Monday 12 December 2005

It all works out...

Read this.

So, it's hard for FBI agents to actually get those private customer records we librarians were all so angry about being able to seize without restraint? Two things:

  1. Boo hoo.
  2. That's really pathetic. Not only were they trying to do something many people saw as violating some basic privacy issues, but they can't even be evil efficiently! *laugh*

Doesn't the article seem to be written with the tone that says, "See? The Patriot Act ain't so bad... The FBI still can't get all the information they need to do their job!" Yeah, great. So, not only does this law potentially leave the door wide open for serious invasions of private records, but many officials can't even use it, now that it is in place, to catch bad guys...

2 comments:

Dan said...

Radical Militant Librarian. I like that phrase. Maybe, I'll get a t-shirt made up, or have RML put on a cap.

If we had stayed in Afghanistan, caught Bin Ladin, and killed or captured most or all of the terrorists existing then, I may have been more flexable with investigations of terrorists, but since we are fighting bush's war rather than the real war I simply do not trust any of them. As of this morning's Newsday there are 30,000 Iraqi citizens dead and 2,140 U.S. soldiers dead, not including allied soldiers and civilians and of course the casualties of the people that have fought against us.

Dan said...

In a spare moment I want to research domestic spying during WWII. We really need a point of reference for this arguement.