Fwd: Protocols & Amazon.com

[Susan Lerner <meydele...>]

Going through back emails, I decided to check out the links helpfully 
provided by some one on the list for the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 
listing on Amazon.com.  What I found took me aback and so I fired off the 
following comment to Amazon with the included response.  So, assuming that 
they do take action, I suppose I can one-click at 2 am again!  Or should I 
hold out until they renounce their absurd one-click patent (:-) ?


Shira


>From: feedback (at) amazon(dot)com
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:26:06 -0800 (PST)
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>Dear Susan,
>
>Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention.  Please rest
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>Our intention is to make the editorial review forum a place for
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>I'd like to thank you for taking the time to address this issue.
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>   >Subject: Protocols of Elders of Zion
>   >From: Susan Lerner <meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com>
>   >To: feedback (at) amazon(dot)com
>   >Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:38:40 -0800
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>   >I was quite appalled to see the "Editorial Review" with "book
>   >description"  for the Elders of Zion.  There is, as the customer reviews
>   >citing the Encyclopedia Britannica, The New Columbia Encyclopedia and the
>   >Russian Courts, no responsible controversy regarding this book: it is a
>   >forgery.  I think it should be available for people to purchase and read,
>   >so long as the context is made quite clear. At a minimum,  if you will 
> not
>   >identify the true nature of this book in your editorial material, then
>   >Amazon.com should stay strictly neutral and let the customer reviews
>   >clearly establish the accepted view of this piece of propaganda, not
>   >reprint nonsense about a "controversy" as to the authenticity of this
>   >famous anti-semitic hate literature.
>   >
>   >  I notice that your listing for Hitler's "Mein Kampf" doesn't contain an
>   >"editorial review" extolling his world view or pointing out that some
>   >people in his day and even today found his twisted sociopathology
>   >compelling, so maybe his world view was "correct"!  Where ever the
>   >"Editorial Review" for the Protocols of the Elders of Zion comes from, it
>   >should not be reprinted on your site!  Nor would you reference a
>   >"controversy" about a book which argues that blacks are racially inferior.
>   >
>   >Susan Lerner, meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com
>   >(fairly regular Amazon.com customer - but not while this kind of
>   >irresponsible behavior continues!!)
>   >Los Angeles, CA
>   >

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