According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, reverse discrimination is:" discrimination against whites or males (as in employment or education) ". 1.
By it's very definition "affirmative action" is both racist and sexist. Men are discriminated again BY DESIGN through affirmative action.
The following is the Gettysburg Address which President Abraham Lincoln gave on Thursday November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 2.
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Unfortunately, the political establishment of the United States government has forgotten the lessons of the American Civil War and the Gettysburg Address.
Rather, it continues on the path of discrimination and privilege based upon race, gender, color and national origin through affirmative action and other overt and covert laws and policies.
As per the Gettysburg address, it is for men's rights activists and other freedom loving citizens" It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." 3.
What is the legal definition of " Reverse discrimination"?
"Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex, creed, and age." 4.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex discusses the history of "affirmative action" and it's definition 5.
Affirmative action is not limited to employment but, also, includes education, the receipt of social services, and many other governmental, private, and other benefits, freedoms, and privileges. It can even mean the exclusion of Caucasians and/or men even if the same are better qualified by reason of education, expertise, or temperament.
Legal arguments against affirmative action include those that assert that it is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, The U.S. Constitution's prohibition against Bills of Attainder, as well as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The text of the Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution which was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments is as follows:
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"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." 6.
Do "Affirmative Action" and similar laws amount to "Bills of Attainder" and "Ex Post Facto" laws forbidden by the U.S. Constitution? It appears to me that they do.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
"A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of pains and penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them , often without a trial." 7..
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"The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder under Article I, Section 9. The provision forbidding state law bills of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the framers attached to this issue.
"Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed".
The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12 reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Contrast this with the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1 (Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made." 8.
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The SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the United States, is supposed to be an impartial tribunal with regard to the interpretation and enforcement of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and associated laws, regulations, and otherwise.
However, in actuality, it isn't.
SCOTUS has enforced laws which discriminate against individuals and groups because of gender and race inclusive of the military draft, affirmative action, and other laws and practices which have the effect of discriminating against males, especially Caucasian men. SCOTUS has supported and approved laws which unconstitutionally promulgate "Monopoly Capitalism" inclusive of the infamous ruling that corporations have the same basic political rights as living individuals (Citizens United). THUS, SCOTUS is not an impartial tribunal but a highly political entity which promulgates the political and economic means and ends of the political establishment which, as in this particular case, are "Monopoly Capitalism" with it's closely associated "Cultural Marxism."
In light of the aforementioned, the following quote is appropriate:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero 9.
The following is a partial quote from an article which appears on the VDARE website. This article, by Peter Brimelow, describes the deleterious affects of "affirmative action" on our society, culture, economy, and body politic.
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" If quotas are clogging the Clinton transition, what are they doing to the economy? The subject went unmentioned, needless to say, at Clinton's two-day economic summit in Little Rock. In fact, it has gone virtually undiscussed throughout the quarter-century of bureaucratic and judicial decrees that have effectively transformed the color-blind 1964 Civil Rights Act into a pervasive quota system. Ironically, just as socialism has collapsed across the globe, the leading capitalist power has adopted a peculiarly American neosocialism, putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its workplace, albeit on the pretext of equity rather than efficiency. Says Edward Potter of the Washington, D.C.-based Employment Policy Foundation: "We have, without doubt, the most far-reaching equal employment laws found anywhere in the world." Before applauding Potter's sweeping statement, stop for a minute and ponder this question: What does the replacement of merit with quotas cost the American people? The answer is: plenty. The impact may easily have already depressed GNP by a staggering four percentage points—about as much as we spend on the entire public school system. Quotas are not the law of the land, exactly. They are explicitly banned in both the 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts. Nevertheless, corporate America has been terrorized by the legal legerdemain whereby any statistical disparity between work force and population is equated with intentional discrimination. Throughout American business, newly entrenched affirmative action bureaucrats are enforcing discrimination by race and sex—in favor of the "protected classes" (women, minorities and, most recently, the disabled)—as decreed by Washington." 10.
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Reiterating what was stated in the chapter entitled: " The Economic Effects of Feminism" : In an article, written by Krystal Steinmetz, entitled: "Young Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973" which appeared in the online MoneyTalksNews on May 13, 2014, describes the dramatic decline in American men's median income since 1973. The URL of the article is:http://www.moneytalksnews.com/2014/05/13/young-american-men-earn-much-less-now-than-in-1973/ The body of this article states: "Young American Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973.Men’s median income is on the decline. It’s depressing, but true. Cheryl Russell of the New Strategist Press writes that, according to Census information, men ages 25 to 34 actually earn less than they did 40 years ago. Among all American men, ages 15 and older, median income peaked in 2000, at $37,791. After adjusting for inflation, men’s median income fell 10 percent from 2000 to 2012, to $33,904. While a 10 percent drop in income sounds terrible, it gets worse when you break it down by age groups, Russell said. Check out these sad statistics for the percentage change in men’s median income from the year it peaked to 2012 (adjusted for inflation): Ages 25-34. Down 27 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 35-44. Down 19 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 45-54. Down 17 percent. Peaked in 1999. Ages 55-64. Down 13 percent. Peaked in 2003. Russell said: The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation — a loss of $12,485. Men aged 35 to 44 have lost $10,345 since their peak. Men aged 45 to 54 have lost $9,762, and men aged 55 to 64 have lost $6,407. " 11.
The YouTube video entitled: "Male Gender Bias in the Nursing Profession" provides facts and reasoned arguments demonstrating discrimination against men in the traditional female profession of nursing. 12.
Given the aforementioned, the following quote from William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III", is appropriate: Richard:"And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." 13.
Friday, November 28, 2014
Friday, November 21, 2014
Feminism and the Law
" 'Rape is an expression of...male supremacy... the age-old economic, political and cultural exploitation of women by men." Does this sound like a modern radical feminist? Guess again. It is from a 1948 American Communist Party pamphlet entitled " "Woman Against Myth" by Mary Inman.' " 1. There is horribly unfair and discriminatory law in the U.S.A. and Canada against men, unbalanced favoritism of the legal system in favor of women against men through horribly unfair legislation. "This book has identified one fundamental feature of the laws, American and Canadian, that now govern relations between men and women: systematic discrimination against men. By 'systematic discrimination.' we refer to several things. First, legal discrimination against men is part of a pattern with deep roots in culturally transmitted beliefs, nor merely and isolated phenomenon. Anyone who looks can see this pattern in laws governing affirmative action, pay equity, maternal custody, child support, pornography, prostitution, sexual harassment, and violence against women. In all cases, directly or indirectly, men are identified exclusively as the villains (even though that sometimes amounts, as in the case of affirmative action, to the villainy of their ancestors). Second, legal discrimination against men is pervasive, not merely a collection of anomalies. The same arguments are used over and over again, differing justly slightly from one context to another. The most obvious example is provided by those who believe that rape is only one extreme point along a continuum, which begins with the mildest expression of heterosexual interest and ends with murder. Third, legal discrimination against men is the result of both conscious and subconscious motivations. This is more complicated than it sounds Ideological feminists are certainly prejudiced against men, and they are certainly aware that men are paying the price for legal changes that benefit women." 2. "The result is a mentality that accepts systematic discrimination against men. Almost anything can be said about men or done to men, in short, without the expectation of a public outcry. Only now is that mentality being questioned and even challenged. The premise that underlies systemic discrimination against men is that women need to be protected from the power of men in every aspect of daily life. And underlying that premise are the various characteristic features of feminist ideology." 3. American feminist Jurisprudence provides the framework for this unbalanced favoritism of the legal system in favor of women against men through horribly unfair legislation "American feminist jurisprudence is the study of the construction and workings of the law from perspectives which foreground the implications of the law for women and women's lives.This study includes law as a theoretical enterprise as well as its practical and concrete effects in women's lives. Further, it includes law as an academic discipline and thus incorporates concerns regarding pedagogy and the influence of teachers. On all these levels, feminist scholars, lawyers, and activists raise questions about the meaning and the impact of law on women's lives. Feminist jurisprudence seeks to analyze and redress more traditional legal theory and practice. It focuses on the ways in which law has been structures that deny the experiences and needs of women. Feminist jurisprudence claims that patriarchy ( the system of interconnected relations and institutions that oppress women) infuses the legal system and all its working and that this results in an unacceptable state of affairs." 4. "Feminist legal theorists, despite differences in schools of thought, are united in their basic belief that society is patriarchal--shaped by and dominated by men. Feminists jurisprudence, then, provides an analysis and critique of women's position in patriarchal society and examines the nature and extent of of women's subordination. It explores the role of law in maintaining and perpetuating patriarchy. It also examines methods of eliminating patriarchy. Feminist legal theory essentially has two major components. The first is an exploration and critique of theoretical issues about the interaction between law and gender. The second is the application of feminist analysis and perspective to concrete areas of law: for example, family,work, criminal law, reproductive freedom, pornography, sexual harassment with an eye toward effectuating law reform." 5. "Catharine A. MacKinnon is widely regarded as the foremother of feminist legal theory. Her first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination, was published in 1979. While studying at Yale Law School, MacKinnon developed the theory of sexual harassment with a collective of lawyers and activists. The conceptualization of sexual harassment as a legal theory to address the situation that so many women encountered in the workplace and in school is a clear example of the power of feminist legal theory to transform women's lives. Today, women enter the workforce with a new set of entitlements and opportunities." 6. "Consequently, feminist jurisprudence is not politically neutral but a normative approach as expressed by philosopher Patricia Smith :" Feminist jurisprudence challenges basic legal categories and concepts rather than analyzing them as given. Feminist jurisprudence asks what is implied in traditional categories, distinctions, or concepts and rejects them if they imply the subordination of women. In this sense, feminist jurisprudence is normative and claims that traditional jurisprudence and law are implicitly normative as well. Feminist jurisprudence sees the workings of law as thoroughly permeated by political and moral judgments about the worth of women and how women should be treated." 7. Given the foregoing feminist philosophical and legal constructs, the determinants of the same are premised upon destroying traditional Western legal concepts of the individual application of the law in an unbiased manner and replacing the same with differentiating the formulation of the law and the application of the law based upon gender (and other class determinants) and how the formulation and application of the law promulgates the goals of women (and, through implication, other groups) against the oppressive "Patriarchy" as represented by men individually and collectively. "Although feminist jurisprudence revolves around a number of questions and features a diversity of focus and approach, two characteristics are central to it. First, because the Anglo-American legal tradition is built on liberalism and its tenets, feminist jurisprudence tends to respond to liberalism in some way. The second characteristic is the goal of bringing the law and its practitioners to recognize the law as currently constructed does not acknowledge or respond to the needs of women and must be changed." 8. Again, the essential concept of civil society, " the social contract", as the basis for law itself and Western philosophical and legal thought is considered inadequate and hostile towards women (and other groups) such that they must be made subordinate to the goals of women and other groups who have been traditionally exploited by the Patriarchical ( Western Civilization) concepts of law, equity, and politics. Inherent in the same, of course, is the subordination of men (especially Western men) and Western civilization and it's replacement by authoritarian concepts which can only be reasonably be defined as tyrannical, sexist, and racist. "As a critical theory, feminist jurisprudence responds to the current dominant understanding of legal thought which is usually identified with the liberal Anglo-American tradition. (This tradition is represented by such authors as Hart 1961 and Dworkin 1977, 1986.) Two major branches of this tradition have been legal positivism, on the one hand, and natural law theory, on the other. Feminist jurisprudence responds to both these branches of the American legal tradition by raising questions regarding their assumptions about the law, including: 1.That law is properly objective and thus must have recourse to objective rules or understandings at some level. 2.That law is properly impartial especially in that it is not to be tainted by the personal experience of any of its practitioners particularly judges. 3.That equality must function as a formal notion rather than as a substantive one such that, in the eyes of the law, difference must be shown to be "relevant" in order to be admissible/visible. 4. That law, when working properly, should be certain; and, that the goal of lawmaking and legal decision-making is to gain certainty. 5.. That justice can be understood as a matter of procedures such that a proper following of procedures can be understood as sufficient to rendering justice. Each of these assumption, although contested and debated, has remained a significant feature of the liberal tradition of legal understanding. Feminist jurisprudence usually frames its responses to traditional legal thought in terms of whether or not the critic is maintaining some commitment to the tradition or some particular feature of it. This split in responses has been formulated in a number of different ways according to the particular concerns they emphasize. The two formulations found most frequently in American feminist jurisprudence characterize the split either as a reformist/radical debate or as the sameness/difference debate. Within the reformist/radical debate, reformist feminists argue that the liberal tradition offers much that can be shaped to fit feminist hands and should be retained for all that it offers. These feminists approach jurisprudence with an eye to what needs to be changed within the system that already exists. Their work, then, is to gain entry into that system and use its own tools to construct a legal system which prevents the inequities of patriarchy from affecting justice. Those who see the traditional system as either bankrupt or so problematic that it cannot be reshaped are often referred to as transformist or radical feminists. According to this approach, the corruption of the legal tradition by the patriarchy is thought to be too deeply embedded to allow for any significant adjustments to the problems that women face. Feminists using this approach tend to argue that the legal system, either parts or as a whole, must be abandoned. They argue that liberal legal concepts, categories, and processes must be rejected and new ones put in place which can be free from the biases of the current system. Their work, then, is to craft the transformations that are necessary in legal theory and practice and to create a new legal system that can provide a more equitable justice." 9. Feminist legislation has resulted in the explosion of men incarcerated in the U.S.A. through the criminalization of conduct that women consider to be inimical to their political, economic, and social interests. "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.-------- 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." 10. In the United States, there are discriminatory sentencing disparities against men. "In both the United Kingdom and the United States there is concern about the extent to which there may be false accusations of rape. Lenient sentences for false accusations and lack of anonymity for the accused are also concerns. Sentencing for those convicted of making false accusations of rape in the United Kingdom is often perceived as being too lenient in comparison to the severe penalties imposed upon rapists." 11. "Men accused of rape today enjoy few safeguards. 'People can be charged with virtually no evidence,' says Boston former sex-crimes prosecutor Rikki Klieman. 'If a female comes in and says she was sexually assaulted, then on her word alone, with nothing else-- and I mean nothing else, no investigation-- the police will go out and arrest someone.'------ ' A defendant who can absolutely prove his innocence--- can none the less still be convicted, based solely on the word of the accuser,' write Stuart Taylor and K.C. Johnson in Until Proven Innocent. In North Carolina, simply "naming the person accused" along with the time and place " will support a verdict of guilty. Crime laboratories are notorious for falsifying results to obtain convictions. The feminist dogma that "women never lie" goes largely unchallenged. 'Any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes, ' says Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecutions. Purdue University sociologist, Eugene Kanin, found that "41% of the total disposed rape cases were officially declared false" during a nine-year period, " that is by the complainant's admission that no rape had occurred." Kanin discovered three functions of false accusations: ' providing an alibi, seeking revenge, and obtaining sympathy and attention.' The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) adds that ' false rape accusations also have been filed to extort money from celebrities, to gain sole custody of children in divorce cases, and even to escape military deployments to war zones.' In the infamous Duke University lacrosse case, prosecutor Michael Nifong suppressed exculpating evidence and prosecuted men he knew to be innocent, according to Taylor and Johnson. Nifong, himself, was eventually disbarred, but he had the willing accomplices among assistant prosecutors, police, crime lab technicians, judges, the bar and the media. "Innocent men are arrested and even imprisoned as a result of bogus claims, "writes Linda Fairstein, former head of the sex-crimes unit for the Manhattan District Attorney, who estimates that half of all reports are unfounded. Innocence projects are almost wholly occupied with rape cases ( though they try to disguise this fact). Yet no systematic investigation has been undertaken by the media or civil libertarians into why so many innocent citizens are so easily incarcerated on fabricated allegations. The exoneration of the Duke Lacrosse team students on obviously trumped-up charges triggered few investigations-and no official ones- to determine how widespread such rigged justice is against those unable to garner media attention." 12. "In many jurisdictions, alleged victims of rape are given anonymity while this is not extended to the accused. The British government announced plans to grant anonymity to the accused but withdrew plans after criticism from campaign groups such as "Women Against Rape. In most states in the United States, it is possible to get a conviction for rape without corroborating evidence. Thus, the issue of false accusations of rape is very serious." 13. "In the current state of the law, men can and will, with just an allegation,lose all of their money, their kids, their house, their job, their self-respect, their friends, their standing in the community, their families,;and, above all, their souls if a woman decides, one day, in one minute, to snap and cast him into the abyss of hell by calling 911 and lying. No Police Officer called to the scene will ever take the chance of not arresting someone in a domestic dispute, and unfortunately, the statistics point out that it is overwhelmingly the man in the relationship who is arrested, and not the woman." 14. "It happens thousands of times a day in the USA. With regards to any type of allegation of Domestic Violence (what these types of cases are called), any Police Officer, Prosecutor, or Lawyer will tell you that a woman's word is 100 times stronger than a man's, even in the absence of any evidence to substantiate this. And, the police officer will blindly arrest and the prosecutor will doggedly pursue that man." 15. "Other incarcerations are also attributable to feminism. The vast preponderance of actual violent crime and substance abuse proceeds from single-parent homes and fatherless children more than any other factor far surpassing race and poverty. The explosion of single parenthood is usually and resignedly blamed on paternal abandonment with the only remedy being ever-more draconian but ineffective child support "crackdowns." Yet no evidence indicates that the proliferation of single-parent homes results from absconding fathers. If we accept that single motherhood is precisely what feminists say it is-the deliberate choice of their sexual revolution-it is then apparent that sexual liberation lies behind not only these newfangled sexual crimes,but also the larger trend of actual crime and incarceration. Feminism is driving both the criminalization of the innocent and the criminality of the guilty. We will continue to fight a losing battle against crime, incarceration, and expansive government power until we confront the sexual ideology that is driving not only family breakdown and the ensuing social anomie but the criminalization of the male population. Ever-more-repressive measures will only further erode freedom. Under a leftist regime, conservatives must rethink their approach to crime and punishment and their unwitting collusion with America's homegrown Stalinists." 16. "Men are sentenced 2.8 times longer than women for spousal murder [Bureau Justice Statistics--men at 17 years vs women at 6 years]. Women are acquitted of spousal murder at a rate 9 times than of men [ Bureau Justice Statistics--1.4% of men vs 12.9% of women] 17. MEDIA COMPLICITY "The world of rape accusations displays features similar to other feminist gender crimes; media invective against the accused, government-paid "victim advocates" to secure convictions, and intimidation of anyone who defends the accused. Nobody dependent on the mainstream media for information about rape would have any idea how frequent false claims are, write Taylor and Johnson. Most journalists simply ignore evidence contradicting the feminist line. What they observe of rape characterizes feminist justice generally: calling a rape complainant 'the victim'-- with no 'alleged'.' Unnamed complainants are labeled 'victims' even before legal proceedings determine that a crime has been committed,' according to CMR. Rape hysteria, false accusations, and distorted scholarship are rampant on university campuses,which ostensibly exist to pursue the truth. ' If a woman did falsely accuse a man of rape,' opines one "women's studies" graduate, 'she may have had reason to. Maybe she wasn't raped, but he clearly violated her in some way.' This mentality pervades feminist jurisprudence, precluding innocence by obliterating the distinction between crime and hurt feelings. A Vassar College assistant dean believe false accusations foster men's education:' I think it ideally initiates a process of self-exploration....'If I didn't violate her, could I have?' Conservative critics of the Duke fiasco avoided feminism's role but instead emphasized race--a minor feature of the case but a safer one to criticize. Little evidence indicates that white people are being systematically incarcerated on fabricated accusations of non-existent crimes against blacks. This is precisely what is happening to men, both white and black, accused of rape and other "gender" crimes that feminists have turned into a political agenda." 18. "Boyce (1994) analyzed Canadian media coverage on victimization and found that, despite the fact that men and women suffered roughly equal rates of violence, of those newspaper articles that referenced gender, 98.1 per cent emphasized women and 1.9 per cent emphasized men. Men, it would appear, are not even worthy of being victims." 19. FEMINIST DISSENT TO FEMINIST EXTREMISM "Ellen Frankel Paul, deputy director of the Social Philosophy ad Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, warns of the danger inherent in using the courts as a way of policing behavior. ' Do we really want legislatures and judges delving into our most intimate, private lives,' she asks, ' deciding when a look is a leer and when a leer is a civil rights offense? Should people have a legally enforceable right not to be offended by others? At some point, the price for this protection is the loss of both liberty and privacy rights.' To which we would add another price: the rejection of personal and collective maturity as a goal worth seeking." 20. "We have not yet heard from Camille Paglia. As usual, she has a lot to say about feminism (or at least ideological feminism, in our parlance) and its effect on society. For her, the hostile-environment policy is 'grotesquely totalitarian. It offends free-speech rights and is predicated on a reactionary female archetype: the prudish Victorian lady who faints at a sexual innuendo. This isn't feminism; it's Puritanism. The Anita Hill case, far from expanding women's rights, was a disaster for civil liberties. That Hill, an articulate graduate of the Yale Law School, could find no job-preserving way to communicate to her employer her discomfort with mild off-color banter strained credulity. That Thomas could be publicly grilled about trivial lunch time conversations that occurred 10 years early was an outrage worthy of Stalinist Russia... Feminist excesses have paralyzed and neutered white, upper-middle-class young me as should be obvious to any visitor to the campuses of elite schools... While men must behave honorably ( governors and presidents should not be dropping their pants in front of female employees or secretly preying on buxom young interns), women must also watch how they dress and behave. For every gross male harasser, there are 10 female sycophants who shamelessly use their sexual attractions to get ahead. We don't want a society of surveillance by old maids and snitches. The proper vision of feminism is to encourage women to take personal responsibility without running to authority figures for help.' " Ellen Frankel Paul, deputy director of the Social Philosophy ad Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, warns of the danger inherent in using the courts as a way of policing behavior. ' Do we really want legislatures and judges delving into our most intimate, private lives,' she asks, ' deciding when a look is a leer and when a leer is a civil rights offense? Should people have a legally enforceable right not to be offended by others? At some point, the price for this protection is the loss of both liberty and privacy rights.' To which we would add another price: the rejection of personal and collective maturity as a goal worth seeking." 21. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE "Roberts notes that a recent scholarly article locates severe partner violence with the female partner at a rate more than twice that with the male partner (4.6% to 2.1%). Of course, this flies in the face of the feminist hack that goes: 'Though women also engage in physical violence, severe violence is the sole domain of the much stronger and much more evil male partner!' Insert heavy breathing soundtrack here..... And while " domestic violence" is painted in the media (and in the X-rated masochistic dreams of feminists) as the exclusive domain of the male, the fact is that when men are involved in anything that appears to be actual "violence," they are generally responding to an attack by a women. When only ONE party was involved in an act of violence, Roberts states (referring to the research of one Murray Straus), female-only violence is TWICE as common as male-only violence. And this statistic holds true for 32 nations around the world. Insert wide-eyed look of surprise icon here... So the entire "domestic violence" hysteria, no matter from which angle it is viewed, simply points to a departure from reality that is so severe that, if it is an unwilling departure, is indicative of severe psychosis. But if "domestic violence" hysteria is a willing departure from reality, it points to a dishonesty and manipulation of the ignorant masses so extreme as to place feminism as a movement in the same propaganda stream as that indwelt by Goebbels himself." 22. "Like rape, domestic "violence" is defined so loosely that it need not be violent. The U.S. Justice Department definition includes "extreme jealousy and possessiveness" and "name calling and constant criticizing." For such "crimes" men are jailed with no trial. In fact, the very category of "domestic" violence was developed largely to circumvent due process requirements of conventional assault statutes. A study published in Criminology and Public Policy found that no one accused of domestic violence could be found innocent, since every arrestee received punishment. Here, too false accusations are rewarded.' Women lie every day,'attests Ottawa Judge Diane Nicholas.'Every day women in court say,'I made it up. I'm lying. It didn't happen'---and they're not charged.' Amazingly, bar associations sponsor seminars instructing women how to fabricate accusations. Thomas Kiernan, writing in the New Jersey Law Journal, expressed his astonishment at 'the number of women attending the seminars who smugly--indeed boastfully--announced that they had already sworn out false or grossly exaggerated domestic violence complaints against their hapless husbands, and that the device worked!' He added,'The lawyer lecturers invariably congratulated the self-confessed miscreants.' " Domestic violence has become a 'backwater of tautological pseudo-theory,' write Donald Dutton and Kenneth Corvo in Aggression and Violent Behavior. ' No other area of established social welfare, criminal justice, public health, or behavioral intervention has such weak evidence in support of mandated practice . ' " 23. " After laying charges, police are significantly more likely to take a man into custody than a woman, even when factors such as the level of injury inflicted and prior criminal record are taken into account. Nor do prosecutors tend to mitigate this disparately harsh treatment of men. On the contrary, prosecutors appear to pursue cases involving male suspects more vigorously than those involving female suspects. Thus men are more likely to be found guilty and are less likely to benefit from withdrawn charges, even though they are suspects in proportionately more of the non-injury cases. Men are also less likely to benefit from favorable plea bargains, despite the fact that they have committed, on average, less grievous offences. And men are significantly more likely to receive harsher sentences than women, even when all other relevant factors are taken into account. Indeed, gender is often the most significant factor in predicting how the law-enforcement system responds to incidents of partner violence. " 24. " One result of these misconceptions about domestic violence, is a difference in the way that men and women are treated by the courts 'As a result of the invisibility of the female methods of killing, women who do kill benefit from the stereotype of women as innocent and are treated very differently by the law: thirteen percent of spousal murder cases with women defendants result in an acquittal vs. 1 percent of murder cases with men defendants. Similarly, the average prison sentence for spousal murder (excluding life sentences and the death penalty) is almost three times longer for men than for women- 17.5 years vs. 6.2 years. And, thus far, a woman has never been executed for killing only a man. When we can only see women as innocent, the law becomes equally blind.' " 25. Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary Stephen Baskerville , in his essay, "Feminist Gulag: No Prosecution Necessary" stated: "Feminists, despite Gottschalk's muted admission of guilt, did lead the charge toward wholesale incarceration. Feminist ideology has radicalized criminal justice and eroded centuries-old constitutional protections:New crimes have been created; old crimes have been redefined politically; the distinction between crime and private behavior has been erased; the presumption of innocence has been eliminated; false accusations go unpunished; patently innocent people are jailed without trial." "The new feminist jurisprudence hammers away at some of the most basic foundations of our criminal law system, " Michael Weiss and Cathy Young write in a Cato institute paper. "Chief among them is the presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty." 26. FALSE CLAIMS A STRATEGY "Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly documented how "allegations of abuse are now used for tactical advantage" in custody cases and "become a part of the gamesmanship of divorce." Domestic abuse has become "an area of law mired in intellectual dishonesty and injustice, " according to the Rutgers Law Review. Restraining orders removing men from their homes and children are summarily issued without any evidence..Due process protections are so routinely ignored that, the New Jersey Law Journal reports one judge told his colleagues, " Your job is not to become concerned about the constitutional rights of the man you're violating." Attorney David Heleniak calls New Jersey's statute "a due process fiasco" in the Rutgers Law Review. New Jersey court literature openly acknowledges that due process is ignored because it " perpetuates the cycle of power and control whereby the [alleged?] perpetrator remains th one with the power and the [alleged/] victim remains powerless." Omitting "alleged" is standard even in statutes, where, the Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly reports, " the mere allegation of domestic abuse...may shift the burden of proof to the defendant." Special " integrated domestic violence courts " presume guilt and then, says New York's openly feminist chief judge, " makes batterers and abusers take responsibility for their actions. " They can seize property, including homes, without the accused being convicted or even formally charged or present to defend himself. Lawyer Walter Fox describes these courts as "pre-fascist": " Domestic violence courts ...are designed to get around the protections of the criminal code. The burden of proof is reduced or removed, and there's no presumption of innocence. " Forced confessions are widespread. Pennsylvania men are incarcerated unless they sign forms stating, " I have physically and emotionally battered my partner." The man must then describe the violence, even if he insists he committed none. " I am responsible for the violence I used, " the forms declare. " My behavior was not provoked." 27. ABORTION, PATERNAL RIGHTS "In all but 15 countries, husbands are not required to authorize or be notified of an induced abortion. Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Malawi, Morocco, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates all legally require that an abortion must be authorized by the woman's husband. However, in some countries, this authorization law can be overridden if there is genuine concern for maternal health. In China, the law states that a woman has no overriding priority over her spouse in deciding whether to have a child. In the USA in 2006, the court case Dubay v. Wells concerned whether men should have an opportunity to decline all paternity rights and responsibilities in the event of an unplanned pregnancy. Supporters said that this would allow the woman time to make an informed decision and give men the same reproductive rights as women. In it's dismissal of the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) stated that " the Fourteenth Amendment does not deny to [the] State the power to treat different classes of persons in different ways." 28. ADOPTION "Fathers' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues. In Oregon, a U.S. state, an adoption may be granted without the consent of a married woman's husband if it has been determined that her husband at such time was not the father of the child. In this case, consent of the husband (or father) is not required." 29. CHILD CUSTODY "Many men feel that they are discriminated against and that they do not have the same contact rights or equitable shared parenting rights as their ex-spouse. The United Kingdom and the United States were cited, with several other unnamed countries, as affected regions where child custody issues have become complicated by higher divorce rates, less father-child time, while there has been greater expectations for fatherly involvement in their children's lives. Authors of Unfamiliar territory write: "The current struggles of the fathers' rights movement can be understood as part of this complex and painful renegotiation of intimate relations against a backdrop of changing lifestyles and expectations." Men seek to change the legal climate for men through changes in family law. In the United States, fathers were awarded custody in 17.4 percent of cases in 2007, a percentage that has statistically not changed since 1994." 30. From the Chapter on The Marital Relationship:" Contrary to government propaganda (and Common Law tradition), child support today has little to do with fathers abandoning their children, deserting their marriages, or even agreeing to a divorce. It is automatically assessed on all non-custodial parents, even those involuntarily divorced without grounds ("no fault"). It is an entitlement for all divorcing mothers, regardless of their actions, and coerced from fathers, regardless of their fidelity. The "deadbeat dad" is far less likely to be a man who abandoned the offspring he callously sired than to be a loving father who has been, as attorney Jed Abraham writes in From Courtship to Courtroom , "forced to finance the filching of his own children." 31. PARENTAL ABDUCTION "Men's rights activists" state that children of men on Indian descent have been abducted from their homes in Canada, the United States and Europe and moved to India where the national courts do not recognize foreign child custody orders. The country is not subjected to the Hague Convention and men accused of dowry harassment may be arrested at Indian airports." 32. PARENTAL LEAVE "There is a wide variance in parental leave provisions across 24 western countries which are primarily European countries, Australia and the United States. The most liberal allows the couple to chose how to split the family leave time between mother and father. In the countries where parental leave is available and defined, it is, generally, for 2 to 12 days. Where maternal leave is available and defined, all but the United States and Australia, the period of time is, generally, 14-20 weeks. However, four countries have extended leave periods." 33. PARENTAL FRAUD "Parental fraud occurs when a mother intentionally identifies a man as a biological father who she knows is not the father. Estimates in the United States have ranged that there might be as many as 800,000 incorrect paternity judgments in California alone (because of defaults). Once so judged, it is extremely difficult or even impossible to get liability for child support removed. In some cases, a husband is responsible for his wife's children no matter what. Even if the child is not his own." 34. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS-PATERNAL OBLIGATION "The woman's right to choose to have a baby or not determines the father's obligation to pay child support for the child's life." 35. Affirmative Action "According to the University of Pittsburgh, affirmative action is "predicted to lower the performance requirement for women and result in reverse discrimination towards men." 36. Social Security and Retirement "Previously, in some countries that award some form of social security or pension women qualified for benefits earlier in life than men. However, this is currently being phased out. In Australia and the United Kingdom these provisions were no longer offered to women after 1955. Widow Allowance in Australia is awarded to a woman born before 1 June 1955, with no recent workforce experience and with low income if she becomes widowed, divorced, or separated from a spouse or de facto partner (of either sex). The provision was available to women only and not to men in identical circumstances, In the United Kingdom, women's earlier qualification for State Pension has ended for anyone born after 1955." 37.
Friday, November 14, 2014
What Should Be Men's Strategy?
The following quote is an appropriate for this title: Henry V Saint Crispin’s day speech at the Battle of Agincourt (from William Shakespeare’s play): “And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." 1.
Men's Status in the USA is Improving
I am a little more optimistic about the situation for men in the USA. Why? American men are now increasingly educated as to how feminism has adversely affected their lives individually and collectively. As a result, they have organized, written books, and formed individual and collective strategies to address the adverse effects of feminism. How have they done the same?: 1. American men are on a "marriage strike" refusing to marry women which has had a disastrous impact on women and on the culture and society which supports gender feminism; 2. American men have, increasingly, avoided all contact with American women (going my own way movement otherwise known as the MGTOW movement); 3. American men are increasingly refusing to support those institutions which support feminism (increasing avoidance of military service inclusive of the military draft, for example); 4. American men are increasingly moving out of those areas within the USA which are most heavily influenced politically, culturally, and economically by feminism; and, 5. American men are increasingly knowledgeable about Men's Rights theories and strategies on how to address feminism on both a personal and collective basis. The successful "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement in the USA and internationally has successfully adopted the aforementioned strategies and others.
There was an excellent Wikipedia article on the "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement. 2.
However, political pressure from feminists and others might in the future result in significant changes to this site diminishing it's relevance to men's rights advocates in the future.
UPDATE:
As per the aforementioned, the Wikipedia article on MGTOW has been dramatically abbreviated and censored on the Wikipedia site. It is now being considered for deletion by Wikipedia despite the overwhelming international internet interest in the same.
However, another internet site has a complete online copy of the original Wikipedia article on "Men Going Their Own Way". 3.
The following is a partial quote from the aforementioned article:
Long Quote
"Men Going Their Own Way (abbreviated MGTOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.taʊ/), sometimes also called the marriage strike, the marriage boycott, or the sexodus, is a worldwide social phenomenon and community of heterosexual men who uphold a personal philosophy which rejects gynocentrism in favor of a value system of male self-determination and self-preservation, and who consequently choose a lifestyle which avoids legal and romantic entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. A participant in MGTOW is called a Man Going His Own Way (abbreviated MGHOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.haʊ/). In Japan, MGTOW are known as herbivore men or grass-eater men.
As Sunday Times journalist Martin Daubney has pointed out, according to Google Trends, interest in "MGTOW" has grown exponentially since 2009; doubling approximately every 12 months], it has rapidly overtaken both " women's rights" and " men's rights", as well as " radical feminism" in search popularity. It has been estimated that the MGTOW arm of the so-called " manosphere" is not only its largest segment, but also its fastest growing. Renowned family care activist Erin Pizzey has described MGTOW as "very powerful" and "almost epidemic".
Definition
Because it is social phenomenon and a community, and not so much a movement (coordinated group action), MGTOW does not have any leaders, spokesmen, by-laws, official publications, official manifesto, or organizational structure, which can make the concept contentious, ambiguous, and difficult to define. The concept of MGTOW is thus primarily defined and refined by the MGTOW community itself, by means of articles, conversations, and debates in self-published books, websites, blogs, web forums, and online videos. Authors that have researched the phenomenon, such as Kay Hymowitz, have recommended examining MGTOW websites, including MGTOW.com, NoMarriage (now defunct), and EternalBachelor, for readers interested in this matter. A man who preserves and protects his self-ownership and personal sovereignty.
A man who avoids cultural definitions and preconceptions of what a "man" is.
A man who looks to no one for social approval.
A man who does not allow anyone to treat him as a disposable utility.
A man who lives according to his own best interests, rather than society's expectations.
Basic concepts
One essential principle of the MGTOW lifestyle is the avoidance of legal entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. In addition, many MGTOW to varying degrees choose to abandon romantic relationships, casual sexual relationships, female friendships, and/or social contact with women altogether. These phenomena are known as going ghost (or, less commonly, as going monk) Journalist Milo Yiannopoulos has also coined and popularized the term sexodus (a portmanteau of sex and exodus) as a synonym for MGTOW. MGTOW can refer to both the social phenomenon, in which case a man can be a participant in MGTOW without even knowing about the term "MGTOW", and to the community of men who discuss the MGTOW philosophy and support each other in their MGTOW lifestyle." 4.
End of Long Quote
The following is a repeat of the partial quote in support of the aforementioned from the Chapter on Feminism and National Defense from an online Time.com article by Nolan Feeney dated June 29, 2014 entitled " Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service": " Only 1% of young people are both 'eligible and inclined to have conversation with' the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department. 'The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,' Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general, told the WSJ." 5.
The effect of the increasing status of men in the USA appears to be that men are increasingly regaining their sense of self respect and empowerment. Those areas of the USA which are most influenced by feminism appear to be disintegrating socially, economically, politically, and culturally causing great alarm amongsts feminists both male and female.
As Winston Churchill stated: " Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 6.
Men have control over their own resources. Women have control over the resources of the state through governmental "Husbandry" and other means. Women, also, have control of the resources of men who have become an isolated resource producing male for a woman and her children.
Restating what was stated in the Chapter on the Marital Relationship: Will a "Matriarchal" state as exists in the USA truly allow males to be part of a truly mated pair bond with an responsible and egalitarian relationship with their children?
No!
Long Quote
"Under ALL matriarchal structures, males are not members of the mated pair bond nor the lives of their children. ----.
This is life under a matriarchy. We are, indeed, moving towards a matrifocal , matrilineal, and matriarchal society. Men must learn to survive and function well towards their own enfranchisement under this new order while, at the same time, learning to understand their own weaknesses and how to deal with them to the best of their health and well being." ---
Identifying and recognizing misandry, gynocentric societal changes, and its religion of feminism does not entail lamenting about being oppressed; it entails identifying your opponent, their strengths and weaknesses;and, the formulating of a strategy to go forward and achieve success despite the changes women have made." 7.
End of Long Quote
In the game of chess, using an orderly, well thought out, and methodical means to address your opponent is the optimal means to gain the advantage and win. Thinking and acting in this manner are men's strength and women's weaknesses. Men must learn to play this "chess game" with women individually and collectively. By doing so, they can formulate a successful strategy for individual success and happiness and for that of men in general, despite the hostile social, cultural, economic, and political environment that the Matriarchal state has created. Men should create the social, political, cultural, and economic environment that is the compliment of feminism for themselves.
In a recapitulation from the chapter on Government and Feminism: Men, as a result, must become independent as well. In my opinion, as men do become independent from this feminist construct, the same will have disastrous affects on this feminist construct and the tyrannical feminist state that supports the same!
Why? In actuality, it is men who support and defend the state and the women who occupy the same. When men abandon their traditional role in support of both women and the state, both will collapse. The feminist construct, the feminist state, and feminist women, therefore, provide the premises for their own denigration and destruction.
Quoting, again, from William Shakespeare's Play, "Julius Caesar" (Act I, Scene II) provides some insight into what men in the USA face and as to what they should do:
Long Quote
" Cassius: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?Why should that name be sounded more than yours?Write them together, yours is as fair a name;Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.Now, in the names of all the gods at once,Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!When went there by an age, since the great flood,But it was famed with more than with one man?When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say,There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king." 8.
End of Long Quote
Men's Status in the USA is Improving
I am a little more optimistic about the situation for men in the USA. Why? American men are now increasingly educated as to how feminism has adversely affected their lives individually and collectively. As a result, they have organized, written books, and formed individual and collective strategies to address the adverse effects of feminism. How have they done the same?: 1. American men are on a "marriage strike" refusing to marry women which has had a disastrous impact on women and on the culture and society which supports gender feminism; 2. American men have, increasingly, avoided all contact with American women (going my own way movement otherwise known as the MGTOW movement); 3. American men are increasingly refusing to support those institutions which support feminism (increasing avoidance of military service inclusive of the military draft, for example); 4. American men are increasingly moving out of those areas within the USA which are most heavily influenced politically, culturally, and economically by feminism; and, 5. American men are increasingly knowledgeable about Men's Rights theories and strategies on how to address feminism on both a personal and collective basis. The successful "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement in the USA and internationally has successfully adopted the aforementioned strategies and others.
There was an excellent Wikipedia article on the "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) movement. 2.
However, political pressure from feminists and others might in the future result in significant changes to this site diminishing it's relevance to men's rights advocates in the future.
UPDATE:
As per the aforementioned, the Wikipedia article on MGTOW has been dramatically abbreviated and censored on the Wikipedia site. It is now being considered for deletion by Wikipedia despite the overwhelming international internet interest in the same.
However, another internet site has a complete online copy of the original Wikipedia article on "Men Going Their Own Way". 3.
The following is a partial quote from the aforementioned article:
Long Quote
"Men Going Their Own Way (abbreviated MGTOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.taʊ/), sometimes also called the marriage strike, the marriage boycott, or the sexodus, is a worldwide social phenomenon and community of heterosexual men who uphold a personal philosophy which rejects gynocentrism in favor of a value system of male self-determination and self-preservation, and who consequently choose a lifestyle which avoids legal and romantic entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. A participant in MGTOW is called a Man Going His Own Way (abbreviated MGHOW, pronounced /ˈmɪg.haʊ/). In Japan, MGTOW are known as herbivore men or grass-eater men.
As Sunday Times journalist Martin Daubney has pointed out, according to Google Trends, interest in "MGTOW" has grown exponentially since 2009; doubling approximately every 12 months], it has rapidly overtaken both " women's rights" and " men's rights", as well as " radical feminism" in search popularity. It has been estimated that the MGTOW arm of the so-called " manosphere" is not only its largest segment, but also its fastest growing. Renowned family care activist Erin Pizzey has described MGTOW as "very powerful" and "almost epidemic".
Definition
Because it is social phenomenon and a community, and not so much a movement (coordinated group action), MGTOW does not have any leaders, spokesmen, by-laws, official publications, official manifesto, or organizational structure, which can make the concept contentious, ambiguous, and difficult to define. The concept of MGTOW is thus primarily defined and refined by the MGTOW community itself, by means of articles, conversations, and debates in self-published books, websites, blogs, web forums, and online videos. Authors that have researched the phenomenon, such as Kay Hymowitz, have recommended examining MGTOW websites, including MGTOW.com, NoMarriage (now defunct), and EternalBachelor, for readers interested in this matter. A man who preserves and protects his self-ownership and personal sovereignty.
A man who avoids cultural definitions and preconceptions of what a "man" is.
A man who looks to no one for social approval.
A man who does not allow anyone to treat him as a disposable utility.
A man who lives according to his own best interests, rather than society's expectations.
Basic concepts
One essential principle of the MGTOW lifestyle is the avoidance of legal entanglements with women, including, at the very least, marriage, cohabitation, and procreation. In addition, many MGTOW to varying degrees choose to abandon romantic relationships, casual sexual relationships, female friendships, and/or social contact with women altogether. These phenomena are known as going ghost (or, less commonly, as going monk) Journalist Milo Yiannopoulos has also coined and popularized the term sexodus (a portmanteau of sex and exodus) as a synonym for MGTOW. MGTOW can refer to both the social phenomenon, in which case a man can be a participant in MGTOW without even knowing about the term "MGTOW", and to the community of men who discuss the MGTOW philosophy and support each other in their MGTOW lifestyle." 4.
End of Long Quote
The following is a repeat of the partial quote in support of the aforementioned from the Chapter on Feminism and National Defense from an online Time.com article by Nolan Feeney dated June 29, 2014 entitled " Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service": " Only 1% of young people are both 'eligible and inclined to have conversation with' the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department. 'The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,' Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command's commanding general, told the WSJ." 5.
The effect of the increasing status of men in the USA appears to be that men are increasingly regaining their sense of self respect and empowerment. Those areas of the USA which are most influenced by feminism appear to be disintegrating socially, economically, politically, and culturally causing great alarm amongsts feminists both male and female.
As Winston Churchill stated: " Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." 6.
Men have control over their own resources. Women have control over the resources of the state through governmental "Husbandry" and other means. Women, also, have control of the resources of men who have become an isolated resource producing male for a woman and her children.
Restating what was stated in the Chapter on the Marital Relationship: Will a "Matriarchal" state as exists in the USA truly allow males to be part of a truly mated pair bond with an responsible and egalitarian relationship with their children?
No!
Long Quote
"Under ALL matriarchal structures, males are not members of the mated pair bond nor the lives of their children. ----.
This is life under a matriarchy. We are, indeed, moving towards a matrifocal , matrilineal, and matriarchal society. Men must learn to survive and function well towards their own enfranchisement under this new order while, at the same time, learning to understand their own weaknesses and how to deal with them to the best of their health and well being." ---
Identifying and recognizing misandry, gynocentric societal changes, and its religion of feminism does not entail lamenting about being oppressed; it entails identifying your opponent, their strengths and weaknesses;and, the formulating of a strategy to go forward and achieve success despite the changes women have made." 7.
End of Long Quote
In the game of chess, using an orderly, well thought out, and methodical means to address your opponent is the optimal means to gain the advantage and win. Thinking and acting in this manner are men's strength and women's weaknesses. Men must learn to play this "chess game" with women individually and collectively. By doing so, they can formulate a successful strategy for individual success and happiness and for that of men in general, despite the hostile social, cultural, economic, and political environment that the Matriarchal state has created. Men should create the social, political, cultural, and economic environment that is the compliment of feminism for themselves.
In a recapitulation from the chapter on Government and Feminism: Men, as a result, must become independent as well. In my opinion, as men do become independent from this feminist construct, the same will have disastrous affects on this feminist construct and the tyrannical feminist state that supports the same!
Why? In actuality, it is men who support and defend the state and the women who occupy the same. When men abandon their traditional role in support of both women and the state, both will collapse. The feminist construct, the feminist state, and feminist women, therefore, provide the premises for their own denigration and destruction.
Quoting, again, from William Shakespeare's Play, "Julius Caesar" (Act I, Scene II) provides some insight into what men in the USA face and as to what they should do:
Long Quote
" Cassius: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?Why should that name be sounded more than yours?Write them together, yours is as fair a name;Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.Now, in the names of all the gods at once,Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!When went there by an age, since the great flood,But it was famed with more than with one man?When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say,There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king." 8.
End of Long Quote
Friday, November 7, 2014
The Economic Effects of Feminism
"An analysis of census data by consumer research firm Reach Advisors found that women between the ages of 22 and 30, without children, had bigger paychecks in 2008 than their male peers in 47 of the 50 largest U.S. cities. Their wages were 8 percent higher, on average, but varied considerably from one city to the next." 1.
"But now there's evidence that the ship may finally be turning around: according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group." 2.
"Women who have never had a child earn 113 percent of what men earn.----Among unmarried college-educated men and women between 40 and 64, men earn nearly 15 percent less." 3.
Fortune Magazine asserts that American women own 65% of the wealth in the USA. 4..
"Senior women 50 and older control $19 trillion and own more than three-forths of the nation's financial wealth. -MassMutual Financial Group-2007" 5.
"Women control about $19 trillion of wealth, including earned and inherited assets, which accounts for more than three-quarters of our nation's financial resources." 6.
"A new study from Continuum's Women Children Group and supported by data from the World Bank speaks to the power of pink.
The study claims that women now control 65% of global spending and more than 80% of U.S. spending.
By 2014, the World Bank predicts that the global income of women will grow by more than $5 trillion.
The story warns of the perils of ignoring female consumers who control $20 trillion in consumer spending. They make the final decision for buying 91% of home purchases, 65 % of the new cars, and 66% of computers." 7.
"Although women are a majority of the workforce, perhaps as many as 80 per cent of the jobs lost (in the past recession) were held by men.---- A recent study found that 55 percent of men 18 to 24 are living in their parents homes as are 13 percent of men 25 to 34 compared to 8 percent of women." 8.
As stated before in the chapter on Government and Feminism: "Through laws,customs, and feminist dogma, if a male demonstrates any of these (male) virtues, American women can and will destroy him by lying about abuse, rape, verbal haranguing, anything; and, he can be arrested, prosecuted, and maliciously convicted of a crime. This is the case even if she has a historical pattern of lying because the "system" does not want to take any chances."
Women, through other laws, customs, and feminist dogma have the means and motive to discriminate against men who exhibit the male virtues.
The men's rights movement now, generally, accepts the proposition that women, at least American women,especially target men who exhibit the traditional male virtues for discrimination and oppression.
The result of the aforementioned, is that women, in the workforce, tend to only tolerate weak, base, and effeminate men in the same.
As stated in the chapter entitled: "Biology and Gender": " Using brain mapping, it was shown that men have more than 6 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligences than women ,and women have nearly 10 times as much white matter related to intelligence than men." 9.
"Gray matter is responsible for processing information in the brain and white matter "represents the connections between these processing center according to the study.
These differences might explain why men " excel in tasks requiring more local processing like mathematics-while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information." 10.
"There is a mean difference in mean IQ (in favor of men) of about 5 points. The further you go up the distribution the more skewed it becomes. There are twice as many men with an IQ of 120 plus as there are women. There are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170-plus as there are women." 11.
"IQ stands for intelligence quotient. Supposedly, it is a score that tells one how "bright" a person is compared to other people. The average IQ is by definition 100; scores above 100 indicate a higher than average IQ and scores below 100 indicate a lower than average IQ. Theoretically, scores can range any amount below or above 100; but in practice they do not meaningfully go much below 50 or above 150. Half of the population have IQ's of between 90 and 110 while twenty five percent have higher IQ's and twenty five percent have lower IQ's." 12.
Our political-economic-legal system, through overt,covert, informal,and legal mean, gives preferential treatment to women and minorities who tend to have, on average, significantly lower I.Q.'s than Caucasian men.
Both legal and illegal immigration to the U.S.A. tend to promulgate immigration to the U.S.A. of individuals of lower I.Q.'s who, because the great majority of the same are minorities and/or women receive preferential treatment by law and custom in education, employment, and otherwise over American citizens, mainly Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) who have higher IQ's on average.
This book concentrates, however, on gender issues.
The effect of discriminating against Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) in employment, education, and otherwise, in the favor of women (and others) is, therefore, to decrease the true intelligence level of the workforce with the concomitant decrease in the educational,skill, knowledge, maturity level of the general work force. The wealth and prosperity of nations has been directly correlated to the average I.Q. in a nation. The natural economic result of the aforementioned discrimination against Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) has been a decline or stagnation in real incomes for Americans, increases in the poverty rate, a decrease in economic security for all Americans, and, of course, a decrease in the wealth and prosperity of the U.S.A. as a nation and for American citizens in particular.
'Yet ironically, America is making yet more efforts to exacerbate anti-male sexism in our economy. Last year, President Obama created a well-funded Council on Women and Girls but rejected one on men and boys.--- In Obama's April 6, 2012 speech at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, he reiterated that he wants to focus yet more on women: " (I) look forward to continuing the important work we are doing to promote the interests of women." 13.
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"The 77 cents-on-the-dollar statistic is calculated in a manner that is biased against men. For example, while among all physicians, men earn more than women, men are more likely to be in specialties requiring longer training, high-stress, and irregular hours, for example, surgery and cardiology. In contrast, women are more likely to be pediatricians. Despite that bias, across all careers, surveys report that childless women under 30 make more than men. More than 90 percent of workplace deaths, military deaths, and severe workplace injuries (e.g., amputations, black lung disease) occur to men. Such dangerous work justifies higher pay for men. Visit American workplaces, especially major corporations, and you'll find anti-men practices are not only tolerated but routinely imposed by employers. Women, but not men, are encouraged to form committees and caucuses to advance their sex's causes in the workplace, often at men's expense. Examples: 1. Mentor programs for women only 2. Special training for women only 3. Fast-track-to-executive position for women only". 14.
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Dr. Warren Warren Farrell in his book, Why Men Earn More, uncovered numerous reason for the pay gap. Inclusive of the same are: " Men overwhelmingly dominate jobs that 1. are in an unpleasant environment (sanitation v. child care); 2. required harder-to-attain skills (physics vs. philosophy); 3. require longer work hours; 3. demand financial risk (entrepreneur vs. teaching); 4. an inconvenient (i.e., relocation); and, 5, are hazardous (construction vs. librarian)." "Due to the simple laws of supply and demand, these occupations pay more and contribute immensely to the pay gap. But again, government statistics completely neglect occupation-making a raw comparison of all working men and women instead (e.g., the female receptionist is lumped in with the $ 21,000/hr Lebron James and little-guy Michael Moore). "Wage gap statistics also do not account for time commitment. On average, women work far less than men because they choose to have much more balance in their lives. A study by the Center for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Television found that nearly 85 percent of women took advantage of flexible work arrangements offered by their employers. And, a decade after graduating college, 39 percent of women leave the work force or work part-time, versus 3 percent of men. Aside from the obvious benefits of working longer, workers who average 44 or more hours per week earn approximately 100 percent more than workers who average 40 hours.
This is particularly significant, as it touches on the glass ceiling myth. Now, normally the burden of proof is placed on the accusers, but not so with progressives' ad hominem attacks--making honest debate virtually impossible. ----June O'Neill, former direct of the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), argues that if you take out the effects of marriage and child rearing, essentially, there is no earnings gap.
Also commemorating "Women's Equality Day" was Bill Singler on the Huffington Post. Although Singler never quite explains why, he does not buy into the "choice" argument and derides a Chamber of Commerce blog for supposing otherwise, even resorting to capitalism and family values to propagate the wage gap myth. Contrary to the "bedrock of American capitalism," he claims that these choices are often "forced upon women." (Isn't "choice" supposed to be a major platform of the Democratic Party?)
Columnist Marty Nemko speaks to this anecdotal fallacy:
Steven Rhoades, author of the new book, Taking Sex Differences Seriously, cites study after study indicating that the main reason most women want ample family time is their biological drive to have children and be the primary family caregiver. Feminist activists argue that is social conditioning by the "male hegemony." But if that were true, then why do women take on most family care giving in every society from Iceland to New Guinea, in every era from ancient times to today, and in all political contexts from communist to capitalist? Women's desire to prioritize family care giving is mainly biological predisposition, not cultural brainwashing."
(American Thinker, September 18, 2010, The Wage Gap Myth, by Anthony Kang) President Barack Obama has certainly done his part to exploit the wage gap; he most recently endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act, calling it a "commonsense bill." Daniel Fisher of Forbes and James Sherk from the Heritage Foundation illustrate why the act is anything but. Guess who stands to gain the most from the act? You got it -- big government and trial lawyers.
In another recent Huffington Post article, the ACLU's Deborah J. Vagins literally equates the Paycheck Fairness Act to the suffrage movement, labeling it "the next milestone in the fight for equal rights." Vagins concludes, "I feel compelled to ask: how long must women wait for equality? I hope my question is answered, as it once was 90 years ago, with a landmark achievement in equal rights." 15.
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The right to vote,which, for women, has resulted in the economic discrimination against men and for women described in this chapter because women make up the electoral majority in our "winner take all", "gerrymandered" and "bought" form of political electoral representation which is , in essence, a tyrannical feminist majority.
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"Apparently Dr. Farrell is equally compelled and moved by the right to vote. Making note of the military's draft and combat policies, Farrell harshly denounces these diminutive minds: "Women are the only group who get the right to vote without responsibility. Only adolescents expect rights without responsibilities. Adults know they go together." Note: Farrell was a three-time board member of NOW.
To further illustrate the lunacy surrounding the purported wage gap, let's flip the situation on its head. If right-wingers adopted the left wing's politics of victimhood, entitlement, divisiveness, and envy, if right-wing males were like left-wing females, if the media were an echo chamber of conservative bias, and if universities were ground zero for right-wing indoctrination, one could easily be led to believe there is a very real and systemic pattern of gender discrimination against males. Consider:
1. Women who have never had a child earn 113 percent of what men earn. 2. There are some 80 fields where women earn more than men. 3. About 80 percent of the jobs lost in the last recession were lost by men. 4. Males are exponentially more likely to become incarcerated or homeless. 5. Males disproportionately sacrifice much of their prime years in service of the military. 6. The male-to-female ratio on college campuses is now about 40/60. 7. Approximately 93 percent of workplace fatalities are men. 8. Among unmarried college-educated men and women between 40 and 64, men earn nearly 15 percent less. " 16.
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In an article, written by Krystal Steinmetz, entitled: "Young Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973" which appeared in the online MoneyTalksNews on May 13, 2014, describes the dramatic decline in American men's median income since 1973. The body of this article states: "Young American Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973.Men’s median income is on the decline. It’s depressing, but true. Cheryl Russell of the New Strategist Press writes that, according to Census information, men ages 25 to 34 actually earn less than they did 40 years ago. Among all American men, ages 15 and older, median income peaked in 2000, at $37,791. After adjusting for inflation, men’s median income fell 10 percent from 2000 to 2012, to $33,904. While a 10 percent drop in income sounds terrible, it gets worse when you break it down by age groups, Russell said. Check out these sad statistics for the percentage change in men’s median income from the year it peaked to 2012 (adjusted for inflation): Ages 25-34. Down 27 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 35-44. Down 19 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 45-54. Down 17 percent. Peaked in 1999. Ages 55-64. Down 13 percent. Peaked in 2003. Russell said: The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation — a loss of $12,485. Men aged 35 to 44 have lost $10,345 since their peak. Men aged 45 to 54 have lost $9,762, and men aged 55 to 64 have lost $6,407." 17.
The following is a partial quote from a Wikipedia article entitled "Male Unemployment":
"The 2008–2012 global recession has been called a "mancession" because of the disproportionate number of men who lost their jobs as compared to women. This gender gap became wide in the United States in 2009, when 10.5% of men in the labor force were unemployed, compared with 8% of women. Three quarters of the jobs lost in the recession in the U.S. were held by men." 18.
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"Given these facts, it wouldn't be very hard to convince a young, apolitical, and impressionable college student, like I was, that all males are helpless victims, would it? Any blind ideologue can nitpick a few facts here and there to fit her agenda, and all anybody can do is debunk one disgusting, unsubstantiated myth at a time. Says Dr. Farrell, "My research indicates that, overall, when men and women do precisely the same work, women now get paid as much, or more than men."
"Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle, "strong" and "independent" feminists like to say. How any group so helplessly dependent on the patriarchal teat of Uncle Sam can claim to be "strong" and "independent" is laughable at best. As the wage gap myth clearly demonstrates, the biggest irony of it all is the fact that modern-day feminists are the very antithesis." 19.
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Given the aforementioned, the following is an appropriate and pertinent quote from William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III" (Act V. scene iii):
"King Richard III: Give me another horse,—bind up my wounds,—Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream.—O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!—The lights burn blue.—It is now dead midnight.Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.What, do I fear myself? there's none else by:Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.Is there a murderer here? No;—yes, I am:Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why,—Lest I revenge. What,—myself upon myself!Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? for any good That I myself have done unto myself?O, no! alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself!I am a villain: yet I lie, I am not.Fool, of thyself speak well:—fool, do not flatter.My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,And every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree;All several sins, all us'd in each degree,Throng to the bar, crying all "Guilty! guilty!"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;And if I die no soul will pity me:And wherefore should they,—since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd Came to my tent; and every one did threat To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard." 20.
"But now there's evidence that the ship may finally be turning around: according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group." 2.
"Women who have never had a child earn 113 percent of what men earn.----Among unmarried college-educated men and women between 40 and 64, men earn nearly 15 percent less." 3.
Fortune Magazine asserts that American women own 65% of the wealth in the USA. 4..
"Senior women 50 and older control $19 trillion and own more than three-forths of the nation's financial wealth. -MassMutual Financial Group-2007" 5.
"Women control about $19 trillion of wealth, including earned and inherited assets, which accounts for more than three-quarters of our nation's financial resources." 6.
"A new study from Continuum's Women Children Group and supported by data from the World Bank speaks to the power of pink.
The study claims that women now control 65% of global spending and more than 80% of U.S. spending.
By 2014, the World Bank predicts that the global income of women will grow by more than $5 trillion.
The story warns of the perils of ignoring female consumers who control $20 trillion in consumer spending. They make the final decision for buying 91% of home purchases, 65 % of the new cars, and 66% of computers." 7.
"Although women are a majority of the workforce, perhaps as many as 80 per cent of the jobs lost (in the past recession) were held by men.---- A recent study found that 55 percent of men 18 to 24 are living in their parents homes as are 13 percent of men 25 to 34 compared to 8 percent of women." 8.
As stated before in the chapter on Government and Feminism: "Through laws,customs, and feminist dogma, if a male demonstrates any of these (male) virtues, American women can and will destroy him by lying about abuse, rape, verbal haranguing, anything; and, he can be arrested, prosecuted, and maliciously convicted of a crime. This is the case even if she has a historical pattern of lying because the "system" does not want to take any chances."
Women, through other laws, customs, and feminist dogma have the means and motive to discriminate against men who exhibit the male virtues.
The men's rights movement now, generally, accepts the proposition that women, at least American women,especially target men who exhibit the traditional male virtues for discrimination and oppression.
The result of the aforementioned, is that women, in the workforce, tend to only tolerate weak, base, and effeminate men in the same.
As stated in the chapter entitled: "Biology and Gender": " Using brain mapping, it was shown that men have more than 6 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligences than women ,and women have nearly 10 times as much white matter related to intelligence than men." 9.
"Gray matter is responsible for processing information in the brain and white matter "represents the connections between these processing center according to the study.
These differences might explain why men " excel in tasks requiring more local processing like mathematics-while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information." 10.
"There is a mean difference in mean IQ (in favor of men) of about 5 points. The further you go up the distribution the more skewed it becomes. There are twice as many men with an IQ of 120 plus as there are women. There are 30 times the number of men with an IQ of 170-plus as there are women." 11.
"IQ stands for intelligence quotient. Supposedly, it is a score that tells one how "bright" a person is compared to other people. The average IQ is by definition 100; scores above 100 indicate a higher than average IQ and scores below 100 indicate a lower than average IQ. Theoretically, scores can range any amount below or above 100; but in practice they do not meaningfully go much below 50 or above 150. Half of the population have IQ's of between 90 and 110 while twenty five percent have higher IQ's and twenty five percent have lower IQ's." 12.
Our political-economic-legal system, through overt,covert, informal,and legal mean, gives preferential treatment to women and minorities who tend to have, on average, significantly lower I.Q.'s than Caucasian men.
Both legal and illegal immigration to the U.S.A. tend to promulgate immigration to the U.S.A. of individuals of lower I.Q.'s who, because the great majority of the same are minorities and/or women receive preferential treatment by law and custom in education, employment, and otherwise over American citizens, mainly Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) who have higher IQ's on average.
This book concentrates, however, on gender issues.
The effect of discriminating against Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) in employment, education, and otherwise, in the favor of women (and others) is, therefore, to decrease the true intelligence level of the workforce with the concomitant decrease in the educational,skill, knowledge, maturity level of the general work force. The wealth and prosperity of nations has been directly correlated to the average I.Q. in a nation. The natural economic result of the aforementioned discrimination against Caucasian men (and some Asian groups) has been a decline or stagnation in real incomes for Americans, increases in the poverty rate, a decrease in economic security for all Americans, and, of course, a decrease in the wealth and prosperity of the U.S.A. as a nation and for American citizens in particular.
'Yet ironically, America is making yet more efforts to exacerbate anti-male sexism in our economy. Last year, President Obama created a well-funded Council on Women and Girls but rejected one on men and boys.--- In Obama's April 6, 2012 speech at the White House Forum on Women and the Economy, he reiterated that he wants to focus yet more on women: " (I) look forward to continuing the important work we are doing to promote the interests of women." 13.
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"The 77 cents-on-the-dollar statistic is calculated in a manner that is biased against men. For example, while among all physicians, men earn more than women, men are more likely to be in specialties requiring longer training, high-stress, and irregular hours, for example, surgery and cardiology. In contrast, women are more likely to be pediatricians. Despite that bias, across all careers, surveys report that childless women under 30 make more than men. More than 90 percent of workplace deaths, military deaths, and severe workplace injuries (e.g., amputations, black lung disease) occur to men. Such dangerous work justifies higher pay for men. Visit American workplaces, especially major corporations, and you'll find anti-men practices are not only tolerated but routinely imposed by employers. Women, but not men, are encouraged to form committees and caucuses to advance their sex's causes in the workplace, often at men's expense. Examples: 1. Mentor programs for women only 2. Special training for women only 3. Fast-track-to-executive position for women only". 14.
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Dr. Warren Warren Farrell in his book, Why Men Earn More, uncovered numerous reason for the pay gap. Inclusive of the same are: " Men overwhelmingly dominate jobs that 1. are in an unpleasant environment (sanitation v. child care); 2. required harder-to-attain skills (physics vs. philosophy); 3. require longer work hours; 3. demand financial risk (entrepreneur vs. teaching); 4. an inconvenient (i.e., relocation); and, 5, are hazardous (construction vs. librarian)." "Due to the simple laws of supply and demand, these occupations pay more and contribute immensely to the pay gap. But again, government statistics completely neglect occupation-making a raw comparison of all working men and women instead (e.g., the female receptionist is lumped in with the $ 21,000/hr Lebron James and little-guy Michael Moore). "Wage gap statistics also do not account for time commitment. On average, women work far less than men because they choose to have much more balance in their lives. A study by the Center for Policy Alternatives and Lifetime Television found that nearly 85 percent of women took advantage of flexible work arrangements offered by their employers. And, a decade after graduating college, 39 percent of women leave the work force or work part-time, versus 3 percent of men. Aside from the obvious benefits of working longer, workers who average 44 or more hours per week earn approximately 100 percent more than workers who average 40 hours.
This is particularly significant, as it touches on the glass ceiling myth. Now, normally the burden of proof is placed on the accusers, but not so with progressives' ad hominem attacks--making honest debate virtually impossible. ----June O'Neill, former direct of the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), argues that if you take out the effects of marriage and child rearing, essentially, there is no earnings gap.
Also commemorating "Women's Equality Day" was Bill Singler on the Huffington Post. Although Singler never quite explains why, he does not buy into the "choice" argument and derides a Chamber of Commerce blog for supposing otherwise, even resorting to capitalism and family values to propagate the wage gap myth. Contrary to the "bedrock of American capitalism," he claims that these choices are often "forced upon women." (Isn't "choice" supposed to be a major platform of the Democratic Party?)
Columnist Marty Nemko speaks to this anecdotal fallacy:
Steven Rhoades, author of the new book, Taking Sex Differences Seriously, cites study after study indicating that the main reason most women want ample family time is their biological drive to have children and be the primary family caregiver. Feminist activists argue that is social conditioning by the "male hegemony." But if that were true, then why do women take on most family care giving in every society from Iceland to New Guinea, in every era from ancient times to today, and in all political contexts from communist to capitalist? Women's desire to prioritize family care giving is mainly biological predisposition, not cultural brainwashing."
(American Thinker, September 18, 2010, The Wage Gap Myth, by Anthony Kang) President Barack Obama has certainly done his part to exploit the wage gap; he most recently endorsed the Paycheck Fairness Act, calling it a "commonsense bill." Daniel Fisher of Forbes and James Sherk from the Heritage Foundation illustrate why the act is anything but. Guess who stands to gain the most from the act? You got it -- big government and trial lawyers.
In another recent Huffington Post article, the ACLU's Deborah J. Vagins literally equates the Paycheck Fairness Act to the suffrage movement, labeling it "the next milestone in the fight for equal rights." Vagins concludes, "I feel compelled to ask: how long must women wait for equality? I hope my question is answered, as it once was 90 years ago, with a landmark achievement in equal rights." 15.
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The right to vote,which, for women, has resulted in the economic discrimination against men and for women described in this chapter because women make up the electoral majority in our "winner take all", "gerrymandered" and "bought" form of political electoral representation which is , in essence, a tyrannical feminist majority.
Long Quote
"Apparently Dr. Farrell is equally compelled and moved by the right to vote. Making note of the military's draft and combat policies, Farrell harshly denounces these diminutive minds: "Women are the only group who get the right to vote without responsibility. Only adolescents expect rights without responsibilities. Adults know they go together." Note: Farrell was a three-time board member of NOW.
To further illustrate the lunacy surrounding the purported wage gap, let's flip the situation on its head. If right-wingers adopted the left wing's politics of victimhood, entitlement, divisiveness, and envy, if right-wing males were like left-wing females, if the media were an echo chamber of conservative bias, and if universities were ground zero for right-wing indoctrination, one could easily be led to believe there is a very real and systemic pattern of gender discrimination against males. Consider:
1. Women who have never had a child earn 113 percent of what men earn. 2. There are some 80 fields where women earn more than men. 3. About 80 percent of the jobs lost in the last recession were lost by men. 4. Males are exponentially more likely to become incarcerated or homeless. 5. Males disproportionately sacrifice much of their prime years in service of the military. 6. The male-to-female ratio on college campuses is now about 40/60. 7. Approximately 93 percent of workplace fatalities are men. 8. Among unmarried college-educated men and women between 40 and 64, men earn nearly 15 percent less. " 16.
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In an article, written by Krystal Steinmetz, entitled: "Young Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973" which appeared in the online MoneyTalksNews on May 13, 2014, describes the dramatic decline in American men's median income since 1973. The body of this article states: "Young American Men Earn Much Less Now Than in 1973.Men’s median income is on the decline. It’s depressing, but true. Cheryl Russell of the New Strategist Press writes that, according to Census information, men ages 25 to 34 actually earn less than they did 40 years ago. Among all American men, ages 15 and older, median income peaked in 2000, at $37,791. After adjusting for inflation, men’s median income fell 10 percent from 2000 to 2012, to $33,904. While a 10 percent drop in income sounds terrible, it gets worse when you break it down by age groups, Russell said. Check out these sad statistics for the percentage change in men’s median income from the year it peaked to 2012 (adjusted for inflation): Ages 25-34. Down 27 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 35-44. Down 19 percent. Peaked in 1973. Ages 45-54. Down 17 percent. Peaked in 1999. Ages 55-64. Down 13 percent. Peaked in 2003. Russell said: The median income of men aged 25 to 34 has plunged since 1973, falling from $46,598 to $34,113 after adjusting for inflation — a loss of $12,485. Men aged 35 to 44 have lost $10,345 since their peak. Men aged 45 to 54 have lost $9,762, and men aged 55 to 64 have lost $6,407." 17.
The following is a partial quote from a Wikipedia article entitled "Male Unemployment":
"The 2008–2012 global recession has been called a "mancession" because of the disproportionate number of men who lost their jobs as compared to women. This gender gap became wide in the United States in 2009, when 10.5% of men in the labor force were unemployed, compared with 8% of women. Three quarters of the jobs lost in the recession in the U.S. were held by men." 18.
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"Given these facts, it wouldn't be very hard to convince a young, apolitical, and impressionable college student, like I was, that all males are helpless victims, would it? Any blind ideologue can nitpick a few facts here and there to fit her agenda, and all anybody can do is debunk one disgusting, unsubstantiated myth at a time. Says Dr. Farrell, "My research indicates that, overall, when men and women do precisely the same work, women now get paid as much, or more than men."
"Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle, "strong" and "independent" feminists like to say. How any group so helplessly dependent on the patriarchal teat of Uncle Sam can claim to be "strong" and "independent" is laughable at best. As the wage gap myth clearly demonstrates, the biggest irony of it all is the fact that modern-day feminists are the very antithesis." 19.
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Given the aforementioned, the following is an appropriate and pertinent quote from William Shakespeare's play, "Richard III" (Act V. scene iii):
"King Richard III: Give me another horse,—bind up my wounds,—Have mercy, Jesu!—Soft! I did but dream.—O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!—The lights burn blue.—It is now dead midnight.Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.What, do I fear myself? there's none else by:Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.Is there a murderer here? No;—yes, I am:Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why,—Lest I revenge. What,—myself upon myself!Alack, I love myself. Wherefore? for any good That I myself have done unto myself?O, no! alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself!I am a villain: yet I lie, I am not.Fool, of thyself speak well:—fool, do not flatter.My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,And every tongue brings in a several tale,And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree;All several sins, all us'd in each degree,Throng to the bar, crying all "Guilty! guilty!"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;And if I die no soul will pity me:And wherefore should they,—since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd Came to my tent; and every one did threat To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard." 20.
Foreign Brides
Why Do American Men Prefer Foreign Women?
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Here are a few quotes that are responsive to this question: "Now you understand why US men prefer foreign born women: THEY TREAT US BETTER, RESPECT US, APPRECIATE THAT AFFECTION WE SHOW THEM, AND ACKNOWLEDGE OUR EFFORTS TO PROVIDE A BETTER LIFE."
"A huge percentage of American women are selfish, flighty, insecure, needy and psychotic, and quite capable of concealing those traits during the dating phase."
"White 'career' American chicks are the bottom of the barrel marriage-wise".
"Foreign women from South America, Eastern Europe, and Asia are at the top. Only guys who travel (in other words, guys who are successful and ambitious enough to travel a lot) find these. But they never, ever go back."
"Foreign-born women living in the US are the next best. They get married early...they are highly sought after by American guys for their wifely skills (hell, any woman who has ANY ability to be a wife is better than your average American chick, who knows NOTHING about being a wife).
"Bottom of the barrel---white American chicks Yecch".
"Here's a story: I knew a guy who was Hungarian (parents emigrated) who tried for 15 years to find a half-decent woman to marry. He's a doctor, by the way. Finally, after 8 psycho-weirdo US chicks, he went back to the 'old country' to find a wife The people there were lining the women up for him to meet...he's a rich American guy....they are considered the best husbands in the world."
"He found this lovely wife. She's a total gem, and he's happy as hell. 2 kids. Happy ever after."-------
" I was absolutely blown away by the quality of women on my trip to Eastern Europe. Classy, cultured, traditional values, how could you ask for more?"
"Popular Myth: Western men looking for foreign wives are only seeking subservient slaves."
" Truth: Most Western men today are evolved and modern and truly believe in the 50/50 system. Most Western men are dismayed by the lack of sincerity of Western women. I can do my own laundry and cooking thank you!"
"Foreign women are comfortable in their femininity. As a male, I am attracted to this. And I love her with all my heart."
"I believe that American women have priced themselves out of the marketplace. Too needy, too many head games, too easy to divorce."
"Not many foreign men want American wives either."
"American women-highest maintenance (I've never heard of a foreign bride demanding her husband buy expensive house cars). Fattest in the world. Most likely to cheat. Highest rate of divorce (60^-US; 20%-US-foreign marriages). Largest payout in divorce court. Bitchiest. Most likely to nag constantly. Most likely to believe in feminism and "equality". Most likely to hate men. Spend least amount of time with her children. Worst at cooking and cleaning. fucked & chucked by tons of guys before tricking you into marriage."
"Three reasons to marry an American woman:
1. You actually believe BBW=big BEAUTIFUL wife.
2. You believe nagging is essential for personal growth.
3. You really look forward to the day your BBW divorces you and you gladly fork over 50% of your hard earned assets, plus child support and alimony. Then,after that, you have to figure out how to live on 20% of your income."
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" I can not date white American women anymore. I was in the navy:and, I have seen the light. Women from other countries just look better and treat you better too! I didn't pay for shit when I was overseas and I pay up the wazoo here. Any rational person can figure it out from here."
"American women are high-maintenance prima donnas with attitudes. I'd take a foreign born Russian or Latina woman any day. They are much nicer and normally MUCH SMARTER than most American women-plus they don't watch Rose and Ricci Lake- they go to the library or perform outside activities."
"Dating or being married to an American women is like driving a beat-up Ford Escort. If you are only used to driving a beat-up Ford Escort, then you have no idea what it feels like when you drive a Bentley or Ferrari. You need to at least test-drive a Ferrari, so you'll have a reference point on what a real car feels like." 1.
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The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act
"The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (Subtitle D of Title VIII (Sec.831-834) of United States Public Law 109-162)(IMBRA is an attachment to The Violence Against Women Act signed by President Bush on January 5, 2006), or IMBRA , is a controversial United States federal statute that requires background checks for all marriage visa sponsors and limits serial visa applications. Additionally, the law requires background checks for all persons wanting to receive contact information, something that is necessary in order to communicate. The impetus for its introduction were two cases (including the Susanna Blackwell case in 1995 and the Anastasia King case in 2000) in which foreign women had been abused and eventually murdered by men who had used a K-1 fiancee visa issued by the US State Department to bring them to the United States. In the King case, the husband had physically abused a previous foreign bride before murdering Anastasia. King had met Anastasia through his own advertisement in a Moscow newspaper (not through an "international marriage broker"). In the Blackwell case, the husband had a clean record, therefore IMBRA would not have prevented her murder. It was intended to stop abuse of "mail order brides" by prospective husbands with criminal histories. At the same time, there are thousands of international marriages between Americans and foreigners without problem." 2.
"Many immigrant spouses agree to become one largely to gain U.S. citizenship. However, the citizenship is conditional on remaining married for at least three years, creating an imbalance of power. There have been a number of documented cases of husbands using this advantage to abuse both mentally and physically their wife, knowing that their wife can be sent home at their whim humantrafficking.org estimated that " many more are believed to go unreported.". Even when one eventually leaves-whether to return home or after sufficient time has passed to get a divorce but stay a citizen, some of these husbands would continue to get new mail order brides. No system originally existed to track such serial visa applicants with a history of abuse." 3.
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Criticism of IMBRA The murders described above which were the impetus of this law, occurred after a couple was already married, however IMBRA regulates communication before anyone has gotten married (or may never be getting married to a foreigner). There is not a single documented case or prosecution of an American abusing a foreigner before marriage who has used an international pen pal service.
Critics of this law contend that its purpose to protect women depends upon the honesty of the IMB client in revealing any criminal history. There is no background check performed except the national sex offender data base. As such, any US client who has a criminal history may simply lie and fail to report it to the IMB.
Several international introduction services (the mail order bride industry) challenged the constitutionality of IMBRA, but the statute was upheld by a federal court in 2007. Free speech and identity theft concerns have also been raised.
Wendy McElroy wrote that " there is no reason to believe that violence against 'mail-order brides' is higher than against women in general. No evidence supports the criminalization of every American man who looks overseas for a wife." 4.
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"An international broker cannot provide contact or general information on a foreign woman to an American man unless that broker first collects and discloses to the woman the following information about the man: 1. Every state of residence since the age of 18. 2. Current or previous marriages as well as how and when they terminated. 3. Information on children under 18. 4. Any arrest or conviction related to controlled substances, alcohol or prostitution, making no distinction on arrests not leading to conviction. 5. Any court orders, including temporary restraining orders which are notoriously easy to procure. 6. Any arrest or conviction for crimes ranging from "homicide" to "child neglect". 7. Any arrest or conviction for "similar activity in violation of Federal, State or local criminal law" without specifying what "similar" means.
U.S. law will provide foreign women with extensive government information on American suitors which is not similarly offered to American women. Nor should it be.
Contacting a women for romantic purposes--internationally or domestically--is not a crime. Those who do so are not a priori criminals who must prove themselves innocent before being allowed an email exchange.
How many American men will be impacted by the IMBRA?
According to Rep. Larsen, between 8,000 and 12,000 American men find foreign wives through for-profit brokers each year. Presumably, a considerably higher number attempt but fail to find a wife who successfully emigrates." 5.
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" But no solid foundation of data underlies Sen. Cantwell's (U.S. Senator from Washington State) claim of a "growing epidemic of domestic abuse among couples who meet through a broker." There is no reason to believe that violence against mail-order brides is higher than against women in general. No evidence supports the criminalization of every American man who looks overseas for a wife.
And, yet, such men are easy targets. Men who seek wives abroad often explicitly state that women here are not worth marrying because they are too independent, ruined by feminism, or 'fill in the pejorative blank.' If some of those ideal wives subsequently say "goodby" at the first glimpse of a green card, I can't muster sympathy.
What I do sympathize with, however, are the privacy rights of people who are considered guilty until proven innocent. This is especially true when a government violates the privacy of its own citizens to benefit foreign individuals.
What view of the American man does IMBRA broadcast to the world? American men are so predatory and violent that the U.S. government must protect foreign women by providing police checks before allowing the men to say "hello".
The "Ugly American" has become an article of Federal Law, supported by Congress." 6.
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Key Provisions of International Marriage Broker Regulation Act:
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" 1. Marketing of Children Prohibited IMBs may not provide personal contact information, photographs, or other information about anyone under the age of 18 to any individual or entity (Section 833 (d)(1))
2. Duty to Disclose Criminal and Marital History and Obtain Written Consent Before a (for a fee) IMB may provide a foreign national client's personal contact information to a United States client, the IMB must:
1. search sex offender public registries for information regarding the United States client;
2. collect certain criminal and marital background information through documentation or an attestation from the United States client;
3. provide to the foreign national client any records retrieved from the sex offender public registry search and the background information in her primary language;
4. provide to the foreign national client a government-prepared information pamphlet about the legal rights and resources available to the U.S. to immigrant victims of domestic violence and other crimes;
and;
5. obtain the foreign national client's signed, written consent to the release of her information to the United States client. (Sections 833 (d)(2) and (3))
3. Penalty for Misuse of Information. Any person who knowingly misuses any information obtained by an IMB (i.e. uses that information for any unauthorized purpose other than IMBRA's required disclosures) is subject to a fine or imprisonment of no more than 1 year, or both, in addition to other possible penalties that may be imposed under federal or state law.(Sections 833 (d)(3)(C))
4. Penalties for Other Violations/Nonpreemption An IMB is subject to a civil penalty of $ 5,000-$ 25,000 per violation or attempted violation of its obligations under IMBRA, and criminal penalties for not more than five years in prison. This is in addition to other possible penalties and remedies that may be provided for under federal or state law. (Sections 833 (d)(5) and (6)).
5. Definition of an International Marriage Broker "International Marriage Broker" is defined as an entity (whether or not U.S.-based) that charges fees for providing matchmaking services or social referrals between U.S. citizens/permanent residents and foreign nationals. This definition also exempts non-profit religious or cultural matchmaking services, and dating services that do match U.S. citizens/residents with aliens as their principal business and that charge comparable rates and offer comparable services to all clients, regardless of gender or country of citizenship.
6. Informational Pamphlet about Legal Rights and Resources IMBRA requires that U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Departments of State (DOS) and Justice (DOJ) and nongovernmental organizations with specialized expertise, to develop a pamphlet for foreign fiance(e)s and spouses about the K visa immigration process, the legal rights and resources available to immigrant victims of domestic violence and other crimes, the illegality of marriage fraud (i.e., knowingly entering a marriage solely to obtain an immigration benefit) and U.S. legal obligations regarding child support. The pamphlet will also include a warning concerning the potential use of K visas by U.S. citizens with a history of violence, whose acts may not have resulted in a criminal record; as well as a notification regarding IMBs' obligation to disclose U.S. clients' violent criminal records.
7. Criminal Background Information Disclosed to Foreign Fiance(e) or Spouse IMBRA requires U.S. citizens petitioning to sponsor K visas to disclose convictions for a list of violent crimes on the " I-129F" petition form that they file with the DHS, including convictions for domestic violence and assault & battery, as well as convictions for elder abuse, child abuse or neglect, and stalking; and multiple (three or more) convictions related to alcohol/controlled substances. DHS must provide to DOS a copy of the petitioner's I-129F petition form, together with any criminal background information (including information on protection orders) that DHS has gather on the petitioner under existing authority.DOS must provide these materials to the foreign fiance(e) or spouse . The U.S. consular officer conducting the K visa interview overseas must inform the foreign fiance(e) or spouse that this information may not be complete, and ask her (1) whether an IMB facilitated her relationship with the petitioner and, if so, which one and (2) whether the IMB complied with IMBRA b providing her with the required disclosures and information. (Sections 832(a), 833(a)(5), and 833(b)(1))
8. Limits Place on How Many and How Often Fiance(e) Visa Petitions May be Filed; Petitioners with Violent Criminal Records Barred from Serial Sponsorship IMBRA limits a US petitioner's sponsorship of K1 (fiance(e)) visas to 2 total, with no less than 2 years between the filing of the last approved petition and the current petition. A petitioner may seek a discretionary waiver of these limits from DHS. However, DHS cannot ordinarily waive the limits if the U.S. petitioner has a record of violent criminal offenses. (Section 832(a)(1)) " 7.
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Green Card Marriages A green card is the way immigrants from other countries become a permanent resident of the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau "Every year over 450,000 United States citizens marry foreign-born individuals and petition for them to obtain permanent residency (Green Card) in the United States. In 2003, 184,741 immigrants were admitted to the U.S. as spouses of U.S. citizens. The applicant must already be married. There are conditional requirements in order to obtain a green card through the marriage process. The prospect must have a conditional green card. This becomes permanent after approval by the government. The candidate may then apply for United States citizenship. A conditional residence green card is given to applicants who are being processed for permanent residence in the United States because they are married to a U.S. citizen. It is valid for two years. At the end of this time period, if the card holder does not change the status of their residency, they will be put on "out of status." Legal action by the government may follow. There are different procedures based on whether the applicant is already a U.S. citizen or if the applicant is an immigrant. The marriage must also be legal in, if appropriate, the emigrant's country.
Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 A public law was passed to deter marriage fraud among immigrants. The major stipulation is that if the immigrant is married for less than two years, they are classified as conditional immigrants. The two year period is not from the time they get married, but from the time that residency is granted. In order to remove this classification the immigrants must apply for U.S. Citizenship ninety days before the second-year anniversary of still being considered conditional.
There are several reasons why the conditional immigration status can be terminated. Those include divorce, marriage is not valid, or the couple failed to petition the Immigration Service to remove the classification of conditional residency. If the Immigration Service suspects that an alien has created a fraudulent marriage, the immigrant is subject to removal from the United States The marriage must be fraudulent at its inception and can be determined by several factors. The several factors are the conduct of the parties before and after the marriage are relevant and the bride's and groom's intention of establishing a life together. The validity must be given by the couple by showing insurance policies, property, leases, income tax, bank accounts, etc. The final decision is determined by if the sole purpose of the marriage was to gain benefits for the immigrant. The punishment for fraud is a large monetary penalty, possibility of never becoming a permanent resident of the United States, and jail time for the spouse. These Amendment Acts cover spouses, children of spouses, and K-1 visa fiances.
Intersection of Immigration Law and Family Law Immigrants who use the reason of family ties to gain entry into the United States are required to document financial arrangements. The sponsor of a related immigrant must guarantee financial support to the family. These guarantees form a contract between a sponsor and the federal government. It requires the sponsor to support the immigrant relative at a level equivalent to 125% of the poverty line for his or her household size. A beneficiary of the contract, the immigrant, or the Federal Government may sue for the promised support in the event the sponsor does not fulfill the obligations of the contract. The sponsor is also liable for the prevailing party's legal expenses.
Divorce does not end the sponsor's obligation to provide the support deemed by the contract. The only ways to terminate the obligation are for the immigrant spouse to become a U.S. citizen, the immigrant spouse has worked forty Social Security Act eligible quarters (10 years), the immigrant spouse is no longer considered a permanent alien and has left the U.S., the immigrant spouse obtained an ability to adjust their status, or the immigrant spouse dies. A sponsor's death also cuts off the obligation, but not in regards to any support the sponsor already owes which will be paid out of the sponsor's estate." 8.
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Mail-Order Bride A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs (online or otherwise)and is selected by men for marriage. In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas in the East to marry men in Western frontier lands. In the twentieth Century, the trend was towards women living in developing countries seeking men in more developed countries. In the twenty-first Century, the trend is now based primarily on internet-based meeting places which do not per se qualify as mail order bride services. The majority of women listed in the twentieth-century and twenty-first century services are from Southeast Asia, countries of the former Soviet Union and (to a lesser extent) from Latin America. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, large numbers of eastern European women have advertised themselves in such a way, primarily from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands". Mail-order husbands come from primarily (in alphabetical order) Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States." 9.
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"International marriage agency
Mail-order brides work with "international marriage agencies."
An international marriage agency (also called an international introduction agency or international marriage broker) is a business that endeavors to introduce men and women of different countries for the purpose of marriage, dating or correspondence. Many of these marriage agencies are based near women in developing countries (such as Ukraine,Russia,Colombia,Brazil,China, Thailand and the Philippines). International marriage agencies encourage women to register for their services and facilitate communication and meetings with men from the developed regions of North America, Western Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. This network of smaller international marriage agencies is often affiliated with web-based international dating sites that are able to market their services on a larger scale, in compliance with regulations such as the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. International dating sites provide a wide variety of online communication, including instant messaging, email letters, webcam-based chat, phone translation, virtual gifts, live games, and mobile-based chat. ----
Services offered by marriage agencies typically include:
1. Introductions
2. Translation of correspondence between clients not speaking a common language
3. Excursions, in which a man is introduced to several women interested in marriage " 10.
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Mail order brides: motivations,situations, and stories
"Eastern Europe Women in Russia,Ukraine,Belarus, and other Eastern European countries are common Caucasian mail-order bride candidates. Russian and other East European women are sometimes considered more attractive than West European and American women in appearance, dress and behavior.
Economic and social conditions for women in Russia are a motivational factor in finding foreign arrangements. ----Finding a foreign husband gives a women a chance to leave her country and find better economic opportunities. Marriage is a substantial part of Russian culture with 22 years being the age at which a woman is considered an "old maid." With 4,138,273 more women than men from the ages of 15 to 64, marriage opportunities are slim at home and worsened by the life expectancy differences between men (64.3 years) and women (73.17 years). In testimony before the United States Senate, Professor Donna Hughes said that two thirds of Ukrainian women interviewed wanted to live abroad; and, this rose to 97% in the resort city of Yalta.
Asia Many international brides come from developing countries in Asia. The countries the women come from are faced with unemployment, malnutrition and inflation. Those who marry foreign men tend to be better educated than most women from their country or their husbands. However, economic factors are not the only driving factor for women in Asia to enter the mail-order industry. Filipino women often enter the mail-order industry in the hope of marrying abroad and then sponsoring their family for immigration. In some case, women are recruited on their physical appearance with an emphasis placed on youth and virginity. This is found among boutique agencies most of which cater to wealthy men from other Asian nations.
Australia Since 2003, the Australian Federal Government's resolve to decrease what was deemed "inappropriate immigration" by then Prime Minister John Howard has gained momentum. Initial reactions to the program were mixed. However, during the January 2004 visit to Eastern Europe by Australian Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Philip Ruddock, Australian-Russian relationships were strengthened while both nations committed to a timetable for reductions in Russian human trafficking into Australia. The Australian public further embraced its government's new policies following the media frenzy of the Jana Klintoukh case. This case first exploded into the public's view when current-events program Today Tonight aired footage of a young Russian-born Australian, claiming she was imported via an Internet site and was used as a sexual slave by her "husband" while being confined to his Sydney home.
Belarus In 2005, President Alexander Lukashenko attempted to regulate "marriage agencies" in Belarus and make it difficult for them to operate. He believed that Western men were draining his country of women of child-bearing age. However, as most agencies are being run from outside Belarus (either in Russia, European countries or the United States), he has been unable to stop (or otherwise regulate) this activity.
Canada Canadian immigration laws have traditionally been similar to (but slightly less restrictive than) their US counterparts; for instance, not requiring the Canadian citizen to prove minimum-income requirements (as has been a long-standing requirement of United States immigration laws). While there is still no formal requirement for a minimum salary, the sponsor must provide evidence of income in the form of their most recent T4 Income printout from the Canadian Revenue Agency as an attachment to their IMM 5481 Sponsorship Evaluation. Until recently (2001), Canada's immigration policy designated mail-order brides under the "family class" to refer to spouses and dependents and "fiancé(e)" class for those intending to marry, with only limited recognition of externally-married opposite-sex "common law" relationships; same-sex partners were processed as independent immigrants or under a discretionary provision for "humane and compassionate" considerations. In 2002, the Canadian Immigration Law was completely revised. One of the major changes was conjugal-partner sponsorship, available for any two people (including same sex couples) who have had conjugal relations together for at least one year. Canadian immigration authorities frown upon conjugal-partners sponsorship for heterosexual couples, and now require the couple to marry before a visa is granted (unless serious reason can be demonstrated why the couple is not yet married).
Colombia This South American country is attracting more mail-order bride agencies in recent years, including ColombianSweethearts, ColombianCupid and AmoLatina] As well, online dating agencies such as Match.com have developed a presence in Colombia. According to immigration statistics from the U.S. Homeland Security, Colombia has ranked in the top 10 of countries since 1999 from which fiancées have emigrated for the United States. As well, the number of Colombians being admitted to the U.S. between 1999 and 2008 using fiancé visas (including children) has increased 321 percent. A dissertation by Jasney E. Cogua-Lopez, “Through the Prisms of Gender and Power: Agency in International Courtship between Colombian Women and American Men,” suggests various reasons for this growth, including continuing cultural inequality between the sexes despite equality being codified in the country’s laws ( honor killings were not made completely illegal until 1980). Because of the large number of Colombians wishing to leave their country by marrying foreigners, a black market for marriages to foreigners has developed, with some people allegedly paying as much as 20 million pesos ($100,000 US) to illegal groups. According to Colombia Decrees No. 2668/88 and 1556/89, passed in 1988, foreigners are allowed to marry nationals in the country provided they supply the proper paperwork, including a birth certificate and proof that both parties are not already married. A notary is required, but because the laws are open to interpretation, the requirements can vary from notary to notary.
Philippines The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted Republic Act 6955 (the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law) in 1990 as a result of stories in the local media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands. Because of this, Filipinas often use "reverse publications" – publications in which men advertise themselves – to contact foreign men for marriage to Filipina women.
South Korea The New York Times reports, "Every month, hundreds of South Korean men fly to Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Nepal and Uzbekistan on special trips". Although these marriages can be successful, in some cases immigrant wives are mistreated, misunderstood and separated from their Korean husbands. One method men use when choosing young girls as wives is "Like a judge in a beauty pageant, the man interviews the women, many of them 20 years younger than he, and makes a choice". The British newspaper The Independent reports, "Last year it was reported that more than 40,000 Vietnamese women have married South Korean men and migrated there." Cambodian women are also popular with Korean men seeking foreign brides, but in March 2010 the Cambodian government banned marriages to South Korean men. The Korea Times reports that every year, thousands of Korean men sign up for matches with Filipina brides through agencies and by mail order. Based on data from the Korean government, there are 6,191 Filipinas in South Korea who are married to Koreans. After contacting a mail-order agency, the majority of Filipina mail-order brides met their husbands by attending "show-ups," a meeting in which a group of Filipino women are brought to meet a Korean man who is looking for a wife. At the show-up, the Korean man picks a prospective wife from among the group, and in a matter of days they are married. An anthropological study on Filipina wives and Korean men by professor Kim Min-jung of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Kangwon National University found that these Korean men find it difficult to marry Korean women, so they look for girls in poorer countries with difficult economic circumstances The Korean men feel that because of the difficult circumstances from which the Filipina women come, cultural differences and the language barrier, they "will not run away". Further, she said, Korean men characterize Southeast Asian women as friendly, hardworking (due to agrarian backgrounds), "docile and obedient, able to speak English, and are familiar with Korean patriarchal culture". A recent study by matchmaking firm Bien-Aller polled 274 single South Korean men through its website concerning motivations for marrying non-Korean women and found that men choose foreign brides primarily for one of four reasons. "According to the poll, 32.1 percent of the men said they felt the biggest benefit of marrying foreign women is their lack of interest in their groom's educational background and financial or social status. The next best reason was their belief that foreign brides would be submissive (23 percent), make their lives more comfortable (15.3 percent), and that the men would not have to get stressed about their in-laws (13.8 percent)."
Violence Against Foreign Brides in South Korea There have been several murders of mail-order brides in South Korea. "On May 24, 2011, a South Korean man stabbed his Vietnamese wife to death while the couple’s 19-day-old baby lay next to her. The man, a farmer, had been matched up with his foreign bride through a broker. In 2010, another Vietnamese woman was killed by her husband a week after they were married. In 2008, a Vietnamese woman jumped from an apartment building to her death after being abused by her husband and mother-in-law." In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.
Turkmenistan On June 4, 2001 Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov (also known as Turkmenbashi) authorized a decree that required foreigners to pay a $50,000 fee to marry a Turkmen citizen (regardless of how they met), and to live in the country and own property for one year. Authorities indicated that the law was designed to protect women from being duped into abusive relationships. In June 2005, Niyazov scrapped the $50,000 and the property-owning requirements.
United States Due to stringent U.S. immigration laws, there have been adaptations of the law and immigration process to provide regulation over immigration flow into the country, and protection for brides once they arrive. “In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act.. Section 652 of this legislation specifically addresses the mail-order bride industry.” Congress found the following: There is a substantial ‘‘mail-order bride’’ business in the United States. With approximately 200 companies, an estimated 2,000 to 3,500 men in the United States find wives through mail-order-bride catalogs each year. However, there are no official statistics available on the number of mail-order brides entering the United States each year. The companies engaged in the mail-order-bride business earn substantial profits. On January 6, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005" ( IMBRA) as part of the H.R. 3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. The requirements of the law are controversial, and some commentators have claimed that it presumes that American men are abusers. In enacting IMBRA, Congress was responding to claims by the Tahirih Justice Center (TJC), a woman's advocacy group, that mail-order brides were susceptible to domestic abuse because they are unfamiliar with the laws, language and customs of their new home. The TJC insisted that special legislation was needed to protect them. The TJC asked Congress to consider several notable cases mentioned in the Congressional Record. Critics of IMBRA claim that the TJC failed to ask Congress to consider the relative amount of abuse between mail-order-bride couples and other couples (including the thousands of spousal murders that occurred in the US over the past 15 years). Two federal lawsuits (European Connections Tours v. Gonzales, N.D. Ga. 2006; AODA v. Gonzales, S.D. Ohio 2006) sought to challenge IMBRA on constitutional grounds. The AODA case was terminated when the plaintiffs withdrew their claim. The European Connections case ended when the judge ruled against the plaintiff, finding the law constitutional regarding a dating company. On March 26, 2007, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper dismissed with prejudice a suit for injunctive relief filed by European Connections, agreeing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and TJC that IMBRA is a constitutional exercise of Congressional authority to regulate for-profit dating websites and agencies where the primary focus is on introducing Americans to foreigners. Additionally, the federal court specifically found that: "the rates of domestic violence against immigrant women are much higher than those of the U.S. population". The judge also compared background checks on American men to background checks on handgun buyers by stating, "However, just as the requirement to provide background information as a prerequisite to purchasing a firearm has not put gun manufacturers out of business, there is no reason to believe that IMBs will be driven by the marketplace by IMBRA".
Violence against mail-order-brides in the United States In September 2003, 26-year-old Ukrainian engineer and mail-order bride, Alla Barney, bled to death on the floor of her car after her American husband, Lester Barney, 58, slashed her throat in front of the couple’s four-year-old son Daniel. Lester fled with Daniel from the scene in the parking lot of the boy’s day-care center. After an Amber Alert was triggered, he turned Daniel over to a friend and was taken into custody by police. Alla had been granted a restraining order against Lester a few months before, and had been given temporary custody of Daniel. Anastasia King, a young woman from Kyrgyzstan, was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Washington State in December 2000. At age 18, Anastasia received an email from a 38-year-old Seattle man, Indle King, from a mail-order-bride website. He flew to her country, and they were married soon after. Two years later, after considerable strife, Indle wanted another bride. He was allegedly unwilling to pay for a divorce, so he ordered a tenant in their Washington home to kill Anastasia. Weighing nearly 300 pounds, her husband pinned Anastasia down while the tenant strangled her with a necktie. Both were convicted of murder. King’s previous wife (whom he had also met through an IMB) had a domestic violence protection order issued against him, and left him because he was abusive. Nina Reiser was a Russian-born and -trained obstetrician and gynaecologist. She was murdered by her husband Hans Reiser, a businessman and computer programmer whom she met after placing an ad in a mail-order bride catalog. She had a restraining order against him during their divorce proceedings. Nina was reported missing on September 5, 2006. That month Hans was detained by Oakland police due to suspicions surrounding the disappearance of his wife, and was later arrested for suspected murder. On April 28, 2008 Hans Reiser was found guilty of first-degree murder, and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. On July 7, 2008 Hans led Oakland police to his wife's remains with an agreement to be charged with second-degree murder instead.
Violence against mail-order husbands by mail-order brides in The United States In 2002 Tessie Buhawe Spotts (a native of the Philippines) was charged with the poisoning murder of her husband, Alfred Spotts, in Newberry, South Carolina. The couple met through an international magazine advertisement.
Legal matters for mail-order brides in the United States Marriage agencies are legal in almost all countries. On Jan 6, 2006, the United States Congress enacted H.R. 3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. This law requires certain actions prior to selling a foreign woman's address to a US citizen or resident, including:
The man must complete a questionnaire on his criminal and marital background.
The seller must obtain the man's record from the National Sex Offenders Public Registry database.
The questionnaire and record must be translated into the woman's native language and provided to her.
The woman must certify that she agrees to permit communication.
A lifetime limit of two (2) fiancé(e) visas is imposed, with a waiver required for the approval of any subsequent fiancée visa.
Visa regulations
In order to bring a spouse into the United States, Form I-130 must be filed (an immigrant petition on behalf of a relative). After that, a K-3/K-4 V-1/V-2 Entry Visa for Spouse must be filed. The Immigration and Nationalization Service advises that “in some cases, it may be to a couple's advantage to pursue a K-1 fiancee visa before getting married. In other cases, applicants may find that it is more cost effective to get married abroad and then apply for an immigrant visa overseas. In many cases, the K-1 visa application process takes just as long as the immigrant visa process”. Couples must remain together at least two years. “Despite well over 2,000 mail-order marriages a year, there is no information on the amount of mail-order brides entering the US. The purpose of this law is two-fold: to protect the safety of mail-order brides and to prevent fraud”. 11.
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RULES TO FOLLOW TO AVOID INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE AND DATING SCAMS
" 1. DO NOT sent money to any girl you have never met, are not in love with, or engaged to.
2. If you find yourself about to send money to a foreign girl you haven't met, are not in love with and not engaged to, PLEASE REVIEW RULE NUMBER 1!! Foreign women DO NOT EVER fall in love through correspondence and DO NOT EVER come to visit a total stranger on a tourist visa.
3. DO NOT send money to any girl you are writing to for internet support. (Depending on the agency's specific policies, it may be necessary to pay THE AGENCY for correspondence services like Express Mail or translations BUT always do so having researched the agency with reliable referrals.)
4. DO NOT expect to buy a girl's love with expensive gifts or cash. Too many young girls join agencies to get in on the kind of cash their girl friends have gotten from a foreign boy friend. Too may foreign men shell out thousands of dollars to foreign super-model wannabes thinking their working their way toward a lifetime of " I Dream of Jeannie" only to get dumped completely before the first kiss. DO give modest gifts, flowers, candy etc. to her and her family once you've met and fallen in love. My idea of a modest gift is anything up to $ 100. Cosmetics, clothing, small jewelry, nice wine, Godiva chocolate.
5. DO NOT buy your girl a cell phone, home computer or English lessons unless engaged.
6. DO wait until you girl's arrival in this country before you buy an expensive engagement ring. It should be fine to present you foreign fiancee with a modest engagement ring before her arrival in your country.
7. DO realize most scamming foreign women couldn't care less about foreign citizenship in your country. If they're not in this for a husband, they're probably in it for the money. The one's looking for a husband will ask you for love, attention, friendship, support, kisses, hugs and intimacy. The one's looking for money will ask you for-well, MONEY!! Again, remember-when we become engaged, married and beyond our foreign women will be able to spend money on necessary things (foreign women are really quite frugal you'll find) and on the occasional toy for their child or gift for their family back home. If you are smart and want your girl to be happy-DO NOT try to restrict your foreign bride to some kind of allowance you wouldn't give your 12 year old. BAD IDEA!
8. DO NOT expect any foreign girl to come here and visit you before you have met, courted, fallen in love and become engaged. Know you will ultimately have to get on the plane and go yourself if you are going to find HER!
9. DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH OR FILE A FIANCEE VISA FOR ANY WOMAN WHO HAS NOT DEMONSTRATED A TRUE ATTRACTION AND HEALTHY AFFECTION FOR YOU.
10. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED, DO AN INTERNET SEARCH FOR YOUR FOREIGN GIRL'S NAME TO SEE IF ANY OTHER MEN HAVE POSTED INFORMATION ABOUT HER. VISIT ANTI-SCAM SITES AND/OR READ RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON THE TOPIC TO INCREASE YOUR AWARENESS OF POSSIBLE RED FLAG BEHAVIORS." 12.
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Here are a few quotes that are responsive to this question: "Now you understand why US men prefer foreign born women: THEY TREAT US BETTER, RESPECT US, APPRECIATE THAT AFFECTION WE SHOW THEM, AND ACKNOWLEDGE OUR EFFORTS TO PROVIDE A BETTER LIFE."
"A huge percentage of American women are selfish, flighty, insecure, needy and psychotic, and quite capable of concealing those traits during the dating phase."
"White 'career' American chicks are the bottom of the barrel marriage-wise".
"Foreign women from South America, Eastern Europe, and Asia are at the top. Only guys who travel (in other words, guys who are successful and ambitious enough to travel a lot) find these. But they never, ever go back."
"Foreign-born women living in the US are the next best. They get married early...they are highly sought after by American guys for their wifely skills (hell, any woman who has ANY ability to be a wife is better than your average American chick, who knows NOTHING about being a wife).
"Bottom of the barrel---white American chicks Yecch".
"Here's a story: I knew a guy who was Hungarian (parents emigrated) who tried for 15 years to find a half-decent woman to marry. He's a doctor, by the way. Finally, after 8 psycho-weirdo US chicks, he went back to the 'old country' to find a wife The people there were lining the women up for him to meet...he's a rich American guy....they are considered the best husbands in the world."
"He found this lovely wife. She's a total gem, and he's happy as hell. 2 kids. Happy ever after."-------
" I was absolutely blown away by the quality of women on my trip to Eastern Europe. Classy, cultured, traditional values, how could you ask for more?"
"Popular Myth: Western men looking for foreign wives are only seeking subservient slaves."
" Truth: Most Western men today are evolved and modern and truly believe in the 50/50 system. Most Western men are dismayed by the lack of sincerity of Western women. I can do my own laundry and cooking thank you!"
"Foreign women are comfortable in their femininity. As a male, I am attracted to this. And I love her with all my heart."
"I believe that American women have priced themselves out of the marketplace. Too needy, too many head games, too easy to divorce."
"Not many foreign men want American wives either."
"American women-highest maintenance (I've never heard of a foreign bride demanding her husband buy expensive house cars). Fattest in the world. Most likely to cheat. Highest rate of divorce (60^-US; 20%-US-foreign marriages). Largest payout in divorce court. Bitchiest. Most likely to nag constantly. Most likely to believe in feminism and "equality". Most likely to hate men. Spend least amount of time with her children. Worst at cooking and cleaning. fucked & chucked by tons of guys before tricking you into marriage."
"Three reasons to marry an American woman:
1. You actually believe BBW=big BEAUTIFUL wife.
2. You believe nagging is essential for personal growth.
3. You really look forward to the day your BBW divorces you and you gladly fork over 50% of your hard earned assets, plus child support and alimony. Then,after that, you have to figure out how to live on 20% of your income."
Some further quotes:
" I can not date white American women anymore. I was in the navy:and, I have seen the light. Women from other countries just look better and treat you better too! I didn't pay for shit when I was overseas and I pay up the wazoo here. Any rational person can figure it out from here."
"American women are high-maintenance prima donnas with attitudes. I'd take a foreign born Russian or Latina woman any day. They are much nicer and normally MUCH SMARTER than most American women-plus they don't watch Rose and Ricci Lake- they go to the library or perform outside activities."
"Dating or being married to an American women is like driving a beat-up Ford Escort. If you are only used to driving a beat-up Ford Escort, then you have no idea what it feels like when you drive a Bentley or Ferrari. You need to at least test-drive a Ferrari, so you'll have a reference point on what a real car feels like." 1.
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The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act
"The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (Subtitle D of Title VIII (Sec.831-834) of United States Public Law 109-162)(IMBRA is an attachment to The Violence Against Women Act signed by President Bush on January 5, 2006), or IMBRA , is a controversial United States federal statute that requires background checks for all marriage visa sponsors and limits serial visa applications. Additionally, the law requires background checks for all persons wanting to receive contact information, something that is necessary in order to communicate. The impetus for its introduction were two cases (including the Susanna Blackwell case in 1995 and the Anastasia King case in 2000) in which foreign women had been abused and eventually murdered by men who had used a K-1 fiancee visa issued by the US State Department to bring them to the United States. In the King case, the husband had physically abused a previous foreign bride before murdering Anastasia. King had met Anastasia through his own advertisement in a Moscow newspaper (not through an "international marriage broker"). In the Blackwell case, the husband had a clean record, therefore IMBRA would not have prevented her murder. It was intended to stop abuse of "mail order brides" by prospective husbands with criminal histories. At the same time, there are thousands of international marriages between Americans and foreigners without problem." 2.
"Many immigrant spouses agree to become one largely to gain U.S. citizenship. However, the citizenship is conditional on remaining married for at least three years, creating an imbalance of power. There have been a number of documented cases of husbands using this advantage to abuse both mentally and physically their wife, knowing that their wife can be sent home at their whim humantrafficking.org estimated that " many more are believed to go unreported.". Even when one eventually leaves-whether to return home or after sufficient time has passed to get a divorce but stay a citizen, some of these husbands would continue to get new mail order brides. No system originally existed to track such serial visa applicants with a history of abuse." 3.
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Criticism of IMBRA The murders described above which were the impetus of this law, occurred after a couple was already married, however IMBRA regulates communication before anyone has gotten married (or may never be getting married to a foreigner). There is not a single documented case or prosecution of an American abusing a foreigner before marriage who has used an international pen pal service.
Critics of this law contend that its purpose to protect women depends upon the honesty of the IMB client in revealing any criminal history. There is no background check performed except the national sex offender data base. As such, any US client who has a criminal history may simply lie and fail to report it to the IMB.
Several international introduction services (the mail order bride industry) challenged the constitutionality of IMBRA, but the statute was upheld by a federal court in 2007. Free speech and identity theft concerns have also been raised.
Wendy McElroy wrote that " there is no reason to believe that violence against 'mail-order brides' is higher than against women in general. No evidence supports the criminalization of every American man who looks overseas for a wife." 4.
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"An international broker cannot provide contact or general information on a foreign woman to an American man unless that broker first collects and discloses to the woman the following information about the man: 1. Every state of residence since the age of 18. 2. Current or previous marriages as well as how and when they terminated. 3. Information on children under 18. 4. Any arrest or conviction related to controlled substances, alcohol or prostitution, making no distinction on arrests not leading to conviction. 5. Any court orders, including temporary restraining orders which are notoriously easy to procure. 6. Any arrest or conviction for crimes ranging from "homicide" to "child neglect". 7. Any arrest or conviction for "similar activity in violation of Federal, State or local criminal law" without specifying what "similar" means.
U.S. law will provide foreign women with extensive government information on American suitors which is not similarly offered to American women. Nor should it be.
Contacting a women for romantic purposes--internationally or domestically--is not a crime. Those who do so are not a priori criminals who must prove themselves innocent before being allowed an email exchange.
How many American men will be impacted by the IMBRA?
According to Rep. Larsen, between 8,000 and 12,000 American men find foreign wives through for-profit brokers each year. Presumably, a considerably higher number attempt but fail to find a wife who successfully emigrates." 5.
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" But no solid foundation of data underlies Sen. Cantwell's (U.S. Senator from Washington State) claim of a "growing epidemic of domestic abuse among couples who meet through a broker." There is no reason to believe that violence against mail-order brides is higher than against women in general. No evidence supports the criminalization of every American man who looks overseas for a wife.
And, yet, such men are easy targets. Men who seek wives abroad often explicitly state that women here are not worth marrying because they are too independent, ruined by feminism, or 'fill in the pejorative blank.' If some of those ideal wives subsequently say "goodby" at the first glimpse of a green card, I can't muster sympathy.
What I do sympathize with, however, are the privacy rights of people who are considered guilty until proven innocent. This is especially true when a government violates the privacy of its own citizens to benefit foreign individuals.
What view of the American man does IMBRA broadcast to the world? American men are so predatory and violent that the U.S. government must protect foreign women by providing police checks before allowing the men to say "hello".
The "Ugly American" has become an article of Federal Law, supported by Congress." 6.
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Key Provisions of International Marriage Broker Regulation Act:
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" 1. Marketing of Children Prohibited IMBs may not provide personal contact information, photographs, or other information about anyone under the age of 18 to any individual or entity (Section 833 (d)(1))
2. Duty to Disclose Criminal and Marital History and Obtain Written Consent Before a (for a fee) IMB may provide a foreign national client's personal contact information to a United States client, the IMB must:
1. search sex offender public registries for information regarding the United States client;
2. collect certain criminal and marital background information through documentation or an attestation from the United States client;
3. provide to the foreign national client any records retrieved from the sex offender public registry search and the background information in her primary language;
4. provide to the foreign national client a government-prepared information pamphlet about the legal rights and resources available to the U.S. to immigrant victims of domestic violence and other crimes;
and;
5. obtain the foreign national client's signed, written consent to the release of her information to the United States client. (Sections 833 (d)(2) and (3))
3. Penalty for Misuse of Information. Any person who knowingly misuses any information obtained by an IMB (i.e. uses that information for any unauthorized purpose other than IMBRA's required disclosures) is subject to a fine or imprisonment of no more than 1 year, or both, in addition to other possible penalties that may be imposed under federal or state law.(Sections 833 (d)(3)(C))
4. Penalties for Other Violations/Nonpreemption An IMB is subject to a civil penalty of $ 5,000-$ 25,000 per violation or attempted violation of its obligations under IMBRA, and criminal penalties for not more than five years in prison. This is in addition to other possible penalties and remedies that may be provided for under federal or state law. (Sections 833 (d)(5) and (6)).
5. Definition of an International Marriage Broker "International Marriage Broker" is defined as an entity (whether or not U.S.-based) that charges fees for providing matchmaking services or social referrals between U.S. citizens/permanent residents and foreign nationals. This definition also exempts non-profit religious or cultural matchmaking services, and dating services that do match U.S. citizens/residents with aliens as their principal business and that charge comparable rates and offer comparable services to all clients, regardless of gender or country of citizenship.
6. Informational Pamphlet about Legal Rights and Resources IMBRA requires that U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Departments of State (DOS) and Justice (DOJ) and nongovernmental organizations with specialized expertise, to develop a pamphlet for foreign fiance(e)s and spouses about the K visa immigration process, the legal rights and resources available to immigrant victims of domestic violence and other crimes, the illegality of marriage fraud (i.e., knowingly entering a marriage solely to obtain an immigration benefit) and U.S. legal obligations regarding child support. The pamphlet will also include a warning concerning the potential use of K visas by U.S. citizens with a history of violence, whose acts may not have resulted in a criminal record; as well as a notification regarding IMBs' obligation to disclose U.S. clients' violent criminal records.
7. Criminal Background Information Disclosed to Foreign Fiance(e) or Spouse IMBRA requires U.S. citizens petitioning to sponsor K visas to disclose convictions for a list of violent crimes on the " I-129F" petition form that they file with the DHS, including convictions for domestic violence and assault & battery, as well as convictions for elder abuse, child abuse or neglect, and stalking; and multiple (three or more) convictions related to alcohol/controlled substances. DHS must provide to DOS a copy of the petitioner's I-129F petition form, together with any criminal background information (including information on protection orders) that DHS has gather on the petitioner under existing authority.DOS must provide these materials to the foreign fiance(e) or spouse . The U.S. consular officer conducting the K visa interview overseas must inform the foreign fiance(e) or spouse that this information may not be complete, and ask her (1) whether an IMB facilitated her relationship with the petitioner and, if so, which one and (2) whether the IMB complied with IMBRA b providing her with the required disclosures and information. (Sections 832(a), 833(a)(5), and 833(b)(1))
8. Limits Place on How Many and How Often Fiance(e) Visa Petitions May be Filed; Petitioners with Violent Criminal Records Barred from Serial Sponsorship IMBRA limits a US petitioner's sponsorship of K1 (fiance(e)) visas to 2 total, with no less than 2 years between the filing of the last approved petition and the current petition. A petitioner may seek a discretionary waiver of these limits from DHS. However, DHS cannot ordinarily waive the limits if the U.S. petitioner has a record of violent criminal offenses. (Section 832(a)(1)) " 7.
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Green Card Marriages A green card is the way immigrants from other countries become a permanent resident of the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau "Every year over 450,000 United States citizens marry foreign-born individuals and petition for them to obtain permanent residency (Green Card) in the United States. In 2003, 184,741 immigrants were admitted to the U.S. as spouses of U.S. citizens. The applicant must already be married. There are conditional requirements in order to obtain a green card through the marriage process. The prospect must have a conditional green card. This becomes permanent after approval by the government. The candidate may then apply for United States citizenship. A conditional residence green card is given to applicants who are being processed for permanent residence in the United States because they are married to a U.S. citizen. It is valid for two years. At the end of this time period, if the card holder does not change the status of their residency, they will be put on "out of status." Legal action by the government may follow. There are different procedures based on whether the applicant is already a U.S. citizen or if the applicant is an immigrant. The marriage must also be legal in, if appropriate, the emigrant's country.
Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 A public law was passed to deter marriage fraud among immigrants. The major stipulation is that if the immigrant is married for less than two years, they are classified as conditional immigrants. The two year period is not from the time they get married, but from the time that residency is granted. In order to remove this classification the immigrants must apply for U.S. Citizenship ninety days before the second-year anniversary of still being considered conditional.
There are several reasons why the conditional immigration status can be terminated. Those include divorce, marriage is not valid, or the couple failed to petition the Immigration Service to remove the classification of conditional residency. If the Immigration Service suspects that an alien has created a fraudulent marriage, the immigrant is subject to removal from the United States The marriage must be fraudulent at its inception and can be determined by several factors. The several factors are the conduct of the parties before and after the marriage are relevant and the bride's and groom's intention of establishing a life together. The validity must be given by the couple by showing insurance policies, property, leases, income tax, bank accounts, etc. The final decision is determined by if the sole purpose of the marriage was to gain benefits for the immigrant. The punishment for fraud is a large monetary penalty, possibility of never becoming a permanent resident of the United States, and jail time for the spouse. These Amendment Acts cover spouses, children of spouses, and K-1 visa fiances.
Intersection of Immigration Law and Family Law Immigrants who use the reason of family ties to gain entry into the United States are required to document financial arrangements. The sponsor of a related immigrant must guarantee financial support to the family. These guarantees form a contract between a sponsor and the federal government. It requires the sponsor to support the immigrant relative at a level equivalent to 125% of the poverty line for his or her household size. A beneficiary of the contract, the immigrant, or the Federal Government may sue for the promised support in the event the sponsor does not fulfill the obligations of the contract. The sponsor is also liable for the prevailing party's legal expenses.
Divorce does not end the sponsor's obligation to provide the support deemed by the contract. The only ways to terminate the obligation are for the immigrant spouse to become a U.S. citizen, the immigrant spouse has worked forty Social Security Act eligible quarters (10 years), the immigrant spouse is no longer considered a permanent alien and has left the U.S., the immigrant spouse obtained an ability to adjust their status, or the immigrant spouse dies. A sponsor's death also cuts off the obligation, but not in regards to any support the sponsor already owes which will be paid out of the sponsor's estate." 8.
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Mail-Order Bride A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs (online or otherwise)and is selected by men for marriage. In nineteenth-century America, mail-order brides came from well-developed areas in the East to marry men in Western frontier lands. In the twentieth Century, the trend was towards women living in developing countries seeking men in more developed countries. In the twenty-first Century, the trend is now based primarily on internet-based meeting places which do not per se qualify as mail order bride services. The majority of women listed in the twentieth-century and twenty-first century services are from Southeast Asia, countries of the former Soviet Union and (to a lesser extent) from Latin America. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, large numbers of eastern European women have advertised themselves in such a way, primarily from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands". Mail-order husbands come from primarily (in alphabetical order) Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States." 9.
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"International marriage agency
Mail-order brides work with "international marriage agencies."
An international marriage agency (also called an international introduction agency or international marriage broker) is a business that endeavors to introduce men and women of different countries for the purpose of marriage, dating or correspondence. Many of these marriage agencies are based near women in developing countries (such as Ukraine,Russia,Colombia,Brazil,China, Thailand and the Philippines). International marriage agencies encourage women to register for their services and facilitate communication and meetings with men from the developed regions of North America, Western Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. This network of smaller international marriage agencies is often affiliated with web-based international dating sites that are able to market their services on a larger scale, in compliance with regulations such as the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. International dating sites provide a wide variety of online communication, including instant messaging, email letters, webcam-based chat, phone translation, virtual gifts, live games, and mobile-based chat. ----
Services offered by marriage agencies typically include:
1. Introductions
2. Translation of correspondence between clients not speaking a common language
3. Excursions, in which a man is introduced to several women interested in marriage " 10.
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Mail order brides: motivations,situations, and stories
"Eastern Europe Women in Russia,Ukraine,Belarus, and other Eastern European countries are common Caucasian mail-order bride candidates. Russian and other East European women are sometimes considered more attractive than West European and American women in appearance, dress and behavior.
Economic and social conditions for women in Russia are a motivational factor in finding foreign arrangements. ----Finding a foreign husband gives a women a chance to leave her country and find better economic opportunities. Marriage is a substantial part of Russian culture with 22 years being the age at which a woman is considered an "old maid." With 4,138,273 more women than men from the ages of 15 to 64, marriage opportunities are slim at home and worsened by the life expectancy differences between men (64.3 years) and women (73.17 years). In testimony before the United States Senate, Professor Donna Hughes said that two thirds of Ukrainian women interviewed wanted to live abroad; and, this rose to 97% in the resort city of Yalta.
Asia Many international brides come from developing countries in Asia. The countries the women come from are faced with unemployment, malnutrition and inflation. Those who marry foreign men tend to be better educated than most women from their country or their husbands. However, economic factors are not the only driving factor for women in Asia to enter the mail-order industry. Filipino women often enter the mail-order industry in the hope of marrying abroad and then sponsoring their family for immigration. In some case, women are recruited on their physical appearance with an emphasis placed on youth and virginity. This is found among boutique agencies most of which cater to wealthy men from other Asian nations.
Australia Since 2003, the Australian Federal Government's resolve to decrease what was deemed "inappropriate immigration" by then Prime Minister John Howard has gained momentum. Initial reactions to the program were mixed. However, during the January 2004 visit to Eastern Europe by Australian Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Philip Ruddock, Australian-Russian relationships were strengthened while both nations committed to a timetable for reductions in Russian human trafficking into Australia. The Australian public further embraced its government's new policies following the media frenzy of the Jana Klintoukh case. This case first exploded into the public's view when current-events program Today Tonight aired footage of a young Russian-born Australian, claiming she was imported via an Internet site and was used as a sexual slave by her "husband" while being confined to his Sydney home.
Belarus In 2005, President Alexander Lukashenko attempted to regulate "marriage agencies" in Belarus and make it difficult for them to operate. He believed that Western men were draining his country of women of child-bearing age. However, as most agencies are being run from outside Belarus (either in Russia, European countries or the United States), he has been unable to stop (or otherwise regulate) this activity.
Canada Canadian immigration laws have traditionally been similar to (but slightly less restrictive than) their US counterparts; for instance, not requiring the Canadian citizen to prove minimum-income requirements (as has been a long-standing requirement of United States immigration laws). While there is still no formal requirement for a minimum salary, the sponsor must provide evidence of income in the form of their most recent T4 Income printout from the Canadian Revenue Agency as an attachment to their IMM 5481 Sponsorship Evaluation. Until recently (2001), Canada's immigration policy designated mail-order brides under the "family class" to refer to spouses and dependents and "fiancé(e)" class for those intending to marry, with only limited recognition of externally-married opposite-sex "common law" relationships; same-sex partners were processed as independent immigrants or under a discretionary provision for "humane and compassionate" considerations. In 2002, the Canadian Immigration Law was completely revised. One of the major changes was conjugal-partner sponsorship, available for any two people (including same sex couples) who have had conjugal relations together for at least one year. Canadian immigration authorities frown upon conjugal-partners sponsorship for heterosexual couples, and now require the couple to marry before a visa is granted (unless serious reason can be demonstrated why the couple is not yet married).
Colombia This South American country is attracting more mail-order bride agencies in recent years, including ColombianSweethearts, ColombianCupid and AmoLatina] As well, online dating agencies such as Match.com have developed a presence in Colombia. According to immigration statistics from the U.S. Homeland Security, Colombia has ranked in the top 10 of countries since 1999 from which fiancées have emigrated for the United States. As well, the number of Colombians being admitted to the U.S. between 1999 and 2008 using fiancé visas (including children) has increased 321 percent. A dissertation by Jasney E. Cogua-Lopez, “Through the Prisms of Gender and Power: Agency in International Courtship between Colombian Women and American Men,” suggests various reasons for this growth, including continuing cultural inequality between the sexes despite equality being codified in the country’s laws ( honor killings were not made completely illegal until 1980). Because of the large number of Colombians wishing to leave their country by marrying foreigners, a black market for marriages to foreigners has developed, with some people allegedly paying as much as 20 million pesos ($100,000 US) to illegal groups. According to Colombia Decrees No. 2668/88 and 1556/89, passed in 1988, foreigners are allowed to marry nationals in the country provided they supply the proper paperwork, including a birth certificate and proof that both parties are not already married. A notary is required, but because the laws are open to interpretation, the requirements can vary from notary to notary.
Philippines The Philippines prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men. The Philippine congress enacted Republic Act 6955 (the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law) in 1990 as a result of stories in the local media about Filipinas being abused by their foreign husbands. Because of this, Filipinas often use "reverse publications" – publications in which men advertise themselves – to contact foreign men for marriage to Filipina women.
South Korea The New York Times reports, "Every month, hundreds of South Korean men fly to Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Nepal and Uzbekistan on special trips". Although these marriages can be successful, in some cases immigrant wives are mistreated, misunderstood and separated from their Korean husbands. One method men use when choosing young girls as wives is "Like a judge in a beauty pageant, the man interviews the women, many of them 20 years younger than he, and makes a choice". The British newspaper The Independent reports, "Last year it was reported that more than 40,000 Vietnamese women have married South Korean men and migrated there." Cambodian women are also popular with Korean men seeking foreign brides, but in March 2010 the Cambodian government banned marriages to South Korean men. The Korea Times reports that every year, thousands of Korean men sign up for matches with Filipina brides through agencies and by mail order. Based on data from the Korean government, there are 6,191 Filipinas in South Korea who are married to Koreans. After contacting a mail-order agency, the majority of Filipina mail-order brides met their husbands by attending "show-ups," a meeting in which a group of Filipino women are brought to meet a Korean man who is looking for a wife. At the show-up, the Korean man picks a prospective wife from among the group, and in a matter of days they are married. An anthropological study on Filipina wives and Korean men by professor Kim Min-jung of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Kangwon National University found that these Korean men find it difficult to marry Korean women, so they look for girls in poorer countries with difficult economic circumstances The Korean men feel that because of the difficult circumstances from which the Filipina women come, cultural differences and the language barrier, they "will not run away". Further, she said, Korean men characterize Southeast Asian women as friendly, hardworking (due to agrarian backgrounds), "docile and obedient, able to speak English, and are familiar with Korean patriarchal culture". A recent study by matchmaking firm Bien-Aller polled 274 single South Korean men through its website concerning motivations for marrying non-Korean women and found that men choose foreign brides primarily for one of four reasons. "According to the poll, 32.1 percent of the men said they felt the biggest benefit of marrying foreign women is their lack of interest in their groom's educational background and financial or social status. The next best reason was their belief that foreign brides would be submissive (23 percent), make their lives more comfortable (15.3 percent), and that the men would not have to get stressed about their in-laws (13.8 percent)."
Violence Against Foreign Brides in South Korea There have been several murders of mail-order brides in South Korea. "On May 24, 2011, a South Korean man stabbed his Vietnamese wife to death while the couple’s 19-day-old baby lay next to her. The man, a farmer, had been matched up with his foreign bride through a broker. In 2010, another Vietnamese woman was killed by her husband a week after they were married. In 2008, a Vietnamese woman jumped from an apartment building to her death after being abused by her husband and mother-in-law." In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.
Turkmenistan On June 4, 2001 Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov (also known as Turkmenbashi) authorized a decree that required foreigners to pay a $50,000 fee to marry a Turkmen citizen (regardless of how they met), and to live in the country and own property for one year. Authorities indicated that the law was designed to protect women from being duped into abusive relationships. In June 2005, Niyazov scrapped the $50,000 and the property-owning requirements.
United States Due to stringent U.S. immigration laws, there have been adaptations of the law and immigration process to provide regulation over immigration flow into the country, and protection for brides once they arrive. “In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act.. Section 652 of this legislation specifically addresses the mail-order bride industry.” Congress found the following: There is a substantial ‘‘mail-order bride’’ business in the United States. With approximately 200 companies, an estimated 2,000 to 3,500 men in the United States find wives through mail-order-bride catalogs each year. However, there are no official statistics available on the number of mail-order brides entering the United States each year. The companies engaged in the mail-order-bride business earn substantial profits. On January 6, 2006, President George W. Bush signed the "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005" ( IMBRA) as part of the H.R. 3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. The requirements of the law are controversial, and some commentators have claimed that it presumes that American men are abusers. In enacting IMBRA, Congress was responding to claims by the Tahirih Justice Center (TJC), a woman's advocacy group, that mail-order brides were susceptible to domestic abuse because they are unfamiliar with the laws, language and customs of their new home. The TJC insisted that special legislation was needed to protect them. The TJC asked Congress to consider several notable cases mentioned in the Congressional Record. Critics of IMBRA claim that the TJC failed to ask Congress to consider the relative amount of abuse between mail-order-bride couples and other couples (including the thousands of spousal murders that occurred in the US over the past 15 years). Two federal lawsuits (European Connections Tours v. Gonzales, N.D. Ga. 2006; AODA v. Gonzales, S.D. Ohio 2006) sought to challenge IMBRA on constitutional grounds. The AODA case was terminated when the plaintiffs withdrew their claim. The European Connections case ended when the judge ruled against the plaintiff, finding the law constitutional regarding a dating company. On March 26, 2007, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper dismissed with prejudice a suit for injunctive relief filed by European Connections, agreeing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and TJC that IMBRA is a constitutional exercise of Congressional authority to regulate for-profit dating websites and agencies where the primary focus is on introducing Americans to foreigners. Additionally, the federal court specifically found that: "the rates of domestic violence against immigrant women are much higher than those of the U.S. population". The judge also compared background checks on American men to background checks on handgun buyers by stating, "However, just as the requirement to provide background information as a prerequisite to purchasing a firearm has not put gun manufacturers out of business, there is no reason to believe that IMBs will be driven by the marketplace by IMBRA".
Violence against mail-order-brides in the United States In September 2003, 26-year-old Ukrainian engineer and mail-order bride, Alla Barney, bled to death on the floor of her car after her American husband, Lester Barney, 58, slashed her throat in front of the couple’s four-year-old son Daniel. Lester fled with Daniel from the scene in the parking lot of the boy’s day-care center. After an Amber Alert was triggered, he turned Daniel over to a friend and was taken into custody by police. Alla had been granted a restraining order against Lester a few months before, and had been given temporary custody of Daniel. Anastasia King, a young woman from Kyrgyzstan, was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Washington State in December 2000. At age 18, Anastasia received an email from a 38-year-old Seattle man, Indle King, from a mail-order-bride website. He flew to her country, and they were married soon after. Two years later, after considerable strife, Indle wanted another bride. He was allegedly unwilling to pay for a divorce, so he ordered a tenant in their Washington home to kill Anastasia. Weighing nearly 300 pounds, her husband pinned Anastasia down while the tenant strangled her with a necktie. Both were convicted of murder. King’s previous wife (whom he had also met through an IMB) had a domestic violence protection order issued against him, and left him because he was abusive. Nina Reiser was a Russian-born and -trained obstetrician and gynaecologist. She was murdered by her husband Hans Reiser, a businessman and computer programmer whom she met after placing an ad in a mail-order bride catalog. She had a restraining order against him during their divorce proceedings. Nina was reported missing on September 5, 2006. That month Hans was detained by Oakland police due to suspicions surrounding the disappearance of his wife, and was later arrested for suspected murder. On April 28, 2008 Hans Reiser was found guilty of first-degree murder, and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. On July 7, 2008 Hans led Oakland police to his wife's remains with an agreement to be charged with second-degree murder instead.
Violence against mail-order husbands by mail-order brides in The United States In 2002 Tessie Buhawe Spotts (a native of the Philippines) was charged with the poisoning murder of her husband, Alfred Spotts, in Newberry, South Carolina. The couple met through an international magazine advertisement.
Legal matters for mail-order brides in the United States Marriage agencies are legal in almost all countries. On Jan 6, 2006, the United States Congress enacted H.R. 3402: Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. This law requires certain actions prior to selling a foreign woman's address to a US citizen or resident, including:
The man must complete a questionnaire on his criminal and marital background.
The seller must obtain the man's record from the National Sex Offenders Public Registry database.
The questionnaire and record must be translated into the woman's native language and provided to her.
The woman must certify that she agrees to permit communication.
A lifetime limit of two (2) fiancé(e) visas is imposed, with a waiver required for the approval of any subsequent fiancée visa.
Visa regulations
In order to bring a spouse into the United States, Form I-130 must be filed (an immigrant petition on behalf of a relative). After that, a K-3/K-4 V-1/V-2 Entry Visa for Spouse must be filed. The Immigration and Nationalization Service advises that “in some cases, it may be to a couple's advantage to pursue a K-1 fiancee visa before getting married. In other cases, applicants may find that it is more cost effective to get married abroad and then apply for an immigrant visa overseas. In many cases, the K-1 visa application process takes just as long as the immigrant visa process”. Couples must remain together at least two years. “Despite well over 2,000 mail-order marriages a year, there is no information on the amount of mail-order brides entering the US. The purpose of this law is two-fold: to protect the safety of mail-order brides and to prevent fraud”. 11.
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RULES TO FOLLOW TO AVOID INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE AND DATING SCAMS
" 1. DO NOT sent money to any girl you have never met, are not in love with, or engaged to.
2. If you find yourself about to send money to a foreign girl you haven't met, are not in love with and not engaged to, PLEASE REVIEW RULE NUMBER 1!! Foreign women DO NOT EVER fall in love through correspondence and DO NOT EVER come to visit a total stranger on a tourist visa.
3. DO NOT send money to any girl you are writing to for internet support. (Depending on the agency's specific policies, it may be necessary to pay THE AGENCY for correspondence services like Express Mail or translations BUT always do so having researched the agency with reliable referrals.)
4. DO NOT expect to buy a girl's love with expensive gifts or cash. Too many young girls join agencies to get in on the kind of cash their girl friends have gotten from a foreign boy friend. Too may foreign men shell out thousands of dollars to foreign super-model wannabes thinking their working their way toward a lifetime of " I Dream of Jeannie" only to get dumped completely before the first kiss. DO give modest gifts, flowers, candy etc. to her and her family once you've met and fallen in love. My idea of a modest gift is anything up to $ 100. Cosmetics, clothing, small jewelry, nice wine, Godiva chocolate.
5. DO NOT buy your girl a cell phone, home computer or English lessons unless engaged.
6. DO wait until you girl's arrival in this country before you buy an expensive engagement ring. It should be fine to present you foreign fiancee with a modest engagement ring before her arrival in your country.
7. DO realize most scamming foreign women couldn't care less about foreign citizenship in your country. If they're not in this for a husband, they're probably in it for the money. The one's looking for a husband will ask you for love, attention, friendship, support, kisses, hugs and intimacy. The one's looking for money will ask you for-well, MONEY!! Again, remember-when we become engaged, married and beyond our foreign women will be able to spend money on necessary things (foreign women are really quite frugal you'll find) and on the occasional toy for their child or gift for their family back home. If you are smart and want your girl to be happy-DO NOT try to restrict your foreign bride to some kind of allowance you wouldn't give your 12 year old. BAD IDEA!
8. DO NOT expect any foreign girl to come here and visit you before you have met, courted, fallen in love and become engaged. Know you will ultimately have to get on the plane and go yourself if you are going to find HER!
9. DO NOT FALL IN LOVE WITH OR FILE A FIANCEE VISA FOR ANY WOMAN WHO HAS NOT DEMONSTRATED A TRUE ATTRACTION AND HEALTHY AFFECTION FOR YOU.
10. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED, DO AN INTERNET SEARCH FOR YOUR FOREIGN GIRL'S NAME TO SEE IF ANY OTHER MEN HAVE POSTED INFORMATION ABOUT HER. VISIT ANTI-SCAM SITES AND/OR READ RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON THE TOPIC TO INCREASE YOUR AWARENESS OF POSSIBLE RED FLAG BEHAVIORS." 12.
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