Posted on 08/23/2008 8:51:50 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Biden’s nomination allows us to put his VAWA law, and all its family-killing provisions, in a national spotlight. (High-five!)
2008-08-23 As many readers know, Sen. Joseph Biden’s office has been in the front of the VAWA debacle. He is running for higher office, and the issue of whether VAWA has done good for people or bad for people is now real.
This is a dynamite chance to state our piece on all the destruction, child depression, and injustice Biden has helped bring about. We can put out information saying that Joe Biden has to answer for the family destruction his bill has caused.
My analysis of this news situation is this: the ball is in our court. We who disagree with Mr. Biden. can and should take the offensive, now. Rather than feel cast down by the ascension of someone we dislike, we ought to feel some exaltation that the man and his issues can now come into the public spotlight and be confronted.
The great bulk of the American people have gone along with the domestic violence regime because its proponents have pushed the laws through without giving anyone a chance to examine them. VAWA is presented as a sacred cow–can’t even think of criticising it–but VAWA is not a healthy cow, and it ought to be checked closely for fleas and vermin.
Normal people–those who have only heard of the injustices of the American Family Court system, but have not seen them–have no idea of the poisoned, destructive and un-American nature of the Violence Against Women Act.
We will win in the court of public opinion, if we can get the attention of the American people and the American media. Ordinarily when we try to bring up the evils Mr. Biden’s bills inflict upon us, no one will listen. If we had to set up a national organization, it would take between $200K and $500 K to run a campaign to have VAWA carefully looked out. (Washington DC office in operation for a year or more.)
But now that Biden is running for high office, we can and will get the ear of the national media. Individuals and non-profits can continue to spread the word and educate people. VAWA is a failure at addressing domestic violence, but a great success is sucking the fathers out of American families and away from the American boys and girls who need them. It’s time for us to call Joe Biden on the carpet and ask him to explain his sponsorship of such a damaging and child-ruining law.
If you’re too damn lazy to write out what your alphabet soup is quit posting!!!!
Google too much for you, or are you just unable to keep up with things?
“Vanna, I’d like to buy a VAWA.”
VAWA: Violence Against Women Act
Sorry but I didn’t understand it either.
I don’t use alphabet soup and never will.
It should be a felony to use it!
You need to spell out what the abbreviation means if you want people to understand. The other guy was unnecessiarily rude but accurate. Things cannot be too simplified. It is easy to expand from there.
The ACLU hates the Violence Against Women Act.
By the way, it expires in 2010.
That's okay. You're polite about it (plus we're not supposed to change the headline, per FR rules.)
I know, but it has been reauthorized since its inception in 1994. And Bush signed it in 2005.
I understand, having posted 371 threads over the past eight years,but we're not supposed to change the title, and if I had added to it, it would have gone over the maximum of 100 characters allowed.
If Joe’s goal were really to protect women rather than pander to them, he’d concede that there is nothing special about domestic violence; the issue is any kind of violence. With a little research, he’d learn that married women are much less likely than single or divorced women to be victims of violence. He’d have to take this into account when fashioning solutions.
He’d also discover that men are quite a bit more likely to be victims of violence than women. This poses a real problem for him. RATS and facts just don’t mix.
VAWA was drafted by Senator Joseph Biden's office with support from a number of advocacy organizations including Legal Momentum and The National Organization for Women, which heralded the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades."
VAWA was reauthorized by Congress in 2000, and again in December 2005. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 5, 2006.
VAWA will be up for reauthorization in 2010.
Great post!
And McCain will sign it.
They actually got part of it ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 2000. If they get the rest of it knocked off, I'll send them a check.
The author is at fault here.
Instead of defining the acronym when used initially, he went on to use it FIVE TIMES before properly defining it as the Violence Against Women Act.
Thank you.
VAWA = Violence Against Women Act
DC = District of Columbia
K = x 1000
x = “multiply by”
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