Books are the greatest thing about freedom. Even better than music. Sure, music is one of the easiest and most entertaining forms of public and uncensored expression, depending on where and how you amy be broadcast, but books can express anything and can expose concepts completely new to the imagination. They get people to think and further their didectic abilities and if someone doesn't like what they've got to say, instead of shooting the person, they can just not read the book or burn the pages. In the south, there are lots of books that have been banned and I thought the number was depleting until I heard Harry Potter books were banned down there too. Come on, people! It's a kid's story for crying out loud. You'd think these types of people would be more worried about getting the sticks out of their asses than their kids reading something remotely imaginative. These kids probably would rather try to get the backstreet boys' autographs or, at worst, try to nail Britney Spears, than join a religous cult and play with magic while dedicating their lives and labour to the devil. It's really not much fun. Like the Marquis de Sade once said, if someone were to try to walk on water and drown, would you condemn the bible? No, you wouldn't.

When I think things couldn't get much dumber for our nation, I hear that Operation Save America is protesting BOOKS. Of all things, with all the turmoil going about in this world, these people decide books are bad. Did I miss something? You know, it's easy to take something as simple as freedom for granted when you've got plenty of it. If your freedoms were ever taken from you, I think the very least of your worries would be the content of books you don't even need to read. Mostly, because you wouldn't be allowed to have any books...not even bibles. So do yourself a favor, go find a copy of George Orwell's "1984" and maybe even Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and then ask yourself if this is really what you want.