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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:49:41 -0700
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 03:48:21 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

>In article <SlTsO.197846$MC82.8819@fx17.iad>,
>Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:
>>>Once again: BS.
>>>
>>>Utah has decided those books are inappropriate for state funded
>>>pre-college school libraries.
>>
>>What right does any state have to do that?
>
>Do you want grammar school libraries to stock The Turner
>Diaries, or other racist literature?  I sure don't.=20

Why do I suspect that the Utah Education Dept would have no trouble
with /The Turner Diaries/. Or /The Protocols of the Elders of Zion/,
for that matter?

Could it be because they are ... Republicans?

>And there's the factor of "them that pays the money
>makes the rules about what they'll spend it on."

"He who pays the piper calls the tune"

However, in most States, it is the /taxpayers/ that pay, not the
Education Dept.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"