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by Anonymous User on Wednesday March 19, @10:29AM EST (#1)
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This article is very true. I am currently caught up in the "DV Industry" right now as my ex used false abuse claims to rid me when she found another person to replace me with.
I heard the police, the court personal, the probation people and everyone associated with 'the system' say that it is "men like me who batter" -as they obviously have been trained to think that I represent the profile of a batterer.
It seems that the fact that I have no criminal record and that I am professionally employed is a "strike against me" as I represent a dangerous profile. To quote the article: "In reality men who batter are broadly representative of the general population of men, many are solid citizens with no criminal records, no substance abuse history, and long term employment." This idea is getting played out everyday in the DV industry...trust me I know.
As a man it is impossible to even make a case against the allegations against you. Pre-judicial bias is so evident. The judge set bail for gang members who shot off firearms, a car thief, a multiple offense drunk driver, yet not for me. In fact, he glared at me with complete contempt and ordered me locked up for up to 90 days before the trial. What was I locked up for, my ex claimed (without any evidence of abuse) that I abused her - and that she was afraid... Later she provided an old bruise to the court, I now know that the victim witness advocates pushed her to find “something” so they could attack me with it.
The whole courtroom from the victim advocates to the DA, to the magistrate to the judge were aware of my case before I was even brought into it with shackles on my hands, legs and waist. I realized even if what my ex alleged against me of doing was in fact true, that the whole system was configured to punish me more severly than other crimes simply because it is of the “domestic violence” variety. DV laws and punishment even when no actual injury occurred are heavy on men. Judges (I think) are afraid to side with men as the industry will tear them down if the 1 in 100,000 cases where the amn actaully does go back and hurt his significant other. All men will suffer as we are all profiled as the aberrant killer, and our past will be used against us whether it is a good one or not.
As much as I wanted to fight the injustice being done to me I had to plead guilty despite the fact that the allegations were all lies. I was losing my job while in jail; I could not let my life and career go down the drain based on bogus vindictive charges.
I found out later that my ex told a mutual friend that she had no idea that the system would come down on me the way it did, yet she still did not retract her lies… I personally know that she is too proud to ever admit fault. She would put me in jail before she ever admitted lying. She previously tried to sue an employer for sexual harassment. It appears that she will let the feminist corrupted courts do her bidding as she works her way through this world.
I was a "prize fish" for the system. An upstanding well off man. The local newspaper even ran a generic "day in court" story about the local courthouse- yet this day in court was only about my case. As my case wasn’t news worthy as no harm was done, the DV people had to run some type of article, so they quoted some of her lies from the pretrial to evoke emotion in the reader. You see, the courthouse where I live is small and it is in real risk of getting closed due to budget cuts. So profiling human-interest cases like the ever so popular DV topic was a public relations ploy to keep the court open to “protect women”. The article had the audacity to say that the courthouse is a bastion of safety for women, and that is has cases in it every session with everyday men battering women. This is not true, as I look in the police logs, I would say there are a very small amount of cases, and most are just garden variety (yet unconstitutional) retraining orders...and the cases that I saw were more representative socially marginalized people. Not people like me.
As the article states - Don't Let The Facts Get In The Way Of Feminist Misinformation. Who is going to advocate the truth to an already biased system?????
- Sorry for the anon post, I have to protect my identity until I am out of my oppressive probation, as my ex can throw me in jail with just one phone call...
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