[Montfort]

I didn't realize that you had a Constitutional right to privacy about the books you check out from a PUBLIC library. I mean, perhaps it would be a nice idea, but that does not mean it is in the Constitition.

I mean, it used to be common that your name stayed in the book, and someone could check it out a few years later and see, "Oh, look, my friend John Hoosits checked this book out five years ago. Isn't that neat."

[Eric Esot]

Note to self: Return "Catcher In The Rye" and tear up library card.

[DPB101]

Big deal. Typical left wing swill. Oinking and snorting over library books but no concern over the Feds telling us what size toilet bowl we must have in our house, the IRS going into bank accounts and every kid in America forced to attend government school if parents don't have the ability to get them out. This is all cover any ways. What the left hates about the Patriot Act is the CIA and FBI can now share information and see just who is paying for those trips "activists" take to North Korea, Libya, Cuba and other socialist paradises. Democrats gutted our intelligence agences in the 1970s because the New Left, which had just moved into Congress, had been funded and run by the Soviets. They feared exposure. And they still do.

[aruanan]

The letter also urged the congressman to "co-sponsor the Freedom to Read Protection Act introduced recently by Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont."

Hey, Bernie Sanders has done something worthwhile!

[templar]

"Despite the dire predictions of some extremist groups, the Patriot Act has not eroded the civil liberties that we hold dear as Americans.

Under the Patriot act, wouldn't it be illegal to tell us if it had? Or maybe it's also illegal to tell us it's illegal to tell us it's illegal?

[Righter-than-Rush]

Of course big brother is watching. Never do anything online, encrypted or not, that you wouldn't want published on the front page of your hometown newspaper.

[MattAMiller]

I don't see library records could never be the legitimate subject of a criminal investigation. It would just be lovely if some case could be solved by determining when somebody was in a library to check out a book but the police were unable to determine that because these self-important boobs are purposefully keeping incomplete records.

[WaterDragon]

The national association of librarians have decided that our elected government is a more dangerous enemy than the terrorists who plan to kill us all.

These same librarians fight equally hard to make pornography available to children in public-paid-for libraries, despite the objections of parents.

[verity]

Libertarians are a hoot!:~)

[Peter Libra]

Got the same thing in Canada. DoRight sure would have a rough time with yer deponent. First a left wing socialist, then a sharp turn to the hard right by me. Once subscribed to the Thunderbolt out of Georgia. (By postal subscription) A J.B.Stoner was prominent. Had out Marx's Das Capital. Hitler's Mein Kampf in my wanderings.

Latest withdrawals from Library are the Torah (Only the five scriptures though). I managed to get the Koran as well. Taking the middle ground, as a Freeper. A great thing to KNOW much more about the subject first, whatever ones views.

Heresy here. The only thing to fear, is fear itself. The bigger the implied intimidation ,the easier it is for the left to manipulate.

First Amendment rules.

[Amelia]

If they're watching what *I* read, they're pretty darn bored.

[lilylangtree]

Is FBI watching what you read?

Does it matter? If they are, they'll get a charge out of some of the titles of books I read--classified as "Purple Passion" genre.

[Elsie]

If an individual follows you around, videotaping and photographing you at will; this can be construded as 'stalking'.

If YOU, however, are imaged by a multitude of 'public' video cameras, so that YOUR moves from point A to B to C... can be strung together, what shall THIS be called?

[Knightsofswing]

But we are forgetting something. Crooks DO NOT GOT TO THE PUBLIC LIBARY TO GET BOOKS. They go to the internet to get thier information. Also public libaries are public instutions, so thier records are public record. If they were private libaries then I would have to go with the privacy issue.

BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T FEEL THREATEND, DOESEN'T MEAN THAT YOU AREN'T!

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

They read everything posted on this forum, especially since the Homeland Security was set up.