Re: [Videolib] OT:"Watch List" on Inter-Library loans?

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> This indeed may be a hoax but on a related though not to libraries note,=
the
> government admitted
> last week that it =B3accidentally=B2 had put thousands of anti- war protester=
s on
> the government =B3watch=B2 list
> which it is supposed to develop to keep an eye on potential terrorists. =
It
> said this was an oversight
> which will be fixed. And these are the folks who think getting a wiretap
> without any court order
> or supervision is constitutional.
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> Jessica
> ( who probably just got on a watch list)
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> Perhaps straying from video librarianship, but library-related
> regardless...this story is rapidly unfolding and being debated as a possi=
ble
> hoax. See the details unfold here:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/18/dhs_agents_visit_stu.html among oth=
er
> places, I'm sure.
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> Marc Tiar
> Washoe County Library
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu
>> [mailto:videolib-bounces@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Jonathan Mil=
ler
>> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 10:31 AM
>> To: videolib@library.berkeley.edu
>> Subject: [Videolib] "Watch List" on Inter-Library loans?
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>> This is article from a paper in Southern Massachusetts (New Bedford), T=
hat
>> Standard-Times
>> http://www.southcoasttoday.com/
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>>> Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
>>> By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
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>>> NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal age=
nts
>>> two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on
>>> Communism called "The Little Red Book." Two history professors at UMas=
s
>>> Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student=
told
>>> them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library's
>>> interlibrary loan program. The student, who was completing a research =
paper
>>> on Communism for Professor Pontbriand's class on fascism and
>>> totalitarianism, filled out a form for the request, leaving his name,
>>> address, phone number and Social Security number. He was later visited=
at
>>> his parents' home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of
>>> Homeland Security, the professors said. The professors said the student=
was
>>> told by the agents that the book is on a "watch list," and that his
>>> background, which included significant time abroad, triggered them to
>>> investigate the student further. "I tell my students to go to the dire=
ct
>>> source, and so he asked for the official Peking version of the book,"
>>> Professor Pontbriand said. "Apparently, the Department of Homeland Sec=
urity
>>> is monitoring inter-library loans, because that's what triggered the v=
isit,
>>> as I understand it."
>>> Although The Standard-Times knows the name of the student, he is not
>>> coming forward because he fears repercussions should his name become
>>> public. He has not spoken to The Standard-Times. The professors had b=
een
>>> asked to comment on a report that President Bush had authorized the
>>> National Security Agency to spy on as many as 500 people at any given t=
ime
>>> since 2002 in this country. The eavesdropping was apparently done wit=
hout
>>> warrants.=20
>>> The Little Red Book, is a collection of quotations and speech excerpts=
from
>>> Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung.
>>> In the 1950s and '60s, during the Cultural Revolution in China, it wa=
s
>>> required reading. Although there are abridged versions available, the
>>> student asked for a version translated directly from the original book=
.
>>> The student told Professor Pontbriand and Dr. Williams that the Homel=
and
>>> Security agents told him the book was on a "watch list." They brought =
the
>>> book with them, but did not leave it with the student, the professors =
said.
>>> Dr. Williams said in his research, he regularly contacts people in
>>> Afghanistan, Chechnya and other Muslim hot spots, and suspects that so=
me of
>>> his calls are monitored.
>>> "My instinct is that there is a lot more monitoring than we think," h=
e
>>> said.=20
>>> Dr. Williams said he had been planning to offer a course on terrorism=
next
>>> semester, but is reconsidering, because it might put his students at r=
isk.
>>> "I shudder to think of all the students I've had monitoring al-Qaeda =
Web
>>> sites, what the government must think of that," he said. "Mao Tse-Tung=
is
>>> completely harmless."
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>>> Contact Aaron Nicodemus at anicodemus@s-t.com
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>>> This story appeared on Page A9 of The Standard-Times on December 17, 2=
005.
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>> Here is the URL for the article above:
>> http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm#TOP
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>> Anyone know of any videos/DVDs on the FBI's "Watch list"? Or experience=
s
>> like this related to viewing (or wanting to watch) any films?
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>> JM
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>> Jonathan Miller
>> First Run/Icarus Films
>> 32 Court Street, 21st Fl.
>> Brooklyn, NY 11201
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>> www.frif.com <http://www.frif.com>
>> jmiller@frif.com
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Proud Resident of a BLUE STATE
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Jessica Rosner
Kino International
333 W 39th St. 503
NY NY 10018
jrosner@kino.com
212-629-6880

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