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In an attempt to reduce the escalating child support arrears figure the IRD has resorted to making up its own rules. Don’t be surprised if you find the IRD behaving in an illegal manner. Either someone in Government has said forget the rules, just get the money, or there is a vigilantly group operating within the IRD out to get those so called errant fathers who refuse to pay their child tax.

Either way this reflects badly on revenue minister Peter Dunne. This is an issue currently before a select committee which leaves no excuse for such tyrannical behaviour.

It is only a few years back when we had fathers being jailed for sending a Christmas card or a Birthday card to their children, when there was a protection order in place. Now protection orders are being used to prosecute fathers who use their own websites to express their grief and anxiety at the loss of their children. You might ask why don’t we do the democratic thing and make a submission to parliament about this. Well back in the days of Christmas card prisoners I did just that. I made a submission to the social services select committee on protection orders. Normally you would receive a response to a submission, but in this case I didn’t, so I rang the clerk and asked if he had received the submission.

His reply “all I can say to you is that I have been instructed not to talk to you.”

Now you wonder why fathers protest outside private residences?

Dear All,

Bothering is proceeding over “Dads Day” this year.
Helen is the focus of our protest and the lack of action by our first lady toward the plight of the Nations children and the consistent position that her Ministers show in the continuation of marginalizing parents from their progeny.
Kick off at Jim Bagnalls, 3 Manor Place, Pt. Chevalier Saturday 2nd September 2006 at 1.00 pm.
Helens in Mt Albert soon afterwards (she should be home putting her feet up after cutting the ribbon for the Bob Harvey Ivory Tower in Henderson in the morning).
David Lewis ( “Helens Spin Doctor” ) has acknowledged that we are going to attend, maybe he might bake the muffins.
Concluding our presence proclaiming a vote of No Confidence in Matriarchal New Zealand we are off to the Cenotaph to honour our forefathers who fell and reflect, would they have willingly sacrificed themselves for this Bastardized Society.

At the domain shortly afterwards a sumptuous BBQ of Steak, Sausages and Salads is to be provided with lollies and balloons etc… treats for the kids and the young at heart.
Please bring footballs, cricket stuff and Frisbees etc.. yourselves.
A draw will be held for a “brand new car”, a “brand new boat” donated by our mystery sponsor !!! ( Big Wednesday watch out).
Regards to all and see you there.
Paul

found this today.
It’s not copywrited so feel free to pass it on…….

It’s actually a little dated (the testosterone patches they mention are not being used in current trials in 4 countries - USA, Netherlands, Brazil and France).
Other than that it gives lots of useful information for prospective users.

The Male Contraceptive Pill
By Donald Zimmer
Sexual Health Advisor writing for AskMen.com

Would you be willing to pop a pill that brings your sperm count down to zero? Or do you feel that, beyond condoms, birth control is mainly a woman’s responsibility? A 1997 survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, an American health research and education organization, found that more than 66% of respondents (male and female) believed that men should play a bigger role in the choice and use of contraception.
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by Donald Dutton, 2006. UBC Press, Canada

‘Rethinking Domestic Violence’ is the third in a series of books by Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of IPV (intimate partner violence).

After 20 years of viewing IPV as generated by gender and focusing on a punitive “law and order” approach, Dutton argues that this approach must be more varied and flexible. Treatment providers, criminal justice system personnel, lawyers, and research is have indicated the need for a new view of the problem - one less invested in gender politics and more open to collaborative views and interdisciplinary insights.

Preface xi

[This book] is a modern history of social intervention on a specific problem that shows how such intervention can be misguided by the political conceptualization of the problem. It would be preferable to see policy made by pragmatists and “dust bowl” empiricists who are willing to set and undo policy on the basis of what the data tells them about success and failure, rather than on attempts to prolong an ideological view.

After a thorough review of the history of the spouse assault in chapter 1, Dutton introduces a framework which allows a far more nuanced analysis than the ‘ one-size-fits-all’ feminist approach which proclaims all male violence against women to be an evil symptom of patriarchal society.
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My favorite blog quote today -

We now have the majority of women denying to have anything to do with feminism, but not one single mention about the damage to Men and Boys in particular now endure because of them.

Feminists are Liars

Feminists Suck

Woman sentenced over false sexual attack claims

Hot on the heals of yesterday’s news we have this slightly older similar false complaint put to rest. Keep it up women! You do your cause little justice, and undermine the credibility of genuine victims!

Background.

Jason and Vikki have been doing fighting with Jason’s Ex, impressions.

Vikki sets up a vid-cam to record the next visit of the Ex, the collect the child.

Vikki loses it. But thinks the vid will help to get Gill to see the nature of the Ex.

Gill sees evidence supporting the Ex, so he produces the vid in court. Jason and Vikki are his clients, not the Ex.

He asserts he just ‘had too’ on account of he’s an officer of the court.

Turns out CYF wrote a report on the Ex, highlighting her less than lucid state. Gill refuses to produce this in court.

Then, at the eleventh hour (Jason and Vikki are up for a final judgement, whereupon Jason will lose his son unless something good happens) Gill files to remove himself from the case!
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Well I passed through Wellington aain today, as I am apt to do from time to time. Being the generous contributor that I am to local communities the country over, whereever I happen to be at any given time, I bought the local paper.

Imagine my disgust at the front page photo of a rugby player, ball in hand, wearing distinctly floral shorts, and looking quite feminine too. The last great bastion of male supremecy continues to fall. I await the day the All Blacks have to change their teal colours to reflect this new found diverstiy and all-comer inclusiveness.

On page A3, we read of a teenage driver who ran over (whether accidentally or deliberately, we don’t yet know) two young teenage girls, dragging one under the car some distance. This is not the fatal case that has made headlines in recent days. Another blow for boy racers? Well at lease the “teenage girl” driver is being interviewed by police, but hold this space, and watch for references to the boy racer culture.

On Page A7, we read of a man having been held in jail for six days, following a complaint of violence. Domestic violence. Believe the woman at all costs violence. All men are violent violence. At least she has now admitted she made a false complaint. Will The Refuge act? Will they justify her (she already justifies herself (under stress, lost my job, my grandma died)? But on’t the Femi-nazi teach us violent men that there is no excuse?

On Page B3, we read the first (gay, as in l;esbian, as in both women) couple to civilly unionise in America have split up. Ho hum, so what, I hear you say? Well one cites the other as having been violent. Domestic violence again. Should be fun watching them pin this one on a guy! Maybe they were sexually abused as children?

Back to page A7, a former prison warden has been acquited on 2 out of 3 charges of indecent assault against (one?) prisoner. The 3rd change has been shelved - of “touching an inmates bottom” OK, assume for a moment firstly that touching someone’s bottom is now indecent assault. Then count how many times you have ever touched someone’s bottom. Remember back to Benson Pope, where touching a thigh was argued inapproproate behaviour. Could someone please publish a list of where exactly we are permitted to touch anyone? Back to the prison warden. Rimutaka prison is a men’s prison. The warden was male. This would be man on man indencet assault. Would the oucome have been different - more serious - if the inmate was woman?

Stop the world! I want to get off!!!!