Pentagon Burns Copies of Operation Dark Heart Before Banned Book Week
Banned book week started this Monday. The Pentagon started celebrating the work a week early by buying nearly 10,000 copies of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s Book Operation Dark Heart. Pentagon staffers carefully destroyed the copies in an attempt to squash the story. The book covered operations of American Black Ops teams in Afghanistan. Shaffer submitted the book to Army Reserve Command before publishing it. The Army Reserve Command gave the book a green light. Pentagon staffers decided that the publication of the book could put the lives of soldiers on the ground at risk.
The Pentagon Burning Books – Is This A Good Thing
As understandable as the Pentagon’s reasons may have been, burning books is engaging in censorship and the people who ordered the burning did not understand how this would work. The 10,000 copy print run ordered by Saint Martin’s Press meant that the publisher did not expect intense interest. Buying up copies of the book and destroying it only guarantees that people will want to read the book’s second printing.
The clumsy action ensures that people who would have otherwise had no interest in Shaffer’s book will now want to read it. Ron Howard’s movie adaptation of the mediocre novel The Da Vinci Code benefited from a similar controversy generated by the Roman Catholic Church.
Call Out The Fireman
The United States government has engaged in censorship during times of war. No war has been declared on Afghanistan, and Shaffer should, if he violated regulations, suffer punishment from the military. Engaging in a highly public action and burning the books, comparisons to Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 are inevitable. A far better action would have been to let the book stay under the radar and only be the purview of conspiracy theorists. Now, everyone will want to read Shaffer’s Operation Dark Heart.
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Now Anthony Shaffer’s book has become a must read for me. I would like to peep into the book to know what he has written about the time-period he spent in Afghanistan and what ordeals he had to go through.
It is available at all the big box stores. They bought 10,000 to burn, so they printed another 100,000. Anyway the publisher can make money, he’ll take it.
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The most commonly repeated “redaction” in Operation Dark Heart is the author’s cover name, “Christopher Stryker,” that he used while serving in Afghanistan. Probably the second most common redactions are references to the National Security Agency, its heaquarters location at Fort Meade, Maryland, the familiar abbreviation SIGINT (referring to “signals intelligence”), and offhand remarks like “Guys on phones were always great sources of intel,” which is blacked out on the bottom of page 56. His headquarters was not actually on Fort Meade but close. His actual headquarters he was talking about is a little place called DPSA located at 7175 Troy Hill Drive in Elkridge, MD. Not on Fort Meade but about 20 minutes away.
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