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To Lisa Leigh Connors, Ed., Cape Cod Magazine:
Just read last year’s Cape Cod Magazine. Your “Easy Reading” article on “little free libraries” offering free books (June 2017) caught my attention. Free, of course, has several meanings: 1. no cost and 2. liberty. In the case of one of the libraries you featured in that article, Sturgis Library, liberty (i.e., freedom of speech) is not tolerated.
For expressing my viewpoint in writing in June 2012, I, a senior citizen living in Barnstable Village, was permanently banned w/o warning and w/o due process by library director Lucy Loomis. The latter’s lame excuse for killing liberty (i.e., criticism of Loomis and her library) was “for the safety of the staff and public.” That was all. In fact, it took an order by the State Secretary of Records for the State of Massachusetts to force Loomis to open library records to public scrutiny, which is the only way I found out about the aberrant “safety” issue. Despite my having no criminal record at all, Loomis deemed me a dangerous citizen. Was Loomis perhaps an out-of-the-ordinary weak woman? In fact, I have a PhD from a French university. Compare that with whatever Loomis might possess! Moreover, I have NEVER threatened anyone, let alone physically hurt anyone. Well, perhaps written criticism of librarian policy could be perceived as a serious threat by a library director, if the latter can simply not bear criticism.
Do you care about any of this? Likely, you won’t give a damn. Why not? Well, your very job depends on your apathy to matters of freedom of speech on Cape Cod. That’s why. For information (actual documents et al) on Loomis’ heinous action against the freedom to criticize libraries and librarians on Cape Cod, see http://theamericandissident.org/orgs/sturgis_library.html.
Finally, the problem with the arts and literature on Cape Cod is that the arts and literature have been 100% castrated and coopted by the Chamber of Commerce tourist industry and its diverse cogs from librarians to magazine editors. Imagine not one library on the Cape will subscribe to The American Dissident, published right here on the Cape. Do you think Loomis would allow me to place a free copy in her little free library box? Now, for your magazine, how about an article authored by me, "Cape Cod’s Very Own Dangerous Senior Citizen"?
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