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Lynn C. Woolsey: “the PATRIOT Act, as it stands, forces or could force users to self-censor their own reading choices, just on fear alone.…”

On the recordJune 15, 2005
the PATRIOT Act, as it stands, forces or could force users to self-censor their own reading choices, just on fear alone. Mr. Chairman, censorship is not what America is about. Under the PATRIOT Act, the FBI can go after your library or your book-purchasing records; and librarians or book sellers, under the penalty of law, cannot inform patrons of the library or the bookstore that it is under investigation or that a patron's records have been searched. That is why, Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Sanders Freedom to Read amendment. America's right to read and purchase books without fear of government monitoring has been erased by the PATRIOT Act, and Congress must repeal this unconstitutional provision. In fact, the ultimate success for terrorists is to change our country by taking away our rights and our liberties.
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Lynn C. Woolsey
California
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