Heh heh. You are truly whacked, Whackmiester ;)
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[ 03-20-2004, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: The Hierophant ]

Just to throw a few thorns at random people and drop boiling oil on the crowd, quite a few books have been banned/forced out of circulation in the past. There was a book that was written years back by some writer and a professional assassin. It listed in 100 steps how to be a contract killer. If you follow every one of the steps, the contract goes off without a hitch and you make your money. The book was (nearly) used by someone who failed on a few steps (he registered his hotel room in his own name, and called his client at his own home) and was thusly caught. The publishers were then forced to release the book into the public domain and cease printing. Now the book is EVERYWHERE but that isn't the point.

Another couple of books that were banned:

None Dare Call It Treason was a book banned for spurious reasons awhile ago. It detailed treasonous acts comitted by powerful officials, ranging from Clinton selling ICBM's to the Chinese, to secret meetings with Eastern Bloc powers during the Cold War...

The Scotland Yard report on the Kennedy assassination. I haven't been able to find, in any way, even excerpts from the book, but the report is banned, along with several other British documents. One of the other documents is the British report on the M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle (formerly, the Bradley APC) that revealed how numerous its weaknesses were after so many ridiculous design changes. The report was banned after Colonel James G. Burton's reports on the Bradley revealed the same set of weaknesses and a disaster occured at a highly exposited test which, in primary colors, showed the damn thing was a death trap. The British report (made in the late '70's, I believe) is still banned.

Banning things that are too dangerous isn't uncommon practice... Dangerous to whom is the question. The problem for the banners is getting it locked off before enough people find out about it. If enough people do, whatever you've banned is now entirely credible. They've opted to do the reverse now, given how much faith is put into the ban itself. They simply ignore the problematic material.

EDIT: Fixed title issue...

[ 03-21-2004, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: Oblivion437 ]