If this is true of our government then I would have to say it is a bullshit thing to happen. If it is not true then I would have to say it is typical liberal bullshit.
"If this is true."
This doesn't even come close to passing the smell test. I have seen this same story somewhere else but with different names. The reason I mention 1971 is because of the Cambodia mine story. Search for lanmine + cambodia and you get allkinds of stories about how theUs made a mess of the country.
Unfortunately, it sounds all too real. Give a bureaucrat power, and they'll use it. Too many of us forget that the whole point of defending the American Way of Life is the right to do whatever we damn well please (within reason), even if it's writing trashy romance novels.