Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 19:00:40 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:59:19 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:
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More than just species, an ecosystem.
Massive use by the USA of 'Agent Orange' and other defoliants in
Vietnam is another good candidate for an attempt at ecocide,

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The objective was to remove cover for guerillas. In WW1 they used
artillery over most of Belgium and much of Northern France to "achieve"
much the same result (that area was in 1918 described as 'moonscape')

 
The original intention for napalm was similar, before they started using
it as an anti-personnel thing.  Problem is that if you want to expose
the HCM trail, you first need to know where it is... and secondly you
need to know where they moved it to after you exposed it.  It turned
into a giant game of whack-a-mole and the jungle and the people in it
were the losers.
--scott

A casual check online reveals no photos of before-and-after evidence
of the use of defoliants; just a few stock images of planes flying
over trees dispersing some foggy stuff.