Hold on to your hats--the (im)famous Leslie Germain has surfaced again!
"Folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride here at 40,000 feet."
Bryan
Bryan M. Carson, J.D., M.I.L.S.
Ed.D. Student
Higher Ed. Leadership & Policy, Vanderbilt University/Peabody College
Associate Professor/Coordinator of Reference & Instructional Services
Western Kentucky University Libraries
Author, "The Law of Libraries and Archives" (Scarecrow Press)
Phone: 270-745-5007 (Office), 270-991-7144 (cell)
Fax: 270-745-2275
bryan.m.carson@vanderbilt.edu - bryan.carson@wku.edu
All original content copyright 2008 Bryan M. Carson
Leslie Germaine wrote:
> Yes, censorship is a legal issue and the post is entirely appropriate.
>
> As with Paula Lichtenberg, I will not inject partisan politics into
> the debate by speaking of things like Barack Obama's association with
> the African-American equivalent (Reverand Wright) of a Klan Grand
> Dragon, nor will I mention his association with the unrepentant
> terrorist William "Bill" Ayers. But the attempts by the University of
> Chicago via its Richard J. Daley Library to embargo documents relating
> to Obama's relationship with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a
> foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force, deserves,
> indeed requires our concern as law librarians. This sorry saga is
> well documented by Stanley Kurtz here:
> http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Sep 04 2008 - 19:40:28 PDT