VAWA clearly violates the 14th amendment and allows men to be arrested on accusations alone and denied due process. Allowing the government to pass laws which violate constitutional rights ( 1st and 14th) makes it easy for the poilice to rough up a leftist journalist like Amy Goodman and throw her in jail just because she is annoying.

When due process is denied, innocent people are punished. Now people like Amy Goodman are experiencing the police state they help promote by supporting the likes of Joe Biden by supporting Obama… She has a paradox on her hands now.

The way the law stands now, Amy Goodman is a criminal. She should be denied due process for getting physical with the police. She should lose her home and assets. The police officer who had to expend engery to restrain her should receive compensation from Amy Goodman. That’s the Joe Biden VAWA way. Que Viva VAWA!

I lost my family this past year. My wife had set the bar of “abuse” so low almost immediately in our marriage that its definition became meaningless. She could terrorize me and our son emotionally, she could hit, push and shove me. She could lie egregiously. But if I so much as said “good morning” in a tone she did not like, she would harrass me or worse. Once, she shoved me back during an argument and I fell and hit my head. As I recovered and began to stand, she attacked me again and I held her wrists. She flailed and thrashed so hard against my gentle grip that her wrists and forearms were bruised. Then she called the police and accused me of abusing her. This kind of scenario is typical. her abuse over eight years escalated to three attempts on my life, the most recent with a pair of butcher knives in the back (that my son witnessed). In a divorce that she filed, she accused me of abuse, took me for everything I have and I have not seen my children in 14 months. I was advised by forensic psychologists that it is better I don’t see her (and them by proxy) as it might jeopardize my children’s well-being seeing her hostile dispostion in response to my presence. I was also advised that had she not abducted our children and absconded to a women’s shelter, she probably would have killed me (give her escalation).

Which brings up another point. Don’t know how many readers are aware of this correlation, but since the aggressive establishment of women’s shelters (as much as workers there may lie and manipulate), the number of husbands killed by their wives has dropped precipitously but the number of wives killed by their husbands has remained about the same during the last 36 years. Still, feminists squawk about how more shelters are needed because the ones we have are not enough. Women’s shelters have probably done more to protect men than women. And women, based upon the observations of Pizzey and others, at shelters are likely much more violent than the men they are leaving. Too bad the courts don’t know all this stuff. But we still dump custody of children into the hands of dangerous women.

She is busy with “branding” herself these days.

Over on more commercial sites….

Well, after all, what you have to sell is just another commodity, right?

Red pajamas and an insouciant off-screen gaze might just do the trick!

You are saying then, that since a few months ago there has been an equal number of “silly ROs” issued…ONE?

“Women, especially SAHM’s are particularly screwed in the divorce courts, so for every man who thinks he’s a target, I’ll find you a woman who has been evicted from her home and is being stalked and harassed because her ex is pouring money to lawyers instead of child support.”

You are saying then, that a man spending money on an attorney causes a woman to be stalked and harassed and evicted? Attorneys where you are must really be criminals.

Just laws ARE on the books, but are being ignored by officials in favor of one gender, due to propaganda by special interests (collectively, the Feminist law Movement)that has driven federal funding that rewards denial of constitutional rights and dissolution families under the guise of “protection for women”. Conflicts of interest are inherent and rampant.

My Protection Order was issued ex parte, without “good cause shown”, as stated law would require. It contained no allegations of violence or threats. My child, who was in my care and custody was taken from me by the police because her mother requested it in the FPO pleading. Due process was ignored. Protected civil liberties were ignored. My daughter’s best interests were ignored through her subsequent isolation from me.

In WV, the judges’ bench book states that the clearest indicator of an abuser is the existence of previous allegations of domestic violence. Most Protection Orders are issued without a hint of any standard of evidence, and at the drop of a hat, and indeed most are based on false or non-existent accusations and intended for leverage in subsequent custody proceedings that follow automatically. It is not uncommon for a man to be falsely accused a number of times. Previous conviction isn’t necessary to “identify” an abuser.

Men in my town have come to take it for granted that if you have children, and you break up with their mother, there is going to be an FPO taken out by her. DV “advocates” guide women through this process free of charge. Often those that guide and advise are law enforcement officers. Men are being made criminals without a shred of process.

Conversely, men who experience threats and violence from female partners face doubt and criticism, and while sometimes granted a Protection Order if the allegations are relevant and believable, are seldom granted temporary custody.

I participate with ACFC and with M.A.W.A.D. Often, when we release information supporting fairness, due process, and the true best interests of children, our research and information is characterized as lies
driven by anger, and a desire to evade supporting our children; sometimes this characterization is made by DHHR representatives, and almost always by people with a vested interest in the Divorce/Child Custody industry.

As long as Federal Law continues to reward and fund dishonorable behavior, we will face an uphill battle.

It is my view that VAWA serves to protect a class of people (female), to the detriment of another class of people (male/everyone else), and is therefore unconstitutional (not to mention redundant).

The industry is so huge, and bias so pervasive, that the goal of reform sometimes seems unattainable; but we continue to “show up”, and march on to the liberated end. It is helpful to know that we are not alone. I’ve enjoyed reading so many wonderful posts.

Life, Liberty, and Access To Our Children!

Deny this, Darleen. Seventy percent of DV charges are either proven false in court or are dropped, meaning that they are flat-out lies. They are most often filed in ex-parte proceedings, which are essentially star chmbers straight out of the Middle Ages. The Constitution is completely ignored because, in essence, the shysters are filing criminal charges under civil law to avoid the civil rights afforded under criminal law!
http://ken454.statesmanblogs.com

More and more men are avoiding marriage. Getting married is like signing a contract that says “From here on, no matter what happens, the man loses and the woman wins.”

Feminists think we are dumb animals, but we are getting less dumb every day.

The state of Texas, meaning police departments, family courts, child protective services, and court appointed home study workers are biased against the man and will go to extreme lengths to protect the female and “a mother’s right to her child” To heck with the Father’s right to his child.

We have laws that say courts are not to consider gender, but what good does the law do when the courts continually ignore that Mommy dearest can and will be abusive. What good are domestic violence laws when police will not listen to witness statements if the witness tends to be from the males family. What good is Childrens protective services if they fail to follow their own rules and regulations when it comes to mommy being the accused. CPS in the state of TEXAS will delay investigations, Has stated there is no law that says you can’t whip your child with a broom stick, says it doesn’t matter what mommy calls her child as long as she says it in a loving voice, one worker stated the mother would have to have the child on the floor kicking his head in and the child be in immenent danger of losing his life for him to consider the mother an abusive parent. Another worker, failed to make contact with the mother for over three months after a report of abuse was filed with the local police dept. and when called upon for not doing a timely investigation, she came back on the reporter (the non-custodial paternal grandmother) and in a vidictive act, after she was removed from investigations filed a ruling of physical neglect against the grandmother and exonerated the abusive mother, not to mention the child had not even been in the grandmother’s home in over 6 months(since the time of the grandmother reporting the abuse to police).

In the state of texas, a woman is allowed to lie to law enforcement, welfare, court officials and all involved about the paternity of her latest, yet when time comes to put up or shut up with a dna test, all of a sudden it becomes her right to refuse one, (after she has smeared the man’s reputation and besmirched his character with all concerned) and she can even tell the judge that she knew it wasn’t his kid in the first place and the judge will overlook her lies.

I can go on and on about my own son’s personal nightmare in trying to have some sort of life, be a father to his child, that at the moment he doesn’t even know where he is, and the hell we have been put through just trying to protect the child from being abused.

Nothing will do any good though til enough children die at the hands of mom, and the judges in our courts get some cahoneys to stand up and rule by the laws that are on the books already. Men please do not take this abuse lying down any longer. Join Forces and stand up for your rights and save your children.