Do you read banned books?

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I have a long going war with librarians because they let men look at child porn on the library computers and refuse to turn them in. It is only against the law to download it but they can put filters on the computers so they can not watch it. I begrudge being a tax payer and having to pay for libraries so perverts can go in and watch kiddie porn.

In California last year a newer librarian was fired for turning in a guy who was actually breaking the law by masturbating while watching kiddie porn and downloading it. The newer librarian first told her supervisor about it and the supervisor instructed her that the man had his right to privacy and she can not make him stop, call the police or turn him in, that was not a librarians job.

The man came in another time and did the same and the newer librarian ended up calling the police and turning the guy in, she was fired for doing it though her supervisor gave another excuse like not following instructions. She filed a suit against the library, I never followed the story to see how it turned out. I should check on that.

In another case, in another state a man would come in and look up kiddie porn then pester the kids in the children’s section. No librarian would stop him or stand up to him and eventually he did molest a child in the bathroom of the library.

There should be filters on the library computers so people can not watch porn of any kind, that is not what the library was intended for and not what the tax payers in general want from the library. It should be a safe place for kids and if you have some perv getting hot watching porn (adult or kiddie) the library stops being a friendly or safe place for normal people.

This post can be easily twisted as saying I do not believe in free speech, as though watching kiddie porn is free speech.

Go to your own house and look up all the porn you want, I don’t care... just don’t make the tax payers pay for it!

Its not just my community, actually most of the cases are in other cities and other states. Your state

I think child molesters who are on lists should not even be able to go to a public library or public swimming pool or public park or any place kids hang out.

But I would settle for not letting them look up porn on library computers.

There are so many stories that I try to follow. I am as equally interested in religion as I am politics. So I have way too many things to follow up on and way too many things pulling me different directions
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Obama being elected has sucked the majority of my time, I feel bad that I have not been checking into various religous topics lately, and stuff like pervs in libraries looking up porn. I think I should look for more cases like that and post them.

What are European standards of decency? I thought we all had the same?

There really aren't many books banned in the US anymore. And if they are, the government has generally been lifting their bans (which were put in place over 50 years ago!)

One can tell much about a person from the books that they read. My "top ten" personal favorites (in English) are:

1. The Holy Bible, King James Version (1611)
2. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623)
3. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Tobias Smollett Translation (1755)
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., James Boswell (1791)
5. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1854)
6. On the Origin of Species, etc., Charles Darwin (1859)
7. Middlemarch, George Eliot (1871-72)
8. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1885-86)
9. The Oxford Book of English Verse, Arthur Quiller-Couch Ed. (1919)
10. The Outermost House, Henry Beston (1928)