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  • Seattle library worker charged with child rape and trafficking of two girls aged 11 and 15

    02/11/2024 5:33:04 AM PST · by CFW · 41 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 2/10/24 | Andy Ngo
    A Seattle library worker suspected of sex-trafficking two girls aged 11 and 15 has been charged with one count of third-degree child rape, two counts of encouraging the commercial sexual abuse of a minor, as well as second-degree trafficking. Ezra Wimana, 25, was arrested following an investigation into a human trafficking case involving two Oregon minors, according to the Bellevue Police Department. According to his LinkedIn profile, he worked part-time in the Library Page fellowship in the King County Library System. "Wimana, who appeared before a judge on Wednesday, faces multiple charges, including two counts of Trafficking in the Second...
  • Mapped: The U.S. states where school librarians face years in prison and tens of THOUSANDS in fines for providing 'harmful' books for children

    05/22/2023 1:21:34 AM PDT · by Libloather · 15 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/21/23 | James Gordon
    As parents and educators fight over book bans, five states have enacted criminal punishments for librarians who allow children to access 'obscene' materials - with a dozen states considering similar actions. The laws could subject librarians to significant penalties, including imprisonment and hefty fines, for providing sexually explicit, obscene or books deemed 'harmful' to children. At least seven state legislatures have passed these laws over the past two years, with six of them doing so in the last two months, although the governors of Idaho and North Dakota vetoed similar legislation. The laws are pending in nine other states but...
  • Librarians go radical as new woke policies take over: experts

    09/10/2022 4:58:53 PM PDT · by karpov · 29 replies
    New York Post ^ | September 10, 2022 | Dana Kennedy
    Marian the Librarian, the prim, bespectacled love interest of con artist Harold Hill in the classic musical, “The Music Man,” wouldn’t recognize her profession today. Libraries, for decades the ultimate safe spaces, have become ground zero in the ongoing culture wars, with battles over banned books, drag queen story hours and free access to porn raging all over the country — from Louisiana to Idaho to Washington State as well as cities like New York and LA. “The average person has no idea of this but librarians have been targeting children in recent years and trying to turn them into...
  • A Solution to Children's Book Propaganda (Librarians and publishers as activist groomers)

    04/13/2022 2:10:42 PM PDT · by UnwashedPeasant · 2 replies
    Youtube ^ | Apr 12, 2022 | John Stossel
    6.5-minute John Stossel video on how book corporations and libraries are over-the-top activists that groom children into Leftism while suppressing Conservative books. For example, there are ~27 children's biographies glorifying Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and at least 9 about Kamala Harris.
  • The Wokesters Wanna Weed Our Libraries

    11/18/2021 8:31:43 PM PST · by Noumenon · 26 replies
    The Orthosphere ^ | NOVEMBER 16, 2021 | JMSMITH
    “The whole apparatus for spreading knowledge, the schools and the press, wireless and cinema, will be used exclusively to spread those views which, whether true or false, will strengthen the belief in the rightness of the decisions taken by the authority; and all information that might cause doubt or hesitation will be withheld.”Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944) I just received a remarkable invitation to an upcoming lecture series entitled, “Weeding out Neutrality,” the advertised speakers being “activist librarians” who aim to destroy “old myths about libraries and neutrality” so they can curate collections that are openly and...
  • Libertarian Group Demands NASA Remove False 97 Percent Consensus' Global Warming Claim

    07/11/2019 9:05:37 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/11/2019 | Tyler O' Neil
    On Tuesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) sent NASA a formal complaint, asking the agency to withdraw the false claim that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that humans are the primary cause of global warming and climate change. The 2013 study purporting to demonstrate that number was fatally flawed and proved no such thing."The claim that 97% of climate scientists believe humans are the primary cause of global warming is simply false," CEI attorney Devin Watkins said in a statement. "That figure was created only by ignoring many climate scientists’ views, including those of undecided scientists. It is time...
  • Tighter Gun Laws Will Leave Libertarians Better-Armed Than Everybody Else

    11/14/2017 10:10:36 AM PST · by JP1201 · 9 replies
    Has it occurred to anybody that when restrictive laws are imposed, they're likely to have the greatest impact on the people most willing to obey them? The past week saw yet another invocation by the usual suspects of the supposed need for tighter gun controls. This time, we had a special emphasis from lawmakers on such "innovations" as banning people convicted of domestic abuse from owning firearms—which is to say, restrictions that are already on the books and have been in place for years, but which haven't had the wished-for effect. Honestly, so many of gun-controllers' preferred laws have been...
  • Cambridge Public Schools Librarian to Return Book Donation by FLOTUS Melania Trump

    09/27/2017 4:24:32 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 82 replies
    Patch ^ | September 27, 2017 | Dana Forsythe
    A Cambridge Public Schools librarian has explained why her class won't be keeping a donation of books donated by First Lady Melania Trump. In an open letter on the book review site, Horn Book, elementary school librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro explained that her school already has thousands of books and postured that there were schools in greater need of the donation. She also took the opportunity to criticize the policies of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Soeiro criticized the choice of donated books as well. "So, my school doesn’t have a NEED for these books. And then there’s the matter...
  • Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" reenacted with librarians

    08/16/2013 7:46:02 PM PDT · by Maelstorm · 7 replies
    http://boingboing.net ^ | Aug 16, 2013 | Cory Doctorow
    From the New York Public Library's Tumblr, a great remake of the video for the Beastie Boys' classic "Sabotage," featuring librarians on high-speed chases through the shelves. Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" reenacted with librarians - Boing Boing
  • WH won’t release video of Obama thanking librarians for pushing Obamacare

    07/07/2013 9:52:48 AM PDT · by SmileRight · 15 replies
    BIZPACReview.com ^ | 7/7/2012 | Cheryl Carpenter Klimek
    Last month, the White House kicked off an initiative – in conjunction with the American Library Association – that would pay librarians to help the public understand Obamacare. This effort tapped libraries because they are considered an influential resource in their communities. But now, the most transparent administration in history has vetoed public viewing of a video, recorded for Sunday’s American Library Association conference, in which Obama thanks librarians for helping people sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The District Dispatch, a web site for the library association’s Washington office...
  • Libraries Enlisted to Deliver Obamacare Information (Democratic 'navigators' in 123,000 libraries)

    07/01/2013 5:17:15 PM PDT · by drewh · 30 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | JULY 1, 2013 AT 12:15 PM | Paul Bedard "Washington Secrets" columnist
    The White House is turning to the network of public libraries to deliver Obamacare information and advice to the nation. As it begins promoting the program that will require all Americans to have health insurance or pay a fine starting next year, the administration is dealing with the biggest hurdle in its effort: Where Americans go to get information on the new program. Enter public libraries, already the go-to site for many Americans looking for tax forms every April. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is in charge of Obamacare, has teamed with the Institute of Museum and...
  • Banned Books Week September 25-October 2, 2010

    09/06/2010 8:24:59 AM PDT · by usalady · 8 replies
    Suite101 ^ | September 5, 2010 | Martha
    Banned Book Weeks celebrates the freedom to read, the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one's opinion, even if it is unorthodox. Sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) since 1982, it has become an annual event reminding Americans not to take this democratic freedom for granted.
  • LIBRARIAN FORCED OUT OVER “ANTI-GAY” BOOK?

    07/22/2010 6:19:56 AM PDT · by massmike · 37 replies
    radio.foxnews.com ^ | 07/22/2010 | Todd Starnes
    A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by a former Ohio State University librarian who said he was forced out of his job because of his conservative Christian beliefs. U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman ruled that the university’s Mansfield campus did not violate Scott Savage’s civil rights by being hostile to his beliefs. In 2006, Savage was asked to serve on a committee to develop a required reading list for incoming freshmen. He noticed that every book was either liberal or promoted what he called a gay agenda. So Savage recommended four conservative books – and that’s...
  • Librarian oversees rare collection of Bibles from past six centuries

    06/01/2010 1:47:24 PM PDT · by NYer · 2 replies · 194+ views
    cns ^ | May 25, 2010 | Beth Griffin
    Liana Lupas, curator of the Rare Bible Collection at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, with one of the first Bibles translated into the language used by American Indians. (CNS/Bob Roller) By Beth GriffinCatholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) -- Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself "the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book." Of course, that book is "the" Book, the Bible. And in two decades...
  • Key Dems Order Suppression of Report on Honduras

    11/01/2009 3:25:31 PM PST · by John Semmens · 16 replies · 1,170+ views
    A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 31 October 2009 | John Semmens
    The chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees—Representative Howard Berman (D-Calif) and Senator John Kerry (D-Mass), respectively—are demanding the librarians at the Law Library of Congress to suppress a report on the Honduran crisis. The problem with the report is that it concludes that the removal of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was carried out in accordance with that country’s constitution. “This report directly contradicts the President’s position on this crisis,” Berman pointed out. “It creates an air of confusion regarding US policy on this matter. On matters of foreign policy, this nation must speak with one voice...
  • Who's The Library Bully? [It's not Sarah Palin]

    09/22/2008 1:33:32 PM PDT · by Caleb1411 · 13 replies · 437+ views
    Media Research Center ^ | September 19, 2008 | L. Brent Bozell III
    As part of the microscopic scrutiny applied to Sarah Palin’s record, the public has been told that as the incoming Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska in 1996, Palin dared to ask the town librarian what would happen if anyone objected to an inappropriate book. She merely inquired, but "anti-censorship" activists, perpetually filled with visions of a trash can full of burning books, exploded. At the time, the Anchorage Daily News captured the librarian, one Mary Ellen Emmons, putting up her First Amendment dukes. “I told her clearly, I will fight anyone who tries to dictate what books can go on the...
  • Records changed after librarian reported porn

    04/04/2008 9:48:56 AM PDT · by editor-surveyor · 26 replies · 65+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | April 03, 2008 | Bob Unruh
    Personnel records used to justify the dismissal of a librarian who reported to police a man viewing child pornography on a public computer were changed after her dismissal, according to a law firm working on behalf of Brenda Biesterfield. That, however, hasn't stopped the county from justifying its actions and citing the changed records."The actions of Tulare County officials in firing Brenda Biesterfeld are simply inexcusable," said Mathew D. Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University's school of law."She should be reinstated and compensated for the injustice done to her," he said. "The Tulare County Library ought...
  • Many Liberians may be ousted from U.S.

    09/05/2007 12:20:45 PM PDT · by nypokerface · 71 replies · 1,150+ views
    UPI ^ | 09/04/07
    INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Many of the estimated 4,000 to 10,000 Liberians living in the United States on temporary protected status may be forced to return home as early as Oct. 1. Thousands of Liberians who could not qualify for refugee status or permanent green cards in the United States were granted six to 18 month stays in the country under a program designed to offer temporary sanctuary to foreign citizens fleeing wars or natural disasters. However, the long-running Liberian civil war, which claimed 250,000 lives, ended in 2003, and now the U.S. government is moving to force some...
  • Civil war among U.S. librarians

    07/23/2007 7:55:19 AM PDT · by rhema · 43 replies · 1,781+ views
    The unassuming international champion of universal health care, Michael Moore, was asked (New York Sun, June 29) whether, while filming "Sicko," he inquired about the condition of Cuban journalist Normando Gonzalez, a political prisoner since 2003. He has contracted severe chronic illnesses while in a Castro gulag. Moore answered that he asked only about Cuba's health care system while he was there. Among other suffering prisoners in Cuban cells who would have added further dimension to "Sicko" are independent librarians, put away for more than 20-year sentences for the crime of giving Cubans access to books and other publications forbidden...
  • Illinois Library Association Calls for Internet Computer Blackout in Public Libraries

    05/11/2007 8:59:37 PM PDT · by plan2succeed.org · 17 replies · 1,075+ views
    Illinois Library Association ^ | May 8, 2007 | Robert P. Doyle
    In response to the Illinois House of Representatives passing House Bill 1727, the Illinois Library Association's Public Policy Committee met yesterday to determine the library community's response. .... The committee did, however, declare: Monday, 14 May 2007 is a day of unity for the Illinois library community to demonstrate our opposition to House Bill 1727, the mandatory public and school library Internet filter legislation. On Monday, 14 May, the committee recommends the following possible actions: .... 2. Turn off the Internet. If you proceed with this option, inform the public by posting signs in the library explaining why the Internet...