[Anyone] Sarah Palin's Book Ban List

Mon Sep 8 16:32:09 MDT 2008

I bet KlondYke Barbie hasn't read many of these, if any at all.

> ï¿½Sarah Palin's book ban list and Chris Hedges on "American Fascists"
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> ï¿½When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.
> ï¿½Sinclair Lewis, 1935
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> ï¿½Below is a list of the books Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the Wasilla, Alaska Library.ï¿½ 
When I was in Anchorage two years ago, residents of Wasilla I met described the place as a growing, 
more-and-more suburban community north of Anchorage.ï¿½ In her speech, Palin called the area "the 
valley."ï¿½ Mayor Palin would seem to be a strong force in the suburbanization of the village of 
Wasilla.ï¿½ When the Wasilla librarian refused to trash these books, Mayor Palin tried to have her 
fired.ï¿½ This caused a stir in Wasilla which then turned into a drive to protect the librarian.ï¿½ Some of 
my favorite examples of American literature are on this list.ï¿½ This is the act of a patriotic American?
ï¿½ No, this is the act of a religious fundamentalist trying to squeeze herself into the role of a mythic 
frontier American.ï¿½ The attempt to ban American literary masterpieces like Catcher In The Rye, 
Grapes Of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Death Of A Salesman,
>  Leaves Of Grass, As I Lay Dying, Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22 and Tarzan indicates, flags and Bible 
citations aside, her ascendance to national power would be downright un-American.ï¿½ In the realm 
of Rovian political marketing and the unfolding effort to win the Presidency not with ideas but with a 
cult of personality, McCain is the humiliated warrior ready to "go to the gates of hell" to preserve 
American exceptionalism and Sarah Palin is his fascist "bride," a mythic frontier mom able to shoot, 
gut and cook a moose whileï¿½ nurturing her family who has said publicly our war in Iraq is supported 
by God and people should pray to God to get the Alaska gas pipeline approved.
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> ï¿½This is a pivotal moment in American history, and we all need to expose this cult of personality 
for what it is, a cynical sham.ï¿½ Please pass this on far and wide.
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> ï¿½John Grant
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> ï¿½This list is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.
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> ï¿½A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
> ï¿½A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
> ï¿½Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
> ï¿½As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
> ï¿½Blubber by Judy Blume
> ï¿½Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
> ï¿½Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
> ï¿½Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
> ï¿½Carrie by Stephen King
> ï¿½Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
> ï¿½Christine by Stephen King
> ï¿½Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
> ï¿½Cujo by Stephen King
> ï¿½Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
> ï¿½Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
> ï¿½Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
> ï¿½Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
> ï¿½Decameron by Boccaccio
> ï¿½East of Eden by John Steinbeck
> ï¿½Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
> ï¿½Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
> ï¿½Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
> ï¿½Forever by Judy Blume
> ï¿½Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
> ï¿½Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
> ï¿½Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
> ï¿½Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
> ï¿½Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
> ï¿½Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
> ï¿½Have to Go by Robert Munsch
> ï¿½Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
> ï¿½How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
> ï¿½Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> ï¿½I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
> ï¿½Impressions edited by Jack Booth
> ï¿½In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
> ï¿½It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
> ï¿½James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
> ï¿½Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
> ï¿½Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
> ï¿½Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
> ï¿½Lord of the Flies by William Golding
> ï¿½Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
> ï¿½Lysistrata by Aristophanes
> ï¿½More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
> ï¿½My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
> ï¿½My House by Nikki Giovanni
> ï¿½My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
> ï¿½Night Chills by Dean Koontz
> ï¿½Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
> ï¿½On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
> ï¿½One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> ï¿½One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
> ï¿½One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> ï¿½Ordinary People by Judith Guest
> ï¿½Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
> ï¿½Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
> ï¿½Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
> ï¿½Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
> ï¿½Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
> ï¿½Separate Peace by John Knowles
> ï¿½Silas Marner by George Eliot
> ï¿½Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
> ï¿½Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
> ï¿½The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> ï¿½The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
> ï¿½The Bastard by John Jakes
> ï¿½The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
> ï¿½The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
> ï¿½The Color Purple by Alice Walker
> ï¿½The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
> ï¿½The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
> ï¿½The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
> ï¿½The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
> ï¿½The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
> ï¿½The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
> ï¿½The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
> ï¿½The Living Bible by William C. Bower
> ï¿½The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
> ï¿½The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
> ï¿½The Pigman by Paul Zindel
> ï¿½The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
> ï¿½The Shining by Stephen King
> ï¿½The Witches by Roald Dahl
> ï¿½The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
> ï¿½Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
> ï¿½To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
> ï¿½Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
> ï¿½Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
> ï¿½Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
> ï¿½Symbols by Edna Barth
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> ï¿½Chris Hedges wrote the book on people like Sarah Palin.
> ï¿½It's called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America

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