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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Keely et al,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Sorry I didn’t go into detail in my earlier email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Palin was mayor from 1996-2002, and it was during her first
mayoral term that the book banning conversations took place – I don’t
know exactly when, but they would have been prior to the library director’s
resignation effective 8/31/1999.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecapple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The following three books
were on the list in the email you forwarded – note the publication dates:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecapple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harry Potter and the Prizoner
of Azkaban wasn’t published until September, 1999</span></span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>
<span class=ecapple-style-span>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wasn’t
published until July, 2000<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecapple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harry Potter and the Chamber
of Secrets wasn’t published until November, 2003<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecapple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=ecapple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I didn’t check any of
the other books, so there could be other impossible candidates there as well.
The publishing info for the three above show that the list couldn’t
possibly be a list of books Palin had attempted to ban because these three
books weren’t even published until <b>after</b> Palin’s inquiries.
Again, the list is a valid list of books banned in the US at “one time or
another,” but it isn’t a list of books Palin attempted to ban:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html">http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Of course, the fact that the specific list of books attributed
to Palin seems to be erroneous does <b>nothing</b> to mitigate the horror that
she was interested in banning <b>any</b> books from the public library, which
is just one more terrifying step towards authoritarianism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2008
through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt,
or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written
permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>keely emerinemix<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Palin and book banning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Earlier today, I passed along an email from
my husband's cousin about Sarah Palin's efforts to have books banned from the
Wasilla, Alaska, public library. The post included the names of the books
she supposedly attempted to remove from the library's shelves.<br>
<br>
I would not knowingly pass along false information, and if this is not a true
story -- if it's not an accurate account of any attempts, if there are any, of
Palin's attempts to take certain titles off the shelves -- then I shouldn't
have posted it. Dale Courtney says it's false. I don't know.
But if someone out there can demonstrate to me that what I passed along was, in
fact, false, then I apologize now and will again. <br>
<br>
I think book banning is wrong. I think Sarah Palin is too
conservative. I was aghast at the list of books she (evidently, or not)
tried to have banned. But truth is more important to me than making a
point against Palin is, and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And I will
apologize.<br>
<br>
So, Dale -- or anyone else -- show me that the email was incorrect and I'll
apologize. <br>
<br>
Keely<br>
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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