Amazon defends selling 'Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure'

[apples and oranges]

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?

[TexasObserver]

1. News report this morning said Amazon disappeared it.

Scrubbed and gone.

[Hawkeye-X]

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

[TexasObserver]

7. No Child Left Behind certainly screwed America's children.

So, there's that similarity.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. That and Decision Points needs to be removed from circulation and relegated to the dust bin

or on a bonfire party.

[Dulcinea]

4. I don't know what's worse...

...that someone would publish such a thing, or that someone would buy such a thing.

[tigereye]

11. ah, seeing the title and just the look of it makes me abandon any censorship

qualms I had.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. So when did they add the right to buy to the bill of rights.

I, for one, will boycott Amazon.

[Blue Owl]

6. Put it in the "Sick Fuck" section

along with "Deshishion Points"

[benlurkin]

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."

[littlewolf]

10. Your just trying to make my BP go off scale aren't you ...

[Iggo]

9. Wow!

[cbdo2007]

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.

[Better Believe It]

13. How about a "How to make an Atomic Bomb and Torture People for God and Country" book?

That would make just as much sense.

[durkermaker]

14. wonder if the ciallis ads will now have a big bathtub and a little bathtub

for this group

[Xenotime]

15. So much for freedom of the press.

[cbdo2007]

16. What does this have anything to do with freedom of the press??