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Peron to appeal immigration service decision - 7-Jul-2005

The Immigration Service is cancelling the visa of Auckland bookshop owner Jim Peron - who is accused of promoting sexual relations between men and boys. The United States immigrant, who owns the Aristotle bookshop in Symonds St, is now stranded in Germany. He cannot re-enter New Zealand, where he has lived on a business visa since 2001, because he has failed the Immigration Service's "character requirements". Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Authorities move to cancel book seller's visa - 6-Jul-2005

Immigration authorities have moved to cancel the visa of American expatriate book seller Jim Peron. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in March used parliamentary privilege to accuse Mr Peron, an American who came to New Zealand via South Africa, of being a pedophile. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

Peron Paedophilic Publication "Objectionable" - 10-May-2005

The Chief Censor has advised Rt Hon Winston Peters that the publication “Unbound” published by Jim Peron has been classified as “objectionable” because it promotes the exploitation of children and young people for sexual purposes. New Zealand First passed a copy of the publication on to the Department of Internal Affairs several weeks ago. Read the full story/Visit the site - Press Release: New Zealand First Party

Peters' paedophile target hits back - 3-Apr-2005

By HELEN BAIN The man accused by NZ First leader Winston Peters of being a paedophile says he is being crucified for views he expressed 20 years ago and now rejects. Jim Peron was accused by Peters of being a paedophile, and of publishing the magazine Unbound in the 1980s. Read the full story/Visit the site - Sunday Star Times

Boy-love comments rewritten - Peron - 31-Mar-2005

Auckland bookstore owner Jim Peron says an article under his name that appears to defend sexual relationships between men and boys was rewritten and published without his permission. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has produced documentation in Parliament that he says backs his claims that the Auckland-based immigrant is a paedophile. Read the full story/Visit the site - The Press

Peters raises paedophile claims again - 30-Mar-2005

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has produced in parliament what he calls evidence of an Auckland bookstore owner's beliefs and proclivities. Two weeks ago Peters claimed that American Jim Peron uses his shop as a guise to sell pornography, has links to the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and should never have been given a visa for New Zealand. Read the full story/Visit the site - TVNZ

Is Jim Peron telling the truth ? - 30-Mar-2005

Winston Peter's comments under parliamentary privilege that that Jim Peron is a pedophile have now been repeated outside the House by Peters. Peron, a gay man, is a friend of ACT MP Rodney Hide and the head of the Institute of Liberal Values. Peron has continued to deny all the allegations made against him Peron said he had nothing to do with the magazine Unbound, a journal on paedophilia, published by Free Forum Books, the name of his former bookstore. Peron has also said he has not promoted a similar message to the NAMBLA - the North American Man Boy Love Association. Read the full story/Visit the site - Big News with Dave Crampton

Bulletin ‘favoured man-boy sex' - 30-Mar-2005

Auckland bookshop owner Jim Peron published and edited a bulletin containing articles promoting men and boys having sex, Winston Peters claimed yesterday. The New Zealand First leader produced a photocopy of the publication Unbound and several other documents which he said was further evidence to substantiate his earlier allegations that Mr Peron was a paedophile. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald Related Site - Institute for Liberal Values of New Zealand

Immigration-Good Character Requirement - 29-Mar-2005

Questions & Answers for Oral Answer 29 March 2005 Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader-NZ First) to the Minister of Immigration: Why does the New Zealand Immigration Service require, before a New Zealand visa or permit can be granted, an assurance that the applicant and any family included in an application are of good character? Read the full story/Visit the site - Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives

Libertarianz confirms Peron position - 28-Mar-2005

Press Release: Libertarianz Party In response to questions regarding bookseller Jim Peron, Libertarianz leader Bernard Darnton confirms that "Mr. Peron has never been either a member or a supporter of Libertarianz." "He did appear at Libertarianz-sponsored events when he first arrived in New Zealand," notes Darnton, "however I have never met him myself, and there are no formal links between him and Libertarianz." Read the full story/Visit the site - Libertarianz

Independent Gay Forum: Jim Peron - 26-Mar-2005

Profile of Jim Peron from the Independent Gay Forum Read the full story/Visit the site - Independent Gay Forum

The truth about Jim Peron - 26-Mar-2005

The website states: "We are more than happy to identify ourselves. We are not ashamed of the fact that we are saying these things. They need to be said. However, we are not in a position, financially, to defend a defamation suit. We welcome support from anyone who would be willing to contribute to this end, or we would be happy to speak to any lawyer or law firm that would take up this matter should it arise. If any parties are willing to do this, please let us know, and we will readily identify ourselves, so that we can defend these claims in court. The evidence is readily available. This is the truth about Jim Peron, and this is why New Zealand does not need people like this." Read the full story/Visit the site - Anon

David Farrar: Peron update - 25-Mar-2005

David Farrar's Peron Update. Includes some interesting comments from some of the various players defending their position. Read the full story/Visit the site - David Farrar

New Evidence in the Jim Peron Immigration Allegations - 24-Mar-2005

Yesterday morning the Locke Foundation received documentation proving Jim Peron endorsed and defended as a human right, "man-boy" love (paedophilia). Jim Peron's defence of paedophilia was published at the same time the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), with his permission, met in his San Francisco store Free Forum Books. The documentation is in the form of periodical called Unbound, a pro-paedophilia magazine and a complete copy was sent from the archives of the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut USA to the Locke Foundation. Read the full story/Visit the site - Locke Foundation

Peron the Paedophilia Promoter - 24-Mar-2005

The Locke Foundation has completed its part into research on these claims. These are our findings: Jim Peron bought a book store in 1985. NAMBLA was not meeting there or being promoted there until Peron bought it. According to NAMBLA they continued to meet at Free Forum Books San Francisco until just before it was sold. Read the full story/Visit the site - Dagny Taggert

The Peron Allegations: Part Two: The Hall of Mirrors - 24-Mar-2005

With the personalities of some of the New Zealanders investigating a series of allegations into GayNZ.com contributor Jim Peron established (see Part 1 of our story), we can now turn to the burning question at the centre of it all: is there a grain of truth to be found in the ever-growing web of rumour? Read the full story/Visit the site - Gaynz.com News

The Locke Foundation Report on Jim Peron - 23-Mar-2005

New Zealand Locke Foundation (Classical Liberalism) report on Jim Peron Read the full story/Visit the site - Locke Foundation

The Peron Allegations: Part One: The Personalities Emerge - 21-Mar-2005

mongst all the names being bandied about in the wake of the unsubtantiated Jim Peron “gay paedophile” allegations under Parliamentary privilege by Winston Peters, one high-profile character has largely escaped the limelight until now – television/radio political commentator and out gay man Lindsay Perigo. Read the full story/Visit the site - Gaynz.com News

David Farrar: The Jim Peron allegations - 21-Mar-2005

The more details that come out, the more distasteful I find what can only be termed the politics of personal destruction. I know almost all the NZ based players - Jim, Rodney, Lindsay, Matt, Madeleine etc and when this sad affair reaches a conclusion, someone is going to be at the bottom of the heap. Read the full story/Visit the site - David Farrar

Jim Peron: Life a gnawing and consistent dread - 18-Mar-2005

Andy Warhol once said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I don’t recommend it. My 15 minutes, in fact, dragged out for days. But the fame felt more like the Spanish Inquisition. It was, and is, emotionally traumatic. I find myself becoming agoraphobic There is an anxiety, even fear, of going any place public. Will people believe what they heard? Will they even remember accurately what they heard? How will they react? Am I safe? It’s a gnawing, consistent dread. Read the full story/Visit the site - NZ Herald

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