Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah. Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:45:05 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <3sasbj98eu1j1s954e1vnbshkht3uiu84j@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net Pt4028e0Je5ZBwahNxH77wZmqMp+22lpvpBValWCSmZ0XKIYWh X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:7W8KeVRZq7qXdtbr3ykVB4sYQgY= sha256:fT7B/uqc0/Zu8GSHlgVQPRBk2mbZnrELw7MnUVKIPsQ= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2523 In article <3sasbj98eu1j1s954e1vnbshkht3uiu84j@4ax.com>, Paul S Person wrote: > On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:35 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt > wrote: > > >In article , > >Paul S Person wrote: > >>>You are the one who asserted that the Utah Education Department > >>>would be fine with "The Turner Diaries" or "The Protocols of > >>>the Elders of Zion." > >> > >>Have they banned either of them? Didn't think so. > > > >Are either of them in any public school library? Or any > >public library at all? There are a lot of things that > >nobody has bothered banning because no one has attempted > >to perpetrate it. > > > >>I have long noted that wing-nuts exist on all sides. But only the > >>Republicans have actually nominated two of them for President/VP. > > > >Which ones? The usual suspects have accused every Republican > >president since Eisenhower of being a Nazi. (Except Ford, for > >some reason; him, they just tried to assassinate. Twice.) > > Tried and, as with Reagan and Trump failed. > > Republicans survive assassination attempts. > > Democrats don't. > Only since 1902. I know of 4 presidential assassination attempts before then (3 dead Republicans and 1 surviving Democrat - pistol misfired, twice). -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com