By Dan DeWitt, Times Columnist
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Here's how I came upon the most stirring display of pure democracy I've seen in ages:
I walked into a library.
Specifically, it was the main branch of the Hernando County Library System in Brooksville. Every seat was filled — gray-haired folks reading newspapers, younger people huddled in front of computers, a reference librarian helping a dad help his daughter with her science project. There were even a few books being cracked.
I can't vouch that every website being perused was spiritually and intellectually elevating. But no matter. Those monitors are portholes to the riches of our civilization, the workings of our government and, more prosaic but just as important, job listings.
Guns don't guarantee liberty; knowledge does. And its exchange is truly free only when it's free — as in no economic barriers.
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