Fathers’ rights duo arrested at gunpoint
WESLEY JOHNSON IN NEW YORK source
TWO British Fathers 4 Justice activists were arrested at gunpoint by a Swat team at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, the campaign founder said yesterday.
A support crew of four were also held as the memorial was evacuated by US authorities.
UK activists Jolly Stanesby and Mike Downes organised and performed the protest on Friday, with support by US colleagues on the ground, a Fathers 4 Justice spokesman said.Stanesby and Downes scaled the Lincoln Memorial at around 1.30pm dressed as tourists.
The spokesman said the men were being held in US custody in Washington and could be deported or placed on trial.
Matt O’Connor, founder of Fathers 4 Justice, said yesterday: “Yet again Fathers 4 Justice in the UK has led the way with an audacious protest to raise the global profile of fatherlessness and the social catastrophe it is causing in first world countries.
“Given the problem is not one that is unique to any one country or culture, a first world problem requires a first world, international response.
“This is our response to the inaction of the US authorities. There will be many, many more to follow.
“None of this, however, would have been possible without the outstanding support of our colleagues in the US.
“Now we have lit the flame, we can begin the struggle to make equal parenting a reality in the United States, and combat the insidious gender apartheid that separates children from their fathers in the family courts.”
The protest marks the start of the Fathers 4 Justice campaign in the US, a group spokesman said.
Stanesby, from Devon, and Downes, from Manchester, unveiled their Captain America and Batman costumes after scaling the memorial, and unfurled a white banner which read: “For the Fathers of the Nation: Fathers 4 Justice has arrived www.f4jusa.com.”
The memorial, which is on the National Mall in the US capital, was built to honour Abraham Lincoln, and was the site of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in August 1963.
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1 wdfields // Aug 20, 2007 at 10:58 am
A Refrain for Meaningful Reform:
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Query the definition of Embezzlement.
Consider further the definition of Racketeering.
Research further, if you may, any significance of Mens Reas to certain areas of “law.”
NOW ponder, if we may, the mental intent of individuals potentially addicted the Federal Dole?
Given: BLACK and WHITE language exist (perhaps merely Orwellian) in particular chartering provision for alleged “squandering” of the Social Security “PIE” to false dicta pursuit of THEE Utopian Bucket of Self-Service near the self-perceived End of the Entitled Rainbow.
Returning (more seriously along the Socratic Method if we may) to the chartering language: assume, arguendo, that perhaps any uch separate entity status could actually be sustained (even in the face of NOW advertised windfalls, cash payouts, PC points and back-scratching bed-partners . . . ) as a rational extension/requirement for preserving full-respects of the rule of law; might such language and intent suggest/demand independence from DA’s, A.G.’s, FBI, Courts, Executive Branches, Legislative?
So if in fact, We the People of the People “for” the People have any potentially valid concern,
- who might we suggest that one/many seek assistance for Whistleblowing?
- Who might we seek assistance from in addressing Conspiracy for murder?
- Who might we seek assistance from in combating Embezzlement?
- Who might we seek assistance from in discouraging Racketeering?
- Who might we seek assistance from in efforts to preserve Rule of Law?
- Who might we seek assistance from in sustaining the safety of our homes?
- Who might we seek assistance from in assuring safety for our families?
- Who might we seek assistance from for the safety of loved ones?
- Who might we seek assistance from in the guardianship of Liberty?
Hint, maybe not those NOW Known collecting/channeling/stealing/embezzling the Federal Dole at great expense to each and every one of us.
And think of the state of mind of such to so endeavor – regardless of readily discerned risk for and/or even blatantly open offense of and against all Children of the Almighty via each and every one of the above recited concerns to various wrongs and offenses.
Now consider the charter/by-laws/Strategic-Plan of THEE “Rainbow Gold-Gushers” of our Modern, more, More MORE liberated and enlightened NOW Modern days – i.e.,
Quoted, and I kid you not, as follows:
“. . . improve efforts of federal, state, tribal, local and foreign governments, private sector organizations, and their employees in the field of family support; and to ensure effective implementation of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), other family support laws, treaties, conventions and other international acts; to further a good working relationship among the various states, state and local agencies, tribal agencies, private sector organizations, public officers, attorneys, legislators and judicial officers . . “ from the by-laws of the NCSEA, available via gateway at http://www.ncsea.org/content.asp?contentid=588 [editorial note, in essence, for purposes of corralling all the separate branches of government so as to compromise the otherwise three legged stool structure of the more stable design to civil democratic governance as had been originally entrusted to our care and guardianship by our founders. And what is “effective implementation?” Cash windfalls unto states and contractors thereto? Might the states therefore be essentially placated into acquiescence via the budgetary “dreams?” say, its only loving parents of children. Lets simply teach the children how awful their parents are so that we may feel OK in the pocketing of “blood” moneys.]
Well, once you’ve stepped onto the Slippery Slithering Slope of Discrimination, a first step for acknowledgment might thus evade even the greatest of our otherwise more noble members for worthy entrustment to civil governance.
It seems that NCSEA, WICSEC and ERICSA could each already be in violation (which goes without saying) of existing lobbying laws, and many others, as could perhaps be associated with (at a minimum) not-for-profit regulations. Yet, little influence or oversight for guarding against easily recognized suspect for-profit motives and efforts seem present today.
So while various provisions of “law” might lend impact to “law abiding” groups and individuals such as the AFA, EJF, ACFC, CNBP, KRIGHTs . . . ; it seems that it NOW serves as little deterrent (if any) relative to types such as NCSEA WICSEC and ERICSA.
The reality, I guess (just talking out loud in editorial spirit), is that those who appear to care little of “actual” laws, Constitutions – not to mention plain-old common sense understanding of respects owing to Children of the Almighty – would sense little or no deterrent of any Law – i.e., as may ever be proposed.
Why might I express such view and/or opinion? Consider the following:
As though speaking with a Golden Nugget so tightly clenched for concealment in a so-beautifully alluring left cheek – Ms. Margot Bean, Esq., from an earlier statement before the Ways & Means committee (date? 2006?) (see, http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=printfriendly&id=2983 )
While addressing a report on undistributed child support payments. “State IV-D agencies are actively working with OCSE to understand and address issues regarding undistributed collections. Therefore, NCSEA believes that there is no need for congressional intervention at this time.”
My, what mighty big teeth you have dear grandmother? :^)
BTW, Ms. Margot Bean directs the Office of Child Support Enforcement at the Federal Level. She previously reported to none other than the assist Sect. Wade F. Horn – who recently gave-up his post for a position with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (former co-contractor with IBM for some early seed-plantings of awful White Elephant conception of likely White Knight masking — i.e., the SW systems of IV-D). But returning to the present focus, as a former president of NCSEA, might there perhaps have been just a bit of a conflict for suggesting of perhaps some over-site needed? Just maybe?
Oh, the deplorable state of the “addict.”
By irrationally rationalizing their self-believed (actually, of false dicta) entitlements (actually, addictions) to the Federal Dole, the NOW new cycles of modernly shaped and politically correct abuses may tempt perpetual sustenance – as though the notion of a perpetual motion machine or free lunch truly exists.
In my humble opinion, a single legged stool represents not as the three-legged model of our founding; but rather, it represents as a grave risk to more stable and otherwise more honorable forms of civil and dignified democracy. Further, when it takes upon the Pinocchio effect, the single legged stool may more truly appear but as an utter joke, disgrace and embarrassment.
May it be true that Americans love to reward discrimination and Hate?
I think many of us would prefer to think otherwise, and may seek diligent commitments to continually strive to educate and inform that — And now for the Chorus of which I know you’ve been waiting so patiently, all together ?
“It should Never Pay to Discriminate or Hate.”
With sincerity of expression and concern,
- just adad
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