Pandora
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I can't say for sure, its not where I am and I had no idea that any city in any state in the union banned books.
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I can't say for sure, its not where I am and I had no idea that any city in any state in the union banned books.
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Pandora
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Ah ok, I was getting worried. I know of no book banned by library's. They do stock more of some types and less of other types where books and video's are concerned. I had to ask them to please buy Expelled because they did not have it but they had a ton of copies of michael moore's dumb videos.
I also had to complain that there was only one copy of A slobbering love affair, obama and the media but a ton of copies of other more liberal books. And they had to order Mark Laven's new book because I complained. That was dumb too, the book was on the NY Times best seller list for over 18 weeks and they had no copies at all. I own the book but I want to make sure they buy it so Ill stay on the waiting list.
My library hates my guts because I am always pointing this out to them and demanding books that I have already read or own just so I can get it in the system for other people who are not willing to complain about it.
Schools usually have age appropriate books, middle schools have Bibles, Torah's and Koran's, I was kind of surprised to see that. But there is a great book for middle school age kids, a post apocalypse book and because the girl teaches the rest of the people left alive about the constitution and the value of hard work, its considered "controversial" and there is one copy in our whole school district... and we are a big district. I will probably end up buying a few copies and giving them out to the middle schools. The book is well worth it.
Scary, but could be true. Big Brother is watching.
Pandora
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If a person comes in a library and wants to check out several books on how to make various types of bombs I think I would be more afraid if they were not flagged.
When child molesters watch kiddie porn on the library's computer I am really upset that they protect him instead of turn him in too
Pandora
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Do they really do that?
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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!
Now, that's just unacceptable.
Maybe if you were to take your war public, there would be enough pressure from the community to make this disgusting practice stop. I'd be willing to bet that close to 100% of the parents in your community agree with you.
Pandora
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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.
The Scotsman
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Have no fear Padora such stance would not be permitted..........freedom of speech be damned this is a European based website and conforms to European standards of decency where such matters are concerned!
But seriously why didn't you follow up on that story?
Pandora
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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?
The Scotsman
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....... obviously not! We don't allow pedos to toss themselves off in public libraries dribbling over pictures of kids! We'd string the bastards up by their balls and then worry about their freedoms and rights..........
Are there any banned books in the US? What are they?
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Richard Savage
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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)
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)
