By Gretchen Garrity
Amanda Jones of "That Librarian" infamy, is following standard ALA (American Library Association) lawfare tactics. She sued a citizen group and two individuals for defamation in 2022. She has also just sued Dan Kleinman of Safe Libraries and the World Library Association.
Kleinman's enlightening article, "How Chicago's ALA Co-Opts Local Governments: St. Tammany Parish Louisiana" details how the ALA's tentacles reach into local communities to impose their extremist agenda. From his article, "Governing bodies often hear from no one other than the community-organized multitudes ALA creates, funds, and empowers to create the illusion of local support and to provide a base for ALA to sue via surrogates anywhere across America."
One can always tell when the awards and recognition and even films are lavished on individuals like Jones. That's how the hard Left rolls. It's part of their public relations (propaganda) tactics to bamboozle the public.
They do the same thing with the sexually explicit books they place in the libraries for minor children to access. Awards and accolades galore!
Here the Daily Mail does a decent job of explaining the situation with Jones' lawsuit against against parents in Louisiana. From the article:
"The controversial books involved in the argument include 'Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy' by Andrew P. Smiler and 'Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human' by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, according to Lunsford.
The lawsuit was dismissed that same year, but Jones' appeal reached the state supreme court who overruled the judgment on Friday - sending the case back to the court of appeals to reconsider.
'Before all this, I was just a school librarian, but they wanted to silence me, so I thought I would do the exact opposite and become an activist,' Jones told The New York Times.
'What we're seeing now is full-scale attacks on people's characters if they stand up for books. The hate level and the vitriol is unreal to me.'"
Here is information on the book "Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human" HERE. From the summary: "This book contains obscene sexual illustrations and commentary; obscene sexual nudity; profanity; and alternate gender ideologies."
Groups like the local U-turn in Education collaborate with the ALA and its associated groups for resources and action items to oppose parents' rights (see graphic above). In their most recent newsletter, U-turn explains they "are not tied to any other organization." However, they do state they support the ALA and MLA: "We support THEM, but they do not support us. We support them by
upholding the promises the ALA makes for all free and public libraries,
we help professionals attend MASL conferences, and we are partnered with
a state wide initiative to collaborate with other organizations." [bolding added]
The toolkit from the group Unite Against Book Bans shares talking points, FAQs, actions items and so on. It's all done very professionally, but if you really think about what they are advocating for, their talking points don't make much sense.
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Back to the article about Amanda Jones in the Daily Mail. The comments to the article are heartening. Commonsense adults know that sexually-explicit, age-inappropriate, pervasively vulgar books and materials should not be made freely accessible to minor children. It's a no-brainer.
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| From: Daily Mail |
There won't be a January meeting of the Christian County Library Board of Trustees. The next meeting will be February 25 at 6 p.m., at the Nixa Library.
