Protect our Rights as ParentsToday the American family is under attack. But not from remote foreign terrorists, from the various laws that operate under the guise of protecting someone from someone else.
One of our major concerns today is the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2005 by U.S. Senators Joe Biden (D-DE), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA). This action conclusively proves that both of our major political are anti-family and hold no respect for our civil rights or the United States Constitution. There are no words strong enough to express both the heartbreak and outrage over this betrayal of the promises to uphold and protect our family values has caused. After eleven years as law, “The Violence Against Women Act” (VAWA) has done little more than destroy families and fund social engineering schemes unrelated to intimate partner violence. This dysfunctional law leaves violent criminals free to abuse at will, but inflicts brutalities unworthy of a free society on innocent victims of false allegations of domestic violence. The plain truth is VAWA is unconstitutional. Nothing in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America, including the Commerce Clause, authorizes the Congress to regulate and control personal relations between individuals. Further, the blatant and undeniable gender bias seen on the face of VAWA is discrimination against a subject class, men, in direct violation of Section 1 of Amendment XIV of the Constitution notwithstanding pious statements to the contrary by uninformed Senators. Destruction of Civil LibertiesWe oppose domestic violence and believe attackers of any innocent person should be brought to trial. However, violence is propagated more commonly and broadly by denying civil liberties than controlled. VAWA has promoted, funded, or mandated:
These are acts of a police state and the policies of tyrants. A system without redress is tyranny; those who support it are tyrants. Those who do nothing about it have abnegated their right to freedom and accepted slavery by acquiescence. The abuse protection laws in this country lend themselves to the abuse of the courts and gross violations of our civil rights. They also flagrantly misrepresent the alleged protection victims of abuse are promised and count on, which in violent cases turns out to be none at all. The simple fact is VAWA has done nothing more than to decriminalized domestic violence and let abusive personalities free to abuse over and over, victim after victim, but punishes innocent victims of false allegations of abuse with brutalities unfit for a free society. The revisions suggested in VAWA 2005 fix none of this. They just provides more funding to an abuse ridden system. VAWA lends itself to the abuse of the our courts and gross violations of our civil rights. Civil restraining orders will only restrain civilized people who were no real threat to begin with. The Department of Justice had the “Toolkit to End Domestic Violence” which recommended completely moving the Domestic Violence laws out of the civil codes and into the criminal codes. It makes no sense at all for an attack on your spouse or domestic partner to be a civil issue when the exact action against a complete stranger is a criminal act. Battery is battery no matter where it happens. We feel following through on the “Toolkit to End Domestic Violence” idea is the first step toward resolving the problems within that system and it must be done. The same is true of those falsely accused of domestic violence. They too have seen no justice as they are completely robbed of their civil rights by a process devoid of due process and equal protection under the law. The abuse racket accomplishes nothing beyond generating revenue for the state, attorneys, and the support systems of the abuse and divorce industries. It is nothing more than a social engineering scheme run amok and is tantamount to tyranny. It also ignores the fact that women commit as much and maybe even more acts of domestic violence then men do. Why aren't the members of Congress sponsoring a gender neutral act that protects everyone equally? The Domestic Violence Industry commits frauds and blatant violations of our rights to due process and equal protection under the law. Making it nothing more then a shakedown racket of unparalleled scope and depth. In the cases of false allegations during a divorce, one so brazen that not even the Mafia, which pales in comparison, would stoop to steal someone's right to their children only to extort additional money from them. VAWA screams loud and clear that victims, both of abuse and false allegations, are not worthy of due process and equal protection under the law. Justice demands due process and equal protection under the law and VAWA fails us all on both counts. Don't forget that the industry VAWA built is a large part of the core support network for the DNC, the feminist and the progressive agendas which are all now supported by the GOP by proxy. It is well known that in order to receive the funding from Federal program funding sources, the states and their actions must meet the qualifying criteria that the funds specify. Too often this creates laws, rules, and procedures that do little to nothing for victims of violence, but creates systems for the abuse and divorce industries to feed off of easily. All at the expense of the victim's safety and civil rights of all parties involved. As you may know the Domestic Violence Orders are civil orders. Often these orders are nothing more than agreements between the parties involved, and are not criminal charges. However, an attack on a person not in a domestic situation with their attacker is a criminal offense. This can take the attacker off the street by appropriately charging them with the crime they committed, often the very first instance it happens. A civil domestic abuse order does not carry the same weight or protection even after the abuses recur again and again as only the violations of such are minor criminal offenses. It is also our position that most claims of domestic violence are nothing more than the actions of vindictive spouses who use their children and these poorly written unconstitutional laws as weapons to undermine the basic rights of their children's other parent. They increase their child support by way of reducing the time the non-custodial parent has with them, if they have any all at. This happens to many, if not most, for no valid reason. That is due to the lack of protection of our rights to due process and equal protection under the law. There are several ways the innocent victims of false allegations of abuse lose their rights. I am sure you are aware that many of the civil restraining orders are made by mutual consent of both parties. Often these result in civil orders with no finding of abuse. Now, if there was no finding of abuse why was there a need for the restraining order to begin with? These orders with no finding of abuse show up in NCIC exactly the same as one with a finding of abuse, ordered or agreed upon. The defendants are rarely, if ever told this. Those that are told this are most often told the entries in NCIC will only be there for the duration of the order. The fact is they are permanent entries. Many only discover this later on when they are declined advancement into positions that require security clearances and these ambiguous entries show up on their background checks. Defendants in Domestic Violence Order cases are also rarely if ever clearly and specifically told that the agreements they are baited and/or coerced into, eliminate their right to appeal, due process, and equal protection under the law. The fact is these agreements do eliminate their rights, leaving them totally dependent on continued expensive legal services. It has gotten so bad in many areas of our country, that the real victims of abuse are having trouble getting help from the very system set up to help them, and are being murdered instead. Why aren't claims of Domestic Violence investigated as any other claim of a violent act is? Because domestic violence isn't a criminal act under the law. That fails the victims of abuse by denying them equal protection under the law. To the Lawyers, Judges and Lawmakers we say to make no mistake about it: our blood is on their hands as much as anyone else's and we plan to never let them forget it. We are nothing more to them than media fodder, used to proclaim how more of the same is needed. On the contrary, what needs to be told is that the Domestic Violence racket is by far the single greatest reason abuses continue today at the level they do. Please understand that leadership of CCJ Chapters and EJF have seen this first hand. Being victims of abuse ourselves and/or having worked in the abuse industry, we have sat in the same waiting rooms of the Courthouses and listened to the boasts of the false accusers of abuse. We have also watched tax dollar paid court workers and social worker’s subornation of perjury as they assisted with these overt acts of fraud by helping the portrayers of false allegations of abuse develop their stories and inspired them to lie. We personally heard them proclaim how easy it is to have the courts torture their soon to be ex-significant other for them and that all parties concerned will be financially rewarded for doing so. It was clear that there is no fear of reprisals even if they are caught in flat-out lies to the courts, all of which should have been prosecuted as criminal acts. The abuse industry fosters hate, not growth, in the name of increased revenue for attorneys, service providers, and the state as it is not anything more than a facet of progressive social engineering. The first step to becoming a survivor of a mess of any sort is learning to clearly separate your emotions from your intellect, and work for change and closure intellectually. Failing to do so keeps you a victim, as choices tend to come from emotional needs that will never be met by any "system" or agency. This feeds into the continuation of the failed systems. The system teaches victims to hate, not to recover, keeping them trapped as victims. The abuse industry's survival is completely dependent on abuses never ending or to be invented. For it to grow the level of abuse must actually increase and/or the definition of abuse must expand indefinitely and more creative inventions need occur. Ending abuse is clearly a conflict of interest for these systems, as the very survival of the abuse industry depends on more and more of us to suffer again and again. These actions sponsored by VAWA have created a class of victims made up of the defendants in many, if not most of these cases. Most of which are innocent fathers who simply want to be a loving part of their children's lives. They, in these cases are the ones who truly need to be protected from the legal, financial, and emotional abuses that have become commonplace in our nation's Family Courts. Instead, based solely on allegations, they are tortured into submission, degraded, humiliated by the courts, robbed blind by their own attorneys, and the child support agencies for simply caring enough for their children to stand up to a vindictive parent. These systems offers no redress. A system without redress is tyranny, and those who support it are themselves, tyrants. I have to ask again, what makes these acts different for domestic partners than from events of violence with non-domestic parties? Why are there no investigations that include detailed gathering of forensic evidence? Why aren't male victims of domestic violence permitted in tax dollar funded abuse shelters? Why aren't there any programs for the male victims of abuse? Why do the plaintiffs receive tax dollar funded free legal assistance without having to provide any verifiable evidence the person they accuse committed anything towards them? Physical assaults must be treated as criminal acts no matter how or in what setting they are committed. Both victims of abuse and the defendants of these cases are entitled to due process and equal protection under the law. Under the current VAWA compatible statutes neither the plaintiffs’ nor the defendants' rights and safety are protected, but rather completely stripped away from them. They both become second-class citizens under the law. VAWA 2005 dose nothing to correct this at all. The Domestic Violence laws and the industry they have created need to be reviewed under the highest level of scrutiny possible. The current laws cannot simply be "strengthened"; they must be let to sunset and we must let VAWA sunset and rethink our needs from the beginning. The reforms we need are:
We must be certain that all parties concerned are provided with equal protection under the law, guaranteed due process and criminal acts are prosecuted as the crimes they are whether acts of violence or false allegations of abuse. We also suggest outlawing agreements in Domestic Violence cases, that alone will end a great deal of the abuse in our family Courts. Protections from Abuse Orders fail to protect the abused and are routinely used to undermine valid visitations and leverage higher child support awards. That connection of law must be broken as it amounts to extortion funded by our tax dollars. As citizens, we do not have an issue with seeing violent criminals put in jail when, following due process, they have been proven guilty of committing a violent crime. It makes no sense at all for an attack on a spouse or domestic partner to be a civil issue when the exact action against a complete stranger is a criminal act. Battery is battery no matter where it happens or who commits it. Civil restraining orders will only restrain civilized people who were no real threat to begin with; violent criminals need to be imprisoned. Again we are ready to protect what is most precious to us -- Family Values. We will not be a part of political parties that would try to steal what is most dear to us from us -- Our Families. We will also demand refund of all contributions made to they parties and their members. This is due to the acts which we consider to be fraud on their part. We have been baited into believing the political parties and their candidates would stand up for family values and our civil rights, but clearly, they are doing the complete reverse. Our Congress may be able to continue the reign of terror on the American family through funds acquired through taxation. But we will not contribute willingly to those that support the destruction of our own families by the abusive laws that provides no redress, or any other member of the party they belong to. We look forward to seeing meaningful reform of our nations domestic violence laws through the actions of our Congress, for the benefit of children and parents throughout our country. We, however will not tolerate being lied to by those we have worked so hard to see elected. Yes, we are going hold the GOP and DNC accountable for the actions of some of their members. These anti-family representatives are not everyone's representatives and have no requirement to listen to most of us. But we will all certainly suffer just as much as their own constituents by their acts of betrayal to our core values. Therefore, we plan to make sure they are their party's problem to deal with. Children Need Both Parents
Yours truly,
"Any country that has tried to create a political solution to human problems has ended up with concentration camps and gulags." |
