In Louisiana, a middle school librarian has said. “Enough is enough.” She is standing up and fighting against the vigilantes who have targeted school libraries.
Amanda Jones has filed a lawsuit against two men who have harassed her and other librarians.
Amanda Jones, a librarian at a middle school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that Facebook pages run by Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames falsely labeled her a pedophile who wants to teach 11-year-olds about anal sex.
Jones, the president of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians, was alarmed and outraged by the verbal attacks, which came after she spoke against censorship at a Livingston Parish Library Board of Control meeting. She said she’s suing the two men because she’s exhausted with the insults hurled at educators and librarians over LGBTQ materials.
“I’ve had enough for everybody,” Jones said in an interview. “Nobody stands up to these people. They just say what they want and there are no repercussions and they ruin people’s reputations and there’s no consequences.”
Lunsford did not respond to requests for comment. Thames declined to comment.
Nationwide, school districts have been bombarded by conservative activists and parents over the past year demanding that books with sexual references or that discuss racial conflict, often by authors of color or those who are LGBTQ, be purged from campuses. Those demands have slowly moved toward public libraries in recent months.
Thank you, Amanda Jones!
The George W. Bush administration learned early on. Don’t mess with librarians!
You go! Conan the librarian!
Haaa!
If she doesn’t go to the top of the Honor Roll, it’s time to get rid of it.
Yes, yes, I know I’m being a hypocrite based on a comment on another post today. But for now, she’s my favorite! 😇
Anyone here who claims to never be hypocritical is a hypocrite.
Greg, SomeDAM, I can be hypocritical or hypercritical, as you prefer, typically both at once.
I hope she has a fund for her legal fees which I will contribute to. She’s right. These morons can’t just accuse good people of ridiculous things & get away with it. More Alex Jones type suits are a good thing.
Attorney fees are probably on a contingency basis. I don’t know for sure, though.
the more suits against the blatant lies the better
Jones’s GoFundMe campaign says, “No one should be attacked for standing up for their community or speaking out against censorship.” Her goal is $75,000 to cover her legal bills. “Any money raised over what is needed to cover Amanda’s legal fees will be donated to EveryLibrary to continue the fight to protect others.” Her GoFundMe page is https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-librarian-amanda-jones.
This should be done to all of these fools. Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic have thrown the fear of god into some of the worst offenders, but others have been slow to pick up the cudgel. Past time they did.
I have no idea where the lawsuit is being filed, probably in state court, though. Louisiana law can be quite difficult. But in most jurisdictions calling someone a pedophile would be libel per se, meaning the plaintiff doesn’t have to prove actual damages.
Hit these idiots where it hurts: in their wallets!
I so hope they win big judgments against all these Trumpy lawyers.
I want to see Giuliani, Powell, Wood and Ellis living in homeless shelters.
Make that on the street. There are too many in actual need to give their shelter space to this crew.
I would be satisfied to give them state housing in, say, ADX Florence.
Hit ‘m where it hurts! Social media has been getting away with this crap for way too long. They pretend they’re just a way for private citizens to communicate with each other & shouldn’t be held to the same standards as newspapers/ MSM. Well hey, if any Joe Blow can put his private opinion out there in print for the world to see, and slanders individuals by name, guess what: you’re a newspaper, and you’re breaking the law! Let’s see more of these lawsuits.