RADAR ALERT:

Step 3: Talking Points for the Meeting with Your Congressman

VAWA is riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s time for change. And it’s time to put this on the political agenda.

The goal of the Truth and Consequences campaign is to meet with every Congressman around the country and explain the problem of VAWA abuse. August is often a good time for a meeting, but you may hold the meeting anytime before November 7.

Previous Alerts asked you to contact the Scheduler to set up a meeting, and then to prepare yourself for the meeting. You may want to review these Alerts at: http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20060626.php and http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20060710.php

This list of 10 Talking Points is intended to outline the main points to cover during your meeting. This is a possible set of issues to be covered —feel free to select the points you want to discuss.

Contrast the previous posting re their idiotic women-"made"-to-crave-unhealthy-snacks piece with this story also on CNN.com (what, was someone asleep at the editor's desk?). Perhaps those poor long-hours-working-women need to donate their candy bars to adoptive boys held in basements, unfed for days.

All I can think is that CNN.com has taken a page from MSN and happily copied it. These sorts of "stories" are now a regular thing on their news site. Excerpt:

'LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Working long hours has a greater negative impact on women than men because it makes them more likely to smoke, drink coffee and eat unhealthy food.

'Both sexes consume less alcohol if they spend more time working, researchers said this week, but toiling extra hours makes women crave unhealthy snacks.'

Let's see, where to begin deconstructing this claptrap...

Note that this rapist didn't "avoid" jail, but was "spared." Yet another female predator escapes jail on the pu**y-pass. And this monster raped her own SON! Note also how the writer of the news article desparately tries to find a man to blame it on, and it's quite a stretch, too -- apparently, the woman got messages on the Internet telling her to do it. Is that like blaming the voices in her head? Heaven forbid women should behave like grown-ups and have the strength of character to say "no" to an email. Good God!

Ahh, another "reverse the sexes" exercise for you... Libidos of a Certain Age, indeed! Not just the movie, but the audiences', as well as the NYTimes' reaction to it stink of double-standards. Men "of a certain age" heading south for sexual relations with teenage girls would of course be condemned, arrested, etc. Women doing the same to get with teen-aged island boys, however-- well, that's not only OK, it's grrreeeaaattt!!!

One of the most brilliant neuro-scientists in the world denied a female a job position in his research efforts and 11 gender feminists blast him and produce media condemning this man. Yet, six MIT faculty who WORK WITH him, including two women, wrote in favor of his decision. Apparently, men can not pick who they want to mentor if a female applicant applies for the job. Feminist bias is so apparent on high level issues, yet the same feminist deny bias in secondary education. Story here.

I don't know if anyone remembered the original story here, but it was unusual in that a woman who made a false rape accusation was later charged and convicted with making that accusation, even though it was only a class C misdemeanor for filing a false police report. Now, apparently, it turns out that even this is too much for her and society to bear. Story here.

Despite the previous conviction, and prior to an appellate trial by a higher court, the judge dismissed the case, had the woman enter a "diversion" program, and is making sure no one says a word about it... even though it stems from a criminal case. What is the diversion program for making a false rape accusation that can put someone away for years? 40 hours of community service, talk to a mental-health counselor at least once about the case and post $250 security. If she violates the terms of the agreement, including talking to the media, she forfeits the money.

CSM's film critic writes that Hollywood has invented a new cultural stereotype for men to add to our lexicon of deadbeat dads, homicidal maniacs, rapists, pedophiles, and incompetent eunuchs – the "Big Baby." A series of recent movies portray men as arrested adolescents who can't make the transition to married domesticity, fatherhood, and careerism. For the perpetual man-child, 'male camaraderie is both hailed and assailed. It represents a noble rite of passage that all too easily becomes a case of arrested development. The women in this universe are doting, exasperated saints who rescue men from themselves. These films are saying that men, left to their own devices, are nothing more than porno-obsessed lunkheads. Only through the acquisition of a wife and family are they truly fulfilled.'

“When Pamela Rogers, 29, was released after serving 198 days in jail, she was under orders not to contact the student or his family or use the Internet. But authorities say that even after appearing in court on a charge of violating her probation in April, she continued talking with the boy and sending him text messages and sexually explicit photos and video of herself.”

It’s refreshing to see a female sex predator being held culpable for her dastardly deeds. What is it about “STOP” that she didn’t understand!? Could it be that she was running with the notion that she would not be severely punished because she is a woman? Perhaps times are changing as precedents like this case would imply?

Story Here

Here is a particularly desturbing take, as such cannot be ignored, by someone called Vanessa Feltz (you may know her name) from a national newsaper 'The Daily Star', here in the UK. Brace yourselves and read it.

Then email Vanessa at:

vanessa.feltz-at-dailystar.co.uk

and the newspaper at:

news-at-dailystar.co.uk

Thanks, Red Kev

[ Story covered here by the BBC. No URL to the story referenced herein though was submitted. If anyone finds it, please post it. Click "Read more" to read it as submitted. ]

Here it is:

Reigning Men? Not any More!

Gents, it gives me great pleasure to reveal that pretty soon you’ll be surplus to requirements. We won’t have to iron your shirts, massage your egos, supply endless sex or be polite to your mothers.

Why not? Because in the delightfully foreseeable future we won’t need you OR your sperm.

The United States of America has signed a treaty with the World Health Organization in order help curtial smoking all over the planet. That's the good news.

The bad news is that it's for women only. Apparently, the health of men worldwide is less important than that of women and thusly they must be excluded. Not only is WHO selling men out to please feminists but so is our government. The U.S. Senate has yet to vote on this. Please contact your senators and let them know that they should NOT vote to pass a bigoted treaty like this one.

Check this out. Used, discarded. They are after all, only men.

The article mentions a female vet who returned and said she had her bank account cleaned out by her boyfriend and is left with nothing, living in a shelter. That is bad indeed. However the article fails to mention the many men who come back to find the law after them for child support, etc. they couldn't pay when they were in service. Welcome home, brave warriors.

Here's one article regariding abusive women that I feel directly relates to gender inequity and bias. This editorial in the (NH) Concord Monitor starts out by advocating for equal justice for men and women, but then rationalizes reasons why female sex abusers could be treated more leniently. The editorial suggests "Females are much less likely to use force or intimidation, less likely to threaten retaliation for reporting the offense and more likely to believe that they are truly in love with their victim. They are also far less likely to have multiple victims." I think this article tries to sound fair-minded, but has a more insidious purpose: to justify the leniency that female offenders, particularly of sex crimes, often receive in the criminal justice system.

From the article:

"Whether a person reports an incident depends on a
number of factors. Women are twice as likely to report
abuse than men, and aboriginals more likely than non-aborginals."

Domestic violence programs around the country have become larded with waste, fraud, and abuse. These are some recent examples:

MICHIGAN: Two weeks ago the Michigan Department of Human Services affirmed its decision to require the SafeHouse Center of Washtenaw County to repay the state $483,000 for services it billed for but apparently never provided. The state’s decision follows on the resignation of executive director Susan McGee, who admitted in 2001 she had falsified financial reports to cover up delinquent tax payments.

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MINNESOTA: This past May, Paulette Wang, former treasurer of Asian Women United, pleaded guilty to stealing $265,000 from her domestic violence organization. Ms. Wang is scheduled to be sentenced on August 1.

NEBRASKA: A 2005 audit by the U.S. Department of Justice of Legal Aid of Nebraska identified $1.3 million in non-allowable and questionable expenses. TEXAS: An audit of a VAWA grant to the Texas Office of the Governor discovered that $852,000 in claimed matching costs could not be documented.