[Reader-list] reading mao in the US [u]

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

The authenticity of this story is debated. See http:// 
www.boingboing.net/2005/12/18/dhs_agents_visit_stu.html

Kiran


On 19-Dec-05, at 4:11 PM, Geert Lovink [c] wrote:

> HOMELAND SECURITY AGENTS VISIT STUDENT WHO TOOK MAO'S BOOK FROM  
> LIBRARY
>
> AARON NICODEMUS, STANDARD-TIMES - A senior at U Mass Dartmouth was
> visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy
> of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book." Two
> history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert
> Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through
> the U Mass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program. The
> student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for
> Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled
> out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number
> and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home
> in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security,
> the professors said. The professors said the student was told by the
> agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background,
> which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate
> the student further. . .


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