Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

-Faber (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)

so they are banning the Bible because of the obscene material in it?;

Right wings lie bout wanting freedom of speech. They just want to sprout racist stuff and other phobic stuff. They treat LGBT like it's a fetish.

Why do they care so much about libraries. it's not like they or their kids read. How do you get illiterate people excited to ban books. It's a god damn conspiracy!

I heard there's one book in there that talks about a pair of sisters who get their father drunk so they can take turns raping him. Are they banning that one?

Surely the free speech absolutists will be staunchly opposed. Why, if they weren't, one could think it was never about free speech and always just about hate...

That country is so fucking stupid its unbelievable

Obscene books like the Bible?

"Bu-but the right wingers promised me that I could say the hard-R N-word yet again, and if people were to call me 'racist' for it they'd be jailed for defamation, and they'd also jail feminist video game critics for censoring games!"

Please support your local library. Even if you just get a card and keep it active, it helps with stats that they use to get more funding.

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (2005)

They need to just get on with it, we all know what they want to do

Shit or get off the pot

Conservatives simply hate free speech.

How do they know something is obscene? None of them know how to read.

I’m over 50 and they tried to ban Diary of Anne Frank when I was a kid. Sometimes they even succeeded.

Fucking idiots. Name one reason why kids shouldn’t read that book. They never could. Not a real reason anyway.

Over and over they try to ban books. The only thing that really changes is that they add books to the list.

only one thing for it. Put as much indecent material in the library as possible. Also I used to work at a library and every now and then this like 80 year old dude would come in and say "show me where your dirty books are!" that guy was awesome.

Why are links from The Guardian posted so often here?

Are these the ones with blowjobs and things?

Is it not considered pornographic, and if not where do we draw the line, is anything with LGBT in the title fair game?

So more wasting tax money for posturing and campaigning and not solving any actual problems

We need a massive bible book burning event.

By "obscene" they mean a guy flirts with a guy. Meanwhile a full on sex scene isn't "obscene" so long as it's heterosexual

So tired of hearing that the right is a champion of free speech.

More of this shit again. Don’t they get bored with this same old schtick?

Man fuck these people trying to dictate what people should think