Today 7 November 2008 we made our first collection and distribution of a large amount of food
to the homeless across central London. The reaction from those poor souls who have no home
but who now have quite a few fresh meals to keep them going was excellent.
The politeness,humility and coyness in being offered help clearly shows the respect
homeless people have to being offered a little assistance to get them through the cold
winter nights in one of the richest cities across the globe.
It is shameful that the political windbags fail time and again to come to their assistance
and despite the credit crunch the massive number of london billionaires and millionaires
makes that level of poverty even more despicable.
A MAJOR LEGAL VICTORY FOR THIS GROUP
MacAskill paves the way in parliament for Tesco law
A shakeup of the legal system which could lead to supermarkets and banks offering legal services moved forward yesterday with the start of a debate in the Scottish Parliament.
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said that legislation, dubbed Tesco Law, will be introduced in parliament to establish alternative business structures in the legal profession as soon as possible.
The move follows pressure from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) amid concerns that restrictions on working practices, including barring partnerships with non-legal firms, did not benefit customers.
Scottish lawyers last month backed the changes which have long been called for by the Scottish Consumer Council.
There have been worries about regulation of legal services however, with politicians raising fears during an earlier discussion last year.
Speaking in parliament yesterday Mr MacAskill told MSPs: "I am fully aware that members expressed concerns during the November debate that effective regulation was key to safeguarding consumers and the profession alike.
"This is not about Tesco law', as some have defined it. It is about allowing the profession to grow and compete, while maintaining quality of service to the public and the core values of the profession."
Both the Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates have consulted their members and produced policy papers outlining their vision for the future.
Mr MacAskill stressed that there was still work required to "iron out the detail" of many of the issues to devise solutions for the Scottish market place. "Although there are differences of approach between the law society and the faculty, I am delighted that we have taken the first steps towards reform," he added.
He said that Scottish firms will continue to serve local communities, but he added: "Some firms can compete internationally and, I think, globally. The success of our accounting and financial services sector demonstrates this is possible. There is no reason why law cannot do likewise."
The OFT called for a review following a so-called super-complaint by consumer group Which? that the current set-up hinders market innovation.
At present, lawyers cannot go into partnership with non-lawyers or be employed by non-legal firms to give advice direct to the public. The changes could lead to external ownership or capital for law firms, and partnerships between solicitors and non solicitors.
Welcoming the move, Sarah O'Neill, legal officer of the Scottish Consumer Council, said: "We have been arguing for this for a long time. We think it is in the interests of the consumer in terms of increasing choice and reducing prices."
Richard Henderson, president of the Law Society of Scotland, was more cautious. He said: "It's a very complex issue and there has been a great deal of thought and discussion surrounding alternative business structures. It's clear from the profession's response that there is appetite for change."
Similar legislation is being introduced in England and Wales.
Our group played a major part in EXPOSING the appalling manner our legal system presently operates .
We instigated the initial complaints to the Office of Fair Trading prior to the WHICH supercomplaint.
We provided both oral and written evidence in the Legal Profession and Legal Aid bill at
We have yet to see the impact on this new body and a complaint has been made to the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland for the filling of the posts with people supposedly "LAY" persons when in fact they are mostly all connected in one way or another with the legal CLUB of Scotland.
Many Scots unaware that if they enter a Scottish court at present before all these changes take place they are likely to be fleeced of their homes,business's ,assets and children.It is only US the victims and our group alone have lost millions in Scottish courts ,that have campaigned for many years to EXPOSE the utter corruption that is disguised as a form of legal system.
Scotland legal parasites have been getting away with absolute murder destroying thousands upon thousands of lives using their illegal MONOPOLY and a master policy that ensures virtually NO ONE can get recompense never mind representation when a legal parasite fleeces you of your lifes work.
This is only the start of the urgent and major changes required to redress the enormous imbalance in how scottish courts operate.
Only a JUST court system can we create a real democracy to challenge our government .This is NOT possible as the system presently stands.
Try getting a lawyer to sue another lawyer or a government department ,you will quickly come up against a brick wall and may face a persecution network were you are maliciously dragged through the courts to TEACH you a lesson about NOT complaining about legal parasites trying to destroy your life.
SUBMISSION TO Justice 1 Committee Family Law (Scotland) BILL
For and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation
The following is our submission to this inquiry.Due to the manner in which the Scottish Parliament take little effort to inform the public it was only while browsing the justice 1 website we found this call for evidence.That was today the last day for providing evidence 8th April 2005.
Due to such short notice and lack of time to provide an expansive list We will raise only a couple of major points .
Presently our organisations have absolute proof the Law Society of Scotland and its membership are using family law to abuse children and their fathers through the civil legal process to obtain assets with long term funding via legal aid.Particularly those who cant get representation due to the Law Society of Scotlands CLOSED SHOP.
All lawyers presently are using flawed insurance via Marsh UK, I provide the writ served on Marsh International by Elliot Spitzer.This is highly relevant as the bulk of the Law Society are using legal aid and able to BULLY families using family law to undermine the fathers authority in the family home while they plunder the families assets and childrens future inheritance .Presently we are seeking substantial information via the Information commissioner to PROVE this is all fact.
The recent withdrawal of the table of fees by the Law Society of Scotland shows an illegal system in operation.
It will be shown that massive property theft is being made by collusion between the Scottish Legal Aid board and members of the Law Society of Scotland ,a sinister network of abuse ultimately to provide maximum financial advantage to lawyers at the expense of the family and children.It is outrageous for any member of the legal profession to suggest the long term litigation instigated by this malice is good for children while massive profits are being made by lawyers involvement who undermine a families human rights
It is outrageous that the civil legal system in Scotland has been allowed to PLUNDER massive amounts of land ,business and property under the guise of family law when so much of a families assets are frittered away by lawyers abusing the system.Few if any regulated by a system which has been proven in the Legal Profession Inquiry to be utterly corrupt.
SORT OUT THE CORRUPTION IN FAMILY LAW AND THEN FAMILY LAW MAY LEAD TO A MORE AMIABLE WAY OF RESOLVING SEPARATING COUPLES ISSUES THAT END UP IN COURT.
The International Mens Organisation and Fathers Fighting Injustice
MEN STOP WORKING FOR THE CRIMINALS CONTROLLING OUR COURTS
AN INTERNATIONAL PLEA TO MEN TO STOP WORKING FOR THE CRIMINALS CONTROLLING OUR COURTS
AN INTERNATIONAL STRIKE AGAINST LAWYERS ,JUDGES AND THEIR FOOTSOLDIERS
Our organisations are now asking all tradesmen worldwide to stop or block services to anyone connected with the legal systems around the world.
We request every MAN who is providing services to lawyers and judges REFUSE forewith to take their instructions in support of all men worldwide who have been destroyed by the evil family court systems.
WE SEEK TO HAVE ALL RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS PROPERTIES WERE LAWYERS OR JUDGES RESIDE, BOYCOTTED AND THAT WORKMEN INTERNATIONALLY REFUSE TO CARRY OUT MAINTENANCE AND PROVIDE SERVICES TO SUCH PROPERTIES AND LIMIT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THEIR ABILITY TO FUNCTION.
If MEN worldwide can unite and stop the tyranny being perpetrated on us all then they would no longer be able to function and would be the strongest message POSSIBLE that MEN will no longer tolerate the theft of our children ,homes and assets by the crooks running our legal systems.
FROM today let ALL men bring the crooks to a halt .
PLEASE FORWARD TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY THIS BRUTAL SYSTEM AND ASK YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WORLDWIDE TO JOIN OUR CRUSADE TO BRING TO THESE PEOPLE THE SAME NIGHTMARE THEY HAVE BEEN IMPOSING ON OUR GOOD MEN FOR FAR TO LONG .MEN BLIGHTED BY BRUTAL JUDICIAL PROCESS'S THAT NO LONGER PROVIDE US AND OUR FAMILIES WITH JUSTICE .
PUBLIC PETITIONS HEARINGS
LETTER TO STANDARDS COMMITTEE
We enclose both our letter to Convener of the Public Petitions and also his response.
We ask that this is addressed formally by the standards committee into the areas of concern raised within the letter to Mr McMahon.
His response leaves much still unanswered in light of the fact this relates to child and adult deaths caused due to sinister forces operating presently within the legal systems of Scotland and which is being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading and the Scottish consumer council on behalf of our organisations.
It is that appalling monopoly position which is allowing the misuse and abuse of powers ONLY possible due to despicable practices occuring under that monopoly.
One of our members being forcibly injected with anti psychotic drugs due to major failures in his due process of law .
We require to provide additional evidence to this initial request at any possible future hearings regarding this matter
For and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation and Fathers Fighting Injustice
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Subj: URGENT ATTENTION OF PUBLIC PETITIONS CONVENER
Dear Mr Mc Mahon
We write further to our recent correspondence that we wish to raise the manner the Public Petition meeting was heard on Wed 29th October 2003 and the manner in which petitions we raised were handled prior to that hearing.
We ask the following for your response as advised by the standards committee prior to taking this matter further and that you address the following issues.
1.Why was it ,that despite raising this with your Clerk,were some of our petitions published in an entirely different manner than they were submitted?
Anyone reading those petitions from your main web site would be misled as to the actually content of what each petition related to .No mention was made at any time of the judiciary despite at least three petitions relating to that process and the effect it had on male discrimination and the repercussions for their children.
2.Why has it taken almost a year from our first submission to the latest one to be heard ,while a comment was made that despite a large backlog of petitions due to elections and recess you held one of the SHORTEST public petition hearings were the committee dismissed petitions with evidence of elder and judicial abuse?
I enclose letter from Mr James Duff another petitioner were he supports our organisations views that you are aiding and abetting the burying of evidence of corruption within the legal systems of Scotland .
3.Why as convener did you fail to ensure that in light of our petitions addressing male discrimination did members of your committee not declare an interest in their membership of the cross party group on women?
The committee is made up of 9 members 5 who are women.Helen Eadie, Linda Fabiani, Carolyn Leckie and Sandra White are all members of the cross party group on women
and Sandra White is also a member of cross party group on mens violence against women and children.
It is clear to our organisations in light of those female members having allegiance to these cross party groups that it would be like having the KLU KLUX KLAN sitting on a hearing on racism.
None of your committee are members of any cross party group associated with men and therefore we expected you as convener to have taken steps to address this inbalance prior to that meeting in light of the serious issues on child deaths which we provided clear proof of.
You as convener allowed those MSP's who have allegiances to cross party groups on women to cross question us which we believe undermined the efforts to address male discrimination and the male suicides caused by the extreme psychological pressures induced through male discrimination in Scottish civil courts.
Also the children who have died due to being separated from biological fathers caused by such discrimination in breach of human rights.
4.Also despite stating at least 7 times our wish to address further requests for additional information and evidence at a later date in writing, you allowed three female committee members to continue to pursue that questioning knowing at least two , had allegiances to womens groups within the Scottish Parliament.One of the main reasons for withdrawing from taking any further part in the KANGAROO court which in no way could address the issues we raised .
5.We also raised evidence of secret societies unduly undermining due process of law.It would have been appropriate for you as convener to ask any of the committee to state whether they were or were not members of any such organisations prior to hearing that evidence .We ask therefore whether you as convener of this committee have any such connections in light of your failure to do so?
Have you or any member of the petitions committee taken the first degree entered apprenticeship OATHS?
This requires an answer as you are a tribunal given authority to investigate human right abuses .We have case law which states clearly any such tribunal has a duty to ensure that it is wholly impartial your committee make up leaves much to be desired in the issues we have raised and you as convenor ensuring that impartiality is assured to our membership
6.The Scottish Parliament has a positive obligation to protect the vested rights of Scottish citizens ,that requires individual and collective responsibility in reporting miscarriages of justice ,criminality associated with failures in due process of law and human rights abuses which follow such breaches.
The suggestion made by you at the onset of the hearing in question
"I remind the petitioners and members of the committee that the Parliament is unable to intervene in individual situations".
This statement is in clear breach of ECHR
Article 17 - Prohibition of abuse of rights
Nothing in this Convention may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to
engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth
herein or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the Convention.
The failure to ensure you abide by art 17 and act to protect those who's human rights have been abused should require you to stand down as committee convener as you are not fit to hear such cases in light of the ease with which you have been burying evidence since taking charge of the public petitions forum.
7.Your final quotes regarding the 6 petitions we raised were
"The Convener: Committee members and I take our jobs seriously. We want to do our best to enhance the reputation of the committee and the Parliament, but we cannot allow petitioners to make unsubstantiated comments then criticise the committee for not acting when the petitioners have provided no evidence on which we can base any action. I want to put that on the record, because I see no value in considering petitions from petitioners who have provided no evidence but who expect the committee to act purely because they have submitted a petition that makes allegations and claims that they cannot substantiate."
This statement you make is quite unbelievable in that despite providing a catalogue of evidence prior to the hearing and some of it not fully published on your webpages as was addressed by the clerk.There was also evidence sent on our behalf by the Citizens Commission on Human rights which addressed abuse of psychiatry .
We have proof your clerk responded to that in an email to the CCHR.
You stated
"when the petitioners have provided no evidence on which we can base any action"
That alone should be sufficient proof that you lied before Parliament ,before the general public and deliberately undermined and failed to address those issues that were placed before you.
We had a number of witness's in that hearing and the individual who's human rights abuses were despicably abused and who spoke to the parliament was also there as evidence of abuses of due process and as one of our members who has since been released from being forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs due to those abuses
Evidence we had already produced
PE672
Quotes from legal profession inquiry letter Christine Grahame .dated 29 April 2003.
Case law evidence of judicial immunity sent from our USA attorneys to support our petition.
Letter from Mrs A Mallaby as proof of due process of law being undermined in Edinburgh Sheriff court with 6 witnesses to those abuses and some of those witness's who travelled from afar to give support at the petiton hearing and provide CLEAR proof of those human right abuses.You refused to allow them to speak .You also failed to publish that evidence on the committee webpages as further proof of human rights abuses.
This despite electronic email proof of that as submission evidence as well as by surface mail.Our member was released from Edinburgh Royal hospital 3 days after the hearing with a CLEAN bill of health.That despite the appalling mistreatment he faced while unlawfully incarcerated through flawed court procedures.
PE635
Evidence from the herald archives showing comments from Children 1st ,Children in Scotland and the Judges Council in relation to the questioning of children by judges.
Title of petition
Judges questioning of children
No mention of this in the main petition list page
PE633
Evidence from BBC archives and various other national media archives with names of children who died while separated from their biological father.
The second page of this was not published on the web until an email to the clerk was made to address this as that evidence was crucial to show the widespread deaths of children.
The frivolous manner in which both you and Carolyn Leckie addressed this was SHOCKING despite the great lengths that were made to obtain those articles.
Something which has been regularly buried due to the serious nature of children dying in very extreme circumstances and the failures of both the legal and medical field to address
puerperal psychosis .We enclose an article on that subject and which would have been provided as additional evidence but for your flawed impartial committee make up.
PE632
Evidence was available to the committee on this petition which would have been addressed on the day but for our serious concerns about your handling of previous committee hearings and the manner in which you allowed female members of the cross party group on women to openly attack our evidence .Your failure to deal with this correctly while undermining speakers with limited public speaking experience and in front of cameras is cause for grave concern as to your attitude towards public petition presenters who are generally amateurs in that process while your professional highly trained committee use ever trick in the book to demean those taking a public platform to EXPOSE serious human right abuses.
You did NOTHING to make that easy in fact the restrictions on time to address 6 petitions says it all .
PE625
Evidence we provide prior to hearing this petition was a BBC archive article were Mark Solon a solicitor and witness trainer made serious statements regarding the funding of expert witness's . Once again as quote "petitioners have provided no evidence" is clear proof that you wish to avoid and bury evidence from individuals with expert knowledge of the failures of the legal process's operating in UK and Scottish courts.
At least some attempt was made at addressing the issues raised within this petition.
PE593
We requested the Scottish Parliament call for audits with regard this submission before this could be fully addressed as it required audited evidence to fully address the discrimination issues within this petition.Once again this was refused without proper cognizance of what was referred to within that petition.
We also had sent a number of articles to your clerk to be added as additional evidence to various petitions.We ask that these are addressed fully and if necessary can go through all emails sent to your committee prior to the hearing 29 th October 2003.
We request ALL petitions are heard once again before a proper impartial tribunal as we are not prepared to allow you or any other member of that committee who is NOT impartial to undermine issues which are and will continue to cause the deaths of adults and children alike, thanks to the appalling abuses being enacted within closed and secretive family courts in Scotland presently.
for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation and
Fathers Fighting Injustice
Further additional information to follow in more emails
Thank you for your e-mails dated 28 November 2003. I will address each of your points in turn.
In relation to your query as to why your petition was published 'in an entirely different manner than they were submitted' it is normal practice that all admissible petitions are published on the Committee's web page in the same format as they are initially submitted. The Committee Clerk informs me that you petition was processed in this manner.
You also ask why 'has it taken almost a year from our first submission to the latest one to be heard'. However, I note your e-mails of 3 and 14 February to the Committee Clerk requesting that consideration of PE 539 remain on hold for the time being. The Clerk also informs me that you were sent a letter on 11 September 2003 asking whether you now wished PE 539 to be considered by the Committee along with three other petitions which you lodged on 7 May 2003.
In relation to your questions on Declaration of Interests this is a matter for individual Members. Paragraph 5.2.12 of the Parliament's Code of Conduct states that: 'It is the responsibility of the member to judge whether an interest is sufficiently relevant to particular proceedings to require a declaration'.
Any Registrable Interests which Members may have should be registered in the Register of Interests. Interests which Members are required to register are outlined at Section 4.3 of the Code of Conduct. The Register of Interests is publicly available on the Parliament's website at:
Paragraph 5.2.6 of the Code of Conduct states that:
Under the statutory requirements, a Member only has a declarable interest where he or she has a declarable interest which has been registered or for which a statement has been lodged.
You also refer to evidence which you submitted in support of your petitions and I can assure you that all such evidence was circulated to Committee Members.
MICHAEL McMAHON MSP
Convener of the Public Petitions Committee
MAJOR CHANGES ON THE WAY
The UK's SUN newspaper has been venomously anti father .
It promotes DV propaganda on a grand scale which aids the family court system and the tyrants within its walls .
We have no idea as to this change of editorial as our organisations would NEVER support such a newspaper.
On this rare occasion they have it right for a change.
Last night the UK's Chan 4 uncovered the rogue judiciary we have operating in the UK. It was an appalling story of judges continuously getting decisions woefully wrong .That was only the criminal cases they didnt even touch on family law the most abhorrent blot on the UK's landscape done behind secretive closed doors of star chamber torture chambers.
It is an evil sick society that allows this to flourish ,many newspapers like the SUN have promoted that system .We can inform our organisations that we are at the forefront of breaking this down .
We have the Office of Fair Trading investigating the monopoly position the Law Society is operating under.
We have senior members of parliament about to BREAK the news of evidence tampering of a Legal profession inquiry carried out over two years ago which was a whitewash and we are also assisting a new breakaway law firm to challenge the law societies powers.
To all FATHERS who face a christmas distanced from their children .
STAY STRONG YOUR SUFFERING IS NOT IN VAIN WE ARE SLOWLY BUT SURELY WINNING THE BATTLE TO OVERTURN THAT TYRANNY CAUSING SO MUCH HARM TO OUR CHILDREN.
We have no doubt this system is crumbling as we speak .
ALL THE BEST FROM
the International Mens Organisation and Fathers Fighting Injustice
and to all our important contacts worldwide aiding the battle for justice
We need a law for dads
Dad's devotion ... father Bob with daughters Peaches and Pixie
Fatherless Christmas
By Sir BOB GELDOF
NOW again itıs Christmas. Weıre all busy spending on our loved ones, our families and, most especially, our children.
In particular this is the childrenıs festival. The time when a kind old man will slip down a chimney or slide down a roof and bring joy to your child FATHER Christmas.
It is the special childıs time because 2,000 years ago, the story tells us, a woman and a man had a baby together and though the man knew perfectly well he was not the childıs father he nonetheless loved him and his wife and raised him to be strong, independent, brave and loving.
Lucky kid, to have Joseph for a dad. Indeed, were Jesus alive today, to have any dad at all to raise him to be a good man.
For those divorced men with children, Christmas is a travesty, a repulsive contradiction of a family holiday, of a loving celebration, of a special childrenıs time.
These are the men who will be forced to be alone without their babies, whowill commit suicide most frequently at this time of year in an age when male suicides are already 300 per cent greater than womenıs.
These are men who, in the eyes of what is sickeningly called Family Law, committed the greatest crime of being divorced.
Men who are guilty of the worst sin of being fathers because dads, tothe great dismay of the secret elite who sit in secret judgment in thesesecret courts are, shockingly, ALL men!
And men, as everyone knows, are monsters, feckless, abusive, aggressive, thuggish, incapable of such a hugely complex task of giving love andpatience, cooking baked beans or giving a bath, doing homework or combing hair and reading stories.
Itıs a miracle any of us got here at all, us all having had dads and
everything.
This Christmas Eve we will say goodnight in our homes to our over-excited children, tell them to go to sleep quickly or HE wonıt come, prepare for the morning and have a quiet drink of pleasure before bed.
Yet there will be many fathers forbidden by the savagery of our laws to be with their children, standing broken, as I have, outside their old homes, the keys still in their pockets, weeping and whispering goodnight as they watch each childıs bedroom light switch off before turning away, maddened with grief, to the pointlessness of a lonely Christmas Day.
What have we become? In whose name is this brutality done?
Who are they who do this and why do they not account to us, the people?
What unthinking fools perpetrated these unlawful laws?
How is it in a childıs interest to remove him from his dad and why?
Two people fall from love and one, though having done no wrong, is
semi-criminalised and punished by having his children removed from him forever (for childhood is never recoverable).
The extremity of Family Law is bewildering, for having your children takenaway from you is only one slight degree better than them taking away your freedom.
And yet you are not a criminal, nor have you done any wrong.
These same people assume that women make better parents that a motherıs love is better, more important than a fatherıs.
That somehow itıs bearable for a man to be parted from his children but not a woman.
Why? These assumptions and prejudices are not simply outdated but plain wrong, dangerous and damaging.
You only have to listen to the language that the law uses when it gets
involved in our private lives.
Itıs meant to be neutral but it is cold, deadening and hopeless.
In fact it becomes heartbreaking, hurtful, rage-inducing. I cannot even say the words.
A huge emptiness would well in my stomach, a deep loathing for those who would deign to tell me they would ALLOW me ACCESS to my children those I loved above all, those I created, those who gave meaning to everything I did, those who were the very best of us two and the absolute physical manifestation of our once blinding love.
Who the hell are they that they should use the language of the prison visit to ALLOW anything between me and that which is mine?
REASONABLE CONTACT when the situation under this law is, by definition, UNreasonable!!!
CONTACT? Is this what we had before in our home or am I now some visitingalien?
An ABSENT parent labelled by those who have forced me to be absent.
A RESIDENT/NON-RESIDENT parent words that reduce the meaning of that whichwas once Mum, Dad and home to the sterile language of the state institution.
I cannot begin to describe the pain of being handed a note, sanctioned by your (still) wife with whom you had made these little things, with whom you had been present at their birth and previously had felt grow and kick and tumble and turn and watched the scans and felt intense manly pride.
Wrestled and played with them, walked them to school, picked them up, made tea with, bathed and dressed, put them to bed, cuddled and lay with in yourarms and sang to sleep.
Felt them and smelt them around you at all times, alert even in sleep to the slightest shift in their breathing ... a note that will ALLOW you ACCESS to these things who are the best of you.
ARE you a father denied the chance of seeing your children?
If so, we want to hear your story. Here is how to contact us.
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IMO SPEECH TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
IMO SPEECH TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Our member George Farquhar was released from his prison hospital(persecution camp) to make a speech to the Scottish Parliament .The doctors have stopped forceably injecting George due to the enormous pressure worldwide and from our petitions.
We have not got Georges own speech to hand but will publish as soon as it is available online from the Scottish Parliament.
We can say he is in good spirit looking well and was interviewed by BBC news outside parliament .
Supporters came from as far as Glastonbury to support George.
The full speech of the petitions below.
Some are extracts from recent articles that have been posted on our news.
PE593,625,633,635 and 672
We thank the committee for hearing these petitions submitted by our organizations over a period of a year. Although to try and compress them all into such a short time scale we believe does not do these very serious issues justice.
However they are all in part interconnected with male discrimination, firstly were Scottish Social Services ,not only having been shown to be incompetent, but we believe are also riddled with widespread fraud,corruption,gender discrimination and a strong illuminati influence, undermining the welfare of vulnerable children.This at its worst during separation and mainly due to the LARGE public moneys the legal aid board are freely allocating to opposing lawyers, which begs the assumption that legal fraudsters assume they are better at protecting children than their own fathers.Any suggestion from sources abusing those moneys that this is being curtailed is a blatant lie.
Fathers do not require money to protect their children it is free at source 24 hours 7 days a week that protection being unlawfully and criminally taken from them at the expense of the biological FATHER.
Until that financial link is severed ,childrens safety will continue to be undermined ,as any separated father knows who has tried to protect his children from the appalling gender fascism being perpetrated by lawyers, sheriffs,police,court officials,legal aid board,social workers ,doctors ,teachers and a myriad of publicly funded hangers on who exert a major drain on public funds and makes the cost of the new Scottish Parliament pale by comparison .This is a multi billion pound fraud the Scottish Executive have failed to put a lid on ,which ultimately has led to many child deaths which have occured due to those extreme prejudices, while more public money is used to promote that prejudice.
Those vast sums that are being consumed by a lawless legal fraternity , supposedly to protect children and while they USE children in family courts, is one of the most shameful experiences men and children have to endure. The persecution of separated fathers being the main daily ritual of incompetent , corrupt and publicly funded legal practitioners .
There are many females on the extended fathers side who also suffer from that loss of contact with their loved ones.
Phillip Yelland director of the Law Society investigations states they have no remit to discipline lawyers for human rights abuses,that is despite his own personal responsibilites under art 17 of those ECHR conventions.
Neither the Legal Profession Inquiry ,the Legal Aid Inquiry or the Council of the Law Society Bill has or will have any effect on this system ,and it may well make matters worse as Scottish children and parents continue to face severe psychological trauma and potentially more deaths until these issues we raise are taken seriously and the Scottish Executive take immediate emergency measures to rectify them before any more tragedies occur .
We have provided evidence of child deaths were fathers had been separated from their children due to a system which compares to the race hatred promoted during apartheid in South Africa.Except in Scotland it is gender apartheid which is largely responsible for the deaths of children who received no protection from incompetent agencies whilst separated from their biological fathers .
In fact our childrens future inheritance is also being robbed by the wheeling and dealing of a corrupt system condoned by the upper echelons of the political and legal establishment ,despite widespread evidence to the contrary in those inquiries.
We demand immediate action to ensure rights under ECHR are being upheld in Scottish civil courts .
Fathers and children face those actions , on many occasions ,without legal representation or funding ,no audio recordings of those hearings,despite equipment in place to do so ,and in many cases the need for jury hearings when large fraudulent land and property transactions are being perpetrated which leads to the bankruptcy of fathers facing the injustices that flow from major failures within this despicable system.
Our organisations can state from evidence gathered worldwide that Scotlands civil legal system is one of the most appalling anywhere in the world and any suggestion from the legal or political fraternity that that is not the case is a blatant lie . It is not more powers family courts need , it is the abuse of those powers that are oppressing and enslaving men and which has reached unprecedented levels were marriage licences can be purchased for very little but there seems to be NO upper limit on the legal costs of its removal.
The failure to cap the new parliament building is exactly the same dilemma men face in uncapped family courts, only the sums are many times greater ,and a major blight on Scottish society .The Legal Aid board is of grave concern as to their impartiality as a tribunal ,the majority are members of the Law Society of Scotland and working sheriffs and with potential links to the Illuminati and wholly responsible for publicly funding large scale male asset stripping while undermining childrens human rights.
That gender inbalance makes men the easy pickings of the criminals operating within that system,when there is NO legal protection due to collusion between the law society and the legal aid board .
Bob Geldofs stated this month
"Family law doesn't work. It is absurd, blunt and outdated.
So many of us are hurting and yet the law will treat the man in court (if my case is typical) with contempt, suspicion,disdain and hostility," adding that the law is "unjustly weighted infavour of women.
On the rare occasions when this situation is reversed it is either bizarrely when a woman was married to a fighter pilot, or has an ex husband who is classed landed gentry or is in the same illuminati lodges as the judge hearing the case .Hence the urgent need for juries in expensive land and property divorce divisions to ensure impartiality required under art 6 of the European conventions is assured and JUSTICE is being seen to be done.
The comparison of a separated man in the Scottish family court system is similar to how a christian must have felt stepping into the colosseum in Rome ,unarmed , outnumbered and waiting to be eaten alive.
Sigmund Freud states
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
Why is it then we have a devolved Scottish Assembly that is massively publicly funding the exact opposite situation ?
Only because it is financially beneficial to all those who gain from the psychological torture and abuse of children separated from the protection of their biological fathers by the ruthless use of outdated Scottish Civil law which is entirely incompatible with the rights our fathers and children have and demand under European Conventions and being undermined daily in Scottish courts .
Any legal system which harms a father ultimately harms his children and when fathers are robbed their children are robbed of their inheritance.
We have an Auschwitz on our own doorstep ,with appalling human rights abuses of vulnerable children in DUNGAVEL CONCENTRATION CAMP ,how long before the gas chambers are moved in?
We have a society that is being cajoled into accepting human right abuses as the norm . It will NEVER be the norm, and presently one of our members is being forceably injected with psychotic drugs without his due process of law being assured as witnessed by 6 supporters here today .
The legal and political systems in Scotland are acting more like the fascism which eventually led to the holocaust and is totally unacceptable .
The integrity and dignity of a Judiciary is paramount in any society.A Judiciary must be made to serve the interests of the people of Scotland .A flawed Judiciary promotes insecurity , economic instability and ceases to serve the country's citizenry, the magnitude of corruption in the Scottish Legal system now at alarming levels.
Separation of powers has never given the courts arbitrary and unaccountable authority.
That legal system is a corrupt monopoly and needs to be broken up while it is holding this country to ransom.
MSP John Swinney recently commented
"If this is the way that everyone gets treated by the legal complaints system, then there is a need for ENORMOUS change of practice and attitude."
Separation of powers in the Scottish legal system of jurisprudence has never been an excuse for the executive or legislators to ignore their constitutional and conscientious duty.
Finally with regards
PE593
There should be proper accountability of the judiciary and all who report to court on child custody issues and accurate audio recordings of all hearings and social work interviews,to curb the widespread discrimination within that system .Also fathers and children should have proper access to legal representation to ensure a childs human rights are not being undermined without representation or funding .
PE625
There should be a full inquiry into legal aid funding of expert witness's to ensure corruption is not tainting the evidence being provided to courts.
This was raised by us in an earlier petition PE352 in March 2001 which was ignored and if acted on could have saved lives.
PE633
Biological fathers should not be prevented from protecting their children due to bias and discrimination in divorce actions with a legal system acting like a jack boot brigade preventing and causing the deaths of children without that protection.
PE635
Judges have an appalling record of dealing with children causing them psychological trauma.My own childen have faced that wrath .Serious steps should be taken to prevent children being traumatised by insensitive and bullying judges who are not FIT to deal with child cases.
PE672
The justice 1 committee at the time of the legal profession inquiry are wholly responsible for one of our members due process of law being seriously undermined ,the outcome being the forceable injection of psychotic drugs against his human rights ,by failing to ensure the judiciary are fully accountable in our supposed civilised society.
Can Justice 1 convenor Christine Grahame at the time of the legal profession inquiry tell us if any lawyer or judge was disciplined or struck off or was anyone compensated for the appalling damage done to their lives by a corrupt legal system .
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 we present 6 petitions to Scottish Parliament PE672 the most urgent regarding our member George Farquhar being held and forceably injected with psychotic drugs without any due process of law.
We now have the backing and support of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR)
who have provided the Scottish Parliament with further evidence on the appalling use of psychiatry to undermine campaigners such as George in Scotland .
Hitler and South Africas apartheid system made regular use of such persecutive tools now being used in Scotland with a callous disregard for human rights
We believe this is a historic move to expose tyrannical forces ,all of it witnessed in the trial(lynching) in a star chamber court in Edinburgh.
The proceedings can be viewed from committee room 2 on 29 Oct 2003 at 10.00am GMT
Petition for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation and
BRUTALITY OF THE SCOTTISH COURT PROCESS
We ask the Scottish Parliament to investigate the conduct of the Justice 1 Committee, as at the 5 February 2002 ,which was at the time top heavy with law society members and led to decisions which are incompatible with the HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 and an affront to the democratic process in Scotland .
Also the injustices within the court process which continue to flow from those failures as fully documented below.
It also shows law society members aiding and abetting the undermining of the legal process in Scotland by allowing the judiciary to remain immune from checks and balances required under the European Court of Human rights protocols
in particular art 17
"Article 17 - Prohibition of abuse of rights
Nothing in this Convention may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to
engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth
herein or at their limitation to a greater extent than is provided for in the Convention."
In a letter from Christine Grahame dated 29 April 2002 to all who submitted evidence to the Legal Profession inquiry she stated in that letter on page 2 paragraph 5.
"5.At its meeting on 5 February 2002 ,the committee further refined the terms of reference by agreeing not to consider the judiciary as part of its inquiry."
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In case law
"Floyd and Barker, 12 Co. Rep. 23, 77 Eng. Rep. 1305 (1607), Coke and his colleagues of the Star Chamber had declared the judges of the King's Bench immune from prosecution in competing courts for their judicial acts.
In doing so, they announced the theory upon which the concept of judicial immunity was built. The judge involved in Floyd and Barker was a common-law Judge of Assize who had presided over a murder trial. He was then charged in the Star Chamber with conspiracy.
The court concluded that the judges of the common law should not be called to account "before any other Judge at the suit of the King." Id., at 24, 77 Eng. Rep. at 1307
And it was agreed that insomuch as the Judges of the realm have the administration of justice, under the King, to all his subjects, they ought not to be drawn into question for any supposed corruption, which extends to the annihilating of a record, or of any judicial proceedings before them, or tending to the slander of the justice of the King, which will trench to the scandal of the King himself, except it be before the King himself; for they are only to make an account to God and the King, and not to answer to any suggestion in the Star-Chamber.
Id., at 25, 77 Eng. Rep. at 1307.
By 1868, one of the judges of the Court of Exchequer explained judicial immunity in language close to our contemporary understanding of the doctrine:
It is essential in all courts that the judges who are appointed to administer the law should be permitted to administer it under the protection of the law, independently and freely, without favor and without fear. This provision of the law is not for the protection or benefit of a malicious or corrupt judge, but for the benefit of the public, whose interest it is that the judges should be at liberty to exercise their functions with independence, and without fear of consequences.
Scott v. Stansfield, 3 L. R. Ex., at 223, quoted in Bradley v. Fisher, 13 Wall. 335, 350, n. (1872)"
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That immunity provided to the judiciary is in fact patently flawed under art 17 of ECHR conventions and despite the remit for the LEGAL PROFESSION INQUIRY as at 20 June 2001 (CJ1 4/2001)
Quote
"SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY
The committee wishes the scope of the inquiry to cover all branches of the legal profession within Scotland including :advocates ,solicitors (including solicitor advocates ),qualified conveyancers
and executry practitioners,judges(including sheriffs and justices),fiscals and sheriff officers."
That the justice committee as at the 5 february 2002 acted criminally by failing to ensure ALL Scottish citizens were included within the conventions of the HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998, no matter what their position within Scotland, as nowhere within those convention rights does it state any group or individual is free to act in breach of those vested rights assured by that convention.
The failure to ensure those checks and balances were put in place has allowed the continued tyrannical decisions which has led to the sinister undermining of one of our members in Edinburgh Sheriff court on 22 August 2003 as addressed in the article below .
The justice 1 committee and the Scottish Executive have failed all Scottish citizens by allowing a group to act outwith human rights criteria and has led to the continued undermining of those rights despite the lord advocate having substantial body of evidence to show those continued breaches.
The legal profession inquiry and the Council of the law society bill
has been a malicious way to avoid addressing the continued human rights abuses being imposed on our good citizens and the continued attacks on those who gave evidence to the Legal Profession inquiry by members of the legal fraternity who were part of that supposed investigative process funded via legal aid.
The long term enforced injection of our member is an affront to Scottish civility on behalf of ALL our citizens and shows a brutality and barbarism being enacted within closed secretive scottish courts.
The Mental Health act now being shown to be used as an illuminati persecution tool to protect the criminality of its membership within the judiciary.
for and on behalf of the
International Mens Organisation
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BY RECORDED DELIVERY
Ms Patricia Ann Mallaby
34 Mansfield Road
Balerno
EH14 7LF
Complaint against Sheriff Lothian and Public Defender Good
1) I am one of many supporters of Edinburgh citizen George Farquhar, who has blown the whistle on organised paedophilia within the establishment.
2) Mr Farquhar was arrested in Edinburgh on the pretext that he had committed a breach of the peace by photographing an off-duty policeman who had committed perjury in court, possibly to protect paedophiles. Photographing a person in a public place does not constitute an offence (otherwise the media would be prosecuted) so Mr Farquhar was being maliciously prosecuted to criminalize him. He could not be found guilty by a jury.
3) Prior to any trial, Sheriff Lothian sectioned Mr Farquhar, had him certified mentally insane and ordered state psychiatrists to forcibly inject him, which they did so in an attempt "to alter his thoughts". An independent assessment would confirm that Mr Farquhar was not, and is not, insane.
4) Mr Farquhar's trial was listed for Friday 22 August in Edinburgh Sheriff Court at 10.00am, to be heard by Sheriff Lothian.
5) Six supporters, including myself, were directed to Courtroom 10 to await the trial (which, the Court Service had informed the public, was listed as an intermediate diet). Some supporters had taken time off work and incurred travel expenses to attend.
6) Whilst waiting, we witnessed other hearings, including another public interest case in which Sheriff Lothian deliberately kept his voice low, preventing public observers from hearing.
7) Mr Farquhar's trial was kept until last, when the courtroom had become empty apart from myself, five colleagues and three police officers. Sheriff Lothian then dismissed the court and left, without explanation.
8) On enquiring about Mr Farquhar's trial, we were informed that Sheriff Lothian wished to hold it in secret. We found this completely unacceptable and illegal, and we exercised our right to remain in the courtroom.
9) We requested to speak to Public Defender John Good, who insisted to us that Mr Farquhar's representative, Mr William Smith of Injustice by the Law, was not required and had been effectively dismissed, that morning, by Mr Farquhar who allegedly wished to be represented by Mr Good. Mr Good would not allow Mr Smith to verify this with Mr Farquhar (or make any verbal contact with him) and informed us that he had been appointed by Sheriff Lothian.
10) About twenty minutes later, we were informed that the trial was not an intermediate diet and that we could remain; but we were warned against any action that could be (mis)construed as breach of the peace.
11) The trial commenced, but was immediately adjourned due to the non-appearance of the two police witnesses. It recommenced about two hours later, after the police witnesses were traced.
12) I handed Mr Good verifiable information which, if used, would have obliged Sheriff Lothian to step down (as did Lord Hoffman in the Pinochet case) due to his conflict of interest: he is believed to be a member of the Speculative Society and the Freemasons, so could not be seen to be impartial in a case which involves exposure of organised crime within secret societies. Mr Good failed to use or mention this crucial information, ensuring that Sheriff Lothian could continue to prosecute (ie victimise) Mr Farquhar.
13) The trial was not being recorded, and there was no jury, so there would be no official or verifiable record.
14) The Procurator Fiscal interviewed the two police witnesses and showed selective video footage taken prior to and during Mr Farquhar's arrest.
15) The Public Defender declined to cross-examine the police witnesses.
16) Neither Sheriff Lothian, the Procurator Fiscal nor the Public Defender questioned Mr Farquhar.
17) Sheriff Lothian was aggressive and intimidating towards one supporter who was overtly and innocently taking notes, and ordered a police officer to confiscate them.
18) Sheriff Lothian acquitted Mr Farquhar (as predicted by Mr Good). This enabled state psychiatrists to continue to detain and forcibly inject him. Sheriff Lothian took it upon himself to place a restriction order on Mr Farquhar (unnecessarily and extraordinarily, in the opinion of the doctor with day-to-day care of Mr Farquhar).
19) I and other supporters lodged a complaint, at the Court Office, about these unlawful proceedings.
20) I questioned Mr Good, immediately after the 'trial', as to what action he would now take to defend his client. He informed me that he could do no more for Mr Farquhar as it was now a civil matter.
21) Mr Farquhar informed me, at the earliest opportunity, that he had not agreed to be represented by Mr Good, whom Sheriff Lothian had appointed: Mr Good lied to and deceived me and others.
22) I hereby object to Sheriff Lothian's criminal activities and Mr Good's collusion and conspiracy with him.
23) Mr Farquhar's illegal 'trial' and detention under the Mental Health Act is patently null and void: he is being wrongfully held and assaulted by state psychiatrists who continue to forcibly inject him with psychiatric drugs.
24) You may speak to Mr Farquhar, an unquestionably sane and upstanding citizen, in Redwood Clinic, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, on 0131 537 5816.
25) Sheriff Lothian is believed to be the sheriff who was discredited and disgraced by the News of the World newspaper (15 December 2002) reporting on his alleged criminal sexual behaviour.
26) I would like you to inform me:
a) whether you, your partners or employers are Speculators or Masons
b) whether (assuming that my statements are correct) you condone or
condemn Sheriff Lothian's and Mr Good's criminal behaviour
c) what we (the citizens) can do to protect Mr Farquhar and others who
act on behalf of the public
d) whether you would support lawful citizens' arrests on the perpetrators.
Yours faithfully
P Ann Mallaby
cc
The Lord Advocate
Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service
Crown Office
25 Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1LA
Rosemarie McIlwhan
Scottish Human Rights Centre
Ionad Choirichean Dhaonna na h-Alba
146 Holland Street
Glasgow G2 4NG
Mental Welfare Commission
K Floor, Argyle House
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh EH3 9SH
The Editor, ScoLAG Legal Journal
Scottish Legal Action Group
173 Crossloan Road
Glasgow G51 3QE
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LATEST PETITIONS TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Ongoing International Mens Organisation petitions to Scottish Parliament
PE635 Judges questioning children
PE633 Child death petition
PE632 Lawyer conflict of interest
PE625 Expert Witness
PE593 Discrimination against dads and children
Completed International Mens Organisation petitions to Scottish Parliament
PE534 Doctors reports in court actions
PE519 Judiciary register of interests
PE492 Register of alienated children
PE483 Justice 1 make up
PE355 Conflict of interest
PE352 Doctors reports
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Public Petition PE635
Petition for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation , calling for the Scottish Parliament to investigate and take action in relation to alleged widespread perjury in child custody cases in Scottish courts.
Petition for and on behalf of the International Men's Organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to take the necessary steps to eliminate alleged discrimination against fathers by the courts, social services and others in relation to decisions which result in children being separated from their fathers.
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Public Petition PE593
Petition for and on behalf of the International Men's Organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to ask the Scottish Executive to take emergency action to address the alleged discrimination shown by the judicial system in Scotland against fathers and their children in relation to divorce actions.
Petition for and on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to readdress the issues raised in petition PE352 in relation to the use of doctors reports in Court actions.
Scottish Judiciary (Public Register of Interests) (PE519)
Petition for and on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to give consideration to the creation of a register of interests of the Scottish judiciary.
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Separated Children (National Register) (PE492)
Petition for and on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to take the necessary steps to set up and monitor a national register of children permanently alienated by a parent.
Justice 1 Committee (Membership) (PE483) UPDATE
Petition for and on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to review the membership of the Justice 1 Committee.
Petition PE355 calling for the Scottish Parliament to examine the regulations regarding local councillors interests and the use of council department reports in court actions which may be biased in favour of clients of legal firms in which councillors may be partners.
Petition PE352 calling for the Scottish Parliament to examine, in the light of the Shipman Enquiry, the use or misuse of doctors reports by lawyers in court actions.
CHILD DEATHS AND DISCRIMINATION A NEW IMOPETITION TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT 12 April 2003
Scottish Parliament Public Petition
Title of Petition:
CHILD DEATHS AND DISCRIMINATION
We the undersigned, declare that .....
In light of the recent spate of children killed by women and separated mothers in particular little Erin Gilmour
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
Ask the Scottish Executive to take urgent steps to remove the appalling discrimination shown by the courts, social services and in particular the publicly funded womens aid organisation who produce fabricated statistics that in fact separate children from the protection of fathers and make children even more vulnerable in the promotion of gender fascism .The GENDER hate campaigns by such groups must be stopped before any more children die due to such appalling prejudice. Childrens safety is not always best served by mothers but better served with the protection and strength of fathers .
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11 April, 2003, 14:27 GMT 15:27 UK
Mother admits hammer death http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2940263.stm
Erin Gilmour was killed by her mother A mother has admitted killing her daughter and severely injuring another child in a hammer attack. Ann Dunn, 36, pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to the culpable homicide of five-year-old Erin Gilmour. The court heard that the child's skull was fractured by more than a dozen blows to the head in the attack at their home in Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, on 25 September last year.
Dunn pleaded guilty on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Concerned relative She also admitted assaulting a 10-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at the same time as the attack on her daughter. Advocate-Depute Keith Stewart said Dunn and the two girls were found in the house the next day by a concerned relative. Dunn's sister, Carol McIntyre, asked her husband, Scott, to visit the house in Union Street, Stonehouse, after she was unable to contact her sister by telephone, the court heard. When Mr McIntyre arrived at the house he found Dunn and the two victims lying in separate rooms.
Mr Stewart said: "Scott McIntyre entered the room occupied by the deceased, Erin Gilmour, and found her lying in her bed partially under the covers. I killed them, I don't want to be here anymore "Her condition was such that he immediately surmised she was dead. Lying on the bed beside her was a claw hammer. "Scott McIntyre immediately called on those remaining outside the house to contact the emergency services." Mr Stewart said a search of the house found the older girl victim lying on the floor of a bedroom covered in blood and Dunn herself in her own bedroom. Dunn made no response when asked questions by Mr McIntyre and was taken to Wishaw General Hospital on suspicion that she had taken an overdose of paracetamol.
Form of depression Mr Stewart said she told medical staff in the hospital: "I killed them, I don't want to be here anymore." The court heard Dunn, who was later transferred to the State Hospital at Carstairs, was suffering from a severe form of depression and was still coming to terms with her actions. Mr Stewart said she had separated from Erin's father in December 2000. He added that Erin was last seen alive by her grandparents when they visited the house on the afternoon of 25 September.
He added: "At about 11pm that evening, the upstairs neighbour was awakened by the sound of whimpering and noises of blows coming from the room beneath her. "The neighbour had never heard anything of this nature before and the matter did not seem to be to her of sufficient seriousness to warrant interfering." Temporary judge, Leeona Dorrian QC, ordered that Dunn should be detained in Carstairs pending a mental health assessment and adjourned the case until 1 May.
First Petitioner's Details
Association : INTERNATIONAL MEN'S ORGANISATION
Other relevant information :
Daily Record 7 March 2003
Did This Woman Kill Her Babies?
A mum being investigated over the deaths of her seven babies last night tried to kill herself. Roberta Bibby, 60, was rushed to hospital just hours after telling the Daily Record: "I'm no killer." The 60-year-old psychiatric patient had taken a potentially deadly cocktail of drugs. Last night, she was "serious but stable" at St John's Hospital in Livingston, West Lothian. Earlier yesterday, Mrs Bibby had spoken exclusively to the Record from her home in the town as police prepared to quiz her about the deaths, during the 1960s and 1970s, of all seven of her children. Mrs Bibby said: "You never forget losing your kiddies and I still think about them all every day of my life
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BBC 28 Dec 2002
A five-year-old boy who was found dead in Edinburgh was beaten to death with a golf club, a police source has confirmed. Detectives investigating the murder of Brendan Gorrie are waiting to speak to his mother, Alison, who was injured after falling from their second floor flat in Leith. Police were called to the New Bell's Court flats after the boy's 35-year-old mother was found on the pavement outside on Christmas Day. She was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment. The loss of my son Brendan who I love with all my heart and soul is unimaginable Bruce Gorrie Father
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BBC 22 OCT 2002
A woman who murdered her pregnant neighbour and attempted to kill her two-year-old son has been jailed for life. Hilda Robertson, 35, set fire to Gail Ross's home in the village of Ratho, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, in December. The High Court in Edinburgh had heard of a feud between the two women and a blaze at Robertson's home two days before the fatal fire. The judge, Lady Smith, ordered that mother-of-three Robertson should serve a minimum of 14 years.
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BBC 19 Oct 2002
A 24-year-old woman has denied smothering her three babies by holding them against her body. Susan MacLeod is charged with the murder of her children between August 1996 and November 2000. Ms MacLeod, originally from Lewis, is alleged to have delivered her own children at a flat in Glasgow, before assaulting them in separate incidents. At a preliminary hearing into the case at the High Court in Edinburgh, defence counsel Gordon Jackson QC said she was pleading not guilty to the three charges. He said it was an extremely complicated matter and a large number of reports would be required. Mr Jackson said he would hold further discussions with the prosecution
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Manslaughter mother spared jail 12 June 2002
A mother who killed her newborn daughter and hid her body in a garden shed, alongside the remains of an infant boy, has been given a three-year community rehabilitation order. Alison Johnson, 35, admitted manslaughter by negligence, in a hearing at Sheffield Crown Court.
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15 May, 2002,
Mother 'poisoned her son' Michelle Dickinson has denied killing her son A mother accused of murdering her young son falsely claimed he was suffering fits and then poisoned him with prescribed drugs, a court has been told. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Wednesday how Michelle Dickinson convinced doctors her son Michael had epilepsy. He died in October aged seven after spending several months on a life-support machine in hospital.
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15 May 2002
Police have been examining the farmhouse A 20-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the death of a baby girl, Grampian Police have said. Thirteen-month-old Carla-Nicole Bone died in hospital on Monday following an alleged incident at a farm cottage at Forgue, near Huntly. The woman is expected to appear in court on Wednesday. =====================
11 April 2002
Camden woman accused of killing own child A Camden woman has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with killing her two year-old daughter. Louise O'Shaughnessy, 39, who lives in Camden Town's Maiden Lane Estate, appeared in court last week to face charges of manslaughter, administering poison and child cruelty.
JUDGES QUESTIONING OF CHILDREN NEW IMO/FFI PETITION TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Scottish Parliament Public Petition
Title of Petition:
JUDGES QUESTIONING OF CHILDREN
We the undersigned, declare that .....
In light of the recent statement made by the judges council quote "They(judges)said it was often the duty of the court to try to make it plain(to children) that serious consequences were likely to follow any perjury."
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
Take the necessary steps to investigate endemic PERJURY in Scottish courts instigated by Scottish Law Society members encouraging female clients to do similar allowing the long term separation of children from their fathers .This being OPENLY condoned and causing the unnecessary separation of children from good fathers with the addition of flawed EXPERT WITNESS statements.
That the Scottish Parliament instigate a system of independent court watchers to provide research into the failure to ensure ALL parties involved in court actions are met with SERIOUS consequences when perjured statements are made from ANY source. There is evidence to show childrens human rights are regularly undermined within the court process's of Scotland by ALL who are party to that corrupt process funded by legal aid.
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Judges insist on questioning for children http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/1-4-19103-0-9-48.html
reported by RAYMOND DUNCAN
SCOTLAND'S judges clashed yesterday with welfare groups who oppose child witnesses being subjected to hostile courtroom questioning.The judiciary claimed the interests of justice on occasions require a "confrontational approach" to be adopted."We are firmly of the view that it is wrong to suggest otherwise," said members of the Judges' Council.They said any suggestion it was inappropriate to adopt such an approach in the cross-examination of a child was "inconsistent with reality."Last night Children in Scotland, the national umbrella agency for organisations and professions working with children and their families, criticised the judges for choosing to take "such a negative stance".
A spokesman said: "Given the level of emotional maturity of children and young people, to encourage experienced lawyers to adopt a confrontational approach towards them does not seem to Children in Scotland to be either helpful or appropriate."Children 1st, another pressure group, said that a confrontational approach did not serve justice.A spokesman said: "The effects of adversarial cross-examination on children, and the difficulties children face when they are put under heavy pressure to accept a strongly-put adult version of events, is one of the main reasons for the low prosecution and high failure rates for these cases."The judges, while indicating the majority of proposals in the consultation document paper, Child Witness Support, were positive and uncontroversial, said they had identified "potential risks for the administration of justice".
They maintained that in some cases involving abuse allegations, the child witness might have been encouraged or even subjected to pressure by a parent in relation to the evidence to be given.Their response said: "It is also quite inconsistent with experience that shows that some child witnesses do tell lies, a fact to which no reference is made in the consultation document. The reality of the situation is that, regrettably, it is not uncommon nowadays for teenagers in particular to come into court . . . prepared to do all they can to avoid telling the truth or, worse, to deceive."It is entirely appropriate in such cases, and indeed is in the interests of justice, that the questioning of these witnesses is forceful and robust."The judges also argue that "the very vulnerability of young witnesses" often made them susceptible to intimidation before their appearance.
They said it was often the duty of the court to try to make it plain that serious consequences were likely to follow any perjury.Anne Houston, director of ChildLine Scotland, said she was disappointed at the support for confrontational questioning, which she said did not help get to the truth.Douglas Hamilton, from Barnardos in Scotland, said: "During cross-examination, we would suggest that a confrontational approach towards children is not conducive to obtaining the best evidence."
Association :
For and on behalf of the International Men's Organisation
On-line Submission Date : 5 April 2003
EXPERT WITNESS SYSTEM NEW IMO PETITION PE625 TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT 23 March 2003
This petition for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation 23 March 2003
Scottish Parliament Public Petition PE625
Title of Petition:
EXPERT WITNESS SYSTEM
We the undersigned, declare that .....
We ask the Scottish Parliament to take the necessary steps to investigate the expert witness system in light of a recent legal case were a lawyer who was convicted by a jury of murdering her two children was later released by law lords on appeal by conflicting expert witness testimonies.
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
That the Scottish Parliament initiate an investigation into the expert witness system paid by legal aid on many occasions
via a corrupt lawyer. These reports obtained by collusion between the legal aid board,womens aid staff,lawyers, doctors ,
teachers,social workers and psychologists backed up by judges ,police and sheriff officers and used in divorce actions
which in many cases permanently separate children from their fathers while the legal aid board recover those massive
legal costs from the assets of the father.
A system shown to be blatantly biased and prejudiced due to public funds being
used to pervert the course of justice and undermine the due process of law while corrupting those families involved.
This system doing irrepairable psychological harm to young children from that loss of contact and EVIL in its concept.
Expert witnesses - conflict of interest?
Sally Clark wrongly convicted by expert witness evidence
By Mark Solon
Solicitor and witness trainer
An expert witness is someone who has specialist knowledge in a field, who is independent of a legal case and who can assist a court to come to a just decision by expressing an accurate opinion based on all the available facts. Often expert witnesses start doing this type of work by chance. They are instructed on one case and gradually over time develop an ad hoc system of producing reports and going to court. They rarely get any independent appraisal of their work and learn as they go along by trial and error. Problems can arise as the expert is paid by one side, yet should have a prime duty to assist the court
They think they are doing it right just because they are instructed again. This is clearly a very unsatisfactory state of affairs for clients, solicitors and courts.
Dual roles I think it stems from the fact that experts do not see they have two roles. Firstly as a professional in their chosen field and second as an expert witness. This is a separate role that has its own skills and disciplines. Mark Solon: experts have a dual role
An expert needs to be able to communicate the knowledge from their professional field in a legal setting. They are often unaware of the requirements of legal practices and procedures. There is currently no requirement in the criminal courts for an expert to be trained to be an expert witness, or for them to be registered in any particular directory. Problems can arise as the expert is paid by one side, yet should have as a prime duty to assist the court. There is always a conflict between independence and self-interest that is where the next case is coming from. Experts can be paid several hundred pounds a day for attending court.
Confusing juries Experts are sometimes able to confuse a jury by the use of technical information that is not fully explained or simply because they seem believable or likeable. In theory the other sides expert should be able to refute spurious opinion evidence but in legally aided cases, the defence may not be able to get an expert of the right calibre or even any expert at all. The current review of the criminal court system should look at the issues of proper training, registration, payment for experts, equality of experts for both prosecution and defence, full disclosure of all evidence and an express duty to the court and to tell the truth or we will continue to see repeats of the problems in the Sally Clark case.
This petition for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation
On-line Submission Date : 23 March 2003
Doctors (Court Reports) (PE534) 11 March 2003
Scottish Parliament
Public Petitions Committee
Tuesday 11 March 2003
The Convener: The next petition is PE534 on behalf of Fathers Fighting Injustice and the International Men's Organisation, which concerns doctors' reports in court actions. An earlier petition submitted PE532on the same issue the committee decided to take no action on it. PE534,was submitted which we considered on 3 December. We agreed to ask the Executive for its response to the petition; we have now received that.
Petition PE534 raises concerns about flawed medical reports in courts. It is alleged that the true cause of death in cases of suicide is often concealed in order to cover up circumstances in which court rulings that have prevented fathers from having contact with their children have contributed to the death. However, the Executive makes it clear that it has not investigated the purported link between litigation and family break-ups, and the increase in male suicide. However, the Executive document, "A National Strategy and Action Plan to Prevent Suicide in Scotland" acknowledges divorce as one of many risks that are related to suicide or attempted suicide. The Executive will establish a research programme to improve the quality, collection and availability of information on suicide and suicidal behaviour. It will also promote early and effective interventions and responses to suicidal behaviour. In the light of the Shipman inquiry, the Executive intends in the near future to amend legislation to require general practitioners to report the death of any patient that occurs on surgery premises.
That response appears to be reasonable and addresses in general terms some of the petitioner's concerns. It is suggested that we agree to take no further action on the petition.
Members indicated agreement.
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Petition as submitted
Scottish Parliament Public PetitionTitle of Petition:
NEW RULES FOR DOCTORS
We the undersigned, declare that .....
To re address the issues raised in Public Petition PE352 Tuesday 24 April 2001 in light of the new rules for doctors.
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
In light of the recent announcement by the Scottish Executive regarding new rules the health minister has brought in to ensure the public are protected from any further mass murders by a doctor We ask that the issues raised on 24th April 2001 in a public petition PE352 regarding doctors conduct in respect to court reporting is readdressed.
If the health minister thinks it appropriate to bring in new rules with respect to death certificates he should also address the issue of doctors providing flawed reports to court which can cause massive injustice to those affected by such reports. Could Harold Shipman accurately provide courts with what is good parenting and good character assessments ?
It is in fact in some cases the cause of death to an individual cut off from his family due to brutal court decisions often brought on by such reports and which there is evidence to show causes premature loss of life in many occasions due to suicide . The health minister has only partially addressed the effect doctors have on the general population as lawyers have made use of the almost untouchable position doctors have been in for so very long due to the utter complacence of the General Medical Council which left Shipman free to murder so many.
It should be a matter of urgency that this issue is re addressed to stop unscrupulous lawyers using a doctor to gain advantage in cases were decisions regarding childrens welfare are being made and due to the new rules shows that has been sadly lacking within the previous grievance procedures. Doctors and lawyers collusion have been the cause of massive injustice in the Scottish court process both groups having self regulation.
It is not by coincidence that it was a lawyer who was conned out of moneys by Shipman which led to his arrest. If it had not been for one of those two groups acting as they did, that secretive interaction by both self regulating bodies would have continued as no ordinary member of the public had been able to get action by the police to have Shipman properly investigated despite the murdering spree he had been on for years without detection .
Doctors and lawyers have far to much power and use each other for financial gain in all areas and in particular the winding up of a persons estate after death. We have evidence to show many deaths in fact aren't given as suicide ,the usual excuse is that doctors say they do this to save embarrassment for the family . We believe that is a means to cover up the real reason for those suicides and that in many cases is the utter brutality faced in scottish courts when fathers are blocked from contact with their children were enormous psychological pressures have played a major factor in those deaths .
We will continue to raise these matters until the Scottish Executive properly address those issues as the lack of speed leaves more vulnerable to such sinister interactions of lawyers ,doctors and the judiciary all who may gain from the loss of life of an individual when their estate is left in the hands of the very people who may have started the enormous court pressures which caused that individual to commit suicide.
Association :The International Mens Organisation
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SPEECH 3 December 2002
International Men's Organisation
We thank the committee for allowing us to present the petition; we especially thank the clerk to the committee, Mr Farrell. On behalf of Fathers Fighting Injustice and the International Men's Organisation, we provide the following evidence.It is hard to believe that, in a society that is supposedly civilised, doctors such as Harold Shipman have been getting away with murder for so long. They have remained undetected because regulation, which is almost non-existent, exposes only one group of murdering professionals.
Paul Burrell, the late Princess Di's butler, became suicidal when he faced the full weight of the legal process. He was an innocent victim of secret society powers. Injustices within the legal processes of Scotland are pushing vulnerable people over the edge. Evidence of that persecution has been documented in the legal profession inquiry that has just been completed.The Journal of Family Studies from October 1995 states:"Separated males commit suicide at 6.2 times the rate of married males."It is reported that 700 men died of suicide in Scotland in 2000. We believe that that figure represents the tip of a very big iceberg.
The failure to ensure that suicides are recorded accurately that results from giving doctors discretion when recording a death means that families can be convinced that putting natural causes as the cause of death will take away some of the stigma. That is totally unacceptable; it is a means for disguising the true suicide statistics.I will quote from an international report that was produced by the Griffith University in Australia:"Suicide data are the end result of a chain of informants which involves those finding the body ... doctors, police, coroners and statisticians.
Any of these may for a variety of reasons be reluctant to call a death a suicide. For example, a suicide may be voluntarily hidden to avoid stigmatisation, for social convenience, for political reasons".Such political motivation is of serious concern. It is a well-known fact that failure to call a death a suicide is a common occurrence. It represents a serious blight on the need to detail accurately how many people die from committing suicide each year.
We have provided the committee with the most detailed international report that has ever been written on suicide, which was completed by Professors Cantor and Baume in Australia. The report states:"research shows the risk of suicide is far higher for men in the period following marital separationthe suicide risk among separated men was 18 times that of separated women. The real risk is within four to six weeks of the separation rather than after divorce."At that time, the legal system kicks in with massive discriminatory injustice against fathers and their children.
Lawyers use unsubstantiated doctors' reports to impose that injustice via social services. Lawyers know that doctors are self-regulating in the same way that they are. The fact that doctors are seemingly untouchable was proved by the Shipman inquiry. The fact that the General Medical Council has been allowing doctors to get away with murder can lead to vulnerable men committing suicide.The abuse of power and the ability to asset-strip in death that were exercised in the Shipman case must be dealt with and the persecutive door must be closed.
Those who abuse powerdoctors, lawyers, judges and the politicians who must take ultimate responsibility for such abuses by funding the system through legal aidmust be held accountable for the deaths of men in the appalling, persecutive, secret star chamber family court system that is found in Scottish courts.It takes very little intellect to see the connections to those deaths. Suggesting that such deaths are complex allows that system to continue to commit stealth murder in silence.
Safeguards must be put in place to stop the mass culling of men. Petition PE352 indicated that there were insufficient safeguards under the GMC regulations two years ago. Although the Minister for Health and Community Care has seen fit to create additional safeguards, that action does not go far enough to resolve the issues that I have raised.
What is Breathing Space? 21 March 2003
The International Mens Organisation take satisfaction from the news of this venture in Scotland to help men avoid becoming suicidal.
It may not be enough but it is a start.
All our petitions to the Scottish Parliament over the last few years have played a major part in a sea change from HATE campaigning against men to an understanding of the damage, state funded propaganda has done to make men feel unimportant in the society they live.
We have taken major steps to EXPOSE that complicite use of public funds to promote gender hatred .
Breathing Space is a free, confidential phone-line you can call when you're feeling down. You might be feeling stressed about work or exams - or relationships or money - or just fed up for no specific reason. Whatever your reason, you can call Breathing Space to talk things over.
The phone-line is open from early evening right up till 2 in the morning, and Breathing Space advisors will listen to you, and try to help prevent problems getting worse. They can offer advice and suggest local people who can help with specific problems.
Calls won't show up in your phone bill, but if you're calling from a mobile, check out what deal you have with them - they might charge you for your call.
Aims and Objectives
Breathing Space has been set up due to serious concerns about the well-being of young people in Scotland today..In the last 20 years the suicide rate in young men has increased by 250%, making it the second most common cause of death amongst young men in Scotland.Breathing Space aims to provide a point of contact which is anonymous, confidential and very easy to access.You don't need to have thoughts of suicide before you call Breathing Space.It's there to give you some space to talk about your feelings instead of letting things build up and become too much for you to cope with.
IMO CHALLENGE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Attention of all MSP's Scottish Parliament
To contacts worldwide and all Scottish media
PUBLISHED THE SCOTSMAN
Fri 21 Feb 2003
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/
Massive abuses
Further to the excellent comments regarding the appalling injustices within Scotland (Letters, 14 February), until the devolved Scottish Parliament takes proper control of the legal and judicial systems in Scotland we will continue to see massive abuses of human rights in our courts .
The failure of the legal profession inquiry to take immediate action on evidence provided for that inquiry is cause for grave concern as to why that evidence was buried without giving the opportunity for oral presentations to be made by those providing a catalogue of evidence showing corruption within the legal system.
The International Mens Organisation and Fathers fighting Injustice
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Our organisations are presently being BLOCKED from making an oral presentation on a new Public Petition
"Public Petition PE593
Petition for and on behalf of the International Mens Organisation , calling for the Scottish Parliament to ask the Scottish Executive to take emergency action to address the alleged discrimination shown by the judicial system in Scotland against fathers and their children in relation to divorce actions. "
within the Scottish Parliament with evidence of widespread persecution of fathers and their children .
We seek the Scottish Executive take immediate steps to ensure that public platform remains open to proper discussion of IMPORTANT issues while frivolous subjects such as hedgehog culling and the colour of the national flag are given a higher priority.
If our devolved parliament cannot deal with pressing issues affecting the deaths of many fathers pushed over the edge by a tyrannical legal process we will continue to EXPOSE that utter hypocrisy when massive public funds continue to be given to lawyers to do irrepairable damage to Scottish men and their children.
We will be raising an action to challenge ALL law society members who are MSP's as being a serious conflict of interest and breaching ECHR protocols when law makers are also enforcing laws.
This allows laws to be made to line the pockets of those MSP's who presently using their position within this devolved parliament to line their law practices pockets with massive legal aid .
We DEMAND in our petition that AUDIT SCOTLAND take immediate steps to examine the workings of the LEGAL AID BOARD of Scotland who are presently funding the persecution of families by lawyers abusing human rights of fathers and abusing children and their human rights in actions which breach many articles of ECHR using the Scottish legal process which is incompatible with many ECHR protocols.
Openly condoned in court by Scottish judges and sheriffs.
for and on behalf of The International Mens Organisation
WRITTEN EVIDENCE ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN (SCOTLAND) Bill 10 Sept 2002
EDUCATION COMMITTEE CALLS FOR WRITTEN EVIDENCE ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN (SCOTLAND) Bill
On behalf of Fathers Fighting Injustice and the International Mens Organisation we wish to provide the following evidence for the above bill.
1.The vast majority of complaints of abuse of children in particular human rights can be aimed at the legal system .Lawyers ,the judiciary and the police ALL who act to ensure children endure massive psychological harm by imposing Parent Alienation Syndrome on children.It should be essential that all professions and these three groups in particular have the most rigorous monitoring.
Fathers affected by a persecutive Scottish legal system see an utter disregard for both fathers and childrens rights when that system acts in a very discriminatory manner .Imposing draconian measures while abusing the human rights which seriously affects the interrelationships between fathers and their children .
2. Despite Public petitions by our groups to raise the issue
of a child commissioner which has been discussed endlessly and should have been implemented after the Welsh child abuse scandal were it was recommended that all regions should have child commissioners to protect childrens right to be heard .
The Scottish Executive have failed in this aspect of child protection.
Public Petitions we raised on this matter are
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Public Petition PE534
Petition on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to readdress the issues raised in petition PE352 in relation to the use of doctors reports in Court actions.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parl_bus/petitions10.htm
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Separated Children (National Register) (PE492)
Petition for and on behalf of the International mens organisation, calling for the Scottish Parliament to take the necessary steps to set up and monitor a national register of children permanently alienated by a parent.
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/official_report/cttee/petit-02/pu02-0802.htm#Col1935
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Petition PE352 calling for the Scottish Parliament to examine, in the light of the Shipman Enquiry, the use or misuse of doctors reports by lawyers in court actions.
These petitions have highlighted the need for a child commissioner and we aim to lobby the scottish executive until they implement such a system .The failure to complete and install such a commissioner will continue to allow the utterly disgraceful way courts deal with this very serious matter in such a discriminatory way.
3.That the legal aid board have failed to ensure children have a voice by unduly influencing lawyers who fail to act for children when they collude to block the right to an effective remedy when children continue to be blocked from seeing their parent (usually the father)
by failing to provide legal aid funding so as to ensure they have FULL legal representation.Presently their is evidence before the legal profession inquiry to show clear discrimination by the Legal Aid board when funding civil divorce actions were there is a huge inbalance in favour of women at the expense of fathers and children,something that requires a full investigation .
4.No group in Scotland should be being provided with massive public funds when they act in both a discriminatory and prejudice way.
Womens aid act in secret and we have evidence to show there are
serious issues of children being forced to live in an environment not open to public scrutiny due to pressure by greedy lawyers using such an organisation to sway courts to give woman the home , the children and the bulk of the assets.On many occasions children have been party to alcoholics ,drug addicts and prostitutes who use these radical feminist indoctrination facilities.
We have evidence from some of the most prominent women writers on the effects these places have on children.
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Erin Pizzey states (the founder of womans aid in the UK)
http://www.dvmen.org/dv-75.htm#pgfId-1000592
She found that: "...62 women out of the first hundred women who came to the refuge were as violent or more violent than the men they left. Also many were prostitutes taking refuge from their violent pimps." Pizzey further notes that such violent women abuse their children as well.
Based on her experiences with such violent women, in 1982 Ms. Pizzey published a book, Prone to Violence. For her efforts she was picketed by a group of British shelter workers, who referred to themselves as 'feminists.' These militant extremists staged demonstrations against her and she and her family members received death threats. "ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS," "ALL MEN ARE BATTERERS," read the placards. She was advised to travel with a police escort during her promotional tour. The book disappeared from the shelves of libraries and book stores alike. The publisher went bankrupt in the process.
Ms. Pizzey is a liability to the women responsible for her abuse, as she knows many of them quite well from the early days of the women's shelter movement. Many of these radical women, some of whom quite literally were Communist or Maoist terrorists, e.g., they participated in the bombing of the BBC TV van and the attempted bombing of the British Post Office Tower, the hub of the UK's TV network, during the 1970 Miss World Congress, but are now safely ensconced in prominent positions in government and the media (Walter Schneider, personal communication, 1999).
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Journalist Donna Laframboise states
'One-stop divorce shops:' A letter of support from a shelter is proven to be enough to win custody battles (Part 2 of 3)
Louise Malenfant, a community activist in Winnipeg, calls shelters ``one-stop divorce shops for women,'' and is disturbed by their `no questions asked policy.' She claims that in addition to helping women who make false allegations of wife abuse, shelters in her city have helped manufacture incest accusations.
Over the past four years, Ms. Malenfant has been an advocate for 62 individuals who claimed to be falsely accused of child sexual abuse during divorce proceedings. In a third of those cases, she says, a women's shelter was involved.
Ms. Malenfant has publicly called for an inquiry into women's shelters, and has written letters to government officials protesting their policies. As a result, that particular issue seems to have disappeared. ``It was like somebody sucked that problem right out of the place,'' Ms. Malenfant says. ``I have not seen a new women's shelter case in over a year. I don't know what [the government has] done; all I know is that it stopped
It's extremely disturbing,'' says Ms. Baragar of the role shelters have been playing in custody and divorce proceedings. ``I get very angry about it from a personal basis, because I think that there are very real cases of abuse and what I see happening in the courts is that those cases now have less value because of the lies that are so easily'' being told.
Women Shelter horror stories
http://www.razberry.com/laframboise/shelters.htm
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Daily Mail Journalist Melanie Phillips states
The overwhelming reason why children are out of control is family collapse and mass fatherlessness.
The deepest need of such children is to be looked after by both their mother and their father. Giving money and other incentives like housing and child care to lone parents means that more children will be fatherless. And in any event, fatherlessness is a prime cause of child poverty.
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Fox News journalist Wendy McElroy states
No data was collected from men. However bad the situation is for women in family court, the treatment of men may be much worse. Without a comparative study, there is no way to tell.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,44183,00.html
The research also points to a probable cause. According to sociologist Augustine Kposow of the University of California at Riverside, divorce and loss of children is a factor. "As far as the [divorced] man is concerned, he has lost his marriage and lost his children and that can lead to depression and suicide," Kposow advises.
"There is evidence to suggest that many men sense they are being discriminated against in family court judgements," the study says. Cut off from their children, divorced men experience heightened "frustration and isolation."
I know my father was a good man and a good father. ... He obviously reached a point where he could see that justice was beyond his reach and for reasons that only God will know, decided that taking his life was the only way to end his suffering," Ashlee White wrote. Ashlee signed the letter "In Memory of My Loving Father."
Are family court systems deeply biased against fathers? I believe so.
Male suicide must be confronted honestly before America follows the way of Ireland, before suicide becomes the leading cause of death in young men. And, perhaps, in a man you know and love.
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These are ONLY the female writers views on these very serious matters .We have some of the worlds leading professors
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Prof. Stephen Baskerville
Head of political science at Howard University, Washington, DC
The Real Responsibility of Men by Professor Stephen Baskerville
Available in audio form from these locations
Real Media
rtsp://rslb.eonstreams.com/tfcf/CommentaryBaskerville-NORTH-128-18April02.rm
Mp3 download
ftp://mp3.fcfnewsondemand.org/CommentaryBaskerville-NORTH-128-18April02.mp3
Available from Free Congress Foundation
http://www.fcfnews.org/
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Moreover, what some see as irresponsible fathers is in reality an abuse of government power. Once a mother files for divorce, the government seizes effective control of the children. With no evidence of wrongdoing, the fathers contact with them is from that point criminalized. The forcibly-divorced father can then be evicted and plundered by a powerful machine of judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, and enforcement agencies. All these officials have a vested interest in encouraging divorce and separating children from their fathers. Windfall child-support awards further subsidize divorce and fatherless homes.
A presumption of guilt also pervades allegations of domestic violence made during custody proceedings, where a father's contact with his children is criminalized through restraining orders that are routinely issued with no evidence of wrongdoing whatever - orders that cannot protect anyone because they criminalize not violence (which of course is already criminal) but a father's contact with his own children.
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Dr.Richard Gardner
Head of the Department of Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
http://www.rgardner.com/refs/pas_intro.html
Parental Alienation (PA) refers to the wide variety of symptoms that may result from or be associated with a childs alienation from a parent. Children may become alienated from a parent because of physical abuse, with or without sexual abuse. Childrens alienation may be the result of parental emotional abuse, which may be overt in the form of verbal abuse or more covert in the form of neglect.
RECOGNITION OF PAS IN COURTS OF LAW
Some who hesitate to use the term PAS claim that it has not been accepted in courts of law. This is not so. Although there are certainly judges who have not recognized the PAS, there is no question that courts of law with increasing rapidity are recognizing the disorder.
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These are only a fraction of the evidence showing exactly the same duplicity regarding those within the legal system who undermine childrens safety ,security and psychologically harm them using the most sinister form of abuse.
This to ensure that legal system lines its pockets with the fruits of lies ,deceit and perjury which such a system relies on to asset strip men while systematically removing children from good men who see utter brutality being used against them in separation.
To have such a bill to protect children and ignore the professions who we have proof cause more damage than any other group in society shows a callous disregard for those childrens rights and freedoms to have a full relationship with their parent.
A failure to address all of the above evidence will fail our children .
THE INTERNATONAL MENS ORGANISATION
I.M.O PETITION BROADCAST ON STV
Scottish Parliament I.M.O Public Petition broadcast
Title of Petition:
REGISTER OF INTERESTS OF THE JUDICIARY
We the undersigned, declare that .....
I.M.O. on STV
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
That the Scottish Parliament give consideration to having a public register of interests of the Scottish Judiciary as required already by Scottish Ministers. This to show all information which may cause possible conflicts of interest in court decisions being taken. These would include all properties and land owned or acquired by any individual before and after they have been appointed to a judicial position.
First Petitioner's Details
Association : I.M.O.
Other relevant information :
Also that a watchdog is set up to ensure any land or property acquired by anyone with a judicial position has not been obtained or acquired through any involvement in any case they may well have passed judgement on. Presently there is massive evidence to show ASSET stripping on a grand scale within the judicial system of Scotland .
The possible setting up of alternative court systems may be a further means to continue the asset stripping of males by the fettering of the judicial process and malversation within the court processes of Scotland as has been seen in the evidence to the regulation of the legal profession. Also in a letter from the justice 1 committee on the 29 April 2002 sent to all those who provided evidence to that inquiry , by the convenor who stated Quote "5. At the meeting on the 5th February 2002 ,the committee further refined the terms of reference by agreeing not to consider the judiciary as part of the inquiry".
This was when the Justice 1 Committee was top heavy with lawyers and which is still being challenged. While massive abuses of individuals Human rights continues within the court processes of Scotland there is evidence also that land and properties are being obtained through malversation within the court process. Also that a system of predatory title deed entries without the owners express permission ,prior consent or notification has been discovered in some court actions presently ongoing within Scotland .
The Scottish Parliament should have the necessary procedures and processes in place to assure the Scottish people have safeguards in the judicial appointments system . Presently while those human rights abuses continue many individuals are being forced into bankruptcy and a national audit of these statistics and information are required to avoid any further abuse of the Scottish court process to asset strip those caught up in that system unavoidably.
On-line Submission Date : 11 June 2002
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SPEECH (partly broadcast on National TV)
THIS PETITION HAS BEEN RAISED TO ADDRESS
1) THE CHANGE OF REMIT BY THE JUSTICE 1 COMMITTEE
ON 5TH FEBRUARY 2002 QUOTE.
"REFINING THE TERMS OF REFERENCE BY AGREEING NOT TO CONSIDER THE JUDICIARY AS PART OF ITS INQUIRY INTO THE LEGAL PROFESSION."
THIS AT A TIME WHEN THE JUSTICE 1 COMMITTEE WAS TOP HEAVY WITH LAWYERS .
2)TO RAISE IN A PUBLIC PLATFORM THAT MANY INDIVIDUALS AND IN PARTICULAR SEPARATED FATHERS ARE BEING FORCED INTO BANKRUPTCY BY THE SCOTTISH COURT PROCESS WITH LONG TERM REPERCUSSIONS FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR CHILDREN AND IN BREACH OF EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
BY IMPOSING MASSIVE BURDENS ON FATHERS..
FATHERS FIGHTING INJUSTICE HAVE INFORMATION THAT LAND AND PROPERTIES OWNED BY THOSE FORCED INTO BANKRUPTCY BY THE ACTIONS OF LAWYERS AND DECISIONS OF SHERIFFS, IN MANY CASES ,END UP BACK IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO FORCED THOSE FATHERS INTO BANKRUPTCY IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THIS IS UTTERLY BARBARIC AND A FORM OF TYRANNY WITHIN THE COURT PROCESS WHICH HAS GONE ON UNABATED UNTIL IT WAS HOPED THAT PUBLIC INQUIRY WOULD RESOLVE SUCH SERIOUS ISSUES .
THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE WHEN AN EVER CHANGING REMIT BY THE JUSTICE 1 COMMITTEE ALLOWS THOSE DECISION MAKERS TO BE DROPPED FROM THE VERY INQUIRY WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE THE MASSIVE PERSECUTIVE ACTIONS OF SCOTTISH COURTS . IN SOME CASES THOSE ACTIONS ARE KILLING MEN FACING ENORMOUS PRESSURES BURDENED WITH DEBTS WHEN PUBLICLY FUNDED LEGAL AID IS USED TO DRAG COURT ACTIONS OUT FOR MANY YEARS .
INDEED THE LEGAL AID BOARD WHO SOLELY HAVE LAWYERS ASSIGNED TO THAT DECISION MAKING PROCESS ENSURES THIS APPALLING SYSTEM IS FED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS TO ALLOW THAT ASSET STRIPPING TO CONTINUE UNABATED.
IF IT IS RIGHT AND FITTING THAT THE FIRST MINISTER OF SCOTLAND REQUIRES TO HAVE A PUBLIC RECORD OF INTERESTS.
THEN IT SHOULD BE OF SIMILAR NECESSITY FOR THOSE MAKING GRAVE DECISIONS WHICH IN MANY CASES ARE DESTROYING LIVES AND ALSO INTER RELATIONSHIPS OF FAMILIES ,THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE OPEN TO RIGOROUS SCRUTINY .
THAT TO ENSURE ANY SUCH JUDGEMENTS ARE NEVER FINANCIALLY REWARDING TO THOSE WHO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS AND THERE ARE NO CONFLICTS OF INTEREST EITHER .
FROM THE MASSIVE EVIDENCE BOTH WITHIN THE INQUIRY AND ELSEWHERE THERE IS CLEAR EVIDENCE AND SERIOUS CONCERN AS TO HOW THOSE JUDICIAL DECISIONS ARE FAILING TO ASSURE JUSTICE FOR ALL SCOTTISH CITIZENS.
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PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE
MINUTES
12th Meeting, 2002 (Session 1)
Tuesday 25th June 2002
Winnie Ewing
Phil Gallie
Rhoda Grant
John McAllion (Convener)
John Farquhar Munro
The meeting opened at 10.02am.
1. Consideration of new petitions: Members considered and agreed action on
the following new petitions:
PE519 Petition on behalf of Fathers Fighting for
Injustice, calling for the Scottish Parliament to give consideration to the
creation of a register of interests of the Scottish judiciary.
The Committee agreed to write to the Lord Advocate requesting his views on
the issues raised in the petition, and to seek clarification from the
Minister for Justice as to whether the absence of such a register has any
implications on compliance with ECHR.
I.M.O. PETITION ON NATIONAL TV 28 June 2002
I.M.O. petition to the Scottish Parliament
was broadcast live on Scottish Television .
Almost 5 minutes of the action were ,sparks flew, when the petition relating
to the setting up of a public register of interests of the judiciary was immediately
attacked by lawyer MSP Winnie Ewing.
Definitely the hottest action at the parliament prior to the recess.
I.M.O. are proud of being the proverbial thorn in the side of what is generally
a meally mouth assembly spending to much time on discussion which seldom
causes real controversy and generally mundane .
The F.F.I. petition certainly proved if a petition is focused on the right issues
it will get media coverage .
TWO PUBLIC PETITIONS TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
Title of Petition:
REGULATION OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION INQUIRY PE483
A call for the Scottish Parliament to review the make up of the Justice 1 committee in light of the resignation of the first minister.There is serious concern as to the impartiality required under ECHR criteria and a failure to fully publish all evidence submitted to this inquiry.Also a full disclosure of all injustice and persecution within the Judicial system of Scotland including the connection between litigation and suicide.
Association : IMO
On-line Submission Date : 9 March 2002
Title of Petition:
CALLING FOR A NATIONAL REGISTER OF SEPARATED CHILDREN PE492
We the undersigned, declare that .....
That the Scottish Parliament endorse a call for a National Register of children permanently alienated from a parent. Both a private register with full details and a public register with first names connected with legal firms and sheriffs responsible for any legal action and decisions which brought about that alienation.This to show the scale of this problem and a means of monitoring how the Scottish legal system is presently handling such serious issues .
The Petitioner(s) therefore request(s) that the Scottish Parliament .....
take steps to have proper monitoring of such serious issues which impose on families to the degree and scale this issue is presently affecting all of Scotland.In many cases breaching those children and parents human rights who are caught up in such actions .
Association :IMO
Other relevant information :
This Petition brought on behalf of IMO for and on behalf of all children presently alienated from a parent due to the Scottish judicial process
On-line Submission Date : 31 March 2002
Latest evidence
To all msp's, all media and groups world-wide
Initial evidence in support of PUBLIC PETITION PE483 to be heard on
7th May 2002 in committee room 2 ,George IV bridge ,Edinburgh
from International mens network organisation
In particular to the public petition msp's
John McAllion (Labour Party)
Members
Helen Eadie (Deputy Convener)
Dorothy-Grace Elder
Winnie Ewing
Phil Gallie
Rhoda Grant
John Farquhar Munro
This is only a small part of the evidence for this public petition in relation to persecution of males in family courts taking place throughout Scotland daily .Also the reasons for such actions destroying not only males caught up in such litigation ,but the devastating effect of brutal and inhumane treatment of separated fathers and their children
BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS of secret family courts.
There is ample proof to show those psychological pressures imposed by a draconian
court system and there is a mountain of evidence within the inquiry into the legal profession to show PERSECUTION not only of males but many who take complaints to the LAW SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND .Most of the evidence is available now to read eventually after lengthy failures to publish my own submission showing persecution while I was being treated for CANCER .
Something the Scottish Executive cannot ignore is the scale of male suicides in
Scotland
670 in 2000 with 45,000 treated for depression
A justice system that is riddled with persecution can no longer be protected from EXPOSURE and there are many groups world-wide presently EXPOSING what is gender apartheid campaigns to denigrate males and justify murder by stealth ,something which is not going away until this is given the resources and the attention that such a serious issue requires.
Also until there is a redress by the Scottish Executive in the massive imbalance of funding towards positive female campaigns which includes massive negative male campaigns as opposed to little funding for positive male issues .
This Scottish Executive are indeed undermining the human rights of males by breaching the European Court of Human rights on discrimination grounds with such imbalance of funding .
Presently there are groups acting within this assembly who are showing clear signs of a hate agenda against males which this assembly ,responsible for Human rights issues ,cannot possibly justify under that discrimination criteria.
Were false and one sided evidence is being used to add additional pressures to
the view of how males are seen in Scottish society while those suicide stats continue to rise .
Such propaganda can be seen to add to the negative view of males in Scotland while such huge negative malebashing campaigns continue without any balance in this propaganda and a refusal to accept ACCURATE facts while supported by Scottish Executive funding
Presently the eyes of the world are watching what this assembly are doing and not only is their widespread concern throughout Scotland but also the rest of the world as to what motivates a devolved parliament spending so much time and effort on causing such serious imbalance in gender issues
Our groups can conclude it is an attempt to justify that persecution being meted out
with such an evil system intent on murdering by stealth with the psychologically pressures males face in secret family courts .
The health ministers conclusion that it is complex is not the case in many occasions.
When accurate figures are publicly made available ,there has been a deliberate attempt to hide those figures ,there will be the same clear evidence of such a connection, as clear as there has been in those inquiry submissions of injustice and persecution taking its toll on the health of men and families throughout Scotland.
This is not going AWAY it is only the first stage in a campaign to get publicly addressed what is a sinister conspiracy which is right at the very heart of Scotland .
No amount of evasion of these facts will suppress this and as was said already ,these accurate statistics must at some point be given full acknowledgement of this parliament .
Only then can action be taken to stop such a force destroying much of our good men and families as it is presently doing.
Later, in the article below ,it describes clearly why such events can lead to catastrophic consequences for all who are caught up in a draconian system lacking proper monitors and statistics.Something we wish to pursue and rectify to stop all further unnecessary suffering for the many who fell to such utter tyranny meted out daily in Scottish courts.
LAWYERS AND JUDGES actions are killing Scottish males that we have no doubt.
Many who may already have been weakened by separation from their children ,their home and with ruthless state intervention oppressing mens right to protect their families, instead separating men from that role and breaching many articles of the European court of human rights.
We will provide further evidence in our submissions.Meanwhile I ask that the article below and this email is made available on the day of that public petition hearing .
on behalf of the IMO
Class Dismissed
by Paul F. Goetz
The nation seems to be accumulating more and more of two distinctly related types of people, organisations, and agencies: one, disgruntled parents, many of whom have joined some sort of organization in an effort to help them with their grievances, and also many who have just vanished, or self destructed; and two, organizations and agencies, both governmental and private, with a distinct symbiosis, aligned against the first group.
I've heard both sides present their positions in various forums, and the positions never seem to change over the years. Each side just seems to get bigger and bigger and bigger. One of the things I've noticed when talking with others, or just listening or reading, is that, when discussing one of the issues, most seem to have gotten caught up in the rhetoric that has been essentially forced on them by the government and the media. And all the discourse is limited by using the rhetorical labels, such as "custodial parent", "non-custodial parent", "child support", "obliger", "absent parent", "visitation", "custody", etc. etc. etc.
Over the years, in all sorts of court cases, articulate judges have developed a way of distinguishing between the substance of something (such as a particular law) and what it says that it is - sometimes referred to as the difference between substance and form.
It seems to me that if one can rid them self of all the labels and the built in implications of each one gets a different perspective of the situation, and more at the heart of the substance of the issues. When viewing the situation as freely as possible from all the constraints of the labels, it appears quite clearly that the government has created three distinct classifications of parents. (By "parent", for simplicity and for the sake of this article, I'm referring to the biological parents, whether they are married, divorced, separated, or never married, and with no distinction as to male or female.)
Starting from a financial perspective one finds:
CLASS I - those parents who are free to provide for their children whatever amount of financial support they choose, in whatever form they chose - they are not obligated by the government (other than their implied natural obligation to provide necessities) to provide any particular specified amount of money, whether it be weekly, monthly, annually, or whatever.
CLASS II - those parents who are mandated by the government (by some sort of official looking court order) to pay a specified amount of money on a regular basis to some other person or organization allegedly in support of their children - in other words they have been stripped of the various freedoms and liberties and all related aspects allowed those in CLASS I. CLASS IE - discussed shortly.
The class distinctions are not naturally occurring. They are a sole creation of the government. CLASS I is the original and natural class of all parents. It's the obligation of all parents to make a reasonably diligent effort to provide their children with the basic necessities of life. But, that's the only obligation they have. Nothing more, and nothing less. And, they are free to chose the manner in which they provide for their children. CLASS I parents who happen to earn a large amount of money, or simply have lots of money, are under no more obligation to their children than those who earn or have very little. Some parents chose to provide more than the basic necessities (keeping up with the Joneses, so to speak), but the essential aspect is that it's their choice, not their obligation.
CLASS II status usually results when one of a child's parents uses the power of the government to transform the other parent from CLASS I. The government provides a great deal of incentive, which has grown tremendously over the years, for the transformation because the one parent is then effectively elevated to a new class - CLASS IE - and gains a variety of rights and benefits that they did not otherwise possess, including various forms of governmental aid and assistance not available to the CLASS II parent, and also not available to regular CLASS I parents. For instance:
* Do all parents receive monthly income, sometimes up to $10,000/month or more, to use as they please, with no regard to whether they have an additional income producing job, and with no regard to the amounts of other income or ability to earn income, which is free from all federal and state income taxes and social security tax ?? NO, only some CLASS IE parents. (Over the years this has become an increasingly mammoth source of income exempt from the social security tax, while the government has increased the withholding amounts for many others, and bemoans the future of Social Security in general, and utilizes time & energy on studying how to save it from collapse.)
* Do all parents (or citizens in general) receive the assistance of governmental agencies, lawyers, computers, etc, in assisting them in collecting debts allegedly owed them by others (that are often exempt from all taxes) ?? NO, only some CLASS IE parents.
The disgruntled parents to whom I referred at the outset are mostly members of CLASS II. Some are divorced, some are separated, some were never married, and some didn't even know they were a parent until their child was getting older. (And there is also a growing number of supporters of the CLASS II members, such as a new spouse.) But most didn't volunteer to be put into CLASS II. Many (although certainly not all) would gladly continue to live a productive life as a conscientious CLASS I parent.
In many instances, however, they were often not presented with any alternative to being transformed into a CLASS II parent by either their own lawyer, or the government, or they were told that it would be extremely costly (often costing far more money than they even had) to try to remain a CLASS I parent, or they were told that no matter how much money they spent the government would probably still force them into CLASS II status (or they spent a substantial sum of money that could have been used to support their children, but were still forced into CLASS II status) - so they just submitted to a larger force they had no money to fight, or knew they couldn't defeat.
There are some parents who, given a choice, and explained all the ramifications, might prefer to be a CLASS II parent, just as there are some parents who, no matter what class they are in, are not good parents. But there are many who don't like CLASS II. For them, being forced into CLASS II status is humiliating and demeaning enough all in itself. It is dehumanizing, and it signifies loss of freedom, loss of liberty, loss of control. Buying their children a new bicycle or a pair of shoes, or simply feeding them does not count as "support" for most CLASS II parents. Maintaining a motor vehicle and driving their children to soccer or gymnastics practice does not count as "support" for most CLASS II parents.
However, it just continues to get worse. AFTER the government has forced a parent into CLASS II it then passes SPECIAL LAWS that only apply to the parents that it has forced into CLASS II:
* Do all parents face revocation of their driver's license if they do not provide a particular amount of financial support for their children ?? - NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Do all citizens face revocation of their driver's license over an issue that is totally unrelated to their ability to operate a motor vehicle and public safety in general? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Do all parents face forced periodic review by government agencies of how much money they are earning and determinations of whether they should pay more to some other person or agency ?? - NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Do all parents face mandated regular increases (with no court hearings, and no regard to how much money they are earning) in the amounts they are forced to pay others? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Do all parents face jail if they fail to provide a specified amount of financial support for their children?? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Are all parents obligated to provide a government specified amount of financial support for their children?? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Are all parents under any kind of obligation to provide more financial support for their children other than for the basic necessities of life?? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Are all parents forced by the government to provide health insurance for their children (while the same government passes laws that allow the insurance providers to raise rates however they want to guarantee a specific level of profit)?? NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Do all parents face forced withholding from a paycheck? - NO, only CLASS II parents.
* Does the government care and keep tabs on where all parents work (besides basic IRS records)? - NO, only on CLASS II parents.
* Does the government pass special laws that allow it's own non-lawyer bureaucrats to bring charges and argue issues in its courts in front of judges against all parents? - NO, only against CLASS II parents.
* Does the government hire mammoth high tech and well funded and paid private organizations to hunt down and enforce government determined obligations against all parents? - NO, only against CLASS II parents.
* Does the government utilize public money to post the names and pictures of all parents on the internet who have allegedly transgressed some government demand related to their children? NO, only for CLASS II parents.
* What percentage of the people in jails and prisons have had no opportunity to present their case to a jury? VERY LOW - that is, except for CLASS II parents.
* Does the government ever periodically review whether its determination of the "best interests of the children" is working, or actually is in their best interests?? NO, it only reviews issues related to the amount of money it is suctioning from CLASS II parents, even though neither the amount of money any parent is willing to pay or able to pay has nothing to do with the "best interests of the children" as defined by the government's own criteria.
And on and on and on. It's an incredible snowballing effect, often resulting in death of those forced into CLASS II, sometimes quickly and violently, and sometimes slowly but prematurely, or death to others as a result of the stress, humiliation, agony, and desperation associated with forced CLASS II status, or many other destructive societal effects (parents who have "disappeared" or "vanished", or parents who are in jail rather than helping their children develop into responsible, productive adults).
I have not seen any actual statistics (possibly because there are some who would prefer that they not be known), but it appears that a very high percentage of domestic related murders and suicides of children and parents are related to situations where a parent was (or is in the process of being) forced into CLASS II status. The situations and events vary, and many are never explained (and some are never even known), but they often occur after the parent's boiling or breaking point threshold has been reached or surpassed on one or more occasions - sometimes resulting in a volatile eruption of anger and rage (often lashing out at seemingly intangible forces), and sometimes ending obscurely in the tears of solitude. Some are related to the children of a CLASS II parent being withheld from them while the government does nothing, or even assists, and some are the result of the full realization of the futility of what has happened to them, and the frustration with their helplessness to do anything about it.
It seems to me that forcing parents into distinct classes which are then treated drastically different, while also subjecting one class to additional special laws that apply only to them, and then hounding and effectively clubbing them until the end of time (or until they self destruct - often taking a few others along the way) is one of the most odious and despicable forms of government known - with marked similarities to those of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis - not to mention against the law. However, I guess it's not surprising from a government who also secretly ran radiation experiments, syphilis experiments, and psychedelic drug experiments on it's own citizens.
Maybe it's time for this experiment to also end, get the class dismissed (as in "to put an end to"), and get the 21st century off to a fresh start.
Further evidence
To all msp's, all media and Organisations world-wide
Further evidence in support of PUBLIC PETITION PE483 to be heard on
7th May 2002 in committee room 2 ,George IV bridge ,Edinburgh
from IMO
In particular to the public petition msp's
John McAllion (Labour Party)
Members
Helen Eadie (Deputy Convener)
Dorothy-Grace Elder
Winnie Ewing
Phil Gallie
Rhoda Grant
John Farquhar Munro
Also now including Public Petition PE492
Professor Stephen Baskerville Head of Political Science at Howard University
Washingtom USA has personally provided evidence to Fathers Fighting Injustice which we use in support of the above public petitions.
Despite the articles having a USA context much of what is said is highly relevant to
the issues addressed ,due to duplicity in Scottish Courts and Government agencies.
He has provided further articles ,which will follow ,due to the large volume of information showing a direct connection between judicial and government power and the effect on the psychology of males enduring persecution from abuse of that power.
The Real Responsibility of Men by Professor Stephen Baskerville
Head of political science at Howard University, Washington, DC.
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Col. Oliver North recently stated that a more serious problem than winning
the war against terrorism is men not being responsible for the children they
create.
This is an astonishing statement from a man who speaks with enormous
authority on military matters. And in a sense he is correct.
Some 25 million American children, about 40 percent, live in households
without their fathers. Moreover, every major social pathology is strongly
linked to father absence, including violent crime, drug abuse, truancy,
unwed pregnancy, and suicide.
We must be careful, however, whom we blame for this. President Clinton used
to inveigh against fathers who (he said) have chosen to abandon their
children. Yet there is no evidence that the fatherhood crisis is caused
primarily by fathers abandoning their children. Most divorces are filed by
mothers, usually without any legal grounds. Mothers, not fathers, are
leaving marriages in droves.
Moreover, what some see as irresponsible fathers is in reality an abuse of
government power. Once a mother files for divorce, the government seizes
effective control of the children. With no evidence of wrongdoing, the
fathers contact with them is from that point criminalized. The
forcibly-divorced father can then be evicted and plundered by a powerful
machine of judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, and enforcement agencies. All
these officials have a vested interest in encouraging divorce and separating
children from their fathers. Windfall child-support awards further
subsidize divorce and fatherless homes.
Were policymakers sincere in their sympathy for children, they would curtail
the power of the divorce industry to rip apart their homes in the first
place. The most effective antipoverty program is an intact family. This
would benefit vastly more children than further pointless crackdowns on
fathers.
In a larger sense, therefore, Col. North is profoundly correct and his
comparison with terrorism especially apt. It is highly irresponsible of men
to leave our nation's children unprotected against abuse and exploitation by
government officials.
President Bush tells Americans that in the war on terrorism, ³We defend . .
. the freedom of people everywhere to live and raise their children free
from fear."
Yet that is precisely the freedom that is under attack at home.
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The Criminalization of Fatherhood
Family Court Most Powerful Branch of the Judiciary
By Stephen Baskerville
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Fatherhood is now the rage: presidential initiatives, federal staff
conferences, congressional task forces and resolutions, federal grants, new
nonprofit organizations, and media reports now "promote" fatherhood.
Yet the nation's discovery of fatherhood also has a darker side: law
enforcement initiatives targeting "deadbeat dads," federal registers
monitoring millions of parents, databases and information gathering on
American citizens accused of nothing, new cadres of armed, plainclothes
police, and endless "crackdowns" on allegedly dissolute parents.
Campaigning for president, Al Gore calls for incarcerating more fathers.
What we are seeing today in fact is nothing less than the criminalization of
fatherhood: criminal penalties imposed on citizens who have committed no
act but are made outlaws through the actions of others. This phenomenon
proceeds largely from involuntary divorce and is affected by family courts.
Family courts are the arm of the state that routinely reaches farthest into
the private lives of individuals and families. "The family court is the
most powerful branch of the judiciary," writes Robert W. Page, Presiding
Judge of the New Jersey Family Court. By their own assessment, "the power
of family court judges is almost unlimited." One father was told by a New
Jersey judicial investigator: "The provisions of the US Constitution do not
apply in domestic relations cases."
A father brought before these courts - in the absence of any civil or
criminal wrongdoing - will immediately have his movements, finances,
personal habits, conversations, purchases, and contact with his children all
subject to inquiry and control by the court. He must submit to questioning
about his private life that author Jed Abraham has termed an
"interrogation." He must surrender personal papers, diaries,
correspondence, and financial records. His home can be entered at any time.
His visits with his children can be monitored by court officials and
restricted to a "supervised visitation center," for which he must pay an
hourly fee and where he and his children will be observed and overheard
throughout their time together. Anything he says to his spouse or children,
as well as family counselors and personal therapists, can be used against
him in court, and his children can be used to inform on him.
Fathers are questioned about how they "feel" about their children, what they
do with them, where they take them, how they kiss them, how they feed and
bathe them, what they buy for them and what they discuss with them. He will
forced, on pain of incarceration, to pay for lawyers and psychotherapists he
has not hired. His name will be entered on a federal registry, his wages
will be garnished, and the federal government will have access to all his
financial records. If he refuses to cooperate he can be summarily
incarcerated or ordered into a psychiatric examination.
Henceforth, that parent has no say in where the children reside, attend
school or daycare, worship, or visit the doctor and dentist. He has no
right to see their school or medical records nor any control over what
medications or drugs are administered to them. He can be enjoined from
taking his children to a physician when ill. He can be told what religious
services he may (or must) attend, what he may do with them, and what
subjects he may discuss with them in private. And he can be forced to pay
two-thirds or more of his income as "child support."
If for any reason the father falls more than $5,000 behind in owed child
support, he becomes a felon. If he moves to another state while he is in
arrears, perhaps to find work, he becomes a felon. It is possible he can
even become an instant felon from the time his children are taken. If his
ordered child support is high enough, and if it is backdated far enough, he
will be and instant felon and subject to immediate arrest.
A presumption of guilt pervades child support enforcement where "the burden
of proof may be shifted to the defendant" according to one ruling. In clear
violation of the Constitution it has been held that "not all child support
contempt proceedings classified as criminal are entitled to a jury trial,"
and "even indigent obligors are not necessarily entitled to a lawyer."
Setting child support is a political process conducted by interest groups
involved in collection but from which parents who pay the support are
excluded. Such legislating by courts and enforcement agencies raises
serious questions about the separation of powers and the constitutionality
of the process. Where officials in all branches and at all levels of
government develop a financial interest in hunting "delinquents," it is
predictable that they will create delinquents to hunt. Obviously the more
onerous the child support levels, and the more defaults and arrearages
created, the more demand for coercive enforcement and for the personnel and
powers required.
Private collection firms also set the levels of what they collect. Not only
does an obvious conflict-of-interest arise in terms of the amount to be
collected, but the firms can create precisely the "delinquents" and
"deadbeats" they are hired to pursue and on which their business depends.
In Los Angeles former Deputy District Attorney Jackie Myers told the Los
Angeles Times she left office in 1996 because "we were being told to do
unethical, very unethical things."
Myers is not alone. "I got a call from a homeless shelter and was told that
I had put a man and . . . his four children out on the street because I had
put an enforcement order . . . for 50% of his income," ex-Deputy District
Attorney Elisa Baker recalled. "That was the first time I was in touch with
the ramifications of what I was doing."
Men are now forced to support children who are acknowledged not to be theirs
biologically. Stepfathers are ordered to pay support for stepchildren.
Grandparents and second wives are pursued by child support prosecutors.
Minor boys statutorily and forcibly raped by adult women must pay child
support to the criminals who raped them.
A presumption of guilt also pervades allegations of domestic violence made
during custody proceedings, where a father's contact with his children is
criminalized through restraining orders that are routinely issued with no
evidence of wrongdoing whatever - orders that cannot protect anyone because
they criminalize not violence (which of course is already criminal) but a
father's contact with his own children.
Family law is now criminalizing rights as basic as free speech. In many
jurisdictions it is now a crime to publicly criticize family court judges,
and fathers have been jailed for doing so. In a paper funded by the Justice
Department, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, an
association of ostensibly impartial judges who sit on actual cases, attacks
fathers' groups for their political opinions and activities.
No figures are available on how many fathers are incarcerated for "family
crimes." Informal estimates put as much as one-third of the nation's jail
population consisting of fathers on contempt-of-court charges. Some
jurisdictions now propose creating forced labor camps specifically for
fathers to relieve overcrowded jails. Not since the fall of the Weimar
Republic has a democracy treated millions of its own citizens in this
fashion.
About the author: Stephen Baskerville teaches political science at Howard
University.
Actions
Future Public Petitions will include some of the following
What the present Scottish Parliament SHOULD be discussing
1.A full investigation is needed into young men's suicide statistics and what part society is playing in failing to root out the fundamental cause of that loss of life and a demand for ongoing action and adequate funding to resolve such serious issues .Also a demand to have figures published showing how much public money is being spent on denigrating men and our youth as opposed to promoting mens issues.One look at the cross party groups in this assembly will show clear feminist policies disadvantaging all men in scottish society.
2.Ensuring that young men are full informed of the repercussions of marriage and relationships were children are reared and that prior to marriage that contract is fully and clearly set out prior to signing and that any future changes by government to marriage contracts are not back dated.This to ensure no one is signing such an arrangement ,which may change over many years to highly disadvantage men in their long term relationships with their children.
If governments wish to impose draconian measures on separated men they must clearly set out all those steps they will take in the dissolution of a marriage to ensure those who undertake any marriage contract have full knowledge of what those measures may entail.
That in the short term until those issues are fully addressed to ensure Scotland is implementing full ECHR rights .Presently those are being seriously undermined by those family courts.
In particular article 8
"Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life ,his home and his correspondence "
article 14
"The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this convention shall be secured without discrimination"
article 17
" Nothing in this convention may be interpreted as implying for any state ,group or person any right to engage in any activity or perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein"
protocol no7 article 5
"spouses shall enjoy equality of rights and responsibilities of a private law character between them ,and in their relations with thir children ,as to marriage ,during marriage and in the event of its dissolution ."
These rights amongst others presently and systematically being breached by law society members and judges in family courts throughout the UK and condoned by the bodies responsible for their discipline.
4.To raise concern as to the long term monitoring of family laws which ensures children from separated families in adulthood can be surveyed if they wish to comment on the effects all those providing reports to courts compared with those childrens views and best interests .Presently family law is failing to ensure the best interests of children are considered in most of those decisions, giving priority to mothers ,who in some cases may be suffering from the many hormonal problems suffered by women such as post natal depression were GP's intransigence does nothing to ensure a childs utmost safety concerns are paramount.
5.To examine the role of womens aid gender apartheid poster campaigns and the effect this is having on gender demonisation.Two major feminists writers stating shelters are being used as a stopping off point for asset stripping of males in the dissolution of marriages.
Also a demand for government figures showing how much public funding is given to such campaigns and how much to mens issues relating to suicide and persecution of males within family law.
6.To examine the bias and prejudice in councils against men. In particular social services were both training and policy are gender biased and in breach of discrimination within ECHR rights.
Also the policy on housing were a young teenage girl who gets pregnant before entering the workplace and who has contributed nothing to the wealth of a country takes precedence over a separated male seeking accommodation due to a failed marriage who may have over many years contributed substantially .One factor in more males being made homeless due to such discrimination and another ECHR conflict.
Also ensuring youth councils are giving accurate information about all legal matters to young men as they enter the workplace and relationships for the first time .These partly funded by local councils who's agenda has been shown to be severely lacking due to that bias ,prejudice and discrimination.Local councils fully endorsing gender hate campaigns on government buildings adding to the denigration of men and the effect that has on its youth .
7.The effect of feminist policy making and how that is eroding and discriminating substantially against males when there is a lack of monitoring of the effects on the lives, careers and families of men when such policies are implemented. How they are being used to discriminate against men in all walks of society by their use further breaching human rights which are there to assure equality in all of society.
LETTER TO STANDARDS COMMITTEE
The UK's SUN newspaper has been venomously anti father .
IMO SPEECH TO SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT 
