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Steve Crow – Porn King – set to exploit Rugby World Cup and NZ

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‘Tasteless’ parade exploits women, Rugby World Cup and NZ, says city councillor.

Porn king Steve Crow is planning a “rugby special” Boobs on Bikes parade with girls body-painted in world cup team colours.
The Auckland Council confirmed that an application for a permit has been submitted, but has not yet been issued.
An online auction will be conducted next week for supporters to bid for the right to paint the girls, with proceeds going to charity.
But Auckland Councillor Cathy Casey said the proposal will make New Zealand look tacky.
“The Rugby World Cup is a wholesome family global sporting event, but what this is tasteless and tacky. It will make the Rugby World Cup tacky, it makes Auckland tacky and it will make New Zealand tacky in the face of a global event,” Ms Casey said.
“The parade is nothing but an exploitation of women, and this one in particular is an exploitation of the Rugby World Cup, which I am sure will be shut down when the International Rugby Board hears of it.”
The procession is planned for Saturday, September 24 – the day the All Blacks play France at Eden Park – through Ponsonby Rd, Karangahape Rd and Queen St in central Auckland.

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Family First NZ calls for NZ Police to ban offensive porn parade

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Family First NZ. a registered charity with the Charities Commission, is calling on the NZ Commissioner of Police to ban a scheduled Auckland City “Boobs on Bikes” parade that promotes the hardcore pornography businesses owned by CVC Group Ltd and its daughter company Eden Digital Ltd, both directed by John M Carr CPA, a “business partner” of banned company director Steve Crow.

Boobs on Bikes is a registered trade mark owned by CVC Group Ltd, a company that is 39% owned by Velocity Partners Ltd – owned and directed by John M Carr CPA; and 40% owned by HWGA Company Ltd which Steve Crow defines as a “family trust trustee company.” Steve Crow used to be its sole director until he was banned from directing companies for four years last year by the Registrar of Companies. Now his brother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and his sister Leanne Marie Osborne of Ftitzroy, New Plymouth, who Steve Crow both appointed last year,  direct HWGA Company Ltd and each of these siblings hold one of the two shares in the company.

Media Release 3 September 2011

Weekend Porn Parade Targeting Rugby Families ‘Offside’ 

Family First NZ is writing to the Commissioner of Police to plead that the police prevent the proposed Boobs on Bikes parade happening in the centre of Auckland city on the same day that families converge on the area for the rugby world cup game against France.

“The police and the judiciary have taken a liberal but also inconsistent interpretation of what is deemed offensive and the politicians have failed to correct the anomaly,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “Now families who are in the Auckland city centre on a Saturday and rugby families in town for the world cup games are going to be confronted by a tacky porn parade.”

Section 125 of the Crimes Act clearly states that it is a crime to ‘wilfully (do) any indecent act in any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, or within view of any such place’.

“When Family First challenged the Auckland police on their failure to prevent a mid-week parade in 2007, they told us that ‘in the opinion of the Police, given the standards of decency observed in this day and age, a female being topless in a parade on a weekday in (a main city street) will not in itself constitute an indecent act.’ But we are now dealing with a weekend parade which presents far greater potential for offence,” says Mr McCoskrie.

“Most New Zealanders know it is indecent and inappropriate to be topless in a public place – which is why there is no acceptance of the behaviour in schools, workplaces or public gatherings. In failing to stop the porn parade, they ignore not only the law, but the standards of decency held by the wider community.”

“We cannot stop the pornography industry promoting their behaviour to a targeted private audience despite its harmful effects on women, children, and families. But for those who stand for decency, and who seek to protect families and children, a parade down a major street in NZ on a weekend when young children and families will be there will cause widespread offence,” says Mr McCoskrie.

“The Boobs on Bikes parades are simply a commercial business advertising the porn industry. The fact that the hard-core porn industry can give ‘two-fingered waves’ to local councils and the police proves that the protection of children and families is not being given priority.”

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Porn Parades Cost Taxpayer $20,000-plus

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In its recent media Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has pointed out that the recent Boobs on Bikes parades in Auckland, Hamilton and Auckland have cost ratepayer at least $20,000 in police costs and local council traffic management, and the costs should be recovered from the organisers. “Boobs on Bikes” is a registered trade mark of CVC Group Ltd, a NZ-registered company which owns the hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd, which runs the 3-day porn promotion – Erotica Lifestyles Expo.

“The Boobs on Bikes parade is not a community event, a Christmas parade, or even a social or political issue. It is a blatant marketing tool for the pornography industry, and as such, the police and local councils should be actively recovering the costs of hosting the parades,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

Official Information Act requests to the Auckland police show that in Auckland alone, 48 police staff were deployed using 10 vehicles at a cost to the taxpayer of more that $6,000.

“When you combine the Auckland cost with the costs of the police time in Tauranga and Hamilton, and then add on the local council costs, the taxpayer and ratepayer is effectively paying $20,000-plus for the porn industry to push their product on our main streets.”

“The police say they are not seeking to recover these costs, but they should be, on behalf of the tax and ratepayer. Why should families have to fork out for an offensive parade which local councils are powerless to prevent, and politicians are refusing to strengthen the laws to protect families from,” says Mr McCoskrie. [Read more…]

Donate Telecom’s aborted rugby world cup abstinence campaign to Family Planning

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In its media release today, Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, is calling on Telecom NZ to donate its aborted “corny” rugby world cup promo abstinence campaign – to the New Zealand Family Planning Association Inc. (FPA) to be used in its nationwide school sex education programmes.  The FPA was registered as a charity with the Charities Commission on 13 September 2007 (Charity Ref. No. CC11104). Its stated mission is “To promote a positive view of sexuality and to enable people to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health.”

The Family First Media Release states:

Make It Family Friendly, Telecom

Family First is welcoming Telecom’s decision to cancel its rugby world cup campaign.
 
“The campaign was always destined to fail because it was corny and not family-friendly,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
 
“The All Blacks fan club is made up of children and families, and any campaign needs to involve all ages and be family friendly.”
 
“The best thing to do with this campaign is to give it to the Family Planning Association and ask them to use it in schools with the sex ed programmes.”
 
Family First is encouraging Telecom to find a family friendly campaign that all of the kiwi family can participate in.

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Registered charity challenges Court of Appeal’s child porn ruling

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Stop Demand Foundation, a registered charity (CC 30599) with the Charities Commission, has attacked a Court of Appeal decision granting name suppression to a 50-year old Manawatu man found guilty of possessing images of child rape. The charity’s founder, Denise Ritchie, who was interviewed on TV One’s Breakfast programme about the matter this morning, says the Court’s decision is a blow to child rape victims in New Zealand and to lobby groups like hers around the world fighting sexual violence against children.

The Manawatu man, who admitted 21 charges of possessing objectionable material, was sentenced to six months home detention and fined $5250 at the end of last year.

In a decision only made public yesterday, the Court of Appeal ruled that his name should be kept completely secret to protect his family members.

Ms Ritchie, who has read and studied the decision, pointed out on TV One’s Breakfast programme that the convicted man has not lived with or had close association with any of the “family members” whose reputations and privacy the Court of Appeal Judges have sought to protect. She argues that granting name suppression to the offender merely to protect the reputation of these people sets a dangerous precedent. [Read more…]