The Rights Of Man

INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY - CELEBRATE TODAY

In a post long ago (link), the site asked readers whether there should be a men's day in the UK and also what day that should be.

Little do the site know that 19th November has already been designated as International Men's Day (link).

It is already celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago, India, Pakistan and now Australia.

As far as anyone is aware, there is no such event in the UK but clearly in 2009, there has to be.

ONLY MAN NAMED IN LEWD BEHAVIOUR CASE

Here is another example of male bias (Hattip to Matt on www.Mens-links.net).

A Daily Mail report (link) on a couple who were arrested on a train for lewd conduct and yet it was only the man who was named. He was charged, the woman was not.

THE BBC'S INCONSISTENT AND BIASED REPORTING OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

One of the main complaints made against the BBC is its liberal left-leaning metropolitan prejudice, a charge that often the BBC admits.

One of the problems is that it means individual journalists are able to treat some subjects blissfully ignorant of the need for balance, they can just get away with it so long as it fits left-leaning prejudices.

On the issue of domestic violence, there has been some successes including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in February 2008 (link) and an interview with a male victim on radio 4 in August 2008.

However, they still fall into the politically correct left-leaning trap of only portraying victims as female and perpetrators as men.

Last week, for example, they made much comment with interviews on the new figures on prosecutions issued by the CPS (link). However, none of the broadcasts had a spokesman commenting on male victims and this on-line coverage (link) from Andy McFarlane shows that men are ignored. They even trot out the usual picture of a man hitting a woman and ignore the fact that two in five victims are men.

The BBC needs to get its act together and treat all victims equally and stop this gender bias. What do we pay our licence fee for!

MANKIND INITIATIVE RESPONSE TO CROWN PROSECUTION CONSULTATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The charity, The ManKind Initiative (link), has responded (link) to the Crown Prosecution Service's consultation (link) on domestic violence.

Essentially, the charity states that unless the CPS overhauls its policies, web-site and training then it is likely to be in breach of the Gender Equality Duty.

One of the scary things is that the CPS is meant to be gender-neutral and look at each case that it considers on its merits, however, it is difficult to have confidence in it when, for example, its domestic violence web-site pages (link) do not refer to male victims at all. It also only runs information campaigns for female victims.

In addition, the response also points out that the CPS cannot, by definition, be gender-neutral when its domestic violence policies fall under its Violence Against Women strategy. The charity believes that domestic violence has to be a stand alone policy area.

Look forward to the response from the CPS? 

SACREMENTO VICTORY FOR MALE DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS

The previous post described how in the US the notion of political correctness had overtaken constitutional rights of equality.

The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled that California’s exclusion of men from domestic violence services violates men’s constitutional equal protection rights.

This was because a previous judge had ruled that "men are not entitled to equal protection regarding domestic violence because they statistically are not similarly situated with women."

The story is covered on Glenn Sacks' site here (link).

What is so bizarre is that the judges who are meant to revere the Constitution and Bill ofRights could come to such conclusions in the first place and that money had to spent to overturn this anti-male madness in the first place.

STIRRING UP HATRED AGAINST MEN - DALLAS TRANSPORT

Despite having a constitution that makes it clear that men and women are equal, the US spawns the most viciously anti-malepolitical correct propaganda in existence.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transport Service has been running an advertising campaign basically stating that every boy will grow up to perpetrate domestic abuse against women. It is vicious and has been condemned right across the US.

The campaign has been led by Glenn Sacks (link), a men's and fathers' issues newspaper columnist, radio commentator, and blogger. He is first rate.

There have been campaigns similar to this in the UK and with Domestic Violence Awareness Week on the horizon (25th November) all men need to be on their guard.

FAMILY COURT CAMPAIGN STARTS TO BEAR FRUIT

For years, the Kafkaesque family court system, has been getting away with gross injustices against fathers (mainly),their children and others. Social Services, CAFCASS and judges have basically been able to do what they like, as if they are above the law. This is all because of the secrecy of the courts.

Many groups such as Families Need Fathers, Fathers 4 Justice, John Hemming MP, Grandparents Apart and others have chosen different means to raise the issue, but they have lacked the full scale backing of a media group to open up the debate on open courts.

In the summer, The Times (link), took up the gauntlet, and their campaign, backed by others is now starting to bear fruit (link, link, link, link, link). The Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, plans to announce changes to create more transparency and even Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division agrees.

Unsurprisingly, it is the vested interests of the social services department et al ho are not in agreement.

They don't want their attempts to 'play God' exposed.

ANOTHER REASON WHY ANONYMITY IS NEEDED FOR MEN ACCUSED OF RAPE

The petition (link) calling for anonymity for men accused of rape needs more signatures.

As well as those cases listed previously (link), the reason the law has to be changed is because of cases such as this where Shirley Prince (link) put a man through hell.

SIGN THE PETITION ON RAPE ANONYMITY FOR MEN

This site has been long concerned about the terrible double standards that can blight the lives of innocent men.

A new Government e-petition has been published (link) and everyone is urged to sign it.

The petition states :- We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Assign equal anonymous rights to both rape victim and accused until verdict is given.

It is by no coincidence that the past week or so has seen three cases come to the fore where the men were falsely accused of rape.

Gemma Capon (link) blighted the life of one man and got a sick joke of a sentence - Instead of a six-month maximum jail term, Capon was given a 12-week suspended sentence and ordered to pay £95 costs.

Erin Casson (link) got 12 months.

This anonymous girl (link) got a 12 month referral order

Signing the petition, may go some way to stop the names of the male victims being tarnished in the future.

JUDGES CONDEMN EAST SUSSEX COUNCIL OVER ADOPTIONS

It is a bit of an old story but probably the nastiest of this year.

In May,two senior judges strongly criticised East Sussex local authority for forcing through an adoption of a baby girl against the wishes of her father.

The story covered in The Times (link) highlighted how the council adopted "by means more foul than fair" in a case where a father who was unaware that he had a daughter until the council contacted him, wanted to take custody. This was because the mother had abandoned the child and she was placed into care.

When he contacted the council they then ignored him on purpose and he ended up losing his attempt at custody because the child had now been adopted. The judges condemned the council for its disgraceful conduct and that the council deliberately set out to prevent the father's case being heard.

In response, and despite the judges damning verdict , the councils' weasly response was "We are pleased the court confirmed that we were legally entitled to do what we did."

What the social services department of East Sussex did is frankly disgusting and it shows how some people in local authorities are hellbent on ignoring fathers, even to the point of subterfuge.

Supposedly the state is there to serve the people but clearly here, they were not interested at all. No-one will have lost their jobs at the council for this terrible terrible behaviour.

I just hope the people involved can sleep at night, though I suspect they don't care one way or other.