Suicide toll surpasses road deaths – Approval by Board of pro-suicide book slammed by Society.
October 30, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Censor, Film & Lit Board Reviews, Human Dignity, Moral Values
In the light of the release of new coroners’ figures on suicide rates, the Society is slamming a unanimous decision by the 8-member Film and Literature Board of Review to support the public availability of a sick book that provides step-by-step methods of how to commit suicide and assist others to do so. The book – The Peaceful Pill Handbook – now classified R18 by the Board, is authored by an elderly Australian zealot, obsessed with seeking notoriety for himself – via his his culture of death propaganda message and his exploitation of weak and vulnerable people who he convinces to fly to Mexico to obtain an illegal suicide drug he promotes in his book and at his fee-paying seminars.
The Dominion Post (25-26/10/08) reports:
“More people [in New Zealand] took their own lives than died in road crashes in the past year, new coroners’ figures show. In the year to the end of June, 511 suicides were reported to coroners – 1.4 self-inflicted deaths a day…. Chief coroner Judge Neil MacLean said … Raw data about suicides was ‘rather shocking’… [As a comparison] There were 422 road deaths last year.” (See link to full report below).
The Society wants New Zealanders to know the names of the Board members who, by their decision, have released a publication into circulation that advocates for and promotes suicide. The members involved in the decision were: Claudia Elliott (President), Dr Jo Baddeley (Deputy President), Judy Callingham, Judith Fyfe, Dr Ian Lambie, Mark Andersen, Andrea Haines, and Ani Waaka (All were recommended for appointment by the Labour-led government Minister of Internal Affairs). The Board upheld the R18 classification issued earlier by the Chief Censor’s Office.
Reference:
Dominion Post 25-26 October 2008
Suicide toll surpasses road deaths
by Lane Nichols
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4738796a20475.html
Society applies a second time for Interim Restriction Order against Dr Death’s book
June 27, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Human Dignity, Pro-life
Copy of second application to Board President – Ms Claudia Elliott, dated 27 June 2008
Thank You Ken Orr & Right to Life
June 19, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Abortion, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Pro-life, Uncategorized
You Tube Video posted in appreciation by an admirer
See: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=-9JTow-oumY
Also see: Abortion – High Court decision
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=z1k8u5zDTWw
The Case brought by Right to Life against the Abortion Supervisory Committee has highlighted that:
Lindsay Perigo’s speech that ‘launched’ Dr Death’s book
June 14, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Censor, Human Dignity
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’.
Society confident of ban on The Peaceful Pill Handbook
June 13, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Film & Lit Board Reviews, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Pro-life
Media Release 13 June 2008
The Society is confident that The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New Revised International Edition) co-authored by Dr Phillip Nitschke (dubbed ‘Dr Death’ by the media) will be banned by early next week by the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, in response to its application for an interim restriction order. The deadline for submissions from interested parties in respect to the Society’s application passed today Friday 13 June at 12.00 pm. (See below for Society’s latest submission).
Society President Angry over Pro-Abortionists’ Crimes and Deception
June 11, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Abortion, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Violence
Press Release 11 June 2008
Society president John Mills is very angry and says: “In the Silent Screams DVD promoted on our Society’s website (www.spcs.org) an unborn child is torn apart without anaesthetic. Someone needs to be held to account for such brutal murders carried out every day in New Zealand with taxpayers’ funding. By far the most dangerous place to be in New Zealand is inside your mother’s womb. I expect the anti-smacking brigade, who are so opposed to child abuse, would wholeheartedly agree with me on this issue!”
Angry women’s health advocates such as Women’s Health Action Trust director, Jo Fitzpatrick, and Family Planning chief executive, Jackie Edmond, are quoted in today’s NZPA report (Dom Post 11/06), as rejecting anti-abortion lobbyists’ claims that New Zealand effectively has “abortion on demand”. And yet this is exactly what a High Court judge’s ruling, made public yesterday, suggests, and backs up what Dr Christine Forster, Chairperson of the Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) has conceded.
“Certifying consultants were using mental health grounds to provide abortion on demand and that she did not believe that all these had a mental health problem”. (Front page article Sunday Star Times in November 2000)
Application for Interim Restriction Order Against The Peaceful Pill Handbook by ‘Dr Death’ [Nitschke]
June 9, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Announcement, Human Dignity, Moral Values, Pro-life
On 5 June 2008 the Society made an application to the President of the Film and Literature Board of Review, Ms Claudia Elliott, for an Interim Restriction Order under s. 49 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), with respect to The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New International Revised Edition), coauthored by Dr Philip Nitschke. See letter of application below…
Gay, Giggly, Liberal Reverend who Promotes A Culture of Death (Assisted Suicide): Seeks Martyrdom
May 21, 2008 by SPCS
Filed under Human Dignity, Moral Values
‘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.
Public Address: Lessons From the Life of William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833)
July 27, 2007 by admin
Filed under Human Dignity, Moral Values
Public Address:
Friday Evening 15 June, 2007
Delivered by Society Executive Director David Lane
The Grand Hall at Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington
“Let us Now Praise Famous Men” Ecclesiasticus 44:1
This year marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and all its colonies. 200 years ago on the 25th March 1807, William Wilberforce MP, a committed evangelical Christian who had first introduced his bill to abolish the slave trade in 1788, witnessed the British parliament enact the Slave Trade Act. He bowed his head and wept for joy when the result of the vote was announced in the House. For 18 years he had persisted in introducing anti-slavery motions before parliament without success, enduring sustained apathy, derision and insult from his many opponents. In fact, at one point he was referred to as the “most hated man in England”. At first, he stood almost alone. However, Methodist evangelist John Wesley and Rev. John Newton, former slave-ship owner and author of the enduring hymn, “Amazing Grace”, both encouraged him, along with many other evangelical Christians. Newton told him: “The Lord has raised you up to the good of His church and for the good of the nation”.
Society Disgusted by Website Attacks on NZ Teachers
July 25, 2006 by admin
Filed under Human Dignity, Moral Values
Press Release 19 July 2006
The Society is disgusted that many New Zealand secondary school teachers (all named) are being subject to a range of personal attacks and abuse on a new website where New Zealand students are encouraged to rate their teacher’s ability and post anonymous comments. The Secondary Teachers Union (PPTA) has also expressed disgust at the growth of this expoitative and pernicious website that has already attracted 165,000 visitors and 80,000 ratings on more than 18,000 teachers at nearly 1500 schools, since it began last month. Howerever, it says it is powerless to close it down and will only get involved in supporting its members “in cases where the website is being used to terrorise, intimidate or attack them.”
