Our tax dollars so this mf can try to arrest librarians

TY for sharing the article!

“London, who has ties to the anti-government constitutional sheriff’s movement and tried to launch a local chapter of the far-right Oath Keepers militia in 2020, did not respond to questions.” No surprises here.

Also, homeschooling parents complaining @ a school board meeting? Wtf?? 🤔

So this guy went around reading books found in a children's library that he thought were disgusting. Then he looked up the names of the children who checked them out?

That sounds like something a pervert would do.

You know, my kid's kindergarten librarian would say "anything that gets them reading is progress." So maybe we should be encouraging more dipshits to be checking out more books.

The targets of the investigation? Three school librarians in Granbury, Texas. The allegation? They had allowed children to access literature — such as “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison — that the officer, Scott London, a chief deputy constable, had deemed obscene.

Summary of The Bluest Eye from Wikipedia:

The novel takes place in Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's hometown), and tells the story of a young African-American girl named Pecola who grew up following the Great Depression. Set in 1941, the story is about how she is consistently regarded as "ugly" due to her mannerisms and dark skin. As a result, she develops an inferiority complex, which fuels her desire for the blue eyes she equates with "whiteness".

The novel is told mostly from Claudia MacTeer's point of view. Claudia is the daughter of Pecola's temporary foster parents. There is also some omniscient third-person narration. The book's controversial topics of racism, incest, and child molestation have led to numerous attempts to ban the novel from schools and libraries in the United States.[1]

Now, if he read the book, like he claims to have read it, he would know that the only obscene thing in the book is that it shows why things like racism and incest are, themselves, obscene. And that sounds like something kids should learn.

Unless, of course, this cop doesn't find one or both of those things obscene and rather finds the obscene thing to be telling people racism and/or incest is wrong...

Wait until he find out about the internet and all the “obscene” content it has, a simple search away from any electronic device his children have.

As much as i hate quotas and micromanaging, this guy could use some of that.

Pigfucker County: Everyone Left?

Drive out enough librarians and eventually youʼll find yourself needing to drive 4 hours to get a tool pulled or a melanoma whacked off since good dentists and doctors usually want decent schools with libraries for their kids.

"Else"?

“Green eggs? Implausible. AND ham? Elitist!”

You know what I'm saying?

I got minimal more to add (okay had more than I expected) except that's such a power tripping cop, like let's attack people who help kids expand their horizons. To be fair I'm extremely pro library, even had a chance to work in one for a summer yay small towns. Had to read to pass time in the long before internet era (well not much before really) with limited video games available.

Anyways libraries and librarians rock and don't need to be targeted for offering kids (or anyone) a way to explore a world or think in a new way.

"Wow daddy, you really gave my asshole a STRETCH!"

I see you got new name.

I agree.

They didn't distribute them to him either, he fucking took pictures then went home and found PDFs or used police funds to purchase eBook copies.

If he did, they were probably too complicated for him to understand.

Serious answer, probably because books from book stores aren't available to the poorest classes. Libraries are (and are meant to be!) a threat to every status quo.

Because this is a boil-the-frog situation. The path is k-12 school libraries -> public libraries -> academic libraries and bookstores. The way fascists get the public comfortable with the idea of banning books is by starting with examples that look like "common sense" to the uninformed, and then ramp up the attacks as they gain institutional power.

While attempts to ban books from stores are currently few and far between, one notable example was this attempt to get Gender Queer removed from the shelves of bookstores in Virginia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/20/gender-queer-barnes-and-noble/

I am of the belief that people who spend this much time in the mindset of trying to find "inappropriate material minors are reading"are in fact, just pursuing a really weird fucking kink or getting off on it in some way.

I refuse to believe that this cop isn't stuck in some kind of pedo-adjacent sexual obsession.

Or because he likes reading sexy books on his work time.

All cops are bastards

solutions to these kinds of problems are available to any patriotic american.

You're assuming they can read at all

They paid no mind until their puppet masters directed them that way.

Well they've never read one so...

Yes, they never set foot in one when they were in elementary school.

You don't find it newsworthy that a cop wanted to use his badge to (at minimum) intimidate librarians and (at worst) charge them with trumped up bullshit?

Why is this greaseball employed if he can't find something better to do with his time than to make sure people can't read the books he hates?

The point is to try to stop taxpayer money directly funding fascism. Unfortunately it's Texas, so there's no real way around that given the current state government.

Sure sure. Two librarians were harassed and one was driven out of her job because of the investigation. But there were no charges, so everything is peachy, right?

True, cops using their power to destroy people's lives for political reasons is not much of a story in America anymore.

But it should be.