[Leatherneck_MT]

Well, I'll get flamed for this I'm sure. But I spent most of my adult life defending the rights of the Citizens of this country to be free to do as they wish.

It's not the Governments business what I or anyone else reads.

It's only the Government's business what they DO with what they read.

Yeah it sucks, but those who would give up a little freedom to achieve the slightest bit of safety deserve NEITHER.

[wallcrawlr]

why dont they just put an agent in every library...if nothing else they can deal with the sicko's that sit on those comps and view porn all day.

[ikka]

My take: all of this crap is moot unless the border with Mexico is secured. Until then, stick a finger in the eye of the Federal Govt every chance you get.

[TKDietz]

Good for the librarian.

[OKIEDOC]

Why are your federal tax dollars being used to pay the ACLU to bring frivolous lawsuits against you.</p>

Your tax dollars pay their attorney fees.

It's time to repeal the law.

Check it out.

[Rodney King]

Libarians, as a class, are the most useless over-educated people in the country. The computer has pretty much wiped away any use they once had as professionals. The clerks at Borders could do just as good of a job at stacking books on the shelves and walking around the Library telling peope "shhh". Back before the computer, Librarians were neccessary to help you figure out how to find what you were looking for, but now they are mostly useless.

[rattrap]

It does not have to show that the people whose records are sought are suspected of any crime or explain why they are being investigated.

What country am I living in again? I still don't understand how the USA Patriot Act (I wonder how much they paid someone to come up with that acronym) is even constitutional. Good for the librarian and the board of trustees, well done.

[RobRoy]

If a copy of "Little Women" was discovered to have the same statement in it, I assume there would still be a reason to find out who wrote that. It would be even more prudent to find out who wrote it if in the book it was found in.

These librarians are choosing the wrong battle here.

[Voteamerica]

I'm certain that the government reported the library section of the patriot act has never been used.

[Pagey]

read tonight bump

[Tailgunner Joe]

"In the 1980s, it was revealed that the FBI had engaged in a secret "library awareness" program to track the books borrowed by patrons who had emigrated from communist countries. Determined to prevent such activities in the future, librarians helped pass laws in 48 states that bar the surrender of customer information except in compliance with a subpoena."

These same commie-loving "librarians" will help hide the crimes of Jihadists as quickly as they will any other enemies of this country.

[SaveTheChief]

Unbelievable. Only liberals would be concerned about protecting the rights of terrorists over the rights of millions of Americans citizens.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I'm sure the Washingtonian librarian had no views of the Patriot Act before this.

She's about as innocent as that elderly couple driving around in Florida who just happened to have a scanner that just happened to pick up cell-phone bandwidth and just happened to be driving around a politician who just happened to be making a sensitive phone call.

Fishing expedition? I think the librarian is a WA Leftist trying to land a trophy fish: an apology from the feds.

[cynwoody]

This story offers a strategy to those of OBL's henchmen and fellow travelers who find themselves in the USA undetected: Patronize the local libraries and write quotes from your master in the margins of books you think curious infidels might want to borrow (but don't take them out yourself, or even sign up for a library card! and do try to stay clear of those pesky cameras, too!). Then have a chuckle as the FBI wastes resources investigating innocent citizens, fighting with librarians, and getting bad press!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Who would check out a biography of bin Laden knowing that this might attract the attention of the FBI?"

Who indeed, lassie.. Who indeed.

[plan2succeed.org]

This library has acted in accordance with ALA directives and statements. Here's evidence:

"When 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." Except, of course, the ALA. "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.'"

http://www.infoshop.org/alibrarians/public_html/article.php?story=01/12/12/3987276

The way I read this is that the ALA would have preferred the 911 terrorists library records were not made available to law enforcement until a law that should not apply to non-citizens trying to kill thousands of Americans was followed anyway.

[ozzymandus]

I have often wondered why so many librarians are such anti-American leftist creeps.

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