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A Proposal to the Kansas Legislature

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:56:00 +0000

A Proposal to the Kansas Legislature

AN ACT concerning public libraries and schools; relating to the protection of childhood innocence and parental responsibility; requiring identification of and parental opt-in consent for sexually explicit materials; amending K.S.A. 21-6401, K.S.A. 21-6402 and K.S.A. 12-1225; requiring the Kansas State Library Handbook to address this act; and repealing the library affirmative-defense loophole in certain circumstances.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act.

Section 2. Legislative Findings and Purpose. The legislature finds that: (a) Parents possess the fundamental constitutional right to direct the upbringing, education, and moral development of their children, as recognized by K.S.A. 38-141 and long-standing decisions of the United States Supreme Court; (b) Children do not possess a constitutional right to access sexually explicit materials; (c) Public libraries and schools act in a governmental capacity and must prevent accidental exposure of minors to sexually explicit materials that are in view or within reach of children in any physical or digital setting; (d) Pursuant to K.S.A. 21-6401 and K.S.A. 21-6402, adults in positions of authority in public institutions have a statutory duty to protect children from the promotion of obscenity and material harmful to minors by taking affirmative steps to shield minors from such content; and (e) The purpose of this act is to require transparent identification of and affirmative parental consent for any sexually explicit material while preserving access for consenting parents and upholding the First Amendment rights of adults.

Section 3. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) “Sexually explicit material” means any book, publication, digital resource, display, illustration, or other material that: (1) contains visual or written depictions or descriptions of sexual conduct as defined in K.S.A. 21-6401(f)(2); or (2) meets the definition of material harmful to minors under K.S.A. 21-6402(b). (b) “Sexual conduct” has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 21-6401(f)(2). (c) “Harmful to minors” has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 21-6402(b). (d) “School entity” means any public school, school district, charter school, or school library. (e) “Library entity” means any public library, regional library system, or library consortium operating under Kansas law. (f) “Digital material” means any material made available to a child through an online account, catalog, application, or digital platform tied to a public library entity, school entity, or government-issued library or school credential, including but not limited to consortium-shared resources such as Sunflower eLibrary.

Section 4. Policy Requirements for All Library and School Entities. (a) The governing body of every library entity and school entity shall develop and publicly post a written policy, after reasonable public notice and opportunity for comment at a public forum, that: (1) directly identifies all sexually explicit materials that are in view or within reach of children in any physical area of the facility or in any digital material accessible through an online account tied to a government entity; (2) requires written parental consent before any minor may access or view such materials; and (3) provides non-explicit alternative materials or assignments when consent is not given.

(b) The policy shall include a standard opt-in consent form that states: “By signing this document I am giving permission for my child to be provided books, handouts and instructional material that may include written or visual depictions of sexual conduct. Sexual conduct is defined in law as acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, sexual bestiality or physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if the person is a female, breast.”

(c) The opt-in form shall include a list of the specific book titles and materials that meet the definition of sexually explicit content and are scheduled to be used as part of curriculum, class discussion, or available within the library, school, or through any online account.

(d) The policy shall permit the parent or legal guardian of a student to review any instructional materials or library books containing sexually explicit content upon request.

(e) If the parent or legal guardian does not give permission or has not submitted a completed opt-in form, the child shall be provided with alternative non-explicit instructional materials and related activities.

(f) Consistent with the duty of adults under K.S.A. 21-6401 and K.S.A. 21-6402 to protect children from obscenity and material harmful to minors, all adults working in or supervising areas accessible to children shall take affirmative steps to prevent accidental exposure of minors to sexually explicit materials. Parents shall be notified of the materials prior to a child’s potential exposure through the opt-in mechanism. This requirement applies to all digital materials made available through any online account tied to a government entity.

Section 5. State Library Handbook Requirement. The State Library of Kansas shall revise the Kansas Public Library Handbook to address and incorporate the requirements of the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act. No policy, guidance, or handbook issued by the State Library may rely upon or incorporate any private organization’s standards or recommendations that conflict with the provisions of this act.

Section 6. Amendment to K.S.A. 21-6401. K.S.A. 21-6401 is hereby amended to read as follows: … (g) The affirmative defense provided in subsection (g)(2) shall not apply to any library entity or school entity that fails to comply with the policy requirements of the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act or that relies upon conflicting guidance from any private organization in a manner that violates this act.

Section 7. Amendment to K.S.A. 21-6402. K.S.A. 21-6402 is hereby amended to read as follows: … (c) The affirmative defense provided in subsection (c)(2) shall not apply to any library entity or school entity that fails to comply with the policy requirements of the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act or that relies upon conflicting guidance from any private organization in a manner that violates this act.

Section 8. Amendment to K.S.A. 12-1225. K.S.A. 12-1225 is hereby amended to add a new subsection: (e) Each library board shall adopt policies consistent with the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act and shall be responsible for ensuring compliance by library staff and any consortium in which the library participates. No library board may adopt or maintain any policy that incorporates or defers to private organizational guidelines that conflict with this act.

Section 9. Effective Date. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book and shall apply to the 2026-2027 school year and library fiscal year.

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Kansas Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act-A Proposal for Common Sense and Informed Consent

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:35:00 +0000

Parents are sick of finding out what their kids have seen after it's too late.

Legislators, the time for half-measures is over. Kansas must pass strong legislation for all public libraries and school materials containing sexually explicit content. No blanket bans. No viewpoint discrimination. Just parents deciding for their own children.

Public libraries and schools are stocking graphic sexual content — explicit illustrations and detailed descriptions of sexual acts — and handing it straight to minors with zero barriers. Both public institutions have policies that state "parents are responsible" while deliberately creating an environment that makes responsible parenting impossible.

Kansas Law Is Strong, But Leaves Gaps for Schools and Libraries

Kansas already prohibits the promotion of material “harmful to minors” under K.S.A. 21-6402 in commercial settings. K.S.A. 21-6401 uses the same definitions and prohibits promotion of obscenity to minors in schools and libraries, however both simply adopt American Library Association style open-access rules, then claim legal cover. The result? Unrestricted browsing, self-checkout of adult books at any age, and eye-level displays of graphic content — while parents are told “you are responsible.”

This is what you see on the cover...

Sex is a Funny Word (Silverberg)

A bright, cartoonish cover with smiling characters and playful fonts gives parents the false impression that the book is innocent and age-appropriate. There are no warnings, no age stickers, no content labels.

Placement in the library is perceived by most parents as guidance on what their child could safely read.

It's Perfectly Normal (Harris, Emberly)

Public Library Books Instructing Children How to Masturbate on the Shelf for Kindergartners

There's nothing on the cover to alert a parent that graphic sexual illustrations and explicit descriptions await their child, including masturbation, genital touching, anal sex, oral sex, and encouragement to experience sexual pleasure.

But this is what your child sees inside...

It's Perfectly Normal (Harris, Emberly)

Sex is a Funny Word (Silverberg)

It's Perfectly Normal (Harris, Emberly)

Sex is a Funny Word (Silverberg)

Look at the text on each page--

Does it look to you like it's written for a first-grade reader?

Both of these books are in the Children's section in many public libraries in Kansas.

Would you know what is inside the book from looking at the cover? Even if you are only a few feet away, would you be able to see what your child has just seen?

How exactly are parents supposed to exercise that responsibility when the author and publisher deliberately hides the content behind comforting, child-friendly and inviting packaging? Even if the word "sex" is on the cover, when the book is in a pile of kids books, it doesn't really click as to what's inside because parents don't expect this content to be in the Children's section at the public library or in the school library.

That's intentional and deceptive.

This is not parental empowerment. This is a deliberate setup that makes real parental oversight impossible. They cannot pre-read every title on every shelf or every digital download from Sunflower eLibrary.

Parents cannot be expected to read every book in the library before their child looks at it.

But you know who can, don't you?

Regional library systems, public libraries and public schools across Kansas already use sophisticated AI-powered curation software every single day. Tools built into OverDrive/Libby, Follett Destiny, Baker & Taylor’s Title Source, and other common library management systems routinely scan thousands of titles for age-appropriateness, violence, language, and sensitive content. These AI systems flag books for “mature themes,” “sexual content,” “drug use,” and dozens of other categories in seconds.

There's no need to repeat the process, because publishers and editors have already reviewed all materials before the pages are printed. There's no secret being kept from the libraries or schools as to the content of the books children are given.

Only parents are expected to figure out what their child is going to be exposed to while everyone else involved already has the information.

That's called gaslighting.

Libraries and public schools are not incapable of curating the books that your children see based on content. They choose to base collection policies on subjective literary awards and marketing from publishers. Community Standards are not part of the process.

How exactly does that work?

Somehow parents are supposed to be able to know what is inside every book that their child picks up to look at, but the library-- with powerful AI tools and documented text review for all available literature in all of history-- is suddenly technologically helpless and cannot be expected to even identify sexually explicit materials.. Library Boards and School Boards approve policies that give children open access graphic sexual content while making it nearly impossible for parents to exercise their rights over their own children.

Right now, there is no pre-collection review process, no age-appropriate shelving, and no content warnings. Titles are ordered according to direction from publishers and marketing companies who are not required to follow Kansas law. This deliberate refusal to enforce or even consider 21-6401 and 21-6402 leaves children unprotected and forces parents into reactive, book-by-book fights after the fact.

Kansas law already has an religious opt-out in K.S.A. 72-3120 (which is an attendance statute) but it is narrow, reactive, and practically useless for library books or broad curriculum content. Parents must first discover the explicit material after their child has already seen it, then beg the school to excuse participation in a single ‘activity.’

That is not exercising parental rights — that is a game of parental Whack-A-Mole.

The Child Internet Protection Act (K.S.A. 75-2589) allows children to be exposed to adult materials hiding under the shell that houses the online library access at school since the CHIP act applies only to external websites on public computers.

Parents just have to wait for the ultimate "gotcha" moment, when the child sees something they are not ready for and innocence cannot be recovered. then jump through bureaucratic hoops and roadblocks, attend meetings, protest in writing, or stop going to the library entirely in order to protect their children.

If Parents are supposed to know what is in every book, then why is it too much to ask of the libraries?

Publishers, editors, public libraries and public schools all have the option use AI tools to identify sexually explicit material that meets the clear definitions already written in K.S.A. 21-6401 and 21-6402, and voluntarily share that information with parents prior to the children being exposed to the materials so parents can decide what's best for their children.

No Laws Support Opposition to Parental Rights

Publishers, booksellers, nor public schools/libraries have no authority to override parents fundamental rights to direct their children's education, upbringing and moral development.

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) and Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972): Parents have a substantive due-process right (14th Amendment) to control their child's education and moral formation.
Ginsberg v. New York (1968): The Supreme Court explicitly upheld stricter "variable obscenity" standards for minors. States may prohibit sales/distribution of materials "harmful to minors" (e.g., nudity or sexual depictions appealing to prurient interest for kids) even if not obscene for adults. The Court rejected the argument that minors have the same "freedom to read" sexual content as adults, emphasizing parental authority and the state's interest in shielding children. This case is cited frequently because the interpretation is it is not censorship to restrict children's exposure to sexually explicit materials.
K.S.A. 21-6402 "Harmful to Minors" Kansas law defines “material harmful to minors” using the three-prong Miller test (adapted for minors from Miller v. California, 1973):

1. Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the material, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest of minors;

2. Whether the material depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law; and

3. Whether the material, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

K.S.A. 21-6401 "Promotion of Obscenity to Minors" uses the same definitions as 21-6402 and applies the Miller test to materials in libraries, and hold library boards responsible
Mahmoud v. Taylor (June 2025): The Court expanded this, holding that schools must accommodate parental opt-outs (under Free Exercise and due process) when curriculum implicates religious/moral objections to certain content (including LGBTQ+ themes). It rejected schools' attempts to override parental authority in the name of inclusivity or access.
K.S.A. 38-141 preserves parents fundamental rights to exercise primary control over the care and upbringing of their children in their charge.
Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico (457 U.S. 853, 1982) recent 5th Circuit rulings (2025) have narrowed Pico further, emphasizing that removal for vulgarity or unsuitability is permissible. Limits only removals motivated purely by disagreement with ideas (viewpoint discrimination). Affirmatively permits restrictions based on pervasive vulgarity, explicit sexual content, or educational unsuitability—the exact criteria Kansas law uses to protect minors. Leaves intact the state’s compelling interest in shielding children from material harmful to minors.

Books cannot be removed from libraries or schools just because someone doesn't like the content.

When an “idea” is conveyed through sexually explicit content that meets the K.S.A. 21-6401 definition (or the harmful-to-minors standard), access may be restricted in a school or library on the basis of being sexually explicit or consistently vulgar. Materials containing LGBTQ ideology but no sexually explicit content would be protected from removal under the current laws. If the restriction is to comply with state child-protection law and parental rights, it is constitutional under Pico. Courts routinely distinguish legitimate educational/child-protection motives from the pretext of ideological censorship.

In short:

Preventing exposure to obscenity/harmful-to-minors material—is expressly allowed by Pico’s own language and the dissents.
Pico does not create a constitutional right for students, parents, publishers, or educators to demand school-provided access to materials that Kansas law deems harmful to minors.
Schools/libraries remain bound by K.S.A. 21-6401/6402 and cannot be forced by Pico to violate those statutes or override parental authority.

Other States are Already Working on the Issue

Arizona’s opt-in law (HB 2495) (2022) requires public schools to identify qualifying materials and requires parental consent on a per-material basis. If consent is not secured, an alternative assignment that does not contain sexually explicit material must be offered. "All textual, visual, and audio materials or materials accessed via any other medium are prohibited from depicting sexual conduct, including acts of masturbation, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breasts. Parental consent is required before materials referring to sexual excitement, meaning the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal and any content describing "ultimate sexual acts" meaning sexual intercourse, vaginal or anal, fellatio, cunnilingus, bestiality or sodomy. A sexual act is simulated when it depicts explicit sexual activity that gives the appearance of consummation of ultimate sexual acts."

There have been no successful legal challenges to this law.

Pennsylvania Senate Bill 230 (introduced February 3, 2025) offers a proven, common-sense solution that actually puts parents back in charge. SB 230 amends the Pennsylvania Public School Code to require every public school entity (districts, charters, etc.) to create a clear parental-control policy for sexually explicit content. The bill does not ban books. Instead, it demands transparency and affirmative consent:

Mandatory identification: Schools must publicly list every instructional material and library book that contains “sexually explicit content.”
Opt-in consent form: No student can be given or allowed access to such material unless a parent or guardian signs and returns a specific opt-in form. The form must include the exact legal warning and a list of titles.
Advance lists: The form must include the specific titles and materials scheduled for use or available in the library that meet the definition.
Automatic alternatives: If a parent does not opt in (or fails to return the form), the child receives non-explicit alternative materials and activities with no academic penalty.
Parental review right: Parents can request to examine any qualifying material at any time.
Public input: Schools must hold a public forum before adopting the policy.

SB 230 is built on one clear theory: parents are the rightful gatekeepers. Schools must create a transparent policy, list every qualifying title, and use a specific opt-in form that cites the legal definition of “sexual conduct.” Parents can review the materials if they wish. It covers curriculum, handouts, and libraries alike.

The pending legislation is not vague nor overbroad. It is a straightforward mechanism that respects both parental rights and the First Amendment. The definitions are precise and track Kansas’s own statutes. This bill will empower parents without removing books and without running afoul of Pico.

This is common-sense protection that respects the reality every parent already knows: children explore open environments without knowing the risks or dangers that await them.

It's Time for Kansas to Solve the Problem

A Kansas version of PA SB 230 and AZ HB 2495 would fix this enforcement gap immediately. By requiring schools and libraries to identify every qualifying book in advance and obtain opt-in informed consent, the law would create a clear, enforceable record. Material that meets the Miller test for “harmful to minors” could no longer be quietly made available to children without parental permission.

A similar bill in Kansas would finally enforce our existing harmful-to-minors laws and give families the tools they need to exercise their fundamental responsibilities. Violations would trigger both the new transparency law and the existing criminal statutes — finally giving district attorneys and the Attorney General the tools they need to act.

This proposed bill creates a real, workable parental control mechanism that actually enforces existing harmful-to-minors laws (21-6401/21-6402) instead of leaving parents to fight reactive battles with limited tools. Public institutions would be accountable for using available tools to ensure that unexpected sexually explicit content will not be accessed by children unless parents are aware and give permission.

This would be far stronger than any existing legislation intended to restore Parent's Rights because it is:

Proactive — requires schools/libraries to identify sexually explicit materials in advance and get opt-in informed consent before exposure.
Broad — applies to both instructional materials and library books (physical and digital).
Clear — uses a standardized form with a list of titles to review and the statutory definitions.
Enforceable — ties compliance to the loss of the affirmative defense in K.S.A. 21-6401 and 21-6402.

In summary, the proposal says:

Apply 21-6401 and 21-6401 before giving access to children and change the policy to require parental opt-in consent for any qualified materials, or lose the legal shield and face the consequences of violating Kansas law if sexually explicit materials are made accessible to children without parental consent.

It's that simple.

This legislation would resolve all battles over Reconsideration Requests and bizarre library policies that limit reconsideration to once every 5 years per title. If a parent doesn't want their child to read a certain book, they don't give permission.

No one is asking librarians to read every page of every book. This law would require them to use the very AI tools they already own and operate to flag the narrow category of sexually explicit content — using tools and abilities they already have.

This bill would end the charade. It does not remove books. It simply requires libraries and schools to identify sexually explicit materials in advance, give parents a clear list of the materials their child may see, an opt-in consent form, and provide non-explicit alternatives when consent is not given. For the first time, parents would actually have the information they need before their child sees the book — truly enabling them to do exactly what librarians have insisted is the parent’s job all along.

Library and School Boards have always had the power to protect children from sexually explicit content. If this proposed legislation becomes law, they will both have the legal responsibility.

Public Schools and Public Libraries are Co-Mingled

Kansas public schools and public libraries operate as a coordinated governmental network when they share student enrollment data to issue library accounts and grant minors access to sexually explicit materials — frequently on school computers and networks.

This data-sharing and account linkage constitutes joint state action. When students access library content through school-issued devices or school networks, the school actively facilitates and hosts the library’s materials. Under Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988) and Pico, the school bears responsibility for content delivered in its environment, including the public library materials made accessible to minors.

Both entities are bound by the same statutes:

K.S.A. 21-6401 and 21-6402 (protecting minors from obscenity and harmful material), and
K.S.A. 38-141 (recognizing parents’ fundamental right to direct their children’s upbringing and moral development).

The current practice of issuing library accounts from school records and allowing unrestricted access on school computers denies parents any meaningful notice or consent, directly violating K.S.A. 38-141.

Because schools and libraries function as one pipeline delivering content to Kansas children, the proposed legislation correctly treats them as a unified governmental system. Any material made available through a school-linked library account or on school premises must be subject to identification, parental notification, and opt-in consent. This is not an expansion of the law — it is a necessary recognition of the existing coordinated reality and enforcement of established Kansas statutes and parental rights.

The legislature has both the authority and the duty to close the loophole schools and libraries claim, that 21-6402 does not apply to them when the definitions are clearly present and nearly identical in 21-6401, which does apply to libraries. The library cannot evade these standards by labeling itself “separate” when the delivery mechanism is inside the school environment.

The First Amendment Is Upheld

Critics call attempts to curate by age-appropriateness “censorship.” The opposite is true. Opt-in consent is the least restrictive way to protect minors while preserving full access for adults and consenting parents. The court determined that the state may shield children from material that is not obscene for adults. School and library collections are government speech. It follows Ginsberg v. New York (1968) in which Justice Brennan wrote that "obscenity was not within the area of protected speech or press."

Children cannot have a constitutional right to view sexually explicit or mature content materials when those materials are not within the area of protected speech in the first place.

All materials are readily available to adults, and no public institution is required to provide any particular title or material.

So if the authors rights to Free Speech are not suppressed, and Children do not have the constitutional right to access sexually explicit materials, then whose 1st Amendment Rights are allegedly being violated?

The Freedom to Read from the ALA Bill of Rights is not a right at all. It's a policy suggestion. It's not law, it's not enforceable, and ignoring it violates no one's rights. It cannot override parents rights, Kansas Law, and children's rights to be protected from materials harmful to them.

An Opt-in system guarantees informed consent. Opt-in consent is milder than removal — it leaves books on the shelf for consenting families. No viewpoint is suppressed.

A Proposal to the Kansas Legislature

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act.

(d) The policy shall permit the parent or legal guardian of a student to review any instructional materials or library books containing sexually explicit content upon request.

Section 9. Effective Date. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book and shall apply to the 2026-2027 school year and library fiscal year.

Common Sense in the Spotlight

Parents have the right — and the responsibility — to shield their children from sexually explicit material. Public libraries and schools must stop pretending they have no role in making that possible.

Public institutions that refuse to provide lists, warnings, or consent procedures are not respecting parental rights — they are obstructing them.

Public institutions have the resources to review millions of pages of text and images in a matter of minutes for any materials that have potential for curation. Parents do not have that ability.

Parents cannot exercise their responsibilities when they don’t know what the material contains until their child has already seen it.

Current Kansas law uphold parent's rights and responsibility over their children. Library policies state that Parents are responsible for what their children see at the library.

Kansas Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act will finally make that responsibility possible.

Share this blog post. Tag your legislators. Ask them to introduce and pass the Childhood Innocence and Parental Responsibility Protection Act in the 2026 session.

The fight for our children’s innocence rests with Topeka with one bill that could change everything.

Parents are no longer asking for permission to protect their children.

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)

Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)

Ginsberg v. New York (1968)

Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025)

Miller v. California (1973)

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988)

K.S.A. 21-6402 "Harmful to Minors"

K.S.A. 21-6401 "Promotion of Obscenity to Minors

K.S.A. 72-3120 "Parent's Rights"

Arizona HB 2495 "Opt-in law" (2022)

Pennsylvania Senate Bill 230

The Child Internet Protection Act (K.S.A. 75-2589)

Kansas State Library Handbook

ALA Bill of Rights
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Rutherford County Library System Being Bullied by American Library Association Mirrors

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:18:00 +0000

Rutherford County Library System is about to be bullied by the American Library Association and other major national groups that are part of ALA's Unite Against Book Bans, including American Civil Liberties Union and the National Coalition Against Censorship.

On March 16, 2026, the library board voted 8-3 to move books, mainly about so-called trans children, to the adult section, likely because many now believe medical transitions for children involve horrible mutilation with life worsening and shortening consequences, let alone sterilization. The library director Luanne James refused to comply with the board's directive. Now ALA is bringing its full weight to bear on Rutherford County as it does in hundreds of communities nationwide. This article will disclose some of the ways in the present case.

To start, the ALA has created a local group called "Rutherford County Library Alliance." See:

"Tennessee Walking Horses - TN Parents Astroturfed by ALA Use High Stepping Lies to Overwhelm Rutherford County Library Board; It's an ALA Pattern Nationwide," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 15 December 2023.
"ALA Details Bribes to Convince Governments to Sell Out Children," by Dan Kleinman, SafeLibraries, 12 March 2024.
"so we reached out to a, we reached out to a group and formed the alliance" https://www.youtube.com/live/Zisf2MWKcLk?t=87
$28,999 - "Created and supported 18 local library Alliances to conduct public education and outreach about the First Amendment in Libraries, along with research into book bans."

Rutherford County Library Alliance is a bought and paid for astroturf group for ALA. RCLA even admitted it ("we reached out to a group and formed the alliance"). ALA (via EveryLibrary) 990 filings show its standard operating procedure is to "create and support ... local library Alliances," as shown above. Yet media treats RCLA as if it is truly local, not an astroturf group created and funded by Chicago's ALA to be the Rutherford County branch of the Chicago ALA. The Tennessee Freedom to Read Project (TFRP) is another ALA creation, only this one admits to it: "EveryLibrary, the national political action committee for libraries, supports TNFRP's website and digital engagements."

EveryLibrary 990: "create and support ... local library Alliances"

ALA then has its specially awarded librarians write letters in support of the local group and of the library director defying the library board. One such librarian, Kelly Jensen, who previously trained librarians how to block Christians from book readings in public library meetings rooms, has written an article listing the email of every board member and urging all of her readers to write to the board in support of the library director. The ALA-astroturfed local group will then be at the next meeting handing out purple shirts (an ALA plan to represent red and blue voters united, which they are not when it comes to harming children in libraries) that are provided by ACLU, and books provided by NCAC. Someone let me know what books so I can update this post.

Another way ALA is bringing pressure to bear is by doing what it usually does, namely, lying. Recently Campbell County Public Library in Gillette, Wyoming, had a library board decide to jettison all ALA policy. Library director Terri Lesley decided to adhere instead to Chicago's ALA diktat instead of the board's new rules. So she was fired. She then got help from ALA (though I have no proof for that other than it's obvious given ALA is funding multiple lawsuits nationwide) to sue the library. Without even mounting a defense, the library settled for the full amount of insurance coverage.

ALA brags everywhere that this is a warning to library boards that library directors will follow ALA diktat, not library board rules. It sounds that way, right? Well it's an ALA lie. You see, ALA in the past argued that legal settlements mean nothing. Suddenly its library boards better dare not challenge the power of ALA diktat. ALA argued legal settlements mean nothing when multiple lawsuits by multiple librarians for being s[*]xually harassed by p[*]rn viewers allowing by ALA policy all settled for the limits of the policy. ALA said they were just settlements to get rid of the case, that no librarians have ever been s[*]xually harassed, and that proving such a thing in court has nearly insurmountable odds. So when the settlement favors ALA, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. But when the settlement exposes the harm done by ALA to local communities, suddenly the settlements mean nothing and the underlying claims of s[*]xual harassment are "dubious." So, by ALA presenting half the story, it is effectively lying.

In a nutshell, ALA is creating then getting its local group to get ALA partners ACLU and NCAC to make a personal appearance at the board meeting to overwhelm the voting public. And ALA-awarded librarians are writing posts to get its nationwide pressure network to bring its guns to bear on the board. ALA itself is lying about library directors being fired for refusing to follow board directives as required by law. In Tennessee, see § 10-3-104 - Powers and duties of library board.

So what will the board do? Will it follow Tennessee law and stick to protecting local children from material that directly harms them, or will it cave to a massive pressure wave built up by an organization from Chicago that has been working for over 60 years to eliminate parental rights and uses various groups to give the appearance of legitimacy, including ones it created and funded, to give the appearance of local interest in ALA goals?

We shall see.

And naturally, I'll send this in an email to the board, via email addresses I got from a prominent member of ALA's pressure wave. I'd be curious to find out just how many people showed up or wrote emails in response to the pressure wave. I can guarantee you local citizens have no such organized action network as ALA has where essentially every entity opposed to the board is ALA, ALA generated, or ALA aligned. It's like being attacked by multiple mirror images and giving up because you think you're outnumbered.

Let's hope the local Tennessee children win, not the Chicago ALA (ALA), the Chicago ALA (EveryLibrary), the Chicago ALA (RCLA), the Chicago ALA (TFRP), the Chicago ALA (ACLU), the Chicago ALA (NCAC), the Chicago ALA (Luanne James), the Chicago ALA (Kelly Jensen) and the Chicago ALA (media).

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Community Standards: The Non-Negotiable Shield Against Sexualizing Our Kids

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:42:00 +0000

In recent years, a troubling trend has emerged in many American public schools and libraries: parents are increasingly being sidelined from key decisions about their children's education—especially on sensitive topics like sexuality and gender identity.

This erosion of parental authority isn't organic nor is it accidental--it's a deliberate agenda driven systemic shift that exposes young students to explicit materials and certain ideologies without parental knowledge or consent. These efforts are often justified under the banners of “inclusivity” and “education.”

What exactly did you show my kid?

Ironically, parents are not "included" and many materials are being given to children too young to find them "educational" at all.

At the heart of this issue is the longstanding principle of parental rights—a fundamental aspect of society that has been repeatedly affirmed by U.S. courts for more than 100 years. These rights are being undermined by school and library policies that prioritize institutional discretion over family autonomy. Relief from the Courts across the country is being sought by families as schools and public libraries fight to be allowed to continue the practice of open access to sexually explicit materials regardless of age.

This ongoing conflict underscores a core reality: as the Supreme Court has affirmed, parents are the primary protectors of their children's best interests and possess the fundamental constitutional right to direct their upbringing and education without being shut out or overridden by schools or public libraries.

Opponents, however—a powerful vocal minority—have framed parental objections to sexually explicit materials available to children as censorship, successfully influencing policy in many districts and states to effectively override family oversight regarding curriculum, access to sexually explicit materials, and exposure to politically driven agenda initiatives.

Ginsberg v. New York (1968) is interpreted to say that limiting a child's exposure to sexually explicit materials is not censorship, and that obscene materials are not protected speech.

Constitutional Parent's Rights appear to be placed as secondary to a child's "right to read" which is not a right at all, but a suggested library policy by the American Library Association. "Freedom of Information," does not override Parent's Rights, either, also a suggestion from the ALA, however public libraries use both policies to potentially violate Constitutional rights of parents with regard to children's education and development.

Requests to place books in areas accessible to appropriate ages for the materials are met fierce opposition, cumbersome administrative barriers and denials with little recourse. Adults would have access no matter where the book ends up, and no Free Speech Rights are violated by age restricted curation. Many schools and libraries place books based on age and grade levels, and are guided by Community Standards as well as Kansas Law.

Many libraries allow all ages to access all materials

This is not normal for
a children's section

Your little girl is 5 feet away from you looking for her favorite Dora the Explorer book and this page in "It's Perfectly Normal" (Harris, Robie H.) is what she sees in a book on the same shelf.

Can't un-see it, and now you get to explain it whether you like it or not. Even without the illustrations, you can see that the text is not meant for Elementary School children.

Hays Public Library was asked to put it in a Parenting section so you could see it first and decide if you wanted to have that conversation with your child, but they put it in the Children's section anyway.

Your Rights as a Parent just got stomped on.

Good luck with that.

Public schools and public libraries place sexually explicit illustrations and text in front of your children and require you to fight to protect your child from accidentally seeing it.

Over the last 10 years, publishers have increased the production of sexually explicit materials geared toward children, labeling those books as being for “ages 7-10” or “Ages 8+” with no objective criteria or accountability in making that decision. Those designations are a marketing category, not a Child Protective Standard or criteria for curriculum. Books for "ages 7-10" containing words like "clitoris" and "vulva" are clearly not written at the level of a first or second grade child, for example, as seen in Sex is a Funny Word (Silverberg, Cory)

By Kansas law, many of these materials, labeled as children's books, would be illegal in any other setting besides the Public Library or School Library. K.S.A. 21-6402 (Harmful to Minors) and K.S.A. 21-6401 (Promotion of Obscenity to Minors) with their shared definitions use the Miller test (Miller v California, 413 U.S. 15 in 1973) both indicate that reasonable adults, being “the average person, applying contemporary community standards" could find thousands of books in public libraries and schools to be obscene. K.S.A. 21-6401 applies to both Public Libraries and public schools, and holds the Board of Directors and School Board responsible for policies that allow children to be exposed to materials that may be obscene, as those books would surely meet the definition of Harmful, according to Kansas law.

How far into the majority does it take to be a Community Standard?

Several polls have shown strong public (and often parental) support—exceeding 70%—for parents having the right to review or access what their children are exposed to in school curricula, instructional materials, and libraries. This aligns with widespread calls for transparency in education, where parents want visibility into books, lessons, and content without intentionally difficult bureaucratic hurdles.

Here are some key examples from credible surveys:

A 2022 poll commissioned by the Goldwater Institute (conducted by Scott Rasmussen) found that 84% of American voters agree parents should be able to see the curriculum plans and materials for their children’s classes. This overwhelming majority underscores support for easy access to what kids are learning in school.
A related Scott Rasmussen National Survey (referenced in 2024 analyses) showed 82% of voters favor allowing parents full access to all curriculum plans and materials for their children's classes.
A 2022 Rasmussen Reports poll indicated broad concern about content exposure, with 78% of parents and 84% of grandparents believing it is important for parents to have control over what books are present in public school libraries. Additionally, majorities across parties (including 85% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats, and 69% of independents) viewed it as very important for schools to fully inform parents about classroom teachings.
In a 2025 Washington State poll by RMG Research (for Napolitan News Service), 96% of respondents believed parents should have access to their children’s school curriculum, reflecting near-universal support for transparency in one state context.

These figures come from polls tied to debates over parental rights, curriculum transparency laws, and concerns about explicit materials in schools/libraries.

Community Standards are on full display in these polls.

The practice of disregarding Community Standards not only violates constitutional protections but fractures the trust between families and educators, turning schools and libraries into ideological battlegrounds rather than neutral learning environments. These and other polls clearly indicate the public feels that parents should know what their children are being shown and what is taught to them. That means before it happens. After the fact when it's too late-- the damage is done and the seed of confusion is planted.

Recent court decisions have begun to push back against this overreach, affirming that parents hold primary authority.

The Court ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that a Maryland School Board's denial of parental notice opt-outs for instruction involving LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks unconstitutionally burdens the parents' right to the free exercise of their religion. The Court ordered the school board to provide advance notice and allow opt-outs for the instruction in question while the case proceeds.

In the landmark case Mirabelli v. Bonta (2026), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to temporarily block California's policies (including AB 1955) that prohibited schools from notifying parents about a child's gender identity changes or social transitions without the student's consent. The conservative majority reinstated a lower court's injunction, stating that such secrecy likely violates parents' rights under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause (for religious families) and the Fourteenth Amendment's substantive due process protections to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

The Court emphasized that these policies "conceal [information about gender dysphoria] from parents and facilitate a degree of gender transitioning during school hours," substantially interfering with parental guidance. This emergency ruling, hailed by advocates as one of the most significant parental rights victories in a generation, has placed California schools in legal limbo and could reshape similar secretive policies nationwide.

Parents are the authors of the standards of the communities in which they live. Both court cases are related to violations of parent's rights due to the active (not passive) attempts to circumvent parental authority. Passive attempts to go around a parent's rights would include putting an sexually explicit book in the children's section, and then blame the parent for not supervising well enough when their child picks it up.

If public libraries and schools
would consider Community Standards,
much of the turmoil today
could have been prevented

Community Standards have been left outside the gate as if they don't exist

The surge in litigation —and the avalanche of resulting legislation—is precisely what happens when Community Standards are ignored, while parental rights, women's rights, and children's rights are systematically trampled upon.

Over the past decade, we've seen a relentless push to expose young children to sexually explicit materials and ideologies that promote gender confusion, often without meaningful parental input or consent. The result has been widespread parental outrage, eroded trust in public institutions, and a flood of lawsuits challenging school policies, library practices, and state laws. Courts and lawmakers are now forced to step in and restore the natural balance because basic constitutional protections—long recognized as fundamental to family autonomy—have been overridden using public schools and libraries as launching pad, causing societal chaos.

When fundamental rights are ignored at scale, the legal system becomes the only recourse left to protect children, safeguard women's spaces and opportunities, and reaffirm that parents—not schools, libraries, or distant bureaucracies—are the primary guardians of their children's well-being and upbringing.

Gender ideology has taken over education and dominated the conversation in practically every industry and social setting. Policies regarding what children read and materials used for education have been co-opted by non-governmental organizations with no accountability to voters or families into every public school and public library across the country.

Parents are told that it is their responsibility to monitor what their child sees while policies and legally maneuvered defenses undermine any true empowerment to exercise that responsibility. Libraries and schools are not telling parents what's actually in the books they are giving to the children. What happens when trusted adults over a period of years repeatedly tell an entire generation of children that they or a bunch of their friends are in the "wrong body" and that their parents are wrong about it they don't agree?

The beginning of the end buried in the pages of books for kids

Example:

Sex is a Funny Word (Silverberg), a book in the Children's section in many libraries including the Hays Public Library, has the following quotes:

"But having a penis isn't what makes you a boy. Having a vulva isn't what makes you a girl" p. 71.

"I think this is the part where they tell us about the difference between boys and girls." "Only boys and girls? What about the rest of us?" "Excellent question, Zai. If everybody is different, how could there be only two kinds of people?" p. 72-73.

"Sometimes the people looking see a big clitoris and think it's a penis. Sometimes they see a small penis and think it's a clitoris. Sometimes they aren't sure." p. 77

So if the adults in the room can't be sure if a baby is a boy or a girl, how can the child ever be really sure what sex they are?

They can't, and that's the point of books like this.

This book teaches little kids about
masturbation and points out that
children can't really be sure of their sex

Editors have dropped hints throughout thousands of books that children might be in the "wrong body." Public schools and libraries have put those books in front of millions of children, defending the practice by saying the publisher says the book is for children and somebody somewhere gave the book a good review.

Community Standards be damned.

So here we are...

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort or mental tension that arises when a person holds two or more conflicting beliefs, values, attitudes, or ideas. Children manifest conflicting messages about gender/sexuality (e.g., family teachings vs. school/media content) with confusion, anxiety, depression, or giving in to alignment with one side or the other if only to resolve unbearable tension.

Schools and Libraries have been used as tools, a means to an end, an insidious garden to deeply plant the seeds of gender dysphoria in the most vulnerable, impressionable young minds, advanced and guarded by an aggressive political agenda that should have absolutely nothing to do with children.

Why are children being exposed to sexually explicit materials only in public schools and libraries?

K.S.A. 21-6401
and K.S.A. 21-6402
prohibit display
of obscene materials
to minors

Because it would be illegal in literally any other setting. Public schools and libraries are institutions where Community Standards are supposed to be a factor.

Children from pre-school on up are bombarded with messaging about sexual orientation, gender ideology, confusing mixed messages, and are divided from their parents and communities by all of it.

The resulting generational cognitive dissonance has caused societal upheaval

States are passing laws that prohibit boys from entering girls private spaces, competing in girls sports, listing anything but the biological sex on a Driver's License, and more; all to relieve the cognitive dissonance and legal entanglements that have been created by it.

In the Kansas Senate Bill 244 (SB 244), enacted in February 2026, "Sex" is defined as biological sex at birth (male or female, based on reproductive biology/genetics).

Settled biology now requires a law to enforce it, because little boys have been told for years that they can be girls and vice versa, just by saying it is so, in thousands of books and classrooms across the country.

27 states have laws explicitly banning male students from participating in female sports, requiring participation based on sex identified at birth. This covers K-12 schools (and often higher education). An additional 2 states (Alaska and Virginia) use regulations or agency policies to achieve similar restrictions.

Key states include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming.
Recent additions strengthening laws in 2025 included Georgia, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Utah.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in January 2026 on challenges to Idaho and West Virginia laws (cases like Hecox v. Little and B.P.J. v. West Virginia), with indications the conservative majority may uphold such bans under Title IX and equal protection grounds. A federal executive order (2025) and NCAA policy changes have also aligned with restricting women's categories to those assigned female at birth.

This man was told he could
be a woman if that's what he
wanted to be

Pending legislation in 2026 includes dozens of sports-related bills (96 tracked so far) in various states, often seeking to codify or expand these restrictions, including definitions of sex/gender.

Around 21 states have laws or policies expressly prohibiting males from using female bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, or changing facilities in K-12 schools and/or government-owned buildings (e.g., public facilities). Some extend to private settings or add criminal penalties.

Explicit bans (often in schools/government buildings):

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and others with variations in the laws.

Pending legislation in 2026 includes 44+ bathroom-related bills, with some expanding to private businesses or adding enforcement mechanisms.

Drag queens roll around
on the floor
with children
while parents are
shamed for objecting

All of this because Community Standards are not only ignored, but condemned

How much of a majority does it take to make a Community Standard?

Rasmussen Reports / Capitol Resource Institute Poll (September 2025): An overwhelming majority opposes sexually explicit books in public school libraries.

70% of voters are concerned (50% very concerned) that school-age children are exposed to sexual material that is not age-appropriate.
62% believe books with explicit sexual depictions of sex acts (including homosexual sex) should not be in public high school libraries.
Opposition rises to 74% for middle schools and 81% for elementary schools.
Majorities across parties (78% Republicans, 51% Democrats, 58% independents) say it's very important for schools to fully inform parents about classroom teachings. Source: Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,212 likely voters (margin ±3%).

Earlier Rasmussen Reports Poll (September 2022): Similar findings with high concern.

77% concerned about exposure to sexually age-inappropriate material (55% very concerned).
78% of parents and 84% of grandparents believe parents should have control over books in public school libraries.
70% of parents and 86% of grandparents oppose schools teaching how to perform sex acts. These results show broad bipartisan agreement on parental control and opposition to explicit content.

EveryLibrary Institute / Book Riot Parent Perceptions Survey (2023, updated context in 2025 reports):

60% believe school libraries should restrict access by age or require parental permission for certain books.
76% think parents should decide if their child accesses info on challenging topics like sex ed.
85% believe some books are inappropriate for all children.
95% want school libraries, but with safeguards.

Parents' rights should not face a barrage of legal challenges, it should be the other way around. Parents don't have to prove they have rights, the Supreme Court already did that. Schools and Libraries should have to prove that they are upholding those rights and are in compliance with the law.

Community Standards should be the prevailing wind of common sense

It is the legal and moral responsibility of all adults to protect all children, Parents have the Constitutional right to decide what is best for their child without deception or barriers from schools, public libraries, or politicians with an agenda.

Having a sense of community means knowing your neighbor’s child is as precious as your own—and acting like it. Parents want to protect all children, no one is asking for anything that doesn't accomplish that goal. That's the Community Standard everywhere, for all children are to be protected.

Parents should be able to trust that their Community IS the Standard.

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IMLS is the Latest Target of American Library Association with Kelly Jensen Smearing It As Doo Doo

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:38:00 +0000

Kelly Jensen does doo doo smear on IMLS

Kelly Jensen uses hate and projection to smear IMLS (United States Institute for Museum and Library Services). IMLS gets smeared like doo doo, because this is one underhanded, disgusting technique ALA uses to push its efforts to indoctrinate children in schools and libraries using the taxpaying public's money to do so.

Kelly Jensen's doo doo references, themselves a form of projection, start right in the title of her latest IMLS hit job, the first significant word:

"The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do; Nearly a Year After the Institute of Museum and Library Services was Dismantled, What's Happening At the Agency? What Can We Do to Help Out?," by Kelly Jensen, Book Riot, 2 March 2026.

Oh look, she censored the word in the title by using an asterisk, but it's spelled out right there in the URL. So it's okay for kids and URLs but not for Book Riot by Riot New Media:

https://bookriot.com/the-enshittification-of-the-imls/

In fairness, she did use the word in the text, in one of many efforts to smear IMLS:

"further enshittifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry."

And these people are supposedly "trusted experts" for children, set into law by ALA's "Freedom to Read Act" that ALA is spreading across America and the federal government.

School librarians are not trusted experts. If anything, they represent the "ensh*ttification" of public education throughout America, and the scatological reference is just more projection.

Trusted expert Kelly Jensen is an awarded hero of American Library Association with a Presidential Commendation from ALA's American Association of School Librarians (AASL). That means she's a trusted expert for ALA itself. ALA librarians award each other, like they award books they want kids to read, like Gender Queer. Awards are given to people and books for the most kids harmed or the best potential to harm kids. This is sort of like "Library Girl" Kendra Sunderland won multiple awards from the adult entertainment industry.

School librarians generally are not trusted experts for school children, given they are trained no book is ever inappropriate for any child and given the vocal ones are uniformly opposed to America and capitalism, like the one suing me who published on Bluesky, "THE REVOLUTION IS OVERDUE," but I digress. So many other cases, other librarians, I should write a separate story about it.

Back to Kelly Jensen, here is the doo doo level of her AASL Presidential Commendation arguments against IMLS:

the perfect encapsulation of how the Trump Vance administration is hellbent on destroying an agency dedicated to sharing and protecting truth, facts, and information
the regime's obsession with and dedication to AI is about bowing to technocrats and further ensh[*]ttifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry
The Trump Vance regime
No one in the current regime
IMLS is an arm of propaganda for the Trump-Vance regime
The IMLS Freedom Trucks stole over $14,000,000 from U.S. taxpayers, intended to serve public libraries and museums, and funneled it directly into the pockets of the right-wing private corporation PragerU
the Freedom Trucks, which the regime claims celebrate America’s shared cultural history in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary

Maybe if she keeps saying "regime" often enough it will become the truth? She's a "trusted expert" after all, with a Presidential Commendation. She writes "regime" 20 times in her one screed. Here's more:

a history and philosophy of whitewashing history
It is infuriating to see that states with lower literacy levels, where schools have become the most targeted by partisan politics (past and present), where books and texts filled with facts and history have been yanked off the shelves "to protect the kids," and where money is being stolen from public schools to fund the private education of the already-wealthy are the ones getting the "treat" of Freedom Trucks
These Trucks further lie to some of the most vulnerable about this country’s history and further the propaganda that the regime hopes they’ll continue to swallow down without question

Here's where she calls everyone stupid if they allegedly lack "critical" skills:

Too many of those who will hop aboard the trucks lack the critical literacy skills (of all kinds) to ask questions.

This gutter level of argument and projection goes on and on for the remainder of the hit piece. I'll skip it now.

Contrast that writing with real journalism, real reporting, presenting many of the same issues, but without the hate and projection:

"Top Library Advocate: Backing Drag Queen Story Hour Supports Parental Choice," by Susan Crabtree, RCP Staff, RealClear Politics, 3 March 2026.

🚨NEW: American Library Association President Sam Helmick (they/them) Says Backing Drag Queen Happy Hour Supports Parental Choice.

Helmick’s statement comes amid a fierce debate over the rights of parents to opt children out of sexual lessons or material in schools and the… pic.twitter.com/yYCna3fSuh
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 3, 2026

Also, Kelly Jensen takes a victory lap that she supposedly forced IMLS to change its home page. She writes on Bluesky:

Yes, indeed, the IMLS home page is back to what it was before they spit out AI slop on it last week.

Guess what works? Exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back.

Pure propaganda. First, IMLS likely corrected things on its own. Second, Kelly taking a victory lap is a joke. Last year she wrote an article that had absolutely zero effect on IMLS. She leaves that out of her fakery. Last year she wrote "The Latest From IMLS and What You Need to Prepare For Right Now," and all that exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back made no difference. Though back then she used administration 4 times and no regimes. Now that she's using 20 regimes, that made the difference. She's a trusted expert on her own delusions of self worth.

Besides, how good is Kelly as a "trusted expert" on IMLS if she brags about and recommends other librarians block federal government accounts on Bluesky?

"Mom, what did you do on your Friday night?"

Well, I spent it blocking federal departments and agencies on Bluesky, like in any other normal f[*]cking reality.

I'm looking forward to what the new IMLS will do for America.

How about you?

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Object to this book in the Children’s section? You're out of luck

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:18:00 +0000

ALA inspired policy effectively blocks any meaningful challenge by Parents for materials they don't want their children to see at the public library, even though the law requires it.

Teenagers in sexual positions in

"It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie H. Harris

with illustrations by Michael Emberley.

Many public libraries in Kansas and most other states have adopted a new policy, guided by the American Library Association (ALA), that limits citizens' and parents' rights to challenge books and materials accessible to minors in libraries and via online downloads.

At Hays Public Library (HPL), key policy elements include:

"A Citizen’s Request for Reconsideration of a Library Material may only be submitted by residents of Ellis County." However, HPL materials are shared via interlibrary loan, resource sharing, rural outreach, and school support through the Central Kansas Library System (CKLS), serving 17 counties. Citizens and parents in the other 16 counties cannot request reconsideration, despite most checkouts originating outside Ellis County (per the latest Library Board meeting). This restricts parents' rights to guide their children's education when using public libraries.

"An item reviewed through the reconsideration process is not eligible for review again until 5 years after the date the review is completed." The Library Director does not publicize titles under consideration and can reject new requests by claiming prior objections (even if unresolved).

"Due to the nature of a consortium and digital collections, content on Sunflower eLibrary cannot be reconsidered if it was purchased and shared by another library. Content on other online resources may also be ineligible for reconsideration depending on how the library subscribes to content on each online resource." Minors can download sexually explicit books unrestricted, eliminating parents' ability to challenge shared digital materials—comprising nearly all titles.

HPL refuses to limit juvenile cardholders to juvenile titles or shield children as young as 5 from viewing sexually explicit print books. All ages access all materials freely, burdening parents to prove obscenity rather than requiring the library to demonstrate child protection.

Librarians, per ALA's Library Bill of Rights and Freedom to Read Statement, consider no materials obscene for children, ensuring that all ages have access to all materials. Public libraries and the Kansas State Library Handbook follow ALA guidelines, overriding and blocking parental objections.

A key passage from Justice Brennan's majority opinion in

Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968)

, explains parental responsibility: "First of all, constitutional interpretation has consistently recognized that the parents' claim to authority in their own household to direct the rearing of their children is basic in the structure of our society. 'It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.' Prince v. Massachusetts, supra, at 166. The legislature could properly conclude that parents and others, teachers for example, who have this primary responsibility for children's well-being are entitled to the support of laws designed to aid discharge of that responsibility."

This affirms:

Parents hold a fundamental, constitutionally recognized role as primary directors of their children's upbringing and moral development.

The state can enact laws (e.g., age restrictions) to support parents' responsibilities, not undermine them.

Government has a legitimate interest in child welfare, especially limiting third-party exposure to harmful content without parental consent.

Drawing on precedents like

Prince v. Massachusetts (1944)

and

Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925

), the Court emphasized parental primacy in child-rearing, permitting aligned state intervention.

Troxel v. Granville (2000)

reaffirmed that fit parents presumptively act in their children's best interests, curbing state interference in family decisions like education.

The interpretation supports parents' primary responsibility for children's moral and developmental "education" (child-rearing), allowing laws to restrict unsuitable materials without overriding parental choices. This has influenced later parental rights cases in education and upbringing.

HPL's policy protects the library from repeated requests. While reasonable policies are lawful, a 5-year blackout is unreasonable—spanning from 8th grade to adulthood—prioritizing library convenience over parental rights. It fails to uphold laws supporting parents' guidance of children's education.

Thousands of libraries use this policy, treating reconsideration requests as censorship. At HPL, all such requests sought only to relocate sexually explicit books to the adult section for parental review before checkout; none demanded removal (though the director removed low-circulation titles voluntarily).

Adapted from Sunflower eLibrary and ALA policies, it's nationwide, restricting parental rights and exposing millions of elementary-aged children to sexually explicit materials (defended as educational regardless of age) without parental knowledge or recourse (if prior objections exist).

The Library Director suggested another option: forgo a library card or accept the policy.

So either deal with it or get out and stay out.

Yet, taxpayers fund these public institutions.

Does it sound like this policy will withstand legal scrutiny?

"It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie H. Harris

with illustrations by Michael Emberley.

Does this look like a perfectly normal

children's book to you?

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Public Library Books Instructing Children How to Masturbate on the Shelf for Kindergartners

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:52:00 +0000

Request for Reconsideration Led to

Relocation in Children's Section

"Like other holes in the body, the anus

is usually very sensitive, which means it

can feel good to touch but can also hurt

if we are rough with it" (p. 63)

Sex is a Funny Word (Cory Silverberg)

p. 64 shows "grown up" clitoris and vulva in

a book in the Children's section

The process began with a standard reconsideration request under the Hays Public Library's Objections to Books or Materials Policy. I asked for a sexually explicit book to be placed in the Adult section or in a future Parenting section. The book, Sex is a Funny Word (Cory Silverberg) was on the shelf in the Young Adult section, accessible to 9 years old and up.

After working through the reconsideration process, the request was denied. The Director then took action and moved it to Children's section of the library—exposing preschoolers and early elementary grade students browsing open shelves near computers and play areas to pages and pages of instructions and encouragement to masturbate, intended as sex education for children too young to read the text or understand the illustrations.

I appealed the Director's denial to the Board of Directors per library policy. After nearly an hour in Executive session and a statement by the Board attorney, the Board Chair asked if anyone wanted to appeal the Director's decision to place this book in the Children's section.

The silence was deafening

The board denied the appeal by sitting in total silence, some looking at the table and some staring straight ahead. .By doing so, the board assumed responsibility for the new placement of Sex is a Funny Word in the Children's section at the Hays Public Library.

In the December meeting where I made my appeal to the Board, some members did speak up during discussion. One member asking "Why did we put this book in the Children's section?" The Director responded "That's where it is in some other libraries." The Mayor stated "How can we know which books are ok" and "maybe we need to get some professionals in here to help decide which books are ok?" In this meeting, total silence.

The copyright page of the book shows that the title is for ages "7-10," however there is no objective criteria that the publisher is required to follow when making that determination. The library then relies on the publisher's designation to defend placement of the book, completely ignoring Community Standards as required by Kansas law (Read more about the Policy Shell Games here) and common sense when it comes to exposing children to mature themes.

This was not neutral curation. The director had the option to maintain status quo by denying the request for reconsideration and leaving the book where it was. Instead, action was taken, Choosing the youngest patron section possible in total disregard for the book's content including graphic descriptions and illustrations of sexual organs, encouragement of masturbation, and presentation in a colorful illustrated format appealing to prurient curiosity for children.

There's more....

It's Perfectly Normal is not normal in the Children's section

"It's Perfectly Normal" (Robie H. Harris, Michael Emberley) is also on the shelf in the Children's section at HPL, where little kids can go right from Dora The Explorer and books about dinosaurs to looking at these illustrations alongside text that is clearly written for much older readers.

The text has much of the same verbiage as Sex is A Funny Word, but with even more detail and graphic descriptions of how "after a bit, a person's vagina becomes moist" and "after a bit, a person's penis becomes erect."

This book in the Children's section lists different kinds of intercourse, including vaginal, oral, and anal intercourse. The intention of these two titles is sex education, but the placement

in a section where children who

cannot read the material negates any educational value of the materials.

The industry standard for a child's book is 32 pages, in part because a parent has to read to the book to the child and the child's attention span is well researched and limited. "It's Perfectly Normal" has 128 pages, and Sex is a Funny Word has 157 pages. Books of this length are not typically provided for reading to a child, and both of these books are written to appeal to those above the age range for the Children's section.

Hays Public Library is not the only library intentionally placing books like this in the Children's section. Libraries all across the State of Kansas are placing the books in the same area and fighting to keep them there.

WHY?

What does Kansas law say?

Obscenity to Minors Under K.S.A. 21-6401

K.S.A. 21-6401 defines "obscene" via the three-prong Miller v. California test (1973).The test looks at the whole work (not just one part). It uses local community standards (not national ones) for the first two parts. Kansas laws (like K.S.A. 21-6401 on promoting obscenity and K.S.A. 21-6402 on material harmful to minors) build directly on this Miller test to define and regulate obscene or harmful content, especially to kids.

Any material is "obscene" if all three prongs are met:

(A) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

Prurient interest = shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion (Roth v. United States, 1957; reaffirmed in Miller v. California, 1973)

What is the intention of these excerpts from Sex is a Funny Word?

pg 25: "Sex is something people can do to feel good in their bodies" → Introduces sex primarily as a source of physical pleasure.
pg 28: "Part of sex is feeling joy and pleasure." → Reinforces pleasure as central to sex.
pg 46: "If I could be naked all the time I would" → Normalizes desire for constant nudity.
pg 48: "Some people love the feeling of being naked. When you are naked you can see and touch your body without clothes getting in the way." → Links nudity directly to unrestricted touching and visual pleasure.
pg 60: "Some nipples are sensitive, and some are not. Nipples can feel very good to touch" (with illustrations labeled kids and grown-ups) → Explicitly states that touching nipples feels "very good."
pg 61: "Like nipples, some people's breasts are sensitive and can feel good when they are touched" (illustrations of kids and grown-ups) → Extends pleasure claim to breasts, including children's bodies.
pg 62: "Like other holes in the body, the anus is usually very sensitive, which means it can feel good to touch but can also hurt if we are rough with it" (illustrations) → Describes anal touching as potentially pleasurable, normalizes that touching may be "rough."
pg 64: "The clitoris can be very sensitive, and touching it can feel warm and tingly" (illustrations of vulva/clitoris/vagina) → Describes clitoral stimulation as producing pleasurable sensations.
pg 66: "Like the clitoris, the penis can be very sensitive, and touching it can feel warm and tingly" (illustrations of penises, some erect) → Describes penile stimulation as pleasurable, with visual depictions of erection.
pg 107: "You may have discovered that touching some parts of your body, especially the middle parts, can make you feel warm and tingly. Grown-up call this kind of touch masturbation. Masturbation is when we touch ourselves, usually our middle parts, to get that warm and tingly feeling." → Explicitly defines and normalizes masturbation as a pleasurable self-touching activity.
pg 108: "When you were younger, you may have discovered that it felt good to touch yourself. You may have done this even when you weren't alone." → Suggests masturbation can occur in non-private (that means PUBLIC) settings and feels good.

In Summary for the 1st Prong (A)

Taken as a whole, the book Sex is a Funny Word repeatedly frames sexual body parts and self-touching as sources of pleasure ("feel good," "warm and tingly," "very good to touch"). Illustrations of children's and adults' genitals, nipples, breasts, and anus reinforce this focus. This emphasis on sexual pleasure could be found to appeal to prurient (shameful/morbid) interest in sex. Books intended for education do not typically focus on pleasure in this way.

B) the average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance has patently offensive representations or descriptions of:

(i) Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse or sodomy; or (ii) masturbation, excretory functions, sadomasochistic abuse or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and..

In Summary for the 2nd Prong (B)

pg 60–66: Detailed descriptions and illustrations of touching nipples, breasts, anus, clitoris, and penis, with statements that these areas "can feel very good" or "warm and tingly" when touched.
pg 107–108: Explicit definition and normalization of masturbation as touching "middle parts" to achieve pleasurable "warm and tingly" feelings, including the suggestion that children may have done this publicly when younger.
Comic Book Style Illustrations: Labeled drawings of children's and adults' genitals (penis, vulva, clitoris), nipples, breasts, and anus—some showing erection or sensitivity focus.

The material contains patently offensive representations and descriptions of masturbation and lewd exhibition of the genitals (detailed illustrations and positive framing of touching private parts for pleasure). In Ellis County, Kansas, such explicit depictions and encouragement to masturbate in a book for very young children would likely be viewed as patently offensive. Publishers assume parental involvement or guidance during the reading or viewing of sexual education materials, which would require age-restricted check outs or placement in a Parenting section.

(C) taken as a whole, a reasonable person would find that the material or performance lacks serious literary, educational, artistic, political or scientific value;

(2) "material" means any tangible thing which is capable of being used or adapted to arouse interest, whether through the medium of reading, observation, sound or other manner;

In Summary for the 3rd Prong (C)

The book is presented as educational (sex education, body positivity, boundaries), but the excerpts focus heavily on pleasure from touching genitals, masturbation, and nudity rather than purely biological or safety-focused information.
For the target audience of the children's section, detailed pleasure-based discussions of masturbation and genital sensitivity lack serious educational value. These passages go beyond basic anatomy into explicit arousal descriptions.
The illustrations of children's genitals and statements normalizing childhood masturbation ("when you were younger, you may have discovered...") could be seen as lacking serious value for very young children who could only be toddlers or Kindergartners in younger years.

The pleasure-centric focus on masturbation and genital touching, described using words like "clitoris" and "anus" could lead a reasonable person to find that—taken as a whole—the book lacks serious educational value for children especially when considering that some of age ranges viewing books in the children's section are not old enough to read the book at all, let alone be mature enough for the content. The prurient emphasis outweighs any redeeming value for preschoolers and early elementary ages.

Reckless = Disregard for Substantial Risk

K.S.A. 21-6401.

Promoting obscenity; promoting obscenity to minors. (a) Promoting obscenity is recklessly: (1) Manufacturing, mailing, transmitting, publishing, distributing, presenting, exhibiting or advertising any obscene material or obscene device;

(2) possessing any obscene material or obscene device with intent to mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise such material or device;

(3) offering or agreeing to manufacture, mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise any obscene material or obscene device;

(b) Promoting obscenity to minors is promoting obscenity, as defined in subsection (a), where a recipient of the obscene material or obscene device or a member of the audience of an obscene performance is a child under the age of 18 years.

The statute requires only "recklessness"—disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the conduct will promote obscenity to minors.

(e) Evidence that materials or devices were promoted to emphasize their prurient appeal shall be relevant in determining the question of the obscenity of such materials or devices. There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a person promoting obscene materials or obscene devices did so knowingly or recklessly if:

(1) The materials or devices were promoted to emphasize their prurient appeal;

The book's repeated emphasis on how touching genitals, nipples, breasts, anus, and masturbation produces pleasurable sensations ("feel good," "warm and tingly," "very good") constitutes promotion emphasizing prurient appeal.

With this action, the disregard for risk was obvious. The book was moved from a section for teenagers to a section for Elementary students and pre-school ages. By placing it in the Children's section rather than simply denying the reconsideration request and keeping it in Young Adult (reserving access for older minors while shielding younger ones), the Director showed knowing disregard for the substantial risk of escalated exposure to children by promoting the book to an audience even more likely to experience that prurient appeal defined in Kansas law. The board's denial of appeal ratified this choice, showing collective disregard for the now increased risk of exposure to even younger children, including Pre-K.

In Ellis County—in a conservative Kansas community—graphic depictions of sexual organs and masturbation in a children's book would offend prevailing standards.

"Educational" claims crumble for preschoolers: no serious value justifies exposing 4-year-olds to mature sexual concepts.

Legal Definitions in Multiple Statutes

Support Consistent Interpretation

During public statement, the library's attorney stated that K.S.A. 21-6402 (Harmful to Minors) does not apply to libraries, meaning that any criminal prosecution could not use that statute as a basis. That is correct, however a more protective and productive clarification would have included the overlap in definitions with K.S.A. 21-6401.

The definitions in the Harmful to Minors statute (K.S.A. 21-6402) overlay heavily with the Promotion of Obscenity to Minors statute (K.S.A. 21-6401) and help interpret what counts as prohibited content under the broader, non-commercial latter statue that does apply to libraries. By disregarding the intention and spirit of the legal definitions included in K.S.A. 21-6402, the attorney may have missed an opportunity to educate the Board and Director, as well as the public, regarding the statute that shares those definitions and the policy requirements in following the law with regard to promoting obscenities to minors.

K.S.A. 21-6402's definitions flow into K.S.A. 21-6401's analysis—helping establish that content like these books about masturbation and genital-pleasure sections could be "obscene" for younger ages in a non-commercial setting like a public library. That overlap strengthens any recklessness argument under 21-6401(b) and weakens the library's conditional defense if policies don't adequately restrict access.

The shared concepts are almost identical: prurient appeal, patently offensive sexual depictions (including masturbation and lewd exhibition of genitals), and lack of serious value. Material that are obscene under 21-6401 (full Miller test) will always qualify as "harmful to minors" under 21-6402's variable standard (inspired by Ginsberg v. New York).

Courts interpreting K.S.A. 21-6401 can look to 21-6402's definition as persuasive guidance for what Kansas considers "patently offensive" or lacking value to minors. The explicit pleasure-focused language and illustrations of sexual organs in the excerpts (e.g., masturbation defined as touching "middle parts" for "warm and tingly" feelings, genital sensitivity resulting in sexual pleasure, public masturbation) make it easier to argue that Sex is a Funny Word and It's Perfectly Normal meet K.S.A. 21-6401's stricter obscenity test when made accessible to young children.

No one has to prove it would harm small children to see these books

Kansas courts have never required "scientifically certain" proof of harm for such laws to apply, in line with Ginsberg v. New York, 1968. A reasonable belief in risk suffices. Placing explicit material in the Elementary school section ignores that risk entirely and robs parents of any choice over what their children see at the public library.

The policies of the library make it very difficult for parents to exercise the responsibility they are entitled to, both in the Community and by law.

The library policy states that children younger than 9 years old must have a parent or legal guardian present, but that means that a daycare provider can bring in 5 or 6 children under the age of 8 after school and it's not realistic that one adult can see what the children are seeing when excitedly browsing through books, expecting turtles flying space ships but seeing a drawing of erect penis instead.

The Public Library policy is that all ages have access to all materials, because to do otherwise would be censorship, but that's not accurate

In Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U.S. 629 (1968), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York law which established the concept of "variable obscenity"—material can be regulated differently for children than for adults. The ruling affirmed the state's power to protect minors' welfare and support parental authority in child-rearing, without invading protected First Amendment expression for adults or minors in a way that amounts to censorship.

The Court held that the restriction was constitutionally permissible because it targeted only minors and did not interfere with adults' rights to obtain or distribute the material.

In short, the case stands for the idea that narrowly tailored limits on minors' access to sexually explicit (but not fully obscene-for-adults) material are not impermissible censorship—they serve compelling state interests in child protection. This reasoning has influenced later laws on "harmful to minors" materials, including in Kansas where the definitions of obscene materials in K.S.A. 21-6401 Promotion of Obscenity to Minors are cross-referenced with K.S.A. 21-6402 Harmful to Minors

Why are these books in the Children's section?

If a book is in a section where the children are too young to be educated by it, and it's not censorship to move it, why is it there?

Moving books with illustrations of sexual organs and descriptions of sexual activity to a parenting section would show the library's commitment to:

Alignment with Parental Authority: The U.S. Supreme Court in Ginsberg v. New York (1968) affirmed that "parents' claim to authority in the rearing of their children is basic in our society" and that states (and by extension, public institutions) may enact reasonable measures to support parents in discharging that responsibility (390 U.S. at 639). The Court emphasized that while ideal supervision of children's reading is left to parents, "the knowledge that parental control or guidance cannot always be provided and society's transcendent interest in protecting the welfare of children justify reasonable regulation" (id. at 640). Variable standards for minors' access to sexually explicit materials are not censorship but a way to reinforce parental discretion.

Practical Support for Existing Policy: Hays Public Library's Parent’s Guide and Service Policy already place responsibility for guiding children's exposure on parents/guardians. Moving the books to a Parenting section (Adult) would allow parents to be more responsible for what their children view in the library and prevent accidental access which opens the library up to scrutiny in application of obscenity standards by Kansas law.

Community Standards and Precedents: In Ellis County and similar Kansas communities, concerns about young children's unsupervised access to explicit illustrations (e.g., couples in sexual positions or pleasure-focused descriptions of genital touching) are common. Other libraries have successfully implemented similar relocations, restricted access, or parental-consent mechanisms for sensitive topics without violating intellectual freedom principles. Moving sex education books to a Parenting section maintains open access while addressing developmental appropriateness for children, consistent with expert guidance on delaying detailed sexual content.

No Impact on Intellectual Freedom: The books would not be removed, restricted for adults/older patrons, or labeled as "banned." This respects the Library Bill of Rights while honoring the Court's view in Ginsberg that such targeted supports for parents are constitutional and beneficial.

If the books are supposed to be educational, then they must be kept in a Parenting section where parents can decide at what age their child is ready for that topic.

Parents should be able to trust the library, not have to fight to protect their kids from it.

"Constitutional interpretation has consistently recognized that the parents' claim to authority in the rearing of their children is basic in our society, and the legislature could properly conclude that those primarily responsible for children's wellbeing are entitled to the support of laws designed to aid discharge of that responsibility." Ginsberg v. New York P. 390 U. S. 639.

These books would not be considered offensive in a Parenting section where parents could decide when their child is ready for this information and images or the promotion of masturbation and sexual activity. In the Children's section, they are highly offensive and without any educational value because of the misplacement with regard to ages served in that area.

Parents don't have to prove to the Library Board of Directors that the materials are offensive. The Library Board has to prove to parents that the library can be trusted to protect parent's rights to decide when their child is exposed to sexual materials.

Kansas libraries are taxpayer-funded public institutions. Parents entrust them to actively protect children's moral development. Parents expect to exercise their own rights to decide what sexual materials their children will see and when they will see them.

It defies common sense that books written and illustrated the way that these books are would be purposely placed in view of young children under the guise of "education" when many of the kids in that age group can barely read, and others are not old enough to read yet at all.

It's not about whether a court of law would determined if the materials fail the Miller test. It shouldn't come to that, and it wouldn't come to that if Community standards were respected or even considered at all.

When boards and directors completely disregard the exposure of young children to sexual materials—especially after formal challenge—they don't potentially violate just the statute, but the trust of families and the community as a whole.

Sources cited:

Objections to Books or Materials Policy

Obscenity to Minors Under K.S.A. 21-6401

K.S.A. 21-6402 (Harmful to Minors)

Roth v. United States, 1957

Miller v. California, 1973)

Ginsberg v. New York, 1968.

Ginsberg v. New York P. 390 U. S. 639.

Policy Shell Games Hides Parents' Rights

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The Librarians Film is Agitprop to Produce Outrage So American Library Association Librarians Can Continue Harming Children

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:31:00 +0000

The Librarians film is agitprop intended to produce outrage about "censorship" and "book bans" among the general public so the American Library Association's school librarians may continue to ply schoolchildren with inappropriate material, as they have for 60 years.

Worse, the film is intended to be used as agitprop for years to come. Agitprop means "agitation" and "propaganda," per Dr. James Lindsay, who also discusses "paltering," which is exactly what the ALA does—particularly in The Librarians.

I have already written about the film in The Hill, including its paltering by providing a half-quote of President Dwight D. Eisenhower to give an impression about inappropriate books in schools that is essentially opposite of what the full quote said. Please read:

"Shame on PBS: 'The Librarians' is One Big Lie to Parents and Kids," by Dan Kleinman, opinion contributor, The Hill, February 2, 2026. https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5715291-shame-on-pbs-the-librarians-is-one-big-lie-to-parents-and-kids/.

I will dissect the film as time goes on, so follow me here and @OccupyLibraries. But in the meantime, let's look as how the film is agitprop—because Kim A. Snyder, the film's director, says it is:

[Amanda] Jones said that the film shows how librarians are banding together and bringing these stories to light.

"We've gone from being independent and isolated to what Kim has said, that we're like librarians without borders because we're building relationships with other librarians," Jones said.

Now, after screening the documentary in various places, the "librarians without borders" have started a movement. "The Librarians" team plans to continue this campaign throughout 2026. They hope to encourage civic engagement and take these book debates out of a polarized partisan space.

The PBS broadcast premiere puts the documentary into homes all over the country.

"The majority of Americans really care but had no idea things had gotten like this, specifically in terms of the impact on the librarian," Snyder said. "We want to expose that and have people be both outraged and activated to get civically engaged. We also want to support organizations of librarians as they are the firewall protecting one of the most fundamental rights in our democracy."

Source: "Louisiana Librarian Who Fought Against Book Bans Will Be Featured on New PBS Documentary," by Joy Holden, The Advocate, February 6, 2026.

Kim Snyder is consistent with her message that The Librarians is agitprop designed to get people who support harming kids to get onto library and school boards:

Kim A. Snyder directed “The Librarians” 2025 documentary by American Library Association. It’s agitprop to motivate people to get on school + library boards to ensure children remain exposed to ALA’s indoctrination and s•xualization plan.

Now hear Kim Snyder say this herself. pic.twitter.com/p69pvyDlGa
— Dan Kleinman @OccupyLibraries (@OccupyLibraries) February 6, 2026

So let's not all be taken in by an organization that has worked for over 60 years to eliminate parental rights and indoctrinate schoolchildren.

Lastly, listen to Dr. James Lindsay discussing agitprop and how paltering is used for that purpose—and remember to follow me for more on this agitprop called The Librarians as time goes on.

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NJ Freedom to Read Act Model Policy Is Invalid Since It Was Written by a Fired Librarian

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:57:00 +0000

NJ Freedom to Read Act model policies are invalid since they were written by a fired librarian. School librarian Elissa Malespina, who was fired from Verona High School for book displays on race and LGBTQ+ themes, and school librarian Martha Hickson, who retired from North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School before she could be fired for giving kids obscenity under NJ 2C:34-3, wrote the policy for the new New Jersey Freedom to Read Act. Martha Hickson introduced New Jersey State Senator Andrew Zwicker to the Freedom to Read Act that is written by the American Library Association in Chicago, Illinois. That is now New Jersey law.

Now revealed is that Martha Hickson and Elissa Malespina also wrote the school policies required under the law:

Martha Hickson

Before I was fired, I already knew Martha Hickson’s story. I reached out to her for help and guidance while writing South Orange and Maplewood’s district policies related to censorship and book challenges. Her experience and deep understanding of how these attacks unfold shaped that work in lasting ways. The policy we wrote, informed by her knowledge, is now used as a model across New Jersey.

When I did lose my job, Martha was the first person I called. I was crying. I was overwhelmed. I was dealing with severe depression and anxiety triggered by my firing. Martha did not just listen. She helped me find a therapist and a doctor. She gave me the courage to speak publicly about what happened, not for attention, but so others would not feel as isolated as I did.

Seeing us together on screen, as we testified at a hearing in support of New Jersey’s Freedom to Read bill, was a reminder that this work is collective, and that the relationships built in this fight often begin long before crisis hits.

Source: Elissa Malespina blog post provided in X post thread shown below.

When you see Elissa Malespina together with Martha Hickson on the screen in "The Librarians," it's right after Martha Hickson says, "fifth graders have penises."

And these are the people who wrote the policy to be followed by all schools in New Jersey and modeled in other states.

Unbelievable.

The policy schools must follow per a law written by American Library Association was written by a school librarian fired for gr[00]ming and another school librarian who retired before job action could be taken against her and who worked with ALA to get the Freedom to Read Act passed in New Jersey—because "fifth graders have penises."

"The policy we wrote, informed by her knowledge, is now used as a model across New Jersey."

Unbelievable.

Here we see fired school librarian Elissa Malespina and school librarian Martha Hickson in American Library Association’s “The Librarians” after Martha says, “fifth graders have penises.”

Elissa just admitted she and Martha wrote the school library policy required by NJ FTRA. pic.twitter.com/ekpHNnO6Gj
— Dan Kleinman @OccupyLibraries (@OccupyLibraries) February 7, 2026

By the way, the NJ Freedom to Read Act (N.J.S.A. 18A:34A-1 et seq.) requires:

To assist boards of education in developing a policy on the curation of library material within a school library, the commissioner shall develop a model policy. In developing the model policy, the commissioner shall consult with the State Librarian, the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, and the New Jersey School Boards Association.

Clearly we have an admission here that the model policies were written by two school librarians, one fired and the other who helped ALA get it passed into law in New Jersey.

We have an admission against interest here ("policy we wrote, informed by her knowledge, is now used as a model across New Jersey") that the policies were not developed as required by the law, or at a minimum one of the consultants who wrote the model policy for the commissioner had already been fired for ideologically gr[00]ming school children.

School Library Journal tells us what happened from a point of view very much in favor of Elissa Malespina. Still, we get a sense of why she was fired:

"Mrs. Malespina does a nice job with creating collections for display about equity, specifically regarding the themes of race and LGBTQ. However, the selections never seem to go beyond those two topics. This has created the perception that the library is about only two things and not necessarily about promoting a variety of different books centered around a variety of different topics. Although it is difficult to say, this may be why the number of books that are checked-out of the library is not as high as might be expected. This approach to library displays creates a student space that is not inclusive enough to a wide variety of topics such as sports, politics, health, science fiction, graphic novels, etc. In order to create positive interactions with students and parents the space has to be a hub for events and a space that promotes a variety of topics and interests. It is recommended that there is a reflection on what the space is for and how it can be better utilized to serve the student and broader community."

In the review's conclusion, the principal said he would not recommend that the school bring Malespina back for the next school year.

Source: "After Her Book Displays Drew Criticism, Librarian Elissa Malespina Lost Her Job. She's Here to Say 'I'm Not OK with This,'" by Kara Yorio, School Library Journal, 18 October 2022.

So now we know why she was fired. My opinion from reading this is that she was fired for ideologically gr[00]ming school children. Whatever—this is the person who wrote the policies where the law says "the commissioner shall consult with the State Librarian, the New Jersey Association of School Librarians, and the New Jersey School Boards Association." Even if Elissa Malespina was actually consulted under the law, her having been fired for ideological gr[00]ming of children should have invalidated her participation. Thus the model policies are essentially invalid.

Any law case brought to invalidate the NJ Freedom to Read Act will point to this very issue. Any other state laws copying from New Jersey will be similarly suspect.

The law is not being followed. The policies as written violate the law. This was always the intention of the cleverly worded FTRA as written by ALA, but here is the solid proof that ALA people—including a fired librarian—wrote the policies, not those charged with that duty under the law.

So the model policies are illegal. Schools need not follow illegal model policies, and those that already have should rescind them. They were written by a school librarian fired for ideological gr[00]ming of school children, not as required by law.

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Freedom to Read Act Incorporation Into School Policy Eliminates Local Control

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:12:00 +0000

Dear North Hunterdon-Voorhees School Board Members,

For weather-related reasons, I will not attend the Board of Education meeting Tuesday, January 27, 2026. But I hereby submit comments nonetheless for your consideration. I see you are having a "first reading." So I suppose my comments would apply to that or to a possible "second reading."

[Read the 11pp proposed policy 6163.1 here.]

[Watch NHV BOE discuss the policy here.]

Easy suggestion first. I'd like to tell you my experience obtaining the policy on the agenda so you can know how some might view it, or actually not view it, which is the problem I'll be addressing.

It did indeed take a bit of rooting around to finally find the page having the agenda. Then the agenda says, "First Reading of Policy." It's too general. What policy? It's under "Policy and School Security," so that tells me almost nothing. I took a gamble and clicked on the link. No real notice went to the public other than "first reading of policy." It's almost like it's sneaking in or perhaps being hidden from people like me. Only then did I finally see "Policy 6163.1 – Media Center/Library" and the changes to be made, then only if I scrolled down to the next page. You really have to dig and maneuver to get to the point where you finally get the notice you should already have had from the agenda but it's not there. The problem with this is, besides not providing notice in an understandable form, people who are casually involved in school workings may not ever get to the point of being properly noticed, while the regulars who already know one has to root around are at a significant advantage over casual viewers. You could be discouraging casual viewers, let alone not providing adequate notice. So that's just a suggestion for you to consider.

Another easy suggestion. Existing policy requires people to state their name and address and affiliation, if any, before speaking. At least in other states, that's a violation of state and federal constitutional rights to seek redress of the government and attorneys general have forced public bodies to drop such requirements. Further, in modern times, that exposes people to potential harassment, and it gets recorded on video, so the exposure is perpetual. American Library Association members, for example, file OPRA/FOIA requests for such information, then it is used in lawsuits, movies, whatever. Such information should be clear that it is optional, not required. Who knows, it might even cut back on the need to respond to OPRA requests if the information is simply not collected in the first place, thereby reducing any costs in researching and replying to such requests.

Now regarding the 6163.1 proposed media center, library policy:

1) The policy allows for electronic databases to be used, and they should. However, some of these databases expose children to inappropriate material not allowed if such material were purchased in print for the school library. The proposed policy does not account for that and it should.

2) The policy states, "Every student shall have access to a media collection containing materials appropriate to age level...." Gender Queer is "age appropriate" but it otherwise is what Pico calls "pervasively vulgar or otherwise educationally unsuitable" so it may be removed from the library. Playboy would be age appropriate, for example. That is a weakness in the policy. The policy would allow Gender Queer while Board of Education v. Pico, U.S. Supreme Court 1982 holds the exact opposite result and the book would be removed.

3) The former version of the policy said, "The superintendent has final responsibility for the selection of media center materials by professionally trained personnel including media specialists, teachers, principals and supervisors." That's being removed. The new policy eliminates the Superintendent and substitutes therefor the school librarian. Under Pico, the Superintendent has the authority to immediately remove material that is pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable. No review committee would be needed, saving everyone a ton of time and money. Under the new policy, the school librarian now makes the decisions, not the Superintendent. That eliminates the protections of Pico. Further, nothing at all will ever be deemed as inappropriate by school librarians, other than works by conservatives or dead white males, a term I get from American Library Association directives. The former school librarian for example, Martha Hickson, testified in Trenton, as shown in the new American Library Association film called "The Librarians," that, "in my professional role, there is no p*rn*graphy for minors in, uh, school libraries so there is no need to restrict it. Book restrictions are, however, a form of censorship. Your personal opinion about obscenity does not make it so." Martha Hickson goes on to say, in response to what a legislator said, "fifth graders *have* p*nises." So the change in the policy to eliminate the Superintendent and substitute in the school librarian will ensure that nothing ever gets removed. Voting for this policy change is like voting for anything goes in the school library. Librarians are trained by American Library Association that nothing is ever p*rn*graphy because only a lawyer or a judge can make that decision, and, as Martha Hickson testified, it will be claimed it's censorship to remove such material.

4) The policy does not disclose that Pico applies and California v. Miller, U.S. Supreme Court 1973, does not apply to school books. The "as a whole" standard comes from the Miller case. Miller does not apply in schools. Pico does. So, for example, a school may remove Gender Queer from a school library for being pervasively vulgar and/or educationally unsuitable. Indeed Pico has been used repeatedly to remove that very book successfully. Miller, on the other hand, would require Gender Queer to stay in the library, since "as a whole" it is not obscene, and only a judge can rule it as such anyway. So under Pico, a Superintendent may remove Gender Queer immediately, and under Miller, Gender Queer will never be removed. No book ever will be removed under Miller since Miller is almost never used to determine works to be obscene. It would be a ridiculous endeavor since a case by case basis would be needed, precisely the reason why American Library Association holds it out as the gold standard when in reality it does not apply.

5) The policy is essentially a restatement of the NJ Freedom to Read Act, a law that will eventually be challenged and fail since it overrides Pico and N.J.S. 2C:34-3 Obscenity for Persons Under 18, at a minimum. So I'll save the time of laying it out instance by instance but the comparison with FTRA shows it is essentially a copy, and FTRA was written by American Library Association in Chicago, IL. Board members have an ethical duty to apply local law, not material written by outside special interests groups like American Library Association. For example, the diversity and inclusion language as defined by American Library Association and included in the proposed policy and FTRA would make it so Gender Queer may not be removed, despite Pico, despite 2C:34-3. So yet again, the policy ensures children will, by policy, be exposed to material that could otherwise be removed or not purchased, but for the policy. As if the policy overrides New Jersey law and the U.S. Supreme Court.

6) The policy's removal request procedure is one recommended by American Library Association to intentionally a) drag out the process, b) cost money, c) provide the excuse that book reconsiderations waste money, d) asks leading questions of requesters to get them to say things not relevant to the review but that can be used to sink their request, e) unnecessarily narrows the pool of potential complainants. I'm surprised it didn't put a multi-year limit on again requesting a review since Martha Hickson said it should be five years precisely to eliminate the constitutional rights to seek redress of the government for four years.

7) The inclusion of the parent in the review committee is an American Library Association ruse. It's to make parents think their input is included. In reality, however a parent votes, it is always overridden by the rest of the committee. It's a ruse. In a Florida case, three parents did a comprehensive review of three books and decided two stay but one goes. They wrote a full report. The committee ruled to keep all books without even considering the parents' input for which they worked so hard as part of the committee. When the parents asked why their hard work was not even considered, the librarian on the committee said it wouldn't have mattered since the rest of the committee voted to retain all three books. This is the very ruse that this new policy embeds. I guarantee you all parental input on the committee will be ignored. This will be at least the third way that absolutely nothing will ever be removed from the school library. And it is all because Chicago's ALA has been working towards this goal for over 60 years. If you vote for this policy, you vote for Chicago ALA policy and your kids will be harmed. ALA is getting the school to play all these games at whatever time and expense just to cover up that nothing will ever be removed from the library. Just skip over the charade and make the policy say nothing will ever be removed from the library, so don't ask, and don't complain, and that's it. Done.

8) The policy says challenged material stays on the shelves until the challenge is finalized. That language comes directly from American Library Association. This is now a fourth way the children will remain exposed to inappropriate material despite Pico, 2C:34-3, and the Superintendent's previous ability to immediately remove materials under Pico.

9) The policy exempts from criminal and civil liability school librarians who violate 2C:34-3. By policy, poof, 2C:34-3 disappears. Pico disappears. Superintendents making appropriate decisions under Pico, poof, gone. All by the proposed policy.

10) The policy does not cover the communications of the school librarian. Former school librarian Martha Hickson used her personal Twitter account to conduct school business. She even provided training to librarians nationwide while recording on school grounds presumably during school time specifically telling them to direct message her on her personal Twitter account. Multiple OPRA requests for her communications were easily defeated by claiming there's no control over her personal accounts and she otherwise has no emails to disclose--because she did everything on her personal account. That cannot be allowed to happen again. Require that school business is conducted on school-supplied resources for the board's own good and for proper compliance with open government and records retention laws. Consider making persistently conducting school business on personal accounts a terminable offense. Librarians are trained to use Slack and Signal to circumvent parents, legislators, and the courts. That must not be allowed and can be precluded by policy. It should be added to the proposed policy, although it suffers from so much that it should be defeated. Sure, let them use personal accounts for personal goals and friendships and general librarianship growth, but for school-related communications, that should be precluded. Martha Hickson, for example, regularly communicated school business via her personal accounts with American Library Association. That is precisely why 400 people came to school board meetings and overwhelmed the four locals, two of which now appear derisively in "The Librarians" by American Library Association. The ALA president even gave a speech to all ALA membership that Martha Hickson was super important in ALA's imposing its way in North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School. All done without any records exposed to open government laws or retained under government retention laws. That has to be stopped. If anyone wishes to engage American Library Association about school business, it must be via use of school communications means subject to New Jersey laws and board policy.

11) The policy doesn't even address the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, a significant U.S. Supreme Court decision from June 27, 2025, addressing parental rights, religious freedom, and the use of certain books in public elementary schools. Public schools cannot compel young children to participate in instruction or exposure to materials that interfere with religious upbringing in a significant way. The Court emphasized parental rights in directing the religious and moral development of their children. American Library Association hates that case. That's why it's not in the proposed policy. The only parental rights present are a ruse, as previously stated.

12) "In selecting materials to recommend for purchase, the media specialist shall evaluate the existing collection and consult reputable, unbiased, professionally prepared selection aids, and specialists from all departments and/or all grade levels." This is specifically designed to use only reviews from ALA-approved sources including ALA's own Booklist. It is specifically designed to disallow consideration of reviews from parental groups like RatedBooks dot org. It embeds into the policy an anti parent policy. Did you know that ALA hated BookLooks dot org so much (a parental review site that no longer exists) that it created its own Book Résumés that's just like BookLooks only without the excerpts and graphics but with all the glowing reviews from the approved book review sites? Did you know it was Martha Hickson who initially used NHV time, money, and servers to build what eventually got adopted by ALA as the new Book Résumés site? So the proposed policy includes yet again another subtle but present anti parent policy.

13) Limiting access to children to developmentally appropriate material is not censorship.

14) Books may have s*xualized content but it's not noted in Scholastic reviews and the like. The policy does not address that.

15) Nor does the policy address librarians making available websites that provide access to the very material school policy otherwise precludes.

So what we have in the new policy is the wording from the Freedom to Read Act from Chicago's American Library Association that has been working for 60-plus years to eliminate parental rights and indoctrinate children, crystallized into a policy that was essentially hidden on the agenda page, all to ensure children by policy get indoctrinated and s*xua*lized per ALA diktat. And the policy lacks significant protections and allowances for parental rights.

I have no clue who came up with the wording for the proposed changes, but that person or those persons did what's best for American Library Association, and the school children be damned.

Don't be angry with the way I worded things or what other board members may say about me. Set that aside. For the children, consider what I have said and consider if you really truly want this proposed policy 6163.1 to be applied to your school and your school children and your school parents.

Your policy should allow your Superintendent to remove books like Gender Queer and if it doesn't, something's off. Recall the whole multi-year battle over the books started when the Superintendent told Martha Hickson to remove a certain book, and Martha Hickson went immediately to American Library Association, got them instantly engaged, then intimidated the Superintendent into backing down from his request. The ALA bullying was nonstop after that. And it continues to this day with the proposed wording of policy 6163.1.

Thank you for your anticipated consideration of these matters.

Dan Kleinman

—

Dear NHV Board of Ed,

I hereby add additional information based on new information just received, then one additional comment.

Beth Bourne has published on X https://x.com/bourne_beth2345/status/2015961359180300604?s=61 that the California Freedom to Read Act is causing librarians to admit nothing will ever again be removed from a library no matter how inappropriate. She includes a video of the librarians not caring a whit about harm to the children.

This is directly applicable to proposed policy 6163.1 since the proposed policy is essentially a mini version of the New Jersey Freedom to Read Act. So you can see the similarity between the California and the New Jersey version, because American Library Association wrote them both, and whomever wrote the proposed policy also inserted the American Library Association wish list that means "no restrictions for children."

As I stated in my original email this morning, the proposed policy implements the NJ FTRA so it will ensure school children are indoctrinated and s*xualized per ALA via NHV BOE school policy.

Here is what Beth Bourne wrote, an analogous confirmation from a California public library:

🚨🚨UNREAL: Yesterday I asked the indoctrinated far-left librarians in Davis why they want kids to access s[*]xually-explicit books that encourage p[*]rn consumption, like “Let’s Talk About It.”

The library manager said the recent passing of “California Freedom to Read Act” (AB 1825) means no restrictions for children.

The librarians also seemed fine with predatory men self-identifying into the Women’s Restroom.

To prove the stupidity of the policy, I identified as a man and walked into the Men’s Restroom.

You can’t hate @GavinNewsom and @TheDemocrats enough.

“The California Freedom to Read Act (AB 1825), signed in September 2024 and effective January 2025, requires public libraries receiving state funds to adopt written collection development policies by January 1, 2026, to prevent book bans.

It prohibits removing materials based on topics or views, protects library staff from retaliation, and forbids restricting access based on age or background.”

Why do children need to be indoctrinated into radical queer theory and transgenderism?
Davis branch library in Yolo County, CA near Sacramento.

While I am writing with that new information, here is an additional problem with the proposed policy.

16) Policy 6163.1 should provide for parents what the librarians and school teachers already have, namely, access to a database of all holdings in the school library and all holdings in classroom libraries, sorted by classroom. Full transparency is the key here. How can parents exercise constitutional rights if they are kept in the dark about school and classroom library contents? Martha Hickson even put up black paper on the library windows to prevent anyone from looking in. I entered the library once for a few minutes when it was open and was accused of criminal activity for breaking into the library after hours, supposedly. Why the secrecy? Why the reaction if gosh forbid a parent gets inside the library? Why the OPRA request for library security camera videos to see the alleged crime? How will parents know what's in the library if some policy does not require full access and if the library windows and classroom libraries are kept out of sight?

And this suggestion is also based on new information since I wrote this morning:

17) Policy 6163.1 should include a means to perform appropriate background checks on possible school librarian candidates, including psychological examinations. Times have changed and librarians have turned dark. Such people should be weeded out. I won't list names but one librarian has just been arrested for threatening the President. Another one threatened the President but has not yet been arrested. Others threaten Elon Musk with death. School librarians. Martha Hickson herself posted about 8647, so yet another threat to the President, right from the former school librarian who first ran to American Library Association and caused all the problems in the first place. Granted she was retired at the time of the threat. A library director in Louisiana was recorded days ago telling a patron that her "d*ck" was bigger than his so he should "s*ck" hers. Multiple librarians are involved in what's called ICE protests but is really part of a planned insurrection against the American government. Oh yes, Martha Hickson is one. Such people should not be hired. The policy should weed them out, perhaps even allow for their removal if such behavior occurs during employment. Any investigation should include their social media. Many adults working in the public school system suffer from one or more mental health issues. The proposed policy leaves out that these kinds of people should not be anywhere near children, and there's no mention of anything at all to prevent such possible disasters. The Boy Scouts say "Be Prepared." The proposed changes to policy 6163.1 leaves on the blindfolds.

Thank you for these additional considerations. You're in charge. You need to do the right thing now by setting appropriate policy. The proposed policy is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Policy Shell Game Hides Parents' Rights in Kansas Libraries

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Ancar) — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:11:00 +0000

Just moving these books

to the adult section
won't matter, Sunflower eLibrary
lets kids download their own copy anytime.

Public libraries in Kansas shuffle policies with Sunflower eLibrary and trample Parents' Rights to object to s*xually explicit materials freely accessed by children in online accounts.

The Kansas State Library Handbook (2020 edition, pp. 18–19) directs public libraries to maintain a clearly defined method for handling complaints about materials. The guidance recognizes that challenges may occur and requires the library board policy to oversee a formal reconsideration process, including meeting personally with the Director, submission of a written request, review by designated staff or a committee, and appeals to the governing board, which holds final decision authority.

The 2017 version of the Handbook stated that "the library director should explain that they are complying with the law’s requirements for consideration” (p. 19).

Reconsideration is a procedural right...

The guidance did not change, however the 2020 version states “the library should explain to the complainant its materials selection policy, stating that the library board "subscribes" to the ALA (American Library Association) Freedom Statements (ALA Bill of Rights) (p. 19). The ALA's Library Bill of Rights has no legal force, with the judge describing the statements as an "aspirational creed" rather than a binding legal standard. (Berry v. Yosemite Community College District, Case No. 1:18-cv-00172-LJO-SAB. (E.D. Cal. Apr. 17, 2018). It is not a federal statute and the ALA has no authority in Kansas. No identified cases show any ALA policies being upheld in court (or by libraries in litigation) specifically to deny reconsideration requests for shared digital items. Berry v. Yosemite Community College District limited the legal weight of the ALA Library Bill of Rights in court.

The Kansas State Library Handbook is weaker and less defensible by the recent changes made. Compliance with Kansas statues is required regardless of what inspired the language in the Handbook, which is produced with public funds and issued as governmental guidance to public libraries.

Children have unfiltered access to adult titles and parents can't object...

Sunflower eLibrary, a statewide consortium serving up to 150 Kansas public libraries, enforces a policy that categorically bars reconsideration of tens of thousands of shared digital materials stating, “Due to the nature of consortium or digital content, it is not possible for individual libraries to remove shared and/or content from the consortium. Individual libraries may remove content purchased under their Advantage accounts. Patrons wishing to challenge content need to submit a formal reconsideration request with each library that owns a copy of the title on the consortium, according to each library’s individual reconsideration policies and processes. Individual libraries who object to content shared by other libraries are encouraged to reconsider their participation in Sunflower eLibrary” (quoted from email dated January 9, 2026 from Hays Public Library Director).

The Hays Public Library adoption of this policy is even more restrictive, stating, “Due to the nature of consortium or digital collections, content on Sunflower eLibrary (Libby) cannot be reconsidered if it was purchased and shared by another library. Content on other online resources may also be ineligible for reconsideration depending on how the library subscribes to content on each online resource.” As a result, patrons are denied any meaningful reconsideration process for all the materials that libraries make available through consortium access unless their local library owns the title.

There is no statutory, constitutional, or delegated authority under Kansas law that permits a library consortium to unconditionally bar reconsideration of shared digital materials, redirect reconsideration exclusively to an “owning” library, or preempt local library board authority under K.S.A. 12-1225 Powers and duties of board. This restriction contradicts the Kansas State Library Handbook (2020, pp. 18–19)) requirement that public libraries maintain a clear, accessible method for complaints about any material available via its catalog or credentials—no exceptions for shared digital items—and exceeds the consortium’s statutory authority.

Because participation in Sunflower eLibrary is conditioned on compliance with this policy, its adoption produces a uniform statewide practice among member libraries that essentially prevents patron reconsideration of shared digital content.

Enter the Consortium...

The Kansas Public Library Handbook lists no barriers to the formal reconsideration process. The process applies whenever a member of the public objects to any material available in the catalog. A library makes material "available" when it appears in the catalog, and can be borrowed, downloaded, or viewed with library credentials, or are presented as part of the collection. Kansas law attaches full reconsideration obligations at that point, with no statutory exemptions for vendors, consortium membership, awards, nor licensing terms. The Handbook makes no exceptions for digital materials, shared/consortium-purchased materials, nor ownership by another library.

The Sunflower eLibrary is not an independent legal entity but a voluntary cooperative consortium formed by member public libraries to share digital resources via OverDrive. It operates through administrative agreements coordinated by regional library systems. A consortium derives its authority solely from its member libraries and cannot acquire oversight authority nor override the legal requirements for compliance of those individual public institutions.

The consortium does not have the authority to ban reconsideration of library materials in any format, regardless of ownership, in conflict with the reconsideration policies and statutory requirements of participating library boards.

Libraries must break the law to stay in good standing as Sunflower eLibrary members...

By conditioning participation in the Sunflower eLibrary consortium on compliance with the terms that exceed its statutory authority, (eliminate meaningful reconsideration and skip over local library board governance), the consortium violates the State ultra vires doctrine. In Kansas, an act is ultra vires when a public body, board, or agency exercises power not affirmatively granted by statute and is therefore void and unenforceable.

No matter who writes the policy, Kansas law has the last word...

Kansas courts consistently hold that Kansas public institutions, including the State Library, public libraries, regional libraries, and by extension Sunflower eLibrary, possess enumerated powers only. Any guidance issued must implement or interpret only existing law and remain tied to express statutory authority.

Kansas law does not permit a public entity to require waiver of statutory protections or duties as a provision of voluntary participation in a public program. Participation and membership fees (paid with public funds) do not create new authority to restrict patron rights or bypass statutory due process. Neither vendor terms by private entities (i.e., publishers, book sellers) nor consortium policies can supersede public-law obligations. Such conditions are void and unenforceable because they are contrary to statute and public policy.

The consortium is exercising power it does not have, enforcing it through conditional participation, and requiring public institutions to act unlawfully to remain members.

Nice try, Kansas doesn't allow that...

The consortium policy that bans reconsideration of shared materials at the point of access through Sunflower eLibrary is ultra vires under Kansas law. Neither K.S.A.75-2547 et seq. (Regional LIbrary Systems), K.S.A. 12-1225, nor any other statute grants a regional library system authority to override or condition away the statutory and board-governed duties of member public libraries, rendering the policy void from the beginning.

Laundering the Accountability

This arrangement constitutes a public-private policy shell game, deliberately diffusing and obscuring accountability across multiple layers to evade statutory duties:

Local public library boards deflect reconsideration requests by pointing to the consortium's "rules" banning reconsideration of shared titles.
Sunflower eLibrary enforces the restrictive policy in up to 150 public libraries as a condition of participation and redirects local libraries to enforce intentionally difficult and burdensome procedures to discourage reconsideration directly from owning libraries as the only other option.
Upstream guidance from the publicly funded Handbook lends aspirational cover from a private lobby group (ALA) with no statutory authority in Kansas.
The result: responsibility is shuffled so no single entity bears practical liability, while patrons face prohibitive obstacles, in violation of the intent of the governmental guidance in the Handbook.

A public entity may not do indirectly what it lacks authority to do directly.

As an extension of Kansas public library systems established under K.S.A. 75-2547 et seq., and as a recipient and administrator of public funds, the Sunflower eLibrary consortium must operate within the bounds of Kansas law governing public libraries and regional systems. While the Kansas Public Library Handbook does not itself carry the force of law, it constitutes official, publicly funded government guidance intended to implement statutory duties.

Each member library remains a governmental entity subject to Kansas law, and participation in the consortium represents an extension of local library operations, not the creation of separate governing authorities. Neither the consortium nor its member libraries may rely on consent, contractual agreement, or voluntary participation to shield unlawful policies from enforcement or corrective action.

Nothing in the Public Library Handbook or Kansas statute authorizes a director to refuse a request or reroute it solely because another library bought the title. A public library does not have the lawful authority to defer responsibility or duties once their patrons are granted access to the materials.

Direct conflict with Definitions in the Kansas Harmful to Minors Law...

The Kansas Harmful to Minors law (K.S.A. 21-6402) prohibits knowingly distributing, presenting, or making available material that is harmful to minors (appeals to prurient interest of minors, patently offensive s*xual conduct descriptions, and lack of serious value). The consortium policy barring reconsideration of shared digital materials directly conflicts with the law by preventing or redirecting evaluation of material made available to minors. While K.S.A. 21-6402 applies to commercial establishments (may not cover public libraries), K.S.A. 21-6401 (Promoting Obscenity to Minors) broadly prohibits promoting obscenity to minors, using overlapping definitions in the 'harmful to minors' language to how 'obscene' is defined in K.S.A. 21-6401. This statute reinforces the legislative requirement to shield children from sexually explicit books, and does include public entities like libraries. Any public library policy that allows children to access sexually explicit materials is in conflict with the coordinated definitions K.S.A. 21-6402 Harmful to Minors and K.S.A. 21-6401 Promotion of Obscenity to Minors and undermines the statutory librarian defense, preempts local board authority under K.S.A. 12-1225, exceeds regional system powers under K.S.A. 75-2547 et seq., and is ultra vires, void, and unenforceable. The statute requires accountability at the point of access, being at the library serving the minor. There are no exceptions in the law for shared digital materials.

Your kid gets to see it whether you like it or not...

The policy “Shared digital materials cannot be reconsidered” is a categorical elimination of review for the largest and fastest growing category of access. The practical effect is no local review of shared digital content, no local ability to restrict, reclassify, or remove content for minors, no governing board oversight where the minor lives, and effectively no reconsideration process at all for most titles offered by all of the libraries in the consortium across the entire state. Kansas law gives no authority to the consortium to prevent reconsideration of any library materials.

The Sunflower eLibrary policy ensures no reconsideration body has authority over shared digital materials and is incompatible with the statutory design. By creating an unauthorized digital exemption and refusing statutory review at the point of access, whether that be on a library computer or on a personal device accessing the library patron account, the consortium policy flies in the face of the legislative intent.

Sunflower says the Library Board of Directors cannot object, either...

The law holds the Board of Directors responsible, not the Library Director who is following the Board approved policy, so the consortium policy undermines the statutory librarian defense under K.S.A. 21-6401(g)(2) (Safe Harbor) by cutting out board-approved governance. The consortium policy is used by local libraries to shield digital materials offered to minors from reconsideration, but it in effect increases the risks to the Directors by removing the protection of this law.

By stripping local boards of authority to reconsider shared digital materials, the consortium rule exceeds delegated authority and conflicts with K.S.A. 12-1225’s (Library Board Powers and Duties) allocation of governance responsibility. A consortium policy cannot lawfully remove board oversight without express statutory delegation.

The policy surpasses the service-coordination limits of K.S.A. 75-2547 et seq. (Regional Library Systems Scope of Authority) which does not authorize Sunflower eLibrary to preempt locally accessed content governance, nor elimination of local complaint procedures, nor allows the library to use the policy of a consortium to override the guidance of the Handbook regarding reconsideration (which allows no exceptions for shared digital materials).

The Consortium operates outside the law...

No statute authorizes denial of reconsideration based on ownership, licensing structure, or consortium participation. A library consortium that bans reconsideration of materials without statutory authority is ultra vires (Latin for “beyond powers”). A public library board that adopts a policy that contradicts state law is ultra vires and cannot defer responsibility to the consortium who is already in violation of statute by banning reconsideration of shared library materials at the point of access.

The Sunflower eLibrary policy—as applied—is ultra vires, void, and unenforceable. It conflicts with statutory reconsideration requirements, protections for minors, and local board governance. The redirection defense creates an intentional barrier that effectively nullifies patron rights for shared digital content.

Local boards remain ultimately responsible and cannot lawfully defer to the consortium or rely on private ALA guidance. Patrons retain the right to request reconsideration directly from their local board for any accessible material.

Almost half of the public libraries in Kansas have adopted the Sunflower eLibrary policy as an active defense for refusing reconsideration requests and all patrons who use those libraries have been misled by these policies to accept that they have no right to request reconsideration of any of those shared materials, all in violation of Kansas law.

Kansas law—not consortium policies, not private lobby guidance—has the final word. Kansas statutes do not bend to voluntary agreements that strip away statutory rights and parental oversight. Communities have the right and responsibility to protect children, and no shell game of deflection and misdirection can lawfully deny that role.

Resources include:

Statutes (Kansas Statutes Annotated)

K.S.A. 12-1218 — Establishment and governance of public libraries
K.S.A. 12-1225 — Powers and duties of public library boards
K.S.A. 12-1227 — Library board authority (related provisions)
K.S.A. 12-1260 — Library district provisions
K.S.A. 21-6402 — Harmful materials to minors
K.S.A. 21-6401(g)(2) — Librarian safe harbor / board-approved policy defense
K.S.A. 75-2547 et seq. — Regional systems of cooperating libraries
K.S.A. Chapter 12, Article 12 — Public libraries
K.S.A. Chapter 75 — State agencies and public administration
SB 394 — Child Internet Protection Act
State Library and Regional System Regulations K.A.R. Agency 54

Official Government Guidance & Regional Library Sources

Kansas Public Library Handbook (2017), pp. 18–19
State Library of Kansas — library.ks.gov
Kansas Revisor of Statutes — ksrevisor.gov
Kansas Government Information Library — kgi.contentdm.oclc.org
Kansas Regional Library Systems — mykansaslibrary.org

TPIA / FOIA Request 001: Llano ISD Board of Trustees

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:54:00 +0000

Dear Llano ISD Board of Trustees,

There is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees. This is not exaggeration nor a reason for ridicule.

On Saturday, January 10th, 2026 at 9:53 PM, I sent you an email entitled, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability." I then published, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability" at https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2026/01/schools-displaying-librarians.html .

What I sent you, and what eight other people sent you, was published, with only email addresses redacted, on the internet, in a post to a Facebook group called "Llano County News Wire." It exposed personally identifiable information on the TPIA responses. Ridicule ensued at the site, likely part of the reason or goal for the exposure. See: https://www.facebook.com/llanocountynewswire/posts/pfbid0jRsuKFgrr9jEMyLvYFUAxm8nHohD3CEkQvPYyUsXqwRKD3aVUf8XVoQ7N5k9spV3l or https://www.facebook.com/100063579010535/posts/1497987242330562/

By the way, in that comment by "Llano County News Wire," he/she does not merely report news but kickstarts the ridicule of the parents he/she just doxxed. He/she says, "Keep in mind most came from people living in other states or towns." So already the message is don't listen to us; that's not journalism. He/she leaves out that the American Library Association and nearly all of the contents of "The Librarians" comprise "people living in other states or towns." He/she uses it as a smear on parents writing to the school, while defending "people living in other states or towns" as shown in ALA's movie and with ALA policy all over the school that's causing the problems in the first place, the Library Bill of Rights, for example. ALA is from Chicago, Illinois. By the way, I'm in that movie, and you'll see me in the audience in New Jersey, right before school librarian Martha Hickson says, "fifth graders HAVE penises."

The emails exposed were on Saturday, January 10, 2026, from Susan Perez at 11:25 AM, Bonnie Wallace at 12:01 PM (who won the Little v. Llano County case and who is shown speaking in "The Librarians"), Ron Herrin at 4:30 PM, Dan Kleinman (myself who is seen in "The Librarians") at 8:54 PM. Also on Sunday, January 11, 2026, from Deborah Leimbach at 7:52 PM. Also on Monday, January 12, 2026, from Jackie Cherico at 2:12 PM, Mary Moore at 5:36 PM. Also on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, from Teri Hubbard at 7:04 AM, Larry Huston at 7:32 AM. So the most recently exposed was from Larry Huston on Tuesday, January 13, at 7:32 AM. Some of those people were doxxed.

They were then published on the internet at "Llano County News Wire" on Friday, January 16, at 9:03 PM. That leaves a gap of a little over three and a half days, assuming someone knew to file a TPIA request on Tuesday morning.

In Texas, TPIA / FOIA requests take time. A sample form can be found at NFOIC here: https://www.nfoic.org/texas-sample-foia-request/ where it reads, "The Texas Public Information Act requires that you 'promptly produce' the requested records unless, within 10 days, you have sought an Attorney General’s Opinion." In my experience, that almost always means you'll get a response, if any, on day ten.

The need for the TPIA request to produce emails I submitted and did not otherwise announce publicly was somehow instantly identified. Then the TPIA request was submitted in record time. And the records were turned over in absolute record time. Then they were published. All that in in a mere three and a half days. It's impossible without someone on the lookout and someone greasing the wheels, someone from inside Llano ISD.

I don't believe that super fast timeline is possible were it done honestly. Someone within the school is ratting out the parents to subject them to bullying and ridicule. In a case where I showed strong evidence that the showing of "The Librarians" may result in continued serious bullying of a parent who needed round-the-clock police protection, now I'm getting bullied by how the school reacted to multiple emails from parents opposing the showing of "The Librarians." To me, Llano ISD is using bullying to smear my reporting "The Librarians" they intend to show in the school is itself bullying another parent. It's bullying to protect bullying, with both people being bullied trying to stop children from being harmed by school librarians.

As I said before, there is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees.

As if knowing something is off and in an apparent effort to allay concerns, "Llano County Wire News" responds to someone suggesting, "Mac Edwards forwards the emails to Tom and the liberals," with the following on Saturday, January 17 at 9:20 AM, "FOIA request. Freedom of information act. They were not forwarded to anyone. They are required by law to respond to a FOIA request".

In my over twenty five years investigating schools and libraries, never has a FOIA requestor ever been tipped off so fast and the FOIA response provided so quickly, then published, then used to ridicule and bully people by doxxing people. Except one other case. Recall that mother in the "The Librarians" who got bullied by librarians and needed 24 hour police protection? She is the only other case I know where they happened so quickly. She submitted a complaint to an anonymous tip line set up precisely to accept anonymous tips about school books, just to allow the school to act without all the drama that ensues from librarians crying wolf. The "anonymous" tip was then immediately reported to the school, thence to the school librarian, thence to a political attack dog for American Library Association who filed a FOIA request, got the "anonymous" tip on video, then doxxed the mother leading to weeks of police protection. The very same mother you will be doxxing and bullying again if you show "The Librarians" in the schools. Schools have antibullying rules. Those go out the window if you show this film.

So not only is Llano ISD bullying parents who complained about "The Librarians" again bullying a family who needed police protection, but it has somehow leaked and sped up a FOIA response to bully parents, exactly as was done in the bullying incident in the movie. Librarians are experienced in, even trained in this tactic. It's just happened again in Llano ISD.

Also, Texas Library Association trains librarians to defy TPIA, to violate the law, all to keep the indoctrination of school children by school librarians from the public and from Texas legislators. Yet, to ridicule and bully parents opposed to ALA's "The Librarians," suddenly the TPIA response is super quick. See: "School Librarians Train to Violate FOIA Law to Keep Parents In the Dark About S[*]xualizing Children" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2022/12/school-librarians-train-to-violate-foia.html

So again, there is a potential for a serious problem within either the Board of Trustees or school management, faculty, or employees.

That's the background for the following TPIA request.

Under the Texas Public Information Act, Tex. Gov’t Code §552.001 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of public records.

Please produce via PDF in response to me the email I sent you on Saturday, January 10th, 2026 at 9:53 PM, entitled, "Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability." I want to see it you properly redact the response or if you merely send it back with just the email blacked out.
Please produce via PDF in your response to me the documentation of a TPIA or FOIA request from "Llano County News Wire" or the person running that comprising, as he/she put it, "FOIA request. Freedom of information act. They were not forwarded to anyone. They are required by law to respond to a FOIA request".
Please produce via PDF or audio recording in your response to me any other communications of any form, including verbal, with the person who allegedly submitted a FOIA request as identified in the above question, and restrict the time frame for this search from January 10, 2026 to the present. Super reasonable. If personal accounts were used to hide such communication(s) from the public, those documents must be released as well, TPIA doesn't protect them. If anyone is in a BCC list, those must be identified as well. BCC is for the emailer's convenience, not a means to bypass TPIA. If you interpret my words in a cagey way or a way you think is clever to keep me from getting information under the law, then you are violating TPIA §552.001: "POLICY; CONSTRUCTION (a) .... The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to implement this policy."

Hey, piece of cake.

If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if the cost will exceed $5. However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of how school children are being harmed by American Library Association and subgroups like Texas Library Association or EveryLibrary and by local school districts like Llano ISD that allows political candidates like Leila Green Little to have "The Librarians" shown in the school to use the students to boost her own chances of election--in an election against her husband, no less. (Leila Green Little lost the Little v. Llano County case.) For example, the public might like to know of corruption within the school when parents are being ridiculed and bullied by the release of information used to file TPIA requests and get responses super fast, like occurs only in cases where parents are being bullied for opposing how school librarians harm children per ALA's sixty years of effort to eviscerate parental rights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing . This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.

The Texas Public Information Act requires that you “promptly produce” the requested records unless, within 10 days, you have sought an Attorney General’s Opinion. If you expect a significant delay in responding to this request, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records.

If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.

Thank you for considering my request.

[NOTE: This email has been published here: "TPIA / FOIA Request 001: Llano ISD Board of Trustees" https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2026/01/tpia-foia-request-001-llano-isd-board.html ]

Sincerely,

Dan Kleinman, Owner of SafeLibraries® brand library educational services

NOTE ADDED 19 JANUARY 2026:

On Facebook, "Llano County News Wire" has deleted my polite comment asking to see the FOIA request and the response. I even gave fair notice that I was one of those whose emails were published. Then I was blocked from the page completely.

This tells me I'm over the target that some collusion has occurred. Such collusion is likely to have violated ethics codes for Texas boards of trustees.

"Llano County News Wire" did, however, respond to my comment, and that is still online. You can see a response to me but my comment to which the response pertains is gone.

Here is the "Llano County News Wire" response to the comment of mine that was deleted:

Dan Kleinman public information request or freedom of information request. You call it what you want, it does the same thing. It said I would like to request copies of any and all emails sent to any and all school board members and school personnel in regards to a film being shown at the high school auditorium on January 24, 2026.

So "Llano County News Wire" evaded the question completely then deleted my comment and blocked me entirely. To me, that's smoke, and there's fire somewhere. I'll do my best to report on that fire.

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Schools Displaying 'The Librarians' Might Renew Bullying of Parents, Presenting Liability

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:22:00 +0000

Schools displaying the Sarah Jessica Parker film called, "The Librarians," might renew the bullying of parents by librarians and supporters, thereby exposing the schools to potential civil liability (like negligence or intentional infliction of emotional distress) or criminal liability (if there's incitement of illegal acts like threats).

Here is a post I just made in five parts on X about Llano High School holding a showing of the American Library Association agitprop:

Llano High School will show "The Librarians," agitprop by American Library Association to convince adults to allow school librarians to continue indoctrinating and s*xualizing children. It re-exposes a family to continued bullying, thereby exposing Llano ISD to liability.

But Llano ISD will do nothing, fearing Leila Little and Suzette Baker who both sued the county. They are terrified of being sued by either of these folks, so they don’t want to cancel this event. The film is one-sided—the side of ALA that targets kids.

drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing

For an example of what they want the community to see, Dwight Eisenhower is misquoted to give the appearance he opposed "book banning." The rest of his sentence/statement ALA left out since it showed it’s not censorship to remove inappropriate books. It’s fundamentally deceptive.

The family bullied in and shown in the film needed round-the-clock police protection. She got death threats—real ones unlike the flimsy one described—that included a brick and a note in her mailbox. If Llano ISD shows that film, it risks bullying that family yet again.

#LlanoCounty #LlanoISD #txlege

FYI about potential imminent harm done at Llano IDS if the school goes forward with displaying "The Librarians." It’s free on @PBS Feb 6, so just wait a week.

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The initial post in the thread is shown here and please repost:

Llano High School will show "The Librarians," agitprop by American Library Association to convince adults to allow school librarians to continue indoctrinating and s*xualizing children. It re-exposes a family to continued bullying, thereby exposing Llano ISD to liability. pic.twitter.com/BAFbI730jy
— Dan Kleinman @OccupyLibraries (@OccupyLibraries) January 11, 2026

I will be sending this post to the school administrators who could stop the showing and prevent the potential liability, let alone the agitprop nature of the film.

In full disclosure, I appear in the film as does Bonnie Wallace and many others from Llano County.

Recall Bonnie Wallace won big in Little v. Llano County, so inappropriate books may be legally removed from library shelves, and yet again, everything American Library Association has been saying is false. That's likely why ALA showed her but left her unnamed in "The Librarians."

The graphic in the upper right is sourced from the Facebook page for Llano County TX Rants & Raves where the text reads:

This documentary is about librarians who are suing cities, counties and school boards to keep harmful content. Suzette Baker who sued Llano County is featured. Any taxpayer who wants to protect minors from harmful content including drawings of couples having sex, sex organs, and more should email (or call) the superintendent and all school board members and the HS principal and express their discontent about this documentary being featured at Llano HS on Jan 24. This email (or call) should be sent immediately.

Who can give me the school email?

mailto:medwards@llanoisd.org
mailto:rick.tisdale@cadencebank.com
mailto:codyfly@benekeith.com
mailto:paul.hull@hitssllc.com
mailto:grant@inmansbbq.com
mailto:jeffk@arrowheadbanktexas.com
mailto:rwilson@llanoisd.org
mailto:spatrick@llanoisd.org

Just look at the upper left hand corner about the war on books- tells you everything you need to know! There is no Reader Foundation only a reading foundation on the web. I'm trying to find out if this Reading foundation has a chapter here in Llano. I find it suspicious that this film would be shown in an election year with the Littles running to split the ticket and unseat Moss. Lord God I pray you will expose this backdoor move by a perverse ideology against our children and community. Amen and so be it!

In small letters at the bottom is:

LCLSF.org. This is Leila Little's foundation. We all need to send an email (or call) and tell the ISD that we are opposed to the HS hosting this.

It is clearly a political rally!

Source:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2496559720410367/posts/25665293903110288/

Interesting! So it seems it's also a political trick to get elected by the losing party in Little v. Llano County! Interesting! Husband and wife are running against each other so one of then gets the seat! Interesting! Using an entire school district for their personal gain! Interesting!

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Facebook Deletes My First Amendment Lawyer's Page About My Being Sued By Amanda Jones

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:37:00 +0000

Facebook just removed my First Amendment attorney's page—and censored a post I made about my ongoing lawsuit against Louisiana school librarian Amanda Jones.

Within seconds of posting, this comment was taken down:

Everyone, this is just a small taste of the harassment parents get when they dare challenge American Library Association's massive ability to infiltrate schools with policy that breaks state and local law and instead eliminates parental control. Jessica Viotta allowed that, by the way.

Those wishing to read my attorney's legal documents defending my rights to point out how school librarians harm children, please see https://randazza.com/lawsuits/jones-v-kleinman/

Facebook flagged the post almost instantly, claiming: "The content may contain nudity or sexual activity. This goes against our Community Standards."

The offending part? The **link** to my attorney's public lawsuit page on randazza.com.

I was allowed to repost only after removing "/jones-v-kleinman/" from the URL.

Incredibly, books with explicit instructions on adult sex toys and acts are deemed suitable for school libraries by ALA advocates—but linking to a First Amendment defense attorney's webpage about the resulting lawsuit is too "offensive" for Facebook.

This highlights a broader issue: To effectively discuss age-appropriate library materials nationwide, parents must be able to share specific evidence from challenged books. Generalities like "inappropriate content" don't convey the concern. That's why tools like Rated Books provide detailed excerpts and ratings—while the ALA's "Book Résumés" often omit graphic details to downplay objections.

I've appealed Facebook's decision. We'll see if they restore the full link.

1) My original comment before it was removed.

2) Facebook removal notice popped up.

3) I clicked "See why" and got this.

4) I clicked "Fix it" and got this.

5) I clicked on "Request review."

6) Got first "Request review" page. "Contents like mine should be allowed."

7) I chose "important issue" but "raise awareness" would have fit.

8) Here's the "Review request" summary and submittal page.

9) I submitted and got this "In review" page.

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Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: A Rebuttal to the 'Censorship' Narrative

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:30:00 +0000

Protecting Children and Empowering Parents: A Rebuttal to the “Censorship” Narrative

by Mary Library

Mary in the Library Michigan

21 December 2025

The recent alarm sounded by the American Library Association (ALA), PEN America, and their coalition partners paints a picture of a dystopian landscape where books are being snatched from the hands of eager young readers. However, this narrative relies on a fundamental redefinition of terms and a refusal to acknowledge the core concern of American families: the safeguarding of children from s[*]xually explicit material and age-inappropriate ideologies in taxpayer-funded institutions.

What these organizations label a “censorship crisis” is, in reality, a crisis of accountability. For decades, public education and library systems have operated with little oversight, introducing materials regarding gender ideology and s[*]xual practices that many communities find deeply objectionable for minors. Now that parents are exercising their democratic right to oversee their children’s education, these institutions are crying foul.

Here is a look at the reality behind the trends cited in their report:

Reframing “Bans”: Curation is Not Censorship

The central fallacy in the ALA and PEN America report is the misuse of the word “ban.” In a free society, a ban implies that the government has prohibited the publication, sale, or possession of a book. That is not happening in the United States. Every book currently challenged in a school library remains available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and often in the public library down the street.

When a school board decides that a graphic novel depicting oral s[*]x is not appropriate for a middle school library, that is not a ban; it is curation. Libraries have always practiced curation. They have finite shelf space and budgets. For years, progressive librarians have “curated” out books they deemed “outdated” or “culturally insensitive.” Yet, when parents demand the removal of books containing graphic s[*]xual content, it is suddenly labeled an attack on democracy. This double standard exposes that the issue is not about the freedom to read, but about what is being prioritized for children.

The “Soft Censorship” and “Weeding” Myth

The report claims that “weeding” is being maliciously misused by parents. However, weeding is a standard tool for maintaining a healthy collection. The report complains about the removal of books with “diverse representation or s[*]x-related content,” but fails to mention that these are often the very books containing the explicit material parents are objecting to.

If a book is found to contain p[*]rnography or radical political indoctrination disguised as education, it should be weeded. The complaint that “preemptive bans” are problematic ignores the concept of fiscal responsibility. Why should a school district waste taxpayer money purchasing titles that violate state laws regarding obscenity or age-appropriateness, only to have to remove them later? “Do not buy” lists are a sensible administrative tool to ensure collections remain compliant with community standards and the law.

Accountability Laws: Protecting Students, Not Banning Books

The report criticizes laws in Texas (SB 13), Florida, and Utah as “censorship-driven.” In reality, these are transparency and accountability laws.

Transparency: Laws requiring book lists to be posted for 30 days allow parents—the primary stakeholders in a child’s education—to see what is entering the school.

Compliance: The use of AI to scan collections is a logical response to the sheer volume of material. If a district has thousands of books, and state law prohibits s[*]xually explicit content, using technology to flag potential violations is an efficiency measure, not a nefarious plot.

The “chilling effect” described by the ALA is actually the feeling of accountability returning to a profession that has long operated without it. If librarians fear penalties for distributing “harmful materials to minors,” the solution is simple: do not distribute harmful materials to minors.

The Role of Federal and State Leadership

The report attacks the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders regarding “gender ideology” and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). This criticism ignores the mandate given by voters. The 2024 and 2025 elections showed a clear rejection of the progressive cultural agenda in schools.

Schools are funded to teach reading, writing, math, and civics—not to serve as laboratories for social engineering. Executive orders and state laws that restrict the promotion of Critical Race Theory or gender fluidity are not “anti-educational”; they are a restoration of neutrality. They ensure that public institutions do not undermine the values of the families they serve.

“Parents’ Rights” is Not a Rhetorical Guise

Perhaps the most dismissive aspect of the joint statement is the framing of “parents’ rights “as mere rhetoric used to advance censorship. The right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and moral development of their children is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Supreme Court.

When the Florida Freedom to Read Project or the ALA claims that “most parents” oppose these removals, they often rely on broad polls that ask generic questions like, “Do you oppose book banning?” When parents are shown the actual excerpts from the books in question—passages detailing incest, pedophilia, and graphic s[*]xual acts—support for removing these books from school’s skyrockets.

Conclusion

The “censorship crisis” of 2025 is a manufactured panic designed to protect the gatekeepers of culture from the people they serve. The trends identified—state oversight, parental involvement, and the removal of inappropriate materials—are not attacks on democracy. They are democracy in action.

Local school boards are elected. Legislatures are elected. When these bodies act to remove p[*]rnographic or ideologically driven content from K-12 schools, they are fulfilling the will of the voters. The freedom to read is safe in America; what is ending is the era where public institutions could bypass the values of the American family without consequence.

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RealClearPolitics Commentary: 'Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids'

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:18:00 +0000

The following "Commentary" is authored by me and published at RealClearPolitics. Emphasis, hyperlinks, and graphics in original:

Kleinman, Dan. “Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids.” RealClearPolitics, December 18, 2025. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/12/18/wake_up_parents_american_library_association_is_still_grooming_our_kids_153640.html.

Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids

COMMENTARY

By Dan Kleinman

Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of oral or anal sex?

Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me?

Many parents may not know it, but there is an ongoing fight over certain books and whether they should be given to minors without their parents’ knowledge or consent. That’s what the American Library Association wants. The ALA recently launched a nationwide campaign against so-called “book bans,” with ALA President Sam Helmick (they/them) saying it is about the “freedom to read.”

Except, the ALA’s critics do not want to “ban” anything. Nor do they want to challenge the freedom to read – I know because I’m one of them. We do, however, want people to know that the ALA wants inappropriate materials in your kids’ hands, regardless of your parental preferences.

In 2023, Sen. Mike Lee revealed a video of Deborah Caldwell-Stone, then-director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, admitting that the ALA is reframing sexually inappropriate content for minors as “diverse materials” focused on “inclusion.” Caldwell-Stone said the previously quiet part out loud.

It shocked me because I always thought that ALA librarians were the “good guys.” After all, who ever imagined that librarians would play the part of creepy guy in a trenchcoat?

But some of society’s most trusted leaders misuse their power and prestige as cover, at the expense of our kids (think about the Catholic priest scandals). While a tiny percentage of priests are up to no good, the wrongdoers use the cover of their innocent job titles to engage in perverse conduct. In a similar vein, librarians who want to “reframe” perverse fetish instruction manuals as “diverse education” aren’t thinking about your kids’ best interests.

One of the books in question is “Let’s Talk About It,” which is aimed at teenagers with graphic images of how to insert butt plugs or advice on fetish pornography websites. Another is “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” which contains multiple pages of illustrations depicting oral sex. The explicit images were entered into the congressional record in 2023 for all to see (fair warning). The pictures are worth a thousand words.

I have reported on these developments at the ALA through my blog “SafeLibraries,” exposing those who are advocating for minors to read books like “Gender Queer” without parental knowledge. I have regularly posted on social media about how this exposure constitutes “grooming,” and I have revealed individual librarians who are intent – with the ALA’s backing – on keeping these books available to kids.

One such librarian is Amanda Jones, who has publicly supported “Gender Queer” and “Let’s Talk About It” as suitable for kids. Those who dare to question “Gender Queer,” are in her words, “targeting LGBTQ and other marginalized communities.” Now, Jones has sued me in federal court for defamation and false light for calling that “grooming.” (I have filed an anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss the case with the help of veteran First Amendment lawyer Marc Randazza, and it is currently pending.) I stand by that opinion.

Let’s be very clear: This is not a partisan issue. So-called “book bans” are abhorrent, and even sexually explicit books like “Gender Queer” have a place on Amazon.com or at Barnes & Noble. However, that place is not somewhere kids have unfettered access.

None of us – Democrat or Republican – grew up in a world with images of blowjobs or butt plugs on the shelves. Is it “banning books” if the public library doesn’t stock Marquis De Sade? Is it “censorship” when sexual content can be found everywhere but the kids’ section?

For the ALA and individual librarians to recommend books about “marginalized communities,” that is one thing. As they grow older, kids should learn about differences in race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But a 14-year-old should never be encouraged by their local librarian to read about oral or anal sex – full stop.

This is not normal. Even left-wing friends of mine have been repulsed after skimming “Gender Queer,” especially at a time when U.S. literacy is plummeting (according to even leftist librarians). Nevertheless, the ALA has joined forces with Hollywood to celebrate Amanda Jones in a new documentary called “The Librarians,” ironically produced by “Sex and the City” actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

I have been called a “Nazi” and a “fascist” for taking this stance, which is shared by parents on both sides of the political aisle. But the ALA won’t silence us, and it is time for all parents to speak out against child grooming – especially in our libraries.

Dan Kleinman is the owner of SafeLibraries educational services. He is also executive director of the World Library Association, an alternative to the American Library Association.

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'Unelected Librarians' Do Not Control Public Libraries, Parents Do; Withhold Funding Until Children Are Protected From Explicit Material

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:31:00 +0000

I am writing as a deeply concerned parent, citizen, and representative of Sioux County to demand immediate action to protect our children from explicit and sexually graphic materials that remain freely accessible in our public libraries.

Recently, parents in Sioux Center brought a shocking case to the attention of the Library Director and Board: their young child was able to check out a book from the adult section containing sexually explicit content wholly inappropriate for minors. These parents asked only for basic safeguards so their children would be protected when visiting their local library. Instead, the Library Director and a majority of the Board voted to continue allowing minors unrestricted access to adult materials. This decision is a profound failure of leadership and common sense—one that the people of Sioux County have noticed and will not accept.

I call on the library board members who voted against reasonable restrictions to reverse their decision immediately and implement clear, enforceable policies that protect minors from explicit content. At minimum, these policies must include:

Prohibiting minors from checking out materials from the adult section, and
Establishing a transparent review process that gives parents—not unelected librarians—the final say on what is appropriate for children.

Finally, I urge the Sioux County Board of Supervisors to use every tool at your disposal—including the immediate withholding or cutting of all county funding—to compel every library in Sioux County to adopt and enforce strong child-protection policies. Taxpayer dollars must never subsidize the distribution of explicit material to minors. Any library that continues to defy the reasonable demands of parents should have its public funding revoked until full compliance is achieved.

The safety and innocence of our children should never be treated as negotiable. They are the most vulnerable members of our community, and they deserve leaders who will stand up for them without apology or compromise.

I expect a written response from the Library Board, and the Library Director outlining the specific actions that will be taken within two weeks.

God Bless,

Rep. Skyler Wheeler

[NOTE: Source of above: Facebook - Skyler Wheeler, State Representative at Iowa House of Representatives

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Informing Iowa Legislators About American Library Association

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Critique of the American Library Association's Influence on Libraries and Legislation

The American Library Association (ALA), headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, has pursued policies for over 60 years that critics argue undermine parental rights in favor of unrestricted access to materials for children. Central to this is the ALA's "Library Bill of Rights," adopted in 1939 and amended multiple times (most recently in 2019), which prohibits denying library use based on age, among other factors. This policy effectively treats age-based restrictions as discrimination, allowing children access to any materials without barriers. For historical context, see Rita Koganzon's analysis of 1970s school book controversies, which highlights how such disputes empowered parents to challenge perceived indoctrination in educational content.

This approach has accelerated the inclusion of s[*]xually explicit or educationally unsuitable materials in public and school libraries, prompting increased parental challenges. In response, librarians—often aligned with ALA guidance—portray these complaints as burdensome, despite the ALA's role in creating the underlying policy tensions.

ALA's Push to Codify the Library Bill of Rights into Law

To preempt parental challenges, the ALA has advocated for codifying its "Library Bill of Rights" into state laws, potentially overriding the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Board of Education v. Pico (1982). In Pico, a plurality opinion held that school boards cannot remove books from libraries solely due to ideological disapproval but may do so if materials are pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable. Books like Gender Queer have been removed from schools under this standard, which ALA opposes.

One court has ruled that the "Library Bill of Rights" holds no legal weight—it's merely aspirational and "means nothing" in a binding sense, as stated in Berry v. Yosemite Community College District (2019). Despite this, ALA has influenced over a third of state legislatures to consider such codification through initiatives like the "Right to Read Act" (also known as the "Freedom to Read Act"). As of November 2025, at least nine states have passed versions since 2023: California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, and Rhode Island. Additional states like Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and others are considering or have advanced similar bills in 2025 sessions. For a detailed parent-focused critique, see the World Library Association's page on the Right to Read Act, which outlines how it limits parental petitions and grants librarians immunity from obscenity laws.

Part of ALA's push to get laws passed includes building in exemptions or affirmative defenses to obscenity crimes for librarians. That has been a long term ALA goal. See: Reisman, Judith A. and McAlister, Mary E. (2018) "Materials Deemed Harmful to Minors Are Welcomed into Classrooms and Libraries via Educational 'Obscenity Exemptions,'" Liberty University Law Review: Vol. 12: Iss. 3, Article 3. Available at https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/lu_law_review/vol12/iss3/3:

Similarly, the American Library Association leans upon First Amendment protections against censorship to justify the obscenity exemption for libraries, often offering derisive remarks about parents' efforts to use "harmful to minors" statutes to remove inappropriate books.

ALA's strategy positions itself as both the source of the issue (unrestricted access) and the solution (legislative protections), aiming for nationwide adoption. In Iowa, from which ALA President Sam Helmick hails, this raises questions: Will Iowa follow suit and embed this Chicago-based organization's creed into state law?

Tactics for Influencing Legislators

ALA employs sophisticated methods to advance its agenda, often through affiliates like EveryLibrary, which provides training on "long-term inoculation"—building relationships with legislators to shape policy preemptively. This includes "getting to know your legislators" and "identifying and activating" supporters to prioritize children's unrestricted access. View the training here: https://tinyurl.com/IntellectualFreedomAndBooks. EveryLibrary's ties to ALA are detailed in analyses showing how it facilitates advocacy while maintaining a "crypto" (hidden) affiliation.

Another tactic involves "sustained messaging" to reframe s[*]xually explicit materials as essential for diversity, inclusion, and self-representation, downplaying concerns about appropriateness. This was revealed in training by ALA's former top lawyer, which Utah Senator Mike Lee highlighted in a 2025 Capitol Hill hearing on "banned books." Lee described it as "saying the quiet part out loud," accusing ALA of grooming and s[*]xualizing children to provide minors with explicit content while hiding it from parents. Watch the clip: https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c5085234/user-clip-sen-lee-comments.

The "book ban" narrative has been debunked by the U.S. Department of Education, which dropped actions against parents after investigations. Critics trace this hoax back to ALA influence, used to mislead the public and maintain access to controversial materials. Official U.S. Department of Education Press Release (January 24, 2025) announces dismissal of 11 complaints, rescission of guidance, and end to the "Biden's book ban hoax." https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax

ALA's "Unite Against Book Bans" and Legal Setbacks

In response to successful Pico-based removals of "Gender Queer," ALA launched "Unite Against Book Bans" to lobby for laws blocking parental complaints and First Amendment redress rights. Recent setbacks include Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025), where the Supreme Court affirmed parents' rights to opt children out of certain classroom content conflicting with religious beliefs. ALA has interpreted this narrowly, claiming it doesn't apply to libraries and warning against its misuse for censorship, but critics argue it's spreading misinformation to downplay parental opt-out options.

ALA's policies have real-world impacts, including harm to children. Detransitioner Maia Poet has publicly shared how a school librarian promoted trans ideology, leading to her binding her breasts and lasting physical damage, without parental knowledge. Watch her testimony, also shown below: https://x.com/thepeacepoet99/status/1890950617998217606. Another case involves a public library director reporting a child's death linked to ALA-recommended practices: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2013/11/ALAKillsBoy.html.

Deceptions and Hypocrisy

ALA often misleads on legal standards, insisting the "as a whole" test from Miller v. California (obscenity) applies over Pico's "pervasively vulgar" threshold, confusing discussions on school materials. It portrays challengers as extremists, ignoring polls showing most Americans oppose explicit books in schools. Tactics include faking "banned books" lists to mobilize communities (e.g., inflating LGBT book challenges until exposed), plagiarizing maps, and funding astroturf groups to overwhelm legislators with emails and turnout. ALA even trains librarians to evade open records laws by, among other things, using private channels like Signal.

Internally, ALA faces hypocrisy accusations. Trevor Dawes, a university librarian, criticized its shift to closed-door meetings, violating its own transparency policies and undermining advocacy for open government. As Dawes notes: "The irony is particularly sharp: an organization whose members fight daily battles against censorship... is now restricting access to its own decision-making processes."

ALA critiques rating systems by parents like BookLooks or Rated Books (https://www.ratedbooks.org/) while creating its own "Book Résumés," (https://bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org/) which omit excerpts and emphasize awards, always deeming books suitable for all ages. Compare the ratings for Gender Queer on Rated Books with Gender Queer on Book Résumés.

It has promoted "sneaky" Drag Queen Story Hours in conservative areas (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170612040326/https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intersections-glbt-book-month-dispatch-small-town-librarian).

Another significant deception is the claim of an ongoing "culture war." After 60 years of effort by ALA to accelerate the inclusion of s[*]xually explicit or educationally unsuitable materials in public and school libraries, to the point where such material is essentially in every school library today, efforts to stop this are characterized by librarians as merely for political gain.

For example, at the 5:39 mark of ALA's new documentary called "The Librarians," someone says, "Politicians are playing a very dangerous game when they try to make school libraries battlegrounds for their political war, because the only people that that is going to hurt are kids." See https://thelibrariansfilm.com/. So 60 years of effort by ALA cannot be countered by politicians because supposedly the kids are going to get hurt in a very dangerous game, all for politics. It is a significant deception.

Implications for Iowa

Iowa legislators should scrutinize ALA's influence, given its president's local ties. Past Iowa issues include unfiltered library Internet leading to child molestation (exposed in 2011, prompting failed filtering legislation), s[*]x offenders in libraries (addressed in 2009 law), and misleading claims by directors like LaWanda Roudebush on filters. Recent writings highlight Iowa librarians supporting ALA's Marxist-leaning president https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/12/list-of-librarians-who-agree-marxism-is.html and details on stopping indoctrination: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/details-on-stopping-indoctrination.html.

Should Iowa adopt laws from an organization that flouts its own standards? Legislators face ALA-orchestrated pressure—expect astroturf campaigns—but prioritizing parental rights and child safety aligns with constitutional precedents.

If more details are needed, let me know.

🚨DETRANSITIONER WARNS PARENTS:

“The 🏳️‍⚧️ Activist Librarians who Derailed My Childhood will Face NO Consequences, but I will Have to Live with Painful, Disfigured Breasts for the Rest of My Life”

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Endnotes

1. American Library Association, “Library Bill of Rights” (adopted 1939, latest revision 2019)

https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill

2. Rita Koganzon, “There Is No Such Thing as a Banned Book: Censorship, Authority, and the School Book Controversies of the 1970s,” American Political Thought 12, no. 1 (January 2023): 1–26

https://doi.org/10.1086/723442

(archive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing)

3. States that have passed “Right to Read Act” / “Freedom to Read Act” legislation (as of November 2025)

EveryLibrary Bill Tracking (includes Freedom to Read protections for libraries/librarians): https://www.everylibrary.org/billtracking Note: This page tracks positive "right to read" bills alongside other library legislation. For recent examples, see Delaware's passage announced November 10, 2025: https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/11/go-delaware-another-state-steps-up-for-the-freedom-to-read/ (confirms Delaware as a new adopter, building on prior states like California, Illinois, and others). ALA's adverse legislation page also contextualizes supportive bills: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/adverse-legislation-states.

4. World Library Association – Detailed parent-oriented critique of the Right to Read Act

https://worldlibraryassociation.org/right-to-read-act/

5. Board of Education v. Pico (1982) – key Supreme Court case on school library book removal

Summary and analysis: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/09/removal-of-books-with-lascivious-content-from-school-libraries-likely-not-unconstitutional/

6. Berry v. Yosemite Community College District (2019) – court rules ALA’s Library Bill of Rights “means nothing” legally

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2019/08/library-bill-of-rights-means-nothing.html

7. EveryLibrary / ALA training on “long-term inoculation” and building relationships with legislators

https://tinyurl.com/IntellectualFreedomAndBooks

8. Documentation of EveryLibrary as a “crypto” ALA affiliate and its “long-term inoculation” tactics

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/06/library-boards-trained-to-lie-by-ala.html

9. Senator Mike Lee (Utah) – “saying the quiet part out loud” clip from 2025 Capitol Hill hearing on banned books

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5085234/user-clip-sen-lee-comments

10. Mahmoud v. Taylor (2025) – Supreme Court affirms parental opt-out rights; ALA’s response

ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom page: https://www.oif.ala.org/what-emmahmoud-v-taylor-em-means-for-your-library/

11. Maia Poet (detransitioner) testimony on harm caused by school librarian promoting trans ideology

https://x.com/thepeacepoet99/status/1890950617998217606

12. Public library director reports child death linked to ALA-recommended practices

http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2013/11/ALAKillsBoy.html

13. Trevor A. Dawes, “ALA’s Closed-Door Dilemma: When Governance Reform Conflicts with Organizational Values” (July 19, 2025)

https://trevordawes.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/ala-closed-door-meetings/

14. Guide for parents/legislators on obscenity law, Pico vs. Miller standards, and stopping indoctrination

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/01/details-on-stopping-indoctrination.html

15. Harris Poll and other surveys showing majority opposition to s[*]xually explicit books in schools

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2011/04/most-oppose-explicit-books-in-public.html

16. Exposure of ALA faking “banned books” lists to inflate LGBT challenges (2011)

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2011/09/banned-books-week-is-gay-promotion.html

17. ALA caught plagiarizing a student’s “Censorship Map”

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-ala-plagiarism-becomes-truth.html

18. ALA astroturfing: creating and funding local “grassroots” groups to pressure legislators

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/06/ala-details-how-it-controls-communities.html

Bribes/incentives detail: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/03/ala-details-bribes.html Recently in Alabama, four separate ALA-created groups failed to stop the library board from voting against ALA:

Meanwhile, the board finalized a restriction on transgender books for children and teens. Once approved by legislative services, the code states that “any library material regarding transgender procedures, gender ideology or the concept of more than two genders” must be weeded out of library circulation or moved to the adult section. See: https://www.al.com/news/2025/11/alabama-library-board-finalizes-transgender-book-restrictions-delays-fairhope-funding.html

19. ALA’s deleted article on “sneakily” pushing Drag Queen Story Hour into conservative towns (archived)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170612040326/https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intersections-glbt-book-month-dispatch-small-town-librarian

20. Librarians trained to evade open-records/FOIA laws using private channels (Signal, Slack, etc.)

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2022/12/school-librarians-train-to-violate-foia.html

Amanda Jones training example: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/09/amanda-jones-trains-librarians-to-blind.html

21. Iowa-specific posts referenced and other Iowa posts covered by SafeLibraries

- Iowa librarians supporting Marxist ALA president: https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/12/list-of-librarians-who-agree-marxism-is.html

- Child molestation in Iowa library linked to unfiltered porn (2011): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2011/07/porn-and-sex-abuse-in-our-public.html "Consider the case of a child molested in a public library bathroom and no one knew that it was the result of p[*]rn viewing! I was the person who exposed the truth. As a result of my work, the Iowa state legislature attempted to pass state library computer filtering legislation. It would not have happened but for my involvement in that community."

- Davenport Public Library director misleads on filters (2010): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2010/04/revive-iowa-internet-filtering-law-for.html

- Unimpeded child p[*]rn viewing in the Council Bluffs Public Library" (2009): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/07/terminal-cancer-in-council-bluffs.html

- Iowa nixes s[*]x offenders from libraries (2009): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2009/05/iowa-nixes-sex-offenders-from-libraries.html
- ALA ruse keeping p[*]rn in Council Bluffs (2008): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2008/08/ala-ruse-keeping-porn-widely-available.html

- Burlington library director misleads on Internet filters (2008): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2008/04/burlington-ia-library-director-misleads.html
- Media needs to wake up to library crime (2008): https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2008/04/media-wake-up-to-library-crime-source.html

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Some Media Smear Parents, Laud School Librarians Indoctrinating Kids

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:18:00 +0000

Some media smear parents, laud school librarians indoctrinating kids. Mike Deak for Courier News, top right (photo credit), obviously took whatever a school librarian said as truth and made zero effort to search out the truth of what he was being told, in my opinion. I'm certain many parents know exactly what I'm talking about.

So here is a response I wrote to Mike Deak and USA Today that needs to know how such "journalists" are damaging their brand by violating their ethics code.

I never got a response from either.

Mr. Deak

Greetings Mr. Deak,

I'm Dan Kleinman. You just wrote a story about me and my businesses, that are not related to the ethics matter that I brought as an individual, that is partly false and possibly defamatory, neither is it journalistic.

Further, your news story was photographed and posted on Bluesky by former North Hunterdon-Voorhees High School school librarian Martha Hickson who added a description to a photo (ALT text) calling me "Dan Klownman." See:

https://bsky.app/profile/sassylibrarian.bsky.social/post/3m24xyegof22k

Given your story's content, it appears to me to have been sourced from Martha Hickson, a person who harasses me on a near weekly basis and who disparages my businesses on a near monthly basis.

Is there a means by which people can officially request corrections in the Courier News? I'll provide you with some context and see if you voluntarily correct the story.

Here's the story:

"BOE is Cleared of Ethics Charges Over Book Banning," by Mike Deak, Courier News, 1 October 2025, p.1, above the fold.

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2025/09/30/north-hunterdon-voorhees-school-board-cleared-ethics-charges-book-banning/86421724007/

That is deceptive. The book is really not the issue, only the underlying reason potential ethics violations were exposed, and those violations are the real issue. This is accurate:

"Eight present and former members of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education have been cleared of ethics charges that they were influenced by special interest groups in a controversy over whether they were guided by a special interest group in violation of ethics laws, made advanced promises to vote a certain way before being elected, another violation of the law, and leaked information to certain members of the public, a third violation of the law."

The following is defamatory, and it's how you describe me to your audience, as if written by Martha Hickson who regularly defames me and my businesses for at least a year:

"For more than a decade, Kleinman, based in Chatham, has waged a national campaign on what he believes are inappropriate books and websites in schools. He is also executive director of the World Library Association, an alternative to the American Library Association which he has called 'terrorist friendly, child unfriendly, and dishonest/unethical.'"

"Waged a national campaign"? I am a parent responding to an approximately 60 year effort by a special interest group from Chicago, IL, American Library Association, to promote age inappropriate material to children. See:

Koganzon, Rita. “There Is No Such Thing as a Banned Book: Censorship, Authority, and the School Book Controversies of the 1970s.” American Political Thought 12, no. 1 (January 2023): 1–26.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing

World Library Association has nothing to do with this case I filed individually. Yet you introduce it by labeling it "an alternative to the American Library Association which he has called 'terrorist friendly, child unfriendly, and dishonest/unethical.'" That's defamatory. You definitely got that from the person defaming me and my businesses for years.

WLA was formed two years ago, yet your quote is from 2011, fourteen years ago. Further, had you yourself looked at the quote, you would have seen it was based on a New York Times story in which the patron privacy rights of one of the 9/11 terrorists who killed thousands of Americans were defending by ALA's "Office for Intellectual Freedom" and "Freedom to Read Foundation" leader Judith Krug after a Florida librarian turned in a terrorist's presence to the police. See:

"A Nation Challenged: Questions of Confidentiality; Competing Principles Leave Some Professionals Debating Responsibility to Government," by David E. Rosenbaum, The New York Times, 23 November 2001.

https://archive.ph/5N5R

So it's an accurate statement to say ALA is terrorist friendly, and it is based on a New York Times story where the ALA leader defended the patron privacy rights of a 9/11 terrorist to use a public library computer to learn how to better kill more Americans. Had you had that context and been a real journalist, I bet you would have excluded that smear of one of my businesses.

Similarly, I gave extensive primary sources proving the other assertions I made long ago that are now presented by you without context in a way that disparages my business. Here are those sources, if they haven't aged out over time:

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/p/know-ala.html

Contrast how you introduced me to your readers with how you introduced Martha Hickson: "Former school librarian Martha Hickson was given the American Library Association's 2022 Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians Faced with Adversity for her efforts to keep the books in the library."

Clear bias right there in your news story. I supposedly waged a national campaign assumedly falsely calling the American Library Association is terrorist friendly, which it is, while Martha Hickson is an award winning librarian, which she got from ALA to promote how she harmed school children with age inappropriate material that may even violate NJ 2C:34-3 Obscenity for Persons Under 18--the very law the school board explicitly overrode to follow instead the advice of special interest group from Chicago, American Library Association.

You didn't introduce me in a similar fashion. You could have said, for example, that Ernest Istook, the author of the Children's Internet Protection Act, described me as a "trusted source" on the issue of how the American Library Association misleads communities about public library law. See:

https://youtu.be/DEM328ulmgY?t=28m45s

It's right at the top of my About Me page but you missed it because you wrote a hit piece, and that's not journalism. See:

http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

Part of how media manipulates the public is by not presenting information it should. You have done that. And it shows again you got your information from Martha Hickson, not from any actual effort at real journalism.

Had you actually investigated the story, or even asked me for input, you would have known the attorney for the school board, Comegno Law Group, repeatedly violated NJ School Ethics Commission rules--even the Commission's attorney had to interrupt to advise that rules were being broken.

And where did you miss this information that is entirely relevant to the story? Right on the Commission's website, the minutes of the August 19, 2025, meeting. A journalist would have made that part of his story. Instead, I see only a megaphoning of the defamatory statements of Martha Hickson who then implicitly bragged about her getting you to write that story on her Bluesky account by posting it and using it as a platform to again call me Klownman. Here is the link proving the above directly from the NJ SEC site that you completely missed because you wrote a hit piece, not something journalistic:

https://www.nj.gov/education/ethics/minutes/25/08.19.25%20-%20public%20-%20Final%20-%20ADA.pdf

And that violation of rules may have been a violation of the NJ Rules of Professional Ethics and it may have been the reason why the Commission decided as it did. But any potential of that is completely absent from your reporting.

You also missed that one of the Commission's members, Rich Tomko, was hired by the school's superintendent to consult on the Strategic Plan.

As I said earlier, part of how media manipulates the public is by not presenting information it should.

Mike Deak, I'm sure you'll be writing about me again. I'm forgiving. Next time pick up a phone and speak with me before blindly publishing agitprop from an American Library Association librarian.

It might be relevant, for example, that ALA helped Martha Hickson so completely pull the wool over everyone's eyes, so much so that the ALA President bragged about it in her yearly speech to ALA membership about how ALA tools provided to Martha Hickson helped her keep the 2C:34-3 book in the school library. See:

"ALA Details How It Controls Communities Nationwide: The Quiet Part Out Loud Now In Transcript Form"

https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2024/06/ala-details-how-it-controls-communities.html

(35:07):

And so we know that people are battling back and we are using that platform to pull people together. I was at a a conference and uh Martha Hickson was there who some of you may know as school librarian in New Jersey. And when she faced a challenge at her school through that UABB platform, and other forms of organizing, 400 community members came and joined her to sign, to to stand with her in that moment. [00:35:30] So the United Against Book baba Bans platform facilitates that. Our state chapters are using uh OneClickPolitics®, a tool that comes from our Chapter Relations Office and from uh the Washington Office to organize locally. We know that local organizing is what wins the day, that ALA can't come in and save places, but what we can do is provide the tools to the people who are on the ground doing that kind of organizing work. We continue to look for ways to expand our work in uh the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

"Mike Deak has worked in Central Jersey journalism for more than four decades. Our journalists adhere to the USA TODAY NETWORK Principles of Ethical Conduct For Newsrooms." See:

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/staff/4395507002/mike-deak/

Not this time. You violated a lot of those ethics rules. Read them:

https://cm.mycentraljersey.com/ethical-conduct/

You violated ethics rules, to support a school board potentially improperly cleared of violating ethics rules. All to keep school children reading inappropriate material that may violate New Jersey obscenity law but doesn't violate American Library Association standards or lack thereof.

All of the above is my opinion.

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Dan Kleinman, Owner of SafeLibraries® brand library educational services

By the Way

By the way, since writing the above, I have learned the NJ School Ethics Commission may have some ethics problems of its own. We shall see.

In the meantime, one of the board members formerly under ethical review (Beth Kotran) is running to be reelected by lying about the ethics decision. I discuss just this at the 28 October 2025 board meeting, seen here:

Miller v. California (1973 SCOTUS)—the landmark obscenity smackdown. IT DOES NOT APPLY TO SCHOOL LIBRARIES. American Library Association says it does cuz it is one of the ways ALA indoctrinates and s•xualizes school children.

Watch me tell a school board to dump Miller:

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FOIA OPRA Request for Comegno Legal Bills and the Daughter Who Reads Almost Every Day

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:50:00 +0000

I've had to submit to the North Hunterdon-Voorhees school a FOIA request that in New Jersey is called OPRA. It's my opinion the taxpayers are getting ripped off by the Comegno Law Group that is billing the school/taxpayers for work it really is did/volunteered for Chicago's American Library Association. The OPRA is to determine if this is the case.

Further, an ethics decision may have been biased in an unethical way, indicated to me by the following sentence: "My daughter reads almost every day."

Here is a Table of Contents/Evidence to support the OPRA request and more, and all evidence is included below:

Table of Contents/Evidence:

NJ SEC Scheduling Letter
Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting
OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills
Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25
Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25
Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group

Below is that OPRA request, but first is some information I reference in the OPRA request, namely, the scheduling letter from the NJ School Ethics Commission.

There is also a transcript of the public comments made at that meeting. I made the recording and the transcript. The entire recording is linked below. To my knowledge, the NJSEC itself makes no such records public, so below is likely the only copy. You will be told by the people who support American Library Association to ignore me and especially the evidence, the recording. Will you not read the transcript for yourselves? Will you not listen?

At the hearing a public statement was read out loud about the imminent public comment portion of the meeting. That statement included the following admonition:

Parties to a matter currently pending before the Commission are reminded not to publicly litigate the merits of their case. The Commission's review in the matter will be limited to the written [unintelligible] and any public comments or statements which address the merits of the matter will not be considered by the Commission today.

In the transcript a Commissioner speaks during a break between public comments that, "My daughter reads almost every day." Cute, right? Not cute. It is an indication, at least to me, that he heard what the Comegno attorney argued, then, despite the unethical nature of her comments and her refusal to follow direct verbal direction from the Commission chairman and again from the Commission attorney, he was swayed by her unethical comments. Why? Because his takeaway was the importance of libraries and how his daughter enjoys reading almost every day. I could hear nothing from him about how the Comegno attorney just blew through ethical requirements without a care in the world. To me, this was the most disheartening part of the hearing and it told me this guy is going to fall for the America / democracy / libraries sob story and decide not to hold the school board responsible for breaking the law.

And should anyone argue the Comegno lawyer's words were simply effective in making a point since the Commissioner was swayed to think of his daughter and her reading thanks to libraries, you don't get or give credit when an attorney achieves a goal in an unethical manner.

I've said this is my opinion, but it's also my opinion anyone looking at the scheduling letter, its red, italicized, and underlined admonition, the public comments and NJSEC's Chairperson's opening statement and NJSEC lawyer's verbal admonition, will come to essentially the same conclusion that Comegno Law Group is draining board/taxpayer money to fund instead volunteer work for the American Library Association that has control over the school board (as my ethics complaint may decide), the legislature that passed the Freedom to Read Act written by ALA (Senator Andrew Zwicker who called me a "meddling minority" told me so directly at a hearing in Trenton), and is now attempting to use taxpayer funds to illegally sway the NJ School Ethics Commission in violation of the New Jersey Rules of Professional Ethics [potentially RPC 3.3(a)(4 & 5); 3.4(c); 3.5(a & c); 8.4(a & c & d)].

Remember, the Comegno Law Group attorney is

experienced in education law practice,
got the 8/12/25 letter not to talk about the case,
heard the opening comments that parties may not talk about the case, discussed the case anyway,
heard the Commission attorney tell her directly to stop talking about the case, but went right on ahead talking anyway to do what she knows not to do and to three times ignore the School Ethics Commission.

Three strikes you're out, yes? Or no, because librarians are wonderful people who would never hurt anyone, American Library Association is wonderful, its Freedom to Read Act is about liberty and democracy, so the ethics case is moot, nothing to see here, let's move on.

She concluded by directly arguing the merits of the case despite multiple warnings, and even got in the good word for American Library Association's Freedom to Read Act as the reason to defy my ethics complaint by summarizing, "the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books." They did not act in good faith. They violated ethics laws, and their attorney violated professional ethics laws, all to keep children exposed to inappropriate material in schools, in my opinion.

Besides, that Freedom to Read Act was signed into law on December 9, 2024. The alleged unethical actions taken by the board predated that and the ethics complaint itself was filed on November 4, 2024. Even the respondents themselves complained in their response, "this matter was initially and incorrectly filed on October 23, 2024." Gosh forbid a pro se complainant should misfile a complaint without the petty attorney trying to score points because screw justice. Always the effort to belittle, to attack the messenger, but still, Comegno Law Group knows my ethics complaint predated the passage of the Freedom to Read Act, so summarizing by saying, "the record shows the members acted ... in line with the state law protecting access to books," is not only arguing the merits of the case, but it is deceptively dishonest to argue something that postdated the complaint. It is factually false. It might even right there represent an additional violation of yet another professional rule of attorney ethics. "RPC 8.4. Misconduct; It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to:... (c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation." And all after having been warned three times not to discuss the merits of the case, in a matter that may represent another violation of the ethics code. Had she not violated at least one rule, another rule would not have been violated. My opinion, of course.

I am publishing all this so the taxpayers and especially the parents at the school can see for themselves exactly what happened at the 8/19/25 NJSEC meeting and how they are being used/sponged off of to promote a Chicago ALA agenda—all to keep school kids subject to ALA's 60 year effort to indoctrinate school children (shown here). They can also see that local control needs to be restored from ALA's overarching control, such control being so complete that a law firm willingly defied rules of professional conduct, starting with their own school board. The ALA policy embedded in school policy needs to be removed and books that are pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable per Pico standards need to be summarily removed, Freedom to Read Act notwithstanding. The US Supreme Court trumps the Chicago American Library Association.

That initial ethics decision will be out in a few weeks. Let's hope soon afterwards some school board members become ex school board members.

And get rid of that unethical law firm. What's the problem? Plenty of ethical lawyers can take their place, do far better, and not rip you off. My opinion!

NJ SEC Scheduling Letter (red, italic, underlined lettering in original):

12 AUGUST 2025

SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION

August 12, 2025

For Complainant

Dan Kleinman

641 Shunpike Rd #123

Chatham, NJ 07928

For Respondents

John B. Comegno II, Esquire

Giulia Lima, Esq.

Comegno Law Group

521 Pleasant Valley Avenue

Moorestown, NJ 08057

SUBJECT: DAN KLEINMAN v. JESSICA VIOTTO, BETH KOTRAN, TARA
MARIE HINTZ, BRYAN CHAPMAN, DANIEL SPANTON, GLEN
FARBANISH, JOHN MELICK, BRENDAN MCISAAC, NORTH
HUNTERDON-VORHEES BOARD OF EDUCATION, HUNTERDON
COUNTY, SCHOOL ETHICS COMMISSION DOCKET #C89-24

Dear Parties:

Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be discussed by the School Ethics

Commission (Commission) at its meeting on August 19, 2025. At this meeting, the Commission

will discuss whether probable cause exists for the allegations in the Complaint. Probable cause

shall be found when the facts and circumstances presented in the Complaint and Written

Statement would lead a reasonable person to believe that the School Ethics Act has been violated.

In addition, because Respondents alleged that the complaint is frivolous, the Commission

will also discuss this allegation, and any response thereto. If the Commission determines that the

Complaint is frivolous, such a finding may constitute sole grounds for dismissal, and such

dismissal shall constitute final agency action. N.J.A.C. 6A:28-9.4. In addition, pursuant to N.J.S.A.

18A:12-29(e), the Commission may impose a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).

The Commission’s meeting will take place at the New Jersey Department of Education,

100 Riverview Plaza, Trenton, New Jersey 08625. Although you are permitted to attend public

session, please note that this is not an opportunity to discuss or to otherwise publicly litigate the

merits of the case. Further, the Commission’s review and discussion of this matter will take place

in Executive Session.

Page 2

Following its meeting on August 19, 2025, it is anticipated that the Commission will adopt

a decision at its next regularly scheduled monthly meeting thereafter. Once adopted by the

Commission, the parties shall be duly notified of the Commission’s decision (in writing) and will

be advised as to how the above-captioned matter will be processed.

Subject to the exceptions set forth at N.J.A.C. 6A:28-6.6(g), the Commission shall hold all

information confidential regarding any pending matter until the Commission finds that a school

official has violated the Act, or until such time that the above-captioned matter is settled,

withdrawn or dismissed.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at school.ethics@doe.nj.gov.

Sincerely,

/s/

Dana Jones

School Ethics Commission

Public Comments at the 8/19/2025 School Ethics Committee Meeting:

Giulia Lima, Esq., Comengo Law Group for Respondents:

Good morning members of the Commission. I am Giulia Lima, Counsel for Respondents, the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education members named in the matter C89-24. This matter involves a May 7, 2024, vote by the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education on a library book challenge. This challenge was handled under established district policy. A review committee of educators, administrators, and a parent, considered the book and issued a divided recommendation.

At the public meeting, more than twenty residents spoke with most supporting the book remaining. The board then voted not to remove it. That decision was made through the proper process and within the board's authority.

The process was consistent not only with the district policy, but also with the principles later codified in the New Jersey Freedom to Read Act, which affirms students' right to access information and prohibits book bans based on disagreement with ideas.

Dana Jones, School Ethics Commission Staff Member and Attorney:

Wait, Miss Lima, I just want to remind you, you can't talk about the merits of the case.

Giulia Lima:

Okay.

Dana Jones:

So we talk and then the Commission decides whatever they decide. They're only going to consider what was in the complaint and the writ.

Giulia Lima:

Yes.

Dana Jones:

So not, nothing of what you're talking about today. We do want to make sure that you don't talk about anything that we consider merits, defenses to the case.

Giulia Lima:

Okay.

School libraries have centers for voluntary inquiry, play a unique role in promoting intellectual freedom, providing equitable access to learning, resources, and promoting democracy by providing services to all, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age, ability, gender, or social economic status.

In sum, the record shows the members acted in good faith, within policy, and in line with the state law protecting access to books.

Thank you for your time and your commitment to our schools, our teachers, and our students.

...

Male Commissioner:

My daughter reads almost every day.

...

Jeannine Pizzigoni, School Ethics Commission Staff Member:

Can you state your name, please, and what case you are here for?

Dan Kleinman, Complainant:

Yes, my name is Dan Kleinman. I'm here for the case of the young lady over here that ...

[Discussion ensues within the SEC about Commissioner Richard Tomko having to go offline again like he did for Giulia Lima for conflict related to North Hunterdon-Voorhees BOE as he was applying for a contract with the BOE. He has recused himself from the C89-24 process. He will have the same access to the final decision after it is posted on the Commission’s website when the public will have access to that decision.]

I came here because I'm interested in the administration of justice. I'm fascinated by this School Ethics Commission. I wanted to just observe for myself what was going on in this case. I wasn't planning to say anything.

Jeannine Pizzigoni:

Okay.

Dan Kleinman:

And then the attorney spoke up. [Laughter ensues.] She's a very nice lady.

But she did speak up on the, on the, uh, related to the case and and how you should basically be voting because she pointed out to how important libraries are and it's essential to our democracy that we have libraries.

Then she was told, "We're sorry, you can't talk about things related to this case." And then she proceeded to proceed with more things related to this case. It's an attempt to spin the Ethics Commission.

I'm not impressed with that. I just came to observe today. And what I observed was the continuing effort to claim that librarians are wonderful people and all books are wonderful, as the reason why this case should be, in your mind, just set aside.

It's not the issue whether all libraries are wonderful, and I'm not gonna argue the merits of the case. I'm not impressed that she would, came up here and talked about this in violation of your rules, was warned about it, and then proceeded to continue to talk about this case in violation of the rules.

It's not impressive. I hope when you make your decision that your decision is based on everything it's supposed to be based on, and the justice of the matter, and whether the law was violated, and that's it.

And this is a very fascinating process. And I thank you guys for the efforts that you all put into doing this every month, it's a very important issue.

Thank you.

Robert Bender, School Ethics Commission Chairperson:

I can tell you that, uh, as a commissioner, uh we've read, this material, it's not just a statement here or there, but we look into the depth of each case. And uh, uh, are we swayed? Uh, no, uh, we listen, uh, just as, as, you know, free speech, but at the same time, what we're dealing with is very serious. And, right now, we, we have read this, uh, we are certainly in detail in this, uh, and, uh, we'll give that great consideration. So, we don't take these things lightly.

Dan Kleinman:

Okay. This, her argument that the Freedom to Read Act passed in New Jersey, you know, that was written by Chicago's American Library Association. It's almost proof of what I've been saying. But thank you very much.

OPRA Request 007: Comegno Legal Bills:

Please provide all legal bills and accompanying documentation of what was done and when from any law firm including the Comegno Law Group, P.C., wherein the bills relate to preparation for and appearance at the August 19, 2025 New Jersey School Ethics Commission. Consider this an open request until I am provided with documentation, just in case any bill has not yet been received. Requesting this OPRA request to remain open will obviate the need for additional OPRA/FOIA requests, thereby saving time and money for all. Once all such documents are provided to me, this request may be considered closed. I am aware some law firms write legal bills in a manner that essentially circumvents OPRA laws. Let's hope such games will not be played here or that will result in additional OPRA requests and associated costs that you will have brought upon yourselves.

My interest in the subject matter contained concerns saving the school district legal fees for work Comegno Law Group may have performed gratis for Chicago's American Library Association. Essentially, Comegno Law Group, while ostensibly representing the school district, in reality performed work that may have violated New Jersey Rules of Professional Conduct so as to benefit a special interest group, namely, American Library Association, the very same special interest group that is at the basis of the ethics complaint about the potential for the school board having broken ethics laws by favoring special interest groups in a manner against the law, among other things. Comegno Law Group may have unethically promoted the interests of the special interest group while completely ignoring the interests of its client school board; any interests of the school board that were not also interests of the special interest group were not discussed at all before the NJ School Ethics Committee. For example, the issue of board members having promised to vote a certain way on a certain issue in exchange for votes was not discussed. Comegno Law Group was told repeatedly, including in person at the 8/19/25 meeting by the attorney for the Commission who had to interrupt the Comegno Law Group member, not to speak on topics relating to the case, but that didn't stop Comegno Law Group from charging ahead anyway with its open advocacy for special interest group American Library Association and for New Jersey's Freedom to Read Act that was written by American Library Association and passed as law in New Jersey. The argument was essentially that since that law passed, the ethics matter under review was irrelevant, so no ethics were violated. Ethics violated but not discuss by the attorney were essentially ignored. Comegno Law Group may have violated rules of professional conduct to support American Library Association, but it never supported its school board client in the other ethics issues in the ethics complaint, and it certainly does not benefit the client to act unprofessionally to support the very outside interest group the school board may have also unethically supported, namely, American Library Association, the very basis of the ethics complaint. So basically, Comegno Law Group volunteered work for American Library Association but charged the school board for that work. This OPRA/FOIA request is to determine the existence and extent of the damage, if any, so it may be returned to the taxpayers. I was at the hearing to see all this. I have produced a transcript and the notice of hearing from the Commission to prove all this. No member of the school board was in attendance, so only I saw this. The meetings are not officially recorded. I recorded the meeting on my iPhone and I produced an accurate transcript as a result. So there's zero change Comegno Law Group can say it didn't happen or can keep people from hearing it for themselves. All work billed to the school board related to the above should not have been billed to you. The school board should refuse to pay any portion of any bill related to this matter. Further, it should send a demand for payment of legal fees to American Library Association that directly benefitted from Comegno Law Group's unethical actions. Finally, to avoid these litigious people supporting American Library Association's ability to harm school children with inappropriate material suing me, the above is all my opinion.

Recording of Public Portion of NJ SEC Meeting 8/19/25:

My recording of entire public part of New Jersey School Ethics Commission open public meeting of August 19, 2025.

It includes public comment by Comegno Law Group followed by my own comment about the ethics complaint I filed against North Hunterdon-Voorhees Board of Education. pic.twitter.com/wiEG1pQ1ed
— SafeLibraries® (@SafeLibraries) September 4, 2025

Graphics of NJ SEC Scheduling Letter 8/12/25:

Here is the letter sent out to announce the hearing I recorded above. pic.twitter.com/YCsStU3nD2
— SafeLibraries® (@SafeLibraries) September 5, 2025

Public Disclosure by Me of the Above Matter on Liberty Launch Group:

Spotify:

"E.5 with Dan Kleinman," by Austin Monteiro, Liberty Launch X Podcast, 30 August 2025; https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vLocpBP7Ioc0pZ1WDPEnb

C lip 1. In this conversation, Austin Monteiro speaks with Dan Kleinman from @SexHarassed about the alarming trends in school libraries and the influence of the American Library Association (ALA) on children's literature. Kleinman shares his experiences advocating for parental… pic.twitter.com/kAeCaGI5Tk
— Liberty Launch Group (@LibertyLaunchX) August 30, 2025

NOTE ADDED 15 SEPTEMBER 2025:

The OPRA request was effectively denied and closed on 12 September 2025. From experience, 100% of the time a FOIA request is denied, the government is hiding something.

In my case, they are hiding legal bills. In the past I received legal bills. Not this time. They are definitely hiding something. I suspect it's that the law firm is serving American Library Association, not the school district itself.

They say they don't have the legal bills because they are "sent directly to the District's insurance carrier." If that is true, then they have not reviewed the bills and they are possibly violating even more ethics laws. They might even be hiding that they know tax money is being used to support Chicago ALA goals.

I'll have to dig in more now, and they will eventually blame me for wasting the public's money. It's like they blame book challengers for wasting public money when it's ALA diktat that creates the book challenges in the first place.

Here is the actual rejection letter, and click to enlarge:

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School Librarians Shape Young Minds with a Very Specific Worldview Leading to Tragedy

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:14:00 +0000

I just returned from the library, and I can’t even begin to describe the emotions surging through me. It’s a storm — anger, despair, disappointment, sadness, outrage, frustration — all at once.

I had gone there to pick up a book from the Simsbury High School summer reading list for English 10.1/10.2. My son had randomly selected a few titles, but most were already checked out, so I placed holds for us — and the first to become available was Someday by David Levithan.

After checking it out, I glanced at the cover. The tagline struck me immediately:

“Every day a new body. Every day a new life. Every day a new choice.”

Curious — and admittedly uneasy — I looked further. The story is about a character named “A,” a genderless being who wakes up in a different person’s body each day. The author, David Levithan, is also known for books like Two Boys Kissing and Boy Meets Boy — stories centering on themes of identity, gender, and s[*]xuality.

Something inside me recoiled. I asked my son to pick another book. I just couldn’t bring myself to let him read this — to me this looked like the intentional shaping of young minds with a very specific worldview.

I tried reading Someday myself. Ten pages in, I had to stop. Not because I don’t enjoy reading — I absolutely do — but because this felt more like ideological grooming than literature. To give it a fair chance, I even asked Grok AI for a breakdown of the book. It listed some supposed benefits, like encouraging readers to “reconsider assumptions about gender” by exploring life through different bodies — male, female, nonbinary, unspecified.

But I can’t help but ask:

Is this really what will help my son develop strong reading comprehension? Will this improve his analytical skills, prepare him for college, give him insight into history, philosophy, literature, geography or human nature?

Or is it simply another nudge toward embracing a particular ideological agenda?

Why do I, as a parent, have to screen every single recommended book from a well-regarded public school — a school we pay high taxes to support — just to make sure it’s even appropriate?

When I was 15, I was an avid reader. I devoured books — Azerbaijani, Russian, American, European classics. No one had to check what I was reading, because our schools recommended works that built character, that inspired ambition, that taught us something enduring.

I grew up on Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Jules Verne — stories of human strength, moral struggle, discovery, and growth.

And now, in 2025, my son’s well-ranked Connecticut school recommends a book about a genderless being who lives in borrowed bodies.

Walking out of the teen section on the second floor of the Simsbury Public Library, I looked around. I’d seen it before, but today it hit differently. The “teen safe space” was draped in rainbow and transgender flags. A woman sat nearby, clearly signaling affiliation with the LGBTQ+ community. Librarians wore name tags with preferred pronouns prominently displayed. Posters announced “LGBTQ+ Teen Night” — every first Thursday of the month, ages 13-18, with free snacks, games, crafts, and community.

On the surface, it sounds innocent — welcoming, even. But something about it feels engineered, curated — like the goal isn’t connection but conversion. More and more, it seems that Simsbury High and Simsbury Public Library have become less about academic excellence and more about ideological celebration.

Instead of aiming for the best education, they’re drenched in rainbow-colored narratives, pushing teens deeper into identity confusion under the banner of inclusion.

And where does all this lead?

Sometimes — tragically — it ends the way it did for Ilene.

My daughter.

Who followed this very path of identity exploration and affirmation — only to end her life in the end.

Source of guest post:

I just returned from the library, and I can’t even begin to describe the emotions surging through me. It’s a storm — anger, despair, disappointment, sadness, outrage, frustration — all at once.

I had gone there to pick up a book from the Simsbury High School summer reading list… pic.twitter.com/XihmxSE0Ng
— True Teller (@TrueTeller2024) August 8, 2025

Reprinted with the permission of the author.

Wow, Someday includes the "trans" main character k[*]lling people and enjoying it, then talking about dead bodies. Can you believe that, given the tragedy that happened in the author's family? Let me guess, librarians would say this is so "children can see themselves in the books on the shelves."

Sometimes — tragically — it ends the way it did for Ilene.
My daughter.
Who followed this very path of identity exploration and affirmation — only to end her life in the end.

I read the whole book. This book is the usual poor writing about political ideology and crushes, taking the place of good writing, like by "Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Charlotte Brontë, Jack London, Jules Verne." So kids are not only reading trash, but they aren't reading good books. It's a double negative.

Or as David Levithan put it in the book, as if reviewing his own book, "sh[*]t, I said." It's "fifteen minutes of f[*]ck up time." "It's all so predictable."

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After Mahmoud, ALA Bluffs to Set ALA's Library Bill of Rights as State Law; Massachusetts H3591, H3594, H3598, and H2328

noreply@blogger.com (SafeLibraries®) — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 02:25:00 +0000

Regarding Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328

Submitted by Dan Kleinman, Executive Director, World Library Association

Dear Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development,

Why are we here? We are here because the American Library Association [ALA] based in Chicago, Illinois, has been working for over half a century to s3xualize and indoctrinate America’s children via the medium of its so-called "Library Bill of Rights" that half a century ago made it "age" discrimination to keep anything from children. See, Koganzon, Rita. “There Is No Such Thing as a Banned Book: Censorship, Authority, and the School Book Controversies of the 1970s.” American Political Thought 12, no. 1 (January 2023): 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1086/723442 (archived: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PZ2pDhKhRAtlNgR7gek_1kcdGFoskHpa/view?usp=sharing). This has driven the faster and faster pushing of inappropriate material into public libraries and school libraries, causing parents to challenge such material in greater numbers and frequency. Then the librarians complain about all the parents complaining, after ALA first caused the problem.

So in an effort to stop all parents anywhere from challenging materials, ALA had to come up with something. ALA wants its "Library Bill of Rights" to be codified into state law nationwide, thereby effectively overruling the US Supreme Court case of Board of Education v. Pico ( https://reason.com/volokh/2022/08/09/removal-of-books-with-lascivious-content-from-school-libraries-likely-not-unconstitutional/ ) and blocking parents from even filing complaints in the first place. This Chicago organization called ALA has over a third of state legislatures considering whether to codify this "Library Bill of Rights" that one court ruled means "nothing" ( https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2019/08/library-bill-of-rights-means-nothing.html ).

Now such legislation to overrule the Pico case and the First Amendment comes to Massachusetts in the form of Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328. So that’s why we are here. The question is, will Massachusetts legislators pass into law what a private organization from Illinois has put forth to try to turn its nothing "Library Bill of Rights" into Massachusetts law?

ALA caused the problem and provides the solution: legislation to essentially codify its own "Library Bill of Rights" nationwide. Such legislation has passed in a few states but ALA wants more. Now it wants Massachusetts. And in a big way. American Library Association is to be the Massachusetts standard setter in Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328.

Bill H.3591 requires: "E. Adopt the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights ...."

Bill H.3594 requires: "Section 82B. The school committee or other administrative authority of a school library shall establish a written policy...." "The written policy shall be in accordance with standards adopted by the American library association." "The policy shall provide that if a material is the subject of a complaint or attempt to remove or restrict its use, it shall remain on the shelves pending a vote of the school committee during the process for responding to challenges...." The latter is a direct violation of Board of Education v. Pico that allows for immediate removal. The concept of ignoring Pico and leaving the book on the shelf until a long process has completed is the sole idea of Chicago's American Library Association. "SECTION 11. Section 15 of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding ... : (iv) the process to respond to book challenges, in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association...." "The board of library commissioners ... shall make resources available ... in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association."

Bill H.3598 requires: "Section 82B. The school committee or other administrative authority of a school library shall establish a written policy ... in accordance with standards adopted by the American library association." "SECTION 11. Section 15 of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding ... (iv) the process to respond to book challenges, in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association...." "The board of library commissioners ... shall make resources available ... in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association." "SECTION 12. Section 19B of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby amended by ... inserting ... (8) adopt and make public a written policy for the selection and use of library materials and facilities in accordance with section 33; provided, that such policy shall incorporate the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights...."

Bill S.2328 requires: "SECTION 3. Said chapter 71 is hereby further amended by inserting ... Section 82B. The school committee or other administrative authority of a school library shall establish a written policy ... in accordance with standards adopted by the American library association." "SECTION 11. Section 15 of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby amended by adding ... (iv) the process to respond to book challenges, in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association and as required by section 19B. The board of library commissioners ... shall make resources available ... in accordance with the standards adopted by the American Library Association." "SECTION 12. Section 19B of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby amended by ... inserting ... 8) adopt and make public a written policy ... that such policy shall incorporate the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights...." "SECTION 14. Said section 33 of said chapter 78, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word 'Association', in line 6, the following words:- including, but not limited to, its Library Bill of Rights...."

Can you all see how Chicago ALA's "Library Bill of Rights" aspirational creed is set to set the standard for Massachusetts law?

I’m Dan Kleinman, the Executive Director of the World Library Association [WLA] based in Bee Cave, Texas. WLA is the new alternative to ALA. For opposing a similar law in New Jersey, also promoted by that same Illinois private organization, NJ state senator Andrew Zwicker called me a "meddling minority." So the World Library Association from Texas is a meddling minority, but the American Library Association from Illinois that essentially wrote the Massachusetts legislation and that of all other states is not. The meddling being done is by the Illinois organization trying to mislead Massachusetts legislators into violating Pico with false claims of First Amendment rights, intellectual freedom, the "right to read," and the right for children to "see themselves" in the book they are reading.

This effort by ALA has encompassed about 22 states so far, almost half of the United States. The details of exactly how and why it is so bad, along with what states are considering codifying the Illinois organization’s aspirational creed that means nothing, is written at the Right to Read Act page on World Library Association here: https://worldlibraryassociation.org/right-to-read-act/ I feel there is no better guide on the topic from the point of view of parents.

To be very clear, ALA has worked for a very long time to mislead legislators nationwide into doing what the Illinois private organization wants, namely, ensure children get access to all materials at any age per the "Library Bill of Rights." As you consider this legislation, ask yourselves if you wish to be misled and to discard US Supreme Court precedent designed to protect children from harm, and to discard the First Amendment and your own state constitution.

And there it is, the Massachusetts Constitution, Article XIX (a real Article XIX, not the fake ones in the "Library Bill of Rights"), "The people have a right, in an orderly and peaceable manner, to assemble to consult upon the common good; give instructions to their representatives, and to request of the legislative body, by the way of addresses, petitions, or remonstrances, redress of the wrongs done them, and of the grievances they suffer." People have the right to seek redress of the government. Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 basically remove that right. No one will be able to seek redress of the government for inappropriate books because Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 enjoin that via the application of legislation written in Chicago, Illinois, by an organization tired of losing past efforts to keep kids reading inappropriate materials in school libraries.

The right of redress is so important in Massachusetts that there is a second article in the constitution about it, and solely about the right of redress. Article XXII: "The legislature ought frequently to assemble for the redress of grievances, for correcting, strengthening and confirming the laws, and for making new laws, as the common good may require."

Does a law making available to children books about butt plugs and how to upload pictures to Grindr to meet a man for a night and blocking people from seeking redress serve "the common good"? How many legislators have even done either? Why might they create that right for school children if Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 pass into law?

Will Massachusetts legislators toss away Article XIX and Article XXII of their own state's constitution so blithely just to pass a law written by a Chicago organization working for 60 years to harm school children with inappropriate material that a court has already ruled its "Library Bill of Rights" means "nothing" and is just an organizational creed?

So if the four pieces of legislation crowning American Library Association as king pass into law, they will immediately violate the Massachusetts Constitution because parents will lose the right to seek redress without new, stringent preconditions from school and library boards whose hands are now tied by the law. This is why people don’t want a private organization from Illinois writing any laws for Massachusetts. ALA simply doesn’t give a whit about the Massachusetts Constitution, nor anything or anyone else for that matter.

One way ALA plans to manipulate legislators is with "long-term inoculation." This is in training from EveryLibrary, a crypto ALA affiliate. As part of long-term inoculation, ALA (via EveryLibrary) specifically states, "Get to know your legislators and local leaders," in the context of "identifying and activating others who care." Have any Massachusetts legislators been "identified and activated" to "care" about ensuring children have unlimited access to anything whatsoever? Have any librarians or library associations gotten to "know their legislators"? See this for yourselves here: https://tinyurl.com/IntellectualFreedomAndBooks. And the crypto nature of EveryLibrary being a part of American Library Association is detailed here, as well as details on its "long-term inoculation": https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/06/library-boards-trained-to-lie-by-ala.html

A second way ALA plans to manipulate legislators is via training ALA’s top lawyer gave to librarians, that before legislation is written, because that’s the goal they are after, before legislation is written, there needs to be "sustained messaging" that takes away the idea that certain materials are s-xually inappropriate for children and "reframes" the issue as one of diversity, inclusion, and the right for kids to "see themselves" in the materials they are provided. This statement was surfaced and reported by me, after which Utah Senator Mike Lee discussed it at a recent "Banned Books" hearing on Capitol Hill. He played the recording, then afterwards said ALA’s lawyer was "saying the quiet part out loud," that ALA is gr—ming and s-xualizing children. His words. As Utah Senator Mike Lee put it, “the goal is to s-xualize children, to provide minors with s-xually explicit material, and then hide this content from the parents.” Watch Senate Mike Lee display then discuss this video World Library Association surfaced and listen to his discussion of the issues regarding the contents of supposed "banned books": https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c5085234/user-clip-sen-lee-comments

And remember, the "book ban" hoax has been exposed by the United States Department of Education and it has dropped all of its actions against parents. I proved years ago it was ALA that caused US Dept of Ed to promulgate the "book ban" hoax in the first place ( https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2023/06/library-boards-trained-to-lie-by-ala.html ). The hoax is over. Now Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 is no longer needed.

So ALA has decades ago made it age discrimination to keep kids from materials. The Pico case allows for the removal of inappropriate material; books like Gender Queer have been successfully removed from many schools under the Pico case, and ALA couldn’t stand for that. Result? It created "Unite Against Book Bans," one of the goals of which was to get legislation passed nationwide that would prevent parents from applying the Pico case and prevent parents from exercising their First Amendment and state constitutional rights to seek redress of the government from governmental actions. And here you are in Massachusetts discussing this very legislation that has been the subject of "long-term inoculation" and "sustained messaging" that essentially "reframes" known inappropriate material as diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Along comes Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328. Compare them with the "Library Bill of Rights" that the Berry v. Yosemite Community College District court case ruled means "nothing" ( https://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2019/08/library-bill-of-rights-means-nothing.html ).

American Library Association diktat has a trail of child victims, like Maia Poet who exposed how she was directly harmed by a school librarian predator. Watch: https://x.com/thepeacepoet99/status/1890950617998217606?s=61

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Not only does Bill H.3591 eliminate the US Supreme Court Pico case, it also eliminates the First Amendment’s and Massachusetts Constitution’s grant of the right of redress. If the school board is constrained by law from removing Gender Queer and similar books, then parents' rights to seek redress of the government are eliminated, gone, or an unconstitutionally huge burden is placed on them and no book will ever be removed, no matter how inappropriate. This is the goal of ALA. Under the new legislation, there is no longer a right to ask a school board to remove a book from the school, or the right is so limited that nothing will ever be removed. Never. So those rights are gone. The new legislation takes those rights away. Under the wording of Bill H.3591, there is not a single book in the library now or ever that may be challenged by a parent and removed by a school board. This is the goal of the Illinois-based private organization called ALA.

ALA recently lost a big case in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Parents can now opt out of what ALA is pushing. The US Supreme Court allows parents to opt out, but Massachusetts legislators want to make ALA legislation into law via Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328?

Look at the Massachusetts Association of School Committees [MASC] in what it said about the Mahmoud case. https://www.masc.org/scotus-decision-in-mahmoud-v-taylor-considerations-for-district-policy/ It says:

"This case has been viewed as an attack on the LGBTQ+ community and a direct challenge to the fundamental responsibilities of local school committees and their districts. MASC will be examining to what extent this decision requires revisions to our current policy recommendations. Crafting an appropriate policy that will protect districts, and avoid unwelcomed results when applied, is challenging given that these cases are so fact specific and the latest decision provides minimal guidance."

Look how hard MASC will be working to craft a proper policy in light of the Mahmoud decision to "protect districts, and avoid unwelcomed results when applied." One policy "is challenging" and "these cases are so fact specific and the latest decision provides minimal guidance." Yet Massachusetts legislators are ready to pass Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 just on the trust of the American Library Association and its claimed and assumed adherence to and trend setting on "intellectual freedom"?

Let's be very clear, ALA being the trusted expert on intellectual freedom is illusory. It doesn't even hold its own organization to the same standard. See, "ALA’s Closed-Door Dilemma: When Governance Reform Conflicts with Organizational Values," by Trevor A. Dawes, Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware, https://trevordawes.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/ala-closed-door-meetings/

Quoting from Mr. Dawes:

“The irony is particularly sharp: an organization whose members fight daily battles against censorship and for intellectual freedom is now restricting access to its own decision-making processes. When librarians advocate for open government meetings in their communities and resist attempts to conduct public business behind closed doors, how can their professional association justify adopting the very practices they oppose?”

“The library profession has long served as a bulwark against information gatekeeping. Librarians regularly advocate for government transparency, fight against secret deliberations by public bodies, and champion the public’s right to know. When ALA adopts the very practices its members oppose in other contexts, it undermines the moral authority of the profession’s advocacy efforts.”

“ALA’s credibility as an advocate for transparency and intellectual freedom depends partly on its willingness to embody these values in its own operations.”

“When librarians testify before city councils about the importance of open meetings or when they argue against secret deliberations in school board decisions, they draw moral authority from their profession’s commitment to these principles.”

“By retreating to closed-door deliberations without adequate justification or member input, ALA risks undermining not just its own democratic processes but the broader advocacy efforts of the library profession.”

“President Helmick and the ALA Executive Board have positioned this change as a technical adjustment to improve governance efficiency. However, the decision represents something far more significant: a choice between convenience and values, between operational ease and organizational integrity.”

“The question isn’t whether ALA can afford to maintain transparent governance practices. The question is whether it can afford not to.”

So, will Massachusetts constituents want their legislators to pass laws written by an outside organization that doesn't even live up to its own standards? Won't enforce intellectual freedom within its own ranks? This is the model to follow for Massachusetts?

I feel certain no parent wants any of this legislation to pass into law in Massachusetts, except those few who support that Illinois organization more than they support the law, community standards, and common sense, and except those few legislators who have been successfully co-opted by the "long-term inoculation" and the "sustained messaging" from the Illinois based private association of librarians and members of the local Massachusetts Library Association and the like. To me, any legislator passing anything from American Library Association into law knowing the history of ALA and how it doesn't even stand up to its own standards will be complicit in the harm done by this legislation. Any lawsuits brought under any of these laws if passed should include the legislators who knew ahead of time the harm being done but who chose to let the harm be done.

I further feel certain that should any of Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, or Bill H.2328 pass into law, it will be challenged in court for First Amendment violations, among other things, then eventually struck down. Will that out-of-state private organization fund all that legal footwork to protect Massachusetts's children? Of course not. You'll all be on your own.

Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, and Bill H.2328 should never become law in the first place, and it should never be reworded because it is fatally flawed. It comes from an out-of-state organization as part of an over half-century effort to "long-term inoculate" adults, especially legislators, so they drop their guard and allow children to be s3xualized and indoctrinated in schools and public libraries despite that being against the law, community standards, and common sense. When the ALA lawyer says to "reframe" inappropriate material as DEI so kids can "see themselves," anyone can see for him or herself what’s going on, and Senator Lee’s words make it crystal clear. And ALA won't even follow its own policies it expects you to pass into law.

Do not pass Chicago ALA’s Bill H.3591, Bill H.3594, Bill H.3598, or Bill H.2328 into law, else Massachusetts children will be directly harmed, and legislators could possibly be complicit in harming them.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/

Dan Kleinman, Executive Director

World Library Association

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Librarian Details Why She Hates America on Eve of Fourth of July, So Why Are Librarians 'Trusted Experts' for School Book Selection?

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School librarians claim that are "trusted experts" in school book selection. Yet many hate America. So why are school librarians trusted experts?

A number of librarians make this hate clear. But one went above and beyond.

One librarian detailed in a series of seven posts why he/she hates America. He/she did this on Fourth of July eve. On Bluesky. The image in the upper right was included in his/her leading post.

Here is what he/she wrote, and I'll leave him/her unnamed since his/her identity is irrelevant:

Why I’m Not Celebrating the 4th This Year

The disappointment I feel toward friends and family who continue to vote for, and cheer on, those destroying my profession—public education and libraries—is overwhelming. These aren’t just “political differences.” (1/7)

These are choices that directly harm the people and values I’ve devoted my life to.

I’m not in the mood to wave a flag while the people you elected are tearing this country apart. (2/7)

You claim to ❤️ America, but you stand by as your leaders attack free speech, ban books, dismantle public education, criminalize healthcare, mock the disabled, and fan the flames of division and hate. (3/7)

You cheer while they gut voting rights, spread lies, and treat fellow Americans like enemies for daring to think differently.

That’s not patriotism. That’s authoritarianism with a flag draped over it. (4/7)

These are choices you are making that are harmful to real people and to our country.

This behavior of worshiping a false idol named Trump is the opposite of how my religion as a Christian tells me to act and opposite of the way I was raised to “be ye kind, one to another.” (5/7)

This is not “love thy neighbor as thyself” behavior.

And to be honest, the personal toll is real.

So no, I won’t be celebrating “freedom” alongside those who vote to take it away from others. I’ve reached my limit. (6/7)

While others gather for fireworks and barbecues, I’ll be focused on the work of helping this country live up to its ideals—because real patriotism means standing up for justice, equality, and truth. (7/7)

[NOTE: This information was provided to me by a librarian who loves America and who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of job retribution. I'll assume most librarians love America, they simply fear those who promote inappropriate material for school children who seem to hold sway in American Library Association.]

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Sam Shoemate: Unmasking Marxism in Our Public Libraries, Featuring Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries

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JUNE 18, 2025 · 1 HR 2 MIN

Unmasking Marxism in Our Public Libraries

Our Country Our Choice

SUMMARY:

On this episode of Our Country Our Voice, Dan Kleinman discuss the alarming infiltration of Marxist ideology in the American education system, particularly through public libraries. Dan shares his personal experience that led him to investigate the inappropriate content in children's books and the role of the American Library Association (ALA) in promoting such materials. He highlights the funding mechanisms of the ALA, the legal tactics used to silence dissent, and the need for grassroots movements to reclaim control over educational content. The discussion highlights the ideological justifications used by proponents of this agenda and emphasizes the importance of community action in combating these influences. In this conversation, Sam and Dan of SafeLibraries discuss the alarming rise of radical ideologies infiltrating libraries and educational institutions. They explore how these ideologies are being pushed through policies from organizations like the American Library Association, leading to the indoctrination of children. The discussion emphasizes the need for community resistance, parental involvement, and grassroots activism to reclaim libraries and protect children from inappropriate content. They also address the historical context of Marxism in society and the importance of empowering parents to challenge these ideologies.

TRANSCRIPT:

Welcome to Our Country Our Voice. One of the greatest threats to our nation, which I believe is the greatest threat to our nation, is the proliferation of Marxism, both in our education system and throughout our institutions, those being the federal government or the military, which I've talked about extensively. You've heard me bring this up in the past. But we need to talk about how this takes hold at the grassroots level. And somebody has been doing a lot of research and pushing back on this over the last however many years, specifically in the public library system. I'm going to bring on a man named Dan Kleinman who has been investigating and exposing the proliferation of Marxist propaganda in our children's books in the public library system. So Dan, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much, Sam.

Tell me about yourself and tell me how you got started doing this.

Well, you know, I'm just like every other father, frankly. And I got started doing this because I sent my kid to a public school. And on the fourth day of kindergarten, she brought a book home for me to read to her. "Hey, daddy, would you read this to me?" And I was like, this is it. I've reached the top. I have a beautiful wife, a house in the country, and I got to read a public school book to my kid. You know, that's it. That's the American dream.

Sure, yeah.

And I began to read the book to her. And it was completely inappropriate. I mean, like, she went on a date, skinny dipping with three guys at the same time. Ooh la la, she said in a lusty voice. So,

Wow.

You know, it's a kindergarten, she's not going to pick it up. I changed the words around anyway to get away from those kinds of things. But I brought it in to the principal and I said, hey, what's going on here? And she took four days to review it. She said, this book is twice as bad as what you reported to me as. And so I'm going to remove it from the school. And I'm like, okay, well, why did you give it to my kid? Well, one, our librarian is a member of the American Library Association. And she was using a list of approved books from the American Library Association for kindergartners. And two...

A list of approved books? This was on an approved list?

The ALA puts out lists.

Wow.

And number two, it had to do with multiculturalism because it was about Puerto Ricans, which I could care less about, but the American Library Association does, because that's part of the issue. So right then, that's when I went to my public library that, on the same day, and I found that there was a website called Fun Sites for Kids and Teens. What was on Fun Sites for Kids and Teens? Was Go Ask Alice from Columbia University, where you could learn, for example, this is going to be fun for kids, how to hang yourself to have a better orgasm.

What?

This is how David Carradine, the actor, died from, you know, Grasshopper from

Right

Kung Fu. And also, I found a library director who admitted to me that somebody died in this, a 15-year-old boy died this very way, the day after coming to the library and seeing that very website, because the ALA recommended it. It's written on my, she's written to me and I've published this. So these are serious problems.

I can't even wrap my head around what you just said. The ALA approved a book on teaching kids how to hang themselves for the purpose of achieving their goals.

No, that wasn't a book. That was a website.

A website. Okay. Okay. Even still, this was on their approved list of stuff to go to and check out.

Right.

Wow. Wow.

By the way, they have an approved list and Common Sense Media was on that list because it's a great site for looking at book reviews. But one of the book reviews was about the inappropriateness of s[.]xuality in the books. And then when the American Library Association, when a certain group, I forget which one, within ALA learned that, they had the Common Sense Media website removed from that list. So Columbia's Go Ask Alice is on it. Common Sense Media was off it because Common Sense Media provided parents with information about the potential for s[.]xual inappropriateness in books. That got removed. This is the kind of organization we're dealing with. They're not providing you with information. They're providing you with what they want you to know.

This is very subversive. What you're describing is we will continue to do this until we get caught, and then we will change tactics. And they're doing this over and over. They know what this stuff is. They know what they're pushing. And they are just, they are continuing it until they get caught, and it reaches a level of public knowledge that they have to deal with it.

And they are librarians at the American Library Association. It's been around for a hundred years or something like that. And people have a high regard for librarians and think they're like pink fluffy bunnies who had never hurt a fly. When in reality, about 60 years ago, they changed their mission. No longer would they protect children from inappropriate material. Now they would push it on it, mislead the parents as to it, and ensure kids get as much of this is possible. This is the very reason why you and I are talking today right now. It's because of all this stuff going on in school libraries.

Talk about that. What happened 60 years ago? What took place?

60 years ago the American Library Association decided to change the Library Bill of Rights, which sounds great, and gave people the rights to– you know, actually ALA used to be a racist organization. They'd keep blacks out of libraries and wouldn't let them borrow books and all sorts of things. And eventually, they wrote a Library Bill of Rights to make sure people had access to libraries.

Right.

But in the 60s, thanks to the input of a guy named– 60s radical named Edgar Friedenberg, they decided to add the word "age" to the Library Bill of Rights. So, suddenly, it was age discrimination to keep children from seeing anything whatsoever. And now, public libraries have this Library Bill of Rights with the word "age" in there and this is why inappropriate material is being given to children despite laws against obscenity like in New Jersey or Supreme Court cases like Board of Education v. Pico because the librarians basically bully their way into these positions and say, hey, we know what we're doing and everybody assumes that they do and lets them get away with this stuff and this is why we're having this conversation because kids are getting inappropriate stuff because the American Library Association 60 years ago added the word "age" in there because of their new age views of things.

Yeah, wow.

They're not our friends anymore. They're now working to keep us in the dark, us parents in the dark, and to go after the children. And it's in many different forms, which I hopefully will get into in this discussion.

Yeah, absolutely. Who's funding the ALA? I know the answer. I've got another answer, but I'm just going to ask you. Who's funding the ALA?

I believe most– a lot of the funds at least comes from dues and from conferences that you attend which you think that they'd be all about free speech and no censorship, but it's like $500 to attend a conference. Unless you're a member, then it's like $400 and they sell some books. But they also get– for certain projects, they will get big donations like Jay Z and Robert Kraft of the Patriot Eagles– Patriot– New England Patriots gave a million dollars to the American Library Association with the express purpose of helping to sue– to file lawsuits for school librarians, to file lawsuits against parents, to silence the ones who are speaking out like I am and indeed I'm being sued, but there are others like me and it just keeps proliferating because they keep getting away with it. So they get money from that too.

What are you being sued for?

I'm being sued for defamation. The American Library Association at a meeting that the American Library Association warned people I might show up at, so let them know because then they'll change the language, yhey trained librarians on how to file suits against parents who complain for defamation because it runs them up of a lot of time and a lot of money. There's nothing there. There's no there there, but it just shuts people up. This is literally lawfare, SLAPP suits, and I got that from a FOIA response from some other people who had a battle with a library in Illinois, home of the American Library Association, where people are taking notes and the notes say we got to file defamation suits against parents that will run them up to $500,000 in costs. This is a plan. This is part of a plan of there's a many points that go into this pushing of this agenda. And that, that's one of them is filing lawsuits against parents and other groups.

How do you how do you combat this? I mean, when they're when they're funded the way they are, how do you as a concerned parent, is there any avenue, any recourse to fight back against this lawfare?

Um, the answer is no. And actually, that's what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get this to the, you know, while this organization, the ALA, has huge funding to sue parents, parents don't have any wherewithal to fight back except from out of their own pockets. I would like to get large funding from Elon Musk or Mike Bloomberg or somebody like that to pay lawyers directly, not us. I'm not looking for a Lexis

Sure.

or a Tesla. I just want it to go to the lawyers so that we can defend ourselves against these SLAPP suits and maybe do more. If we had the right amount of money maybe we can bring like a RICO charge against American Library Association for all these cases going on across the United States where they don't have a lot of control, but they get local people to become their little people to bring these lawsuits. So effectively, they can sue anywhere in the United States, and all standing rules are set aside for the American Library Association.

Um, I am... I wanted to talk to you today, but I wasn't planning on hearing all of this, and I'm in shock.

I could go on.

It takes a bit to shock me these days with what I've experienced, but I'm truly in shock with what I'm hearing. Who is empowering? Beyond the money, how is the ALA getting the access to make the changes and do the things they're doing? How have they established this kind of footprint to have this kind of power?

Well, they have established, like, underground connection things. How do I put this? They have funded and created local groups in hundreds of communities nationwide. They provide the means that librarians can communicate with each other so that parents don't know. And specifically, even if they file open government requests for information, the American Library Association guides librarians on how to prevent people from getting information under those FOIA Acts, Freedom of Information Act things, by using things like Signal to communicate with each other, and it won't become public, supposedly. It's become so prevalent that librarians are even writing this into their books that they're providing to people that are and to provide, to tell them on how to combat people like me, frankly. So one of the things you do is you communicate with each other. So for example, there was some legislation in Louisiana that in part started because of me and what I disclosed about the librarians down there. And the legislation got 44,000 emails opposing this particular legislation. Well, where did that come from? It came from the American Library Association platforms, community organizing platforms that you can sign up for if you're in the local community. They'll send you some money to get you like initially started. They'll set you up with a fundraising site. They'll set you up with a site to send emails to senators and representatives and so on and so forth. And so little people like us are crushed by this giant machine that can send out 44,000 emails to bully or pressure legislators into passing this or that law. That's another thing the lawyers, the librarians are doing, getting laws passed that make it harder for parents to, well, actually makes them lose their rights, lose their First Amendment.

How do people, how do they actually get this funding? So you're talking about the ALA provides funding so people can have their sites built or whatever in building. Is there some kind of litmus test that they have to pass first so that they can prove that they're ideologically on their side or what is that? What is the process for this? What does this look like?

You contact the Office for Intellectual Freedom, which is a subdivision of the ALA, or there's another subgroup called EveryLibrary. They, EveryLibrary, set itself up to look like it's separate, but it's actually the same people doing the same thing. So you just contact them, and they have bragged about how they can set this thing up within hours and get you going.

And how do the...

I have published the transcripts of these, the leader of Every Library Association, of EveryLibrary, and the president then, Emily Drabinski of ALA, providing a talk to the members about how they can stand this stuff up real fast and start helping people immediately. And they're doing it in hundreds of places.

How, how are they interconnecting these, these platforms? How are they talking where they're able to establish such a large response? 44,000 emails is no joke. That is an enormous volume of communication. So how are they actually, how is this banding together? I'm not understanding the logistics behind this.

Well, not only is it, not only is it like secret messages, but you can actually watch it on Twitter, and now they're not on Twitter, or X, they're now on, on BlueSky.

Of course, of course.

And you can, you can not only write to themselves, but they write to their partner groups like the AFT, their partners with the AFT, the American Federation of Teachers, and the ACLU, and so on and so forth. So I have been to a number of meetings where parents show up, and they are completely outdone by hundreds of people that are showing up with the same professionally done signs, Free People Read Freely, which is a registered trademark of American Library Association. So there's hundreds of people showing up that got out there because out in the open and public online, they're crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, and the crowds come out. One meeting was so bad, for example, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, that the parents who filed the complaint didn't even show up to the meeting because they were so intimidated. And I was the only person who spoke in favor of those parents, and I was then attacked by the ACLU of New Jersey as why would I ever speak up in favor of these parents? I mean, it's just crazy what goes on. Hundreds of people show up, and very few parents from the actual schools or public libraries are there, and they just get bullied out of existence. There's nothing that parents have in the opposite direction.

What is, I always ask why, and obviously I understand the purpose of Marxist ideology and propaganda. But for the average person who isn't trying to overthrow the United States through subversive ideology, what is the mechanism that they're using to, I guess, justify themselves? To say that what they're doing by teaching kids about this filth is the moral right. What is this?

Well, I would say, remember, it's not filth that they're teaching. They are s[.]xualizing the kids, but they're not s[.]xualizing them to s[.]xualize them. They're s[.]xualizing them because that is one way to inculcate a kind of like a Marxism and a hate for your country, your God and your family. That's like an angle to where the ultimate goal is. And it seems like it's Marxism. Now, when I say that, everybody's eyes go, Marxism. Okay. We have the American Library Association president, Emily Drabinski, who said when she became president, she said, "I am so proud that a Marxist lesbian became president of the American Library Association."

Wow. I saw that. Yeah.

"And I can't wait to wield power for what we want. I love you, mom." Okay, that's the kind of thing she does. Then she went to a socialism conference. This was uncovered by Karlyn Borysenko. And she says at the Socialism Conference in Chicago, she says, we need your help. And she's talking to real people, like really in jail for the things that they used to do in the 70s. She says, we need your help to turn libraries into sites for socialism training. That's what it is. It's not, it's not sites for s[.]xualization training. They're really after the political goal of getting children while they're young and making them into, indoctrinating them into their little view of things. The next president, she was Marxist, the next president is Marxist, the next president after her is not only Marxist but "non-binary." So the present elect of ALA right now is a "non-binary" Marxist.

Wow.

So you can guarantee that children are going to be getting this stuff, whether you want them to have it or not.

No, you know, I understand why they're doing it. I understand why the leaders of this are doing it. And I fully understand their modus operandi, if you will.

Ya.

But how are they convincing the PTA mom who thinks that she's doing the right thing by getting this stuff to their kids? How are they convincing them that this is the right thing to do?

Yeah, by doing what Marxists do, and that is lie. Take a grain of truth and turn it into something that makes sense. For example, it makes sense that children have a First Amendment right to anything that they want to read. I mean, it just sounds right. It makes sense that parents should not tell other parents what to read in schools. Right? I shouldn't tell other parents what to read in school. All this kind of stuff makes sense. It makes sense that there's the Miller case that says you have to, you know, something has to be read "as a whole" in order to be considered obscenity. And if you're just looking at excerpts, then you're not reading them "as a whole." It all makes sense. None of that is true. It's very deceptive though, because it sounds true. None of that is true. That's how they do it.

You know, what triggered in my head when you said that was, you know, Satan in the Garden of Eden telling Eve who, you know, who are you not to know? Why should you not know these things? And did God really say that? Because he just doesn't want you to know good from evil, like he does, and all these things, and this deception, this ability to convince her that, no, this is a good thing, and he just doesn't want you to have what he has. That's what's reminding me of, what I'm reminded of when you say that, you know, telling a parent, you're right, it sounds good when you say kids should have First Amendment rights. And then you're like, why does a six-year-old have a First Amendment right? You don't have a First Amendment right. You don't even have, you have no rights in your home. You do as you're told, you're six years old, you know? Like, I want you to explore and discover yourself, but within very limited constraints. Like, I am raising you and I am teaching you, you don't have First Amendment rights. So I fully get that.

That's how it's done.

That's, yeah. What, I don't even know how to approach this question because I'm so floored by what I've heard here.

Right.

What is, what do we do? How do we combat this as? I will offer the first one, I will say, first of all, just like I do with anything else, people need to know that this exists. People need to know that this is happening. And if I'm shocked by something, I am pretty certain that most people, most people don't know that this is going on to this extent. So first is education, but then how do we actually push back against this and stop what is taking place?

Yeah, I was going to say the first is education. So there you go. The second is, the way to push back is, in my opinion, is that you need to change the library boards, right? Let's say you have a town that's conservative, but you have only ten Marxists in the town. Those ten Marxists will get on the library board and control that board. That's how this stuff happens. That's, ALA even writes about it, talks about "sneakily" pushing this kind of drag queen story hour into small, rural, red communities, for example. They talk about this. And so what really needs to happen is the boards need to come back to control of not necessarily conservative, not anything, just people who don't want to have inappropriate material pushed on children. It's as simple as that. I think there's people come from both the GOP and the Democrats when it comes to that.

So, sure.

So those are the people you need on the board. Once you get them in the majority, then you have to go into the policies and remove all the policies that the ALA created and got into these schools, not directly, but indirectly because they train the librarians who come back and write this stuff from the sample policies right into your local school policy. So suddenly, if you want to challenge a book, it's going to take a five-month process of getting together a committee and parents will have input. They tell you parents have input. Parents have zero input. This is another lie they tell you, by the way. The parents will have input and everybody makes a decision. No, that's not true. That's what the ALA makes up. The ALA from Chicago, Illinois. It's the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Board of Education v. Pico that said if the book is educationally unsuitable or pervasively vulgar, it can be removed immediately. So a superintendent can and has remove books immediately. Even librarians have removed books immediately. They just don't make it public because they know when it's inappropriate, it shouldn't be, some of them know when a book is inappropriate, it shouldn't be in there and they take it out and they move it into another library. There's no big review process or anything like that. An eight-year-old girl in an Arizona school was reading a book about squirting sperm, not making it up, and the parent brought this to the principal's attention and the principal removed it that day. And the head of the Arizona Library Association said, "you can't do that. It's a violation of her… It's a censorship, a violation of her First Amendment rights, and there's a process that you need to go through." Well, anyway, she… That's it. This is what happens.

Yep. That process and that bureaucracy is something I'm very familiar with. I'll tell you a quick story really quick, and you can weigh in on this. Very, very similar to what you're describing.

Right.

There was an individual on Fort Leavenworth who brought a book, a very filthy book that I exposed publicly, teaching kids how to masturbate and all kinds of stuff, and how to avoid being caught by their parents. And I mean, just the graphicness of this book, it was technically in the preteen section. The preteen for this library on Leavenworth was, I believe, 12 to 17, or maybe it was 12 to 15. Either way, it was right next to the children's reading section. And this person brought this book to, first of all, to the chaplain, brought it forward to the chaplain, and then the chaplain brought it to the commanding general of Leavenworth. And this happened, I want to say, two, two and a half years ago. Well, initially, they were all about getting it removed. They both readily agreed, this is disgusting, this should not be in the library.

Right.

However, what happened after that was, this individual waited, I think it was a month, month and a half or so, it was a long time, and then got a response back from the chaplain saying, there's a process to have this removed, we're not going to be involved in this anymore, we're removing ourselves from this process. And she was flabbergasted, she was like, how, what do you mean? You were so gung-ho, you were on my side about getting this removed. And the entire conversation had been shut down, all the way from this chaplain to the commanding general, a three-star general of Fort Leavenworth, because for whatever reason, we don't know what took place behind the scenes, but when this person dug into it, and there's a whole process for submitting books that should be removed, but then the person who approves this is basically a dictator in charge where they decide overall what is and what isn't. And as we dug into it a bit more, we found that it was a network of very influential people that were working with one of these organizations. I couldn't even remember the name of this point, but they dictate the reading materials for all the DODEA libraries and in school systems. And so a three-star general, though he was opposed to it, not only did not have the power to remove this book from the library, but he stopped talking about it immediately, like silenced him. He was, he was, boom, done. I, not my problem anymore, I'm not going to address this.

Right.

What is your thought on that? And that's in the military.

This is how the American Library Association operates. There are a lot of librarians who are not like this, but they stay silent and they don't do anything, because if they do, sometimes they lose their jobs. One librarian, for example, came out after eight years and finally admitted how she was bullied out of her job because they kept showing p[.]rn on the computers. And the library director said, well, if you don't like it, don't let the door hit you on the way out. So she finally just left the job and wouldn't talk about it, just like you said, until eight years later, when another issue came up of more child p[.]rn in the library, because it never goes away, it just comes back. And so then she talked about it. That's how frightened these people are of these people who run this kind of stuff. So as I was saying before, what you need to do is you need to get the right people in place, get that policy that creates these dumb policies that came from the American Library Association, get it out of there. Suddenly, then you can remove a whole pile of things. You can remove, for example, hundreds of trans books that have to do with boys that look like girls and they're breast chopped off and everything else going on. It doesn't have to be a one-off thing. It could just be get them all out of there. Why? Because they're educationally unsuitable. And that's what the Court says. You don't have to, you know, the stuff with the one-off reviews, it takes forever, nothing ever gets done. Even the librarians laugh about it. They say, oh, you know, even if they remove this book, so what? I got 10 more like this on the shelf and the publishers are pushing out 100 more every day.

Geez.

So go ahead. Let them remove it.

I mean, the coordination behind this is incredible.

It's a massive coordination. Just massive. But it's not just coordination behind this. It's like an all-on-field effort. For example, they're passing legislation to ensure that children get this stuff in schools, despite laws like obscenity. In New Jersey, there's 2C:34-3, and it's for obscenity for children under 18. And it doesn't use the Miller Test "as a whole" standard. It just says if it has this, that, or the other thing, it's inappropriate for children, and it's a crime. And the librarian, actually, a book was, the superintendent wanted it removed from the library. But the librarian went to the American Library Association, got some advice and said, you can't do that, and that started years of battles in that community to where to this day, New Jersey has passed a law that requires people to ignore the obscenity statute and ignore the Pico case, and all books will now be accepted in schools. So you got to change the policy, then you can clean out entire swaths of the libraries. And just in case you think I'm being funny by saying that, I want you to know the librarians are cleaning out entire swaths of what's in the library.

Oh I'm sure.

They call it "decolonization." Or they oppose Christian books or something like that. They have other words for it. But they're doing the same thing. It's why when you go into a library, it's like completely slanted to one side and not the other because the librarians have been "decolonizing" the library and getting rid of dead white men, as an American Library Association website put it.

You know, you saying this is actually a, is perfect for this. This podcast is Our Country Our Voice, but it's a, you know, it's under our organization, which is Our Country Our Choice. And this is what we promote all across America. And this is what we're trying to build right now. We're we're very, very small at the moment. We are trying to build that movement where people understand that change is going to happen at the grassroots level. This is not going to be a federalized process. We are not going to overtake the federal government or anything else. It involves people in their local communities being aware of what's happening on their city councils, their town boards, but in the education system. But this is this is one that I really hadn't factored. The public libraries were not on my, were not on my radar. The ALA was not on my radar.

That why they are so effective.

I had all of these other boards and councils. What's that?

That's why they're so effective.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you're, like you said, who's going to suspect a librarian? You're not even thinking about it. They checked your books out. How big of a threat could they be? But if they're all coordinated and they're all controlling what people see in the library, not just books, but websites and in any other medium

Right.

that could push this stuff to a child, then they have an enormous amount of power. And if they're able to mobilize like this, which is literally what we're trying to create as an organization, the ability for people to do the same in their communities and mobilize and talk about these like-minded things and take back their country, then the amount of power that a librarian has is incredible. You know, this is literally the army of the Marxist movement in action.

Yeah.

And I'm just, I'm floored.

By the way, some of these school librarians, speaking of an army of Marxists, some of these school librarians are calling for the murder or the killing of Donald Trump as President, of Elon Musk, of all Jews.

They're violent. They are violent people. Whether they do anything about it or not, they are actively espousing this stuff. Not just on hidden accounts, not anonymous accounts. They're doing it on their public accounts without any fear because they are this emboldened.

Right, and when I publish reports about them doing it, including showing their tweets or posts with, you know, "kill," you know, DT on it, maybe I shouldn't say his name.

Yeah, right, right.

Then they say I'm harassing him and I'm going to gather evidence to bring another lawsuit against him. This was what they did. And all the library friends join in. They don't care that he's threatening the President of the United States, or Elon Musk. They don't think, "I'm going to stay away from that guy." No. Instead, they're like, "yes, Dan is the worst. Well, I don't know what he's so obsessed about with you threatening the president. You know, aren't there more important things in his life? Does he live in his mother's basement?" You know, all that kind of stuff just keeps coming up.

Right. Of course. Of course. This is the same, the same talking points over and over and over. And the ends justify the means because this is this is warfare. Like, make no mistake about it. We are at war with this ideology and these people who want to radicalize and completely overtake our nation. And they've been very successful at it for a very long time. And I think I think over the last four or five years, a lot of people got red pilled, if you want to call it that. But woke up after the COVID stuff and started seeing a lot of these things around them and saying, we, wow, what's been going on in our country? We have to respond to this.

And since they got woke up, the librarians have realized that they've been caught. So their response is not to pull back, their response is to double down. So, for example, when the Department of Education stopped the book ban hoax, which ALA was part of, by the way, but get to that later, the American Library Association and the School Library Journal started publishing how you can double down on DEI in your school despite what the Department of Education has done. How you can sneak this stuff on children without the Department of Education knowing. How you can make sure kids are continuing to learn things that we know that nobody wants them to learn except for us, because we know what's best for these children, right? They complain that parents think that parents know what's best. It's them who think that it's the parents who know, like that one who is suing me. I have to be careful what I say, because I'm still in the middle of a lawsuit.

Sure.

But basically, I revealed something that she said on a broadcast, in which she bragged about the "not modern" parents knowing that she was putting books in front of the kids that would teach them things that she knew the parents would not want them to know, like about s[.]xual harassment, for example, or whatever it may be. And she thought she was funny talking to another school librarian about it, and they were laughing it up. Well, I heard that, and I published it, and I provided a transcript, and I got sued for doing that. So it's basically, that's so they come out and they say this stuff when they, in fact, if I could give people a piece of advice on how to investigate this stuff, it would be to just listen to all the broadcasts from these various librarians. They say things because they think nobody's listening. They say things that is like hard evidence of the agenda that's going on and how things are getting done. I've been at this for 25 years. This is halfway why I know this stuff, because I've been listening to a hundred of these broadcasts. They say this things.

Yeah. Now, what you're describing is the same thing they did in the Department of Defense where Trump came out with his executive order to get rid of DEI, critical race theory and all this subversive propaganda. What did they do? Not only did the lawyers and the JAG Corps push back against this stuff very publicly, but they started doing malicious compliance where they were only obeying by the letter of the law, but making the administration look bad.

Right.

And then they archived a lot of this stuff. So they were very open about it. They didn't delete it. They didn't remove it. They archived it. And you had a three-star admiral that came out and said, we will wait them out. And she was relieved for it. But they're very open about this.

Right.

They are, this isn't just a social idea for them that they're trying to improve society. No, they are trying to radically take over the entire establishment with Marxist ideology and therefore, ultimately, communism.

Right. I've even seen them openly saying, you know, let's fool people. I mean, I know they do this multiple times. So when a story comes out, a lot of times the librarians will fake things to make it look really bad. Like if DeSantis says you can't give DEI books to kids third grade and below, they'll empty out the shelves in the library, then take a picture of empty shelves and say, look what happened.

Bingo.

They'll have a law that wants to get passed on Internet filtering. The head of the Illinois Library Association sent out a message to all librarians using their public resources to tell them to purposely turn up all their filters to the highest setting so that nobody could get access to anything. Leave slips of paper and pens so that people could write to the governor right there. That bill that passed both houses got vetoed by the governor after he got a huge number of these kinds of things

Wow.

because they faked it. They do this kind of fake stuff all the time. They even write it publicly sometimes to play these kinds of games on people, to use your public resources. You're in a public job. You can hide things. You can make things look bad, make it harder for people to get access. Then they complain and then suddenly you're back to where you were before. It's just what they do. These are not honest people in the slightest.

No. You know what? To be honest, if I was leading any kind of combative effort to subvert the population or anything else, I would do the same thing. I wouldn't be honest because these people are my enemies. So I don't blame them for not being honest, but what I do encourage people to understand is that this is real and you are being lied to, and you need to look past what you see on the surface, the black and white, such as these emptied out shelves and, oh, this is a result of the scientists telling us that we couldn't have these reading materials. So now you don't get any reading materials and understand that this is a ploy to manipulate.

Almost every time.

Yes, it is absurd when you look into it, but it works. The propaganda works.

Yep.

The psychological operation of it works on the masses when you put this stuff out on social media. And it's, you know, they have an army that we've allowed to infiltrate over decades and decades and decades of doing this.

Yes.

And it's just really taken off in the last 10 years as far as how aggressive it's become.

Right.

But the structure and the base was already in place to allow this.

Right.

So, I have some questions that people asked last night, and I want to run these by you. So, Crystal said, ask him about the ALA policies, how the ALA policies have infiltrated school libraries to the detriment of all. I think we covered a bit of it, but outside of just public libraries and everything else, maybe there's something you could expound on with that question. I think, like I said, it's been covered, but maybe you have another thought.

It has been covered. A lot of these policies come from the American Library Association. They're trained at the meetings, and then they go back and they write them up and suggest them to their policy people, and it becomes the law. For example, a lot of people didn't like, a lot of librarians didn't like that people were filing materials reconsideration complaints, which is from the ALA, but too many of them were being filed, so they began to make new rules. They just make it up. You have to be a school parent. You couldn't even be a grandparent in the case of one school. Yet you have to be living in the community. You have to be limited to only one challenge per year. So they start putting all these restraints on your First Amendment and your state constitutional rights, because there's two constitutions involved. And they don't care. And suddenly that gets trained at the American Library Association. And suddenly it's in all the, not all the policies, but it's in the policies that have adopted this kind of stuff. This training at the American Library Association is so egregious that some kind of a training that I brought up was used in a banned books hearing. And Mike Lee spoke about it on on Capitol Hill during a "banned books" hearing. And he played this clip. And let me tell you what's in this training that librarians are getting. They're saying before this stuff becomes legislation, so they know it's going to become legislation, but they want to fool people. We need to get the people to think that these are not inappropriate books for children. And then she corrects herself. It's not s[.]xually inappropriate. She actually changes it to that. But "reframes" them as diversity and inclusion and things like that.

Yes.

This is what training librarians. This is what they're doing. This is why books like Gender Queer are not being removed from as many schools as they could be, because people have been convinced to believe that, well, first of all, as a whole, it's a good book, which has nothing to do. It's the Miller case. It doesn't apply to school libraries. And it has ideas in it that are good ideas. No, it doesn't. It's just you just took the idea that these are pervasively vulgar, and you change them into, it's diversity, she's half gay, cut off her breasts, whatever it is. That's not an excuse, but that's the American Library Association's excuse. And it's working. So, there's...

Yeah, I guess if you're a fence walker, and you don't have any kind of standard, which is something that they've tried to do for decades, is break down your moral boundaries for what you will tolerate and what you won't tolerate, then that stuff looks clean and wholesome. You know, like, oh, diversity is good. Equity is good, until you dig into what that actually means behind the framework.

Well, for librarians, okay, like, I'm Dan Kleinman, and I tweeted today or posted today on my account I call SexHarassed on X, which is named after the librarians who get harassed, and the ALA doesn't care and says it's "dubious." Anyway, this librarian told librarians today how to get rid of Christian books from their libraries and don't let Christian people come in and use their public library books for public library readings.

That's insane.

It's insane.

I mean, that's just illegal. That's full-blown illegal.

They don't care. They run the thing using your public taxpayer monies.

That's crazy.

They get away with it. That was uncovered years ago by me, the American Library Association trained people initially how to do that. The thing I wrote about today is somebody who keeps writing about it every year to tell librarians exactly what to do and even telling them to spend public money, like "go get your lawyer and make sure your policy is good on your public library meetings room." That's nice. She's telling people to expend public money to advance an American Library Association goal to keep Christians out of libraries.

All right. Um. I'm. This. This is crazy. Let me ask you this one. Greg asked, does he feel we are facing Marxism that has been implemented here since the Soviet Union days, or is this mainly pushed by China currently?

Yeah. I think it's the Soviet Union days because it was 60 years ago that they added the word "age" to the Library Bill of Rights based on their, you know, what I said before.

Yeah. And I agree with you. This has been going on way too long. This is not a CCP operation. I'm sure that they are more than willing to support it in its efforts to divide and destroy our nation internally. But this is by no means an origination.

Yeah. I don't see anything CCP connected here a lot. I see other problems, but not that.

Yeah. Fair enough. We already covered who funds the ALA, and you talked about that. Now, you said that it was like donations and these dinners and everything else, but is there any, are there taxpayer dollars that are funneling and supporting ALA directly?

Well, I'm going to guess yes, because I'm actually not a financial expert. So they are a 401c3 organization. 501c3. See, I can't even say it right. 501c3 organization. So I'm assuming they get tax benefits by claiming they are. Meantime, the president, Emily Drabinski, was just talking about how people should downvote or not rank Mario Cuomo. It sounds to me like she's violating FEC and IRS rules, but they don't care because they're librarians.

They don't care. Hey you're right, who's going to stop the librarian? Yeah, that's crazy. We talked about this earlier, and I don't know if you even know the answer to this, but the question is how do they get to dictate what goes in DOD and other libraries and effectively no one else will say it. I know how you covered this. We talked about bureaucracy, but do you actually know the method that DODEA has for selecting books?

It's the librarians.

Okay.

It's through them that this kind of stuff happens.

Okay. Fair enough. And then ...

Because nobody says, look, while I'm out flying caps over whatever, Washington, DC., I want the librarian to teach my kid in the army-based library about how to put on a dress when he is five years old, and he can get his penis cut off or wear tucking underwear. Nobody wants that. That's coming from somewhere. It's the American Library Association.

Um, yeah. Um. Lakelady asked, are there examples of public libraries that have been taken back by their communities?

Yes.

And how can people win against the radical library associations?

Gillette, Wyoming, was taken back. Why? They got the right board in place and then, the board that doesn't want to s[.]xualize children, and they threw out all the American Library Association policy and they changed it. Now, people can go in the library, everybody can go. You see, before it was just the people who didn't mind the indoctrination and the flags and the books and the whole thing that goes on with if you don't follow this, you're out. Now, everybody can go and feel welcome. People don't have to be afraid that their kid is going to read Gender Queer about rubbing off or, whatever, in the library. And that resulted in the library director refusing to follow the new policy. And the library said, look, you got to follow the new policy. This is the policy, we're the library board, we're the one who set the policy under the law. People have to look at the law that creates these libraries and don't just listen to your librarian, but look at the law. And what did that law give them the power to do? And it gives them the power to tell the library director what to do. The library director refused, they fired her.

That's what I was waiting for.

So she went out and got the American Library Association, and now she's suing that library. But they're not moving.

Good.

They're not budging. And there are other libraries that are also ending their funding for ALA, stop sending their people to ALA conferences. There are state library associations doing it. There are state library commissions that are dropping out of ALA, largely because they realize that having Marxist leaders is something you don't want to really be paying for. You know, you don't even need an MLIS. You don't need a degree even to be a librarian. I was a volunteer librarian for two years. You kind of learn it on the job from other people. It's not terribly difficult. And it's not even a profession, right? What's a profession? A lawyer, a doctor, somebody else that passes a test and they can get kicked out if they, you know. Well, that's not librarians.

I'll refrain from from any insults because I have a few off the top of my head, but that's I'm trying to be professional here, but I agree.

I'm not insulting them.

You can tell them yourself.

They're just trying to make like they're the professionals. They're the trained professionals and we should leave all the decision making to them. I've had multiple school superintendents say we can't leave the decision making to them. They got all the school like Booklist as an ALA thing. All these other groups that rate books, they only look at the ratings that come from books that say things like, "oh, this trans book about the girl chopping her boobs off is a great coming of age book. It's really wonderful. Your child needs to read it." That's the only kind of reviews that they have. The American Library Association has put together a review site that provides information on these books that just is about the awards they get, how wonderful they are, doesn't give any excerpts of what's in the books so parents could make up their own mind. That's part of the tricking that goes on.

Of course. Yeah. It's the same thing with, you know, turning on the Disney Channel, for instance. You think your kid's going to get some Mickey Mouse and instead they're getting indoctrinated. If you're not paying attention, you're using it as a babysitter. Well, they're probably hearing something if it was made in the last five years that you don't want them to hear. So yeah, same exact concept. This guy asked how to overcome and eradicate the philosophy. The communist influence has been the greatest impediment to a free and civil society in this country since the early 1900s. That's obviously a pretty big question. You want to take a stab at it, how to overcome the philosophy?

I'm an expert on libraries, not on Marxism, believe it or not.

Fair enough. Yeah, I don't think I could answer that one. With the time, we have allotted either. Okay, so this was Crystal again, and she's quoting the LibsOfTikTok post. The LibsOfTikTok post said, Garrett Jones, assistant principal for an elementary school in a lot... I'm not going to try to pronounce that. School says he thinks it's appropriate for eight-year-old kids to be reading p[.]rnography and dirty magazines in school. And Crystal said, ask him what should happen to school administrators like this. Because our district decided a promotion to middle school principal was the correct response. And then she said, I'm the mom asking the question.

Well, I think that people like that should be dismissed permanently from their jobs and not allowed to hold any jobs with children again. But that's not the way it, you know, it depends on the community. That community is all for, you know, transing kids or whatever. They don't care. They're just gonna move to someone else.

Right. That's unfortunately a free society. And if you're comfortable with people destroying your kids, that's what you're gonna allow. And that's what you're gonna tolerate. But yeah, I'm of the same mind that you should not only be able to not have anything to do with kids anymore, but you should have a team of FBI agents scouring your hard drives because I'm concerned about what just came out of your mouth. You're comfortable with eight year olds reading p[.]rnography. Let's go ahead and take a look at that computer, bud. Yeah, we need to see what's going on in the background. So, yeah.

Oh, my God. Twenty five years of fighting this stuff. My computer is going to be interesting. [laughs]

Yeah, don't don't say that. You might get a team that shows up just to just on those premises alone.

Well, namely, legal stuff.

No, I get it. Trust me, I get it. But yeah, there's it's insane. So prior prior to where I'm at now and something I'm still involved with very, very intensively, but I don't talk about it very much here is counter human trafficking, specifically, rescue of children. And I'll tell you, it's one of those things where when it comes to the kind of things you're exposed to, you really can't understand how bad it is until you experience it. And those are those are avenues where I personally, I can't I can't handle seeing that that material. There are people out there that that can, they are just wired differently and they can, you know, FBI forensic analysts that can see this stuff. I can't. So I can only imagine what you've been exposed to as far as 25 years of seeing this trash and having to fight it. It's it's got to be taxing on you mentally.

Yeah. I just thought of another way that you can get rid of this kind of stuff. You can do what like Florida is doing. Florida has just passed some kind of a law. And for example, in Escambia County, where the PEN America partner with ALA and the authors of And Tango Makes Three are suing a school teacher because she challenged books because she saw that they were inappropriate. Gosh forbid even a teacher challenge a book.

Right, right.

They're suing down in Escambia County two cases. Well, anyway, that county just decided to remove a number of books, essentially hundreds, because there's a law that says if your book gets reviewed in one school and the school decides that it's inappropriate for whatever reason, then it's inappropriate. But other schools can consider that as well and remove it as well without having to take the time to review it as well. So if one school, for example, removes Gender Queer or All Boys Aren't Blue or the whole litany of this kind of stuff, then other schools can just add that to the list and out it goes from the library. You could literally remove hundreds of books this way. And that is happening in Florida schools right now. And the Florida librarians are lying like crazy about it. And they're crying like crazy. But there is, those children are going to get protected somewhat because the librarians are always going to sneak in on them. In fact, my organization, I have another organization called World Library Association. And we uncovered that when, in fact, the teacher from Escambia County uncovered that when librarians remove this stuff, as they're supposed to do, they remove it from the records in the system that the administrators and the parents can see. But not the children. Children have differing access from the parents, and they can still see this stuff in the system.

Wow.

And they have access to electronic versions of the same things that are provided to them by these school librarians that want to make sure these kids continue to be indoctrinated. So it's like hidden from parents. They sneak this stuff on them. They sneak it on all the legislators and the parents logging into the databases. They don't see things. But the kids log in with their IDs, and suddenly you can see this stuff and the downloads for the electronic books and so on and so forth.

That's wild. I don't know how much more we can process. I think that's a pretty good place to stop. You have anything else you want to add?

You have to not be intimidated by school librarians. They like to act like they think they know what they're doing, and then they act like they do and get away with it. Don't let them get away with it. These books are inappropriate. They can be removed from schools immediately under the Pico case. The librarians tell you you can't because you can't remove them under the Miller case "as a whole" standard. But the Miller case doesn't apply to schools. Furthermore, when they make that lie that sounded great earlier that I mentioned that parents shouldn't control what other people's kids are reading, that's a lie. Parents are allowed to seek redress under the government, the state and constitution, for, you know, seek redress under the government. So they go to the government and they say, "I think this book is inappropriate." That's what the parents do. Parents don't remove those books from the library. Those bodies, those boards of education then make that decision and decide to remove it or not. It's not parents removing a damn thing. It's not a single parent short of stealing that has removed, which they should not do, that has removed a book from anywhere. But that's the lie that they tell you because it sounds pretty good. Also, I want to tell people, don't harass librarians.

Sure.

I'm not in the harassing business. I'm in the reporting business, essentially, and pointing things out. There are people who do physically sometimes harass people. I'm not one of them.

Yeah, no. This harassment is not going to stop the problem. It is going to remove individuals. It is not going to remove the problem. The problem is ideological. It is rooted in a network that you cannot possibly overcome by yourself, just harassing an individual. So I fully agree with you.

Right. If you have a school librarian pushing inappropriate stuff on your kids, it's really not her alone. It's a giant thing behind her.

Yes.

Oh, and here's another major point, since we're about to say goodbye. I have decided to try another tactic, and now I'm spreading it out now. People can try this too. And that is to look at the school ethics laws. In my state of New Jersey, the school ethics laws require that school boards consider the opinions of the local people and specifically not special interest groups. That's a law. American Library Association is about the biggest special interest group from Chicago, Illinois, you'll ever see. And it's the one that drives a lot of this policy in schools. And the school boards are following the ALA policy, like in New Jersey, where we have that law on obscenity. They're not following the state law. Instead they're following the American Library Association's anything-goes law. Well, that means that they're following outside interest groups or special interest groups.

Ya.

And I have brought an ethics complaint against those people. That complaint is still being settled. This is something that you all might want to consider doing and look into because they just can't have a school board who comes in there and says, "oh, look at this American Library Association, got these great policies. Let's force it on our kids." You can't do that. There's probably laws that prevent that. Like ethics laws. Look into it. See if you can do it that way, too.

No, that's great. Dan, how can people follow you and the work you're doing?

They can follow me on X, essentially. I'm at SexHarassed or at SafeLibraries or at WLibraryA. SexHarassed is the one that is like my personal account. So it's got the most followers and the most tweets. SafeLibraries is where I just try to retweet things relevant to things that I maybe publish or related to things, whatever.

And if folks are looking for you, you can follow those accounts from my account as well, because I've quoted and I've re-tweeted some of his posts recently.

And I appreciate you. Mainstream media does not report on parents like us, like you are going to now. Nobody hears about this stuff. There's another reason why they get away with this. Nobody wants to talk about it.

Sure.

I can get evidence from the police, from FOIA requests showing child p[.]rn arrests in libraries and things like that. And the media will not publish it. It's just...

Of course, they've corrupted the media, just like they've corrupted all the institutions. I mean, this is a framework that's been built over decades.

So I thank you. You are helping to educate the public right now.

No, I appreciate that. Dan, thanks for your input. Thanks for your insight. Hang on just a second while I close this out. But yeah, I can't thank you enough for the kind of eye-opening information you've dropped here. And I really hope a lot of people see this, because this is insane to me. So hang on just a second.

Thanks.

To close this out, I will say we have a responsibility. It's beyond just making sure that your kids are not looking at p[.]rn or not looking at things you don't want them to see anymore. There is an element in this country, a very radicalized and serious element that is trying to destroy not only your children by transing them or indoctrinating them with LGBTQ alphabet soup policies, but they are trying to overtake the institutions themselves and push communism and subversive Marxist ideology in every venue. To include the public libraries, you need to take this seriously. You need to get involved. This involves your response at the grassroots level and you, you and anybody who thinks like you coming together, taking over these institutions, taking over these boards and saying, we're not going to allow this in our communities anymore. Appreciate your time. This is Our Country Our Voice. Y'all take care.

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From Our Country Our Voice: Unmasking Marxism in Our Public Libraries, Jun 18, 2025

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Chapters

00:00 The Threat of Marxism in Education

01:00 Investigating Marxist Propaganda in Libraries

03:01 The Role of the American Library Association

05:48 Funding and Legal Tactics of the ALA

08:49 The Power Dynamics in Library Systems

11:00 The Mechanisms of Ideological Justification

16:09 Strategies for Combatting Marxist Influence

20:58 Grassroots Movements and Community Action

32:21 The Rise of Radical Ideologies

39:39 Infiltration of Libraries and Education

46:44 Community Resistance and Reclaiming Libraries

50:40 Addressing Marxism in Society

56:02 Empowering Parents and Communities

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