link). http://www.umassd.edu/studenthandbook/academicregs/studentrecords.cfm 2)The reporter has not talked to the student. He has talked to the professors, who told him what the student claimed happened. The professors have no first hand knowledge of the incident.
3) The professors only "went public" with the story in response to a query about domestic wiretapping.
Hey steve, try again - the story is BOGUS. The enemy is NOT America, it is the Islamofascists.
"Federal agents' visit was a hoax"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546441/posts
"NEW BEDFORD -- The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story."
Now, what have you to say?