Court Overturns Bookstore Ruling

http://www.abcnews.go.com/ ^ | April 8 2002 | AP

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There certainly is. You have a right to purchase any legal item anonymously. What business is it of the government? What federal/state law says the government has a right to a record of any or all of your purchases?

You don't seem to understand this issue at all. Of course the government has no right to make inquiries of such information at a whim. And no one is claiming so.

The issue is whether or not there is some special right to conceal book purchases above all other information once the requirements of the Fourth Amendment is met for a search for a criminal investigation.

The police have the right, with a properly issued warrant on probable cause to search my home, the book shelves in my home, my possessions, my bank records, and even to obtain blood samples. But somehow you seem to think that the records of a book purchase is protected by some imaginary right to a greater extent. Quite silly.