West Bend SS

These intellectual giants have obviously never opened a history book...ok maybe one, "A Child's Guide to Bookburning: How to silence anyone you disagree with".

A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.

The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Residents have sparred for months on blogs, airwaves and at meetings, including one where a man told the city's library director he should be tarred and feathered.

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