[OPLINLIST] FW: [IFCPRIVACY:2339] Ohio's Patriot Act: The new 'red scare'

[Kent Oliver]

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Kent Oliver, Executive Director 
Stark County District Library 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Caldwell-Stone [mailto:dstone at ala.org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:50 AM
To: IFC Privacy Subcommittee
Cc: Don Wood
Subject: [IFCPRIVACY:2339] Ohio's Patriot Act: The new 'red scare'


The new 'red scare'

Toledo Blade
May 4, 2006

A NEW requirement that applicants for state jobs in Ohio swear that they
don't support terrorism strikes us as more a matter of paranoia than
protection.

In fact, the accusatory array of questions that must be signed by people
looking for state employment, including university faculty positions,
sounds disturbingly like the irrational suspicion inherent in the
anti-communist inquisitions of the 1940s and 1950s. 

The "are you now or have you ever been" line of inquiry, used against
scores of intellectuals and Hollywood figures in the "red scare" days,
was revived by the General Assembly as one of a laundry list of similar
features in the state's Little Patriot Act, which took effect April 14.

 
Full Story at:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605040370



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