This makes me SOOOOOO angry!!!

[PSU84]

Thank God for librarians. Standing up to the FBI takes courage.


KOMO 4 Seattle, Washington October 5, 2004

Small Town Library Takes On The Feds

By April Zepeda

WHATCOM COUNTY - The FBI wants to know who checked out a book from a small library about Osama Bin Laden. But the library isn't giving out names, saying the government has no business knowing what their patrons read.

The library in Deming isn't much larger than a family home. Located in rural Whatcom County, it hardly seems the site for a showdown with the feds.

"I think we all figure it's places like the New York Library System that's going to be one of the first we hear about," said the attorney for the Whatcom County Library System, Deborra Garret.

At the center of the issue, a book titled "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America."

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[George W. Dunce]

1. Repulsive

I can remember hearing my grade school teacher telling we should consider our selfs lucky we live in a country where we can criticize the government right on main street and read any book with out fears of book buring.

To bad we no longer live in that country.

[gasperc]

2. I thought what would happen if I checked out a bunch of chem books

books on terrorism, etc It's like there sitting there as bait. Well you can read them but ....

[lightbulb]

3. The quiet patriots

I'm proud to be dating a librarian!

[Demi_Babe]

4. welcome to Bush World/He is so gone come Nov 3rd!

[cheshire]

5. Less Government my A$$, This is not security it's harrassment, invasion of

privacy and a insult to our civil liberties.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Sigh!

[Roland99]

7. Why don't they just confiscate all of the "bad" books and...

burn them.

Eliminate the source of any dissent. Nip those would-be terrorists in the bud.

We don't know any better anyway.

[TexasChick]

8. Welcome to Nazi Germany 2004!! It's only gonna get worse, folks...unless

we can vote those Nazis out of our WH on Nov. 2nd!!!


Jennifer

[Road Scholar]

9. Shades of McCarthyism!!!!!!!

Things are really getting scary. We can't afford to lose in November.

[Road Scholar]

10. Shades of McCarthyism!!!!!!!

Things are really getting scary. We can't afford to lose in November.

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