IL school board bans Heinlein from library

[XNavyNuke]

B'town schools wrestles with banning books (http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/wrestles_19515___article.html/banning_beardstown.html)


“We have to tackle the issues of today,” said Ms. Mohr. “We have just as much moral responsibility to do that,” added Ms. Beets.

Mr. Griffin also approached the board with the novel, “The Day After Tomorrow,” by Robert A. Heinlein, requesting both be removed from the school library.

The committee elected to have “The Day After Tomorrow” removed from the high school’s shelves and donated the book to the public library.

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[Kade]

B'town schools wrestles with banning books (http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/wrestles_19515___article.html/banning_beardstown.html)



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Banning one of America's greatest authors from the shelves. This is the America the idiots support. This is why we are driveling idiots.

A fucking shame.

[Truth Warrior]

Their system, their rules. :rolleyes: Can't allow "libertarian" :eek: authors the risk and a chance to pollute the "official" statist agenda, now can they? :p

[LibertyEagle]

It's from a public school library. Big deal. There are a number of books that a city's school board would find inappropriate for junior high and high school libraries. I would imagine books about Little Mary getting knocked up by having sex every night. Books about why you should join your local gang. Or how about how to build a bomb? I wouldn't want any of this crap in my child's school library.

The public library is another thing, entirely. Or books being banned from sale in general. Now THAT I wouldn't agree with at all.

Get real people.

[Kade]

It's from a public school library. Big deal. There are a number of books that a city's school board would find inappropriate for junior high and high school libraries. I would imagine books about Little Mary getting knocked up by having sex every night. Books about why you should join your local gang. Or how about how to build a bomb? I wouldn't want any of this crap in my child's school library.

The public library is another thing, entirely. Or books being banned from sale in general. Now THAT I wouldn't agree with at all.

Get real people.


Real:
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[Dr.3D]

How strange it is, when they have Canterbury Tales on the reading list for High School but ban a much milder book.

[Kade]

How strange it is, when they have Canterbury Tales on the reading list for High School but ban a much milder book.

They expect kids to not understand Canterbury.


Sixth Column is mild in comparison. Again, a shame.

[RockEnds]

Our local district banned newspapers a few years back. They had some bad press from a school board meeting with about 300 angry voters in attendance. I guess they didn't want the little children to read the story. So, they claimed they could no longer afford to buy newspapers. :rolleyes: One of the teachers called me because, well I don't exactly mind stirring the pot. I went to the local newspaper office and paid for a dozen subscriptions myself then delivered the papers with the questionable article to the classrooms and libraries myself. The newspaper reported the situation, and a local business bought the rest of the subscriptions. It wasn't long before newspapers were worked back in to the budget.

I guess that may be one of the many reasons that when I informed them I intended to homeschool, they bent over backwards to help me get started. :eek:

[XNavyNuke]

It's been a few years since I read the book so I pulled it off the shelf last night and started to read it. I thought I would post this quote from Chapter One. It's after a dispatched officer has taken command of the research project and is speaking to the remaining members. The U.S. has just fallen to the Pan-Asian invaders.


I want to remind you that we derive our obligations not from our superior officers who were killed in Washington, but from the people of the United States, through their Constitution. That Constitution is neither captured nor destroyed - it cannot, for it is not a piece of paper, but the joint contract of the American people. Only the American people can release us from it.

Good Lord! We can't have our kids learning that the Imperial President and his Generals have no clothes. :eek: That portion alone would surely cause the book to be decried in most circles.

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[Pericles]

There are just too many parallels between Heinlein's "Future History" and reality for some minds to handle.

[hypnagogue]

There are so many christian private schools around, why on earth don't intelligent liberty minded individuals start putting up schools? I can think of nothing that would have a greater impact for our cause.

[XNavyNuke]

There are a number of books that a city's school board would find inappropriate for junior high and high school libraries. I would imagine books about Little Mary getting knocked up by having sex every night. Books about why you should join your local gang. Or how about how to build a bomb? I wouldn't want any of this crap in my child's school library.

Well, I finished re-reading it. I wouldn't have any problem turning over to my homeschooled 11 yo. Found a couple more quotes to add to my list.


"These savages and their false gods! I grow weary of them. Yet they are necessary; the priests and the gods of slaves always fight on the side of the Masters. It is a rule of nature."


Cops are cops, no matter what is the color of their skin. They deal in fear and they understand fear.


Any cipher can be broken, any code can be comprimised. But the most exact academic knowledge of a language gives no clue to its slang, its colloquial allusions, its half statements, over statements, and inverted meanings.

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[Expatriate]

There are so many christian private schools around, why on earth don't intelligent liberty minded individuals start putting up schools? I can think of nothing that would have a greater impact for our cause.

I would like to know the same thing. Have there been any threads about this in the past?

[Expatriate]

From the article:


“The Day After Tomorrow,” although deemed a “great suspense dark thriller which meets the expectations of an action packed adventure with plenty of intrigue” by the committee in their report, was removed.

The report stated the book did contain murder, conspiracies and passionate romance. The committee did not find the book “lewd” or “graphic,” but “rather very adult in nature” and, because the library already had a large selection of other valuable science fiction and spy literature, the committee elected to remove the book from the high school’s circulation and donate it to the public library.

Hah! What do they mean by that? They already have enough science fiction, and even though there is no graphic sexual stuff in Heinlein's book there is "murder, conspiracies and passionate romance" and it is "adult in nature"?

I can't think of any good science fiction books without "murder, conspiracies and passionate romance". Even freaking Star Wars has that! Based on those criteria, they could probably remove every single science fiction or spy book from their library.

[The_Orlonater]

Banning one of America's greatest authors from the shelves. This is the America the idiots support. This is why we are driveling idiots.

A fucking shame.

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This society is a society driveling sheep. I despise most Americans and the crooks they elect into office. I do not want to be part of this nation. The ones who really want freedom, should secede for it is a fight we can't win.