Comments on: Family Court fugitives and the role of the Police http://menz.org.nz/2005/family-court-fugitives-and-the-role-of-the-police/ - promoting a clearer understanding of men's experience - Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John http://menz.org.nz/2005/family-court-fugitives-and-the-role-of-the-police/#comment-5218 John Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:11:06 +0000 /?p=188#comment-5218 His Honour is clearly embarrassed at the favourable publicity given to a father flouting a Family Court Order. His speech appears to be 'tub-thumping' to reassert the authority of the Family Court. His Honour would do well to remember that a parent has PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY to care for and protect his or her children. If there is a conflict with some authority such as the Family Court, a good parent puts his family first, ahead of obedience to the authority. When people are persecuted by harsh, or unjust, illegal or ideologically driven regimes, we call them refugees, and support and protect them from their oppressors. Where it is our Family Court that is the harsh, unjust, illegal or ideological oppressor we have that same choice- to support and protect the victim, or to bow before the tyrant. The New Zealand Family Court can only expect contempt until it learns that <ol> <li>a. Families include fathers. </li> <li>b. The best interest of the children is to have an ongoing parenting relationship with both parents.</li> <li>c. The Family Court has become captive of Feminist Ideologies, and is acting illegally when it bends the law to promote their self-serving agendas. </li> </ol> Instead of banging the judicial gavel and rallying the Police to persecute good fathers, his honour would be wise to consider WHY the Court is held in contempt. His Honour is clearly embarrassed at the favourable publicity given to a father flouting a Family Court Order. His speech appears to be ‘tub-thumping’ to reassert the authority of the Family Court. His Honour would do well to remember that a parent has PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY to care for and protect his or her children. If there is a conflict with some authority such as the Family Court, a good parent puts his family first, ahead of obedience to the authority. When people are persecuted by harsh, or unjust, illegal or ideologically driven regimes, we call them refugees, and support and protect them from their oppressors.

Where it is our Family Court that is the harsh, unjust, illegal or ideological oppressor we have that same choice- to support and protect the victim, or to bow before the tyrant. The New Zealand Family Court can only expect contempt until it learns that

  1. a. Families include fathers.
  2. b. The best interest of the children is to have an ongoing parenting relationship with both parents.
  3. c. The Family Court has become captive of Feminist Ideologies, and is acting illegally when it bends the law to promote their self-serving agendas.

Instead of banging the judicial gavel and rallying the Police to persecute good fathers, his honour would be wise to consider WHY the Court is held in contempt.

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