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Madame Librarian: Defending terrorists' privacy while ignoring real repression.
Opinion Journal ^
| February 10, 2006
| Review & Outlook
Posted on 02/11/2006 8:39:10 AM PST by CyberAnt
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To: CyberAnt; airborne; ops33; dennisw; Beckwith; nuconvert; Radix; Carolinamom; VOA; livius; ...
From
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Judith_Krug comes this:
- When the names and photographs were first released, Kathleen Hensman, a public librarian in Delray Beach, Fla., recognized some of the suspected hijackers in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as men who had used the computers in her small library. She immediately called the police. That broke a Florida law that guarantees confidentiality to library patrons. It also violated a cardinal principle of librarians never to tell the police, in absence of a court order, about who uses their rooms and what books they check out. But almost no one thinks Ms. Hensman did the wrong thing. .... Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's office of intellectual freedom, said, "I would have felt better if she had followed the Florida law."
I know what this means to me. What does this mean to all of you?
To: plan2succeed.org
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02/13/2006 9:06:12 PM PST
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potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: potlatch; plan2succeed.org
Kathleen Hensman can sleep well at night. We need more like her.
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02/13/2006 10:01:32 PM PST
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ntnychik
To: ntnychik
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02/13/2006 10:03:40 PM PST
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: plan2succeed.org
There are no privacy rights in a PUBLIC LIBRARY!
Liberals need to get over it.
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02/13/2006 10:26:42 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America - the greatest nation on the face of the earth!)
To: ntnychik
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