http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php All comments for Opinionist: This Just In - It's Illegal to Have an Imagination en-us 2009 Brittanie Shey Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:00:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss brittanie@houstonist.com brittanie@houstonist.com 60 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-801260 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-801260 Comments Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:32:49 -0600 <p>I for one am glad an act of Congress can trump the Constitutionally protected right to anonymous book check-out. How else can we keep tabs on the people who are reading "Catcher in the Rye", "Naked Lunch" etc. </p> http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-799841 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-799841 Comments Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:27:50 -0600 <p>not if you have the patriot act in place ALA information SLA information </p> http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795954 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795954 Comments Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:14:41 -0600 <p>So the same people who lend the books monitor who checks them out? No way. Doesn't the Constitution guarantee the right to check-out books anonymously? </p> http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795712 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795712 Comments Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:36:43 -0600 <p>"The government will start monitoring the books we check out of the library and reading our emails and listening to our phone conversations without a warrant?" And this is just the beginning...... Ray </p> http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795327 http://houstonist.com/2006/12/10/opinionist_this.php#comment-795327 Comments Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:40:37 -0600 <p>Whose "civil liberies have been taken away"? Who's "guilty until proven innocent"? Who's Mr. Peepers?</p>