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If your faith and beliefs are so righteous, strong, moral and important ..... you would never need to burn books to make others follow your convictions.
Burning books just goes to show how deranged and unbalanced your beliefs are
God is on their side, but for some reason He can only accomplish His goals by having humans act on His behalf. By coincidence, the same would be true if there were no God at all.
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven’t the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”
-Tommy Douglas
Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.
Tommy Douglas, truly a great man ... who led the movement that made it possible for public health care in Canada.
What if it's shitty Catholic bibles that flanderise and flanderise unti it's all twisted to serve their own corrupt projection?
I wouldn't burn a copy of Mein Kampf, unless that's the only political point of view in the library. I'm sure that library had plenty of right-wing books and were much more popular.
I emailed this library asking them which books they don't expect to be getting back. They told me they couldn’t even release that information but they already are in the process of replacing them. Class act.
Nice that they took the time to respond. I expect they're getting a lot of offers from people who want to help them replace books.
The book burners are always the good guys, right?
Libraries allow you to check out 100 books? Last time I used my card to check out books there was a limit to 10., which seemed plenty to me.
Depending on what we’re researching on, we sometimes need like various books. Used to have to research all of them while in the library, but now we kinda read everything online. Though we plan on going back to the library again for researching stuff :P
Hopefully they charge him the value of each of the 100 books on top of whatever criminal charges he would get for damaging library property. That should be over $1,000 just because of the sheer amount of books.
1000 dollars? He'll be a gofund me millionaire by the end of the month.
That, and every replaced book should have a big dedication inside, saying something like "purchased with a generous donation of Mr [this twit's name]"
See, here's where I disagree:
Unless there is a clarifying statement about his ass-backward mentality following the dedication, the snark will be lost to time and only the "generous donation" will remain.
I have a similar (if smaller) beef with Carnegie libraries that are just PR washing of an oligarch. His crimes are remembered in spite of his donations only because he was memorable outside of them.
Arson, too please.
Hm, I would have said it's not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don't know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others' property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you're allowed to start fires...
Yes, burning books, always a deed fondly remembered by history.
On Monday, Heights Christian Church, which describes itself as “open to and affirming of all people, celebrating and finding strength in our diversity + affirming the dignity + worth of every person,” hosted an Action and Press Conference “against this hateful act.”
HCC said the event joins forces with Interfaith Group Against Hate to condemn the action.
Besides condemning the action, IGAH will be promoting support for our libraries. We will also be presenting a plan of action that will include partnering with local bookshops to purchase books, as well as community readings and discussion on topics that promote diversity and free speech. Heights Christian Church
Honestly, pretty good response from the community and church.
Make him pay for new books, add a juicy fine to it so the library can add a new wing, an then put him behind bars for hate crimes.
I bet he'll get a GoFundMe up and running in no time to get supported by a bunch of other whackjobs.
The library getting a new wing for free and a bunch of morons parting ways with their money sounds pretty great to me, if it happened.
They can even name the new LGBT/Jewish/black history book wing in his honor from his "generous donation" to the library, lol.
Maybe the damages should include all the money collected in this or similar ways.
"The man is already polling at 40% approval among GOP voters."
He's on the short list for the head slot at the Library of Congress.
Anybody have 100 bibles I can borrow? You'll thank me later.
Check your local motel, they're filled with them.
Maybe we can deport them to El Salvador?
trump will probably try to appoint him to run the library of congress.
Stupid teabaggers, they're absolutely deranged
If you haven't clicked through, the full statement from Kent Smith is great.
“I condemn this act, not only because it is a crime against our institutions and community, but also because it is fundamentally un-American. This nation was founded on the right to free speech and open expression, and our libraries are the embodiment of that promise. Libraries are designed to be community-based safe harbors of free thought. Libraries offer ideas. This is their fundamental role in our democracy and why they are so vital. This act of violence is not just a crime against the public catalog of literature that was destroyed, but also is a violation of the marketplace of ideas that is a bedrock principle of American life.
This action will not be, should not be, and cannot be tolerated inside the 21st Senate District, this state, or this nation. There is no place for such hate, censorship, or intimidation in Beachwood, nor this country.”
The Office of Senator Kent Smith (D-Euclid)
As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.
Jewish
All the man has to claim he supports the deportation of Jews to Israel as a solution, and all antisemitic accusations will be nullified.
After this he joined DOGI and went to the Library of Congress.
Dogi
"The fuck did I do?"
I can’t believe that Elon Musks pet techno-SS brigade are dragging this poor Corgis name down.!
This nation was founded on the right to free speech and open expression
By literal slavers.
And so I assume the library will send the sketchiest bailiffs they can find to collect their fines?
Anybody got a line on this dude's identity?
Sucking up to orange Shitler
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