Yes let us take a look at the list of names on the books that these conservative intellectuals choose as harmful.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Hitler,and Mao have been responsible for the killing of how many tens of millions of people based upon their philosphies. I really doubt that the Nazis actually burned the book of Hitler.

No one seems to want to mention the fact that Rachel Carson is responsible today for some 9.5 million deaths, soon she will be joining the crowd above. Her psuedo-science to say DDT was dangerous is a joke. She uses an experiment by Dewitt to show that DDT thinned bird's egg's, however, she totally ignored Dewitt's own conclusions, the simple fact that birds that had been exposed to DDT actually had a 50% increase in the number of hatched eggs than those that were not. DDT is not carcinogenic and this has been proven by the National Cancer Institute. Thanks to Rachel Carson, many third world peoples today now die of a disease that at one time they had the ability to eliminate.

And do we really need to get into a discussion about Kinsey. Thanks to Kinsey we have come to accept ideas regarding sex that were based upon the actions of sexual predators. Many of whom he collected stories and data from, including the having of sex with children, which he attempted to show was normal, yes Kinsey, the founding member of NAMBLA.

I could go through and make a disparaging point regarding each author and/or book, but what would be the point. Most of the theories and philosophies that these book profess go against what we as conservatives beleive, so is it any surprise that we would be opposed to them?

Furthermore the notion that the books listed by conservatives is similiar to those burned by the Nazis is another lie. And yes it is a lie, an untruth especially when you consider of the 25 books listed, only 11 were in print at the time of the Nazis. That means the majority of the books on the list were not even around at the time of the Nazis. Furthermore, two of the books on the list were actually loved by the Nazis, Hitler's and Nietzsche's.

No intellectual interviewed ever talked of banning the books. They were asked which books they thought were harmful. I am sure that if you asked the same question of liveral intellectuals the list would include such classics as the Wealth of Nations, the Road to Serfdom, and many other books that promote individuality over that of class warfare. Tomato or Tomatoe.

Quit trying to time and again say conservatives are Nazis. Battle our beliefs and ideas with fact and theories that oppose them, or don't. Name calling is easy, I can do it all day long with you. I could complain how you liberals are nothing more than a bunch of radical socialist that want everyone to be exactly like you. Or how you won't be happy until we all are the same, but to what point would that work. I have the ability to argue your ideas and show how out of touch they still remain today.

dmk