West Virginia MassResistance team in Parkersburg Taking
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Pornographic books made readily available for children,
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In a previous post, MassResistance shared with readers how
our West Virginia Chapter is taking on drag queens and drag shows around
Parkersburg, WV and the surrounding Wood County region.
Now we want to share with you the efforts of our Parkersburg
team to expose the perverse, obscene books in the local libraries and schools.
On top of that, we will share with you how staff at the
schools and the libraries attacked the parents instead of respecting their
wishes and making every effort to protect the students.
Parkersburg Libraries
There are four branch libraries in the Parkersburg-Wood
County Library system. A number of parents in the community have filed serious
complaints against these books, and they have spoken out in the library board
meetings, demanding that the books be removed.
In each of the links below, you will find the books that
they want removed, and their full complaints:
Rumble,
by Ellen Hopkins
More
Happy Than Not
Gender
Queer
Instead of heading the concerns of the parents, the
Parkersburg-Wood County Library Director Brian Raitz mocked the parents and dismissed
their concerns in an Op-Ed in the local paper.
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Wood County Library Director
Brian Raitz |
Here are key remarks exposing his abusive snark and shameful
attitude toward the parents, as well as rampant disregard for the well-being of
children:
To begin with, several people
came to the board meeting upset about a certain book: “Gender Queer” by Maia
Kobabe. I was unaware at first of the purpose of their attendance at the board
meeting. They asked about the library, funding, and management. I went over a
brief history of the library and its funding resources. It was later that we
heard about the book at the heart of the visit.
The book in question is a graphical
autobiography of someone’s life growing up with gender identification issues.
The issue with this book is a couple of frames with graphic portrayal of a
sexual nature that offended those in the room. It offended most, but not all,
and this may be the heart of the issue.
Here’s a sample of some of the “graphic portrayal of a
sexual nature” that many people find not just offensive but patently obscene:
Here, the girl is
drawn to look convincingly like a teen boy while her sister persuades her to taste
her vaginal fluid.
The mental illness
in the LGBT "community" is understandable after seeing all this -
clearly written by an "insider" to that sordid lifestyle.
Despite his so-called professionalism as a library director,
he is clearly more interested in pushing perversion on children, all under the
guise of “Freedom of Speech.”
And there’s more from his editorial which cannot be
overlooked:
Libraries are not safe repositories of
a past or present that is inoffensive to everyone. Public libraries are wild
and wonderful places to explore the world and our community together through
the past, the present, and the future. The past is there in older materials in
the collection that sometimes become less relevant, or other times may give us a
window into who we were, such as genealogy and local history.
Public libraries are also a reflection
of the interests of everyone in the community now, and a glimpse of where those
interests are going. Anyone that spends time in a public library will soon run
into materials and people that challenge, disturb, and offend them. We are a
broad spectrum of people in our community, and to meet the needs and desires of
everyone, this challenging and uncomfortable part of public libraries is
inevitable.
Hiding behind the usual verbiage for “diversity, equity,
inclusion, hard topics, tough issues,” Raitz completely covers up the fact that
he is promoting and pushing pornography in the library. The issue is not about
tough ideas or difficult issues. The problem is that these books are filled
with abject, obscene, perverse images appealing to prurient interest, without
any redeeming social value whatsoever.
There is no excuse for Raitz trying to cover up what a sick
man he is, to allow such garbage to pushed on kids, and not just through the
public libraries but the public schools, as well!
And speaking of the schools, Parkersburg residents have
filed numerous complaints with the local schools, pointing out the availability
of these obscene, pornographic books violates the city ordinances against
obscenity!
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| Michael Erb, Communications Coordinator |
Instead of respecting the will of the parents and removing
the books from school circulation, Wood County School District Communications Coordinator
Michael Erb complained to the local press, and they published another
editorial, once again mocking the good people who are fighting to protect the
community’s children.
Here are some of the more
offensive excerpts from the editorial:
You know the accusation that protesters
and crisis actors are ferried around the country to perform as the need
changes? Doesn’t matter what the cause du jour, these folks are there to stir
the pot.
You might know them from their railing
against masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, or their actions in
Washington, D.C., on and around Jan. 6, 2021. Maybe you remember them from
their fight against the phantom they created and named “Critical Race Theory.”
Now the enemy is books.
You’ll hear them say the target is
books about sexuality and gender issues, but a look at the list they’d like to
ban in our schools and libraries reveals the aim is broader than that.
Instead of respecting their
cause, the editorial merely mocks the parents, painting them as a bunch of
out-of-touch busybodies looking to cause trouble. The troubles would have never
visited the community of the library and the school district had the decency to
remove the indecent, obscene books from the local libraries in the first place!
The parents have complained to
the school board that the communications directory has broken the law, since he
did not forward the complaints to the principal, who in turn would have removed
the books and reviewed them for a final decision to keep them or get rid of
them.
In spite of local efforts to
frustrate the parents and protect these terrible books, one of the activists in
Parkersburg has taken the bold step of filing complaints with the country district
attorney. The good news is that unlike most district attorneys, this one is
willing to follow up and find out how he can stop the perverse indoctrination
of the children in Wood County.
Here’s the email to the County
Attorney:
Mr. Lefebure,
My apologies for the delayed response.
I’ve had family health situations, and out of town work demanding my time.
Thank you again for the reply. I (and
many others) would like to know if any of the parties (Shriners, performers, or
parents) violated any law/code/ordinance etc. The sections of code I
previously mentioned may have been violated, but I defer to your expertise on
this determination and any other possible violations. To most people, it
would seem this event and actions could not be legally permitted.
Since that time, we’ve also discovered what
appears to be multiple violations of the City of Parkersburg Ordinance 517.02
(attached) by the Parkersburg and Wood County Library for knowingly displaying
and distributing obscene matter to minors through what could be considered
“child porn” books in the libraries. A number of people attended a
Library Board meeting where the Library Director, Brian Raitz, admitted he had
no problem with distributing this to children. There are a number of
witnesses that would testify. See also his attached op-ed that appeared
in the local newspaper.
What’s most troubling is that these books that
show graphic sexual illustrations, including incest and perverse acts involving
minors, are available to every student in Wood County Schools through their
libraries without parental supervision or approval. Attached is a
spreadsheet verifying some of these statements. There is more evidence
available.
Between sexually insinuating drag shows for
children and child porn books in our libraries, some very sick people are
hyper sexualizing children in a grooming fashion for very disturbing
purposes. If there’s not a violation of law, then it should be.
Please join me and many others in protecting the
children of Wood County. These children just need to be left alone from
indoctrination and left to be kids.
Thank you again, and I’d be happy to talk and
meet to discuss further.
The Parkersburg team is kicking butt! They are not backing
down from the fight to do what is best for the county and the families living
there. They hope not only to expose the terrible shenanigans of the local
schools and libraries, but they want to convince the voters to reject two
levies on the November ballot. Both of the ballot initiatives, if they pass,
will secure continued funding for the libraries and more funding for the
schools.
Why should anyone put up their hard-earned money for public
institutions which mock parents and want to harm children? Any library which
insists on pushing pornography and LGBT indoctrination into children deserves
to be defunded. Any school districts which refuses to respect the outrage of
parents and instead finds ways to mock them does not deserve their money,
either.
In a next post, we will discuss the desperate attempts by
the library system and the school district to raise more money, despite their
terrible record of service. We will also share with you an update from the
district attorney and his investigations into the drag queen performances as
well as the public schools and libraries.
Email: arthur@massresistance.org
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