Posted on 03/14/2008 12:33:12 PM PDT by Enterprise
Edited on 03/14/2008 1:40:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
[The original source is Gannett, which allows headlines and links only]
Did I read this right? She was fired for reporting a sex crime commited by a patron in her library? Somebody will be writing her a large check.
..and the community better give her a big thank you as well.
Well, not if the ALA has anything to say about it. Librarians all over the country have been told by their professional organization to back off, it’s “just porn.” The only reason this woman was brave enough to complain was that she had been on the job only a few months, and didn’t know the ground rules...
A 16 yr old girl called into Jay Sekulow’s show last month, saying she worked at the local public library where they had a special computer for porn off to one side.
The bigger problem was that there was one guy in particular that kept coming in. A librarian checked his name against the sex offender list... yeah, you know he was on it.
Not sure how this one worked out, but Jay got his team on it right then and there.
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The librarians professional org is telling them not to report child porn? Unbelievable. Am I in some kind of a liberal twilight zone? Can somebody beam me back to the US of A.
“Supervisor Allen Ishida said librarians should call police only when child pornography is involved.
“When it gets into other pornography, it’s kind of like art,” he said. “It’s hard to distinguish what’s pornography.”
Ok, a little lesson for you Mr. Ishida....
Art would be in the Art section of the library or your local bookstore...or a museum.
Pornography, unlike art, is usually found in the back corner of your local video store behind a black curtain or in a store with blacked out windows with signs that say “ADULT XXX VIDEOS”.
What a moron. lol
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The authorities count on that as well.
sounds like CA. report it, you get fired; don’t report it, get charged with conspiracy.
Time to burn the library cards.
If it gets in front of a jury, she’ll win.
Infuriates me they can view porn of any kind in a public library.
Evidently the county librarian made the case that she should not be allowed to pass her probationary period. Since that is tied up in the area of "personnel matters" we are not able to adequately judge the truth of the case. However, it looks mighty suspicious. In the defense of the fired employee it would say that she absolutely did the right thing, and further, she would be complicit if she knew a felony was occurring and failed to notify the authorities. I would rather be fired for exposing the truth of something than be arrested for being part of the coverup.
That’s about how I interpreted this.
She's a librarian... and she doesn't know how to catalog? If they have a porn section in the library do they not know what to put in there? LOL
No, you didn't read that right. What the article says is, that she believes she was fired for that reason.
It may even be true. But this is yet another of those stories told from the perspective of the aggrieved party ... and thus it is not to be taken at face value.
The ALA is a pack of loony liberals who spend their time voting to “support abortion rights.” Many librarians have resigned over things like this, but the problem is that being a member of the professional org is important in getting jobs, etc. So I say the woman was brave, and I hope her community appreciates her.
“Believe it or not,” Biesterfeld quoted Hill as saying, “this is more common than you think.”
This is a tactic used by many of the perverted causes. Try to make it appear a common happening and therefore just accept it..
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