Comments on: FBI Tells Librarians: “Sssshhhhh!”

By: ForrestPrince

ForrestPrince — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:36:54 +0000

EW, don’t you know (are you sitting down? you better be…)

don’t you know,

librarians are nothing more than DFH’s in the conservative political eye.

Librarians stand for the general dissemination of knowledge in open, uncensored, unmonitored public spaces. Now if that’s not a DFH agenda, I don’t know what would be. Which, of course, makes me a DFH too, even though I’m not a librarian. But I have several friends who are.

Reckon I’ll be receiving my NSL any day now; extraordinary rendition to Gitmo immediately following, since the instant I get my NSL I’ll be contacting my newspaper, my family, and all my friends down at my favorite saloon to tell all of them all about it.

Been nice knowin’ ya! Sure am gonna miss my wife and my son. Will write when I can.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:22:27 +0000

With all due respect to FBI agents, a good research libraraian, or any specialty librarian, is not a person to mess with

Maybe b/c the librarians I know work in specialty libraries, corporate libraries, and software companies — they’re more likely to be a software employee than they are to ’shushh’ people in a cavernous, book-filled room. The modern day cataloguers and indexers are not to be trifled with

The FBI would be better off hiring them than investigating them.
Not sure the FBI can match the pay that the really top-notch librarians can earn these days.

By: phred

phred — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:07:26 +0000

Well, since they can’t get Youssef, hopefully they’ll line up Mike German instead. He’s a former FBI agent and the most sane person I have heard speak about making good use of constitutionally sound law enforcement tools to find and prosecute terrorists. He’s also quite eloquent on the topic of how secrecy enables inefficency and incompetence.

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:06:48 +0000

Submit questions for the Nevada debate
http://www.januarydebate.com/

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:07:26 +0000

No librarians are like the stereotype. But at least librarians’ activism on civil liberties issues has made that a lot more clear.

By: Leen

Leen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:57:42 +0000

When Librarians talk people listen.

Check Susan at No quarter Usa’s latest on where Obama’s $$$ comes from..Ouch
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2.....s-cronies/

Susan is so fair I know she will target Hillary and Edwards $$$ next

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:50:30 +0000

As the son of a librarian, all I can say is Digg It!

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:46:17 +0000

Love your librarian!

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:39:53 +0000

Librarians have been my civil liberties heros for several years, they’re not at all like the stereotype.

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:39:18 +0000

Remember their search for Monica’s book purchases, and the security letters to the CT. librarians. They love taking down the book people as related to intellectuals. shades of the cold war. G Edgar is smiling up at them from whatever circle of hell to which he was confined.

OT, EPued from Tweety thread.

Sure KO needs protection from any possible anti-KO Tweety scheming. A couple of NFL players to the right and left of him would make an impression. Come to think of it, are there any lefty progressive NFL’ers. Phred? EW? BMAZ? Neil?

Moderator, KO is as you surely know is a NFL commentator. This is not an OT sports reference to any particular team who may or may not be perfect. It is not a hint that there should be trash talk soon. It is a crossover political fantasy leading to a real inquiry.

Please do not erase.