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Lindsay Perigo’s speech that ‘launched’ Dr Death’s book

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Peaceful Pill Book ‘Launched’ in NZ. Perigo labels those responsible for seeking to restrict or ban The Peaceful Pill Handbook as motivated by “religious bigotry” and only fit for the trash-can of human history.

Dr Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook was launched in Auckland on Sunday 13th February 2007. The next day an application from Dr Nitschke seeking leave of the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, to have the book classified was received by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). On the 15th February 2007, Hastings, granted leave. The OFLC classified the book “objectionable” in a decision dated 7 June 2007 (OFLC No. 700240), signed by Hastings.

The book ‘launch’ featured a speech by Lindsay Perigo, available from Not PC (MP3, 5.5 MB, 24 min), in which he vigorously defended freedom of speech. He labelled politicians and priests –  history’s greatest enemies of free speech and discussed the views of some of those we remember as advocates of free speech, including Voltaire. In a bewildering flourish of rhetoric he claimed that priests and politicians operate under the arrogant presumption that they own “your life” or “their god owns your life” – all priests label everything one might enjoy doing as evil and bad and find pleasure when we suffer miserably. He labelled all those who argued that The Peaceful Pill Handbook should be banned as motivated by “religious bigotry”. He closed by claiming that the world could only become truly civilised when the guts of the last politician is strangled by the guts of the last priest. He received thunderous and applause from the tiny ensemble of aged individuals who attended the ‘launch’.

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Gay, Giggly, Liberal Reverend who Promotes A Culture of Death (Assisted Suicide): Seeks Martyrdom

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‘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.  

Death With Dignity?

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 Article by Michael R. Bott BA

“The Nazis had a scheme for killing the mentally insane which they called ‘mercy-killing’ or ‘euthanasia’ ; apparently, they could hardly wait for the smokescreen of war to put it into effect. By an order dated Sept. 1, 1939 – the very day war broke out – Hitler authorised the Chief of his chancellery, Buehler, and his private physician, Dr. Brandt, to administer ‘mercy killing’ to incurable persons.” [Ref. 1: Gideon Hausner. Justice in Jerusalem (NY: Holocaust Library, 1968), p.90].

Introduction

Euthanasia, as far as the 20th century is concerned, is no new thing. Immediately after the Second World War, revelations about the Nazi Holocaust meant that euthanasia fell into disrepute. However, euthanasia, once considered unthinkable, is now widely practised in the Netherlands. In Australia, in our own part of the world, the Northern Territory Government has recently voted to allow voluntary euthanasia.

It is with macabre irony that the capital of the Northern Territory is named after the man whose theories have done much to undermine Christian values – Charles Darwin. (His ‘theory’ of natural selection was defined in terms of  ‘survival of the fittest,’  a phrase first coined by Herbert Spencer).

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Dr Philip Nitschke and SPCS Executive Director interviewed on Australian Current Affairs Programme – PM

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Controversy in NZ over Australian euthanasia book [Full Interview Transcript & Audio Link]

PM – Tuesday, 13 May , 2008  18:46:00
Reporter: Kerri Ritchie

BRENDAN TREMBATH: In New Zealand, right to life groups are outraged at a decision allowing a pro-euthanasia book co-written by Philip Nitschke to be sold in the country.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook was banned in Australia last year, but an edited version has been cleared for sale to New Zealanders over the age of 18.
While opponents are demanding the decision be reviewed, Philip Nitschke is now vowing to make another attempt to get his book into Australian shops.
New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie reports.
KERRI RITCHIE: There in black and white, The Peaceful Pill Handbook outlines ways people can commit suicide.
Philip Nitschke hopes his book will be in New Zealand shops within a fortnight.

You can also listen to the story in REAL AUDIO and WINDOWS MEDIA and MP3 formats.

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Review sought by Society over release of pro-euthanasia book

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A review is being sought over the controversial release of a pro-euthanasia book by Australian Philip Nitschke.

The Society for Promotion of Community Standards [SPCS] has written to the Film and Literature Board of Review [see letter below] seeking a review of the decision [web-link below] to approve the book for R18 release. [Read more…]