Media Release
3 March 2004

Say No To Filth Merchants And Weirdos

New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown has called on the Government to stop pandering to the ‘filth merchants’ in society by allowing human excrement to be accepted as cultural contents in Films, Videos and Publications Classification Amendment Bill.

“The Labour Party is pandering to the weirdos by amending classification criteria so that the use of urine or excrement in association with degrading or dehumanising or sexual conduct will not result in a publication being deemed ‘objectionable’,” said Mr Brown.

“I cannot think of anything more objectionable than that sort of activity being shown on film or video and I am horrified that some of the MPs that support this Government are remaining silent.

“Those who prop up this Government should hold their hands up and say ‘enough is enough’, unless of course their real aim is to turn New Zealand into a sick society,” concluded Mr Brown.

ENDS

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