What liberal libraries?

The employees of our nation's taxpayer-funded libraries are turning their communities' public intellectual spaces into an outlet for partisan propaganda. The September Project, which I mentioned a few weeks ago, attempts to trivialize the September 11 attacks by using the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 to forget about the Muslim terrorists who slaughtered 3,000 people and instead fixate on the imaginary administration attacks on civil liberties in the course of preventing future acts of mass murder.

The September Project's events page shows how some of our supposedly public libraries are being hijacked to serve the narrow ideological agendas of the few who are lucky enough to work at the libraries.

The King County Library in Kent, WA will hold:

A Citizen's Analysis of What Really Happened on September 11 th
Seattle 911 Visibility Project
With the report issued by the 9-11 Commission and the movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” there are many unanswered questions about the events of 9/11. Learn more about this pivotal moment in American history and its implications for the security of our nation. This program will be followed by a group discussion.

Yeah, Michael Moore's movie is a legitimate starting point for asking "What Really Happened", almost as useful as the tinfoil-hat website WhatReallyHappened.com.

The library at the University of Washington-Tacoma will teach us about:

Libraries Under Attack: Afghanistan, Iraq and the U.S.
This poster/display will explore the threat to libraries, as well as their destruction, in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United States.

I'm not sure I understand. Which American libraries are under attack? [except by their own unfireable employees who abuse them for partisan propaganda?] And the threat to libraries in Afghanistan and Iraq -- I doubt they're referring to the civil-liberty abusing Taliban and Ba'athist regimes that have since been ended.

The main University of Washington library will treat us to "Statements of Rights" from around the world:

The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The United States Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, and statements of rights from countries around the world will be available to encourage freedom of expression. See documents from Iran, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, India, S. Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, S. Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, the Magna Carta and the European Convention on Human Rights. We are working on those of a couple of countries from both Central and South America. Also, Russia and either Australia or New Zealand.

It is hollow moral equivalence to pretend that the unenforced "statements of rights" from chronic human rights abusers such as, say, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam are in any way equivalent to our own 200+ year tradition of actually enforcing our Bill of Rights.

The UW library also offers a limpwristed opportunity to "Form Your Own Opinion On Fahrenheit 9/11". You can tell the partisans know they don't have the facts on their side when they tell you it's a matter of "opinion".

The King County Library in Lake Forest Park, WA will show

And Justice for All, a film by Sandi Cioffi in cooperation with Hate Free Zone

As I mentioned the other day, the group "Hate Free Zone" should more properly be called "A Zone Where Muslims Are Free to Hate Whites and Jews".

It's unfortunate that our public libraries are turning themselves into fountains of Michael Moorish partisan propaganda. If you live in King County outside of Seattle, you might want to think twice about voting to approve the King County Library System bond levy, on the ballot this September 14. Naturally, the people who work for KCLS will do whatever it takes to confiscate your money so they can indoctrinate you about civil liberties. But you can still vote no. For now, at least.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 09, 2004 12:13 PM