No need to Scale Canterbury Cathedral Roof!

The Archbishop should adopt a multi-faith approach to resolve this fundamental social shortfall!
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I was delighted to greet Nigel Ace,Co-ordinater for New Fathers 4 Justice. and sensed an air of optimism, and this was reflected by a lack of superhero's climbing on things and more a sophisticated approach to get this crucial message across to the Archbishop and the wider public.The BBC and other media organisations are quick to ridicule Batman without asking why is he on Harriet Harman's roof! This makes it imperative to show first hand accounts as with Darren Ash on how the appalling Family law courts treat the caring Dads and rely too heavily on the erroneous social services (the same incompetents responsible for Baby Peter, Victoria Climbe, Khyra Ishaq and the many thousands of other children's tragic stories that never reach the headlines till it is too late to help them!)


Could the New Supreme Court hold the key?
We are all aware that miscarriages of justice happen in the best of magistrates courts even under the scrutiny of the press and public, then the process is put in place for appeal and a mechanism exists to put these failures right! In family Law courts the judge is under no such scrutiny and accounts to nobody, so when children are wrongly taken from their parents and may entre the care system they are lost for good and no such course of redress exists.The judges cover their backs by saying they have acted on the ('snapshot') findings of a CAFCASS reporter or the like who in turn will not seek to upset the apple cart as it will, at the very least, mean more administration for them, whilst cloaking an over bureaucratised and equally secretive and unaccountable social service system, with of all people Ed (so what)Balls at the helm!?! (Lets support Nevres Kemel click Baby 'P' picture left)The same rule applies to a caring father as the mother is empowered to prevent the Dad seeing his own children, whilst that child may be raised by a stranger who has not spent 30 seconds in a family court room and will inherit the former family home which could be the culmination of your life's work and what you had intended to serve as a safe and secure home to raise your children! (Lord Justice Ward wrote about this in The Times 1st May 2008 click failing judges in the sidebar for the whole story)
The Good mothers are also penalised by all this as they try to make good a broken relationship and working part time to make things work whilst not putting undue demands on a Dad, via the state sponsored bandits in the form of the CSA (who expect good Dads to pay twice), who shows little interest or support for the mother!
Don't forget also the extended family who also lose out on their most vulnerable family members, such as grandparents these 'bastions of commonsense and stability' who are being snubbed as the logical mediators in all this, or indeed carers whist parents sort out their difficulties rather then the children being forced into care. Why are they punished for their parents mistake when maybe it is the parents that need to be taken to one side and taught some basic but far reaching parental responsibilities? It is also a double whammy for a grandparent as they see the heartbreak of their own children as well as the 'no contact' with their grandchildren.The whole system flies in the face of our given norms of past generations, and with legal professionals earning £200 per hour to advise separating parents and £2000 per court appearance what possible incentive is there for mediation or conciliation when the endless pot of legal aid shows no sign of emptying any time soon!
So I for one will stand firm with the good Dads of F4J and like Nigel it is probably too late for the benefit of our own children as childhood is quite a short span of time, but I will use this opportunity to warn President Obama ,Prime Minister Rudd, Prime Minister Harper and who ever we are going to be endowed with next May that they have till the 1st June 2010 other wise we will come after them on World 4 Justice Day and will not stop till this atrocious law is reformed and the true welfare of the little heard children is made paramount and not the pretence currently dished out in this appalling

Family Law Court System!

Opinion: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement on the closing of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago:
“It has been a pleasure to join Her Majesty The Queen, head of the Commonwealth, and other leaders of Commonwealth countries, to mark the 60th anniversary of this vital world institution. I should like to congratulate The Hon. Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, for his country’s generous hospitality.
“Throughout our meetings I stressed Canada’s strong support for the Commonwealth’s primary focus on its core competency: promoting democracy, good governance, human rights and the rule of law, principles that are in accord with our own.

Human Rights? PM Harper seems more preoccupied with pet adoption then solving the social ill's often associated with family break-up (Click title for the Premiere's web-site) Davey

“I reiterated the need for all nations to ensure sustainable, balanced growth by continuing stimulus policies, fixing the global financial system, liberalizing trade and resisting protection.
“We had a productive dialogue on climate change. We all recognized the urgency of taking action to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change. In particular, we recognized the threats to small island states, low-lying coastal states and the least-developed countries.
“Those of us going to Copenhagen share a common understanding that we need to act together.
“Canada is seeking a long-term international agreement where we all contribute to the solution. Such an agreement would also encourage the development and use of clean technologies while fostering the economic growth needed to pay for global warming mitigation.
“Throughout the Summit, I had fruitful exchanges with the Prime Ministers of Australia, Denmark, Great Britain and India. I also met with the UN Secretary-General, leaders from the Caribbean community and several other heads of government.”

I wanted to bring my Canadian blog forward to promote not only a review of the Canterbury Cathedral protest but to officially unveil

World4Justice Day :2010

which it is hope will co-incide with Her Majestie's visit to Canada in the Summer of 2010, from all Capitals and Major cities of the world (Click on Her Majesties Photograph to learn more of Her Canadian Visit)


Coming next, Canterbury Cathedral revisited, a review of the Saturday 12th December 2009 protest! F4J offer Archbishop Rowen Williams advice, this will be my difinative and final blog for 2009* Davey

Opinion: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

I found it hard to put into words my findings relating to the Australian Premier Kevin Rudd, on the one hand he seems to share qualities to our current incumbent Brown as one to sit on his hands and oppose public opinion at every turn. My only first hand experience was when he showed compassion to those who had suffered in the Victoria bush fires earlier this year and will leave you to decide the level of sincerity in his words. On our subject the cynic in me suggests as with all Western Governments (Although South Africa is showing flickers of commonsense thanks to F4J) vying for vote they are chasing the many single mother votes whilst ignoring the 'system excluded' Fathers! (I am grateful to my friend from Dadsonair for the link concealed in the title above and the following open letter)

An Open Letter to Australian PM Kevin Rudd

Dear Prime Minister,

I would be delighted if you would please consider the following carefully, in the interest of the many thousands of dispossessed parents and children of Australia.

Sooner or later the tide is going to turn. It took many years for us to recognize the injustices perpetrated against our Indigenous populations, Slavery, Apartheid, Civil Rights etc, etc.

These injustices were ignored for many decades due to community ignorance. Unfortunately we are repeating the same injustices under another name on our own people, due to the same ignorance.

Saying SORRY to one deserving dispossessed group, while at the same time completely ignoring the dispossession taking place right under our noses, smacks of hypocrisy and ignorance.

I fully applaud your part in bringing about a long overdue apology to the stolen generation and the Indigenous population. The fact that it took 200 years for us to realize the damage we inflicted on this vulnerable group and denied them their fundamental human rights for so long, is an indictment of our level of compassion and empathy. Unfortunately during the 200 years of community ignorance, the voices of reason were ridiculed and brushed aside.

I plead with you to please take a look at what is happening today with compassion and empathy.

It is estimated that the stolen generation numbered approximately 50,000 children. We now know the horrendous ramification of this "Best Interest of the Children" policy debacle, ironically administered by someone with the offensive sickening title of "PROTECTOR OF ABORIGINES"

Sadly the figure of 50,000 children representing the Stolen Generation, pales into insignificance when compared with the current figures of forcible separation of children from their parents.

The latest ABS figures show that:

1. There are now almost 700,000 Australian children who no longer have any meaningful contact with their biological non custodial parents.

2. There are now 312,000 biological non custodial parents who no longer have any meaningful contact with their children.

These figures do not include the extended biological family members such as grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, etc, who are estimated to add a further 1.5 million people, who are also denied their ties of kinship with their much loved members of their families.

This is an estimated total of 2.6 million of the nations citizens now reduced to a "GENERATION OF THE DAMNED". This human horror, is administered by the current so called protector of the Best Interest of the Children, THE FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA.

Contrary to what is promoted by those who wish to continue with the current failed policies, no scientific evidence has ever been produced anywhere, to show that large numbers of non custodial parents are voluntarily abandoning their children. While individual examples can always be found of any reprehensible behaviour, these should never be allowed to be promoted as representing the behaviour of the majority group.

The voices of reason, who are endeavoring to bring these gross violations of human rights to the attention of the community, are again ridiculed and brushed aside.

It comes as no surprise that so many children are neglected and abused in our community. It occurs because checks and balances have been removed by allowing the forced removal of hundreds of thousands of loving parents from their children.

Perhaps you could explain to an anxious community, how responsible parents are supposed to meet their duty of care and responsibility obligations to their children, when the State is permitting the illegal removal of children from their non custodial parents with impunity???

I respectfully ask that you please consider the above together with my previous correspondence, and in the interest of all the disenfranchised members of 'THE GENERATION OF THE DAMNED' of this great country, hope that you are able to help bring about some relief to all those affected.

Our failure to act will undoubtedly produce a similar outcome for our community, as was the fate of the Indigenous community before us.

I very much look forward to a reply of my concerns.

Kind Regards

My Friend again, 2008

It should also be noted Australian Child Support Agency death toll since Kevin Rudd became Prime Minister in November 2007: 8964 clients Davey is so dismayed by this you will find a full account with in the Australian Suplimentry flag in the side-bar along side Simon Anderton's protest!

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

TO AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER, RUDD


My Friend 2009


DEAR MR RUDD,

AS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TUCK INTO THE TURKEY THIS CHRISTMAS AND EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF CELEBRATING THIS SPECIAL TIME WITH THOSE CLOSEST TO YOU, SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THOSE NOT SO LUCKY.

WHILE YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY THOSE WHO ENJOY SHARING THE BOND OF FAMILY KINSHIP WITH YOU, CONSIDER THE DESPERATE PLIGHT OF 2.6 MILLION OF YOUR FELLOW AUSTRALIANS FORCIBLY DENIED THIS PRIVILEGE.

PLEASE LISTEN CLOSELY AND YOU WILL HEAR THE CRIES OF 700,000 AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN AND THE GROANS OF DESPAIR FROM THEIR NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS, AS THEY PINE FOR THE BONDS OF KINSHIP SO CRUELLY DENIED THEM, WITH THE APPROVAL OF YOUR GOVERNMENT.

THESE GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OCCUR DUE TO BADLY FLAWED FAMILY LAWS, WHICH ARE SET UP TO FAIL, AS THEY ENCOURAGE, RATHER THAN RESOLVE CONFLICT, AND ARE TEARING APART THE NATIONS’ PARENT/CHILD RELATIONSHIPS.
YET YOU REMAIN SILENT!

THE MULTI BILLION DOLLAR DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY LAW INDUSTRY, WHICH IS DRIVEN BY IGNORANCE, GREED AND MALICE, IS ALLOWED TO FLOURISH ON YOUR WATCH, BECAUSE YOU TURN A BLIND EYE TO THE CULTURAL GENOCIDE INFLICTED BY THIS INDUSTRY ON THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY.

THESE LAWS CONTINUE WITH THE BLESSING OF THE STATE, DUE TO THE FAILINGS OF YOUR GOVERNMENT TO CHALLENGE THE EXCESSES OF THIS INDUSTRY, AND HISTORY IS SURE TO JUDGE YOU HARSHLY FOR THESE FAILINGS.

GRANDIOSE POSTURING ON THE WORLD STAGE, WHILE YOUR OWN PEOPLE BLEED AND OUR COMMUNITIES ARE FORCIBLY TORN APART, IS A HOLLOW SYMBOLISM OF WORLDLINESS.

BY IGNORING THE HUMAN MISERY INFLICTED BY THE STATE ON FELLOW AUSTRALIANS THROUGH THE ACTIONS OF THE FAMILY LAW INDUSTRY, YOUR NAME WILL BE ETCHED IN HISTORY, AS NEGLECTING TO PLACE THE WELL-BEING OF YOUR SUFFERING CONSTITUENTS FIRST.

BY DECIDING TO TURN YOUR BACK, YOUR NAME WILL BE CARVED IN HISTORY NOT FOR THE GOOD YOU HAVE DONE, BUT RATHER FOR WHAT YOU FAILED TO DO.

ANY PERCEIVED HISTORICAL STATUS YOU MAY ENVISAGE OBTAINING BECAUSE OF YOUR STAND ON CLIMATE CHANGE OR HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, WILL BE OVERSHADOWED BY THE WAY YOU HAVE NEGLECTED AND ABANDONED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THE NATIONS CHILDREN AND THEIR NON CUSTODIAL PARENTS.

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND ENJOY YOUR TURKEY MR RUDD.

See just like Brown as I said! Davey

Next week: I will offer an opinion on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and offer a comprenhensive review of the Canterbury Cathedral Protest: 12th December 2009

Opinion: President Barack Obama.

About 18 months ago I was sitting out side a food processing plant in Greenford, listening to The BBC World Service, waiting to collect ready made meals for a major supermarket! On came an item discussing the Primaries for the next leader of the US Democrats Party and possibly, at the time, the next President. On came Lyse Doucet, the formidable world affairs correspondent who predicted it would be Hilary Clinton who would take the accolade and I said out load though to myself bet you are wrong!!
As time was to prove some 6 months later history was made and I was surprised when the former first lady was not made well, second in command, as with all the controversy surrounding the former President and his wife, I believed there would be a lot of people who would like to have seen her at the top even if, as with Ken Livingstone, it was purely on being a familiar face! Who is Biden after all? click title for Inauguration and Address.
From my North London perspective the predecessor to the President 'of new hope' Obama had not recognised the motive of 9/11 and carried on headlong into foreign countries plundering resources for the domestic market regardless of war or other resistance whilst at the same time failing to recognise the view from those who have sworn allegiance to the almighty flag!
This failure has resulted in a crumbling of society causing many to lead a feral and unregulated life regardless of law, discipline or respect and to date no western country seems to have the where with all to fix the problem, they just tinker round the edge, and silence those who dare question this to the point that here in the UK we now regard the BBC as the state propaganda machine somewhat reminiscent of Soviet Russia and a PM content on sending us on a fantasy route of Orwellian doctrine till we don't even believe ourselves anymore.
Family Law Courts and the failing social services world wide are why our societies have no likeness to what we grew up with even as recently as 25 years ago and I for one have witnessed discrimination that of all people President Obama would be all too familiar with and should stand to oppose such prejudice and until he and his counterparts in the UK, Canada, Oz and S.A do our societies will remain on a course of destruction and what will take a generation to fix, or it could be lost for good!

There will not be a Saturday review next week but the following
Saturday will be a review of events at Canterbury on the 12th !!
Next week I will offer a Sunday Opinion on Australian PM Kevin
Rudd and the following Sunday will be devoted to Canadian PM
Stephen Harper. (My final blog for 2009)

This is Davey's 50th blog on this subject my first milestone.

Saturday World (Parental Alienation) Review!

South Africa: To find out latest on this click on flag in sidebar believe we all have a lot to learn from what is happening in South Africa thanks mainly to F4J who advise their Government on Human Rights issues!! Click on title too for more.




US: << check out Glenn Sacks latest editorial on this subject in the side bar!



Australia:could this be the first case of State sponsored PAS? Shared parenting laws on way outCaroline Overington The Australian19/10/2009Contributed by: admin ( 10 articles in 2009 )THE Rudd government is planning to roll back the controversial shared parenting law passed in the final term of the Howard government, enraging men's groups, which say the laws have finally given them access to their children after separation.
Six inquiries into the shared parenting laws are now under way, which men's groups have interpreted as a sure sign that change is under way, too.
In a message to supporters, Sue Price of the Men's Rights Agency, has described the planned rollback as the "most sustained and concerted attack" on shared parenting that she has seen in 15 years.
Ms Price said the laws did no more than encourage "reasonable contact between perfectly good fathers and their children" and she is urging supporters to "convince the Rudd government that there are a million votes at stake" if they roll back the shared parenting changes.
"War has been declared and now is the time to protest the changes," Ms Price said, adding that planned changes were an attempt to "deny children shared parenting" and "an attack on a child's right to be loved and cared for by a dad on a shared-care, equal basis".
Attorney-General Robert McClelland, in concert with the Minister for the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, flagged a change to the law after a small child, Darcey Freeman, died after allegedly being thrown from the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne earlier this year. Her father, Arthur Freeman, has been charged with murder. In a committal hearing, the court heard that the mother had been terrified of her former partner, and told neighbours and others that he was certain to kill one of her children.
Of the six inquiries into the law under way, the Family Court Violence Review, also known as the Chisholm report, for its chairman, former Family Court judge Professor Richard Chisholm, is likely to report to Mr McClelland first.
Submissions to the Chisholm inquiry closed on Friday. In one submission, the National Council for Children Post-Separation, which largely represents the interests of separated mothers, has examples of women forced into contact with violent partners, after those partners won the right to see their children in the Family Court.

The submission says: "Parents are saying they don't want money. They would be happy to forgo maintenance payments if it saves their child from having to spend half the week with a parent who does not really want to parent them, but whose main objective is to avoid child support."
The submission also calls on the Family Court to consider the parenting roles played by each parent before separation, before deciding on shared or equal care after separation.
"Some parents abandon their spouse while pregnant and years later seek shared care when the child does not even know the parent," the submission says.
"One nine-year-old boy who considered he already had a father, since his mother married his stepfather when he was a baby, was told he had to spend every second weekend with his biological father.
"If there is no existing emotional bond between a child and a parent, why should the court force one on a child who may have an emotional bond with a step-parent?"
More than 3500 parents have signed a petition calling for the changes to the shared parenting law.
A submission from men's groups was not immediately available yesterday. The Shared Parenting Council says the six reviews of the law were placing "significant pressure" on the groups, which are "holding the line against a dismantling of the 2006 Family Law changes".
Besides the Chisholm review, the Attorney-General has commissioned the University of South Australia, James Cook University and Monash University to investigate the impact of family violence during and after parental relationship breakdown. This review will be overseen by professor Thea Brown.
The Social Policy Research Centre at the University of NSW is also conducting a review, as are the Australian Institute of Family Studies and the University of Sydney.

Canada:<<See my new Canadian PAS feature in the side bar; Fatherhood; it's the best job on the planet!


UK This week I attended my sons open evening....and for once I was encouraged by the positive attitude I found from the few teachers I confided in to let them know I had not had contact with my children for 2 years! After 6 years of Family Law abuse it is rare to find such understanding you become defensive to the point of paranoia! I was also delighted to know too that they are doing fine at school and decided for now their progress is paramount and there is little point in making any further pursuance of trying to resurrect contact if it is more likely to cause further hostility. It is hard to say that when we approach the 3rd Christmas without seeing them even though they only live 1/2 a mile down the road with their mum and the schools are in between. So I have passed them a card via the schools congratulating them on excellent school reports and saying they know where I am and would be glad to hear from them when it suits them to do so (as opposed to when mother deems it so) Is this not in the TRUE best of the children?

I am proud to offer this video into our debate showing as I often say Family Law penalises the good parents both Mum and dad whilst condoning the actions of vengeful mothers and feckless dads from what I can see equality means there are good and bad in all!(Perminatley in side bar too)