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Published: 2009-10-02 18:51:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 812; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 2
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Banned Book week-Banned Book week. This is probably the most infuriating week of my life. I still can’t believe that people are such prudes to BAN BOOKS. Where’s our freedom of press? Our freedom to write the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? It’s been taken by people how are so friking SENSITIVE to absolutely EVERYTHING. Here are some books they’re banned:
1984 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Scary Stories the Harry Potter series TTYL; TTFN; L8R; G8R series the BIBLE The Chocolate War The Kite Runner The Color Purple Saint Iggy Of Mice and Men The Golden Compass Julie of the Wolves Catcher in the Rye Doctor Dolittle Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young GirlAnd many, many more.
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banning books is an attack of free speech and freedom of the press.
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My question isn't what they banned, it's what have they NOT banned?
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All of the books I read would be banned.
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they even banned a few of Dr Suess's books, like the butter battle book (a take off of the cold war) and the lorax
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Whats a banned book and how do they ban them..?
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It's a book that people think are supposodly "dangerous" or anti-religous that people deside to burn or lock them away. Thay even banned harry potter for witchcraft. They banned the lorax for having illegal cutting of trees or something like that.
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You know what else they banned? Charlotte's Web. It's ridiculous! And I can't believe they banned Huck Finn and HP! And Anne Frank?! WHAT THE HELL?
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They shouldn't be allowed to ban books, period. What ever happened to freedom of speech or press?
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someone said that anyone that reads Harry Potter is going to hell. well then, guess i'm going down there, 'cause there is no chance i'd ever give up Harry. And a big banned book is Fahrenheit 451. A book about banned books, getting banned. Ah, irony at it's finest
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Ah huckelberry finn i missed that book wait i think i still have it...
...i never read Annie Frank before
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eh. it wasn't AMAZING but i still don't think it shoulda been banned.
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yeah idk they banned it i liked it
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scary stories as in "toe soup" and really creepy drawings kids book?
i loved that. It scared the shit outta me as a kid
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i know. i read scary stories instead of watching horror flicks as a kid. it pisses me off that my country, that calls for freedom of speech, bans books. Goddamn hypocrites.
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I didnt a bit of both but more so with movies
i watched chucky when i was about 5. It never bothered me. Scary stories was a popular book in my grade school you where lucky if you got a hold of it.
its important to not show kids some stuff. but scray stories was a fine book there was nothing wrong with it. Theres nothing wrong with being a little spooked.
also i have the TTYL; TTFN; L8R; G8R series what the hell was wrong with that? the whole thing about the girl having sex? why? she was on the pill she took the time for it to work. this should be a positive thing. THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THOSE BOOKS
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bro, i know. I read Saint Iggy. My librarian gave it to me. She thought i might like it. She hates that books like that have been banned from the public and school libraries. you should read it if you like the TTYL;TTFN;L8R;G8R series. It deals with drug-using parents and their kid who lives in the Projects. It's a really believable story. Very raw.
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Ive never heard of that book hmm maybe I' llstart looking for it.
I dont much care for the TTYL series anymore, but hey I did at one time.
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eh. i never really got into them myself. but who knows? you might like "Saint Iggy". It's by K.L.Going. the other book she wrote, "Fat Kid Rules the World", is pretty good too.
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my school has all of thows books on shelf and a lot of thows books we read in our english classes. our awsome librariean actualy looks up the banned book list every time somthing is added and gos out of her way to get the new ones in to oue school and recomends we read all of them.
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It's so unfortunate that they benned tose books! where are you that they do that? most of those titles are avalible where I live.
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well, the titles are more banned from our school system, not the entire state (of California, US).
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really? o.o Thats terrible! They're such good books, with good morals!I hope for the sake of kids in California that changes.The only book that I can think of that was banned from my school system is The Chocolate War.
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yeah, that's banned too. a lot of people don't care because they don't like to read. Some people don't even know about the books being banned
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It's a sad country where books are banned. Your government must be really afraid of its people, wants to keep them stupid so it can continue its acts against human freedom, spreading war, distruction and imperialism. But one day, the people shall rise. I sense a revolution in your country within 50 years.
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Ah, ur from hungary. ur probably right about the uprising. If i have any say in it, i'll be leading a small army. I completely agree that our government is a bunch of pansies who are trying to keep us about as smart as a sack of rocks. maybe our forefathers had good intentions, but it's lead to nowhere good.
Hopefully the revolution will happen in about 15-20 years, so i can be healthy enough to fight.
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well corase theres gonna be an upriseing: a crappy leader who made false promises, a goverment alog CARPET GLUE in ciggrates that cause people to get sick what else can happen?fact is i had one crazy dream last night might mention it later on lol
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Use partisan warfare. The US Army is defenseless aginst it. See the 'Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq, they fall like flies in the autumn chill.
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you make it sound so poetic.
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I grew up on reading stories on wars and my grandfather, who was a high-ranking officer first in the Army, later in the Police, also frequently recalled his memories on his serving days. Now he was poetic.
"One one day, it were the Germans who occupied the village. On the other day, it were the Russians. Now we kids saw a tank rolling up on the main street and began shouting: Soldati, soldati, zdhes tabak? (Soldiers, soldiers, do you have tobacco - Russian), and it turned out to be Germans!"
And on and on he went. He told me about how he and his battallion were sent in the middle of Winter to the Yugoslav border due to the fear that "Chained Dog" Tito will attack Hungary. He told me about life at the Kossuth Military Academy. And so on.
I was never a soldier. Nowdays it is not compulsors in Hungary. But I am interested in military history and I hope I know a thing or two about it.
When it comes to the US Army, they are good in technological warfare and they have probably the most advanced weapons. However, they lack the spirit their opponents have.
You see, America seems far away from the places the US Army is fighting now and fought in the past century. Most Americans don't even know where places like Iraq or Afghanistan lie. In these places, and in Asian countries like Vietnam, and in WWII, Japan, there is such a militant wolrd of view against probably the rest of the world indoctrinated into every breathing soul against which the American way of warfare is not enough.
Americans had their last war on American soil in the Civil War. They had only one tast after that on how it feels to be attacked, and that was 9/11. They don't know how it feels to fight for their own homeland.
Now imagine your friendly Russian peasant. If he hears that the enemy is coming, he'll grab even a sharp stick if he has no gun and with a cry of "Za Rodina!" (For the Motherland), he'll fight till his last breath. The Americans just don't have this in them. And they are lucky, not knowing war in their own place. But such comfort comes with weaknesses. And this is why I say that when it comes to an inner conflict, the Army and other armed forces cannot stop the people.
Sorry for the lengthy comment. When it comes to things like that, I can talk days long
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i enjoy your views on my government. I think that America should have a few wars around here. See how most of the citizens will respond. Sad fact of the matter is that most of them would probably hide in their basements and let the government take over.
But!
But what happens when the government never comes? What if they abandon their people?
I think we put too much trust in our government. We need to learn how to save ourselves instead of waiting for SuperObama or whoever to save us. as i've said before, we'll be the end of us.
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If something happens in America, I think the federative system will collapse in one way or another. Of course there will be attempts to stop the secession, just like there was in the Civil War, but the world has changed and I don't think that in the event of a country-wide disaster or war on the home front, the union of the states could prevail.
The only thing which keeps America together is that they always find a common enemy. First they had the English. Than the Spanish (USS Maine incident). Later on, it were the Germans (after WWI), and than the Japanese in WWII. Now it's the Arabs. Of course, no-one would say that they are against the Arabs, but it's plainly obvious.
Without a common enemy, the union crumbles and falls and people will turn against eachother, although I have to admit that this isn't an American feature, we ungarians are like this too and last tie Hungary was a military superpower was around 900 AD.
When the union fails, in most cases, I think the state governors would assume command, but I'm sure that there would be in cases in which local crime lord would use the situation to ascend to power, becoming de facto warlords.
As for the civilians: many would hide in their basements, but that's what anyone would do. One can re-build the house, buy a new car, but not when he's six feet under. However, there are many people in America who are keen on military things and due to the right to own firearms, they do have their little home arsenals. In a homefront war, they would probably go out to fight just for the sport of it, the question is, on whose side will they be on?
The civilian population is on the brink of a revolution. Not in the classical, but in a socio-cultural sense. The American society is only bound together by the aforementioned common enemy. When viewed from the inside, you can see that the society is divided, both from a monetary and an ethnic point of view. The government, like any sensible government, tries to lessen such effects, but dies it with wrong methods. They invent political correctness, so that people have to be afraid of words. They invent a new political language not entirely dissimilar to the one Germany used under Hitler.
The results: dormant problems are awakened due to light being shed on them and thus tension is created. Certain groups exploit this new order using false sensitivity so that more and more words and ideas become taboo. It is like this in America, as well as little Hungary. And what happens when the everyman doesn't want to conform to this artifical world? They rebel against it.
One day, America will bear her own Sophie Scholl or György Budaházy (he's a Hungarian neo-fascist spokesperson). Or maybe both. I don't know. But the signs are evident.
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um, the Californian board of education and ppl's parents.
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What the hell? I though that in the American Consitution it clearly sates that people have the right to freedom of speech. Aren't they being un-constitutional by banning those books?
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of course! is that new for the government to be contradictory?
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I don't think so. But isn't anyone going to sue them or take it to the supreme court? (I'm not actually american, I only know how the american law system works because I do Government and Politics)
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you know, i've gotten a lot of comments about the books being banned from people in other countries. I didn't know there'd be so many people surprised about it.
i don't know about suing the government, honestly, because i don't care for politics. All i know is that our country is a sh*thole and if we don't wipe ourselves out, the God probably will.
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Lol.
Yeah, I don't think books really get banned in the UK anymore, not unless they are really really radically offensive, but even then I'm not sure. I know Lady Chatterly's Lover was banned when it first came out, but that was years and years and years ago. So yeah, I think the banning of books is surprising to people in this country, especially Harry Potter and His Dark Materials.
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well, they just ban them from our school libraries, not from the book stores and such. There would be a freaking riot if that were true.
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Still, even from school libraries , it's kinda bad, people should be able to read what they want
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If you really want to get mad,read Fahrenheit 457. In that novel,ALL books are banned.
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I read a jornal post from somebody who thought that we should ban books. Aditionaly she/he said that we should have somebody check peoples houses for books and if they find them burn whoever owned them and the book itself.
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