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RADAR ALERT: "First they ignore you, ..."

RADAR ALERT:

"First they ignore you, ..."

Two weeks ago, Slate.com's short-lived
<http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote1sym> 1 publication
"Double X" published an article by Kathryn Joyce entitled "'Men's Rights'
Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective."
<http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote2sym> 2

This was not Slate.com's finest hour. One thing this article could never be
accused of is objective reporting.

On Nov. 5th, the very same day the Double X article appeared, Salon.com's
Broadsheet published an article by Judy Berman entitled "'Men's rights'
groups go mainstream"
<http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote3sym> 3 that adds no
new information, and simply seems to be an effort to repeat the Double X
article to Salon's readers.

Since the Double X article appeared there have been several analyses of its
flaws, the most recent being Cathy Young's article in Forbes: "Feminism
should be about equality-for males too"
<http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote4sym> 4 which says:

"More than a quarter-century ago, British feminist philosopher Janet
Radcliffe Richards wrote, 'No feminist whose concern for women stems from a
concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest
to be the advantage of women.' Joyce's article is a stark example of
feminism as exclusive concern with women and their perceived advantage,
rather than justice or truth."

In "Journalistic Misrepresentation at Slate's New Woman-Oriented Publication
'Double X'" <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote5sym> 5,
RADAR's Mark Rosenthal explained how the article had misrepresented his
comments and also took issue with the article's characterization of Murray
Straus as someone "who has written extensively on female violence," saying:

"The characterization of Straus as someone who has written extensively on
female violence is like characterizing Susan B. Anthony as someone who wrote
extensively on temperance - true but misleading because of what it leaves
out. Straus has devoted his professional career to the study of all forms of
family violence - parent-to-child, child-to-parent, sibling-to-sibling, as
well as partner violence in all its configurations - male-to-female,
female-to-male, and mutual. He has never focused exclusively on female
violence."

And in a series of articles beginning with "Slate.com & Salon.com Criticize
the Fatherhood Movement (Part I)"
<http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote6sym> 6, Glenn Sacks
critiques the quality of the reporting, saying:

"The articles discuss various aspects and actors in the [men's and fathers]
movement, and also quote and misquote me. ... I specifically, repeatedly,
and emphatically told Joyce that any linkage between the men's & fathers'
movements' grievances and Sodini is not my view, but I guess she was
determined to jam it in there anyway."

Mahatma Gandhi is reputed to have said: "First they ignore you, then they
ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." The joint Slate/Salon
attack pieces are a good indication that we're well past stage 1.
Congratulation to all RADAR supporters and allies for getting us this far.
Let's keep it up!

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1 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote1anc> "Double X
closes up shop",
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/11/16/double_x_folds/index.html

2 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote2anc> "'Men's
Rights' Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective.", Slate.com,
http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/mens-rights-groups-have-become-
frighteningly-effective

3 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote3anc> 'Men's
rights' groups go mainstream, Salon.com,
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/05/mens_rights/index.ht
ml

4 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote4anc> "Feminism
should be about equality-for males too",
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/19/mens-rights-feminism-equality-violence-opin
ions-contributors-cathy-young.html

5 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote5anc> "Journalistic
Misrepresentation at Slate's New Woman-Oriented Publication 'Double X'",
http://www.breakingthescience.org/DoubleXMisrepresentation.php

6 <http://www.mediaradar.org/alert20091123.php#sdendnote6anc> "Slate.com &
Salon.com Criticize the Fatherhood Movement (Part I)",
http://glennsacks.com/blog//?p=4359 <http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4359>

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Date of RADAR Release: November 23, 2009

R.A.D.A.R. - Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting - is a
non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve
the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence.
http://www.mediaradar.org

Molested by the State

WorldNetDaily:  "Molested by the State"

Posted by: "Stephen Baskerville" [email protected]

Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:08 am (PDT)

My article, "Molested by the State," is published today on WorldNetDaily.

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Molested by the state

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Posted: September 12, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

By Stephen Baskerville
© 2009

A recent United Nations report advocates giving mandatory instruction in masturbation to children as young as 5. "Sexuality education is part of the duty of care of education and health authorities and institutions," according to the U.N.

Entitled "International Guidelines on Sexuality Education," the document is published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO. The entire document is a manifesto for governments to assume control over the "sexual education" of children, to inculcate in them politically correct ideas about sex and sexual politics, and to undermine and marginalize their parents.

To read the rest: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=109563

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Stephen Baskerville, PhD
Associate Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College
1 Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, Virginia 20132

Available from Cumberland House Publishing:

Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
STEPHEN BASKERVILLE, PhD

"This book is a tremendous and much-needed report on how family courts and government policies are harming children." -- Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum

Order today at Amazon's special price of $16.47 (regular price $24.95).
For more than 80 articles and studies in mainstream publications on the abuses of the divorce industry, see www.stephenbaskerville.net.

Dr. Baskerville: The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics

I just learned that my scholarly article, "The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics", has been published by The Family in America, the journal of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society. Despite the date on the issue, it was just recently published. You can request hard copies from the Howard Center.

 

 

The Family in America, vol. 22, no. 2 (2008)
http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia.2202.htm

 

The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics
Islamic radicalism may be creating a “clash of civilizations,” but sexual radicalism is undermining the social foundation of all civilization.

By Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D.*

*Stephen Baskerville teaches political science at Patrick Henry College. He is the author of Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family (Cumberland Books).

“All politics is on one level sexual politics.” — George Gilder, 1986

Four decades into the boldest social experiment ever undertaken in the Western democracies, the full impact of what was once quaintly known as “women’s liberation” is at last becoming clear. The political class of both the Left and Right have colluded to limit the debate to a series of innocuous controversies: job discrimination, equal pay, affirmative action. Only abortion has any depth, and that debate has been mired in stalemate.

Meanwhile, beneath the political radar screen, the real consequences are finally emerging: a massive restructuring of the social order, demographic trends that threaten the very survival of Western civilization, and perhaps least noticed, an exponential growth in the size and power of the state — the state at its most bureaucratic and tyrannical.

Feminism has now positioned itself as the vanguard of the Left, shifting the political discourse from the economic and racial to the social and increasingly the sexual. What was once a socialistic assault on property and enterprise has become a social and sexual attack on the family, marriage, and masculinity. This marks a truly new kind of politics, the most personal and thus potentially the most total politics ever devised: the politics of private life and sexual relations.

Read the rest here.

 

 

 

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Stephen Baskerville, PhD
Associate Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College
1 Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, Virginia  20132

 

 

Now Available from Cumberland House Publishing:

 

 

Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family

STEPHEN BASKERVILLE, PhD

 

“This book is a tremendous and much-needed report on how family courts and government policies are harming children."     -- Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum

 

 

Order today at Amazon's special price of $19.56 (regular price $24.95).

For more than 80 articles and studies in mainstream publications on the abuses of the divorce industry, see www.stephenbaskerville.net.

 

 

 

 

MLK Day: 2nd Class Parents

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Good People & People of Faith,

This message is about goals and our willingness to be clear about what
we believe. As part of some FEEDBACK I got a great thought worth
re-using from Richard Heybroek (rph@sgi-sws.org.uk):

".. without hope there is no purpose, without the golden vision
there is no sense of direction"

Martin Luther King (MLK) day is tomorrow. Many of us remember him and
the first efforts to break segregation in the South. The famous
boycott of the Birmingham Bus system which had forced blacks to sit in
the back. Actually, they had to sit behind a certain row. Even if the
back of the bus was full and there weren't any whites -- they still
had to stand. http://www.AKidsRight.Org/civil_back.htm

Many don't know that the first goal of the group when negotiating
with the white City Fathers was this: Just allow the blacks to fill
in from the back of the bus and the whites to fill in from the
front, so all seats get filled. To ask for equal seating would have
been "too radical", they needed to "take it slow."

Thank goodness the City Father's rejected even that humble request --
and the rest is history. WHAT ABOUT US? Here are a few thoughts you
may (or may not) agree with:

--- Alec Baldwin/ACFC President (Mike McCormick) interviewed on
CNN (Dec 2008) - http://www.ACFC.org/

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/12/18/lkl.alec.baldwin.cnn

"... I believe 50/50 custody should be the default position for men
who WANT & EARN 50/50 custody ... West VA has a very important law
where custody is allocated based on how the parenting duties were
divided during the marriage... I don't want anyone to automatically
get custody, I want QUALIFIED men who want it..." -- Baldwin

"... shared parenting is the solution ... presumption in law that we
aren't going to favor either parent... [combative parents] they need
communication skills training ..." -- McCormick

--- Alec Baldwin, also author of 'A Promise to Ourselves' (page 60)
- http://www.alecbaldwin.com

"I believe that the default position of every family court in this
country should be fifty-fifty physical custody of the couple's
children. The only exceptions should be those commonly held
objections that include spousal and/or child abuse, drug and/or
alcohol abuse..., or a parent's inability to provide a home for
children for any number of economic or emotional reasons..."

--- Prof. Stephen Baskerville, author of 'Taken into Custody'
(page 288) - http://www.stephenbaskerville.net/

'Yet ultimately it is the very nature of parenthood to declare to
the world: "Your opinions about my children are of no consequence.
You do not love my children, and you are not responsible for them.
If your opinions about what is best for my children turn out to be
wrong, it is my children and I who must live with the consequences,
not you.

I am not required to conform to your opinions about what is best for
my children, and I am not answerable to you for how I raise them."'


A Proposed Foundation ( http://www.NationalPLC.Org/ )
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Take a look at what we hope is a clear (and brief) definition of
family rights. If they 'sound like a good vision' to you please
join a growing social network of like-minded people working for
reform, The National Parent's Leadership Council (link above).

* BOTH biological parents have a right to know they have a child.

* BOTH parents are presumed FIT & EQUAL (in terms of both physical and
* legal custody of their children). If anyone (a spouse, relative, or
* Child Protective "services") wishes to challenge that, you have a
* right to speedy trial, counsel, and the protection of a criminal
* jury and a unanimous verdict. The "state" needs to prove you were a
* demonstrated serious and intentional threat to your child's safety
* and acted with malintent.

* A child has a right to EQUAL contact with BOTH parents. A child does
* NOT have a right to pick a preferred parent. A child does NOT have a
* right to parents who always act in the child's best interest.


How do you think it works in the real world?
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Think about how you would reply to these? You have the opportunity
to answer the same questions (for Membership) at the NationalPLC.Org
web site. I welcome your comments on a BLOG setup to address these
items: http://www.NationalPLC.Org/blogs/scenarios/

1. A male is involved in a short-term relationship with someone and
they then drift apart. She told him she was sterile. Should the male
be notified if a child is born?

2. A female is involved in a short-term relationship with someone who
is a doctor, their OB-GYN, and then drift apart still good
friends. During a later 'medical procedure' with this same doctor he
'takes' an extra egg from her and uses it to implant his sterile wife.
Should she be notified if a child is born?

3. Parent parks car to run into 7-11 to get groceries (less than 5
minutes), leave sleeping child in locked car. Should they have to
justify their actions in a child protective services investigation?

4. One parent works a 50 hour week, never goes to school events, lets
TV take care of the kids, feeds them fast food (objectively, a very
POOR parent). The other parent is highly involved with the kids, loves
to spend time with them (objectively, a very GOOD parent). Should we
give MORE time to the good parent after a divorce?

5. When a high-conflict divorce occurs and both parents appear fit
with no allegations of abuse... A mediator in conjunction with a
custody evaluation with objective criteria should make the final
determination regarding a proper parenting schedule.

6. We have a 16 year old child who is a junior in high school. Time has
been EQUAL between the parents, but the child does not like being with
one of the parents (who objectively does have poor parenting skills).

The child wants to spend much more time living with the good parent
who objectively appears to understand how to better deal with a
teenager and they have close bond. Should this be allowed?

7. Within an EQUAL parenting schedule, the child eventually wants to
get involved in an extra-curricular activity that would reduce time
with one parent. Teachers & counselors agree the activity would be
excellent for the child. Should a forced schedule change be made?

8. A parent is stopped, with the kids in the car, for DWI. There was no
accident. Should these be a good reason for either Social Services or
the other parent to argue this parent should have their contact with
the kids put under some type of court control/limitation?

9. A clear incident of domestic violence occurred between the
parents. One parent gave a severe slap right to the face of the other
during a heated argument. There are no incidents of either parent
harming the kids. Should we allow this parent to still be considered
FIT and have EQUAL contact with the children?


--
John Murtari
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Coordinator AKidsRight.Org
jmurtari@AKidsRight.Org "A Kid's Right to BOTH parents"
Toll Free (877) 635-1968(x-211) http://www.AKidsRight.Org/

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Cover of Touchstone Magazine: "Divorced from Reality"

Touchstone is a prestigious and influential magazine of Christian thought. So this article, headlined on the cover, is an important event. It could not have come at a better time, with the possibility of Taken Into Custody going out of print. Please use this article to get media attention, particularly in the Christian media, which is what we need more than anything.

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-01-019-f

To send a letter to the editor, go to: http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/navigation_docs/contact.html

The outpouring of support over Taken Into Custody has been very gratifying and successful. Yesterday the book rocketed up above the 5,000 Amazon rating and was #1 in several catgories. This article should assist in getting a reprieve for TIC. Please send it to your church leaders and members, media, local officials, and other opinion leaders.

Thanks once again to all. May God bless you and your families this Christmas and New Year.

Stephen

Touchstone magazine, January/February 2009

Feature
Divorced from Reality
"We're from the Government, and We're Here to End Your Marriage."

by Stephen Baskerville

The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.

...

Read the rest of the article:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-01-019-f

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Stephen Baskerville, PhD
Associate Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College
1 Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, Virginia 20132

From Cumberland House Publishing:

Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
STEPHEN BASKERVILLE, PhD

"This book is a tremendous and much-needed report on how family courts and government policies are harming children." -- Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum

Order today at Amazon's special price of $16.47 (regular price $24.95).
For more than 80 articles and studies in mainstream publications on the abuses of the divorce industry, see www.stephenbaskerville.net.

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