In the Fight for Privacy, States Set Off Sparks. “An even more dramatic measure of growing concern has been that three states and 133 localities have adopted resolutions critical of the USA Patriot Act. These have usually cited the threat of the F.B.I. rummaging through library and bookstore records, a practice for which there is scant, or no, evidence. Some directed their own officials not to cooperate with the feds. The Justice Department dismisses these resolutions as the voice of granola-chomping peaceniks. While Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., were indeed among the early adherents, late-comers like Reading, Pa., and the state of Alaska have no liberal history.”