This is in response to an article published Aug. 29, “Without book, rule of law must apply.”

I believe putting JoAn Karkos in jail would have been ridiculous. Sure, she didn’t have to steal the book the way she did. Actually, she should have burned it.

Nowadays, the media are poisoning the minds of children. Every time anyone flicks on the television, the first thing seen is sex. Every time anyone listens to a song on the radio, you hear sex.

Shouldn’t a library be a good place to get away from that?

If anyone thought what Karkos did is not respecting the community, think twice, because when you take your child to the library, I doubt you want him or her to say, “Mommy, mommy, look at the naked lady.”

Karkos told the community to take a stand. That it’s the parents’ or guardians’ job to teach sex education to their children, not the library’s job. She is respecting all parents, and all children.

She shouldn’t have been jailed because of what she believes. Remember Martin Luther King Jr. – he stood up for something he believed in, and it seemed like a bad thing in his time as well.

He fought and fought and never gave in.

Emily Baker