Dear Colleagues,
Care to share your reading habits right back to when you were a child
with law enforcement and the secret services of the world? Help make
your internet profile more truthful? You have a choice, they are
supposed to be protected under privacy law, unless there is a warrant or
there is some other law on terrorism, national security or you are
considered a serious threat to the stability of the government.
see url:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201512010048
see url:http://www.shortlist.com/shortlists/10-banned-books
Read any good books, lately...or not so lately...like when you were
young and just learning about the world? Care to share what you
read...or what you are reading now...:-) .
Lolita perhaps, Lady Chatterly's Lover (Unexpurgated Edition). The
Covenanters. Kama Sutra...in English with pictures. The Perfumed
Garden. Marquis De Sade's, Justine? Mein Kampf, Jew Suss. Voltaire's
Candide, 'O', Anarchists cookbook? Not a problem...you are protected
under the right of privacy and Data Protection Acts...see above url.
Or how about Hansard, or Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology?
Depending on where you live, and what era you lived in will depend on
what books are banned, or were banned. When one looks at the list all of
them will appear rather strange. 1984, or Brave New World, "State &
Revolution", Anarchists Cookbook. "How to organise, create, manage and
win a successful revolution in a day" by I'm Ah Revolutionaree, that
goes down a bomb anywhere... :-) .
I was lucky in that my family were very liberal in what I read, the only
books banned were Lolita and another one called "The Covenanters", both
of which were easily accessible, hidden at the bottom of the bric-a-brac
cupboard.
Enjoy the list, if you haven't yet read them...There is a lot more of
course, but one has to get on with life, and it isn't all about
enjoyment and enlightenment.
ATB
Dougie.
