Some 88,139 women were arrested for violence over 12 months – nearly 250 every day. That is an increase of nearly 1,000 on a year earlier.
The number of men arrested for violence fell by 10,000.
It is the second straight year in which women were more likely to be held for crimes of violence than for any other offence. Shoplifting had previously led the list.
Violence against the person – a category which includes manslaughter, assault and grievous bodily harm – accounted for 35 per cent of all arrests of women. This compared with 30 per cent of arrests of men.
The figures were even more stark in Hampshire – 48 per cent of women arrested in the county were suspected of violence. Since 2002, the number of women arrested for violent crime has more than doubled.
Dominic Grieve, the Tory justice spokesman, said the figures were deeply disturbing.
‘That an increasing number of women are resorting to crime, including fraud, drugs and violence, is a damning indictment on this Government’s failure to get to grips with a range of social problems,’ he said. [Read more →]
Here is a study that not only underscores the gender bias shown towards men in the United States, but sadly reveals the truth that we have been reporting for quite some time now.
The studies include BASIS, sample sizes and is CLINICAL in nature which is just the opposite of what the State of Washington and other states use.
The results of a major piece of government research on partner abuse in Scotland slipped out relatively unreported before Christmas. The new Scottish findings mirror much Australian and international domestic violence research showing family violence against men is frequent and often goes unreported.
The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2008-09: Partner Abuse was published by Scotland’s Chief Statistician on December 15th 2009. The research was conducted with 16,000 interviewees and represents the most comprehensive investigation to date into the extent of partner abuse in Scotland.
Interviewees were asked about their experience of physical or psychological partner abuse both since the age of 16 and within the preceding 12 months. The findings included:
• 18% of adults who had had at least one partner since the age of 16 reported having experienced at least one form of partner abuse. The figure for women was 20.9% and for men 15.3%.
• However, in the most recent 12 months the figure for both men and women was 5%.
• The data for the last 12 months showed that young men aged 16-24 experienced physical and/or psychological abuse more often than young women and more often than any other demographic group.
• For persons experiencing partner abuse in the last 12 months, 48% of the perpetrators were male and 45% were female.
• Police came to know about 35% of incidents of partner abuse reported by women in the preceding 12 months but only 8% of incidents in which a man was on the receiving end. 40% of men told no-one compared to 21% of women. [Read more →]
There IS an excuse for domestic violence. You HAVE to be a woman for it to work, however. If not, why aren’t all of the activists up in arms over this one?
An obese woman who killed her boyfriend by sitting on him will not serve any time behind bars.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (CBS/WOIO) An obese woman who killed her boyfriend by sitting on him will not serve any time behind bars.
Mia Landingham pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday and was sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours of community service, according to CBS affiliate WOIO.
Landingham, who was believed to weigh over 300 pounds at the time of the Aug. 2009 incident, sat on Mikal Middleton-Bey as he was face first on the couch. According to her lawyer, there was a history of domestic abuse between Landingham and her boyfriend, FOX News reports. Investigators say the victim was 5′10″ tall and weighed 126 pounds. andingham is 5′9″ tall. A police scale that went up to 350 pounds wasn’t enough to accurately weigh the Cleveland woman, according to the affiliate.
Abusegate vs. Climategate: Which is the Bigger Hoax?
People are saying Climategate represents the greatest scandal in the history of science. After all, Climategate involves calamitous falsehoods promoted on a seismic scale over the last two decades.
But what about Abusegate? Columnist Carey Roberts argues Abusegate is the “Mother of All Scandals” – see below. What do you think?
In the next installment of our ongoing Abusegate series, we’ll ask you to decide and cast your vote!
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what’s the most colossal scandal of them all? Watergate? Climategate? Tigergate? If you said ‘yes’ to any of these, you’re not even close!
Folks, we’re not talking about a media-adled tempest in a teapot. No, this is an old-fashioned head-banging, sit-down-and-cry-your-eyes-out affair.
Abusegate refers to our nation’s flawed crusade to curb domestic violence (DV). Originally a high-minded and well-intentioned effort, the end-abuse campaign has now fallen prey to an invidious anti-family agenda. In the name of making homes safe, the domestic violence industry curtails fundamental civil rights and often betrays those in greatest need.
Let me count the ways our domestic violence effort has failed to deliver on its promises, all the while undermining our most cherished values and societal institutions:
1. Takes advantage of vulnerable women. Our abuse shelters are filled with women who are just as violent as the men they left. When abused women come for help, they need a safe place where they can get counseling, housing assistance, and treatment for substance abuse problems. But instead they get a hefty dose of gender ideology proffered in the name of promoting “female empowerment:” http://www.radarsvcs.org/docs/RADARreport-Are-Abuse-Shelters-Helping-True-Victims.pdf
2. Stereotypes men as abusers. Amanda McCormick of Praxis International recently shocked abuse conference attendees with this calumny: “I know a lot of men who deserve to be beaten.” Less than two months later the Department of Justice awarded a $3.5 million grant to her organization, prompting Examiner.com columnist Trudy Schuett to wonder why the federal government is using taxpayer money to subsidize anti-male hate-speech. [Read more →]
Record cold temperatures are beginning to take their toll on average citizens around the world. In bone-chilled France, frustrated housewives have taken to venting their spleens at their husbands — and for good reason.
For decades, effete French men have indulged themselves with aerosol hair spray for their over-groomed hairpieces, contributing, as we all know, to the thinning of the ozone layer and melting of the polar ice caps.
Now the debonair men are taking the heat.
Thankfully, the epidemic of shrieking wives has not escaped the attention of the ever-vigilant French Parliament, which is now considering a ban on the practice. The law would apply to both married and cohabiting couples.
Support reaches to the highest political levels. Announcing the proposed law last week, French premier Francois Fillon explained, “The creation of this offence will allow us to deal with the most insidious situations — situations that leave no visible scars, but which leave victims torn up inside.” [Read more →]
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – Court papers allege that an Olympia woman, angry that her husband left her, tampered with his power tools so that he received a powerful electric shock.
Carolyn Paulsen-Riat was booked Friday into the Thurston County Jail for investigation of third-degree assault, domestic violence, and second-degree malicious mischief. A judge released the 33-year-old woman on her own recognizance.
The Olympian newspaper reports that court documents say that on Jan. 1, the man was using a 220-volt table saw when he received the shock, knocking him to the ground. Thurston County sheriff’s deputies say the man did not need to go to a hospital.
In the documents, deputies say the woman told them she had reversed the wires on his power tools because she was angry he was leaving.
For over 111 years, it had been barely known that there are actually two Constitutions in the history of the State of Washington. The first was ratified [1] by the people of the Territory of Washington on November 5th in 1878 [2] This constitution was properly signed and promptly entered into the public record. On January 28th, 1889, the 1878 constitution was presented to the United States Senate for inclusion into the union and printed in the federal register.
There was about a 10 year span between when the 1878 Constitution was presented to the Federal government for joining the union and when it was actually accepted into the union in February 22nd, 1889 [3] This delay was caused by a democratically controlled congress that didn’t want republican states like Washington in the union.
A strange thing happened on the way to acceptance however.
On January 24th, 1889, more than 10 years after the first constitution was presented to the union and printed for approval, a Mr. H. C. Wilmarth of the committee for the Admission to the United States wrote to the Washington Territorial Governor, Eugene Semple, urgently requesting that he call for a constitutional convention to create another state constitution. This was done because there wasn’t time to have the legislature call for one because they wouldn’t be lawfully meeting again until after congress would have passed the enabling act. Mr. Wilmarth was desperately trying to meet a timetable.
Newspaper articles and correspondence of the day show discussions between Mr. Metcalf, the Attorney General, and Mr. Semple, the Governor concerning whether or not the Governor could lawfully call a constitutional convention by executive proclamation. Mr. Metcalf argued that this clearly could not be done because the executive doesn’t represent the people and thus cannot have this power.
Nevertheless, Mr. Wilmarth and friends had their convention. It began, conveniently on the centenial of the United States Constitution, July 4, 1889 in Olympia, Washington despite the fact that it was never lawfully called for.
On that very same night, July 4, 1889, a huge fire in Ellensburgh wiped out the heart of the city. Ellensburgh was the site of the Statehood convention on January 3rd, 1889 where anxious delegates gave authority to Mr. Voorhees to get Washington accepted under the 1878 constitution. Now that a Republican President, Benjaman Harrison, had been elected, it seemed everyone was ready to get the ball rolling again.
In March of 1888, Walla Walla had a similar fire. Walla Walla was the site of the original constitution and was the place where many of the records about that constitution were stored. On June 4th, 1889, Seattle had another similar fire. In all these fires, critical historical records were destroyed. In all these fires, mysterious things happened, such as the failure of critical water systems, making it impossible to save the public records of the day. By August 22nd, 1889, the second constitution was completed in Olympia. [Read more →]
Written by Stephen Baskerville Thursday, 07 January 2010 00:00
Liberals rightly criticize America’s high rate of incarceration. Claiming to be the freest country on Earth, the United States incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than Iran or Syria. Over two million people, or nearly one in 50 adults, excluding the elderly, are incarcerated, the highest proportion in the world. Some seven million Americans, or 3.2 percent, are under penal supervision.
Many are likely to be innocent. In The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2000), Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence Stratton document how due process protections are routinely ignored, grand juries are neutered, frivolous prosecutions abound, and jury trials are increasingly rare. More recently, in Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (2009), Harvey Silverglate shows how federal prosecutors are criminalizing more and more of the population. “Innocence projects” — projects of “a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing” — attest that people are railroaded into prison. As we will see, incarcerations without trial are now routine.
The U.S. prison population has risen dramatically in the last four decades. Ideologically, the rise is invariably attributed to “law-and-order” conservatives, who indeed seldom deny their own role (or indifference). In fact, few conservatives understand what they are defending.
Conservatives who rightly decry “judicial activism” in civil law are often blind to the connected perversion of criminal justice. While a politicized judiciary does free the guilty, it also criminalizes the -innocent.
But traditionalists upholding law and order were not an innovation of the 1970s. A newer and more militant force helped create the “carceral state.” In The Prison and the Gallows (2006), feminist scholar Marie Gottschalk points out that traditional conservatives were not the prime instigators, and blames “interest groups and social movements not usually associated with penal conservatism.” Yet she names only one: “the women’s movement.” [Read more →]
Feminists will argue until they’re blue in the face that women are victims of the Great Satanic Patriarchy. That tenet is laughable when one considers women are leading men on almost every indicator of social welfare. But give them credit, feminists are a determined bunch. So in their crusade to spread the gospel of female victimization, they have established a network of domestic violence shelters around the nation. These programs resemble socialist thought reform experiments more than anything that can be considered to be professional counseling or crisis intervention.
To gain admittance to such facilities one must of course be female — after all, male victims of domestic violence are unlikely to benefit from a regimen of patriarchal deprogramming.
Second, the woman must make the ritualistic claim of being a victim to abuse. Any type of abuse will suffice: emotional, financial, or anything else that comes to mind. No police report, no medical record, no proof of any kind is required. “Always believe the victim,” goes shelter managers’ circular logic. In his classical account of Chinese brainwashing, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, Robert Lifton recounts how newly-arrived inmates were assigned to a holding cell where they were subjected to ridicule, abuse, and physical hazing by the more veteran residents.
Such is the all-too-frequent experience of women in abuse shelters. One woman, Eileen Pope, spent months inside the YWCA Hope House in Charleston, W. Va. “I often felt unsafe. There were several physical and verbal altercations between the shelter residents. I had clothing stolen from me,” she later related: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/roberts/090824
Once they settle into shelter routines, the women come to realize they have become unwitting guinea pigs of an ideological bait-and-switch. At Bethany House in Fairfax, Va., employees would reportedly “infuriate the woman with propaganda.” One client at a Massachusetts shelter found the real message was to “accept the indoctrination and embrace my victimhood.” [Read more →]
To hear it from the Abusegaters, men are inherently abusive creatures, and women are utterly incapable of being physically aggressive with their partners. That’s what the DV industry has been saying for years. No doubt about it, Abusegate represents one of the biggest scientific hoaxes of our time. And how do the Abusegate propagandists get away with all the Ms.-Information? Simple…no one dares to challenge them, because they don’t want to be called “misogynist” or “anti-woman.”
But what if everyone decided at the same time to stand up and tell the truth? What if we all started saying “YOU LIE!”
It’s time to step up and speak out (and if you can say it with a smile, even better!):“Why are you telling only half the story?” “That’s not true!” “Stop stereotyping men as abusers!”
Harry sheared these links with me, followed up by some personal thoughts regarding his experiences within the family court systems out there. He places things into perspective well and outlines what men are up against when questioning such a system. Well done, Harry.
Both articles are interesting but the perspectives are fascinating, at least in my world as a men’s rights activist.
Unrelated, last night I attended a get-together for another start-up family rights organization, one triggered by a horrendously failed family court child custody evaluator. Many on this distribution list are members of that group. The meeting was set with wine and fancy food in an upscale neighborhood, Del Mar, one of the most moneyed-up conclaves in America. This is a mixed group of ill treated mothers and fathers, parents unmercifully dragged through the family court system. One mother has been fighting for divorce for over a decade, which in no way is unique to those in the group. Many in the group are convinced gender bias plays no role in such dreadfully heart-wrenching and destructive processes. Instead they believe the “System” is wholly driven by avarice.
As I’ve said many times corruption like nepotism, cronyism, other “isms”’ and even bribes have been part and parcel of our judicial system since its earliest inception; and, that will never change, never. It should come as no surprise that money corrupts. It should come to no surprise to anyone with wealth that others may do whatever legally and often illegally possible to extract it given the opportunity.
Virtually all the women and a few of the men at the get-together had or have significant resources. Most or all of the women either had or have their own money, family money, or other money, or were in a failed relationship with partner who had their own money, family money, or other money, and lots of it; or, the prevailing parent may have been moneyed-up and connected to the System through nepotism, cronyism, other “isms” or even bribes.
There was one woman, a professional, not unlike most men who unsuccessfully traveled the gauntlet of family court, burdened with debilitating child support payments who revealed she would soon be living in her car. Others in the group made the point that the group was almost evenly divided between men and women, as if a gathering of 30 or so people was somehow statistical proof that gender discrimination plays no part in family court. In fact, more than one vehemently decried even the possibility of gender bias in favor of branding the entire System corrupted merely by money. [Read more →]
Something odd occurred in the two days following the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre earlier this month. Commentaries by both Margaret Wente of The Globe and Mail and Jonathan Kay of the Post were sharply critical of the emotive and irrational linkage of the Massacre with the phenomenon of domestic violence against women. Neither pundit is known to be anti-feminist in general, but both columns recommended we desacralize the Polytechnique killings, accept them for the freak tragedy they were and stop guilt-tripping all men for Marc Lépine’s unique paranoiac fixations.
Ranting about the unwholesome social ends to which the Massacre has been put used to be my lonely job every Dec. 6. Finding myself in such good company was a happy surprise and, I think, an iconoclastic cultural moment: Let us recognize that female victimhood is not intrinsically more tragic than male victimhood, these columns seemed to say.
Mary J. Blige punched husband Kendu Isaacs in the face at her record release party at club M2 Tuesday night. The singer slugged Isaacs, drawing blood, after she thought he was flirting with a waitress. “She turned to him and was screaming, ‘You’re not going to ruin my night,’ ” our witness says. “They got up in each other’s faces before someone tried to separate them, at which point she shoved the guy aside, pulled back and popped [Isaacs] in the face.” The source said Blige, Isaacs and their entourage were whisked through a door to the attached club Pink, which was closed. Our witness relates, “She was yelling at him, ‘What are you gonna do, Chris Brown me?’ Four of her bodyguards and two of the club’s kept them apart.” Isaacs was kicked out. Blige went to the bathroom to fix her hair and makeup, but soon fled, creating an uncomfortable scene for partygoers Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Busta Rhymes.[Read more →]
Abuse and violence are behaviors chosen by a woman to cause physical, sexual, or emotional damage and worry or fear. Women who behave this way are often promiscuous, selfish, and narcissistic. Such a woman uses her moods, rage, and impulses to control the people around her and she is not satisfied until they have noticed her. These women choose deceit, fury, and assault to get their own way and then revels in the addicting exhilarating emotional unrest they create. Others, more insidiously, present a personable public image to conceal their true character and behavior.
These women lie, connive, and extort. To insult and humiliate their partner, some argue and use offensive language in the presence of others including their children. Many steal or destroy their partner’s possessions. These women are driven by jealousy and view others as rivals. They treat their partners as possessions and strive to isolate them from friends and family.
Many abusive women falsely accuse their partners of infidelity while they have affairs. These women often abuse children or animals. Nearly all exhibit erratic mood changes, feign illnesses or injuries, and most are practiced actresses. They are not sick; they play the triple roles of a terrorist, a tyrant, and a victim. [Read more →]
Something odd occurred in the two days following the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre earlier this month. Commentaries by both Margaret Wente of The Globe and Mail and Jonathan Kay of the Post were sharply critical of the emotive and irrational linkage of the Massacre with the phenomenon of domestic violence against women. Neither pundit is known to be anti-feminist in general, but both columns recommended we desacralize the Polytechnique killings, accept them for the freak tragedy they were and stop guilt-tripping all men for Marc Lépine’s unique paranoiac fixations.
Mary J. Blige has cranked out another hit, but this time it seems 