I thought this little rant would be of some amusement value. It’s taken from
Library Juice, an alternative news digest for and by librarians. Disclaimer for those slow on the uptake: I do not advocate any of the views below, in fact I am diametrically opposed to them. Nor am I a
libertarian either.
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Who says that Library Juice doesn't present a full range of perspectives? Here is a message from Hans Wienhold, sent to the
newsgroup soc.libraries.talk, about how libraries "are for
socialist welfare scum."
From: Hans Wienhold Date: 07/24/01 11:05 pm Groups: soc.libraries.talk
Libraries are for socialist welfare scum
All
public libraries are socialist institutions and invariably are sites of wholesale theft of
intellectual property that is being sanctioned by a corrupt, evil state.
Respect for
Intellectual Freedom demands tht (
sic) all state run libraries be shut down immediately as they are a site of ongoing and wholesale theft of intellectual property.
The contents of these dishonorable (sic), immoral and illegal institutions must be returned to the authors or other financial interest holders or shredded or burned so that the theft of the intellectual property contained within the library walls will not continue.
Libraries will only be legitimate when they are taken out of the hands of the state and only when the authors and or publishers of the works within have WILLINGLY donated their works, and then ONLY upon condition that those works be distributed in strict accordance to whatever written agreements or stipulations that may have been made with the rights holders.
Among the
Libertarian community it is often noted that the primary use of public libraries is provide sleeping quarters for unemployed bums and welfare slobs, and other
parasites who are unworthy of existence (sic) who are looking for another handout from the
nanny state. These people are intellectual property thieves at best and often simply vermin worthy only of
extermination.
Libraries exist as a method of wealth transfer and rights violation like every other form of government corruption of the marketplace. They exist as a result of government fiat, stealing wealth from intellectual property holders and transferring (sic) that wealth to low income
vermin, and do so with money stolen from the public.
The simple truth is that Libraries are nothing more than an immoral and illegal form of welfare.
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