Is a Terrorist More Likely to Kill You with a Book or a .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle?

Is a Terrorist More Likely to Kill You with a Book or a .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle? The Answer to that Question Tells You a Lot About Why the [Un]Patriot Act is a Soviet-Style Power Grab and Has More to Do with Ensuring Long-term Republican Rule than Protecting Us.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Have you ever been threatened or killed with a book? Do you know anyone who has?

Well, apparently the Bush Administration believes books are so threatening it is rolling out its thuggish lobbying effort to renew the [Un]Patriot Act that will, among other violations of our Constitutional rights, continue to allow the FBI to force libraries to disclose what books we checked out. And the Republican House went along on Wednesday with the Stalinist interest of the Busheviks in ferreting out our book reading habits.

But while we, like you, have never felt at risk when around people with books, we have felt fearful when around people with guns, especially the kind of firearms that can shoot down planes landing or taking off -- or blow up gas storage tanks.