FOX News: ‘Swat Team Takes Down Fathers 4 Justice In US’
From FOX News:
Swat Team Takes Down Fathers 4 Justice In US
08/18/2007
Two British Fathers 4 Justice activists have been arrested at gunpoint by a Swat team at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
Jolly Stanesby and Mike Downes scaled the statue as the tourists gathered around were warned to put their cameras down and stop “encouraging them”.
A “support crew” of four other campaigners was also held as the memorial was evacuated by US authorities.
The men, who wore Captain America and Batman costumes, were being held in custody in Washington and could be deported or put on trial.
The group – which campaigns to ensure divorced fathers are given access to their children – warned that this was the first of “many, many more” similar protests across the States.
Matt O’Connor, founder of Fathers 4 Justice, said: “Yet again Fathers 4 Justice in the UK has led the way with an audacious protest to raise the global profile of fatherlessness and the social catastrophe it is causing in first world countries.
“Given the problem is not one that is unique to any one country or culture, a first world problem requires a first world, international response.
“This is our response to the inaction of the US authorities. There will be many, many more to follow.
“Now we have lit the flame, we can begin the struggle to make equal parenting a reality in the United States, and combat the insidious gender apartheid that separates children from their fathers in the family courts.”
The group plans to run its first national awareness campaign in the US during the presidential elections.
Stanesby and Downes unveiled their Captain America and Batman costumes after first scaling the memorial dressed as tourists and unfurled a white banner which read: “For the Fathers of the Nation: Fathers 4 Justice has arrived www.f4jusa.com.”
The memorial, which is on the National Mall in the US capital, was built to honour the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln and has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”, delivered on August 28 1963, during the rally at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Fathers 4 Justice has staged similar stunts in the UK including scaling Big Ben, York Minster, Westminster Abbey and the Royal Courts of Justice, as well as throwing purple powder at then Prime Minister Tony Blair in the House of Commons.
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August 18th, 2007 at 11:24 am
awesome!! these guys are MEN OF ACTION !!!
August 18th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Unfortunately, if US citizens had committed the same act of civil disobedience on Federal property, our Draconian system would have them locked away for 20 years.
As it is, the high-profile nature of the “crime” – and our special relationship with the UK – will probably allow this fellows to get out of the country without too much trauma.
It’s pitiful – and frightening – that in this country we now have to import our own activists.
August 18th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Here’s an article headline from UK’s Guardian:
Activist fathers held at gunpoint
Two British Fathers 4 Justice activists were arrested at gunpoint by a Swat team at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
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And now a few comments from our “friends” the US conservatives:
Lincoln Memorial Attacked
“#2 Hang them at the site, and leave their corpses to rot.”
This is how you treat legitimate civil disobedience? These so-called “conservatives” are nothing of the sort: they are neo-fascist dogs.
Count me fed up.
August 18th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Uh, Mike? What makes you assume this person is ‘conservative’? You of all people should know about trolls trying to screw up a site.
August 18th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Squiggy… Maybe, but my gut tells me this guy meant what he said.
My G-D, how can anyone get bent out of shape over a non-violent, camera-ready act of civil disobedience?
August 18th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
“It’s pitiful – and frightening – that in this country we now have to import our own activists.”
I think you meant men’s and Father’s rights activists, because as we all know we still grow bumper crops of gender feminist activists in most of our major population areas and elsewhere. Where’s a good crop failure when you need one?
August 18th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Even if these guys were thrown in jail; there is no greater cause than the cause of the father!!
August 18th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Mike-
exactly. I’m fed up too.
SWAT team huh? What a bunch of faggots. I mean really. Are you guys really that afraid of men dressed in super hero costumes protesting injustice? The U.S. government is full of pussies carrying guns. Well I’m damn good with a gun too. And believe me, there are a hell of a lot more of us than there is of you SWAT fags.
It because of these fascist tactics that so many men have lost hope and render their own vigilante just. Free Darren Mack!!!
To our UK brothers: Thanks guys. We love you.
August 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Count me in as well, Mike. I am disgusted that American law enforcement feels the need to involve a SWAT team to arrest MRA’s on an obviously non-violent publicity stunt.
Miserable bastards were probably itching to kill anyone daring to question our gynocracy………….
Could you imagine the outrage of the MSM if equally fascist tactics were used to apprehend feminists creating a publicity stunt?
August 18th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
thanks guys. that took guts. maybe this will spur some more non-violent protests.
has anyone noticed just how little press this protest got? i’ve been searching the net and MSM sites and there is very little coverage.
confusionus says: when bad people want to hide their wrong doing they clam up.
yeah, brave swat teams. maybe they thought these super heros had some Bat Weapons.
August 18th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Gotham City 2007.
SWAT team takes down Batman and Capt America, with a *BIF*!, and a WHACK*!, but Robin still at large.
Black garbed thugs, henchmen of *The Princess*, cowed crowds with threats of destruction of the Lincoln memorial if they didn’t stop booing and several Gotham citizens were caught up in the mayhem. Injuries included a humiliating dent in America’s pride.
Commissioner Gordon has been replaced by slinky gal in tight pants and bad teeth. The Princess’s spokesperson cackled to our reporter as she punched the air, “KAPOW*!, that “Ve haf un endless supply of bullets unt a new budget for vepons vill be passed by ze Gotham City Counzil by ze end of ze day”, *VAWA*!.
A gentleman’s gentleman at Wayne Manor said, “I believe that Mr Robin is away visiting his aunt and might be dropping by to see Mr Superman in the next day or two”.
This MND reporter expects more *GRUNT*! soon. Meanwhile pea-souper of a disgruntle has settled over Gotham and the Batlight no longer is seen in its skies. Stay tooned.
August 19th, 2007 at 6:34 am
has our noble SWAT team morphed into inhuman psychologically castrated eunech arms of the twisted sister state??
August 19th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Recall that about eight months ago when mostly female, liberal protestors spray painted “anarchist symbols” and phrase such as “Our capitol building” and “you can’t stop us” on the United States Capital building in Washington D.C.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Phillip Morse, a feminized goverment official, said. “The graffiti was easily removed by the dedicated [Architect of the Capitol] staff, some of whom responded on their day off to quickly clean the area.”
“[Police] were told not to arrest anyone.”
The second source added that police had to stand by and watch as protesters posed in front of their graffiti.
The police arrests no one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwbudsVNlBU
http://www.capveterans.com/national_veterans_memorials_protection/id40.html
Feminist law enforcement – when fathers do it, it’s wrong, when women do the same, it’s O.K.
August 19th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Flashback eight months ago when women protested in DC
Why Were Anti-War Protesters Allowed to Spray-Paint US Capitol?
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200701/NAT20070130b.html