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To: mhking
I'm not in support of censoring anything - if we do that, then we haven't a leg to stand on when/if Hitlery and her disciples get into power and want to shut us up. But that doesn't mean that we can't make life VERY difficult for those who DO buy such crap.

You suffer, mhking, from a fundamentally mistaken notion of the idea of censorship. The author's first amendment rights are fully in operation if Namblazon declines to sell this book. Nobody is stopping the author from writing this filth, or from trying to sell this filth, or from standing on a street corner and shouting out to the world that child rape is all well and good. Jeff NAMBLA Bezos' declining to sell this book would NOT censor the author. The author could continue to write and say whatever he wants. It would simply be a moral stand to not actively help the author in disseminating this disgusting and horrific child-harmful trash. Our society has fallen very far when we feel we have to give succor to those who would rape children.

10 posted on 10/02/2002 7:38:42 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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To: yendu bwam
The author's first amendment rights are fully in operation if Namblazon declines to sell this book.

The hell with the author. I'm talking about censoring the rights of others. You don't want to buy the book? Great! Neither do I. But you telling me that simply because they make it available, that Amazon (and according to you, Jeff Bezos) is guilty by association, is simply not so.

This is not an issue of supporting the exploitation and assault of children. You must separate the two. You appear either incapable or unwilling to do so.

12 posted on 10/02/2002 7:53:07 AM PDT by mhking
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To: yendu bwam; ValerieUSA
We ARE talking about censorship. Notice that Ackerman says he'll "go to Ashcroft" if he has to. This is all the subject of a suit he's filing to FORCE Amazon to remove the book. Go to this story for information about how this is attempted censorship. I agree, the book is disgusting, and Amazon should think twice about posting books that have no intellectual/historical value and a vast majority, 99.99% of the people, find absolutely disgusting. Boycotts are legitimate, and in my opinion should be employed in this case. But to invite the government to start banning books from the shelves, no matter how repugnant they are, is wrong, unconstitutional, and not where we should be heading.
44 posted on 10/03/2002 12:15:30 PM PDT by billybudd
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