Monday, December 26, 2005

Little Red Lied

Ah, so apparently the Little Red Book kid was lying.

NEW BEDFORD -- 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.

It's a relief really. There was something too stupid about the idea of investigating a student for reading a widely-available Marxist text.

In the days after its initial reporting on Dec. 17 in The Standard-Times, the story had become an international phenomenon on the Internet.

Sorry about going along with that. Let's face it- the idea of the government being concerned about a decades-old bit of Maoist tripe is a lot less likely than a student lying to cover his ass.

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