Hentoff: Why Aren’t American Librarians Protesting Abuse Of Cuban Librarians?

“While American librarians — whom John Ashcroft calls “hysterics”—deserve credit for being on the front line against this secret fishing for subversives, none have been threatened with prison time by Ashcroft. But 10 librarians in Cuba have been put away for 20 years and more for not going along with Castro’s endless Banned Books weeks.” So why aren’t American librarians protesting that?