Court backs book burners

Freedom of speech? Not in Miami, Florida!

In 2006, the professional book burners who run the Miami-Dade school board banned the book 'Vamos A Cuba' - not because of what the book said, because of what it didn't say. According to the censors, the volume didn't give enough space to opponents of Fidel Castro's government.

It turned out though that 'Vamos A Cuba' is part of a series of 24 books about various countries. The book about China doesn't make an issue of the Tibet occupation, nor does the book about the United States mention the genocide against Native Americans.

In other words, the censors' complaints thumped false. If they were so concerned about "accuracy" and "fairness", why didn't they assail the other tomes in the series too?

Book-burning Nazis who supported banning 'Vamos A Cuba' had their kids check out all copies of the book from the school library and not return them. In my day, that was called theft. But in 2006, anyone who dared to oppose this censorship was branded by the right-wing thought police as a "Castro lover."

But a federal court has now inexplicably sided with the First Amendment haters. The majority opinion was written by a right-wing judge appointed by Mad Dog Bush. (Elections have consequences, folks.)

The irony is that the censors claimed the book didn't devote enough attention to Cuba's lack of political freedom. Yet the censors, the school board, and the federal court showed a stunning lack of political freedom right here in the U.S. of A. They're guilty of the same offenses they attack Cuba for.

Censorship is one of the gravest enemies of hard-working people in any land.

(Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/education/story/890555.html)