I came across this article by Kathleen Peine at the CounterPunch.org website, and I'm posting this excerpt as a follow-up to my post from yesterday regarding the destruction of the #OWS People's Library by the NYPD:
Here’s a little trick brought to you by a lover of simplicity: did you know that you can look at any political group or entity in power…then look at how they treat books. Do they value or destroy them? This will allow you to figure out who the good guys are! Pretty simple, huh? Decent entities do not fear sunlight or the free exchange of ideas. It’s a certain truth. Folks who burn books or tear down libraries are never who you want in charge. But they always seem to find their way there, don’t they? It’s obvious when a nation has reached a dangerous time -when books are targeted as dangerous trash to remove. Hey, that’s sort of how they treated the OWS protesters themselves. They are full of ideas and open horizons – the Bloomberg billionaires don’t want that sort of thing to dwell in the minds of the staff (or would be staff). And the first OWS encampment was a hotbed for the sharing of these ideals. And let me get this straight….in order to improve on the hygiene of the park; they took items in trash trucks to redistribute later? Sure. None of it makes sense because once again, they destroy to save, beat to bring order, and create filth to bring cleanliness.
Read the whole thing here.
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