This is National Banned Books Week, and if ever there were a time to observe it, it's now, when the government is taking book censoring to a new low.

Just recently, a man who was sitting in a coffee shop, reading an article entitled "Weapons of Mass Stupidity," was hauled away for questioning by the FBI. Sound like science fiction? Well, it isn't Farenheit 451, it's the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft White House. Better get used to it. The federal government has already banned the sale and display of Irwin Schiff's The Federal Mafia (the IRS has confiscated his hard drive and customer records).

The only people in America who appear to be actively protesting the government's plan to invade our reading habits are the nation's librarians.

They could use some help. First it was the irrational religious groups leading book banning, and now it's the official "patriots." Whatever you're currently reading, someone--at some point--will find a reason to ban it, so now is the time to help put an end to this nonsense. Unless, that is, you want to live in a facist society.