And you didn't even need to meet the fellow! He pulls the usual "say it louder and it must be true" routine. I decided not to argue with him and wait until I could produce some documentation.
Why bother?
No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats--we know it not.