Saw this story on Tom Tomorrow's site. I know the word Orwellian gets far to many outings these days, but these really is an appropriate case, it has fascism/threats, stupidity, totalitarianism and paranoid spying;

"Careful: The FB-eye may be watching
Reading the wrong thing in public can get you in trouble"

"What could I have possibly been carrying?

Trippi's partner speaks up: "Any reading material? Papers?" I don't think so. Then Trippi decides to level with me: "I'll tell you what, Marc. Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that's why we're here, just checking it out. Like I said, there's no problem. We'd just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can't, then you may have a problem. And you don't want that."

You don't want that? Have I just been threatened by the FBI? Confusion and a light dusting of panic conspire to keep me speechless. Was I reading something that morning? Something that would constitute a problem?

The partner speaks up again: "Maybe a printout of some kind?"

Then it occurs to me: I was reading. It was an article my dad had printed off the Web."

I shall be buying Tom's book and I urge you to too.