Book burning is a crime against humanity

[Cyrano]

16. There's no law about flag burning

As a matter of fact, that's exactly the approved manner in which you dispose of a worn out flag.

And there's no law against burning a book. Any book.

But burning books in protest is a political statement. And that statement isn't about books. It's about destroying the ideas expressed in those books and warning others that they better stay away from those books because they contain the "wrong" ideology.

Book burners are making a threat. "Read this, and we'll come after you. So you better start thinking 'right.'"

In case you haven't read about those massive Nazi book burning rallies of the 1930's, they weren't "protests." They were death threats. And after the book burners came to power, those "threats" were carried out.