Bans started in the 1970s: Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1974, Saginaw, Michigan in 1975, and Eagle Pass, Texas and Trenton, New Jersey in 1977 through removal from local libraries. Other libraries in New York (1975), Ogden, Utah (1979), and Florida (1982) required parental permission for a student to check out the book. Additional bans occurred in 1983 in Minnesota and Colorado, 1984 in Mississippi, and 1986 in Georgia and Michigan. Also, in 1993 in New Jersey and West Virginia, 1994 in Massachusetts, 1998 in Rhode Island, 2003 in Maine, and in Feb 2007 Berkley County School District in South Carolina. The American Library Association listed Go Ask Alice as number 23 on its list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the 1990s. [6] The book was number 8 on the most challenged list in 2001 and up to number 6 in 2003.
So, we're consider it a big deal that Palin may have done the same in a small-town library with limited space?
“CBS puts some idiots half baked theory out as news on the national wire? “
I get one channel...CBS. Every night I watch Katie Couric and I’ve noticed something. She sets Sarah up in an impossible situation..damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
She poses a ‘question’, and the way it’s worded, there IS no good response. It’s all about setting up the ‘gotcha’, whether there is anything to ‘get’ or not. Sort of like...’is she corrupt or just white trash’....
Oh, BTW, the idiot that played Ray Ramono’s brother, Brad Garrett, actually called Palin White Trash last night....this from a bloke who got famous playing white trash on TV.
It is the proper duty of a librarian and the library board to decide which books get bought. It is the proper and regular duty of a librarian and the library board to decide which books get removed. In Wasilla, as in any community, it is the proper duty of the community to oversee the library, and that oversight can well include the outright banning of certain texts from the library.
Why does a librarian oppose her community? It can be for good, because as a expert in books, the market and in the running of libraries she has a duty to oppose for those merits a position taken by the community. But what is the proper nature of that duty?
She can argue strenuously that a particular book be added, although the board initially rejects its purchase. She can argue against a book being removed, although the board initially demands that it be removed. Yet in the end she must either follow the board orders -- and it is their right to give an order. If she can not follow that order, made after her arguments are heard, she should resign, and failing that resignation the board's duty is to fire hire.
Here -- Truman fired MacArthur. rather than risk that the genius General become insubordinate. MacArthur was both a genius and beloved by many, respected by many. Yet MacArthur was become like the Wasilla librarian, a person in an office who thinks they are beyond any authority but their own.
Hooray for the Sarah Palin for bringing up the subject of community standards and hooray for Sarah Palin when she later fired the insubordinate librarian!
I don’t trust CBS to report facts.
Therefore, the only question becomes, “How to fight misinformation?”
“What is the process for banning a book?”
Did this ever even happen? Are those the exact words? If true, what was the context? Was she thinking of porn? Was there a misunderstanding?
I have no problem personally with banning porn from library shelves and library computers.
The ACLU disagrees with me.
DEBUNKED!
This is not true. According to what I read, she was let go, along with several others who had been given their jobs by the previous administration. It was totally within Sarah's right to do so. The public support for the librarian, however, caused her to change her mind. I call that being responsive to the people.
Here's a quote from www.factcheck.org:
"She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term."
I heard that Sarah Palin once had an overdue library book in the seventh grade. I mean, what do the Republicans think they can force on us?
One of two conclusions follow: Either Sarah Palen can foresee the future, which would be very handy for a public official. Or, CBS has deliberately republished a claim which proved itself false. Which do you suppose is correct?
Congressman Billybob
Tenth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 10) -- The Remaining Amendments"
We need some fake, but accurate documents now! The Freepers won’t catch us with that font thing this time!
So Palin was concerned with what kids read? A lot of us have long wished that more public officials were so concerned.
“When the librarian resisted, she was, at least initially, fired.”
The librarian openly supported Palin’s opponent in the election for Mayor.
CBS, the MSM and moonbats everywhere still pretend that they don't know the difference between censorship and voluntary restrictions by the readers.
Libraries all have limited budgets, and criticizing buying 20 copies of "Sally has Two Mommies", and no copies of "Present at the Creation", is simply managing idiots...
With rare exceptions (which I do NOT support), people are free to buy any book they choose.
Expecting the taxpayer to buy crap for them is not censorship; it's common sense.