Posted on 07/17/2005 4:53:44 AM PDT by FreeManDC
In my view, the Violence Against Women Act should be taken as a wake-up call for children and fathers. For all people of good will, the critical reality of the act is that things are not as they seem.
The apparent goal of the law is to protect women from domestic violence. This certainly is a worthy goal and one that no member of Congress can fail to support.
There is, however, a critical hidden agenda. That agenda - buried under the smokescreen of Violence Against Women Act rhetoric - is: (a) the separation of fathers and children; (b) the establishment of matriarchal control over one of society's must fundamental institutions, the family; and (c) the transfer of wealth from men to women.
The key mechanism underlying this agenda is the denial of due process to men following the filing of domestic violence allegations. This denial of due process is why Congress either must sunset or rewrite the Violence Against Women Act rhetoric - or lose votes in 2006.
The hidden agenda is very simple. Under the Violence Against Women Act, any woman can obtain restraining or protection orders against any man under even the most blatantly false of pretenses. This occurs because there is no due process protection for men once the restraining order has been requested in civil rather than criminal court.
Further, these restraining/protection orders are required to be issued even if based only on the claim of how a woman states that she "feels," and not on any evidence of actual abuse.
Once a mother has a restraining/protection order, the father is separated from the children and the house and is obliged immediately to begin supporting the lifestyle of his former wife and children. With the subsequent divorce the mother obtains physical custody of the children more than 87 percent of the time, thus establishing post-divorce matriarchal control of the family. Most men will not believe that this could happen to them.
What makes this scheme so diabolical is that it is men's tax dollars that finance the destruction of their own families and their separation from their children and their wealth.
The transfer of wealth from men to women is accomplished through the child support collection industry and alimony. Allegedly, this transfer is done under the guise of "the best interests of the child." However, the true beneficiaries are women who receive child support and alimony utterly free of any accountability for how the wealth is saved or spent.
The mother is virtually guaranteed of this transfer of wealth because of the Catch-22 enforcement mechanisms built into the child support collection industry. If a father falls into arrears for any reason - including reduced pay because of military call-up - he cannot escape impoverishment because of the Bradley Amendment. The Bradley Amendment requires fathers who fall into arrears to continue to pay - and pay back - child support at the level of their formerly higher income no matter what their current income - or face debtor's prison.
The family court system colludes with the child support system to impoverish fathers because it makes it virtually impossible - through delay, gender bias, immense effort and exorbitant expense - to get child support or alimony obligations reduced, no matter what the changed financial circumstances of the father or mother may be.
For children and fathers, the Violence Against Women Act is the opening wedge from which post-divorce matriarchal control of the family and the transfer of wealth from men to women are accomplished in a seamless system.
All persons of good will should demand that their senators and representatives either sunset or rewrite the act to include due process for men. At stake are votes in 2006.
Gordon E. Finley, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami
Yep yep yep. Even criminal women known by authorities to exploit children by vitualy prostituting children to their boyfriends and what not get custody. It's part of the "bortion for women's welfare" logic.
The Nazies in the sytem pretend they do not know what goes on.
In a country of empowerment of women, which bases survival on power, is a country out to kill each other, about who can put the other's nose in the sewer first.
It's evil of the greatest under guise of feminism.
This line strikes me as rather an odd ending for this article.
Yes, men do need equal protection from some women. Give it to them, for it is not fair.
What ever happened to all are equal?
What ever happened to all are equal?
Have I met some of these women? No. But I've seen the names of the dead ones in the newspapers.
Its been hijacked by the feminist man hating crowd.
...and thus the left's war on the family continues. Destroy all that is good, warp the American dream, leave the populace wanting and reliant on the bureaucracy. The DUtopia of the left.
6 billion + spent on VAWA didn't seem to help those women much.
Women killed in the process? You betcha.
But worse, the system is the employer, it employs power struggle violence and it blames the employees. Ah!
Also many elderly women who bust their knees doing manual labor pay for these programs and welfare frauds. I hear them at work complaining. This is govenment feminist domestic abuse on women we don't hear about.
Another side effect is out of wedlock relationships and even terrorism. Destroy the patriotic base, the care for future generations, promote access through power and all defenses breakdown.
I mean, on 911 a bunch of liberal feminist lawyers fell off the building too.... do they realize it?
university feminists have sought for decades to locate the power of bringing up children to women, the state, and eventually the u.n.
the men supply the sperm and the money. (some day the sperm may not be necessary, but the money will.)
even capitalism has located the power to women. women spend 2/3 -3/4 of the consumer dollar. consequently, most everything is designed for women.
any male that thinks he's "equal" hasn't been recently on a university campus or divorced.
I have many. You can't argue with them. It's a mix of quarter Dr.Jekyl at school and in the courtroom, Mr.Hyde back stabbing child exploiting vicious men torturing ghouls when it comes to covering up evidence in favor of women, quarter part paranoid power hungry, quarter part devil worshiper against relationship with children, quarter part bipolar fantasy gay welfare addicted matchmaker pimp advocate between women,their children and town thugs or even radical chic terrorist sympathizers.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.*
Napoleon the pig from George Orwell's Animal Farm
Hmmm... You HAVE met these women.
As well, stay away from women who have no intention of, or have no desire to, work and contribute to the family income. For they will feel entitled to share in your wealth and will assume no fiscal responsibility of their own while expecting you, the man, to always provide. Now that's not to say that the woman shouldn't take a break from her career and stay home when the kids are little. But if the woman is expecting a lifetime of sitting on the couch watching soap operas and eating bon-bons while you slave away at the daily grind, stay far, far away.
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