APPENDIX 20
Memorandum submitted by T H Aldridge
1. This submission is mainly
concerned with criminal and civil justice processes, but it includes
references to the police and multi-agency matters.
2. In his conference speech
on 24 September, the Prime Minister denied that Britain has a
fragmenting society and he quoted the Bible in support of his
policies. But other people can quote the Bible too. If Mr Brown
turns to the front of his Bible he will find that God punished
Eve by making her subservient to her husband. The ten commandments
require sexual morality. God obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah because
they indulged perverted sexual practices. Even Jesus chose twelve
men to be his disciples.
3. The difference between
Britain now and past societies, British and others through-out
the world irrespective of religion, is that they all had marriage
and patriarchy. These ensured stability. But now in Britain, marriage
has been fatally under-mined, patriarchy is being deliberately
destroyed, and, for the last ten years Gordon Brown has been among
the leaders of this process.
4. The claim is that men in
the past abused their strength and enslaved women. Men and women,
so we are told, have identical abilties. Only a fool could truly
believe that, but that is the basis of the Sex Discrimination
Acts. We have laws founded on biological fallacy and one conesquence
of this attempt to defy human biology is the huge increase in
domestic violence. While the Government claims to abhor domestic
violence, it pursues policies which increase the circumstances
in which it flourishes.
5. Laws founded on biological
fallacy require other laws to back them up. The Domestic Violence
Crime and Victims Act 2004 is one such. The National Domestic
Violence Delivery Plan Progress Report 2005/06 states that this
law is proposed to "impact" on domestic violence by
"Enabling courts to impose restraining orders on acquital
for any offence (or, if a conviction has been overturned, on appeal)[my
underlining] if they consider it necessary to protect a victim
from harassment" (page 29). This establishes a new legal
principle as follows: if an alleged perpetrator is found not guilty
by a court of law, his freedom can nevertheless be restricted
if the judge feels inclined to do so.
6. It is an attack on British
freedom, and, make no mistake, on the freedom of men, not women.
The word "Victim", in the eyes of the government and
some courts of law, means "Woman". Men are deemed to
be the perpetrators. The only proof the family courts require
is the allegation of a woman.
7. The British establishment
denies that the physical and mental differences between men and
women prevent them from having identical abilities. It pretends
that women have a more important function in life than giving
birth and raising children. Men have been cast in the role of
the villains of society, blamed for the consequences of the denied
biological differences between the sexes.
8. This is Marxism applied
to sex. But Marxism has failed. The Soviet Union imploded. Most
of the former communist countries have abandoned national-isation
for private enterprise. Those that have not remain in abject poverty.
9. Sexual Marxism has also
failed. British society is fragmenting. Men and women can no longer
live together long enough to raise their children as Nature intended
that they should. This has resulted in the wholesale neglect and
emotional deprivation of children.
10. Neglected and emotionally
deprived children grow to adulthood and in turn breed neglected
and emotionally deprived children. These people form an underclass
in which under-aged and teenaged girls give birth, and under-educated
boys and young men are unemployed and commit violent crime. In
Britain that underclass is now so big that it is undermining social
stability. The police can no longer enforce law and order.
11. Almost daily someone is
shot or stabbed to death. In many areas gangs rule the streets.
The Daily Mail of 22nd September carried an article on a boy of
15 who is leader of a gang in Manchester. He does not go to school,
makes about £100,000 a year dealing in drugs, carries a knife,
has access to guns including a machine gun, and is feared even
by men in the same culture. His mother takes drugs and has no
control over him. That is the situation with most of the other
boys in his gang. The article claimed that there are some 200
such gangs in the country and they are no longer just in large
cities.
12. No human society can survive
such a state of affairs for long. The fiction, that men are violent
and women are their victims, is at the root of the drive against
men, in spite of the sexually neutral language of legislation
and other written documents. Until now, all protests at the stupidity
and injustice of this situation have been peremptorily brushed
aside. The Government and the Family Courts have denied bias and
injustice. But, these policies have been extremely socially destructive,
causing huge damage to children, hence the crisis of law and order,
as well as educational incompetence and a host of other problems.
13. This inquiry has been
set up to investigate how measures to reduce domestic violence
are progressing. But the strategy to demonise and criminalise
men is counter-productive. It actually creates the conditions
in which domestic violence flourishes. The inquiry has been overtaken
by events. We are slipping into anarchy and chaos. If the descent
into anarchy and chaos cannot be averted, then the Government
will no longer control the agenda.
14. The Committee can dutifully
carry out an exercise to find out how well the imposition of a
biological lie is succeeding, and risk seeing the law and order
situation spiral out of control. Or it can abandon the Government's
approach to reducing domestic violence, establish the facts behind
family breakdown and the epidemic of violent crime we are now
experiencing, and make radical recom-mendations to Government
for averting the impending disaster.
15. Domestic violence, in
common with wars, poverty, murder and robbery, will always be
with us. All we can do is reduce the circumstances in which it
flourishes. The government's own statistics show that domestic
violence, both to men and to women, is least likely in heterosexual
marriage (see the Home Office's own Domestic Violence website).
16. Yet everything the Government
has done in the social field has been designed to damage heterosexual
marriage and to promote the informal and perverted sexual relationships
in which domestic violence flourishes. The Family Courts, social
services and all the other apparatus of social policy enforcement
are geared to this policy. Quite apart from the unsustainable
social damage, the legislation is an attack on the principles
of innocent until proved guilty and the right of Britons not to
be imprisoned without proof beyond reasonable doubt. These are
principles for which this country was once renowned and respected.
17. If this inquiry is to
reach any useful conclusions it will have to arrive at a truth
which is being wilfully concealed. Even such things as police
records, which should record facts, are distorted, because many
men are unwilling to report being victims of female violence.
Those who do seek the protection of the law may find that they
are ridiculed, or even themselves arrested by police and removed
from their homes. If they should be unwise enough to try to defend
themselves from their violent women, those women may then call
the police and have them arrested as the perpetrators of the violence.
There could hardly be better disincentives to men to report the
criminal acts of the women who assault them.
18. It is very important that
this Committee should establish the truth about domestic violence
because the fiction of only male on female violence is counter-productive.
It increases domestic violence. Women are encouraged to make false
allegations in secret courts so that they will be given the marital
home and care of their children. By their perverse decisions the
courts are offering financial inducements to women to break up
marriages. But children living with mother or father and an unrelated
adult are at much greater risk of violence, including sexual violence.
(The Cost of Family Breakdown, page 57, (see para.22) gives a
figure of violence to the child as being some 33 times more likely
compared with a child living with its married natural parents).
19. Chapter 2 of the book,
Divorce, published in 1997 by the United Kingdom Men's Movement
(ISBN 1 900616 05 X) was written by a practising solicitor, Adrian
Pellman, and exposes what was then happening in these closed door
courts. In the last year or two there has been some sign that
the courts are beginning to address the problem of resident parent
mothers who defy court orders and frustrate contact between separated
fathers and their children. (This is itself very serious mental
domestic violence against both the children and their fathers.)
20. However, the hostility
to men and the confiscation of their property goes on. These courts
deliberate behind closed doors and reward false accusations and
the wives" infidelity. The judges use judicial discretion
to frustrate the intentions of Parliament, which never intended
that men should be stripped of their property by deserting wives.
Their iniquitous rulings encourage divorce, damage children and
increase the likelihood of domestic violence. Those are some of
the conse-quences of attempting to make a fairer society by denying
biological fact.
21. Other evidence of malpractice,
by judges and lawyers, is provided by pages 10 to 12 inclusive
of a Report to the Lord Chancellor in 2000 by the Children Act
Sub-Committee of the Advisory Board on Family Law. The sub-committee
put forward a definition of domestic violence which was not "gender"
neutral in spite of the fact that the seven people on it included
a judge (the chairman) and two senior lawyers. The corrected "gender"
neutral version nevertheless implied that the residential parent,
the vast majority of whom are mothers, would be the one suffering
the violence.
22. Pages 19 and 20 of The
Cost of Family Breakdown, published in 2000 by the Family Matters
Institute, deal with how easy divorce has become and its effects
on fathers and children.
23. "Whereas divorce
was once limited to cases of irreparable breakdown, it may now
happen because a "more desirable" partner has been located.
The welfare of children is deemed irrelevant. As a result of divorce,
many children will lose contact with their father, particularly
if he is denied access rights. 30% of non-resident fathers have
no contact with their children."
24. It quotes David Popenhoe,
an American academic. "Father absence is a major force behind
many of the attention-grabbing issues that dominate the news:
crime and delinquency; premature sexuality and out of wedlock
teen births; deteriorating educational achievement; depression,
substance abuse and alienation among teenagers; and the groing
number of women and children in poverty." It comments that
"it is beyond dispute that one of the major causes of father
absence is divorce"
25. Researchers at Oxford
University comment, "Couples with children tend to stay together
longer before separating if they have signed the marriage contract.
Divorced fathers are more inclined than absent and unmarried fathers
to play an active role in the continued upbringing of their offspring.
If the welfare of children is paramount, then it is social heresy
to assert that all lifestyles are of equal value".
26. That last paragraph should
be particularly noted, because the position of the Government,
the family courts and all the child protection professions is
just that: that all lifestyles are of equal value. But it is not
only children who suffer outside marriage. The informal relationships
are all much more violent. Within the marriage of their natural
parents, not only children, but also the adults are very much
safer.
27. The decline of morality
and marriage, regarded by many as irreversible, is the cause of
huge increases in domestic violence. When the Government pretends
to abhor domestic violence, and passes laws which infringe the
freedom of men, it is quite intentionally undermining heterosexual
marriage. Since in all other relation-ships domestic violence
is more likely, it is a self-defeating Government policy.
28. Unless something is done
very quickly to arrest and reverse family breakdown (long term
solution), and to restore proper policing on our streets, we face
a future of mob rule, in which hard working, law-abiding citizens
have no protection from criminals.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
29. Domestic violence will
never be totally eliminated. All that can be done to reduce it
is to promote the conditions where it is least likely to occur.
Those conditions only exist within formal heterosexual marriages.
30. Domestic violence is not
just a male on female phenomenon as the Government, the family
courts, social services and the police pretend and would have
us believe. Women use weapons to overcome physical inferiority
(30 men a year are murdered by women) and they also use psychological
violence, such as denying fathers contact with their children.
31. Almost without exception,
those people, authorites and organisations which make such a fuss
about domestic violence, and the need to stop it and punish perpetra-tors,
are themselves promoting the conditions in which violence flourishes.
This is true of the Government, the family courts, and the social
services. The police have a policy of removing men from the home
even when the men are themselves the victims of the violence.
32. In order to try to prevent
the violence it has itself promoted, the Government has enacted
laws which contravene the principles of innocent until proved
guilty and that no one should be imprisoned without proof beyond
reasonable doubt. These threaten proud British traditions of freedom.
33. The whole fiasco of the
decline of marriage, and treating men as inherently violent, is
the result of trying to apply Marxist theory to sexual differences.
It is resulting in the neglect and emotional deprivation of children
on a massive scale, as well as undermining the legal basis of
British freedom. Socially alienated teenagers and adults are now
causing chaos and undermining law and order.
34. The Home Affairs Committee
should properly investigate who perpetrates dom-estic violence,
the circumstances in which it flourishes, and make practical re-commendations
to Government for its reduction. These should include accept-ance
of the fact that men and women do not, and cannot have identical
abilities, and that the raising of children in a stable, safe
environment (heterosexual marriage being the only such environment),
is essential to a stable society.
1 Ocotber 2007
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