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The political realities
For some time, it's been clear to me that the fundamental factors
driving the "child support" system a (1) the fact that child support is paid by fathers and received by mothers, and (2) the fact that fathers are one of the few remaining scapegoat groups in the U.S. If you doubt this, consider the following scenario. A father gets behind on his child support payments. When the police arrive to take him off to jail, he is under the influence of drugs. He puts up a huge fight, which is videotaped by a neighbor, who then sells the tape to a TV station. The tape is repeatedly broadcast, resulting in prosecution of the police officers for brutality. In the first trial, the police officers are acquitted, but local fathers groups then participate in a major riot, resulting in the death of 58 people. The police officers then are prosecuted by federal authorities, and found guilty of violating the father's civil rights. The father then gets $3.8 million in damages, but goes on to get involved in further conflicts with the police. However, these go unreported by the media. Sound likely? Hardly -- because fathers are an officially designated scapegoat group in the U.S. But consider the following piece from the Internet blog sheet Frontpage magazine: Rodney King: Once a Bum, Always a Bum By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | September 9, 2003 "If you’re not a news junkie you probably didn’t notice that Rodney King was arrested again. He was speeding at 100 miles an hour, high on PCP, when he ran a red light in Rialto, California on August 27. It is just a matter of luck that King hasn’t killed someone yet. This was his fifth arrest since a kangaroo court awarded him $3.8 million some years ago because the LAPD had “violated his civil rights.” Or perhaps it was because the court was afraid that rejecting King’s claim would spark another riot that would kill 58 people and cost the city $16 billion in destroyed homes and stores. "One of King’s post-riot arrests was for beating his wife, just in case you thought he was a nice guy harassed by police simply because he was black. "Apparently, in addition to going to jail again, Rodney King is now broke. Which is one of the reasons you haven’t heard much about his latest bust. Because the post-riot life of Rodney King gives the lie to virtually every liberal nostrum for improving society, eradicating poverty and making us all equal. "How can you go broke on $3.8 million? Let’s say, for the sake of this example, King had to pay his lawyers a million dollars in legal fees. If he had put the remaining money in the bank in a long-term savings account it would have netted him a six-figure income for the rest of his life -- without requiring a stitch of work to get it. But if you give money to a self-destructive lout like Rodney King, all you are going to get for your money is trouble. "Poverty, as a friend mine has said, is different from being broke. Being broke is when you’re out of pocket. Being poor is a dispiriting and disabling state of mind. Giving money to dysfunctional people is not a way to make them rich or even comfortable. It’s a way of enabling them to pursue their self-destructive behaviors at an even higher velocity. "If Rodney King had obeyed the orders clearly given and had laid down in a “prone position” on the night of his famous encounter with Los Angeles police, 58 people would be alive today, $16 billion would be circulating in the economy and four dedicated LAPD officers who were working to the book that night would not have been forced to endure two trials (the first had acquitted them) and had their careers destroyed to appease the liberal conscience. "But liberals had to make their point. They had to roll out the racial melodrama, insisting that every time a black man is arrested – even one fleeing and refusing to be cuffed -- a hate crime is committed by the police themselves. Liberals had to wring millions of dollars out of Los Angeles taxpayers to pay reparations to a man whom everyone knew then and knows now is just a pathetic bum. "Will Rodney King’s fifth arrest teach anyone anything? Hardly. First, because no one wants to even talk about it. But second, nothing will be learned for the same reason that liberals reading this column will consider it mean-spirited and lacking compassion. Of course the same liberals have already forgotten the 58 people who are dead because of Rodney King and the criminals he and his supporters inspired – (I am thinking of the late unlamented murderer Damian “Football” Williams). Nobody cares about the innocent victims of the protesters for social justice – the 2000 Koreans who lost their businesses to “black rage;” the four cops who lost their careers because they beat a reckless criminal who was resisting arrest and refused to go prone. "And so is the inspirer of it all, Rodney King, forgotten too. But he is forgotten because remembering him would tell a liberal culture more than it wants to hear." The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. |
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The political realities
"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. |
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"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. |
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The political realities
Dave wrote:
"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. My point exactly. All the carefully argued reasoning about fathers' rights, what's best for children, etc. is as nothing by comparison with a really good riot. "You can achieve a lot with a few kind words, but you can achieve a lot more with a few kind words and a gun." (Al Capone) Nothing will ever change in these matters until fathers have formed themselves into a political group that is feared by politicians and bureaucrats, or removed themselves from the status of scapegoats and become an official grievance group. |
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Dave wrote:
"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. My point exactly. All the carefully argued reasoning about fathers' rights, what's best for children, etc. is as nothing by comparison with a really good riot. "You can achieve a lot with a few kind words, but you can achieve a lot more with a few kind words and a gun." (Al Capone) Nothing will ever change in these matters until fathers have formed themselves into a political group that is feared by politicians and bureaucrats, or removed themselves from the status of scapegoats and become an official grievance group. |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:32:08 -0400, Dave wrote:
"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. SOmehow I can't help but think he somehow insulted us and father's in general by comparing us to Rodney King. OTH, I've been thinking real hard about starting a http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/ right here in the U.S. Seriously. When was the last time you heard anything about father's in the mainstream media; unless it was in regard to another suicide or shooting and than only on page 24. |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:32:08 -0400, Dave wrote:
"Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. SOmehow I can't help but think he somehow insulted us and father's in general by comparing us to Rodney King. OTH, I've been thinking real hard about starting a http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/ right here in the U.S. Seriously. When was the last time you heard anything about father's in the mainstream media; unless it was in regard to another suicide or shooting and than only on page 24. |
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"dani" wrote in message
news On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:32:08 -0400, Dave wrote: "Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. SOmehow I can't help but think he somehow insulted us and father's in general by comparing us to Rodney King. OTH, I've been thinking real hard about starting a http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/ right here in the U.S. Seriously. When was the last time you heard anything about father's in the mainstream media; unless it was in regard to another suicide or shooting and than only on page 24. True. Very true. There needs to be a very noisey but responsible series of outbursts that attract CNN-level attention. Focusing on examples of GREAT (non-custodial or shared custody) father figures. It needs to demonstrate the the public at large that the laws are targetted at NCPs in a manner that often gives incentive or forces one parent out of the mix. Papa |
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"dani" wrote in message
news On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:32:08 -0400, Dave wrote: "Kenneth S." wrote in message ... The simple political fact is that fathers are treated the way they are in the current U.S. system because fathers are heterosexual males, and they have no political group that springs to their defense. Nor do they riot when something happens to one of their own. Maybe it is about time for NCP fathers to start reacting like other minority groups in the US. SOmehow I can't help but think he somehow insulted us and father's in general by comparing us to Rodney King. OTH, I've been thinking real hard about starting a http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/ right here in the U.S. Seriously. When was the last time you heard anything about father's in the mainstream media; unless it was in regard to another suicide or shooting and than only on page 24. True. Very true. There needs to be a very noisey but responsible series of outbursts that attract CNN-level attention. Focusing on examples of GREAT (non-custodial or shared custody) father figures. It needs to demonstrate the the public at large that the laws are targetted at NCPs in a manner that often gives incentive or forces one parent out of the mix. Papa |
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