I decided to wait until today to post this, in hopes after the Zodiac dust settled, people would be less concerned with something that has always been inconsequential (Celebrity Apprentice is a US trending topic on Twitter), and more concerned with something that could impact their daily lives. Sadly, that’s not the case. My Facebook mini-feed is still alight with Zodiac hysteria and some remnants of The Game statuses from four days ago. Never a mention of President Obama’s next plan of nationalization, his Unique Internet ID legislation proposal. At least the Tunisian riots and the real life passing of Broadcast’s lead singer, Trish Keenan (i never knew…
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continued compromise of the 1st Amendment: banned books
(Originally Published 24 Oct 2010) The challenging and banning of books is a direct attack on our First Amendment as U.S. Citizens. From the ALA website: Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others. – From ALA.org The restriction of access to books is a subversion of liberty–an exact instance of what I describe in my forthcoming book, Conservative Bohemian, as the destruction of “individual right and privilege to expound upon one’s whims, fancies and desires, whether that is of an intellectual, artistic or political nature.”…
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