The book Unfortunate Son was stopped by Poppy Bush.

[slater71]

They are bitching about free press when daddy Bush had the first printing of Unfortunate Son by J.H.Hatfield burned. They did not give a shit about freedom of speech then.

[AX10]

1. Exactly!

And that book was the truth too.

[LaPera]

8. Why else would it be targeted?

[bluestateguy]

2. Yep. And Hatfield ended up floating in a river a few years later.

nt

[Vidar]

9. Seriously? Not that I would put it past the Bush clan.

[BurtWorm]

3. *Fortunate* Son.

Unfortunate us. ;)

[slater71]

13. Correct....sorry

[kentjay]

4. what i don`t understand

is how anyone rethug or dem can go on t.v. or anywhere else and support this person on any of his actions during the past 6 years,he is a travesty to american politics.

[NYCGirl]

5. It's available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Son-George-American-President/dp/1887128840/sr=8-2/qid=1157747562/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-4763989-5681634?ie=UTF8&s=books

[SmokingJacket]

10. Republished by Sander Hicks

Had been quashed by St. Martin's Press.

[NYCGirl]

11. So someone else picked it up. NT

[SmokingJacket]

12. Yes, a small press, after Hatfield's death. nt

[BurtWorm]

14. They added a lot of extras that weren't in the original

including a history of the publication, as well as some trenchant articles on the Bush family ties.

[slater71]

17. Soft Skull Press

[Rex]

6. Total mafia.

Except the mafia wouldn't be able to stop the book printing. THAT is how dangerous the BFEE is. Beyond organized crime.

[stillcool]

7. it's a case by case basis...

freedom of speech, rule of law...all that stuff. It does make for interesting drama though...puppets on a string.

[no_hypocrisy]

15. Got a copy on my bookshelf. Tell the firemen my address.

(Reference to Fahrenheit 451)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451

[Initech]

16. Huh, I didnt know the first amendment had a footnote...

[SoCalDem]

18. and then Hatfield turns up dead.. move along..nothing to see here

:(