list of books Sarah Palin wanted removed from the library - sigh

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> Anne Squires:
<HUGE SNIP>
 If the mayor asked the librarian to
> clarify his/her position and then gave hypothetical examples of
> potential books I would not be overly alarmed, especially if the books
> were not removed from the library.  It's the mayor's job to look out
> for the interests of all the citizens, not just the politically
> correct ones.

Alla:

And we have to agree to disagree here, because I will be extremely 
alarmed. I do not believe that it is a mayor's job to limit what other 
people who did not complain about the books can or cannot read. 
 
> From what I understand the librarian in question was later asked to
> resign by Palin; but that was totally unrelated to this issue. 
> Apparently the two incidents have been connected on the internet. But,
> as I said, supposedly the two are unrelated.


Alla:

Call me extremely cynical, but if this discussion did occur, and 
librarian decided to stand up for what she believed in, I do not buy 
for one second that the fact that she was asked to resign was not 
connected to that issue. Obviously my opinion.


> Anne Squires (who really does not know very much about the issue-- who
> just thinks it's something that has been overly exaggerated)

Alla:

Yes, exaggerated, maybe, but since something like that happened, I 
believe more and more that there is a grain of truth in there. maybe 
not all books reported were on the list - as you said, HP books not 
published, etc, but if **some of those** were, if such list existed, 
not cool, really not cool as far as I am concerned.

And believe me again, this has nothing to do with my political 
affiliation.

I do not like people who want to promote ignorance, that's all. To me 
banning books from library, means just that. And had it been democratic 
candidate, who would have wanted to take out books that republicans 
like I would have reacted the same way.

Honestly, I do respect the rights of parents to limit what their child 
read, even though this is something that my parents never did to me, I 
was never limited in what I could read and I think I turned out ok. But 
for somebody to tell me that **my child** (or right now children in my 
family to be precise) would not be able to read certain things, because 
those people find them inappropriate?

I want for them to decide for themselves, not for "concerned citizen" 
to decide for them.

JMO,

Alla