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Thread #71563   Message #1225673
Posted By: Bill Hahn//\\
14-Jul-04 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Libraries under siege
Subject: RE: BS: Libraries under siege
I can only re-iterate what I had said earlier. We make sure that our computers retain no memory, our computers only keep lists of overdues.

That said, we have, so far, have had no problems with queries from any gov. agency. Will we? Who knows.

I, like everyone else, wants the terrorist attacks to cease. Yet, we do not want to change what our nation and our life-style is all about. As an author said recently---re: VietNam---we did not lose we just could not win because it would have changed our values of human life. His meaning was that we would have to use the most horrible weapons and wipe out all life in N. Vietnam.

Let us hope that our values can stay intact, our rights remain constant and secure, and we can prevail in a strange new world with these things still whole.

Politically--I doubt very much that this administration can do that---given their morality, self interests, and dogmatic behaviour.


Bill Hahn