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| DATE | 2003-09-16 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Librarians strike back
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Ashcroft vs. Librarians
To the Editor:
Re "Ashcroft Mocks Librarians and Others Who Oppose Parts of
Counterterrorism Law" (news article, Sept. 16):
As the author of legislation that would restore privacy protections to
libraries, booksellers and their patrons ? protections that were
stripped away by the hastily passed Patriot Act ? I find Attorney
General John Ashcroft's flippant remarks about the justified concerns of
America's librarians disturbing.
Librarians throughout the country are fighting hard to temper the
sweeping new powers given to federal agents to gain access to Americans'
reading records. Millions of Americans are grateful to librarians and to
the American Library Association for defense of their basic
constitutional rights.
Instead of making derisive remarks, one would hope that the country's
chief law enforcement officer, who is sworn to protect the Constitution,
would be working with librarians, booksellers and civil liberties
groups, not against them.
BERNIE SANDERS
Member of Congress, Vermont
Washington, Sept. 16, 2003
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