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		<title>Comment on Poster Removal at the Vancouver Public Library by libdude</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/poster-removal-at-the-vancouver-public-library/#comment-181</link>
		<dc:creator>libdude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"But what disturbs me just as much is the lack of reaction from most people who received the original e-mail."

Do you know that the branch heads did not respond privately to their supervisor about this incident? Is it possible that some of them feared that public dissent would be perceived as insubordination?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;But what disturbs me just as much is the lack of reaction from most people who received the original e-mail.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you know that the branch heads did not respond privately to their supervisor about this incident? Is it possible that some of them feared that public dissent would be perceived as insubordination?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Filtering Adult Workstations @ London Public Library by Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber receive IF award &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber receive IF award &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on internet filtering&#8211;boo, FIMS faculty&#8211;yay! by Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber receive IF award &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nancy Branscombe and Gina Barber receive IF award &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] internet filtering–boo, FIMS faculty–yay! [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Kill the Messenger by lukery</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/kill-the-messenger/#comment-175</link>
		<dc:creator>lukery</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THanks for posting this.  Sibel Edmonds is a hero &#38; patriot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THanks for posting this.  Sibel Edmonds is a hero &amp; patriot.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Kim Bolan at BCLA by Singh</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/kim-bolan-at-bcla/#comment-173</link>
		<dc:creator>Singh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My deepest sympathies to the familes of the victims. As a Sikh and a Khalistan supporter I condemn the attack. 

The media does not represent the voice of the Sikh community. They presume to speak for us, but the "Sikhs" they have speaking do not present the point of view of the majority in our community. The truth is, it seems that most Sikhs support Khalistan. We condemn terrorism, the targetting of innocent human beings, and the devastating attack on Air India.
 Please understand, that the people who showed Parmar's picture at the nagar kirtan last year in Surrey did not think that he had bombed the plane. They thought it was Indian intelligence. 
I personally don't know who it was, I think that Indian intelligence surely had a hand (see "Soft Target").
But my point is, we do not support terrorism. 

As for Al-Qaeda, they target western countries, Khalistani activists do not. Our main aim is to raise awareness of what happened in India and what continues to happen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My deepest sympathies to the familes of the victims. As a Sikh and a Khalistan supporter I condemn the attack. </p>
<p>The media does not represent the voice of the Sikh community. They presume to speak for us, but the &#8220;Sikhs&#8221; they have speaking do not present the point of view of the majority in our community. The truth is, it seems that most Sikhs support Khalistan. We condemn terrorism, the targetting of innocent human beings, and the devastating attack on Air India.<br />
 Please understand, that the people who showed Parmar&#8217;s picture at the nagar kirtan last year in Surrey did not think that he had bombed the plane. They thought it was Indian intelligence.<br />
I personally don&#8217;t know who it was, I think that Indian intelligence surely had a hand (see &#8220;Soft Target&#8221;).<br />
But my point is, we do not support terrorism. </p>
<p>As for Al-Qaeda, they target western countries, Khalistani activists do not. Our main aim is to raise awareness of what happened in India and what continues to happen.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles&#8211;October to December 2007 by Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles–January to March 2008 &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/quarterly-list-of-admissible-and-prohibited-titles-october-to-december-2007/#comment-172</link>
		<dc:creator>Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles–January to March 2008 &#171; We read banned books, and other stuff too&#8230;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Greg Felton at VPL by tara</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/greg-felton-at-vpl/#comment-171</link>
		<dc:creator>tara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The comment above (#25) is really the last comment in this thread. It has been re-inserted in response to a complaint by Mr. Felton over my initial handing of it. Looking back, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disemvoweling" rel="nofollow"&gt;disemvoweling &lt;/a&gt;him wasn’t a good idea. I’m sorry that it upset Mr. Felton. Given that this is, after all, a blog concerned with Intellectual Freedom, we decided it was appropriate to put back his words. 

This discussion has run its course, and now it is time to move on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The comment above (#25) is really the last comment in this thread. It has been re-inserted in response to a complaint by Mr. Felton over my initial handing of it. Looking back, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disemvoweling" rel="nofollow">disemvoweling </a>him wasn’t a good idea. I’m sorry that it upset Mr. Felton. Given that this is, after all, a blog concerned with Intellectual Freedom, we decided it was appropriate to put back his words. </p>
<p>This discussion has run its course, and now it is time to move on.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Greg Felton at VPL by tara for Greg Felton</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/greg-felton-at-vpl/#comment-170</link>
		<dc:creator>tara for Greg Felton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One more comment from Greg Felton:

The truly disturbing thing about zionists is their need for ad hominem defamation and self-delusion. Throughout his posts, vildechaye denigrates me, insults my scholarship and denies me the right of free speech at the library, yet never once does he entertain my arguments or show them to be wrong in any regard. He does little more than mock me, deny my arguments, and ignore the evidence of history, especially concerning the Nazi-Zionist collaboration. I could have also cited in this regard Professor Sholmo Sand of Tel Aviv University, who traced the invention of the Jewish “nation” to 19th-century Germany and the same folkish chauvinism that gave rise to German National Socialism, but I doubt even that would have made any difference. The spirit of dissent is the only true freedom a just society affords its people, and those who attack and misrepresent those who do dissent, as has happened on this thread, are threats to all our liberties and defenders of tyranny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One more comment from Greg Felton:</p>
<p>The truly disturbing thing about zionists is their need for ad hominem defamation and self-delusion. Throughout his posts, vildechaye denigrates me, insults my scholarship and denies me the right of free speech at the library, yet never once does he entertain my arguments or show them to be wrong in any regard. He does little more than mock me, deny my arguments, and ignore the evidence of history, especially concerning the Nazi-Zionist collaboration. I could have also cited in this regard Professor Sholmo Sand of Tel Aviv University, who traced the invention of the Jewish “nation” to 19th-century Germany and the same folkish chauvinism that gave rise to German National Socialism, but I doubt even that would have made any difference. The spirit of dissent is the only true freedom a just society affords its people, and those who attack and misrepresent those who do dissent, as has happened on this thread, are threats to all our liberties and defenders of tyranny.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Abortion is a dirty word by tara</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/abortion-is-a-dirty-word/#comment-169</link>
		<dc:creator>tara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great post Beth!

it looks like the Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has decided that abortion should not be a stop word:
http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2008/popline.org</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great post Beth!</p>
<p>it looks like the Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has decided that abortion should not be a stop word:<br />
<a href="http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2008/popline.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/press_releases/2008/popline.org</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on Greg Felton at VPL by vildechaye</title>
		<link>http://bclaifc.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/greg-felton-at-vpl/#comment-166</link>
		<dc:creator>vildechaye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>when you strip all the rhetoric away, and all the talk about real history etc. the plain truth is that Felton makes unsubstantiated claims and fails to substantiate them. For instance:

He said Shamir met Hitler. I challenged him on it. He provided nothing to back that up, other than saying Shamir committed terror acts. So come on, show the proof. 

He said Prinz praised the Nazis and condemned jews who resented them. Again, I asked for proof, none has been forthcoming.

In short, the rest of the chatter is all obfuscation. He can't back up these claims -- some real historian!!!
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when you strip all the rhetoric away, and all the talk about real history etc. the plain truth is that Felton makes unsubstantiated claims and fails to substantiate them. For instance:</p>
<p>He said Shamir met Hitler. I challenged him on it. He provided nothing to back that up, other than saying Shamir committed terror acts. So come on, show the proof. </p>
<p>He said Prinz praised the Nazis and condemned jews who resented them. Again, I asked for proof, none has been forthcoming.</p>
<p>In short, the rest of the chatter is all obfuscation. He can&#8217;t back up these claims &#8212; some real historian!!!</p>
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