Your Tax Dollars At Work

[Bob Schroeck]

... if you're an American, that is:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/25 ... dangerous/]FBI probed SciFi author Ray Bradbury for plot to glum-down America
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Black Aeronaut]

Errrgghhh... So much time and energy wasted fighting an ideal that would have quietly died had they focused on doing actual good instead.

[ordnance11]

I wonder who the informant is. Sounds like a guy with a grudge.
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Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
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[Tennie]

That isn't even the first time the FBI was asked to look into something like that.

For example, in 1964 an irate parent complained to Attorney General Robert Kennedy about the supposed obscenity of the Kingsmen song "Louie, Louie".  The FBI was then asked to investigate these claims, with some rather hilarious results: First, they tried playing the record at a lower speed than it was designed for in an attempt to make out the lyrics, but that didn't work.  They then interviewed the band members, who insisted that the lyrics weren't obscene.  Finally, they managed to acquire a copy of the actual lyrics (which, as it turned out, were indeed not obscene).

(Of course, in their defense perhaps, stuff like the internet and search engines simply didn't exist back in the 1960s.  But still...)

[Inquisitive Raven]

Tennie wrote:

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That isn't even the first time the FBI was asked to look into something like that.

For example, in 1964 an irate parent complained to Attorney General Robert Kennedy about the supposed obscenity of the Kingsmen song "Louie, Louie".  The FBI was then asked to investigate these claims, with some rather hilarious results: First, they tried playing the record at a lower speed than it was designed for in an attempt to make out the lyrics, but that didn't work.  They then interviewed the band members, who insisted that the lyrics weren't obscene.  Finally, they managed to acquire a copy of the actual lyrics (which, as it turned out, were indeed not obscene).

Wouldn't it have been easier to contact the Copyright Office?
Also, many years later, apparently inspired by this story, a [url=