Book burning: 1930s * 2009

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced plans to phase out school textbooks in favor of digital learning aids as the state looks to plug its massive budget hole.
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This is book burning. Getting rid of archival material. Once the books are gone, then they can rewrite history at the push of a button and there will be no archives to refer to , because they will be digital, too. Once California does this, the rest of the nation will follow.

It's digital book burning and Orwell's 1984 has yet another correct hit.

In all the years of recessions or depressions, it was never suggested UNTIL THIS TIME, to burn books, except in Germany under Adolph Hitler.

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