ALA's Drug Money

On March 22, 2006, Walgreen's filed a motion to gag a Texas man's First Amendment right. Bruce Johnson, an African American, is one of four men suing the company for race discrimination. This is not an isolated case. In June of 2005, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against Walgreen's in East St. Louis Illinois District Court for the drug giant's, "'pervasive policy' of steering black employees to work in stores in areas with mostly black or lower income customers, using an internal system to categorize stores based on race and income." (AP Online 6/20/05)

Walgreen's is an ALA Library Champion.

Curiously preceding both cases in 2004 Walgreen's, the Wal-Mart of retail pharmaceuticals, anted up $1 million dollars to the American Library Association to promote health information and what now appears to be hush money. Notwithstanding ALA's relationship with a First Amendment chilling corporation accused of institutional discrimination, this otherwise trifecta for SRRT types has failed to set them salivating. Apparently their mouths are already full...of money. In a delicious twist of moronic hubris, ALA's sectarian guard has instead chosen to set its sights on a 501(c)3 of neckerchiefed knot-tyers and whittlers of pinewood.

Perhaps the Boy Scouts should get into the cookie business?