Yesterday, David Rice and myself spent some time with Tom Martz of the Locke and Smith Foundation, anon-partisan
constitutional organization that keeps track of our Missouri legislature.
Martz, a local talk radio host on KSGF 104.1 who was filling in for Nick Reed, was interested in local independent journalism. You can listen to the show HERE. It's in two parts, with the first part (dated 12/26/25) beginning about 20 minutes in.
As an illustration of how bankrupt and useless corporate media is, watch how a young man busted wide open the fraud in Minnesota. As Martenson says, "This can only mean they [media] are complicit in covering up fraud as long as it's being done by 'their team."
Exactly correct. My hope is that young journalists will push back on the indoctrination they are inevitably confronted with in journalism school. Expose it! It would make a great story and it might just help to reform the fetid mess in journalism. Seek truth and not a journalistic tribal narrative. There are lots of great independent journalists out there like Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal.
It's quite telling that a 23-year-old in a hoodie did what every major news organization in the US could not manage to do: Real investigative journalism. This can only mean they are complicit in covering up fraud as long as it's being done by 'their team.' https://t.co/uhGURDda1C
An Intercessory Appeal
to the Only One With Power to Actually Help In the name of the ALA, and
of EveryLibrary, and of the Holy Institutional Backing, Amen.
By David Rice
Click on image for clarity
St. Dudash-Buskirk, PhD in Rhetoric, Professor at Missouri State
University, backed by the American Library Association and EveryLibrary,
hear my prayer.
I come before you as a supplicant, a lone
citizen without credentials, without institutional backing, without the
organizational power that you wield so effortlessly. I have already
prayed to St. Michael the Archangel at a library board meeting (at the
4:00 minute mark) and you found that offensive. But I understand now my
mistake.
St. Michael cannot help me with earthly institutions. He has no PhD.
He holds no university position. He commands no professional networks.
He cannot call the Attorney General or write academic papers or leverage
organizational backing. He only fights as the commander of God’s
angelic armies, so it’s not real power.
But you have real power and you can help me.
So
I pray to you instead, O Patron Saint of Rhetoric and Institutional
Power, that you might intercede on behalf of the marginalized—a role you
claim as your sacred calling.
First Petition: For Sight to See Who is Marginalized
St. Dudash-Buskirk, grant me understanding of your Critical Theory of Power.
You
teach that we must identify who holds power and who is powerless. You
proclaim the importance of protecting marginalized voices against
institutional authority. You celebrate speaking truth to power and
challenging entrenched systems.
So I ask: Why do you not intercede on my behalf?
What you claim to value:
• Speaking truth to power
• Challenging entrenched institutions
• Protecting marginalized voices
• Exposing institutional corruption
• Resisting institutional authority
What I actually do:
• Expose institutional corruption (staff illegally suing the board)
• Challenge entrenched power (administration covering up violations)
• Speak truth to power (one citizen vs. PhDs, ALA, MSU, EveryLibrary)
• Protect citizens from institutional overreach (BDSM instructions for teenagers)
• Resist institutional authority (refuse to be “handled” by administrators)
Your institutional backing:
• PhD in Rhetoric from a major university
• Teaching position at Missouri State University
• American Library Association
• EveryLibrary (national lobbying organization)
• Professional credentials and networks
• Executive Director Will Blydenburgh (your ally)
• Media sympathy
• Friends who rally around you
• Career advancement opportunities
My backing:
• A library book
• A prayer you found offensive
• No credentials
• No organization
• No church support (they reject this fight)
• No professional network
• Lost friends
• Increasing isolation
Under your own framework, I am the marginalized voice. You are the institutional power.
Yet you defend the institution and attack me.
St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that I might understand this mystery.
Second Petition: For the Contradiction of Words
Holy Mother of Relativism, you teach that all truth is constructed, that moral claims are mere power plays.
Yet you called my reading “salacious.”
If the book isn’t salacious on the shelf for teenagers, why is it salacious when I quote it?
The content didn’t change. The speaker changed.
You
cannot claim both that books are neutral information AND that my speech
is harmful. If words have no meaning, then “salacious” is meaningless,
your objection is meaningless, your entire Facebook post is meaningless.
But
if words have power—if language shapes reality—then my prayer has power
(that’s why you objected), my reading has power (that’s why you called
it salacious), and the book’s content has power (that’s why it matters
what’s in the library).
You use language to convey meaning while teaching that meaning doesn’t exist.
The
word “salacious” has no place in your worldview. But you used it
anyway, because you know words carry moral weight. You just don’t want
to admit that truth applies to the books you defend.
St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that you might recognize the contradiction you embody.
Is it wrong for adults to participate in BDSM or Kink? If so, why? If not, why not?
You won’t answer. You deflect to authorities (ALA, Freedom to Read), make pop culture references, claim I violated decorum.
But here’s the simplest question: Why should strangers instruct children in sexual practices?
This
isn’t a parent answering their child’s questions. This is institutional
strangers giving sexual values to children as if values don’t exist.
If sex has no value, then rape is not a crime.
Answer the question or admit words mean something.
St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that you might answer what you refuse to address.
Third Petition: For Justice in the Matter of the Edited Video
O Defender of Institutional Prerogatives, I bring before you a documented case of public records destruction.
The
public meeting video was edited to remove Tory Pegram’s challenge to
the board’s oversight authority. This is a Sunshine Law violation—the
destruction and alteration of public records to hide inconvenient
challenges to institutional power.
David Rice of Hick Christian comments on the ever-evolving accusations from the WAC blog. "Criminal intent" and "embezzlement" did not work out, so now they have moved on to other accusations. Read Rice's article HERE. A snippet:
"'We Are Concerned' wants taxpayers to believe that legal expenses are evidence of wrongdoing by the current board. The opposite is true. These expenses represent the cost of cleaning up years of institutional dysfunction created by board members who prioritized social approval over statutory responsibilities.
The current board could have chosen the easier path—continuing to let staff operate without oversight while collecting praise from progressive activists. Instead, they chose accountability, transparency, and legal compliance. That choice has a price, but it's a price previous board members forced on taxpayers by allowing the system to operate outside proper governance for years."
It isn't just the Christian County Library District that was ensnared in a system that allows for administrative government employees to govern rather than those publicly elected/appointed. This problem is in your school districts, your planning and zoning boards, your health boards, etc.
Allowing NGOs (non-governmental organizations) like the ALA and the MLA to determine policies and rules, to lobby our legislators, and to train our librarians means our taxpayer-funded entities have given up governance By the People. It is essentially Government by NGO.
Like a medieval exorcism, this usurping system is not going easily. Kicking, screaming, howling--it still must go.
"A library is a sacred place because books are, in a way, a collection of consciousness. They aren’t just ink, pages, and shelves. Each volume contains the preserved mind of another human being, allowing us to transcend the limitations of time and space to connect with thoughts not our own." -- David Rice
David Rice has penned a well-researched article about libraries, and the two different spaces they occupy in our culture. Secular and sacred. Secular in the sense that libraries are a repository of human knowledge and should widely reflect many points of view. Sacred in the sense that the collected wisdom--the good, the true, and the beautiful--are to be housed for our benefit and cherished as an indelible part of our culture.
When one viewpoint rules in a library, it is no longer about knowledge or wisdom. It becomes about indoctrination and agendas and frankly, tyranny.
"The circulation facts show that most books remain on the shelf while only a handful are circulated. This “80/20 rule” observed in library science, where roughly 80% of circulation comes from about 20% of the collection, reveals something profound about these institutions. But who gets to decide which knowledge is needed? Librarians? Or publishers?" -- David Rice
Libraries, for the Left, are no longer about knowledge unless it is their knowledge. It is no longer about wisdom unless it is their wisdom. From a recent newsletter comes this Marxist drivel:
"But reading is not enough.
There are many ways each of us can fight against the rise of fascism,
white supremacy, and anti-trans ideology across the globe—and those are
all linked." -- Danika Ellis
Ellis is decrying the UK's court decision that one's sex is determined by the genitals one has at birth. She actively urges readers to not only buy and read books by and about transgender people, but that one needs to protest, donate to transition funding, get involved politically, and so on. She follows with a list of books that promote and celebrate transgenderism.
This is what David exposes in his article--that libraries have become temples to foreign ideologies. Some librarians have become high priests and priestesses, asserting their authority to fundamentally change the mission and focus of these liminal spaces.
"What makes this situation especially troubling is that the silenced patrons are the very ones funding these institutions. Their tax dollars pay for both the collection of objectionable materials and the salaries of the fragmented minds who curate them—yet their concerns are dismissed as irrelevant or dangerous to 'intellectual freedom.'” -- David Rice
If a library is publicly-funded, it belongs to the people as a whole, and not a small coterie of "experts" bent on implementing political and social change.
Read his article HERE. You will be smarter for having done so.
