Showing posts with label libidaho. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Library Association Caught Lying; Dooms $3.5M Funding

Florida Governor Opposing Gender Queer
Library associations lie to legislators and the public to cover up school librarians grooming children.  But people are waking up to this.  

For example, the Idaho Library Association lied in defense of continuing to allow school librarians to make graphic pedophilic literature available to school children.  A legislator called out the lies and as a result the Idaho Library Commission lost $3.5M in funding.  People are realizing if you stem the flow of money to groomers, you can indeed act to slow their ability to groom.  

The grooming is so bad that even state governors are acting to stem the harm to children that school librarians trained by American Library Association (ALA) are doing, as illustrated top right.

Lesson learned: research and think carefully about the excuses librarians are using to perpetuate their ability to harm children, then use their words against them to deny them funding for continued grooming.

A report from Idaho provides an illustration of the above: “On Thursday, Rep. Julianne Young (R-Blackfoot) shared an email from the Idaho Libraries Association from March 2.  Young said it contained ‘a number of false and misleading claims about the content and potential effects’ of House Bill 666 – a proposal that would’ve made it a misdemeanor for librarians to lend any material deemed ‘harmful’ to children.” 

Source: “5th Time's a Charm: Idaho Legislature Passes Library Commission Budget,” by James Dawson, Boise State Public Radio News, 26 March 2022.

So, the Idaho Library Association lied and the Idaho legislator called out its “false and misleading claims about the content and potential effects” of an Idaho House bill (Idaho HB 666).  People are waking up, but not the kind of woke ALA wants.  “‘This is conduct that is unprofessional, it is disingenuous, and in my mind, it is unacceptable,’ Young said of the email Thursday.”

And she’s absolutely right.  Other legislators should similarly look at the “conduct that is unprofessional, … disingenuous, and … unacceptable” by their own state library associations and librarians, let alone ALA.

The content for which librarians are acting so unprofessionally?  It’s grooming content so bad Florida Governor DeSantis spoke out specifically against it, displaying images from a book called “Gender Queer: A Memoir” so pedophilic they had to be blacked out in areas and media will not even show them.  The problem is so bad that it’s festered to the point where state governors are now having to act since so many are frozen by the assumption librarians would never harm children.


These are books school librarians are giving to America’s children.  ALA gives them awards (Stonewall Book Award, 2020, Gender Queer) precisely to help librarians spread them further.  They are award winning!  They are protected by ALA’s so-called “Library Bill of Rights” that prevents librarians from making “age” distinctions!  It’s the First Amendment!  “FReadom”!  “We believe that school libraries do not have obscene or pornographic materials and using these terms to describe books, singular words, or small portions of a book is a tactic to undermine the value of books, public education and educators, particularly school libraries and school librarians.”  

Know that ALA trains librarians, “A librarian is not a legal process. There is not a librarian in the county—unless she or he is a lawyer—who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.”  It’s like they don’t know what a woman is because they are not biologists.  The people need legislators to act in the face of librarians who are the cause of the problem and who target children with “conduct that is unprofessional, … disingenuous, and … unacceptable.”

Just days ago ALA held a librarian conference where librarians were specifically trained to defy parents and legislators. Look how they lie:

“This is not an accident. What we’re seeing today reflects planning,” noted Caldwell-Stone. The “perfect storm” of the last few years (pandemic, political division, social media, and virtual meetings) has led to local and national attempts to exploit divisions and fears. These attempts also raise moral panic about false claims of pornography, critical race theory (CRT), marxism, and more. School and library board candidates are running on book banning platforms.  Politicians and organizers portray libraries as “dens of iniquity” and librarians as worse.

Source: “Censorship Preparedness at #PLA2022,” by Alec Chunn, ALSC Blog, 25 March 2022.

So while the ALA leader decries “attempts to exploit divisions and fears,” she exploits divisions and fears about “book banning” and “dens of iniquity,” all to make more graphic pedophilic literature available to more school children.

Even members of library boards of trustees who don’t toe the ALA’s groomer line are attacked as homophobes and war criminals, talk about “raising moral panic”:


Source: Coeur d’Alene Press, Friday, 18 March 2022

So, legislators, since librarians will not voluntarily stop giving children graphic pedophilic literature—quite the opposite, it’s getting worse—you can stop funding them and their groomer activities, as Rep. Julianne Young and fellow legislators have just successfully done.  Don’t give money to people grooming your children, even if they serve a once venerable public role.  Carefully research and examine the excuses librarians use to perpetuate their harm to children, then use their own words to deny them funding for continued grooming.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

BOLO Library Patron Harassing Librarians in Idaho

Let's all appreciate librarians.  Look at the kind of harassment they undergo to provide us services, and this is mild, but I'm republishing it to help get the word out:




Hello everyone,

So, here's an odd story:

The manager of one of our small library branches in Latah County got a phone call yesterday from a man saying that he wanted to get a romance book for his wife and he wanted help picking out a title.  After talking to him for a few minutes our branch manager clarified to the caller what he needed to do to borrow a book from the library, and then he started telling our branch manager – in graphic detail – about the kind of romance book he wanted to get for his wife.  What he wanted could probably be better described as "erotica" than "romance" and the conversation ended with something along the lines of "I'll be over at your library to talk more about this in just a little while."

When I reported this issue to our director this morning she said, "The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago."

Our guess is that this is some pervert making phone calls trying to get attention, scare people, or maybe he just wants to be an ass – who knows.  It's hard to say.  We were going to try to let all of our other branch managers know about this and see if any of them have had similar calls and, at the very least, let them know that this is going on.  It occurred to me a few minutes ago, though, that if this is happening to us in Latah County, it might be happening in other places around Idaho too and that lib-idaho might be a good place to ask and see if anyone else has had similar calls or knows anything more about this situation.

My sincere hope is that nobody else has had to put up with this guy, but if anyone has had a similar experience or knows anything, please let me know,

[Name, email, address elided, but there's enough information for those interested to help out.  The email is dated 9 May 2014, 8:07 PM, so the request is current.]



NOTE ADDED 12 MAY 2014:

The author of the above plea has commented on this post.  I'm including it here because it's important.  It establishes a pattern of harassment of librarians and evidences they are working to resolve the matter.  Please assist if you can:

George Williams
Mon May 12, 06:01:00 PM 2014

I'm the originator of this e-mail from LCLD and I posted this e-mail to the Idaho Library Association's e-mail list server to see if anyone else had a similar situation in Idaho.  So far I've gotten about 20 responses saying "Yes, it's happened to us too."

The theories are as follows:

  1. This guy is a pervert
  2. This guy is just annoying
  3. This guy is trying to find out if Idaho libraries have "erotica" on the shelves so that he can mount a complaint with state lawmakers to get erotica off of the library's shelves

Many Idaho librarians now seem to be aware of what's going on so, hopefully, we can develop a plan to shut this guy down.

GHW


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