OBSCENE: Kootenai Library Network ADMITS Pornographic Books Available To Adolescents As Young As 12 — Concerned Moms Outraged
Why Is This Happening In Idaho?
Editors Note: We don’t usually do trigger warnings in our articles. This time we are. We have included a quote from the book Identical by Ellen Hopkins, a book available at the Community Library Network in Kootenai County. The book is about an incestuous relationship between a father and his 10 year old daughter, and it’s described in graphic detail.
This book is available, and can be borrowed by children as young as 12 years old. It is our opinion here at the Tribune that this kind of material shouldn’t even exist, let alone be read by anyone; even an adult. We are reproducing it here because you NEED TO KNOW exactly what these sick people want minors to have access to in our libraries.
Things at the Community Library Network in Kootenai County have been heating up over the past several months after a group of concerned mothers began to audit the books available to children and adolescents in our local libraries.
This all began in 2020 in Loudoun County Virginia, when a father was arrested and dragged out of a heated school board meeting.
Scott Smith’s daughter was brutally raped by a transgender student in the bathrooms of a public school, and the board of trustees not only covered up the crime, but also branded aggrieved parents “domestic terrorists.”
The awakening spread across America, when parents became accutely aware of what their children were being taught in public schools. Because of Zoom, for the first time, parents were able to see what their children were actually being taught.
This led concerned citizens like Mariana Cochran to begin investigating the contents of books in our local libraries here in Kootenai County.
Books began to surface like Jack Not Jackie, Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote, George, Something Happened In Our Town, and Gender Queer. These books had several common themes:
Transgenderism
LGBT Lifestyles
Anti-White Racism
Sexually Explicit Material
Cochran began regularly attending library board meetings, and raising concerns about books both in the children’s section, and the adolescent section.
At a July 2022 library board meeting, Cochran read aloud excerpts from a book titled The Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle.
“…Heat spread up her body. Her nipples hardened, and her breathing changed, and when she imagined not just his eyes on her, but his hands, his mouth, she grew suddenly and undeniably wet.”
— p. 202
“…His cock strained against his jeans. He pulled back slightly and used his forearm to push her legs apart. He slid his hand beneath her panties again and found the spot he was looking for- heat and wetness and skin softer than any sild or lace and slipped two fingers inside her.”
— p. 130
This book is available to 12 year old children.
“That’s pornography,” one woman shouted at the July 2022 library board meeting after Cochran finished reading. “How dare you have books like that in the library. You need to leave. You need to get your books out of here, and you need to leave, because you guys are a den of perverts!”
In order for a book to be removed from the Community Library Network (CLN), a “challenge” must be filed with the board, and the book must be sent to a committee to be reviewed for content.
CLN Trustee Rachelle Ottosen
The Idaho Tribune spoke with Trustee Rachelle Ottosen about the process, and were shocked to find out that over the past two years, not one book had been removed from the library following content review.
When a book is reported, Ottosen said “they send it to a committee made up of library personnel. From what I understand from the a American Library Association, is that they should block all challenges to books.” Ottosen continued, saying “In fact, our last director did brag that every single book challenge had been denied.”
She was referring to former library director Amy Rodda who resigned abruptly last year.
When the complaints are returned from the committee, Ottosen said “it looks like they put some work into it because they, they have a response that's a couple pages long with statements saying ‘we complied with this’ and ‘we did that and the other’, but I don’t know how much of it's just Theater.”
“I went to a public library conference last year and they flat out told us, ‘just don't even bother’. Just have the American Library Association undergraduates write these for you. I'm not saying that that's what happened, of course. But that… that is what they encourage. And our library flatly denies it.”
Local left-wing activists and library trustees alike have completely denied the existence of pornographic material that is available to kids in the library.
According to Trustee Ottosen “When people charge [the library] with having pornographic books for minors, they always come back with, we don't have any pornographic books in the kids section. What they really mean is 11 [years old] and under. So, they are obfuscating.”
They call it “misinformation.”
Activists like Reclaim Idaho’s Tamara Sines-Kermelis have denied that these books even exist, saying “I really would like these people to bring in the names of these books and the authors to show that they’re actually real, because I have a really good feeling that they’re not.”
At the most recent board meeting, on January 19th, 2023, CLN Trustee Regina McCrea finally lost her composure, admitting that pornographic books are available in the adolescent/young adult section of the library.
The library considers adolescent/young adults to be minors between the ages of 12 and 18 years old.
Just how bad is it? Grab a trash can, and read this excerpt from a book titled Identical by Ellen Hopkins.
The book is about a father who sexually abuses his 10 year old daughter.
I wanted to be his little flower, would have given my Daddy anything. What did he want from Kaeleigh? She laid her head on his chest. “What?”
I want you to see something, something that proves how much I love you. This is only for you, Kaeleigh girl.
He lifted her gently, sat her down on the bed beside him. Then he opened the snaps on the fly of his flannel pajamas.
It stood up, stiff as a stalagmite. See how much Daddy loves you? Show me you love me, too. Touch it. He closed her hand around it.
I know it sounds bad, but I wanted to touch it too. I didn’t know what it meant, only that it made Daddy happy. I wanted to make him happy too.
That’s right. That’s right. His voice rocked in rhythm with his body. Oh, yes, my Kaeleigh loves me. My little flower…
…when Daddy finished, he burrowed his face into Kaeleigh's hair and wept. Confused at his tears, and at the sticky stuff icing her hands, still Kaeleigh pleaded, "Don't cry, Daddy. What's the matter? Didn't I love you good enough?"
…Yes, you loved me good enough. So very good! But it's our secret, okay?
Because if anyone knew how much you love me, they'd be jealous. Now Kaeleigh was really confused. "Can I tell Mama our secret?"
No! Especially not Mama. She'd get mad because she doesn’t love me like you. She might even go away. You don't want that, do you?
— Identical p.150
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You still with me?
Guess what? There’s a whole series of these books:
The gaslighting needs to stop. Someone has to pay the piper.
According to a new library policy implemented late last year:
“Forms of expression that are unprotected by the First Amendment will not knowingly be included in the collection. Unprotected materials are those that have been declared obscene by a U.S. Court of Law. Materials for minors under the age of eighteen (18) that violate Idaho Codes 18-1513, 18-1514, and 18-1515 will be excluded from the juvenile and young adult collections.”
We would love to find out how the above excerpt from Identical is appropriate for 12 year olds.
We would also love to see the day when every single person complicit in distributing this smut to children arrested and unceremoniously thrown in jail. Considering that Raul Labrador is Attorney General now, that day may come sooner than many expect.
Dear Liberals: You still have time to move.
The corruption of our youth has become a real pandemic, with over 40% of Generation Z “self-identifying” as “LGBTQIA+.”
We used to understand that children need to be defended and protected. Parents need to guard against perversion and sexual deviants from having contact with their kids. It was just plain old common sense that 12 year olds shouldn’t be reading porn.
Then again, we also didn’t cut little boys penises off because they decided “they were really a girl” when they’re 8 years old.
Just watch this video about predatory grooming from 1961:
Americans used to “get it” back then.
The Groomers will never stop. Over the past year, the Community Library Network has received hundreds of comments against these obscene and pornographic materials in their library, and they haven’t removed one book.
Rational arguments don’t work with people that organize public debauchery like what we witnessed last June in Coeur d’Alene.
The only way to protect our children from this perversion is to vote for new, Conservative Christian trustees at the Community Library Network this coming May.
This is an ongoing crisis at the Community Library Netowrk, and more details will follow as they become available.