Costa Rican Women Using Restraining Orders to Swindle Expatriates–’Her word rules, and he goes to jail’
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Her word rules, and he goes to jail
Some women swindle with domestic violence law
By Garland M. Baker
Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Women are kicking their mates out of the house in record numbers in Costa Rica. Some of them are enjoying it and using the law designed to protect women against domestic violence to swindle expats [American expatriates]. Many expats come to Costa Rica in search of a relationship and end up shooting themselves in the foot by making bad choices.
Police in Heredia say women are abusing Law 8589 Article 7. The article states, “In order to protect the victims, they will be able to request, from the start of the complaint, the protective measures contemplated in the law against domestic violence, as well as the necessary precautionary measures foreseen in the penal code of procedure.”
Yes, an expat male — or any male in Costa Rica for that matter — can be tossed out of his own home by his wife or girlfriend by merely having a complaint filed against him by the woman if she says he was being abusive. Abusive, as it stands today, can mean anything, including just raising one’s voice.
Two weeks ago a woman put her expat boyfriend in jail all night when he raised his voice to her adult son — he is over 18 years of age — for popping bubble pack and painting satanic symbols on the wall. The son, who has tested positive for drugs in the past, became vocally abusive, so the expat called 911. When the police arrived, the girlfriend and her son asked the police to take the expat to jail. Officers did so without question. The woman also said that he struggled with the son and bumped into her.
The man who was jailed is the legal owner of the home.
The girlfriend took a coat to the expat that night because it was very cold in Heredia. Either she had a guilty conscience or she was looking for information. While at the jail, she spoke with the police, and they gave her pointers on what she should file with the judge the next morning in court.
In the morning, the police escorted the tired man from his jail cell to the court. He was lucky, he had a cell phone, and the police let him use it in the patrol car. He called an attorney who met him at court.
The judge told the man that the police would take him to his own house where he could pack two suitcases of essentials but that he had to vacate his home immediately.
A police officer escorted the expat and his attorney into the house. While the retired man gathered his belongings, the police officer told the attorney that throwing men — mostly foreign men — out of their homes in Heredia was their daily routine. He said they use to chase robbers and other bad people, but now they were bored because mostly they just deal with domestic violence cases. The police officer further said: “Women in Costa Rica are taking advantage of this new law. They throw out their boyfriend and then steal their things and leave.”
Other women do not leave. They start court cases against expats for damages or palimony to wear them down to get a payoff. The lucky ones get off with the women taking a few TV sets and the home computers. At least in these cases the expat can move back into his house.
When the girlfriend does not leave the home, expats have a serious problem. (more…)
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September 26th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
And every man has the right to access potential mates history of such actions in Costa Rica..right?
All these cases are “right to know”? The accusers names and photos are
published in Costa Rica…right?
And the percentage of cases proven false, with the perjurer/false report
perpetrator doing time stands at……?
And follow up on subsequent stolen property cases has produced…….?
September 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
The virus of malicious mendacity spreads. Lies rule. Justice is not just blind but kicked to the ground and the boot put in. The forces of the State are forced to play their part in ‘Let’s you and him fight’ games, overpowering the innocent and dipossessing them at a woman’s whim. The Princess of Lies cackles and leers.
And the gentlefolk urge restraint. The kindly disposed seek remedies from the corrupt legislators who imposed the filth in the first place. The articulate argue on their virtual soap-boxes and street corners and the literate publish their books and articles.
And things get worse. The virus continues to spread. All is corrupt.
The inarticulate can speak too. They can repeat the words of that Great Leader that the Princess released onto the world, one so beloved of the corrupt. “Power comes from the barrel of a gun”
Come the day. The Tailor will take his measure.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Exported American feminist justice.
I do not wonder why many Muslim countries, who are Patriarchal, resist western culture and America influence.
“Currently, Amnesty International is involved in an international campaign to stop violence against women. Every day, women and girls around the world are threatened, beaten, raped, mutilated and killed with impunity. Join the “Stop Violence Against Women Campaign” and help make women’s human rights a reality.”
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Our_Issues/Womens_Human_Rights/page.do?id=1011012&n1=3&n2=39
“The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination.”
“Countries that have ratified or acceded to the Convention are legally bound to put its provisions into practice. They are also committed to submit national reports, at least every four years, on measures they have taken to comply with their treaty obligations.”
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw
September 27th, 2007 at 7:15 am
It’s interesting that in the IMBRA thread, some suggest moving to Latin America countries because they’re more friendly to men.
Generally speaking, they are but they also carry other hazards as well (mafias, corruption, etc.) Expats are an easy target for EVERYONE since they generally are known to have money and these countries don’t give preferential treatment to immigrants in a good fashion.
I’ve heard about Costa Rica being popular with expats retiring and spending their retirement income. This kind of story could seriously hurt business for them.
That said, I wonder if the stories of Mexican police corruption continues to hurt their tourist industry. After what I’m heard, I wouldn’t set foot in Mexico outside of maybe the specific beach spots (and even then, they’re getting kind of pricey for what you get.) I see tons of advertisements for how friendly Mexicans are to tourists and even opening up their homes to them.
September 27th, 2007 at 11:02 am
This is a greed deal.
Men ought to not buy a home and invite a woman into it. Yet if a woman is living in your rental space, then purchase items that have little value to you.
Else to not marry, do not cohabitate, if you can.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Else to not marry, do not cohabitate, if you can.
I hate to say this, but this sounds very meekish and passive-aggressive. Let’s review:
1960/70’s: Welfare state is reformed to throw unemployed men out of welfare homes. Men who marry are exploited by the system.
1980’s: “Child-support” is created to hunt down men who don’t marry. Palimony suits start to become common. Men are thrown out of their homes by their girlfriends.
1990’s: Sexual harassment lawsuits makes it almost a crime for a man to ask out a woman at work where he, like most wageearners, spends the vast majority of his time.) So men who don’t marry face sanctions if he dates at work.
In other words, you can run but you can’t hide. All you can do in that case is maybe stay one step ahead of a system that’s become more man-hating by the day.
I’ll tell you what hurt “the machine” Men marrying foreign women. That REALLY got these women upset that men went OUTSIDE of their pussy-union and continued to have families and marry but just not with grouchy, overpriced local harpies.
I read the committee report and it was SEETHING with resentment at how, gasp, less attractive older men were dating, gasp, younger, attractive women who were willing to make him happy! How DARE these men think that he’ll get something OUT of marriage?
Since they couldn’t ban foreign marriages, they had to go after the middlemen (the brokers.) I have nothing against brokers, but I think anyone who wants a relationship in a foreign country should do their homework: Learn the language, the culture, spend some time there.
Costa Rica is now full of retirees many of whom share sentiments with feminist ideology and they don’t see any problem with seeing women there treat men like crap like they did when they were home. Too many westerners moving into an area make it like the place they left.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
If we dont fall to a socialist state and get locked down, all this will eventually come around as everything always does. just like a bad man who is good looking can take 100 or more women out of circulation by using them… and make the other 99 men look bad… eventually, as potential victims wise up and such, the dirth of them will end up having a smaller pool to swim in. and as such they are the more aggressive and the most likely to paint the picture of what women are like to the men. and just as 1 man can spread enough misery to affect 2 women a week badly, women such as above, do enough that they can effect 100s of men from the story being passed around and from articles.
ultimately there isnt too many ways things can go…
the feminists are self eugenizing so eventually there wont be any…
the population has dropped ot the point where eventually there will not be enough moralized men who are willing to maintain the roof over everyones heads. either spanish machismo culture will move in, or islamic culture will move in and impose sharia and dhimmi law, or totalitarian sociailsts will take the helm.
wonder what they will think then? will they be happy? will they want to go back?
dont it always seem to go, that you dont know what you have till its gone
they paved paradise, and put in a parking lot…
[by the way... its also an economic truth that you need a certain amount of people to have a certain rate of progress and improvement, and to have certain amenities. without those numbers, things stop being possible on many levels]
September 28th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I’m reminded of the old joke about heaven being an American salary, German mechanics, French food, Swiss police and Indian wives and hell being Indian salary, American wives, German food, French mechanics, and German police.
The point of that joke is that there is no perfect place to live. Men continue to live here and even seek to immigrate because jobs with decent salaries are available. The countries that have a huge stock of women who appreciate income producing men do so because there’s a shortage of such men and has been for generations. These countries are economically and politically unstable and life is hard for nearly everyone. That’s what I find so puzzling about leftism: clearly they know their agenda is going to wind up making life suck for themselves as well as anyone but they drink the cool-aid nonetheless.
I don’t think we want to see that kind of drastic “solution” to our feminism problem. It’s like burning down the house to get rid of the termites.