BOOKSTORE CENSORS [SF clerk calls Fallaci "Fascist"]

The New York Post ^ | March 11, 2006 | By CATHY SEIPP

[Drango]

Just savor the absurd details of this...

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[moose2004]

I read this on the subway this morning, it's beyond disgraceful!

[garyhope]

Ah yes, those darned "liberals" are just so tolerant, open minded, warm and loivng aren't they?

Leftism and "liberalism" is a one way street.

[snarks_when_bored]

The clerk probably wouldn't be able to define the word 'fascist' even after reading its definition.

[StACase]

Dog bites man

[dead]

Just wait till the right people are in charge, then this book clerk will be the first in line to put a bullet through the skulls of those who hold intolerant views.

[nuconvert]

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[Poincare]

Betcha City Lights carries the works of Ezra Pound. (Antisemitic fascist poet).

[JLS]

Yep, certain people in the US are making it harder and harder to feel sorry for them if they ever fall under the rule of radical Islam.

[Michael.SF.]

Next time I'm North Beach I think I will stop there and see if they have Ann Coulter or David Horowitz's latest books.

[EternalVigilance]

"I do not believe in vile acquittals, phony appeasements, easy forgiveness. Even less, in the exploitation or the blackmail of the word 'peace'. When peace stands for surrender, fear, loss of dignity and freedom, it is no longer peace. It is suicide." -Oriana Fallaci

[squarebarb]

Yes, I bet they do, and Pound was an out-and-out avowed Fascist of the official stripe.

[Dr. Thorne]

Leftists never actually believe in "Freedom". They know that practically no one will accept the logical outcome of Marxism which is the destruction of personal freedom in favor of collective control. Their kind of Freedom is better defined as "License".

[Rocko]

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[Rocko]

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[texasbluebell]

I bet you could find a copy of Mein Kampf in City Lights.

Probably a few copies of the koran too.

[The Electrician]

I once knew a young Wellesley College graduate (no, not Hillary Rodham Clinton), who declared to me with a straight face that Ayn Rand was a fascist. Of course, Ayn Rand is well-known as an anti-fascist. It stands to reason that Rand's brand of freedom would be anathema to any "educated" leftist. I doubt that she came to use that word by accident, though - I imagine that the word 'fascist' was intentionally degraded, by the teachers at Wellesley and probably by those at other leftist bastions, to an all-purpose epithet devoid of any true meaning (other than that anything that they had been taught to disagree with was by definition 'fascist').

One of my sisters is also a Wellesley graduate. I love her very much, but sadly I know from firsthand experience that even though she is very bright, she is physically and mentally incapable of having a reasoned discussion of anything that crosses some imaginary line of political correctness. That must have been a learned response - because she shares the same genes and similar childhood home environment with me.

I am perfectly capable of fairly stating the views of my political opponents and debating them on an honest level - if I had to, I could take the opposite side in such a debate and score plenty of points. But that is out of the question with her and with her Wellesley-educated peers that I have met. My sister did not formally major in the intellectually- and academically-bankrupt field of "women's studies", but the stubborn and dogmatic responses that she shows to certain topics lead me to believe that she got infected with a full dose of it just by spending four years on that campus.

[Lion in Winter]

Why, yes they DO carry Pound poetry!

Their phone number is: 415-362-8193.

Call after 10am PST.

I checked their web site search and they SURE do carry Pound!! Lots of that fascist, EZRA POUND!!

[Lion in Winter]

HI! there Texasbluebell!!

Searched their site...no Hitler "literature".

But as I indicated in a prior post, they do carry Ezra Pound and lots of it!!

Doncha' just love liberal "hypocrazy"!!! LOL!!