The front & center column in our local "commentary" section featured this piece by John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute. It begins with this quote by Ray Bradbury:
"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feel it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
Now that's worth reading.......and maybe on a daily basis. Even though all this may be far too late. My fears began with the publication of Robert Hughes' Culture of Complaint some years ago.
Now, whether it's clowns to the right of me or the jokers to the left, it's all about......control.
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