This Christian Science Monitor article reports...



"The events involving Hill mark the singular intersection of two of the most controversial issues in US society: the death penalty and abortion. Although violence against abortion providers has declined somewhat in recent years, the impending landmark execution has once again drawn close attention to the issues - which has elicited a vocal and unusual set of responses across the spectrum."



Paul Hill's website is, for the moment, still up and contains several articles in which he argues in favor of killing abortion doctors.

This article in The Age discusses in some detail the negative protrayal of men in the media. An interesting tidbit mentioned therein...



"A survey conducted for the ASB in 2002, revealed that while 40 per cent of all complainants thought women were portrayed offensively, 23 per cent were offended by the depiction of men."

mens_issues writes "MSN had a link to this misandric article about "Why women make better managers."

Can you spot the errors in this article?

The link to it is:

http://www.bcentral.com/articles/krotz/150.asp"

Matt writes "Pleasantly surprised to see this article on overuse/misuse of Ritalin: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/131/story_13161_1.h tml

Belief.net is highly trafficked, too."

Looks like some people in the Ontario education system are finally waking up to the problems with zero tolerance policies, as this Globe and Mail article explains. From the article...

"Not one of the 20 educators contacted for this story endorsed zero tolerance. Most felt the time had come for a more proactive strategy."

Raymond Cuttill writes "The August Men's Hour is delayed, at least until September! Due to editing of the F4J Brecon and Exeter protests which is taking longer than anticipated due to doing both video and audio editing for the first time. I hope it will be worth the wait when it is finished."

Today , as I do often in a year, I put an ad in a local paper that reads: "Learn how biased and misleading "research" can discriminate against you or someone you love. For info email: profair@rogers.com". I advertise in the Penny Saver which circulates about 40 000 papers once a week and costs about $7.00 a week. This time I am running the ad for about 3 weeks. It works. I usually send respondants my speech, which covers a variety of poorely made public policies that discriminate against men based on bad research. I try to be gentle in my delivery while nailing the facts of the matter. I urge anyone to do it. And I have to commend Ray, a member here who has a sign on the back of his pick up truck. Ray drives around L.A. ? with this giant sign. If you've seen the pictures you know what Im talking about. Handing out pamplets is another good way. Everything helps. Reaching new people is key.

Benoit Leroux writes "A father build a web site to his 2 and half year old daughter. She is far away. She is in America, he is in Canada.

http://www.carbanzo.com/mafille/fr/micaela.html"

Raymond Cuttill writes "After being dropped by MND the Men’s Hour forum is back. It is divided into 4 areas, Serious, Fun, News, Feminist Free Area (No, you don't get a free feminist. It means you must have a valid email address to post there). Posts include female childlove site (from MensActivism), Men's DV site in top 25 of bad sites? (from DLJ blog), another hunger strike and Fathers-4-Justice are impugned about bomb hoaxes. Hope to see you there!"

Anon user writes "According to a new Justice Department study, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have served time there--one out of every 37 American adults. Studies show that crime is correlated with fatherlessness more than with any other social factor, including income and race. Jennifer Roback Morse, author of "Parents or Prisons," discussed this problem on His Side with Glenn Sacks on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 31. To listen to the archived version of the show, go to His Side for more."

As some of you may know, yesterday's grassroots challenge was to write up a short editorial about your opinion on Farrell's candidacy and/or its effect on men's rights and send it to us with the best one being put on the front page today. Unfortunately, since we recieved no entries, there's no stellar article to display in all it's glory. This has caused me to question the grassroots campaign. See Read More.

Does a restraining order mean that a father can not legally go pick up his child to bring him to the hospital at the mother's request? According to Justice Trevor Riley, apparently so. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7138499%255E13569,00.html

Ray writes "I was watching MSNBC and heard that Scarborough Country (Labor Day evening) was going to be talking about the drugging of little boys in school, "just because they're little boys who do not fit the feminist model for males."

One of our protest signs says, WE DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEMINIST MODEL FOR MALES.

I would like to see a discussion of sports as a place for the displacement of aggression for males. The feminists don't subscribe to displacing aggression, because they feel that all forms of aggression are wrong. Title IX certainly is helping to derail the displacement of aggression for males, and drugs seem to me to be a far worse alternative.

What's a guy to do?

Ray,
California"

This New York Times article exposes the moral bankruptcy of prosecutors who are challenging the release of convicted rapists from jail freed on DNA evidence. From the article...


"Mr. Dow said this exchange illustrates a trend. "What we're seeing is a double standard," he said. "Evidence will be considered more than sufficient by prosecutors if it establishes guilt and questionable or insufficient if it established innocence.""


Note that registration at the NYT website is required in order to read the article, however there is no charge for doing so.

A new law due to be passed in two weeks stating that defenders in rape cases are not allowed to cross examine prosecutors, instead using a "person" appointed by the court to question them on the defendants behalf has rightfully drawn the ire of Justice Brian Sully, whom we hope can inspire common sense in the Australian Parliament. Some excerpts from the article...

But Justice Sully said that if the legislation, due to take effect on September 11, went through in its present form, there was a "very real risk" that the case before him would miscarry.

"It is imperative that someone get through that if we have this sorry interference with the law, it had better be done in a way that is workable - and this is probably unworkable."

Justice Sully said he presumed that the "person" would be legally qualified and be prepared to act without fee. But he asked where such a person would be found.

"What am I to do, ring the Bar Association and say, 'The best I can tell you is that the person is to be questioned in a week's time and I will send your chambers two folders'?" he asked.


http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050674873.html