A Wake Up Call

Fathers' rights

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Fathers' rights movement is a loose network of interest groups, primarily in western countries, established to campaign for equal treatment by the courts in family law issues such as child custody after divorce, child support, and paternity determinations.

Now granted, Wikipedia is hardly the world’s most reliable source of information, since readers have the ability to edit it themselves. However in this particular case I would say that paragraph is a very accurate summary of the current state of father’s rights.

We are disorganized and expending much of our energy fighting each other. I have talked to several of the long time father’s rights advocates about this problem.

Apparently there was an attempt made some years ago to get all the various father’s rights groups out there to unite under one flag. But after several days of arguing, the only thing they could ALL agree on was “men’s health issues.” They then spent time talking about their prostates (or so the story goes.)

Since I wasn’t at this meeting I can’t say exactly what went wrong. But just from my relatively short time in this war, I can pretty well guess, based on what I have already seen and heard.

We have people unwilling to put their egos aside. People who are apparently more concerned with making a name for themselves then of truly winning this thing.

When faced with a natural disaster the key is a well coordinated unified plan of dealing with it. If you doubt that, go ask the folks of New Atlantis (AKA; New Orleans.) Like when there is a major forest fire you see firefighters out there doing different things but it’s all a well coordinated group effort.

We don’t have that.

What we do have is 100 guys (ok more like millions) all taking off in 100 different directions because they believe only THEY know how to put out a fire.

So you end up with a bunch of guys using everything from fire hoses, to water pistols trying to put this thing out. Some are even diving head first into the flames in an attempt to smother them. As the fire spreads some people give up and go home (or to their local bar stool) while others turn the hoses on each other.

And people like me are left standing there shaking our head realizing why it is the father’s rights movement hasn’t accomplished much in the 35 years it’s existed.

Well my candor may make me unpopular with some of you, but hell I’m not in this thing to win miss congeniality. I want my kid back and I refuse to sit back and wait another 35 years for that to happen!

Whatever your original intent, I believe many of you have lost sight of whets really important here. Our enemy is the system. Not one another or the entire female population (as some of you seem to think.) Our goal is to get our children back… not see who can have the prettiest ^&&$$#! headquarters.

We need to make the politicians and judges fear our wrath the way they do with groups that ARE organized like the NAACP or AARP.

We need to show them that there are severe consequences for stealing our children. ANY of our children.

These are our kids. We need to put aside our philosophical, geographical and political differences.

Now I care about domestic security, the economy etc.... just like you.

But from now on I will vote for or against a politician depending solely on whether or not he intends to support family law reform and equal custody.

I don’t give a shit if he is a republican or democrat. Hell I wouldn’t care if I caught him goose-stepping across the parking lot, as long as he is going to use his seat in office to help me get my kid back!

Now we have a rare opportunity here folks. There is a man some of you have no doubt heard of named Dr. Mark Klein. He is seriously considering a presidential bid and his main platform is the equal custody act. http://www.equalcustodyact.com/

Now I have met Dr. Klein and spent some time with him. He is a good man, who has been putting up his own money to help us with our fight.

Some of you may agree with his political views, some of you may not. It shouldn’t matter to you. If it does you really need to reexamine your priorities.

We need to show this man he has our support. That is all he needs to see, to go from “considering” a presidential bid to formally launching one.

Now obviously he (Dr. Klein) knows he is a long shot candidate. But his odds of success dramatically increase if we non custodial parents can put aside our differences and rally in masse behind him.

Just him being in the race could change everything. Right now, if a presidential debate was held tomorrow, people would be talking about Iraq, and paying $3 bucks for a gallon of gas, and the issue of custody would never even see daylight...

Do you think Dick Cheney or Hillary or any of the other presidential hopefuls even HAS a position on custody or child support?

With Dr. Klein’s help they will damn well have to come up with one fast.

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Well folks …35 years of infighting has simply not gotten the job done. Oh we may have scored some small victories here and there, but the states are still taking away our children and sending us the bill with impunity!

As I see it, we can either spend another 35 years helplessly watching them do so. Or we can do the one thing that will make a difference. The one these corrupt bastards don’t want to see happen. We can unite!

First in support of Dr. Klein and then who knows…

Maybe if we can put aside our differences long enough to support this man, we can build on that and become more then merely “a loose network of interest groups”

Perhaps…a whole lot more.

Joe Carruba