This happened everywhere to "celebrate" the first book burning of Hitler's Youth on May 10th. Neonazi groups, including Active Clubs, did this globally. I can curate some images for you. Horrible ones
American justice doesn't see these groups as international criminal organization. Here in Brazil we could jail the entire Hammerskin Chapter. In the U.S. you have dozens of chapters of the same group (and many others neo-nazi groups) that can go on with their lives and planes.
NAACP, ADL, ACLU, Lambda Legal. We should pressure them to file a lawsuit or amicus briefs. The is a violation of civil rights because the intent is to intimidate.
Not to mention destruction of government property.
Joke’s on him. That only makes the library order more of the same books and from his tax money. Hope he enjoys his prison time for hate crimes and destruction of public property.
Remind conservatives that defend this that this man went beyond “speech” the moment he chose to intentionally destroy public resources. This loser could have bought his own copy to burn.
Did they put him in jail and fine him at least the replacement cost of the books? Did they sentence him with 12 months of community service picking up trash.
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Ancient wars and Catholic church were able to destroy indigenous and other cultures' wisdom hundreds of years ago, but it's way too late in the game for that tactic now.
You can burn people. You can burn things. You can burn books, but you can't destroy ideas.
I think you should check what it means to be american .. this is a very american thing to do, I think you should accept just how racist, sexist and fucked up your country is
I've seen plenty of videos of some good 'ol 'merikan folk kin waving their flags and their patriotism and their america first dog whistling and their national pride written on their funny red hats .. they look pretty darn american to me and they will be the first to tell you they're 100% american
it's the phrase un-american you twat ... to be un-american now means you are most likely woke, thinks dei is helpful, don't mind sharing a bathroom with those trans folks, and probably think socialised healthcare is a good thing
I'm reading Nate Powell's graphic adaptation of James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbooks Got Wrong." I agree with your statement, except that some people today are better than our ancestors.
At this point what we are doing is being a blight upon the planet and all its other forms of life. A net negative. I see no rational argument that could be made that we should continue to exist.
I hope the investigation looks at the library staff. How did that man check out 100 books with no one getting a little suspicious? I don't know of any library system that will let you have that many books checked out at the same time.
That library branch had a limit of 100 books. A librarian thought he was suspicious but there aren't really rules preventing someone from checking out so many books on any topic. Wouldn't surprise me if they lower the limit in light of this.
If that truly is the limit, then there isn't much the librarian could've done. My library system has a limit of 50 items, 40 of them books. Same with the library where I used to live. Thanks for the info!
My comment to someone else was that with MAGA infiltrating everywhere, there could have been inside help. What's the borrowing limit at that library? For the library system I use it's 50 items, 40 books at once, and I live in a much larger city.
I know the limits are really high in my city. I remember being surprised, but people still use physical books for research and librarians aren't police.
I check out physical books every week. The library system I currently use has a limit of 50 items, 40 of them books. Another system I've used also has a limit of 50 items, 15 DVDs at once.
With MAGA infiltrating everywhere, I think that guy had inside help. That's all I'm saying.
It's not about how often you use the library. I'm at the library every week, and I check out a bunch of books at the same time. The library systems I've used have limits on how many books you can have checked out at one time, and none come close to 100.
The limit is 100 at my library, and the nearest several cities. As well as the library where this story happened, if you Google for it. The point is that no, checking out a lot of books should not be scrutinized by librarians. Think about this for five seconds.
At my library, the limit is 50 items, 40 of them books, same for where I used to live. I've been informed that 100 is the limit at the library in question. Excuse me for going by my own experience as a library user, and thinking there might be MAGA shenanigans going on at that library.
Max number of simultaneous checkouts is a policy decision that doesn't fall on a single person (except maybe the library director), but 100 is not an unusual limit at all. It might seem high, but homeschool parents and parents of young kids (think picture books) max it out all the time.
I mean I'm a Jew and that's my takeaway. The weirdos using antisemitism as an excuse to persecute immigrants and attack academia don't do a damn thing about their own unhinged supporters hatred for us.
people that burn books are never the good guys, it's never been more clear that being a decent person means supporting these topics and the people who wrote about them
This is how 🇺🇸 becomes great in doing good and being positive.
Faiths and differences joining together in our common goal of supporting the coexistence, the understanding, and respect of protecting one another's difference and sovereignty to be who we are.
That MAGA Nazi should get a year in prison for every book he burned. To be served consecutively, no parole. And convicted in state court, so that criminal rapist-racist traitor Donald Trump can't pardon him.
And as usual, the Nazis in the state house have been silent. Not so much as a peep of condemnation. And Beachwood police have said "nah, bro, civil matter. We ain't doing shit." (But plenty of time and money to chase anonymous commenters on Facebook.)
This person snitched on themselves by recording themselves destroy federal property 🫠 I really hope they get punished for this jealous hate felony 🤞🏾🤞🏾
Our libraries have self check as well as an app that allows us to check out books using our phones. This could be how he checked out so many books without suspicion. Still, walking out carrying 50 books at a time.... I homeschooled my son & we would walk out loaded with books, but never that many.
Oh, don’t be too hard on him..he’s mentally incompetent, mentally feeble and a moron and an imbecile.. he’s the chosen one who is morally above everyone.. his God is the greatest.. so it’s justified
Whether or not some kind of charges are filed, his account will be charged a fee. Depending on the policy of the library, the charge might be sent to collections if he doesn't pay. Beachwood says $25 per lost/damaged item and they go to collections. Buddy's looking at a massive ding to the credit.
I thought most libraries have a limit on how many books you are allowed to check out. Usually, it's for the sake of other patrons, but who knew we had to worry about this kind of thing.😠
Is this really a big library? I live in a suburb of NYC, and I never heard of an individual checking out so many books. You would think they would check out a person's credentials. Sounds like they need to reexamine their policy.
They are a CCPL branch, so yes, big library. It's not an unusual or unreasonable limit at all. Homeschool parents hit it all the time. Libraries don't have credentials because they are not the book police. Their job is providing access to information.
Please don't lecture me about "book police" and what a library's job is. I've been a regular patron for years. I meant credentials showing you are an educator. We don't have a lot of home schooling around here so can't comment on that.
I'm a librarian, ma'am; you asked a question in a public forum, and I'm providing you an informed answer. Public library patrons getting different checkout privileges based on how they supposedly intend to use resources would be a form of censorship, and an undue burden on us, and it's not our job.
So he’s gonna be criminally liable for replacing them, for 100 vandalism charges, is gonna at least get a shit ton of community service and have to replace them, as well as being barred from the library and maybe greater library system, right
These racists seem to think that NO other RACE of people should have the right to their own historical context. They are of the belief that the only people that matter are them; henceforth, cue confusion regarding Trump Supporters, their fabricated entitlement & attempted erasure of others...-ONE.💯
Only people with low self-worth seem to attack others unwarranted. Further, what this really amounts to, is they FEAR the dissipation & bane of their own existence. This is the execution of a desperate attempt at power & relevance. -ONE.💯
The "owning the libs" mantra is based upon placating an EVIL streak that's embedded deeply into the core essence of these sorts of individuals. They ALL rally & congregate based of these foundational HATE FILLED tenets & ideologies. -ONE.💯
I don't think that he did. I think that these are some miserable people deep down. NO HAPPY PERSON would engage in such HATEFUL & HATE FILLED activities. They'd be too busy enjoying life to the fullest or looking for things that bring REAL ENJOYMENT.! -ONE.💯
I mean fine him for each book. He checked them out so they know his name and address. Also since when do libraries let you check out 100 books. There’s usually a 15-20 book limit and you have to return the others before getting more.
Libraries used to bill the card holder for any delinquent or damaged books. Make HIM responsible for what he did. Tack it on to his property tax bill or send him to collections if he doesn't pay for the replacements.
In reality I’m glad it was books and not humans. People like that should be dropped off on an island with some seeds never to be seen again. Disappeared is justified here. However they will let him go home to cause more damage or kill somebody.
Libraries can already charge for lost/damaged/destroyed books so it's just enforcement of the fines so that they can replace the books. Especially since some non-fiction books are super expensive.
I understand. It was different for me back in the 60’s. Seems odd to allow anyone to take out 100 books and bad policy. What did he carry them out of the library with, hand truck?!
Worked in a library in Ohio for a while. Was always told our state funding was partially tied to our circulation stats, so we had to juice checkouts through any means possible. It mostly just cost us thousands of dollars per year in stolen DVDs.
I have been buying "banned" books this year. Not all the banned books of course, but the ones that mean something to me personally. I was never one to collect books (I always gave them away after reading; I don't generally re-read a book and I don't like clutter), but times have changed.
Earlier today, after reading news about the Trump regime trying to illegally take control of the Library of Congress, I wondered how long it was going to be before the book burning would start. Looks like I didn’t have to wait long.
Where is the chorus of right wing champions opposed to anti-semitism? Why has this person not yet been detained by ICE for subsequent rendition to Rwanda?
A local church is organizing a 1000 book drive to replace books on those topics. So, since this isn't 1933, scumbags like him are never going to win. There's too many people who will gladly replace burned books. I hope he likes his charges that are surely coming his way!
I don't know how US libraries operate but in Europe you'd be expected to replace all these books. The library should take legal action. It will also mean more sales for all these authors.
Throughout both my personal and university lives pretty standard practice to limit your book borrowing limit. That said, I did manage to get my university limit raised as a one off by around 3 books, but the library told me it was a special one off deal.
This is disgraceful but no surprise from legitimate cult members hell bent on erasing reality & truth. They want to drag everyone else to their kool aid klan. Smfh
As we all know. Those who burn books because they are scared of the information the books contain, are now, have always been, and will always be on the wrong side of history.
"Fundamentally un-American" White supremacy in Merica' is very much ingrained into our institutions & racist white people pass these principles onto their next generations.
What a waste. He will go to jail & those books will be replaced. He accomplished nothing but to show his racism, bigotry, anti-semitism, ignorance, & hate.
Well, think of it like this, he provided the interfaith coalition w/an opportunity 2b seen locally, statewide & nationally via social media renouncing racism, antisemitism & hate. Other interfaith alliances may see that & think “hey, we need 2 remind people that we r standing strong together too.”
If one cannot tolerate words on a page, they damn well will never tolerate people in real life.
Awful hateful shit to be offended by words so much that you can't just leave them alone. You have to destroy them for your own ego. I hope he gets prosecuted.
I think your library is lending out too much at once if it's allowing 50 books to be checked out at once without some kind of partnership/special program.
Just wait a minute; When I did the library ting I could check out 3 reading and 3 studying books at once and had to return them before checking out more. What kind of system let's you check out 100 books? seems unreal
What's missing in this commentary is that Beachwood has a large Jewish population and is home to the Holocaust Museum. It is no coincidence that this guy chose THIS library. Beachwood also sits in Cuyahoga County, which is a blue county in Ohio.
I am going out on a limb by saying it may be a west side, but I could be wrong. "Why" because this country has a strong racist and antisemitic element to it. Ohio generally sucks any more.
I’m used to libraries putting a limit on how many books can be checked out under 1 account, regardless of how many trips they make. Maybe different libraries have different rules.
Either way, dumb thing to do when the library is able to know who you are.
Somebody on the staff part of the problem because bitch its a limit on how many books you can check out so how the fuck was he over the limit and burning history like they do their crosses as a saved Christian
How can we organize to get copies of those books back in the library?
They know which ones he borrowed and then intentionally destroyed. Everybody volunteer to buy a book?!
I’m gonna contact them later today (during forced indoor activity time due to an early heat wave) to find out how best to help them. Will report what I find out.
Yeah, well, the fines are going to eat him up. Leave it to a nazi moron to fail to understand how the library works.
When he pleads guilty and makes a BS apology, I'd make him buy new copies, read them (with book report to the judge), then replace them on the shelves.
Why does this article refer to a "man"? his name is on his library card.
Journalists are weak and our protections for them have been eroded.
Fascism is alive and well all you have to do to identify them is look for the R.
If republican representative sees this.
Prove me wrong.
Do your job.
Impeach
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Ghastly!
Not to mention destruction of government property.
No doubt the only books he's ever read are Mein Kampf, The Turner Diaries, and The Art of the Deal.
and they'll be replaced out of taxpayer money, to replace shit that shouldn't have been burned in the first place
using amazon to do this gives a billionaire more $$
Once again, the people and public services pay the price of hatred
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You can burn people. You can burn things. You can burn books, but you can't destroy ideas.
LOL!
This dog doesn't hunt.
With MAGA infiltrating everywhere, I think that guy had inside help. That's all I'm saying.
Is it a leopard behind the desk?
Faiths and differences joining together in our common goal of supporting the coexistence, the understanding, and respect of protecting one another's difference and sovereignty to be who we are.
As hopefully he may find out.
Maybe he just read Fahrenheit 451 and loved the premise of outlawed books and firemen burning them as if garbage
Oh, they’re looking into it
Cool, cool
Fucking Dumb Ass Country.
Who lets someone check out 100 books without returning the first 🔟. That’s an automatic red flag 🚩
1) bite tongue
2) respond anyway
Sieg heil the uneducated.
Or better yet, make him collect trash until he’s earned enough to repurchase all the books.
Right there in the policies on the county library system website. Not unusual. Not odd.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2025/05/12/man-burns-100-beachwood-public-library-books-jewish-african-american-lgbtq-education-report/
In writing Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury was influenced by the Nazi book burnings, which had he had seen and had horrified him when he was a child.
This is one of the first things extremist dictatorships do—control the media, rewrite history, & destroy any information that disagrees with them.
I will, no doubt, end up like that woman in Fahrenheit 451, who refused to leave her book-filled home when it gets burned to the ground.
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The perp, the president and his 77M voters probably think think it's the most american thing they can do.
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Awful hateful shit to be offended by words so much that you can't just leave them alone. You have to destroy them for your own ego. I hope he gets prosecuted.
Neither he, nor any of his 'friends' wanted to read those books anyway. This has nothing to do with his 'political views.' Don't let him make it one.
Those who burn books may be able to read.
Comprehension, however, is a different situation.
Nasty & dangerous
But how did 1 person check 100 books out of a library ?
Either way, dumb thing to do when the library is able to know who you are.
I say this as a retired librarian.
They know which ones he borrowed and then intentionally destroyed. Everybody volunteer to buy a book?!
When he pleads guilty and makes a BS apology, I'd make him buy new copies, read them (with book report to the judge), then replace them on the shelves.
That’s the equivalent level of my Chinese. And I can only read comics and children’s books in traditional form Chinese, but I can’t read a newspaper.
Plus he'll probably turn out to be an engineer or a pastor.
Journalists are weak and our protections for them have been eroded.
Fascism is alive and well all you have to do to identify them is look for the R.
If republican representative sees this.
Prove me wrong.
Do your job.
Impeach