Robert Green Ingersoll

[cornerofmadness]

said it well when he said “You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought”

I'd like to tattoo that to forehead of the idiot who set his/her god-given righteousness loose on the young adult section of my local library.

I'm reading the third book in the Gatekeeper's series and some fool has gone through and blacked out all the swear words (as if you can't tell what they should have been) and anything that used God's name in vain (Like an OMG).

I'd like to tie this person down and read Harry Potter to him until he foams at the mouth.

Ingersoll also said "Every library is an arsenal” I guess that's what holier than thou is trying to disarm. Wouldn't want the young ones to have freedom of thought.

My thought is, does the library have to use my tax dollars to replace the book this moron defaced?

ETA - Holy crap! I wrote 7438 words since wednesday and most of it was holiday fic fulfillment!

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that doesn't thrill me either but i can excuse that (since kids can get away from the watchful eye) but to deliberately scratch out what you don't like in a book? No excuse for it

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

I can understand the kid thing since I deal with my nieces every once in a while but I always go by the 'it's not your property' thing. At least it was only the words, I remember picking up a copy one time in the teen section of Harry Potter that had whole sentences blacked out. -.- I do remember buying a book from the thrift store and finding along the top of the pages little messages of love to whoever had it before me. It was quite interesting.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i read a book recently talking about Mithras vs Jesus (Mithras being born of a virgin, having 12 apostles, baptised by a man name John and was hung on a tree about 1000 years before Jesus) and some one frantically scribbled so many things a bout how this wasn't true etc that the book was unreadable.

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

What did I call your location a few posts ago? DumbFuckBerg? *eyerolls* Ignorant gits.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that about sums it up. If the truth doesn't agree with YOUR truth, obliterate it (well the Catholic church already did that too poor Mithras)

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

Oh that really sucks. There was a book I used to get all the time when I was little and found in the adult fiction section called The World of the Dark Crystal. Completely awesome book about the movie with full pictures of all those designs and that within it. Some of the pages were like tracing paper, so you can overlay the designs of the uru and skeksi so you can see how they are one and that. Then one day I grabbed it and found that someone ripped some of the pages out especially the tracing paper pages so if someone new grabbed had grabbed it, they wouldn't have a clue what the book was talking about. It broke my heart because we were only able to find this book in a bookstore once and were unable to buy it because they wanted $79 for it and didn't have the money. I adored it so much. It's one of those gems that you only see once in a blue moon on sale....like The Burbs or Gnorm the Gnome.... *sigh*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i think i remember that book. I may HAVE that somewhere