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To: jlallen who wrote (204803)	11/26/2001 3:54:35 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

Somehow, when I wasn’t looking, librarians became some of the most fanatical absolutist pinheads around, totally incapable of making rational distinctions. The New York Times (link requires registration) reports that Kathleen Hensman, a Florida librarian who called the police when she recognized some of the Sept. 11 hijackers as library patrons, "broke a Florida law that guarantees confidentiality to library patrons. It also violated a cardinal principle of librarians never to tell the police, in absence of a court order, about who uses their rooms and what books they check out." Hensman won't be prosecuted, but why is such a nutty law even on the books? opinionjournal.com Why is this nutty law on the books? Librarians lobbied for it that's why.