Posted on 06/21/2005 7:58:19 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
So internet records are public property?
A PUBLIC library is niether a "person, houses, papers, or effects,"......IT'S PUBLIC!!!!
Hoe does anybody know we all didn't have a microchip inserted under our skin at birth at and that everything we do isn't controlled by some giant being as part of an intergalactical board game that only takes 15 minutes in his time to play?????????? HHHHMMMMMM??????????
Good point!
People should have free access to information without fear of government reprisals. Do you disagree?
One group of terrorists in New York went to the municipal library and studied the plans of the Lincoln Tunnel, etc., in order to plan how to place their bombs. These plans weren't the terrorists personal property; they belonged to the taxpayers.
Another case, if you believe the ACLU and the NYTimes, involved an attempt to discover who wrote a threat in the margins of a bio of Bin Laden. A later reader reported the writing and the FBI tried to find out who had borrowed the book. I'm not sure that people have a right to make terrorist threats, in library books or elsewhere.
It seems to me, that the general public had no right to know which videos Clarence Thomas rented.
As far as the internet goes. If it's an account generated on a "PUBLIC" terminal, in a "PUBLIC" library payed for with "PUBLIC" tax dollars....YES!!
If it's done with your own "PERSONAL" and "PRIVATE" computer.....no
Get it?? PUBLIC versus PRIVATE
I'm not convinced that a library, even a public one, is
a venue devoid of the expectation of privacy. Since the
issue is not all that clear to me, the error should be
on the side of the BoR.
Let them convince a judge of probable cause, get a warrant,
then conduct the search.
This was a stupid provision, giving ammo to liberals far
in excess of its actual investigative value.
And they do as long as it's not information on bomb making being attained by some guy here on a student visa who's not going to school, has been here for a month, and who's last name Alhashani.
It's amazing to me that you can support this just because your party is in power.
And on top of that, they don't have to tell you that they searched your records, and the librarian can be PROSECUTED for telling you. Who can possibly support that?
I used to lurk here in the late '90s, so yes. And I remember Ashcroft wrote a long article about not sacrificing liberty to the federal government around then. But for the life of me, I can't find it now.
I support this because I am a husband and father who wants people who would like to do harm to my family simply because we are American to be hunted down and killed by whatever means possible by my government....not because my party is in power.
If you did nothing wrong, than you have nothing to hide.
/sarcasm
But they say they are more secure now, yet they have lost the freedom to think and act for themselves.
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