> <http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20030922.shtml>
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> The ideological librarians
> Rich Lowry (archive)
>
> September 22, 2003
>
> A Shakespeare character famously said, "Let's kill all the lawyers."
> This gibe has lost none of its relevance through the centuries. But
> today we might reply to that acerbic line, "Sure -- but only if we can
> kill all the librarians next."
As an anarchist librarian, I have to say that I really love these right wing attacks on my profession. Does Rich Lowry have a PayPal account that I can use to send him meny? As I was saying the other day on the ALA Intellectual Freedom list: I'm really thankful for what John Ashcroft has done for the library profession. Ashcroft, and the nutcases on the right who attack ALA and libraries, have managed to do something in a few years that radical librarians have been trying to do for decades. Politicize the profession. Thanks to Ashcroft, more and more apolitical librarians are discovering the radical politics that underlie librarianship. You ever wonder why patron borrowing records are purged from the computer databases when patrons return books? Because the library profession already fought a battle with the FBI decades ago.
Lowry is also helping improve the image of librarians.
Thanks!
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