Amazon.com accused of aiding molesters

WorldNetDaily ^ | September 26, 2002 | Art Moore

[general_re]

Somehow, I don't think our founding fathers would have allowed the active promotion of child rape.

Somehow, I know that some of them didn't value free speech all that much anyway. They were men, not demigods ;)

[monday]

"Amazon is a major supporter of Planned Parenthood and a portion of each book sale is donated to them. "

Really? Where did you hear this? Do you have a source?

[yendu bwam]

They were men, not demigods ;)

Right, and most real men don't condone the promotion of child rape. Bezos is a virtual child molestor.

[monday]

"Ever notice when you drive by an Adult bookstore there arent any windows on the street side?....Amazon has no windows either! "

Huh? No online retailers have windows unless you count the pictures of merchandise in their online catologs. Whats your point?

[ThinkDifferent]

Bezos is a virtual child molestor.

Amazon also sells Mein Kampf. Does that make Bezos a Nazi as well? People are responsible for their own actions. Blaming words that somebody else wrote is a copout.

[monday]

"Sure. But censorship is not always wrong. "

I know how we can solve this. We will just let you decide what is to be censored.

Everyone likes to be in charge. You could be the Grand Poobah of the Department of Censorship for the Elimination of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue. "Grand Poobah" for short;^)

[truenospinzone]

Sorry, that's not true. The confusion probably stems from the fact that Amazon.com has an affiliate links program available to all online organizations. The website of the organization provides a link to Amazon.com, and if a customer uses that specific link to get there and makes a purchase, a small portion of the purchase is given to the organization. Planned Parenthood does, in fact, use such a program, and encourages its' supporters to make purchases in order to make money for PP. However, typing "www.amazon.com" into your browser and making a purchase will not cause any money to be given to Amazon.

[truenospinzone]

Sorry - should read "will not cause any money to be given to Planned Parenthood".

[general_re]

Right, and most real men don't condone the promotion of child rape.

Then attack it, refute it, expose it for what it is - an illness and perversion attempting to mainstream itself.

Bezos is a virtual child molestor.

Is Paladin Press a virtual murderer?

[yendu bwam]

Amazon also sells Mein Kampf. Does that make Bezos a Nazi as well? People are responsible for their own actions. Blaming words that somebody else wrote is a copout.

Wrong. When you sell a book (primarily to pedophiles) that encourages them to sexually molest children, you are in the same moral mudpit as they. As I said before, pedophiles in court have admitted that similar literature from NAMBLA encouraged them enough to act on their perverse inclinations. Why would this book be different? If one, or five or six, or thirty boys are raped or molested because of the dissemination of this book, that rests on Bezos' head. People should be responsible for their own actions - but that is totally irrelevant here. Bezos' marketing of this book may well lead in actuality to kids' being molested. That makes Bezos a molester in my book. His actions here are disgusting and shameful and morally wrong. Bezos is defacto encouraging people to sexually molest kids. If he put the welfare of kids first (he doesn't), he would not market this book.

[yendu bwam]

Let's have a little section on Amazon's website - books that promote child abuse of all sorts. We'll have some that promote giving kids drugs, and some that promote (like this one) raping kids, and some that promote murdering kids, and some that promote physically abusing them. Bezos would be soooo proud of his work. The man's a virtual child molestor.

[yendu bwam]

Is Paladin Press a virtual murderer?

Does Paladin Press publish books encouraging the murder of kids?

[oc-flyfish]

This is a sick, pathetic book. It makes my skin crawl.

[monday]

"Planned Parenthood does, in fact, use such a program, and encourages its' supporters to make purchases in order to make money for PP. However, typing "www.amazon.com" into your browser and making a purchase will not cause any money to be given to Planned Parenthood.""

Is this what you meant Phil, or do you have a source that proves your original contention? If this is what you meant, it looks as though Amazon could be a sponsor of me if I wanted them to. All I have to do is send them customers.

If this is what you were talking about, it is not as you portrayed it. Care to explain yourself?

[Leto]

I would note that none of the books you referenced in post #8 advocated or served to rationalize rape or murder as socially acceptablAmazon is free to seel this trash, the public is free to note their lack of judgement in persuing a buck and to boycott them.

[yendu bwam]

Not encouragement, per se - more like a "how-to" manual...

yeah, then they're virtual murderers

[yendu bwam]

A moral man, if he thought his actions (such as selling pro-child-rape books) might even have the slightest possibility of leading to the molestation of a single boy in the real world (and clearly, this is the situation here) would never, never take such action. There's a great book by Steven King, Needful Things (or something like that), where the devil comes to town and just encourages everyone to do their most awful to each other (but never does anything else himself). Bezos is doing something evil here. He places his profits above the real and likely possibility of the brutalization of children.

[general_re]

This is a sick, pathetic book.

Yes. I neither condone nor endorse the material therein - it is a nasty piece of trash. I would have preferred my post stand, but I understand why it was pulled.

[general_re]

yeah, then they're virtual murderers

Setting aside the fact that "virtual murder" isn't a crime yet, is it then your contention that these books - both the Paladin book and the books on Amazon - will cause people to do illegal things, and things that they otherwise would not have done?