Good Reads Library
Never A Dull Minute Or Smile, You're On Candid Camera
We had a film crew from the Netherlands here at the library today. Apparently they are doing a piece on the Patriot Act (boo, hiss!) and since we are near D.C. and it is easier to get permission from our library to film, they did so here.
And our library is quite photogenic, even if the staff isn't! Speaking for myself that is. I've been on camera frequently for a local public access children's program, and it DOES put on 10 pounds. At least. Makes you shudder to think how THIN the average superstar must be!
I had an interesting chat with the crew about my feelings on the Act--namely that it doesn't make me feel safer. If anything, having laws that make it easier for the government to invade my privacy scare the hell out of me.
But I mainly talked about what it was like to be here on September 11 with the fire trucks roaring up the road to the Pentagon, and smelling the smoke for a week, and waiting to hear if all my relatives in NYC were (and they were) okay.
What has gone on across the river since that day hasn't made me feel safer--if anything I feel like we are more at risk than ever.
This was all off the record, BTW. If they'd had the camera running I'd have had to have said nothing--there were city officials there to give the party line.
Happily I live in a decidedly "blue" city, and the Patriot Act is not well thought of here!
Speaking of such things, I was running my mouth (on the record) on the same topic at someone else's blog. Her name is Pia and her blog is at www.courtingdestiny.com. She has some thought provoking ideas--the sort the Patriot Act people don't care for.
And if there's anyone out there in the Blogosphere from the Netherlands, and you see a piece on the Patriot Act on your TV, the pretty children's room with the plants and the stuffed animals is my home away from home. But as for the librarian helping a little girl and her mother find books for a report, I have no idea who SHE is!
