The Rights Of Man

SUPPORT THE USA EQUAL PARENTING BIKE TREK

On August 11th 2007 Robert Pedersen and Rob Mackenzie from the USA will start a bicycle trek covering over 600 miles from Lansing, Michigan to Washington, D.C.. 

The two fathers are going to attempt this trip all in the name and support of shared parenting. They are doing this to protect a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents.

For further information, please visit Daddyblogger.com at http://daddy.typepad.com/daddyblog/2007/04/robert_and_rob_.html

SIGN THE PETITION ON FAMILY EQUALITY

In addition to the petition calling for a Minister for Men (link), there is now a petition calling for equality on Family Law. The petition is submitted by Robert Lamb and it states:-

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Change the law to ensure it is the norm for there to be joint custody when parents divorce/separate.

At present the law favours women in terms of custody of children, taking it as the norm that children remain with the mother. I feel this breaches human rights and equal opportunity laws discriminating against the rights of children and men. In many European countries the norm is joint custody by law. If the UK law were reversed and men were the beneficiaries then I am certain womens' lobbists would decry this as sexual discrimination.

We are often told Fathers are equal parents when referrring to financial responsibilities but this is also the case in terms of emotional development for children. As such they deserve equal footing with mothers. Men and women are supposed to be treated with equality for employment, education and criminal law and women's rights are protected by UK, European and Interantional law as well as a host of campaigners. Should not family law then provide for the same equal treatment regardless of gender?

You can sign the petition here (link).

TIME TO CHANGE LAW ON NAMING ALLEGED RAPE OFFENDERS UNLESS GUILTY

The case last week affecting Aftab Ahmed and his family shows the law needs to be changed on naming men accused of rape unless they are found guilty (link), (link), (link), (link) and (link).

A teenage girl wrecked the life and reputation of father-of-two Mr Ahmed from Shipley, Yorkshire when she accused him of raping her when he drove her home in his taxi. He could no longer work as a taxi driver and he had to sell his family home to make ends meet.

Even though she realised later that she had not been sexually assualted (she had been blind drunk) she refused to drop the complaint that she had previously made. After admitting her lies 18 months later, she received a four month sentence which under the 'wonderful' justice system we have, actually means two months. She remains anonymous.

The problem on this subject is that if a man is accused, he is named and therefore his reputation is automatically ruined, even if he is not guilty. This case is just one of a long list of similar cases.

It is clear that the Law need to be changed so it is fair, which British Law is meant to be. The complainant should remain anonymous but so should the man, unless he is found guilty. The government were meant to be looking at this (link) following the Warren Blackwell case but nothing has been heard since.

It is time the Law was made fair and equal.

BRITISH JUSTICE SYSTEM - ONE RULE FOR MEN AND ANOTHER FOR WOMEN

On Friday 20th April 2007, there were two equally shocking crimes but different criminal judgements.

A man was rightly jailed for four months after admitting organising dog fights at his home in Birmingham (link).

Appalling though, a mother who goaded her two toddlers to fight each other on video camera was only given a 12-month suspended sentence (link). This was along with her mother and two sisters.

This raises two points. Firstly, why the different types of sentences when any sane person would see that some form of custodial sentence had to be handed out to these women, especially when a man gets four months for arranging dog fights

Secondly, if it were men organising and filming such a horrific  event with their children I would bet my house on it that they would have gone to prison.

In a previous post (7th April 2007), the issue of not sending women to prison was raised by an unofficial Home Office review. It looks like it is being into practise. 

IN THE WORLD OF PC, ONLY MEN SHOULD GO TO PRISON

The ideology of political correctness places people into different victim groups who are then treated differently. Because of this, one of the foundation stones of the British Constitution that everyone is equal before the law is being undermined by a report from the Home Office (link).

The report (link) states that Holloway and about 14 other all-female prisons in England and Wales should be shut down or converted into jails for men. Lady Corston recommends a significant cut in the overall number of women who are sent to jail, with greater use of community punishments instead. Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland said "Vulnerable women who are not a danger to society should not be going to prison."

Whilst the state of women's prisons are a concern and many are not fit for purpose, nor are many male prisons which are dangerously overcrowded because the government refuses to build anymore.

If the same crime is perpetrated by a man and a woman, they should receive the same sentence. The report wants women to undertake community sentences for crimes which if perpetrated by a man would see that man go to prison.

This is totally wrong and sexist and completely against equality. Apart from the Family Court system which is largely anti-father and anonymity in rape cases, the rest of the justice system has been largely PC-free. Not anymore.