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To: Beckwith
Librarians just usually defend the privacy rights of assorted deviants.
Watching out for the rights of terrorists give them a whole new constituency.


You'd think the bright liberal minds of the American Library
Association would be able to draw some rational conclusions
from that factoid about more books being translated/printed
in Spanish in 2003 (?) than books EVER published in Arabic.
14 posted on 02/11/2006 9:54:48 AM PST by VOA
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To: VOA

They should have arrested this broad for obstruction, then maybe she will see the light. But the ACLU would probably jump right in the middle of this.


15 posted on 02/11/2006 10:36:07 AM PST by snowman1
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To: VOA

That's OK, in the Spanish department, they're protecting the rights of Castro. There are many small "independent libraries" in Cuba, often run by aging former pre-Castro librarians and professors, that are basically small collections of non-government approved books that people can read. Castro is always hot on the tail of these rebel librarians, and the ALA theoretically has a policy of supporting libraries suppressed by dictators, etc. Guess what it does in the case of Cuba?

You got it, nothing. It even passed a resolution not supporting the librarians there because they weren't "true" librarians (i.e., government funded and approved). This despite the fact that 70% of the membership of the ALA - totally leftwing at the top but not in its membership - wants them to support the Cuban libraries.


16 posted on 02/11/2006 11:20:17 AM PST by livius
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