On Becoming One of Tucson's Banned Authors

What can we do to help this? Isn't this just one more way to undermine and sanction unpopular speech (which is protected under the Constitution). Remember the Larry Flint case? Is there any pending legal action?

The article mentions the Yaqui. My sister is a Yaqui.

And she talks a lot, too.

Yes, our ancestors did some really despicable things. Trying to keep people from learning about those things only makes it more likely that they will happen again.

Definitely, Live. Even more than not letting it happen again, if you don't learn about the despicable things like slavery, you can't learn about the good side of it, like the 200,000 decent Americans who died putting a stop to it. If you don't learn about the bad stuff, you never learn about the good stuff either.

Even more than not letting it happen again, if you don't learn about the despicable things like slavery, you can't learn about the good side of it, like the 200,000 decent Americans who died putting a stop to it.

Well said. You also can't learn about the wonderful people on the Underground Railroad who risked their lives to help save people from slavery. These things are important, and need to be taught.

Kavika,

I read both of those articles and they were both great. I voted both of them up but didn't post on the boarding school one, mostly because you had already said it all. Anything I could have said would just have been a distraction from your points. In fact, I read all your articles about this subject. Just because I don't comment, don't think I'm not watching and appreciating the beautiful job you're doing.

The internet is getting out more information then ever before

That's why governments around the world, including ours, keep trying to find ways and excuses to hobble it. Personally, I'm investing in a HAM radio and learning Morse Code, along with the Native American smoke signals.

KR and I are going to try and set up relay smoke signal pyres between Mississippi and Arkansas, who is next on the map? (Only half way kidding here.)

Is it sacriligious or insulting to barbecue a pig on the smoke signal fire?? (tries to hide pig in back yard while waiting for answer)

Big Chief, are you making fun of me???? I'm not joking, I think the most stupid thing we've ever done is to try and place the entire country on a continuous single electric grid that trips itself like a giant domino and can blackout the nation with a single lightening strike.

Computers are great, fantastic, cyber space is a miracle of modern ingenuity... while it's working.

And I think every city and small town should have a HAM radio and/or CB network set up for emergencies. (Or a smoke signal relay system.)

Scalp 'em all!!! (Censors, that is!)

Screminmimi, I think we are trading reliability for efficiency. To do that we are trading humans for machines. Eventually, we will be a people that don't work, relying on machines that don't work.

In the old days if the electricity went out, you waited until day break then went about your business. Now everything uses electricity. If you have no electricity, you may as well go back to bed.

Goodnight, mimi.

Okay. Interesting topic. Censorship of ANY kind is abhorrent.

That's what I was going to say. :)