Fwd: ACLU: Support the Freedom to Read

["Bargmann" <Bargmann _at__ info.fh-eisenstadt.ac.at>]

From: Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU
To: ACLU Action Network Members
Date: July 22, 2003

Support the Freedom to Read

Under the USA PATRIOT Act, FBI gained the power to search your library
and 
book-buying records without probable cause of any crime or intent to
commit 
a crime. It also stops librarians and booksellers from telling you that

this search has even occurred.

The FBI has been aggressively using these new powers without providing

Congress with explanations about its activities.  A University of
Illinois 
survey shows libraries were targeted at least 175 times in the year
after 
9/11 -- yet the FBI refuses to explain how or why.

In response to these invasions of our civil liberties, a bipartisan
group 
of Representatives have introduced an amendment to an appropriations
bill 
that would restore many key checks and balances.  This amendment will
be 
voted on in the coming days and deserves our strong support.

Take Action! Click here for more information and to send a free fax to
your 
Representative:

http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13184&c=110



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