http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/2/111944/3298
Palin 451
by Plutonium Page <http://plutonium-page.dailykos.com>
Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 09:20:27 AM PDT
Sarah Palin: Separatist
<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/1/193111/4427>, former mayor
of a village <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasilla,_Alaska>, and a
wannabe book-burner
<http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1837918,00.html>:
[Former Wasilla mayor John Stein] says that as mayor, Palin
continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times.
*"She asked the library how she could go about banning books,"* he
says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in
them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker,
couldn't be reached for comment, *but news reports from the time
show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full
support" to the mayor.*
Here's one <http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/510219.html> of those
news reports from 1997:
City librarian Mary Ellen Emmons [Baker] will stay, but Police Chief
Irl Stambaugh is on his own, Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin announced
Friday. The decision came one day after letters signed by Palin were
dropped on Stambaugh's and Emmon's desks, telling them their jobs
were over as of Feb. 13.
[...]
*
Both Stambaugh and Emmons [Baker] publicly supported Palin's
opponent, long-time mayor John Stein during the campaign last fall.*
When she was elected, Palin questioned their loyalty and initially
asked for their resignations. But Stambaugh said he thought any
questions had been resolved
Putting it simply, Sarah Palin's idea of executive leadership involves
firing the people you perceive as non-supporters, and outright abuse of
power.
If she were vice-president, would she call up librarians around the
country and dictate to them? Would she invade our privacy like that? Try
to equalize everyone by telling us what we can and cannot have in our
libraries?
Finally, a quote. From Ray Bradbury's /Fahrenheit 451
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451>/:
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the
Constitution says, but everyone made equal... A book is a loaded gun
in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.
Breach man's mind.
* ::
--
Linda
*http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/>
*
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