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Re: Books Banned Like Guns Banned by L. Neil Smith
From Sons of Anarchy:
Setting: Nero Gemma Teller Morrow boyfriend is moving. Gemma picks up box to help him. (note this is from memory might be off a bit.)
Gemma, picking up box: Damn this is heavy. what's in it, guns and ammo?
Nero: No, books.
Gemma: Much more dangerous.
Books to get crazy ideas like freedom. Guns to defend the books and ideas. If book or its ideas are wrong, other books and ideas to counter them.
All this anathema to tyrants.
A.X. Perez
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The Quantum List
Dear friend,
I am launching an email-based weekly newsletter in July and am inviting you to join. It's free.
It's about my web-comic strip, Quantum Vibe, about my other artistic endeavors, and about science-fiction generally. Each update will be brief (less than 2000 words), and I hope you'll find them entertaining, possibly enlightening.
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense
On 31 May I purchased Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense by Dan Abrams and David Fisher at a local Barnes and Noble. The book is subtitled “The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy”. It seems that the good Colonel was sued for libel in 1915 by William Barnes, the boss of the New York Republican political machine. Apparently Mr. Barnes was a corrupt political boss that felt slighted when Teddy called him on being a corrupt political boss, including claiming that Mr. Barnes often conspired and colluded with Democratic Party boss Charles Murphy to keep the machines in power.
This court case does not fit into the general narrative of US History so it is not surprising that most of us probably didn't know of this (I didn't anyhow, and I know his granddaughter Paulina married Alexander Sturm, the co founder of Sturm Ruger). The trial lasted about 6 weeks and TR won the case. I'm leaving out all the good stuff for you to enjoy reading the book on your own. I will mention that it deals with the definition of libel in 1915 and early 20th Century jurisprudence.
Roosevelt correctly felt he was not only fighting for his reputation but against the tyranny of the political machine system which frequently flouted the popular will, not in defense of inviolate rights, but to gain many and power by any and all means. Nowadays we remember Progressives as Nosy Parkers who did some good but increased the power of the government at the expense of restricting people's rights. However, back then their claims of standing against the tyranny of corrupt political machines and the bosses who ran them had great validity.*
At least this applied in the court fight between Roosevelt and Barnes. the book also includes a copy of the article which led to the suit and Roosevelt's “Man and Muckraker” speech. The latter has much relevance today and probably always will.
Second point: When I walked into Barnes and Noble on 31 May I was not looking for a book about either Teddy Roosevelt or lawsuits. Saw the book on display, my curiosity was aroused, and next thing you know I was plunking my money down. This is something that would never have happened if B&N did not have a brick front store (actually 3) in my hometown. I would very likely never have found about the existence of Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense. Support your local brick front stores, Mom and Pop, or national chain, doesn't matter which. They are magical.
A.X. Perez
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*My attitude towards Progressive Reformers is tinged by the fact that it was Reformers who brought the KKK into El Paso in 1921. Okay, so they were kicked out by 1923, but it does not make reformers look good.
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Hello, again,
Here’s a link for the new book (out today). Have a good one.
Harding McFadden
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Thought for the day: Amendment Proposal
The rights secured to any person or persons by the Amendments to this Constitution may not be abrogated by any other person or persons; or by any corporate person, subsidiary government, or elected or non-elected official of the United States, in their public or private persona; on penalty of imprisonment, payment of restitution to the victim or victims of such abrogation, and denial of the right to hold or continue to hold any office of trust of the United States or its subsidiary governments.
Jim Woosley
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