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FBI Questions Man Seen Reading Alt-Weekly Article

By AAN Staff

july 17, 2003 04:02 pm

FBI Questions Man Seen Reading Alt-Weekly Article

Marc Schultz was grilled by FBI agents acting on a tip from someone who saw the dark, bearded freelance writer reading something "suspicious" in a coffee shop: After retracing his steps, Schultz remembered what he had been reading: a printout of an article from Weekly Planet (Tampa) -- Hal Crowther's "Weapons of Mass Stupidity." "(I)t seems like a dark day when an American citizen regards reading as a threat, and downright pitch-black when the federal government agrees," Schultz writes.

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