Shout at Your Spouse, Lose Your House

Ragtime wrote in a short article about the state of affairs in Ontario, Canada, these days with regard to domestic violence. If you're a long time visitor of this web site, you'll recall that we reported on a law passed in Ontario called Bill 117 - which is the most extreme form of punishment on someone accused of domestic violence that I've heard of to date. The worst part is that the consequences occur not after a conviction, but upon a simple accusation, which need not be verified by the police in any form. Click Read More below for Ragtime's discussion of the matter.

Shout at your spouse, lose your house.

I live in Ontario, Canada, and I live alone. I gets pretty lonely,
but I have no choice.

I don't have a wife or girlfriend -- I'd like to, but it's just
too much risk. I'm pretty much resigned to living alone because I
can't take the chance of being destituted on a woman's whim if she
were to get angry at me. Pretty sad state of affairs...(sigh)

It really is that bad, you know. New legislation, referred to by
critics as the "shout at your spouse, lose your house" legislation,
allows almost all of a man's assets to be transferred immediately to
a woman. All she has to do is place a call to 911 and say "he
frightened me."

When this happens, the man is slapped with a restraining order,
he's removed from his house, and his assets are transferred to the
woman. The man is not present in court when this takes place. No
checking is done on the truth of the accusation (that would be
invasive of a woman's rights), and the woman placing the call
doesn't even have to be the man's wife or common-law live-in
partner; she could be a girl he just brought home after a first
date -- or even a hooker. Critics call this law "a pimp's dream." This 'protection' is extended only to women, of course.

This law is an unbelievable, unholy travesty, and stomps jackbooted over a man's most basic human rights.

And this law will never be abused, of course, because a woman
would *never* make a false accusation.

Under this legislation, a man is "one phone call away from total
ruin." He has no rights whatsoever and is just discarded. He is
left with nothing and is completely on his own. If he's lucky, he might find a bus shelter to sleep in. Which is, to follow the 'logic' of the legislation, all he deserves.

By Dave Brown, senior editor at the Ottawa Citizen:

http://tsw.odyssey.on.ca/~balancebeam/one_phone_ca ll.htm

From the 'Fathers Are Capable Too' web site:

http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0012/ar001218.htm

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