If
Republicans are looking for a way
to return to their principles of
limited government and reduced federal
spending, a good place to start
would be rejection of the coming
reauthorization of the Violence
Against Women Act sponsored by Sen.
Joe Biden, D-Del. It's a mystery
why Republicans continue to put
a billion dollars a year of taxpayers'
money into the hands of radical
feminists who use it to preach their
anti-marriage and anti-male ideology,
promote divorce, corrupt the family
court system, and engage in liberal
political advocacy.
Accountability is supposed to be
the watchword of the Bush administration,
but there's been no accountability
or oversight for the act's spending
of many billions of dollars. There
is no evidence that the Violence
Against Women Act has benefited
anyone except the radical feminists
on its payroll.
The Senate Judiciary Committee,
which is gearing up for a battle
royal over the Supreme Court vacancy,
has scheduled a hearing on the act
for mid-July. It's apparently designed
as a be-nice-to-Biden-before-the
court-fight event, since no critic
has been invited to speak.
Let's have a reality check. The
Violence Against Women Act's gender-specific
title is pejorative: it's based
on the false, unscientific, unjust
and blatantly offensive premise
that men are innately violent and
abusive toward women, making all
women victims of men.
The president of Harvard University
was publicly pilloried for months
earlier this year for implying innate
differences between men and women.
But the act is spending a billion
dollars a year to inculcate that
very notion in the minds of men
and women who are having marital
difficulties, as well as police,
prosecutors, psychologists and family
court judges.
Feminists staged tantrums at the
suggestion of innate math-aptitude
differences between men and women,
but the whole premise of the Violence
Against Women Act is that men have
an innate propensity to violence
against women. It's not because
some are bad individuals or drunks
or psychologically troubled, but
because men want to keep women subservient
in an oppressive patriarchal society.
The Violence Against Women Act was
passed using such bogus statistics
as "a woman is beaten every
15 seconds" and "80 percent
of fathers who seek custody of their
children fit the profile of a batterer."
Remember the Super Bowl hoax, the
ridiculous claim that "the
biggest day of the year for violence
against women" is Super Bowl
Sunday? It's an assertion conclusively
refuted by Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers'
research.
The Violence Against Women Act comes
out of Andrea Dworkin's tirades
of hate such as, "Under patriarchy,
every woman's son is her betrayer
and also the inevitable rapist or
exploiter of another woman."
The act comes out of Gloria Steinem's
nonsense, such as "the patriarchy
requires violence or the subliminal
threat of violence in order to maintain
itself."
Here is some mischief in act-funded
activities that should be investigated
in the coming Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing.
The act refuses to provide any help
whatsoever for male victims of domestic
violence. Let's hear from professor
Martin Fiebert of California State
University at Long Beach who compiled
a bibliography of 170 scholarly
investigations, 134 empirical studies
and 36 analyses, which demonstrate
that women are almost as physically
abusive toward their partners as
men.
The act encourages women to make
false allegations, and then petition
for full child custody and a denial
of all fathers' rights to see their
own children.
The act promotes the unrestrained
use of restraining orders, which
family courts issue on the woman's
say-so. This powerful weapon (according
to the Illinois Bar Journal) is
"part of the gamesmanship of
divorce" and virtually guarantees
that fathers are expelled from the
lives of their own children.
A woman seeking help from an act-funded
center is not offered any options
except to leave her husband, divorce
him, accuse him of being a criminal
and have her sons targeted as suspects
in future crimes. The Violence Against
Women Act ideology rejects joint
counseling, reconciliation and saving
marriages.
The act denies that alcohol and
illegal drugs are a cause of domestic
violence, a peculiar assumption
contrary to all human experience.
In fact, most domestic violence
incidents involve those components.
The act uses a definition of domestic
violence that blurs the difference
between violent action and run-of-the-mill
marital tiffs and arguments. Definitions
of abuse can even include minor
insults and refusing to help with
child care or housework.
The act funds the re-education of
judges and all law enforcement personnel
to teach them feminist stereotypes
about male abusers and female victims,
how to game the system to empower
women, and how to ride roughshod
over the constitutional rights of
men.
The act forces Soviet-style psychological
re-education on men. The accused
men are not given treatment for
real problems, but are assigned
to classes where feminists teach
shame and guilt because of a vast
male conspiracy to subjugate women.
The Violence Against Women Act-funded
centers engage in political advocacy
for feminist legislation such as
the "must-arrest" laws
even if there is no sign of violence
and even if the woman doesn't want
the man arrested, and political
advocacy against non-feminist legislation
such as shared parental rights.
It's time to stop the act from spending
any more taxpayers' money to promote
family dissolution and fatherless
children.
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WHERE THE TRUTH CONTINUES.....
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http://www.shatterdmen.com/
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say will be misquoted,
then used against you.
The NOW, through
VAWA has established a Government
approved system of wholesale "Battering"
of fathers. Women join with this
destructive to children element
and Batter their husbands. They
use deciet and issue false dometic
violence claims. Use the courts
to aid in emotional abuse against
the father, depriving the children
of him.
This pattern
of battering was seen within the
rise of nazi germany, and now we
have it here in America. Destroying
children, breaking apart families.
Lets put the
"sacredness", mutual respect,
love and trust back into "family".
Let us encourage the "commitment"
to the vows taken. Let us lower
the divorce rates and curb teen
pregnancy by reinstituting those
principles of family, because the
first and best line of defense for
a child is an intact family.
A woman should
conduct herself as a "lady".
Simply speaking : Don't act like
a "tramp in heat".
So does the right to be a "cock
tease" compare to "male
privilege".
Sexual restraint
is a positive character trait. Monogamy
is of the highest value to hold
dear.
Abuse happens
from both sides. Men are not always
the bad guy, women can be just as
mean, vindictive, and emotionally
abusive. Remember the girl in school
who would cock tease a couple of
guys, then get them into fighting
"over" her.
The below article
is classic Radical feminist spin.
what fails to be considered is that
women can do wrong, can and do abuse
emotionally and physically, betray
with infidelity. it goes both ways.
Wes
Collins
Ky Alliance
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 15,
2005 5:46 PM
Subject: What is Battering?
http://www.ncadv.org/problem/problem.htm
What is Battering?
Battering is a pattern of behavior
used to establish power and control
over another person through fear
and intimidation, often including
the
threat or use of violence. Battering
happens when one person believes
they are entitled to control another.
Assault, battering and domestic
violence are crimes.
Definitions: Abuse of family members
can take many forms. Battering may
include emotional abuse, economic
abuse, sexual abuse, using children,
threats, using male privilege, intimidation,
isolation, and a variety
of other behaviors used to maintain
fear, intimidation and power. In
all
cultures, the perpetrators are most
commonly the men of the family.
Women are most commonly the victims
of violence. Elder and child abuse
are
also prevalent. Acts of domestic
violence generally fall into one
or
more of the following categories:
Physical Battering - The abuser’s
physical attacks or aggressive
behavior can range from bruising
to murder. It often begins with
what is
excused as trivial contacts which
escalate into more frequent and
serious
attacks.
Sexual Abuse - Physical attack by
the abuser is often accompanied
by,
or culminates in, sexual violence
wherein the woman is forced to have
sexual intercourse with her abuser
or take part in unwanted sexual
activity.
Psychological Battering -The abuser’s
psychological or mental violence
can include constant verbal abuse,
harassment, excessive
possessiveness, isolating the woman
from friends and family, deprivation
of physical
and economic resources, and destruction
of personal property.
Battering escalates. It often begins
with behaviors like threats, name
calling, violence in her presence
(such as punching a fist through
a
wall), and/or damage to objects
or pets. It may escalate to restraining,
pushing, slapping, and/or pinching.
The battering may include punching,
kicking, biting, sexual assault,
tripping, throwing. Finally, it
may
become life-threatening with serious
behaviors such as choking, breaking
bones, or the use of weapons.
RADAR ALERT:
VAWA Violates the Civil Rights of
2,000 Americans Every Day
Equal protection
under the law. Due process. Innocent
until proven guilty.
Those principles,
enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,
are foundations of a free and
just society. And those concepts
are routinely violated every day
by the Violence Against Women
Act. Each and every day in the
United States, over 2,000 Americans
have their civil rights violated
by VAWA.
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These persons include over 750
male victims of severe partner
assaults every day – who dont
seek service because they know
they will be turned away. Or
worse, they fear they will be
accused of the very crime that
they were just subjected to.
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These persons include over 1,250
men – and sometimes women –
who are evicted from their homes
on the basis of a restraining
order that does not even allege
violence.
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These persons include an uncounted
number of persons accused of
partner assault who are unfairly
arrested as a result of mandatory
arrest policies.
As a result,
families are broken up and children
are removed from their fathers.
In short, the
Violence Against Women Act represents
a grave threat to persons civil
rights and to the family structure
of America.
On March 20,
19 organizations around the country
will be coming together to launch
a major public education campaign.
The five-week campaign will consist
of a series of Special Reports
that will document:
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How VAWA harms families, children,
men, and women
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How VAWA programs discriminate
against male victims
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How restraining orders are widely
abused
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How mandatory-arrest policies
violate basic principles of
justice
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How VAWA policies have biased
the prosecution and adjudication
of DV cases
For this Campaign
to be successful, we will be calling
on persons to pass along the Special
Reports to media contacts, friends,
and others. We would like to invite
you to participate.
To make sure
you get the vital Campaign information,
please sign up for our E-lerts.
It just takes a few seconds:
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Go to
http://www.mediaradar.org.
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Type in your email address in
the E-lert box in the left hand
column
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Hit the Subscribe button.
Its that easy!
Its time to get
the truth out about the Violence
Against Women Act – how it shamelessly
disregards civil liberties and
routinely breaks up families –
sign up for the E-lert list now!
Date of RADAR
Release: March 12, 2006
R.A.D.A.R. –
Respecting Accuracy in Domestic
Abuse Reporting – is a network
of concerned men and women working
to assure that the problem of
domestic violence is treated in
a balanced and effective manner.
http://www.mediaradar.org.
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