I stumbled across this podcast this morning. Missy Robertson, Kirk Cameron, and Riley Gaines (representing Bethany Hamilton, the surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack) had an appearance at the Hendersonville, Tennessee public library last week. They were to read children’s books they’d written for Brave Books, stories based on faith-based principles.
The staff did everything they could to disrupt the event, and according to Missy, kept the parents and kids in line outside in the freezing rain when they could have formed the lines inside the library.
As Missy says, for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, we must make sure our voices are louder than theirs. I’m quite sure Drag Queens would have been given the red carpet treatment.
At the very least, the must be taught that we will not give up our Constitutional rights and that they, government employees, have no right or ability to restrict them.
Please share, and contact the Hendersonville Library, and the Library Board and commissioners. If you are nearby, perhaps you could even attend, and film. It would be great to hear from some Treepers.
What these cowardly library staff did to the Brave Books authors, and parents and children, is shocking. There isn’t enough vilification to go around. Tennesse people, speak out. They even kept parents and children out in the rain rather than allow them to wait inside. https://t.co/jj6TqkJHjr
— Menagerie (@MenagerieTree) March 14, 2023
What awful people! How are so many hateful people in power from top to bottom in our government agencies?
We the sheeple have allowed the creeps to slither into the offices by hook and by crook and by lies to deceive their way up the ladder until they have the power to control the programs. Now we must root them out by any means necessary.
Exactly and begin NOW.
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Insta-flagged!
COMPLACENCY.
Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
And pay their taxes on time so they bad guys can fund their war against YOU..and YOU and YOU. ..for they are legion and they are many..but quite broke without a warchest given to them freely by you and you and you..because??? It is easier to not pay them than to shoot them and alot less messy…and hey..it’s Biblical because give unto Caesar what s his..but it ain’t his because they ain’t acting the part.
Long march through the institutions. In the 60’s, liberals specifically went into these professions to forward their agenda (Bill Ayers went into education). As they move up the food chain, they hire and promote their own.
They bought their way into the top. March through the institutions? I’m not sure, FDR was their man and his whole cabinet was communists. Look up the members. Ever President since has been their man except Kennedy. They got in and took over getting their brethren appointed to important positions throughout government. Now they are everywhere.
Hillary Clinton married into government big time.
They have personal agendas, and that’s one reason they are atracted to positions where they can influence young people.
It’s disturbing how confused and vaguely resentful they are.
One example, liberal “new age” acquaintance, that recently broke up with a long-term romantic relationship. Rather that aceptance, reflexion + going through the mournig /recovery process etc…
Check this out: the problem is “social norms” that “impose” on us the need for a partner, spouse. Really? Forget the basic social nature and biology of the human species, anthropology etc. NO, the reason this person feels miserable is “society’s fault”. Geee….unbelievable and pathetic.
I know a few “I’ll screw anyone who’s nice to me, boy or girl” people. Guess what, they’re all depressed or diagnosed with mental disorders.
Go figure.
I know a few librarians. Smart, knowledgeable, empathetic, is NOT in their DNA.
I am a public librarian, and one of a significant conservative minority.
Retired about 8 years ago, just before the Drag Queen storytimes became a “thing.”
For most of my career, working with preschoolers and their their parents and eventually managing small branch libraries and promoting early literacy programming, I could stay under the radar and ignore the liberal idiocy going on around me.
The last couple years, that was almost impossible. Couldn’t even manage a working lunch with coworkers without gay rights and the beginnings of the transgender movement entering conversation. Started with the whole public restroom policy debacle.
So thankful for the time I had. Loved my job. Sad for what it’s become.
Thank you. I enjoyed my town’s public library as a child and as an adult. It is astonishing to see this happen (and in Tennessee even)
The public libraries of my youth were run by sweet, friendly, elderly women who were very helpful to patrons. They .were firm but respectful in maintaining a quiet place to enjoy an afternoon.
As someone born and raised in TN, I can attest to the plummeting of our traditional standards and way of life due to the stampede of Left Coasters and Northern transplants who have moved in. The natives are being over run by adults brats filled with an entitlement mentality (we are considered backward rubes who need to be civilized) and many who are just rude @holes. Most seem to think the words “please” and “excuse me” are part of a foreign language.
The insane left poisons absolutely everything it touches. My spouse has seen it in his profession as well and he is sick of it.
Where are the Churches? Why are they not having story reading time…stories from the bible.
Might want to check out the book “Do Not Leave Quietly” by Mario Murillo. Great church call to action.
Too many churches have joined in the madness thinking they will appeal to a larger community… at least in my area. I’ve looked and looked for a church that is more traditional and sticks to the Bible but they seem absent in my area so I’ve resorted to watching in tv.
Come to Arkansas and my church.
I also cannot find a local church that has traditional services, hymns, and Biblical preaching. I watch David Peacock out of Jacksonville FL on YT or Sermon Audio. It fills the void of a local church.
Just like our country, the established churches have been intentionally infiltrated. Though selective hiring and firing, they have destroyed them.
That’s unfair and unkind. I’m a librarian and this makes me sad. It IS extremely hard to work in this field now. But insulting an entire group of people in a profession doesn’t help the situation.
I can imagine how difficult…and infuriating…it is to have to watch this go on in libraries, Becca. How despicable to sully places where children should be safe to appreciate the joys of reading. Madness.
God bless you and your presence where you are, so you can continue to guide youngsters to books which still exist and which will open up their worlds.
There are a lot of good apples in the tree, of which you are one.💕
Betsy, you’re gonna make me cry. Thank you for your words of encouragement and understanding.
You are most welcome. You will continue to bloom where Almighty God planted you. Of this I am certain😊
That’s fair. I may have read that differently than the way it was intended.
Sure it does. Bear the shame and go and do something about it with YOUR colleagues. They ain’t my colleagues or they would get an earful.. Fired? Who cares. I got a coffin lid to stare at later and I better have done what I could when I should have.
Concerning the reprehensible filth which is being allowed…nay, encouraged and promoted… in libraries across this country.
I have just read the most brilliant counterattack by parents who refuse to permit this abomination to take place.
On February 23, in Pocatella Idaho, such a “show”, having been scheduled and advertised well in advance, outraged parents showed up EN MASSE well before it started.
They took ever seat so that no room was available for other parents who were foolishly bringing their children to be subjected to the abuse planned.
If we as parents and grandparents don’t stand between our children and the evil which wants to claim our little for its own, our precious gifts from God have no one.
This is what righteous and effective fight back looks like. Now let’s see how evil deals with tactics like this.
BRAVO!
That sounds like a splendid way to counter this idiocy today. We as parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents need to heed the call, step up to the plate and do our part to protect our precious children. We cannot allow these wolves in drag-queen clothing to steal the hearts and souls of our innocent little ones. We need to provide counseling for those illiterate parents who would subject their children to such abuse.
Why would parents ever allow this. Probably not good parents. The good parents need to stand together and stop every one of these. The parents who allow it should be in JAIL. Of course they still have warnings on the R rated movies. Hypoctites
But not on G rated ones…and these days they really should.
Bravo!!! Bravo!!!! BRAVO!!!
YES – DO NOT GIVE UP GROUND! TAKE GROUND and claim that space for God, for conservative values, and for our children!!! Absolutely!
Amen, Betsy, sister!
So simple, dear JWoo. Peaceful and powerful.
It should be obvious to all of us by now that libraries were targeted by the immoral Left in the same manner that academia itself was targeted by the communists decades ago. They deliberately packed public libraries with Leftists of low character despite being in such important positions of public trust. And we should also probably assume that those who hired them knew exactly what they were doing.
The solution as exemplified by Betsy’s anecdote is precisely how to push back peacefully on these satanically inspired exhibitions of moral depravity targeted towards naive and relatively innocent children, their morally-challenged parents who would willingly expose them notwithstanding.
The days of trying to avoid confrontations and live quietly are over. Only right-minded activists will win this battle for our souls.
Physically get between them and our children. It doesn’t have to be the sort of confrontation that gets one arrested by Beria Garland and his sidekick Wray’s Sturmabteilung, GB.
Just a little ingenuity…as with these parents.
How right you are, my friend.
Most definitely us grand and great grandparents; most of us have an abundance of time at this point in our lives. We are not as hampered by work schedules and trying to feed and provide for a growing family.
Filling library boards and staff with lefties is not unusual in family and faith based communities like Hendersonville. Lefties seem to gravitate towards and Arts . I know this part of the State and it seems to be mostly populated with conservative people
The Left goes wherever they can indoctrinate the next generation. Schools and the arts are ground zero.
The entire library ecosystem is infected with people like this. They teach and preach DEI, trans ideology, and social justice. The same with comic book spaces and the school systems across the U.S. Libraries were the only entities keeping the “woke” comic book industry alive–using taxpayer’s money. Parents, and people in general, do not realize what a major issue it is, until they get confronted with it–like in this instance.
The library story starts around 31 mins in.
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
That’s the first time I heard that Lincoln quote. He was a wise man.
Where having the same problem here in Maine.
Some of these librarians must be on the wrong payroll…
Bill of Rights for Women and Children
Menagerie and all:
Here is a related issue by an investigator named Kevin Sherlock. He is sharing this with legislators who might try to protect women and children. I obtained a copy of this and find it significant.
He has presented it thru channels to Mr. Trump’s people, and wishes people with state and local office might consider enacting its provisions as well, where they can.
Treehouse Nation is powerful and wide reaching. So I submit it to you.
“I am proposing a bill of rights for women and children … a push for protection of children and young women from sexual predators.
It includes the following elements:
1. ENFORCE MANDATED REPORTING LAWS
Slightly more than half of all rape and other sex abuse victims are girls. And another 13 percent of sex abuse victims are boys. The average child victim is a victim many times, not just once, by the same adult or older teen. Mandated reporters have to report suspected abuse to protect children from further abuse.
Public school teachers and other school employees are the adults most likely to sexually abuse children. Statistics indicate at least 10 percent of all sex abuse crimes committed by adults against children are committed by teachers or other public school employees. They sexually abuse about 30,000 children a year. They don’t report themselves or their colleagues, and all too often their colleagues bully children who do accuse teachers of committing sexual abuse, to keep other children quiet.
Planned Parenthood is the private business whose staffers are the most prone to cover up the sexual abuse of girls by not reporting the abuse. They report fewer than 5% of the underage girls who they treat as potential sexual abuse victims, even though they claim in articles that most of the girls they treat who are under the age of consent are “sexually active” due to a member of their family or extended family or due to a male who is old enough to be statutorily raping them.
Teachers are not reporting colleagues who sexually abuse children because of an evil solidarity among public school employees, or because of fear of reprisals from other teachers. Planned Parenthood staffers do not report child sexual abuse because it would cost them money to come clean. Rape and incest help drive their profits. Forcing mandated reporters to report potential victims or suffer arrest for failure to report will lower the sexual abuse rate everywhere. Most sex offenders are recidivists; reporting their crimes will lead to their arrests and imprisonments and stop their abuses. Punishing non-reporters firmly according to the law is the best way to ensure reporting of sexual abuse of minors.
2. FIGHT AGAINST “RAPERATIONS.”
ENACT PROTECTTION FOR SEX OFFENDER REGISTRIES.
IMMEDIATELY DIRECT FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PROSECUTORS TO FILE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEFS AGAINST THOSE WHO GOT A RULING DECLARING COLORADO’S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” AND SETTING UP TAXPAYERS TO HAVE TO PAY “RAPERATIONS” TO CONVICTED RAPISTS.
In the Millard, Knight, and Vega vs. Michael Rankin and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation case, the ACLU and other sex offender lobbyists got federal judge Richard Matsch to ruled Colorado’s sex offender registry was unconstitutional. Fortunately, appellate court judges reversed this crazy judge. However, if a similar case is allowed to stand, this crazy or corrupt ruling will be the ACLU’s next gold rush. They will sue for the hundreds of thousands of convicted sexual predators and seize billions of dollars from taxpayers for lawyer fees. They want to remove the protection from women and children further by killing the registries that alert the public to stay away from these perverted convicts.
Sex offender registries must be protected because they spotlight sex offenders, and warn the public to stay away from rapists. ACLU lawyers and others who attack sex offender registries for mercenary reasons must be destroyed.
3. ALL STATES, LOCALITIES, COLLEGES, TRIBES, AND THE MILITARY MUST PROVIDE ACCURATE INFORMATION ON SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHER CRIMINALS TO THE FBI ON PAIN OF PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION.
Mandate criminal prosecution and punishment of bureaucratic violators if these laws are not already on the books. Devin Kelley was able to obtain guns and murder Texas churchgoers due to failures of military, local law enforcement and prosecutor, and public school officials to punish him for sex offenses and/or report same to the FBI. Government dereliction-abetted crimes must cease.
4. ALL STATE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES OFFICIALS MUST ENSURE SCREENING OUT OF SEX OFFENDERS FOR FOSTER PARENT ROLES ON PAIN OF PROSECUTION AND INCARCERATION.
I have uncovered such cases in Virginia and Illinois. California officials recently admitted 1000 or so children were placed in foster homes with sex offenders. An aide to Illinois governor Bruce Rauner admitted the same was true in his state when he talked with me in 2016. This must end; penalties to government violators and foster home sex offenders must be very severe.
5. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MUST MAKE A NATIONAL DATABASE OF TEACHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ACCUSED OF SEXUAL OFFENSES AND OTHER CRIMES AND WHAT THE OUTCOMES OF THE CASES WERE. EACH STATE MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL EFFORT WITH THEIR OWN STATE DATABASE.
These databases would enable school districts to avoid hiring offenders, and allows parents to force school districts to purge their sex offenders and stop hiring new ones. I made such a proposal to the U.S. Department of Education in 2002, and can provide it for any elected official’s perusal and for any candidate’s perusal. Likewise, there should be background checks done on school employees at their expense every year, with criminal penalties for school employees and administrators who don’t undergo the checks or fail to ensure the checks are done 100%.
(Jeff Dobrozsi, a staffer for Ohio congressman John Boehner, whined I was proposing a national blacklist for sex offender teachers. I cheerfully and profanely confirmed his suspicions. Keep scumbags away from kids, I said. Bush 43’s people spent a million dollars to get a flawed study on sexual assault in schools instead of spending that money to set up a database to protect children.)
6. EACH STATE SHOULD ENACT A LAW MAKING SEX OFFENDERS PAY FOR THEIR MONITORING AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO 1/40 THE COST OF HIRING AND MAINTAINING A MID-LEVEL STATE TROOPER IN THEIR STATES.
This will allow each trooper to check on 40 sex offenders multiple times each year and give him or her the time and resources to make the sex offender registries as error-free as possible. This is like requiring people to have car insurance, and DUI convicts have to pay much more due to the elevated risks they pose. I have done the analysis on such a database and can provide it for any elected official’s or candidate’s perusal.
7. EACH STATE SHOULD MAKE A LAW REQUIRING REALTORS TO DISCLOSE TO PEOPLE IF THEY INTEND TO SELL PROPERTY TO A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER WITHIN STATUTORY REPORTING DISTANCE OF THEIR HOMES AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE CLOSING.
This would give people time to outbid or organize to protect their children and young women. We have gotten such a measure approved by the Ohio legislature’s constitutionality lawyers. We can provide it for any elected official’s or candidate’s perusal. No realtor whore should be able to dump rapists near children for profit.
Likewise, each legislature and Congress should expand anti-blockbusting laws to keep dishonest speculators from dropping sex offenders into neighborhoods to depress property values and trigger short sales.
8. MAKE IT ILLEGAL ON PENALTY OF INCARCERATION TO DESTROY RECORDS OF GOVERNMENT SEXUAL ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS. L.A. Unified School District lawyers destroyed 20 years of their district’s sex offender records to cheat abused children out of settlements. Washington school officials have been caught doing likewise. This must cease everywhere.
9. KILL THE CONGRESSIONAL SEX ABUSER SLUSH FUND, OUT THOSE WHO USED IT TO PAY OFF VICTIMS, RECOUP THE MONEY FROM THOSE WHO USED IT, PUBLICIZE THE PERPETRATORS, AND HAVE THE US ATTORNEY GENERAL OR STATE PROSECUTORS LOOK AT PROSECUTING THOSE STILL PROSECUTABLE WITHIN THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.
If there are any similar funds to protect state or local officials, do likewise with these.
10. MAKE A NATIONAL DATABASE, REQUIRING INPUT FROM ALL STATES’ JURISDICTIONS, OF CRIMINAL ARRESTS AND CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS THAT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EACH STATE MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THE NATIONAL EFFORT WITH THEIR OWN STATE DATABASE.
It might be easier to take some confidential info out of the NCIC database police use now to make a “little brother” database that is legal for public viewing. This will help parents, young women, and even gun dealers, as they all can screen those who come in contact with children and themselves, and those who want to buy firearms. This way, the public can backstop the government and independently protect themselves.
11. CONGRESS SHOULD LOOK AT RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION FROM ALL NATIONS WHERE CULTURAL AND LEGAL PRACTICES OF PROTECTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL ABUSE ARE ABSENT OR IGNORED.
CONGRESS SHOULD END THE SHAMEFUL PRACTICE OF ALLOWING GROUPS TO GAIN LUCRATIVE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS TO DUMP ALIENS FROM NATIONS WITH CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS THAT CLASH WITH AMERICAN VALUES INTO AREAS WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE RESIDENTS.
Restricting immigration and relocation in such fashion will prevent the rapes and assaults such people commit against women and children in this nation. It is a tried and true practice that public officials used in the Eilis Island Era to ban “cultural rapists” and others with outlooks inimical to American laws and culture.
12. RESTRICT SPORTS TO BIOLOGICAL SEXES, NOT THE FALSE CLAIMS OF SOME MALES THAT THEY ARE FEMALES.
It is self-evidently hateful to allow males who claim they are females physically dominate females and ruin female/female competitions. Outlaw it.
Here are two mercy additions:
13. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES MUST CLEAR ALL SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WERE WRONGFULLY PUNISHED FOR DEFENDING RAPE VICTIMS WHILE IN THE SERVICE.
Some of our fighting men in Afghanistan received punishment for smashing Afghan officials who raped boys. Of course, this happened when Bush and Obama were presidents and the gutless in their military chains of command kowtowed to political civilian appointees and idiotic Pentagon officers instead of doing the right thing and protecting their fighting men.
14. EACH STATE SHOULD CLEAR ITS SEX OFFENDER DATA BASES OF PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT BE THERE. This includes those who bureaucratic errors put there, and those who were guilty of acts such as public urination or 19-year-olds being with 17-year-olds who were overcharged by prosecutors. Concentrate on putting the mark of Cain on those who chose to prey upon victims.
Most predators who have political protection are Democrats. The groups who most protect sex offenders, like teacher unions, the ACLU, trial lawyers, and immigrant frontists, are leftists. The Democrats could do the right thing too, and push for these policies, but their pressure groups and big money donors would have tantrums.
Candidates and office holders who support the above agenda can legitimately accuse anyone who opposes the majority of the above agenda as being soft on child molesters and other rapists. Most of the opposers will be Democrats …. and there will be some guilty GOPers in this group too. The goofs will out themselves so the public can purge them.
Homeland security begins when women and children are protected. These proposals will help people in each state protect their women and children.
== Kevin Sherlock”
Recently a central NY nonprofit for victims of sexual and domestic abuse came into the news when a whisteblower came forward.
The nonprofit had knowingly hired a man on the sex offender registry –get this –to work with abuse victims.
When confronted by members of the community and some local press, the leadership doubled down. They admitted they knew his background when hiring him and they intended to stand by him. Eventually though they caved under the intense backlash.
Big no on that. Gives the uniparty more power. No thanks.
Apparently the answer to government and private excesses is to give the government more control.
Hmm, funny how that is exactly what they want.
This “manifesto” appears to take known issues and merge into them the need for the government (that hates us) to have more power.
Also, some of the stuff in it comes of as “make already illegal stuff ‘more illegal'” instead of proposing to enforce existing laws.
Whole thing looks bad to me – all stated in a way to come across as palatable to the “stakeholders”.
BIG PASS FROM ME
It is imperative that everyone monitor what goes on in their local public library…you cannot imagine what they will support.
Simply barbaric and unacceptable
Yes, and given their community, extremely divisive. This is how schools and libraries de-fund themselves. And I checked the Hendersonville Public Library webpage. It DOES sound as the writer on the video described it — a beautiful, well-used community facility.
The librarians want to push the community out of their own library? No wonder they are “stressed”. They resent their community
In my little comfy, upper, upper, middle class SF Bay Area suburb … we used to have a library. The library was a small Philip Johnson-inspired glass and steel box. A real cutting edge 1950’s style of architecture. The building was literally … transparent. You could see all the books and all the people inside. A freestanding building of maybe 3,000 sq. ft.
I grew up poor in this ultra wealthy community, “raised” by a dysfunctional alcoholic single father (my only brother and I raised ourselves). I was one of the few kids who lived “downtown” in one of the ugliest apartment buildings ever built. By the time I hit Jr. Hi. … that library became my home. It was on my pathway to middle school, and so I stopped in … frequently. The librarian knew me by name and was super helpful in getting me to read; Heinlein, Asimov, and my favorite Ray Bradbury. Yes, I read Fahrenheit 451 in 7th grade along with Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. And yes, I also read Animal Farm and 1984 as part of my 8th Grade English Class in 1969. Our library was ALL ABOUT: books, reading, knowledge, and information.
Fast forward 45 years … after the internet has all but rendered libraries obsolete, and our town of 45,000 people wanted to tear down that “transparent” 3k sq.ft. Library and replace it with a 30,000 sq.ft. monolith to “education” (read: indoctrination). This behemoth of a $31mm building was funded via many sources … but primarily from the deep pockets of the wealthiest elites in our town. And they made the building in the image of themselves. It a maze of lobbies, hallways, stairways, and enclosed courtyards. One of the most confusing public buildings I’ve ever seen built. From the outside, you can’t see anything, and there is literally no CLUE that it’s a library. The actual Library part of the building … where only a few books are kept … is through an exterior plaza that winds blindly into the middle of the site. You literally need a Sherpa to find the entrance. Once there, the building is cut up into classrooms, and conference rooms, and meeting spaces that are perpetually empty … until … another special leftist author is giving a lecture. And I read the local library calendar … it is 99.95% leftists giving seminars and readings. This new library is the functional equivalent of Fahrenheit 451. They’ve burned any and all conservative books and teaching. The building is opaque and so is the content within its ugly skin. And yes … my ugly new library has hosted Drag Queen Story Hours. Repeatedly. On purpose. To “teach” our children “tolerance”. Yes, that was literally written on the announcement … come and “teach” your children “tolerance” … and implied … show the community what a good little “tolerant” parent you are. Drive your Tesla to the Drag Queen hour with your 7yo daughter in tow … and “be seen” by “the community”.
My librarian in 1968 … pointed me to the books and asked what I was interested in … she didn’t indoctrinate me. She allowed me to educate myself. No books were banned or burned. I miss that REAL library … which was replaced by a parking lot. Sad. But even sadder … I thought once I uprooted my 5th generation CA family OUT of this dystopian nightmare, I might move to some SANE city in TN. Boy was I mistaken … I guess that ship has sailed too. Ohhhhh mommmaa can this really be the end, to be stuck inside Northern Cali. … with the Memphis Blues again.
You’re a good writer!
That’s very sweet of you. I tend to be ‘wordy’ … I need to remember ‘Strunk and White’ … brevity, Kenji … brevity! And if I do write well … it’s because of the REAL Librarian from the late 60’s who inspired and expanded my reading. Sadly, those Librarians are gone … and now we have propagandists USING their libraries as leftist indoctrination centers. Sad. Very sad … and it’s preventing generations from actual LEARNING.
From one writer to another, your piece was BEAUTIFULLY written. I could tell from the way you write that you’re a Bradbury fan. His lush and gorgeous prose defies “Strunk and White.” When Bradbury started writing, he got a penny a word. And as a fellow Bradbury fan, I’m thankful that this influenced his writing style. Kudos to you. Your story is much like my own. It was a pleasure to read.
Thanks, Kenji, for the trip down memory lane!
You’re too nice. What a compliment! I am not worthy … I am not worthy …
I was taught to read at 3 by my Grandmother. The library was a place of solace and infinite exploration. You are completely correct about the Fahrenheit 451 reference.
BTW … I’m just re-listening to Dylan’s genius of a “Memphis Blues” song about; musical styles … mankind, relationships, and “The Rag Man drawing circles” (Satan) that we all hope to avoid. And I am just fixated on Robbie Robertson’s INSPIRED electric guitar fills throughout the song. Shame on me for not listening to more of his absolutely brilliant playing. His musical phrases and timing is as inspired as Dylan’s lyrics. Let your ear focus on his every note … he’s absolutely amazing.
Yeah, I can imagine Dylan isn’t much admired here … but crimeny … the older I get the more GENIUS he gets … both lyrically and musically. I love Art. And Music is my most admired Art. You don’t need to be a leftist numbskull to admire Art. Because Art is the most tangible expression of our humanity. And everything man creates is his “Art” … from developing and building homes to exploring for oil … we are all “Artists” whether we know it or not. Yeah, some of us are more inspired and motivated than others … but we all have an urge to make our mark, and work out our raison d’etre. May you all have an inspired day, and may God inspire your hearts to great things
It comes with all that reading he did.
Let me assure that Hendersonville, TN is light years from what you described.
I’m going to Google maps … right now!!! All I want is some acreage, God, and some guns! Take THAT! Obama.
The tax situation helps too.
What a sad, but great story.
My town erected an edifice to promote Drag Queens. Yeah, that’s sad.
And sadly the architectural metaphor about the the transparent vs the oblique … is also sadly accurate. Nevertheless, I have survived and thrived in this town, and my own kids (I have one turning 40 next week) missed most of this nonsense … and got to visit the old glass library!
Kenji, excellent comment and writing.
Yours is yet another example of why CTH is enriched by its Treepers.
yep
The eastern shore is still somewhat pro family and the low country is pretty epic also.
I’ll add this contact info to the page I made back when Cameron 1st announced libraries were refusing to allow him to read the books.
https://giwe.us/Kirk/
Contact Info up – as well as for other libraries noted in prior articles.
Video also embedded.
On Feb 11 of this year, a group of parents found a way to block kids from hearing a Drag Queen story hour at a Bannock County library in Idaho.
With the help of a group called Mass Resistance, they strategized what to do and came up with this: They showed up en masse and filled all the seats so there was no room for the woke parents and their kids. The frustrated library staff asked them to leave, but they refused. The Drag Queen ended up performing the story hour for the protesting adults (no kids) instead. The below article gives more details.
“A few minutes before the program, one of the activists emailed Arthur Schaper, our Field Director:
Hi Arthur,
I’m with my wife at the Pocatello library where the drag queen story hour is planned for 1:30 today. The room is packed with Christian conservatives and NO KIDS. They are trying to ask us to leave. But we are peacefully staying … and protecting.
The room is full and they are frustrated. Well done Mass Resistance!!!”
I don’t know anything about the organization, Mass Resistance, but love the result at this one library.
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/23a/ID-MR-people-flood-DQSH-event/index.html
It’s a shame that they appear to have no vids documenting what happened.
Hopefully, that’s just an oversight, and there ARE some out there.
Cuz otherwise, those disgusting Library peeps will just deny it ever happened, and all the lefty parents will agree.
After Brave Books repeatedly asked the library staff to quiet down, Missy Robertson said on the podcast that she started recording on her phone. She also mentioned that Riley Gaines asked her for her recorded video. Video is somewhere. Like President Trump remaining silent regarding Pence, it is most likely prudent for them to wait regarding the video.
Despicable people do despicable things It’s sickening. Has anyone been able to access the video? I tried watching it via the Twitter post but apparently it’s been deleted. Is there another source that someone could share a link for?
Wow! This is crazy…. I’m going on Brave books and buying one of every child book they have…
Thanks for showing this to us here. I’ll call and email that library..
The book she wrote is speaking of is one of the favorites of a young 5 yr old I know. Asks to have it read every day.
The title is: Because You’re My Family
Great idea!!!
ugh. Listening to her description of what some of the staff did that day, every single one of those people need to be fired pronto.
REALLY hope some of this is well-documented.
Whatever happened to the rule about “Quiet in the Library”.
Glenn Beck recently relayed the story of a successful protest in Indiana, iirc, by several pastors and adults, who went to a library drag queen story hour early, to take up all the seats so kids couldn’t see anything.
Then, the pastors called the fire Marshalls to complain that the building was over-capacity, due to all the creepy women with their kids in the standing room.🤣 The library had to send the kids and moms out! No violence, no confrontation. *Chef’s kiss.*
Earthquakes happen, we can’t stop them. We can only recover from them, perhaps learn some early signals of coming quakes and design buildings better for resisting them.
So what is all this “rumbling” that seems to occur all across America, dividing citizens into various groups? It portends what? Certainly a shifting of sorts, but to where and when? What happens when the charge of being racist no longer carries the energies it presently appears to demand? What is beyond being woke, or going past diversity, inclusion and equity?
What will it be like when the dust settles and we can see clearly? What will be left we recognize? What will be new? What will be strange? Maybe all this social unrest is nothing more than a grand stampede…but to where? Over the cliff? Into a grand valley loaded with beauty, etc.?
I’m betting most of the people who are urging this revolution have no idea what the end game of it will look like nor what it will produce. Then why are we behaving this way? Why the anger, the fear, the loathing, the shrieking and the threats?
What has spooked us to this degree? Could it be “artificial intelligence” that claims to exist to help us in our daily lives is really a new “master” who intends to make us “slaves” or are we worried about those people behind this movement? We know the ground beneath our feet is shaking…but where is this going?
When the sleeping mountain wakes up and spits out death and destruction we who survive will do what? Jane Fonda wants to murder Republicans all in the name of keeping abortion…which kills babies. Such confusion is all over the place.
I will look for sanity, right after I agree on what that word means and can demonstrate it to others. Then again, how much time do I have left, do you have left?
Nature beckons, but who is really listening? There are rumblings all about, are there not?
Even for something this obscure and in terrible weather, Hendersonvillians turned out. I will go see these people and figure out how I can find my way into the decision making body. Hendersonville is conservative, apart from some stupid zoning it did 25 years ago.
Might have turned my aim to local politics, which is rife with clowns, idiots and busybodies.
Wow! Is this America?
We either use our rights or lose them.
Something similar happened a couple years ago at a different Library/different town (?) where an “Unapproved by the Left” book reading was taking place.
Staff intentionally crammed people into the smallest available room, even tho there were much larger ones available, leaving many many people standing in lines outside.
Gotta nip this stuff in the bud when it 1st gets going.
Otherwise the Fascist Lefties just figure they’ve got a Working Blueprint going now for further “action” in Libraries across the country.
I believe it is perfectly acceptable to not only speak up for our kids, but to teach our kids to speak up for themselves!
What’s wrong with them speaking up and saying “I don’t want to read this violence, sexual content, profanity. I would like an option that does not contain this graphic material.”
Especially when they assert themselves respectfully in front of their peers – it opens up the bravery for the kids to band together and assert themselves.
I’ve written off my Sophomore daughter learning anything truly academic in public school. It’s more of a test on dealing with socialized psychopathy. She’s going to be heading into this world, whether I like it or not, and she’s going to be able to recognize insanity and defend and assert AGAINST it.
What will they do? Take away our birthdays?
Nothing deflates narcissists better than PUSH BACK. They fold and fall like the house of cards they are!
SAY NO! BETTER YET, TEACH THEM TO SAY NO!
Yet biden says its a sin to be against the transgendering of children.
Who cares what Biden thinks or says?
Learn to disregard him.
My best friend lives there, I go 4-5 times a year to visit. Shocking it happened in Hendersonville.
I have passed it along to other and other friends in the area.
What we’re reading is a bit overstated. The mayor was there and it was fairly controlled. It definitely created a turnout and substantial reaction from locals.
I need only tell my wife that I just made one of my rare visits to what I’ve come to call the saddest place on Earth and she knows that I am talking about our local library, a place we loved when my wife was home-schooling our kids.
Masked workesters still cower behind walls of plexiglas.
Graphic novel porn sits on shelves just inside the main entrance(removed after my complaints).
Masked patrons peruse the newest arrivals about skin pigment, cross-dressing, J6 propaganda, carbon peril and healthy obesity with only an occasional book of sanity.
I suppose in this era, librarians love books and knowledge like watchers of the View love good political discourse.
Every library staff member should be fired and frankly we should close all public libraries.
I’d rather we find a way to take back our libraries. We keep retreating. Boy Scouts, professional sports, college sports, historical statues and monuments.
At first I cheered when leftie wokesters took over a national tradition and it cratered on them. Then I realized their agenda wasn’t to take them over and make them work, it was to ruin them. Eventually there will be no good things remaining.
I used to love public libraries. Before libraries existed in this country, only the wealthy had plentiful access to books within their private libraries. What a wonderful concept started so long ago in our history to create the public library with free access to books! It’s worth the fight to take back our libraries.
and I’m so with you, Lulu, that the library staff there should be fired asap.
Maybe one idea would be for all of us to figure out something we could teach or share with kids and volunteer at the libraries to do it. We could overwhelm them with good, clean programs. And use Mass Resistance for the bad ones.
I completely agree. It’s an old way to read …not for free because your tax dollars fund it…and is easily replace by used book stores and the internet.
Sorry conservatives
All of this is less than meaningless
The left will keep on perverting, recruiting and grooming
You can have Christians reading books all day long in libraries and change not a thing
Tell people ONLY JESUS CAN SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SINS AND HELLFIRE
THAT LIARS, THIEVES, MURDERERS, SEXUALLY IMMORAL, still burn in Hell
That is how you battle the satanists on the other side
You’ve found that meaningful? Effective?
When people die it means everything
Make sure you pay them there taxes come the 15th. Other than that..swing for the bleachers.
Thank you Menagerie for this. Surprised me with this happening in Tenn. i guess the Left has infiltrated everywhere. We need to stay alert and question everything.
I am convinced these drag queens are either antifa at best or more likely members of some three letter agency.
Use your library 1st and 2nds : ?cache=nmbgoyqwjz&ops=1910_1000
Who knew librarians were so nut jobs
Not when I was growing up
Shows you that while they claim to have the best interests of the children at heart, they really don’t care about the suffering of children.
Of course they don’t.
I want to give a shout out to an amazing women with an amazing collection of books called
Libraries of Hope
Marlene Peterson collected thousand of photos of classic painting depicting love, faith and family and included poetry and stories and created her own library
Dedicated to building a community of families who are learning to restore the lost art of educating hearts through the Arts.
We seek to preserve a culture of faith, freedom and family and a love of the good, the true and the beautiful.
https://www.librariesofhope.com/
I can’t wait to buy those books and start reading them to my grandchildren.
Of course, evil will resist any of the Robertsons. They have picked a fight with the wrong woman, and probably her friends, too.
Do check out the Brave books here:
https://bravebooks.us/
Also~here is an interview about multiple library rejections that Kirk Cameron did with Tucker Carlson Dec. 2022:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6316781554112
The Robertsons have a podcast “Unashamed”. I’ve never missed their podcast. When Missy came on unexpectedly and explained what was going on at the library I was horrified like all of you!
I was especially upset that they wouldn’t let hundreds of parents and their children in and let them stay out in the freezing rain! Where is the humanity no matter your political views!
I agree with Missy! We must be louder and we must protect our children and grandchildren. We can not leave them a country like this…heartless!
May God forgive us for taking prayer out of our schools, etc and out of our country and may God bless America again 🙏🏼
Great read Menagerie.
Great action plan outline.
Grace to you!
✝️
I have been listening to the “Unashamed” podcast by the Robertson family for several years now and I can honestly say it is one of maybe two podcasts I make a point of listening to every day. These are the “Duck Dynasty” folks – God fearing, patriotic, Jesus loving and very funny! Give them a try if you haven’t already.
Get this to Outkick in Nashville.
Thanks Menagerie. A very enjoyable interview session by all.
Missy Robertson is one of those special earthly angels with “Heaven in her eyes.” I was extremely blessed when I married one decades ago.
Are we surprised that any library in this country is staffed with anti American communists ?
Middle Tennessee has become a cesspool of emigrates from the People’s Republic of Californication and other blue states where they cannot stand to live under the rules and laws they created. Nashangeles is all but lost with that leftist loony bin, Vanderbilt University, being ground zero for turning out more loons. Memphis… well, let’s just say the loons originated there. Tennessee is coming very close to becoming a purple state, and that worries me a lot.
????! Apart from its urban centers, TN is conservative as it gets, like much of the rest of the US.
People who are Materialists — I sincerely think we have reached a point you might want to reconsider your position.
You don’t get this if there is no Supernatural at all…
Not across the whole country. Not on this issue. Not like this on this scale. At least to me…
So many Parents willing to bring their small children to Drag Queen shows coupled with so many leaders + staffers in Libraries across the country boycotting or even harassing someone semi-famous who wants to read a family-friendly children’s book….?
Got to be more going on than just the physical + mental….
Sounds like this is a call, a call to buy everything Brave Books has on the shelves. Living in SW Virginia we joined the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, an interesting program that sent free books to our homeschool kids in the mail. I carefully reviewed the content but as far as I could tell they weren’t offensive in any way and blessed our kids. We’re thankful to her for starting that. It’s a pretty big thing. Public libraries were always considered “public”, as in you’ll find the melting pot there. Is it too late to save the libraries? Maybe not, depends on your worldview probably.
I’m not much on expending that much energy to save our libraries. I think our energy would be much better used expanding our knowledge of the one true God and glorifying him forever. Trying to do that in all things.
This is the state of Senator Marsha Blackburn; I’m surprised she would allow this. Perhaps someone should show her the video.
I taught lower grades in elementary school for 32 years and loved most everyday I taught. I took my own children to the library every 2 weeks and checked out books for them and my classroom.
Sadly in one school where I taught the librarian was more concerned about how perfect the books looked on the shelf than encouraging any child to look thru a book. Every Monday I brought a stack of books to my classroom and spent about 15 minutes exposing the students to the books. They were on all levels in all subjects. I spent @ few minutes giving details and showing a few pictures and placed each book one a5 a time on a table. After instruction time for ELA and other subjects and work time they could go and choose a book to read. They would make it a goal to have each of the books read by the end of the week.
They would beg me to let them take a chapter book home to finish the book.
Of course, I could never say no to such a request.
Exposure to books and the story each one tells is how you teach the love of reading. You have to make the books available, comments to catch their interest levels and let them choose what they want to read. Sadly, I go into our neighborhood library today; every person is sitting behind a tall counter on a bar stool. if you ask them a question it’s as if you have really
in-positioned them; if they have to get up they act like it’s such an effort.
There’s always at least 3 or 4 people sitting at a counter doing some kind of secretarial work. Wouldn’t you think one could just be roaming around in the children’s section introducing books, assisting children and making recommendations.
Some weirdo is in charge of the Library system in D.C….installed by Captain Creep Biden himself.
Does this reflect the downward impact of that federal position? I not sure exactly what the position of head librarian in the USA is, but obviously a lot is going on behind closed doors in many cities throughout America.
So sad for Hendersonville’s children.
I am also suggesting that people should really inspect their local Girl Scouts organizations. They do more than just sell cookies (I have a friend who is a retired GS Administrator). My friend said she was essentially persuaded to retire of her on accord by having to watch the sexual corruption that was taking place.