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• U.S. Government Subpoenaed Amazon.com to Obtain Book Purchasing Records
• Newly unsealed court records have revealed that the U.S. government issued a subpoena to Amazon.com seeking to obtain the identities of customers purchasing books through the Amazon marketplace.
  

  None of this is “fringe” information or conspiracy theory guesswork. Every statement made in this article is a matter of fact that’s easily verified through publicly-available records and news reports (not to mention common sense observation skills …

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  WTF no seriously WTF!

  Gov: we must act fast, the citizens are reading about “freedom” how can we fix it? Lets say they are terrorist, yeah, that will work!

  I wonder if Amazon could just say “We ‘accidentally’ deleted them all”. I mean if it works for the White House it should work for anyone.

  Old news in spam form! Who’s digging this?

  This is the real object of the War on Terror - to make ordinary people more compliant.

  I feel like a man without a country.

  Sometimes I try to remember what it felt like to belong to a country where everyone was in it together, had similar beliefs, and would fight side-by-side defending liberty and each other. But maybe I was just younger when I felt that way and was too naive to really know the truth.

  Has it always been this way?

  check out senate bill 1959 which was passed by the house!