In this case, however, the ACLU and their supporters are correct, and the "idiots" are the ones who think that you can protect children from bad information by arbitrarily yanking books off of library shelves.

You don't do children any favors when you try to "protect" them from propaganda; the Cuban books actually create a perfect teachable moment.

"Now, here's what a supporter of the Cuban government says about Cuba. And (handing the kid another book) here's the reality."

That's how you deal with bad information — with better information.

You *could* deal with the problem of childhood diseases by raising your kid in a plastic bubble, cut off from the world.

Or you could make sure that he or she gets proper vaccinations, and plays with other kids at school and eats sand at the playground and gets a little sick and recovers and builds a strong immune system.

It is a lesson that cannot be learned too early: there's no such thing as an author without a point of view, and you can't believe everything you read.

Better to strengthen the intellectual immune systems of our children *now* with *obvious* B.S., to hopefully equip them to identify the subtler variety later in life (especially if they go to college.)