Ted Kennedy doesn't know who wrote "The Communist Manifesto"

The Boston Globe ^ | 12/22/2005 | Ted Kennedy

[rlmorel]

...I hope the president doesn't continue to hide behind such transparent and irrelevant justifications. Congress has amended the 1978 FISA law over time, most recently with the passage of the PATRIOT Act -- and there is no reason to think we wouldn't do so again -- if we knew what the administration is doing. If the president needs more powers to lawfully protect the American people from terrorism, then he should come to Congress to seek modification of current laws. The president has failed to provide a sufficient legal basis for his actions; instead he and his Cabinet spent the week refusing to negotiate with Congress and opposing bipartisan efforts to extend the PATRIOT Act for three more months.

Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.

Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.

Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists...

[Intolerant in NJ]

Yet again, Fake, but accurate...does sound like the Dan Rather response when the documents he used on the Bush National Guard story were exposed as fakes - the battle cry of the left - don't let the facts get in the way of what we want to believe is the truth......

[Palladin]

Is there a student? Why can't anyone fond out his name?

Or was it the Dartmouth professor who made up this hoax ?

[Palladin]

"find out"

[television is just wrong]

The entire Kennedy family are a charity case. They want all of us to pay taxes. When Old man Kennedy died, his assets had been hidden, they only paid a pittance of inheritance taxes on that fortune.

That makes the entire family an extremely wealthy charity case. We are all making up for what they are living on...

[TCats]

What a complete crock - This moron can't even put together a good lie without stepping all over his falsities. Rue number 1 in telling a lie - Don't involve anyone else in it or rely on others to corroborate any part of it.

That won't make any difference to the Libs who need this to be true and they'll get all the mileage they can out of it. As Mark Twain once said 'A lie can go around the World before the truth can get it's pants on'

[Intolerant in NJ]

Is there a student? Why can't anyone fond out his name? ...according to the Fox News report, there actually was a student who said he had been grilled by government agents about books he had borrowed from the library, but later under questioning admitted he had made up the story - they didn't mention any names or anything about a "professor"....

[Seadog Bytes]

MA ...humor(?)

[Palladin]

There was indeed a professor involved in promulgating the hoax to the press, without making any effort to corroborate it. His name is Dr. Brian Glyn Williams:

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-24-05/a01lo719.htm

[Texas Eagle]

Sen. Kennedy, don't worry yourself too much over who wrote what. You need to bone up for your driver's test.

[null and void]

And the world would be a better place for it...

[Ditto]

Yep. The kid made it all up, but since when did Teddy let the facts get in the way of his political rants?

[Palladin]

Here is all you need to know about Dr. Williams:


Full Name Brian Glyn Williams

Biography Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is assistant professor of Islamic History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.


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