To the editor:

In keeping with the spirit of the Republican congressional leadership, the Bush administration and the editor of this newspaper and their approval of the Patriot Act, which enables the federal government to examine bookstore purchases and library records to see what Americans are reading, regardless of whether they are suspected of being a terrorist or not, here is my reading list from the last two years:

“Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth” by Conason; “Addicted to War, Why the U.S. Can’t Kick Militarism” by Andreas; “The More You Watch The Less You Know” by Schechter; “Dead Souls” by Gogol; “Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” by Blum; “The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq” by Scheer; “1984” by Orwell; “Cryptonomicon” by Stephenson and “These Are My Rivers” by Ferlinghetti.

I hope that many of you will do your patriotic duty and submit your reading lists to the federal government and the Journal-World. After all, Big Brother deserves the very best, and remember, thought crime is against the law!

Donald Phipps,

Lawrence