Posted on 02/16/2009 3:23:45 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
While Dan exposes Henry Waxman’s [the Democrats' own Nosferatu] latest authoritarian crusade, let’s not forget the havoc that continues apace with his CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement [heh] Act of 2008).
As Walter Olson writes:
It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulating hazards in children’s products, the federal government has now advised that children’s books published before 1985 should not be considered safe and may in many cases be unlawful to sell or distribute. Merchants, thrift stores, and booksellers may be at risk if they sell older volumes, or even give them away, without first subjecting them to testing—at prohibitive expense. Many used-book sellers, consignment stores, Goodwill outlets, and the like have accordingly begun to refuse new donations of pre-1985 volumes, yank existing ones off their shelves, and in some cases discard them en masse.
I have some beautiful children’s books I have kept for my kids and grandkids. A set of Bobbsey Twins from the early 1900’s, a volume of Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton - also from the early 1900’s (my grandfather’s favorite childhood book). There are all my girls’ books from Beatrice Potter books to Chronicles of Narnia.
Love2learn blog has started an Illegal Books meme.
And don’t think that one will be able to use the Internet to slip some gently used baby clothes or old illustrated kiddie books into willing hands … cuz Henry is watching
In order to crack down on online sites such as Craigslist and Ebay, the CPSC says, they are currently working with an internet surveillance team to watch over the online marketplaces.
This would mean my old “Dr. Suess” books would be illegal. They really are rotten SOBs!
Get rid of good books under the guise of them being hazardous to your health. That's one way to keep provocative books in the hands of kids as well as rewritten history books.
Thanks but I'll keep the old MORAL books.
Part of Waxman’s backdoor attacks on free speech.
Try selling thru www.trademe.co.nz — New Zealand’s answer to eBay. Properly priced, vintage books will be snapped up.
POS left-wing demonRAT.
Will they have to be purged from libraries?
I’m keeping my Bible. It could become very necessary in the days ahead.
This is ridiculous. More government programs to protect us from ourselves. Back in the days when paint had lead we didn’t have problems with mold in homes. The white paint on the outside of homes didn’t turn green.
unreal
Sorry, link here: http://www.trademe.co.nz
Waxman can huff and puff all he likes: he has no jurisdiction in New Zealand.
Fahrenheit 451(1966)
Ray Bradbury's cautionary near-future parable of a society where
books are banned and firemen start fires was the only English-
language film from French auteur François Truffaut. Oscar Werner is
the conflicted fireman Montag, and Julie Christie has a dual role. The
score is by Truffaut favorite Bernard Hermann, of Psycho fame. For an
extra level of subtle satire, look closely at the carefully chosen book
titles.
Back then, Heather only had one mommy, you see.
“Part of Waxman’s backdoor attacks on free speech.”
I thought only Blarney Fwanks did “backdoor attacks!”
Agreed - except:
“could become” needs to read “WILL BECOME”
May God protect us all
I have a “Little Black Sambo”
Oops, they’ll probably send the Firemen to my house
George Washington was a nasty old white man that owned slaves, while MLK is akin to the second coming of Christ.
This is outrageous!
Representative Snout, you get my Little Golden Books when you pry them from my cold hands!
Man, nazis are EVERYWHERE!
/mark
Cold DEAD hands.
My hands are cold all the time... =-/
Oops.
When it comes to demonRATS, I SHOULD have said...
MLK is akin to the second coming of MARX.
Well, one way to deal with the books is to turn them into PDF files. Be sure to scan all the books in good resolution, especially the ones that may have good pictures in them, and keep them as PDF files. Distribute them all to friends and relatives, and so on (through P2P networks) and keep them in circulation that way. It would be very difficult to get rid of the content and even the layout of all those books that way.
I would encourage everyone to start turning all these books into high-quality PDFs...
Butis it printed before 1985?
Could a child EAT it when you are not looking?
To be safe, heave it!
Of course you know I am just kidding.
I fell like I am reading about an ignorant third world country. While they want to “protect” us they push abortion and euthanasia like there is no tomorrow.
Say Goodbye california....
goodbye to Jobs....
Goodbye to your Paycheck....
Thank You Southern California, for voting for this Lunatic.
Great idea ST, and a nice example of effective civil disobedience.
I have a huge collection. The bastards will never get mine.
There is a website where you can go to sign a petition to have thrift shops exempted. A local shop gave it to me this afternoon, and I promptly lost it (it was on a SLIVER of paper, not an inch wide.)
I’ll get it again and ost it, but I have to work at the election tomorrow. Remind me on Wednesday.
BTTT
Learn the verses, just in case.
A whoops ping...
If anyone comes after my Nancy Drew series someone’s gonna get hurt .......
Save the books. Buy them up from second-hand booksellers. Or (oh dear, they can't sell them?) pull them out of the dumpsters. I'm going to do that. I am serious.
Waxman is a mere foot soldier in the Ayers/Soros/Obama revolution.
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Yep, thats because books before 1985 did not contain all the liberal commie pinko propoganda. It has nothing to do with product safety.
I say, screw that law. Lets see if it will ever hold up in a court of law.
People, you got to start doing more of what the Gubamint says you cant do if you believe your rights are being infringed.
Guve me that old dangerous book, here take this newly updated one in return.
Orwell’s 1984 ...
Killing our history. Killing our culture. Killing our unborn babies. Killing our economy. Killing our religious expression. Killing our right to listen/speak to whomever we wish. Killing our freedoms. Guess they are just in a killing mood...
Wouldn’t that be a copyright violation?
That is a good idea for one of my favorite children’s books. I’m going to have to find where our children put it. When I was a little girl, one of our neighbors gave me some of her son’s books. I think I will scan the book for my own use before the book falls apart completely.
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Me, too. I used to haunt the library for their "Grab Box". Got a full set of unused "My Book House" books, and great stuff like "The 500 Hats" etc. I even have a set of old 1951 encyclopedias, as well as old how-to and old science books. You never know when you will need something like this. These rat-ba*tards can't live forever. (I can't either, obviously, but my kids will have my old books to use to educate their children)
Cool links. Thanks for posting.
Does anyone have a link to the legislation?
I can’t find this in a search.
I’m wondering if this is bogus.
http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d100query.html
even the little golden books, “My puppy” “the poky little puppy”
geesh
Careful that might mean poor circulation.
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Methinks it because the leftists didn't want the little "*******s" learning how to see through their "benevolent" facade.
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