{"id":1077,"date":"2009-06-15T14:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2009-06-15T14:24:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T21:24:35","slug":"wut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2009\/06\/15\/wut\/","title":{"rendered":"Book burning!  Wait, what&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Milwaukee-area citizen Robert C. Braun of the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) distributed at the meeting copies of a claim for damages he and three other plaintiffs filed April 28 with the city; the complainants seek the right to publicly burn or destroy by another means the library\u2019s copy of Baby Be-Bop. The claim also demands $120,000 in compensatory damages ($30,000 per plaintiff) for being exposed to the book in a library display, and the resignation of West Bend Mayor Kristine Deiss for \u201callow[ing] this book to be viewed by the public.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/alonline\/currentnews\/newsarchive\/2009\/june2009\/westbendbabybebop060309.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, here&#8217;s some video.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wBrrW6IFOD0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The guy might be hard to follow.  I think what he&#8217;s advocating may be&#8230;people who are suffering from a terminal illness, and likely to die soon&#8230;should go into the library, steal books they find offensive, and destroy them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and they&#8217;re suing for the right to burn a book.  A book from the library.<\/p>\n<p>I hate people.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee-area citizen Robert C. Braun of the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) distributed at the meeting copies of a claim for damages he and three other plaintiffs filed April 28 with the city; the complainants seek the right to publicly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2009\/06\/15\/wut\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-people-are-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3bMfN-wut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}