Is your library unpatriotic? The FBI has now started checking library records. From metafilter.
On a related note, go take a look at the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association.
From the Washington Post article:
“People are scared and they think that by giving up their rights, especially their right to privacy, they will be safe,” Krug said. “But it wasn’t the right to privacy that let terrorists into our nation. It had nothing to do with libraries or library records.”
Or, as Ben Franklin put it: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
It was true then, and it’s true now.
