A St. John's College Library visit by a former public defender was abruptly interrupted February 13 when city police officers arrested him about 9 p.m. at the computer terminal he was using, handcuffed him, and brought him to the Santa Fe, New Mexico, police station for questioning by Secret Service agents from Albuquerque. Andrew J. O Conner, 40, who was released about five hours later, said in the February 16 Santa Fe New Mexican, I m going to sue the Secret Service, Santa Fe Police, St. John s, and everybody involved in this whole thing.
According to O Connor, the agents accused him of making threatening remarks about President George W. Bush in an Internet chat room. Admitting he talked politics face-to-face in the library with a woman who was wearing a No war with Iraq button, O Connor recalled saying that Bush is out of control, but that I m allowed to say all that. There is this thing called freedom of speech. He also speculated that the FBI might have been observing him because of his one-time involvement in a pro-Palestinian group in Boulder, Colorado.
Earlier on the same day O Connor was questioned, officials at St. John s as well as at the College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe Community College issued warnings to students and faculty that the FBI had been alerted to the presence of suspicious people on campus within the past four weeks.
Concern about threats to individual privacy under the USA Patriot Act has prompted New Mexico legislators in both houses to propose resolutions urging state police not to help federal agents infringe on civil rights. The resolutions also encourage libraries to post prominent signage warning patrons that their library records are subject to federal scrutiny without their permission or knowledge.
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Posted by Brian Stefans at February 27, 2003 04:44 PMThe asshole should go and live in Iraq if he doesn't appreciate being an American. Civil libberties does not mean making terrosit threats against our President
Posted by: KIm Lewis on April 24, 2003 10:01 PMDear Kim Lewis: It's a good thing that the government doesn't give liberties just to those who can spell the word, or else you'd be up shit's creek. And where in this whole report did you get the idea that this man threatened the president? It sounds like you are more suited to live in the former Iraq than many of us. You might have liked the tight system. You wouldn't have to worry about anyone insulting the president.
Posted by: Magdalena Zurawski on April 26, 2003 12:48 PMOk
Posted by: Dave on November 29, 2003 07:29 AMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Adrian on January 19, 2004 02:56 AMLet's take a moment to reexamine that. What we've done here is create two variables. The first variable is in the Heap, and we're storing data in it. That's the obvious one. But the second variable is a pointer to the first one, and it exists on the Stack. This variable is the one that's really called favoriteNumber, and it's the one we're working with. It is important to remember that there are now two parts to our simple variable, one of which exists in each world. This kind of division is common is C, but omnipresent in Cocoa. When you start making objects, Cocoa makes them all in the Heap because the Stack isn't big enough to hold them. In Cocoa, you deal with objects through pointers everywhere and are actually forbidden from dealing with them directly.
Posted by: Phillipa on January 19, 2004 02:57 AMWhen Batman went home at the end of a night spent fighting crime, he put on a suit and tie and became Bruce Wayne. When Clark Kent saw a news story getting too hot, a phone booth hid his change into Superman. When you're programming, all the variables you juggle around are doing similar tricks as they present one face to you and a totally different one to the machine.
Posted by: Annanias on January 19, 2004 02:57 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Tristram on January 19, 2004 02:57 AMBut variables get one benefit people do not
Posted by: Margery on January 19, 2004 02:58 AM