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On 2007-06-04 14:12:35 -0400, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> said:

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:19:33 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2007-06-04 09:03:01 -0400, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> said:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Liberal buffoons do not have to justify their anger and ignorance. All 
>>> they have to do is "feel" that we have lost our rights for it to
>>> be valid in their minds...
>>> 
>>> Geez... You are asking the buffoon to do something he is mentally
>>> incapable of doing...
>>> Mike Smith
>> 
>> 
>> Even a NeoCon lover like you has to admit that the government has taken 
>> a way our right to privacy.
>> 
>> From monitoring our library book checkouts, to tapping our phones and email.
>> 
>> Now tell me there is no such right.
>> 
>> You don't care because you are one of the lemmings who parrot the 
>> phrase, " I have nothing to hide."
>> 
>> Its not about hiding anything, its about having the freedom to check 
>> out books, and send email and make phone calls without the government 
>> spying on us.
> 
> You're a fuckin moron, slim.
> 
> Name ONE time your library/phone records have been monitored by the
> feds.


When one innocent person has been violated, we all are.



FBI demands library records
Request in Connecticut, allowed by Patriot Act, is first of its kind
Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
Friday, August 26, 2005
(08-26) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The FBI, using its expanded authority 
under the anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot Act, is demanding 
library records from a Connecticut institution as part of an 
intelligence investigation, the American Civil Liberties Union said 
Thursday.
The demand is the first confirmed instance in which the FBI has used 
the law in this way, federal officials and the ACLU said. The 
government's power to demand access to library borrowing records and 
other material showing reading habits has been the single most divisive 
issue in the debate over whether Congress should extend key elements of 
the Patriot Act after this year.
Because of federal secrecy requirements, the ACLU said it was barred 
from disclosing the identity of the institution or other details of the 
FBI's demand, but court papers indicate the target is a library in the 
Bridgeport, Conn., area.
The ACLU, which has been one of the leading critics of the Bush 
administration over the Patriot Act and its anti-terrorism policies, 
brought a lawsuit Aug. 9 in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on behalf 
of the Connecticut institution.
The ACLU said it would seek an emergency order allowing it to discuss 
details of the case publicly. A hearing has been set for Wednesday in 
federal court in Bridgeport.
In the debate over the future of the Patriot Act, the Bush 
administration has said that it has never used the library provision, 
which falls under section 215, to demand records from libraries or 
booksellers. The ACLU said that in the Connecticut case, the FBI is 
using a separate investigative tool, a type of administrative subpoena 
known as a national security letter, to get records related to library 
patrons, reading materials and Internet use by patrons.
The FBI's power to use national security letters to demand records 
without a judge's approval was expanded under the Patriot Act.
Last year, a federal judge in Manhattan struck down part of the 
subpoena provision as unconstitutional, in part because it allowed for 
no judicial oversight, but the Justice Department is appealing.
Officials at the Justice Department and the FBI refused to comment on 
the issue, because it involves pending litigation.
While the Patriot Act is awaiting final reauthorization by Congress, 
both the Senate and the House moved last month to extend at least 
temporarily the government's power to demand library records in 
terrorism investigations.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/26/MNG4PEDMKC1.DTL
This article appeared on page A - 5 of the San�Francisco�Chronicle



-- 
"Hate Week is officially celebrated from April 4th to April 10th. The 
events during that time include waxwork displays, military parades, 
speeches and lectures. New slogans are also coined and new songs are 
written. The theme of the Hate Week is called the Hate Song. It is 
mentioned that a unit from the Fiction Department was assigned to make 
atrocity pamphlets (falsified reports of atrocities committed by 
Oceania's enemies against her) designed to stimulate Oceania's populace 
further into enraged frenzy against all enemies. The aggregate effect 
of Hate Week thus is to excite the populace to such a point that they 
"would unquestionably have torn to pieces" if given the opportunity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_week
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/1