Tax Funded Violence

Tax Funded Violence

The History of the Lone Fathers Associationis enough outrage to understand as to why organizations that promote the support of"falsely accused fathers" are a liability to the government, the community and society.

Australia's laxed attitude, "She'll be right" is falling through the cracks as another child is laying in a hospital bed suffering horrendous injuries. The fathers body was found dead on a Victorian property. He was to face court the following day. Mandatory reporting is merely one portion of this crack, whilst another part of this is rarely examined.

Dads in Distress goes beyond the realms of supporting fathers when they provide abuse excusers information that can be obtained from their website. Its called, "Parent Alienation Syndrome" a form of junk science developed by DR Richard Gardner who has been largely discredited by the scientific community due to theexplicit child abuse supportive attitudes he exhibited in his books on the subject.

They regularly mislead the public to believing that dads are at the highest rate of suicide when in fact the highest rate is young indigenous males emerging from family violence ridden communities. Instead of attempting to deal with the obvious aspects of family violence as a gendered problem, they have a statement written on the front page of their website:Read more...

Family Law: The Genghis Khan Way

Genghis Khan, a well known historical figure who conquered a substantial portion of Asia during the 1200s. If he had done so today, he would have been known as a perpetrator of mass genocide.

After defeating the Tatars, Genghis Khan ordered the slaughter of all people taller than a cart handle, ensuring the loyalty of the next generation. Genghis Khan’s conquests include 30 countries with well over three billion people.

The mongols used psychological warfare which made them superior in winning battles. They destroyed cities and spared a few to spread news of their terror. Deception was also used to surprise their enemy by splitting into three groups prior to the battle and seemingly appearing out of nowhere giving the visage that his army was larger than it was. Other techniques included were luring the opponent into vulnerable positions by appearing from a hill and then disappearing into the woods whilst aligning their soldiers to come from all sides.

In our modern world, humanity has evolved to far more superior methods of genocide. United nations definition of genocide is:

General Assembly Resolution 260A (III) Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Over the years statistics have revealed what has been defined as a femnicide: the killing of women and girls. What has not yet been highlighted enough is the silent slaughter of women and children affected by family violence. Whilst family violence has been described as a gender neutral term, the statistics of gender and research on gender power reveals a very ugly side of patriarchy that is thriving upon these brutal conquests.

In recent times, we have had a very open and vocal group who define themselves as, "Mens Rights Advocates". They are against current protection laws, research and present statistics that reveal this silent epidemic of violence against women and children. Even the terminology has become an information war as propaganda is spread online and through other sources of media to dilute the public awareness of intimate partner terrorism that effects one third of the population of women. The impact of their presence has resulted in the rise of murder - suicides in the US, maternal deprivation in the UK and a rise in family violence in Australia.

Just about everywhere these mens groups have had a presence, the erosion of support for women and children in funding of services, advocacy in the media and protective laws have become prevalent. The definition of intimate partner terrorism is very true to many survivors who have endured it.

"Intimate terrorism is the kind of intimate partner violence that involves a batterer who terrorizes and takes complete control of his partner through the use of violence in combination with other control tactics such as threats and intimidation, economic control, psychological abuse, isolation, and the assertion of male privilege. In heterosexual relationships, intimate terrorism almost always involves a man terrorizing a woman, although in rare cases men are terrorized by their women partners. Although intimate terrorism is much less frequent than is situational couple violence, it is estimated that more than two million women are victims of this kind of abuse in the United States each year—and this is the intimate violence that is most likely to destroy lives." -A Sociologist’s Perspective on Domestic Violence: A Conversation with Michael Johnson, Ph.D. Interview by Theodora Ooms, CLASP

The United Nations defines terrorism as:

Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstances unjustifyable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideaological , racial, ethnic, religious, or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them;

The Lone fathers association, Barry Williams began with a protest at parliament steps where 300 men threatened to invade parliament if they did not provide men with equal benefits as mothers.

Almost a decade later, a member of the Family Law Action Group(Flag), was charged for bombing the family courts.

The president of the FLAG, submission can be found here.

Links to Fathers Online, Directed by Warwick Marsh can be found here.

Links to the Shared Parenting Council can be found here.

In 2002, a man by the name of John Abbott, set up a militant fathers group called the Black Shirts to stalk and harassed women whom were divorced. He claimed to have 300 fathers on his registry.

He was ordered not to harass women for five years or face a four month jail term. One year later the shared parenting bill was introduced.

The Shared Parenting Bill itself is designed in such a way that corners victims of child abuse and domestic violence. Here is how it has this effect:

1. "Unsubstantiated" allegations of violence or child abuse is interpreted is "False".
2. "The burden of proof" is solely upon the parent to provide the evidence.
3. The definition of violence was altered from, "fearful of" to "reasonably fear" resulting in every victim being scrutinized with a confirmatory bias of being mentally ill.
4. A paper reduction section was introduced to limit crucial evidence to being submitted.
5. "meaningful relationships" was physically placed above consideration for welfare of the child.
6. Restraining Orders were used as evidence against the victim.
7. Resident Parents were forced by order to provide their address even when it was not safe to do so.
8. Police station visits are seen as "hostile" environments for children.
9. Taking Children to see a counsellor over abuse is considered, "Medical abuse".
10. Evidence gathering itself is interpreted as "abuse" and in cases where substantial evidence was provided, the parent was more likely to be punished for accessing services to provide evidence.
11. Victims cannot relocate without a court order or permission from their perpetrator. They have the same ratio as a patient in brain surgery in success and if they speak of family violence, it is much less of a chance.

So in the Legal framework, like Genghis Khans psychological warfare, perpetrators have their victims surrounded.

The same tactics of confusing the enemy is the illusion that the custody is shared. Along with the changes, mens advocates assisted with indoctrinating psychologists with the following junk psychology:

Parental Alienation Syndrome

Malicious Mother Syndrome

Münchausen syndrome by Proxy

No scientific body in the world has accepted any of these as real syndromes. Yet, this is in reality a diversion for researchers as the information has been spread like a virus all over the internet. They have become obstacles to be debunked, whilst rogue psychologists are providing their expertise affecting real life court cases. In the mean time, the more and more each stakeholder is convinced that these syndromes are real, the more the perpetrators have seized their team-players in their monopoly resulting in the isolation of their victim.

Arming their members with the information on how to conquer intervention order cases, the mens movements also engage in providing "advocates" to arrive on the scene with police in domestic violence call outs.

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The three different groups reflects Genghis Kahns strategy of positioning three or more groups coming from different places to illude the enemy into believing that they are surrounded. This is very much the case for groups seeking to defend women and children. In the list of family law submissions, the groups represented had the same people contained, but authored by different members. The number of groups obscured the decision makers into believing that there was more support than there actually is. This is the same as the military strategy that Khan used when his forces were less than the opponent.

The desire to "conquer" women and children's rights is prevalent and evident in the campaigns and strategies used resulting in the success of the shared parenting bill. The results where women who were determined to protect children lost custody is also part of the genocide definition. In United States, where similar cells have been more established, shared parenting was in reality an entrenched pathway with numerous traps which led to the surge in men securing children as they secured property. Of course if their perceived assets did not perform to their liking, the mother and child are often punished with enforced isolation from each other commonly known as, "Maternal Deprivation".

An even more concerning trend, jihad supporters have also aligned themselves with these groups in United States. Apart from the christian based fathers rights groups, both groups are parallel in their beliefs and fit the criteria in furthering the goals of terrorism. Terrorist network operatives have successfully infiltrated South East Asia(Abuza, 2004), by building alliances with groups aggrieved with government. An example of this is the successful alliance of the Khmer Rouge that assisted in infiltrating Cambodia. It seems like a more unlikely scenario in the western world, however these mens movements are well suited in furthering their interests. They have already done the hard work in unraveling the stability of government to conform to their goals and have similar beliefs in regards to the rights of women and children.

Convicted Sex Offender Granted Custody of Four Children

For some time, politicians have been avoiding the topic of how far they will go in handing the children over to the father. The situation here speaks for itself. Whilst the article does not draw attention to previous cases like this, it is not uncommon for courts to allow convicted sex offenders unsupervised contact with children. For as long as the courts, family reporters and children's lawyers rely upon the junk science of Parental Alienation Syndrome(also referred to as "Parent Alienation"), cases like these will continue to rupture the lives of children.

Pedophile granted child custody

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DAVID NANKERVIS

June 13, 2009 11:30pm

A FAMILY Court judge has granted custody of four children to their father - a convicted pedophile and rapist.

The mother of the four youngsters, all aged under 15, requested custody at a recent Family Court hearing in Adelaide.

The unsuccessful application was made not long after the children's father was found guilty in the Adelaide District Court of multiple sex offences against a minor.

A transcript of the Family Court hearing shows the presiding judge was aware of the father's convictions and that he was on bail awaiting sentencing.

Further details, including the names of the family, cannot be legally reported. The mother and her current husband also both have criminal records.

However, child support groups have condemned the idea that a convicted pedophile could be granted custody of any child.

Victim Support Service SA said the community would be "alarmed" at a situation where a pedophile was allowed to care for children.

"Our organisation would be worried too about that, and we would want to know about the reasoning and rationale behind such a decision and what steps are in place to protect any child in such circumstances," the service's chief executive Michael Dawson said.

"I would think it is inappropriate for someone with a previous history - through conviction of crimes against children - to be provided with the opportunity to supervise children.

"From my personal experience, I've never heard of any such case before."

The Australian Childhood Foundation also expressed serious concern about the risks pedophiles pose to children, particularly in an unsupervised environment.

"Convicted pedophiles can't work as a teacher, be a foster carer or footy coach, because society recognises that past behaviour is the best indicator of future risk," foundation chief executive Joe Tucci said.

"So as a matter of principal, children shouldn't be in unsupervised contact or custody of an adult with convictions for sexual assault against children."

Mr Tucci said courts should err on the side of caution and treat convictions of sexual assault against children as a "red light" when deciding what is in a child's best interest.

A spokeswoman for the Family Court said judges could only award custody of a child to those parties who applied for it.

"If a judge has concerns about a child's welfare, they cannot make an order that a child be put in the care of the state," the spokeswoman said.

"A judge can ask but not compel a state welfare department to intervene if they believe a child is at risk of abuse or neglect."

The Department of Families and Communities said the Family Court may advise it of any "child protection concerns (the court has) about a child".

"Families SA assesses the notification like any other and takes action if necessary," a department spokesman said.

"Also, the Family Court may make a formal request that the Department of Families and Communities become a party to a case.

"If DFC accepts the request and becomes a party, it then makes representations to the court about what is in the best interests of the child or children."

Stop The Responsible Fatherhood Bill

"All I ever wanted was supervised" a repeated phrase amongst family violence survivors.  The Family Court has come under recent scrutiny over unsafe contact and the controversial use of Parental Alienation Syndrome a diagnosis that has not been accepted by any scientific organization globally.  The bottom line is that children are ordered by the court to attend access visits where the parents are abusive.  If the mother objects, she risks losing the children altogether.  That is the state of not only the Family Court in Australia, it is an international problem.  

Until recently, there were few groups that were advocating for children and far too many groups advocating for such forced contact.  "Pro Contact" culture is really just being polite.  "Contact No Matter what" Cult, is more appropriate considering the facts that there is no limit as to who they wish children to have contact with.  

Cult definitions coined from 1920 onward^[1] refer to a cohesive social group and their devotional beliefs or practices, which the surrounding population considers to be outside of mainstream cultures. The surrounding population may be as small as a neighborhood, or as large as the community of nations. They gratify curiosity about, take action against, or ignore a group, depending on its reputed similarity to cults previously reported by mass media. -Wikipedia

Bizarre punishments against mothers are initiated by the courts if they do not comply without consideration for the impact that the children suffer.  

Some of these punishments include:

"Isolating The Child From The Protective Parent"

"Orders inhibiting the Child From access to Counseling"

"Removal of The Mothers Passport'

In cases where the parent has a mental health condition that is one of the leading causes of homicide, the protective action is often minimal.  Some orders are for the parent to take their medication and see their doctor, but left entirely to the device of the patient and the potential victims are left restricted by the court order and helpless to what might come about.  The Court evaluators who make the decisions that the judges often solely rely on are often untrained for these cases, but overtrained in the area of "pro - contact' and too well understand the terms of "maternal gatekeeping" "Alienation" and "False Memory Syndrome".  They believe that the child is not unsafe in relationships with sex offenders if they "just accept it" without the interference from mothers.  

This is due to the fact that in the early 80s, Dr Richard Gardner coined the term, "Parent Alienation Syndrome" and travelled the world with the help of Association of Family and Conciliation Courts(AFCC).  Many conferences were held indoctrinating lawyers, psychologists and judges into the belief that children are better off with abusive parents.  This belief was also supported by the international Child Emancipation, a lobby group for pedophiles.  

Cases where there is not enough evidence to support Family Violence are often referred to as, "False Allegations" and in most cases the victim is required to pay costs to the alleged perpetrator. This goes against studies that support the notion that in 95% of child abuse cases are true.  Clearly it is the interference that the victims receive during the court processes that leads to the lack of evidence that is able to be provided.  

Like the German Lebensborn organization, they said, "Best Interests" but the intention was to reintroduce laws that tie women to men and diminish any concerns regarding child abuse and violence against women.  The current family law regime reduces the value of children and mothers compared to men and promotes the cycle of violence continuing through to another generation.  Like a genetic disease, our children have been infected with family violence.  

The German Lebensborn organization was similarly cruel in its time.  In the context of the German welfare system, it was considered that it was the "best interests" of the child to be German.  By abducting babies of other origins for German families, "Best Interests of the child" was created to serve the purposes of racial intolerance.  Today in the context of Family Law, "best interests of the child" refers to the amount of time spent with a parent no matter how abusive they may be. 

Although there have been more efforts to protect mothers and children affected by family violence with the Violence Against Women Act and the introduction of the Protective Parent Bill, PAS is still alive in the US court system and have progressed to a point where they are supporting it through the "Responsible Fatherhood Bill".  Like best Interests, it is aimed at enforcing contact with fathers regardless of the rise to epidemic proportions of murder suicides.  In sect 2, "Findings" it states that the reason to provide fathers with billions of dollars in funding is due to:

6) Children who live without contact with their biological father are, in comparison to children who have such contact--

(A) 5 times more likely to live in poverty;

(B) more likely to bring weapons and drugs into the classroom;

(C) twice as likely to commit crime;

(D) twice as likely to drop out of school;

(E) more likely to commit suicide;

(F) more than twice as likely to abuse alcohol or drugs; and

(G) more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.

(7) Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers.

  

The findings stated here is derived from a confirmitory bias. If you look deeper into the research, it becomes obvious that:

Children were economically abused by the fathers and the state for withdrawal of financial support of children.  It is in fact written in the convention on The Rights Of The Child:

 

Article 26

1. States Parties shall recognize for every child the right to benefit from social security, including social insurance, and shall take the necessary measures to achieve the full realization of this right in accordance with their national law.

2. The benefits should, where appropriate, be granted, taking into account the resources and the circumstances of the child and persons having responsibility for the maintenance of the child, as well as any other consideration relevant to an application for benefits made by or on behalf of the child.

 

The "Violent males who grew up without fathers", were in fact infected prior to the separation by witnessing the actual violence.  According to Amy Coha:

• Boys who witness domestic violence are more likely to batter their female partners as adults than boys raised in nonviolent homes. Of the children who witness domestic abuse, 60% of the boys eventually become batterers.
• Sixty-three percent of boys age 11-20 who commit homicide, murder the man who was abusing their mother. In 50% of the time, if the wife (mother) is being physically abused, so are the children.

Teenage pregnancy is an old sexist phrase that draws the need to look at the pregnant women as the problem.  Contraceptives apart from the condom are directed at her as entirely responsible for the pregnancy.  According to Rape Abuse and Incest Network(RAIN):

Girls ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.

 

Victims of sexual assault are:⁷

3 times more likely to suffer from depression.

6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.

26 times more likely to abuse drugs.

4 times more likely to contemplate suicide.

The fact that in some states, the perpetrator can apply to the Family Court to stop the abortion and continue these attacks on her suggests that women and girls are considered by the state as objects rather than human beings.  If such a bill were to pass, it would be a greater violation to the already eroded human rights of women and children.  

Women vs Men in sentencing for murder

On her honey moon, Christina Thomas Watson was murdered by her new husband during a scuba diving trip.  He was jailed for one year.  This is how cheap a women's life is in Australia.  Gabe Watson has since remarried.  Heather Osland suffered 14 years of violence by the man she killed.  She was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison and remains on parole with restrictions her movements, relinquished employment prospects and a legal bill.  You can read more about Heather here .  

   

Human Rights Council Concerned about the Treatment of Women and Children in Family Law

A full day was held on women and equal access before the law.  Amongst the many violations, arose the abhorrent practices in family law.  It was recognized the lack if equal access for women in child custody cases.   The burden of proof involving rape was also mentioned.  It was revealed that many women were prevented from further pursuing justice in concern for reprisal and their economical status.  Domestic and sexual violence were discriminated against.  It was further noted that the deaths of women were not taken seriously by governments.  More can be read here. 

California's bill against junk science

As many arrived to support the protection of children and women from child abuse and violence, so were those who seeked to continue its reign.  Much to be considered about the motivations of those who wish to use a junk science theory that is well known to harm children and cause hatred towards women.  Much debate raged on as even with some agreement on the need to protect children, the opposing suggested that Sexual and Physical abuse be removed so that it just states, "Abuse".  This was intended to include psychological abuse.  The consequences of this would be converting a useful bill aimed at protecting children to a bill that perpetrators could still peddle Parent Alienation or Parent Alienation Syndrome as a form of psychological abuse.  The current status of children in the family court remains that what is referred to as, "psychological abuse" nullifies the underlying factors of child abuse and violence.  The psychological abuse whilst it may be useful in further describing intimate partner terrorism and the strategies that are used to maintain control, there is still a real danger that this could be used against women and children.  The mimic, a movie about a predator that mimics its prey best describes how human predators continue to violate children and women's rights to be free from torture.

Listen to the hearing here- http://centerforjudicialexcellence.org/1%20AB%20612%20MP3.mp3

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May Day Rally: A Gathering for a good Reason

Anger at law that fails children

• Adele Horin
• May 4, 2009

Emotional...rally organiser Barbara Biggs with supporters in Sydney yesterday. Photo:Sahlan Hayes

THE names of 22 children killed by their fathers on access visits hung from a makeshift clothesline in a city park yesterday as more than 100 women and some men gathered to vent their anger at the Family Court of Australia and the law it must enforce.

At the emotion-charged rally, a mother named Carolyn pinned a photo of her two sons to an orange and a blue T-shirt on the line where their fate was revealed: "shot and killed". She tried to talk but handed her story to rally organiser Barbara Biggs to read.

"When the police came to the door, I was the one who told them my boys were dead," she said. "I didn't grieve when it was confirmed. I'd already spent seven years grieving every time they went on an access visit. Every time I feared they would not return."

The rally was part of a national campaign to push changes to the Family Law Act, which critics say is putting children's safety at risk after amendments in 1995 and 2006 put greater emphasis on shared parenting.

Some women in the crowd covered their faces with scarves to protect their anonymity but others spoke openly of their experiences and expressed anger at the law's strict confidentiality provisions that they said protected the perpetrators of abuse and violence, not the children.

The act prohibits the media from reporting identifying details of families involved in Family Court proceedings, even when the children are dead, or have reached the age of 18 and wish to tell their own accounts of court-ordered access.

A Sydney University academic, Lesley Laing, told the rally and its supporters that women with abusive or violent partners enter a family law system where the "ideological view is that shared parenting is the norm and anyone opposing that is swimming against the tide".

She said almost 50 per cent of Australians surveyed believed women in custody battles made up or exaggerated claims of abuse and violence even though the evidence was to the contrary.

Carolyn said the day she left her abusive husband in 1995 he had threatened to kill the children. It took him another seven years to do it.

She said it was unfortunate that 1995 was the year the act began to change in favour of fathers' rights. The boys' father had originally won custody but when that was reversed two years later, she reluctantly agreed to access visits, having been told by the court she was malicious.

Few in the crowd were dry-eyed when Carolyn's words were read: "How many children must we bury before something is done about this failing judicial system that is supposed to be there to protect our children?"

A 13-year-old boy who had come with his mother and grandmother from a regional town to attend the rally said he had been the subject of a custody battle for more than five years. He was required by the court to live with his father, who wanted to take him overseas. "I want to live with my mum," he said, "and maybe see my dad once a month for an hour or two."

Also coming under fire from speakers were court-appointed experts, including psychologists and psychiatrists who, it was charged, made hasty assessments of parents that carried huge weight in court.

Carolyn said a court-appointed expert had assessed her as having difficulties with "social functioning" and "anxiety" while her ex-husband was said to have a "reasonably balanced profile" with no pathological or criminal features evident.

Newark protesters rally against family court system for alleged bias against battered women

by Paul Brubaker/The Star-Ledger

Monday April 27, 2009, 6:55 PM

More than 50 people rallied in Newark for reform in the family court system with chants, protest signs and speeches alleging there is a national crisis of judges awarding child custody to violent, even sexually abusive, fathers.

But Essex County's top judge defended the local family courts as a meticulously careful system that acts in the best interests of children, even if it means terminating someone's parental rights.

Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerA husband and wife sit in front of a Newark family court judge in 2003. Protesters today demonstrated in front of the Wilentz Justice Complex against judges awarding child custody to violent and/or sexually abusive fathers.

In front of the Wilentz Justice Complex on Washington Street, which houses Essex County's family courts, speakers targeted the system as being biased against battered women and holding archaic attitudes that domestic violence and sexual abuse were private problems.

"A mother's basic instinct is to protect her children. She should not be punished for it," said Maretta Short of East Orange, president of the state's chapter of the National Organization for Women.

"In the last 30 years, every institution in this society has changed its views toward domestic violence," said Evan Stark, a professor at Rutgers University's School of Public Affairs and Administration. "Only in the family court do the obsolete beliefs that were discredited everywhere else in society still prevail."

Stark said part of the problem is that state laws require judges to detail their decisions for not awarding child custody to an abusive parent. The result is that judges avoid the issue by not admitting evidence of domestic abuse into the hearings, Stark said.

Later, Superior Court Assignment Judge Patricia Costello disputed Stark's assessment of family court judges.

"They don't punt on the tough issues to avoid tough decisions," Costello said. "They make tough decisions. When the parents can't decide who raises the children, the judge makes the call."

All judges are bound by the rules of evidence and their rulings must be based on careful consideration and backed by detailed documentation, the judge said. All the while, the family court judge must remain dispassionate during proceedings that are often highly emotional, she added.