Let me guess, he’s a “christian”?
The five year investigation concluded when he finished reading the three books.
“Green eggs? Implausible. AND ham? Elitist!”
PURPLE FISH ARE AN ABOMINATION NO MATTER HOW MANY
RED FISH & BLUE FISH DO NOT MIX
KEEP ICHTHYOLOGY PURE
LORAXES ARE FOR WIPING YOUR BUM & DO NOT GET TO NAME OUR TREES
In today’s works the Lorax would get 5 years in jail for planning a protest.
First they would taze him though.
This is such a genius comment 😂
Dead Uvalde children hate this one trick
From the article:
Paul Hyde, a Granbury attorney who served on the volunteer committee tasked with reviewing dozens of school library books, said he informally advised two of the accused librarians early in London’s investigation and saw the toll it has taken on them.
“These women, that are amazing educators and librarians, have been terrified for over two years now that they’re going to get arrested, hauled off to jail on a felony charge of providing pornography to minors,” Hyde said, noting that one of the librarians left the district as a result.
“We lost a great librarian,” he said.
Anyone who thinks it’s a non-issue because charges weren’t filed should understand that intimidation is the point. It looks like the intimidation worked.
Drive out enough librarians and eventually youʼll find yourself needing to drive 4 hours to get a tool pulled or a melanoma whacked off since good dentists and doctors usually want decent schools with libraries for their kids.
needing to drive 4 hours to get a tool pulled
This is why you should always use tools with a flared base.
Pigfucker County: Everyone Left?
Where’s the story here? No charges filed. Nothing happened.
What’s the point of this story?
True, cops using their power to destroy people’s lives for political reasons is not much of a story in America anymore.
But it should be.
The point is to try to stop taxpayer money directly funding fascism. Unfortunately it’s Texas, so there’s no real way around that given the current state government.
Sure sure. Two librarians were harassed and one was driven out of her job because of the investigation. But there were no charges, so everything is peachy, right?
You don’t find it newsworthy that a cop wanted to use his badge to (at minimum) intimidate librarians and (at worst) charge them with trumped up bullshit?
Why is this greaseball employed if he can’t find something better to do with his time than to make sure people can’t read the books he hates?
Cop: these books made me horny, you should be ashamed of yourself for allowing me to get turned on by a book, in fact I’m going to confiscate all of them so no one else has to be turned on by this filth.
The police are so absurdly radicalized in this country.
At least he read them. More than I’d expect
Maybe they were too busy discussing their book club while hanging out at Uvalde
Why don’t stores that sell books get the same amount of scrutiny? I see A Court of Thorns and Roses books everywhere.
Because this is a boil-the-frog situation. The path is k-12 school libraries -> public libraries -> academic libraries and bookstores. The way fascists get the public comfortable with the idea of banning books is by starting with examples that look like “common sense” to the uninformed, and then ramp up the attacks as they gain institutional power.
While attempts to ban books from stores are currently few and far between, one notable example was this attempt to get Gender Queer removed from the shelves of bookstores in Virginia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/20/gender-queer-barnes-and-noble/
Serious answer, probably because books from book stores aren’t available to the poorest classes. Libraries are (and are meant to be!) a threat to every status quo.
This is specifically a school library, not a public library. And no, I do not support book-banning in any way, shape, or form. Just keeping the facts straight.
And no, I do not support book-banning in any way, shape, or form.
Just so you know, I didn’t think you did. I hope my response didn’t come across that way.
No, not at all, I just think calling this socio-economic class-based is incorrect. Being in school is not a class (no pun intended).
If you don’t think that Republicans are interested in an all-out assault on libraries in general, I kindly suggest you check a book out about it from your local library (while you still can).
To support the idea that it is class based, I suspect we will find it is being selectively applied to poorer communities, which specifically drives the most able-to-change-jobs (often the best) librarians to move to other communities where this is not being applied.
I base my assumption on historic selective enforcement of other laws with similar vulnerability to abuse - such as selective enforcement during prohibition.
I believe that librarians, of any kind, are being targeted, be because libraries are historically a source of improved equity.
So my assertion is that any action taken against any library should be examined carefully under a lens of suspected class warfare.
But public libraries and public librarians are also under attack.
All these books he’s read but I guess he still didn’t pick up Fahrenheit 451 or 1984
If he did, they were probably too complicated for him to understand.
Or he thought they had a lot of good ideas.
smacks forehead “Flamethrowers, of course! Why didn’t I think of that sooner?!”
No pictures in them…
did all the idiots just discover books??
Yes, they never set foot in one when they were in elementary school.
They paid no mind until their puppet masters directed them that way.
Well they’ve never read one so…
Shut up nerd
They’ve been doing stuff like this for years. In 1990, a Florida judge ruled that an album by 2 Live Crew was obscene, and police officers went into stores and threatened to arrest anyone who sold copies of the album. The obscenity law specifically requires a “lack of serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value” and they were able to get it appealed.
Reading the article it’s actually more insane than it first appears. He’s been doing it for two years. This wasn’t an investigation ordered by a court, it was evidence he himself was compiling for his own legal complaint, which was dismissed when finally brought to the DA.
Say it with me now,
All cops are bastards!
solutions to these kinds of problems are available to any patriotic american.
All cops are bastards
