Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Student's tall tale revealed

Confesses fabricating US surveillance story

It rocketed across the Internet a week ago, a startling newspaper report that agents from the US Department of Homeland Security had visited a student at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth at his New Bedford home simply because he had tried to borrow Mao Tse-Tung's ''Little Red Book" for a history seminar on totalitarian goverments.

The story, first reported in last Saturday's New Bedford Standard-Times, was picked up by other news organizations, prompted diatribes on left-wing and right-wing blogs, and even turned up in an op-ed piece written by Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the Globe.

But yesterday, the student confessed that he had made it up after being confronted by the professor who had repeated the story to a Standard-Times reporter.
more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/24/students_tall_tale_revealed/

so now we have two stories... First that it happened... Second that it was all made up... hummmm... Call me paranoid... But if it did happen and "they" wanted it covered up... The easiest way would be to get the kid to say it just didn't happen.... On the other hand... We all know how quickly rumors happen and how things can quickly become out of control...

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