With regard to the Mat-Su borough school board's banning and subsequent reinstatement of several books, I quote work of the German poet Heinrich Heine (1820), which is inscribed on a memorial at Dachau - "Wherever books are burned they will also, in the end, burn human beings." It should be inscribed in schools and libraries as well.
And with regard to the recent COVID-19 protests, I quote the psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl - "...I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast." Freedom without responsibility turns into anarchy, and anarchy turns into tyranny.
Thomas Harrison Morse
Anchorage
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