Protestors At Patty Murray's Secret Meeting

Here are a couple of wife beaters that were protesting VAWA at Patty Murray's secret "Community Meeting."

Oh, but wait, these are women! Yes, that's right, women!

The fact that women in Washington State are against VAWA in its present form certainly has Patty Murray confused, judging by the way she ran away after holding court in her secret "Community Meeting."

Why, you ask, are women against VAWA? Well, Phyllis Schlafly says it best:

Here is some mischief in VAWA-funded activities that should be investigated in the upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

VAWA refuses to provide any help whatsoever for male victims of domestic violence. Let's hear from Professor Martin Fiebert of California State University at Long Beach who compiled a bibliography of 170 scholarly investigations, 134 empirical studies and 36 analyses, which demonstrate that women are almost as physically abusive toward their partners as men.

VAWA encourages women to make false allegations, and then petition for full child custody and a denial of all fathers' rights to see their own children.

VAWA promotes the unrestrained use of restraining orders, which family courts issue on the woman's say-so. This powerful weapon (according to the Illinois Bar Journal) is "part of the gamesmanship of divorce" and virtually guarantees that fathers are expelled from the lives of their own children.

A woman seeking help from a VAWA-funded center is not offered any options except to leave her husband, divorce him, accuse him of being a criminal, and have her sons targeted as suspects in future crimes. VAWA ideology rejects joint counseling, reconciliation, and saving marriages.

VAWA denies that alcohol and illegal drugs are a cause of domestic violence, a peculiar assumption contrary to all human experience. In fact, most domestic violence incidents involve those components.

VAWA uses a definition of domestic violence that blurs the difference between violent action and run-of-the-mill marital tiffs and arguments. Definitions of abuse can even include minor insults and refusing to help with child care or housework.

VAWA funds the re-education of judges and all law enforcement personnel to teach them feminist stereotypes about male abusers and female victims, how to game the system to empower women, and how to ride roughshod over the constitutional rights of men.

VAWA forces Soviet-style psychological re-education on men. The accused men are not given treatment for real problems, but are assigned to classes where feminists teach shame and guilt because of a vast male conspiracy to subjugate women.

VAWA-funded centers engage in political advocacy for feminist legislation such as the "must-arrest" laws even if there is no sign of violence and even if the woman doesn't want the man arrested, and political advocacy against non-feminist legislation such as shared parental rights.

It's time to stop VAWA from spending any more taxpayers' money to promote family dissolution and fatherless children.