Do you agree with Palin that some books should be censored or banned ?

Question

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1117009&srvc=2008campaign&position=15

Answer 1

Disgusting.

Freedom of speech and freedom of information are quickly becoming a joke.

Libraries should be a place where people and children have access to books even if those books make a certain small percentage of society uncomfortable. The world shouldn't have to be sanitized for children, particularly if parents taught them right from wrong in the first place.

The idea of censoring books makes me want to projectile vomit. Just because you don't think it's 'appropriate' doesn't mean you have the right to prevent the rest of us from having the freedom to make that decision for ourselves... this is America, isn't it?

Answer 2

No.

Answer 3

If you think n**i Germany was a great society, then yes...

If you are sane, no.

There is no reason to ban or censor any book, for any reason...ever

Answer 4

Absolutely not. One man's knowledge is another's heresy. People who ban books have no faith in their fellow man.

Answer 5

Of course

Answer 6

Anything by O'Reilly, Corsi, Limbaugh,or Coulter should be shat upon then ignited with kerosene.

Answer 7

I believe a Mass. librarian was the one who wanted to ban Huck Finn.  She must have been pre-liberal period?  It was for the language, by the way.

I think there are some books that should not be available to children who are too young to understand the books concepts.

We censor movies with a rating system which prevents children under 17 from seeing them.  I don't see a problem with a similar system for books.

Our kids are exposed to material way beyond their total understanding.  That is a lot more dangerous than retaining freedom of speech by letting young children have access to potentially harmful material.  When they become adults, they can read anything they want!  If it's Son of Sam, and he becomes their hero and they emulate him, well, I guess the liberals will complain that the schools let him down by not letting him read it at age 10.

Answer 8

Please note this quote from the story in the Boston Globe:  

"Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed."

In other words, noone banned any books. This is just another attempt by the media to tear down someone they see as a threat to the election of Obama.  

Answer 9

Yes, the anything goes mentality will be the death of western civilization.

Answer 10

All those mentions of fornication in the Bible? shame shame.

Books on SexEd? (now THERE'S abook NOT to burn, Ms. Wasilla).

AbstinenceOnly?

Take your pick: I say NONE of them.

Answer 11

h**l no. How someone can believe in creationism is beyond me.

Answer 12

There should be some restrictions on information encouraging illegal activity. For example, there are some books that describe in detail how to convert a firearm to fire fully automatic. Most people would agree that we don't need books promoting white supremacy or gang violence.  

Answer 13

No. For instance, I would like to read "The Anarchist Cookbook" sometime in my life. It doesn't mean I'm going to go straight out and make a bomb, is it?

Answer 14

First Amendment

Answer 15

Of course, you don't want certain books available for children to read.  Some books don't belong in schools, or public library's.  Those should be save places for our children.

Answer 16

No I do not.

Hello, it's called freedom of press.

Honestly...

Answer 17

Ah back to the dark ages for you my friends. So much for free speech. How do you censor comic books and romance novels, anyway?

Answer 18

Only if I get to choose the books.  

Answer 19

Yes. Everything must be censored to some degree

Answer 20

There's this little thing called the 1st amendment.  

Answer 21

No leave it to parents to actually be a parent to their children...

Answer 22

No.  

There are some books that I wish had never been written, but who gets to decide ?  It's a slippery slope.  Let parents look out for what their kids are reading.  Banned books just get more popular anyway.

Answer 23

Way to cut down the Constitution like that, sis...

Answer 24

Freedom of speech.

If people think the n**i was a good nation, its there opinion

if they want to cook from the anarchist cookbook, by all means let them cook

Althought my opinion is that parents are responsible for who there kids become and what they read but don't take the right of the people away.

Palin is not the person who wrote the constitution so tell her to shut it.

Answer 25

No. But she should work on her speech and personal life