Showing posts with label Guy Citron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guy Citron. Show all posts

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Time to Stop Being Bullied by Librarians; The Election Is Over, They Lost

The election is over, they lost big, now it's time to stop being bullied by librarians.  One of American Library Association's lead propagandists started community organizing to intimidate and bully the Lebanon Township Committee in New Jersey over a small library closing.  I learned of the bullying campaign from the propagandist.  So I used the emails see listed to write to the Committee.

Here's what I wrote, and it applies everywhere, not just in NJ, and anyone may copy this without need for any attribution to me:


Greetings Lebanon Township Committee:

This is a notice of outside influence regarding the closing of Bunnvale Library. I, myself, do not take a position either way nor do I even know the circumstance/reasoning nor have I ever even heard of the library before.

This email is to advise that if you see a sudden bump in interest relating to the library, particularly with respect to the decision to close the library, particularly in opposition to the closing of the library, it is likely astroturfed by someone from outside your community who is American Library Association [ALA] affiliated and trained to pressure local boards and commissions into thinking the majority of the public wants the governmental body to decide what ALA in Chicago, IL, would decide but doesn't otherwise have the power to force such a decision.

Martha Hickson, a former school librarian at North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School, is the community organizing ringleader.  She gets the bullying campaign up and running in multiple New Jersey communities, and now in yours.  For example, she attended Roxbury NJ BOE meetings where she handed out placards for the large audience she attracted to wave with an ALA trademark, namely, "Free People Read Freely."  As if children in schools have a First Amendment right to read what NJ 2C:34-3 proscribes or what the US Supreme Court in Board of Education v. Pico ruled they did not have a right to read.




Regarding Lebanon Township, on March 22 she sent out a message on social media (Bluesky), one of her primary means of community organizing, the following message, "Hunterdon NJ is an anti-library region on par w Florida.  LGBTQ+ books have been attacked for 4 years.  Now town fathers are closing Bunnvale Library, a vital resource for educational programs, access to books & a safe space for all ages.  E-mail the Lebanon Twp Comm before 4/2 to save the library."  She then adds a graphic saying, "The Library Staff had NO WARNING!!" and listing all your emails and phone numbers.  She follows up with an additional post of hers providing just your emails.  Indeed, that's where I got your email addresses and even learned of this issue in the first place when someone alerted me.

In a subsequent post dated today, March 23, she adds that she is hopeful the people she has already community organized in other of her campaigns will again spring into action, rent-a-mob style, "To be fair, though, a segment of the N Hunterdon community has risen up time and again to support libraries and push back against the anti-library MAGA crowd. Let's hope they show up for the Bunnvale Library."

I'll save you all the details about how Martha Hickson is so good at rabble rousing that ALA leaders publicly praise her and have adopted her work as their own, New Jersey passed ALA's Right to Read Act because of Martha Hickson, and she's now in a Sarah Jessica Parker film called, "The Librarians."  Suffice to say she is one of ALA's top agitators, she lives in New Jersey, and she rabble rouses across the state.

Hence, if you see a sudden outpouring of interest in your public duties, and if that sudden interest vehemently opposes you, it is likely astroturfed, meaning fake grass roots, whipped up by a professional community organizer seeking to mislead communities into imposing the will of Chicago's American Library Association.

By the way, the BOE where she used to work did indeed adopt the will of ALA instead of NJ citizens seeking application of obscenity law 2C:34-3, so that likely violated school board ethics laws, so I filed an ethics complaint and it is pending.  (I've now been called "intolerable" by Guy Citron for filing that ethics complaint.  I say this because I bet he will get involved in your local matter as he is another one bullying BOEs and commissions statewide, spurred on by Martha Hickson.)  Martha Hickson was able to get about 400 people to show at meetings versus two parents who opposed obscenity (as defined in NJ law) in the school library.  The massive bullying effort worked.  The kids retain access to obscenity in violation of NJ law and US Supreme Court precedent.


The point is some governmental bodies are indeed pressured so greatly that they fold to the braying mob.  Don't be like them.  Fortunately, you now know ahead of time that the community organization manipulation campaign for ALA has already started.  Hopefully that knowledge will help you see through the miasma to ensure compliance with local law, common sense, and community standards, instead of being bullied into accepting what Chicago's ALA would have you do if it only had the power.

Notice too it's not only what ALA would have you do but it's also with the bullying method of name calling, like "the anti-library MAGA crowd."  It's ad hominem argument, not honest debate.  It's bullying.  I don't know you but I bet you are not "anti-library" and are likely pro-library, as it were.  As to "MAGA crowd," that's projection for her ALA crowd and it implies undue influence, also projection.  As to MAGA, that's now proven to be the majority of the country.  Most people now want to make America great again and stop giving social security benefits to people who are older than the USA itself.  Martha Hickson opposes that.  She doesn't realize yet that she's now in the minority, or maybe she does and wants us to live in the past because it suits her political goals.  She doesn't realize people are done with the bullying tactics that she's employing, like she is now in Lebanon Township.  

ALA itself has been greatly trimmed back by having its "book ban" hoax be exposed by the US Department of Education, a hoax it itself engendered in the first place with "long-term inoculation."  There's no more need to be intimidated by ALA or any local acolytes, no matter how much outside pressure you receive.


So please make the decision that's best for Lebanon Township, not the one that's best for Chicago's ALA that's using bullying tactics and name calling via local community organizers to try to force its way.

Thank you and good luck.  Should you wish me to provide primary sources for any statement I made, please let me know.

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Dan Kleinman Is Intolerable, Not School Librarians Harming School Children; Guy Citron's Triple Decker Defamation

Dan Kleinman is intolerable, not school librarians harming school children, according to "guest commentator" Guy Citron at the Hunterdon Review, Whippany, NJ, pictured top right, photo credit Hunterdon Review:
By way of fair use, I will reprint the article then comment on it, to see if the claim of my being intolerable is projection.

As we shall see, Guy Citron himself is the intolerable one, making multiple defamatory claims about me, then he commits a significant deception to include what appears to be the defamatory statements of former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson.  I have also caught him in the act of colluding with Michael Gottesman to commit defamation per se.  

So school librarians harming children aren't the problem, I am, to Guy Citron.  He decides to personally defame me, piling on Martha Hickson defaming me and making a deceptive edit to do it, then further piling on Michael Gottesman defaming me.  

It's like a triple decker defamation by Citron et alia.  A trifecta of transgressors, shown below.  "Guest propagandist" would have been more accurate than "guest commentator."  Perhaps "guest gaslighter."



With so much heat, I might be over the target.  Ya think?



COMMENTARY: Outside Influencer at Local School Board Exposed Should Not Be Tolerated

In 2025, it seems that [SO FAR SO GOOD, FALLS OFF A CLIFF HEREAFTER] far right-wing extremism [STARTS RIGHT OFF WITH POLITICAL NAME CALLING] may dominate business at the North Hunterdon – Voorhees Regional High School Board of Education [USES THAT POLITICAL NAME CALLING AGAINST AN ENTIRE BOARD OF EDUCATION].

To win their seats, instead of representing the community’s needs [FALSE], a majority of the members who have been serveing [sic] as of January 2025 spread hate [FALSE] about books, librarians, and school libraries. They were helped by radical [FALSE] politicians and outside influencers [FALSE, PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO ALL] like Dan Kleinman, an intruder [FALSE] who is wholly unserious about improving public education [NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME. I ADDRESS HARM IN LIBRARIES AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IN CHICAGO CAUSES TO LIBRARY PATRONS AND EMPLOYEES INCLUDING LIBRARIANS NATIONWIDE].

In what appears to be a grudge with the American Library Association [FALSE, I INVESTIGATE AND REPORT ON ALA, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GRUDGE, AS LONG AS THEY KEEP HARMING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, I'LL KEEP REPORTING], Kleinman has spent decades [TRUE? TWENTY FIVE YEARS] crusading [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM, NOT CRUSADING] against your family’s right to read books [FALSE, READ WHATEVER YOU LIKE]. To fake credibility [FALSE, I HAVE 25 YEARS OF CREDIBILITY, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT CALLING ME AN EXPERT ON ALA DECEPTION], he created the World Library Association and Safe Libraries, neither entity having credentials or [sic] authority in librarianship [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST ON ALA AT SAFELIBRARIES, WORLD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION JUST STARTED SO IT WILL GROW, AND I HAVE BEEN A VOLUNTEER LIBRARIAN FOR TWO YEARS].

Furthermore, rather than tackling real challenges at school [FALSE, A SCHOOL LIBRARIAN POTENTIALLY VIOLATING NJ OBSCENITY LAW 2C:34-3, ETC., IS A REAL CHALLENGE AT SCHOOL, SO MUCH SO THE SCHOOL SPENT YEARS CONSIDERING THE ISSUE] – like smartphones – Kleinman preaches [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] ad nauseam [FALSE, IS A JOURNALIST SUPPOSED TO DO A SINGLE STORY THEN MOVE ON? HOW OFTEN DID WE HEAR RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA?  AD NAUSEAM, BUT THAT'S OKAY TO GUY SKEWERING ME FOR PERSISTENCE] that the sky is falling because of librarians and library books [FALSE, REAL CHILDREN ARE REALLY BEING HARMED BY SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, LIKE MAIA POET]. Worst of all, the librarians Kleinman targets [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST, THEY ARE SUBJECTS OF MY JOURNALISM, NOT TARGETS] endure harassment [FALSE, BUT I'M BEING SUED TO SILENCE ME ON THIS VERY POINT, AND TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, I SHOULD NOT COMMENT FURTHER, WHICH OF COURSE GUY CITRON AND OTHERS WILL USE AGAINST ME], false accusations [FALSE, ALMOST ALL OF MY REPORTING INCLUDES PRIMARY SOURCES UPON WHICH I REPORT, OFTEN I TURN THOSE SOURCES INTO TRANSCRIPTS TO PROVIDE COMPLETE CONTEXT], and invasions of privacy [FALSE, AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE TO WHAT HE IS REFERRING, EXCEPT PERHAPS SOMETHING IN THAT CASE I SHOULD NOT DISCUSS] to the point of harm [FALSE, I'M A JOURNALIST].

Now, Kleinman has been exposed as a national bully [FALSE, IN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY]. In November, one of his most famous victims [FALSE, BUT I SHOULD NOT SAY MORE], Amanda Jones, Louisiana school librarian and author of the best-selling [FALSE, BUT LIKELY TRUE AMONG AN AUDIENCE OF LIBRARIANS] book “That Librarian,” filed a suit [FALSE, SHE FILED TWO SUITS, ONE IN NEW JERSEY THEN AN IDENTICAL ONE IN LOUISIANA, BOTH LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF MY GIVE SEND GO PAGE HE PROVIDES BELOW BUT LATER STEALTH EDITS OUT] against him for defamation and false light.

Jones served Kleinman, via proxy [FALSE, VIA THE HUSBAND OF FORMER SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AT THAT SCHOOL, AND THE "SERVICE" WAS AN ENVELOPE INTENTIONALLY MADE HARD TO OPEN BY MARTHA HICKSON SO I WOULD SUPPOSEDLY SUFFER MORE WHILE OPENING IT—THAT's RETALIATION, NOT SERVICE], at the school board’s Tuesday, Nov. 26. meeting.

There, he sat with local allies [AS WE ALL DO, EVEN GUY CITRON SAT WITH HIS LOCAL ALLIES AND INDEED VIDEO TAPED ME WHEN MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDED ME A MANILA ENVELOPE, A VIDEO THAT WAS SHARED BY MARTHA HICKSON WITH MANY A GLOATING SCHOOL LIBRARIAN AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION WHO COMMENTED ON MY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE], including failed board candidate [FALSE.  IT'S GOOD THAT PEOPLE RUN FOR PUBLIC BOARDS.  SOME LOSE.  THAT DOESN'T MAKE THEM FAILED, IT JUST ADDS TO THE PROJECTION BY GUY AGAINST ME] Eric Licwinko, Steven Piontek, a Union Township resident known for shouting curses at meetings [FALSE, HE'S KNOWN FOR CARING TO SHOW UP AT BOARD MEETINGS OUT OF CONCERN FOR HIS CHILDREN, A SUPER POSITIVE TRAIT, AND SOMETIMES THINGS GET HEATED, BUT GUY CITRON CAN'T STOP PUTTING HIS POLITICAL CART BEFORE THE HORSE], and newly elected board member Richard Lordi [FALSE, BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT MY ALLIES, THEY ARE IMPARTIAL, AND TO THE EXTENT THEY AREN'T, ETHICS CHARGES COULD BE FILED AGAINST THEM, SOMETHING I HAVE DONE BECAUSE GUY CITRON'S ALLIES ON THE BOARD REALLY ARE LITERALLY PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE, HENCE THEY ARE ALLIES, TO NEVER REMOVING INAPPROPRIATE BOOKS FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY DESPITE THE OBSCENITY LAW, SO WHENEVER A BOARD DELIBERATES, THE ALLIES HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS IN VIOLATION OF LAW, BUT THAT CASE IS PENDING SO ONLY THE FUTURE KNOWS].

Jones had to find Kleinman at the North Hunterdon-Voorhees district [FALSE, IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THERE, BUT GUY CITRON'S FILMING OF MARTHA HICKSON'S HUSBAND HANDING ME A MANILA ENVELOPE SURE MADE FOR GREAT THEATRE FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND ALA LEADERS], his frequent haunt [FALSE, AND AGAIN GUY IS MOCKING SOMEONE ATTENDING OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS IN WHAT BY NOW GIVEN THE REPETITION IS AN INTIMIDATION TACTIC TO KEEP PARENTS HE OPPOSES OR WOULD OPPOSE OUT OF SUCH MEETINGS], because while he has claimed to reside [FALSE] in Chatham and Bee Cave, Texas, both of those addresses point to UPS Store-style mailboxes rather than actual dwellings.

Here are some examples of Kleinman’s behavior:

• Kleinman has posted abusive [FALSE] statements about recently retired North Hunterdon High School librarian Martha Hickson more than 150 times and counting since 2021 via X/Twitter at https://x.com/SexHarassed, Facebook, and his own blog [PERHAPS, BUT HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON HAS PERSISTENTLY BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR THAT LONG, AND HE LEAVES OUT THE CONTEXT THAT MARTHA HICKSON MAY HAVE VIOLATED OBSCENITY LAW NJ 2C:34-3]. Some of those posts include https://tinyurl.com/3x57rev2, https://tinyurl.com/hpz92ce9, https://tinyurl.com/58c5s557.

• In January, he stole into [FALSE, AND POTENTIALLY DEFAMATORY IN AND OF ITSELF TO ALLEGE TRESPASS] the North Hunterdon High School library after hours [FALSE, THE LIBRARY WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT THAT TIME AND WAS IN USE BY THE PUBLIC, TRUE MARTHA HICKSON PUTS BLACK PAPER OVER THE WINDOWS SO NO ONE CAN LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARY WHEN SHE IS THERE, BUT MARTHA HICKSON WAS NOT THERE AT THE TIME TO KEEP THE DOORS CLOSED], to take photos of Hickson’s workspace for later online harassment [FALSE, AGAIN, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND IT IS NEWSWORTHY THAT THERE WAS A GIANT SIGN OF MARTHA HICKSON WINNING A LUCRATIVE AWARD FROM AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ETC., IF I RECALL THE SIGN WAS PLACED HIGHER THAN I'M TALL—REMEMBER LUCRATIVE BECAUSE LATER GUY WILL MAKE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ABOUT MY ALLEGEDLY BEING PAID TO ATTEND SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS, AS IF I WOULD JEOPARDIZE MY 25 YEAR JOURNALISM CAREER TO GET PAID TO ATTEND A FEW BOARD MEETINGS]. He bragged [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM] about it and posted photos. The school also has security footage showing Kleinman walking around the library on the evening of Jan. 28, 2024 [I DID NOT KNOW AND I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS BEFORE.  BUT IT IS CURIOUS THAT THE SCHOOL WOULD NOT MAKE VIDEO TAPES AVAILABLE TO A PARENT WHERE HE CLAIMED HE SAW MARTHA HICKSON TOOK A STUDENT OR STUDENTS INTO HER OFFICE AFTER HOURS.  ANYWAY, IT APPEARS I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO OPRA, INCLUDING HOW IN THE WORLD DID A PRIVATE CITIZEN LEARN THAT THE SCHOOL HAS TAPES OF ME IN THE LIBRARY]. The photo is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.



• At the June school board meeting, he sat alongside Piontek, who read a six-minute tantrum against Hickson almost certainly authored by Kleinman [FALSE, AND THE BOARD LET'S PEOPLE SPEAK FOR ONLY THREE MINUTES, AND OF COURSE GUY CITRON WOULD MISLABEL IT AS A TANTRUM, AGAIN COMPLAINING ABOUT A PARENT SPEAKING UP AT A BOARD MEETING, SOMETHING EVERYONE ELSE ENCOURAGES, GENERALLY SPEAKING].

• Kleinman has submitted to the board office multiple time-wasting [FALSE] OPRA (Open Public Records Act) requests to gain access to Hickson’s personal social media account, over which the district has no access or control [FALSE IN THAT PER A VIDEO OF MARTHA HICKSON SPEAKING FROM WITHIN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY SOLICITING WORK-RELATED MESSAGES VIA HER PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT, THOSE MESSAGES SHOULD BE UNDER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL, AND A RECENT NEW JERSEY CASE JUST FOUND OPRA COMPRISES WORK-RELATED MESSAGES EVEN IF THEY ARE IN PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNTS].

• He has filed ethics charges against eight North Hunterdon-Voorhees board members simply because they followed policy in deciding to retain a book challenged by Licwinko [FALSE, AND THE FULL COMPLAINT CAN BE SEEN ONLINE BUT APPARENTLY GUY IS ONLY HERE TO SMEAR: "Ethics Complaint: North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District Board of Education"].

Kleinman’s antics [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, JOURNALISTS FILE OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS ALL THE TIME, SCHOOL LIBRARIANS DO SO TOO AND SOMETIMES USE THEM TO DOX AND HARASS PARENTS SO MUCH SO THAT THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES NEED 24 HOUR POLICE PROTECTION, SO YET AGAIN IT'S ONE SIDED PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] come at a cost. In terms of personnel time and legal fees, the district is spending your tax dollars to respond to his delusions [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, AND THE PROBLEM IS THE POTENTIAL ILLEGALITY AND IMPROPRIETY, AND JOURNALISTS REPORT ON SUCH PROBLEMS].

Thankfully, Kleinman’s “work” [FALSE, IT'S CALLED JOURNALISM, NO SCARE QUOTES NEEDED] has been repeatedly rejected by school officials [FALSE IN THAT SOMETIMES ITS ACCEPTED, POBODY'S NERFECT], he has failed to get books banned [FALSE, I OPPOSE BOOK BANNING AS DOES THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THOUGH EXPLICIT BOOKS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES IS A DIFFERENT STORY AND ALSO STRONGLY OPPOSED PER MULTIPLE POLLS], and despite his deranged [FALSE, HE'S MOCKING MENTALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE NOW JUST TO SMEAR ME, AND HE'S AGAIN BORDERING ON DEFAMATION PER SE] certainty of her wrongdoing, he has been unable to get Hickson arrested [FALSE, I HAVE NEVER MADE ANY EFFORT TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST MARTHA HICKSON NOR ANYONE ELSE. MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE FIRST BEFORE CHARGES ARE BROUGHT].

How has Kleinman latched on to our district? His local social media friends include Licwinko, Piontek, sitting board member Nicole Gallo [FALSE], board member Lordi [FALSE], and Christopher Stadulis, husband of sitting member Cynthia Reyes-Stadulis [FALSE, I HAVEN'T "LATCHED ON" BECAUSE OF FRIENDS].

Gallo even parroted [FALSE, IT WAS INTERNATIONAL NEWS THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED SHE WON THE ELECTION BY SAYING SHE WAS A MARXIST AND SHE WOULD WIELD POWER WITHIN ALA ACCORDINGLY] some of Kleinman’s most ludicrous talking points at the June meeting: the American Library Association (ALA) is Marxist, “the ALA’s president is a known, self-admitted, Marxist lesbian who promotes Queer Theory,” and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) “has a fist as a rose” to represent Marxism. “Marxists,” for those unfamiliar, are boogey-monsters [FALSE, AS WE CAN SEE WE RIGHT THERE WHERE THE NEW ALA PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED SHE WAS MARXIST AND WOULD NOW "WIELD POWER" WITHIN ALA. "SOLIDARITY," SHE SAID.  SHE WOULD LATER GO ON TO TELL FORMERLY JAILED MARXISTS AT THE SOCIALISM CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO THAT SHE NEEDS THEIR HELP IN TURNING LIBRARIES INTO SITES FOR SOCIALISM TRAINING.  SEE https://karlyn.substack.com/p/exclusive-recording-american-library] who exist only in far right-wing propaganda [FALSE, AGAIN WITH THE NAME CALLING]. The video is at about 3:17:30 on the board meeting video viewable at https://www.youtube.com/live/GXtyvkApHKg.

And why, despite his repeated failures [FALSE], does Kleinman keep coming back to this school board [AGAIN HE'S DISCOURAGING ATTENDANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS]? Who is funding Kleinman’s performances at these board meetings? His local contacts provide some clues.

One word: money. Just like the carpetbaggers of old, he accepts cold, hard cash in the form of a $1,000 per board meeting as an appearance fee [FALSE, IS THIS THE THIRD TIME NOW WITH THE DEFAMATION?].

In a Feb. 12 message exchange with a supporter of public education [FALSE, HE'S REFERRING TO MICHAEL GOTTESMAN, A SUPPORTER OF INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN ("PUSHING ALL KINDS OF NON SENSE IN NEW JERSEY SCHOOL, SUCH AS THE S@X ED CURRICULUM AND GENDER IDEOLOGY" SAYS @WAKEUPNJ ON X), NOT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.  IN GUY'S WORLD, EVERYONE ON HIS SIDE (LIKE @WAKEUPNJ SUMMARIZES)) IS AN ANGEL SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND EVERYONE ON THE OTHER SIDE SEEKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HARM IS DERANGED AND IS GRIFTING], Kleinman admitted [FALSE, JOKED WOULD BE THE ACCURATE TERM, BUT GUY DID NOT ASK ME NOR INVESTIGATE, HE JUST WENT AHEAD WITH A FALSE STORY BECAUSE IT ALIGNED WITH HIS OWN BELIEFS, AND HE MALIGNS ME FOR FILING OPRA/FOIA REQUESTS TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH BEFORE I REPORT.  I JOKED BECAUSE THIS GUY GOTTESMAN HAS NEVER SPOKEN WITH ME BEFORE, AT LEAST NOT ON FACEBOOK, AND HIS FIRST STATEMENT TO ME WAS, "JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH YOU CHARGE TO SPEAK AT BOARD OF ED MEETINGS?"  WHAT AN ODD OPENING STATEMENT.  SO I PLAYED ALONG TO EXPOSE THE NETWORKS.  AND HERE'S GUY CITRON DEFAMING ME AS A GRIFTER WITH A PRIVATE MESSAGE ON FACEBOOK THAT HE GOT DIRECTLY FROM MICHAEL GOTTESMAN.  THERE'S YOUR NETWORKS.  SCHOOL LIBRARIANS COLLUDE WITH EACH OTHER BEHIND THE SCENES (I'VE REPORTED THIS IN AT LEAST THREE SEPARATE INSTANCES) AND HERE WE HAVE GUY CITRON PUBLISHING A PRIVATE MESSAGE JUST TO SMEAR ME AND WITHOUT FIRST FACT CHECKING.  HE COULD HAVE FILED AN OPRA WITH THE SCHOOL, FOR EXAMPLE, TO SEE IF I WAS PAID FOR THE TIMES I SPOKE.  HE DIDN'T.  HE WAS JUST INTERESTED IN THE SMEAR, NOT IN THE TRUTH.  THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER THE TARGET HAVE TO ENDURE], “I have to make money somehow… so I charge a token amount of $1,000 for three minutes of speaking, but I usually stick around for the whole meeting.” A photo of the screenshot of this message is viewable with this story at HunterdonReview.com.

Also, Kleinman is now openly soliciting for donations online to pay the legal bills he’s racking up at https://www.givesendgo.com/LegalFundForParents [SIGNIFICANT DECEPTION BY GUY CITRON.  THE FIRST VERSION OF HIS WRITING INCLUDED THE URL TO MY GIVE SEND GO THAT I PUT IN BOLD TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT HE ULTIMATELY DELETED.  THE UPDATED VERSION'S FIRST SIGNIFICANT EDIT WAS TO DELETE THE URL.  THAT'S INTENTIONAL DECEPTION.  AND IT REVEALS HE ONLY WANTS PEOPLE TO HEAR HIS FALSE VIEW AND NOT GO TO MY PUBLICATION TO READ THE TRUTH.  ALA LIBRARIANS AND SUPPORTERS DO THIS ROUTINELY TO SUFFOCATE ANY OPPOSITION AND NOT GIVE IT OXYGEN; JUST GO THERE AND LOOK AT THE COMMENTS TO SEE I'M BEING SMEARED RIGHT IN THE COMMENTS OF THE GIVE SEND GO, AND GUY CITRON IS HERE TO PUT THOSE SMEARS INTO PRINT AS THAT'S ANOTHER THING HE ADDS VIA STEALTH EDIT.  THAT'S WHAT GUY CITRON HAS DONE HERE.  COMPARE VERSION 1 (Mar 7, 2025) https://archive.ph/3Vi6Y with VERSION 2 (Mar 7, 2025 Updated Mar 11, 2025) https://archive.ph/jhtMG  IN THE SECOND VERSION, NOTICE HE ADDED THOSE COMMENTS SMEARING ME IN MY GIVE SEND GO: "So desperate is Kleinman to pick your pocket that he is falsely claiming that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial target of his abuse; she has reported the fraud to both the fundraising platform and law enforcement". MARTHA HICKSON IS POSTING ABOUT THIS COMMENTARY BY GUY CITRON CURRENTLY SO YOU KNOW SHE AND GUY CITRON ARE COLLUDING ON THE SMEAR.  I THINK WE CAN SEE WHO IS THE INTOLERABLE ONE HERE, AND IT'S NOT ME]. So desperate [FALSE] is Kleinman to pick your pocket [FALSE, AND THIS MAY BE THE FOURTH INSTANCE OF HIS DEFAMATION OF ME] that he is falsely claiming [FALSE] that the largest contribution to his campaign has come from Hickson, the perennial [FALSE] target [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM] of his abuse [FALSE, IT'S JOURNALISM]; she has reported the fraud [FALSE, THIS IS HIS FIFTH INSTANCE OF DEFAMATION, DEFAMATION PER SE IN THIS CASE] to both the fundraising platform [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE] and law enforcement [FALSE?  HE PROVIDES NO EVIDENCE]. In 2024, Kleinman spoke at three of our meetings and likely authored the remarks for a fourth, totaling maybe $4,000 in “appearance fees.” [FALSE.  I DON'T CHARGE FEES.  I DO THIS AS PART OF MY 25 YEARS OF JOURNALISM ON HOW ALA HARMS COMMUNITIES.  MARTHA HICKSON INVITED ALA INTO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, AND YOU DON'T HEAR GUY CITRON COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT, COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW FOLLOWING ALA'S ADVICE FROM CHICAGO IS REALLY THE CAUSE OF ALL THE EXPENDITURES.  AGAIN. IT'S PROJECTION WITH GUY CITRON] This provokes panic [FALSE], cycles his engagement [FALSE], and begs serious questions [FALSE]:

• Just what is Kleinman’s standing within our community? That answer is none [FALSE]. Kleinman doesn’t live here, has never lived here, and has no children in the district. And yet he was again at the school board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25. No one wants a national bully [FALSE, IF THERE IS ANY NATIONAL BULLY INVOLVED, IT IS AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND ITS LOCAL ACOLYTE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN MARTHA HICKSON AND HER COCONSPIRATOR GUY CITRON] as an un-elected official. Yet here we are. We, the sensible [FALSE, IT IS NOT SENSIBLE TO INVITE IN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TO INDOCTRINATE COMMUNITY CHILDREN AND VIOLATE LOCAL LAWS, COMMUNITY STANDARDS, AND COMMON SENSE], education-focused public must fight [FALSE, ALWAYS WITH THE WORD FIGHT WITH THESE PEOPLE] back. Attend school board meetings, question business not related to school, and speak out against tax-dollar wasting [FALSE], expert agitators [FALSE], like Kleinman.


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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Libraries Should Use Book Looks Reviews to Guide Parents and Educators on Book Content

Library boards should use BookLooks.org to provide diversity in book ratings for parents and educators to consider for their children and students.  Unlike the other rating services, Book Looks zeroes in on the potential for inappropriate materials, providing both written and visual evidence.  Book Looks has been so successful in informing parents about book contents that American Library Association [ALA] copied the exact format when it created its own Book Résumés, although that site leaves out excepts and pictures and includes instead glowing reviews from ALA-approved book reviewers and a list of the various awards a book has attained, mainly from ALA itself.

Before ALA copied Book Looks there was a smear campaign against it.  Kelly Jensen of Book Riot, for example, attempting to tie Book Looks to Moms for Liberty, as if that were bad, by stating without evidence, "It is a tool developed by Moms For Liberty being used to push their agendas even further under the guise of protecting children."  Her support for this is only this conclusory statement, "Filed for an LLC in Florida on April 5, 2022, BookLooks is spearheaded by Moms For Liberty member Emily Maikisch, per filings."  What is not reported is that the creator of Books Looks was a former Moms for Liberty member.  There are over 130,000 Moms for Liberty members, compared with almost 50,000 ALA members.  Are we supposed to hold grudges against them and all former members too?  Kelly Jensen, who falsely claims Book Looks was "created, curated, and promoted by Moms For Liberty," also calls parents extremists, Christofascists, and white supremacists, so she's not trustworthy in the slightest.  She also smears the ratings efforts of other parental groups.

Others pick up on that theme and malign Book Looks accordingly.  A man in New Jersey named Guy Citron, for example, wrote a letter to the editor of a local media source saying, "'BookLooks' is for Book Haters."  "Florida-based BookLooks is also publicly tied to the state's local Moms for Liberty, a hyper-political book-banning movement."  No it's not.  He got that from Kelly Jensen who made it up out of thin air.  And there is no "book-banning movement," except that by ALA as mentioned below.  Guy Citron is just being intentionally inflammatory.  He supports his position by saying, "Next, there is no need for the Warren County Library to diminish its credibility by promoting such an unreliable source," and "Clearly, BookLooks and Commissioner Thomas have an agenda.  They want to spread hate about books and restrict their access, rather than understand and communicate their value objectively."

Contrast the smearing and the cries of spreading hate with no reliable sources being given with what I myself wrote to the Warren County Library Commission where I pointed out ALA has been working for decades to take rights away from parents and specifically has targeted ratings systems for censorship and blacklisting, and here they are again sending NJ school librarian Martha Hickson to enforce the Chicago Way and block the use of Book Looks:

Dear Warren County Library Commission,

I have learned from former school librarian Martha Hickson, indirectly, that you are considering using information from BookLooks.org for being an additional source to guide parents on book selection for their children.  I have learned she opposes using that source and claims it is an extremist position to use BookLooks, and anyone supporting that in the Warren County Library Commission is an extremist.

Setting aside that the recent national election proved the people calling parents extremists comprise only 14% of the population, I wish to speak in support of using BookLooks as an additional source for information, and to show that American Library Association from Chicago, IL, that Martha Hickson represents as an employee of ALA, has worked for about six decades to take away rights from parents, and specifically has worked repeatedly to keep parents in the dark about the contents of potentially inappropriate material.  This matter may be new to you, but it’s a long term suppression effort from the ALA.  I hope my information makes you aware of that and helps you vote accordingly—in favor of BookLooks.

BookLooks provides parents and others with accurate information about books and their content. Said information includes multiple exact quotes and multiple graphics. The resource is used extensively by parents, to my knowledge.  It is not connected with any political group, although it was founded by a former member of Moms for Liberty after she left Moms for Liberty.  It is smeared repeatedly by librarians precisely because it gives guidance on the contents of books, and librarians claim you can’t judge books by mere excerpts and pictures.  One particular librarian, Kelly Jensen, has worked for about four years to fabricate lies about BookLooks; she recently wrote that parents who challenge books are white supremacists.  Eventually, American Library Association, having tired of parents getting information from BookLooks, decided if you can’t beat them then you join them.  So ALA created its own book rating source for parents called Book Résumés.  The ALA source gives no excerpts and no pictures but it does give glowing reviews from approved reviewing sources, even its own Book List, and the various awards books have obtained, mainly from ALA sources.  So BookLooks is so effective that ALA was forced to copy it.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

So BookLooks is an excellent source for information, so much so ALA copied it.

ALA has worked for about 60 years to take away rights from parents and ensure via the Library Bill of Rights that children get and retain access to inappropriate material: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing

Specifically as to book ratings, when ALA learned it had a subgroup using Common Sense Media to guide parents, where CSM was providing reviews of explicitness of the books, ALA censored CSM from its own web site, then ordered library school and state library associations to stop linking to CSM: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8sytqvlo3asbint/YALSA-IFreportAug2013.pdf?dl=0

Analogous to books and how they are rated for explicitness, ALA ordered librarians to stop using MPAA movie ratings as authoritative: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2011/06/keeping-r-rate-films-from-children-is.html

ALA ordered librarians to attempt to block the use of public meeting rooms for Kirk Cameron and his Brave Books, and generally the reading of Christian books in such rooms: https://www.kenningtonreport.com/p/alas-banned-books-and-censorship

ALA even ordered librarians to stop doing anything about patrons viewing child p r n: 

"A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country — unless she or he is a lawyer — who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child p()rn()graphy."
"Libraries vs. Police in a Suit Sparked by P()rn; Kent Case Centers on People's Rights and Protections" by Jeffrey M. Barker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (August 13, 2002).

Along comes Martha Hickson working for ALA to argue exactly what ALA has been arguing for decades, and enforcing deceptively, and she wants you not to use Book Looks.

So now is your chance to provide services for your community with diversity of opinion, or put on the Chicago ALA straight jacket and don’t trust parents to be evenly informed and to make up their own minds. 

We just had a national election showing 86% of the population opposes the people indoctrinating and s()xualizing children, now it's your turn to vote for a great resource for parents you serve or for the 14% indoctrinating and s()xualizing children, here represented by Chicago ALA’s Martha Hickson and her calling you extremists and idiots if you support diversity of opinion for your library patrons.

Thank you.

Dan Kleinman
SafeLibraries

So I provide cogent argument supporting diversity served by Book Looks, backed up with solid facts and reliable sources establishing a long term pattern of keeping parents in the dark, while those who oppose Book Looks have no reliable sources and instead use scare words like "book haters" and imply library leaders themselves would "lose credibility" if they chose to use Book Looks.

As ALA's point person in New Jersey Martha Hickson says via her @NHVfREADom account on X, smearing one of the library commissioners, "You know a public library is under attack when a library commissioner tries to force BookLooks into the system.  Support the professional staff at the Warren County Library https://www.tapinto.net/towns/phillipsburg/articles/booklooks-is-for-book-haters"  Source: https://x.com/NHVfREADom/status/1859297263576863077



That's projection.  It's the library commissioners and Book Looks under attack, by ALA and its acolytes if they dont bend to ALA's will, and ALA has been doing that nationwide for over half a century.  

It's time for libraries not to be bullied by community organizing efforts based in Chicago, IL, and instead use independent reviews like Book Looks to guide local parents and educators on book content.

Let's hope Warren County Library Commission votes to be inclusive and diverse and include book reviews by BookLooks.org.



NOTE ADDED 22 NOVEMBER 2024: