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When first elected the mayor of Wasilla, Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin approached the city librarian with the idea of banning some books that were morally or socially objectionable to her.
I am a teacher and I think this is horrible! Let's go back to burning books and public shaming of people who act "immorally"...(sounds like the current practice in some extremist Muslim countries...and I thought the right were intolerant of Muslims).
Absolutely disgusting. There is nothing I hate more than censorship of this form. The librarian was fired soon after voicing disagreement. I see a pattern here.
And where are the Goldwater Republicans??? They would have never stood for this.
The Government telling citizens what they can read??
Are they're any true conservatives left??? I miss them, at least they had principles.
Me too. I really miss the true Republicans and true Conservatives. The neo cons have hijacked a once great party and turned it into the party of the perpetually greedy who want no restrictions on corporations and every restriction on people's private lives. Just upside down.
The articles say books she found "socially or morally unobjectionable".
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Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
Hmmm . . . if you Lefties hate censorship, then I certainly hope you are doing your part to protest the Muslims, who send death threats to Barnes & Noble, newspaper organizations, and other media outlets every time anything gets published that they don't like. An author who wrote a fictional account of Mo's wife Aisha just had her book and contract pulled by a well known publishing house due to Muslim violence. I certainly hope that you don't back down from Muslims on this free speech issue . . . cause if you did, that would make you . . . um . . . hypocrites!
Hmmm . . . if you Lefties hate censorship, then I certainly hope you are doing your part to protest the Muslims, who send death threats to Barnes & Noble, newspaper organizations, and other media outlets every time anything gets published that they don't like. An author who wrote a fictional account of Mo's wife Aisha just had her book and contract pulled by a well known publishing house due to Muslim violence. I certainly hope that you don't back down from Muslims on this free speech issue . . . cause if you did, that would make you . . . um . . . hypocrites!
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