Dear Friends,

I want to invite you to join my friend Carl Estrada in Operation Full Disclosure. In anticipation of Patriot II, which would entitle the government to search our library records, book store purchases, etc., Carl has written to Attorney General John Ashcroft, volunteering his reading material for the year. If everyone were to send him their list, it might keep his office busy for a while, as well as give them the message that there is no need to snoop because we are all so forthcoming.

Patriotically yours,
Paul Chasman (alias: Carl Estrada)

7-12-03
Attorney General John Ashcroft
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Ashcroft,

Will you please tell me what all the fuss is about? Everybody is running around like Henny Penny just because of silly little Patriot II. Don¹t they know that to have a democracy, we all have to make sacrifices? If the Attorney General of the United States wants to check the libraries and book stores and internet to see what everybody has read, small price to pay for a free country!

And what do they have to hide anyway? Remember when you asked all those Muslims to "volunteer" to be interviewed? I think we should all volunteer to tell you what books we have read this year. I¹m going to ask all my friends to freely submit their lists to your office. And just to show I¹m serious, I¹ll go first. Here are the books I have read so far this year:

1. The Hardy Boys, The House on the Cliff by Franklin W. Dixon
2. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
3. Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy
4. *Dr. Tatania's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer¹s Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
6. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
7. Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter-by Robert C. Atkins
8. **Work Under Capitalism by Chris and Charles Tilly
9. **The Paradox of American Democracy by John B. Judis
10. ***Earth in Balance by Al Gore

*Not what you think. It's about the sex lives of insects, etc. There is some stuff about evolution though--I hope I don't get in trouble there.

**Given to me and signed by Ralph Nader. I have to admit, I haven¹t finished them. They're pretty heavy reading. (Don¹t tell him, though--it might hurt his feelings--I fibbed a little and told him they were real "page-turners.")

***I hope I won't get in trouble for this one. I did learn a lot, even if it was written by you-know-who.

I think you should go a step further. You should ask people to volunteer what TV shows and movies they've watched, what CDs they've bought, what web sites they¹ve visited, and what radio shows they¹ve listened to. They might as well tell you because you're going to find out anyway. If everybody volunteers, it¹ll save a whole lot of time and taxpayer money! It's the patriotic thing to do! Call it Operation Full Disclosure. Just say they word and I'll send you my list and ask all my friends to do it too.

Patriotically yours,
Carl Estrada

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