We know the Amazon whores sell their customer list to everyone anyway. I wonder how sales would be if it was known a list for just this item was going to be auctioned off to the public? :cool:

I hope the police are all over the sales of this book.

But Amazon later withdrew the book from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media.

Commenting online, some people had said they planned to boycott the online store in protest.

The book title appeared on the company's website yesterday but a subsequent message read: "We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site".

There was no immediate comment from Amazon.

Sounds like the Publisher should be identified and a boycott of other books they publish would be in order. After all, they truly knew what they were doing. :(

It was a self published book, so there's no middle-censor.

Hubby made me sad today. Never in all my life have I met someone of his age who is so useless at taking care of themselves.

Well, it's obvious you haven't met one my cousins........

Visiting my just-turned 17 year-old daughter ~ and leaving her, on the opposite side of the country! :(

DM

Getting in only one of my two walks today. :(

Missing my grandmother.

Governments of supposedly democratic allies who brook no criticism.

British author jailed in Singapore
ABC News.


A Singapore court jailed a 75-year-old British author for six weeks for publishing a book critical of executions in the city-state.

Alan Shadrake was handed the prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 Singapore dollars ($15,000) for contempt of court over the book, which features an interview with a former chief executioner.

High Court Judge Quentin Loh dismissed a last-minute apology by Shadrake as "nothing more than a tactical ploy in court to obtain a reduced sentence" and ruled that the freelance journalist will have to serve two extra weeks in prison if he fails to pay the fine.

"A fine should be imposed to prevent Mr Shadrake from profiting from his contempt (of court)," the judge said.

The ruling said the sentence was the stiffest ever imposed for contempt of court in Singapore. The previous longest jail term was 15 days.

Shadrake, who lives in Malaysia and Britain, was arrested by Singapore police in July after launching the book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock.

It includes a profile of Darshan Singh, the former chief executioner at Singapore's Changi Prison who, according to the author, executed about 1,000 men and women from 1959 until he retired in 2006.

It also features interviews with human rights activists, lawyers and former police officers on cases involving capital punishment.

In a November 3 ruling that found Shadrake guilty, the judge said: "Mr Shadrake's technique is to make or insinuate his claims against a dissembling and selective background of truths and half-truths, and sometimes outright falsehoods.

"A casual and unwary reader, who does not subject the book to detailed scrutiny, might well believe his claims... and in so doing would have lost confidence in the administration of justice in Singapore."

Sounds like a deal to me. I can't make $7.5k/wk. :shrug:

Damn that broken photocopier.

Can't afford to take the girl back for Grandmother's funeral.

That really sucks. *hugs