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.
A question for the libertarians in here: If the FBI got a call from a flight instructor who said a Middle-Eastern man paid $2,000 cash for flight lessons, would that justify a subpoena of the customer's financial records? Would it justify a wiretap? Would it justify any governmental action whatsoever?
Wait a minute. That sounds like that whole business of McCarthy back in the 50's. We are slowly acclimating by degrees into a people that are dependent upon the government for permission to live.