Mayor Palin: Failed Censor

I don't know much about Alaska--they have a reputation as being fairly conservative, but I want to applaud the Wasila library board for stopping then mayor Palin from censoring books. When the head librarian refused, Mayor Palin tried to fire her, but she relented due to the public outcry.

The following list of books is supposedly from the library board minutes, and I buy it becasue the list is very consistent with some of the most often challenged books in America.

Makes me kinda wonder what Gov. Palin would have removed from the library of congress's shelves....

WE SHOULD ALL TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY!

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Blubber by Judy Blume

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Christine by Stephen King

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cujo by Stephen King

Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Decameron by Boccaccio

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Forever by Judy Blume

Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Have to Go by Robert Munsch

Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Impressions edited by Jack Booth

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

My House by Nikki Giovanni

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

Night Chills by Dean Koontz

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective

Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Separate Peace by John Knowles

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Bastard by John Jakes

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

The Living Bible by William C. Bower

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders

The Shining by Stephen King

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder

Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster

Editorial Staff

Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

You have got to be fucking kidding me!

Yeah- typical right wing christofascist treason.


Folks- Government censoring speech is ILLEGAL in this country. ANY elected official who tires it is VIOLATING THIER OATH OF OFFICE.


But this argument will cut no muster with republicans... they LOVE people who violate the constitution.

They think its Patriotic to undermine the law that created their own country, their own freedom.

well, there is precedent for liberals to censor, too. It does cut both ways, but another thing I find disturbing is that if you look at the list, you will notice a certain translation of the Bible was also on her list--so Palin may be one of these "God speaks King James English only and any other translation is heresy" nut jobs.

It's both pathetic and infuriating how many people seem to suddenly love Palin so much, when they know absolutely nothing about her other than her looks and charisma. Oh and she gave a good speech. Granted. She's also an ultra-radical religious extremist who plain and simple doesn't believe in freedom, unless its her freedom to impose her personal moral beliefs on all of us. It's not just the censorship issues, where she clearly thinks the 1st amendment should be repealed. It's her regressive ideas on sex ed, the abortion rights of rape victims, and the rights of all of us to live in a free society not a Christian theocracy.
Even some on this site have fallen prey to the superficial fact that she is an attractive, feisty woman. If our electorate is willing to vote for a fascist, simply because she's hot and feisty, than you deserve it when suddenly, a few years from now, you try to log on to LPSG, and suddenly you receive a message:
This website has been deemed morally offensive by the United States Government. In accordance with the Internet Morality Act of 2012, this website has been shut down, and your computer's IP code has been recorded in the FBI's directory of morally suspicious individuals.

Then you'll realize you sold your soul just because you had a fantasy about nailing Sarah Palin.

well said, big! for more info check out NIN's concept album Year Zero!

I just hope fellow lovers of free expression will post this list on myspace, facebook, their blogs, email it to friends.

Also keep posting to this thread so that we can keep it from being buried!

I think this info is the single most important thing I have read concerning Palin's true motives and objectives.

It makes me wonder how much "choice" her teen daughter was given over having that baby.

America truly is the land of the free. Only there can a woman who doesn't believe in birth control, global warming, gun laws, evolution, healthcare for homos, a balanced budget, and seemingly free speech become vice-president with next to no experience.

Also, is it just me, or has she had massively unattractive veneers done on her teeth?

Yeah, Phil, I'm in the same boat with you. I don't want to get too off course on this thread, but since you mentioned it: does it occur to anyone that we have lifted up and celebrated a 17 year old girl who has decided to keep her child and enter a marriage predicated on a pregnancy (instead of love) rather than choosing to place the child in the hands of a loving and responsible family that is prepared for parenthood?

Clearly her daughter's "decision" tells us a lot about that poor child's future.

"family values" my tight ass...

And I'd like to know just how much choice her future son-in-law had about his impending marriage. Especially since Sarah and Todd eloped on August 29, 1988 (to "save her parents the cost of a wedding" the press has been told) and their son Track was born April 20, 1989. If he'd been such a preemie, I'm sure that would have been made another part of her story of adversity and bravery.

Apparently abstinence doesn't make the heart grow fonder; is ignorance necessarily bliss?

When I heard Palin say that her daughter was going to marry her boyfriend (basically choosing for them) why did I get the impression of shotgun wedding?

So does the freedom of choice exist in the land of the free!?!

I wanna stick my boot up her ass, fuckin' Nazi bitch.

Damn libraries and their liberal librarians. Libraries (and public schools for that matter) are nothing more than a socialist sheme in the first place. No one should ever expect taxpayers to subsidize books and learning for those who are too poor or indolent to purchase the damn books for themselves. You only deserve what you can afford.

HERE HERE! and damn all social services while we're at it! Damn the fire department, only those who can afford firewater deserve to have their houses a'flame doused--and only those who can pay for transportation deserve to be evacuated from a pending natural disaster.

Oh wait... I don't live in the United Oligarchy of America...yet... sorry. nevermind.