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• Just in time

  (Score:1) by Anonymous Patron on Thursday September 20, @03:32PM (#31099) for banned book week! Finally, a story about adults reading controversial material. [ Reply to This ]

• Re:Just in time

  (Score:2) by mdoneil (2301) <{lisnews} {at} {oneil.cx}> on Thursday September 20, @04:56PM (#31101)
  ( http://oneil.cx/WP | Last Journal: Thursday September 27, @11:44PM ) While I am certain each person, the Hayduke reader, the bookstore worker, may have chatted with officials, I think they may have blown things out of proportion in a bit of self aggrandizement. If the stories were fully true would not the mainstream press reported it as well not just creative loafing and indymedia?

  The FBI did not warn us to be on the lookout for persons reading almanacs it warned law enforcement agencies. Remember Kathleen Hensman? Just because we are librarians does not me we lose rights that private citizens possess. We can report any suspicious behavior we encounter in such a manner as any reasonable person would. We were not asked to report almanac users, and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.

  Carrying a book about drugs might indeed get you noticed by security personnel, so might having a lovely figure, or carrying a flamingo - ask Jack Hanna.

  Airport screeners are not watching what you read despite your anecdotes that require the suspension of disbelief. Your assertion is simply untrue, and that type of behavior besmirches the profession.When librarians take themselves seriously, the public will as well.

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• Suspension of disbelief?

  (Score:1) by Anonymous Patron on Thursday September 20, @09:04PM (#31105) http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/20 07/09/flight_tracking [ Reply to This ]

• Re:Suspension of disbelief?

  (Score:2) by mdoneil (2301) <{lisnews} {at} {oneil.cx}> on Thursday September 20, @09:19PM (#31106)
  ( http://oneil.cx/WP | Last Journal: Thursday September 27, @11:44PM ) Wired is your sole authoratative source?, please. --
  "Visualize Whirled Peas." [ Reply to This | Parent ]

• Re:Suspension of disbelief?

  (Score:2) by birdie (56) <infoNO@SPAMinmybook.com> on Friday September 21, @08:08AM (#31107)
  ( http://www.inmybook.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday September 30, @04:15PM ) Could it be a 'smear campaign'? [ Reply to This | Parent ]