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adam613:
Violence Against Women Act Abuses Rights of Men
by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted May 15, 2006
 
In January, President George W. Bush signed the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act without public debate, even though evidence has surfaced that Congress should have examined before the law was extended.

The act, which costs nearly $1 billion per year, is one of the major ways former President Bill Clinton bought the support of radical feminists.

Why Republicans passed this bill is a mystery. It's unlikely that the feminists who will spend all that money will ever vote Republican.

Passage of the Violence Against Women Act was a major priority of the American Bar Association for whose members it is a cash cow. More than 300 courts have implemented specialized docket processes to address the cases stemming from the act, more than 1 million women have obtained protection orders from the courts, and more than 660 new state laws pertaining to domestic violence have been passed, all of which produce profitable work for lawyers.

A recently issued ABA document called "Tool for Attorneys" provides lawyers with a list of suggestive questions to encourage their clients to make domestic-violence charges. Knowing that a woman can get a restraining order against the father of her children in an ex parte proceeding without any evidence, and that she will never be punished for lying, domestic-violence accusations have become a major tactic for securing sole child custody.

Voluminous documentation to dispel the feminist myths that created and have perpetuated the act are spelled out in seven reports just issued by an organization called Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting, or RADAR, and in an 80-page report called "Family Violence in America" published by the American Coalition for Fathers & Children.

For example, it is a shocker to discover that acts don't have to be violent to be punished under the definition of domestic violence. Name-calling, put-downs, shouting, negative looks or gestures, ignoring opinions, or constant criticizing can all be legally labeled domestic violence.

The ABA report states flatly: "Domestic violence does not necessarily involve physical violence." The feminists' mantra is, "You don't have to be beaten to be abused."

Advocates of the Violence Against Women Act assert that domestic violence is a crime, yet family courts often adjudicate domestic violence as a civil (not a criminal) matter. This enables courts to deny the accused all Bill of Rights and due process protections that are granted to even the most heinous of criminals.

Specifically, the accused is not innocent until proven guilty but is presumed guilty, and he doesn't have to be convicted "beyond a reasonable doubt." Due process rights, such as trial by jury and the right of free counsel to poor defendants, are regularly denied, and false accusations are not covered by perjury law. The act provides funding for legal representation for accusers but not for defendants.

Those concerned about judicial activism, i.e., judges legislating from the bench, could observe judges doing this every day in domestic violence cases. Every time a judge issues a restraining order, the judge creates new crimes for which an individual can be arrested and jailed without trial for doing what no statute prohibits and what anyone else may lawfully do.

This criminalizing of ordinary private behavior and incarceration without due process follows classic police-state practices. Evidence is irrelevant, hearsay is admissible, defendants have no right to confront their accusers, and forced confessions are a common feature.

Some of these injustices result from overzealous law enforcement officials (sometimes running for office), and some from timid judges who grant restraining orders and deny due process to defendants for fear of being blamed for subsequent violence. Most of this, however, is the result of feminist activism and the taxpayer money given them by Congress.

The ease and speed with which women can get restraining orders without fear of punishment for lying indicates that the dynamic driving domestic-violence accusations is child custody rather than violence. Restraining orders don't prevent violence, but they do have the immediate effect of separating fathers from their children and imprisoning fathers for acts that are perfectly legal if done by anyone else (such as attending a public event at which his child is performing).

The restraining order issued against TV talk show host David Letterman, allegedly to protect a woman who claimed he was harassing her through his TV broadcasts, is a good example of how easy it is to get a court order based on false allegations. Another ridiculous restraining order was issued against celebutante Paris Hilton to protect a man she had bad-mouthed.

Violence Against Women Act money is used by anti-male feminists to train judges, prosecutors and police in the feminist myths that domestic violence is a contagious epidemic, and that men are naturally batterers and women are naturally victims. Feminists lobby state legislators to pass must-arrest and must-prosecute laws even when police don't observe any crime and can't produce a witness to testify about an alleged crime.

Assault and battery are crimes in every state and should be prosecuted. But people so accused should be entitled to their constitutional rights. After all, is this America?

Mrs. Schlafly is the author of the new book The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It (Spence Publishing Co).

Shlomo:
Do you have the link to this article?

Ya... it's sick where the leftist liberals want to take us. Sick. Being a "white male" in today's American society is equal to being on the bottom rung... all in the name of racism.

Shlomo:
Nevermind, I found it:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2006/05/15/violence_against_women_act_abuses_the_rights_of_men

Ya... George Bush is a giant phoney! He's not even close to being conservative. He's more liberal and politically correct than some Democrats.

adam613:
I actuallly read the article from a site called www.mediaradar.org. It is a very interesting and insightful site.

What gets to me besides the fact that many decent hard working American males are being destroyted by this unfair law and this needs to stop you als have many "Orthodox" Rabbi's" support false accusations women make and don't care to get facts from anybody else but what the women says. This is done because women can become an aguna if she is "abused" and the force the man to divorce her even if in reality he never abused her or in some cases the women intentionally try to get the guy upset so she can claim she was abused. The Rabbi's that are involved in this don't want men that aren't doormats in their communities because it is less job security. The women do it so they can be like their gentile neighbors that have "no-fault divorce" another terrible evil in this country.

I certainlly believe there is an occaisonal case of a man really not fulfilling his side of the marriage contract. Buit I go on Jewish single web sites like "Frumster" and I am truly shocked at reading some of the profiles of women who are divorced and "brag" that they are raising children without a father. This is so evil. I also have dated women who were divorced or whose parents were divorced and the comments I heard were unbelievable. If a man had a pimple that was enough for the women to say the man isn't attractive so I can divorce him. One women her parents were divorced told me her father lives alone and isn't popular. That was a reason she didn't respect him. Could you imagine? I can understand if a parent really did something seriously against Judaism and does not care about their flagrant violation of the torah. What a child should do in a case like that I don't know? But a parent isn't popular and lives alone.So what!!!

You also have Jewish so called Kiruv groups like Aish Hatorah that say vicious things about Jewish men. That because men have less Binah therefore women are always right and if a marriage doesn't work it is the man's fault. This is what the Rabbi wrote to me when I complained on the comment section among many many other complaints. This rabbi is one of the leading Rabbi's of this group.

adam613:
Yep Yacov. And the feminist supported Bill despite what he did. The women wanted what they got. All Bill's acts was concentual. It is amazing what hypocrits the feminists are because it has more to do with money and power and communism ideology then anything that has to do with so called "equality".

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