tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post154082780967480933..comments2024-03-19T08:20:04.349-04:00Comments on SafeLibraries®: Scandal: ALA Intimidation Squelches Free Speech; Ethical Violations, Threats and Personal Attacks Gag and Censor ALA Opponents to Avoid Open DebateSafeLibraries®http://www.blogger.com/profile/06756725065032196698noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post-63514653532992138372008-07-26T10:57:00.000-04:002008-07-26T10:57:00.000-04:00http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ifforum/2008-07/msg...http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ifforum/2008-07/msg00017.html<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ifforum/2008-07/msg00017.html" REL="nofollow">[ifforum] Re: Chair of IFC on Intimidation of Councilors & Librarians</A>:<BR/><BR/>Walter Skold has reported accurately about the group that has long used classic fascist tactics within ALA to try to intimidate people who from time to time step forward to point out the falsehoods and distortions in the work this group brings forward in ALA: Their targets include: those with traditional points of view; those who are grateful for the good America does and has achieved among nations and are not afraid to say so; those who place a high value on U.S. democracy and the unique important individual freedoms it affords, such as freedom for the invidivual and freedom of speech; and those who really do have a genuine, non-cynical belief in the right of those with diverse points of view to be able to express them and be safe within ALA.<BR/> <BR/>This group has a long record of mounting coordinated attacks and threats on anyone who has been paying enough attention about how ALA is operating to realize how one group within ALA plans actively to parlay their agenda into ALA with the goal of manipulating ALA to the greatest extent possible to control the organization's "voice" the lion's share of the time so that it matches their personal internationalist anti-America political agenda. <BR/> <BR/>Saying that their dominance in ALA is just "democracy in action" trivializes and distorts the reality. Hitler was elected through democratic processes.<BR/> <BR/>Ironically this group uses code words like "progressive," and "social justice," which are smoke screen vocabulary that fools a good number of people into assuming this group is working for the good of libraries, when in reality this group is illiberal, controlling, and totalitarian. <BR/> <BR/>Tragically, the world thus group promotes and idealizes leaves free access to information, freedom of _expression_, and personal freedom in the dustbin of history. <BR/> <BR/>Ellen Zyroff<BR/>ALA Councilor 2003-06SafeLibraries®https://www.blogger.com/profile/06756725065032196698noreply@blogger.com