Opinion:

Massachusetts Courts Must Be Put Under a State of Siege

A Manifesto from the Fatherhood Coalition

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The path to equality for fathers and their children in Massachusetts will not be achieved by merely dialoging and educating the politicians and the courts.

The courts and the politicians have already been massively educated -- by our enemies, and with our (taxpayer) money no less!

The fathers rights movement must seek to put itself inside the heads of our enemies (the courts and all their Domestic Violence/child support/Guardian Ad Litem/DSS/social-services sub-regimes) and influence their very thought processes, to wit:

The court must begin to perceive itself as being in a STATE OF SIEGE.

Let them pretend that fathers are not being systematically discriminated against and persecuted by clinging to their mantra that they act only to protect "the best interests of the child."

Let them read -- and believe, if they wish -- Sen. Cheryl Jacques' legislative committee report on GALs, and let them believe that the problem with the GAL system is that they do not properly take into account domestic violence (perpetrated by fathers, of course) when making custody and visitation court recommendations.

Let them receive agents of another branch of government into their houses and believe that it is perfectly Constitutional to receive payments from an arm of the Executive branch, and that this does not constitute a breach of separation of powers and that it does not set up almost a mandate to make fathers non-custodial parents simply because they are overwhelmingly the parent with the higher income and will therefore generate the highest income to the courts.

Let them attend seminars about the need to address this growing army of so-called "pro se" litigants, and pretend that there is no gender component to this.

Let 'em preach to themselves, using their Judicial Training Institute and various other "Institutes" to train them about domestic violence, who in turn hire all the feminist Domestic Violence organizations (which we are forced to support with our tax dollars) such as EMERGE and Jane Doe to do the training.

Let them read Boston Globe stories that pretend that the problem in the courts is not driven by the persecution of fathers and their grassroots, bootstrap efforts to represent themselves vigilante-style because THEY HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY THAT THE FAMILY COURT SYSTEM IS THEIR ENEMY and that their best hope lies in learning the law themselves and taking charge of their own cases.

Let them pretend that it is instead higher case loads, pro se litigants, budget cuts and political struggles between Finneran and the Supreme Judicial Court, etc, etc.

Let Them Believe What They Want

Let 'em believe and say whatever the hell they want -- BUT MAKE SURE THAT EVENTUALLY THE TRUTH OF THE SITUATION BECOMES UNDENIABLE TO THEM -- that fathers in Massachusetts hold them in the highest contempt, that we flat-out reject all their nonsense about protecting the interests of children, because the facts speak for themselves:

When a mother and a father walk into court, who walks out in physical possession of the children?

When a mother and a father walk into court, who walks out with a court order empowering the state to automatically give them a third or more of the other parent's pay?

When a mother and a father walk into court, who walks out with a court order severely restricting their civil liberties, including the right to speak (let alone be with) their own flesh-and-blood children?

When a mother and a father walk into court, who walks out in handcuffs led by a bailiff?

When a mother and a father walk into court, who walks out with the stench and accusation of possibly being the sickest of all human beings: someone who rapes their own children?

No, Thank You

No, thank you. We don't buy that all these things happen overwhelmingly to fathers and practically never to mothers purely by coincidence. And furthermore, we won't even bother to educate you. We instead, purely and simply, REJECT YOU and any and all moral authority you claim to have.

Consider yourself in a state of siege.

We will be inside your courtrooms, better prepared and able to represent ourselves and hold YOUR feet to the fire than we could ever be if we instead chose to pay thousands of dollars to any old attorney.

We will file so much litigation to defend ourselves that we will bring you to your knees.
We will be outside your courtrooms with placards and bullhorns and marching feet.

We will seek an ever-increasing amount of publicity in the media.

We will educate politicians that fathers' rights is not an issue that they can take for granted.

We will NOT play by your rules. We will not seek accommodation with you. You are our enemy, and you must be purged. You must be replaced by people who have not been subjected to decades of feminist drivel and psychobabble indoctrination.

We demand you evict all your battered women's advocates and so-called "victim-witnesses" within your halls that are an affront to the fundamental principles of equal protection and the presumption of innocence.

We demand you divest yourself of your arrangement with the DOR, which belongs to another branch of government.

We demand an end to your use of feminist-indoctrinated GALS and all other psychiatrists and psychologists.

We will not cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists, social workers, GALs and other witchdoctors that have successfully deluded the courts into accepting them as practitioners of a real science. Psychiatry is not science and has no forensic value.

We will not rest until the unholy marriage of feminist jurisprudence and psychiatry is a bad memory.

We demand the rule of law that holds the rights to one's children to be a "fundamental liberty interest." This right should only be restricted when there is provable harm to the child in question, as determined under the standard of at least clear-and-convincing evidence.

When the courts realize and accept that they are in a true state of siege, only then will we begin to see real change.

It won't happen through education, it will happen through political force. We must wield that power and take this War on Fatherhood to them.