Thursday, May 8, 2003
FrontPage magazine.com has a worthwhile item on the attempts by the American Library Association to circumvent the Patriot Act, as well as a primer on their overall political slant.
Part of the war on terror is learning how America’s enemies work. It was found that terrorists like to use computer terminals in our libraries to communicate and do research. Soon after the attack on September 11, 2001, the Houston Chronicle reported, "Visitors and library employees in Delray Beach and Hollywood remember seeing some of the men who are suspected of carrying out the attacks." As a result, "FBI agents have subpoenaed library records in south Florida as they attempted to piece together where the suspects went and whom they communicated with in the months leading up [to] the assaults on the World Trade Center and Pentagon."
With this in mind, the elected representatives are paid to protect us added Section 215 to the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 215 merely reworks Title V of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and states that if the FBI believes terrorist activity is going on, it may make an application to a judge who can grant an order for the production of a patron's records.
The idea is simple; terrorists use things like airliners against us. Now, we make it harder for them to do that by federalizing airline checkers, and putting marshals on planes and beefing up airline security in general. The Feds want to do the same for terrorists that use our libraries.
While the people at the airlines and airports, flight attendants and pilots have chosen not to protest and fight the increased security where they work, the librarians have decided to take a stand against American security in the name of "freedom" - for terrorists. The librarians say they will not break the "sacred" trust between a patron and a librarian. The American Library Association seems to view this bond as literally sacred.[...]
This is not at all surprising. The American Library Association is now largely controlled by anti-American, anti-democracy, pro-Castro, pro-Arafat radical leftists. At a 1992 ALA convention, a PFLP terrorist was an honored guest speaker. Also in 1992, a resolution was passed to support a DFLP terrorist...Omar al-Safi. The DFLP is the terrorist group that murdered 22 Israeli schoolgirls in the Maalot Massacre, among its many other atrocities.
This is not at all surprising. The American Library Association is now largely controlled by anti-American, anti-democracy, pro-Castro, pro-Arafat radical leftists. At a 1992 ALA convention, a PFLP terrorist was an honored guest speaker. Also in 1992, a resolution was passed to support a DFLP terrorist...Omar al-Safi. The DFLP is the terrorist group that murdered 22 Israeli schoolgirls in the Maalot Massacre, among its many other atrocities.
This is not at all surprising. The American Library Association is now largely controlled by anti-American, anti-democracy, pro-Castro, pro-Arafat radical leftists. At a 1992 ALA convention, a PFLP terrorist was an honored guest speaker. Also in 1992, a resolution was passed to support a DFLP terrorist...Omar al-Safi. The DFLP is the terrorist group that murdered 22 Israeli schoolgirls in the Maalot Massacre, among its many other atrocities.