As anyone who's unsuccessfully gone to their public library looking for books like Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism" or entire subjects like "shooting" knows, books are still banned in America. Yet every September, libraries set up the same shop-worn display featuring "Catcher in the Rye" that suggests that it's the DAR and John Birch Society that want to keep us ignorant. It's amusing that today's most effective censors are the Birkenstock-shod public servants setting up the display.
“Banned Books Week” should truthfully be called “Books Banned Without Our Approval Week”.
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Sad but true. Ironically, I'm reading your blog at a local public library, where the shooting books are relatively few and dog-eared, but one literally couldn't take home all the books on sewing, gardening, and how to make money in real estate.
Perhaps they'll eventually restrict library web access to pro-gun sites ("for the children", of course), but until then, I shall continue to enjoy the one research tool in this building that is beyond their censorial reach.
Yrs,
Max Liberty
Champaign, IL
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