Response to "Where did the liberty go?"

Where did the liberty go?

Wall Street Journal

September 9, 2023

Tunku Varadarajan’s Weekend Interview with the Moms for Liberty leaders (“‘We Do Not Co-Parent With the Government,’” Sept. 2) opens by noting that the group has been trying to remove books from a school library. My question would have been: How can they say they are for liberty but advocate using the power of the state to prevent other people’s children from having access to certain books?

Em. Prof. Josh Wiener Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Okla.

Response:

Seems the author wants to conflate freedom of the press with the right to distribute pornograhy to children. The library has no such right to distribute what it pleases, and this is not book boring or book banning, nor censorship. It is common sense, parental control and making libraries sources of wisdom and knowledge, not filth. Where did the liberty go? It went back to the parents, and not to the librarians.