Amazon is selling on-line a self-published book on pedophilia, “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct.”
According to the “author,” Philip R. Greaves II:
I wrote the book to establish guidelines so that people would behave in a manner that is non-injurious to each other, for one, and, for two, to communicate the fact that these people who are so different in maturation, etc., that when they develop relationships, they use certain principles that regular people, adults, would be well to attend.
In describing his “product,” the “author” also writes:
This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certain 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 [sic] sentences should they ever be caught.
How sensitive and thoughtful of you, Mr. Greaves.
Naturally, the book and Amazon’s selling of the book have ignited a fire storm of protest and controversy. People everywhere are asking Amazon to remove the book from its online stores.
Please include me among those.
Many others are also calling for a boycott of Amazon. Please include me here, too.
Amazon has defended its sale of the book by claiming that not selling the book would amount to censorship:
Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable. 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…
Just as I have taken the side of the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder—the memory of whose son and his father’s precious right to mourn his death with dignity were so obscenely violated by members of the Westboro Baptist Church—I take the side of millions of innocent children whose sacred rights are at risk every day at the hands of pedophiles and I paraphrase what I said about the Snyder v. Phelps case:
Of course, the First Amendment is one of our most cherished and inviolable constitutional rights. Of course, all Americans, including Mr. Greaves have the right to free, irreverent, even hateful and obscene speech…But our rights also carry obligations and responsibilities. Most reasonable people do not believe that our free speech rights are diminished or infringed upon when those who misuse them to maliciously and falsely defame others, to publish child pornography, to advise pedophiles on achieving “love and pleasure” at the expense of our most innocent ones, our most cherished ones, are allowed to do so with impunity
I know that many of our readers will have different opinions, I will respect such, but in this particular case I may not necessarily agree with them
CODA:
It has been reported that Amazon has taken the book off its “shelves.”
Thank you, Amazon
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.