I originally blogged my intrigue they were offering males and suggested they should have named themselves "Danneboys" but this has all gone beyond a laughing matter, I'll have you know.
Tempers flared as businesspeople, property owners and worried parents all spoke of their moral outrage at having a commercial sex premises open shop in the old Public Trust building.
"We have the right to say what happens in our community, we have the right to say what happens in our town," Mr Taylor said. "We have a responsibility to provide a safe environment for our young ones. The standards we walk past are the standards we accept, and if we turn a blind eye to this, then what is going to happen next?"
The brothel would just bring trouble and crime, Mr Taylor said.
"They are offering a gay service as well. Most paedophiles are homosexuals, and you know we don't want to bring that here.
"There were some good men in that building many years ago, men of integrity and expertise. Those men would just about be turning in their graves."
Dannevirke resident Mike Long said it only took the people of Carterton 18 months to drive a brothel out of business in their town.
"It comes down to one thing - money. I think we should name and shame the people that are using the business, then let their partners know."
Gill Allardice, a Dannevirke resident for 30 years, said she would be happy to wait outside the front door and take a personal note of all patrons.
"I will sit outside and do my knitting if I have to." She had already organised a petition and written letters to the New Zealand Rugby Union, demanding its response to the brothel's planned All Blacks- themed bedroom.
After the meeting, she said the idea of a bordello was sleazy and vulgar.
"I've always been a feminist, and it's demeaning to women. We have benefits in New Zealand, you don't have to sell yourself to make money.
Classic Kiwi conservative, socialist, bludger. She doesn't care if people "make money" off the taxpayer-funded benefit system, but she would deny a voluntary exchange of service for a fee because it offends her. Stick to your knitting Mrs Allardice, preferably at home.
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Lindsay,
There was a TV3 piece on Campbell Live last night show with the short version of Ms Bartlett.
The Madam-to-be acquitted herself very fluently during the interview, whilst the god-bothering set delivered their expected set piece sermon.
The hobbit refused to talk one-on-one with the Madam on camera and was last seen in a posse of three shuffling up the High Street.
I too have been blogging on the matter on odd occasions, nice to know the council can only inflict the environmental side of the RMA. Not their oft-stated ultra-conservative moral views.
The whole exercise shows the dangers of voting for Labour.
""They are offering a gay service as well. Most paedophiles are homosexuals, and you know we don't want to bring that here."
I'm pretty sure that according to the Author of the Mindhunter book (who was the FBI's lead profiler on child abduction cases etc) most were straight males, often associated closely with the family.
"Most paedophiles are homosexuals"
I couldn't tell you how many times I've seen this rubbish spouted - unfortunately it's a common misconception in redneck-land. I despair for our country sometimes...
If anyone wonders why ACT has trouble appealing to the public, here's the answer: but she would deny a voluntary exchange of service for a fee because it offends her.
Any sense that there is a difference between selling bread or sex has been completely lost. And fortunately enough Kiwis still have the common sense to sense there is difference.
Berend, it seems to me you are missing the point. Far too many NZers think they have the right to tell their fellow countrymen and women how to think and how to act. Put simply, they don't.
Fortunately, on the question of the oldest profession Parliamentarians of all persuasions finally woke up and realised trying to suppress it didn't work and it made sense to give the suppliers and users of the service the same status of those involved in other trades with appropriate health safeguards.
People like you would prefer to see the trade driven underground where customers and suppliers don't have those safeguards so that the trade in sexual services was far more dangerous than it needs to be. That's dumb.
The message is simple. If you don't like the trade in sexual services, don't buy them. It isn't compulsory.
I agree with Berend.
Lindsay: Ignore the right-wing collectivists whining about how the State has to regulate such things for our own good. Good god, don't they realize that they share precisely the same premises as Helen Clark and the people they despise, they only differ as to the application of those principles but not on the principles themselves.
Barend the Bore shows precisely why National will NEVER be an opposition to Labour. They hold all the same premises. The rest is mere details about how much big government they want and where they want the state to club people over the head.
Berend, Lucyna - the question is what would YOU do. Would you throw in prison a woman or man who has sold their body for sex? It happens all the time in the USA, and as a result prostitution has virtually disappeared hasn't it?
Would you throw in prison a man or woman who has bought sex? Would that include the clients easily identifiable as "desperate" such as those who who are quadraplegics? How about lonely old war veterans with PTSD? If someone wants to sell them sex you want to get in their way?
Blogger Lucyna Maria said...
I agree with Berend."
Golly theres a suprise....one Soul- socialist hypocrite agreeing with another....
Why don't you sickos just come out and declare you hatered of sex and the free will of those who choose to do it in ways that you oppose...?
Richard - unfortunately it's a common misconception in redneck-land.
You are just as guilty of preconceptions as anyone who makes a comment about paedophiles being homosexuals. Or is the irony lost on you?
I'm sure that my neck is a deep crimson as I do not support any of the left wing crap that we get exposed to, and I can assure you that I have never thought that most paedophiles are homosexuals. Whether or not the converse is true I would have never even contemplated, but now you have raised my interest.
James - ever a picture of grace... hope you grow up someday soon. Peace, Anno
nearly a year has gone,brothel closed doors after 3 weeks ,none of you free thinking liberals!!!! listened to me .graI only ever was going to sit and knit not take notes,there was 2 preschools a school and dancing school as neighbours,the name promiscuous girls was a put down for women also I am not part of a god sqUad and I did not appreciate the 'annonymous nasty threatening note not only to me but the disabled woman that had a shop next door .last but not least the 3 prostitutes I met were sad and old and end of line.and quite honestly if the madam had a business plan and hired young attractive girls we'd have really been hard put to make a difference
Gill
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