Checkmite
12th July 2009, 06:46 AM
I'd like to invite you all to take a look at this thread. (http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=72306.0)
"Report From Iron Mountain" was a book written by Leonard Lewin, a political science major, back in the 60's. It involves government and military conspiracy to keep mankind at war with itself for no particular reason other than "studies show humans naturally want to be at war". The book, which was meant as a conversation-starter more than anything, quietly fizzled out of the mainstream and went out of print. However, in the 80's and 90's, Lewin found out that the book was being independently published by white supremacist groups and conspiracy theorists who thought it was an actual, real report. Lewin sued the publishers for violation of copyright and all that good stuff, and won, but the fact that he's repeatedly said he just made it all up in his house by himself like every other author of every other book hasn't fazed anybody.
You can turn this thread into a discussion about the actual book itself if you want. My point is - read that thread at Infowars. Those people, while acknowledging that the author has said it was fake, still refuse to refer to the book as a book and insist on referring to it as a/the "report", "document", "important document", and the like. It's really sort of amazing.
"Report From Iron Mountain" was a book written by Leonard Lewin, a political science major, back in the 60's. It involves government and military conspiracy to keep mankind at war with itself for no particular reason other than "studies show humans naturally want to be at war". The book, which was meant as a conversation-starter more than anything, quietly fizzled out of the mainstream and went out of print. However, in the 80's and 90's, Lewin found out that the book was being independently published by white supremacist groups and conspiracy theorists who thought it was an actual, real report. Lewin sued the publishers for violation of copyright and all that good stuff, and won, but the fact that he's repeatedly said he just made it all up in his house by himself like every other author of every other book hasn't fazed anybody.
You can turn this thread into a discussion about the actual book itself if you want. My point is - read that thread at Infowars. Those people, while acknowledging that the author has said it was fake, still refuse to refer to the book as a book and insist on referring to it as a/the "report", "document", "important document", and the like. It's really sort of amazing.