To: ALA International Relations Round Table
Subject: [ALAWORLD:1854] RE: Laura Bush: A fourth rate Eva Peron and >partisan patron saint of libraries
If Laura Bush is going to be canonized in the US library world despite her
connections to this administration --or because of them --and in complete
capitulation to the administration's tactics of using her and her
activities to put a "smiley face" on the detestable policies they pursue,
it is a legitimate topic of discussion on this or any library list.
Politics, supposedly so anathema to librarianship, has been introduced
here not by me but by the decision to go along with the PR machine of thje
Administration in creating a cult of Laura Bush, "librarian and teacher".
On this list devoted to international aspects of librarianship, I feel it
perfectly legitimate to suggest that in the eyes of the world (even
ALAWORLD) anything which connects US librarianship to this administration
--with its global policies of war, torture and occupation -- is open to
question, debate and criticism.
I strongly urge you all to read the two documents whose URLs I forwarded
previously:
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000...
and ask yourself, if we giving awards and naming programs after her, what Laura Bush really stands for in relation to the big issues
which surround her everyday.
And, frankly, I don't care what Nancy Bolt tells me about where I should
take this, or what Mr. Cooperman says. I am a member of ALA and a
Councilor. I feel perfectly entitled to post on this list and will
continue to do so as I wish.
Mark C. Rosenzweig
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-alaworld@ala.org [mailto:owner-alaworld@ala.org] On Behalf Of
>Mark C. Rosenzweig Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:07 PM To: ALA
>International Relations Round Table Subject: [ALAWORLD:1849] RE: Laura
>Bush: A fourth rate Eva Peron and partisan patron saint of libraries>
>
>Yes, and as a SEPARATE PERSON she is a responsible moral agent.
>
>She is free to determine whether she wants to be publicly (or , for that
>matter, privately) associated with -- and help advance the interests of
>-- the political administration of a person, her huisband, whose policies
>and pronouncements show such contempt for our constitutional order, for
>international law and for human rights and whose manner and mentality
>exhibit such a lack of intellectual development, of reasoning, of
>civility and of culture, and such arrogant disregard for the norms of
>international political discourse that he has made his country at once
>the most hated and most ridiculous in the world.
>
>As a SEPARATE PERSON, Laura Bush could break from th eAdministration,
>disassociate herself from it, refuse to serve in any official capacity
>under its auspices and speak out against it.
>
>Is conventional wifely "duty" stronger than the demands of moral autonomy
>and responsibility? Apparently, for some here-- the same who keep yelling
>that she is an individual in her own right -- it goes without saying that
>it is.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>From: Nancy Bolt
>>Sent: Sep 21, 2006 8:10 AM
>>To: ALA International Relations Round Table
>>Subject: [ALAWORLD:1848] RE: Laura Bush: A fourth rate Eva Peron and
>partisan patron saint of libraries
>>
>>I will say yet once more. SHE IS A SEPARATE PERSON and she has done a
>>lot for libraries.
>>Nancy Bolt>>
>>Nancy Bolt & Associates
>>
>> _____
>>
>>From: owner-alaworld@ala.org [mailto:owner-alaworld@ala.org] On Behalf
>>Of Mark Rosenzweig Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:27 AM To: ALA
>>International Relations Round Table Subject: [ALAWORLD:1844] Laura Bush:
>>A fourth rate Eva Peron and partisan patron saint of libraries >>
>>Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program??????????? >>
>>
>>That's how the IMLS has renamed a long-standing grant program in
>>sickening adoration of the President's wife -- and as an act of fealty
>>to our illiterate President.>
>>How about: "Seemingly Clueless Wife of International War Criminal 21st
>>Century Librarian Program" ?
>>
>>If you think the Bush family/Administration should enter posterity with
>>its name attached, in an act of oblivious obsequiousness, to an ALREADY
>EXISTING >>grant program, formerly unnamed for anyone, connecting Bush et cie. with
>the promotion of -- of all things -- culture, then I suggest you read this
>>final report of an international tribunal accusing the man Mrs. Bush
>shares her life with -- and owes her notoriety to-- of being gulity of war
>>crimes and crimes against humanity...
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
>>Also, if you lost count... read this report of how many prisoners are in
>>Bush's gulag. 14, 000 and still growing. Perhaps we should ask Laura
>>Bush if she's read anything about this in her extensive readings and
>>what she thinks of it ....
U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000.>>
==============
From Mark C. Rosenzweig ( to ALA Council List)
Yes, and as a SEPARATE PERSON she [Laura Bush] is a responsible moral agent.
She is free to determine whether she wants to be publicly (or , for that
matter, privately) associated with -- and help advance the interests of --
the political administration of a person, her husband, whose policies and
pronouncements show such contempt for our constitutional order, for
international law and for human rights and whose manner and mentality
exhibit such a lack of intellectual development, of reasoning, of civility
and of culture, and such arrogant disregard for the norms of
international political discourse that he has made his country at once the
most hated and most ridiculous in the world.
As a SEPARATE PERSON, Laura Bush could break from the
Administration,
disassociate herself from it, refuse to serve in any official capacity
under its auspices and speak out against it.
Is conventional wifely "duty" stronger than the demands of moral autonomy
and responsibility? Apparently, for some here-- the same who keep yelling
that she is an individual in her own right -- it goes without saying that
it is.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Nancy Bolt
>Sent: Sep 21, 2006 8:10 AM
>To: ALA International Relations Round Table
>Subject: [ALAWORLD:1848] RE: Laura Bush: A fourth rate Eva Peron and
>partisan patron saint of libraries
>
>I will say yet once more. SHE IS A SEPARATE PERSON and she has done a
>lot for libraries.
>
>
>
>Nancy>
>Nancy Bolt & Associates
>Web www.NancyBoltAssociates.com (for consulting)>
>Web www.BalkanConnections.org (for jewelry info)>
>Web www.cal-webs.org (for Bulgarian Partnership Info) > _____
>
>From: owner-alaworld@ala.org [mailto:owner-alaworld@ala.org] On Behalf Of
>Mark Rosenzweig Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:27 AM To: ALA
>International Relations Round Table Subject: [ALAWORLD:1844] Laura Bush:
>A fourth rate Eva Peron and partisan patron saint of libraries.>
>
>Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program??????????? >
>That's how the IMLS has renamed a long-standing grant program in
>sickening adoration of the President's wife -- and as an act of fealty to
>our illiterate President.
>
>How about: "Seemingly Clueless Wife of International War Criminal 21st
>Century Librarian Program" ?
>
>If you think the Bush family/Administration should enter posterity with
>its name attached, in an act of oblivious obsequiousness, to an ALREADY
>EXISTING grant program, formerly unnamed for anyone, connecting Bush et
>cie. with the promotion of -- of all things -- culture, then I suggest
>you read this final report of an international tribunal accusing the man
>Mrs. Bush shares her life with -- and owes her notoriety to-- of being
>gulity of war crimes and crimes against humanity...
>
>http://www.bushcommission.org/Findings/Final%20Verdict.pdf
>
>Also, if you lost count... read this report of how many prisoners are in
>Bush's gulag. 14, 000 and still growing. Perhaps we should ask Laura
>Bush if she's read anything about this in her extensive readings and
>what she thinks of it ....
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/in_american_hands_16
SEE Also Library Juice:
September 18, 2006
Laura Bush appropriates title of IMLS grant for librarians
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