Author and cultural commentator Nat Hentoff writes about FREADOM’s Read a Burned Book campaign in this week’s Jewish World Review. Writing about Cuba’s persecuted independent librarians, Hentoff says:
From kangaroo-court records I have seen, when independent librarians are sent to the gulags, certain confiscated books–and sometimes all books in their libraries–are ordered incinerated by the presiding judge. A biography of Martin Luther King was sent to the flames because, said the judge, it “is based on ideas that could be used to promote social disorder and civil disobedience.” And the nonviolent King’s own books have been burned.
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