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On 2007-06-06 19:57:33 -0400, "ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> said:

> In news:44he6353f0no7rtf4kuu2dondjegfs2aka@4ax.com,
> Bat T Ball <ballbat@rangerscantwin.com>spewed forth:
>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:47:40 GMT, Mike Smith <mws@wt.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:12:48 GMT, Bat T Ball
>>> <ballbat@rangerscantwin.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Don't bother with them, Slim.  As they call me and others stupid,
>>>> they are actually too blind to realize what's been going on.  You
>>>> can hit 'em in the head with a hammer and they still won't admit
>>>> what the government has done.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Like blow up the WTC back on 9-11-01?
>>> 
>>> You morons are hilarious!
>>> 
>>> Mike Smith
>> 
>> Always the ass hole.
> 
> And when you and Slim come up with ACTUAL facts with what the "gvnmt" 
> has done, is doing, or going to do and not just spouting rhetoric that 
> you hear all day in the media. Then maybe someone "might" listen to 
> you. Evidently some of us can still think and deduce better than you 
> and slim, even after being hit with a hammer.


FUCK YOU. DON'T PLAY COY.

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