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To: george76
A week later, in an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe on Dec. 22, Senator Kennedy repeated the hoax that ''a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he went to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's 'Communist Manifesto'.''

First of all, Kennedy is an idiot. Secondly, this story was debunked weeks ago. The student admitted that he made the story up. Does anyone have the link to that?

21 posted on 01/11/2006 8:52:28 PM PST by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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To: Rocky

This report...

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.

The 22-year-old student tearfully admitted he made the story up to his history professor, Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, and his parents, after being confronted with the inconsistencies in his account.

Had the student stuck to his original story, it might never have been proved false.

But on Thursday...the student added new details.

The agents had returned, the student said, just last night.

The two agents, the student, his parents and the student's uncle all signed confidentiality agreements, he claimed, to put an end to the matter.

But when Dr. Williams went to the student's home yesterday and relayed that part of the story to his parents, it was the first time they had heard it.

The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried.

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


28 posted on 01/11/2006 9:07:22 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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