US Government Burns Books

Miscellaneous Current Events
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/25/pentagon-destroys-copies-controversial-memoir-written-army-officer/

Pretty Orwellian, isn’t it?

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This is all for show, they could disappear people if they really wanted to suppress something. Creating a spectacle is going to encourage people to seek out the book and author. I smell a rat.

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Yep, me too. This predictably has created more publicity for the book and even the Pentagon brass are not too stupid to have understood that would be the effect. There’s no way this is a genuine attempt to suppress the book.

Clayton -

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I agree. If you wanted to see an example of the gov really trying to suppress literature look no further then Irwin Schiff’s books.

5

You guys have a point,

But is genuine censorship I think, read some of the reviews on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031260369X/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=12330EN7D16A6JRMBK5N&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846

People were set to recieve the book, but Amazon delayed and the gov had the book modified.