The Rights Of Man

SAVE THE MALES - NEW BOOK ON THE PLIGHT OF MEN IN TODAY'S WORLD

American columnist Kathleen Parker's book "Save The Males" has now been published in the UK (link). It was also the subject of a two-page article in the Daily Mail by columnist Amanda Platell (link).

After decades of subjugation, there is an ever increasing library of books on the plight of men. As ever, a well recommended read.

UPDATE 4th AUGUST - Book with debate featured in The Sunday Times (link)

MARK HARRIS ARTICLE

Mark Harris, Harman roof top protestor and author of Family Court Hell, was reviewed in The Mail (link).

Worth reading as is his book.

FAMILY COURTS A SHAM SAYS JUDGE

In the Times (link), Mr Justice Ryder, one of the country's most senior family judges has attacked the family courts run by a "self-selecting great and good and a professional judiciary". He calls for them to be open and to be in touch with the public.

There is a good debate on this at the bottom of the article.

The judiciary are starting to flex their muscles on this issue, about time.

HORNBY'S LAUGHABLY VICIOUS FATHERS DAY BACKLASH

This year, with the role of fathers under threat from all sides, there were lots of articles in the newspapers by women celebrating fathers day and fathers in general.

There was one feature (link) that stuck out which was to lambast ex-US President Richard Nixon for coming up with the idea of Fathers Day. 'Written' by writer Gill Hornby.

It is a straight full-on anti-male rant about why there should be a Mothers Day but not a Fathers Day. She claims that father's play little part in the day-to-day caring and bringing up of children. Obviously she misunderstands the fact that often in a family, the mothers cares for the children on a day-to-day basis while the fathers provides on a day-to-day basis.

Obviously there has been many changes with many mothers also rightly wanting to go to work and bring them up their children, but as seen by the gender pay gap, it is still the man who puts in the longest hours and has often to make sure the money keeps rolling in for the family. Mothers care, Fathers provide.

According to Gill Hornby, he does not deserve to be celebrated.

Gill Hornby is a new name to the canon of men haters.

THE TIMES : ANOTHER VOICE IN THE CAMPAIGN FOR FAMILY JUSTICE

In one of the most important media campaigns for many a year, The Times' newspaper campaign for family justice in the courts is one that deserves to win complete praise.

The articles cover the tragedy of how the court works and where the interests of families and children come second to the unaccountable storm troopers from CAFCASS and Social Services.

The Times' specially created site can be found here (link).

There has been much debate about the 42 day detention proposals for terrorist suspects. Well under the family court system, some children and father (big losers when it comes to family courts) and mothers suffer a lifelong sentence, without charge.

We cannot have unelected, unaccountable and unethical people running our family court system any longer. The same type of people who work for councils who snoop on people up and down the country. In a country that claims to be a democracy this has to change.

SAD TALE OF A MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIM : SOUTHERN ECHO

The Southern Echo ran a piece outlining the sad tale of a male domestic abuse victim. Please follow the link here (link).

MEN IN FORCED MARRIAGES - GOVERNMENT CAUGHT AGAIN OF PURPOSELY TURNING A BLIND EYE TO MEN

In February, it was announced that the Government were looking at a male-only refuge for men and boys who were being forced into marriage. According to the BBC report (link)"it has emerged that 15% of the people who seek help about being forced into wedlock are men or boys." There are 165 refuges for women forced into marriage, none for men.

Foreign Office minister Meg Munn said: "Generally people expect men to be able to look after themselves, to manage situations, so men subject to domestic violence, men subject to forced marriage are likely to find it much, much more difficult."

Firstly, it shows once again, as in the case of the plight of male domestic violence victims, that the Government knows there is a problem affecting men but CHOOSES to ignore it - to purposely turn a blind eye. It has been caught out again, ignoring men.

The second issue, is that male domestic violence victims (of whatever race) have been systematically ignored for decades - there is only one/two refuges for men. However, as soon as race/multi culturalism is brought into it, the Government jumps on the issue, ignoring the fact that many domestic violence victims are also from an ethnic background and they have been ignored.

They have been caught - once of ignoring men when knowing there is a problem and secondly only reacting on an issue because of multi-culturalism/political correctness.

GMTV FEATURE SUCCESSFULLY THE PLIGHT OF MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS

When opportunities come along to highlight the plight of men, let alone male domestic violence victims, it is essential that these are taken and that the features are informative.

GMTV therefore must be congratulated on the way they handled the plight of male domestic violence victims on both Wednesday and Thursday. Not only was the coverage comprehensive, it was handled sensitively and was informative.

The point was made, especially by the ManKind Initiative's representative, that the plight of male victims can no longer be ignored by the Government, local authorities and the police.

Links to the features still available on their web-site can be found (link) and (link).

BBC SUCCEED AGAIN, THIS TIME ON FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MEN

Often this site has been critical of the BBC and how they systematically ignore men's issues even when the evidence is staring them in the face.

Last Sunday, they ran an excellent feature on Radio Five Live (see previous post) on male domestic violence victims, now the Radio One (link) 1Extra production team have run a feature on men falsely accused of rape.

It includes a recorded feature as well as copy on their web-site:-

False allegations of rape may make for gripping headlines in the newspapers, but they can also ruin the lives of those men who've been accused despite being innocent.

It explains how the police automatically believe the man is guilty and that according to Home Office research, between 3% and 9% of all reports of rape are found to be false. Yet the lives of those men accused are often devastated. Some even commit suicide, so terrible is the stigma of being charged with sexual assault - even if subsequently cleared.

The most recent case that achieved notoriety was the Warren Blackwell case (link).

Margaret Gardener, the director of the False Allegations Support Organisation (Faso) receives over a thousand calls each year from men looking for help and advice. She is utterly convincing.

There are two problems:-

Firstly, the feminist fundamentalist lobby, having taken over the Government, keep ratcheting up the targets for rape convictions which means that the police in their target driven madness don't care whether a man is innocent or not. To them, he is simply another tick in the box and has to be guilty. There is no such thing in rape cases as innocent before proven guilty when a man is accused of rape.

The second issue is that men who are accused of rape are named, whether innocent or not. This is not equality. Rightly, a woman is not named but a man should only be named if he is found guilty in a court of law. That is equality.

The feminist fundamentalists often say that nothing should happen that would prevent female victims from coming forward and this is right, however, allowing a man to keep his anonynomity unless guilty would not stop women coming forward.

Male anonymity is a key plank in the Manifesto for a Minister for Men (link).

The Government did look at this, but unsurprisingly got beaten down by the fundamentalist lobby, so they have no plans to change the law.

All aside, congratulations to the BBC for making a start on redressing the balance by highlighting two vitally important men's issues.

THE JOKE IS ON FATHERS AS BRUCE HYMAN SERVES TWO MONTHS OF ONE YEAR SENTENCE

When barrister Bruce Hyman was jailed for a year for framing a father fighting for custody of his children in the family law courts, there was rightly consternation that this was not long enough. This was compounded by Hyman seeking the cost of £11,000 to be made against the father.

The fact that Hyman thought he could get away with it was no surprise because fathers are hardly ever believed in the shadowy secret unaccountable Stalinist family court system (link).

However, it was revealed in the Ham & High newspaper that Hyman is already free and only had to serve two months of his 12 month sentence (link).

Even in this day and age where people only serve half of their sentence, only serving 1/6th is a scandal.

No justice at all for the father and it shows that the legal system did not take his crime that seriously. Of course, it is because fathers are the whipping boys, who cares about justice for them.