Instructional
Put 'Em Down. Take 'Em Out. Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison
Put 'Em Down. Take 'Em Out. Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison is a instructional by Don Pentecost. Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists.
Description
About the work
Put 'Em Down. Take 'Em Out. Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison is a instructional by Don Pentecost. Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists.
What makes it interesting is the prison-censorship logic: officials treat the book as a practical threat model and collapse the distinction between reading about something and doing it. As a instructional, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.
It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in United Kingdom. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.
Overview
Why it was banned
Put 'Em Down. Take 'Em Out. Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison entered censorship debates as a instructional associated with circulation politics, institutional control, and risk knowledge. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around instructional harm and public order.
The earliest event currently captured here is *Unknown* in United Kingdom, where United Kingdom authorities banned publication or circulation. Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists. Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists.
This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.
This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.
Counter and critical readings
Context, rebuttals, and criticism
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight
Useful for comparing older obscenity, heresy, and political bans with modern free-speech disputes.
Ban history
Known government actions
| Date | Jurisdiction | Action | Reason | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Unknown* | United Kingdom | banned publication or circulation | Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists. | Criminal due to containing information useful to terrorists. |
Sources
Harvested references for this page
- Wikipedia: List of books banned by governments reference partial
- Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial