[OPLINLIST] Patriot Act Petition Drive

[Kent Oliver]

USA PATRIOT Act Petition Drive: Tell Congress Today!

Help us collect at least one million customer signatures on this
petition calling for Congressional support of legislation to amend
Section 215 of the Patriot Act.

Visit http://www.readerprivacy.org to sign the petition.

Download the petition at
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/alapetition.pdf
and circulate it widely.  (See below.)

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The USA Patriot Act threatens your privacy in bookstores and libraries.
It gives the FBI the power to apply to a secret court for an order
compelling the surrender of records of the books you purchase or borrow.

The government does not have to produce any evidence that you are a
terrorist-or even that you are suspected of any crime. The order also
gags booksellers and librarians, making it illegal to reveal that your
records have been searched.

OIF and the Washington Office, along with the American Booksellers
Foundation for Free Expression, Association of American Publishers, and
PEN American Center, are sponsoring a petition drive to urge our
representatives in Congress to support legislation that amends section
215 of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Please use this petition to collect signatures at your library or
elsewhere, and return signed petitions to:

Office for Intellectual Freedom
American Library Association
50 E. Huron St.
Chicago, IL 60611

Kent Oliver, Library Director
Stark County District Library
715 Market Ave., N., Canton, OH 44702
W: 330 458 2710 FAX: 330 455 9596
KOliver@starklibrary.org
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby
can't chew it."  Mark Twain