Fathers 4 Justice noisy protest in city
February 27, 2006
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icWales – Fathers 4 Justice’s noisy protest in city
Feb 25 2006
South Wales Echo
Fathers 4 Justice campaigners swarmed through Cardiff city centre in costume saying they wanted ‘to show we’re still alive’.
A 30-strong group of the fathers’ rights protesters mounted a noisy vigil outside the Civil Justice Street in Park Street from noon yesterday.
Many campaigners were dressed in traditional police helmets or Army surplus gear holding purple helium balloons and honking deafening air horns.
Lead campaigner Phil Davies, 43, from Swansea – whose teenage son was dressed as Osama bin Laden – said the aim was to show Fathers 4 Justice Wales was still going.
He said: ‘We wanted to show that we’re still alive and to send a message to the courts.’
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Steve Bayliss, 34, of Pwllgwaun, Pontypridd, had donned a Batman costume with his four-year-old son Brandon dressed as Robin.
The South Wales Fire and Rescue service stores worker, who is going through his second custody battle for his younger child, said his aim was to make people realise there was a problem with family law.
He said: ‘I think it’s about raising awareness.
‘You do get good fathers, you do get good mothers and there should be a starting point that is 50/50.’
The group decided not to try to scale the court building this time.
But Mr Davies said they were considering a repeat of their May 2004 protest when two men in Batman and Robin outfits perched on a 25ft-high ledge.
It was one of a series of high profile stunts including Santa Clauses disrupting the Wales Millennium Centre opening, Batman scaling Buckingham Palace, and purple flour thrown at Tony Blair in the House of Commons.
But the group has since suffered a string of publicity blows.
Lead Welsh campaigner Matthew Mudge was publicly outed last year as a convicted wife-beater.
Passer-by Jenny Graham, 35, a mum of two from Pontypool, said yesterday she thought most people were fed up with them.
She said: ‘I wish they would just shut up and go home.’
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THe mum was fed with them???! WHo is she kidding? SHe’s making bank on the system …
Jenny Graham’s statement is what professional card players call a tell. She’s guilty of something and her statement reflects that she doesn’t want to be reminded of it. Maybe she should shut up…
The Mum of two shouldn’t had been even asked in that article. Who the hell is Jenny Graham? A mother of 2 who was just passing by. For all we know she was passing by as a call girl. Trying to be a mother of 3 to get more child support. That reporter needs to be more responsible, he should have stayed with the subject matter and talked to more fathers with the pain they have endured.
If most of the people were fed up with the action they should do something about it. Like understand the way that they would feel if their basic rights were being stripped from them. I think it is silly that a few men should resort to such tricks to get a little attention. But what is even more absurd is the system which drives these men to do what they do. These men are my brethren. They are my heroes. They are the innovators of change. Change that was needed long before now. People will not find these men to be so silly when it is too late to recoupe the value of fathers of this generations children. Fatherlessness is the black plague of our times. It is wiping out an entire generation of hope for the future(in the form of well rounded children). The abolishment of slavery has come to an end, but this time around it doesn’t matter what color your skin is, it doesn’t matter what language you speak, it only matters what gender you claim to be. I wonder if women have really thought this through. I do not think that they wish upon their male children what has been brought upon their children’s fathers.
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