Today in Labor History March 25, 1957: U.S. Customs seized copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and City Lights manager, Shigeyoshi Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for publishing and distributing the poem. Howl was inspired, in part, by a terrifying peyote vision Ginsberg had in which the façade of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, in San Francisco, appeared as the monstrous face of a child-eating demon. The obscenity charges stemmed from homophobic responses to his explicit references to homosexuality.

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Sorry to say, I just found out
#AllenGinsburg was a member of a paedo ring (Ooops! Paedo 'organisation') called NAMBLA.

I'm shocked. Disgusted. Saddened.

Just use #Startpage or #Duckduckgo, don't 'Google' it.