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Unreal: Seattle Libraries Approve Hardcore Porn-Watching in Front of Children
The Gateway Pundit ^ | February 3, 2012 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/04/2012 11:15:57 PM PST by beaversmom

Seattle libraries will not allow patrons to eat or sleep or go barefoot. But they can watch all the hardcore porn they want in front of children. Seattle PI reported:

The Seattle Public Library has a long list of rules of things you can’t do in the library, to ensure “comfort and safety” of staff and patrons. You can’t eat, sleep, look like you’re sleeping, be barefoot, be too stinky or talk too loudly.

But you can watch graphic porn on a public computer in front of kids. Despite repeated complaints from female patrons about men watching porn in full view of their children, the library has held fast to its policy of unfettered online access for grown-ups.

The reason: It’s not in the business of censorship.

The latest dust-up comes after a mother with her two kids saw a man watching “hard-core porn” at the Lake City library and complained. When the librarian refused to ask the man move to a less visible screen, Julie Howe wrote the library, the media and lawyers and got on KUOW.

“It was very shocking,” said Howe, whose 10-year-old girl had seen the man’s screen and cried that night. But, she acknowledged, “it’s not an easy one to solve.”

Other libraries also allow porn

The library’s position was mirrored elsewhere. The King County Library System has a similar policy, of filtering kids’ access on computers, while allowing adults to roam freely. The American Library Association endorses the same stance.

“Sometimes, in a library, you’re going to see information that’s going to make you uncomfortable,” Barbara Jones, director of the association’s intellectual freedom office, said on KUOW Wednesday.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: frhf; libraryporn; moralabsolutes; porn; sickos
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To: beaversmom

Bush’s fault!


41 posted on 02/05/2012 8:40:14 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: beaversmom

It’s time to simply start closing libraries. They served their purpose, just like the Ice Man, the Milk Man, the Egg Man, etc. They are relics of another age. Keep the books stored away for our post-EMP days, but end the concept of the public library.

...and make DAMN SURE that the librarians understand that it was THEIR ATTITUDE that caused them to be tossed out of work.


42 posted on 02/05/2012 9:08:24 AM PST by BobL (I don't care about his past - Newt will BRING THE FIGHT to Obama)
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To: Downinthedixie

The viewers aren’t watchimg porn, they are conducting socialogical studies on library users and their reaction to the appearance of someone watching porn.

Geez! Didn’t you know that? They probably have an 18 million dollar Federal grant for the study, too.

:-P


43 posted on 02/05/2012 10:35:47 AM PST by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: beaversmom

I have a 92 year old father who is scammed by Nigerian internet scammers. We destroyed the internet port on his computer at home, so he goes to the public library to do it. I have reported it to the city library - but they won’t do anything about it. Same principle - a crime is being committed at a public facility using city equipment. Yu would think they would be held complicit in the crime of elder abuse.


44 posted on 02/05/2012 10:55:30 AM PST by marsh2
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To: Bobalu
I was a kid in the 60’s...my goodness how normal and safe the 60’s were compared to now.,?I>

40's and 50's for this geezer...and the 60's were a shock even as a young adult.

45 posted on 02/05/2012 11:08:59 AM PST by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Millions of homeschoolers nationwide


46 posted on 02/05/2012 11:24:07 AM PST by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: Shimmer1

Not me. I avoid libraries like the plague.

Nasty horrible people go there. The screens aren’t safe and the bathrooms aren’t safe. Since my nine-year-old got attacked in a bathroom, we don’t go unless I escort them.


47 posted on 02/05/2012 1:18:33 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Shimmer1
Millions of homeschoolers nationwide

They don't own computers?

48 posted on 02/05/2012 3:12:32 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: FES0844

Oh, children have already been molested/raped in libraries by the “patrons”. Not sure about kidnapped though. The perverts get all riled up by watching their faggot/pedophile porn and then go act it out on children.

The tree needs watering.


49 posted on 02/05/2012 3:18:08 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: This Just In; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; ...
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The only reason pornography is legal is because porn producers, Larry Flynt in particular, the ACLU and a leftist dominated SCOTUS decided that obscenity, sexually graphic images and now live sex shows fall under the "freedom of the press". Utter nonsense. And Librarians are ultra leftists (or enough of them to steer the boat that way).

SEPARATION OF LIBRARIES AND STATE! Stop wasting tax money or worse than wasting it, using it to provide perverts with their porn fix! Libraries could be private with small fees, or public but TOTAL local control and tell the ACLU and ALA to stuff it!!!

50 posted on 02/05/2012 3:18:49 PM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: beaversmom

What if this happened in a private home? Hm?

What if a neighbor showed porn to a 10 old in a private home?

What would happen to a **parent** if the the **parent** exposed a 10 year old to porn?

Down on the Animal Farm, government employees sleep in the farmer’s house. Parents and private citizens get hauled off to prison and labeled as sexual perverts for the rest of their lives. OINK!


51 posted on 02/05/2012 3:27:53 PM PST by wintertime
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To: wintertime
Those were my thoughts too. Or someone disseminating it in front of a school. Posting pictures on lamp post? Wouldn't that all be free speech too?
52 posted on 02/05/2012 3:33:51 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Evil Slayer

Picture of Jesus?

Sitting here laughing! Great guerrilla warfare!


53 posted on 02/05/2012 3:43:55 PM PST by wintertime
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To: Evil Slayer
So you want to do what we think the OWS shouldn't do. That is vandalize public library's property.

As much as I think that people should view porn on a public computer, what would happen if someone thinks FR is 'porn'?

It happened when a LIBERAL didn't like me on FR and Red State. I was visiting a college campus.

54 posted on 02/05/2012 5:48:28 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: beaversmom; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; adopt4Christ; Aggie Mama; ..

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The keyword for the FREE REPUBLIC HOMESCHOOLERS’ FORUM is frhf.

I thought this would be of interest to homeschoolers considering how much they avail themselves of the library.

55 posted on 02/05/2012 7:54:26 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: This Just In
The Seattle library staff, as well as those like it, are porn peddlers. Plain and simple.

That is why it does matter what goes on in someone's bedroom. It doesn't stay there, because the practitioners gravitate into public service jobs like librarians, school teachers, politicians, judges, scout leaders.......

56 posted on 02/05/2012 8:10:53 PM PST by itsahoot (I will Vote for Palin, even if I have to write her in.(Previous tag line reactivated))
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To: metmom

Shocking story. Where is common sense?


57 posted on 02/05/2012 8:20:05 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Lancey Howard

Of course we do, but you asked and I told you. Homeschoolers use the library.


58 posted on 02/05/2012 8:48:19 PM PST by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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To: beaversmom

Our tax monies used by a small cadre of radical Leftists to undermine us. That’s SOP folks. Defund the Left by defunding government.


59 posted on 02/06/2012 5:15:15 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: netmilsmom

Not everyone is as wise and watchful. Most are naive about what happens in the library. FReepers know.


60 posted on 02/06/2012 9:37:18 AM PST by Shimmer1 (No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.)
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