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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Michael and John Chow: “Gutted” – Sex Palace demolition – “God’s Wrath at Prostitution”?

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Two Wellington sex entrepreneurs, whose 125-year old Palace Hotel (also known as Aurora Tavern) in central Auckland was in the process of being transformed into a brothel, are “gutted” that the Auckland City Council has demolished it.

Michael and John Chow’s property company, which purchased the Victorian- style building in 2008 for $3.3 million, had hoped to have it operating as a brothel by January next year, just ahead of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. But when dangerous cracks appeared in the facade of the category B – Historic Place Trust protected  building on Thursday afternoon and an urgent investigation by Council officers and independent consultant engineers had concluded that the three-storey building could collapse, it was demolished that night.

Michael Chow is reported as saying:

“We have invested millions and millions on the property. I feel gutted, I feel they came to my home and they pulled it down. It was just a little bit of a crack“. [Emphasis added]

The decriminalising of prostitution under the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, opened up more than a little bit of a crack in the legal framework that had previously protected women to some degree from the exploitation and moral debasement – associated with prostitution. [Read more…]

Censors protecting the “public good” from morally toxic computer games

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The just released 2009/10 Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has highlighted a computer game that the Office has recently banned. In its summary of reasons for the decision it states:

 “The game presents still images and text that legitimises sexual violation and rape in a manner that is intended to sexually arouse the player who takes on the role of a rapist who preys primarily on school girls… Sexual violation and rape are essential to complete the game in its entirety”.

The Society considers it important that the public be made aware of the nature of the objectionable corrupting publications that are being produced for the commercial market by hard core pornographers and others bent on profiteering by the exploitation of people with addictions to moral vices etc.

 The public needs to learn about the vital role played by our Classification Office  to  ensure that such morally corrupting material that injures the “public good” is banned. For this reason it has sought over the last ten years to recommend quality, well-qualified people for nomination to the Film and Literature Board of Review that deals with appeals against classification decisions issued by the OFLC.

Faith-Based Healing in NZ Prison for Inmates

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[John Bunyan wrote his great classic The Pilgrim’s Progress while he was in prison. It is an allegory of the Christian life that is inspiring many today in New Zealand prisons to seek after God through prayer and reading the Bible. Many are discovering how faith in Jesus Christ – His life, death and Resurrection – can bring them new spiritual life, peace, forgiveness from sin and eternal life].

Rimutaka Prison houses the only faith-based prison unit in the country. It opened in 2003 and is run by Prison Fellowship (PFNZ) an international Christian organisation that provides prison activities, restorative justice courses and post-release support. [Copies of Pilgrim’s Progress have been made available to many prisoners funded by the Society and its supporters].

The Dominion Post reports “The inmates are a motley crew of rapists, murderers, paedophiles and drug dealers; lifers and short-termers; Mobsters and Black Power.”

For more see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4341311/Inside-Rimutakas-faith-based-unit [Read more…]

May Wang threat to taxpaying public says IRD lawyer – NZ Herald

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[The Society poses the question: When should the courts bankrupt a business woman and ban her from being a company director? Answer: when “the IRD believes allowing her to continue normal business activity will put the public at risk” and the action will serve the greater public good by helping to maintain the integrity of the New Zealand taxation system].

[May Wang] is “an insolvent dining at the table of a rich man, while her creditors’ receive the crumbs”. IRD lawyer, Nick Malarao.

NZ Herald Article by Kelly Gregor. 10 Nov. 2010

Crafar farm deal frontwoman May Wang has claimed more than $30 million in GST refunds for companies of which she is the director, a court heard yesterday. Wang is fighting Inland Revenue’s attempt to bankrupt her over a $1.3 million debt it is owed after the collapse of her property development company the Dynasty Group.

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10686530 [Read more…]

Crafar Farms, May Wang and meaning of “Associate” of an Overseas Person

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The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) is continuing to look at whether UBNZ Funds Management Ltd, directed by Chinese busineswoman May Wang, breached the Overseas Investment Act 2005 by not obtaining required consents for the purchase of two farms on February 11, 2010, at Norsewood in southern Hawke’s Bay and Waitotara in south Taranaki, and two others four days later in the Manawatu. [Read more…]