>> The guy who played Martin Blank's psychiatrist in Gross
>> Pointe
>> Blank (PB in the Rocketeer, the older detective in
>> Gattaca, the Chief
>> of Police in So I Married an Axe Murderer)...
> Alan Arkin.
> Great comic actor, though I don't know if he was ever a
> comedian, per se...
You can
> -Original Message-
> From: William Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 11:39 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Librarian's brush with the FBI Shapes her view of the Patriot
> Act
>
> > The guy who played Martin Blank's p
> The guy who played Martin Blank's psychiatrist in Gross Pointe
> Blank (PB in the Rocketeer, the older detective in Gattaca, the Chief
> of Police in So I Married an Axe Murderer)...
Alan Arkin.
Great comic actor, though I don't know if he was ever a comedian, per se...
--
will
"If my life
it's a story about the abuses of power and where the Patriot Act may
lead us. I think I may have already told the story here of Canadian
immigration asking me why I went to the library so much. It was not a
good feeling, even though I knew my New Mexico tags were conspicuous
in that little town in
yeah but... they asked for the borrowers of the book. All borrowers of
that book. Presumably to find out who wrote that in the margin. Now, I
find it scary enough that they didn't recognize the quote as Osama's,
or google it, but even supposing someone had written "My hero" in the
margin they would
> NICE!
> You recount that Carlinism from memory?!?
Umm... he's one of my favorites. :) although it is just paraphrased...
George Carlin, Dennis Leary, David Cross... A number of under-rated
commedians who I see mostly as bit-parts or supporting characters in
movies. The guy who played Martin Bl
NICE!
You recount that Carlinism from memory?!?
>
> You gotta love our attorney general though... the man assumes that if
> you're not doing something illegal you shouldn't need or want any
> privacy...
>
> So... my neighbors who like to dress up in leather boyscout uniforms
> and take turns blow
> So what? Trying to get information about Osama bin Laden
> is hardly
> criminal and should not be the concern of the FBI.
> Researching someone
> does not mean you agree with him, or I would be a
> frothing-at-the-mouth fundamentalist republican.
> So YEAH the Patriot Act should go. Geez. I am a
>So what? Trying to get information about Osama bin Laden is hardly
>criminal and should not be the concern of the FBI. Researching someone
>does not mean you agree with him, or I would be a
>frothing-at-the-mouth fundamentalist republican.
>
>So YEAH the Patriot Act should go. Geez. I am astounded
So what? Trying to get information about Osama bin Laden is hardly
criminal and should not be the concern of the FBI. Researching someone
does not mean you agree with him, or I would be a
frothing-at-the-mouth fundamentalist republican.
So YEAH the Patriot Act should go. Geez. I am astounded that
> Vivec wrote:
> On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the
> Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a
> list of the people who had borrowed a biography of Osama bin Laden.
> We said no.
>
At first when I read this I thought, "so what?" By the
I've alyways thought the powers granted by the patriot act were a bit
frightening. But as a non - American I can't really say that what I
was reading wasn't simply worst case What If Scenarios.
Well..
What If...
And is the privacy of US citizens from the Government worth anything anymore?
Will th
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