“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

“That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately.” 

Isn’t it nice to know that Bill Postmus is your now your Mommy, and gets to decide what YOU and YOUR CHILDREN get to read?

From ICV2.COM:

Suburban LA County Pulls Manga Text from Libraries

Bill Postmus, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of suburban San Bernadino County, California, has ordered the county’s libraries to remove the scholarly text Manga:  Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from circulation.  He proudly announced the move, calling the book “obscene comics,” on the county’s Website, saying, “That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately.” 

The flap started in Victorville, after a 16-year-old checked the book out of the adult section of the library.  The teen’s mother “was horrified,” according to a story in the local Desert Dispatch, and wrote a letter to the library asking that the book be removed. 

(more here)