Posted on 09/26/2002 4:23:03 PM PDT by repub32
could hardly believe what I was reading on the WorldNetDaily Web site: Amazon.com is accused of "contributing to the potential rape and molestation of children" by offering a book on adult-on-child sexual relationships.
But upon visiting the Amazon.com site to investigate for myself, I found that the book is indeed there. It is titled, "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers." In fact, on the Amazon.com site, self-described boy lovers and pedophiles offer positive reviews of the book, saying it "attempt[s] to shed the positive aspects of a healthy boy/male relationship."
Yeah, it's creepy, all right. But there's more.
"By explaining what 'pedophiles' really are," writes one pedophile, "it may help parents to understand that there may actually be benefits to such relationships."
This is absolutely shameful. These fiends are attempting to convince parents that there is no harm if they should target their children to satisfy their sinister urges.
Amazon.com should immediately ban this dangerous book (and any similar books) from its Web site and apologize for allowing such material to be there in the first place.
Thankfully, the organization that uncovered the book's availability at Amazon.com - the Escondido, Calif.-based United States Justice Foundation - has written a letter to Amazon.com President Jeffrey Bezos, saying that offering the book amounts to "an unfair and unethical business practice." The USJF has given Amazon 30 days to withdraw the book or face "protracted litigation."
As reported by WorldNetDaily, the book states: "Men who sexually pursue young boys are not monsters, but sincere, concerned, loving human beings who simply have a sexual orientation that is neither understood nor accepted by most others."
As a veteran pastor, I can report that I have worked with families that have been shattered because an adult has sexually abused a child. One need look no further than the recent Catholic Church fiasco to see the emotional anguish that is brought on by the abuse by an adult of a child. Years later, the deep scars of the abuse remain.
And yet Amazon's initial response to this controversy has been to defend the sale of the dreadful book, unbelievably saying freedom of expression must be protected.
LOCK THEM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEY
My good friend, Bedford, Virginia Sheriff Mike Brown, who spearheads an undercover operation to apprehend child molesters, has recounted to me how destructive these individuals are. Many pedophiles (called "travelers") will voyage across the country in hopes of meeting up with a youngster they have befriended on the Internet. Upon their meeting, these gullible and often lonely children, thinking they have discovered a friend, eventually realize they have been duped by an individual who is fixated on sexually misusing them.
Thankfully, Sheriff Brown's team routinely poses as teenagers in Internet chat rooms in order to meet these pedophiles. These undercover agents, after convincing the pedophiles that they are forlorn teens or pre-teens, frequently set up meetings with these pedophiles who are subsequently arrested and prosecuted.
These are the types of individuals Amazon.com is promoting and protecting by offering this dangerous book.
I am encouraging people to send an e-mail to Amazon.com (feedback@amazon.com) in order to complain about the availability of "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers" on their Web site.
After telling a couple of friends about this outrage today, these friends told me they were going to immediately send e-mails to Amazon to say they would not order again from the company until it ceased offering the book. This is the type of action Amazon.com (and any other retail company) will understand.
Please write to Amazon.com today (feedback@amazon.com) to considerately request that they immediately drop the book "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers."
Be sure to send them an e-mail letting them know: feedback@amazon.com
If you don't care for a reply, use this form Online form Amazon.com
Does anyone besides me see the utter irony of a website promoting a book about pedophiles on the same site where they sell toys for children? Remember TOYS R US and Amazon are now intrinsically linked. Let them know whether or not you'll be shopping at either store for Christmas.
Well, and furthermore, Amazon is partners with TARGET and MARSHALL FIELDS as well...hit them in the pocketbook.
Either Freepers support the Constitution, or they don't. Apparently some like to pick and choose their amendments on a cafeteria plan, like the RATS.
Let me assure you, Amazon.com does not endorse "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers." Simply because we sell a book does not mean we agree with the ideas it contains. If you will look at our site, you will see that we have posted a review of the book by one of our editors which is highly critical of the ideas expressed in Mr. Riegel's book.
Please know that, contrary to rumors that have been circulating around the Internet, this book is not a "how-to" manual for molesting children. The author simply expresses his point of view about what he feels are "misunderstood" relationships between men and boys.
We believe that people have the right to choose their own reading material. Our goal is to support freedom of expression and to provide customers with the broadest selection possible so they can find, discover, and buy any title they might be seeking. That selection includes some titles which most people, including employees of Amazon.com, may find distasteful or otherwise objectionable. However, Amazon.com believes it is censorship to make a book unavailable to our customers because we believe its message to be repugnant.
While we do not censor items from our web site, I wanted to reassure you that Amazon.com does not promote these kinds of titles.
We value all feedback from our customers, and I thank you again for taking the time to send us your comments about this issue.
Than you for contacting us at Amazon.com.
Best regards,
Mahender Singh
Amazon.com
Earth's Biggest Selection
http://www.amazon.com
Heck, it may even make you think about anal fissures and fatal venereal diseases in an whole new way...
Books like this encourage baaaad people to act on their perverted inclinations - just like NAMBLA writings encouraged two pedophiles to rape a child. And the same for JackAss and wrestling shows which encourage kids to do stupid stuff. Jeff NAMBLA Bezos knows that there is a possibility that some pervert will molest a kid as a result of 'moral' encouragement from this book. No honorable man would ever sell such a book promoting child rape. Bezos is a virtual child molestor and is NOT honorable.
No, you just make them available to thousands of pedophiles. Amazon = NAMBLA
Is this an acceptable defense for drug dealers? Oh, OK. Drugs are illegal. How about if the local Safeway set up a porn distribution section where produce is?
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