I am soooooo done with Amazon.com!!!!…JERKS!!!!!

I am sickened by this. Jessica, thanks for writing about this and thanks momof3 for bringing it to my attention!

I have teenagers at home and they will not be allowed to look at amazon again. And to think I bought all my son’s Christmas presents from them. Disgusting!

There should be a national outcry from our politicians in Washington about this.

We the people, have the right to decide what is and what isnt considered censorship. This crosses ALL barriers.

I went on Amazon before I commented because I know there are many people who feel that Big Brother is often way too involved in our lives. I read many, and I do mean many, positive comments about the book Daddy’s Little Boy. These people sounded just like you and I. It was what shocked me. I expected people who like this sort of thing to somehow SOUND different than I do. Nope, their comments were worded the same way we word our viewpoints on things.

I am more than ever convinced that we have become so de-sensitized in this country that for many of these people, this book did not seem in the least bit offensive.

It speaks volumes to me that there might even be one person who doesnt see what is wrong in a book such as this one.

What do we expect when, as a nation, we have asked for the past 30 years or more, for God to get out. Leave our schools, leave our government offices, get out of our children’s lives.

We are so mired in political correctness that now its ok for someone to not only write a book such as this, but have it published AND sold on a very popular, international website.

I am fairly certain that when our forefathers drafted the Articles of Independence to include Freedom of Speech, this is not what they had in mind.

I urge everyone to write their Congressman and to keep doing so, no matter how many times you dont get answered or how many times you get rebuffed.

If, as a nation, we remain complacent about something like this, then we are really no better than the people who buy and read this smut.

Remaining silent IS tacit approval of these books and of Amazon.com.

I have just forwarded Imperfect Parent’s email, which includes this article as a link, to everyone on my email list including the priest at my parish as well as the Archbishop of Cincinnati. If I had the Pope’s email, I would email him too.

This is the sort of grassroots movement everyone needs to take on in order to attempt to have Amazon remove this “literature” (I use the term loosely) from their website.

PLEASE. If you are angry, channel it in the right direction. Enough voices WILL be heard.

Stacey, that’s the same form letter they’re sending everyone that’s writing to them about their pedo affiliations.

A boycott alone isn’t going to do it because as you said before, there must be two reasons why they’re so adamant about keeping these books up — either they’re making a nice chunk of change off of pedo poo or they have a personal interest in it. If you read the Amazon editorials, they promote as a fascinating way to look at pedophilia. It’s as though they think that pedophiles are persecuted and ought to have the social stigma taken away because…well…to Mully’s point…that’s just not very nice to pedos, is it?

It’s outrageous! Babies, toddlers and children cannot give consent and as much as Amazon and these pedo partners are pushing such an outlandish agenda. I’m so sure — that children just love to get raped and given the choice, that’s all they could wish for all day long. It’s an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS platform they’re giving them. Their letter implies that that not only do they deserve this platform, but it also excuses their behavior and says to the public, “Pedophilia should be looked at with an enlightened point of view and acceptance.”

This war is not going to be won by a boycott but mass public outcry and public relations. This has to be viral to work. Mully is right, contact your Congressmen, but also, post about this on any forum you frequent. Tell everyone you know. Put up flyers. Whatever. The day that Amazon sells out our children like this and is an accessory on how to rape and molest children, and the public can’t do squat about it, is the day we should abolish all of our laws. If we can’t protect children, then what does that say about us as a society? We are only as decent as how we treat our children.

I’m so disgusted.

While I find this despicable and so angry at myself for buying so many things from Amazon. The last place any information about this should be forwarded to is a Priest and a Archbishop. I’m sure many of these books have actually been bought by these same individuals.

Mully, That comment is best ignored. Good for you.

i, as well, am DISGUSTED! i never knew this and wouldn’t be surprised if enough attention was brought to it, especially through media, that something could be done! i will certainly address amazon.com!

i wrote a brief post on my blog about this and supplied the link to here, i don’t have a ton of followers, but anything helps!

thank you jessica!

Just when I think the world can’t get any worse it does. I am sick, sick and tired of the do anything for a buck mentality this country is in. I wonder what the AMAZON bigwigs would think or feel if the very books they are selling/promoting gave some pervert in their neighborhood an idea to do something to their child? This is beyond sane comprehension, I can’t even fathom the thought process that someone with children of their own wouldn’t stop and think “hey, maybe this is not something we should be selling/promoting”. Is the almighty dollar more important to them? From reading the above post and the letter sent back we can say YES MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT TO AMAZON THAN THEIR OWN CHILDREN…this makes me so mad I could scream.
Boycotting will put a dent in their “coffers” and since it’s all about the money the may sense something isn’t right… but also writing to your Congressmen and Senators, newspapers etc. will get the word out that we are sick and tired of this crap AND WE AREN’T GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE. Tell everyone you know, and thanks Jessica for the heads up about this.

AllisonG First let me say I didn’t take your comment to imply that I WOULD wish this on any child (u know how people misconstrue things on blogs) I too think it’s not only horrific but beyond human to do these things to anyone much less a child that can’t defend themselves.
It just makes me sick that they would sell this kind of stuff. I pray that they would see this boycott/letters as an indication that we. as parents, want to be a voice for those who can’t speak and you usually have to hit where it hurts…the pocketbook for anyone to notice.
SHOVE,SCRAPE …..putting my soapbox under the bed again.

Mully I agree with you….we do want to protect our rights granted to us by our Constitution and the 1st Amendment and I TA about the fine line between “us and them” but it just frosts my behind that these people who sell/publish this crap and have kids of their own don’t stop and think about them at all.
I also TA that we need to let Amazon know just why we are boycotting them!

I also will be emailing everyone I know about this issue. It is absolutely shocking to read about this. I have never used Amazon and certainly never will. I agree with Mully that Amazon needs to know why people are boycotting them and that everyone who finds this disgusting, needs to write or email anyone they can think of to STOP this now.

Thank you Barbara for providing us with these email addresses. Below is the first one I sent. I will send an email to everyone on this list as well as forward these emails to everyone on my contact list. PLEASE, everyone, do the same.

Dear Mr. Bezos:

It is my intention as well as many other people I am acquainted with, to start a grassroots movement to boycott Amazon.com due to your insistence in carrying material that deals with pedophilia.

You claim the First Amendment. I am fairly certain our forefathers, who drafted the Articles of Independence for our country, did not have books and articles on how to have sex with children, in their minds as part of the First Amendment.

You dont need me to tell you that this is disgusting. But perhaps you DO need me to tell you that you have hit a nerve at the very core of many Americans who are sick to death of sitting back and allowing America to go to hell.

We wont stand for this. Be warned. There is strength in numbers and you can pronounce for evermore that you are honoring the First Amendment when, in fact, you are just as bad, if not worse, than the very scum we are boycotting you for.

Because the writers of these books and Amazon selling these books are protected by our First Amendment, Stacey. Its pure and simple and no matter how angry you might be or I might be at the response or lack of response received from Amazon, the fact remains, they will continue to sell these books. I received basically the same email you received from them about the same time Wall Street Journal posted an article on their front page citing Amazon’s record year.

I try to choose my battles and this one is one I dont think can be won unless someone with ALOT more clout than you and I get behind it. So far, that hasnt happened.

As far as the octuplet story goes, it is my feeling that unless a huge public outcry is made over what appears to be a gross misuse of a medical practice designed to help people conceive a BABY, then it will continue. This will be using the same First Amendment that protects the scum who write and have published the books that Amazon sells….the right of free speech.

I will use that right to rail against people who play the system for their own benefit no matter how little that appeals to someone else.

What is happening on Amazon.com isnt right, but neither is what seems to be happening in this country with abuse of multiple births.

We need someone to take control of this and put a stop to all this unpleasantness in literature. I think that there should be mandatory licenses for all creative works to be created by the government in order to ensure that this filth never gets to corrupt minds and twist them into hurting children. Even the Nazis and Communist had the good sense to do this; they were the most evil regimes to ever exist. Isn’t it a very bad sign when we fail to do what even they succeeded at?