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Thought Police in Toledo

2001-07-26 17:24:28+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Not necessarily enough there to go read it, but Salon talks about a guy harassed by a cop in Toledo for reading Esquire. We need an enforcement mechanism to go back and open up a can of Bill of Rights on schmucks like this:

The officer scanned the pages sternly and declared them to be pornographic. He had Sebastian open up his backpack to make sure that there were no more offending materials hidden within, but there was only his diary, his wallet and a copy of the New York Times.

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