Bless Me, Ultima

Fang-Face writes “First Amendment Center has
an article about more than two dozen copies of Bless Me, Ultima being given to a parent to be destroyed. The books were given to the parent by the superintendent of schools in Norwood, Colorada. True to form, he denied that this unilateral action was censorship, commenting” “It’s less a matter of censorship than a matter of sponsorship. That’s not the kind of garbage I want to sponsor at this high school.” Also true to form, he had not read the entire book.“

February 4, 2005 by Uncategorized 4

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4 Responses

  1. Cyberpunk Librarian says:
    February 4, 2005 at 3:01 am

    Dismissal

    Hrmmm… he took school property and transfered it to a private individual for the purpose of destruction?

    This sound illegal to anyone else? Yeah I know he’s the super, but it’s not like it’s his property.

    Oh yeah, and PS, he’s a censoring moron. It’d have been different had he just pulled the books. But he pulled the books, transfered them to a private citizen, and destroyed them. Destruction is censorship, that’s why burn books.

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  2. Redcardlibrarian says:
    February 4, 2005 at 4:20 am

    Ultima Burning
    Of course, and those poor little brown-shirted SA members in 1933 were just cold, and couldn’t find anyother way to keep warm. They weren’t attempting to censor books.

    A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Nazi Book Burning (Florida Center for Instructional Technology

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  3. Walt says:
    February 4, 2005 at 7:53 am

    Re:Dismissal
    Well, but, ONE PARENT COMPLAINED!

    If Brent Bozell can get networks fined millions of dollars by getting three complaints photocopied lots of times to the FCC, why shouldn’t one parent get a dozen books burned?

    After all, don’t we need to respect the whole community by seeing to it that nobody is ever offended?

    Sorry. Channeling another LISNewser. My bad.

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  4. Cyberpunk Librarian says:
    February 4, 2005 at 11:52 am

    Re:Dismissal

    And this is why I love you, Walt. You can come over and hang out any time you want. 🙂

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