From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 11:58:36 MST
--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
>
> Since the Feds can now snoop into U.S citizen's reading habits,
> I suggest not to use libraries for your reading material. You might
> want to think twice about bookstore purchases too.
Anybody who relies on the nationalized banking system (i.e. credit
cards) gets what they deserve. Pay cash for your purchases, and when
they ask for your email addy, tell them they already have it. No
bookstore has gotten my name in years, and still doesn't. Last time I
bought the quarterly issue of 2600 Magazine, finally figuring out where
the staff was hiding them in the magazine section (they themselves
didn't know or wouldn't admit to it), plus SM Stirling's excellent
alternate history novel "The Peshawar Lancers", this month's "Nuts and
Volts" issue, and a few other things. Or did I?
>
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/10/MN14634.DTL
>
> Libraries post Patriot Act warnings
> Santa Cruz branches tell patrons that FBI may spy on them
>
> [...]
> "The Justice Department says libraries have become a logical target
> of surveillance in light of evidence that some Sept. 11 hijackers
> used library computers to communicate with each other.
>
> But the signs ordered by the Santa Cruz library board -- a more
> elaborate version of warnings posted in several libraries around the
> nation -- are adding to the heat now being generated by a
> once-obscure provision of the Patriot Act.
What is interesting is that bookstores which are deleting customer
purchase records are now also in violation of tax and accounting
laws...
>
> Section 215 of the act allows FBI agents to obtain a warrant from a
> secret federal court for library or bookstore records of anyone
> connected to an investigation of international terrorism or spying.
>
> The provision was virtually unnoticed when the Patriot Act, a major
> expansion of government search and surveillance authority, was
> passed by Congress six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But
> in the last year, Section 215 has roused organizations of librarians
> and booksellers into a burst of political activity, and is being
> cited increasingly by critics as an example of the new law's
> intrusiveness. "
Ah, but don't you know that they are only trying to track down their
own wetwork people via purchases of "A Catcher in the Rye"???? ;)
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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