Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:45:05 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <3sasbj98eu1j1s954e1vnbshkht3uiu84j@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:35 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
 

In article <t1kpbjp3p5sf25daro2vph7in7vg211mgt@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

You are the one who asserted that the Utah Education Department
would be fine with "The Turner Diaries" or "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion."

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Have they banned either of them? Didn't think so.

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Are either of them in any public school library?  Or any
public library at all?  There are a lot of things that
nobody has bothered banning because no one has attempted
to perpetrate it.
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I have long noted that wing-nuts exist on all sides. But only the
Republicans have actually nominated two of them for President/VP.

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Which ones?  The usual suspects have accused every Republican
president since Eisenhower of being a Nazi.  (Except Ford, for
some reason; him, they just tried to assassinate.  Twice.)

 
Tried and, as with Reagan and Trump failed.
 
Republicans survive assassination attempts.
 
Democrats don't.
 

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Only since 1902. I know of 4 presidential assassination attempts before
then (3 dead Republicans and 1 surviving Democrat - pistol misfired,
twice).

Which is why, in the part you snipped, I limited it to post-WWII.

There is a case wending its way through the courts which charges a
group of MAGA in pickemup trucks with harassing a Biden Bus. The law
used is an 1868 (IIRC) law against KKK interference in elections. That
law was a reaction to /Democratic/ KKK members harassing a
/Republican/ wagon. This was, of course, in the Age of Horses.

The judge's point was that the law still applied even though the
vehicles were motorized rather than equine. But note the switch in
parties: that is why it is simplest to not go too far back, since the
point I was making involves the /current/ Party alignments.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"