I've been to my public library, and hard as I looked I couldn't find the porn section. I suppose it's possible my son might stumble on a National Geographic and see pictures of semi-naked people, but as long as he reads the articles and, gasp, learns something, I think I'd be OK with it. (IMO)

I believe in taking responsibility for my own child and not expecting other people, especially government employees, from doing my job. When I take him to the library I monitor what he's looking at, not because I'm concerned about the content, but because he might need an age-appropriate explanation of what he's seeing.

So you bring up something inflamatory that you admit is off topic. You speak about that topic as if it is fact, but don't give anyone else enough information to know what you are speaking of. And you use this charge of causing direct harm to discredit the ALA, it seems, perhaps so as to support the cause that they are opposing. We don't know. Nothing in your post was on topic. Yet when people ask you to substantiate your charges, you say that you don't want to be off topic.

In other words, all you wanted to do is to smear the ALA but now that you have done so, you don't want to be bothered to have a discussion about your statements. And when you respond to people, you speak about whether or not they are an "ALA-controlled automaton."

This sounds like tinfoil hat material to me. You clearly have an agenda, or you wouldn't have mentioned something so alarming ("children continue to be harmed on a regular basis in public libraries") without being willing to substantiate your charge. Rather than several posts saying you don't want to be off topic, it would have taken only one short post to give a link to some appropriate venue where you had commented intelligently about the issue you speak of, and that would have been respectful. Instead, you have successfully diverted discussion.

Lest you charge me with have some ox to gore, the last time I set foot in a public library was so long ago I don't remember when it was. I don't know any librarians personally. All I know about the ALA is the occasional stance they take publically (as reported by the press). I am not reacting to the fact that you said something about the ALA. I am reacting to the fact that you made an off topic strong allegation about some organization causing harm to be done to children on a regular basis, and subsequently done all you could to dance around that issue to avoid having to substantiate anything. It's irritating and it speaks of you having an ox to gore.