I am looking at this recent news article – Son paid for negligence with his life, say parents.

Geoffrey Tampin, a long-term psychiatric patient with a history of occasionally aggressive behaviour, had been skipping medication, drinking excessively and taking recreational drugs in the months before he killed his flatmate Dean Clark in Balmoral, Auckland, in June last year.

This has happened before, does anyone remember the Malcolm Beggs story – Killer had murder branded on his leg.

Mental health services knew that axe killer Lachlan Jones was thinking about murder weeks before he took his flatmate’s life – he had burned the word into his flesh.

When you put this along side stories like …

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Recently there was an horrific incident in Hamilton where a woman drove on to a suburban footpath and attempted to run down her partner with a car. She has since been charged with attempted murder. The original post was submitted here – Domestic violence caught on cctv

What are they putting in the water in Hamilton? This is not the first time this has happened.

A report here – Woman runs over man four times.

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The post: menz.org.nz/2013/suicide-following-inappropriate-relationship/

seems to have disappeared. If allowable, please explain?

Thanks,
MurrayBacon.

In a rare move, the Court of Appeal in October 2012 overturned the acquittal, finding the act criminal because the man had “actively encouraged” the boys to masturbate.

This is how it is …

A man accused of turning his garage into a den for child abuse appealed his charges today at the Supreme Court, in a case that will go on to frame the boundaries of child sex offending in New Zealand.

Now, the courts of New Zealand are debating wanking.

The issue raised by this case is consideration of the word “with” and, in particular, whether an “indecent act” can be done by a person who does not commit an indecent act himself but watches another perform it.

Who wants to start the comments on this one?

Story here.

Helen Milner’s alleged poisoning of her Husband is an interesting story of how women display their violence toward their partners. There are 2 points of interest to me.

1. Poisoning does appears initially as a non violent act. ie there are no visual physical signs of the resultant action apart from death. Violence as a concept is usually associated with spontaneous acts of aggression.

2. It is such a devious way of punishing or disposing of someone.

It is a bitchy way of expressing anger and is no less violent than being beaten to death with a weapon. I don’t use the word bitchy with any gender in mind. In prison culture the physically weak male also acts in this way. Their strength lies in their ability to beguile, manipulate and control the physically stronger in a more subtle and covert way.

The difference is in the outcome for the offender. They are less likely to be caught for a start. In Milner’s case her partner was initially determined to have committed suicide.

Knowing the system as I do I am of the opinion that many male partners have suffered death or worse by violent female partners who have never been brought to justice. Is my opinion an isolated one?

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We have written to the Children’s Commissioner following his ‘open letter to NZ men’ in support of White Ribbon (also see here). (more…)

A Wellington teacher found dead at her parents’ home is believed to have died after being told she would be investigated over allegations of having sex with a student.
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Masculist Art
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This past Thursday a radical member of the United States Congress introduced the International Violence Against Women Act. Yes, I-VAWA has all the shameful biases!

Help us put a stop to I-VAWA and sign the petition:
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With the long holidays being forced on judges they now say they are finding it difficult to cope with their free time.
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Friends & family members lost to suicide remembered today.

Friends and family members lost to suicide will be remembered at an event in Auckland today.

The non-denominational candle lighting service is organised by Solace Support Group.

Chief Coroner Neil MacLean will be there…he’s recently been pushing for a more open dialogue around suicide.

The service is at St Columba Church in Grey Lynn at 5.00pm.

As White Ribbon invest their energy and our money in a bigoted social campaign against ‘male domestic violence’ the news this week has served up a chilling slice of reality, about life in New Zealand.

On Sunday, as fate would have it, the alleged attempted murder of a Hamilton man was captured by an in-store CCTV camera, as the offender ran a car into her partner, backed up, and as he lay injured on the footpath outside of a suburban shop, ran into the man a second time.
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Social science may have largely ignored men as individuals, but there is money to be had by listening to men……

Men’s Health Australia announce release by Saachi and Saachi:

The Modern (Aussie) Man White Paper
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Hi All,
I live in Australia but the mother of my children lives in NZ and is in custody of 2 of my children. Recently she has applied to the Family Court to take my 14 year old daughter to Canada whilst at the same time trying to have my guardian rights removed so I won’t have a say in the matter.
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The media likes to call the woman a victim even when the facts are obvious.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/9410393/Victim-had-earlier-sought-sober-driver.

She was caught drunk driving, let off with just her keys taken, went out of her way to drive drunk again, killed herself and injured some mates in the process.
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The following is a conversation that took place at the Herald’s office yesterday……
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The girls having a chat about how things is.

Make sure you have some form of safety device holding you into your computer chair before listening to Paula Bennett on this one.

The attempted murder of a man in Hamilton today.

“At this time a male pedestrian has been run over by a car driven by his 44-year-old female partner at the Ohaupo Rd shops by the intersection with Normandy Ave,” he said.

Viewer discretion advised – contains graphic footage of female violence.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10442315/Top-judge-pledges-to-end-culture-of-secrety-at-family-courts.html?fb

The events of the last few days have seen shades of village green rising across the country as the Roast Busters story unfolds. Flaming torches and pitch forks are not going to promote any level of understanding as to why this has happened – I would suggest quite the opposite.

If there is any attempt to understand this behaviour it will be claimed as the sole right of women to analyse, understand and remediate society to protect women from sexual abuse.

Any man publicly attempting to do anything other than express condemnation, can only expect to be vilified for daring to offer an opinion, but the thing is men will talk about this in smoko-rooms and pubs and if men are publicly shut out of the debate – and the solution – then all that can be expected in return is disapproval and a level of indifference. (more…)

I would like to focus on what lead these boys (not men as the media first suggested becasue they were 15 and 16 at the time) and to a lesser extent the girls to the situation they find themselves in today. The mere fact the girl drank until she was drunk and boys posting a video on line is testimony the boys thought at the time it was funny or they were proud of their actions.
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A man’s home is his castle. That’s a saying, not so old as when knights were bold – that bastion of freedom, where every man had the opportunity to own and occupy his piece of land, with little interference from the state or another man.

But within the time of living memory this has changed rapidly to a point where the house is a source of revenue not only to the demands of the banks, the local bodies, industry and worst to the aggrieved wife, not happy with her lot in life.
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Is he being suppressed by the clobering machine?

Its worth “Googling” “Benjamin Easton” to see the causes he has fearlessky fought, including fathers rights.. I conjecture that his success gaining the publics eye championing his various “Causes” has caused the establishment to attempt to muzzle him.
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This issue was discussed recently in the post Men’s Concerns Gaining Traction

The issue “portrayed’ as a man-ban might have not have gained traction but it would be naive to think it doesn’t still exist in another form; that is exactly what this article says – the intent is still there, we’ll find another way to achieve this. (It turns up as number one hot potato in the leader’s debate. It has hardly gone away from within the party)

What if the Labour Party conference turned up a policy of such genius that it totally electrified the country and we all forgot about the price of power?

Labour’s gender quota gets go-ahead

Labour has approved a gender quota that will ensure 45 per cent of its MPs are women after the next election and at least 50 per cent are women in 2017.

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