American Librarians Try to Ban Book!

This write up is a good one! Don’t miss it!

“Banned Books Week” is September 25 – October 1 this year. BBW is a program originated by The American Library Association “Office for Intellectual Freedom,” which purports to protect threatened books from attempts at suppression.The ALA website states:

The ALA promotes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinions even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. 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. As such, they are a threat to freedom of speech and choice.

It is difficult to imagine that members of this venerable organization are themselves attempting to suppress the release and distribution of a book—but that is exactly what is happening.

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American Library Association Scrubbing Policies with Release of “Shut Up!”

SHUT UP! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment has caused the American Library Association to quietly dissolve and disown its longstanding policies that promoted child pornography access in public libraries in Illinois and across the country. These damaging and destructive policies had been in effect at the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom since the 1990s, when a deranged and demented soul named Judith Krug was the OIF’s Director. Krug is best known for stating that she wished public libraries in Boston had not cooperated with authorities in their investigation into Muslim use of library computers to plot the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks and she also stated repeatedly that librarians should not look out for children in their libraries (and should instead look the other way when any crimes were occurring in those public buildings, in the name of “patron privacy”). Almost entirely because of Krug’s sick and twisted world view, in just a generation public libraries were transformed from safe places for families into the sketchy Masturbation Lounges and Cybercrime Dens they became in recent years.

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“Shut Up!” Causing Librarians to Leave False Reviews to Harm Authors

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“Shut Up!” is causing quite a stir in the library community. They are so desperate for you not to read it they have begun a campaign to leave fake negative reviews on Amazon. Nice going, librarians. Way to stay classy. From HillBuzz:

This is sickening (but thankfully Amazon.com ultimately did something about it).

Members of the ALA Think Tank (a Facebook group that Barbara M. Jones — the former Director of the ALA’s Orwellian-sounding Office for Intellectual Freedom — had used during her tenure to direct ALA members to do her bidding) openly talked about tanking the debut of SHUT UP! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment by writing negative reviews for the book on Amazon…without ever reading the book or knowing anything substantive about what was in it. Continue Reading…

Coming Soon to Amazon, “Shut Up! The Bizarre War One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment”

Megan Fox and Kevin DuJan are releasing their first book, “Shut Up! The Bizarre War that One Public Library Waged Against the First Amendment” this May, 2016.

Excerpt:

Screen Shot 2016-05-10 at 1.39.05 PM“If anyone in the media had been the least bit interested in reporting the true story about “The Great Library War” they might have been nominated for a Pulitzer. It has everything! Sex, government corruption, child porn, a gold heist, libel, slander, defamation, lawsuits, death and rape threats, police harassment, a SLAPP, cloak and dagger intrigue, fruits, 7 pounds of Italian beef and 2 large jugs of peppers, and special interest groups out to sabotage a suburban mom and her whimsical gay friend.
The cast of characters who make an appearance in this book is unmatched in recent history. Just think of who they could get to play all these roles for the movie! There’s the awkward sibling of a beloved TV icon; a national hero from the Reagan administration; a former playboy model, jewel thief, ex-wife of a Chicago Bear, ex-girlfriend of an infamous mobster who turned state’s evidence against him (and those last four are all the same person!); Our Ladies of the Perpetually Furrowed Brows; the heiress to the Comiskey baseball diamonds; the World’s Oldest Child; a former United States Senate candidate from Illinois (who is more famous for once being married to a Sci-Fi starlet who flew around the universe in a spaceship); the King of Journalism; a gargoyle; someone who sold his soul on eBay (like it was a good thing); hot cops; crisis managers; Beverly Goldberg; two former gubernatorial candidates; some of the best lawyers in the whole damn world (pitted against clearly some of the worst); Attorney General Lisa Madigan; The Young Turks; Chicago’s worst reporters; a lookalike for Amy Sedaris; SNL’s Weekend Update; Mayor McCheese; Ashley Judd; distinguished federal judges; the Karate Kid; famous legal scholars; fearless watchdogs; sexually harassed whistleblowers; and the
nation’s leading expert on the dangers to children in public libraries.”