Chilling visit by the US government

In an article entitled Agents’ visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior, the government visits the home of a college student who checked out the wrong book at the library:

"A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called The Little Red Book. …

The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a ‘watch list,’ and that his background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further.

‘I tell my students to go to the direct source, and so he asked for the official Peking version of the book,’Professor Pontbriand said. ‘Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring inter-library loans, because that’s what triggered the visit, as I understand it.’"

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