- Thank goodness we are all paying more attention to rights
violations at airports. Yet, for the past thirty years or so, the second
largest identifiable group of citizens across the western world has been
silently subjected to arbitrary arrests and other indignities, based merely
on an allegation of maybe nothing more than a professed fear of potential
abuse. The definition of the feared, but not yet perpetrated, abuse encompasses
everything that the complainer perceives to be uncomfortable.
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- Millions of men have been, and continue to be in ever
increasing numbers, awakened in the middle of the night by the police,
guns drawn, no explanation offered. At times the hapless victims are surrounded
by a swat-team at their places of work, or after work at their doorsteps
while they in vain try to open their front door which has had its lock
changed.
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- They are handcuffed in front of their co-workers or gawking
neighbours, terrified children and grinning wives, hauled into jail, without
a single question asked or explanation given. In the morning, or on the
following Monday morning if the arrest happened between Friday morning
and Sunday night, still not knowing what they have done, they are shackled
into leg irons and attached to all others, including murders, who are to
appear in front of the judge that morning.
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- They may be released if they promise not to communicate
with their wife and children and to keep within a prescribed distance from
their homes and places which they know that they wife and children might
attend. If they accidentally happen to see their children on the street
they are told to cross to the other side or face a penalty for breaching
the "no-molestation" order.
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- They will be told that they still are responsible for
paying the mortgage or the rent of the property that they are not allowed
to enter, they will not have access to any of their belongings, and they
will be ordered to pay a monthly sum to the person who caused all this
because she wants to have a divorce and the exclusive possession of his
home and sole custody of his children. If men are lucky, they are left
to live with about a quarter of their take home pay, at times more than
their entire pay is confiscated by various orders which are issued independently
of each other.
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- To add insult to injury, they may see another man walk
in the back door while they are being hauled out from the front.
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- Before they are allowed to see a judge they are given
the choice between the carrot and the stick: plead guilty to whatever you
are being accused of, whether you know what it is or not, and you can go
home provided your partner agrees. After that you will be on probation
for a year, and as long as you do your partner's bidding, and she does
not complain about your behavior, you will not have a criminal record.
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- On the other hand, if you do not plead guilty, you will
be presumed to be guilty and you will have a heck of a time to prove that
you are not as no witnesses are needed. Your partner's word is enough.
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- Cannot happen? It is happening all across the world to
thousands of men each day under VAW.
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- Bear with me as I tell you a true-life example: Last
year an Ottawa, Canada, woman got furious at her husband and dialed 911.
The police were there in a flash, he was carted out to jail and issued
a restraining order. Being penniless, he ended up sleeping in the furnace
room of a highrise.
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- However, the little woman had a problem: one of the kids
needed surgery and she needed help with the others and the household. No
problem, he can go home until she is able to cope alone again and then
he has to go back to the furnace room, while, of course, paying her rent
though he was not able to carry on with his business that he had run from
home. No clients, no money.
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- Ten months later the charges were withdrawn and he was
able to return home, presumably until his wife has the urge to reach for
the phone.
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- Even airport officials can't compare with the partner
assault teams.
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- http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/sodhi1.html
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