Posted on 06/30/2005 8:27:06 AM PDT by LibertyBelt
The American Library Association, or ALA, has ignored a request by imprisoned Cuban counterparts to demand leader Fidel Castro release them, but the author of "Fahrenheit 451" responded after viewing evidence of court-ordered book burning.
"I stand against any library or any librarian anywhere in the world being imprisoned or punished in any way for the books they circulate," Bradbury said. "I plead with Castro and his government to immediately take their hands off the independent librarians and release all those librarians in prison, and to send them back into Cuban culture to inform the people." ....
In the case of Julio Antoniao Guevara, for example, the trial judge ordered: "As to the disposition of the photographic negatives, the audio cassette, medicines, books, magazines, pamphlets and the rest of the documents, they are to be destroyed by means of incineration because they lack usefulness."
Among some of the many thousands of materials burned or destroyed by the Cuban Department of Interior were books on the U.S. Constitution, Martin Luther King, journalism manuals, a book called "Fidel's Secret Wars," and in one case, even a book by Jose Marti, the Cuban hero of independence beloved by most Cubans and often quoted by Castro....
WND also asked the ALA's chief spokeswoman on intellectual freedom and book banning issues, Judith Krug, why the documented cases of book burning in Cuba were not on the ALA's official book burning website. The site has numerous examples of book burning by governments or groups, from 2005 to all the way back before Christ....
By late yesterday the ALA press office still had not been able to reach Krug for comment.
Save your breath, Ray; the only people that the left cares about are the ones getting fattened up on gourmet food, in Gitmo.
Wonder how old Bradbury is today ? He's been around forever.
Whatever became of Ray Bradbury's situation with
Michael Moore's ripping his title off for Farenheit 911?
Copy-and-paste is your friend. I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything about ribbed, lubricated, etc.
By that reasoning, all of Castro's speeches would be fair game.
The parody of the title was legal, so there was nothing Ray could do except call Moore an @sshole.
Wingnutx, think you missed that one. Ray would NOT allow Moron to use Fahrenheit 451, as he owns the copyright. He had to change the n ame to Fahrenheit 911 as he was billing his creation as non-fiction, not parody.
Just the title is parody. I know that the work itself is allegedly non-fiction.
Bradbury can defend his title, but not variations on that theme.
Only to insomniacs.
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