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The mere suggestion of book-banning should set off alarm bells of epic proportion across the country.
The fact that Sarah Palin, the Republican would-be veep, approached Wasilla’s librarian with a ‘how would you react to banning books?’ question should not only give us all pause, but make us run shrieking in alarm to editorial boards in every nook and cranny of this country.
Besides that question being pulled out of her ass, it didn’t come from nowhere.
Why did she even think of it; there must have been a reason!
I try not to make personal attacks, but if you’re a Sarah Palin defender, and this one issue doesn't set your hair on fire, then you’re an idiot and an AdamHenry.
Worse than being an idiot and a jackass, you don’t have the first idea of what freedom means.
Even as a hypothetical…there had to be a reason, and a reason based in evil intent, and I’m not one who uses the word “evil” lightly.
There are some really bad books out there, but as much as I hate them and their subjects and would never read them, I would never say they should be banned, even if some insane person reads them, takes heart from them and commits a murderous or equally demonic act.
No matter how much the shrinks and the at-home-couch-potato shrinks want to blame the offensive book or movie for a person’s crimianal act, they’re full of illogical bull.
He was bent on dastardly deeds before ever reading or viewing the offensive material.
To ban a book -- any book -- is contrary to everything we believe to be freedom.
I don’t give a damn if Palin had in mind the banning of See Spot Run, a first grade primer, or The little Engine That Could or Dr. Seuss; it’s the fact that she even broached the question; that the thought even cross her mind; that, that insane, un-American, un-Constitutional thought was ever “thunk” up and verbalized in the first place.
Although I’m sure there is at least one idiot out there who could find something salacious or inherently bad in any of those benign books.
Omigawd, the kidlets cannot see Dick, Jane and Spot run; it’s dangerous to run. They might trip and fall. Today’s kids can’t even ride a bike without being suited up in a protective coat of armor.
The Little Engine that Could must have been an arrogant s.o.b. who thought he could do something he couldn’t. How dare he try to defy the you-can’t-do-it-gods!?!
Dr. Seuss must have been criminally insane to let his imagination run wild and open a world of fantasmic nonsense with a moral, and reveal a world of unbelievable word magic to a bunch of half-brain dead kids who were taught to read on the pap of Dick, Jane and Spot, while sitting if front of the television.
As dumb as the I-Hate-To-Read-in-Chief is, and even with his admission that he doesn’t read much; that his staff must submit reports on two pages, double spaced, in large type; that his yearly reading list is an absolute lie…I don’t ever remember even him suggesting the certain books be banned.
Even if he had, “My Pet Goat” would be a keeper, although I’m sure that Sarah and her ilk could find something objectionable about it.
A lot to think about. Ya think?
