Don't limit info in Batavia library

I present this statement with due respect to cancer survivors and victims.

To the volunteer board of trustees of the Batavia Public Library: As a community we must refrain from allowing censorship to become a disease at the library.

I am an 8-year survivor of censorship. I first found out I had censorship in 2000 during the First Street to Webster Street bridge referendum. After gathering with community members of unlike minds, the censorship went into remission. Variety of mind-set is what was beneficial in the early treatment of the censorship. However the mind-set changed over the years and the censorship returned in 2004. With a brutal assault of e-mails, phone calls, open meetings, closed meetings and even secret meetings, two censorship tumors were removed and the censorship again went into remission. Unfortunately, the variety of mind-set continued to swing further from the balance point and the censorship returned in 2006. Censorship continues to impose itself on me and challenges my thoughts and emotions to this day. Censorship is a disease that can destroy an individual. Worst of all, it can destroy a community ... a community of like minds as well as unlike minds.

Any mind, either like or unlike, that is challenged by the information presented on behalf of Planned Parenthood should contact Aurora Health Center at (630) 585-0500. Planned Parenthood can provide the solution. Batavia Public Library cannot and should not. Let us keep our libraries free from the dreaded disease of censorship and full of beneficial information for all minds. A mind truly is a terrible thing to waste.

Dan Shanahan

Batavia