CBLDF joins larger coalition, fights PATRIOT


Okay, I’m bracing myself here.

CBLDF Joins the Media Coalition is the thrust of this news story, which details that the organization will have more power by joining with a coalition that includes the MPAA and the American Library Association. And they’re going to fight section 215 of the PATRIOT Act which gives the FBI authority to do a search of bookseller or library records with the approval of a court order.

I’ll leave it up to you to discuss this in the comments and the forum. I’m not going to give any thoughts on this, simply because it’s a divisive issue on which everyone’s already made up their minds.

You probably think this never-invoked provision is an incredible intrusion by the federal government on your right to read a book about how to build a dirty bomb in conjunction with another book about why America is the Great Satan without getting a knock on your door.

Or you might think that this rare (at this point hypothetical) intrusion in extreme cases is a microscopically minor complaint about nothing. Especially in light of everyone’s inability, no matter how remote the possibility of their being terrorists, to take a simple plane without a cavity search from a bored federal employee followed by the removal of all but the dullest objects from your person, a far more offensive intrusion which happens every damn day and is just as voluntary as buying or checking out a book.

It’s a valid argument with good points on both sides. Thus, I will withhold any comment on it.



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