Prophet for a New Age.
By David H. Lane.
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Eve’s Bite
My Genes Made Me Do It
Well over 80% Oppose Bradford’s ‘Anti-Smacking’ Bill
Press Release 21/11/06
The Society agrees with the 87% of New Zealanders who hold strongly to the view that parents should be able to smack their children without fear of breaking the law (Today’s on-line Stuff News Poll). Clearly the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders, as evidenced by the results of numerous nation-wide polls over the last few years, vehemently oppose Green MP Sue Bradford’s bill that seeks to repeal section 59 of the Crimes Act (1961). Her bill, which was reported back to parliament yesterday from the Justice and Electoral Committee, with significant amendments as well as a bill name change (!); if passed into law, would criminalise every parent and person in the place of a parent, who used any form of force against a child in the context of and/or for the purpose of loving corrective discipline.
How NZ Taxpayers Subside and Promote the Hard Core Porn Industry via the Chief Censor’s Office
The Deputy Chief Censor. Ms Nicola McCully, whose statutory position expired on the 18th of September 2005, and yet remains on in her job, confirmed in a Sunday Star Times interview (13/08/06), that 80% of her time and that of the 16 censors in the Classification Unit, is devoted to the careful examination, classification and registration of DVDs and videos featurng sexually explicit adult material (hardcore porn sleaze). McCully who recieves a salary package of between $150,000 and $160,000 joined the team at the Classification Office in 1994 after leaving her first ever full-time job as a primary school teacher aide. Her boss, Chief Censor Bill Hastings, who heads the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) and whose statutory position expired in mid-October 2006; receives a salary package of between $190,000 and $200,000. Precisely 82.21% of the combined salaries of these two Executive members funds their respective roles in the three-stage classification process of largely hardcore pornographic publications. In 2004/05 this amounted to $271,293 and in 2005/06 the contribution was $287,735, (remuneration costs in achieving Output 1 – defined as the examination, classification and registration of all publications dealt with in one financial year).