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  From: Matt Norwood <norwood@softwarefreedom.org>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:00:35 -0500

Re: A different perspective

"Not content merely to make possible homeland security investigations as
difficult as possible for the government, librarians nationwide have
also taken to regularly destroying computer user lists, posting signs
warning patrons of possible FBI surveillance and abuse, and turning off
video cameras, as was done in Newton."

Warning patrons of possible FBI surveillance AND ABUSE? The nerve of
those librarians. Next thing you know, private citizens will start
locking their front doors and pulling down their shades.

But we have to wait until the last sentence for the money shot:

"... the protections we enjoy as law-abiding citizens under the
Constitution can be snuffed out by those who exploit these guaranteed
freedoms for their own murderous intent."

Right... civil liberties cause terrorism. Which is why terrorists are
blowing up buildings every week in America, but not in, say, Chechnya.
Oh, if only we had less freedom to exploit, we might be spared!

I mean, wow. Not only does the headline read like something out of The
Onion, but it's written by the publisher of "Myopia Polo Yearbook":

http://www.suffolkmkt.org/rcravatts/

You can't make this stuff up.


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 17:45 -0500, Pamela Kellet wrote:
> 
> An article from the perspective of someone who thinks that librarians 
> should not be defending the Fourth Amendment and that everything one does 
> in a library should fall under the "plain sight" exception.
> 
> http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020706D
> 
> Pamela Kellet
> pck2104@columbia.edu
> (281) 250-7698
> 
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