Assaulting Libraries

Assaulting Libraries
If libraries are bastions of intellectual freedom where repositories of knowledge can be trotted out to dispel darkness, closing them implies the converse. The intellectually hungry are to be starved in the Britain of David Cameron, and writers and readers are getting alarmed. Those who would normally not have access to those sources will be kept in perfect ignorance. But the trends are, sadly, global, and the library is under assault as the regimes of banksters and technocrats take hold of the public purse.

December 16, 2011 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Anonymous says:
    December 19, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Wow
    Nothing like an unbiased article, and that certainly wasn’t one.

    I wish we had the opportunity to vote on local tax issues like a lot of the news reports I read on here say about the US.
    That would be a wonderful way of showing how people want the libaries to be funded.
    Problem is that people expect a lot but don’t want to pay any more for it. The numbers of people signing petitions etc is massive but all it would take is an extra £2 a year from the same number of people and their libraries could be saved. But put up council tax and people go mad or say you’re cutting meals on wheels and people rail against that. Understandable but you either cut services or you pay more tax, that you don’t want to pay more isn’t the point.
    We need localised tax control in the UK to at least give those of us supporting the libraries can show our support properly, not just through useless petitions.
    They need money, and we need to give it to them.

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