After Approving Release of Book Pentagon Scrambles to Buy Every Single Copy
The Pentagon spends an inordinate amount of time demanding changes and redactions to books to “protect national security,” but the mass destruction of a book already in print? It may sound far-fetched but that is exactly what is happening.
Having signed off on the publication (with a number of changes) of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir “Operation Dark Heart” the publisher went on with plans for an August 31 release. But then the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) still wasn’t happy, insisting the book still would cause “serious damage to national security.”
Which is why despite being “out” for over a week the book is out of stock literally everywhere. Because the Pentagon is in talks to buy every single copy in the world. And then destroy them.
Which seems like sort of an odd strategy, because if the book has already been cleared for publishing it seems like the publisher will just keep printing more, if for no other reason than to sell them to the military for destruction. Moreover, it seems only a matter of time before such a high-selling book, which seems destined for the oddest Best Seller list of all time, becomes an e-Book or an audio book, at which case it will be infinitely reproducible.
Or maybe they're trying to make this book popular so people could read it?
It's already the #7 topselling book on Amazon. soon it just may be the #1 selling book on Amazon that nobody has ever read or ever will be allowed to read because it's so naughty.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books
There is an unredacted review copy of this book for sale on eBay. Someone should buy it and put it out for everyone to read.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Lt-Col-A…
someone bid at $1000.
i don't think so… careful folks … check this guy out … took a quick look yesterday … i believe he said it was a hardcover … 'reader (or reviewer) copies are usually trade paper
$1000. Dizamn. And who says the Pentagon has no effect on the market?
Here is another ebay auction that is heating up:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Lt-Col-A…
Currently @ $405 w/ 22 bids. Cha-ching. Thanks Uncle Sam. Wonder what the chances are of the package mysteriously disappearing while in transit to its destination?
The two current high bidders that have been doing a little back and forth haven't bid on anything else on ebay in the past 30 days except for ~5 bids each (so far) for this book. The rest look like ebay regs. Interesting.
Wonder what the chances are of the package mysteriously disappearing while in transit to its destination?
If the buyer chooses to have it shipped USPS parcel post, the odds are better than 50-50, if only because of the postal service's normal inefficiency and ineptitude. :)~
price has already climbed to $510 and shows no sign of slowing down.
The Pentagon must have a team of its "cyber-warriors" parked at ebay bidding it up. In the race for "full-spectrum dominance" the idea of not being the high bidder at all times must goad them ever onward. They're also undoubtedly getting some sort of adrenaline rush with the impending 9-11 anniversary just hours away.
lolololol. They do seem like rookies.
Looks like some guy that likes HO scale trains bid on the other copy that's going for $1000.
It wouldn't be at all surprising for there to be several teams bidding on the book, none of them aware that other Pentagoners are doing the same thing. They just keep bidding against themselves, sort of like the Three Stooges.
one is gone now after 2 bids it went from $1000-$1100. The other one is up to $910.
The thing is that there is probably nothing new or interesting in the book anyway. It's the principle.
This is called censorship, uncontrolled censorship. This is not some whim but another step toward total control. Obama put all of Bush's infractions on our liberties under his belt and is going further every day, one step at a time…like the boiling frogs.
We are becoming an authoritarian state with nuclear power.
That's where the tax dollars go, W
Rather bizarre. Letting out the paranoia cat, I suspect disinformation efforts.
Scientology at least used to buy their *own* books to drive up sales numbers.
first editions. Paid for by the taxpayer. Pentagon stores the books, burns fake books with laser copy covers. Takes distant shot of "burning" high five each other. Hold onto real books, sell in a few years. Never trust the Pentagon to be honest, and upright. I hope the "geek" bookseller clerks beat them to it. Minumum wage sucks. Go for it, Clerks !!!! Hoard those puppies !!!
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