Thursday, 1 October 2009

Pesky Censorship

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/30/american-library-association-banned-books

Makes you wonder whether any of these people have actually read the books they want banned or just other people's prejudices. You never know what you might learn if you actually open a book and take a read. Ignorance breeds ignorance. If you don't want to read the book, then don't. But don't stop other people making their own minds up about an author or a piece of fiction.

"There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men" - Heinrich Heine.



They'd rather we all just read this:

(to read the disclaimer sticker, click the image, if it's not clear enough, google it!)

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