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Larry Baldock and Sheryl Savill have launched their Petition for a CIR (Citizens Initiated Referendum) on two questions concerning the criminalisation of smacking as part of good parental correction, and the need for the Government to give urgent priority to understanding and addressing the real causes of child abuse in NZ.
Please make sure you print the information sheet as well and acquaint yourself with those instructions:
CLICK here to download the CIR Petition Form and information and response sheet
Some Normal Families caught up with Police and CYFs since Section 59 amended
Some child abuse cases in New Zealand since Section 59 amended
29 October 2007 - Family Integrity #300 -- Letter from traumatised mum
28 October 2007 - School dobs mum to CYF for hand smack
25 May 2007 - Family Integrity #260 -- Royal Assent has been granted
MP’s to Vote on “Most Extreme Anti-Smacking Law in World” - Expert
Click here for the names and email addresses of those MPs who need to be targeted over Sue Bradford's Anti-Smacking Bill
http://www.familyfirst.org.nz/files/MPs%20to%20target%20re%20smacking.xls
Hansard - 16 May 2007 - 3rd reading Section 59
Section 59 {Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill}
Research from Robert E. Larzelere Ph.D.
Smack could be reported to CYFS police tell mother
14 May 2007 - Family Integrity #249 -- Section 59: Police and CYFs are not to be trusted
Response to Bradfords latest form email
14 May 2007 - Turner to oppose Bradford Bill - Read what she says about CYFs
Summary of Timaru Riding Crop cases
Section 59 defence thwarts attempt to split family - 26 March 2007 - Society for the Promotion of Community Standards
Removal of S. 59 Defence Will Split up Families - 23 March 2007 Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc - Press Release
In Committee - 14 & 28 Mar 2007/2 May - 2nd Reading of Section 59 plus committee stages
SEE OUR NEW BROCHURE: Kiss Your Children Goodbye (if section 59 is repealed ... or replaced)
Hear an interview with Ruby Harrold-Claesson 26 February 2007 - down bottom of the page where it says: CLICK HERE to download Monday's interview
Speeches on Parliament's steps 28 March 2007
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Good Parents Made Criminals Sometime This Year?
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Domestic discipline-"Every parent of a child...is justified in using force by way of correction towards the child, if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances." Section 59 of the Crimes Act.
The Select Committee's proposed substitution amendment of Section 59 will effectively repeal all parental authority and make all parents criminals by definition, whether they are prosecuted or not.
The aim of this substitution amendment is to remove from parents the legal right to use 'reasonable force' to correct their children. Any force used to correct children will, after amendment, fall under the law regarding assault. Assault is a criminal activity. As children cannot be corrected without the use of 'force' of some sort, any parent who corrects their child will commit a criminal act by doing so and thus by definition be a criminal.
Sue Bradford does not need another bill to criminalise parents. The Committee's proposed amendment does that for her. Nor is her claim she does not intend to criminalise parents, credible. The explanatory notes to her bill show that that is precisely her intention. Nor is her claim that police won't prosecute all parents - as though prosecuting some parents is a matter of no consequence! It is not the prosecution of a person that makes them a criminal, but the person's committing of criminal acts. Bradford intends to make correcting children a criminal activity, and thus all parents criminals.
Are Parliamentarians so out of touch with reality that they want to turn all parents into criminals? Surely not! However, unbelievable as it may sound, about half of them are!
Bob McCoskrie on Newstalk ZB with Larry Williams
Bob McCoskrie on National Radio
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* TWO SUCCESSIVE POLICE COMMISSIONERS HAVE AFFIRMED THAT, SHOULD SECTION 59 BE REPEALED, WHAT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED TO BE REASONABLE FORCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CORRECTION, EG. SMACKING, WILL BE CONSIDERED ASSAULT BEFORE THE LAW, AND HENCE, OPEN TO PROSECUTION. Click on link below to see their responses:
/members/846699/uploaded/C_with_C_of_Police.pdf
* You have got to read this devastating critique of the pro-repeal lobby's "arguments". It wipes them off the map.
By Fear and Fallacy by Michael L Drake
* To read an excellent article on the Smith Family's own story in a recent issue of The Listener click on the link below:
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3463/features/7079/love_correction.html>
* There is still much more that we want to do to keep the momentum going between now and 2 May, when the Bill might next come before Parliament for its second reading. As we seek to keep up the pressure in our fight against the Crimes Amendment Bill, your prayers, financial contributions and moral support will continue to be most welcome.
This bill to repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act puts parental authority at stake!
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