Section 14

Dr Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook was launched in Auckland yesterday. The censorship threat to this book was mentioned here a couple of weeks ago.

The launch featured a speech by Lindsay Perigo, available from Not PC (MP3, 5.5 MB, 24 min), in which he vigorously defends of freedom of speech. He labels politicians and priests history’s greatest enemies of free speech and discusses the views of some of those we remember as advocates of free speech.

Hat tip: Not PC.

UPDATE 13/2/07: The Dominion Post reports (p A3) that Dr Nitschke is voluntarily taking a copy of the book into the Office of Film and Literature Classification today on the understanding that chief censor Bill Hastings “wanted to review its contents”.

95bfm has an interview between Dr Nitschke and Mikey Havoc (MP3, 16 min), that also touches on censorship and free speech. He mentions that Exit International has shifted its website to New Zealand because Australia has banned discussing suicide over the phone and on the web.

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