Anonymous Patron writes “Strange One from California, Two people were arrested today on suspicion of attempted arson, after witnesses reported seeing them dousing a pickup truck with gasoline in the Palm Springs Public Library parking lot at 300 S. Sunrise Way.
City police and fire personnel responded to the scene of the incident that occurred after 1 p.m. today. The truck was never set afire, but a large puddle of gasoline flowed through the parking lot away from the pickup following the mid-day incident.”
Too Bad
Too bad they can’t read whatever they want. Via Reporters Without Borders (http://www.rsf.org/country-47.php3?id_mot=109).
Miami
They’ve brought this to Miami, too.
Re:Miami
Yeah, tis a pity. Not to excuse the terrible decision in Miami but it does seem a bit more widespread, systematic and harsher in the worker’s paradise that is Cuba.
Re:Miami
Yes, a complete national blackout is comparable to the pulling of a book from a grade school library. Woman, get a grip.
Re:Too Bad
WTF are you talking about? I can buy that crappy Cuban book at any B&N in Miami. I can’t bring a copy of Declaracion Universal de Derechos Humanos to distribute without risking imprisonment there.
How many librarians are imprisioned in Miami? How many journalists are imprisioned in Miami for what they write? Cuba needs a librarian at every table, not a librarian in every prison cell. It seems you talk out of both sides of your mouth. Either you want librarians to bring the freedom to read to everyone or you don’t.
Which is it?
If the Cubans started a revolution to overthrow Castro you know the boats from Tampa would be full. I’d happily lend my boat to the cause, and I’d pilot it down there. Freedom is worth fighting for.
Knock that over that way —} under Miami.
Sorry I was just so astounded I had to re-read everything to make sure I understood the point the good doctor was trying to make. I understand it. I think it is insane, but I understand it.
Wrong “they”
Well, not really. The “they” in the Vamos a Cuba case were not Castroites. I can see Amador’s point, being as he was held as a political prisioner, although I don’t agree with his actions in this case. As per usual, he is allowed to decide that his child can’t read the book, but then he went well beyond his parental authority in deciding noone else’s children should be allowed to read it either.
I have no doubt that Bolanos, on the other hand, is exploiting this matter to suck up for votes for his state senate race. Which makes him much of muchness with Castro despite his anti-Castro reactionism. (I wonder if he’s running as a Republican.)
As for the district level review committee, they seemed to have ordered the book removed for essentially the right reasons, but they violated procedure in doing so; in my not so humble opinion, anyway. The way I see it, the book wasn’t challenged for being so simplistic as to be misrepresentative, it was challenged for political reasons. The committee should have sent the case back down to the first review committee to be reconsidered rather than simply changing the charges, as it were, in mid-trial.