I just saw a good post on this blog regarding a sustainable plan: http://www.sustainablemothering.com/2010/01/31/haiti-hell-good-intentions-and-breast-milk-donations/

I can’t tell whether Sheriff Joe is trying to live up to a stereotype or not.

widespread paranoia , classic symptom of an extreme police state.

The article I linked to says that your beliefs are a common misconception:

For years rumors circulated that it was Anne’s father, Otto Frank, who, upon returning from Auschwitz as the sole survivor of his family, edited his daughter’s diaries before they were published. This particular passage was just one of the revelations he allegedly censored.

“Anne had already been writing in her red-and-gray diary since getting it as a gift on her 13th birthday,” Stam says. “After the broadcast she got the idea to rewrite her diary with an eye toward publication one day.”

She took things out that she didn’t want you to read.

Everything in their own instinct tells them to flee fire. The riders may know that the horses won’t be hurt*, but the horses don’t. The problem is getting them accustomed to going near a fire and to trust their rider to keep them from being hurt.

*They won’t – although the flame is hot, air has very low heat capacity. Passing through a flame quickly will not allow enough heat transfer to cause injury.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/police-officers-under-attack-17885565

As an inevitable consequence of cops like Arpaio.

Anne Frank has been on that site for years.

As for the motivations of the school board, they are irrelevant as to whether the unedited version of her diary should have been published, or whether we should be reading it.

The unedited version is of ‘far greater literary, historical, and social significance’ because she talks badly about her mother and expresses lesbian fantasies? Really? Far greater? I thought the main significance was the whole gestapo/holocaust bit. I didn’t realize how much I was missing when I read the version without the stuff she never wanted anyone else to read. I wonder how much I could expand my mind by perusing the diaries of other dead girls.

In any case, her wishes are irrelevant. She has no rights. As Dave points out, as soon as the full version was published, her wishes went out the window. I never should have spoken up, because as soon as I did, I became a proxy for the school that you can’t yell at.

But, of course, that won’t keep the government from trying. There is no bigger threat to government (democratic or otherwise) than a mechanism that permits the quick and easy spread of information among the populace (ie: little people).

Obama nominates Bush holdover to head up the DEA. She has a horrible record, including supporting the de facto ban on medical marijuana research and defending one of the most notorious lying DEA informants in the history of the agency.

Insert Pete Townsend lyrics here.

Time to update this site.

Anne Frank is dead. Dead people don’t have any rights. And YOU certainly don’t have any standing to forgive or not forgive anything on Anne Frank’s behalf! Furthermore, literary works exist independently of the people who write them. The unedited Diary is of far greater literary, historical, and social significance than any of the edited versions.

The school board didn’t switch to the edited version out of respect for Anne Frank’s wishes – it did it because of hysterical hypersensitivity regarding age-appropriate observations of the burgeoning sexual development of adolescents.

His deputies just illegally search and arrest people, steal evidence, intimidate civil servants, and call in bomb threats to a court house so the police union can make it very clear just how above the law they think they are. But don’t call him a fascist, thats just ridiculous. After all doesn’t everyone know that Americans are not and can never be fascists?

It wasn’t the school’s decision to edit anything – it was Anne Frank’s.
I forgive her for editing those parts out. I don’t forgive the people who put those parts back in. If she had lived long enough to restore her diary herself, it would be a completely different matter.

Dead people don’t have rights – let alone privacy rights.

The simple truth of the matter is: The Diary of Anne Frank is amazing precisely because it was NOT originally intended to be published. It’s an extremely candid diary of an unusually bright girl living through one of the most horrible events of modern human history, and STILL managing despite the horror to have a sense of burgeoning adolescence, sexual development, a personal life, etc. Both edited versions of the Diary are inferior to the unedited one because they remove the personal musings which separate the Diary from hundreds of other works about surviving the Holocaust.

The worst, most unforgivable part of the school’s decision to edit out the burgeoning sexuality is that the Diary contains such honest and innocent musings of a girl who is JUST ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS THOSE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO BE READING IT IN CLASS. These are likely to be the same thoughts those readers are having at this point in their lives, making the Diary so much more compelling and relatable, and containing such a strong message about the universality of human experience. No wonder our society is so sexually dysfunction when innocent, shameless, age-appropriate musings about the body have to be replaced with tight-lipped, red-faced, “need to know” lectures by health teachers. It’s a shame.