Posted on 11/10/2019 7:55:26 PM PST by karpov
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — From her office next to the public computer terminals, Bette Ammon finds herself peering through a window to watch patrons moving through the Coeur d’Alene library’s nonfiction stacks.
Someone has been hiding books lately — specifically, those that explore politics through a progressive lens, or criticize President Trump. They wind up misfiled in out-of-the-way corners where readers will be sure not to find them.
“I am going to continue hiding these books in the most obscure places I can find to keep this propaganda out of the hands of young minds,” the mystery book relocator wrote in a note left for Ms. Ammon, the library director, in the facility’s comment box. “Your liberal angst gives me great pleasure.”
For decades, Coeur d’Alene has navigated a delicate political landscape in northern Idaho, a conservative corner of the country where some have sought refuge from political and social changes elsewhere.
The incidents over this past year — including a missing book that was discovered only this week — were not the first time books have mysteriously disappeared. Thirty years ago, the library lost so many books on human rights to theft that they had to be placed in a locked cabinet. The latest works to be targeted cover a wide range of topics, from gun control and women’s suffrage to LGBTQ issues and how people of color fare in the criminal justice system. About half the books specifically deal with President Trump.
While none of the books in the latest incidents appear to have been stolen, some have been hidden in ways that made it nearly impossible to find them when patrons wanted to check them out. They have been discovered inexplicably filed in the wrong sections, hidden behind a row of Stuart Woods novels
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F them. I’ve done it
Not just libraries but also bookstores
And I’m not the least bit ashamed.
Let the sissies who work in these places get POd about it. Good
This is all so very sad;
I need a safe space !
You do what you can, when and where you can. And if you have principles, you try your best not to really harm anybody.
The Left has been pulling little tricks like this for decades, and in recent years, they’ve escalated - with impunity - to profoundly extralegal crap where it really matters: on the floor of the House, or in the Oval Office, or through illegal use of things like the FISA court process - and harming us on a completely different level.
Just moving books around in a library seems pretty tame and inoffensive, in perspective.
True Crime,,,
That’s Funny right there!
system. Clinton’s book by Random House was so unwanted that bookstores refused to purchase the return and remainder gaylords as they were full of them.
Random House ended up pulling them out of remainder pallets and shredding them. They couldn’t even give them wway.
“How do you bury a STACK of Hillary books?...I don’t think that many sell”
In library speak a “stack” is a shelving unit. A vertical stack of shelves.
They are moving books to the wrong series of shelves
“Just moving books around in a library seems pretty tame and inoffensive, in perspective.”
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My point exactly. You could just say it’s totally meaningless and void self-pleasuring at best.
I did say I bury OR cover with conservative books! I don't have the time to rearrange a stack!
Librarians of today are for the most part, dangerous, far-left activists who get to spend OPM pushing their agendas.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot to see little calling cards left on library shelves that said:
EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF!
Oh, the humanity !
And in Coeur d’Alene four fifths of the town could probably be expected to do this. She can’t watch everyone at the same time.
Interesting how you just said that, as if liberals have not been typically doing exactly that to libraries, bookstores and magazine racks since the seventies.
I assume reading isn’t your hobby.
This needs to be done in public schools with the queer/pedo books.
Come on, creative young conservative students!
That I know...it was the Costeo stack I was referencing...
Haha...it would look a bit obvious too...btw, I do similar at Costco
I used to turn Newsweak Magazines around or put them behind popular accounting journals and the like.
I have an alibi.
I once felt the same way until I watched "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) several years ago, and heard the speech of Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff the exiled German Army friend from WWI of the Colonel, in which he said that Britain faced the option of following traditional notions of honourable warfare or to "fight dirty" in the face of such an evil enemy as Nazi Germany. If we only take the high road we will lose against the evil enemy.
It doesn't matter if you die in captivity with pride when your whole civilization has perished with you. That's why we elected President Trump. He knows how to fight dirty too.
Or, “it’s OK to be white”
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