This morning, Slog tipper David sent along a link to this story in the Louisiana Tri-Parish Times. It’s about a ballot proposal asking voters to divert library spending to the construction of a new prison. Here’s how Council Chairman Lindel Toups argues against the library:
“They’re teaching Mexicans how to speak English,” the council chairman said in reference to Biblioteca Hispana, a Hispanic-language segment of the Golden Meadow library branch. “Let that son of a bitch go back to Mexico. There’s just so many things they’re doing that I don’t agree with. … Them junkies and hippies and food stamps (recipients) and all, they use the library to look at drugs and food stamps (on the Internet). I see them do it.”
Classy. And pretty much a perfect portrait of anti-library thought.