Comments on: Banned! Such An Ugly Word http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/09/banned-such-an-ugly-word/ Highlighting the News from Florida's Central Corridor Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jen http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/09/banned-such-an-ugly-word/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 jen Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:28:33 +0000 http://www.metroi4news.com/?p=3543#comment-1300 awesome! i hate banning of books because it just seems so ignorant to me.  read loud and proud! :D awesome! i hate banning of books because it just seems so ignorant to me.  read loud and proud! :D

]]> By: AlxSn http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/09/banned-such-an-ugly-word/comment-page-1/#comment-1292 AlxSn Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:06:36 +0000 http://www.metroi4news.com/?p=3543#comment-1292 Hello Wayne, Thank you for stopping by and leaving your kind words. I absolutely understand what you mean, and I, too, am glad that events like this are happening right here in the (863). See you soon! Hello Wayne,

Thank you for stopping by and leaving your kind words.
I absolutely understand what you mean, and I, too, am glad that events like this are happening right here in the (863).
See you soon!

]]> By: Wayne Mason http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/09/banned-such-an-ugly-word/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Wayne Mason Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:50:34 +0000 http://www.metroi4news.com/?p=3543#comment-1288 Thank you Alex for covering this and thanks to Mrs Lavallee-Welch for putting this very important event together. Freedom of speech is the of the utmost to me, not simply as an artist myself.... but as a human being. I look over at my bookshelves with many books once banned or put on trial........ Burroughs, Ginsberg, Miller. These are the people with their controversy that shaped me not just as a poet but as a person as well. I then realize this concept of censorship, as backwards and archaic as it is still exists as many of the books on this list are not that old. The thought police are still with us, which makes events like this even more important.......... and makes people like you guys even more heroic.   I'd love to be a part of this one year, and possibly read...... but whether I am included or not, I'm very proud for something like this to be going on in my own back yard! Thank you Alex for covering this and thanks to Mrs Lavallee-Welch for putting this very important event together.
Freedom of speech is the of the utmost to me, not simply as an artist myself…. but as a human being. I look over at my bookshelves with many books once banned or put on trial…….. Burroughs, Ginsberg, Miller. These are the people with their controversy that shaped me not just as a poet but as a person as well. I then realize this concept of censorship, as backwards and archaic as it is still exists as many of the books on this list are not that old. The thought police are still with us, which makes events like this even more important………. and makes people like you guys even more heroic.
 
I’d love to be a part of this one year, and possibly read…… but whether I am included or not, I’m very proud for something like this to be going on in my own back yard!

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