Moment of honesty: Even though I believe my use of the swastika in the above cartoon is an apt, if not perfect, addition to my statement, hindsight makes me realize that it actually distracts from the message. But would I do anything differently if given the chance? We’ll never know.
Anyway, my plans for adapting my comic book Lynchpin to the Kindle Reader is abandoned. I will not associate with Amazon. My main letter to Amazon is below, but Daniel Ellsberg said it better than I did. Anyway…
My letter:
Hello. As you can see, I’ve been a longtime customer of Amazon.ca. I am very upset that your company, a bookseller, does not value freedom of information.
In my opinion, booksellers – like librarians & printers – have a social responsibility to freedom of expression. To legally sell your server space to a news organization to legally report its news, & then rescind that service because the government doesn’t like the news published, is shameful on your part.
Until you issue a public apology to both WikiLeaks & to our greater society, I will no longer being buying my books, comics, movies, etc. from your organization. You have struck a blow to human civilization.
Sincerely,
William Brian Maclean,
author & cartoonist of…” (& I linked to this cartoon on my website)
I didn’t keep a copy of my 2nd, but I asked for complete deletion.
