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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

“Real moral jihad” & SAFE charitable “advocacy” for piggies and poultry

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A good number of charites registered with the Charities Commision are determined to get their grievances with law-makers into the public spotlight. They do so by investing considerable financial resources they have obtained from donors and/or government sponsorship etc, into provocative campaigns seeking public support for their “political advocacy” crusades – all aimed at trying to get the law changed and/or upheld to serve those they claim to advocate on behalf of.

United Future leader, the Hon. Peter Dunne, has today in a Dominion Post report, pointed to “a whole suite of agenda items”, promoted by allegedly “seriously extreme and nutty” campaigners, that in his view constitute “a real moral jihad”. He has highlighted two of his former party members as “extreme”  jihadists possessing “little tolerance” in their alleged “fanaticism over smacking” laws, opposition to the reform of prostitution laws and desire to tighten the abortion laws. [Read more…]

“Animal rights” protestors guilty of bullying – Letter to Editor

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Protestors guilty of bullying (Letter, Dominion Post 15 May)

The standover tactics employed by the noisy rabble outside Wellington’s Le Canard restaurant (May 12-13) are repellent in the extreme.

As self-styled “professional people with sensible jobs”, they should know that the concerns they have with the production of foie gras lie with producers in France, not with a restauranteur going about his legitimate and “sensible” business.

They are not only creating a public nuisance but are also guilty of bullying, an action that shows a lack of probity greater than that involved in over-feeding a farmyard bird. [Read more…]

NZAF – a registered charity – may face legal action for alleged slander

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Legal action threat [against New Zealand Aids Foundation] in HIV child stouch

A Whangarei childcare centre is planning legal action against the a New Zealand Aids Foundation (NZAF) for slander.

[The NZAF lobby group, active in political advocacy, is a charity registered with the Charities Commission. NZAF had a total gross income of $4,659,689 in the financial year ended 30 June 2011, which including $4,112,376 in Government grants/contracts, $342,029 from other grants and $117,508 from donations. Its total expenditure for the year was $4,997,359]. [Read more…]

The Human Rights Foundation of Aoteoroa New Zealand and “advocacy”

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The Human Rights Foundation of Aoteoroa New Zealand [“HRF”] is a charity registered with the Charities Commission (registered on 14 April 2008 – Reg. No. CC22917). HRF is also a charitable trust incorporated on 23 October 2001 under The Charitable Trusts Act 1957 (Reg. AK/1171103) and it is heavily involved in “advocacy”. The Charities Commission website (www.charities.govt.nz)  records HRF as having 12 Board members.  HRF received  a total income of $45,486 in the financial year ended 30 June 2011, of which $22,062 came from a government grant and $20,953 from other grants. Its total expenditure was $42,542.

Upholding human rights is fundamental to the maintenance of good community standards and a functioning civil society, just as the upholding and promotion of the moral and spiritual welfare of its citizens is.

HRF’s Objects are succinctly stated on its website as: “We promote human rights through research, education and advocacy” (see www.humanrights.co.nz), and on its Trust Deed: “To promote human rights including by education, training and advocacy…” The high level of (political and representative) “advocacy” this registered charitable entity/lobby group engages in can be gauged from its involvement in the following examples of its activities: [Read more…]

SAFE sensible “animal rights activists” vow to continue protest against foie gras

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A SAFE (Save Animals from Exploitation) Board member, zoologist Dr Michael Morris, who is one of the leaders of the anti-foie gras campaign directed at the Wellington French restaurant Le Canard, is reported today by The Dominion Post (p. A21) as saying that his five fellow-campaigners, like himself, are “professionals with sensible jobs”. The group has vowed to carry on its protests outside Le Canard restaurant until its foie gras dish is taken off the menu.

SAFE is a registered charity with the Charities Commission headed by Mr Trevor Garrett. Its finanancial accounts (available on line on the Commission’s website www.charities.govt.nz), reveal that in the financial year ended 31 March 2011, it employed nine full-time charity workers and 5 part-timers; all presumably in sensible professional charity jobs funded from the charitable donations SAFE received from charitable New Zealanders, many holding down sensible professionsal jobs.

SAFE records a total annual salary and wages bill of $589,430, for the financial year ended 31 March 2011. This pay-out constituted 61% of the charity’s annual income of $917,315 – the latter derived no doubt from donations given by many New Zealanders employed in sensible professional jobs. [Read more…]