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Title: Does your taxpayer supported public library own these 3 book titles?
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Published: May 13, 2008
Author: scrapper2
Post Date: 2008-05-13 21:29:22 by scrapper2
Keywords: educating the public, US constitution, Nabka
Views: 946
Comments: 25

Imo the two most important political issues facing Americans are:

a. how far off course our federal politicians are taking our nation from its constitutional foundations

b. how our federal government's knee jerk pro-Israel bias causes our nation considerable ill-will on the world's stage

I think it's incumbent on us, educated politically versed 4um members, to help our fellow Americans to become better informed on the subjects of constitution responsibilities of government and also about the travails of the Palestinians when Israel was founded and the unseemly influence of the Israel Lobby on our nation's foreign policy so these same Americans can have their eyes opened. Knowledge empowers people.

To that end, I'd recommend that all of us check with our local public libraries if the following 3 books are owned and if not you should request that these titles be ordered posthaste. As taxpayers you have the right to insist that the library spends your tax dollars on books that provide diverse points of view.

The titles are:

1."The Revolution: A Manifesto" (Hardcover) By Dr. Ron Paul c. 2008

Currently #10 on Amazon's bestseller list.

Dr. Paul is a respected Congressman and physician and Presidential candidate. If your library owns Obama's book and Hillary's book, then it should also own Dr. Paul's book for "balance."

2. "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" ( Trade Paperback) By Dr. Ilan Pappe c. 2007

The author is a prominent Israeli historian and was a senior lecturer in Political Science at Haifa University and Academic Director of the Research Insitute for Peace at Givat Haviva and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Haifa. Dr. Pape is now at Professor at the University of Exeter in the UK. This book received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and was also favorably reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.

3. "The Israel Lobby" ( Hardcover) By Dr. John Mearsheimer (U of Chicago) and Dr. Stephen Walt ( Harvard U) c. 2007

It received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly and was widely discussed in mainstream media circles like NPR, NYT, WSJ, etc.

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#2. To: scrapper2 (#0)

do americans use public libraries anymore? ;)

christine  posted on  2008-05-13   21:37:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Good point. Books are cheap. $30-40, which is LESS than you pay to fill up you gas tank, could buy you the 3 titles and you get to keep them.

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-05-13   21:40:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Good point. Books are cheap. $30-40, which is LESS than you pay to fill up you gas tank, could buy you the 3 titles and you get to keep them.

You miss my point. Of course we can and have purchased these titles but the idea is to have the public library stock these titles for other people so they can be introduced to and educated on political issues with a different take/perspective they might normally not read or buy books on.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-05-13   21:54:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I understood your point - public libraries are biased toward PC, feminism and so forth. My point is that, these days, it's relatively easy to circumvent the government-financed institutions attempts to control what 'the consumers' think. I remember how, many years ago, when Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' was released in the States, half of the bookstores were afraid to carry the book and I saw people buying it at Barnes and Noble asking to have it discretely wrapped. Today, it only takes a few mouse clicks and you can have Mein Kampf delivered to your doorstep. Look for Mein Kampf at the public library. I bet they don't carry that either. There are over one million titles of books IN PRINT in this country alone. If your public library carries 10,000 titles, it's barely 1% of what's available. The problem is not access to books but actual readers willing to read them.

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-05-13   22:08:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I understood your point - public libraries are biased toward PC, feminism and so forth...Look for Mein Kampf at the public library. I bet they don't carry that either...The problem is not access to books but actual readers willing to read them.

As a taxpayer you have every right to request/to insist that a) books receiving favorable reviews or media discussion and of interest to the general reader or b) titles that are classics like Mein Kampf by Hitler or Capital ( English translated title of Das Kapital) by Marx be purchased by your public library to provide balance to the collection. I have done this with my local library on occasion and the books were ordered accordingly.

Actually I just checked if my local library owned Mein Kempf and Capital and it owned both titles.

As for what public libraries stock, of course they can't order every book in print. But they are required to stock a representative and balanced collection of materials on all Dewey subjects. Public libraries were established to help the individual self-improve, self-educate. My public library has a mission statement to that effect, I believe.

I think you need to separate what the American Library Association is ( yet another PC bloated organization ) from what your public library provides to its community. With a few suggestions now and then, my public library does just fine.

scrapper2  posted on  2008-05-13   22:37:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#19. To: scrapper2 (#17)

I am glad to hear that the public libraries continue to be good institutions. I must admit that I haven't visited one in 5 years, mainly because the closest is more than 20 miles from where we live so it's much more convenient to order what I want to read.

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2008-05-13 22:46:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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