Tell your senators to fix the PATRIOT Act

[anotheranon]

Pass it around, - you can fill it out even if you're not in the ACLU.

I'm glad to see that more people appear to be getting concerned about the civil rights abuses in the PATRIOT Act. Now Ashcroft has mocked librarians, and everyone knows that you never hack off a librarian!

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[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

oh wow! I better find my raincoat before the librarians (jlsjlsjls and Amy comes to mind) find their Mighty Catalogued Swords...this could be very messy...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for Amyzon (since I'm not sure what her official qualifications are), but we library technicians slander, bitch about and stick pins in voodoo dolls of librarians all the time ;-) So no danger from this quarter (yet, anyway ... I might change my mind after I read what was said, but dinner and new DVD of "Modesty Blaise" come first)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm fed and have had my Monica Vitti/Terence Stamp fix ;-)

Hysteria, huh? When I was still at the college, I belonged to the Voyager listserv (a list for users of the Voyager library software); the membership was predominantly American librarians and a couple of them HAD had law enforcement agents wanting to look through their records ... as I recall, the requests were in regard to particular patrons already under suspicion, not a general snoop through everybody's transactions. The Patriot Act has always been a major concern in the American library community; Endeavor (the maker of Voyager) was receiving requests and working on enhancements to allow purging of patron records without erasing materials use statistics while the thing was still in the proposal stage.

Heaven help OUR government if they try to pull a stunt like that ... it'd take 'em fifty years to undo all the privacy protection laws first ***grin***

[semmie17.livejournal.com]

Heaven help OUR government if they try to pull a stunt like that ... it'd take 'em fifty years to undo all the privacy protection laws first ***grin***

:::whimpers and looks fondly at the Great White North::: It's SO difficult moving from a first-world country to a second-world county. I miss my widdle maple leafs! And Tim Hortons! Yes, the mark of a superior nation! Timbits!

Semmie, wishing it would snow so at least she could *pretend* its Canada

Timbits in the U.S.A.

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Had a look for the Tim Hortons homepage, hoping to find something to cheer you up, and discovered that there are 160 Tim Hortons in the U.S. now ... regional offices are in Michigan and Ohio. No list of store locations ***pout***, but you might be closer to a timbit fix than you think! Presumably they're all close to the border, which means North Dakota might have one!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Update! A little more Internet searching has unearthed the information that Tim Hortons has establised a foothold in Michigan, New York State, Ohio, Kentucky, Maine, and West Virginia! So no Dakota branch yet, but it's only a matter of time until the Canadian invasion reaches you!