[at-l] libraries are our tax dollars at work

[cballs at verizon.net (Curtis Balls)]

Which "rush of vigilantes"?
What are "Entertainment Tonight geeks"?
What annual "Revelation"?
Can you see these on the Trail?

I haven't watched television in three years.  Has the Rapture come?

Private, Taxpaying, Left-Behind Balls


> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-
> bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Sloetoe
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:38 PM
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
SNIP> 
> ### Eventually, we're going to wise up and figure out that
> library records are not medical records, but records of your use
> of a public resource for which we all pay with our tax dollars.
> Unless great reason is *demonstrated*, such public records are
> generally *required* to be public in all 50 of these United
> States and for the feds. What should NOT be held confidential is
> the "librarians cannot tell people that their records have been
> searched by the government". In a word with a brain, the FBI
> would be required to publish who they are keeping an active file
> on, as well as to spill the contents unless just cause is shown.
> (With a rebutable presumption that the file should be open, sans
> charges being filed.) At that point, then, the rush of
> vigilantes and Entertainment Tonight geeks should put the annual
> "Revelation" out the door and around the block.
> 
> Private, Taxpaying, Toe
> 
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