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...potential consequences are fearsome. As The New York Times reported, the Patriot Act, renewed by Congress in March, empowers the FBI to demand individuals’ private information from doctors’ offices, banks, and libraries without a judge’s consent, using “national security letters,” which carry with them a “gag rule,” that prevents recipients from discussing the letters with anyone but their lawyers. (Those investigated can challenge this gag rule.) For researchers using services like RefWorks, the potential hazard is that their academic work could...
...circumstances with respect to having their work surveyed than do their Canadian colleagues. For one thing, academics in this country have nowhere to hide—even if Harvard were to move all of its users’ personal information from sites like RefWorks to servers in Canada, the Patriot Act still enables the FBI to demand that librarians and Internet service providers surrender user records...
...reason for this curious gathering is not hard to figure out. Muslim Americans in Minnesota and throughout the nation have been forging a coalition with liberals on issues like those articulated by Congressman-elect Ellison - universal health insurance, tougher environmental regulation, opposition to the Patriot Act and an immediate end to the war in Iraq...
...have not been, and continue to be, important rifts between African-American and immigrant-origin Muslims here. Not the least of these was the latter's support of Bush in 2000, which dramatically highlighted the social and economic gap between these two groups. But in the wake of the Patriot Act and perceived ethnic profiling, such strains have been overcome, though hardly eliminated. For immigrant-origin Muslims, African Americans' long-standing concern with civil rights suddenly has a relevance it previously lacked. And now, Muslims from places like Pakistan or Egypt, who might in the past have avoided politics...
Phase three is the climax, when the assumer reveals her ultimate disgust for the President and his cohorts (a.k.a. conservatives). Tip offs during this final phase are almost unlimited and include references to the Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, Laura Bush, and library books...