[Green-Activist] No smoke without fire: claims about the governor from the north

[Roy Garner]

Dear Activists,

Here's the text of an email doing the rounds, but hotly contested by 
Republicans, that Sarah Palin, presidential running mate to Cain, tried 
to have books banned from her local library.  See also 
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html  
Obviously not the last word on this...

> From:

> Subject: Sarah Palin's list of banned books! Wow!
> To:
> Cc:
> Received: Tuesday, 9 September, 2008, 4:28 PM
> If you want, check out:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdxI0zClV_Y&feature=related
> , re NAFTA.  Shine on Obama!
>
>
>
> Sarah Palin's book ban list
>
> and Chris Hedges on "American Fascists"
>
> When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and 
> carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis, 1935
>
> Below is a list of the books Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the 
> Wasilla, Alaska Library.  When I was in Anchorage two years ago, 
> residents of Wasilla I met described the place as a growing, 
> more-and-more suburban community north of Anchorage.  In her speech, 
> Palin called the area "the valley."  Mayor Palin would seem to be a 
> strong force in the suburbanization of the village of Wasilla.  When 
> the Wasilla librarian refused to trash these books, Mayor Palin tried 
> to have her fired.  This caused a stir in Wasilla which then turned 
> into a drive to protect the librarian.  Some of my favorite examples 
> of American literature are on this list.  This is the act of a 
> patriotic American?  No, this is the act of a religious fundamentalist 
> trying to squeeze herself into the role of a mythic frontier
> American.  The attempt to ban American literary masterpieces like 
> Catcher In The Rye, Grapes Of Wrath, To Kill A Mockingbird, Death Of A 
> Salesman, Leaves Of Grass, As I Lay Dying, Huckleberry Finn, Catch 22 
> and Tarzan indicates, flags and Bible citations aside, her ascendance 
> to national power would be downright un-American.  In the realm of 
> Rovian political marketing and the unfolding effort to win the 
> Presidency not with ideas but with a cult of personality,
> McCain is the humiliated warrior ready to "go to the gates of hell" to 
> preserve American exceptionalism and Sarah Palin is his fascist 
> "bride," a mythic
> frontier mom able to shoot, gut and cook a moose while nurturing her 
> family who has said publicly our war in Iraq is supported by God and 
> people should pray to God to get the Alaska gas pipeline approved.
>
> This is a pivotal moment in American history, and we all need to 
> expose this cult of personality for what it is, a cynical sham.  
> Please pass this on far and wide.
>
> John Grant
>
> This list is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library 
> Board.
>
> A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
> A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
> Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
> As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
> Blubber by Judy Blume
> Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
> Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
> Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
> Carrie by Stephen King
> Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
> Christine by Stephen King
> Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
> Cujo by Stephen King
> Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
> Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
> Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
> Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
> Decameron by Boccaccio
> East of Eden by John Steinbeck
> Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
> Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
> Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
> Forever by Judy Blume
> Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
> Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
> Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Prizoner! of Azka ban by J.K. Rowling
> Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
> Have to Go by Robert Munsch
> Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
> How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
> Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
> Impressions edited by Jack Booth
> In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
> It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
> James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
> Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
> Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
> Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
> Lord of the Flies by William Golding
> Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
> Lysistrata by Aristophanes
> More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
> My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and
> Christopher Collier
> My House by Nikki Giovanni
> My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
> Night Chills by Dean Koontz
> Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
> On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
> One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander
> Solzhenitsyn
> One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
> One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
> Ordinary People by Judith Guest
> Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health
> Collective
> Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
> Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
> Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin
> Schwartz
> Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
> Separate Peace by John Knowles
> Silas Marner by George Eliot
> Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
> Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
> The Bastard by John Jakes
> The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
> The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
> The Color Purple by Alice Walker
> The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Fig
> ure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
> The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
> The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
> The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
> The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
> The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
> The Living Bible by William C. Bower
> The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
> The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles
> Wibbelsman
> The Pigman by Paul Zindel
> The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
> The Shining by Stephen King
> The Witches by Roald Dahl
> The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
> Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
> To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
> Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
> Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the
> Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
> Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the
> Halloween
> Symbols by Edna Barth
>
> VFP31 Annual Banquet Speaker Chris Hedges wrote the book on people 
> like Sarah Palin. It's called   American Fascists: The Christian Right 
> and the War On America
>
>
> Editor, oral historian, book designer and print broker
>
>


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