Pubdate: Wed, 02 Jan 2002
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2002 The Denver Post Corp
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: Bonnie Ramthun

USE YOUR IMAGINATION

Some people can't imagine a reason to purchase a book describing how 
to make a methamphetamine lab, or why the Tattered Cover should carry 
such books. Good heavens, don't these people have imaginations? Here 
are several reasons. A murder mystery writer (I am one) wishes to use 
a meth lab as a plot twist. A vice cop wants to know what he's 
looking for. A screenplay writer uses meth as the one poison that 
kills the invader aliens in her science fiction movie. Or a person is 
simply what Kipling calls "The Elephant's Child," an insatiably 
curious person. Should I have to get a permit to buy a "dangerous" 
book? Should I go before some sort of government panel to justify my 
desire to read? Horrors! The Tattered Cover is making the necessary 
stand that a book is innocent, and anyone should be able to read 
without government interference or oversight. Bless you, Tattered 
Cover, and the fight you're making for freedom.

BONNIE RAMTHUN,

Erie
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