Judge okays book purchases as evidence cont'd

Bull. I'll buy it. And the drug lab book. And torture methodology. And False ID books. And anything else I damned well please. I'm squeaky clean, and would LOVE to be a test case for the courts.
"Your honor, I write fiction. These books are merely research. Now, about my records, time, privacy, work in progress, and peace of mind, and reputation...$57 million ought to about cover it."
 
Mad, you had better buy some now as most publishers wont sell them anymore as they will lose their insurance like palladin was about to before they dropped all killing and explosive type books.
 
Update - email, I just received from the Libertarians in Denver for a protest rally on Monday October 30th.


FRIENDS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RALLY

In support of Tattered Cover's struggle to maintain the privacy of its readers, and in protest against the government's attempts to search the records of book buyers.

**Monday, October 30, 10:30 am
**Denver DA's Office, 303 W. Colfax Av., Colfax and Court/Cherokee, on the sidewalk across from the Mint.
**A protest against the Denver DA's decision to issue a search warrant that would allow police to search the book purchase records of the Tattered Cover bookstore.
**ALL who cherish the liberties outlined in the First Amendment are welcome!

Background: The North Metro Drug Task Force (Lt. Lori Moriarty, Commander) is pursuing a case concerning methamphetamine production. The Task Force now wants to search the records of a book buyer of Tattered Cover bookstore. The Force's initial request for a search warrant was denied by the Adams County District Attorney's Office. Then, the request for a search warrant was granted by the Denver District Attorney's Office (Bill Ritter, Denver DA). Tattered Cover obtained a restraining order, but Denver District Judge
Stephen Phillips ruled in favor of the search warrant and ruled that police may search some records of Tattered Cover. Now, Tattered Cover is deciding whether to appeal Phillip's ruling.

Assault on Civil Rights: The idea that government prosecutors can use one's reading list as evidence or support in a criminal trial is abhorrent. The knowledge that one's book buying habits are an open record to Big Brother's prying eyes will have a chilling effect on First Amendment rights of speech
and of the press. The practice of associating reading habbits with alleged crimes is appropriate for the gestapo of a police state, not for the Land of the Free.

If one reads Mein Kampf, that doesn't make one a Nazi. If one reads about drugs, that doesn't make one a drug dealer. If one reads the Bible, that doesn't make one a Christian. If one reads the Satanic Bible, that doesn't
make one a Satanist. If one reads Marx or Freud or Kafka or Rand, that doesn't make one a Marxist or Freudian or Existentialist or Objectivist. And so on. A crime is committed, NOT by what we read, but when one person's deeds harm another. The police have no business searching reading records.
 
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