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Librarians to the Rescue
Duke Machesne writes "Citing concerns over materials being distributed to American students by the BSA, MPAA, and RIAA's evil minions, the American Library Association will begin distributing its own, more balanced material this winter. The material will deal with insignificant and oft-overlooked details like fair use. More information on Wired News."
And the ALA proves O'Sullivan's First Law again: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."
"Citing concerns over materials being distributed to American students by the BSA" The Boyscouts of America?! What's wrong with the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts don't allow people who are gay to be members. It is because being gay isn't clean, healthy, or moral. You aren't a good enough person to be a Boy Scout if you're gay.
And here you can see a different side to librarians.
Aren't the Boy Scouts hypocrites if they take tax dollars some of which are contributed by gay people? The gay money is fine, but not the people? See that 's on thing Neo Nazis have over Boy Scouts, they're not hypocrites.
"What most parents don't realize is that when this software is freely downloaded against the copyright owner's wishes, the money that would have been spent on software is often funneled to terrorist organizations. Thus, technologies such as Kazaa and Usenet are the primary means by which our enemies intend to destroy us. If not for young people downloading this software, "piracy" if you will, the twin towers would still be standing today. Ultimately, the people who download software without paying for it are no different than the people who would kill innocent lives because they hate freedom. I intend to find out who is doing this and putting them in Guantanamo Bay where they will understand that their attempts to destroy America's greatness will be met with death and often worse"
--John Ashcroft, CNN interview February 10th, 2004
"Liberal" used to mean What we call libertarian in the US. "Liberal" just got hijacked to mean socialism, so the American classical liberals needed a new term.