(Update at bottom)

As a writer and avid reader, this really hits home with me. As if our daily lives haven’t been oppressed enough lately, the Bush regime has tried to do the unthinkable; [how many times we'll probably never know, exactly] what they said they would never do – except perhaps in the most extreme of exigent circumstances – subpoenaing libraries for the books we read.

Shades of Hitler's Germany -- circa 1939?

Newly unsealed court documents reveal that United States prosecutors have decided to withdraw a subpoena that sought the identities of thousands of Amazon.com Inc. customers. The abrupt withdrawal came soon after a judge ruled that customers indeed have a right to keep their reading habits from the government.