Our Orwellian Modern World
What an amazingly topsy-turvy view:
Lindsay, Mar 19, 2008 (CNA).- The firing of a county library employee who disobeyed her supervisor in reporting to police a patron who was viewing child pornography has focused attention on permissive library “free speech” policies.
Brenda Biesterfeld, a librarian assistant in Lindsay, California, was ordered by her supervisor not to report a man who was looking at pictures of naked boys on the library’s public computer. She called police anyway. On the 39-year-old man’s next visit, police caught him allegedly viewing child pornography.
The man, Donny Lynn Chrisler, was arrested on March 4 on suspicion of violating child pornography and obscenity laws. Police say they found “kiddie porn” in Chrisler’s trailer home.
Biesterfeld said she had a hostile conversation with her supervisor, Judi Hill, after she ignored the supervisor’s orders and notified police. “She kind of threatened me,” Biesterfeld said. “She said I worked for the county, and when the county tells you to do something, you do what the county tells you. She said I had no loyalty to the county. I told her I was a mother and a citizen also, and not just a county employee.”
Biesterfeld was fired on March 6. A letter from Tulare County Librarian Brian Lewis said that probationary employees such as Biesterfeld can be terminated at any time if they don’t perform at a level “necessary for fully satisfactory performance in the employee’s position.”
However, a Lindsay city councilwoman said that six weeks before the firing, she was told that Biesterfeld was doing a great job.
On March 14, the Linsdsay City Council sent a letter to Tulare county supervisors complaining about Judi Hill’s “abrupt, demanding and demeaning” phone call to a police captain telling him to call off his pornography investigation because the city had “no business interfering” with library matters.
Do you want to know an indisputable and very obvious truth? The Minutemen who stood fast at Lexington and Concord; the boys in blue who won Gettysburg; the Doughboys who charged into the Argonne; the Marines who raised Old Glory on Iwo Jima…not a one of them fought for the right of creeps to view pornography. This is free speech:
Guy A: I think that taxes should be raised.
Guy B: I think tha taxes should be lowered.
Guy A: I say you’re a bloody fool for believing that.
Guy B: Well, so’s your old man.
Free speech is not and cannot ever be someone fondling himself while looking at dirty pictures - to say that it is a matter of free speech is to betray either an amazing ignorance of what freedom is, or an amazing cowardice afraid to stand up for what is right. But here we are - not only is this library (and many others around the nation; I’ve heard of this issue plenty of times - just not quite so starkly as this) allowing people to view pornography on public-owned computer (your tax dollars at work, boys and girls), but illegal pornography…and then getting mad when someone has the nerve to report a crime to the police.
We live in one utterly screwed up world, my friends - and the screwing up was uniformly and quite deliberately done by liberals…oh, sure; they didn’t mean it to come out this way, but any one with the sense God gave little, white mice could see where it would wind up…when you ease up on depravity all you get is more of it. Why? Because human beings are fallible - they will screw up, and the more you allow them to do so, the more they’ll do it. Life has rules not because someone arbitrarily is trying to stop fun from happening (though liberals are making a stab at that, too, with their asinine anti-smoking and anti-alchohol campaigns), but because people need rules to live in a civil society.
We’d better stop this pretty quick - the rot has gone far enough. A time when there is a dispute about whether a kiddie-porn consumer should be turned in to the police is a time when the final line has already been crossed, and if we don’t back up then things really will go to pieces.
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