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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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17 Dec 2005 08:44:50 PM |
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The Bush Gestapo in action at Dartmouth |
From The Standard-Times, 12/17/05:
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm
Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD --
A senior at UMass 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 UMass 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.
"I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for
the official Peking version of the book," Professor Pontbriand said.
"Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring
inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the visit, as I
understand it."
Although The Standard-Times knows the name of the student, he is not
coming forward because he fears repercussions should his name become
public.
He has not spoken to The Standard-Times.
The professors had been asked to comment on a report that President
Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to spy on as many as
500 people at any given time since 2002 in this country.
The eavesdropping was apparently done without warrants.
The Little Red Book, is a collection of quotations and speech excerpts
from Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung.
In the 1950s and '60s, during the Cultural Revolution in China, it was
required reading.
Although there are abridged versions available, the student asked for
a version translated directly from the original book.
The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the
Homeland Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list."
They brought the book with them, but did not leave it with the
student, the professors said.
Dr. Williams said in his research, he regularly contacts people in
Afghanistan, Chechnya and other Muslim hot spots, and suspects that
some of his calls are monitored.
"My instinct is that there is a lot more monitoring than we think," he
said.
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Shades of Nazi Germany.
Harry
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| User: "True Blue" |
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| Title: Re: The Bush Gestapo in action at Dartmouth |
17 Dec 2005 09:08:18 PM |
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Aw shucks, we likes to call it eavesdropping, it sounds so folksy,
unlike "illegal felonious wiretapping of innocent american citizens"
which tends to make folks think were criminals or something- Karl Rove,
when asked about allegations that President Bush authorized over 5,000
illegal wiretaps including those of the Democrat party offices at the
Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.
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