By David Postman, Seattle Times, 6/21/06
At
the American Library Association’s annual conference that opens
Thursday in New Orleans, the union representing Seattle library
employees will introduce a resolution calling on President Bush to
resign or be impeached.
The resolution says that “Librarians are among the preeminent
defenders of intellectual freedom and government openness in the U.S.”
and includes a list of offenses by Bush, “many of which are indictably
criminal” and include the “illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq,”
torture and domestic eavesdropping. The librarians specifically note
the U.S. Patriot Act, which they say allows the government to snoop on
library patrons.
The librarians will also introduce the resolution at their union’s national convention in Chicago in August and have pledged to join the anti-Bush group, The World Can’t Wait, which is calling for a “Day of Mass Resistance” against Bush in October.