Bush administration and Mao Tse-tung

The Huffington post has a story that is unbelievable. If true, it shows that, beyond evesdropping, the Bush administration has crossed other lines as well.

Apparently, a student who was completing a research paper on Communism for his class, filled out a request in a library for Mao's Red book, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security.

So, beyond unauthorized spying, we now have federal agents visiting students who are preparing research papers for their class on communism and fascism? So tomorrow, if someone buys a book on Word War II could be considered a terrorist suspect based on the interest to read about our enemies at the time? How about if someone buys a book on the Vietnam war? Would that make him or her a communist sympathizer and a terrorist suspect?

This administration has proven again and again that they are incompetent. Instead of focusing on the real terrorists who attacked us on 911, they attacked Iraq for no reason and created a disaster there. Now, they are waisting their time by going after students who work on preparing papers for their class. I am wondering if one of these days they may start interrogating each other. For instance, Condoleeza Rice was Soviet Union expert when she was younger and I am sure she has read marxist books during her training. If she, lets say, still has a copy of Marx's "Das Kapital" from her student years, should n't she be interrogated by homeland security? How can we trust that she is not a double-agent? How?