The Society’s 2009 (Members Only) AGM will be held on Monday night from 6.45 pm to 7.20 pm 8th June 2009 at Connolly Hall, Guilford Tce, Thorndon. The Public Address commencing at 7.30 pm, following the AGM, will be given by John Terris, former Mayor of Lower Hutt, former Labour Party MP for Western Hutt, Former Acting Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of Media Matters. All members of the public are warmly invited to attend this lecture, the discussion that follows and the supper. The Lecture Topic is: “New Zealand’d Media Landscape – It’s like the Wild and Woolly West. (Our value-averse little country is fast becoming the Sleaze Capital of the Universe).” [Read more…]
Wonaac’s Smear Tactics Against Pro-life Group Right-to-Life
Media Release 11 May 2009
The Women’s National Abortion Action Campaign (WONAAC) which has for years been promoting abortion as a woman’s right, issued a press release today that calls on “the news media” to “help [their lobby group] uncover the source of Right to Life’s funding [and] make clear [to the public] the group’s full agenda.” Most will see this for what it is – a last minute desperate smear campaign directed at a properly constituted Incorporated Society that publicly discloses its audited financial accounts every year via the Companies website, as well as its objectives. It is clearly a blatant attempt to influence the Court of Appeal by casting doubt on the integrity of a group committed to safeguarding defenseless unborn children against the sordid death culture of the abortion industry and its highly paid State-funded practitioners. [Read more…]
Attempt by ALRANZ to Influence The Court of Appeal Deplored
Media Release 11 May 2009
The National President of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand [ALRANZ], has issued a media release, 10 May 2009. The National President of this small pro-abortion lobby group, Dr Margaret Sparrow, and its National Executive member Dr Jim Hefford, have “called on Members of Parliament to publicly support the Abortion Supervisory Committee in its court battle against Right to Life… [that] will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Court of Appeal in Wellington.”
The Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc. deplores this blatant and unlawful attempt by ALRANZ and by extension the pro-abortion lobby, to exert pressure on the Court of Appeal, to pervert the course of justice. It believes that it is a shameful attempt to use Parliament to exert political pressure to interfere in the course of justice. ALRANZ’s press release headline was “MPs Must Oppose Anti-Abortion Legal Challenge” [Emphasis added]. [Read more…]
What’s behind Boobs on Bikes? By political activist John Minto
Article from the Stuff News Archive (2009): Political activist John Minto wrote ……..
John Minto: 2014 Candidate -Mana Party
[Photo Source: http://yournz.org/tag/john-minto/]
Most people seem to think the Boobs on Bikes parade is tasteless and tacky but nothing to get steamed up about. Just harmless fun and a bit of titillation to warm up a cold winter perhaps.
Certainly we have plenty of people hung up about sex and nudity but the protest at the parade was not a bunch of prudes averting their eyes at the sight of silicon-implanted breasts. Instead it was a warning cry about the deep damage being done by the hard-core porn industry with Boobs on Bikes organiser Steve Crow at the heart of the problem.
[Note: The next Boobs on Bikes event has been announced as scheduled for 7 October 2015, – rescheduled says Crow – from August 2014, “To coincide with the shift in dates for the Erotica Lifestyles Expo“].
I’ve seen material pictured and quoted from some of Steve Crow’s publications which is quite depraved. For example men speaking about women in a way no reasonable people would speak about their neighbour’s dog.
Denise Ritchie of the [registered charity CC30599] group Stop Demand [Foundation] (the demand side of the sex-for-sale industry) points out that sex-related crimes against women and children do not take place in a vacuum but rather are underpinned by the hard-core porn industry. This is where for example videos of simulated rape, incest and all manner of sexual violation against women and children are produced and sold commercially.
I don’t have to buy his filth if I don’t want to but if Crow’s activities are making our community a less safe place for me and my family, and other women and children in particular then I have a right and a duty to object.
This is serious money. So is there a connection between Steve Crow’s promotion of hard-core porn and sexual violence against women? I have no doubt there is a strong, direct link. There can be no doubt that the abusive behaviour of some people is stimulated by this Crow-type pornography.
Denise Ritchie points out that two months ago a 60 year old Wanganui man was convicted for performing sexual acts on his severely handicapped wife after watching a pornographic video with two other men, one of whom he invited to “join in”. It would be only the deliberately naïve who refuse to see a connection in this case and more widely. I have no doubt that the glorification of rape on a pornographic video will reduce the seriousness of such behaviour in the minds of enough men so as to increase the risk to women generally.
To quote Ritchie once more, “our Chief Censor [Mr Bill Hastings at that time], our pornography investigators and global research are unanimous in reporting that hard core pornography, which makes up the bulk of Steve Crow’s commercial interests and profits, is increasingly cruel, misogynistic and degrading of women.” We should all be very concerned at the messages this material is sending to men.
Forget about the boobs on bikes. These are the entertaining sideshow to a porn industry which is making the country less safe for all of us.
Stephen Peter Crow promoting Erotica Lifestyles Expo
Steve Crow: ‘Long-standing identification’ with Boobs on Bikes parade. (Photo: Stuff News 27/04/11)
According to Stop Demand, a 2006 Treasury report estimated that sexual violence in 2003/2004 cost the New Zealand economy no less than $1.2 billion. $827 million of this is the loss of quality of life for victims, across an estimated 16,500 sex offences.
Source: What’s behind Boobs on Bikes by John Minto. Published 09/03/2009
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/blogs/frontline/1880536/What-s-behind-Boobs-on-Bikes
Note 1: Stop Demand Foundation is a registered charity (CC30599) that was registered with the Charities Commission on 30/06/2008. Its website is www.stopdemand.org A message to men on its website states:
“Sexual violence, exploitation and denigration of women and children is overwhelmingly a men’s issue. We need men’s proactive support to stop it.”
To find out about the governance of Stop Demand go to: http://www.stopdemand.org/wawcs0153449/WHO-WE-ARE.html
Note 2: Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow has 33 criminal convictions for distributing objectionable material. Source: Sunday-Star Times 26 October 2003.
See: The People Vs. Steve Crow,” by John Landrigan, North & South (Issue 207, June, pages 82-90). “Besides the porn baby [controversy], collectively he, his ex-business partner Fiona Gibb and Vixen Direct [Ltd] faced 135 criminal charges last year. Crow pleaded guilty to 33 of the lesser charges – for the distribution of objectionable material … he still faces seven regulatory infringements to a law he does not agree with.”
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Mr Crow had criminal convictions for distributing objectionable material and the inquiry was treated as an employment issue.
Police are told not to associate with people with a criminal history.
See full article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10392287
Multimillion-dollar debt left by company director
A company director has left New Zealand, leaving a trail of failed companies and millions of dollars in debts.
Neil Gurdjieff Dougan was a director of companies developing luxury lodges in Hanmer Springs and Kaikoura and a 30-apartment building in Christchurch.
The liquidators of 2 Design Ltd, of which Dougan is the sole director, said in its first report it had been advised Dougan was living in London and was unlikely to return to New Zealand.
Wayne Deuchrass and Iain Nellies, of Insolvency Management Ltd, said they had been unable to contact Dougan and could not get any records of 2 Design Ltd, which owes $63,714 to Inland Revenue.
They said the company was set up to provide architectural services for project development work and was involved with the construction of Te Kaikoura Lodge, in Kaikoura. Dougan and Ross Thomson, of Christchurch, were directors of the company.
Te Kaikoura Lodge went into receivership in October and liquidation in November, along with Alpine Pacific Developments. Reports on any debts are not available for the lodge, which opened in October 2006.
Dougan and Thomson were also directors of Braemar Lodge 2004, which went into receivership in July last year without opening its doors.
The receivers of the Hanmer Springs lodge, Michael Stiassny and Brendon Gibson, of Ferrier Hodgson, estimated the company owed the ANZ National Bank $10.4 million.
Dougan is sole director and shareholder of Warwick Mews Developments, also in receivership and liquidation.
It was developing 30 apartments and owed $8.7m to Dominion Finance Group when it went into receivership in July.
Source: The Press. Published 1 January 2009
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/198057