Feminism and the Law

[Marcus Aurelius]

( This is a long post)
There is horribly unfair and discriminatory law in the U.S.A. against
men, unbalanced favoritism of the legal system in favor of women
against men through horribly unfair legislation.
Feminist legislation has resulted in the explosion of men incarcerated
in the U.S.A. through the criminalization of conduct that women
consider to be inimical to their political, economic, and social
interests.
"Claiming to be the freest country on Earth, the United States
incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than Iran or Syria.
Over two million people,or nearly one in 50 adults, excluding the
elderly, are incarcerated, the highest proportion in the world. Some
seven million Americans, or 3.2 percent, are under penal
supervision.----
But traditionalists upholding law and order were not an innovation of
the 1970s. A newer and more militant force helped create the "carceral
state." In The Prison and the Gallows (2006), feminist scholar Marie
Gottschalk points out that traditional conservatives were not the
prime instigators, and blames "interest groups and social movements
not usually associated with penal conservatism." Yet, she names only
one: "the women's movement." (Feminist Gulag) Baskerville
In the United States, there are discriminatory sentencing disparities
against men.
In both the United Kingdom and the United States there is concern
about the extent to which there may be false accusations of rape.
Lenient sentences for false accusations and lack of anonymity for the
accused are also concerns.
Sentencing for those convicted of making false accusations of rape in
the United Kingdom is often perceived as being too lenient in
comparison to the severe penalties imposed upon rapists. (Wikipedia-
Mens Rights).
Men accused of rape today enjoy few safeguards. "People can be charged
with virtually no evidence," says Boston former sex-crimes prosecutor
Rikki Klieman. "If a female comes in and says she was sexually
assaulted, then on her word alone, with nothing else-- and I mean
nothing else, no investigation-- the police will go out and arrest
someone."
" A defendant who can absolutely prove his innocence--- can none the
less still be convicted, based solely on the word of the accuser,"
write Stuart Taylor and K.C. Johnson in Until Proven Innocent.
In North Carolina, simply "naming the person accused" along with the
time and place " will support a verdict of guilty. Crime laboratories
are notorious for falsifying results to obtain convictions.
(Baskerville- Feminist Gulag).
The feminist dogma that "women never lie" goes largely unchallenged.
"Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape
is one of the most falsely reported crimes, " says Craig Silverman, a
former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecutions. Purdue
University sociologist, Eugene Kanin, found that "41% of the total
disposed rape cases were officially declared false" during a nine-year
period, " that is by the complainant's admission that no rape had
occurred."
In the infamous Duke University lacrosse case, prosecutor Michael
Nifong suppressed exculpating evidence and prosecuted men he knew to
be innocent, according to Taylor and Johnson. Nifong, himself, was
eventually disbarred, but he had the willing accomplices among
assistant prosecutors, police, crime lab technicians, judges, the bar
and the media.
"Innocent men are arrested and even imprisoned as a result of bogus
claims, "writes Linda Fairstein, former head of the sex-crimes unit
for the Manhattan District Attorney, who estimates that half of all
reports are unfounded..
Innocence projects are almost wholly occupied with rape cases ( though
they try to disguise this fact). Yet no systematic investigation has
been undertaken by the media or civil libertarians into why so many
innocent citizens are so easily incarcerated on fabricated
allegations. The exoneration of the Duke students on obviously trumped-
up charges triggered few investigations-and no official ones- to
determine how widespread such rigged justice is against those unable
to garner media attention. (Baskerville-Feminist Gulag).
In many jurisdictions, alleged victims of rape are given anonymity
while this is not extended to the accused. The British government
announced plans to grant anonymity to the accused but withdrew plans
after criticism from campaign groups such as "Women Against
Rape." (Wikipedia-Mens Rights).
In most states in the United States, it is possible to get a
conviction for rape without corroborating evidence. Thus, the issue of
false accusations of rape is very serious. (Wikipedia Men's Rights)

In the current state of the law, men can and will, with just an
allegation,lose all of their money, their kids, their house, their
job, their respect, their self-respect, their friends, their standing
in the community, their families,;and, above all, their souls if a
woman decides, one day, in one minute, to snap and cast him into the
abyss of hell by calling 911 and lying.
When a police officer is called to the scene in a domestic dispute,
the statistics demonstrate that it is overwhelmingly the man in the
relationship who is arrested and not the woman.
It happens thousands of times a day in the USA.
With regards to any type of allegation of Domestic Violence (what
these types of cases are called), any Police Officer, Prosecutor, or
Lawyer will tell you that a woman's word is 100 times stronger than a
man's, even in the absence of any evidence to substantiate this. And,
the police officer will blindly arrest and the prosecutor will
doggedly pursue that man.
Other incarcerations are also attributable to feminism. The vast
preponderance of actual violent crime and substance abuse proceeds
from single-parent homes and fatherless children more than any other
factor far surpassing race and poverty. The explosion of single
parenthood is usually and resignedly blamed on paternal abandonment
with the only remedy being ever-more draconian but ineffective child
support "crackdowns." Yet no evidence indicates that the proliferation
of single-parent homes results from absconding fathers. If we accept
that single motherhood is precisely what feminists say it is-the
deliberate choice of their sexual revolution-it is then apparent that
sexual liberation lies behind not only these newfangled sexual
crimes,but also the larger trend of actual crime and incarceration.
Feminism is driving both the criminalization of the innocent and the
criminality of the guilty. (Baskerville-Gulag)
We will continue to fight a losing battle against crime,
incarceration, nd expansive government power until we confront the
sexual ideology that is driving not only family breakdown and the
ensuing social anomie but the criminalization of the male population.
Ever-more-repressive measures will only further erode freedom. Under a
leftist regime, conservatives must rethink their approach to crime and
punishment and their unwitting collusion with America's homegrown
Stalinists. (Baskerville-Feminist Gulag).

MEDIA COMPLICITY

The world of rape accusations displays features similar to other
feminist gender crimes; media invective against the accused,
government-paid "victim advocates" to secure convictions, and
intimidation of anyone who defends the accused. "Nobody dependent on
the mainstream media for information about rape would have any idea
how frequent false claims are, " write Taylor and Johnson.
"Most journalists simply ignore evidence contradicting the feminist
line. " What they observe of rape characterizes feminist justice
generally: "calling a rape complainant 'the victim'-- with no
'alleged'." 'Unnamed complainants are labeled 'victims' even before
legal proceedings determine that a crime has been committed,"
according to CMR.
Rape hysteria, false accusations, and distorted scholars hip are
rampant on university campuses,which ostensibly exist to pursue the
truth. " If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape, "opines one
"women's studies" graduate, "she may have had reason to. Maybe she
wasn't raped, but he clearly violated her in some way."
This mentality pervades feminist jurisprudence, precluding innocence
by obliterating the distinction between crime and hurt feelings. A
Vassar College assistant dean believe false accusations foster men's
education: " I think it ideally initiates a process of self-
exploration....'If I didn't violate her, could I have?"
Conservative critics of the Duke fiasco avoided feminism's role but
instead emphasized race--a minor feature of the case but a safer one
to criticize. Little evidence indicates that white people are being
systematically incarcerated on fabricated accusations of non-existent
crimes against blacks.
This is precisely what is happening to men, both white and black,
accused of rape and other "gender" crimes that feminists have turned
into a political agenda. ( Baskerville- American Gulag).


DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Roberts notes that a recent scholarly article locates severe partner
violence with the female partner at a rate more than twice that with
the male partner (4.6% to 2.1%). Of course, this flies in the face of
the feminist hack that goes:
"Though women also engage in physical violence, severe violence is the
sole domain of the much stronger and much more evil male partner!"
Insert heavy breathing soundtrack here.....
And while " domestic violence" is painted in the media (and in the X-
rated masochistic dreams of feminists) as the exclusive domain of the
male, the fact is that when men are involved in anything that appears
to be actual "violence," they are generally responding to an attack by
a women. When only ONE party was involved in an act of violence,
Roberts states (referring to the research of one Murray Straus),
female-only violence is TWICE as common as male-only violence. And
this statistic holds true for 32 nations around the world. Insert wide-
eyed look of surprise icon here...
So the entire "domestic violence" hysteria, no matter from which angle
it is viewed, simply points to a departure from reality that is so
severed that, if it is an unwilling departure, is indicative of severe
psychosis. But if "domestic violence" hysteria is a willing departure
from reality, it points to a dishonesty and manipulation of the
ignorant masses so extreme as to place feminism as a movement in the
same propaganda stream as that indwelt by Goebbels himself. (Objectify
Chicks:Feminism is a Mental Disorder)
Like rape, domestic "violence" is defined so loosely that it need not
be violent.
The U.S. Justice Department definition includes "extreme jealousy and
possessiveness" and "name calling and constant criticizing."
For such "crimes" men are jailed with no trial. In fact, the very
category of "domestic" violence was developed largely to circumvent
due process requirements of conventional assault statutes. A study
published in Criminology and Public Policy found that no one accused
of domestic violence could be found innocent, since every arrestee
received punishment.
Here, too false accusations are rewarded. "Women lie every day,
"attests Ottawa Judge Diane Nicholas."Every day women in court say,'I
made it up. I'm lying. It didn't happen'---and they're not charged."
Amazingly, bar associations sponsor seminars instructing women how to
fabricate accusations.
Thomas Kiernan, writing in the New Jersey Law Journal, expressed his
astonishment at "the number of women attending the seminars who
smugly--indeed boastfully--announced that they had already sworn out
false or grossly exaggerated domestic violence complaints against
their hapless husbands, and that the device worked!" He added,"The
lawyer lecturers invariably congratulated the self-confessed
miscreants."
Domestic violence has become a "backwater of tautological pseudo-
theory," write Donald Dutton and Kenneth Corvo in Aggression and
Violent Behavior. " No other area of established social welfare,
criminal justice, public health, or behavioral intervention has such
weak evidence in support of mandated practice." (American Gulag-
Baskerville)





Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary

Stephen Baskerville , in his essay, "Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution
Necessary" stated:
"Feminists, despite Gottschalk's muted admission of guilt, did lead
the charge toward wholesale incarceration. Feminist ideology has
radicalized criminal justice and eroded centuries-old constitutional
protections:New crimes have been created; old crimes have been
redefined politically; the distinction between crime and private
behavior has been erased; the presumption of innocence has been
eliminated; false accusations go unpunished; patently innocent people
are jailed without trial."
"The new feminist jurisprudence hammers away at some of the most basic
foundations of our criminal law system, " Michael Weiss and Cathy
Young write in a Cato institute paper. "Chief among them is the
presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty."


FALSE CLAIMS A STRATEGY

Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly documented how "allegations
of abuse are now use for tactical advantage" in custody cases nd
"become a part of the gamesmanship of divorce." Domestic abuse has
become "an area of law mired in intellectual dishonesty and injustice,
" according to the Rutgers Law Review.
Restraining orders removing men from their homes and children are
summarily issued without any evidence..Due process protections are so
routinely ignored that, the New Jersey Law Journal
reports one judge told his colleagues, " Your job is not to become
concerned about the constitutional rights of the man you're
violating."
Attorney David Heleniak calls New Jersey's statute "a due process
fiasco" in the Rutgers Law Review. New Jersey court literature openly
acknowledges that due process is ignored because it " perpetuates the
cycle of power and control whereby the [alleged?] perpetrator remains
th one with the power and the [alleged/] victim remains powerless."
Omitting "alleged" is standard even in statutes, where, the
Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly reports, " the mere allegation of domestic
abuse...may shift the burden of proof to the defendant."
Special " integrated domestic violence courts " presume guilt and
then, says New York's openly feminist chief judge, " makes batterers
and abusers take responsibility for their actions. " They can seize
property, including homes, without the accused being convicted or even
formally charged or present to defend himself.
Lawyer Walter Fox describes these courts as "pre-fascist": " Domestic
violence courts ...are designed to get around the protections of the
criminal code. The burden of proof is reduced or removed, and there's
no presumption of innocence. "
Forced confessions are widespread. Pennsylvania men are incarcerated
unless they sign forms stating, " I have physically and emotionally
battered my partner." The man must then describe the violence, even if
he insists he committed none. " I am responsible for the violence I
used, " the forms declare. " My behavior was not
provoked." (Baskerville- Feminist Gulag)

ABORTION, PATERNAL RIGHTS

In all but 15 countries, husbands are not required to authorize or be
notified of an induced abortion.
Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Japan, The Republic of Korea,
Kuwait, Malawi, Morocco, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and
the United Arab Emirates all legally require that an abortion must be
authorized by the woman's husband. However, in some countries, this
authorization law can be overridden if there is genuine concern for
maternal health.
In China, the law states that a woman has no overriding priority over
her spouse in deciding whether to have a child.
In the USA in 2006, the court case Dubay v. Wells concerned whether
men should have an opportunity to decline all paternity rights and
responsibilities in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Supporters
said that this would allow the woman time to make an informed decision
and give men the same reproductive rights as women.
In it's dismissal of the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Sixth
Circuit) stated that " the Fourteenth Amendment does not deny to [the]
State the power to treat different classes of persons in different
ways."

ADOPTION

Fathers' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which
unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues.
In Oregon, a U.S. state, an adoption may be granted without the
consent of a married woman's husband if it has been determined that
her husband at such time was not the father of the child. In this
case, consent of the husband (or father) is not required.

CHILD CUSTODY

Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not
have the same contact rights or equitable shared parenting rights as
their ex-spouse. The United Kingdom and the United States were cited,
with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where child
custody issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less
father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for
fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of Unfamiliar
territory write: "The current struggles of the fathers' rights
movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful
renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing
lifestyles and expectations." Men seek to change the legal climate for
men through changes in family law.
In the United States, fathers were awarded custody in 17.4 percent of
cases in 2007, a percentage that has statistically not changed since
1994.
From the Chapter on The Marital Relationship:" Contrary to government
propaganda (and Common Law tradition), child support today has little
to do with fathers abandoning their children, deserting their
marriages, or even agreeing to a divorce. It is automatically assessed
on all non-custodial parents, even those involuntarily divorced
without grounds ("no fault"). It is an entitlement for all divorcing
mothers, regardless of their actions, and coerced from fathers,
regardless of their fidelity. The "deadbeat dad" is far less likely to
be a man who abandoned the offspring he callously sired than to be a
loving father who has been, as attorney Jed Abraham writes in From
Courtship to Courtroom , "forced to finance the filching of his own
children." (Feminist Gulag-Baskerville)

PARENTAL ABDUCTION

"Men's rights activists" state that children of men on Indian descent
have been abducted from their homes in Canada, the United States and
Europe and moved to India where the national courts do not recognize
foreign child custody orders. The country is not subjected to the
Hague Convention and men accused of dowry harassment may be arrested
at Indian airports.

PARENTAL LEAVE

There is a wide variance in parental leave provisions across 24
western countries which are primarily European countries, Australia
and the United States.
The most liberal allows the couple to chose how to split the family
leave time between mother and father. In the countries where parental
leave is available and defined, it is, generally, for 2 to 12 days.
Where maternal leave is available and defined, all but the United
States and Australia, the period of time is, generally, 14-20 weeks.
However, four countries have extended leave periods.

PARENTAL FRAUD

Parental fraud occurs when a mother intentionally identifies a man as
a biological father who she knows is not the father.
Estimates in the United States have ranged that there might be as many
as 800,000 incorrect paternity judgments in California alone (because
of defaults). Once so judged, it is extremely difficult or even
impossible to get liability for child support removed. In some cases,
a husband is responsible for his wife's children no matter what. Even
if the child is not his own.

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS-PATERNAL OBLIGATION

The woman's right to choose to have a baby or not determines the
father's obligation to pay child support for the child's life.

Affirmative Action

According to the University of Pittsburgh, affirmative action is
"predicted to lower the performance requirement for women and result
in reverse discrimination towards men." (Wikipedia-Mens Rights).

Social Security and Retirement

Previously, in some countries that award some form of social security
or pension women qualified for benefits earlier in life than men.
However, this is currently being phased out. Australia and the United
Kingdom provisions are no longer offered to women after 1955.
Widow Allowance in Australia is awarded to a woman born before 1 June
1955, with no recent workforce experience and with low income if she
becomes widowed, divorced, or separated from a spouse or de facto
partner (of either sex). The provision is available to women only and
not to men in identical circumstances,
In the United Kingdom, women's earlier qualification for State Pension
has ended for anyone born after 1955. (Wikipedia- Men's Rights)