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Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians
Quaryon writes "The Patriot Act apears to have some chilling effects with respect to libraries and booksellers. An FBI agent can get a warrant, without any evidence, in order to compel a librarian to reveal lending details on a suspect. The librarian cannot tell anyone about the search, including the target of the search, and the details of how many such searches are done are not made public. Articles at SFGate News and Common Dreams give more details." We had a related Ask Slashdot a few weeks ago.
Makes me wish I didn't have an overdue copy of 'Hop on Pop' from 1978.
Wait, that sounds like a zippy quote.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
unless there are laws to do the compelling for them.
don't give them any ideas please.
And for that you'll be thrown off the world inside a bronze fish.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
or is anyone else having librarian prison-sex fantasies?
Let's see:
slashdotter: "What are you in for hot stuff?"
librarian: "Failing to comply with a federal investigation."
slashdotter: "That's cool."
librarian: "What are you in for?"
slashdotter: "port scanning."
librarian: "Guess we're both terrorists."
Do you really expect them to call it the Jingoism Act? ;-)
And people actually have the nerve to complain about my sig!
Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.
You must have misinterpreted the ad. Clearly, it was meant to show how the PATRIOT act protects red-blooded, illiterate TV watching Americans from horrible book reading terrorists.