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apples and oranges Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:45 PM
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Amazon defends selling 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure'


NEW YORK — Amazon is selling a self-published book defending pedophiles, sparking discussions about the retailer's obligation to vet items before they are sold in its online stores, and threats of boycott from Amazon customers if the book is not removed.

The book, " The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" by Philip R. Greaves II, offers advice to pedophiles afraid of becoming the center of retaliation. It is an electronic book available for Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader.

The author's description (misspellings included) reads: "This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian rules for these adults to follow. I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught."

Amazon issued a statement that will no doubt fuel the outraged comments multiplying on the "Pedophile's Guide" Amazon page. "Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable," it reads. "Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40112145/?gt1=43001

Is free speech being taken too far?
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:47 PM
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1. News report this morning said Amazon disappeared it.
Scrubbed and gone.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:48 PM
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3. Now do the same for Decision Points.
I don't want to see or hear the unelected Chimp that hasn't still been indicted and shipped off the Hague anytime soon.

Hawkeye-X
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:56 PM
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7. No Child Left Behind certainly screwed America's children.
Edited on Thu Nov-11-10 12:58 PM by TexasObserver
So, there's that similarity.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:47 PM
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2. That and Decision Points needs to be removed from circulation and relegated to the dust bin
or on a bonfire party.

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Dulcinea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:49 PM
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4. I don't know what's worse...
...that someone would publish such a thing, or that someone would buy such a thing.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:05 PM
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11. ah, seeing the title and just the look of it makes me abandon any censorship
qualms I had. :scared:
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:50 PM
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5. So when did they add the right to buy to the bill of rights.
I, for one, will boycott Amazon.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 12:52 PM
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6. Put it in the "Sick Fuck" section
along with "Deshishion Points"
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benlurkin Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:00 PM
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8. Raping Children for Dummies
"This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian rules for these adults to follow. I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter sentences should they ever be caught."
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littlewolf Donating Member (920 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:03 PM
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10. Your just trying to make my BP go off scale aren't you ...
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:03 PM
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9. Wow!
:rofl:
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:07 PM
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12. I think they should sell the book.
Then, have law enforcement search all the homes/computers of the people who buy it and throw them all in jail.

This seems like a good way to locate/arrest some pedophiles.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:25 PM
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13. How about a "How to make an Atomic Bomb and Torture People for God and Country" book?
Edited on Thu Nov-11-10 01:25 PM by Better Believe It
That would make just as much sense.
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durkermaker Donating Member (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:30 PM
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14. wonder if the ciallis ads will now have a big bathtub and a little bathtub
for this group
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Xenotime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:47 PM
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15. So much for freedom of the press.
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-10 01:52 PM
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16. What does this have anything to do with freedom of the press??
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