[Happygal]

I'm sure that many other divorced women will support your position. But I don't think there's any point to your doing it here.

Well, I'm not a divorced woman myself, just (well at least I thought) a rational woman (well, at least when I have my hormones under control *L*)

[MadIvan]

If this fellow is paying too much in child support, this is hardly the way to show his displeasure. We have representative government in Britain, America and Ireland for a reason: namely, so we don't have to set fires to our Mercedes Benzes in the parking lots of the bureaucracies.

The first duty in order to maintain civilisation is to be an exemplar of civilised behaviour as a citizen.

Regards, Ivan

[RogerFGay]

Well, I'm not a divorced woman myself, just (well at least I thought) a rational woman (well, at least when I have my hormones under control *L*)

Well, obviously the rational and extremely obvious interpretation is that the guy who protested sees what's happened to him as being very, very wrong. $50,000 is a lot of money. That's generally one of the ways that rational people can tell that the amounts being ordered as "child support" are irrationally and arbitrarily high. Since the article does not provide sufficient information about the case (and I wouldn't trust that writer to provide it) we don't know if that was for one month or two or some other length of time. What we can reasonably assume is that Jed Magby has been denied effective due process, that the state is acting outside its legitimate interest and powers by enforcing the order, and that there have been horrific personal consequences for Jed Magby.