Eyeing What You Read: FBI in Libraries and Bookstores

The Village Voice ^ | 2-14-02 | Nat Hentoff

[serinde]

What else is written into The Patriot Act?

[Captain Shady]

Wonder what kind of nut they think I am .Yesterday ,I bought a Star Trek novel ,"Preserver" by William Shatner.Also ,I purchased a new Nelson's KJV bible. Both bought at the same time at the same store.

[Fred Mertz]

Use cash for book purchases. Tell the Thought Police to stick it.

[francisandbeans]

as usual, a good piece of information falls below the radar of many on this forum. I wish I had an all bump button so I could flag everyone here to read this article.

Maybe we could kick this Ashcroft fella in the pants.

[francisandbeans]

Anyone think that if this were Janet Reno doing this that this site would be going nuts about it?

[zeugma]

Maybe we could kick this Ashcroft fella in the pants.

From what I've seen here over the past few years, it wouldn't help. He's a republican. We have a republican president. All is right with the world.

Nothing to see here folx, move along or you may have to speak with one of the nice gentlemen with Heimatlandsicherheitsdienst. (translate it through babelfish)

[francisandbeans]

All I know is that I want to be able to buy my interracial homoerotic fantasy war books without the government looking in on me.

[Whilom]

"We're all real jittery about it."

Speaking, I suppose, for her friends, the terrorists.

[Wolfie]

Don't sweat it, f&b, when the Dems are back in power, folks 'round here will get their panties in a right twist about it. Much too late, of course.

[FreedomPoster]

Big Brother is watching you! Is it any wonder that I'm using more cash, and doing fewer credit card transactions, just on general principle?

[francisandbeans]

Do you buy that crap you're spewing? I mean seriously, you don't really beleive that, do you?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Use cash for book purchases."

Good advice, and for guns, ammo, and any other "unapproved", non-PC items you buy. Credit cards and checking accounts are routinely snooped on by the feds.

[MarkWar]

>Use cash for book purchases. Tell the Thought Police to stick it.

1) Well, everyone has security cameras now. And, from recent threads, it seems that face recognition software is advanced enough to identify people. All that remains is to get all security cameras linked to some Fed net, and then they won't care if you use cash or not.

2) I saw something odd at my local gas station. It's some kind of pre-paid card -- I gather that it's something like a phone card -- but it's designed to work as cash at porn sites. Does anyone know about these things? If someone could market a general purpose "cash card" like that -- something like a pre-paid phone card but a thing that works at credit card outlets -- that would give us all the benefits of cards, with all the anonymity of cash...

Mark W.

[NC_Libertarian]

Anyone think that if this were Janet Reno doing this that this site would be going nuts about it?

I've learned over the last year that Republicans are hypocritical scum.

[NC_Libertarian]

When the Democrats were in power, Republicans took a stand for liberty and the Constitution. WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

Things are much worse, much more dangerous for freedom now that the Republicans are in power, because now there are so few willing to take a stand.

Unity, it turns out, is a horrible thing. Unity translates into unlimited power.

[francisandbeans]

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

< crickets chirping >

[dead]

Ashcroft's a dangerous ass.

The hell with the next Reno, I'm worried some hump like Bill Bennet will start perusing this data to determine who should survive the virtue-purges.

[francisandbeans]

Watching this site since Bush got elected has confirmed my worst fear.

It's over, we lost...pass the gruel, please.

[unsycophant]

It's a gruel world, alright. Open wide, baby.