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phoAm
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:33 pm
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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.
Dr. Williams said he had been planning to offer a course on terrorism next semester, but is reconsidering, because it might put his students at risk.
"I shudder to think of all the students I've had monitoring al-Qaeda Web sites, what the government must think of that," he said. "Mao Tse-Tung is completely harmless."
Contact Aaron Nicodemus at anicodemus@s-t.com
This story appeared on Page A9 of The Standard-Times on December 17, 2005.
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Tombo
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:33 pm
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Yeah many settings today have many big brother like systems behind a lot of things. My high school soph. year HAD about 90 cameras on campus ($900,000 in surveillance) and three cops taking shifts all day. And that was about four years ago so I know there's more cameras now. Think about all of the cameras in the stores and stuff they want us to get used to being watched all of the time for some reason.. Food for thought maybe
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cressesgirl
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:31 pm
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| Tombo wrote: | | Yeah many settings today have many big brother like systems behind a lot of things. My high school soph. year HAD about 90 cameras on campus ($900,000 in surveillance) and three cops taking shifts all day. And that was about four years ago so I know there's more cameras now. Think about all of the cameras in the stores and stuff they want us to get used to being watched all of the time for some reason.. Food for thought maybe |
where did you go to high school? a prison?
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rwnugent
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:38 pm
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I'm just glad I bought those books on how to build clandestine drug labs and how to books on drug manufacturing before all this domestic spying. whew that was good timing.
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Tombo
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| cressesgirl wrote: | | where did you go to high school? a prison? |
The cameras were weird but the food was freakin awesome. Can't see the rest of the building in this picture but there's a piece of the Berlin wall in the library.
Bentonville, Arkansas built in August 2000
Look on the back of Wal Mart semi trailers that's the Wal Mart headquarters where Sam Walton built his first store on the downtown square. It's one of America's fastest growing communities. A few of my friends from here go to U of A and play Arkansas football.. I still think the cameras were kind of ridiculous. They were just obsessed with safety and crime and drugs and whatnot in that community so I think after Columbine the town basically insisted on lockdown security at that level.
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cressesgirl
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:34 am
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| Tombo wrote: | | cressesgirl wrote: | | where did you go to high school? a prison? |
The cameras were weird but the food was freakin awesome. Can't see the rest of the building in this picture but there's a piece of the Berlin wall in the library.
Bentonville, Arkansas built in August 2000
Look on the back of Wal Mart semi trailers that's the Wal Mart headquarters where Sam Walton built his first store on the downtown square. It's one of America's fastest growing communities. A few of my friends from here go to U of A and play Arkansas football.. I still think the cameras were kind of ridiculous. They were just obsessed with safety and crime and drugs and whatnot in that community so I think after Columbine the town basically insisted on lockdown security at that level. |
at least the food was good, eh?
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phoAm
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 2:40 am
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Good ol' Soilent Green.
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