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  • KERRY CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR BOOK BAN

    08/20/2004 6:46:33 AM PDT · by Jewels1091 · 433 replies · 12,294+ views
    Drudge Report | 8/20/04 | Drudge
    <p>That's all there is right now...developing. This should be interesting.</p>
  • The Kerry campaign calls on publisher to withdraw "Unfit for Command"

    08/19/2004 11:07:08 PM PDT · by Pikamax · 96 replies · 2,157+ views
    Salon ^ | 08/19/04 | Eric Boehlert
    Unfit for bookstores The Kerry campaign calls on a conservative publisher to withdraw book after the Washington Post torpedoes the veracity of a Swift boat veteran. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert Aug. 19, 2004 | The Kerry campaign has told Salon that the publisher of "Unfit for Command," the book that is at the center of the attack on Kerry's military record by the Swift Boat...
  • Town Refuses to Ask Citizens If Library Porn Should Be Filtered Out - Please Help Us!

    12/31/2003 1:58:40 AM PST · by plan2succeed.org · 467 replies · 2,077+ views
    Plan2Succeed.org ^ | 22 Dec 2003 | Plan2Succeed.org
    Town Refuses to Ask Citizens If Library Porn Should Be Filtered Out; Plan2Succeed.org Seeking Pro Bono Counsel. Something is wrong when a small group of people called a Library Board of Trustees determines that a public library must continue to allow access to pornography despite admittedly being outside the library's mission, the Township Committee claims it is powerless to stop the Board, and the citizens have no say.
  • Fahrenheit 451 in CUBA today

    Library books burned by court order NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2003 (Friends of Cuban Libraries) - On April 5, after a one-day trial before the State Security Court in the city of Santiago, Cuban dissident Julio Valdés was convicted of conspiring with U.S. diplomats to commit "crimes against the national sovereignty and economy of Cuba" and sentenced to 20 years in prison. One of the accusations made against Julio Valdés was the founding of a "self-proclaimed Independent Library" to "ideologically subvert the reader with the clear purpose, by means of inducing confusion, to recruit persons for the counter-revolution..." After sentencing...