From:
The Fatherhood Coalition [mailto:FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]
On
Behalf Of Barbara C. Johnson
Sent:
Saturday, August 20, 2005 8:43 PM
To:
FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject:
Re: Dad climbed Federal building !
-- correction
A beautiful series
of emails, Mark.
You are correct.
The question is now, How long will
it take for everyone to be turned
into salt?
Mark Charalambous wrote:
Have you by any chance seen
the latino day-time TV equivalent
of Springer et al? It's
truly amazing. The bouncers always
stand behind the (seated) man and
physically restrain him while the
women take turns slapping, punching
and otherwise assaulting him.
The sheepish men try to protect themselves
in the only way they can-- they put
their heads as far down as they can,
and move from side to side. At least
the bouncers allow them this freedom
of movement. It is truly unbelievable.
The wheels came off sometime ion the
70s, and without some kind of revolution
on the part of (heterosexual) men,
it is now impossible to predict what
our society will look like twenty,
ten or even 5 years in the future.
We are spiralling into a black hole
with no morality floor in sight.
In my opinion, our society simply
cannot continue to exist in this way
-- and I don't believe it will.
Bob wrote:
I
agree completely. One reason is even
news has become entertainment, fighting
for ratings is the priority or profits.
Leading news people have been expressing
concern about this for some time.
The same thing happens in TV programming.
Shows that coddle women and show constant
examples of women being empowered
(while topping and ignoring men –
or “dissing” them completely)
are funded and do fairly well. Men
do not object that much and women
love this stuff. Look at Alley McBeal
and other women centric shows that
essentially get all their laughs at
the men’s expense, making all
men look incompetent, unfaithful or
just plain dumb and all women look
“right” (even though silly
often times). Sometime men are laughing
at the stupidity of the women, while
the women are relating to that behaviour
and the women are made to be the hero’s
in the end (neurotic behavior and
all).
The advertisers know women do most
of the purchasing and therefore target
them. They also know men as unlikely
to object, organized boycotts and
other activities. When we do this
kind f stuff they will have to change.
Until we do we are the second class
citizen.
This is fundamental in all of today’s
media and few are swimming against
this tide. Bob
From:
The Fatherhood Coalition [ mailto:FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]
On
Behalf Of Mark Charalambous
Sent:
Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:26 AM
To:
FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject:
Re: Dad climbed Federal building !
-- correction
Mistake in my posting. I said:
"The Riverdance show, from which
Michael Flatley left to form Riverdance,
was culturally inclusive."
I meant, "The Riverdance show,
from which Michael Flatley left to
form Lord of the Dance, was culturally
inclusive."
Mark Charalambous wrote:
I believe there's something more fundamental
at work in the media. There
exist what I call certain "imperatives"
that guide what is reported as newsworthy.
Key amongst these are the very visible
social engineering political correctness
imperatives. They revolve mainly around
"gender" politics and race.
W/r to the "gender" politics
imperative, stories that illustrate
the victimization of women (as a class)
by men are newsworthy. A note
posted here yesterday (?) a "news"
story about a father in a custody
battle who was awarded custody.
Why is this newsworthy? If it
came from our perspective, one could
understand it. But it doesn't; rather,
it serves as an illustration of a
presumed bias against mothers in custody
battles, that the media wants the
public to believe.
The second gender imperative is linked
with the first: the promotion of homosexuality.
News stories that ostensibly cast
homosexuality or homosexuals in a
positive light will always be selected
by the editors. Likewise, stories
that point to persecution of homosexuals
by heterosexuals will also be newsworthy.
Conversely, stories that reflect badly
on homosexuals are not newsworthy.
What has happened with the revelations
of homosexual pedophilia in the Catholic
church does not fit simply into this
matrix, because there are strands
at cross-purposes. There is one imperative
directed at weakening Christian beliefs,
and one that works _with_ it to demonize
men in general. But at cross-purposes
is the imperative to promote homosexuality,
and also another one that has not
quite broken through into the mainstream
media yet but is quietly building
its strength in academia and we can
expect to start to notice it anytime
now: the 'normalization' of pedophilia.
Also more overtly at cross purposes
with the anti-Catholic imperative
is the basic pro-homosexual imperative.
This conflict is partially resolved
by the the media presenting the sex
abuse scandal as one of pedophilia
rather than homosexuality. But
regardless, I think you see all I
am trying to say is that the sex abuse
scandal does not fit neatly into the
various media imperatives.
Also consistent with pro-homosexual
imperative: any "news" stories
that support the notion that homosexuality
is a condition of birth and hence
natural. The flimsiest "study"
from some academics that offers further
"proof" of genetic differences
between homosexuals and heterosexuals
will always be reported. The
plethora of studies that contradict
this will NEVER be reported. In fact,
even the notion that homosexuality
is *primarily* learned, adaptive behavior
is simply not allowed to be presented
for fear of allowing the average reader
to actually think about this.
If people understood that homosexuality
is learned behavior, comparisons with
the prohibition against mixed-race
marriages would evaporate -- because
this is a completely bogus comparison
-- and the gay marriage movement would
lose 95% of its moral argument.
Another media imperative is the need
to promote multiculturalism.
People of mixed race get bonus pooints
w/r to their media coverage.
Tiger Woods is exhibit A in this regard.
Of course it goes further than this.
Races other than white are overly
weighted in importance, and in cultural
matters at least, anything all-white
is underweighted. I don't know
if any of you remember the Irish "Lord
of the Dance" shows that were
incredibly popular a few years ago.
The Riverdance show, from which Michael
Flatley left to form Riverdance, was
culturally inclusive. Lord of
the Dance was not. It was purely Irish.
I remember looking for a review of
it in the Globe and smiling to myself
at what I eventually found.
Lord of the Dance was not only white,
but it was uncompromisingly heterosexual.
Beautiful young women, in one part
shedding their skirts and dancing
in their hose. Insanely sexy.
And the dances that included the men
with the women were a picture of TRUE
sexual diversity-- beautifully contrasting
male with female.
Lord of the Dance was magnificent,
and blew away Riverdance in the bottom
line--revenue. But it was politically
incorrect, it did not conform to the
cultural media imperatives, and so
was largely ignored in the Globe and
like media.
I believe these various imperitives
are bedrock deep in the media culture,
and no memos need to be written about
them. They are in fact, unconscious.
The media adheres to them--reporter
and editor alike--with no realization
of their motive force in determining
what gets reported as news.
How does Fathers Rights fit in?
It doesn't. You must understand
that at the fundamental level, the
story of the father who is being harmed
and prevented from parenting his children
is ALSO a story of A WOMAN BEHAVING
BADLY. And since this is happening
to the entire class of divorce fathers,
we are talking about the entire class
of divorcing women (please..
I do not mean that EVERY family breakup
fits this scheme...).
Women's empowerment is probably the
single most powerful of all media
imperatives. The locus of female
empowerment includes her reproductive
"rights" and the money and
power she gains by having custody
of "her" children after
divorce. The locus of women's
power starts at the Family Court and
spreads out from there. This female
empowerment imperative will not permit
any erosion of this power that can
start as a small crack in the damn
and could result in a true loss of
power for women -- which by the way
is absolutely necessary for Fathers
Rights to gain traction. My
equation:
Fathers Rights + Feminism
= 0
Do the math.
Mark Charalambous
James Nollet wrote:
I agree that the liberal press is
biased.
But the liberal press above all loves
stories which have "legs."
When a story has "legs,"
the liberal press will drop its liberal
pretensions because the bottom line
and ratings are what's most important.
Stories have "legs" when
there's something about them which
is spectacular or sexy.
This
is why Fathers4justice in the UK is
successful -- they understand that
pictures of Batman holding up London
Bridge make a story much sexier than
if it were ordinary dads dressed in
a normal fashion.
James
-----
Original Message -----
Sent:
Friday, August 19, 2005 7:35 AM
Subject:
Re: Dad climbed Federal building
!
The liberal press likes to write us
off as being mean and vindictive men
and therefore probably bad people,
but Cindy Sheehan is seen as someone
who is rightfully angry and therefore
justified is saying mean and vindictive
things about President Bush. On
the other hand, John Murtari says
nothing bad about Senator Clinton
and professes to be peaceful and nonviolent,
and he gets no press coverage at all.
To an unbiased observer that would
seem to be unfair since both President
Bush and Senator Clinton, believing
their cause to be right, have supported
causes that have lead to the loss
of their child(ren). This observer
might even conclude that the liberal
press is being hypocritical.
Regards,
Ken
in MD
From:
The Fatherhood Coalition [mailto:FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]
On
Behalf Of Barbara C. Johnson
Sent:
Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:59 PM
To:
FATHERS-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject:
Re: Dad climbed Federal building !
John Murtari has been the bravest Man
in the USA for a long while.
Word of his efforts must be spread wide
and applauded.
Teri Stoddard wrote:
I just got a call from John. He's
still on the structure. The police
are there asking him to come down, but
he won't. The media isn't there
yet.
On
8/18/05, Harry
<hdpham2001@yahoo.com>
wrote:
The
News Release below has details (we
need your help in getting it wide
distribution). We still
don't know if John was
taken into custody or what he might
be charged with. The web
site should have details as they become
available:
http://www.AKidsRight.Org/actionc_syr
TO HELP: Please send a fax or make
a phone call to the Senator's offices
both in Washington and Syracuse. They
are
paying attention to what is going
on here.
You don't have to be a resident of
New York to call her offices.
Syracuse Local rep, Cathy Calhoun,
tel: 315-448-0470, fax: 315-448-0476
Washington Scheduling Office, Lona
Valmoro (Senior
Advisor to the
Senator),
tel: 202-224-4451, fax: 202-228-0121
Most of all, you don't have to express
anger. Just let her staff know that
you care about Civil Rights protection
for families and the Senator should
meet with parent's groups regarding
the need for National reform... Let
them know being a parent is one of
our GREATEST rights. It needs official
recognition and protection.
-------------------- NEWS
RELEASE
-------------------
PARENT CLIMBS ARTWORK AT FEDERAL BUILDING
SEEKING HELP FROM SENATOR HILLARY
RODHAM CLINTON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August
18, 2005
Syracuse, NY (Hanley Federal Building)
- At 2 PM a lone parent, John Murtari,
climbed the 20 foot sculpture in the
Federal Plaza. He unfurled
a banner and also carried pictures
of various parents and children. The
message was "Senator Clinton
- Please help us!" He
was not dressed as a superhero, but
wore a white shirt & tie and represented
the group AKidsRight.Org . He
spoke of the need for Family Law reform
and protecting the Civil Right of
mothers, fathers, and children to
be secure as family. A
need to control the ease ofparent/child
splits that presently occur due to
divorce, separation, or the actions
of social services.
The group hopes that a local meeting
between group members and Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) may
be near. Local and national
members have been calling and faxing
the offices of Senator Clinton regarding
the recognition and protection of
their Civil Right to raise their own
children.
The group hopes this simple act will
demonstrate their love for the kids
and their deep convictions that serious
reform is necessary. The
National Parent's group (AKidsRight.Org
) is attempting to use the methods
of Martin Luther King in its search
for reform. The Group would
like Senator Clinton to respond to
their petitions for Congressional
Hearings into the need for National
Family Law reform and potentially
a Family Rights Act, by meeting with
local parents.
The Group's web site highlights the
NonViolent philosophy and practice
Martin Luther King used to break the
grip of segregation. It
hopes a similar attitude will help
bring reform and also healing to parents
who are often involved in bitter child
custody disputes with each other or
social services. If the nation can
observe loving mothers and fathers
making personal sacrifice to call
attention to their unjust separation
from their children - positive reform
can happen.
Mr. Murtari, a native of Lyons, New
York and a former Air Force pilot
and Academy graduate is a local coordinator
for the group. He is the
President of a small Internet startup
company located in Baldwinsville,
NY.
In contrast to the bitterness and
anger which is normally associated
with protest efforts and family issues
-- Murtari plans a positive attitude. He
says they are NOT there
to condemn Senator Clinton as a "bad
person" or as someone who doesn't
care about family or children's issues;
however, as a natural part of the
political process they want to show
their concern over the issue and to
increase her sensitivity to their
cause. The Group is hoping for Congressional
Hearings into Family Law reform so
that group members affected by the
present patchwork of laws across the
nation will have a chance to tell
their stories.
For more information:
John Murtari, Group coordinator, (office:
315-635-1968,x-211).
Mr. Richard Southwick, Asst US Attorney
Northern
District of NY:
315-448-0672
Mr. Charles Keller, SU Law School
Prof. familiar with case:
315-443-9552
Ms. Cathy Calhoun, Regional Rep. for
Senator Clinton:
315-448-0470
Background information at the web
site:
www.AKidsRight.Org
-------------------------------------
John Murtari
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The judicial system is very broken.
It must be fixed.
There are four people who can do the
job:
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and
Nobody.
Everybody thinks Somebody will surely
do it.
It is a job Anybody can do. But Nobody
is doing it.
At least I'm trying. What are you
doing?
"Women are not men's life partners,
but rivals favored by law."
Paul Craig Roberts, in "The Wars
We Can't Afford to Lose,"
citing Professor Richard T. Hise,
The War Against Men
--
Barbara C. Johnson,
Advocate of Court Reform and Attorney
at Law
6 Appletree Lane
Andover, MA 01810-4102
978-474-0833
email:
barbaracjohnson@worldnet.att.net
False Allegations:
http://www.falseallegations.com
Participating Attorney:
http://www.lawguru.com/cgi/bbs2/user/browse.shtml
Campaign 2002:
http://www.barbforgovernor.com
-----
The judicial system is very broken.
It must be fixed.
There are four people who can do the
job:
Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and
Nobody.
Everybody thinks Somebody will surely
do it.
It is a job Anybody can do. But Nobody
is doing it.
At least I'm trying. What are you
doing?
"Women are not men's life partners,
but rivals favored by law."
Paul Craig Roberts, in "The Wars
We Can't Afford to Lose,"
citing Professor Richard T. Hise,
The War Against Men |