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6 Responses to “Wendy McElroy”

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1. right2parent

   2006-06-07 at 7:30 am

   The biggest problem with domestic violence laws is misunderstanding the definition of the term. Anyone remember Hamdi v Rumsfeld? What is an “enemy combatant?” The term is vague, and application of related law denies due process by its overbroad application. Look up Sullivan v Stroop sometime. What is “child support?” The term is vague, and application of related law is overbroad. The classification relates to “dependent children,” but is applied to all children, just as law relating to “domestic violence” is overbroad without an understanding of the federal definition of that term. The “assault” that takes place between family members is still an assault, and it is an accusation of criminal intent. Normal precautions to avoid due process violations in a criminal assault trial are conveniently avoided in an ex-parte hearing on a criminal assault charge leveled against another family member. What’s with that? As long as legislators give the executive branch the latitude to loosely describe and overreach legislative intent without regard to its lawful application, we can expect more of the same.

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2. mruffolo

   2006-06-06 at 8:15 am

   Hot off the press.

   Assemblymember Rebecca Cohn’s AB 2051 turn a blind eye to male DV and their children

   California law defines domestic violence as ‘the infliction or threat of physical harm against…female intimate partners.’ AB 2051 refers to domestic violence victims only as ‘battered women.’

   http://glennsacks.com/ab_2051_moves.htm

   Senate Judiciary Committee
   State Capital
   Room 2187
   Sacramento, CA 95814
   Phone 916-651-4113
   Fax 916-445-8390 Don Perata-D

   Senate Pro Tem (leader)
   State Capital
   Room 205
   Sacramento, CA 95814
   Phone 916-651-4009
   Fax 916-327-1997
   Senator.Perata@sen.ca.gov

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3. mruffolo

   2006-06-05 at 8:21 pm

   To set things right we ought to immediately exclude our government from involvement. Allow familes and communities to police their problems.

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4. DcFather

   2006-06-05 at 6:54 am

   To have equality, first we are going to need to reverse current policy, then maybe come up with something fair.

   Reversing current policy means that when a husband batters his wife, we should throw the wife in prison, give the man custody of the children, and make the woman pay child support or go to prison again. The husband should not have to actually batter the wife however, that’s where a Violence Against Men Act would come in, providing billions in funding to support and encourage men to make false allegations of domestic violence under “always arrest the female” policies, so that he might cash in on the discrimination without having to do anything other than say he is in “fear” of the woman.

   This is necessary to “make up for past discrimination”. After 10 or 15 years of that, then we could revisit the subject, maybe even consider basing justice on facts instead of gender.

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5. roger

   2006-06-04 at 4:32 pm

   Every man I know is a victim of female violence, as defined by VAWA – i.e. intimidation, name calling, physical abuse, humiliation, etc.

   The women call this VIOLENCE when a man does it.
   When a woman does it?….we don’t know, because men do not report it.

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6. mruffolo

   2006-06-04 at 2:29 pm

   Today feminism includes an anti-male message. It’s because the fight is over for them because they have equal rights and opportunity.

   A leader ought to stand up and call this movement out for what it is – over.

   “Domestic violence is a problem that affects both men and women. But our nation’s laws are based on a false assumption – that only women are victims of abuse. As a result, male victims are often refused service, and men’s civil rights are violated.”

   http://www.mediaradar.org/

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