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I noticed a while ago that almost all librarians (not ALL, but most!) are HARDCORE liberals. They form a big loud lobby to prevent what they call censorship - meaning removing pornography viewing from library computers, or pornography from libraries. About 7 or 8 years ago I was in the library in Eugene, OR when I noticed a book out of place - stuck in sideways. I pulled it out automatically, and opened it up. I read about 5 seconds of the most vile pornography - (I was about to say, that I have ever read, but I have never read it anyway!) It was graphic, violent, and ultra descriptive. I was horrified and felt filthy and sick. I knew that some kid had been reading it and put it there to hide it.

People have made a sacred cow of "free speech" - meaning that everyone should have free access to the most graphic sexually explicit and degrading junk any perverted mind can invent. This is not what the founders of this country meant by freedom of speech. The liberals and liberal-tarians next arguement is that such junk doesn't affect them (or supposedly, kids). That is a false argument. If watching, reading or listening to junk didn't affect peoples' minds and consciousness, then the entire advertising industry would be wasting billions of dollars. Of course what a person reads, sees or hears affects their mind.

My solution is to have private libraries - people with wealth, or books, donate to private libraries. The libraries can charge fees - even sliding scale for poor folks. People can donate old books. Then whoever runs it can decide if books are appropriate or not. I'd love one like that. I hate seeing all the liberal crap in libraries. Then there could be libraries parents aren't afraid to have their kids visit.

True. Modern day librarians "get off" on their new-found position of challenging John Ashcroft. There are few good ones left. I haven't had the need to go in a library in quite some time - including my school's law library. Research is done on the internet, books bought cheap off of the used section at Amazon or half.com. So much easier.

About 7 or 8 years ago I was in the library in Eugene, OR when I noticed a book out of place - stuck in sideways. I pulled it out automatically, and opened it up. I read about 5 seconds of the most vile pornography .

Did you notice the author's name was Carville?