, 2005-06-15
How much do you trust your government? That's a question that all of us have to ask, perhaps the more often the better. Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States and its third President, wrote to Abigail Adams in 1787 sentences that may seem incredible to many people today:
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it has to start somehow...
what better place than here?
what better time than now?
I'm also reminded of the Benjamin Franklin quote "he who will trade his liberties for security deserves neither and shall receive neither"
it is up to us to do something if we want to make a change (another great quote: "the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
also, in HR2862, amendment 33, the funds appropriated in the bill are prohibited "from being used to implement provisions of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act which permits searches of library circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, or book customer lists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)" -- which, if I understand it correctly, means all the money (salaries, expenses, etc) given to the justice dept. this fiscal year cannot be utilized for section 215 of PATRIOT -- which means court orders would be required to get info from libraries (the appropriations bill is now in the senate, so I'm sure this amendment could still get 86'd before the president signs it)....
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