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NZ Press Council
PO Box 1066
Wellington
Dear Sir/Madam
I would like to direct your attention to the enclosed article
with particular reference to the allegation that a 'satanic mail order
business', which is subsequently identified as the Order of the Left
Hand
Path, has links with 'child pornography'.
I wish to hereby lodge a
formal complaint with the Press Council
against the Sunday News, for publishing statements of an odious nature,
without any justification, and which are in fact outright lies.
The claim that NZ police
are 'stunned' by the OLHP's courses I
would also dispute, and have written to Police National Headquarters
in
regard to this (letter enclosed).
Les Wilson, the journalist
responsible for the article Satanism
linked to child porn, uses a most dubious technique of guilt by
associations, and made no attempt whatsoever to ascertain the accuracy
of
his allegations.
My Order and myself have
been linked, by clear implication, with
paedophiles allegedly operating in Christchurch. Any such implication
I
consider to be a vile lie.
The manner in which Les Wilson
has utilized his sources is
extremely selective. Nigel Marriott is quoted as an authority
on Satanic
ritual in connection with the allegations, yet what is not mentioned
by
Wilson is than Mr Marriott had previously stated (on TV3, Nightline
31 Oct
1991) that the OLHP is an 'intellectual movement' of the type that
would
not be likely to indulge in any activities of a morally or legally
suspect
nature.
I am myself a father, and
I am outraged that the Order which I
administer (which is NOT incidentally a 'mail order business') and
with
which I have been publicly identified (by my actual name) on TV3, has
been
associated with alleged activities which are totally abhorrent not
only to
the concepts of the OLHP but to my personal sense of honour and integrity.
I hope that I can obtain,
through the Press Council, at least some
measure of justice in relation to the totally irresponsible journalism
which has associated me with the most odious of activities.
Yours Faithfully
K R Bolton
Encl. Letter to Police NHQ 3 Nov 1991