So here we are.
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jwz's livejournal, we have this news story about how Federal agents are monitoring Inter-Library Loan, and investigating you if you request the wrong book. So we have warrentless spying on American citizens, monitoring of suspect book titles, every attempt they can get away with to eliminate posse comitatus for American citizens, and a desperate fight to be able to torture people on executive order.
Is there any power the Republican party won't trust the government with? Any? I really don't think so anymore. Once upon a time, I did. The complete betrayal of every professed principled position of the Republican party once had genuinely depresses me.
Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm
NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book."
Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program.
The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said.
The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further.
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jwz's livejournal, we have this news story about how Federal agents are monitoring Inter-Library Loan, and investigating you if you request the wrong book. So we have warrentless spying on American citizens, monitoring of suspect book titles, every attempt they can get away with to eliminate posse comitatus for American citizens, and a desperate fight to be able to torture people on executive order.Is there any power the Republican party won't trust the government with? Any? I really don't think so anymore. Once upon a time, I did. The complete betrayal of every professed principled position of the Republican party once had genuinely depresses me.
Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm
NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book."
Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's interlibrary loan program.
The student, who was completing a research paper on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name, address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited at his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors said.
The professors said the student was told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to investigate the student further.
[More at URL]
