Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
'Scuse me. Somewhere in all this, somebody's missing the point. Maybe me.
Iran is on the Bad Guy list.
Some Iranian dissident gets out and writes a book. Said book is anti-Iranian Establishment.
Now, it seems to me that dot-gov here would want such a book to be published. It would aid and abet existing US policy.
So, I ask, why would some bureaucrat want to get all excited about the controls over publication of foreign dissidents' works? And, particularly, in the name of "security"?
Somebody's gonna have to work real hard to make me believe that there is any rationality here. Nor do I accept the notion that publishing houses would be against publication. Nor do I see it as simplistic as a comparison with such things as Cuban cigars...
If Michael Moore is free to publish (yeah, movies, I know) his "documentaries", why the uproar over an anti-enemy book?
Art
Iran is on the Bad Guy list.
Some Iranian dissident gets out and writes a book. Said book is anti-Iranian Establishment.
Now, it seems to me that dot-gov here would want such a book to be published. It would aid and abet existing US policy.
So, I ask, why would some bureaucrat want to get all excited about the controls over publication of foreign dissidents' works? And, particularly, in the name of "security"?
Somebody's gonna have to work real hard to make me believe that there is any rationality here. Nor do I accept the notion that publishing houses would be against publication. Nor do I see it as simplistic as a comparison with such things as Cuban cigars...
If Michael Moore is free to publish (yeah, movies, I know) his "documentaries", why the uproar over an anti-enemy book?
Art