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Friday, September 06, 2002
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/524355p-4158028c.html Patriot Act gag order gives libraries pause SUE LINDSAY, Scripps Howard News Service Colorado librarian Jamie LaRue jumped on the Internet on Sept. 11 when he heard that planes had hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He wanted to know all he could learn about Osama bin Laden, even reading Web sites sympathetic to the apparent mastermind of the attacks. Only later did it occur to him that his research was building a record that might make him a suspect in the eyes of the government. "I just fit the profile, and all I was doing was exercising a basic American right to ask questions, to investigate, to try to understand," said LaRue, director of the Douglas Public Library District. "By taking those steps, I could have labeled myself as an enemy of the state," he said. "That innocent curiosity traps you." LaRue and other librarians are uneasy with provisions of the Patriot Act that put them at odds with the fundamental belief that what someone reads is nobody's business....
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