Religious Extremism or Fiduciary Oversight – Truth vs Lies …

I’m going round in my mind — trying to make sense of the infamous battle royale for control of Samuels Public Library in Warren County — but I keep coming back to: Why?

Regular folks don’t fight like this unless there’s something deeper at play. The Warren County Library Board chair is coming in hot with the intensity of someone preparing for war, and those supporting Samuels Library are bracing for yet another bombastic assault by our implacable bad neighbors.

There’s no way this is just about the library’s finances. Normal, sane people don’t dedicate this much time and energy to nickel-and-diming a hometown library exhaustively like bloodhounds. Beloved hometown libraries shouldn’t have to take drastic measures to protect their assets from maniacal zealots.

If anyone still believes this fight is simply about the library’s management—why? How? Y’all have seen this play out in real time, and it’s been decades a’comin’.

What we’re grappling is cultural entrapment disguised as fiduciary oversight.

Everything we’ve seen so far has made it blatantly clear: the most transparent part of this whole process is that there’s an ideological agenda these players are so devoted to executing that it’s blinding them to the beauty of the community they already have to be proud of.

Tell me it’s not about the content of the books.

Tell me this isn’t part of a long-term plan driven by religious extremism.

Tell me I’m wrong and prove it.

Show up. Speak up. Save Samuels.

See y’all Tuesday,

Jarred Hill (aka Parson Brown)
Warren County, VA

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