No Ordinary Library

I just got an e-newsletter from the British Library. It contained a press release regarding the weird thefts they had at the hands of a wealthy Iranian scholar. There just one passage in it which seems  a bit, I dunno, Judge Dredd...

"The library takes very seriously its duty to protect its collections for your use, and for the generations of readers to come. We have zero tolerance of anyone who harms our collections and will pursue anyone who harms them with the utmost vigour."

Doesn't it conjure up all manner of dystopian visions of futuristic totalitarian library-states policed by tweedy librarians armed with laser canons? Just me?