Patriot Act creates strange bedfellows

This will be particularly interesting to those who heard Boerne Library director Kelly Skovbjerg at the last KCADW meeting:

"It was a Washington rarity to see the American Civil Liberties Union line up with conservative lions like David Keefe of the American Conservative Union and former Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga. But they were among those at a Washington press conference held to assail such Patriot Act provisions as those allowing law enforcement agents to look at library users' records or to conduct unannounced "sneak-and-peek'' searches on homes or private offices."

'It is not, and never should be necessary, to surrender our rights under the Bill of Rights to fight the war on terrorism,' said Barr, who as a House member voted for the Patriot Act, which passed overwhelmingly in the House and provoked only one dissenting Senate vote."