Federal agents’ visit was a hoax
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.
Had the student stuck to his original story, it might never have been proved false.
But on Thursday, when the student told his tale in the office of UMass Dartmouth professor Dr. Robert Pontbriand to Dr. Williams, Dr. Pontbriand, university spokesman John Hoey and The Standard-Times, the student added new details.
The agents had returned, the student said, just last night. The two agents, the student, his parents and the student’s uncle all signed confidentiality agreements, he claimed, to put an end to the matter.
But when Dr. Williams went to the student’s home yesterday and relayed that part of the story to his parents, it was the first time they had heard it. The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried.…
i’d have to agree.
getting visited by homeland security for ordering a ‘red book’ doesn’t seem so far fetched, especially in the light of all these new domestic spying admissions.
the truth is, none of us really know what’s going on.
this is a problem that we will need to change.
indeed, our government is supposed to be a ‘public servant’, not a secretive tyrant.
oh, but it’s for ‘our safety’. right….
sounds just like an abusive domestic relationship to me.
I might have believed it, except I checked out the communist manifesto from my school’s library and nothing like this happened. Which is sad because I’m probably to sort of person homeland security is worried about. =P
“getting visited by homeland security for ordering a ‘red book’ doesn’t seem so far fetched, especially in the light of all these new domestic spying admissions.”
so because it isn’t too far-fetched, it doesn’t matter that the accusation itself was totally false.
Allright, I guess you won’t mind if I accuse you of murdering disabled puppies with a jackhammer.
After all, it’s certinly plausable that you would.
“I might have believed it, except I checked out the communist manifesto from my school’s library and nothing like this happened.”
The articles I read about the story always seemed to emphasize the fact that he ordered the book from China, and that was the main factor in the fed’s interest.
“so because it isn’t too far-fetched, it doesn’t matter that the accusation itself was totally false.”
I’d have to disagree with you there.
“Allright, I guess you won’t mind if I accuse you of murdering disabled puppies with a jackhammer.
After all, it’s certinly plausable that you would.”
Vavrek is the kind of guy who probably feels bad about stepping on a blade a grass. I don’t think it’s plausable.