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T shirts and hoodies that advertise an album for British extreme metal group "Cradle of Filth" and describe Jesus as a profanity were seized from an Invercargill store on Wednesday. Police took away the offending apparel after being asked to do so by Internal Affairs. They visited the store mid-afternoon and seized between 10 and 15 Read more

Profanity hoodies advertise "Cradle of Flith"... Read more]]> T shirts and hoodies that advertise an album for British extreme metal group "Cradle of Filth" and describe Jesus as a profanity were seized from an Invercargill store on Wednesday. Police took away the offending apparel after being asked to do so by Internal Affairs. They visited the store mid-afternoon and seized between 10 and 15 hooded tops and long-sleeved T-shirts with the offending words on them.

Sergeant Brock Davis said the tops would be sent to the department which would decide, after consulting with police, whether the owners of theImpuls'd store which sells them would be charged with any criminal offences.

In 2008 the Censor banned one of these T Shirts. In his judgement Bill Hastings said:
"The injury to the public good that is likely to be caused by the availability of this T-shirt originates from the manner in which it associates an aggressive and misogynistic meaning of the "harsh, brutal and generally unacceptable" word c### with Jesus Christ, and depicts an image of a chaste woman engaging in sexual activity. A fair interpretation of the messages conveyed by this T-shirt is that Christians should be vilified for their religious beliefs, and that women, including chaste and celibate women, cannot stop themselves engaging in sexual activity…" (OFLC No. 800513)

The censor also said the T shirt:

  • Degrades and demeans the woman pictured, and by extension all women,
  • Degrades and demeans the beliefs and values of Christian people, and in particular Catholics.
  • While possibly intended as satirical and anti-religious humour, but overall it has a crude, objectifying and vulgar tone.
  • Degrade and demean Catholic women with a subtext that denigrates Mary by presenting a woman, particularly a nun, in this way.
  • Has a deliberate intention to strip away the respect, honour and status given to women.
  • Contains "aggression and contempt" and has "strong elements of intimidation"
  • Conveys the message that Christians should be vilified for their religious beliefs
  • Has no literary, artistic, social, cultural, educational, scientific or other merit, value or importance.

    • Source

  • www.stuff.co.nz
  • Media Law Journal
  • Image: Google Images
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    Many people were outraged when they read that a woman who had burnt the New Zealand Flag at an ANZAC day ceremony has escaped conviction. "It is extraordinarily hard to defend freedom when it insults something you revere" says Anthony Hubbard. The fuss over the Virgin in a Condom statue at Te Papa was a good Read more

    Freedom to infuriate - Flag burning and Virgin in Condom... Read more]]>     Many people were outraged when they read that a woman who had burnt the New Zealand Flag at an ANZAC day ceremony has escaped conviction. "It is extraordinarily hard to defend freedom when it insults something you revere" says Anthony Hubbard. The fuss over the Virgin in a Condom statue at Te Papa was a good example. Many Catholics took great offence, and seemed to think that people with religious beliefs had a special right not to be offended. This is nonsense."

    "The Supreme Court ruling in favour of flag-burner Valerie Morse "is a splendid thing that will disgust some people. But real freedom must include the freedom to infuriate." said Hubbard

    Valerie Morse an activist who burned the New Zealand flag at an ANZACDay dawn service has had her conviction quashed by the Supreme Court. She was convicted, in Wellington District Court, of disorderly behaviour after her protest near the Cenotaph in Wellington in 2007. The conviction was upheld by the High Court and the Court of Appeal, but Ms Morse challenged that ruling all the way to the country's highest court and yesterday the Supreme Court quashed the conviction.

    Its judgment found that the district court judge had misunderstood the meaning of offensive behaviour. While the five Supreme Court judges differed in their definitions of "offensive behaviour", most believed it had to be capable of "wounding feelings or arousing real anger, resentment disgust or outrage".

    Steven Price, one of Morse's lawyers, says the judges found that protesters "can't be arrested and convicted for offensive behaviour unless the police can show there is a disturbance of public order".

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    Anthony Hubbard Sunday Star Times

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