Doves,
Please share this with everyone you know.
Amazon.com, one
of the world's biggest on-line retailers, is selling guides for
pedophilia. As the article below states, they have been doing this for
years, but are being called out again for the latest addition to a
growing collection of depraved merchandise they are purveying to enrich
themselves.
Please don't
just be disgusted. Do something! Pass this information along to everyone
you know before the Christmas shopping season. Do not buy anything
from this company and send them a letter or email telling them you will
not shop there.
The only thing
they care about is money and unless enough people speak up and refuse to
buy from them, they will continue promoting evil and prospering at the
expense of children.
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New Haven Register
-Amazon sells book offering advice to pedophiles, bringing outrage, threats of boycott
Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) Amazon.com
Inc. is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to
pedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the Internet and threats
to boycott the retailer.
The availability of "The Pedophile's
Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" calls into
question whether Amazon has any procedures — or even an obligation —
to vet books before they are sold in its online stores. Amazon did not
respond to multiple e-mail and phone messages.
The title is an
electronic book available for Amazon's Kindle e-reader and the company's
software for reading Kindle books on mobile phones and computers.
Amazon allows authors to submit their own works and shares revenue with
them.
Amazon issues guidelines banning certain materials,
including
those deemed offensive. However, the company doesn't elaborate on what
constitutes offensive content, saying simply that it is "probably what
you would expect." Amazon also doesn't promise to remove or protect any
one category of books.
The author of "The Pedophile's Guide,"
listed as Philip R. Greaves II, argues that pedophiles are
misunderstood, as the word literally means to love a child. The author
adds that it is only a crime to act on sexual impulses toward children,
and offers advice that purportedly allows pedophiles to abide by the
law.
Many users on Twitter called on Amazon to pull the book, and a few threatened to boycott the retailer until it does.
Child
online safety advocacy group Enough is Enough says it isn't surprised
that someone would publish such a book, but believes that Amazon should
remove it. It says selling the book lends the impression that child
abuse is normal.
This isn't the first time Amazon has
sold material that promotes illegal activity. It is currently accepting
pre-orders for the hardcover version of "I Am the Market: How to
Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons" by Luca Rastello.
Nor
is it the first time Amazon has come under attack for selling
objectionable content in its store. In 2002, the United States Justice
Foundation, a conservative group, threatened to sue Amazon for selling
"Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers." That title is still available
through Amazon.
In 2009, Amazon stopped selling "RapeLay," a
first-person video game in which the protagonist stalks and then rapes a
mother and her daughters, after it was widely condemned in the media
and by various interest groups.