WHAT is Going on at Amazon.com????

September 26, 2002 | jerry falwell

[Mr. Mojo]

The people who submitted positive reviews of the book on Amazon's site should be kept under surveilance by the Feds until they're caught attempting to "act out." Once they do, they should be thrown in the slam for life.

[MontanaFreeper]

Done.
Thanks for letting us know.
I've only given my credit card to two Internet companies and this was one. I let them have it.

Regards,
MontanaFReeper

[DoughtyOne]

Not only is this book there, but a number of others with titles that either make it plain exactly what's in their content, or lead you to suspect what's in their content. You know, I believe in free speech, but this goes way beyond that IMO. When it comes to violating under-age children, I have no tollerance for the act, or trying to talk others into the act.

Amazon should be ashamed! Frankly they should be prosectured!

[dts32041]

Gee I will have to by my next copy of the turner diaries from somewhere else. //Sarcasm off

[DoughtyOne]

I sure hope prosectured is bad... lol

Prosecuted!!!

[ProbableCause]

Ha! Good point.

[ErnBatavia]

Watch it! The Libertarian factor here will flame you for suggesting such "big brother observation"......

[mlo]

These are the types of individuals Amazon.com is promoting and protecting by offering this dangerous book.

Amazon sells books by the millions. That is their business. They are not "promoting and protecting" anyone by doing so. If you have an issue it is with the authors and the buyers, not with Amazon.

[ProbableCause]

"By explaining what 'pedophiles' really are," writes one pedophile, "it may help parents to understand that there may actually be benefits to such relationships."

Yeah, sure, parents just have to stop for a moment and see things from their point of view, and surely they'll stop being so meddlesome and uptight. The thought process of these perverts is amazing. I checked amazon just to see this for myself, and I gotta say, just the line-drawing illustrtaion on the cover alone is disturbing.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"Gee I will have to by my next copy of the turner diaries from somewhere else. //Sarcasm off"

Buy a copy of Unintended Consequences instead. Not only will you get a lot more out of it - but you'll find yourself studying it over and over.

This - not the Turner Diaries - is the book Washington fears. BATF even hassled its author's estranged wife.

[lilmsdangrus]

Just went to their website, to look for the trash, and it magically did not come up! Fast work!!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks for the book tip. I just read some reviews on Amazon, and it looks amazing.

[ChuckHam]

Amazon sells books by the millions. That is their business. They are not "promoting and protecting" anyone by doing so. If you have an issue it is with the authors and the buyers, not with Amazon.

Using your logic a person who sells sex with a underage person shouldn't be prosecuted either. Hell, since there is a market for snuff flicks I guess I could sell it as well and you wouldn't care if I did.

[MinuteGal]

I just freeped Amazon courtesy of your email link.

I'm a registered customer there but let them know with vigah that I won't be purchasing any books or cassettes till they cease being enablers of pedophiles.

Leni

[mlo]

Using your logic a person who sells sex with a underage person shouldn't be prosecuted either. Hell, since there is a market for snuff flicks I guess I could sell it as well and you wouldn't care if I did.

No, you have not used my logic. Sex with an underaged person is illegal. A book about pedophiles is not. Should Amazon be required to screen all of the thousands of *legal* books they have available because they may offend someone?

The point is, don't go off on Amazon for selling a book. Refute the ideas the book advances.

[dts32041]

Got it and it is sitting next to a couple of Claire Wolfe's books.

[Helix]

My account with them will be closed immediately. You're already getting some flack from the FR pedophile crowd, I see. Well they may have the "right" to sell what they want, but I damn sure have the right to use merchants who don't do anything and everything, no matter how low, for the God-Almighty buck.

As for understanding the poor pedophile, I understand perfectly well that they are sick, sociopathic personalities who are incapable of forming adult relationships and must exploit the weak and vulnerable for a power trip.

Any of them try to form a "relationship" with MY child and I swear to God, I'll introduce them to a complete "understanding" of the Second Amendment!

[ChuckHam]

The point is, don't go off on Amazon for selling a book. Refute the ideas the book advances.

If the ideas the book advances are illegal then they are endorsing crime.

[dark_lord]

If the ideas the book advances are illegal then they are endorsing crime.

Ah, pity Amazon - stuck with an evil book. Well, there are a few points to consider.

(1) The book is endorsing crime. Amazon is offering the book for sale. Amazon is not endorsing a crime. However, see next point.

(2) "Soldier of Fortune" magazine got in trouble a few years ago - they got sued bigtime by the parents and teen-age son of a woman killed by someone who advertised for his services in their magazine. Now, if someone were to buy this book from Amazon, commit the crime, and then complain that he got the ideas from the book...then Amazon might be sued by the victims parents. The cases are not identical - but they may have some potential liability. On the other hand, there are a lot of books out there that recommend illegal activities - violent overthrow of the government, how to build bombs - lots of nasty stuff. It can be argued that selling a book that endorses crime, and carrying ads for a criminal offering services, is sufficiently different that they are not connected. This is how lawyers get rich.

(3) Amazon carries a ton of books. They don't have somebody actually READ all the books they carry. Unless you can make a case to their legal department, they are unlikely to do anything.