DHS Investigates College Student for Library Book

(Link to Story, via South Coast Today/The Standard Times website)

A student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth requested the book Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, a.k.a. "The Little Red Book" via his school library's interlibrary loan program to help him complete a research paper on Communism.

He was, instead, treated to a visit from a pair of Department of Homeland Security agents.

This is utter bullshit. It's to the point where they're investigating anyone with "Significant Travel Abroad," although who gets to define “Significant” is anyone's guess, and who happens to check out a book that's on a "Watch List?" What happened to freedom of the press, free exchange of ideas, freedom of speech? I personally think it would be nice to NOT have to worry about Federal Agents paying me a little visit just because I read something they don't agree with!

What has our country become?

UPDATE: This story was fake. What an asshole. News article here. My thoughts on the story are posted as the second item on this post