{"id":4816,"date":"2003-05-07T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:35:02","slug":"librarians-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/07\/librarians-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXNews.com on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,86167,00.html\">Libraries Rally Against USA Patriot Act<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Librarians across the country are rising up against the USA Patriot Act (search), shredding records and making other attempts to thwart the legal framework in the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>Librarian Cindy Czesak is in the vanguard of the rebellion at the Paterson Public Library (search) in Paterson, N.J., a densely-populated Middle Eastern community. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re quiet rebels,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Czesak, like hundreds of her fellow librarians around the country, says the Patriot Act makes what people read and borrow from libraries fair game in the name of tracking terrorists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should this information be entered into a larger database you then run into the possibility of this data being used by less than honest public servants for purposes other than those intended by the PATRIOT Act.<\/p>\n<p>Link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair-net.org\">CAIR<\/a>.  This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertywatchtower.com\/archives\/000168.php\">The Watchtower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOXNews.com on Libraries Rally Against USA Patriot Act: Librarians across the country are rising up against the USA Patriot Act (search), shredding records and making other attempts to thwart the legal framework in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7550,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/7550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}