Women Shelters told to cater for Men or loose funding..

Don't just love it when it comes back and bites them where it hurts ? In the money purse..

The irony on this is that feminists have been screaming the sexist arguments for long that they seem to be incapable of realising that they will be responsible for their own downfall..

Women refuges told to cater for men or risk shutting down..
By Lucy Cockcroft
05 Apr 2009

Many charities have been told that they must extend their counselling and
outreach services to men because of new equality laws which require local
authorities to ensure that services do not discriminate on grounds of sex.Fiona
Mactaggart, the former Home Office minister, said an "unintended consequence" of
the law has meant some domestic violence services have lost grants or contracts
for refusing to do so.She said: "There are some local authorities who interpret
equalities to mean that a refuge has to provide for men, not only for
women."There are some stupidnesses developing in the system that nobody
intended."Women's Aid, the domestic violence charity, believes its female-only
services are necessary to give abused women the reassurance they need. Often the
women and children they help will only feel comfortable without a male
presence.Nicola Harwin, chief executive of Women's Aid, which counts the Prime
Minister's wife Sarah Brown among its patrons, said the charity is still allowed
to exclude men from refuges.However, when council contracts came up for tender,
many branches are being told that they must provide services such as advice and
counselling to men or lose their funding.Miss Harwin said: "Women do appreciate
being engaged in women-only organisations. When you have been disempowered and
had no control of your life it's important for a lot of women to see that this
is an organisation run by women for women."The new Gender Equality Duty, created
under The Equality Act 2006, requires that 'public bodies must promote and take
action to bring about gender equality, which involves: looking at issues for men
and women'.However, a spokesman for the Government Equalities Office said some
councils were being overzealous about the duty, adding: "This cannot be an
excuse for cutting services. This interpretation of the duty is law."

Link..

Protest Lifetime TV's New Reality Show Deadbeat Dads!..

Another great opportunity to be involved and ldging your protest against the "deadbeat dad" hysteria..

We already know that women do not pay as much as Fathers, Fathers pay extra in most cases but the ratio of deadbeat dads to deadbeat women is that as usual the women win another competition but that issue and topic is taboo..

If women are not being seen as the "victim" than the media is just not interested..

Women's television would just ignore it..

Protest Lifetime TV's New Reality Show Deadbeat Dads!Lifetime TV announced
the launch of its new, father-bashing reality show Deadbeat Dads last week. To
email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives protesting this show, click here.
"Neither accurate nor fair." --Syndicated
columnist Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group, on Deadbeat
DadsAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, “Deadbeat Dads, originally developed at
Fox, follows National Child Support founder Jim Durham as he tracks down and
confronts dads who don't pay child support.” According to Reuters, Durham
"functions as a sort of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' for tracking deadbeats…It's
ambush reality TV." Durham will target fathers who are behind on their child
support by "making their lives miserable -- foreclosing on their house,
repossessing their car. He will squeeze them."
"Unfair to men."--Syndicated
advice columnist Amy Alkon, on Deadbeat DadsLast April, Fathers & Families
led a highly-publicized campaign against the show (originally called “Bad Dads”)
and got Fox to drop it. Now Lifetime TV, which reaches nearly 100 million
households, has picked up Deadbeat Dads, which unfairly depicts divorced fathers
as uncaring and selfish. Research clearly shows that most divorced dads pay
their child support and remain a part of their children's lives, often under
difficult circumstances. In fact, federal government data shows that the
overwhelming majority of "deadbeat dads" earn poverty level wages--only 4% earn
even $40,000 a year.
"Disturbing...they are heaping abuse on men in the name
of 'justice'"--TV Host/Psychologist Helen Smith, on Deadbeat DadsTo email and
fax a letter to Lifetime Executives protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500.Deadbeat Dads kicks fathers while they’re down. Media reports
show the majority of those losing their jobs in this recession are men, and
child support orders are notoriously difficult to modify downward. As the New
York Times, the Boston Globe, and other papers have documented, these hard luck
dads sometimes end up in jail.
Support our campaign with your tax-deductible contributionTo
email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500.The worst part about Deadbeat Dads is the way it publicly
humiliates children in single parent families by depicting their fathers as not
loving or caring for them. How is a child to feel when he or she sees their dad
being vilified on TV because he allegedly doesn't love or provide for them? How
is the child to feel when he or she is reminded of this by friends or teased
about it on the schoolyard?To email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives
protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500.According to US Census data, noncustodial mothers are 20% more
likely to default on their child support obligations than noncustodial fathers.
It is misleading and unfair to name the show Deadbeat Dads when the average
noncustodial father is more likely to pay his child support than the average
noncustodial mother.To email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives protesting
this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500.Another problem with Deadbeat Dads is that studies show that the
arrearages for which "deadbeat dads" are pursued are often erroneous. For
example, a recent Massachusetts audit found that the arrearages were incorrect
in 92% of that state's cases.The California Department of Child Support Services
itself admitted last year that the overwhelming majority of "deadbeat dads" are
the product of problems and abuses within the child support system. Missouri
Child Support Auditor Susan Montee recently called the way Missouri calculates
child support arrearages “extremely sloppy…a total inattention to making sure
these numbers are right."To email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives
protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500.Moreover, Deadbeat Dads glorifies the role of private child
support collection agencies, even though these agencies often manhandle fathers
and deceive custodial mothers. In fact, women's advocates, including the
National Organization for Women, have repeatedly condemned these agencies for
mistreating women. Durham, the central figure in Deadbeat Dads, has often been
singled out by women's groups as a perpetrator of these abusive tactics.To email
and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500. Television is already rife with negative, misleading and unfair
depictions of fathers--Deadbeat Dads promises to be one of the worst examples.
Many successful, highly-visible commentators have recently gone on record as
opposing the negative way the media portrays men and fathers. These include
syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, whose weekly columns appear in 300
newspapers; TV host Bill Maher; CBS News anchor Charles Osgood; nationally
syndicated radio-talk-show host Laura Schlessinger; and many others. How fathers
are portrayed matters.To email and fax a letter to Lifetime Executives
protesting this show, click here. Also, please call Lifetime TV's main switchboard
at 310 556-7500. Running these campaigns takes time and money--to make a
tax-deductible contribution to support our efforts, click here. Together with you in the struggle,Glenn Sacks,
MAExecutive Director, Fathers & FamiliesNed Holstein, M.D., M.S.Founder,
Chairman of the Board, Fathers & Families

PALMERSTON NORTH COURT REQUIRES INVESTIGATION..

After a quick break and an across state move, I feel like another break..

Here is another News Release from Benjamin in New Zealand. Another to the Injustice System in that Country..

PALMERSTON NORTH COURT REQUIRES INVESTIGATION

Wellington's
Political Busker claims that the Palmerston North Court needs to be
investigated. Benjamin Easton is a 49 year old disaffected father of two
children who has protested Family Court matters for 9 years. His complaint about
the Court comes after attempting to file on behalf of a local father for a
conference with a judge prior to applying for a judicial review on the first
decision by the new Legal Complaints Review Officer. The Registrar has refused
the application for the judicial conference on the grounds that an application
for a judicial review is considered by a judge in Chambers prior to the review,
negating the need for a conference. Additionally the Registrar appears ready to
decline an additional application that there should be a waiver of the Court
fees for the matter on the grounds of a genuine public interest.

"The question for the conference prior to the in Chambers matter is whether
or not my ability to speak in the LCRO hearing is carried on into the High
Court", says Easton . "There is nothing in the law other than the judge's
discretion catering to this question. If I cannot speak on the father's behalf
as allowed in the prior proceedings then I have to train the father in my
experience before applying on his behalf for the review. The Registrar has
plunged a first off complaint against a new office and the lawyer's regulatory
services into an immediate further injustice", he reasons.

"The matter of genuine public interest is whether or not the Palmerston
North administrators in family law are discriminating against fatherhood. How
can it not be a genuine matter of public interest when the evidence questioned
has been found to hold merit and is not contested? In these matters the Manawatu
Standards Committee who initially review complaints about a lawyer have had
their decision modified, because they were wrong. Their errors include reviewing
the complaint under the wrong heading and breaching natural justice when not
providing evidence as required or on request.

The Committee has
not been sanctioned by the LCRO. The lawyer who is complained about has also
been found to have included information in a without notice application; costing
the father his association with his son, that was not in the end applicable to
that application. How is it possible that discovering Family Court lawyers might
be furnishing without notice applications for their own embellishment of facts
not a matter of the public's deepest concern?"

Easton adds that
this is not the only application he has filed in the Palmerston North Court .
"In an earlier and similar matter of my representation the Court staff couldn't
handle one document efficiently. In one Court appearance the judge had to
provide an adjournment because a document had been served on the woman for whom
I was advocating after the date that the reply to that document had expired.
That case as well was about challenging lawyers and in one of the complaints the
lawyer appointed to assist the Court removed crucial evidence from any record of
the files. The same processes that occurred then are happening again now where
the officials appointed are simply protecting each others backs". Easton will
comply and apply for the judicial review.

BNZ
ACCUSED OF BEING BAD ON DADS

In an ongoing challenge against what
he claims to be unlawful discrimination against fatherhood, Wellington's
Political Busker, Benjamin Easton (of a) father's coalition has filed
proceedings against the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington's High Court. The BNZ
is one of three respondents to Mr Easton's allegations of gender discrimination.
The other respondents are the Human Rights Commission and the Advertising
Standards Authority.

Easton's complaint is about an advertisement
run on television in June last year titled, New Zealand 's Biggest Morning Tea.
The advertisement featured a decorated cake with 5 figurines of Caucasian
fathers in poses of physically assaulting children. One slice of the cake with a
child figurine on top was partially removed from the cake supported with a
slogan of "Break the Cycle". Proceeds generated benefited battered women.

Easton's view is that the advertisement isn't factual;
misrepresenting domestic violence in New Zealand , perpetuating a myth that only
men are violent and exploiting children to provide funds for an unrelated group
named battered women. "If the proceeds go anywhere" he says "they should go to
the child victims for the advertisement, otherwise it is obviously an
exploitation of the child so to benefit women's groups. The bank has funded a
campaign to openly vilify men giving a grant for an advertisement that
specifically demonises dads. I would have thought in a country where our
domestic violence statistics are internationally shameful the last thing we
should expect a bank carrying our national identity to do is to ignorantly blame
the male as the only perpetrator. Why advise white males and their children that
these dads are the cause of domestic violence when that allegation cannot
possibly be sustained? If the violence sanctioned was only of dark skinned women
you would expect riots in Wellington ".

Asked why he put the
Human Rights Commission as the First Respondent for a complaint the Authority
turned down, Easton is emphatic. "It isn't my paid job to fight discrimination
or to challenge a bank for servicing the advertisers with a grant that promotes
unlawful behaviour. The Commission have been contacted numerous times about
discrimination against men and fathers and their responses are now fully
predictable. In my view the Commission are the gatekeepers of discrimination
with a mind set and a budget to destroy paternalism. On this occasion they were
asked to engage discussions with the bank to find a remedy yet instead treated
that statutory obligation with outright contempt.

Easton also
claims that the Authority have reviewed his original complaint under the wrong
code. The Codes of Ethics and Using People in Advertisements were used where
Easton claims the advertisement was aimed at children. "The ad says "break the
cycle," with a piece of cake with a child on it being removed. How is any child
going to avoid thinking that the advertisement is not an instruction for them to
break the cycle of violence? To not measure the complaint under the more
stringent Code of Advertising to Children, the Authority acted irresponsibly and
against the children's interests filling them with this nonsense that only white
men and fathers assault children", he ends. The first appearance in the High
Court is in June.

THE POLITICAL BUSKER RETURNS

After a long absence from busking on Wellington 's streets, its Political
Busker, Benjamin Easton throws his hat back onto the pavement. However, Mr
Easton has not been far away from politics over the two years absence from
busking. He is now engaged in several Court proceedings to challenge what he
describes as the "Inherent injustice of capitalism".

"Just before
I came away from busking on the streets", says Easton , "I had joined
establishing what is loosely termed a father's coalition. In my writing I say I
am (of a) father's coalition which simply means no one of a father's coalition
can be special and nor could anyone claim so to be. Fathers in coalition are
exactly that. We recognise each other for who we are as dads and nothing else.
Money and worth are not the issue, fatherhood is the issue". Protecting dads is
pretty political reckons Easton .

He starts his busking up in
front of the iPlay Internet café in Manners St and across from McDonalds. This
is a change from where he could previously be found at any given hour of the day
or night in Courtney Place . "McDonalds and the iPlay both have 24 hours traffic
so it still makes me accessible to the widest possible audience", he says.
"Unlike last time I am not living on the streets or surviving just off my
busking. These days I have upgraded to the unemployment benefit and live in a
council flat. I could justify taking the benefit once I began putting relevant
submissions into government. These submissions have clearly proved that I am not
to be taken lightly. The benefit gives me a very basic living wage and allows me
to provide a service to the public for which they have already paid their token.
This means that when I busk I don't have to press for cash as I started to
before finishing up last time. Then I would state fairly early to someone with
whom I was talking that any contribution would be of help and at the end of the
conversation would make the same observation. I was making enough to eat,
keeping basically fit and clean, using the services and facilities of groups
like the Salvation Army and the Sisters of Compassion".

Asked
what a Political Busker does Easton appears delighted with the question. "I just
talk politics," he says. "But I talk functional politics, not simply fiscal
delivery and its servicing. People instead should always come first. Thereafter,
money or trade, in some way or another evolves to be fundamental in corrupting
our global existence. These days my energy for my general knowledge is in court
proceedings and other ways of challenging the longer standing injustices".

Easton also takes street polls on current issues and presents
this collected information to government departments like the Human Rights
Commission. "I have a couple of semi tidy letters from the Commissioner", he
says, "to show my research has been registered and is helpful in their work".
The Political Busker starts busking again on Friday 24th April.

BENJAMIN EASTON 027 390 2169

Give a Dog a Bad Name..

Second lot of MP3s pointing out the blatant anti male attitudes and the "what do you expect" response from Amfortas..

Link to New Podcasts and Blog for MP3's

Give a Dog a Bad Name Part 1 by Christian J.

Give a Dog a Bad Name Part 2 by Christian J.

Multiple MP3's by Amfortas and Myself for your listening pleasure..

New Range of MP3 available on my new MP3 Blog site.

http://whatmenaresaying.blogspot.com/

Amfortas and I have generated 4 new MP3's concentrating on the affects of feminism and it's destructive path affecting all and sundry..

If you know anyone that either cow-tows or wallows in their feminised ignorance these podcasts will hopefully broaden their outlook and maybe even see the sense sometime in the future..

Enjoy..

Stolen Generation Part 1  by  Christian J.

Stolen Generation Part 2  by  Christian J.