Stephen Baskerville - The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics

 To quote the learned Mr Baskerville ; Almost daily we see men released after decades in prison because DNA testing proves they were wrongly convicted.  And they are the fortunate ones.  While DNA testing has righted some wrongs, the corruption of the rape industry is so systemic that, as last year’s Duke University case shows, hard evidence of innocence is no barrier to prosecution and conviction.  It is well documented that feminist crime lab technicians fabricate and doctor evidence to frame men they know to be innocent.[21]"

As the New Zealand government is thinking about a DNA database, I think the existing regime of feminists are going to have a field day when they get control of DNA samples. Food for thought kiwi law makers.





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Monday, February 9, 2009

New Article: "The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics"

I just learned that my scholarly article, "The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics", has been published by The Family in America, the journal of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society. Despite the date on the issue, it was just recently published. You can request hard copies from the Howard Center.

The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics
Islamic radicalism may be creating a “clash of civilizations,” but sexual radicalism is undermining the social foundation of all civilization.

By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D.*
*Stephen Baskerville teaches political science at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland Books).

“All politics is on one level sexual politics.” — George Gilder, 1986

Four decades into the boldest social experiment ever undertaken in the Western democracies, the full impact of what was once quaintly known as “women’s liberation” is at last becoming clear. The political class of both the Left and Right have colluded to limit the debate to a series of innocuous controversies: job discrimination, equal pay, affirmative action. Only abortion has any depth, and that debate has been mired in stalemate.

Meanwhile, beneath the political radar screen, the real consequences are finally emerging: a massive restructuring of the social order, demographic trends that threaten the very survival of Western civilization, and perhaps least noticed, an exponential growth in the size and power of the state — the state at its most bureaucratic and tyrannical.

Feminism has now positioned itself as the vanguard of the Left, shifting the political discourse from the economic and racial to the social and increasingly the sexual. What was once a socialistic assault on property and enterprise has become a social and sexual attack on the family, marriage, and masculinity. This marks a truly new kind of politics, the most personal and thus potentially the most total politics ever devised: the politics of private life and sexual relations.

Read the rest here.

Britain's 13-year-old father a symbol for society

By Stefano Ambrogi LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A school boy of 13 has become one of Britain's youngest dads, underlining concern about the rate of teenage pregnancies in the country. Four-foot Alfie Patten, who looks considerably younger than his age,...

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Damages doubled in police assault appeal

 http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4846981a6047.html

Damages doubled in police assault appeal


A man bashed by police has had his damages money doubled to $10,000 on appeal.

West Coast man Steven Fredericks was awarded exemplary damages of $5000 in October after a police officer elbowed him three times in the face while he sat handcuffed in a patrol car in September 2005.

Fredericks' lawyer, Jonathan McCarthy, appealed the amount on Wednesday at the High Court in Christchurch before Justice Panckhurst.

McCarthy said the $5000 awarded was a slap on the wrist "with a wet bus ticket".

Exemplary damages were punitive and needed to be a "sword of Damocles" hanging over police, whereas "this award is a kitchen knife with a very blunt edge", he said.

The average man in the street would "scoff in derision" at the suggestion $5000 was punitive.

McCarthy suggested $100,000 "would go a long way to achieving the deterrence effect that has yet to occur".

"These people are bully boys. They are precisely the people we don't want in the police.

"The message hasn't got through. Police officers are still beating people up."

Counsel for police, Fergus Sinclair, said the constable who assaulted Fredericks, Nathan Connolly, had since resigned from the police.

The judge in the original case, Colin Doherty, said the offending was "truly outrageous" and "a gratuitous assault".

McCarthy said monetary pressure was a sure way of ensuring change.

Sinclair said the $5000 was in keeping with the range established by previous cases.

The judge said awarding $100,000 would be "rewriting the law with respect to exemplary damages".

The one prior case where $15,000 exemplary damages was awarded arose due to negligence, whereas the case in question was a "deliberate act assault by a police officer".

He doubled the amount to $10,000 and awarded court and solicitors' fees.

Quote   '-In fact, our constitution doesn’t allow us to work with male victims,"   But studies show that both males and females are victims of domestic violence? This is blatant sexism from the feminist quarter. When are these hateful gender bias and vindictive ideologist agencies going to stop putting the knife into the male species?For the sake of the children we need balance.   http://express- advocate- wyong.whereilive .com.au/news/ story/support- team-pulls- plug/ Domestic violence support team pulls plug NEWS  LOCAL NEWS 29 JAN 09 @ 07:20AM BY DENICE BARNES Kaye Spicer and Pat Gaunt talk to Chris Hartcher at the Gosford Court. Picture: PETER CLARK ABUSED and battered women brave enough to front Gosford Court could do so without help after the Central Coast domestic violence intervention response team handed back its State Government funding. The dramatic decision followed orders from the Community Services Department for the team to care for male victims of domestic violence at its women’s “safe room” at the courthouse. The order shocked long-time domestic violence volunteers Pat Gaunt and Kaye Spicer. The intervention response team has workers at Brisbane Water command police stations who contact victims as soon as possible to guide them through the court process. The service has successfully operated under the auspices of the domestic violence court assistance scheme for five years. But after “constant interference” by the department, the management committee unanimously voted to hand back responsibility and funding. “We are not prepared to compromise the integrity of our service by operating under the onerous and inappropriate conditions being imposed by the department,” Ms Spicer said. “In fact, our constitution doesn’t allow us to work with male victims,” Ms Gaunt said. “We have told the director-general we have to relinquish the funding because we cannot work with males and the constant interference by the department also has a lot to do with it,” Ms Spicer said. “I really don’t know what it means for the service.” Ms Gaunt said men were not neglected by the service, but referred to other agencies. “Our workers are not trained to work with men - some days we have more than 25 women in our safe room at Gosford. “Can you imagine how traumatised they would be to put a male in there? It is bureaucracy gone totally insane.” THE Central Coast domestic violence intervention team began in 2003 when the Premier’s Department asked the court assistance scheme to accommodate it to support women and children experiencing domestic violence who had come to the attention of Brisbane Water police. Funding was originally provided for two years for one worker but good results during the first 12 months saw more funding made available for a further part-time worker. In 2005 the funding responsibility was transferred from the Premier’s Department to the Community Services Department. The program has since received two police awards for its innovative service. An agreement was signed recently to run the service until 2012 but, before the ink was dry, the department sent a document outlining changes it wanted to the program. One significant change was the service was to work with men, a directive that would put the service in breach of funding it also received from Legal Aid. The team’s Kaye Spicer and Pat Gaunt said they tried to negotiate with the department but had hit a brick wall. In desperation, they turned to Terrigal State Liberal MP Chris Hartcher for help. A COMMUNITY Service Department spokeswoman said a decision about who would take over the service in the long term would be made as soon as possible. She said services would not be disrupted and the department worked extensively with the Central Coast domestic assistance scheme to resolve issues about its funding agreement.

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UN Population Fund leader Arie Hoekman says the dissolution of families is not a crisis as many believe, but rather a boom for society.

 United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
MEXICO CITY, February 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.
Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”
"In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis," he said. "In crisis?  More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights."
"Day after day, Mexico experiences a process of this diversity and there are those who understand it as a crisis, because they only recognize one type of family," one of the speakers on the panel also told the audience.
The comments followed close on the heels of the World Meeting of Families, which was held in Mexico City in January, and which strongly reaffirmed the importance of the traditional family and its indispensible role in transmitting values to the next generation.  It was opened by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who observed that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births were contributing to the rise of violence and crime in Mexico.
Leonardo Casco, a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family and a citizen of Honduras, told LifeSiteNews that he wasn't surprised that the UNFPA was denying the crisis in the family.
"They definitely have to deny that there is a crisis in the family, because they have created the crisis," he said.
Calling the UNFPA "bureaucrats at the service of death," Casco observed that "after 45 years of birth control, the pill, disrespect for marriage for the family, for children, etc, this is the result. Because of that we have violence, war, lack of respect of women, children."
Through their promotion and distribution of contraceptives the UNFPA has become "a birth control agency at the service of the most powerful countries" said Casco.  "They have destroyed the family, values, this is undeniable, it's what everyone says ... but they always have to deny it."
Regarding Hoekman’s comments about “human rights,”  Casco responded that UNFPA bureaucrats “have invented a series of new 'human rights',” that did not exist when the concept was defined in 1948, “with which they wish to justify all of their actions.”
The UNFPA recently celebrated the restoration of US support after seven years, during which they were denied funding by the Bush administration. UNFPA has cooperated with and even helped to subsidize China's One Child Policy, which persecutes and performs forced abortions on women who have more than one child.
In addition to its support for forced abortions, the UNFPA has helped to administer forced sterilizations in South America and is involved in the distribution and promotion of contraceptives and sterilization worldwide, with a focus on poorer countries.


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Kids must come first in custody battles

Quote "Too often the children are used as pawns as parents try to inflict pain on each other."

Sadly my children were "used  as pawns" in a sick family court gravy train for over seven painful years. The lawyers and psychologists done very nicely, because they put the blood money first. They said, stuff the truth, which let down the children. The sinister and corrupt police dished me out plenty of unnecessary "pain".   Well done you cruel and greedy animals, my mother died a heartbroken paternal grand mother and the damage to my children is now severe. No help now the truth is evident you filthy snakes. Where are the child counsel lawyers now I have custody you low life two faced scum ? The family court has turned its back on my children now ! They don't care about the ruined kids !! No wonder fathers view the family court as the evil cess pit where lies and false allegations cannot be challenged much to the detriment of the children.

Kids must come first in custody battles

PARENTING: Equal parenting is a goal worth pursuing but only if both parents are fit to share custody

Mon, February 9, 2009

By KATHY RUMLESKI,

FREE PRESS REPORTER

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/2009/02/09/8316546-sun.html

More than any other subject I've written about, the topic of fathers' rights has generated the most response.

In 2006, I penned a special report on fathers' struggles to get access to their children. To this day, I still receive e-mails about that series. The Internet has spread it far and wide.

Some of the mail is from distraught fathers; others from organizations working for equal parenting rights. Some are from Europe; most are from North America.

I recently received a phone call from a man who said he was in England. Originally from the U.S., he had contacted an underground railroad of sorts that took him through Canada and then into Europe where he was to start a new life. He no longer trusted the founder of this "railroad," operated through the Planetary Alliance for Fathers in Exile, and wanted him exposed. I won't go into detail about the circumstances of this father in England because his story, like many, is long and complicated.

Stories of perjury, accusations of abuse and mounting legal fees are the norm in many of the stories that cross my desk. Some of these stories are from men right here in London. The most frustration comes from dealing with the courts.

Recently, a Vancouver Island man lost custody of his children because he informed the courts that his ex-wife was punishing the kids by spanking them with a kitchen spatula, which is illegal. "The use of an instrument to discipline a child is unacceptable under any circumstances," the judge said. But he then told the man he shouldn't have tattled on his wife, but discussed the matter with her.

It's hard to have a rational discussion when, as the courts heard, the two parents "hate each other." The judge also said the children had grown bitter toward their father, but he didn't believe the bitterness was caused by parental alienation.

Fathers' Rights groups are lobbying Parliament to change the Divorce Act to ensure equal parenting is something our courts strive for.

Dennis Valenta, a Clinton man who recently opened an office in that town to advocate for fathers, has just launched a commerical on a local radio station calling for legislation that would make equal access a goal.

There is a London group called Not All Dads are Deadbeats that held its first meeting last week. It wants to create more awareness about the need for equal parenting. This is a goal worth pursuing, but only if both parents are fit to share custody. Children benefit from having two loving parents in their life.

Ultimately it will still be up to the courts to decide who is fit and who isn't and that may mean leaving some parents, both male and female, out of the picture.

Sometimes people within the system are simply out to take money from couples in the process of divorce and arranging custody. The antagonism often increases once the courts are involved. As angry as people are at their ex-spouses, in cases where both have had nurturing relationships with the children, moms and dads should set aside their scraps and come up with an arrangement that is best for the kids -- not what is best for themselves.

Too often the children are used as pawns as parents try to inflict pain on each other. Everyone loses when that happens.

It's hard to have a rational discussion when, as the courts heard, the two parents 'hate each other.'

Kids are safer with Dads

                       

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For immediate release

Monday 9th February 2009

Kids are safer with Dads

The Australian Institute of Criminology has reviewed the most recent child homicide statistics from its National Homicide Monitoring Program. The new data shows that during 2006-07, eleven child homicides were perpetrated by a mother, while five perpetrators were fathers, and another five were de-facto partners of the mother who lived with the child. Importantly, no child victims were killed by a complete stranger during this period.

Greg Andresen, spokesman for radio program Dads on the Air said, “Stories are appearing regularly in the media inferring that the safety of children is put at risk when the courts award sole custody to fathers or when shared custody is given to both parents. These figures show that, in terms of child homicides, this simply isn’t the case. Children are three times safer when they are with their fathers than when they are with other custodians.”

Dads in Distress co-ordinator for Western Sydney, Phil York said, “Whenever a child is killed, it is a tragic, devastating, incomprehensible event. We need to examine the reasons why parents sometimes kill their children: their mental health issues and the social pressures that might lead them to commit this most horrific of acts. The real tragedy is that our health and social services aren’t finding these parents and helping them before it’s too late.”

Media contacts:

Greg Andresen    greg@dadsontheair.net                      0403 813 925

Phil York            didswesternsydney@yahoo.com.au   0401 426 101