The Society has sought leave under s. 47(2)(e) of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”) for a review of the classification of the highly controversial console game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version) [also known as or GTA 4]. As noted in our application for leave dated 27 May 2008, the unedited game was classified R18 by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (“the OFLC”) on the 21st May 2008.
Gay, Giggly, Liberal Reverend who Promotes A Culture of Death (Assisted Suicide): Seeks Martyrdom
‘I make it look like they died in their sleep’
Jon Ronson The Guardian Monday 12 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/may/12/mentalhealth.health
Summary
Irish police are seeking the arrest and extradition of the Reverend George Exoo, “a giggly, gay liberal unitarian preacher, cultured funny, [and]charming.” who is “a leading figure in the right-to-die movement.” Like fellow right-to-die propagandist Dr Philip Nitschke, whose book The Peaceful [Suicide] Pill Handbook was recently classified and cleared by NZ’s gay Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, for sale in NZ bookshops, Exoo has helped over 100 people commit suicide. But, reports Jon Ronson, “most of his [Exoo’s] clients were not terminally ill, just depressed and in need of psychiatric help.”
“I’m a midwife to the dying, for those who want to hasten their deaths,” claims Rev Exoo. He has announced publicly that he intends to commit suicide (see video link above) and so become the first martyr for the right-to-die movement, so that he and his nomosexual partner THomas McGurrin, can avoid extraditon from the US as suspects, in the assisted suicide of Rosemary Toole, who had been suffering depression, prior to seeking help from Rev Exoo. Under Irish law, a person convicted of the crime of assisting a suicide, faces a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
According to reports, Rev Exoo’s devoted followers showed no emotion when he publicly announced his intention to commit suicide (see video). Instead, they were utterly obsessed by a morbid fascination in the method he planned to use to take his own life, quizzing him on this matter. This cold, callous and clinical approach of right-to-death zealots, permeates Dr Nitschke’s pernicious book that documents in excruciating and meticulous detail, many options for committing suicide and assisting others to commit the act.
Chief Censor, Bill Hastings and his deputy, Nicola McCully, a lesbian, who hold the only two statutory positions in the Office of Film and Literature, have seen fit to allow this book that incites criminal activity and promotes a culture of death, into bookshops, for sale, throughout NZ. Dr Nitchke told the media he was “thrilled” that Mr Hastings had cleared his book for sale in NZ.
Grand Theft Auto IV: Who is the NZ distributor profiting from this offensive “Crime-Promoting Game”?
Grand Theft Auto IV (also known as GTA 4) – a computer game formatted for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 – was launched on April 29, 2008 and sold nearly 2.9 million copies in the United States in its first five days.1 The game – made by Two’s Rockstar studio – with first-week worldwide sales forecast of up to $US400 million, was submitted to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) on the 4th of February 2008 by the Film and Video Labelling Body Inc (FVLB).
The computer game’s distributor, the applicant to the FVLB, recorded on the application form, its identity as “TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE”. All other details relating to the company were deleted from the form by the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, when he provided the application form to the Society, in response to its Official Information Request (OIR). The applicant’s contact person, return street address for the publication and contact telephone number, were all deleted.
The Society Investigates……..
DROWNING IN DEPRAVITY: PARADISE LOST
Drowning in depravity
Sunday Star Times Sunday Magazine, 18 May 2008
Paradise Lost
New Zealand’s image may be that of a clean, green idyll, but to our moral watchdogs we’re an increasingly filthy bunch, enveloped in a smog of political correctness. Grant Smithies asks three men about their mission to get us make on track – and why they feel persecuted.
Some people insist that New Zealand is drowning in a rising tide of depravity. “Oh, really?” you say. Yes, they reply; just look at the evidence. Prostitution is legal now. You can go to any video store and rent group sex videos. The government is stacked to the ceiling with unmarried feminists. Gay blokes are adopting kids. The internet beams a lurid shag-fest into every home. In 2002, an Auckland man tried to film a porn star giving birth. And in October 2007, a “sexual habits” study of 26 countries concluded New Zealand women to be the most promiscuous in the world.
Clearly, our minds are in the gutter. Thank God then (and yes, God is frequently involved) for our nation’s moral watchdogs.
For full story including interviews with Bob McCoskrie (Family First NZ Director), David Lane (Executive Director, SPCS) and Ian Wishart (Editor, Investigate Magazine), go to:
POLICE PROBE SUICIDE TOUR
by Sean Scanlon and Deidre Mussen
Sunday Star Times 18 May 2008
Two investigations have started into claims an American woman [calling herself Cassandra Mae and Susan Wilson] helped a non-terminally ill Aucklander die in return for $12,000…
She allegedly flew here last August and assisted a woman in her 50s, suffering depression, to commit suicide. Police confirmed they and the coroner are investigating serious allegations it is illegal to aid a suicide in New Zealand.
Sources say the Auckland woman withdrew $12,000 from her bank account, money which remains unaccounted for, in the days before her death.
The American woman’s actions will also be scrutinised in a euthanasia documentary to be televised in England this week, and her behaviour and that of an American reverend she worked with were exposed in English newspaper The Guardian last week…..
Australian euthanasia campaigner and head of Exit International, Philip Nitschke, said … he believed Mae planned to bring Nembutal into New Zealand from Mexico [and] the Auckland woman [seeking to commit suicide] may have spoken to an Exit co-ordinator before her death, but he could not be sure.
It is not the first time a depressed but not terminally ill New Zealander has suicided. In March 2006, a Wellington woman killed herself with lethal drugs she smuggled home from Mexico after seeking advice from Nitschke.
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