WOMEN are becoming more violent towards their partners
By Crusader | June 24, 2009
Shocking figures have revealed that the number of women who have been charged with domestic violence-related assault has soared by 159 per cent over the past eight years.
The figures, from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics, show 2336 women faced court on charges of domestic violence in 2007, mainly for bashing their husbands, compared with just 818 in 1999.
Men’s groups said yesterday they were happy that police were finally taking men seriously but it remained tough for husbands to admit they had been attacked by their wives.
Research shows women tend to use guns, knives, boiling liquids and irons to attack their partners.
The increase in violence, which is often fuelled by alcohol, has sparked calls for refuges for men.
“Australia is probably worse than anywhere else in the world for this problem,” Michael Woods, of the Men’s Health Information and Resource Centre at the University of Western Sydney, said.
“We’re really behind the eight ball in trying to stop domestic violence against men because we don’t understand it.”
Mr Woods said Britain and Holland had shelters for men but there was nothing similar in Australia.
The figures show that although the number of women prosecuted for general assault remained stable between 1999 and 2007, there was an increase of 11 per cent a year in the number of women prosecuted for domestic violence.
During the same period, domestic violence charges against men rose by 2.3 per cent a year.
Reg Price, who runs the Men’s Rights Agency, said domestic violence against men occurred in families of all incomes and status, as did violence against women.
Mr Price said police were beginning to recognise it was a reality and had stopped telling men they were “big boys” and to go away.
He said men had told him they were afraid to retaliate for fear of having an apprehended violence order imposed on them and being unable to see their children.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch said there was no definitive explanation for the increasing number of women being prosecuted for domestic violence offences
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Why Women Are Unhappy
By Crusader | June 17, 2009
Why Women Are Unhappy
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a study to be published soon in the American Economic Journal that shows women’s happiness has measurably declined since 1970. It’s no surprise that this has stimulated much comment.
This study covers the same time period as the rise of the so-called women’s liberation or feminist movement. The correlation demands an explanation.
One theory advanced by the authors, University of Pennsylvania economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, is that the women’s liberation movement “raised women’s expectations” (sold them a bill of goods), making them feel inadequate when they fail to have it all. A second theory is that the demands on women who are both mothers and jobholders in the labor force are overwhelming.
I’m neither an economist nor a psychologist, but I’ll join the conversation with my own armchair analysis. Another theory could be that the feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy in which their true worth will never be recognized and any success is beyond their reach.
Feminist organizations such as the National Organization for Women held consciousness-raising sessions where they exchanged tales of how badly some man had treated them. Grievances are like flowers — if you water them, they will grow, and self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.
Another theory could be the increase in easy divorce and illegitimacy (now 40 percent of American births are to single moms), which means that millions of women are raising kids without a husband and therefore expect Big Brother government to substitute as provider. The 2008 election returns showed that 70 percent of unmarried women voted for Barack Obama, perhaps hoping to be beneficiaries of his “spread the wealth” policies.
In the pre-1970 era, when surveys showed women with higher levels of happiness, most men held jobs that enabled their wives to be fulltime homemakers. The private enterprise system constantly produces goods that make household work and kiddie care easier (such as dryers, dishwashers and paper diapers).
Betty Friedan started the feminist movement in the late 1960s with her book “The Feminine Mystique,” which created the myth that suburban housewives were suffering from “a sense of dissatisfaction” with their alleged-to-be-boring lives. To liberate women from the home that Friedan labeled “a comfortable concentration camp,” the feminist movement worked tirelessly to make the role of fulltime homemaker socially disdained.
Economic need played no role in the feminist argument that marriage is archaic and oppressive to women. A job in the labor force was upheld as so much more fulfilling than tending babies and preparing dinner for a hard-working husband.
Women’s studies courses require students to accept as an article of faith the silly notion that gender differences are not natural or biological but are social constructs created by the patriarchy and ancient stereotypes. This leads feminists to seek legislative corrections for problems that don’t exist.
A former editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal wrote in her book “Spin Sisters” that the anorexic blondes on television are every day selling the falsehood that women’s lives are full of misery and threats from men. Bernard Goldberg calls the mainstream media “one of America ’s most pro-feminist institutions.”
According to feminist ideology, the only gender-specific characteristic is that men are naturally batterers who make all women victims. On that theory, the feminists conned Congress into passing the Violence Against Women Act (note the sex discriminatory title), which includes a handout of a billion dollars a year to finance their political, legislative and judicial goals.
The feminists whine endlessly using their favorite word “choice” in matters of abortion, but they reject choice in gender roles. The Big Mama of feminist studies, Simone de Beauvoir, said: “We don’t believe that any woman should have this choice. No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children … precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”
The feminists have carried on a long-running campaign to make husbands and fathers unnecessary and irrelevant. Most divorces are initiated by women, and more women than men request same-sex marriage licenses in Massachusetts so that, with two affirmative-action jobs plus in vitro fertilization, they can create a “family” without husbands or fathers.
Despite the false messages of the colleges and the media, most American women are smart enough to reject the label feminist, and only 20 percent of mothers say they want full-time work in the labor force. I suggest that women suffering from unhappiness should look into how women are treated in the rest of the world, and then maybe American women would realize they are the most fortunate people on earth.
Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the pro-family movement, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Feminist Fantasies
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New Hunger Strike by British Dad in USA
By intrepid | June 10, 2009
Dateline: USA & UK
By: Teri Stoddard
From: Examiner.com
Via: The Honor Network
Priority News Exchange Program News Item (PNEP)
Another father up against the system goes on hunger strike!
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| Claiming civil rights violations, British citizen and father Amir Sanjari hasn’t eaten for two weeks. Sanjari, who sits in the Sacramento County jail, was picked up for a warrant out of Indiana. He was arrested at a bus station where he and his adult daughter were about to say “Good bye” after their first visit in years.
Both were hoping their reunion would be permanent, but neither had the financial means. Once a successful nuclear physicist, Sanjari hasn’t been able to return to the UK to continue his carreer or get a job in the US. Instead, he’s been helping other parents who are faced with civil rights violations in family court. According to Sanjari, and documented on his website the warrant stems from his divorce case, which is rife with injustice and corruption. Bob Norton, a MA advocate for reform of divorce courts said, “I know Amir. He ran this up the appeals court but it seems the judge is very politically connected and influenced decisions by making contact with appeals court and other gov’t agencies. Sanjari has learned enough ‘real’ law to be dangerous, expecting that the courts would honor this law.” |
For more click: http://www.examiner.com/x-6741-SF-Family-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Jailed-parent-Amir-Sanjari-has-refused-food-for-two-weeks
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Who eNcash with Indian men Problems
By Crusader | May 14, 2009
Everyone knows Indian husbands who are tormented by unscrupulous women misusing grossly antimen laws like Sec. 498A of IPC, DV Act, Sec 125 CrPC etc.It is not only setting right the gross injustice being done in the matters of matrimonial conflicts towards men by providing custody of children only to women, with total disregard of the love and affection the father and children have towards each other.
Fathers are denied custody as a rule rather than an exception. If at all visitation is ordered to the fathers, it is limited to 30 min and 1 hour in a month contrary to the requirement of UN resolution that no Child should be denied access to either of the parents.Cases linger on for indefinite periods with wives enjoying at the cost of husbands by way of interim maintenance, which is unfair since men are made to bear the perpetual cross for women’s irresponsible behaviour. Even Father will not get custody even child wanted to be with him. it is not only gross violation of Personal and human rights of Father as well as Child.
On a simple complaint by a wife that she is being tortured for dowry, husbands and their aged parents are being arrested without even an iota of inquiry about the veracity of the complaint.
Is the assumption of the police and judiciary that all men are criminals ? Even sisters of the husbands along with their tiny tot children are arrested with impunity, simply because the wife has listed her names in the complaint. We request the Hon. Chief Justice to put an end to this unfair practice. Law think All wimen are victims and men are villain.
During the years 2005 and 2006, 52,483 and 55,452 married men have committed suicide as against 28,188 and 29,869 married women. One of the chief causes of such high suicide rate is the trauma that the husbands udergo in the hands of unscrupulous women who attack them with spurious dowry torture complaints.
The infamous “Sec. 498A of IPC” comes in handy for them to torture the husbands and their families.
In order to save the lives of poor husbands, the Hon. Chief Justice may pass such orders that divorce is ordered automatically if 498A complaint is lodged by the wife, in keeping with the natural logic that no family life is possible with husband and in-laws after a complaint of such serious nature is proffered against them.
Judicial dispensation in the matters of ordering maintenance and alimony is totally biased against the husbands. When everyone talks about the rights of wives on husbands, no order is passed on the responsibilities of wives towards the husbands and in-laws, let alone the rights of husbands over wives. Why should the husbands be turned into “Free ATM machines” for the wives to enjoy life without work or any responsibility? What does the husband get in return for doling away his hard-earned money to a wife who ran away from her matrimony and its attendant responsibilities? We request Hon. Chief Justice to ponder over these issues and create a congenial atmosphere in the society for the men to live in peace and not dreading the onslaught of gender-biased laws that may take the toll of his life.
The laws that men have to provide for wives, even if she is estranged, was formed when the men alone were the sole breadwinners of the family and women were mere home makers. But the present situation has undergone a sea-change, such that women are equally qualified if not better compared to men. In fact the number of girls admitted to the medical colleges in Tamil Nadu is more than the number of boys. There are many vocations where women outnumber men and there are many such jobs such as call centers which employ 100% women. Besides, many women employees earn more than men of comparable qualifications in BPOs and software companies. Under the circumstances, we implore Hon. Chief Justice to reflect as to whether it is still fair to make the husbands bear the burden of maintenance and alimony for the wife when she is not living with him, for whatever reason.
More than 98% of men have faced Domestic Violence at some point of time in their lives at the hands of their wives and in-laws in terms of verbal abuse, physical abuse, economical abuse, cheating, infidelity and mental harassment on an average in the first 3 years of marriage. But here is no law to provide solace to men.
Relationship discords are misclassified as Violence, Crime, Cruelty etc., but women are exempted from punishment while men are mercilessly sent to jail without evidence and on Ex parte orders.
An offence must be treated as an offence be it committed by Man or Women. Exempting women from punishment for crimes committed by them is against the purport of Article 15(3) of our Constitution
The prevailing biased anti-men laws of India encourage unscrupulous women to raise false allegations against men like dowry harassment, sexual harassment, relationship cheating or any other form of social abuse. It has become a fashion for society women, women-centric NGOs, feminists and biased media in India support and pamper unscrupulous women to indulge in vexatious litigation to traumatize husbands and their parents and extort huge ransom from them.
All the available gender neutral laws under IPC have a clause of punishment for abusers of those laws, whereas there is no such clause in any of the women-centric laws viz: 468A, DV Act etc, which is a clear violation of the article 14 of the Indian Constitution and blatant discrimination against the male gender.
At present, Indian law considers Adultery as a crime when committed by Indian men but not so when committed by women, which also betrays a diabolical discrimination against men.
By this brazenly anti-male mindset of the law, judiciary and the rulers, men of India have started to feel that it is fundamentally a crime to be born a male in India.
At this juncture, we wish to bring to the notice of Hon. Chief Justice that such anti-men mindset and continual onslaught on men will demolish the faith of young men on the system of marriage and the societal values as a whole. An young man with lofty ideals about marriage and conjugal life will disheartened by the abject anti-men bias that pervades the society which gets reflected in the judicial dispensations. The result may be that he will be driven to suicide or he will shun marriage altogether paving the way for a fatherless society full of single parents in future.
Whenever a married woman dies due to any reason - be it accident, illness or suicide for any reason unknown, it is escalated into the realm of dowry death and the husband is immediately arrested. But large scale suicides by men owing to domestic violence perpetrated on them are not even getting noticed let alone imparting justice to them.
At present, Indian law considers Adultery as a crime when committed by Indian men but not so when committed by women, which also betrays a diabolical discrimination against men.
By this brazenly anti-male mindset of the law, judiciary and the rulers, men of India have started to feel that it is fundamentally a crime to be born a male in India.
REMEDIES :
1. Disposal of Cases:
The High Court shall ensure that all matrimonial cases be disposed within a period of one year by the Family Courts.
The High Court to officially state that no new cases to be taken till the old ones are disposed;
The High Court shall make it mandatory before admitting the case for enquiry that pre-trial mediation under the provisions of Arbitration and Conciliation act 1996 within a fixed time frame on a daily basis;
The High Court shall suo moto transfer all long-pending ( one year and above) cases to the City Civil Courts to dispose of within a time limit.
2. Reforms in Mediation Counseling and Pleadings Banning the presence & pleadings by Advocates in the family Court and Mediation
The High Court shall nominate NGOs’, retired social welfare officers as counselors and mediators. They shall be adequately compensated fixing a rate of at least Rs20000/= per case payable by the spouses equally.
The High Courts shall ensure that mediators are given exclusive powers to decide on dates, adjournments and mandate them to dispose mediations & counseling quickly, without holidays.
The High Court shall frame rules for conduct of family courts as recommended by NCW with appropriate modifications.
The resolutions passed by the Chief-Ministers & Chief-Justice conference shall be implemented in its true sprit.
The High Court shall ensure that no in-camera and chambers proceedings are held unless absolutely necessary.
The High Court shall ensure when a Husband is arrested at the instance of the wife on 498A case, automatic divorce to be granted on application of divorce by either of the spouse.
3. Child Custody matters:
The High Court shall ensure that equal custody of children are given to both spouses irrespective of allegations of mother be adulterous or father being a drunkard.
The practice of child being shown a la TV episode to a father without providing an opportunity to show his fatherly care and affection, is to be discouraged.
We strongly deprecate the attitude of the courts which consider the children as the exclusive property of the wife and totally deny access to the Husband and his Family while passing interim and final orders.
We strongly deprecate the basic philosophy of the Family Courts that Husband alone is bound to earn and maintain the wife and children, even though the wife is either earning or sufficiently qualified to earn. The practice of passing orders for monetary compensation alone, instead of directly ordering medical, insurance and school-fee payment, purchase of clothes etc., for the children is also considered highly irregular, in view of the fact that there is no guarantee that cash given for such purposes really reach the children to fulfill their basic needs.
4. Interim Orders
The High Court shall ensure that interim orders are passed at the earliest and at the discretion of the officers in respect to maintenance and custody.
The High Court shall ensure the trial is not withheld over an indefinite period due to non-execution of interim orders.
5. Perjury
The High Court shall order perjury and contempt proceedings in respect of exaggerated or false allegation in respect of employment, earning and cruelty when such allegations are proved to be false. And spouses making false allegations are to be punished.
Above said Remedies will not violate anyone human / Personal rights, it gives equal oppertunity to all Citizens of the country, but Indian Judiciary / Government Turn Blind Eye on such Changes.
Because for Lawyers,Police Judges,Feminists and women organizations its a Money making Oppertunity.
For government its a Election issue and encash Vote with women issues.
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F4J Action in B.C.
By intrepid | May 2, 2009
Dateline: Burnaby B.C., Canada
By: F4J Canada
Via: The Honor Network
Priority News Exchange Program News Item (PNEP)
This morning before the sun arose the Burnaby Batman with the help of his trusted comrades scaled the Johnson street bridge in Victoria BC in protest. Our objective was to draw attention to parental alienation and to present our position on the current political parties running in the up
coming BC election on May 12/09.From the front of the Johnson street bridge we unfurled a 20 foot by 20 foot banner that read “BC Liberals Alienating Families Since 2001″. On the rear of the bridge we hung a 8 by 10 No Dads Party (NDP) banner and on the side of the bridge a banner that read”Save Katy”. At the bottom of the bridge we hung another large banner that read “Parental Alienation Is Child Abuse”.
For more click: http://f4jcanada.com/BCPages/Burnaby_Batman_Victoria_Bridge_Action_2009.html
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F4J Bat Girl
By intrepid | April 26, 2009
By: Hal Legere
From: Father 4 Justice Canada
Via: The Honor Network
Priority News Exchange Program News Item (PNEP)
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| F4J Fathers 4 Justice Canada, known for their high flying political expressions today launched a new superhero high in the sky over the ever popular Cookstown Outlet Mall in Ontario at the 400 & Highway 87. She sits atop the 100′ water tower ready to greet the Saturday crowds on Parental Alienation Awareness Day.Bat Girl is the second female superhero to act on behalf of the organization in a high profile stunt that freely expresses the groups political beliefs regarding family law.>>
In recognition of Parental Alienation Awareness Day, she hangs a banner choosing LIFE. An acronym for Love Is For Everyone. A mother, grandmother and second wife, Bat Girl realizes that in real life we don’t have nine lives, and with our children we must get it right the first time. Parents are too important to be swept aside when parents separate. The new heroine wants to spread the message as far and wide as possible that the alienation of children is unacceptable and that we must choose love as the first emotion not hate. “I am fighting for truth, justice and equality alongside other everyday people who can’t stand to see the destruction of children any longer,” says Bat Girl. Watch the skies, there’s a report that Batman has been sited. |
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National Website for more information about F4J Fathers 4 Justice Canada Canada: www.f4jcanada.ca
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Open Challenge to UN / NCW and WCD
By Crusader | April 17, 2009
Every year Indian Women Organization including NCW / WCD forward fake Details of Indian women status, just to get Grant and Funds from Foreign Organization and Government.
UNO and other its Affiliated organization, without checking any details or Truth behind these reports, sanction grants worth billions, for years these trend continued, as per total money granted, today there should not be any Women or child on the street begging for help, but you can find million children on the street without quality food or shelter, and All these women organization want the same, so they can get grant every year. and These women organization strongly insist UN to publish, reports on women / child status as they wanted, so they can get money from other western countries too.
Now Question is why UN is not verifying where this money goes and these women organization findings are truth or false, Or may be they get a part of this UN grant…?
We do not blame these money minded women organization, but at least UN should check integrity of these finding those Indian women organization forward.
May be there are reason why UN is not checking about this.
Member of UN are getting commission of Every Grant;
UN members are paid to Publish Fake reports;
Feminists control UN
UN want to break Indian Family system;
We firmly believe that UN is interested in breaking the Indian family system and the Indian society along with getting money / commission.
UN has a lot of explaining to do as it seems to have come out with an agenda against “Family System” in India due to lobbying by some western countries.
We will show how actions of UN, UNICEF and UNDP are actually contributing the “Female Feticide” in India instead of reducing it.
1) In 2006, UN claimed in Indian Media that 70% of Indian Women Face domestic Violence (DV) UN, UNDP or UNFPA never conducted any study or survey which has established this fact or proved this statistics. In fact, one page in UNFPA web site says, the domestic violence percentage in India (against women) is just 19%.
It clearly shows that UN and its officials lack Integrity and have lied in Indian Media.
How the hell are such horrendous lies propagated about India by UN officials?
Refer to this false story planted by the UN.
Here is the complete argument:
Certain Radical Western elements are controlling the policies in UN and they have a “racial bias” against Asians and especially Indians.
2) In 2006, UNICEF executive director Ann M. Veneman made false claims.
She claimed that 25,000 women are killed “every year” for dowry in India. Here is the proof.
There is no source of any kind which has established this fact that 25000 numbers of women are killed for dowry. In fact, the total “convictions” for “dowry deaths + DV deaths” in year 2006 is 1830 (refer: Indian National Crime Records Bureau at web site ncrb.nic.in).
These deaths in India are almost half of similar deaths in US (if you normalize populations of both countries).Why did she lie and why did she quoted false statistics?
Why is the UNICEF executive director creating a panic by uttering lies?
I do not like to make any personal criticisms. However, people holding the high positions should have some elementary levels of Integrity.
If UN says that 25,000 women are killed for dowry every year in India, then no one will wish to have a girl in their house, as they think the girl will only be a victim, a burden and she will bring tears. The reality is, women are 2 times safer in Indian homes than in US homes. Thanks to UN and UNICEF, the panic is created in Indian society and Indian Family system is maligned all over the world. The Indians today are afraid of having a girl child.
We challenge UN officials to come and prove their assertions on dowry deaths in India.
3) The outrageous, false propaganda unleashed by UN (its organizations and its funds) about 70% women being beaten, kicked, hit, slapped and burnt for dowry, has created massive panic in India.
UN is a very credible source and hence everyone believes it. Media writes about it. So, Indians today believe that if they have a daughter (born into the family), then 70% chance that she will be burnt, beaten, raped, hit, slapped.
These lies by UN officials is creating huge problem for our society and people are rushing to clinics to abort the girl child.
4) A boy in India brings 3 times more misery to parents than the girls. A boy has 3 times more chance of getting kidnapped.
A man has 3 times more chance to get murdered, commit suicide or die in an accident compared to a woman. However, UN never
talks about the disadvantages that boys bring and only harps of why it is dangerous to be a woman or girl in India.
5) Increasing divorces, family breaking and single parenting has resulted in increase in crimes in US. However, UN
conveniently ignores these social issues. Children from single parent families in US have 9 times more chance to commit
crime.
Why are UN policies so reductionist while dealing with complex social systems ?
Indian Family system is not like west, unless you solve Family problems, its impossible to solve women problem if any.
Indian women organization want to widen family bonds, so they will get enough sob stories. They always portrait women as
victims, even there enough proofs to prove she is Villain too.
Other than Grant there are so many Feminists imported laws like Domestic violence and sexual harassment laws including
India’s its own notorious 498A
After all this, we have simple Question or you may call it Challenge, to NCW / WCD and UN
Can you Show us how many women are happy with family After filling 498A / DVA
Can you show us, where all these Money of Grant utilized and how many women are benefited ?
Can you Give us contact details of All women, so called victims, or Killed, burnt because of dowry etc.
and we are ready to give Details of More men who are victimized by women.
UN / NCW / WCD are you Ready for the Challenge ?
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Adultrous Child killer Freed in Alabama
By Crusader | April 10, 2009
Married women openly admit Adultry and keeping stillborn child in a plastic container, Still Great Law of America,set her Free, Long live Child killers and Feminists, They have Sob stories when arrested, as they are under depression and bipolar disorder, but they are fuly aware to hide their crime.
CARROLLTON, Ala. – The autopsy of an Alabama baby was so badly botched a judge dismissed a murder charge against the mother Thursday, and the state now plans to review every forensic case by the medical examiner who bungled the procedure.
Circuit Judge James Moore threw out the case against Bridget Lee, a 34-year-old church pianist who spent nine months in jail after being charged with her child’s death in 2006. An initial autopsy found that the baby was suffocated, but reviews by six experts concluded the baby was stillborn and no crime occurred.
The medical examiner who worked on Lee’s case, Dr. Corinne Stern, now works in Texas, where officials were just learning of the Alabama case. It’s not known exactly how many homicide cases Stern worked on in Alabama, but officials said it could be as many as 100.
Lee hugged her attorney and cried after the ruling.
“It’s a great day. I’m going to go home and have lunch with my family and just be free,” she said.
Lee, who has suffered from depression and bipolar disorder, admitted she committed adultery and became pregnant while married with two children. When the baby arrived stillborn, she did not seek medical help but instead panicked. She placed the newborn in a plastic container and left it for several days in the back of her sport utility vehicle.
Prosecutors filed the capital murder charge based on Stern’s autopsy. Lee said she feared being convicted and executed, but prosecutors said they didn’t intend to seek the death penalty. Still, she could have faced life in prison without parole.
“I just hope no one is on death row because of an autopsy she did,” Lee said of Stern.
Stern was not at the hearing and has not returned telephone calls or an e-mail from The media.
The judge said in 30 years of law practice he had never seen an expert make a mistake so bad. He praised District Attorney Chris McCool for listening to a defense expert who raised the first red flags about the flawed autopsy.
“What has happened in this courtroom today is absolutely unprecedented,” said Moore.
Police found out about the baby when a couple who had been lined up to adopt the child called authorities. Lee told police what happened, but Stern’s autopsy concluded the baby was suffocated.
The body had bruises on the forehead and mouth, she wrote, indicating the use of force.
Once Lee’s defense questioned the autopsy, McCool got other experts to review the case. Evidence during the hearing showed six different forensics experts found the baby died of pneumonia caused by an infection and was stillborn. What Stern thought were bruises were actually signs of decomposition.
Stern left Alabama in 2006 and is now the chief medical examiner in Laredo, Texas. Attorneys for Lee are considering a lawsuit against her.
Alabama’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Kenneth Snell, said in an interview he would review every homicide autopsy Stern performed in during her 16 months in Alabama. He estimated she handled as many as 100 such cases.
In 2007, Stern became the medical examiner in Webb County, a Texas border community where drug cartel-related killings have cropped up in recent years. She’s the first medical examiner ever hired in the county, which previously relied on autopsy help from San Antonio officials.
Paul Martinez, a spokesman for the county commissioners, said Webb County officials were just hearing of the Alabama accusations, and that no questions had been raised about Stern’s work there.
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It’s Official Fathers are Now Toast
By intrepid | April 10, 2009
Dateline: Quebec, Canada
By: Canwest
From: National Post
Via: The Honor Network
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| The lawyer for a Quebec man whose 12-year-old daughter took him to court to challenge his punishment said yesterday the case might be taken to the country’s top court after the father’s appeal was quashed. The Quebec Court of Appeal sided with the girl, who won a decision from a lower court last June overruling her father’s decision to ban her from a school trip. The court stated that it is a question of parental authority and that what should have been a daily parenting decision grew into a major conflict. But the girl was right to ask the Quebec Superior Court to resolve the matter because her divorced parents could not agree, it added. The mother was in favour of the school trip while the father forbade the girl from going because she did not follow his orders to stay off the Internet and got into a fight with her stepmother. |
If this ruling is confirmed at the highest level, and spreads to other courts, it’s time to start thinking about some radical new tactics. At present there is no spanking, no grounding, no access, no limit on what the government can force men to pay or go to jail in half a dozen countries in the west. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, and go directly to jail. This is a state monopoly on the family. The state has declared war on fathers & men, there is no other way to put it!
For more click: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1475389
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New Model Judicial System for India
By Crusader | March 31, 2009
The Real Scenario:
There are about 10,000 courts in India .Out of these,
1 Supreme Court,
21 High Courts,
3150 District Courts,
4861 Munsif and 1st class Magistrate courts and
1964 2nd class Magistrate courts are there. Besides, there are many tribunals.
There are 4.04 crores cases pending in different district courts across the country.
While there is a backlog of 34 lacks cases in State High Courts.
1,66,77,657 criminal cases are pending before Magisterial courts and
72,37,495 civil cases are pending in various subordinate courts.
As many as 70 percent of these cases are -litigations from villagers. Again some of these cases are as long as 25 to 30 Years old. The longer a case runs, the more expensive it becomes to pursue. Within the High Courts, maximum number of cases are pending in Calcutta, Allahabad, Chennai, Mumbai and in Kerala High court. Out of the pending cases in these High Courts,
88 percent are civil cases and only 12 percent are criminal cases. Maximum numbers of pending cases in lower judiciary are in U.P., Gujarat, Maharashtra, M.P., W.B. and in Karnataka.
Primary causes behind Law’s Delays:
The hopelessly inadequate number of judges and also courts in the country is undoubtedly one of the major reasons for Such delay. Successive Governments have not only failed to increase the numerical strength of judges and courts but have Also been slack in filling up of vacancies. In Mumbai, for example, 50 metropolitan magistrate courts serve a population of more than 12 million of people. At present the country’s 21 High Courts have a combined strength of 725 judges; but there are 128 vacancies left to fill up. The High courts are handling an overwhelming 34,00,000 cases and the shortage of judges is only delaying the legal process. It is not out of place here to mention that there are only 10 - 12 judges per 10 lacks of people in India while in U.S.A., it is 60 - 70 judges per 10 lacks of people, 40 - 50 judges in U.K., even in Pakistan the rate is much higher than that of India.
Model New Judicial System.
For all Proceeding and dealing will be in ENGLISH.
No Holidays for Courts other than one weekly holiday.
Judges should be appointed basis of Exams, not based on number of year’s service
All District courts should be connected on Computer network nationwide.
There should be unique numbers to every case file Eg: State/Dist/CaseType/CaseNo/Year [MH/01/MFA/1234/2009]
No Family case should not be Criminal case
No Lawyers for Family cases.
Murder should pay BLOOD MONEY to victim family, as long as he is alive.(*1)
Rapist penies should be chopped half, and he should pay Damage money, half of his earning his whole life.(*2)
False cases should be charged with double punishment of said case and huge damage to judiciary.
There should not be partiality based on gender, colour or caste
There should be default fix Punishments for some crimes
(*1,*2 - Kidneys should be legally removed and sell, and that money should pay to victims.)
Legal Proceedings
FAMILY MATTERS:
There should be Fix Format for every Appeal.
Government should appoint Typists to draft appeal,
All appeal in soft copy along with one hard copy to petitioner.
Once Drafted it should submitted to validation
Validator should collect all supporting documents and Proofs (#1)
If Appeal found to be genuine, then Validator should forward it to Scrutiny#2)
If all documents found to not fake, in some cases forwarded to Police enquiry #3)
If case is Real one then, appeal should be Registered with Registrar.(#4)
Registrar should send notice to Other Party.(#5)
If for 3 notice other party is not responding then case declared in favor of Petitioner.
Other Party is contest, then he/she should provide all Supporting his documents to Validator
(#1),(#2),(#3),(#4),(#5)
Result of Proofs / documents should be forwarded to Junior Officer (JO)
JO should give fix time / date meet both parties, if there is any amicable settlement.
This will reduce, millions of man hours waiting for dates and judge to call name.
If amicable solution not found, should be forwarded to Senior Officer for default solution / Judgment if any.
If not, case should be handed over to Judge, and case briefs to 6 sitting Juries.
Juries are senior citizens, or Social workers.
Family matters juries should not be Divorced or Separated.
Judge should consult Majority Juries decision and draft final Verdict/Judgment
CRIMINAL:
When criminal case filed, Party should submit Police Report.
When Police Produce Criminal case, they have to submit their finding / reports
Registrar should collect statement of Accused.
Registrar should check validity and truth of Accused statement if any proofs / documents find.
With these proofs, if Registrar finds Police filed false case then Police should be charged and victim should be compensated.
Registrar should send notice to Other Party of Accused if any.
Registrar should send notice to accused family too.
Result of Proofs / documents should be forwarded to Junior Officer (JO)
JO should give fix time / date meet both parties, if there is any amicable settlement.
If amicable solution not found, should be forwarded to Senior Officer for default solution / Judgment if any.
If not, case should be handed over to Judge, and case briefs to 6 sitting Juries.
Juries are senior citizens, or Social workers.
Family matters juries should not be Divorced or Separated.
Judge should consult Majority Juries decision and draft final Verdict/Judgment
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