"Terror Reading"

Anonymous cripto at ecn.org
Sun Aug 31 00:20:22 PDT 2003


>Some librarians are probably now thinking they have a patriotic duty to 
>see what people are reading and to report any "suspicious" behavior. 
>Part of the intent of the Patriot Act and the Library Awareness Program 
>was to bamboozle the nation's librarians into acting as the kind of 
>"ward watchers" that were once so common in the Soviet Union (the 
>babushkas who sat on each floor of apartment buildings and filed 
>reports on the comings and goings of their flock).

The purpose of this is purely a show and indoctrination.

1. No self-respecting terrorist would go to a fucking library to do terror reading (maybe there is something positive here - I think that we should get protected by pigs from extremely dumb terorists.)

2. No library that I am aware of requires ID to do on-site anything. The same goes for internet cafes and open wireless access points.

3. Buying books for cash is anonymous as it gets - it's unlikely that a library will have something that university bookstore or Internet doesn't have. Again, poor terorists should be caught.

I want to be terorized by professionals.





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