the_gneech: (Yue grim)
the_gneech ([personal profile] the_gneech) wrote2002-06-25 03:24 pm

Not So Nifty

Grrrroowwwlllll...

This kind of crap is why I wish the U.S. had a decent libertarian party, instead of The Immoral Mobsters vs. The Reactionary Police State.

And don't tell me it's some kind of "Bush vs. Gore" nonsense, because a Gore administration would be doing exactly this same crap right now. It's all about control; whether the tyrants on the left or the tyrants on the right have it, they both agree on that one aspect.

There are two phrases I keep remembering as things progress in this country. I don't know who said them, but whoever it was knew what they were talking about:

Those who give up liberty for security, end up with neither.

...and...

The last act of any democracy will be to elect a dictator.


Sigh.

-The Gneech

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[identity profile] softpaw.livejournal.com 2002-06-25 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
this wouldn't work in Arkansas, back in aahhh 90 91 something like that a law was passed that made it so that you COULDNT look it up to see who checked out what book anymore, cause someone did that for some beauty queen and found out she only checked out ONE book ever.

I was a library assistant and spent a good part of my JR year blacking out names from the checkout cards in the books, was interesting at times..I did the WHOLE biography section *small school* and since the HS I graduated from was the same one as both my parents and there family I'd find books THEY checked ou

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[identity profile] level-head.livejournal.com 2002-06-25 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope that the laws of the United States apply, even in Arkansas. We should fix this one at the federal level, I think, rather than secede from the Union.

Besides, I have had no valid library card for decades, and am a high school drop out. So, by this approach, I am completely uneducated. I would readily admit that I am not qualified to be a beauty queen. ;)

I am not much in favor of providing a cushy existence to Taliban combat captives in our custody. The United States arguably does not owe them even the provisions of the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war, but we should do this anyway because of who and what we are, which is NOT the Weimar Republic.

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[identity profile] softpaw.livejournal.com 2002-06-25 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
it's not that they are going AGANST the fed law..its that for years they haven't KEPT a list of who checks out what book becuse of this law..at least that is what went on to my understanding of it. so the feds would have a hard time checking on someones list of books they checked out

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[identity profile] level-head.livejournal.com 2002-06-25 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
To the best of my understanding, the law does not require the keeping of such records. It does seem that the Bureau can ask questions of almost any establishment during an investigation -- I wonder to what extent the federal funding of libraries plays into this logic.

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