PROTECTING AMERICA BY PULPING BOOKS

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http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7254


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To pulp a book is not merely to remove it from sale, but literally to destroy it, reducing the paper itself – and all of your words and thoughts – to a goopy chemical mash. I've had one of my books threatened with pulping even before it went on sale, so I can empathize with Anthony Shaffer, who has just had the first printing of his book gooped by a gang goofy censors in the Pentagon.

Shaffer, a lieutenant colonel who served as an Army intelligence officer in Afghanistan, had written "Operation Dark Heart," an unflattering assessment of America's military intelligence bureaucracy. Playing by the rules, Col. Schaffer had dutifully submitted his manuscript to the Army prior to publication, getting its official approval in January to publish.

So, 10,000 copies were printed and placed in a distribution warehouse, about 100 advance copies were sent to book reviewers, and Shaffer even received the endorsement of a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who hailed the memoir as "one terrific book."

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The pulping merely proves Shaffer's point about the heavy-handed stupidity of the military "intelligence" establishment, while also showing once again that the Pentagon brass has way too many of our tax dollars to play with.
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the pentagon brass think they rule the world

we have to make them unthink that