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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

A New Way ALA Misleads Parents: The National Trainer Who Wrote as the Local Director

Peter Bromberg:
EveryLibrary Board of Directors
Director of the SCLSNJ
This is another method by which the American Library Association (ALA) and its political partner EveryLibrary mislead parents and elected officials. It is not a false job title. It is a national advocacy officer, trained to switch language by audience, writing as if he were only the county library director. Further, he uses his own technique to manipulate the public in an effort to excuse local librarians for promoting Chicago ALA's own political goals that harm children.

On Sept. 1, 2026, New Jersey Hills published an opinion column by Peter Bromberg, identified only as director of the Somerset County Library System of New Jersey (SCLSNJ). The piece is titled “‘Liberty for All:’ Public Libraries and the Promise of America.” It quotes Ronald Reagan and James Madison. It calls libraries “strong supporters of parents and families.” It says libraries “curate age-appropriate zones and displays.” It tells readers that if a title offends, they are “free to reach for something else.”1

That is the local byline. It is not the whole record.

Bromberg became SCLSNJ director on Aug. 1, 2025. For the four years immediately before that he was Associate Director of EveryLibrary, the national 501(c)(4) that organizes against book challenges and trains library boards in political messaging. On May 30, 2025, announcing the Somerset job, he wrote that he looked forward to “continued service on the EveryLibrary Board of Directors.” EveryLibrary’s board page still lists him. His own résumé lists the associate-director post as May 2021–June 2025 and the board seat as 2014–present. When SCLSNJ hired him, MyCentralJersey reported the EveryLibrary job. The system’s official staff bio does not. Neither did the column.2

EveryLibrary is not a book club. It is the national political-action shop for libraries. Its companion 501(c)(3), the EveryLibrary Institute, publishes training for the same fight. Bromberg was the named presenter for the Institute’s webinar “Advocacy in a Polarized World,” that teaches Arnold Kling’s Three Languages of Politics and how to “intentionally use language” across the spectrum. In 2021 he gave the Utah Library Association the talk “Advocating Effectively Across the Political Spectrum.” In September 2023 Niche Academy listed him, then still with EveryLibrary, on a webinar that walked the same framework and a “27-9-3” message formula: 27 words, 9 seconds, three points, mapped to the audience.3

The worksheet for that method is not a rumor. A 2023 EveryLibrary Institute handout, Library Board Policy and Messaging Playbook, includes a page headed “The Three Languages of Politics,” filed under “Intellectual Freedom and Book Challenges.” The page tells staff that progressives, libertarians, and conservatives each have a default moral language, then gives the assignment:

  • Progressives: frame the library in “equity, social justice, a leveling of the playing field… and equal treatment for all.”
  • Libertarians: frame it in “liberty, self-determination, and support for those that are motivated to help themselves.”
  • Conservatives: frame it in “preservation of tradition, local community history, help with assimilating new arrivals, and traditional American values.”4

A related EveryLibrary presentation the same spring supplied fill-in sentences for the conservative ear: the Constitution, the First Amendment, Freedom of Religion, the Founding Fathers, and “We don’t want to chip away at the Constitution.” Another line: “We should never usurp the role of parents.”5

Read the Somerset column against that page. Bromberg did not write in the progressive dialect. He wrote in the other two.

  • “Freedom. Liberty. Justice. For all.”
  • “Self-determination, intellectual freedom, and liberty for all.”
  • “Forge our own destinies without government overreach.”
  • USA250. Reagan. Carnegie. Roosevelt. Madison.
  • America versus “authoritarian regimes where state officials strictly dictate what citizens read, think, and believe.”
  • “Strong supporters of parents and families.”
  • “The parent’s role to set and enforce boundaries.”
  • “Family values.”
  • If a book offends, “we are free to reach for something else.”

That is the conservative and libertarian tip list, aimed at a Somerset Hills paper, in the same week the same paper group was covering a Pride-program petition and a local official urging towns to question library programs.6

The column never quotes the rule the script is built to protect.

Article V of the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights says a person’s right to use a library “should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.” ALA’s official interpretation, “Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors,” is plainer: the right to use a library means “free access to all services, materials, and facilities and unrestricted use of everything the library offers.” Restrictions based solely on age, apparent maturity, educational level, or legal status “violate Article V.” ALA “opposes any efforts to restrict access based on age.”7

A children’s room is furniture. Under that interpretation it is not a lock. “Age-appropriate zones and displays” is what the playbook would call conservative language. “Unrestricted use of everything the library offers” is the written professional rule. Only one of those sentences appeared in the newspaper.

Parents and elected officials are the intended audience for the first sentence. They are not told about the second. They are also not told that the author spent four years as the national group’s associate director, remains on its board, and taught librarians how to switch dialects by audience so the access policy still wins.

Using different words for different listeners is ordinary rhetoric. Hospitals do it. Campaigns do it. The problem is the combination: a national advocacy officer, writing as a local director, in a live materials fight, in the dialect his shop published for conservatives, while leaving the shop and the age rule off the page.

The authorities the column skipped are the ones that actually speak to minors. In United States v. American Library Association (2003), Justice Kennedy wrote that “the interest in protecting young library users from material inappropriate for minors is legitimate, and even compelling, as all Members of the Court appear to agree.” President Eisenhower, at Dartmouth in 1953, told students not to join the book burners, then added the clause library essays usually drop and ALA's own 2025 movie "The Librarians" actually dropped: use the library “as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.”8

Madison on knowledge is not an answer to age. The playbook does not ask directors to answer age. It asks them to talk liberty and family until the question of age goes away.

Somerset County’s Library Commission sets policy for SCLSNJ. It can ask its director, in public, three questions that do not require a theory of anyone’s soul:

  1. Does SCLSNJ adopt ALA’s Library Bill of Rights and the Minors interpretation as collection policy?
  2. If a parent asks that a child’s card not check out adult or s[*]xually explicit titles, will the system honor that limit?
  3. Why did a column on “liberty for all,” published during a local program fight, omit the author’s EveryLibrary board seat and the Institute’s published conservative-language tips?

Those are records questions. The playbook page, the résumé, the LinkedIn post, and the byline are already public. The only thing missing from the newspaper was the second half of the sentence.

Parents who only read the byline were not given the shop, the script, or the age rule. That omission is the method. 

So this is a new way ALA misleads parents and politicians: 1) the national trainer who wrote as the local director to 2) attempt to manipulate local people into affirming Chicago ALA’s anything-goes for children policies, 3) using the very means by which he trains people to manipulate others.


The Three Languages of Politics


Notes:

1. Peter Bromberg, “‘Liberty for All:’ Public Libraries and the Promise of America,” New Jersey Hills / Bernardsville News, Sept. 1, 2026, https://www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsville_news/opinion/columns/liberty-for-all-public-libraries-and-the-promise-of-america/article_0cc5e4e4-ff48-44d3-a095-fbf5befe4dc5.html.

2. Somerset County Library System of New Jersey, “Peter J. Bromberg,” staff biography, https://sclsnj.org/about-us/staff/peter-bromberg; Peter Bromberg, résumé, https://peterbromberg.com/resume/; Peter Bromberg, LinkedIn post, May 30, 2025, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peterjbromberg_after-nearly-4-years-at-everylibrary-i-activity-7334307222258143233-Vt7C; EveryLibrary, “Board of Directors,” https://www.everylibrary.org/board-directors; Cheryl Makin, “Somerset County Library System has a new director,” MyCentralJersey.com, June 30, 2025, https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/2025/06/30/somerset-county-library-system-has-a-new-director/84259228007/.

3. EveryLibrary Institute, “FREE WEBINAR: Advocacy in a polarized world,” presenter Peter Bromberg, Associate Director, EveryLibrary, https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/advocacyinpolarizedworld; Peter Bromberg, “Advocating Effectively Across the Political Spectrum,” Utah Library Association Annual Conference, May 21, 2021; Peter Bromberg, “Future-Proofing the Library,” Niche Academy webinar, Sept. 6, 2023, https://www.nicheacademy.com/hubfs/Future-Proof%20Your%20Library%20(Niche%202023)%20(1).pdf. Bromberg’s résumé also lists the NJLA Public Policy Forum keynote “Libraries are Political (And So Can You!),” Livingston, N.J., Nov. 14, 2025.

4. EveryLibrary Institute, Library Board Policy and Messaging Playbook (file dated April 1, 2023), p. 4, “The Three Languages of Politics,” circulating as https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hvATAuYlYrTv7rHfEDNr7bz2qb8BEWjB/view. Parallel text appears in “Real World Policy and Messaging,” June 2023, Wisconsin Public Library Consortium packet, https://www.wplc.org/files/5a115d098/Real-world-policy-and-messaging-June-2023.pdf. Arnold Kling, The Three Languages of Politics (Cato Institute).

5. John Chrastka, EveryLibrary, “Answering Censorship Challenges: EveryLibrary’s Fight for the First Initiative,” Towson University, April 27, 2023, https://towson.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=71758347 (conservative sample: Constitution, Founding Fathers, “We don’t want to chip away at the Constitution”; “We should never usurp the role of parents”).

6. New Jersey Hills package teaser published with the Bromberg column: “Pride v. Prejudice? Petition to Keep County Library Branch Starts as Sweeney Urges Other Towns to Question Programs.” Peapack-Gladstone is a SCLSNJ member community.

7. American Library Association, Library Bill of Rights, Art. V, https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill (“age” included 1967; reaffirmed 1996); ALA, “Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights,” https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/minors.

8. United States v. American Library Ass’n, 539 U.S. 194, 215 (2003) (Kennedy, J., concurring); Dwight D. Eisenhower, commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953.



Opinion for Publication Submitted to Editor September 1, 2026:

New Jersey Hills:

Peter Bromberg’s Sept. 1 column, “‘Liberty for All:’ Public Libraries and the Promise of America,” identifies him only as director of the Somerset County Library System. That title is true. It is not the whole identification.

From May 2021 until June 2025, Mr. Bromberg was Associate Director of EveryLibrary, the national 501(c)(4) that organizes against book challenges and trains library boards in political messaging. On May 30, 2025, announcing the Somerset job, he wrote that he looked forward to “continued service on the EveryLibrary Board of Directors.” EveryLibrary’s board page still lists him. His résumé lists that board seat from 2014 to the present. MyCentralJersey reported the EveryLibrary post when he was hired. The system’s staff biography does not mention it. Neither did the column.

EveryLibrary Institute published the method. A 2023 handout, Library Board Policy and Messaging Playbook, includes a page headed “The Three Languages of Politics,” filed under "Intellectual Freedom and Book Challenges.” It tells staff that progressives, libertarians, and conservatives each have a default language, then assigns the frame:

Progressives: “equity, social justice, a leveling of the playing field… and equal treatment for all.”  
Libertarians: “liberty, self-determination, and support for those that are motivated to help themselves.”  
Conservatives: “preservation of tradition, local community history, help with assimilating new arrivals, and traditional American values.”

A related EveryLibrary presentation the same year supplied conservative sample copy: the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, Freedom of Religion, and “We don’t want to chip away at the Constitution.” Another line: “We should never usurp the role of parents.”

Mr. Bromberg’s column is written in the conservative and libertarian dialects. Reagan. Madison. The Constitution versus “authoritarian regimes.” “Freedom. Liberty. Justice. For all.” “Self-determination.” “Strong supporters of parents and families.” “Family values.” If a title offends, “we are free to reach for something else.” It is not written in the progressive dialect. It was published as the same paper group covered a petition and a local official urging towns to question library programs.

The column never quotes the rule that script is written to protect. Article V of the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights says a person’s right to use a library “should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.” ALA’s official interpretation, “Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors,” states that this right means “free access to all services, materials, and facilities and unrestricted use of everything the library offers,” and that limits based solely on age, apparent maturity, or legal status “violate Article V.” A children’s room is furniture. Under that interpretation it is not a lock.

“Age-appropriate zones and displays” is what the playbook would call language for a conservative paper. “Unrestricted use of everything the library offers” is the professional text. Only the first sentence ran.

Using different words for different listeners is ordinary rhetoric. The problem is the combination: a national advocacy officer, writing as a local director, during a local materials fight, in the dialect his shop published for conservatives, while leaving the shop and the age rule off the page.

The authorities that actually address minors were also left off. In United States v. American Library Association (2003), Justice Kennedy wrote that “the interest in protecting young library users from material inappropriate for minors is legitimate, and even compelling, as all Members of the Court appear to agree.” President Eisenhower, at Dartmouth in 1953, warned against book burners then added the clause usually dropped: use the library “as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency.”

The Somerset County Library Commission sets policy. It can ask, in public, whether SCLSNJ adopts the ALA Minors interpretation; whether a parent may limit a child’s card; and why an EveryLibrary board seat was omitted from a column on “liberty for all.” Those are records questions. The playbook page, the résumé, and the byline are already public.

Dan Kleinman  
Chatham, N.J.


NOTE ADDED 2 SEPTEMBER 2026:

Tonight I spoke at the commission meeting wherein Peter Bromberg is a member. He was there. So I confronted ALA head on. You see, people, it's not that hard. I've done it before. Don't be intimidated by them.

Here is what I said, along with other graphics showing the extent of the problem. It's my own recording as the commission makes no recordings.


NOTE ADDED 9 OCTOBER 2026:

Has this post and/or my appearance before the library board resulted in the retirement of Peter Bromberg? I don't know yet due to a paywall on what I can see here.




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Sunday, May 24, 2026

PEN America Fakes School Book Bans in The Hill; Pico-Violative Material May Be Removed Legally

PEN America fakes school book bans and almost everything else in The Hill.  

Below I republish the entire opinion piece, then intercalate what's really going on.
In 2021, alarming accusations of "p[*]rn in schools" — sounded by the conservative Florida Citizens Alliance in its 2021 P[*]rn in Schools Report and later championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — spread like lice in a classroom. 
[FALSE - "Lice in a classroom" already sounds disgusting, sounds like a real horror show.  It's a manipulative statement to make, and here it is in sentence one.  It puts the agitation in agitprop. "Alarming accusations" is more agitprop.  REALITY - Inappropriate books are numerous in school libraries as a direct result of over 60 years of effort by American Library Association to eliminate parental rights and eliminate the application of various laws and US Supreme Court cases like Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982), that allows schools to immediately remove pervasively vulgar and educationally unsuitable school books, often referenced in short as "p[*]rn in schools." The "alarming accusations" are simply parents who have become aware of Pico-violative material in school libraries and who seek redress of their government under constitutional state and federal law to have such material removed per the law.] 
The so-called p[*]rn targeted by the report was not AI deepfakes or internet sites, but books for children and teenagers. Shockingly, its false message took hold far and wide. 
[FALSE - "The so-called p[*]rn" is a manipulative tactic to use language to sway how people think.  More agitprop.  The "p[*]rn" is actually Pico-violative material and may be constitutionally removed immediately from shelves.  So it's not "so-called."  It's an actual problem reworded as "so-called p[*]rn" to give the impression that there's no p[*]rn in school libraries, and there isn't, but there definitely is Pico-violative material and it can be and has been removed from schools.  PEN America wants to put an end to that by manipulating how people think about the issue to the point where no one thinks Pico applies anymore.  So it's a cleverly worded phrase that sounds good but leaves out the truth.  Again, agitprop.  The truth is Pico-violative material is legally removable under the law.  So it's not "so-called p[*]rn," it's material that violates the Pico case, and it may be removed immediately from public schools.  If PEN America's agitprop is accepted as truth, not a single book will ever be removed from any school library.  We know that is false.  So we are not going to fall for PEN America's agitprop.]

Now, Congress is seizing on that fear with the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act [HR 7661], which would withhold federal money to schools and libraries over books and materials with what its sponsors determine to be "s[*]xually oriented material".  
[FALSE - "seizing on that fear."  After PEN America set up the straw man, namely, p[*]rn in schools, it then attacks the straw man and calls opposition to it "fear."  More agitprop.  But at least PEN America didn't echo the American Library Association lie that the Act is called the "Book Banning Bill."  The agitprop continues in the same sentence.  "What its sponsors determine to be 's[*]xually oriented material'" is another way to say trust the school librarians who say anything goes, there are no limits, rather than an entire legislature that, stung by American Library Association rules applied by school libraries that have filled school libraries with Pico-violative material, have decided to explicitly oppose "s[*]xually oriented material."  It's not a "fear" of inappropriate material in school libraries, it's a reality, and it's a reality that groups like PEN America want to lie to the public and to legislators (hence the opinion piece in The Hill) that no books may ever be removed from school libraries
—whatever ALA from Chicago says goes—in every school nationwide.  Something ever more subtle is a lie about HR 7661 that might withhold federal money over "s[*]xually oriented material" and how it's bad to withhold money for learning  First, there's a major case ALA lost on that very point, but in the context of internet filtering in libraries: United States v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003).  The Court plurality found the government has the right to withhold funding if the libraries did not use internet filtering against inappropriate material.  The Court found, "The interest in protecting young library users from material inappropriate for minors is legitimate, and even compelling, as all Members of the Court appear to agree." Yes, it's common sense, but PEN American wants people to get over any concern for any common sense so as to mislead people into allowing children access to inappropriate material—on the public dime, no less.  Second, Illinois Public Act 103-0100, drafted by ALA and called the "Right to Read Act" or the "Freedom to Read Act," explicitly adopts ALA's "Library Bill of Rights," and explicitly takes away state grants if school don't adopt ALA's aspirational creed by name or by substance.  So denying money to drive compliance with ALA diktat is okay when it ensures school kids continue to get "s[*]xually oriented material."  Third, ALA redefined what's "s[*]xually inappropriate for minors" as "diverse materials ... about inclusion."  So when PEN America speaks about it being wrong to deny funding for "s[*]xually oriented material," they essentially define it as "diverse materials ... about inclusion."  All together, PEN America is misleading people to thing it's wrong to do what the US Supreme Court already allowed and what even ALA itself already allowed, only in the opposite sense where state funding was withheld if schools did not allow children access to inappropriate material.  It's another ALA double standard.]
Source: youtu.be/XvD_gg1fQXI

In five years of recording book bans across the country, my organization, PEN America, hasn't come across a banned book that contains p[*]rnography. Why? Because distributing p[*]rnography in schools is a felony that can carry a prison term. Of the thousands we've seen removed from classrooms and school libraries supposedly for p[*]rn, none meet the legal or even informal definition.  
[FALSE - this entire paragraph relies on the first that set up the "p[*]rn in schools" lie in the first place.  It completely misses the mark, intentionally so, with the intention to mislead people into allowing school librarians to continue exposing school children to harm formulated over 60 years ago by Chicago's American Library Association.  By the way, the last USA book ban was in 1963.  So "In five years of recording book bans across the country, my organization, PEN America, hasn't come across a banned book" is inadvertently truthful.  But now I have a primary source to say in five years of checking, PEN America hasn't found a single book ban.  Welcome to reality, PEN America!  Further, another straw man argument: "none meet the legal or even informal definition" of p[*]rnography.  That's irrelevant.  Pico did not address p[*]rnography.  The issue is pervasively vulgarity and educational unsuitability.  P[*]rnography makes a great straw man argument though.]

We have found that, overwhelmingly, books wrongly identified as p[*]rn represent gay and transgender characters and themes, depict race, racism, s[*]xual experiences that do not constitute p[*]rn and themes that may be challenging, even uncomfortable, like gun violence and s[*]xual abuse.  
[FALSE - this entire paragraph relies on the first that set up the "p[*]rn in schools" lie in the first place.  In reality, such books listed comprise Pico-violative material and as such may be removed immediately from public school libraries.  The issue is whether the material violates Pico.  PEN America intentionally confuses people by adding in factors that are entirely irrelevant to a Pico determination.  The Pico Court did not rule that inappropriate material may be removed unless it deals with s[*]xuality, racism, gun violence, and s[*]x abuse, then it stays in the library no matter what.  That was not the Court's decision.  But it's what PEN America wants people to think.  More agitprop.]

Book banners promise that removing these books will keep kids safe from supposedly scary, criminal and harmful stories. 
[FALSE - "Book banners."  They just said they didn't see any book bans after checking for five years.  Now the parents who complain are smeared as "book banners."  Not a single parent anywhere ever banned any school book.  They have the legal right to ask a school board for redress of a concern, and it's the school board that may apply the Pico case, never any parent.  So to call all parents "book banners" it just more agitprop from PEN America.] 
We disagree. Books and storytelling are an essential part of public education. 
[TRUE in principle, FALSE in application - but Pico-violative material has been legally excluded by the US Supreme Court from being "an essential part of public education."  Indeed, the Pico case allows for various works to be removed and removed immediately.  After all, it's common sense.  Calling all parents "book banners" is an effort at language contamination intended to mislead people into simple ignoring the Pico case and substituting instead the judgment of Chicago's American Library Association.  Now who do you trust more, the US Supreme Court or the Chicago American Library Association?] 
We oppose book bans and advocate for access to diverse reading materials that reflect lived experiences or introduce new worlds, identities, histories and perspectives.  
[FALSE - This is the most massive lie so far because, while it sounds legitimate, it is based on unseen material PEN America doesn't disclose, and intentionally so.  Access to "diverse reading materials" sounds legitimate, and even compelling.  But what PEN America doesn't disclose is that the definition of "diverse reading materials" means something completely different than what anyone thinks.  It's a huge deception.  Pure agitprop.  PEN America did not disclose that American Library Association changed the definition of "diverse reading material" to explicitly include "s[*]xually inappropriate material for minors."  The then top lawyer for American Library Association provided training to librarians that changed the meaning of "diverse reading materials" to "s[*]xually inappropriate material for minors."  In full, here is what was said by the ALA lawyer during the training, 
But ultimately, we found that the thing that needs to happen most, and it needs to happen before these bills are introduced, is sustained uh messaging that reframes this issue um that uh that takes it away from the idea that these are inappropriate for minors, or s[*]xually inappropriate for minors, and promotes them as diverse materials and programming that are about inclusion, fairness, and protection of everybody's right to see themselves, and their families reflected in the books in the public library. 
So when PEN America says they "advocate for access to diverse reading materials," which sounds legitimate, what is meant is, "s[*]xually inappropriate for minors, ... promote[d] ... as diverse materials."  That's what PEN America is deceptively hiding.  All in an effort to convince people to expose more school children to more "diverse reading materials that reflect lived experiences" that has been reframed to that from "s[*]xually inappropriate for minors."  It's truly disgusting, and here it is in The Hill to attempt to fool the Washington, DC, legislators—so more kids will be harmed by ALA.]


Laney Hawes, co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, once said: "Fear is effective." Nothing is truer in the book banning crisis. A fear of p[*]rnography morphed into a fear of diversity, equity and inclusion, of educators and librarians supposedly indoctrinating kids and ultimately, of transgender and genderqueer kids themselves. Fear has led to laws, policies and executive orders about material in schools being "harmful to minors" or "s[*]xually explicit."  
[FALSE - Laney Hawes is not the co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project.  That group was created by American Library Association as a local ALA affiliate, built in such as way as to give the appearance of being a local advocacy group.  Here's PEN America repeating the lie.  The reality is ALA has set up hundreds of local ALA groups nationwide, all of them called "grassroots," while none are grassroots and all were ALA created.  It's bragged about by ALA leadership.  It's stated in 990 tax forms submitted to the federal government.  Sometimes the groups themselves inadvertently acknowledge ALA's involvement publicly.  Yet here's PEN America talking about it like it's some grassroots group.  It isn't.  It's a ALA-created local ALA office.  And look, she spread the ALA message: "fear is effective."  Well lying is effective too, Laney, and you're lying.  In reality, school libraries are suffused with inappropriate material that could be removed under Pico.  You and PEN America want to keep it all on the shelves.  Then PEN America goes on with the "book banning crisis."  There's no book banning, and the "crisis" is that parents have finally woken up to the Pico-violative material filling school libraries, and American Library Association is trying to stifle that, and PEN America partnered with ALA to mislead people about Pico in Unite Against Book Bans.  There's your crisis.  It's that the people harming the kids are finally getting noticed by the parents and thereby the legislators.  That's the crisis.  So it's not a crisis, it's a healthy reaction by parents after they finally became aware of the harm being done intentionally to school children by ALA-trained school librarians.  The rest of the paragraph talks about the "fear of p[*]rnography."  So right there two lies are mashed together into one giant lie.  The remainder of that paragraph expands on that giant lie.]

My organization has documented how vague language leads to overcompliance and sweeping restrictions on all types of books. If this new bill in Congress passes, will schools be afraid to buy Maurice Sendak's children's classic, "In the Night Kitchen" because of young Mikey's nudity? Or Michael Hall's "Red: A Crayon's Story," with its messages about acceptance often applying to gender and s[*]xuality?  
[FALSE - here PEN America adopts the research of American Library Association that proves if you talk about innocuous books instead of the ones really at issue, then you can fool a lot more people.  The Sendak case, for example, is innocuous and involves librarians, not parents, who drew underpants on a child character.  It's blown up by ALA and PEN America into a giant cause célèbre.  Hence Kasey Meehan used it in her op ed for the politicians to see and blindly believe.  It's a little nothing case committed by a few librarians.  But the books about teaching kids how to use Grindr to meet a man for a night, that's not the book PEN America used as an example.  It's pure manipulation, and it's based on focus group testing by ALA to maximize the indoctrination and s[*]xualization of children.  It's agitprop.]

And although the bill includes exemptions for a list of "classics" identified by Compass Classroom — developed as homeschooling teaching tool for a Bible-based perspective — modern classics like Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye" are not exempted. These books would likely land on a no-purchase list due to depictions of s[*]xual violence. Most explicitly, the bill would block the purchase of books about transgender people, censoring titles like Ami Polonsky's tale about a transgender 12-year-old, "Gracefully Grayson."  
[FALSE - "modern classics."  First, ALA focus group tested talking about "classics" as more effective to move people than being honest about reality.  Second, there is no "modern classics" exemption to Pico-violative material.  If it violates Pico, it's out, even if it's a "modern classic."  And "transgender people"?  That's a ridiculous lie.  There's no such thing as a transgender person.  No person has ever been nor will ever be transgender.  It's a harmful lie, harmful to children most particularly, and recent medical studies have quantified the harm, and it's quite significant.  Why does PEN America promote harmful material to children?  Why is it trying to mislead Washington DC legislators into allowing this harm.  It's Pico-violative material.  It could definitely be removed, and immediately.  There's no such thing as "a transgender 12-year-old."  Everyone knows that, even PEN America.  But it's useful as an excuse to promote more harm to more children.  That's what PEN America is doing writing this opinion piece in The Hill in the first place.]

This bill would mean school districts across the country that reject book censorship would be thrust into this maelstrom. Just this week, over 100 organizations urged people who care about education, books, young readers and libraries to call their representatives in Congress and tell them to vote against this bill.  
[FALSE - it's just more manipulative language based on the lies and merged lies from above.  This time the word "censorship" is thrown into the mix.  Again, the meaning of the word has been intentionally changed by American Library Association so that it no longer means censorship.  And the "over 100 organizations"?  All are ALA, created by ALA, or partners with ALA.]

Misleading tales of p[*]rnography and dangerous books, librarians and teachers are false narratives that have been woven in community after community, affecting the quality of education kids receive. But the more you read, the more you are able to spot an unreliable narrator claiming there is p[*]rn when it is not there. That narrator presents contradictory and inconsistent messages, where logic is absent and truth is hidden.  
[FALSE - same lies as above, but look at "woven in community after community."  ALA creates hundreds of local ALA offices nationwide and calls them "grassroots," while in an act of pure projection, "false narratives" have been "woven in community after community."  So now agitprop works?  "Logic is absent and truth is hidden"?  Seriously?  PEN America (and ALA) never discloses the logic and always hides the truth.  For example, despite my repeated attempts, PEN America's leader refused to debate me on these issues.  The invitation is still open, Kasey Meehan.  Indeed, you will never see anyone at PEN America ever engage in debate with a parent like me, precisely because the truth is hidden, and PEN America (and ALA) intend to keep it that way.  So while parents get the blame from PEN America as "unreliable narrator[s] claiming there is p[*]rn when it is not there," the reality is it's PEN America that's unreliable and continues to hide the truth by refusing to debate the issue publicly.  By the way, as to hiding the truth, librarians are trained to hide the truth.  It happens frequently, but just days ago Kelly Jensen published this about using subversion or direct activism to promote potentially harmful material to children—and librarians should no longer be considered "trusted experts":  
Speaking of Kelly Jensen, let's get back to "unreliable narrators."]

Unreliable narrators like DeSantis conceal a larger agenda to weaken public schools in favor of vouchers and private school options as outlined in Project 2025. Others, such as outraged parents who see book excerpts taken out of context on Facebook, campaign to remove them, even though there is no evidence at all that reading books causes harm.  
[FALSE - the "unreliable narrator" lie is now so big that PEN America applies it to the Governor of Florida.  Essentially, anyone who disagrees with indoctrinating and s[*]xualizing school children right in their schools using taxpayer money is labeled an "unreliable narrator" by one of the very groups seeking to maintain its grip on people so they continue to harm children as PEN America wants but can't force them to do, unless they first lie to the people so they think what PEN America wants them to think.  Again, agitprop.  Again, to harm kids.]

Meanwhile, students, parents, teachers, librarians and authors resist the efforts to remove books from schools. These more reliable narrators spread the message that books aren't harmful, and the opposite is true. Studies have demonstrated that reading, particularly reading for fun, helps advance critical thinking skills, academic achievement and empathy, and reduces stress.  
[FALSE - all those people were all activated by American Library Association into doing what ALA wants and has been working to achieve for over 60 years.  PEN America wants people to think the "book banners" are in the minority.  The reality is the people seeking to keep children from Pico-violative material are the vast majority, and the minority is the Chicago ALA and all the people it has already convinced into harming school children.  We heard about "unreliable narrators" before.  Now we hear about "reliable narrators" who somehow agree Pico-violative material is just fine for kids, we don't need Pico, we don't need obscenity laws, we don't need common sense and community standards, we just need kids to read anything approved by ALA—so anything, anything at all, even the books about sneaking behind your parents back to score a man for a night.  And "empathy."  Don't get me started.  As if PEN America trying to harm more children cares a whit about empathy, another word that has been given a new definition that has nothing to do with empathy.  
And "reliable narrators"?  American Library Association published last year a movie call "The Librarians."  It has huge even laughable lies in it.  It quotes Dwight D. Eisenhower, for example, talking about don't join the book burners.  It leaves off what he says after a comma where he essentially said matters of decency should be the only form of censorship.  No kidding!  The laughable deception is when a librarian shown only in the shadows for dramatic effect is finally revealed—in the last 30 seconds of the movie before the credits roll.  You immediately feel you've been had.  Even the promo poster features the hidden character gimmick.  So "reliable narrators" is what they want you to think, not the actual reality that is quite the opposite.  In full disclosure, I appear uncredited in the film.]


A colleague and I previously wrote how learning about s[*]x in a romantasy novel or through s[*]x education doesn't make kids s[*]xually promiscuous. It instead offers information about consent and healthy relationships, keeping young people safer.  
[FALSE - PEN America just lied to us over and over again, then merged the lies and made them bigger.  Can we definitely trust PEN America that kids reading Pico-violative material "doesn't make kids s[*]xually promiscuous"?  No.  If PEN America is saying that, the exact opposite is true.  There's no "consent and healthy relationships" exception to Pico.  "Keeping young people safer" is another lie that sounds good, but not when the true meaning of the phrase to PEN America is revealed.  But don't worry, PEN America doesn't do interviews with anyone who potentially might disagree.]

Students want the right to read freely, and most parents want that for their kids too. It's also okay to be offended, shocked or scared by a book. But the response should never be to remove access to reading or to ban themes, identities and perspectives.  
[FALSE - that last sentence just completely eliminates Pico.  Eliminates obscenity laws.  Eliminates community standards.  Eliminates common sense.  Everyone everywhere protects children from harm—except school librarians.  Now why is that?  "But the response should never be to remove access to reading or to ban themes, identities and perspectives."  Hey, Kasey Meehan, ever heard of Pico?  Did you know it has resulted in the removal from schools of many books?  Better yet, will you debate me publicly? 
And "most parents want that for their kids too" is an ALA-polled lie.  When Harris or Rasmussen runs a poll, then most parents oppose explicit books in public schools.  But ALA asked the question in a why that gave them the desired answer, and here's PEN America reeling it off like it's the truth.]

Reading for fun among children declined by 40 percent over the last two decades. Now more than ever, we need more readers, especially those who can spot an unreliable narrator.  
[FALSE - And this lie is a wow.  She is now implying that children should be able to determine when their own parents are "unreliable narrators" so they should be ignored.  Eliminating parental rights is the 60 plus year goal of ALA.  Now it is also the goal of PEN America, and there it is in black and white.  I'm certain the school board in Escambia County, FL, that PEN America is suing will be interested in learning this.]

Kasey Meehan is director of PEN America's Freedom to Read program.

By the way, the readers of The Hill aren't buying it:


Also, see my own opinion in The Hill:


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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

IMLS is the Latest Target of American Library Association with Kelly Jensen Smearing It As Doo Doo

Kelly Jensen does doo doo smear on IMLS
Kelly Jensen uses hate and projection to smear IMLS (United States Institute for Museum and Library Services).  IMLS gets smeared like doo doo, because this is one underhanded, disgusting technique ALA uses to push its efforts to indoctrinate children in schools and libraries using the taxpaying public's money to do so.  

Kelly Jensen's doo doo references, themselves a form of projection, start right in the title of her latest IMLS hit job, the first significant word:
Oh look, she censored the word in the title by using an asterisk, but it's spelled out right there in the URL.  So it's okay for kids and URLs but not for Book Riot by Riot New Media:
In fairness, she did use the word in the text, in one of many efforts to smear IMLS:
"further enshittifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry."
And these people are supposedly "trusted experts" for children, set into law by ALA's "Freedom to Read Act" that ALA is spreading across America and the federal government.  

School librarians are not trusted experts.  If anything, they represent the "ensh*ttification" of public education throughout America, and the scatological reference is just more projection.

Trusted expert Kelly Jensen is an awarded hero of American Library Association with a Presidential Commendation from ALA's American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  That means she's a trusted expert for ALA itself.  ALA librarians award each other, like they award books they want kids to read, like Gender Queer.  Awards are given to people and books for the most kids harmed or the best potential to harm kids.  This is sort of like "Library Girl" Kendra Sunderland won multiple awards from the adult entertainment industry.

School librarians generally are not trusted experts for school children, given they are trained no book is ever inappropriate for any child and given the vocal ones are uniformly opposed to America and capitalism, like the one suing me who published on Bluesky, "THE REVOLUTION IS OVERDUE," but I digress.  So many other cases, other librarians, I should write a separate story about it.


Back to Kelly Jensen, here is the doo doo level of her AASL Presidential Commendation arguments against IMLS:
  • the perfect encapsulation of how the Trump Vance administration is hellbent on destroying an agency dedicated to sharing and protecting truth, facts, and information
  • the regime's obsession with and dedication to AI is about bowing to technocrats and further ensh[*]ttifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry
  • The Trump Vance regime
  • No one in the current regime
  • IMLS is an arm of propaganda for the Trump-Vance regime
  • The IMLS Freedom Trucks stole over $14,000,000 from U.S. taxpayers, intended to serve public libraries and museums, and funneled it directly into the pockets of the right-wing private corporation PragerU
  • the Freedom Trucks, which the regime claims celebrate America’s shared cultural history in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary
Maybe if she keeps saying "regime" often enough it will become the truth?  She's a "trusted expert" after all, with a Presidential Commendation.  She writes "regime" 20 times in her one screed.  Here's more:
  • a history and philosophy of whitewashing history
  • It is infuriating to see that states with lower literacy levels, where schools have become the most targeted by partisan politics (past and present), where books and texts filled with facts and history have been yanked off the shelves "to protect the kids," and where money is being stolen from public schools to fund the private education of the already-wealthy are the ones getting the "treat" of Freedom Trucks
  • These Trucks further lie to some of the most vulnerable about this country’s history and further the propaganda that the regime hopes they’ll continue to swallow down without question
Here's where she calls everyone stupid if they allegedly lack "critical" skills:
  • Too many of those who will hop aboard the trucks lack the critical literacy skills (of all kinds) to ask questions.
This gutter level of argument and projection goes on and on for the remainder of the hit piece.  I'll skip it now.

Contrast that writing with real journalism, real reporting, presenting many of the same issues, but without the hate and projection:
"Top Library Advocate: Backing Drag Queen Story Hour Supports Parental Choice," by Susan Crabtree, RCP Staff, RealClear Politics, 3 March 2026.

Also, Kelly Jensen takes a victory lap that she supposedly forced IMLS to change its home page.  She writes on Bluesky: 
Yes, indeed, the IMLS home page is back to what it was before they spit out AI slop on it last week. 
Guess what works?  Exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back.
Pure propaganda.  First, IMLS likely corrected things on its own.  Second, Kelly taking a victory lap is a joke.  Last year she wrote an article that had absolutely zero effect on IMLS.  She leaves that out of her fakery.  Last year she wrote "The Latest From IMLS and What You Need to Prepare For Right Now," and all that exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back made no difference.  Though back then she used administration 4 times and no regimes.  Now that she's using 20 regimes, that made the difference.  She's a trusted expert on her own delusions of self worth.

Besides, how good is Kelly as a "trusted expert" on IMLS if she brags about and recommends other librarians block federal government accounts on Bluesky?
"Mom, what did you do on your Friday night?" 
Well, I spent it blocking federal departments and agencies on Bluesky, like in any other normal f[*]cking reality.




I'm looking forward to what the new IMLS will do for America.

How about you?

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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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