Should People Have The Right — To Write or Read Anything? | by Viv Pranjal | Activated Thinker | Sep, 2025

The year was 1983. The FBI, in an American court, declared a book guilty for more than 75,000 people who had disappeared.

According to them, most of the people who read this book had vanished.

So what was in this book?
How did it make people disappear?

Before moving further, let me make one thing clear.

If you are thinking this book contains spells or incantations to make a person vanish, then no. It is not like that. Nor does it contain any formula to make a Invisible Man.

Instead, the book contains something far more dangerous.

The Case of Lori Erica Kennedy

The year was 2003, Texas, America. A woman named Lori Erica Kennedy met John Blakeley. They liked each other, and soon, the matter reached marriage.

But Lori had one strange condition:

• The marriage must be completely quiet.
• No guests, no newspaper announcement.

This felt odd, but Blake agreed.

They married, and in 2008, they had a daughter. But soon after, Lori’s behavior changed completely.

She became irritable, controlling, and extremely protective of her child. She even stopped Blake’s parents from meeting their granddaughter.

Fights increased. Finally, in 2010, Blake filed for divorce. Lori got full custody of the daughter.

After this, Lori’s mental condition worsened. She began stalking and threatening Blake’s family. And then, on 24th December 2010, Lori was found dead in her car, in front of Blake’s house. She had shot herself.

Two letters were left behind one for her husband, one for her daughter. The FBI read them, but what was written remains a secret to this day.

Investigations revealed shocking details.

• At her house, burnt papers were found evidence Lori had tried to erase her past.
• But in a box, they discovered a birth certificate: Becky Sue Turner.

The problem? Becky Sue Turner had died in a fire at age 5.

So how could a dead child become Lori Erica Kennedy?

This was the magic of that book.

How Lori Created a New Life

The FBI dug deeper.

• In 1988, Lori obtained Becky Sue Turner’s birth certificate.
• She used it to make an ID card.
• Then, in court, she officially changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy.
• She got a Social Security Number, a driver’s license, a passport, and even went to college.

She took loans, declared bankruptcy, erased her debts, and blended into society with a completely new identity.

And this process step by step was explained in that book.

Was Lori a Spy or a Criminal?

The FBI suspected many possibilities:

• Was she a Russian spy?
• Was she hiding from her criminal past?
• Or was she simply escaping her childhood trauma?

With Lori’s daughter’s DNA, they discovered Lori’s real family name: Casady. Her true identity was Kimberly, a girl with a troubled past who ran away at 18 and never looked back.

She had used that book to vanish and reappear as someone else.

The Origin of the Book

Now, where did this book come from?

The story goes back to a law student named Barry Reed.

• He was brilliant, but got caught smuggling marijuana.
• His law career ended, and he went to jail.
• Filled with revenge, he wrote a book a manual for criminals.

This book contained:

• How to disappear completely.
• How to create new identities.
• How to commit crimes and escape the system.

By 1983, more than 75,000 people had used it to vanish.

And the court, shockingly, refused to ban it calling it freedom of speech.

Even today, underground markets sell books with dangerous knowledge:

• How to make biological or chemical weapons.
• How to hack and exploit systems.
• How to disappear without a trace.

Stopping such books is almost impossible. Once they exist, they spread hidden in dark corners of society.

Should people have the right to write or read anything in the name of freedom of speech?
Or should such dangerous books be banned for national security?

Think about it.