Fahrenheit 451: Police Destroy Over 5,000 Books In OWS Raid: "When police raided Liberty Plaza today, the more than 5,000 books in the park, everything from Shakespeare to Dickens to Fahrenheit 451 and Atlas Shrugged were destroyed.
A look at the contents of the Occupy Wall Street library reveals the patriotism behind this protest. During their early morning raid the NYPD destroyed copies of The Declaration of Independence, Democracy In America by Alexis de Toqueville, Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Notes On The State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson, Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy, and A biography of George Washington.
For those who believe that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are a bunch of liberal, hippie communists consider that also among the books destroyed were copies of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Overton Window by Glenn Beck, and Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, and Rawhide Rawhide down : the near assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber...."
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They are winning. This brought more attention and hopefully more protests.
I hope so too!
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