FI – 258-261 – Family Integrity

31 May 2007 – Family Integrity #261 — Things to come

Dear Friends,

This is the kind of thing (see story below #1) I suspect we’ll see a lot more of now that the state has established a beachhead in each of our living rooms to tell us we cannot correct our children if they don’t want to be corrected. Helen Clark said a while back she doesn’t mind marginalising Christians (see below #2). The problem is, most people agree with her since the media have been successful in demonising all Bible-believing or fundamentalist Christians as if they are the West’s version of Osama Bin Laden. They conveniently forget, and we Christians are generally too polite to sound our own horns, that we are virtually alone in trying to protect the unborn, in wanting more adoptions, in signing up as foster parents; we are disproportionately represented in fights against the evils and excesses of homosexuality, civils unions, prostitution, alcohol and drug abuse and gambling and abortion; we are over volunteer organisations and the Bible specifically commands us to help the poor and needy, which means there is far more help going on that is totally unseen and unrecognised. We are not the only ones involved in these things, but without the Biblical mandate to do these things, secularists would have no logical reason and don’t have any moral reason to do so…unless they borrow from Christianity, which we are quite happy for them to do.

Regards,

Craig Smith

#1
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4078437a11.html
Answer sought to MPs’ prayer
By TRACY WATKINS – The Dominion Post | Thursday, 31 May 2007

Parliament’s daily prayer is in the spotlight as MPs are being asked to decide whether it should be abandoned or rewritten.

Before each sitting day, MPs bow their heads for a prayer in which they vow their loyalty to the Queen, and promise to lay aside their private and personal interests and promote the maintenance of true religion and justice, before ending with reference to “Jesus Christ Our Lord”.

Speaker Margaret Wilson has written to MPs asking whether the prayer should be continued and, if so, whether the wording needs an overhaul.

The timing of the move may be seen as provocative, after a backlash from some Christian quarters over Government support for the child-discipline bill.

This week’s interfaith dialogue at Waitangi has been marred by protests over a statement that New Zealand has no state religion.

However, there may be little stomach among MPs for a change, with some suggesting that Parliament has more important business.

One Labour MP said the prayer had been recited for more than 100 years, and there seemed to be no pressing need to change it.

National MP Bill English said the prayer should be kept.

“It’s part of the tradition of Parliament unbroken since it started, and it’s the only time of the day that politicians are forced to think about something besides themselves.”

Green MP Keith Locke said the prayer was outdated and did not represent the views of a substantial proportion of society.

#2
This is Helen Clark being interviewed by sodomites and printed in the Express newspaper, 11-24 February 2004:

Q: Is the government worried about the level of homophobia shown by groups of the religious right like the Maxim Institute in New Zealand?

A: We legislated against hate crimes. You just have to keep working over a long period of time on several values in society that does not condone that sort of attitude. I understand that over a long period of time there has been a fundamentalist programme that runs on TV2 on a Sunday morning which is absolutely disgraceful. It’s a very small minority point of view and I think through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance and diversity, you just have to further marginalise such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

Craig Smith
National Director
Family Integrity
PO Box 9064
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Ph: (06) 357-4399
Fax: (06) 357-4389
Family.Integrity@xtra.co.nz
http://www.FamilyIntegrity.org.nz
http://familyintegrity.blogspot.com/

Our Home….Our Castle

if Section59 is repealed – or replaced…
YOU CAN KISS YOUR CHILDREN GOODBYE.
http://www.storesonline.com/members/846699/uploaded/Brochure_-_Kiss_Children_Goodbye_7.pdf

25 May 2007 – Family Integrity #260 — Royal Assent has been granted

25 May 2007 – Family Integrity #260 — Royal Assent has been granted

Dear Friends,

The NZ Governor General gave the Royal Assent to the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill on Monday 21 May 2007.

That means this bill, criminalising parental authority to correct their own children, will become law on Thursday 21 June 2007.

Train your children carefully and very discreetly: ensure they understand that what goes on in your home is not to be talked about outside the home. Ensure your children understand the necessity for your training and correcting of them. Home educate your children. The schools will certainly have “re-education” programmes or new “safety” programmes to help children understand their rights. I’ve talked to parents already here in NZ who say their children have already received this “anti-parent” message from the teachers: that parents are not allowed to force a child to do anything the child doesn’t want to do.

Now in particular, The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) will become more well known. I’ve attached it for your convenience (I can’t add attachmaents so it will be a link just after Craig’s signature). Read the whole thing. But in particular, dwell on Articles 12 through 18. These will be used to allow a child unrestricted or much less restricted access to all forms of media that the child may want to read or watch or listen to — regardless of what you, the parents, think is appropriate — because the child has rights, and these rights are to be protected by law and enforced by the Police and CYFS. These UNCROC articles will allow the child access to all kinds of people you do not approve of. So you don’t want others putting the ideas in your children’s heads: again I say: home educate your children, get them out of the schools. It is not just the teachers putting ideas and being obliged to teach the Party line: it is the other school kids coming from their “homes”, some of which are horrendously dysfunctional, and filling your children’s minds with insane ideas. I’m not stretching things here: read Article 19. They used that article to rewrite Section 59 and criminalise “correction” even though the article talks about violence, injury and abuse. So it’s not just me: you have all seen it happen in the last couple of weeks.

Now, the Children’s Commissioner, Cindy Kiro, said on Wednesday, in relation to the criminalising of parental correction,

“I believe that we have reached a tipping point with regard to political attention to children. We need to address children’s issues using processes that involve all political parties intertwined with traditional party-political policy making systems.”

I’d have to agree: we’ve come to a tipping point, where NZ was tipped over, overthrown by the enemy of freedom, tipped into the cauldron of Marxist totalitarianism. There will be no return without some kind of economic or social or political collapse (as with the old USSR in 1989) and much hardship. She is calling for all political parties to do as National’s John Key did: join with the others to form one group as a new process to address children’s issues. Kiro’s job is to implement UNCROC. So that calls for burying our democratic process and bowing as one to UN pronouncements. This is the kind of thing that will make New Zealand an unfit place for free people to live.

Michael Reid’s book “From Innocents to Agents” (Maxim Instititute, Auckland, NZ, 2006) says in the final chapter: “Who’s in charge when it comes to children? …[T]hey are no longer innocents living within the protection of their families, but the state has assumed a new authority and controlling interest in their welfare…If the state has an interest in the child, but parents fail to co-operate, the state is justified in superseding parental authority. In New Zealand, the authority for children has definitely moved away from parents and onto an array of advisors.”

Kiro made some other disturbing remarks in a press release from the Childrens Commissioner Office dated 17 May 2007. After congratulating Parliament for passing the bill criminalising parental use of force and commenting on the budget, she said:

The best results occur when we intervene early in the child’s life before problems become endemic, and also when the likelihood of success is greater.”
I believe the establishment of an integrated framework for children and their families would provide a foundation for more co-ordinated strategies. An integrated framework would bring a systematic approach to monitoring the development of every child and young person in New Zealand through co-ordinated planned assessment at key life stages and supporting families to make sure children have the opportunity to reach their full potential,” says Dr Kiro.

This is a reference to her plan to assign a social worker to every child at birth and then comprehensively — and compulsorily — assess every child at 4 points through their school-age years. The assessment will cover: academic, social, physical and psychological/emotional wellbeing. The information will go onto Dr Kiro’s Information Hub and can be accessed by various “professionals” such as police, teachers, social workers, etc., each of whom also places information on the Hub. No, none of this contravenes the Privacy Act, for the Privacy Act only outlines 12 Privacy Principles, not 12 Privacy Laws or 12 Privacy Statutes, and only one of these 12 Privacy Principles can be defended in a court of law! (And that one, by the way, is the one guaranteeing each of us the right and power to approach any organisation in NZ and request a copy of all the information that organisation holds on us.)

So, just as the Children’s Commission and the Families Commission and Save the Children and Barnardos and UNICEF and EPOCH and others all said at the first of the oral submissions to the Parliamentary Select Committee on this Bill to criminalise parental authority to correct their own chidlren, and as they’ve said plenty of times since, this bill is only the first step in a larger strategy…there are yet many steps to take. It is a social engineering process well-known among all politicians. Ruby Harrold-Claesson said in Sweden it is called, “They Tyranny of the Small Steps”.

We must all realise that the many social engineering laws we’ve seen passed by this government are only the beginning. We ain’t seen nothing yet. It will keep decent folks fighting to maintain the status quo, folks and families who are already fully occupied with their jobs and properties and families and really don’t have the time or desire to fight these political battles of defense…and defensive battles of this nature rarely win and then only to face a new defensive battle. And each step will see a bureaucracy established or inflated in size: this anti-parental authority bill will require a larger number of social workers, foster families, lawyers and psychologists as well as more work for the Children’s Commission and Families Commission, and thus more staff for each. These groups become a large voting block who, since they all feed at the government trough, will vote more slops for their trough every time. That’s also part of the social engineering scheme.

Regards,

Our Home….Our Castle

if Section59 is repealed – or replaced…
YOU CAN KISS YOUR CHILDREN GOODBYE.
http://www.storesonline.com/members/846699/uploaded/Brochure_-_Kiss_Children_Goodbye_7.pdf

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC)

21 May 2007 – Family Integrity #259 — World Congress of Families

Dear Friends,

Here is some encouraging news about a world wide movement in the RIGHT direction for a change. You can sign up for regular email updates from this crowd.

Regards,

Our Home….Our Castle

if Section59 is repealed – or replaced…
YOU CAN KISS YOUR CHILDREN GOODBYE.
http://www.storesonline.com/members/846699/uploaded/Brochure_-_Kiss_Children_Goodbye_7.pdf

THE WORLD CONGRESS of FAMILIES

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release: 18 May 2007, Rockford, Illinois

CONTACT: Larry Jacobs at 815-964-5819 or (cell) 513-515-3685 or Don Feder at 508-405-1337

WEBSITES: http://www.profam.org, http;//www.worldcongress.org, http://www.worldcongress.pl or http://www.familymanifesto.net

WORLD CONGRESS OF FAMILIES IV ISSUES WARSAW DECLARATION

At its closing session, the 3,000-plus delegates to World Congress of Families IV (Warsaw, May 11-13) endorsed the Warsaw Declaration – a pro-family credo for the 21st century.

With the family under attack in Europe, the United States and elsewhere, delegates felt the urgent need to set forth basic principles for the international pro-family movement.

The Declaration notes that, “The natural family, creation of God, is the fundamental human community, based on the life-long marriage between a man and a woman, in which new individuals are conceived, born and raised.”

In the words of the Declaration: “Such families bring to the world today:

* Faithfulness to the Divine truth versus relativism;

* Real love, being the complete and impartial gift of oneself, versus hedonism;

* Faithfulness in love throughout life, versus lack of responsibility toward those closest to us;

* Respect for the life of every human being from conception to natural death, versus discrimination against and extermination of the weakest;

* Joyful responsibility for every child-to-be, versus fear of the child expressed in the contraceptive mentality;

* A moral community in which young generations can grow, versus false ideologies propagating demoralization;

* And, last but not least, the ‘springtime’ of a civilization of love and life, versus ‘demographic winter.’”

The Declaration issued a number of calls, including for:

* “Churches and other religious communities to proclaim the truth about life, marriage, and the family ….”

* “Governing and political bodies to mainstream the family in public policy as a fundamental and inalienable social good, in order to serve their own nations.”

* “Health professionals to uphold freedom of conscience and to faithfully safeguard human life, especially when it is weakest and most threatened.”

* “Young people to seek wisdom, to choose life, to preserve their hearts and body, and to grow with a focus on truth and faithful love.”

World Congress of Families International Secretary Allan Carlson noted that, “The Warsaw Declaration does not contain specific policy recommendations but instead offers a broad vision of the natural family as ‘the fundamental human community’ and creates a framework for pro-family activism.”

The complete Warsaw Declaration may be found at http://www.worldcongress.org/WCF4/wcf4.dec.htm.

To schedule an interview with Allan Carlson on the Warsaw Declaration or any other aspect of the recently concluded World Congress of Families IV in Poland, contact Larry Jacobs at 815-964-5819 or 1-800-461-3113.

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18 May 2007 – Family Intetrity #258 — Section 59 Petitions campaign: Chch Netball courts, 9am Saturday

Hi Christchurch!

If you can please make the time to meet at The Netball Courts, Hagley Park (off Hagley Ave) Click here for a map at 9:00am on Saturday 19 May , as our plan is to do a big Citizens Initiated Referendum (CIR) campaign.

Our goal for Saturday is 2,000 signatures (200 full sheets), but we expect to exceed this. Please make this a good turn-out by coming, and telling anyone else you know who would be keen.

Let’s make sure that we do get enough signatures to force a referendum, otherwise you’ll be looking back wishing, kicking yourself that you didn’t do more to get rid of this stupid bill. I will be too.

We plan to start off at the Netball courts, Hagley Park. Later, if people are keen, we will head into the CBD, or find another good spot to get more signatures. There will be plenty of people: you don’t have to stand anywhere by yourself, it will be great.

We are going to have some placards, and a table or two.

BRING:
Please try and bring a clipboard, something for people to press on as they sign the petition.
Please also download about 10 or 20 Petition sheets from here, and bring them with you.
Please bring 2 or 3 pens with you as well.
And bring/make some placards if you could. Ideas for signs below. It is important that the wording conveys as much information about what is happening regarding the bill, as is possible.

“The Anti-smacking bill will still criminalise good parents”
“Get rid of Bradford’s anti-smacking bill. Sign Petition here”
“Should a smack as a part of good parental discipline be a criminal offense? No!”
“Sign Petition here to force referendum”

Not only will this Saturday be an important day for the CIR, it is a great opportunity to let the rest of Christchurch know that the debate has not died down.

Please forward this email on to anyone who is interested, to spread the word around.

Please reply to theboybiggles@gmail.com if you do intend to come.

Regards,

—
Andy Moore
http://www.politik.co.nz
section59.blogspot.com

if Section59 is repealed – or replaced…
GOOD PARENTS WILL BE CRIMINALISED

FI – 258-261

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