WT[censored]! Some [censored] [censored] Is Crossing Out [censored] Words From [censored] Library Books!

Published on October 28th, 2009

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Workers at a Tennessee library said someone has been using blue ink to completely scratch out curse words from books in the collection.

Maury County Library director Elizabeth Potts said dozens of books have been discovered with blue ink marks where profanities used to be, including what she referred to as an “f-word” in the “9/11 Commission Report,” The Daily Herald, Columbia, Tenn., reported Tuesday.
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“This person is evidently offended by these words,” she said. “I’m more offended by (the suspect).”

Potts said the library doesn’t have the money to replace the books, so patrons will “have to guess what the word was.” She said workers have also put up signs asking people not to cross out curse words in the library’s books.

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# 1 JR-Fire said, on October 28th, 2009 at 4:35 am

Put up signs? You mean, they won’t find the person responsible and make them pay for the books? What happened to regulations where you weren’t allowed to destroy books (in any way) – it shouldn’t be hard to discover the patron who checked out all those books.

# 2 Peggusus said, on October 28th, 2009 at 4:44 am

I am not worried about some little old grandmother with a marker pen. I am worried about the President of the United States doing the same on a much bigger scale.

# 3 srgothard said, on October 28th, 2009 at 4:47 am

I don’t think “censorship” is the right term. This is destruction of property. If this were a private library, the owner would have the right to cross out the words in books he owns. Since someone other than the owner is defacing books, then his crime is not censorship but vandalism.

# 4 The Monster's Lawyer said, on October 28th, 2009 at 5:06 am

#2 Peggy – Don’t worry Bush/Cheney aren’t president anymore.

# 5 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 5:16 am

Hold on a minute. This was a public library, meaning the censor’s taxes were used to pay for the books and library operations, too. Shouldn’t the vandal have as much of a right to the books as anyone else?

# 6 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 5:16 am

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# 7 Personality said, on October 28th, 2009 at 5:23 am

Repukes or Bible thumpers?

# 8 amodedoma said, on October 28th, 2009 at 5:33 am

Library, yeah I remember those, we had those before the internet. With the passage of time they’ve become less and less relevant. Better keep em around just in case somebody pulls the plug on the world. A good book by the candlelight might be the best entertainment available in a few years. Techno-apocalypse in 2012.

# 9 Mr. Fusion said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:03 am

#5, StoopidAlphie,

Shouldn’t the vandal have as much of a right to the books as anyone else?

No. He lost that privilege when he defaced the books, denying everyone else equal access to the entire books.

# 10 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:12 am

There are muslim terrorists using libraries as a place to gain knowledge on how to build bombs. Why are you worried about a few crossed-out words? It seems to me that the former is a far bigger threat, but I suppose liberals don’t like to think about hard issues.

# 11 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:14 am

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# 12 Brian said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:17 am

I am ashamed to admit this. My dear departed mother was a librarian in a small town school. She would draw cloths on nudes in art books.

# 13 TJ said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:38 am

@ 9 StoopidFlanders

So what you’re saying is that we should limit the public’s right to access things that are dangerous? Where do you stand on gun control?

That’s what I thought, you’d prefer to have a stupid but armed populous.

Limit people’s access to information, but give them all the guns they want, that’s the rightwing way.

Doesn’t the cognitive dissonance get uncomfortable at times?

# 14 yanikinwaoz said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:47 am

I know a Jesus freak in my town that perpetually rents “The last temptation of Christ” from out local video store for the sole purpose of preventing others from renting it.

# 15 Winston said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:53 am

#4 Re: Bush/Cheney vs. Obama – So, Obama has rejected all of the spying powers of the Bushistas and worked actively to rescind all of them? He has also fulfilled his campaign promises re:Iraq?

# 16 Winston said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:55 am

“I know a Jesus freak in my town that perpetually rents “The last temptation of Christ” from out local video store for the sole purpose of preventing others from renting it.”

When are people like this going to be properly recognized as being just as loony as an adult who stays up all night on Xmas eve waiting for Santa?

# 17 Luc said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:57 am

This person could be taking the cue from American TV, which bleeps the curse words.

I just can’t get over that it’s so stupid. Everyone knows what’s behind the bleep. Even children do. So you bleep the word, but can’t bleep the intention. It should be the other way around if you’re supposed to be truly offended. You should be offended by the intention. You can’t bleep the intention so you bleep the word just to pretend that “something is being done about it.” Something that is really nothing, and that’s the way it should be because of First Amendment. But the word gets bleeped, so there is attempt to do something.

See, I’m in a loop, talking in circles now. The whole thing is so incredibly foolish.

# 18 jbellies said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:06 am

Library books defaced is news?? It’s just a common annoyance. Publicizing it only encourages them.

Much more common in my experience is highlighting words in yellow or underlining them. Aaargh! I’ve just fed the yellow trolls.

I confess that I deface library books as well. When I find a typo, I underline the erroneous letter or word. In pencil if one is available.

The anonymous defacer probably thinks he’s doing the same thing. The Hairy Spaghetti Monster created the World without excrement (who gives a shit?) or copulation (fuck me) or anger (fuck you shithead). He’s just returning that part of the universe to its paradisical origin.

Yep, it’s damned annoying.

(I wonder if using the two non-Oxford English Dictionary, 1st Edition, words will get me banned or the post filtered out? I don’t mean any harm. Call it an experiment.)

# 19 jbellies said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:15 am

#16 Correcting typos is exactly the same as reCAPTCHA, except that due to the nature of the medium it leaves a sometimes permanent trace. So praise me as an innovator, forerunner and public-spirited guy, or dang me as a vandal.

# 20 Sea Lawyer said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:20 am

Why does this have the nanny state banner?

# 21 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:33 am

18. There is every reason to believe that ACORN, at the behest of the Barack Hussein Obama administration is responsible for the vandalism. Here’s how it works: First, a few innocuous swear words disappear, then any negative references to Obama start disappearing, then any negative references to Obama’s buddies start disappearing, and soon enough we live in North Korea.

# 22 Sea Lawyer said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:40 am

#19, lol, sure.

# 23 Animby said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:52 am

When I was a boy, I used to go into Sears and tear the lingerie pages out of the catalogs. Just so other boys would not be tempted, you understand. I’m sure this library incident is just a similar protective measure…

# 24 ECA said, on October 28th, 2009 at 7:58 am

NOW we have to be searched BEFORE we enter libraries..for Non-metallic devices..
I hope the person searching me is Female and LIKES searching me…I will be returning ALLOT.

# 25 StoopidFlanders said, on October 28th, 2009 at 8:40 am

25. Under the Barack Hussein Obama regime, only regular white people will subject to search. You can expect the TSA agent doing the searches to be a morbidly obese minority with the manners of a 2-year old.

The entire idea of a public library is a socialist construct, anyway. This is just another stunning example of the failure of leftist principles.

# 26 Mr. Fusion said, on October 28th, 2009 at 9:07 am

#26, StoopidAlphie,

You can expect the TSA agent doing the searches to be a morbidly obese minority with the manners of a 2-year old.

Why does that conjure up an image of you doing the searching?

# 27 Dallas said, on October 28th, 2009 at 9:17 am

Gee, let me guess which political party this goon belonged to that would go out and vandalize because they were offended with seeing profanity?

# 28 TJ said, on October 28th, 2009 at 10:22 am

@ 25 StoopidFlanders

“The entire idea of a public library is a socialist construct, anyway. This is just another stunning example of the failure of leftist principles.”

So I guess you think Benjamin Franklin was a socialist? Or are you just a troll?

# 29 Angel H. Wong said, on October 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Ahhh, Christians, they just can’t stand knowing that others don’t need Jesus to be happy.

# 30 Special Ed said, on October 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

#29 – I need cheeses to be happy!

# 31 jbellies said, on October 28th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

#28 TJ. I vote yes, that StoopidFlanders is a troll. Perhaps it is also a construct (to use its own word) to make the “Alfie” entity look like a moderate.

Everything we know is wrong.

# 32 sargasso said, on October 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Found one of my own papers had been similarly marked, someone decided to write a literary criticism in ink, editing the punctuation and leaving a grade at the end of each section.

# 33 Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection said, on October 28th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

I can’t believe there are several ~~dickheads~~ people in here that think it is OK to cross out words!

# 34 amodedoma said, on October 29th, 2009 at 8:04 am

For me the funniest thing about this is the end result is the opposite of what censors might wish to achieve. The US practices a lot of censorship based on moral reasons, and yet is among the most amoral nations to exist. Until I started travelling I thought everywhere was more or less the same. Then I moved to europe, wow talk about culture shock. The beaches are full of topless teenage girls, the billboards and TV commercials have full frontal nudity, the local TV stations emit uncoded hardcore porn at night. Foul language? I use it regularly on an FM radio program I’ve been doing for 15 years.
So what have we learned? If you don’t want something to be a big deal don’t make a big deal of it. DUH!
What’s not clear is exactly why these people waste so much time on such ridiculous issues…

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