The conservative public is fooled by the false facade routinely worn by the forces working to destroy morals.  These forces inevitably cloak their destructive agenda with palatable language, rather than exposing their truthful rhetoric that would immediately enrage the conservative public, which would then respond with immediate retribution. 

Take for example the American Library Association which is controlled by extreme radical liberals.  I'm not slandering or exaggerating--just visit the ALA website, or ask any member of the organization and they'll tell you that they are extremely liberal.

The ALA is well-documented as working against any type of restrictions on Internet usage by children, as indicated as recently as this past week as quoted in the New York Times.

Their own "Library Bill of Rights" includes the right of children to have full access to pornography, and that age-appropriate restrictions are an infringement of a child's rights.  Here's the ALA's official statement from their own website:

Article V:  A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views. 

The ALA advocates libraries issuing R-rated movies to any age child--no restrictions.  It works like this:  A child takes an R-rated movie to the check out counter and the librarian asks the child if he/she is 18 years old and advises that R-rated videos may not be appropriate for children.  If the child responds in any fashion that the child still wants to check out the video, then the librarian is instructed by the ALA to check the video out to the child.  This is NOT a hypothetical example, as this was exactly what happened when a child with a hidden camera and microphone checked out just such a movie at the Denver Public Library just a couple of months ago.

Here's how the ALA responds to this (from their own website):

The "right to use a library" includes free access to, and unrestricted use of, all the services, materials, and facilities the library has to offer. Every restriction on access to, and use of, library resources, based solely on the chronological age, educational level, or legal emancipation of users violates Article V. 

Policies which set minimum age limits for access to videotapes and/or other audiovisual materials and equipment, with or without parental permission, abridge library use for minors. Further, age limits based on the cost of the materials are unacceptable. Unless directly and specifically prohibited by law from circulating certain motion pictures and video productions to minors, librarians should apply the same standards to circulation of these materials as are applied to books and other materials. 

MPAA and other rating services are private advisory codes and have no legal standing. For the library to add such ratings to the materials if they are not already there, to post a list of such ratings with a collection, or to attempt to enforce such ratings through circulation policies or other procedures constitutes labeling, "an attempt to prejudice attitudes" about the material, and is unacceptable. The application of locally generated ratings schemes intended to provide content warnings to library users is also inconsistent with the Library Bill of Rights.

Parents beware of sending your children to the library alone.  It's a dangerous place!

Now, just in case you think that the ALA has the "best interest of children" in mind, and that I'm simply presenting this in a bad light, then get a load of this exposé of one ALA leader.  As you read below, you will see that the people setting policies in thousands of libraries across our country are radical liberals with a hidden agenda to sexualize children because it's good for them!  Oh yes, they know what's good for your children, and you are just a neanderthal and naïve.

Here's some background:

[The man of the hour is Mark] Rosenzweig, the co-editor of Progressive Librarian and is the Chief Librarian at the Communist Party USA's Reference Center for Marxist Studies in New York City.  Rosenzweig writes frequently for library web forums and anarchist discussion groups.

At the ALA's national conference in Chicago in July of this year, Rosenzweig presented a special ALA award to Daniel Tsang, a librarian at the University of California for his contributions to the Alternatives in Print Task Force of the ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table.  Tsang has written for numerous left-leaning journals, including the Gay News, and he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality. Tsang is also the editor of The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent. This book contains a series of essays advocating adult/child sex.  It includes an essay by the North American Man/Boy Love Association called "The Case for Abolishing of Age of Consent Laws."  [see this related article, or this related article.]

That he is a board member of the American Library Association should serve as a warning to parents about the challenges facing them as they deal with Internet pornography.

Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:08:25 -0400
To: ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom List
From: Mark Rosenzweig | Block address
Subject: [ALAOIF:12216] On the offensive re anti-ALA campaign

On the Offensive,,,

The more I think about it, the more I believe that active ALA members should DEMAND of ALA that they GO ON THE OFFENSIVE against Dr Laura and the Family Friendly Libraries, and the Family Research Council, etc, etc. 

What are we paying our dues for, anyway? ALA has been relatively passively riding it out, staging a "holding action". Watching. Reporting. That's not gonna work. 

Instead of the expensive, but insipid,' library "branding" camapign' (which will cost ALA who-knows-how-much), with its noxiously pedestrian logo "___@YourLibrary" , attempting, consciously or not, - among other things - to counter all this highly-organized fundamentalism by politely proving how innocuous and ineffectual we are, our ALA leaders, our paid staff, our spokespeople, our elected Presidents, our lobbyists. should be out there on the stump, on the talk shows and the radio shows, in ads and on speaking tours, talking about, how libraries are a bulwark of democratic culture, how these people want to KILL libraries. and how the real opposition here is to the 1st Amendment, the Bill of Rights-because it runs against the grain of fundamentalism and theocracy (as it was MEANT to do).

[Now brace yourself, because this man is about to show himself fully here by using offensive, obscene, gutter language but if I were to censor it here, it would aid the mask that this man wears in his public appearances, and I'm not about to help him hide his true self from you]

We're as American as apple pie. And we should say so. Loud and clear. The more progessive wing of the profession should intelligently counter the 'erotophobia'. The worst thing in life, even for a kid, is NOT exposure to the image of naked people, or even people screwing, blowing, licking, humping, having sex with animals, etc. (except, for legal - and perhaps ethical - reasons, child erotica, so ill-defined that it can include the work of world-renowned photopher Sally Mann 

We need, perhaps, to take the African-American ex-Surgeon-General, Dr.Jocelyn Elders', brilliantly realistic approach (for which she was so maligned): "masturbation", for example, is not a vice: it's a normal sexual outlet and it should be actively described as such to childrena and they should be taught about it by trained professionals! That's pedagogically, and psychologically and medically sound. That's in the best interests of the child. We should, to put it bluntly, be sex-positive, in favor of sex education, of providing information about abortion and alternatives and about family planning. We should not make children ashamed of their sexual curiosity on the internet or in literature. Is that what's bad for children? NO!

What's bad for children?

Corporal punishment is bad for children, wife-beating is bad for children, being abused sexually is bad for children, growing up without resources and access and the ability to make the most of yourself is bad for children, being treated like property is bad for children, condescension and dismissiveness is bad for children, prison-like schools are bad for children, capital punishment is bad for children, pollution is bad for children, malnutrition is bad for children, no libraries (or poor libraries) is bad for children, war & mass violence is bad for children, child labor is bad for children, adult ignorance is bad for children,, attempts to contain the curiosity of kids is bad for children. But so-called pornography? WHERE DOES IT RATE? nowhere...

Anyway, it's the responsibility of ALA to oppose this actively , aggresively and PROUDLY, and find allies in the education profession , in the legal profession, among politicians, in the social-work andf child development profession, among parents, among workers,among professionals, among activist youth, and, for the bolder progressives in our field, to help put this pornography question in TRULY realistic perspective. Don't you agree? 

Mark R.

Library group councilor praises Internet porn
National association vehemently opposes mandatory Web filters 

World Net Daily
Friday, October 20, 2000
by Jon E. Dougherty

While the American Library Association is opposing the mandatory use of filters on library computers that would shut out pornographic sites to children, a family-values activist organization cites a leaked, sexually explicit memo written by one of the library organization's ruling council as evidence of a subversive agenda in high places. 

The Traditional Values Coalition, headed by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, said the American Library Association "constantly" lobbies against the implementation of rules mandating that public libraries add Internet filtering technology to prevent children from accessing pornography while using library computers. 

"Horror stories abound of children viewing sexually explicit materials --including bestiality and necrophilia websites -- on library computers," Sheldon says in a press release. "Parents in Broward County, Fla., are currently suing a public library for failing to stop an adult male from masturbating in front of children." 

Despite the ALA's status as a private, professional organization, complains Sheldon, "it has achieved near-total control of the internal policies of local libraries when it comes to the Internet and pornography." 

American Library Association spokesperson Claudette Tennant assured WorldNetDaily that her organization "feels that we need to take an active role" to ensure "children are safe and productive on the Internet." 

"It's a complex issue. We need to band together," she said.

However, when asked if the library organization would support strict regulations, Tennant said, "Absolutely not. It's presumptuous for the federal government to step in." Instead, she described the Internet as a "great learning tool" that "should not be subjected" to federal regulations. "Children need to have the proper tools to get an education and the Internet is one of those tools," she explained. 

Essentially, the ALA "wants people to police themselves," Tennant said.

So, is the disagreement over mandatory porn filters on public library computers just a matter of the American Library Association's championing of the First Amendment and standing up to government over-regulation? 

Not quite, says Sheldon, who points to a recently leaked ALA memo [from Mark Rosenzweig] as "a chilling look at where the [organization] may be leading libraries in the future. Your local library," he says ominously, "may become a tax-funded adult bookstore."

Rosenzweig, one of 31 recently elected governing council members in the influential library organization, has called for support among American members for former Clinton administration Surgeon General Jocelyn Elder's suggestion that children should be taught to masturbate.

Besides his fierce stance in favor of allowing children access to sexual materials on the Internet, Rosenzweig is controversial in other areas as well. 

He is a member of the New York State Communist Party, and has written articles for the group's publication, the "People's Weekly World." 

On Aug. 9, 1999, President Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order calling for the appointment of a "Working Group" to find ways "to address unlawful conduct that involves the use of the Internet." But despite his initiative in the direction of limiting access to Internet porn, Clinton has vetoed legislation to require Web-filtering software, and his administration has had its own troubles with staffers downloading hard-core pornography on government computers. 

Critics of the ALA's voluntary protection approach to shielding children from Internet pornography have also complained that the organization, in the past, has ignored pleas from librarians to place restrictions on library-accessed pornography. 

A March report issued by the Family Research Council and titled, "Dangerous Access, 2000 Edition: Uncovering Internet Pornography in America's Libraries," documented a "sea of evidence" that "Internet pornography and related sex crimes are a serious problem in America's libraries." 

Librarian David Burt of Lake Oswego, Ore., conducted the study, and after a six-month investigation of library documents and computer logs, found "over 2,000 documented incidents of patrons, many of them children, accessing pornography, obscenity, and child pornography in the nation's pubic libraries." 

The ALA denied the problems in the report. 

Sarah Long, president of the American Library Association, said the ALA generally does not support Internet filters, because "we're more focused on educating children about the proper use of the Internet." Her association "also recognized that local libraries themselves have rules and policies dictating the manner and use by children of the Internet," she said. 

"The Internet is not evil," says Traditional Values Coalition spokeswoman Andrea Lafferty, "but there are some evil things on it. Parents need to be involved with what their children are seeing. Selection of materials is important. And forms of censorship happen everyday." 

She added that "no constitutional right for libraries to have access to pornography exists. There needs to be tough prosecution of obscene porn and the people who expose kids to it." 

"Many librarians are dangerous people," she added.