(Open letter to the Minister of Justice, Amy Adams)
"Family violence covers a broad range of controlling behaviours,
commonly of a physical, sexual and/or psychological nature, which
typically involve fear, intimidation and emotional deprivation."
You have been behaving towards men (especially towards myself, since
I am New Zealand's principal Men's Rights Activist on the topic of
family violence) in a viciously controlling
manner. You have been intimidating those
men who are aware of your behaviour and inspiring fear
in them, as well as emotionally depriving
them of the feeling that you have their interests at heart. Therefore,
by the above definition (which, of course, is
a complete joke), you are assaulting me -- despite the fact
that we are not in the same family (thank goodness!).
Viciously Controlling
When I wrote to you about the Human Rights Commission, you refused
to address the issues which I raised about its demonstrable bias.
Again, when you advertised for people to come and speak to you about
sexual violence, you refused to let me come and see you.
The document "Strengthening
New Zealand's legislative response to family violence" refers
to "strengthening" what New Zealand already has in place,
so you have predetermined that what we have in place is fine, and
that all we need to do is strengthen it. This prevents anyone from
pointing out the irrational, anti-male flaws in the Domestic Violence
Act 1995, since you have obviously ruled out considering any fundamental
flaws that it might have. See my article The
Influence of Non-Legal Research on Legal Approaches to Ex Parte Domestic
Violence Protection Orders.
Fear and Intimidation
On TV One on Sunday 2nd August 2015, I heard you say that Domestic
Violence always or usually involves "control", which is
a lie, and has never been proved using evidence. The people who tell
this lie are Feminists, and they never look for forms of "control"
which are exercised by women and concentrate on being hostile towards
men and interpreting male behaviour as being control-focussed.
You say in your preface to "Strengthening
New Zealand's legislative response to family violence" that
the Government is committed to "keeping victims safe, particularly
women and children." That is discriminatory,
and amounts to a declaration of war by you on men.
At the front of this document, there is an unexplained, full-page
photograph of a woman, which underlines the message that you are just
about women. This message, communicated to the police and the courts
via legislation, is intimidatory towards men and causes fear. Any
violent reaction by men to your, the police's or the courts' sexism,
discrimination and intimidation would be perfectly understandable
-- not to say inevitable. In fact, that is probably the main reason
that the current family law is not working. You are oppressing men,
and men are fighting back in the only way they know how.
On TV One on Sunday 2nd August 2015, I heard you say that most Domestic
Violence is committed by men, which is a lie -- and you provided no
evidence. There is a huge mass of research (listed and summarised
by Professor Fiebert) which proves that "women
are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their
relationships with their spouses or male partners." Some
of this research was carried out in New Zealand.
Feminist research, such as that carried out by low-life
at Waikato University, just involves asking women for their side
of the story if they say they are "victims", and asking
men for their side of the story if they say they are "perpetrators".
In other words -- just like you -- it
predetermines a finding that women are mainly victims and men are
mainly perpetrators. That was the research which inspired the Domestic
Violence Act 1995, which has so dismally failed, since it treats men
as the enemy. The Government's Science Advisory
Committee saw fit to include Professor
David Fergusson -- so why are you too scared to consult him, as
you obviously are!
Emotionally Depriving
You are emotionally depriving men of
the feeling that you have our interests at heart, which you should
have, since you have the power of the police and the courts at your
disposal, through legislation. When men are Ministers, they act for
the whole country. When women are Ministers, they act for women against
men.
Defining Family Violence
If you look them up in a dictionary, you will see that the words
"control" and "violence" are totally different.
Obviously, you can have violence without control, and control without
violence. Any claim that the two are linked has to be PROVED USING
EVIDENCE. To simply defined these terms as involving
each other is just playing with words.
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