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Originally posted by gldstwmn
Have you been over to Michael Moore's site tonight? If not, you should go. I missed the debate tonight but understand Peter Jennings did us a big favor.
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Yup! That was the first place I went!
I particularly love this:
Send your receipt to Ashcroft!!!!
The USA PATRIOT ACT (for some quick background information on the Patriot Act, click here) gives the police and federal agents the power to go into bookstores and libraries and demand to see the records of customers and patrons in order to find out what subversive people are reading. The stores and libraries are prohibited by law from disclosing the fact that their records have been seized. They are even prohibited from contacting a lawyer for help or advice.
The silver lining in all this is the government's acknowledgement that "subversives" are, in fact, readers. And yes, we're talking about YOU! You wouldn't even be on this website right now if you weren't some sort of closet rabble rouser.
So, why not save the FBI and the Justice Department the bother of going to the bookstore where you bought my book? Why not get on the enemies list right now!? That way some poor agent doesn't have to figure out if you bought my book at a chain store or an independent, or online, or got it for free at a library.
All you have to do is take the receipt from the bookstore of the library (or print out your receipt if you ordered online) and send it to:
Attorney General John Ashcroft
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Enclose a note telling Mr. Ashcroft that you are doing your patriotic duty and you want to get on his list of suspicious citizens today!
I'm thinking of doing it.