Auckland University Students require urgent assistance,
A group of enthusiastic students are trying to form a Pro Life club on campus, unfortunately the student union is making life difficult. You can read an insightful report (written by a student) about their first meeting and the issues surrounding their club. Please read full report here at http://www.libertyforthepreborn.net.nz/
If you are aware of any students attending Auckland University who may be sympathetic to their cause, feel free to pass this information on.
Our friend in Sweden, lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claussen sent this to us. Please sign this pro-life, pro-family, pro-home education petition and send out through your networks as well.
Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 5:54 a.m. Subject: VB: One Million Names for the Unborn Child
Dear Friends,
I am forwarding this message to you, just in case you haven’t seen it before.
I received it this morning, and when I signed the petition I brought the grand total to 514 429. A minute ago, I visited the site once again, and now the grand total is 517,293 signatures!
Kind regards
Ruby
—-Ursprungligt meddelande—– Från: Austin Ruse [mailto:austin.ruse@c-fam.org] Skickat: den 14 oktober 2009 08:12 Till:board@nkmr.org Ämne: One Million Names for the Unborn Child
October 14, 2009
Dear Friend,
I am writing with some wonderful news. We have relaunched the UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family and in only a few days have received 30,000 signatures.
As you recall, last year we launched this petition, which gathered 467,000 names in just a few weeks. We presented this petition to the UN at a press conference, which was broadcast throughout UN headquarters.
The petition calls for Member States of the UN to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion. It also calls for special protection for the family! These are ideas that are right out of the original Universal Declaration but that have been forgotten over time. We must remind them!
We have relaunched the petition with the view to getting a total of 1 million names by December 1. That’s right; 1,000,000 names to stand up for the unborn child and the family.
A few years ago opponents of the death penalty presented one million names and they received global attention. Certainly, we can get that many for the defenseless unborn child!
I urge you right now to go HERE and sign the petition. You may have signed the petition last year. If so, the system will let you know. The key thing is to send this message to your friends and family and get as many pro-lifers to sign the petition as possible. Even if you have signed this petition already, I urge you to forward this message to everyone you can think of, your entire address book if you feel so called!
Go HERE and sign the petition. And then send this message to EVERYONE!
When you go HERE you will also see the petition is translated into 15 languages! So, if your friends are Spanish, Chinese, German, Croatian, or others, they can read and sign the petition in their own language.
We must show the UN there is global support for the unborn child and the family. Please go HERE and send this message to every pro-lifer you know.
Remember to pray for the success of this good work, too!
Here is an idea about what to say: we totally endorse Larry Baldock’s suggestion of merely repealing two clauses of the current act, rather than pass a new Bill
Here’s what we think needs to happen: until this issue is dead and buried, we need to continue to lobby and stir up the MPs, especially John Key and the leader of the ACT Party, who are part of this Government and therefore have some leverage. Rather than go for a new bill, just repeal bits of the current one, as Larry Baldock suggests below. This is good.
Just another few letters, emails and faxes. Not a big deal. Bob McCoskrie of Family First has been at it non stop for quite a while now. Let’s all join in and really put the pressure on, just a little effort on the part of each of us and the overall effect is very great.
Family Integrity #460 — Before you VOTE in the Referendum consider this:
Greetings
Before you vote in the Referendum please consider these items below.
1. Letter to the Prime Minister asking him to withdraw the Referendum:
In the interests of saving our country most of the estimated $9 million to complete the referendum, Sheryl Savill, the petition proposer, and myself would withdraw the referendum, (as per Sec 22A (1) of the CIR Act 1993) in return for an agreement by yourself to amend the current sec 59 of the crimes Act in the following way.
Delete the following sub clauses from the amended Sec 59,
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) or in any rule of common law justifies the use of force for the purpose of correction.
(3) Subsection (2) prevails over subsection (1),
Barnardos has rubbished a Youtube video posted by a local man about the “anti-smacking” referendum, saying it was a desperate attempt at a smear campaign.
The controversial referendum, to be held between July 30 and August 21, on the so-called anti-smacking legislation, will ask Kiwis to vote yes or no to the question, “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
Porirua resident Renton MacLachlan, who opposes the legislation, posted a political satire about the topic on the popular website Youtube earlier this month.
Supporters of the law, Barnardos, took exception to the video in which Mr MacLachlan conducts an ‘in-depth’ interview with a fictional Barnardos employee (also played by Mr MacLachlan) called Dennis Morris-Traveler, spokesperson for the ‘yes vote’ campaign.
“I’ve been a supporter of parents’ rights to raise their own children for some time,” he told Kapi-Mana News.
“Barnardos and all other organisations like them who support the bill are saying that every parent that has ever smacked their child to discipline them – that’s most parents in New Zealand – is a child abuser. I think for an outfit like Barnardos to step into a public arena and label all these parents child abusers is outrageous.”
The organisation asked Mr MacLachlan to remove the video upon legal advice that its rights had been violated by him purporting to be an employee and expressing views that were not necessarily its own.
Every Child Counts project manager Deborah Morris-Travers, the real spokesperson for the yes-vote campaign, said the video was a desperate attempt to boost the opposition’s campaign.
“We here at Barnardos strongly believe that children should not be harmed and we support the safety of children. We’re not about using dirty, defamatory tactics for our campaign. They know that they’re going to lose this referendum and that this legislation will stay the same. The video is evidence of just how desperate they are really getting.”
Mr MacLachlan rejected her sentiments and said she was “whistling in the dark”.
“Consistently for years 85 per cent of people have rejected their arguments and for her to say it’s a desperate attempt is over the top.” He said Barnardos was one of several organisations he alluded to in the clip and feels they over-reacted.
“It was ridiculous. Anyone with half a brain could see that it was meant as a comedy. Spoof and satire are pretty well covered under freedom of speech law so I went ahead with it.”
Family Integrity #459 — SPCS Media Release: Condomania, S. 59 and YesVote Silence
Forwarded to you by:
Craig Smith
Family Integrity
Sent: Tuesday, 30 June 2009 7:28 p.m. To: spcs.org@gmail.com
Subject: SPCS Media Release: Condomania, S. 59 and YesVote Silence
Scoop News
Condomania, S. 59 and YesVote Silence
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 5:26 pm Press Release: spcs
The Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc. P.O. Box 13-683 Johnsonville
New Zealanders may have forgotten that in 1988 Deborah Morris-Travis, currently spokesperson for the VoteYes anti-smacking campaign, while the then Minister of Youth Affairs, vigorously lobbied to have condom vending machines in all our schools and colleges and in all places where young people gather. She failed in her “condomania bid” as it was referred to. The Dominon Post (30 June) has reported that Board members of a primary school in her sedate seaside hometown of sunny Otaki, have resigned in the wake of the fallout over children as young as 6 and 10 at the school being forced by their teacher to pick up used condoms in the school grounds. Parents are outraged at the failure of St Peter Chanel’s board of management to deal with the condomania scandal and associated health and safety issues involved.
However, it is the use of FORCE for the purpose of correction – in her own sunny ‘backyard’ – that must be of more serious concern to Ms Morris-Travers, her employer Barnardos and her YesVote coalition, given that “the anti-smacking law” they lobby so tirelessly for, at huge financial cost, outlaws the use of any kind of FORCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTION. Surely reports on the use of FORCE by teaches to make Otaki primary school children pick up used condoms as a punishment for misbehaving, failure to complete homework, or whatever; should have prompted the entire Yes Vote Coaliton into action: including Barnardos CEO Mr Murray Eldredge and their spokespeson Ms Morris-Travers.
However, there’s been total silence over this condomania – forced child labour scandal.from the Yes Vote coalition who claim they oppose force being used against children for correcton
Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:37 a.m. Subject: Posted now on Scoop
MEDIA RELEASE
25 June 2009
SPCS
“Barnardos drop legal threat re ‘Vote No’ CIR Video”
A stunning satirical video posted on the YouTube website that lampoons the arrogant, ‘professional’ “we know best” “YesVote” child ‘experts’, who hate the thought of the majority of NZ parents voting “NO!!” to Sue Bradford’s anti-smacking law in the forthcoming CIR, has got up the noses of Barnardos officials. They formally contacted the author and star of the video, a Mr Renton Maclachlan from Porirua, who interviews a fictitious Mr Dennis Morris-Traveler – spokesperson for the Vote Yes lobby group… Barnardos demanded that he immediately remove his offending video from YouTube. They also contacted YouTube directly to try and get the video removed
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 11:21 am Press Release: spcs
25 June 2009
Satirists for Section 59 Debate
“Barnardos drop legal threat re ‘Vote No’ CIR Video”
A stunning satirical video posted on the YouTube website that lampoons the arrogant, ‘professional’ “we know best” “YesVote” child ‘experts’, who hate the thought of the majority of NZ parents voting “NO!!” to Sue Bradford’s anti-smacking law in the forthcoming CIR, has got up the noses of Barnardos officials. They formally contacted the author and star of the video, a Mr Renton Maclachlan from Porirua, who interviews a fictitious Mr Dennis Morris-Traveler – spokesperson for the Vote Yes lobby group… Barnardos demanded that he immediately remove his offending video from YouTube. They also contacted YouTube directly to try and get the video removed.
They followed the initial contact with a lawyer’s letter threatening legal action. The Barnardo’s lawyer said to Maclachlan that her clients’ rights were violated by him purporting to be an employee of Barnardos, to officially speak for it and represent its view. Maclachlan sought legal advice and after an exchange of letters, Barnardos decided to proceed no further.
The YouTube Title and Description for the video are as follows:
NZ Correction Referendum: Vote Yes? No! SATIRE
BEWARE. WARNING. SATIRE. COMEDY. Renton Maclachlan conducts an in-depth, enlightening, and entertaining interview with Dennis Morris-Traveler of Baanaadoze and spokesperson for the Yes Vote campaign…
For those with a more serious frame of mind wanting concise information explaining why they should vote “No” (and NOT “Yes”) in the forthcoming Citizen’s Initiated Referendum (CIR) … view Maclachlan’s other videos on YouTube.
The NZ ‘anti-correction law’ – ‘What it says!’ – your ‘unemotional’ guide to Section 59
‘Renton Maclachlan brings a brief, clear, unemotional, analysis for Kiwis of Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-correction law’. See it for yourself and find out what it means! Be confused no more! And vote ‘NO!’ in the referendum in August!’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxiYobjbeO4
The NZ ‘anti-correction law’ – ‘Why correction is needed.’
‘Renton Maclachlan brings a clear and concise, fast paced, in your face yet unemotional, analysis of the worldviews behind both the old and the new Section 59s.’ http://www…youtube.com/watch?v=HsnT8ul2f28 )
