Comments on: Obama Wants Your Library Records

By: one dummy and one fool

one dummy and one fool — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:47:26 +0000

Crime is theft and invasion is privacy. Bigger difference than yours.

By: clear and open mind

clear and open mind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:42:04 +0000

The theft is a crime, the invasion of privacy is just a rude thing to do. Big difference.

By: clearandpresentmind

clearandpresentmind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:40:36 +0000

“That’s theft, not invasion of privacy. Big difference.” Small difference. The theft begins with an invasion of privacy.

By: clear and open mind

clear and open mind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:33:19 +0000

So when I use my credit card at a restaurant I have no right to expect they won't share the number with their friends?

That's theft, not invasion of privacy. Big difference.

By: RoboGod

RoboGod — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:24:49 +0000

Get BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG BUSINESS, and BIG RELIGIONS out of our lives. Thanks!

By: Clearandpresentmind

Clearandpresentmind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:58:27 +0000

“To expect privacy in a public place is wishful thinking at best and naive at worst.” So when I use my credit card at a restaurant I have no right to expect they won’t share the number with their friends? Or to expect my doctor to keep my medical business private? They don’t make house calls anymore. Repeating your mantra over and over doesn’t make it so.

By: clearandpresentmind

clearandpresentmind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:53:52 +0000

“Despite your state law, many people have access to your library records, such as library employees. ” Who are required to keep that info. to themselves. You have a weak argument and you still haven’t addressed what I said regarding showing cause for a search.

By: Frogger

Frogger — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:41:43 +0000

Do real librarians even read this blog anymore?

So does that mean you consider yourself to be a "real" librarian? You must be really proud of yourself to have reached such a high level of achievement.

By: benny

benny — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:25:59 +0000

“The credit problem is everybody’s fault, not just working class people or those with ‘over-inflated senses of entitlement,’”
Thank you. This line of thinking is border line racist.
Many people have an “over-inflated sense of entitlement” – but it’s certainly not the men/women who’s salaries gets picked apart well before they get a shot at wasting it on car stereos and rims.
Big screen TV?!! That’s what’s jacked up the economy?
I suppose the current state of public schools have nothing to do with thoughtless/short-sighted/greedy politicians? NO. Poor people must have caused that, too!
Forget Obama, Rupert Murdoch is the true Pied Piper.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:35:15 +0000

re: Well someone, I searched my copy of the Constitution of the United States and I couldn't find the word privacy anywhere in the document. <<

Exercise your information literacy skills and try searching two and a half centuries of Supreme Court decisions.

Do real librarians even read this blog anymore?