Fathers 4 Justice ~ Fathers' rights protestors plead guilty to misdemeanor in OSU superhero incident

The men who did this love their children far more than their own safety and security. How many parents would go to this kind of trouble and public exposure if they had anything to hide.

My hat is off to them, for in their actions, they help all parents marginalized by sole custody orders drawing attention to the need for a presumption of equal shared parenting.MJM

Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:19 PM

By Bruce Cadwallader

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

TOM DODGEDISPATCH

Paul D. Fisher, left, dressed as Superman, and Paul Tenn dressed as Spider-Man during their protest.

Two fathers who staged a protest at a Buckeyes football game last year to complain about the way dads are treated by family courts pleaded guilty this morning to criminal charges.

Dressed as superheros, Donald Tenn and Paul D. Fisher climbed a 200-foot crane at Lane and Neil Avenue last September to unfurl a banner for their cause. Fisher, of Columbus, dressed as Superman and Tenn, of Sacramento, Calif., dressed as Spider-Man.

They were charged with felony vandalism counts for the stunt, which lasted three days.

As jury selection continued today, prosecutors and defense attorneys reached a plea deal which would put the men on probation and pay the contractor $5,500 - restitution for the cost of renting a replacement crane and inspecting the old one.

Both pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of criminal damaging in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Judge Stephen L. McIntosh suspended a 90-day jail sentence and placed both men on probation for one year.

"Everything I do is for my daughter," said Tenn, 53. He said he has not seen his 6-year-old daughter, Madison, since 2007 because his ex-wife moved to a small town in Illinois and filed a restraining order against him.

Tenn is the president of the U.S. chapter of Fathers4Justice. He said his protests around the country are aimed to raise awareness to the plight of split couples who face separation from their children.

He came to Columbus to help Fisher, 32, who has objected to Ohio's system of deciding child visitation issues. Fisher has fought for more visitation with his daughter, Demetra, 7.

"I get four days a month with my daughter," Fisher said, choking back tears. "Donald and I did something about it."

McIntosh told the men that although their issue is honorable, they could have caused a panic and did cause financial harm to local contractors at an Ohio State University parking garage site.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/12/superman_trial.html

European call for class action suit examples regarding the sexist sole custody model and its negative outcomes

This issue has received some discussion amongst fathers groups in Canada and it will only be a matter of time before a class action law suit is brought against the Federal/Provincial Justice Ministers and the judiciary over the gender apartheid currently practiced by social engineers in the judiciary in sole sourcing physical custody to moms. The negative outcomes are very evident in today's social science research.MJM

De: Peter Tromp

Asunto: [euro-dads&mums] Dutch request for information and ideas on (collective) court cases abroad where damages for disparenting after divorce were demanded in court (whether successfull or not)
Para: "Group Papa Info" <papa-info@listen.jpberlin.de> "Groep Unzensierte_Auslandsliste" <unzensierte_auslandsliste@kbx7.de>, "Groep Eurodads" <euro-dads@yahoogroups.com>
Fecha: viernes, 13 de noviembre de 2009, 11:36 am

Subject: Dutch request for information and ideas on (collective) court cases abroad where damages for disparenting after divorce were demanded in court (whether successfull or not)

Hello every one,

As divorced parent groups in the Netherlands we have recently formed a Dutch national platform in order to investigate any future possibilities of starting a (collective) court case to hold the Dutch government, the Dutch family court system and Dutch residential parents accountable for damages caused to children of separation and their nonresidential parents and extended families, when excluding them from each other.

The name of the Dutch National Platform of Parenting Groups in which this initiative has been taken into investigation is BONS (which is Dutch for bounced or excluded) and is also short for "Blijvend Ouderschap Na Scheiding" (which is Dutch for "Continued Parenting After Separation"). In English the name of the platform would be CPAS.

Below I forward to you a call by Joep Zander, one of the partners in the Dutch National Platform BONS, for information on comparable (collective) court cases for damages abroad and for any ideas in how to make a government and the family court system accountable for damages caused to parent-child relationships.

If you send me your information and ideas we will be most gratefull and I will see to it that it is forwarded to the rest of the Dutch platform BONS and Joep Zander.

Regards,

Peter Tromp

Father Knowledge Centre Europe
Dutch National Platform of Parenting Groups BONS

Hi;

In the Netherlands, recently again a grouping of people and organizations are working to change the family business. One of the actions on the agenda is to make a claim to the Dutch state on the disturbance of parent-child relationships.

It is not the first time in the Netherlands such steps are initiated. Usually such attempts remain stabbing in a rather premature stage.

No doubt there are more (Western) countries where there have been this type of movements. Cases which are known, relatively small, where individual damages resulting from the proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights.

Perhaps you could inform us about what in your country is known about trying to collectively, possibly initiated individually, claims and what the results were or what you believe to be the reason for success or failure. We are not naive and understand that in the current constellation it will take some effort to get claims honored. However, given its importance, we explicitly investigate this yet.

Best regards

Joep Zander

BONS Group (Continued Parenting After Separation)

Tucson schools determine to fix minority discipline rates.

The lack of fathers in Tuscon is indicative of an international situation that is a real and ever growing "pandemic" affecting children negatively. Much of this is due to judges and lawyers in the Nanny State giving sole legal and most often physical exclusiveness to children upon the termination of the relationship between mom and dad. Dad is relegated to a visitor and the mom's boyfriend, who represents a greater statistical danger to these children, gets to be with them 24/7 if he is present.

Social engineering by these judges can be viewed as a method to ensure their continued employment and expansion of the Divorce/Family Law Industry. These children do have greater negative social outcomes, have a greater chance of criminal activity they then pass on to their own children created a generational cycle of poor behaviours. Their decisions create greater conflict between spouses further fueling the chance children are caught up in a dysfunctional cycle. In what other Industry would they let incompetents make social science and behavioural decisions that have nothing to do with the law. Parental disputes and children caught in its vortex have nothing to do with the law but everything to do with interpersonal behaviour.

Many of Tuscon's problems are evident in Western democracies which practice sole source custody to female parents, marginalizing fathers. A presumption of shared and equal parenting after dissolution would be a good start. The ethnicity is a red herring and the creation of these squads reminds me of an Orwellian attempt to solve problems through coercion and not look at the fundamental reason they start in the first place.

The author is on to something here.MJM

Heather Mac Donald
There’s a Quota for That

Autumn 2009

As part of its plan to comply with a federal desegregation order now decades old, Tucson’s school district adopted racial quotas in school discipline this summer. Schools that suspend or expel Hispanic and black students at higher rates than white students will now get a visit from a district “Equity Team” and will be expected to remedy those disparities by reducing their minority discipline rates. The Tucson equity plan shows that when Hispanics replace blacks as the dominant ethnic minority, as in Tucson and throughout the Southwest, the regime of double standards for behavior remains unchanged.

Tucson’s school district is 54 percent Hispanic, 30 percent white, and 7 percent black. It boasts an active “Mexican American Studies Department” that sponsors classes in high schools and middle schools to provide “social equity for Hispanic students.” Despite these attentions, the Hispanic high school suspension rate—10.5 percent of all Hispanic students in 2007–08—is 40 percent higher than the rate for white students (7.4 percent), though it’s dwarfed by the black suspension rate (16.3). Tucson’s new plan, first reported by the Arizona Republic, instructs schools to move away from “discipline” and toward “restorative justice.” (In the adult context, restorative justice typically features face-to-face encounters between criminals and their victims in lieu of jail or prison time.)

Tucson’s administrators explain their disciplinary quota pressure on the ground that students removed from class lose valuable learning time, exacerbating the already great ethnic academic achievement gap. Such thinking ignores the students who are not disrupting class or threatening teachers and who also lose valuable learning time when unruly or violent students remain in the classroom. Surely those students have a greater claim to “equity” in school resources than gang members do.

The administrators want local principals to examine disparate suspension rates “in detail for root causes.” I can save them some time: the root cause of disparate rates of suspension is disparate rates of bad behavior. As for the root cause of that bad behavior, the biggest one is single parenting. If the Tucson school board wants to publicize the essential role of fathers in raising law-abiding children, it might start solving the problem of disciplinary imbalance. But until then, it should let schools resolve their discipline problems in a color-blind fashion, without worrying about a visit from an “Equity Team.”

Heather Mac Donald is a contributing editor of City Journal and the John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Research for her article was supported by the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_snd-tucson-equity-plan.html