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SCAER: ACLU-NH Employed Book Burner, Fights “Book Bans”

July 23, 2026 Beth Scaer

In June 2020, JK Rowling posted a tweet that made her a target of trans rights activists to this day. The ACLU-NH’s Transgender Justice Organizer, Palana Belken, who identifies as transgender, tweeted in response from his now-deleted Twitter account that he was removing all the books from Rowling’s Harry Potter series from his shelves and … Read more

Book-Burning Trans Justice Organizer Drops Out Then Reappears with a New Name

April 23, 2023 Beth Scaer

For years, former ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belken, who changed his name to Palana Hunt-Hawkins when he took his wife’s last name after his marriage in July 2021, was front and center at all New Hampshire events that promote the medical transition of gender-confused children and the taking away of women’s rights to our own private spaces and sports. He never missed an opportunity to represent the extremes of radical gender ideology.

burning paper flames Image by _Alicja_ from Pixabay

Would Sweden Give Up “Free Speech” for a Shot at Membership in NATO? – Yes!

February 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Swedish Government has decided that being allowed to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is more important than the right to free speech or expression.

How Quaint – ACLU Claims to Be for Freedom of Speech … But Won’t Prove It

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Beth Scaer

I recently received an email from ACLU offering me a code to purchase items at a discount from their online store. When I visited the ACLU store, I discovered an I Read Banned Books Tote listed for sale with the description, “For nearly 100 years, we have opposed censorship in all its forms.” I thought, “how quaint” since the ACLU has switched sides on the issue of censorship.

Herbert Marcuse and the Chatanooga BLM ‘Library Employee’ Book Burner

February 18, 2021 Op-Ed

It seems that the ‘anti-fascist’ Democrats have decided to officially drop the ‘anti-’. We all knew it was a silly joke anyway. Judging them by their actions, they are taking one more step towards the totalitarian fascism they so desire by burning books.

ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Burns Books to Celebrate Candidate’s Birthday

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Beth Scaer

The ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belken followed through on his threat to burn his Harry Potter books to get even with JK Rowling for standing up for women’s rights against those, like Palana, that claim men can be women and enjoy all the same rights as women.

Modern Book Burning: Liberal Targets ‘Whiteness’ To Remove Books from American Library Collections

April 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Knowledge is power unless the ‘knowledge’ continues “to promote and proliferate whiteness with their very existence and the fact that they are physically taking up space in our libraries.” No, we’re not talking about some neo-Nazi screed. This is about cleansing Western Literature.