[CyberAnt]

As usual the left talks out of both sides of their mouth.

[airborne]

Wasn't a search of library records how they caught the Uni-Bomber?

[ops33]

There is no right to privacy when using a public computer in a public library supported by public monies. Right to privacy is lost in a public facility.

[Beckwith]

Librarians just usually defend the privacy rights of assorted deviants. Watching out for the rights of terrorists give them a whole new constituency.

[nuconvert]

"A cat jumped out of the bag at the ALA's January meeting in San Antonio, though, when keynote speaker and Romanian-born author Andrei Codrescu blasted the organization for abandoning the independent librarians. "Is this the same American Library Association that stands against censorship and for freedom of expression everywhere?" To add insult to injury for apoplectic ALA leaders, a subsequent informal poll of the rank-and-file in an electronic newsletter suggested that 75% want the organization to stand up for the Cubans.

On Sunday, ALA President Michael Gorman emailed the newsletter's editor to say that "we would be better off without these polls." That smells like censorship--from the very same people who bring us "Banned Books Week." "

Maybe ALA President Michael Gorman would be more comfortable working for the Iranian regime?

[Radix]

Newton, Brookline, Cambridge, the Axis of Liberalism.

It is in these three towns where a lot of the looniest of lefties reside in Massachusetts. Nothing should be surprising that comes out of these places.

[plan2succeed.org]

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."
  • "A Nation Challenged: Questions of Confidentiality; Competing Principles Leave Some Professionals Debating Responsibility to Government," by David E. Rosenbaum, The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2001. Alternate source.

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