Dean Koontz, a racist

[Starr]

Best-selling author Dean Koontz, raved a recent reviewer, is a master storyteller. His novels, promising mystery, intrigue and fantasy, sell by the thousands, earning him the soubriquet "the poor man's Stephen King".
A recent speech he gave, however, is proving less popular, bringing accusations of racism.

At a convention of mystery writers last weekend in Irvine, near Los Angeles, Koontz told the story of his tussle with a Japanese film executive to have his name removed from a film of one of his books. Dubbing him "Mr Teriyaki", Koontz recounted a series of letters he sent to the unresponsive, unnamed executive.


"Dear Mr Teriyaki," he read to the audience. "My letter of 10 November has not been answered ... I would assume your silence results from the mistaken belief that World War II is still in progress and that the citizens of your country and mine are forbidden to communicate. Enclosed is a copy of the front page of the New York Times from 1945, with the headline, 'Japan Surrenders'."
In other letters Koontz talked about the Bataan Death March and Godzilla.

"What if the CEO was black?" asked author Lee Goldberg, who attended the event. "Would Koontz have addressed his letters to Mr Fried Chicken(lol) and joked about the good old days of slavery and racial discrimination?":D :D :D
Koontz told the Los Angeles Times he would stand by his remarks, arguing that "there's some political incorrectness in it, but nothing mean".

I am assuming Koontz is also one of the chosen, but I could be wrong.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1640167,00.html

[Lenny]

He was right to bring up Bataan death march and other things against Japanese. Also, against all international law and basic standards of morality, the Japanese tested experimental nerve gases on American, British, and Australian prisoners-of-war in WWII (also other nationalities), killing more than 3000 in the most horrific ways.

The "media" always paints the Americans as the bad ones for detaining 100,000 Japanese in 1942, but how many of those Japanese internment-camp inmates were killed by bizarre and completely immoral experiments and chemical weapon tests? How many of those Japanese were forced by the Americans to do a Bataan-style "death march"? How many were tortured, or left without food and medical attention? (all of these Japan did to Allies troops) The answer is 0.

I applaud "Dean Koontz" for his anti-Japanese slurs http://www.thephora.net/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[ironweed]

I am assuming Koontz is also one of the chosen, but I could be wrong.


I don't think so.



http://www.nobts.edu/Faculty/ItoR/LemkeSW/Personal/Koontz.html

Suspense and Theology

Dean Koontz's pilgrimage of faith is a rocky one. He attended a Protestant church (United Church of Christ) during his youth, but was converted to the Catholicism of his beloved Gerda. He had a period of anger against God following the death of his mother, in which his science fiction novels often portrayed God in very negative ways. However, Koontz returned to belief (if not expressed in organized religion) through his reading of physics: " . . . one cannot be aware of many recent developments in physics and still cling happily to agnosticism or atheism," and he acknowledges that his books are not only optimistic but "crammed full of faith."(10)

[The Retard]

Hold your tongue and say Koontz. :D