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From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot)
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Subject: Re: To L S Chabot re button
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 15:23:11 EST
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Ken Arndt  ==  >
> I am running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which
> one, and I plan to have buttons ... made up to say 'I burn banned books!!' 
> 
> It's dirty work, but someone has to do it.
> 
> Any books you might suggest for my list???

Suggest you burn all of them.  You never know, might be something dangerous in
them.  Start with the Bible--especially the old testament; it's highly 
seditious.

Your buttons ought to read "I Ban Read Books".  Unless, of course, you're
going to take my suggestion to burn all of them: in that case you needn't worry
about whether or not anyone reads them.

About five years ago a town in Arkansas banned the novelization of "Flowers for
Algernon" because, a prominent town citizen was quoted as saying, it contained
four-letter words about the sex act.  I sat down to read it right away!  Sure
enough, I found them: "baby" and "love".  No others.

L S Chabot
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