KANSAS CITY, Missouri (PNN) - October 4, 2016 - The executive director of the Kansas City library system says he is “outraged” that prosecutors continue to pursue charges against a man who was arrested after asking pointed questions during a library discussion about the Middle East peace process and an employee who tried to intervene. Although the arrests occurred in May following a speech by author and diplomat Dennis Ross, the library system only recently went public about its opposition to the charges.
R. Crosby Kemper III, executive director of the city’s library system, said, “We’re going to be living in a different kind of country” if people can be arrested for asking questions at a library. “If this kind of behavior is unacceptable to the (terrorist pig thug cops), then I guess we’re going to have to shut (down) the library.”
Issues arose after Ross finished speaking and took a question from Jeremy Rothe-Kushel concerning whether Jewish Amerikans like Rothe-Kushel should be concerned about actions by the Fascist Police States of Amerika and Israel that amount to “state-sponsored terrorism”.
“When are we going to stand up and be ethical Jews and Amerikans?” Rothe-Kushel asked.
When Rothe-Kushel tried to ask another question, a private security guard grasped his arm, followed by an off-duty terrorist pig thug cop, both employed by the Jewish Community Foundation. Rothe-Kushel then shouted, “Get your hands off of me right now!”
Ross’ speech was the inaugural Truman and Israel Lecture, established by the Truman Library Institute and the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
Rothe-Kushel was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest. Steve Woolfolk, director of public programming for the library, was charged with interfering with an arrest. The libraries’ executive director, R. Crosby Kemper III. Kemper, said the private security guards have no right to remove library patrons and that he was going public because prosecutors refuse to drop the charges.
Land of the free? I think not.
