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		<title>Comment on Are you a Victim of VAWA Immigration Fraud? by Victim 2</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victim 2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Violence Against Women Act Fraud 
Minnesota caters to illegal immigrants and marriage for U.S. residency scams using VAWA laws. My wife is an immigrant from Guatemala who entered the country on a tourist VISA. Before we married, we had a child together and she received well over $30,000 in free healthcare through the state or county. She overstayed her tourist VISA and returned to Guatemala with our son for 3 months over Christmas and the New Year leaving me in the U.S. to work. She asked for money for liposuction surgery in Guatemala and I gave her funds to travel and to have the liposuction procedure. When she returned, she said we would need to marry for her and the baby to stay in country. We married quickly in the Dakota County court house and the marriage disintegrated from there. I was hesitant about marriage, but I wanted to keep my son in country and tried to build a happy family. However, my wife wasn&#039;t in the relationship for &quot;love&quot; like I was. She entered this relationship with ambitions of acquiring U.S. residency and running an import business ( indikohandcrafts.org ) in the U.S. that does not pay taxes and claims to be a fair trade organization. 


My wife&#039;s family came to visit for a few months and they continually attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and I. Ultimately, my wife had to assault me by punching me in the neck to get a defensive verbal response from me. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way. I was arrested by the Eagan Police for 5th Degree Domestic assault and spent 3 days in jail for something I didn&#039;t do and for not leaving my home under duress. Two years to date after we had been in country together, my wife made a fraudulent VAWA complaint to expedite her immigration process in lieu of U.S. residency through marriage. 

While I was in jail, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account. When I was released from jail, the courts issued an order for protection. I was broke, homeless and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office. Shortly after, my wife contacted me and asked for me to write a letter to immigration which stated I was an abusive husband. She said if I wrote the letter in her favor she would work with me to get my home back. Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote immigration to withdrawl my spousal petition for my wife&#039;s U.S. residency and reported all of the facts. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce and that was all I could afford. My wife said she was in no hurry to divorce. Being married for two years to acquire conditional residency was a back up plan incase the VAWA complaint to immigration fell through. 


The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property before a divorce hearing. They ordered that I surrender a car to my wife that was solely in my name. She demanded $3000 a month in support payments, but inly received a judgement for $1200 a month in child support. During the order for protection hearing, I asked my wife about her employment and academic credentials. She worked as a teacher at a school in Minneapolis called Passport Pals and claimed to have a degree in Psychology. In court and under oath, my wife stated she was a teacher and that she had a degree in Psychology. I challenged her about her academic credentials and she lied with a straight face. I pushed the questioning and she finally admitted to not holding a college degree. 


Even though the judge saw that my wife lied under oath, he granted her a one year order for protection. My house recently foreclosed and I am excluded from employment opportunities in my professional field due to having a &quot;criminal&quot; history now. I was charged with 5th degree domestic assault, but I was not found guilty of domestic assault or abuse in a court of law. 


A group called Civil Society Helps ( civilsocietyhelps(dot)org ) is now representing my wife and they are still supporting her assault and abuse claims to assist her with expediting her immigration process. They help many immigrant women file false abuse claims under VAWA to assist them with their immigration process. My wife&#039;s pro-bono attorney Martha Sullivan ( Civil Society Helps Attorney) even threatened an order for protection against me in the court house lobby when divorce negotiations broke down. I recorded the entire conversation and her threats were completely unwarranted. During another court hearing, I informed the judge of Martha&#039;s threats and she laughed in an embarrassed manner and said she was afraid of me (complete nonsense). 


I lost everything and I am no longer employable in my field by many corporations due to my &quot;criminal&quot; history. I had no previous criminal history at age 36 and I honorably completed 4 years of U.S. Army service. 


Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife that didn&#039;t love me. In 3 days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks after being released from jail. With all of this going on, I am doing the best I can to pay child support ( ordered to pay $100 a day / $3000 a month) for two children between my first wife of 8 years and my immigrant residency seeking wife of 1 year. Since June 2007, I have paid over $12,000 in child support payments. I have attempted to acquire employment contracts, but have been frequently excluded due to my new criminal history ( 5th degree domestic assault charge - no conviction). 


With lies from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license. 



My wife has been confronted by the Eagan Police several times for driving without a license or insurance. On multiple occasions she was just given a warning and she continued to drive my vehicle in Minnesota without a drivers license or insurance. 


Later, I spoke with one of the officers that was on scene when I was arrested. Sgt. Mason of the Eagan Police department was going to allow my wife to drive a motor vehicle without a drivers license or insurance while my son was in the car. I called him on it and said it was against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle in Minnesota without a license or insurance. Sgt. Mason&#039;s partner threatened to arrest me for public disturbance. I did nothing wrong and she (Sgt. Mason&#039;s partner) threatened to take me back to jail for disorderly conduct.... They backed off with their threat of arrest when I informed them I had a witness looking on.... 


Immigrants in Minnesota have more rights and free legal services than American Citizens do. VAWA is completely unconstitutional and clearly provides immigrants with loopholes and fast track plans to acquire U.S. residency under fraudulent pretences. 


My wife contacted me several times after the Order for Protection was issued. She always called me an &quot;ABUSER&quot; real slow and sarcastically on the phone. Knowing how groups like the civil society work, I can only imagine how they coached and indoctronated my wife into the liberal feminist movement. Martha Sullivan&#039;s order for protection threat was completely uncalled for and demonstrates how this pro-immigration group operates. 


Sorry for the rant, but people need to know about these kind of immigration scams. People need to know about the organizations that promote marriage for immigration scams. The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country. My wife became legal and I became illegal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Violence Against Women Act Fraud<br />
Minnesota caters to illegal immigrants and marriage for U.S. residency scams using VAWA laws. My wife is an immigrant from Guatemala who entered the country on a tourist VISA. Before we married, we had a child together and she received well over $30,000 in free healthcare through the state or county. She overstayed her tourist VISA and returned to Guatemala with our son for 3 months over Christmas and the New Year leaving me in the U.S. to work. She asked for money for liposuction surgery in Guatemala and I gave her funds to travel and to have the liposuction procedure. When she returned, she said we would need to marry for her and the baby to stay in country. We married quickly in the Dakota County court house and the marriage disintegrated from there. I was hesitant about marriage, but I wanted to keep my son in country and tried to build a happy family. However, my wife wasn&#8217;t in the relationship for &#8220;love&#8221; like I was. She entered this relationship with ambitions of acquiring U.S. residency and running an import business ( indikohandcrafts.org ) in the U.S. that does not pay taxes and claims to be a fair trade organization. </p>
<p>My wife&#8217;s family came to visit for a few months and they continually attempted to provoke confrontations between my wife and I. Ultimately, my wife had to assault me by punching me in the neck to get a defensive verbal response from me. I did not hit my wife back or abuse her in any way. I was arrested by the Eagan Police for 5th Degree Domestic assault and spent 3 days in jail for something I didn&#8217;t do and for not leaving my home under duress. Two years to date after we had been in country together, my wife made a fraudulent VAWA complaint to expedite her immigration process in lieu of U.S. residency through marriage. </p>
<p>While I was in jail, my wife cleaned out the joint bank account. When I was released from jail, the courts issued an order for protection. I was broke, homeless and sleeping in my car and under my desk at the office. Shortly after, my wife contacted me and asked for me to write a letter to immigration which stated I was an abusive husband. She said if I wrote the letter in her favor she would work with me to get my home back. Instead of allowing myself to be blackmailed, I wrote immigration to withdrawl my spousal petition for my wife&#8217;s U.S. residency and reported all of the facts. I used my last credit card to retain a lawyer to petition for divorce and that was all I could afford. My wife said she was in no hurry to divorce. Being married for two years to acquire conditional residency was a back up plan incase the VAWA complaint to immigration fell through. </p>
<p>The courts later granted my wife all of the marital property before a divorce hearing. They ordered that I surrender a car to my wife that was solely in my name. She demanded $3000 a month in support payments, but inly received a judgement for $1200 a month in child support. During the order for protection hearing, I asked my wife about her employment and academic credentials. She worked as a teacher at a school in Minneapolis called Passport Pals and claimed to have a degree in Psychology. In court and under oath, my wife stated she was a teacher and that she had a degree in Psychology. I challenged her about her academic credentials and she lied with a straight face. I pushed the questioning and she finally admitted to not holding a college degree. </p>
<p>Even though the judge saw that my wife lied under oath, he granted her a one year order for protection. My house recently foreclosed and I am excluded from employment opportunities in my professional field due to having a &#8220;criminal&#8221; history now. I was charged with 5th degree domestic assault, but I was not found guilty of domestic assault or abuse in a court of law. </p>
<p>A group called Civil Society Helps ( civilsocietyhelps(dot)org ) is now representing my wife and they are still supporting her assault and abuse claims to assist her with expediting her immigration process. They help many immigrant women file false abuse claims under VAWA to assist them with their immigration process. My wife&#8217;s pro-bono attorney Martha Sullivan ( Civil Society Helps Attorney) even threatened an order for protection against me in the court house lobby when divorce negotiations broke down. I recorded the entire conversation and her threats were completely unwarranted. During another court hearing, I informed the judge of Martha&#8217;s threats and she laughed in an embarrassed manner and said she was afraid of me (complete nonsense). </p>
<p>I lost everything and I am no longer employable in my field by many corporations due to my &#8220;criminal&#8221; history. I had no previous criminal history at age 36 and I honorably completed 4 years of U.S. Army service. </p>
<p>Last year I earned a very high salary, lived in a house by a lake and enjoyed life as much as I could with a wife that didn&#8217;t love me. In 3 days, I was reduced to living in poverty and was homeless for weeks after being released from jail. With all of this going on, I am doing the best I can to pay child support ( ordered to pay $100 a day / $3000 a month) for two children between my first wife of 8 years and my immigrant residency seeking wife of 1 year. Since June 2007, I have paid over $12,000 in child support payments. I have attempted to acquire employment contracts, but have been frequently excluded due to my new criminal history ( 5th degree domestic assault charge &#8211; no conviction). </p>
<p>With lies from an immigrant residency seeker and the help of VAWA laws, a stable American citizen can be reduced to living in poverty. All of your assets can be seized and given to the immigrant residency seeker even if you are not found guilty. You will immediately be forced to surrender a portion of your income to the immigrant residency seeker. The courts will order you to turn your motor vehicle over to the immigrant residency seeker even if the car is in your name and the residency seeker does not have a drivers license. </p>
<p>My wife has been confronted by the Eagan Police several times for driving without a license or insurance. On multiple occasions she was just given a warning and she continued to drive my vehicle in Minnesota without a drivers license or insurance. </p>
<p>Later, I spoke with one of the officers that was on scene when I was arrested. Sgt. Mason of the Eagan Police department was going to allow my wife to drive a motor vehicle without a drivers license or insurance while my son was in the car. I called him on it and said it was against the law for anyone to drive a motor vehicle in Minnesota without a license or insurance. Sgt. Mason&#8217;s partner threatened to arrest me for public disturbance. I did nothing wrong and she (Sgt. Mason&#8217;s partner) threatened to take me back to jail for disorderly conduct&#8230;. They backed off with their threat of arrest when I informed them I had a witness looking on&#8230;. </p>
<p>Immigrants in Minnesota have more rights and free legal services than American Citizens do. VAWA is completely unconstitutional and clearly provides immigrants with loopholes and fast track plans to acquire U.S. residency under fraudulent pretences. </p>
<p>My wife contacted me several times after the Order for Protection was issued. She always called me an &#8220;ABUSER&#8221; real slow and sarcastically on the phone. Knowing how groups like the civil society work, I can only imagine how they coached and indoctronated my wife into the liberal feminist movement. Martha Sullivan&#8217;s order for protection threat was completely uncalled for and demonstrates how this pro-immigration group operates. </p>
<p>Sorry for the rant, but people need to know about these kind of immigration scams. People need to know about the organizations that promote marriage for immigration scams. The courts have violated my rights as an American citizen and I am alienated in my own country. My wife became legal and I became illegal.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Are you a Victim of VAWA Immigration Fraud? by Victim 1</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/06/09/are-you-a-victim-of-vawa-immigration-fraud/comment-page-1/#comment-3790</link>
		<dc:creator>Victim 1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is so true. VAWA even went futher than what is described above. Now, if a foreign woman, seeking Green Card, commits Domestic Violence crime and is convicted in a court of law - VAWA shelter turnes it all around and tells the Immigration Services that her &quot;abuser&quot; made her to do it. She could not tolerate &quot;abuse&quot; anymore and stabbed her &quot;abuser&quot;. Use your imagimation futher. VAWA dictates USCIS to give Green Cards to convicted criminals now. And Congress supports it. Shame on this type of Congress.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is so true. VAWA even went futher than what is described above. Now, if a foreign woman, seeking Green Card, commits Domestic Violence crime and is convicted in a court of law &#8211; VAWA shelter turnes it all around and tells the Immigration Services that her &#8220;abuser&#8221; made her to do it. She could not tolerate &#8220;abuse&#8221; anymore and stabbed her &#8220;abuser&#8221;. Use your imagimation futher. VAWA dictates USCIS to give Green Cards to convicted criminals now. And Congress supports it. Shame on this type of Congress.</p>
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		<title>Comment on ABA Releases LGBT Domestic Violence Toolkit by Alexander Smith</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/04/05/american-bar-association-releases-lgbt-domestic-violence-toolkit-for-attorneys/comment-page-1/#comment-3787</link>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>toolkit is really needed now a days. esp most of the LGBT are being bullied.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>toolkit is really needed now a days. esp most of the LGBT are being bullied.</p>
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		<title>Comment on VAWA: Green-Card Girl&#8217;s Wish Come True! by Liz</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/02/19/vawa-green-card-girls-wish-come-true/comment-page-1/#comment-3728</link>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Everything in this article is absolutely true! Let me first just say I am a hispanic female so no one can assume I am a racist. My father and mother divorced years ago and he married an illegal immigrant. She turned out to be psycho and it was obvious she only married him to get her papers. When he asked for divorce, she panicked and must have found out about the VAWA and benefits it could bring her for a free pass to stay in this country. She filed a restraining order with the most ridiculous claims and lies against my father and the judge signed off on it with no questions asked and without him present (ex parte I guess it&#039;s called). The worst part about this is he actually is the victim of domestic violence from her but cannot get any help whatsoever. She was able to make up a complete lie, get a restraining order and is getting free legal help. It literally makes me want to throw up just to type this. I am so disguisted with this law right now. We feel helpless and like there is nothing us girls can do to help our father. This woman is evil, dangerous and making a mockery of our justice system. I just hope karma really exists!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everything in this article is absolutely true! Let me first just say I am a hispanic female so no one can assume I am a racist. My father and mother divorced years ago and he married an illegal immigrant. She turned out to be psycho and it was obvious she only married him to get her papers. When he asked for divorce, she panicked and must have found out about the VAWA and benefits it could bring her for a free pass to stay in this country. She filed a restraining order with the most ridiculous claims and lies against my father and the judge signed off on it with no questions asked and without him present (ex parte I guess it&#8217;s called). The worst part about this is he actually is the victim of domestic violence from her but cannot get any help whatsoever. She was able to make up a complete lie, get a restraining order and is getting free legal help. It literally makes me want to throw up just to type this. I am so disguisted with this law right now. We feel helpless and like there is nothing us girls can do to help our father. This woman is evil, dangerous and making a mockery of our justice system. I just hope karma really exists!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Adopt-a-Politician: Here&#8217;s How to Give Your Opponent the Boot by Wrella</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/05/27/adopt-a-politician-heres-how-to-get-your-candidate-elected/comment-page-1/#comment-3565</link>
		<dc:creator>Wrella</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now that we have some new Congress members, I&#039;m researching how to have we little people &#039;Adopt-A-Politician&#039; to keep up with what they are doing. Seems like a natural extension of the efforts we went to to get them elected. Any suggestions for a template?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that we have some new Congress members, I&#8217;m researching how to have we little people &#8216;Adopt-A-Politician&#8217; to keep up with what they are doing. Seems like a natural extension of the efforts we went to to get them elected. Any suggestions for a template?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Shelter Worker to Men: &#8220;Sorry to Burst your Bubble&#8221; by Jeff Golden</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/09/01/shelter-worker-to-men-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble/comment-page-1/#comment-3418</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Golden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please give us the name, location and phone number of Amy&#039;s domestic violence shelter.  We will have all the male victims we speak with who can&#039;t find services call there, wherever it is, and ask Amy for help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please give us the name, location and phone number of Amy&#8217;s domestic violence shelter.  We will have all the male victims we speak with who can&#8217;t find services call there, wherever it is, and ask Amy for help.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Australia: New Incentive for Abuse Scream Queens by Ken R.</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/09/01/australia-a-new-incentive-for-abuse-scream-queens/comment-page-1/#comment-3338</link>
		<dc:creator>Ken R.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt; Ã¢â‚¬ÂIt encourages women to think, Ã¢â‚¬ËœIÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m not going to get the sackÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ for revealing violence in the home.Ã¢â‚¬Â  
What? Has the University of NSW and other government employers been giving women &quot;the sack&quot; for being victims of domestic violence? If so then the proper response would be to fire those in the chain of command responsible for giving victims the sack.  

&gt;&gt; &quot;...women suffered in the workplace as they &#039;struggle to put on a brave face&#039;Ã¢â‚¬Â. 
Poor, fragile little women. When are they going to quit talking about adult women as if they were feeble little children instead of competent adults equal to men?

&gt;&gt; &quot;...Ludo McFerran said recent US research showed that at any time, 10 per cent of women were experiencing, or had recently experienced, domestic violence.&quot; 
Bull sh*t. Recent U.S. research has shown that women are more likely than men to initiate domestic violence (look it up on the CDC&#039;s website).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt; Ã¢â‚¬ÂIt encourages women to think, Ã¢â‚¬ËœIÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m not going to get the sackÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ for revealing violence in the home.Ã¢â‚¬Â<br />
What? Has the University of NSW and other government employers been giving women &#8220;the sack&#8221; for being victims of domestic violence? If so then the proper response would be to fire those in the chain of command responsible for giving victims the sack.  </p>
<p>&gt;&gt; &#8220;&#8230;women suffered in the workplace as they &#8216;struggle to put on a brave face&#8217;Ã¢â‚¬Â.<br />
Poor, fragile little women. When are they going to quit talking about adult women as if they were feeble little children instead of competent adults equal to men?</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; &#8220;&#8230;Ludo McFerran said recent US research showed that at any time, 10 per cent of women were experiencing, or had recently experienced, domestic violence.&#8221;<br />
Bull sh*t. Recent U.S. research has shown that women are more likely than men to initiate domestic violence (look it up on the CDC&#8217;s website).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Australia: Ombudsman Says DV Website Misleads by steve deluca</title>
		<link>http://abusegate.mensnewsdaily.com/2010/09/03/australia-ombudsman-says-dv-website-misleads/comment-page-1/#comment-3324</link>
		<dc:creator>steve deluca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Recently a report about DV claimed that in in three lesbian relationships reported it and one in four for gay men.

Are women more likely to report it, or are women more abusive?  

And why is it that in discussing DV we end up discussing injuries and deaths which are rare compared to the entire population and not different enough for men or women to be seen as a gender issue.  Men show up with marks from &quot;accidents&quot; in the home, sucking up the harm done to them by women or others.  And why is is that femnist insist that we only discuss male and female violence with couples while leaving out the abuse women do to children, men, seniors and other women.  How is it that we overlook that women use poisons or stage accidents or have boyfriends or hit men kill husbands ... more cunning about their violence than men are, or how the police don&#039;t even suspect a crying woman... don&#039;t even investigate unless she is covered in blood. And if covered in blood and she claims self-defense, again a pass.

If only one woman in the world were being battered we would all step in and yet with thousands of men battered and hundreds killed we want to teach our children that for males the fewer deaths don&#039;t matter much because there are fewer. Is one man&#039;s life worth less than a woman&#039;s life.  If fewer women were killed would we not show as much concern for women?  

 Would we teach black and white kids that white violence doesn&#039;t matter because more blacks were involved with violence.

No, we would teach about racism, poverty, drug use and the long term results of harm to black population from slavery and the breakdown of the black family. We would not cite race and we should not cite gender as a cause of violence.

SD</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently a report about DV claimed that in in three lesbian relationships reported it and one in four for gay men.</p>
<p>Are women more likely to report it, or are women more abusive?  </p>
<p>And why is it that in discussing DV we end up discussing injuries and deaths which are rare compared to the entire population and not different enough for men or women to be seen as a gender issue.  Men show up with marks from &#8220;accidents&#8221; in the home, sucking up the harm done to them by women or others.  And why is is that femnist insist that we only discuss male and female violence with couples while leaving out the abuse women do to children, men, seniors and other women.  How is it that we overlook that women use poisons or stage accidents or have boyfriends or hit men kill husbands &#8230; more cunning about their violence than men are, or how the police don&#8217;t even suspect a crying woman&#8230; don&#8217;t even investigate unless she is covered in blood. And if covered in blood and she claims self-defense, again a pass.</p>
<p>If only one woman in the world were being battered we would all step in and yet with thousands of men battered and hundreds killed we want to teach our children that for males the fewer deaths don&#8217;t matter much because there are fewer. Is one man&#8217;s life worth less than a woman&#8217;s life.  If fewer women were killed would we not show as much concern for women?  </p>
<p> Would we teach black and white kids that white violence doesn&#8217;t matter because more blacks were involved with violence.</p>
<p>No, we would teach about racism, poverty, drug use and the long term results of harm to black population from slavery and the breakdown of the black family. We would not cite race and we should not cite gender as a cause of violence.</p>
<p>SD</p>
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		<dc:creator>PT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The reason that feminists use Dept. of Justice statistics is that women who commit DV are typically not arrested, charged, or convicted of DV.  The feminists cite arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates from the DOJ and other agencies to &quot;prove&quot; that only men commit DV, but what these statistics really show is that women commit DV with impunity.  

Until very recently, the California DV statute was written so that a woman couldn&#039;t be charged with DV, only acts committed by a man fell afoul of that law.  Feminists could say &quot;No woman in California has ever been convicted of DV!&quot;, up until a few years ago.  Now, watch them continue to quote pre-2007 statistics on DV arrests, etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason that feminists use Dept. of Justice statistics is that women who commit DV are typically not arrested, charged, or convicted of DV.  The feminists cite arrest, conviction, and incarceration rates from the DOJ and other agencies to &#8220;prove&#8221; that only men commit DV, but what these statistics really show is that women commit DV with impunity.  </p>
<p>Until very recently, the California DV statute was written so that a woman couldn&#8217;t be charged with DV, only acts committed by a man fell afoul of that law.  Feminists could say &#8220;No woman in California has ever been convicted of DV!&#8221;, up until a few years ago.  Now, watch them continue to quote pre-2007 statistics on DV arrests, etc.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Shelter Worker to Men: &#8220;Sorry to Burst your Bubble&#8221; by Healdsburger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Healdsburger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our local DV shelter- staffed and managed entirely by women, will simply hang up the phone on any man who calls, and when asked why they deny providing services to men who are victims, will look you in the face and say &quot;We have no records of any men seeking assistance at our shelter.&quot;

Of course there are no records.  They purposefully don&#039;t keep them.  Lying scum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our local DV shelter- staffed and managed entirely by women, will simply hang up the phone on any man who calls, and when asked why they deny providing services to men who are victims, will look you in the face and say &#8220;We have no records of any men seeking assistance at our shelter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course there are no records.  They purposefully don&#8217;t keep them.  Lying scum.</p>
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