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By: Terri Lynn · Section: Diaries

Today the American family is under attack. Not from remote foreign terrorists, but from the various laws that operate under the guise of protecting someone from someone else.

One of our major concerns today is the introduction of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2005 by U.S. Senators Joe Biden (D-DE), Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA). This action conclusively proves that both of our major political are anti-family and hold no respect for our civil rights or the United States Constitution. There are no words strong enough to express both the heartbreak and outrage over this betrayal of the promises to uphold and protect our family values has caused.

It must be mentioned that most of the funding for VAWA goes to the Lawyers and Social Workers whose organizations support the DNC and their anti-family progressive agenda. The GOP’s support of VAWA is in effect forcing Republicans to fund the very people and agenda we have worked so hard to vote out of Congress and the White House with our tax dollars. That is intolerable!

After eleven years as law, “The Violence Against Women Act” (VAWA) has done little more than destroy families and fund social engineering schemes unrelated to intimate partner violence. This dysfunctional law leaves violent criminals free to abuse at will, but inflicts brutalities unworthy of a free society on innocent victims of false allegations of domestic violence.

The plain truth is VAWA is unconstitutional. Nothing in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America, including the Commerce Clause, authorizes the Congress to regulate and control personal relations between individuals. Further, the blatant and undeniable gender bias seen on the face of VAWA is discrimination against a subject class, men, in direct violation of Section 1 of Amendment XIV of the Constitution notwithstanding pious statements to the contrary by uninformed Senators.

Destruction of Civil Liberties

We oppose domestic violence and believe attackers of any innocent person should be brought to trial. However, violence is propagated more commonly and broadly by denying civil liberties than controlled.

VAWA has promoted, funded, or mandated:

* Mandatory arrests without a warrant, often based on nothing more than hearsay;
* A standard under which the accused is guilty until proven innocent and mere allegations now
suffice as proof;
* Forced citizens from their homes and children with nothing more than the clothes on their back
without any pretense of due process;
* Endorsed searches of homes without a warrant;
* Allowed seizures of property without redress;
* Denied defendants the assistance of counsel, the right to confront their accuser and obtain
witnesses in their defense;
* Punishment and imprisonment that occurs before a trial or without one;
* Invoked public censure for crimes men have not committed.

These are acts of a police state and the policies of tyrants.

A system without redress is tyranny; those who support it are tyrants. Those who do nothing about it have abnegated their right to freedom and accepted slavery by acquiescence.

The abuse protection laws in this country lend themselves to the abuse of the courts and gross violations of our civil rights. They also flagrantly misrepresent the alleged protection victims of abuse are promised and count on, which in violent cases turns out to be none at all.

VAWA has created a new subclass of citizens who find themselves defendants in domestic violence cases. Many of these citizens are innocent fathers who simply want to be a loving part of their children’s lives. They find themselves denied their civil rights and due process, tortured and coerced into submission, degraded, and humiliated by a justice system that now accepts hearsay as proof.

Domestic violence laws at all levels of government must hold accountable law enforcement
agents, judges, attorneys, social service providers and advocates to ensure equal protection in the enforcement of the laws. The dialog within these groups also needs to specify that fraudulent claims and suborning perjury are criminal acts.

Public money used for the prevention of domestic violence must deal solely with that issue. Laws must forbid the funding of operations to support any other legal, political, or social agendas such as; rape, divorce, child custody, or any gender specific issue under the guise of “domestic violence.”

Ever Expanding Definitions of Domestic Violence

The domestic violence industry’s survival is dependent on abuses never ending and inventing them. For it to grow, as any industry desires to, the level of abuses must seem to increase and the definition of domestic violence must expand indefinitely. Ending domestic violence is incontestably a conflict of interest for the industry that VAWA funds as it depends on more and more “victims” or for greater levels of fraud and perjury to be committed.

The needed reforms are:

* Domestic violence is a state matter. Existing Federal laws should be repealed or allowed to expire.
* Domestic violence laws must be gender neutral in all respects and practice.
* Domestic violence and abuse laws must not violate the rights to due process and equal protection under the law.
* False allegations of domestic violence and suborning perjury must be dealt with as criminal acts.
* Domestic violence laws at all levels of government must exist solely in the criminal codes.

As citizens, we do not have an issue with seeing violent criminals put in jail when, following due process, they have been proven guilty of committing a violent crime. It makes no sense at all for an attack on a spouse or domestic partner to be a civil issue when the exact action against a complete stranger is a criminal act. Battery is battery no matter where it happens or who commits it. Civil restraining orders will only restrain civilized people who were no real threat to begin with; violent criminals need to be imprisoned.

However, under VAWA the Federal government is paying states to violate both the Federal and, often, the State Constitution. Moreover, under these practices we punish the innocent and free the guilty.

The law must guarantee citizens their rights to equal protection under the law and due process in all cases. Prosecution of criminal acts is critical regardless of whether they are acts of physical violence or false allegations of violence. Enactment of future anti-domestic violence laws must be in our criminal codes and those currently within our civil codes be repealed.

Domestic violence laws and their operation throughout the country need reviewing under the highest level of scrutiny possible. Qualified scientists must conduct a comprehensive, well-funded study of domestic violence rather than ideologues in order to establish how pervasive this problem is and what methods are most effective in reducing it.

The study needs to evaluate and document the different ways the sexes assault and murder each other. Knowing what methods of abuse and homicide both sexes use and recognizing the symptoms will assist the people that treat the abused, collect evidence and enforce the laws.

Don’t forget that the industry VAWA built is a large part of the core support network for the DNC and the progressive agendas which are all now supported by the GOP by proxy.

To the Law makers we say to make no mistake about it: our blood is on their hands as much as anyone else’s and we plan to never let them forget it. We are nothing more to them than media fodder, used to proclaim how more of the same is needed.

Preventing fraudulent claims must be a requirement of all domestic violence support systems. The failure to do this for the past ten years has allowed a system rife with fraud to run amok and prevented those with valid claims from receiving needed services.

The rework suggested in VAWA 2005 only promises to provide more funding to the current fraud-ridden system riddled with advocacy research studies and government propaganda. Renewal of this law will expand a level of civil rights violations unequaled since the abolition of slavery.

Please understand that leadership of CCJ Chapters and EJF have seen this first hand. Being victims of abuse ourselves and/or having worked in the abuse industry, we have sat in the same waiting rooms of the Courthouses and listened to the boasts of the false accusers of abuse. We have also watched tax dollar paid court workers and social worker’s subornation of perjury as they assisted with these overt acts of fraud by helping the portrayers of false allegations of abuse develop their stories and inspired them to lie.

We personally heard them proclaim how easy it is to have the courts torture their soon to be ex-significant other for them and that all parties concerned will be financially rewarded for doing so. It was clear that there is no fear of reprisals even if they are caught in flat-out lies to the courts, all of which should have been prosecuted as criminal acts.

There is a dire need to start doing what makes sense so that the domestic violence laws effectively deal with violent criminals. Our system must be free of perjury and fraud, and operate within constitutional constraints. We must let VAWA sunset and rethink our needs and priorities from the beginning.

A system of Justice hanging on bare threads of morality and truth cannot withstand the influences of the rage and spite that plague our society today.

Blind Acceptance

Despite repeated requests no victims, requested expert witnesses or voices of dissent for the reauthorization of VAWA testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on July 19, 2005. Is our Congress trying to prove they only serve special interest groups?

Republicans seem blind to the fact that VAWA has been a direct assault on a major voter stronghold of the GOP, men, and especially divorced fathers. There is already broad vocal dissent from these voters over support by Republicans for VAWA 2005. They are promising to take revenge in the 2006 and 2008 elections for what they feel is an outright betrayal. Supporting VAWA 2005 could be the quickest route for the Republicans to become the minority party again.

We look forward to seeing meaningful reform of our nations domestic violence laws through the actions of our Congress, for the benefit of children and parents throughout our country. We, however will not tolerate being lied to by those we have worked so hard to see elected. Yes, we are holding the GOP accountable for the actions of some Republicans. When they are not our representatives and have no requirement to listen to us, but we will certainly suffer just as much as their own constituents by their acts of betrayal to our core values. Therefore they are the GOP’s problem to deal with.

Equal Protection Under the Law is True Equality
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Jul 27th, 2005: 09:33:47

Today there is a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on VAWA.

We need everyone call of fax their opposition to this wretched act. The contact details are below.

Senate Judiciary Committee Office:
Phone: 202-224-5225
Fax: 202-224-9102

Senate Judiciary Committee Members

Senator Arlen Specter, Chairman
Phone: 202-224-4254
Fax: 202-228-1229 Pennsylvania R

Senator Orrin G. Hatch,
Phone: 202-224-5251
Fax: 202-224-6331 Utah R

Senator Charles E. Grassley,
Phone: 202-224-3744
Fax: 202-224-6020 Iowa R

Senator Jon Kyl,
Phone: 202-224-4521
Fax: 202-224-2207 Arizona R

Senator Mike DeWine,
Phone: 202-224-2315
Fax: 202-224-6519 Ohio R

Senator Jeff Sessions,
Phone: 202-224-4124
Fax: 202-224-3149 Alabama R

Senator Lindsey Graham,
Phone: 202-224-5972
Fax: 202-224-3807 South Carolina R

Senator John Cornyn,
Phone: 202-224-2934
Fax: 202-228-2856 Texas R

Senator Sam Brownback,
Phone: 202-224-6521
Fax: 202-228-1265 Kansas R

Senator Tom Coburn
Phone: 202-224-5754
Fax: 202-224-6008 Oklahoma R

Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Phone: 202-224-5042
Fax: 202-224-0139 Delaware D

Senator Edward M. Kennedy,
Phone: 202-224-4543
Fax: 202-224-2417 Massachusetts D

Senator Herbert Kohl.
Phone: 202-224-5653
Fax: 202-224-9787 Wisconsin D

Senator Dianne Feinstein,
Phone: 202-224-3841
Fax: 202-228-3954 California D

Senator Russell D. Feingold,
Phone: 202-224-5323
Fax: 202-224-2725 Wisconsin D

Senator Charles E. Schumer
Phone: 202-224-6542
Fax: 202-228-3027 New York D

Richard J. Durbin
Phone: 202-224-2152
Fax: 202-228-0400 Illinois D

Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Democrat
Phone: 202-224-4242
Senator Leahy’s office
won’t give out his fax number. They said to email him at
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov . Vermont D
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You make By: Trogdor
quite a bit of sense. I would love to see that happen. This has more to do with children than VAWA, but I believe it falls under the same category:
DSS came to my house when I was 10, because I hit my brother in the face with a baseball when it bounced off a pitch-back net. Someone thought he was being abused (he was 4) and DSS came and wanted to give me a psycho-analysis and such, then investigated my parents.

I see the logic in ending the “make it right for the night”, and if a woman calls the cops, the cops arrive and see her bruised up, something should be done as a precaution. Whether the woman or man leaves for the night could be debated, but I think the problem is mostly the abuse of the law. If I’m wrong, please correct me.

Perhaps the law should be changed as opposed to completely eradicated? I just don’t know where the line would be drawn so that both women and men are protected without allowing abuse of the law by either gender.

Liberals stomp their feet and demand apologies for the Conservatives hurting their feelings, which makes the Conservatives laugh at them more…and on and on
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The Connection By: Terri Lynn
VAWA, CPS/DSS, the forced drugging of school children and a host of other DHHS and DOJ programs have been nicely knitted together by the Lunatics if the Clinton Administration through his obsessive abuse of Executive Orders. Many of those only begin to expire this year and others (CPS Programs) are funded through 2007.

In honor of the lack of action by the GOP to do something to protect the family value they promised to protect, we have launched a site dedicated to the abuses of family values and we plan to raise ever-living, unrelenting heck over these issues until either they are gone or so is every incumbent in Congress today.

see: www.dropthegop.com for further details.

Equal Protection Under the Law is True Equality
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I think the problem is that the law is By: Just Me
designed with a bias against men built in.

It ignores the fact that there are abused men out there.

It also ignores the fact that most domestic violence is mutual violence-one starts hitting and the other hits back and it escalates.

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I think that the problem with the VAWA is . . . By: Thorley Winston
. . . Congress again bastardized the Commerce Clause to justify passing a federal law over what is a text book example of a State/local issue.

Somewhere in Vermont, a Village is missing its idiot.
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Okay, you are right-that is the first problem By: Just Me
but if every state in the union wrote a personal VAWA law, I would still be troubled by the things I mentioned.

But you are absolutely right that this type of law has no business being written or passed at the federal level.

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lack of substantiation in VAWA research By: argus
According to Wendy McElroy’s article at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163023,00.html
“Bad Research Leads to Bad Law : The Violence Against Women Act or VAWA — now up for re-authorization before Congress — is an example ..” of how much fabricated BS steers legislative efforts & accomplishments at the expense of the public. This article & “Allegations of Fake Research Hit New High” at http://news.lycos.com/wired/story.asp?section=Science&storyId=1061450 reveal blatant research fabrications fed by the government courtesy of tax payers. The public needs to get on the stick against VAWA & do it quickly.

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The time to Act is Now By: Terri Lynn
You are correct:

Go to: http://www.gop.com/getactive/writeelectedofficials.aspx

It will let you write to your Senators, Representative and Governor all at once. Make the title something like “Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is Unconstitutional.”

Copy any text that explains that. There is a paragragh in the article above concerning it. Here’s what I havebeen sending, if you like it, please do use it.

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The plain truth is “The Violence Against Women Act” (VAWA) is unconstitutional. Nothing in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States of America, including the Commerce Clause, authorizes the Congress to regulate and control personal relations between individuals. Further, the blatant and undeniable gender bias seen on the face of VAWA is discrimination against a subject class, men, in direct violation of Section 1 of Amendment XIV of the Constitution notwithstanding pious statements to the contrary by uninformed Senators.

I oppose domestic violence and believe attackers of any innocent person should be brought to trial. However, violence is propagated more commonly and broadly by denying civil liberties than controlled.

VAWA has promoted, funded, or mandated:

* Mandatory arrests without a warrant, often based on nothing more than hearsay;
* A standard under which the accused is guilty until proven innocent and mere allegations now suffice as proof;
* Forced citizens from their homes and children with nothing more than the clothes on their back without any pretense of due process;
* Endorsed searches of homes without a warrant;
* Allowed seizures of property without redress;
* Denied defendants the assistance of counsel, the right to confront their accuser and obtain witnesses in their defense;
* Punishment and imprisonment that occurs before a trial or without one;
* Invoked public censure for crimes men have not committed.

The needed reforms are:

* Domestic violence is a state matter. Existing Federal laws should be repealed or allowed to expire.
* Domestic violence laws must be gender neutral in all respects and practice.
* Domestic violence and abuse laws must not violate the rights to due process and equal protection under the law.
* False allegations of domestic violence and suborning perjury must be dealt with as criminal acts.
* Domestic violence laws at all levels of government must exist solely in the criminal codes.

There is a dire need to start doing what makes sense so that the domestic violence laws effectively deal with violent criminals. Our system must be free of perjury and fraud, and operate within constitutional constraints. We must let VAWA sunset and rethink our needs and priorities from the beginning. A system of Justice hanging on bare threads of morality and truth cannot withstand the influences of the rage and spite that plague our society today.

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