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My Opinion of Perry Manley's
'Suicide by Cop'
Many
of you have written to me
asking my opinion of
Perry Manley's 'Suicide by
Cop' Monday in Seattle.
Manley, angry over a family
court matter, entered the
courthouse with what appeared
to be a grenade. According
to police, Manley refused
to surrender or negotiate,
and made a sudden move, after
which police fired, killing
him. The grenade turned out
to be a fake--Manley was unarmed.
As
for Manley's family court
grievance, the facts, as far
as I can ascertain them, are:
Manley
divorced in 1990 from his
wife, with whom he had 3 kids.
Manley
claimed the child support
system had treated him unfairly.
I don't know if this is true,
but it certainly is a common
problem for divorced dads.
Manley
claimed that his ex-wife interfered
with his visitation with his
kids and alienated them against
him. Again, I don't know if
this is true, but it certainly
is a common problem.
Manley
claimed that paying child
support in and of itself was
unconstitutional and a violation
of his human rights. He made
this his central issue, as
opposed to the alleged violations
of his custody and visitation
rights.
Manley
claimed that a judge who had
ruled against him had violated
the constitution in his dealings
with him, thus violating his
oath of office and committing
"treason" which,
Manley said, is punishable
by death.
I
have received many letters
telling me that Manley is
a hero, and even that I should
honor him (or his memory)
on my radio show this Sunday.
I'll pass. Manley was unarmed,
and that certainly counts
in his favor, but his actions
were reckless and needlessly
put innocent civilians in
harm's way. It served no constructive
purpose but instead makes
it easier for our many enemies
to portray divorced dads as
violent nuts.
While
many divorced dads are abused
by the child support system,
it is unclear whether the
child support demands upon
Manley, who had three children
in need of support, were unreasonable.
Manley made child support,
not his rights as a father,
his central issue.
Had
Manley done what
David Chick did, I could
support him.
David Chick is a hero.
Gary LaMusga is a hero.
Jolly Stansby and
Ron Davis and
Gary S. and
Edgar P. and
John Brumbaugh and
Benoit Leroux are heroes.
Manley may (or may not) have
been a victim of a family
law system which has torn
millions of fathers and children
apart. But either way there
was nothing heroic about his
actions this week.
The audio
of last week's
His Side--Not
the Era of the Deadbeat Dad
but the Era of the Hero Father--can
be heard by clicking
here.
California Military Parents
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Unanimously
SB 1082, the military
parents' bill, just passed
the California Assembly Judiciary
Committee unanimously.
The bill will help end the
bureaucratic child support
nightmare faced by many deployed
reservists. To learn more
about the bill, see my co-authored
column
California's Military Reservists
Need SB 1082 (Riverside
Press-Enterprise, 4/14/05).
In April
the Sackson Horde helped jolt
SB 1082 out of the California
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Thanks to all of you who supported
our campaign, and special
thanks to lobbyist Mike Robinson
for his great work. I often
receive letters from servicemen
in Iraq and Afghanistan who
are struggling with custody
and child support issues.
New Column:
'Not the Era of the Deadbeat
Dad but the Era of the Hero
Father'
My new co-authored
column "Not
the Era of the Deadbeat Dad
but the Era of the Hero Father"
was published on Father's
Day in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
and the Fredericksburg Free
Lance-Star. To comment
on the article, write to the
Star-Telegram concerning
"Let's honor the 'hero
father'" at
letters@star-telegram.com
and to the Free Lance-Star
concerning
Dads get a bad rap, but they
can be heroes, too: Not the
era of the deadbeat dad but
the era of the hero father
at
letters@freelancestar.com.
New Column: 'This Year Daddy
Began a Comeback'
My new column,
"This
Year Daddy Began a Comeback"
(Riverside Press-Enterprise,
6/19/05), discusses some of
the progress the men's and
fathers' movement has made
over the past year. The Press-Enterprise
is a 200,000 circulation newspaper
in the greater Los Angeles
area. To comment on the column,
write to the Press-Enterprise
concerning
Fathers 4 Justice: Progress
for dads at
letters@pe.com.
His Side
with Glenn Sacks on CBS News
Sunday Morning with Charles
Osgood
CBS News
Sunday Morning with Charles
Osgood did a nice Father's
Day special on father bashing
in TV sitcoms and advertising.
CBS showed live footage of
my
June 12 broadcast, an
in-studio interview with me,
and brief clips of my children.
We discussed the
His Side Campaign Against
Anti-Father Verizon Commercial
and the way children's books
such as the Berenstein Bears
series portray fathers as
idiots. To watch the video,
click
here. To comment
on the show, write to
sundays@cbsnews.com.
The CBS piece
featured some excellent commentary
from Warren Farrell, author
of
Father and Child Reunion,
who noted that were aliens
from another planet to view
our TV shows, they would come
away with the impression that
fathers are a roadblock that
children must overcome. Arianna
Huffington also made an appearance
and contradicted my assertion
that men are bashed on TV
in part because it is not
socially acceptable to criticize
women. Huffington said that
we shouldn't be unhappy because
it's only TV.
The show
also highlighted a perfect
example of the problem--Alan
Kirschenbaum, Executive Producer
of CBS' Yes, Dear, and one
of the directors of Everybody
Loves Raymond. Describing
dads past and present, Kirschenbaum
said "we don't want to
be fathers like our fathers
were--very quick to not bear
any responsibility for raising
their kids, always off doing
what they wanted to do instead."
Kirschenbaum said modern fathers
are different--that we want
to father for about 20 minutes
and then hand the kids off
to our overworked wives and
go off and play.
As one could
tell from listening to Sunday's
His Side, the trashing of
fathers of previous generations
is one of my pet peeves. I
defended the "old"
father in my column
Hate My Father? No Ma'am!
(World Net Daily, 4/8/02).
Glenn, Ned Holstein Spar with
NOW leader on NPR
Ned Holstein
of
Fathers & Families of
Massachusetts and I debated
Terri O'Neill, vice president
of membership for the
National Organization for
Women, and law professor
David Meyer on NPR's
AirTalk with Larry Mantle
on Friday, June 17. To listen
to the audio archive of the
show, click
here.
Some of you
may recall that I debated
O'Neill on the Kobe Bryant
trial in the San Francisco
Chronicle last summer--see
my column
Kobe Bryant Ruling a Step
Towards Equity in Rape Trials
as well as O'Neill's co-authored
Survivors must not be twice
victimized.
The best
part of the show was when
Ned defended shared parenting,
saying "ask a 6 year-old
which parent they don't want
to see for a month and they'll
be terrified."
O'Neill threw
out whopper after whopper
on the show but there was
little opportunity to respond.
At one point she claimed that
37% of women's emergency room
visits were due to domestic
assaults by their husbands
or male intimates. I wanted
but did not get the chance
to inform her that, according
to the Centers for Disease
Control, less than 1% of women's
emergency room visits are
due to domestic violence,
and that more visits are due
to animal bites than male
violence.
Glenn Appears on the Paul
Coughlin Show
I appeared
on the Paul Coughlin Show
on
KDOV in Southern Oregon
on Wednesday, June 22.
Paul is the author of
the new book
No More Christian Nice Guy.
Will I See
You at the Men's Equality
Conference 2005?
I will be
speaking at the
2005 Men's Equality Conference
July 15 and 16 in Washington
D.C.--to attend, click
here. Also speaking will
be Warren Farrell, Stephen
Baskerville, Jack Kammer,
Carnell Smith, and Dave Burroughs.
The 2005 Men's Equality Conference
will be held 3 blocks from
the US capitol. For
more information, visit
www.TrueEquality.com.
Last year's
conference was exceptionally
well-done. My speech to the
conference last year was
The Future of the American
Father.
Family law attorney
Peter Walzer was one of
the heroes of
our successful campaign to
save the crucial LaMusga decision
last summer. Peter specializes
exclusively in Family Law
and handles Marital Dissolution,
Spousal and Child Support,
Custody and Visitation, Tax
Issues in Marital Dissolutions,
Interstate and International
Family Law Disputes, Bankruptcy
and Divorce, and Paternity.
Walzer is a fellow of
the American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers and the International
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers,
and is the past president
of the Association of Certified
Family Law Specialists. He
takes a proactive role in
each of his cases to handle
the matter in the most cost
effective and efficient way
to better serve his clients.
He can be reached at 818-591-3700
or at
www.California-Divorce.com.
David R.
Burroughs, President of
Fairhill Financial Services
LLC, has been offering
guidance to individual investors
for 18 years. Dave specializes
in working with individuals
to develop a comprehensive
investment plan that meets
their short-term needs while
building a nest egg for the
future. He prides himself
in providing personal service
to his clients which includes
ensuring clients know all
the pluses and minuses of
the investment options available
to them. If you're looking
to invest and you need a source
for stocks, bonds or mutual
funds, Dave Burroughs can
be reached at 410-392-8244
or via his website
here.
Securities and advisory services
offered through Commonwealth
Financial Network, Member
NASD, SIPC. A registered investment
advisor.
The Coalition of Fathers and
Families of New York is
leading the fight for fathers
in New York state. Go to
www.fafny.org or contact
FaFNY VP Mr. Randall L. Dickinson
at
Dickins895@aol.com /
(518) 899-3302 or FaFNY coordinator
Debbie Fellows at
DAFellows2001@yahoo.com
/ (518) 381 6948.
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Best
Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
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NOMAS
Leader Kimmel Criticizes Men's
Equality Conference, Calls
Movement 'Wimps, Whiners'
Sponsors of the
2005 Men's Equality Conference,
to be held July 15 and 16
in Washington D.C., believe
that males are often disadvantaged,
and that feminism is part
of the problem. Among the
grievances cited by the conference
are unfairness or inequity
in Family Courts, Education,
Health, Domestic Violence
policies, Paternity Fraud,
Criminal Law, and in Reproductive
Rights.
Author and sociologist
Michael Kimmel, National
Spokesperson for the pro-feminist
men's group the
National Organization for
Men Against Sexism (NOMAS),
disagrees, to put it mildly.
In his book
Manhood in America Kimmel,
America's leading male feminist,
calls the men's movement "wimps"
and "whiners." According
to Kimmel:
"Fathers' rights groups
use a language of equality
to take their revenge against
women to court, to demand
mandatory joint custody without
demonstration of father's
prior involvement. Most advocates
of men's and fathers' rights
are disgruntled and divorced
dads who blame their wives
and their wives' lawyers..."
Kimmel says the men's movement
analysis of gender issues
is "so misguided, its
inversions so transparent,
its anger is displaced onto
those who have traditionally
been excluded, that it can
hardly offer any man of reason
a convincing picture of men's
situation." To Kimmel,
those who assert that the
tables have been turned against
men in the gender wars are
looking at the world "through
a funhouse mirror."
Kimmel
will join Glenn on
His Side with Glenn Sacks
on Sunday, June 26 at 5 PM
PST/8 PM EST. For those
who are outside of our radio
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