Comments on: Support Intellectual Freedom – Read a Banned Book https://bethecatblog.com/2009/09/support-intellectual-freedom-read-a-banned-book/ random musings of stories and life Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan Kleinman https://bethecatblog.com/2009/09/support-intellectual-freedom-read-a-banned-book/#comment-415 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:20:57 +0000 https://bethecatblog.com/?p=1227#comment-415 No books have been banned in the USA for about a half a century. See “National Hogwash Week.”

Also see “US Libraries Hit Back Over Challenges to Kids Books,” by Sara Hussein, Agence France-Presse [AFP], 6 September 2009.

Given “American Library Association Shamed,” by Nat Hentoff, Laurel Leader-Call, 2 March 2007, I ask anyone reading this to explain why the ALA views book burnings, bannings, and jailed librarians in Cuba as NOT censorship, and why people legally keeping children from inappropriate material IS censorship.

Why does the ALA not only refuse to assist jailed Cuban librarians, but go further and actually thwart efforts by others to assist them? Why should members of the public consider the ALA to be authoritative on the definition of what is censorship in local public libraries?

Indeed, why should local libraries care one whit about an organization actively blocking efforts to assist jailed and beaten Cuban librarians and associated censorship and book burnings?

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