Suspicions confirmed: The U. Mass student who said he was visited by DHS agents after requesting a copy of Mao's "Little Red Book" made the whole thing up.
[Y]esterday, 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.The professor, Brian Glyn Williams, said he went to his former student's house and asked about inconsistencies in his story. The 22-year-old student admitted it was a hoax, Williams said.
"I made it up," the professor recalled him saying. "I'm sorry. . . . I'm so relieved that it's over."
Link to Boston Globe report, and link to a followup story in South Coast Today. (Thanks, Wesley, and many others)
Hey comrades, this calls for a little happy fun moment of Chairman Mao Quote Zen!
From the so-called Little Red Book:
"Say all you know and say it without reserve", "Blame not the speaker but be warned by his words" and "Correct mistakes if you have committed them and guard against them if you have not" – this is the only effective way to prevent all kinds of political dust and germs from contaminating the minds of our comrades and the body of our
BlogParty."
Previous Boing Boing posts on the hoax debate: Link
