The Beachwood Police Department reported on May 2 the man checked out the hundred books from the Cuyahoga County Public Library Beachwood Branch, and posted a video of him burning the books on social media.
If your faith and beliefs are so righteous, strong, moral and important … you would never need to burn books to make others follow your convictions.
Burning books just goes to show how deranged and unbalanced your beliefs are
God is on their side, but for some reason He can only accomplish His goals by having humans act on His behalf. By coincidence, the same would be true if there were no God at all.
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven’t the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”
-Tommy Douglas
Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.
Tommy Douglas, truly a great man … who led the movement that made it possible for public health care in Canada.
What if it’s shitty Catholic bibles that flanderise and flanderise unti it’s all twisted to serve their own corrupt projection?
I wouldn’t burn a copy of Mein Kampf, unless that’s the only political point of view in the library. I’m sure that library had plenty of right-wing books and were much more popular.
The book burners are always the good guys, right?
Yes, burning books, always a deed fondly remembered by history.
Hopefully they charge him the value of each of the 100 books on top of whatever criminal charges he would get for damaging library property. That should be over $1,000 just because of the sheer amount of books.
1000 dollars? He’ll be a gofund me millionaire by the end of the month.
Arson, too please.
Hm, I would have said it’s not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don’t know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others’ property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you’re allowed to start fires…
That, and every replaced book should have a big dedication inside, saying something like “purchased with a generous donation of Mr [this twit’s name]”
I emailed this library asking them which books they don’t expect to be getting back. They told me they couldn’t even release that information but they already are in the process of replacing them. Class act.
Nice that they took the time to respond. I expect they’re getting a lot of offers from people who want to help them replace books.
“The man is already polling at 40% approval among GOP voters.”
He’s on the short list for the head slot at the Library of Congress.
On Monday, Heights Christian Church, which describes itself as “open to and affirming of all people, celebrating and finding strength in our diversity + affirming the dignity + worth of every person,” hosted an Action and Press Conference “against this hateful act.”
HCC said the event joins forces with Interfaith Group Against Hate to condemn the action.
Besides condemning the action, IGAH will be promoting support for our libraries. We will also be presenting a plan of action that will include partnering with local bookshops to purchase books, as well as community readings and discussion on topics that promote diversity and free speech. Heights Christian Church
Honestly, pretty good response from the community and church.
Make him pay for new books, add a juicy fine to it so the library can add a new wing, an then put him behind bars for hate crimes.
I bet he’ll get a GoFundMe up and running in no time to get supported by a bunch of other whackjobs.
Maybe the damages should include all the money collected in this or similar ways.
Just following the Nazi doctrine to the book…
Maybe we can deport them to El Salvador?
trump will probably try to appoint him to run the library of congress.
Libraries allow you to check out 100 books? Last time I used my card to check out books there was a limit to 10., which seemed plenty to me.
I’ve seen homeschooling moms check out dozens and dozens of kids books at once. Plus you could use multiple cards if you’re planning some grand arson demonstration, I guess.
Stupid teabaggers, they’re absolutely deranged
As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.
What library lets you check out 100 books at one time? Also was there no red flags, when he was checking out these specific books? I hope he banned from all libraries and book stores for life. Mother fucker should get prison time as well.
Yeah, I guess they thought he was doing a big research project on diversity lol. Banned from libraries, sure obviously. Banned from book stores? Why? He’s good business! If I owned a book store I’d gladly sell him 100 books, and 100 more when he’s done.
I disagree with his views, and he definitely should pay for every book he burned, but I’ll defend to the death the right to burn things in protest.
And so I assume the library will send the sketchiest bailiffs they can find to collect their fines?
How Christian of him…
unironically, yes.
