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Last year, Utah passed a law making it much easier to ban books in schools. If it has something 'offensive' in it, it doesn't matter what the work is, or the overall context. And it allows for pretty much instantaneous removal. "Based on the new Utah law, something is indecent if it includes explicit sexual arousal, stimulation, masturbation, intercourse, sodomy or fondling," The Tribune's report stated. "According to state attorneys, material doesn’t have to be 'taken as a whole' in those situations or left on the shelf during a review. If there is a scene involving any of those acts, it should be immediately removed." So a parent has filed a complaint against a book that contains: “Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request. You know... The Bible. https://www.rawstory.com/gop-lawmaker-very-sad-utah-parent-used-his-law-to-request-ridden-bible-be-removed-from-school/?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&fbclid=IwAR0uIGrvNiAGAetHXq1BtuXKxqTG5YUD3W3Cg_pagOzAOMuX-ZNrfl8XQDY

With the state of todays education, is it really necessary to ban books, kids can't read.

Haven't you been paying attention... that makes no sense and doesn't address the question. Would Gunther, a well respected and successful author of mostly financial non fiction books take a hoax he created to the FBI, a Federal crime. Would he risk his reputation and career for a mediocre book in the mid 80's... when there was no reason to go to the FBI. The fact that he went to the FBI with his info and even named another person that the "Cooper" contacted gives that part of Gunther's book credibility. Gunther would have to be dumbest guy in the world to bring his manufactured hoax to the FBI in order to write a mediocre book... a book in which he admits the contact may not be from the real Cooper. The question is,, was he contacted by a hoaxer or the real Cooper.. A third option brought up by "Math of Insects" would be that Gunther was initially contacted by somebody claiming to be Cooper then made up the later Clara contact but that has issues.

It's not without value. Your IBA card and 10 bucks will get you a beer in any bar.