Story about 'Domestic' Violence Reveals Much about Boston Globe

• A remarkable story about "domestic" violence appeared on the front page of the Globe's "City & Region" section on October 28 and revealed:
  The low level of the Globe's editorial staff,
• The tremendous bias the Globe has against men, while favoring women and feminism,
  
• How Globe editors read MassNews on the Net every day to help them understand what is happening and
  
• The Globe worries about "domestic" violence because a father from Gardner has finished an accredited study which demonstrates the unfairness in our state institutions toward men.

		This story began on the last day of December, 2001, when the Globe had a large editorial in memory of the 15 people who were killed by "domestic" violence in 2001. MassNews immediately wrote a story on our website which informed the Globe they had done a terrible job of analyzing this data. If they would take only a cursory look at the 15 people who had been killed, it would show that three men were murdered by women in "domestic" violence, while only four wives were killed during the same period. The rest were "shackups" of differing lengths of time. A total of 15 people were killed by what they call "domestic" violence. If these numbers were compared with the total of about 125 persons who are killed by violence in the state every year, it is not really a high number. But the Globe would disagree strenuously that we should be labeling these as "shackups," or that the number of killings which result from them is not alarming.
This prominent story revealed so much about the Globe, which is no longer locally owned, particularly the low quality of its editorial staff, which is hired on ideology, not talent.

That was clearly demonstrated in their recent story on October 28, 2002, which merely repeated the story they had told last December. It also reported that their feminist friends laugh at reports about abuse against men.

"Sometimes it snows in Florida," they retort. "We can't ignore it, but we don't make public policy around it."

The Globe had a picture of confrontational Nancy Scannell, head of the private feminist group, Jane Doe Inc., which is funded by the state, with her arms folded in front of the State House, saying, "It [domestic violence] happens because of sexism and power and control of men over women in our society."

This large pull-quote encapsulated with passion the anger and hatred these women have against men. They believe that life is all about "sexism" and "control of men over women." These extreme feminists, many of whom are lesbians, do not represent the average woman who likes and is happy to cohabit and share her life with the opposite sex. But these extremists like Scannell are in almost total control of the institutions in our state. They see everything in the world in terms of "good" women and "evil" men.

The reason that the Globe is so upset and is spending so much time on this subject is because a father, Steve Basile, has completed a rigorous study of the town of Gardner, which he began in 1997. His study has been accepted by the prestigious Journal of Family Violence. It shows that fathers and their children are not treated fairly in this state. The Journal won't be able to get it in print for about a year, but the Globe and their friends are out to destroy it before it even gets here. That's the reason for the publicity they gave Basile on October 28.

Some other interesting facts:

MassNews first published a story in October 2000 about how Jane Doe was using their political clout in the Legislature to stop Basile from getting some of the information he was seeking from court records. The feminist group was also given $100,000 extra by the state at that time to plan their attack against Basile. The complete story is available on the MassNews website free or in print from the MassNews office.

The story quoted one man, David Adams, as saying that virtually all batterers say they are victims of abuse. But he is the head of a batterers intervention program, a private organization which gets rich by working very closely with Jane Doe and DSS to "retrain" these men.

Although the Oct. 28 story was heavily weighted in favor of the feminists, the Globe printed only one letter in response and that was from another Jane Doe employee, Judith Beals. When the fathers attempted to send a letter to correct some of what they say were many inaccuracies, they were rebuffed by the Letters editor and the Ombudsman.

One of the Boston groups that compiled the statistics, Peace at Home, says that this violence is committed by people who are violent everywhere, not just when they are interacting with members of the opposite sex. Its founder and Executive Director, Stacey Kabat, says, "People who commit domestic violence are often violent in general. A past record or history of assault, fighting, or abuse is a sign that they think violence is a way to solve problems."

Jane Doe Inc. is closely affiliated with the social workers at DSS and undoubtedly gets large sums of money from that state agency. On its website which was being revamped recently, Jane Doe Inc. had this bold headline: "Welcome to Jane Doe Inc.'s and the Massachusetts' Department of Social Services Statewide On-Line Resource Guide."

The amount of money that goes to the militant Jane Doe Inc. from DSS and other government sources is impossible to discover because they don't want anyone to discover how much it is. But there have been glimpses now and then. During the state's budget crisis in 1999, the Boston Globe revealed that just one grant from the state to Jane Doe Inc. that year was for $450,000. It was for "teenagers affected by date rape."

Despite the tremendous concern these days about the use of guns, only two of the 15 people who killed their "partner" in 2001 used a gun to do so. Eight of them stabbed their victims with a knife and the other five beat or strangled the victim. The three women who murdered all used knives.