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Isn't the ALA Representative Two Faced? (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous User on Tue Apr 25, 2006 at 01:12:09 PM PDT

The article says, "'We were deeply disappointed to learn these controversial provisions were enacted in Oklahoma without those who oppose them having a chance to air their views,' says Miriam Nesbit, president of AFFECT and legislative counsel for the American Library Association."

The ALA, however, on its own, without giving those who oppose it a chance to air their views, made two significant changes in the way libraries are run. 1) Librarians will no longer protect children from harm (although all other government employees continue to have such a duty), and 2) it is age discrimination for a librarian to keep a child from any material, whether or not it is sexually inappropriate for children (although no one else is allowed to provide children with such access). The ALA, likely with influence from the ACLU, made this change decades ago. Those who might have opposed them either were not aware this happened or could do nothing about it. Indeed to this very day the ALA keeps people in the dark and children continue to be harmed on a regular basis in public libraries, even despite law such as CIPA and case law such as US v. ALA designed to stop this very thing.

Isn't it two-faced for an ALA representative to decry a lack of an opportunity to respond when that is exactly what the ALA has done to the entire country and children are suffering ever since?

All this is my opinion, of course, except the existing law, cases, and facts.


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