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May. 17th, 2004 06:41 pmOkay, I'd already heard about the school in New Mexico which has censored students' poetry because a girl's poem criticized the Bush administration. Her teacher lost his job and her mother may lose her contract, too, because she refused to tear up her child's poetry.
I hadn't heard THIS:
Writers and editors who have spent years translating essays, films, poems, scientific articles and books by Iranian, North Korean and Sudanese authors have been warned not to do so by the U.S. Treasury Department under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Publishers and film producers are not allowed to edit works authored by writers in those nations. The Bush administration contends doing so has the effect of trading with the enemy, despite a 1988 law that exempts published materials from sanction under trade rules.
That's outrageous. Does anyone have more information?
I hadn't heard THIS:
Writers and editors who have spent years translating essays, films, poems, scientific articles and books by Iranian, North Korean and Sudanese authors have been warned not to do so by the U.S. Treasury Department under penalty of fine and imprisonment. Publishers and film producers are not allowed to edit works authored by writers in those nations. The Bush administration contends doing so has the effect of trading with the enemy, despite a 1988 law that exempts published materials from sanction under trade rules.
That's outrageous. Does anyone have more information?
