The Beachwood Police Department reported on May 2 the man checked out the hundred books from the Cuyahoga County Public Library Beachwood Branch, and posted a video of him burning the books on social media.

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    If your faith and beliefs are so righteous, strong, moral and important … you would never need to burn books to make others follow your convictions.

    Burning books just goes to show how deranged and unbalanced your beliefs are

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      God is on their side, but for some reason He can only accomplish His goals by having humans act on His behalf. By coincidence, the same would be true if there were no God at all.

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      “Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven’t the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.”

      -Tommy Douglas

      Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954.

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        Tommy Douglas, truly a great man … who led the movement that made it possible for public health care in Canada.

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        What if it’s shitty Catholic bibles that flanderise and flanderise unti it’s all twisted to serve their own corrupt projection?

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      I wouldn’t burn a copy of Mein Kampf, unless that’s the only political point of view in the library. I’m sure that library had plenty of right-wing books and were much more popular.

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    I emailed this library asking them which books they don’t expect to be getting back. They told me they couldn’t even release that information but they already are in the process of replacing them. Class act.

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      Nice that they took the time to respond. I expect they’re getting a lot of offers from people who want to help them replace books.

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    Hopefully they charge him the value of each of the 100 books on top of whatever criminal charges he would get for damaging library property. That should be over $1,000 just because of the sheer amount of books.

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      That, and every replaced book should have a big dedication inside, saying something like “purchased with a generous donation of Mr [this twit’s name]”

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        See, here’s where I disagree:

        Unless there is a clarifying statement about his ass-backward mentality following the dedication, the snark will be lost to time and only the “generous donation” will remain.

        I have a similar (if smaller) beef with Carnegie libraries that are just PR washing of an oligarch. His crimes are remembered in spite of his donations only because he was memorable outside of them.

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        Hm, I would have said it’s not arson if he did it on his own property in a safe manner. But I also don’t know if the definition of arson includes any burning of others’ property without permission, even if you were allowed to bring the property somewhere where you’re allowed to start fires…

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    On Monday, Heights Christian Church, which describes itself as “open to and affirming of all people, celebrating and finding strength in our diversity + affirming the dignity + worth of every person,” hosted an Action and Press Conference “against this hateful act.”

    HCC said the event joins forces with Interfaith Group Against Hate to condemn the action.

    Besides condemning the action, IGAH will be promoting support for our libraries. We will also be presenting a plan of action that will include partnering with local bookshops to purchase books, as well as community readings and discussion on topics that promote diversity and free speech. Heights Christian Church

    Honestly, pretty good response from the community and church.

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    “The man is already polling at 40% approval among GOP voters.”

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    Make him pay for new books, add a juicy fine to it so the library can add a new wing, an then put him behind bars for hate crimes.

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      I bet he’ll get a GoFundMe up and running in no time to get supported by a bunch of other whackjobs.

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        The library getting a new wing for free and a bunch of morons parting ways with their money sounds pretty great to me, if it happened.

        They can even name the new LGBT/Jewish/black history book wing in his honor from his “generous donation” to the library, lol.

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    Libraries allow you to check out 100 books? Last time I used my card to check out books there was a limit to 10., which seemed plenty to me.

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      Depending on what we’re researching on, we sometimes need like various books. Used to have to research all of them while in the library, but now we kinda read everything online. Though we plan on going back to the library again for researching stuff :P

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    As long as the fines he is now due cover the cost of rebuying brand new copies, I thank him for his donation.