[WEB4LIB] Waco, Ruby Ridge...Which Faction

[Donald Barclay]

I'm sorry, but I have to ask: When that APA mouthpiece compared librarians
to the radical factions at Ruby Ridge and Waco, did he mean to imply that we
are like the Davidians and the Weaver family, or did he mean that we are
like the FBI?

Donald A. Barclay
Houston Academy of Medicine--
Texas Medical Center Library
dbarclay at library.tmc.edu
713.799.7120

always the beautiful answer
who asks a more beautiful question
      --e.e. cummings


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[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Shirl Kennedy
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:27 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Waco, Ruby Ridge...hoo boy!


ZDNet News: Librarians targeted in latest copyright battles

In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of
a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing
their job: letting people borrow books for free.

Their leading opponents are the very people who supply the books that fill
their shelves--the publishers. And now that the high-stakes battle over
copyrights has moved beyond music and movies to books, librarians are
finding themselves the subject of rhetoric usually reserved for terrorists
or revolutionaries.

"They've got their radical factions, like the Ruby Ridge or Waco types," who
want to share all content for free, said Judith Platt, a spokeswoman for the
Association of American Publishers.

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http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2784614,00.html




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