Shouldn’t we be promoting literacy?

As Instapundit might say: They told us when Bush became president Americans would be arrested for reading. And they were right!

A Wisconsin woman was handcuffed by cops, “perp-walked down her parents’ suburban driveway and hustled into a waiting cruiser - all because she hadn’t returned two library books or paid the library’s $38 fine.”

The two books: “Angels and Demons” and “White Oleander.”

“It’s all my fault,” she said. “I should have paid the fines. I don’t know why I didn’t.

“But I do think the whole handcuffing thing was a little extreme,” she chuckled.

It’s nice to see the young lady taking personal responsibility.

Here is a case for lifting library fines completely.

And from a 2005 column, my case against the modern library.