[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ALACOUN:15452] Senator Durbin

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI

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> From: Michael Gorman <michaelg at csufresno.edu>
> Date: August 1, 2005 12:44:00 PM CDT
> To: ALA Council List <alacoun at ala.org>
> Subject: [ALACOUN:15452] Senator Durbin
> Reply-To: michaelg at csufresno.edu
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> Source: Congressional Record, July 29, 2005, S9561.
> Remarks of Sen. Richard Durbin (IL) during debate on the USA PATRIOT
> AND TERRORISM PREVENTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005.
> "Let me say a word as I close. One of the most unlikely groups became 
> so important in this debate--the American Library Association. I 
> cannot recall a time in recent memory when this organization showed 
> such
> leadership. Time and again, they came forward to tell us that they 
> wanted to protect the privacy of their patrons at libraries across 
> America who might come in and take out a magazine or book, and they 
> certainly didn't want to do that with the knowledge that the 
> Government could sweep up all of the library records and sift through 
> them to see if anybody had checked out a suspicious book. They sent us 
> petitions gathered from libraries across the Nation, and I think they 
> really did good work on behalf of our Constitution and our rights and 
> liberties
> guaranteed under the Bill of Right
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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