[past_present]

The sentence from teh article I love is this one---

"Library officials across the city said they've debated pulling about 25 books and DVDs from city shelves, including "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," by Ann Coulter..."

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!

[JaneNC]

Sheesh....

CENSORSHIP

[Winged Hussar]

Aren’t the white people in Tin Tin sort of caricatured as well?

[SkyDancer]

They should now look deeply into that racist book by Mark Twain “Life On The Mississippi” ...</sarc>

[NativeNewYorker]

http://is.gd/2tRMc

Looks like they have many copies of Mein Kampf freely available.

[353FMG]

And what are they going to do with the books after they pull them? Burn them like their cousin with the mustache once did?

[RichInOC]

Memo to the Brooklyn Public Library:

The Rally Monkey frowns upon your shenanigans.

[Rebelbase]

Extended title is incorrect.

"Library officials across the city said they've debated pulling about 25 books and DVDs from city shelves, including "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," by Ann Coulter, and a Harold Robbins novel, but rejected the requests"

[Jeff Chandler]

In other news, the Brooklyn Library is celebrating “Banned Book Day” on Thursday, August . . .

[ml/nj]

The public library caters to the sensitivity of the community.

Except if some kid wants to access a porn site on one of their computers.

ML/NJ

[Jeffrey_D.]

Sometimes I think it would be best to stop following all that’s going on, due to my health.

“This shitze enough to make a grown man cry”..........

he said while checking his armory.

[Charlespg]

http://www.amazon.com/Tintin-Congo-Herge/dp/1405220988

[freespirited]

When I was a kid whenever adults made an uproar over a book they felt was unfit for teenagers, their efforts assured that we all got our hands on it and devoured every word.

[chris_bdba]

Look if the book has been out longer than you’ve been alive just STFU and understand that the world doesn’t revolve around you and how you feel. GEEZ what is wrong with people today and how will they ever survive if they hav to face any sort of hardship?

[Tanniker Smith]

Your request for Tintin au Congo / Hergé. was successful.

You will be able to pick up this material at Highlawn (42) when it is ready .

 

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[Liberty Valance]

I'm offended. That library is specieist!

[VeniVidiVici]

New Yorkers head to their library.

[dog breath]

My mother had to remove, “Little Black Sambo” and “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”, from her school library years ago. I thought that these were classics of children's literature and thought those removals were unfair. A note put on the book about changing attitudes, would of sufficed.

[bgill]

I remember when my public university locked “The Joy of Sex” in what was called “the cage” and the “Playboy” issue that featured a professor was locked in the attic.

[SamuraiScot]

As the signs in front of the libraries in Lefty towns always say, "Read a banned book this week." I guess they mean to read the books banned by other people, not themselves.

Glad to oblige in any case, if the writer is good. Hergé is clean, good-hearted fun. Anyone who takes offense at innocent caricatures in cartoons might as well be a Moslem.

[sand lake bar]

I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect the library’s action would not hold up to a civil lawsuit. My understanding is that public libraries must first establish criteria as to what constitutes an “offensive” book; that is, they can’t simply act in an arbitrary fashion regarding particular books.

This is how it works for public school libraries, so I suspect the law would be even more rigorous for municipal libraries. In schools, a parent or group of parents can’t simply insist a book be removed. Formal democratic procedures must be followed.