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ORIGINAL: MistressNew

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


There's a rumor that as mayor she inquired what library policy was.

The horror.

Either you are willfully ignoring the story or you are.... unable to read?  I can't figure out what would prompt such a response.

She asked about banning books and when she was turned down, SHE FIRED THE LIBRARIAN!!  This all happened within two weeks.  How anyone could defend it, I'll never understand.

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Library Director Mary Ellen Emmons last week said Palin broached the subject with her on two occasions in October - once Palin was elected mayor Oct. 1 but before she took office on Oct. 14, and again in more detail on Monday, Oct. 28. Besides heading the Wasilla City Library, Emmons is also president of the Alaska Library Association. The issue became public last Wednesday, when Palin brought it up during an interview about the now-defunct Liquor task Force. Palin used the library topic as an example of discussions with her department heads about understanding and following administration agendas. Palin said she asked Emmons how she would respond to censorship.






Emmons drew a clear distinction Saturday between the nature of Palin's inquiries and an established book-challenge policy in place in Wasilla, and in most public libraries.

But on Monday, Oct. 28, Emmons said Palin asked her outright if she could live with censorship of library books. This was during a week when Palin was requesting resignations from all the city's department heads as a way of expressing loyalty.

“All questions posed to Wasilla's library director were asked in the context of professionalism regarding the library policy that is in place in our city. Obviously the issue of censorship is a library question... you ask a library director that type of question,” Palin said

“I'm hoping it was just a trial balloon,” Emmons said, “because the free exchange of information is my main job, and I'll fight anyone who tries to interfere with that.”

The timing of the issue comes at a time when Emmons is trying to get the book-challenge policies of the Wasilla Library and of the Palmer City Library in line with the Mat-Su Borough policy, revised in December of last year.

Emmons described the new borough policy as “a very good one.”

It is a step-by-step blueprint of procedures for anyone wanting to challenge the selection and availability of library material, Emmons explained. “it is a good process, and almost all public libraries have one.”

Meanwhile, Emmons said she is working with borough libraries boss Bruce Urban and Palmer Library Director Janice Sanford, in the hope of getting the cities to adopt a book-challenge policy identical to the borough's.

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ORIGINAL: Thadius

Mia,

Why did you swap links?  Didn't the other one support your position?  [8|]

The simple fact is no books were banned, no books were asked to be banned, and if there had been one would have to take the Mrs Emmons at her word that she would have contacted the ACLU. 

Claiming she was fired for the topic has also been proven false, as every department head of the city was asked for a resignation during that same week.  So trying to blame it on this particular topic, is a bit of a stretch even for the conspiracy theorists around here.

Know what I mean?

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/157986

Summary
We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.
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She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
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Analysis
Since Republican presidential nominee John McCain tapped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, information about Palin's past has been zipping around the Internet. Several claims are not true, and other rumors are misleading.

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ORIGINAL: MzMia

lol, keep hope alive.
Maybe she did not attempt to ban all the books on the list,
but Sarah was attempting to do something![;)]

Live the books in the library, alone Sarah for goodness sakes.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


There's a rumor that as mayor she inquired what library policy was.

The horror.

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Yes, it is a horror if her policy was banning books which it seems it was.

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber
Now, let's not overstate the case. She never advocated BURNING books... only taking them off the shelves for public access... (The thing that bothers me about this, is that most libraries have a "restricted" section, where books of a more adult nature are kept away from the kiddies. She apparently didn't feel that was good enough. She didn't ask for the books to be moved to a restricted state, as a concerned mother. No, she wanted to make sure whatever books she [and her church group] didn't like, weren't available to ANYONE.)

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ORIGINAL: SilverMark
Have to keep an eye on those crazy librarians at all times! We know how wild they can be!

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Now there have to be limits, of course, because we operate on public money.

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

Oh, the mini-Hitler card ... it just had to be played.
 
Myself, I think you are Carl Rove in disguise ... you know, doing your best to give the GOP votes, they could never earn on their own. [;)]

• Jesus Party, Opposition Square Off over Potter Books, November 16, 2001.
  “Two groups of people argued over the definition of evil Thursday night in Kennedy Park. One group said it was embodied in the messages contained in the Harry Potter novels. The second group countered that evil lives in those who want to ban books and censor what men, women and children can read.”
  
• Harry Potter Books Burn as Library Showcases Rowling Titles, December 30, 2001.
  “A display of Harry Potter books at the Alamogordo (N. Mex.) Public Library was a marked contrast to a December 30 book burning of works written by J. K. Rowling and others that took place outside the city’s Christ Community Church. Held on church property after a half-hour prayer service, the event drew several hundred congregants and as many as 800 counterprotesters.” See also ‘Satanic’ Harry Potter books burnt
  
• S.F. gay-book slasher put on probation; Vandalism charge also a hate crime, September 19, 2002.
  “The hate crime was not book burning, it was book slashing — 607 books, to be exact. For nearly a year, someone lurked in the stacks at San Francisco's Main Library and the Chinatown branch, vandalizing books. Almost always they were volumes on gay and lesbian subjects, some of them out of print and hard to replace.”

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Which books were banned?

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Yes, it is a horror if her policy was banning books which it seems it was.

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Which books were banned?

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

Yes, it is a horror if her policy was banning books which it seems it was.

She didn't get her way but she exposed her attitude towards books she didn't like for what it was.