Drug War, Books and Privacy

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 14 12:30:13 PST 2002


I actually own this book! -Thomas ****************************************** Drug Squad Fumes As Bookshop Shields Reader Prize-Winning US Writers Queue Up To Defend Privacy Of Customer Who Bought Uncle Fester's Illicit Drug Manual ******************************************

It never won a Pulitzer or appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists but a 400-page book about the manufacture of illicit drugs by an author known as Uncle Fester is at the center of a legal battle over the privacy of the US book-buying public. In what has been described as a landmark case for the US book industry, the Tattered Cover bookshop in Denver, Colorado, has spent 18 months resisting the attempts of both police and courts to obtain the identity of a customer who purchased Uncle Fester's opus, Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Drug Laboratories.

Read More at http://www.alchemind.org/topclnews.htm

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