Obscenity over insight: Warren County’s unpalatable budget presentation

We know how much people care about children by what they do, not what they say.  Children ought to be able to watch their government in action without parental supervision but on 6/6/23, the public got only a fleeting glimpse at the Warren County budget before the video went to colorful bars that, at that moment, seemed an appropriate reaction to the shockingly explicit and inappropriate smut read aloud moments prior to the budget presentation, with promised resumption afterward.  The statutorily required public hearing on the budget had become an alternative book burning.

With free e-books instantly available, why are librarians wasting paid time reading reportedly-offensive books instead of dropping them directly into a shredder?  There was no need for the pious to debase themselves from reading pornographic trash aloud in public!  The Warren County Board of Supervisors need not have sacrificed public decorum.  So, why did they?  Obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment.  Nice community we have here!

The next time you want to read something to shock us . . . try the budget for Warren County, the voting records of elected officials, or the history of fascism.  A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

C.A. Wulf  
Warren County