ACORN Falls from the Tree, Will Abuse Shelters Come Next?
ACORN, the liberal activist group, was stripped of its funding by the House of Representatives Thursday following release of undercover videos showing lurid and criminal activities.
One tape showed an ACORN employee named Tresa Kaelke of San Bernardino, Calif. bragging how she had murdered her husband: “I shot him. And he died. Right there.” To perfect her alibi, the ACORN worker declared how she had gone to a local domestic violence shelter where she “pleaded my case.”
Following release of the video, a red-faced Kaelke claimed she was just playing along with the Candid-Camera gag, and local police reported her former husbands were alive and well.
We’re relieved to hear the men are safe. Still, there’s something deeply disturbing about Kaelke’s boast.
Recently Trudy Schuett of Examiner.com published an insider account of abuse shelters. She reveals, “We’ve seen cases where fictional abuse, contrived for the purposes of leverage in court, became a reality.” In other words, shelter workers coached women like Tresa Kaelke how to fabricate a White Lie for purposes of manipulating the legal system.
Others have developed a similar jaded view of shelters’ claims of protecting women from their villainous tormentors. In July, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his plan to rescue the state from the brink of financial insolvency, cutting all funds for domestic violence shelters in the state.
Over the years I’ve had occasion to visit abuse shelters, speak with their employees, and peruse their literature. Just like the kiss-and-tell videos reveal fraudulent actions at ACORN offices around the country, I have found evidence of widespread malfeasance.
These are some of the more spectacular examples:
Arizona: A female resident sexually assaulted a 12-year-old boy staying at the Brewster Center Domestic Violence Services, but shelter staff wouldn’t allow police on the premises to investigate. In Phoenix, the Shield Foundation operates an immigration scam operation that relies on well-rehearsed shake-downs of alleged abusers.
Arkansas: A resident made up tear-jerker accounts of partner abuse and medical emergencies, duping staff at the Options shelter in Monticello to loan her $25,000.
Georgia: The Cherokee Family Violence Center in Canton fabricated an allegation of child neglect by a shelter resident who complained too often, causing the mother to lose custody of her infant for five months.
Oklahoma: The YWCA Crisis Center in Enid lures prospective residents with the promise, “We do NOT require proof of abuse.” Cindy Lou Shores, former director of the South Central Region Tribal Nations program, now resides in a federal prison for embezzling $106,000. At SafeNet in Claremore, the director was ordered to avoid any further contact with a former resident’s children. Earlier this month the children’s father filed a multi-million lawsuit against the shelter.
Texas: The Bay Area Turning Point program in Houston hosts dating parties, pairing up abused shelter residents with local dandies for an evening of schmoozing and boozing.
Virginia: Bethany House of Northern Virginia has a long record of problems. First, two female shelter workers were fired for sexual advances of the residents. Then an attorney appeared at a client’s house demanding sex for his pro bono services. Later the shelter waged a six-year campaign to harass the husband of a mentally-deranged resident, what the judge later described as “Kafkaesque litigation.”
West Virginia: The staff of the Hope House in Charleston lied to police about a woman in their facility, preventing her from getting needed mental health treatment. And the director of the Domestic Violence Information Center in Morgantown recently admitted under oath, “we do not shelter men in the shelter even if it’s empty.” Now a group called Men and Women Against Discrimination has filed a sex discrimination lawsuit.
Washington: A blind woman was ridiculed and finally ejected by staff at WomenCare in Bellingham for requesting basic safety accommodations like Braille dots on the security keypad at the shelter entrance.
In Florida, shelters are in a state of disarray. At SafeSpace shelter in Stuart, a 16-month-old toddler was run over in the shelter parking lot, and a woman was later fatally stabbed by a shelter co-resident. The Shelter for Abused Women and Children in Naples fired its former director for harassing and assaulting shelter employees.
At Another Way in Lake City, a four-year-old girl was vaginally penetrated by an older girl staying at the facility. Shelters managers drive shelter vans for personal use. Overt sex discrimination. Illicit drug use. Employees convicted of multiple violent crimes. An astronomical staff turn-over. And more.
No doubt some abuse shelters are providing a tremendous service to their communities. But considering abuse shelters take in $1.4 billion from the government and other sources annuallly, there are far too many bad apples in this barrel for Congress to continue to turn a blind eye on this sordid affair.
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September 21st, 2009 at 3:35 am
Schwarzenegger is bad news.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:59 am
Schwarzenegger and the Republican state senators are bad news. It is the government’s duty to protect citizens and to ensure their well-being. Schwarzenegger and the Republican state senators are not doing this. The funding priority for battered women shelters (BWS) should be the same as for prisons, because human life is at risk. Prisons keep the criminals and the murderers in, and BWS’s keep the good people in, and the criminals and the murderers out. The Governor’s illegal budget cuts, with the backing of big oil (Chevron Corp. of San Ramon), are very dangerous for women and children, who are victims of domestic violence , and it is sub-human. During a recession, with its higher unemployment, government funding for BWS’s should be increased, not eliminated. Obviously, this budget picks-on the most vulnerable, and it endangers children. If a battered wife is murdered in front of a closed-down BWS, then, Schwarzenegger, his oil industry tyrants and the Republican state senators should be charged with first-degree murder.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:41 am
Wonderful article.
****”One tape showed an ACORN employee named Tresa Kaelke of San Bernardino, Calif. bragging how she had murdered her husband: “I shot him. And he died. Right there.” To perfect her alibi, the ACORN worker declared how she had gone to a local domestic violence shelter where she “pleaded my case.”*****
This is sick. Really sick. Yet, I am not surprised.
I’m very, very sad that I am not surprised. ;(
You know, I can’t imagine how I would feel if my husband said something like that. I wouldn’t take this as a joke.
***local police reported her former husbands were alive and well.****
I wonder how many husbands she has? And I doubly wonder if they are well. They may be alive but …..
September 21st, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Are you kidding me?! This is nothing but a blatant attempt to denigrate domestic violence shelters. No matter what system you look at, there will always be those who take advantage of services – look at our medical system, welfare, medicaid, child welfare services, family court, etc. This doesn’t invalidate the millions of victims these shelters protect daily! Also, looking at figures of funding without context is ridiculous. “1.4 billion” means nothing without context; why not compare it to other lifesaving services provided by the government – like EMT services or Medicare/Medicaid? Its nothing compared to what is spent on other programs! by the way, a real statistic: there are 3x as many animal shelters as there are domestic violence shelters.
September 21st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Good grief!!! I can’t believe I am going to do this!
@J. Michaels,
***”This is nothing but a blatant attempt to denigrate domestic violence shelters. “***
Women with power aren’t any less corrupt than men with power. In fact, it is about time someone started creating some accountability with women. If not for men then for the women’s sake. If everyone was like you women will never get a chance to be equal. Women are not 10 year olds. They CAN be treated as adults.
***”No matter what system you look at, there will always be those who take advantage of services”***
And that’s why they NEED (I stress the word NEED) … no, we all NEED to make sure corruption doesn’t get out of hand. Please STOP mocking women by treating them like babies.
****”there are 3x as many animal shelters as there are domestic violence shelters.”***
Of course there are heaps more shelters for animals. The biggest donation last year was from a women who died and left her money to a dog shelter. People, as they get to understand how people can be, IMHO, would rather be with animals.
@ EarlRichards,
***”The funding priority for battered women shelters (BWS) should be the same as for prisons, because human life is at risk.”***
Don’t you mean the prisons should be shut down and replaced by refuges. Why should women go to refuges and men go to prison? Why can’t they all go to refuges and get specialised help?
@Carey Roberts.
Thanks for motivating me today. I phoned the newsteam and asked if they could contact me for comment when it comes to women refuges.
Last night they were on the news carrying on saying men are going to beat and rape women when the Rugby world cup is on.
They did this when New Zealand lost to France. The TV news and newspapers were overtaken with women’s refuge saying they had an influx of women because men got angry over the loss.
……..
Truth was … there was no extra cases of DV anywhere in the country. Not even extra calls to refuge hotlines. Police even commented last night saying they were not concerned.
When NZ lost to France the whole country went into depression. Shops had a downfall in sales and Psychologists were on the radios telling everyone how to cope. Men were not interested in bashing and raping women!!! They weren’t even interested in getting out of bed to go to work.
……….
In fact, the stats for the game weekend didn’t even come in until the month was over. Feminists just made it up. That’s right, MADE IT UP OUT OF THIN AIR.
Keep up the good work Carey. It sounds like someone is finally allowing women to grow up.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
@J. Michaels
Yes it denigrates domestic violence shelters.
Women and men are going to kill each other.
The motives for violent crime are well documented.
Lack of domestic violence shelters is not one of them.
Men don’t kill nearly as many women as they do other men; But that doesn’t count does it.
Before modern medicine, most people died in child birth or early childhood. Something most men were working and mostly absent from. If women did not have the innate capacity to kill their own children and do so frequently the human race would have perished before it got started.
If the food runs out what are you gonna eat?
Thank God for foresnic science.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:42 am
Criminals go to prison, because they have been found guilty of a crime, battered women, who have not been convicted of anything, go to shelter to stop from being killed or beaten very badly, because most women are smaller then men, therefore, they cannot defend themselves from a man who bigger than a women, so have to go to shelter, because they are not big enough to defend themselves, against a man.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 am
This story just is another of ongoing examples of how our society is drawn to sensasionalism and how we mistrust everything. Of the reported cases of false reports, there are hundreds if not thousands of real legiitimate cases of domestic violence.
The real shame and sad news is how men are not more active and outraged at the fact that other men are beating and hurting women. If we as men truly believe in the ideals of strength, honor, protecting the weak, and cariing for our families. I submit and challenge men to hold the abusers accountable. Let us, men be the first to demand justice. One batterer/abuser brings shame to all of men.
I ask all men of good conscience and compassion, to add your voice to hold violent offenders accountable Let’s stop giving silent permission or silent support to batterers.
I am a man who works in domestic and sexual violence prevention for over 18 yrs.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
Congress is in the process of reauthorizing ACORN funding – up to $42 billion.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
@ Earl Richards,
TBH with you, I was unsure why you made a comparison between a prison and a refuge. I took it as if you meant refuges should have the same amount of money as prisons because you might think there are the same amount of people going to each one.
I thought maybe you thought women in trouble go to a refuge like the woman in the article who said she killed her husband and then went to a refuge.
I was thinking that if female murderers can go to a refuge, why can’t male murderers. But now I am thinking of giving a different opinion to what you say.
*****Criminals go to prison, because they have been found guilty of a crime, battered women, who have not been convicted of anything, go to shelter to stop from being killed or beaten very badly,*****
Well, IMHO refuges still shouldn’t get the same amount of money as prisons because there are far, far, far, far more criminals than there are beaten women.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
@ Jae Jin
“One batterer/abuser brings shame to all of men”
With this one sentence, sir, you reveal yourself to be everything that is wrong with the application of services for domestic violence and the people who provide those services.
For the record, since you don’t seem to know, domestic violence has nothing to do with gender, and sexist attributions such as yours continue to do two things. One, it misleads people about the nature of violence in the home. And two, it reveals an abject ignorance of the facts from the very people who are supposed to be experts at the problem.
Kindly go watch the video on the home page of this website entitled “Domestic Violence, Women are Half the Problem” (near the bottom) and then come back here and explain just what it is you want from men of “good conscious and compassion.”
Could an acknowledgement of the truth be a good start? And if so, let the truth begin with you. Right now, with all respect for your intent, all you are doing is spreading lies, and assigning blanket responsibility where it does not belong.
It helps no one and hurts many. Please educate yourself then find the decency to correct your mistakes publicly.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
For Julie:
What I thought I stated was this : The funding source for shelters should come from the same source, as prisons — Public taxes, because human life is at risk, not the same amount of taxes, obviously, more taxes would go for prisons. If a battered wife kills her husband , she does not go to a shelter, she goes to a prison, awaiting a trial or bail. If the husband is already dead, then, why would she go to a shelter?
Earl
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:46 am
Hi Jae Jin #8,
It is wonderful to have you on this site and commenting on this thread. Yes, I too work in this field. I recently attended a meeting with speaker Lundy from America.
He is very persistent that men should get hard time for domestic violence. In fact, he is adamant they there is no difference between mild abuse and major abuse and encouraged all those who attended his meetings around the country to protest against the judges.
He wants us to protest against them because they are speaking out saying the ‘one size fits all’ model is not working.
Right now, women working in this field are divided as to the way forward. Men have changed in the last 4 decades and especially in the last 2 decades while the violence from women has also escalated during this time. We just can’t keep following the model of men=bad, women=innocent.
And we will NOT wipe out all male violence on women in 20 years as they predict. We can’t do it because new immigrants coming into the country have not been bombarded with our media continuously telling men they are bad and encouraging other men to stand against men for women’s sake. In fact, IMHO the white ribbon is encouraging men to be violent on men. It is not OK to ask men to be violent on men while demanding they stop being violent on women.
All violence is bad. IMHO.
I hope you read this link I give you.
http://tinyurl.com/lggjcb
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 am
For Earl,
****”What I thought I stated was this : The funding source for shelters should come from the same source, as prisons — Public taxes, because human life is at risk, not the same amount of taxes, obviously, more taxes would go for prisons.”****
Thanks for explaining what you meant. We must have different systems in our countries. Where I am refuges are homes giving to women’s groups from the Government and each one gets $400,000 a year for operating costs also from the Government. They ask other government departments and other funding agencies, companies and collections for the extra money needed. And then there is free resources given for other needs. We have a refuge for Europeans, a refuge for Maori, a refuge for Pacific Islanders and a refuge for Asians in major cities and most towns have at least 2 for different ethnic groups.
We have absolutely ‘NO’ refuges for men because we follow radical feminist ideology when it comes to DV. In fact, we don’t encourage children to have good relationships with men because children shouldn’t trust men.
Our human rights have rights for women, gays, lesbians, trans-sexuals and all the other 6 genders equally. Yet our men only have the Human right to be responsible for the other genders.
****” If a battered wife kills her husband , she does not go to a shelter, she goes to a prison, awaiting a trial or bail. If the husband is already dead, then, why would she go to a shelter?”****
Actually, if she is smart she goes to a refuge. Do you remember learning how churches used to be a safe haven for people? Well, women’s refuges are safe havens for women. Not even the police can take a woman from a refuge. And once inside, heaven and earth will be moved to protect her from her crime because women are oppressed by men. Her husband would have made her kill him in defence. She will learn how she feared.
Women run to refuges when they are in a custody battle and when they have been denied a green card. They are supplied green cards and given protection orders from the father and lawyers to fill in the family court paperwork so the father never sees his children again.
She can also be sent anywhere around the world hush hush with tax payers money.
……….
But I am 100% sure your country is no different to mine. It really is this corrupt.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 am
@Paul Elam #11,
Hi. I didn’t see your comment when I wrote mine to Jae Jin. I wouldn’t have written mine if I had because I thought yours good. I am glad you mentioned the youtube you made. That is a fine piece of work.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
Jae Jin said:
“Of the reported cases of false reports, there are hundreds if not thousands of real legiitimate cases of domestic violence. ”
Ahhh, yea, right. That’s why, I guess, that of the restraining orders in the U.S. LESS THAN HALF even ALLEGE violence.
And they seem to come RIGHT when a divorce is being initiated – curious that.
Let’s say your absurd idea is right – at least women HAVE shelters to go to. And advocates. What do men have?
We pay our taxes, and that means that 1/2 of the VAWA money is paid for by MEN. We are entitled to the services.
But you won’t address that – and by address I don’t mean bloviate on and on and counter and duck and weave and argue – I mean ADDRESS : as in LET US INTO THE SHELTERS.
Bigot.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Shelters must be allocated forensically. They should be attached to hospitals. While shelter is for the immediate crisis, to prevent injury or loss of life, without triage, there is no clinical final say.
The paradox with free standing institutionalised shelters is that they are always there, thus they are there to be used. This breeds advocacy. The most zealous advocates displace the others. The result is more becomes less. Who decides for whom shelter is available? The state becomes a second home for troubled families.
When does the resolution of the problem become the responsibility of the parties to whom it belongs?
If the shelters are attached to hospitals there is accountability within the protective mechanism.
Domestic violence is a public health problem, not a legal problem.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Wife-beating is a crime.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Yes it is as much crime as man-beating woman-beating child-beating and animal-beating.
The problem however is not a legal problem.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Without science and technology – perception “is nine-tenths of the law”.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Crime problems become legal problems, before the crime goes to court.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
EarlRichards said…
Wife-beating is a crime.
Really? From the way you are carrying on anybody would think it was legal.
But you are correct. Wife-beating is a crime.
Unfortunately it also seems that the abuse of men, and even boys, by women is not only permitted it is frequently celebrated.
Interestingly, Earl, a study in my country very recently showed that eighty percent of parental child abuse is committed by women. Where are the shelters for those victims Earl?
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
@ dwc
***”Yes it is as much crime as man-beating woman-beating child-beating and animal-beating.
The problem however is not a legal problem.***
One could get technical with this.
I thought I would remind you that we don’t have a law ‘woman assaults man’. Women assaulting husbands/men/boys comes under common assault.
Unlike “man assaults woman’ which is an actual law with an actual punishment.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
@Gwallan, we wrote the same thing in a round about way at the same time. Funny how that can happen.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
@julie
You just made rationalist joke.
That is the second one I have heard, and I can’t remember the first.
Thanks btw I didn’t consider that in this context.
Men (previous law makers) seem to particularly hate the men who hurt women.
I hadn’t heard the term wife-beater for years. Then an old movie I caught on TV, panic in the streets, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042832/
referred to them as the scum of the earth or something akin to that.
And that would have been before the actual release of the film in 1950.
“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ”
Lord Byron
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Men batter women?? The VAWA was passed on stats that showed that 0.3% of women are batters while 1.1% of men were. It was agreed by the Politicians and feminists that this meant that men batter women THREE TIMES as often as women batter men. What it actually means is that 99.7% or women are quite pleasant – probably like Julie – and don’t batter men; and so are 98.9% of men who don’t batter women and are good to have BBQs with. No difference at all, statistically. But hey, there would be no gravy train for femiinist crooks and vote-buying Pollies if we ignored the 3X. It is hardly surprising that Shelters are full of the depraved.
September 25th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Since julie is all over the map on this topic, may I post a link that got a chivalrious politician into hot water for usnig governemnt resources for his marriage proposal. Too bad film makers about Acorn were not there. But it has a link to Acorn, rightpundits.com. Jon S. Cardin
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4634
September 25th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
A Mr.K,
****”Since julie is all over the map on this topic, may I post a link”****
Oh, that is so funny for I am not the right person to be iin all this. (for sure) But….
I just want to say that since I have been reading this site recently, (I have read some in the past also) … I am real confident in men and the men’s movement.
You know, I passed these sites onto our CEO who is male in concern and he said 3 years ago, “I looked over the sites and they look like they have it under control”.
I just wasn’t happy with that response. Shows my lack of trust in men, eh?
Keep up the great and wonderful work Mr.K and all others. I looked forward to men believing they have equality.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Oh, I mean I look forward to men believing they have equality not looked for men believing they have equality.
September 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
EarlRichards , Obviously, this budget picks-on the most vulnerable, and it endangers children. If
J. Michaels This doesn’t invalidate the millions of victims these shelters protect daily! there are 3x as many animal shelters as there are domestic violence shelters.
I do not have time right now to go through all of these statements but these caught my eye.
Richards….do you realize that most child abuse is by the..>Mother? Live in boy friends or girl friends are the second highest rate for child abusers and natural fathers are below them on the list of abusers. Oniy grandparents come in lower then do fathers.
http://shatterdmen.com/Childmurders.htm
It is however true that children often learn to be abusers from the abuse they see at home but they most often learn it from mom.
Michaels…millions? Many women are in domestic violence shelters because they are homeless, not because they are victims of abuse. Often one shelter will move these “victims” to other shelters and then move them back to keep the numbers up and the money coming in. There really is a domestic violence INDUSTRY. Try googling this term to see what you find.
You may well be right about there being 3 times more animal shelters then domestic violence shelters and I can understand how someone who has been beaten may feel about this…but I ask you…what about MEN who are arrested for being beaten by their female partners? Check these resources for each:
A TYPICAL WOMEN” Shelter
http://shatterdmen.com/Women%20Shelters%20Arrangments.htm
Compare that with:
TYPICAL MEN’S SHELTERS
http://shatterdmen.com/Battered%20MEN%20shelters.htm
There are over 2,000 women shelters in the United States, You can count the men’s shelters on your hands and possibly one hand yet according to UNBIASED research, there are as many or more abused men then abused women.
Daniel Whitaker, Ph.D., a behavioral scientist and team leader at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) discovered, of the 24 percent of relationships that had been violent, half had been reciprocal and half had not. Although more men than women (53 percent versus 49 percent) had experienced nonreciprocal violent relationships, more women than men (52 percent versus 47 percent) had taken part in ones involving reciprocal violence.
Regarding perpetration of violence, more women than men (25 percent versus 11 percent) were responsible. In fact, 71 percent of the instigators in nonreciprocal partner violence were women.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a
Did you get that? 72% of the time when only one person was violent…it was the woman!
As the founder and director of Shattered Men, I have had many women who have been in women shelters confirm as has have Mr. Roberts that often there is more abuse going on IN the shelters and often from the staff then these women had at home. Most of these women told me they would never go back to one again.
The VAWA has helped very few women and in fact has made things more dangerous for more women than it has helped.
In reality, if we only look at ONE side of this issue, we will make the problem worse. Is this what you and the domestic violence industry want to do?
http://mediaradar.org/
http://shatterdmen.com/
September 25th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
“In my house, being raised with a sister and three brothers, there
was an absolute – it was a nuclear sanction, if under any
circumstances, for any reason, no matter how justified, even self-
defense – if you ever touched your sister, not figuratively,
literally. My sister, who is my best friend, my campaign manager, my
confidante, grew up with absolute impunity in our household. And I
have the bruises to prove it. I mean that sincerely. I am not
exaggerating when I say that.”
“And I have the bruises to prove it.”
The author? None other then Senator Joe Biden…the originator of
the Violence Against Women Act. Umm wouldn’t ya think he would
know better then most that women can be violent too???
For those who do not believe women can be violent…do you realize the VAWA was actually written by gender feminist:
Please note that although the feminist claim the VAWA is gender neutral, I urge you to read for yourself and decide for yourself if it is indeed gender neutral
Also please note who had a major part in writing this act:
Senator Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who once chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, first proposed the VAWA in 1990. The bill was a collaborative effort, with key roles played by Victoria Nourse, then Senate Judiciary Committee counsel, and Sally Goldfarb, then NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF) staff attorney. A broad range of feminist groups offered input and support, and NOW LDEF’s Pat Reuss lent lobbying expertise.
Radical feminist wrote this act. Would not this be like asking the klu klux klan to write laws concerning racial relations?
I ask you to substitute the word “women” in any of this with Black, Asians, or any other group. Would it be fair? Would it be Just? Would it stand the test of the Equal protection clause of the
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
http://shatterdmen.com/VAWA%20too.htm
September 26th, 2009 at 10:44 am
dwc Says: Men don’t kill nearly as many women as they do other men; But that doesn’t count does it.
I think we need to remember that many of these men who kill other men do so as a much misguided “Knight in shining Armour” By that, I mean that often a woman may appear to be in distress and will need to be rescued. An example of this is when a woman has an affair and her husband walks in so she yells rape or when she wants to leave her husband so she gets her lover to “take care of business” by saying he is abusive and she can not leave him…..
October 6th, 2009 at 5:31 am
hey i am a debate student and i have searched over 20 websites to answer the question.
How much funding is needed for one DV shelter for one year?
if anyone out there has any idea or a good reference site i would appreciate it