Talk to Congress already. This was a bill passed by legislators, not the President. That he signed it should come as no surprise, or does anyone think it's actually plausible to veto every bill that has unrelated amendments attached? I think it's a great idea, but no president of any party makes a habit of vetoing most of the bills Congress passes.
The willingness of Slashdotters to believe anything they want to believe is almost astounding. Listen up, kids. There are things called 'facts' to add to the discussion.
There is no such thing as an 'agent' of the Department of Homeland Security. So tell us, professors, were these agents from Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, TSA, FEMA, Citizenship & Immigration, the Secret Service, or the, uh, Coast Guard? No genuine federal law enforcement officer would identify himself as an agent from DHS. Moreover, any agent will identify himself by name. To make any claim to credibility, the student should be able to name the agents and their agency. None of DHS's agencies have any jurisdiction anyway, or the desire to spend time and resources on this kind of nonsense, unless, and this is very important, the student is a foreign national. Otherwise, this sort of thing is FBI's business, as if they'd care.
Little niggling things like jurisdiction do matter because federal agents do not answer to President Bush, or Karl Rove, as so many people seem to think they do. They answer to some grouchy-ass petty bureaucrat who has no time for this crap.
More likely explanations?
1. The original student is lying. 2. The original student is confused. 3. Somebody at the library is pulling a prank on the student. 4. Somebody at the library is pulling a prank in order to drum up false 'abuses' (Not uncommon these days.)
The real story here, is that UMass Dartmouth apparently didn't have the Little Red Book in the collection already. (I just checked, and didn't see it under the usual names.) Some librarian oughta be fired for that rather egregious oversight.
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Talk to Congress already. This was a bill passed by legislators, not the President. That he signed it should come as no surprise, or does anyone think it's actually plausible to veto every bill that has unrelated amendments attached? I think it's a great idea, but no president of any party makes a habit of vetoing most of the bills Congress passes.
The willingness of Slashdotters to believe anything they want to believe is almost astounding. Listen up, kids. There are things called 'facts' to add to the discussion.
There is no such thing as an 'agent' of the Department of Homeland Security. So tell us, professors, were these agents from Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, TSA, FEMA, Citizenship & Immigration, the Secret Service, or the, uh, Coast Guard? No genuine federal law enforcement officer would identify himself as an agent from DHS. Moreover, any agent will identify himself by name. To make any claim to credibility, the student should be able to name the agents and their agency. None of DHS's agencies have any jurisdiction anyway, or the desire to spend time and resources on this kind of nonsense, unless, and this is very important, the student is a foreign national. Otherwise, this sort of thing is FBI's business, as if they'd care.
Little niggling things like jurisdiction do matter because federal agents do not answer to President Bush, or Karl Rove, as so many people seem to think they do. They answer to some grouchy-ass petty bureaucrat who has no time for this crap.
More likely explanations?
1. The original student is lying.
2. The original student is confused.
3. Somebody at the library is pulling a prank on the student.
4. Somebody at the library is pulling a prank in order to drum up false 'abuses' (Not uncommon these days.)
The real story here, is that UMass Dartmouth apparently didn't have the Little Red Book in the collection already. (I just checked, and didn't see it under the usual names.) Some librarian oughta be fired for that rather egregious oversight.