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Empowering Men:
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Radical Feminism — Flotsam
and Jetsam From the Past 50 Years (slightly edited)
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May 8, 2018
For nearly two decades the Equal Justice Foundation has been pointing out
that under current laws a man
has to be functionally insane to marry, and a drooling idiot to sire a child.
It seems redundant to state that no modern nation can long survive under such
conditions.
Here are some of the reasons why this is true.
It is past time to take a look at some of the flotsam and jetsam of these
feminist-inspired “laws.” I speak of
domestic violence and abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking,
child abuse, harassment, no fault
divorce, child support, paternity fraud, manspreading, among others. All of
these “laws” are so broadly written and
ill-defined that virtually every human action or interaction can be found
to somehow violate them. And these “laws”
do not define a “crime” in the conventional sense of the word.
Instead, whether the accused is guilty of one of
these “crimes” is almost entirely dependent on the emotions and
feelings of the “victim.” For example, is it
“domestic violence” or a lovers quarrel? Is it “rape,”
or morning after remorse? Is it “harassment,” or simply a
disagreeable email? And so on...
With few exceptions, only heterosexual males and Christians (see Baskerville,
pp. 216-257) are guilty of
these “crimes,” which now include such things as a man sitting
on a subway with his legs spread too far apart.
Worse, hearsay is often admitted as evidence, perjury is virtually never prosecuted.
Due process, as well as
presumption of innocence are quaint artifacts of the past.
In the process feminists, and the useful idiot legislators who kowtow to their
demands in order to “protect the
children,” “make it safe for women,” “stop rape,”
among other agitprop so well known and developed by tyrants in
the 20th Century.
Ultimately, feminist ideology is fatal to civilization and, with it, most
females. But feminists of my acquaintance
are too often narcissistic and self centered to care about the future. Fortunately,
these viragos seldom reproduce,
and when they do it is virtually always as a single mother, or in a lesbian
couple, so their children are quite unlikely
to have the education and drive necessary to sustain this totalitarian movement
over time.
However, while the feminist movement is running its course, the flotsam and
jetsam in their wake continues to
build in the form of destroyed men, children, families, and the women who
depend on them.
A brief history
Over the past twenty years the Equal Justice Foundation has compiled a
large number of articles by both
men and women. These sad stories describe the progressive destruction of the
Constitutional Republic provided
us by the Founding Fathers, i.e., “dead white males” in feminist
parlance, in order to bring us today’s socialist
paradise. Recently Prof. Stephen Baskerville has summarized and comprehensively
referenced this destruction in
his book The New Politics of Sex. Interested readers should either review
his work for further details; or the
many articles, statistics, stories, and reviews compiled by the Equal Justice
Foundation concerning these
injustices.
It is useful to look at the steps taken, and events that have brought us
to this point before reviewing the
resultant flotsam and jetsam. Wendy McElroy has provided an overview of The
Roots of Individualist
Feminism in 19th-Century America but it is worthwhile to highlight some of
the major events:
1960 — The Pill
It is likely radical feminism could not have flourished without the invention
of The Pill circa 1960. Oral
contraceptives gave women the freedom to enjoy sex without fear of becoming
pregnant, and without the hassle
and embarrassment of a condom. That freedom is generally recognized as the
basis for the Sexual Revolution
of the 1960s. Without the danger of becoming pregnant accidentally, women
and men began to regard marriage
as a prerequisite to sex as outdated.
1964 — The Feminine Mystique
Radical feminism in the United States can be traced back at least to the publication
of Betty Friedan’s book
The Feminine Mystique in 1964. Written while she was living in what she describes
as a “comfortable
concentration camp” of New York City suburbia, her book is credited
with sparking a “second wave” of feminism.
As a young girl, Friedan was active in both Marxist and Jewish circles. While
she later became disenchanted with
Judaism, her Marxist training remained; and the methods and techniques of
Marxists and communism have
remained prominent, if not dominant in the feminist movement.
1970 — No fault divorce
Ignoring the failure and destruction of the Russian Effort To Abolish Marriage,
radical feminists were greatly
helped in their crusade by California Assemblyman James A. Hayes who introduced
and got passed a “no fault”
divorce law in 1969, which was then signed into law by conservative icon Governor
Ronald Reagan.
“No fault” divorce quickly became the national standard, virtually
without debate or question, and either party
to a marriage contract could now end it without reason or justification. That
proved a great boon to neo-marxist
feminist attempts to destroy families and marriage.
1971 — Domestic violence
Erin Pizzey’s book Scream Quietly of the Neighbors Will Hear brought
the problem of domestic violence to
the world’s attention. After opening one of the first shelters for abused
women in 1971, Ms. Pizzey quickly
realized 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." But when she
published her findings about violent women in 1982, feminists drove her into
exile for a decade.
Born in China in 1939, her parents and brother later captured during World
War II by Chinese communists,
Erin PIzzey was well versed in socialist and communist dogma and techniques
and quickly recognized these
elements in the feminist movement, and later documented them in her 2001 article
From The Personal To The
Political. As she notes, many of the women were "trust fund bunnies,"
living off their rich father's money. What
made the feminist movement so immediately violent, was the fact that it was
founded in England by American
women who were on the run from the FBI.
By 1972 the women's movement had run out of money. Unfortunately, Pizzey
had attracted two things
feminists wanted: (1) A just cause to clothe their political agenda; and (2)
money to fund this agenda. Marxist
feminists quickly moved to successfully make the domestic violence industry
their own in order to finance their
agenda, claiming that all women are “victims” and all men are
“batterers,” agitprop that persists to this day.
1973 — Roe v. Wade
The US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in a 7-2 decision issued on January
22, 1973, affirmed the legality
of a woman's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution.
Thereafter, even if a woman neglected to take her Pill and became pregnant,
she could, with minimal cost and
danger, abort her baby. This freedom from responsibility for any consequences
of her sexual activity allowed
women to run wild, a basic tenet of feminism.
1980 — Duluth model and the cycle of violence
A group of feminists in Duluth, Minnesota, grouped together in an attempt
to treat and control domestic
violence. They formed what is known as the Domestic Abuse Intervention Program
(DAIP) as an initiative to
reform the local criminal justice system. At that time, victims of domestic
violence had little recourse when being
assaulted by their intimate partners. Choices for victims were limited —
initiate criminal justice charges, endure
the abuse, or flee the relationship.
Commendably, DAIP activists in the battered women’s movement set
out to understand the laws, policies,
and procedures of the criminal justice system; as well as understand the cultures
of each of the involved
agencies. In doing so, they built relationships that allowed new interventions
for abused women to be proposed
and tested. Eleven community agencies agreed to work together to continue
to make positive change in the
criminal justice system around battering in what became known as “The
Duluth Model.”
From that evolved what is known as the Cycle of Violence, which is still widely
used despite a complete lack
of evidence for its general validity. Even DAIP co-founder Ellen Pence has
written,
"By determining that the need or desire for power was the motivating
force behind battering, we created a
conceptual framework that, in fact, did not fit the lived experience of many
of the men and women we were
working with. The DAIP staff [...] remained undaunted by the difference in
our theory and the actual
experiences of those we were working with [...] It was the cases themselves
that created the chink in each of
our theoretical suits of armor. Speaking for myself, I found that many of
the men I interviewed did not seem to
articulate a desire for power over their partner. Although I relentlessly
took every opportunity to point out to
men in the groups that they were so motivated and merely in denial, the fact
that few men ever articulated
such a desire went unnoticed by me and many of my coworkers. Eventually, we
realized that we were finding
what we had already predetermined to find."
But it does make an effective graphic for feminist agitprop.
Unfortunately, DAIP based their work entirely on the false premise that domestic
violence and abuse occurred
mainly in married couples. It doesn’t! They also presumed, without evidence,
that violence between men and
women in intimate relationships was entirely the male beating and abusing
the woman. Research at the time, and
consistently since, shows both partners are violent half the time. When only
one partner is violent, women are
as, or slightly more violent than men. Worse, from the feminist standpoint,
is that studies suggest the most violent
couples of all are lesbians.
1980 — Behind Closed Doors: Violence In The American Family
In 1980 Drs. Murray Straus, Richard Gelles, and Suzanne Steinmetiz published
the first large scale study of
family violence in their book Behind Closed Doors. As had Erin PIzzey before
them, and every scientific study
since, they found that both men and women in intimate relations were roughly
equally violent. That finding
elicited death threats against Dr. Steinmetz, who was regarded as a traitor
to the sisterhood, who now depend
heavily on taxpayer-funding to support their neo-marxist agenda.
1994 — Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
By the end of the 1980’s feminist propaganda efforts based on the false
claim that domestic violence was
always a man beating and abusing his wife to maintain power and control in
order to support the patriarchy was
dominant and widely accepted. Unfortunately, none of the feminist agitprop
has been, or was supported by
research. But facts seldom deter ideologues or politicians seeking female
votes. and the political answer to all
problems is to pass another law. Drafted by then-Senator Joe Biden and with
Clinton in the White House, a law
presumptively to protect women almost couldn’t fail.
Nonetheless, to insure passage of VAWA, feminist organizations like the
National Organization for Women,
founded by Betty Friedan, and even secretary of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala, pelted legislators
with facts and figures in the manner perfected by Hitler, and known then as
"The Big Lie." Feminist "factoids"
included such prevarications as: "The leading cause of birth defects
is battery during pregnancy." "In emergency
rooms, twenty to thirty percent of women arrive because of physical abuse
by their partner." "Family violence has
killed more women in the last five years than Americans killed in the Viet
Nam War." This agitprop, isn’t true, of
course, but as Nazi and Communist propagandists found, a lie repeated frequently
enough by enough people is,
unfortunately, taken as the truth by most of the population.
For example, in January 1993, Sheila Kuhn of the California Women's Law Center
made the unfounded
claim that Super Bowl Sunday was the "biggest day of the year for violence
against women." That stunning
statement quickly appeared on Good Morning America, in the Boston Globe, and
elsewhere. The Oakland
Tribune would report the Super Bowl causes men to "explode like mad linemen,
leaving girlfriends, wives, and
children beaten."
All lies and fake news!
In pushing for VAWA, feminist advocacy groups were able to create new bogus
statistics faster than the
experts were able to shoot the old ones down. And some of the agitprop —
like the fiction that wife-beating soars
on Super Bowl Sunday — have become American myths as durable as the
story of young George Washington
chopping down the cherry tree.
Thus, the Violence Against Women Act was born.
Dr. Richard Gelles reviewed the origin of the feminist factoids in 1995, but
a rebuttal is seldom as effective, at
least initially, as the first lie. That is particularly true where the government
is the source of the lie, as in the case
of HHS Secretary Donna Shalala. And, of course, by 1995 VAWA had already been
passed into law.
In 1998 Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard is quoted as saying that:
"...Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most
influential neo-marxist movement in
America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy,
and most of the ruin
is irreversible. By defining between men and women in terms of power and competition
instead of reciprocity
and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract
in human society, the unit from
which all other social institutions draw their strength."
In the January 24, 2000, issue of U.S. News, on p. 12 John Leo writes:
"The Violence Against Women Act slipped into law in 1994 without most
members of Congress quite
knowing what they were passing. We have Andrea Dworkin's word on this. Dworkin
is surely a contender for
the North American title of most overwrought, man-hating feminist. She told
the New Republic at the time that
the only possible explanation for the bill's popularity in the Senate was
the 'senators don't understand the
meaning of the legislation that they pass.' [emphasis added]"
Further, Mona Charen has commented that:
"The trouble with ideologues is their simplemindedness. Communists saw
a world full of evil: Conniving
capitalists arrayed against virtuous, long-suffering proletarians. Fascists
saw the world divided between
master and inferior races. Modem feminists see violent, aggressive, uncivilized
men victimizing helpless,
innocent, peace-loving women. It is the mark of small minds that they seek
to eradicate nuance and
complexity."
In 2007 Dr, Murray Straus published a tabulation of the Processes Explaining
The Concealment And
Distortion Of Evidence On Gender Symmetry In Intimate Partner Violence, well
worth reading. But the
feminist agitprop continues unabated. Worse, the useful idiots in our government
continue to give them massive
amounts of taxpayer funding to continue their quest for domination.
In the process, Congress generously authorized $1.6 billion to fund VAWA,
and continues to do so yearly. Few
taxpayers would begrudge this outlay if it actually resulted in the protection
of women. Instead, there is overwhelming evidence that the money is primarily
being used to further an ideological war against men and
families. And the federal funding is supplemented by state and local funding,
as well as charitable contributions.
Originally VAWA was based entirely on the presumption that only men were violent
in intimate relationships
and that women were always the victim. While later versions of VAWA include
gender-neutral language, the
money and support still go almost exclusively to neo-marxist feminists.
Of course, with billions to spend, and VAWA mandating such draconian measures
as:
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Broadening the definition of “domestic violence” to include
virtually every human interaction;
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Arrests without a warrant;
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Forcing citizens from their homes and children with nothing more than
the clothes on their back without even
the pretense of due process;
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Searches without a warrant;
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Seizures of their property without redress; mandatory arrests often
based on nothing more than hearsay;
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Assuming the accused, always referred to as the “perpetrator,”
is guilty until proven innocent;
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Mere allegations that suffice as proof;
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Denial of the right to confront the accuser, always referred to as
the “victim,” and obtain witnesses in one's defense;
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Denied the assistance of counsel;
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Punishment and imprisonment that occurs before a trial or without one;
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Public censure for crimes men have not committed;
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Indentured servitude and often outright slavery;
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and more...
Of course these are acts of a police state and the policies of tyrants.
But feminists were ecstatic.
Flotsam and jetsam — Lives destroyed
The best estimates I can make suggest the lives of some 3 million men every
year are damaged or destroyed
by feminist ideology and dogma, and the resultant laws and practices. In addition,
the destruction includes at
least that many children as well.
As this destruction has now been going on for over a generation it is possible
to trace some of these men’s
stories to, or almost to their conclusions. Allegations of domestic violence,
abuse, or sexual assault are standard
tactics in a divorce today. Under current laws such false allegations give
an adulterous wife the house, the car,
the kids, the bank account, and anything else she wants with no questions
asked, i.e., due process is a thing of
the past and allegations now suffice as “proof.” She will also
almost certainly receive child support even if the
child(ren) prove not to be her husband's. And there is no penalty for her
perjury, adultery, or fraud.
I often see the same results from vengeance-bent or mentally-disturbed girlfriends.
And some women
simply use these laws for criminal purposes, e.g., robbery.
Below are summaries of the destruction feminists have wrought on the lives
and deaths of a family doctor, an aerospace engineer, and an Army soldier.
The Second Amendment — Emerson story
One of the most-widely published tales of feminist destruction is that
of what was done, deliberately, and with
malice aforethought, to Timothy Emerson, M.D.
Timothy Joe Emerson was born in 1956, in Dallas and grew up in San Angelo,
Texas. He graduated summa
cum laude from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, in May of 1980
with a degree in
biology/pre-medical and a minor in chemistry. From there he went to the University
of Texas Medical School in
Galveston and graduated in 1984. A heart problem kept him from joining the
military. He later married and they
had a daughter.
At the time Dr. Emerson was the lawful owner of approximately 30 firearms
of varying types that he had
owned both before and all during the marriage. His collection included a 9
mm model 92F Beretta pistol that he
kept in his office. It is fairly common, and prudent for medical doctors who
have many drugs in their offices, to
also keep a firearm there.
According to court records Emerson’s wife, Sacha, began an affair with
her hairdresser and petitioned for
divorce on August 28, 1998. She requested a restraining order against Dr.
Emerson, claiming he had threatened
her paramour during a telephone call. A temporary restraining order was entered
against Dr. Emerson on
September 14, 1998. This was essentially a form order frequently used in Texas
divorce cases and contained
standard language prohibiting Dr. Emerson from engaging is various financial
transactions and from making
threatening communications or actual attacks upon his wife during the pendency
of the divorce case. Specifically,
there was no finding by the court that Dr. Emerson had threatened his wife.
Unbeknownst to Dr. Emerson the state court's order made him immediately subject
to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8)
that makes the possession of any firearm or ammunition a federal felony with
a mandatory prison term. Neither
the order or the state judge informed Dr. Emerson he would be subject to federal
criminal prosecution merely for
possessing a firearm or ammunition while the temporary orders were in effect.
Dr. Emerson was then in the position of being required by court order to refrain
from disposing of any marital
property and at the same time being in violation of Federal Law for possessing
this property.
On November 16, 1998, Sacha, quite the drama queen, barged into Dr. Emerson's
medical office with their
four-year-old daughter and refused to leave. After an argument in his private
office she ran out and told San
Angelo police that Dr. Emerson had pulled the Beretta pistol and pointed it
at her and their child.
As a result of Sacha's allegations, charges of aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon and endangering a
child were brought against Dr. Emerson he was arrested and jailed. Additionally,
his firearms collection was
seized, and he was charged with a federal felony; ending his medical career.
On December 8, 1998, a Federal Grand Jury indicted Dr. Emerson on five counts
under 18 U.S.C. §
922(g)(8). But District Judge Sam Cummings, San Angelo, Texas division, granted
Dr. Emerson's motion to
dismiss the federal case on February 26, 1999, on the basis that his Second
and Fifth Amendment rights had
been violated. This was the first time any Federal court had confirmed that
the Second Amendment is an
individual right and that made the Emerson case history. But the government,
under the Clinton administration
and Attorney General Janet Reno of nearby Waco fame, appealed.
On October 23, 2000, he was acquitted by a jury of all charges brought by
the state after a showing that he
was defending his business property and patient medical records against criminal
trespass.
Now one would think that after being acquitted in a state court and having
the case dismissed by a federal
judge that he would be a free man. The Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution
clearly states that "No person
shall ... be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life
or limb." But the Clinton administration
was anxious to win the feminist vote, VAWA was being challenged, and Janet
Reno was the Attorney General. A
minor thing like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights means less than nothing
to feminists unless, of course, one
of them is on trial.
In October, 2001, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans affirmed
that the Second Amendment is
an individual right but remanded Dr. Emerson's case back to the District Court
for trial, reversing Judge
Cummings dismissal of the case.
A request for a rehearing en banc (by all the judges of the Fifth Circuit)
was denied November 30, 2001. Dr.
Emerson's case was then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the first time.
On June 10, 2002, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. However,
Attorney General Ashcroft
stipulated that the Second Amendment is an individual right in the government's
response to Dr. Emerson's
appeal.
The case was then set for trial in Federal District Court in Lubbock, Texas,
Judge Sam Cummings again
presiding. The trial lasted 8 hours. On October 7, 2002, a Federal jury of
six men and six women found Dr. Tim Emerson, age 45, guilty of three counts
of possessing firearms while under a restraining order in violation of 18
USC §922(g)(8).
On October 19, 2002, Dr. Emerson successfully underwent open-heart surgery
for a defective heart valve at
the taxpayer’s expense. The State of Texas has taken Dr. Emerson's medical
and driver's license away for
non-payment of child support. As a result he is indigent and the taxpayers
are obliged to pick up his medical
expenses, including roughly $650 a month in prescription drugs. So citizens
now pay for his wife's adultery as
well.
On December 11, 2002, Dr. Emerson was sentenced to thirty (30) months detention
in a Federal penitentiary.
Dr. Emerson's conviction was again appealed to the 5th Circuit On January
28, 2004, judgment and
sentencing was affirmed in an unpublished opinion. His case was then appealed
again to the U.S. Supreme
Court. However, on July 2, 2004, the Court denied certiorari.
After his sentencing he was placed on release supervision pending the outcome
of his appeal under the
following conditions:
"The defendant shall not commit any offense in violation of federal,
state, or local law while on release in
this case."
Back in the infancy of television in the 1950's a man was offered a substantial
amount of cash, $64,000, if he
could go 24 hours without breaking a law. He lasted about five minutes after
leaving the studio accompanied by
lawyers. In his nervousness he opened a pack of cigarettes without destroying
the tax stamp as required by
federal law.
It has become even more impossible to avoid breaking a law today. Silverglate
points out that the average
citizen now unwittingly commits Three [Federal] Felonies A Day.
Dr. Emerson did none of these so far as is known. Mostly he stayed at home
on his computer as testified to by
his father and two other witnesses. But that didn’t save him from feminist
vengeance. Since he had dared to
defend himself against feminists cherished Violence Against Women Act, he
had to be punished further by the
sisterhood.
What Dr. Emerson did is occasionally go shopping at Wal-Mart in company with
his father, where there was
some flirtation with a check-out clerk, Ms. Nicole Weber, age 21. As best
we can determine she asked Dr.
Emerson to fill out a credit application, which she lost, and then had him
fill out another one for her. She
reportedly inquired about information concerning her rather nasty divorce
that she thought was available on the
Internet. Dr. Emerson found that information for her and brought printed copies
to her at the store. There appears
to have been the usual byplay between a man and woman during these exchanges
but no contact between them
outside the store. Dr. Emerson went through Ms. Weber's checkout line in company
with his father, Joe Emerson,
whose age-related palsy makes it difficult for him to write legibly. Nicole
Weber, because of her acquaintance with
the Emerson's, would help Joe fill out his checks to pay for their purchases.
On February 6, 2003, Nicole Weber filed a complaint with the San Angelo Police
Department claiming Dr.
Emerson was stalking her at Wal-Mart by repeatedly coming through her checkout
lane. In that complaint Ms.
Weber states she had found out that Dr. Emerson "had been convicted of
an act of violence towards his ex-wife"
and that she "is in fear for her safety based on [Dr. Emerson's] behavior,
comments, and past history." She further
claimed she had seen Dr. Emerson in places outside of Wal-Mart in the small
town of San Angelo.
Once we would have been astounded to find that going through a cashier's checkout
line at Wal-Mart once or
twice a week can be construed as a basis for a stalking complaint. But time
and feminists have educated us; and
we hope mankind. Anyone who still doubts that injustices like this happen
routinely should definitely read Prof.
Baskerville’s book The New Politics of Sex.
On February 10, 2003, Dr. Emerson's probation terms were modified to include
the condition that he not have
any contact with Nicole Weber directly or indirectly, or with any members
of her family. No notice was given to the
Emerson's that Wal-Mart no longer wanted their business.
In what we now recognize as a standard feminist tactic to destroy men;
on February 12, 2003, Ms. Weber
again contacted the San Angelo Police Department and stated that Dr. Emerson
was seen sitting in his car
outside the Hunter Run Apartments at 4404 Southwest Boulevard in San Angelo.
According to the police report:
"The complainant [Nicole Weber] advised that she was at the location
of offense [Hunter Run Apts.] and
observed [Emerson]. She said [Emerson] was sitting across the street from
the [Hunter Run Apts.] in a white
vehicle. [Ms. Weber] said she it was facing the [Hunter Run Apts.] She said
she drove away from the location
of offense and [Emerson] pulled in front of her. She said she turned and [Emerson]
went another direction.
[Ms. Weber] advised that this has been going on for about a month."
On the basis of these unsubstantiated, and unlikely complaints as testimony
showed Dr. Emerson’s father
strictly prohibited him from driving, the San Angelo Police Department notified
Dr. Emerson's pretrial release
officer, Gloria H. Ramirez, on April 1, 2003, that he was alleged to have
been driving a motor vehicle. Ms.
Ramirez called Nicole Weber and Ms. Weber further stated that when Dr. Emerson
pulled out in front of her she
was forced to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. However, the police
report does not contain a car license
plate number and no description of Dr. Emerson by which his identification
was confirmed by Ms. Weber. Note
that in the timeline of events established by Blue Moon Investigations there
were a number of stalking incidents
and arrests of individuals driving white vehicles in San Angelo during this
time period.
A warrant was issued for Dr. Emerson's arrest and he was taken into custody
on April 3, 2003. A hearing on
the revocation of Dr. Emerson's bond pending appeal was scheduled April 22,
2003, in the San Angelo Federal
District Court by Judge Cummings dated April 3, 2003.
Dr. Emerson's father and friends arranged for witnesses to testify about his
whereabouts on the date and time
of Ms. Weber's complaint. However, in a move we find common in such cases,
at roughly 4 PM on Monday, April
21, 2003, Dr. Emerson was taken from the Tom Green County Jail to the Federal
courthouse. His attorney met
him in the holding cell in the courthouse and informed him that the judge
had already signed the order revoking
his appeal bond. Dr. Emerson was not allowed to testify or present any other
witnesses at this impromptu and
unscheduled "hearing." Dr. Emerson was then sent to federal prison
in Fort Worth, Texas.
Although Dr. Emerson's witnesses were not notified of the change in hearing
date and time, Ms. Weber was.
According to the April 22, 2003 San Angelo Times:
“The woman [Nicole Weber] testified in federal court Monday that Emerson
came through her line [at
Wal-Mart] almost every day, often reciting intimate facts about the woman
and her family, like the name of her
physician, her living arrangements with her husband, the make and model of
her car and the type of child care
she was using. One day, Emerson toted in printouts of the woman's divorce
filings and paperwork related to
her husband's probation.
‘That's none of his or anyone else's business. I felt scared that he
would even want to know that,’ the
woman said in court Monday. "He had just told me so much information
and I was getting scared to death.’”
Such faked emotional feminist perjury is, of course, standard practice and
often they are coached by
attorneys and victim advocates as to what to say and how to act; what used
to be known as subornation of
perjury, Even though judges commonly recognize perjured testimony, nothing
is done about it. Nor is it unusual
for hearing dates to be changed without notifying the man.
Once again the unsubstantiated word of a woman has served to place a man behind
bars and we have many
similar cases where the man is sentenced to 6, 8, 12, and 14 years. Thirty
months in the gulag is almost nothing
by the standards of Big Sister today. As Erin Pizzey has famously noted: "Any
country that has tried to create a
political solution to human problems has ended up with concentration camps
and gulags."
The Equal Justice Foundation tried various means to obtain additional information
in order to refute Ms.
Weber's testimony. In December 2003 Bobbi Sue Bacha of Blue Moon Investigations
in Houston, Texas,
volunteered to undertake an investigation of Nicole Weber pro bono. Contributions
from members and supporters
enabled the EJF to cover her travel expenses to San Angelo.
As a result of her investigation Bobbi Sue Bacha produced a comprehensive
report that refutes everything
Ms. Nicole Weber alleged and testified to with regard to Dr. Emerson. She
even obtained a written statement
from Ms. Weber that denies Dr. Emerson was driving the white car she alleges
to have seen outside her apartment the evening of February 12, 2003, together
with a telephone interview. In these statements Ms.
Weber identifies another man as being her stalker. Further, Blue Moon's investigation
found that Nicole's
ex-husband was not with her the evening of February 12, 2003, as she testified.
Unquestionably Nicole Weber
perjured herself in federal court to help send a man to prison. This is a
disgusting indictment of our justice system.
Blue Moon's investigation also noted:
"Further, our investigation shows the complainant Nicole Weber has
a unusual history of filing police
reports in San Angelo (a total to date of approximately ten (10) police reports)
for various allegations including
and not limited to alleged reckless drivers, missing picture frames from her
apartment less than $20.00 in total
value, employers holding pay checks, scratches on her car, accusations against
her husband's brother of
molesting her child, accusations against her husband of hitting her child
(later Nicole Weber recanted the
allegation against her husband via a letter to the judge, however the charges
remained and Nicole Weber's
husband Zack Weber was convicted anyway), and other miscellaneous reports,
including the allegation of Dr.
Timothy Emerson allegedly stalking her at her apartment in an unidentified
white car."
Clearly, Ms. Weber is a troubled individual given to making police reports
with or without foundation but filing
false reports is a common feminist tactic.
In summary:
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Dr. Emerson has not been convicted of anything except having a gun collection
that he owned both before and during his marriage.
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He was alleged to have threatened his wife's lover during a phone conversation
with her during their divorce for which his estranged wife was given a
temporary restraining order to cover her adultery. I note that Sacha’s
hairdresser, now husband, called and threatened me after this story was
first posted.
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Dr. Emerson was acquitted of all state charges against him.
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He was alleged to have been stalking a woman who provided no evidence
and who has recanted her testimony. And Nicole Weber has since admitted
she has no idea who was driving the car she claims was stalking her although
she came so close to that car "she was forced to slam on the brakes
to avoid a collision."
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As a cumulative result of these injustices, Dr. Emerson was sent to
the Federal penitentiary in Fort Worth.
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As a result of the stress caused by the grave injustices done his son,
his 82-year-old father, a retired military veteran, has twice been hospitalized
for pneumonia and complications since Dr. Emerson's arrest in early April
2003. Pneumonia is always dangerous but doubly so for a man in his 80's.
His father did not live to see his son a free man again!• His father
died of pneumonia in October of 2005. His mother developed a seizure disorder
and was discovered unconscious and unresponsive in her apartment before
Christmas 2005. Dr. Emerson put her in a nursing home in early 2006 and
she died there in 2007.
Do Sacha and Ms. Weber sleep well at night knowing the damage they have
done? The motives of an adulteress are clear. But one can only speculate as
to Nicole's motives: It is not unreasonable to imagine that she
may be a BATFE agent. Nicole Weber quit her job at the San Angelo Wal-Mart
two days after filing her second complaint against Dr. Emerson, and only worked
there a couple of months. Just long enough to wreak further
havoc with a man's life.
Dr, Emerson’s daughter is now a grown woman but he has only been able
to see his daughter once for about
an hour after his parole in 2005 while she was visiting her grandmother. But
when Sacha, his ex-wife, found out
she took a policeman and forced him to leave and never brought his daughter
back.
As so often happens with children estranged from their fathers, in early 2009
his daughter, now 15, wanted to
see her father. They were texting back and forth, exchanging email, and they
were friends on MySpace. But his
daughter told Dr. Emerson that whenever she missed the bus her stepfather
would get mad and spank her
because she wasn't home early to clean the house.
Personally, I have a problem with stepfathers "spanking" teenage
girls.
Apparently as a result of such actions his daughter told her mother that
she wanted to go live with her real
father. As you who have been through these nightmares know, the manure hit
the revolving steel blade. Her
mother and stepfather cut off her email, MySpace page, cell phone, and contact
with her boyfriend.
Shortly thereafter an anonymous (Sacha?) phone call was made to Child Protective
Services (CPS) claiming
Dr. Emerson and a female friend were living together and he was molesting
the woman’s little boy. However, his
female friend and he had never spent a night together, he hadn't lived at
the reported address for almost three
years, and had never been alone with the boy for more than a few minutes.
As many others have seen, after an
"investigation" CPS was "unable to determine" that there
was any basis to the abuse claims. Of course, the
"investigation" was completed without ever talking to Dr. Emerson.
His daughter now has two children but is a single mother. So in addition to
being a burden on the public purse
it is almost certain his daughter’s children will end up in trouble
as they go through their teens.
Dr. Emerson completed parole from his five-year sentence mandated by the Lautenberg
amendment to the
Brady gun bill in April 2008 with no further problems.
As of early 2018 Dr. Emerson is living in a travel trailer on a friend’s
lot. He has required a second open-heart
surgery, at taxpayer expense of course. As a convicted felon he is ineligible
for most relief programs but Catholic
Outreach Services, First Baptist Church, Salvation Army, and other charities
have helped. However, at least his
medical expenses are paid by taxpayers and he does receive some public support
such as food stamps but is
able to eat only every other day or so. A few of his former patients help
him out by driving him places. The Equal
Justice Foundation has also been trying to help and donations marked "Emerson
Fund" can be made through
PayPal, or by sending a check to the EJF at 455 Bear Creek Road, Colorado
Springs, CO 80906-5820. All such
donations are tax-deductible and Dr. Emerson receives 100% of your contribution.
Naturally he is in arrears on child support. Of course the reason he can't
pay is that his wife's adultery resulted
in his imprisonment and the loss of his medical and drivers licenses. And,
at last word, he has not been able to
get his drivers license or medical license back since being released from
prison.
Thus, one harlot and her feminist cronies have deprived San Angelo, Texas,
of an established and
eminently-qualified family doctor who no longer pays taxes or for his medical
expenses. No crime was
committed in commonly understood terms. And Dr, Emerson is not the only medical
doctor we’ve heard from
who has had his career and practice destroyed by feminists. The EJF mailing
list currently contains over 30 M.D.s
who have seen similar problems. That number is almost certainly just the tip
of the iceberg.
So taxpayers now support four people, with more to come, as a direct result
of Sacha fornicating with
her hairdresser, an obvious boon to feminism.
However, in terms of civil liberties Dr. Emerson’s case did a valuable
service. It led directly to the case of
District of Columbia v. Heller wherein the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Second
Amendment protects an
individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia.
However, the price paid seems high!
Dr, Emerson can be reached at mylogan94@yahoo.com or on FaceBook. Words of
encouragement would
also be appreciated. If you’ve read this far, more details are available
here and this was by no means the end of
his travails as once the “justice system” has you in their claws
they don’t let go.
Dr. Emerson's odyssey through a feminist legal system gone mad is but one
example of thousands the Equal
Justice System has witnessed and hundreds we have documented. It is an open
question as to how long a
nation can endure based on such practices. It is worth noting that the Soviet
Union began with such practices and
endured for just 70 years.
In no way is Dr. Emerson's experience different from now millions of other
men driven from their children,
families, homes, and businesses on to the streets. One only need to look along
the nearest creek to see the
flotsam of tent cities of homeless. Many of them are combat veterans as well
in our neck of the woods.
Steve Bandusky — A Boeing engineer
When we first heard from Steve on August 10, 2000, he was a successful
engineer with Boeing in Mesa,
Arizona. He had built what his boys called the "big house" for his
family: wife, her two daughters, and two boys of
his and his wife Sylvia. With about 5,000 square feet and a full basement,
it truly was a big house. The boys loved
to play in it. Unfortunately, about a year after they moved in, things started
to get a bit stressed with his wife.
Maybe it was the money, which was thin then, or maybe they grew a bit distant
because of his schedule at work
and trying to make ends meet.
Without prior notice or warning, a typical feminist objective, at approximately
11:30 PM, on Monday, January
31, 2000, Steve was awoken by the sound of someone knocking on his bedroom
door. It turned out to be two City
of Mesa police officers informing him that he was being forced from his residence
under an ex parte domestic
relations restraining order.
All that he could think was that he had been woken up by the Gestapo in Germany.
In utter disbelief he asked
to see the court order. Yes, there it was in black and white, an order stating
that he had committed an act of
domestic violence against his spouse, his two stepdaughters, and two young
sons.
After futilely trying to convince the officers that this was total nonsense,
he asked them if they saw any
evidence of domestic violence against his family members. They said no, but
reiterated that they had no choice in
the matter but to follow the letter of the court order. One of the officers
even mentioned that the action he was
ordered to take against Steve was wrong, yet he still had to act on the direction
of the court order. So after
packing an overnight bag, Steve said goodbye to the house he had just built
for his family. He then found himself
driving around Mesa at midnight looking for a place to stay. Eventually he
went to work instead.
It turned out that Steve's wife had gone to his mother and borrowed $100 that
Monday and used the money to
go to court and file the ex parte restraining order against him. The story
of what happened after that follows.
With the house being just a year-old, Steve was still doing landscaping. When
hit with the restraining order
there were dangerous open trenches. Being an engineer, Steve was concerned
about the danger to pedestrians
and others if the trenches were left open. Thinking the legal system was just,
he obtained a modification of the
restraining order to return to the house and fill in the trenches. The modification
expired at 5 PM but Steve was
still working away at 5:30 trying to finish up. His wife then called the police
and had him arrested for violating the
terms of the order.
As usual, Steve was convicted of domestic violence for violating the restraining
order in the kangaroo county
court after some dispute between the City of Mesa and Maricopa County as to
who got to put the noose around
his neck for trying to be a good citizen. He vainly attempted to get a jury
trial for the criminal charge but was
denied.
Steve's pro se appeal through the state courts was denied and certiorari was
denied by the US Supreme
Court.
With a domestic violence conviction for violating a restraining order he was
denied custody of his two boys in
the divorce; although he did have two weekends a month visitation; more than
many fathers get in these
circumstances.
Real domestic violence
Meanwhile, Sylvia’s new boyfriend had moved into the house with the
stepdaughters and the two boys. Within
a year she had a new baby by him to add to the "family." Note that
she now had five kids by three fathers. As
often happens with women looking for a little "excitement" in their
lives they take up with an abusive male.
Apparently Sylvia still couldn't keep her knees together, or something else
set off the resident boyfriend.
On April 27, 2002, Steve visited the former marital residence to discuss the
re-positioning of some trees in the
front yard that she had planted directly over the septic system. When he arrived
approximately 10-12 police
vehicles/officers/detectives were parked in front of the house.
Steve quickly got out of his car to find out what was going on. He approached
one of the detectives and was
told there had been a shooting. After just about passing out from fear that
his sons had been injured he was told
they were safe with a neighbor down the street.
As it turned out, Sylvia had been shot in the back of the head with a 12-gauge
shotgun by her resident
boyfriend while the children were in another room. Fortunately for Steve the
police had the perpetrator in custody.
So Steve was not considered a suspect, as would usually have been the case.
After finding out from the detective that the boys were safe and sound with
some neighbors, Steve informed
the police that he was going to go get them. They informed him that he couldn't
due to the fact that he did not
have sole custody and couldn't take them without a court order. They also
informed him that this was a criminal
investigation and that they wanted to question the boys, who were in the house
at the time of the shooting.
At the time, despite all evidence to the contrary, Steve still naively believed
he had rights as a father and made
the mistake of getting mad at the police; never a good thing to do, especially
when they are conducting a murder
investigation. The police then ran a check on Steve and found he had an outstanding
warrant for his arrest. He
hadn't attended the DV treatment courses after being convicted of violating
a restraining order when he
attempted to finish the landscaping project. So Steve got arrested and taken
to jail once again.
After posting bond he went back to get the boys only to find the police had
taken them into custody for
questioning.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Steve was lucky in that, after an investigation, child "protective"
services gave him custody of his two boys
after his wife was murdered. My understanding is that the new baby went with
its maternal grandparents. I don't
know what happened with the stepdaughters. Perhaps they went back with their
father but Steve did keep in
touch with them.
As with everyone who goes through these injustices and traumatic events, Steve
developed PTSD, severe in
his case. The stress caused him to perform poorly at work and he went on medical
leave until he used that all up.
Eventually, though, he lost his job with Boeing and remained unemployed as
he was emotionally unable to
concentrate.
After cleaning his wife's brains and blood off the wall he managed to sell
the "big house" and the boys
certainly didn't want to go back there. That gave him money to live on but,
like many, he self-medicated the PTSD
with alcohol. More alcohol was required as time went on and eventually his
kidneys and liver failed.
Restraining orders kill
Through all the many emails from Steve he was trying to fix the problem, fight
the issues and injustices in the
courts, and care for his boys. There was never any violence in his marriage,
only some arguments about money,
and probably some estrangement due to his working too hard to try and pay
for a new home and support a wife
and four kids. For this, which we should admire, his life and family were
destroyed.
If Sylvia had not taken out the restraining order there is a very good chance
she would be alive today. And we
can be reasonably certain Steve would not have crawled into a bottle to compensate
for the incomprehensible
injustices done him and his children.
Before he died Steve did arrange with the older of the stepdaughters to care
for his now orphaned sons. We
can only hope the resilience of youth allows these now young men to go on
to normal lives despite the tragedies
their parents endured at the hands of a society and justice system gone mad,
but the odds don’t favor them.
May he finally rest in peace
While Steve lived I asked him many times to write his story so that others
would know what was being done to
him. After buying flowers for the grave of the boy's mother on March 15, 2004,
he wrote me the following
message:
"People have been after me for a few years now to write this story. I
don't know why it has taken so long to
complete. I have started many times, but I am still in utter disbelief as
to what has happened. I always
seemed unable to finish. Maybe it was the pain, maybe the horror or probably
just the absolute incredulity of
the way our government 'protects' us.
The flowers were for the mother of my two young sons that we recently placed
on her grave on what would
have been her 39th birthday. This was the first time that I've taken them
to view the gravesite of their mother. It was the first time that I thought
that they were ready to be reminded of the horror of what had happened a few
years ago in the 'big house,' as they fondly called it. I found it a bit ironic
as I watched the tears form in their
eyes, to notice that just a mile away on the horizon, stood the hospital that
Johnny and Robbie were born in,
some 6 and 8 years ago. They were just 3 and 5 when the nightmare began."
It was with great sorrow that I learned of the death of EJF charter member
Steven Bandusky on August 27,
2008, from liver and kidney failure; and even now this man’s death brings
tears to my eyes.
Go with God, Steve, for you the nightmare is finally over. I hope my few futile
words provide some evidence of
the horrors inflicted on you. Know that as long as I draw breath I'll continue
fighting these injustices in your name.
Death of a soldier — In honor of Paul Charbell Boulos
The intention is to pay tribute to the brave men who go forth to fight our
nation's battles and condemn the
injustice they face upon return. We do not wish to speak ill of the deceased
but to encourage the development of
better methods of dealing with, and preventing tragedies like this.
If we accept the premise that a primary mission of the justice system is to
provide for public safety then the
unfortunate history of Paul Charbell Boulos provides a depressing example
of how our courts are failing both
veterans and the public weal.
We can, and must do better!
The following events are assembled from public records.
Paul Boulos entered the Army from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in March
1999 at age 24 and served until
March 2012, rising to the rank of staff sergeant. During his enlistment he
endured three combat infantry tours in
Iraq and was highly decorated.
His problems with the Colorado justice system began in July-August 2001 with
a couple of traffic tickets in
Denver and another one in May 2002. He also had some trouble with an apartment
complex in Arapahoe County
in 2003, the sort of problems many young soldiers have.
Boulos first combat tour was in 2006.
Second combat tour in 2008
At some point he married Marina I. Gonzalez. As young couples with children
often do they had money
problems in 2008 after Paul completed his second tour in Iraq.
Beginning of the end
Life really started downhill for Paul Boulos before his third combat tour
in 2010. On February 26, 2010 his wife
Marina filed charges of domestic violence against him including criminal mischief,
obstruction of telephone
service, and harassment claiming he shoved, struck, or kicked her. On the
following day he was charged with
twice violating the mandatory protection order.
On April 13, 2010, Paul pled guilty to harassment and violating the restraining
order and was given a deferred
sentence. The other charges were dismissed.
From that day forward he was a dead man walking.
He completed probation for those offenses on September 18, 2012. But troubles
with his wife were just
beginning. On March 3, 2010, Marina was granted a temporary restraining order
against Paul. That order was
vacated on March 15th. But probably with the help of her attorney or TESSA,
Marina immediately filed for, and
was granted another temporary restraining order the same day. The second order
was vacated on April19th.
During this Marina filed for divorce on March 12, 2010, and custody and financial
battles in the divorce
continued until October 22, 2012. With a domestic violence conviction for
Paul custody of their daughter went to
Marina.
2010 – Third combat tour in Iraq
In the midst of this domestic chaos Paul completed his third combat tour
in 2010. [Note that with a
domestic violence conviction he should never have been deployed a third time.]
There can be little doubt that Paul Boulos was engaged in heavy combat during
his three tours in Iraq.
Together with the emotional devastation of a divorce and losing his child
he certainly suffered from post traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). It would be remarkable if he didn't also suffer from
multiple traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
after years of combat.
Driven to death
Somehow Paul managed to stay out of the justice system after his third
combat tour in Iraq until July 2011. But then his life completely disintegrated
and the El Paso County, Colorado, jail and court records show the following:
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He was arrested and booked into the Criminal Justice Center (CJC) on
July 14, 2011, and charged with 18 counts of F4 felonies involving false
information to a pawnbroker and theft/series-$200-$10,000 including domestic
violence.
In October 2011 Paul was also in court in obvious financial difficulties
when apparently his landlord seized
his possessions for non-payment.
Paul failed to appear in that civil case on October 18, 2011, involving
a forcible entry and detainer dispute
with E V Apartments. A summons was issued.
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Booked into CJC on October 19, 2011, and again charged with an F4 felony
for theft $1,000-$20,000 and false information by seller to a pawnbroker.
The booking charges are apparently a continuation of case number2011CR2374
and a result of the summons issued in the civil suit.
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In December 2011 he was back in court for problems with another apartment
complex.
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CJC records show he was booked on January 9, 2012 and charged with an
M1 misdemeanor for violation of a permanent restraining order, most likely
for attempting to visit his daughter. Apparently as a result of this Boulos
missed a 9 AM Veteran Trauma Court (VTC) hearing on that date. But he
also missed a hearing on January 12th. There is no record of the disposition
of the violation of the restraining order and that charge was apparently
dropped.
Admitted to the veteran treatment court
After missing a number of court hearings he was admitted to the local veteran
treatment court after finally
attending a hearing on January 19, 2012. As required of all veterans in that
court, he pled guilty to F4 felony theft
and was given a deferred sentence on April 5, 2012. This case was closed on
July 24, 2014, just three days
before his death, apparently after he paid restitution of $17,321, court costs
of $1,624, and completed 50 hours of
community service.
But Boulos problems were only beginning:
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Just one day later, on January 20, 2012, he was booked into CJC again,
apparently as a result of missing hearings involving an F4 felony for
theft of $1,000-$20,000 and false information by seller to a pawnbroker.
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Jailed again on February 8, 2012 for a bond hearing in the veteran trauma
court.
Chaptered out.
Following these multiple arrests Paul Boulos was reduced in rank to private
(E-1) and, in lieu of a court
martial, was separated from service under other than honorable conditions
under Chapter 10 of the Uniform Code
of Military Justice (UCMJ) in March 2012.
That left him without VA medical treatment, a disability check, or any other
benefits despite his obvious
injuries and three combat tours.
Arrests and jailing continued
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Boulos was booked into CJC again on November 8, 2012, and charged with
misdemeanor contempt of court. His case was reviewed in the VTC at that
time.
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Jailed again on January 17, 2013, apparently a continuation of a case
involving felony theft. A review of his case was held on January 24, 2013,
and he was released. Note that court records show his case was reviewed
roughly every two weeks and Boulos often failed to appear. Such lapses are
characteristic of individuals with traumatic brain injuries who don't have
family or an advocate to insure they make appointments.
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• Booked on April 4, 2013, and charged with civil contempt and another
review of his case was held.
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Arrested on April 23, 2014, and charged with DUI, reckless/aggressive
driving, failing to report an accident, and leaving the scene of an accident.
This case was still open when he died on July 27, 2014.
Home is the soldier
Despite his obvious injuries after three combat tours Paul Boulos was chaptered
out with a less than
honorable discharge after being reduced in rank to a private.
The available evidence strongly suggests that the cumulative strains of three
combat tours in Iraq coupled
with family destruction, together with his repeated incarcerations led to his
premature death on July 27, 2014,
presumptively from a heart attack, shortly after his fortieth birthday. He was
also reported to be on a number of
drugs, which is almost always true in cases like this.
Despite being highly decorated and surviving three combat tours he was buried
without any military
honors to the shame of our nation.
Conclusions
Before considering conclusions it needs to be firmly understood that the
function of a justice system is public
safety, not personal safety. And law enforcement is but one component of the
governmental function of
providing for public safety. Further, law enforcement and incarceration should
be tools of last resort.
Then there is the question of how large an impact feminist ideology has had
on the citizens of America; most
notably the men and their children. The examples given above demonstrate the
destruction of a medical doctor,
an engineer, and a soldier. These are not professions a society can live without
and there are now millions of men
in similar, vital professions who have been subjected to the same destructive
feminist tyranny.
In a recent essay Heather MacDonald firmly establishes that “equality”
in feminist ideology requires equal
or majority numbers of females in all professions. Unfortunately, few women
are capable of, or interested in
combat roles in the military; or becoming engineers, scientists, linemen, machinists,
miners, etc. The feminist
solution then is to lower the physical and educational standards for such positions.
After all, why does an
engineer need calculus or differential equations when AutoCAD and programs like
Mathematica are available?
Wars are now fought entirely by pushing buttons, right? Isn’t medicine
better practiced and performed by robots?
Of course, these fallacies will inevitably result in mediocrity at best and
inevitable failures at all levels, but at least
there will be equal numbers of women involved. Nonetheless, men will receive
all the blame!
In our justice system feminists have cleverly circumvented the centuries old
requirement that prosecutors
must establish both mens rea and actus reus beyond a reasonable doubt to obtain
a criminal conviction.
Restraining orders, plea bargains, torture, making crimes of civil cases such
as child support, ignoring
jurisdiction, judge shopping, admitting hearsay as evidence, allowing perjury
and subornation of perjury are all
standard practice today in feminist-dominated jurisprudence.
A basic question, however, is how vast an impact feminist dogma and ideology
have had on our society?
While an exact answer to that question can’t be determined, it is possible
to make some estimates.
First step — Take away the guns
It is a hallmark of tyranny and tyrants that their first move is to ensure
the populace they aim to control is
unarmed. In the United States the Second Amendment of our Constitution makes
that quite difficult to do; as
was the Founding Fathers intent. Liberals and progressives, i.e., socialists/communists/neo-marxist
feminists, are currently flanking the Second Amendment by methods such as the
Brady Act, and the Lautenberg Amendment
of that act; as well illustrated by Dr. Emerson’s story above.
Domestic violence and abuse as a gun takeaway
Statistics of how many citizens are impacted by current gun control laws
vary widely. Wikipedia suggests 2.3
million men and women a year are raped or physically assaulted each year by
a current or former intimate partner
or spouse; but goes on to reference a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ)
in 2000 that suggests 1.3% of
women and 0.9% of men reported experiencing domestic violence in the past year.
With a current adult
population around 250 million, that would imply at least 5 million men and women
are being criminally assaulted
each year. Of those, a reasonable estimate suggests roughly one million men
are arrested each year. While
conviction rates are currently unknown to me, at least half these arrests probably
result in a conviction, usually via
a plea bargain. Thus, in the 24 years since VAWA passed, upwards of at least
12 million men have had their
weapons taken away as a result of a domestic violence conviction.
The Lautenberg Amendment also applies to domestic abuse restraining, or protection
orders that are issued
ex parte like candy to any woman claiming to be in “fear” or “emotionally
abused.” Estimates of the number of
such orders suggest 1.7 million to 2,4 million restraining orders are being
issued per year. That implies that in
the 24 years since VAWA was passed in 1994 somewhere between 26 and 58 million
such orders have been
issued. If just half of these orders are still in effect some 13 to 29 million
men are currently barred from owning
weapons as a result; in addition to the multitude of other penalties associated
with these heinous orders.
Felons can’t have guns either
While domestic violence cases are typically misdemeanors, the Brady Act also
makes it illegal for anyone with
a felony conviction to own a gun. A reasonable estimate suggests that today
~20 million U.S. residents, almost
all are men, have a felony conviction.
Comparing apples, oranges, peaches, pineapples, blueberries, etc. to get
a gross estimate
Now lets add all these figures up, always a dangerous thing to do with statistical
estimates.
That sum suggests that at least 45 million men have had their gun rights taken
away as a result of the various
“laws” that largely reflect feminist ideology.
The adult population in 2016 was ±250 million total, or ~123 million
men. Of those, I estimate, as tabulated
above, that ~45 million (~37%) men have already lost their gun rights. All the
while politicians have avoided the
dangerous step of directly attacking the Second Amendment under cover of allegedly
“protecting women.”
Arranging so that the various laws, e.g., domestic violence, sexual assault,
prohibitions like the War on Drugs,
etc., conveniently make everything a felony, or at least a heinous misdemeanor,
has proven an effective and
politically-expedient method of disarming the population by sidestepping the
Constitution.
But from the perspective of tyrants it matters little how citizens are disarmed,
only that they are.
Adding insult to injury
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in Colorado demographics suggest that approximately one half of all domestic
violence cases are false, usually because the “victim” is divorcing
her husband, seeking revenge, or in a custody battle. And Colorado is probably
little different from other states in this respect.
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A 2007 study by Iyengar suggests that mandatory arrest increases domestic
homicides by 60%.
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Numerous incidents demonstrate that obtaining a restraining order can
lead to a death certificate. All this is a hell of a lot of flotsam and
jetsam!
Impact of these arrests
Many of the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction flow not from
incarceration but from the collateral
consequences. These consequences are shown in the following table for anyone
convicted of a felony or many
misdemeanors, e.g., domestic violence:
In general, these are lifetime penalties, far too often incurred for violating
feminist ideology expressed in laws
with no fixed definition and illustrated in the stories above. These cruel penalties
can be incurred, and often are,
for such heinous crimes as driving down the street, sending an email, staring
or whistling at a woman, and
whatever else a woman claims caused her to be in “fear” or “emotionally
distressed.”
The numbers of men, children, and women destroyed by neo-marxist feminist ideology
and the “laws” they
have instituted with the help of the useful idiots in Congress and state legislatures
increases by millions yearly.
Already it appears that over one-third of the nation’s manpower is subject
to the atrocious consequences of
feminist dogma.
Our “justice” system has now entered an era where jury trials have
virtually disappeared, due process is an
antique relic; and allegations, hearsay, and unsubstantiated claims that a women
is in “fear” now suffice as
“proof.” What matters now are “emotions and feelings;”
logic, reason, facts, and evidence are of little or no
importance today.
The open question is how long this tyranny can continue without societal collapse?
While the arrests and incarcerations for “domestic violence,” “sexual
assault,” “harassment” (both sexual and
personal), continue to increase, neo-marxist feminist ideology only makes the
problems they claim to solve
worse. Evidence available to me demonstrates quite clearly that feminist dogma
is criminogenic. Of course that is
their goal, as only by breaking down families and marriage can they eliminate
the patriarchy and return to the
primitive matriarchy feminist claim to want.
The above is merely an outline of the problems caused by feminist dogma. In
his latest book, The New
Politics of Sex, Prof. Stephen Baskerville provides a more complete review of
the sexual politics resulting from
feminist ideology and his work is strongly recommended.
Principles of the Feminist Majority Foundation
Clearly, feminists are not satisfied with their current accomplishments,
i.e., destruction. The Feminist Majority presents a very good outline of what
a feminist future looks like:
My comments are in square brackets [ ].
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Supports equality for all genders [Note that they do not limit “gender”
to simply male and female] and supports constitutional [the Equal Rights
Amendment] and statutory measures [VAWA was just an opening salvo] to gain
full equality for women and girls locally, statewide, nationally, and globally.
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Supports safe, legal and accessible abortion, contraception, and reproductive
and sexual healthcare, including Medicaid [i.e., public] funding and access
for minors, poor women and girls, and people regardless of immigration status.
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Dedicated to achieving civil rights for all people through affirmative
action programs for people of color and women [men are not included], securing
fair housing, ending the school to prison pipeline, establishing full voting
rights, and enforcing civil rights laws including Title IX, Title VI, and
the ADA.
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Supports dismantling the gender and racial inequities within the criminal
justice system [Would that require arresting and incarcerating as many women
as men?].
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Supports achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
intersex, queer and gender-nonconforming people [and any other deviants
the future may invent].
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Promotes non-violence and works to eliminate all violence against women
[violence against men is of no concern, however].
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Supports immigrant and refugee rights regardless of legal status or country
of origin [No definition of how these souls have rights without a defined
legal status].
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Supports programs directed at combatting [sic] climate change, preserving
the environment, securing clean air and water, and eliminating smog, hazardous
waste, and chemical and nuclear weaponry [Noble sentiments, all].
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Supports creating inclusive spaces and eliminating social and institutional
barriers to access faced by people with disabilities [and doing it yesterday].
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Supports workers’ collective bargaining, pay equity, healthcare
for all, free public college, and the end of sweatshops [they’ve left
out world peace].
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Promotes increasing access to voting and voter participation for young
people, women, and people of color [white males are not welcome, however],
and opposes gerrymandering and all methods of voter suppression [vote early
and vote often].
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The FMF does not permit and actively opposes discrimination on the basis
of sex, gender, race, sexual orientation, sexual identity, socio-economic
status, religion, ethnicity, age, marital status, national origin, size,
or disability [with the exception of white males, of course].
These thinly-veiled socialist/Marxist objectives are common to many feminist
organizations. The fact that these ideologies have killed an estimated 94 million
people should not be ignored in reviewing feminist objectives.
It may be too late...
See also:
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