On the recordNovember 20, 2019
I thank the gentleman. It is great to be here tonight. I just came from the Library of Congress, and there are a lot of books there, but there is one book in particular that is there, and it is in the homes of many American families right now that I would call the most dangerous book in the world. It is a book that people are being put in prison for just having possession of. It is a crime in many nations for people to own this book, to read this book. There are thousands and thousands of people in prison right now in other parts of the world who are being tortured and killed because they possess this book. I was reading earlier today about a country where there are people in prison who have friends who tear this book up into little pieces, and they smuggle it into the prison. And that person takes them, and they piece together those pages so that they can not only read this book, but they can memorize it. Because as one of the prisoners said: ``Even though they can take the paper away, they can't take away what's hidden in your heart.'' And there is another story from another country where parents, if they have the privilege of getting one of these books, it is so precious they read it at night to their families and then they hide it. But the schools and the government trick their children in playing a hide-and-seek game, and they trick the children into telling their teachers if their parents have that book and where it is.…
