Privatizing Libraries

Let’s cut the crap and call a spade a spade. The suggestion of privatization is right-wing anti-tax libertarian propaganda, the sort we’ve been inundated with for thirty years. Privatize schools, the military, the government, etc. They want to control everything in the name of “freedom” from “government” (of, by, and for *the people*). Libraries are *public* institutions funded by the *entire* community in order to serve *everyone* and for a reason. A corporate takeover of public libraries would mean the end of reader privacy and intellectual freedom. And that is a philosophy I do not subscribe to!