Posted on 06/10/2010 10:53:14 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
A Virginia-based publisher has decided that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other founding books are likely offensive and they want their readers to understand that these old documents are no longer valid ways of thinking. And so the publisher, Wilder Publications, has put a warning label on its reprints of America's founding documents and books to shield American's delicate sensibilities.
The warning label reads, "This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work."
The warning labels appear on copies of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers, as well as other founding books and documents the company reprints.
FoxNews was not able to elicit a comment from Wilder Publications and the webpage of the company seems to feature a lot of self-published type stuff, so big time it is not...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Holy freaking CRAP! This is America folks! I’m feeling shell shocked right now.
In that case, ALL laws are invalid and the Right can do whatever it sees fit to scrawny Libs?
Double ungood, comrade.
Wonder if they publish the Koran as well?
On a more practical level, I'd really like a list of publications that come from this company so that I can avoid buying anything they produce.
they’s = they’d
Yup!
On a more practical level, I'd really like a list of publications that come from this company so that I can avoid buying anything they produce.From the website, it looks like a lot of it is goofy, new agie, conspiracy theory and self-help junk. My guess is you wouldn't be interested in much of what they publish in the first place!
Considering the shift of DHS to homegrown terror, keeping copies of the constitution and other literature can be considered a sign you are anti Federal government, thus should be watched, thus a terrorist.
Thanks George W...for nothing.
Warren Lapine returns to sf with magazine, books, and checks By Ian Randal Strock January 22, 2009
Warren Lapine is back after a two-year hiatus from the speculative fiction fields. "I spent a year licking my wounds, and then another getting my ducks in a row, and now, here I am," he told SFScope exclusively. Lapine was the publisher of the growing small-press publisher DNA Publications, which at its heyday published fiction magazines Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Weird Tales, Dreams of Decadence, and Mythic Delirium, news magazine Science Fiction Chronicle, the non-genre Whole Cat Magazine, and KISS: The Official Magazine. DNA collapsed and is now defunct. Lapine, personally, has been covering DNA's outstanding debts, even though "my accountant says I personally have no legal responsibility to do so, I feel a moral responsibility. No one should have to pay for doing business with me. I learned a lot of lessons the last time around. This time, we're far better funded, and confident of our success." Lapine has contacted most of the people DNA owed money to at the time of its demise, and expects to get to everyone soon, but he asks anyone who thinks they may be due money to contact him at warrenlapine at yahoo dot com. "We've made a lot of progress paying everyone off," he said, "and should be done shortly."
Lapine is starting a new genre publishing company, to be called Tir Na Nog Press. He'll be giving DNA shareholders stock in the new company, at a rate of one-for-one.
Tir Na Nog will be launching a new incarnation of Fantastic Stories as a quarterly magazine, with Lapine as the editor. The first 8.5" x 11" issue will have a January 2010 cover date, and should be available in September 2009. He's already signed up a new Harlan Ellison story for the first issue. All unfulfilled subscriptions for DNA Publications magazines will be filled with Fantastic Stories. Lapine expects the magazine to debut with a circulation of about 15,000.
Fantastic Stories will start reading unsolicited submissions in March or April of this year, and will be paying, on acceptance, 4-10 cents per word for new fiction (2 cents per word for reprints of stories that first appeared on the web). Checks will go out with contracts. While Lapine, personally, prefers hard sf and magic realism, he'll be reading all sorts of sf/f/h for the magazine.
Over the last few years, Lapine has built up a non-genre business publishing print-on-demand books (mostly self-help and public domain reprints) called Wilder Publications. Wilder and Tir Na Nog will remain separate companies (with Lapine holding a controlling interest in both). But under the Wilder banner, he'll be launching a new imprint, to be called Fantastic Books, to publish sf/f/h books. Fantastic Books is interested in out-of-print back lists, new novels, and perhaps some single-author collections, paying a royalty of 10% of cover price. Queries (not manuscripts) may be sent to him at warrenlapine at yahoo dot com. While the company is currently 100% print on demand, Lapine expects to move into traditional publishing in the future. He notes that Wilder sold more than 50,000 copies of its books in 2008, and he anticipates 30-50% growth this year.
Lapine is also interested in taking on editors as acquisition editors for Fantastic Books. They'll also be paid 10% of the cover price of books they acquire. Interested editors should email Lapine a resume at the above address.
To underscore his return to the fold, Lapine has recently set up a Facebook page, and a blog on LiveJournal.
[In the interests of full disclosure, SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock was the news editor of Science Fiction Chronicle when DNA folded. SFScope is the evolution of that job onto the web. Strock was also a DNA stockholder, and a contributing editor for Absolute Magnitude.]
This is analogous to the point in the book Animal Farm where the sign is revealed that says “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.”
I guess this is what is to be expected after teaching two generations of youth to hate America.
I’d love to know whether this company publishes, say, the Communist Manifesto or Malcom X’s autobiography, and if so whether there is a similar warning.
Good info there.
On the Smothers Brothers’ TV program back in the Sixties, there was a slow zoom in on the first page of the Constitution, with patriotic music playing.
All of a sudden, a hand with a large rubber stamp heaves into the frame, and—wham!—leaves a large imprint across the page:
“VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW”
I’d think the topic would be more important than a mispelled or used word at this point.
I’d think the topic would be more important than a mispelled or used word at this point.
I don’t know what to say. I just heard about this and started another topic. Mods if you could delete my thread I would appreciate it.
This is the most outrageous thing I have heard in a looong time.
And thats saying something in this day and age.
What next?
The Bible?
God help us
bttt for action
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