prisons purged of religious readings...

in order to secure the nation from more terrorists cells being built, someone, somewhere had the great idea of purging prison libraries of all religious material...what's hysterical is this quote:


"It’s swatting a fly with a sledgehammer,” said Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, a Christian group. “There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem with an isolated book or piece of literature that presents extremism.”

now, i'm a christian...but let's get serious...the bible isn't a piece of literature that presents extremism? my friends, it's sad on monday morning to be so pissed off...

“Government does have a legitimate interest to screen out things that tend to incite violence in prisons,” Mr. Laycock said. “But once they say, ‘We’re going to pick 150 good books for your religion, and that’s all you get,’ the criteria has become more than just inciting violence. They’re picking out what is accessible religious teaching for prisoners, and the government can’t do that without a compelling justification. Here the justification is, the government is too busy to look at all the books, so they’re going to make their own preferred list to save a little time, a little money.”

i wouldn't even call it too busy to look at books...i can think of a few more titles for a government that is allowed to do this at all...i can think of a few pertinent constitutional rights that are being violated...people, i propose that we start carrying around our constitutional rights...dhawn always tried to get me on board but it seemed a bit extreme...i will buy one for anyone who is willing to carry it...