12.31.08
No arrest for offences with maximum penalty of 7 yrs or less
NEW DELHI: Ever since he flung his shoes at George Bush on December 14, Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi has been in custody. But if something like that were to happen here with the Indian president, the assailant might not even be arrested. For, assaulting the President is among a range of offences that are no more covered by the existing arrest regime thanks to amendments recently passed in Parliament.
The eight Bills passed by Lok Sabha on December 23 without a debate in 17 minutes included a radically revamped Criminal Procedure Code, which divests the police of the usual arrest powers in all cases where the maximum possible sentence is seven years or less. Since the CrPC amendment Bill had been cleared earlier by Rajya Sabha on December 18, it is all set to pass into law once President Pratibha Patil gives her assent.
Instead of arresting the accused, the police will now be obliged to issue him a “notice of appearance” for any offence punishable with imprisonment up to seven years, which — as it happens — is the maximum penalty prescribed under Section 124 of Indian Penal Code for assaulting a President.
Seven years or less is also the maximum penalty for a host of other offences, including attempt to commit culpable homicide (Section 308) or robbery (Section 393), voluntarily causing grievous hurt (Section 325), cheating (Section 420), outraging a woman’s modesty (Section 354) and death caused by negligence (Section 304A).
The notice of appearance casts a duty on the accused person to appear before the police and “cooperate” with the investigation. It is only if he fails to comply with the terms of the notice that the question of arresting him will arise.
Under the new law if authorities are still particular about arresting somebody in the first instance, then the police will specially have to give reasons for that in writing in court.
This is how the new law liberalises the arrest provisions:
* Section 41A (1) says that in all cases punishable with imprisonment up to seven years, “the police officer may, instead of arresting the person concerned, issue to him a notice of appearance.”
* Section 41A (3) conveys the import of this far-reaching devise by saying, “Where such person complies and continues to comply with the notice, he shall not be arrested in respect of the offence referred to in the notice unless, for reasons to be recorded, the police are of the opinion that he ought to be arrested.”
* Section 41A (4) explains the remedy that is available to the police whsen the accused does not honour his part of the deal: “Where such person, at any time, fails to comply with the notice, it shall be lawful for the police officer to arrest him…”
Since notice of appearance is now stipulated in the investigation of all offences punishable with imprisonment up to seven years, arrest will cease to be an inevitable fallout for accused persons in a wide variety of cognizable cases, including even those that were traditionally classified as “non-bailable.”
On an offence such as kidnapping, for instance, the police cannot any longer use arrest as a first resort as the offence is punishable under Section 363 with imprisonment up to seven years. Similarly, if a public servant induces a woman in his custody to have sex with him, the police cannot straightaway arrest him as the offence is punishable under Section 376B with imprisonment up to five years.
The more serious IPC crimes on which the police is exempt from issuing notice of appearance to accused persons include murder, rape, dowry death, waging war on State, robbery or dacoity with deadly weapons and kidnapping.
The introduction of notice of appearance is part of a larger attempt to raise the bar for arrest. In case of offences punishable with imprisonment exceeding seven years, the police can arrest merely on “credible information” or “reasonable suspicion”.
But in the case of offences punishable with imprisonment up to seven years, the police will also have the burden of recording the reasons for being satisfied that such arrest is “necessary.
12.30.08
Nun attacked Sister Abhaya, says CBI
The article clearly shows how cruel women can be. Yet our benign lawmakers believe all women are born in Raja Harishchandra’s family who never lie and are very docile and innocent. And in that belief they keep exploiting the men. What a shame!!!
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CBI told a court hearing the Sister Abhaya murder case in Kochi on Monday that it was Sister Sephy, who was arrested along with two other priests, who hit the nun on the head with a hand-held axe.
CBI said Sister Abhaya was attacked because she saw Sister Sephy in a compromising position with the two priests at the Pius X Convent hostel in Kottayam district.
Sister Abhaya fell unconscious after the nun assaulted her, hitting her twice behind the ears and a third time on her head, CBI told the court of the chief judicial magistrate. The nun was afraid that Sister Abhaya would reveal her illicit relations with the priests – father Thomas M Kottur and father Jose Poothrikkayil, CBI said. Sister Abhaya, according to the investigating agency, witnessed the intimate acts when she came to drink water early in the morning.
CBI said the priests then dumped her body in the convent well where she died of drowning. Soon after, the trio also started spreading canards to establish that it was a suicide, it added.
The court extended the judicial custody of the three accused till January 12 after CBI submitted that some external forces were still trying to influence the case and mislead the investigators.
12.28.08
Helicopter Parenting breeds Legal Terrorists
I remember when I was in schools we were taught theorems in Geometry and each theorem had a corollary derived from it. The theorem acted as the theoretical mandate of a mathematical proposition while the corollary was the practical implementation of the same. Chanced upon a similar social theorem today in the Times of India which talked about “Helicopter Parenting” which is defined as follows:-
What is helicopter parenting?
It’s a colloquial term that refers to a style of parenting which involves paying extremely close attention to children. It’s also called overparenting. It gets its name from the fact that parents hover over children like a helicopter.
Nowadays we come across of a lot of false and frivolous reasons for breaking marriage by girls and they do so by filing a false dowry harassment case on their husbands and in-laws in a bid to not only break a marriage at free will but also encash it as per their whims and fancies at the cost of innocent husbands and in – laws. Such practices have been aptly termed by the Honorable Supreme Court of India as “Legal Terrorism” and girls and their parents indulging in such extortionist methods have been aptly termed as “Legal Terrorists” as they create terror via legal methods.
One may wonder the contextual relationship between “Helicopter Parenting” and “Legal Terrorists” which is explained as under.
Marriage is considered to be a very sacrosanct social institution in India since time immemorial and has been bestowed the honor of being the unit of social and familial life. And to make it work is no cakewalk and requires a lot of sacrifices, patience and understanding from both the parties. But nowadays girls, ill – tutored by ill – designed ‘Women Empowerment’ schemes by vested interests, have of late started losing all patience in a marriage and want to call it off for all sorts baseless and frivolous reasons.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is one element of the game that has been never explored and that is parenting of girls by parents. Nowadays parents just do not train their girls and this also reflects an over – protecting attitude from parents who pamper their girls to such an extent that they are totally intolerant to any adjustment and cite even a small effort for that as ‘harassment’ and hold the husband and in – laws responsible for it and ruin their lives. Also as mentioned in the various news articles, Parental Interference is a big contributor to marriage breaking, a poisonous trend is in the setting.
As the name and definition of “Helicopter Parenting” suggests, it is a style of parenting wherein the parents hover over their offsprings, especially girls, even after their marriage and keep interfering in their marriages. Due to their constant interference there is a rise of tension in the marriage. By way of their habit of being overprotective of their daughter, they want to influence every decision the husband takes and do not even refrain from (mis)using the law to create undue pressure and bingo!!! We have a brand new spanking Legal Terrorist formed.
All socio – political and legal issues apart, faulty upbringing and “Helicopter Parenting” is one of the root causes of the degrading marital health of the society and the laying of the foundation of the age of breaking families. The choice is left to the society, whether it wants to continue with “Helicopter Parenting” and breed more and more legal terrorists to devour the society as a cancer or take corrective steps and prevent a social catastrophe.
12.26.08
Two commit suicide succumbing to wife’s torture
In one incident wife picked up fight for silly reason and went to her sister house, depressed husband ended his life in Hongasandra and in another incident wife’s behavior of leading luxurious life was the reason for another suicide by husband who was taxi driver.
Incident 1
Balu (35) resident of Hongasandra was a painter. He has been married for past 12 years and had two children.
Both husband-wife frequently indulged in fights. Two days before Balu’s wife had gone to her sister house after a quarrel with her husband. The disheartened Balu went to his mother and told that he was deeply hurt by this incident and wanted to end his life. His mother consoled and advised him not to do so.
But, after returning to his house, after 10:30pm Balu had tried to commit suicide by hanging himself, but fell down as the rope got cut. Due to respiration problem he passed away after few minutes. When wife returned back on Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 pm she gave complaint to police regarding husbands suicide.
Incident 2
A.M Jagadish Singh (45) committed suicide. The reason of this incident was illicit behavior of wife by which she wanted to lead a lavish and luxurious life made the husband to end his life by committing suicide.
Both husband-wife always indulged in quarrel. On Wednesday morning when the wife went to drop her daughter to tution, the husband has committed sucide.
12.24.08
Why Governments Love Feminism
Feminism has very little to do with equality between the genders, and it also has very little to do with the rights of women.
First and foremost, feminism is about various groups seeking to acquire power and money, and to build huge self-serving empires in which millions – literally millions – of people nowadays have a vested interest – a vested interest that is, in fact, highly detrimental to those societies in which these people operate.
To see how their game is played, I just want you to imagine a society – a somewhat idealised society – wherein the women are happy to spend their days being closely associated with their homes and their children, while the young men and the fathers are reasonably happy to troop off to the workplace – wherever this might be.
And, further, I want you to imagine that most of the people in this society are mostly quite content with their situation.
In other words, it is a reasonably happy place.
And now the question that I want you to contemplate very deeply is this one.
How can government – and government workers – benefit from having to exist within a society of people who seem to be quite happy and at peace with each other?
On what grounds can the government say to the people, “You need more government. Give us more tax money.”
Well, clearly, in such an idyllic society, it would be very difficult indeed to persuade the people to part with more of their own resources – acquired through their own labours – in order to fund ‘more government’.
However, if this reasonably happy society can be disrupted by some force or other – some force that induces ‘disharmony’ within the population – an increase in crime, say – then the government will find it much easier to extract a bigger piece of the society’s pie. For example, if there is an increase in crime, the people will far more readily agree to fund a bigger police force. If the men and women start fighting against each other, and begin to split apart, with married couples getting divorced, then the government can justify extracting further resources from the people in order to create a larger social services workforce to look after the women and children who are now on their own.
And the point that I am trying to get across here is this.
Governments benefit not by the people being at peace with each other, but by them being at war with each other in some way.
Of course, governments can benefit from many other things too, but the point here is this. Governments clearly benefit from what I shall henceforth simply call ‘disharmony’ – societal disharmony; such as crime.
And because governments have massive power in comparison to ordinary individuals, they will tend to use this power to create more and more societal disharmony – with much success. Of course they will do this. Why? Well, because governments, and millions of government workers, benefit from disharmony, and they are not going to use their huge collective force to undermine themselves – which reducing ‘disharmony’ would do.
At the very least, government workers do not want to lose their funding, their jobs, their security, their pensions etc etc etc. And so they need to be perceived to be needed.
Better still for them, are bigger empires with bigger salaries, and much more status and power.
After all, in this respect, they are no different from anyone else!
And, collectively, by hook or by crook, these government workers can, and will, create the most monumental force in order to get these various benefits for themselves; a force that the people simply cannot counter.
Indeed, it would be bordering on the preposterous to believe that such an enormous body of government workers would not exert a force in a direction from which they, themselves, would benefit.
After all, these people are not gods. They are human beings!
In a nutshell: These government workers want bigger empires with bigger salaries and bigger pensions. They want more status and more power. And, collectively, they will exert such a huge force that no-one can actually stop them from getting these things; as the monumental growth in government over the past 120 years or so in the west has clearly shown. (Central governments have grown more than one hundred-fold over the past 120 years.)
Now, because the main aim of feminists is to create as much disharmony as possible between men and women in order to fund their own empires, governments just love them; because, remember; for governments, the more disharmony, the better.
So let us return to our rather over-simplified society, and see what happens when married couples with children within this reasonably-happy place start more often to divorce and to separate.
Well, typically, the men will go off and live on their own somewhere, but they will continue working. The women, however, will have to choose some combination of going out to work and staying at home with the children.
If the women decide to stay at home, then they must be given a source of income by the government. This means that the government must take away money from others in order to fund them. And, already, this means creating a whole system of laws involving lawyers, judges, administrators, social assessors, financial offices and various allied bureaucratic systems.
In other words, divorce and separation provide a whole plethora of benefits for governments and their workers.
Furthermore, of course, no-one in the population wants to see women and children left destitute, and so government now gets the benefit of some further popular support for its endeavours. Thus, the government also wins on this score.
And, of course, the women who are put into this position with their children are now at the mercy of the government.
In other words, they become dependent on the government; which is also great for government.
“If you women do not vote for us, then you will get a smaller income from the government!”
Now, of course, women who have divorced – whether or not they have children – might instead decide to go out to work; in which case the government wins yet again – because it now has more workers from whom it can take money through the tax system.
In other words, encouraging divorce and separation is a winning strategy for government.
Indeed, it is win-win all the way.
And, most importantly, this remains true whether or not the women have children, and whether or not they go out to work. It is the growing division between men and women that is the key to the government’s winning strategy.
In summary, therefore, government has an enormous amount to gain by increasing the divide between men and women, because this enables government workers to justify the creation and the controlling of many large empires, they can more easily extract higher taxes, they can tax more people, they can make more people dependent upon them, and they can gain themselves some extra popular support.
But this is just the beginning.
Many, many further benefits accrue to the government when the close relationships between men and women are broken apart. For example, the negative social consequences of not having strong fathers around their children are positively huge. These tend to impact most directly on boys, but the repercussions reverberate across the whole of society – for decades. For example, youngsters – both girls and boys – without fathers in the home are far more likely to …
… live in poverty and deprivation, … be troublesome in school, … have more difficulty getting along with others, … have more health problems, … suffer from physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, … run away from home, … get sexual diseases, … become teenage parents, … offend against the law, … smoke, drink alcohol and take drugs, … play truant from school, … be excluded from school, … behave violently, … give up on education at an early age, … make poor adjustments to adulthood, … attain little in the way of qualifications, … experience unemployment, … have low incomes, … be on welfare, … experience homelessness, … go to jail, … suffer from long term emotional and psychological problems, … engage only in casual relationships, … have children outside marriage or, indeed, outside any partnership.
Indeed, a whole cascade of social problems – i.e. a great deal of ‘disharmony’ – is generated by the effects of youngsters not having fathers around.
But, clearly, governments benefit fantastically from this; because governments can use these enormous problems to justify even further increases in both taxes and power.
After all, the people want to be protected from all the negative social consequences of fatherlessness – and, of course, the victims themselves could clearly do with a bit of extra help.
And so governments can justify (and, hence, finagle and extract) much more money from the people in order to acquire more police officers, more prison officers, more probation officers, more welfare officers, more lawyers, judges and other courtroom staff, more psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, doctors, nurses, social workers, remedial educationalists and, indeed, even more street cleaners! – and, of course, many, many more bureaucrats to monitor and to exert control in all of these areas.
And the increases in taxes and power that governments can suck up to themselves as a result these negative social consequences really are huge.
And, if you can believe it, I have not yet even mentioned all those lawyers, judges and bureaucrats who are part of the divorce system itself; together with all those professionals who have to get involved in matters to do with alimony, child custody and child support. Indeed, even if we forget about all the numerous social and personal problems mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, the divorce industry itself is, nowadays, a multi-billion dollar industry.
Furthermore, of course, as far as life in the later years is concerned, breaking down the relationships between men and women ensures that old people and sick people are less likely to receive help from those who are close to them, because, quite simply, fewer people end up being close to them. And this often means that these vulnerable people are either abandoned to waste away on their own, or they are put into care homes and hospitals – often run by government – where the staff tend to treat them with, at best, clinical disinterest. (Indeed, a recent report in the UK stated that the most common problems for old people stem from loneliness and from living alone.)
Thus, one can summarise the situation as follows. Breaking apart the relationships between men and women creates an absolute gold mine for government. From childhood to old age, relationship breakdowns cause numerous problems for the whole of society, but they give rise to numerous benefits for government.
Now, all this is not to say that everything that the government does is bad – particularly at the micro level.
Not at all.
For example, it is clearly the case that some men and women do need to be kept away from each other. We do need our governments to help women and children who are on their own. We do need care homes and hospitals for old and sick people. We do need police officers and prisons. And so on.
But none of this alters the fact that the more do the relationships between men and women break down, the more does the government benefit. And it benefits hugely – as per above.
And you really would have to stretch your credulity to ridiculous levels to believe that the millions of workers who are employed by government are beavering away to destroy the huge ’social/personal/legal/financial industries’ from which they, themselves, have so much to gain.
Furthermore, we have clearly seen western governments – particularly left-wing governments – using their enormous power over the years to encourage people’s relationships to break down.
Indeed, these governments have left almost no stone unturned in their quest to damage people’s relationships.
They have spent billions of dollars flooding the population with false statistics concerning ‘relationship abuse’ of various kinds, with the legal language being purposely distorted to make out that women are perpetually being violated by men in some way. For example, they have fudged the definitions of various types of ‘abuse’ to such a ludicrous extent that, for example, criticising a woman’s mother can nowadays be seen as an act of violence – ‘domestic violence’ – calling someone ‘dear’ as an act of sexual harassment, and engaging in consensual sex which is later regretted as an act of rape. (The idea behind all these things is to stir up both hatred towards men and a fear of men, and it is also designed to encourage as many women as possible to make false allegations of ‘abuse’.) They have spent billions of dollars funding numerous victim groups that seem to spend more time dispensing anti-male propaganda than helping any alleged victims. They have engaged in and/or funded numerous media campaigns designed to portray all men as being likely to be abusive towards women and children in some way. And governments continue to offer to women numerous incentives – financial and otherwise – to make false allegations.
They have spent even more billions on ‘welfare’ to make men as redundant as possible when it comes to women and the family. They have purposely debased and feminised the educational system so that our young men achieve much less educationally than do our young women – something that stymies future relationships on a massive scale given that women tend to prefer partners who are more educated than them. They have been discriminating against men in the workplace at all levels (to reduce the value of men) under the spurious grounds that women themselves were being discriminated against by men. They have reduced the pay of men in numerous jobs controlled by government simply on the grounds that men tend to be drawn to those jobs more so than are women, and they have done the reverse for those jobs to which women tend more to be drawn. (The ridiculous argument currently being tested out on the population is that, “productivity, hard work and profit are ‘old-fashioned’ ways of assessing what someone should be paid.”) They have corrupted the law to such an extent that all men are now at the mercy of their partners when it comes to false allegations of ‘abuse’, child custody issues and ridiculously high alimony payouts – the idea being to tempt women into breaking their relationships because they have little to lose and often very much to gain by doing so – and, of course, to make men fearful of even embarking on any long-term relationships. They have corrupted the justice system to such an extent when it comes to the relationships between men and children that it is now extremely unwise for men to have anything to do with children.
And, in our schools, children even as young as eight are being indoctrinated with the feminist-inspired nonsense that men have oppressed women for thousands of years.
Indeed, it is also now being argued – with much success – that intimates should treat each other as if they were complete strangers. For example, Stranger Rape is now said to be just as bad as Relationship Rape. Photographing your own child being breastfed is said to be producing child pornography. On and on it goes.
And it seems quite clear to me that the ultimate aim is to force people to treat each other as if they were complete strangers by putting them at some kind of significant legal risk if they do not do so.
Indeed, I cannot think of any law enacted over the past three decades that impacts upon people’s close relationships – either directly or indirectly – that has not been designed to encourage those relationships to break down.
And, essentially, governments have been breaking down the relationships between people so that they can elbow their way deeper and deeper into the connections – social, personal and financial – that once bonded people together.

Furthermore, if one stands back to look at the overall picture that has been emerging over the past few decades, two things become very clear.
Firstly, the motives of government workers in this area have precious little to do with increasing the welfare of the people. On the contrary, these motives are often malicious, and they are mostly to do with government workers seeking to serve themselves in some way by causing ‘disharmony’; with the phrase “divide and rule” encapsulating much of what has been going on. (Indeed, one only has to look at how western governments have been at the forefront of encouraging fatherlessness – and, hence, the numerous consequent social problems mentioned above – over the past four decades to see just how malicious they have been.)
Secondly, western governments are now so large (employing directly or indirectly some 20% of the entire population) that government workers, themselves, now represent the most enormous political force for ‘big government’; which, essentially, means left-wing government. As such, we really no longer live in ‘democracies’.
For example, when left-wing US politicians like Joe Biden pump billions of dollars into groups associated with VAWA, he is not just handing enormous amounts of our money over to services that provide aid to victims of domestic violence. He is, in fact, handing out this money to numerous groups of government workers across America who rely on this money for their jobs and their pensions, and who will, unsurprisingly, give their political support to Joe Biden.
And, of course, there are millions of other government workers (school teachers, social workers, academics etc etc) who are also going to support left-wing government for precisely the same self-serving reasons.
(As just one example of this, academics who rely on government funding are going to drum up evidence to support the government’s point of view, or their funding is going to disappear.)
And, just as importantly, these millions of workers will also provide and promote political propaganda that is designed to serve themselves; with these government workers now so entrenched in almost every area of life that their propaganda nowadays pours into the minds of the population from almost every information source imaginable – even at school.
(Furthermore, of course, many billions of these dollars go directly into providing social welfare of some kind; thus ensuring that the millions of people who benefit from this will vote for left-wing government.)
The upshot is that the population is mostly nowadays very heavily infected with the view that policies that promote bigger and more powerful government are the best policies for the people; and so, of course, the people tend to vote for them.
But the people are being hoodwinked, because they are not being told the truth. They are being deluged with self-serving propaganda from many self-serving sources, and the evidence that these sources are deceiving them on numerous fronts, and in very many ways, is just irrefutable.
Indeed, I am writing this during a time in which the entire world is facing an enormous economic crisis, and the world’s leaders have just decided to bail out various banking and financial systems with two trillion dollars of taxpayer’s money. Now, apart from the huge burden that this will place on the taxpayers, and on future taxpayers, the economic downturn is going to result in the loss of thousands of jobs, the pensions of those who work in the private sector are going to be slashed – for many years to come – and many businesses are going to flounder and fail.
But if you look at what most of the politicians on both sides of the political spectrum are doing in order to help alleviate this situation, there is one feature that stands out rather starkly. And it can be encapsulated in a phrase that has been used recently by politicians time and time again across the western world: “We must not cut public services in these most difficult times.”
Well, this is just another way of saying that, no matter how bad are the economic circumstances for everyone else, government services (i.e. government, and government workers) must not be allowed to be affected by them. In other words, government and government workers must be insulated from all the economic problems. It is those who work outside of government who must bear most of the costs.
In other words, government workers now clearly form a new protected and privileged aristocracy – an aristocracy that is to be protected even from the most devastating of economic circumstances.
No matter how big the crisis – and the current one is huge – their jobs and their salaries must not be cut, and their pensions must be guaranteed through thick and thin – regardless of the cost to everyone else, and regardless of how much everyone else is struggling to make ends meet for themselves, for their families, and for their futures.
But who can oppose this enormous beast of government? – this self-serving organism?
After all, the government has hundreds of billions of dollars at its disposal – every year – vast bureaucratic empires that invade every corner of our lives, and millions of organised people working for it. Furthermore, it is the government that makes the laws.
So, who can compete with it?
And who can compete with the vast resources of government when it comes to ‘debating the issues’ and putting across a particular point of view?
Well, there is no other organism that comes even close to being able to compete with this governmental beast.
A hundred years ago, western governments were very small indeed when compared to today. And, loosely speaking, the right represented the wealthy and the ever-growing number of powerful industrialists and businessmen, and the left represented the ordinary working people and the impoverished.
Those on the right reckoned that the people would be better served by allowing them to get on with the job of creating wealth and power, while those on the left reckoned that government should intervene more directly, and more often, to help those who were the most in need.
Translated into today’s world, this could be loosely described as the big, powerful businesses being represented by those on the right, and the ordinary people themselves being represented by those on the left.

But times have changed quite dramatically since those far-off days; and there is now a new kid on the block.
Government itself.

And this new kid is now far more powerful than ‘the businesses’ or ‘the people’ – by a very long way.
Indeed, not only does this new kid have the muscle power, the organisational power, the financial power and the legal power to get what he wants, he also has the propaganda power to persuade the people of his point of view.
And it is absolutely clear that this new kid has been using this enormous power to serve himself.
Just take a look at how western governments have grown over the past 100 years – or even over the past 10 years. Look at the ever-increasing tax take. Look at the ever-increasing numbers of people employed by government. Look at the thousands upon thousands of laws, regulations, restrictions and directives that are annually being imposed by western governments on their own peoples.
These governments just grow and grow and grow – not only in terms of size, but also in terms of power and wealth. And they are infiltrating themselves into every aspect of people’s lives; controlling, monitoring, regulating, directing, stipulating, coercing – always to an ever-greater extent.
But who can stop them?
For example, who can compete with the billions of dollars that the left-wing Joe Bidens of this world pour into left-wing causes, left-wing jobs, left-wing benefits and, hence, into left-wing propaganda and left-wing votes for even bigger government?
Who has the money to compete with this?
No-one, and no organisation, has a hope of competing with such a force.
Indeed, and for example, despite the fact that Americans are renowned the world over for their almost manic belief in small government and individual liberty, this has not stopped their federal government from growing and growing and, indeed, from walking all over them.
And the reason for this is because western governments have grown far too powerful.
But who can be surprised by this given that millions of government workers with huge resources and millions of benefit recipients will tend to promote their own interests rather than those of ‘business’ or ‘the people’?
A hundred years ago it was all different.
The government tax take was miniscule, the rules and regulations were few, and the numbers of government workers and benefit recipients were both small, and so, for example, when the government handed out money to its own workers in order to pursue some agenda or other, the efforts of these workers, their ability to influence people, and the number of votes that the government workers, themselves, were able to cast in elections were all relatively small in comparison to what ‘the people’ could do in such areas.
But now, these government workers have around 20% of the vote, and they also have resources that are absolutely unassailable.
Indeed, in order to drum this point home, just imagine if you had one billion dollars annually to distribute to whomsoever you wished. And, further, imagine that, every year, you distributed this one billion dollars to people whose work supported the men’s movement. You can surely imagine just how large would be the impact that the men’s movement would then be able to make, right across the country.
Just one billion dollars will do!
But the Joe Bidens of this world nowadays distribute hundreds of billions of dollars every year to government workers and to benefit recipients who are bound to support ‘the government’ in order to benefit themselves.
(And, of course, there is no other group that can possibly compete with a left-wing government’s power to, quite frankly, ‘bribe’ a few million voters with benefits.)
And the upshot has been that western governments have been able, very successfully, to bamboozle the public into believing in – and ‘voting’ for – those ideas and notions that, in fact, are mostly of benefit to government, rather than of benefit to the people; the purposeful breaking down of relationships being just one example of this.
Indeed, when it comes to men’s issues, we have seen western governments of all persuasions lying, fudging, deceiving, ignoring, blocking and cheating in so many areas – always in a direction of causing more problems for men, women and children when it comes to their relationships – that it is simply impossible to escape the conclusion that damaging people’s relationships is a major aim of western governments.
And the reason for this is very clear.
As I mentioned earlier in connection with our fictional idyllic society, damaging the relationships between people creates an absolute goldmine for western governments. It is a perpetual lottery jackpot win.
And, of course, there are many other ways through which governments can encourage relationships to break down – ways that go beyond those to do with close personal relationships. For example, encouraging excessive immigration causes relationships within communities to become far more tenuous and uncertain. And, of course, the government will benefit from this as a result of the increasing disharmony and uncertainty that this brings about. Furthermore, the government will benefit whether the immigrants are productive or disruptive. If they are productive, the government gets more tax dollars. If they are disruptive, then the government can justify more taxes and more power to deal with the ensuing problems.
Thus, excessive immigration is also win-win all the way for government.
And then there are the various laws to do with hate speech and with ‘offending’ people. These tend to distance people from each other because these laws encourage certain types of people to use the law in even the most trivial of circumstances.
The whole idea is, clearly, to break apart as much as possible any strong sense of cohesion and/or security that people might have with each other.
Indeed, the ways in which this perpetual lottery jackpot win can be collected is becoming increasingly recognised and appreciated by governments all over the world – which is why feminism, and feminist policies, are now being taken up so avidly by them – and so quickly.
Time and time again, you can hear one politician promoting some new feminist-inspired notion in the USA on Monday, and by Wednesday the same notion is being proposed by another politician somewhere in Europe or Asia.
And this is because seasoned politicians and activists know very well indeed from where their power comes. And millions of them now know that every notion – every rule, regulation, policy or law – that encourages people’s relationships to break down always brings them extra benefits; whereas anything that will encourage people to stay close to each other is likely to push government – and, hence, government jobs – out of the window.
A good example of this can be seen in my piece entitled Feminists Destroy the Planet wherein it is noted that the UK’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, has introduced a whole raft of policies to help reduce carbon emissions in order to combat global warming - allegedly, “the most important issue of our times” – but not even once does he address the fact that the increasing tendency for people to live alone is having a large negative impact on the environment – in many ways, not just through the resulting higher carbon emissions.
And the reason that Gordon Brown will not do anything to encourage people to live together – either through his rhetoric or through his policies – is because he knows full well that the more do people live securely together, the less will they want government.
And this is the real reason why western governments love feminists and feminist ideology.
In summary:
1. Relationship breakdowns are a goldmine for government and for government workers. Feminism is, therefore, an ideology that serves the interests of western governments and their workers very well indeed.
2. Governments are now hugely powerful, with politicians able to give billions of dollars every year to millions of government workers who will be very keen to promote their own services – which they will be able to do with much success – particularly if they adopt the feminists’ main aim of breaking apart people’s relationships.
3. It is inconceivable that these government workers will not use their enormous influence to serve themselves.
4. It is absolutely undeniable that western governments and government workers have, over the years, poured an enormous amount of their energy, and expended billions of dollars worth of our resources, on creating and promoting laws, policies and propaganda that are specifically designed to make close personal relationships difficult to create and difficult to maintain.
Indeed, the UK’s current deputy leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, has openly stated that marriage is ‘irrelevant’ to public policy, and she has actually described high rates of relationship breakdowns as a ‘positive development’. (Like most feminists, she believes that stable inter-gender relationships oppress women.)
And the only realistic conclusion that one can make is that, when it comes to people’s relationships, western governments and government workers are purposely seeking to damage these relationships as much as possible.
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1. MRAs often suggest that there are other factors that cause feminism to be so prevalent nowadays; e.g. corporations, chivalry, a desire (no matter how misguided) for ‘equality’; and so on.
Most of these suggested factors do, indeed, have something to do with the promotion of feminism.
But the point of my piece is to demonstrate that unless one understands just how monumental is the power of the state these days, and just how positively enormous are the benefits that accrue to those in charge of this monumental power if they do promote feminism, then, in my view, one is probably missing the most important factor of all.
2. MRAs often find it difficult to believe that government workers could be so malicious toward their own people by supporting policies and notions that will harm them.
And there are two things to be said about this.
Firstly, there is no question in my own mind that many of the people at the top of government and at the top of government departments are malicious – coldly, callously malicious. And they often know full well that what they are doing is harming their own people. But this is of no real significance to them. In other words, they do not care. Their only concern is to serve themselves in some way.
A good example of this is the way in which so many politicians and government workers – who should know better – have avoided discussing the issue of fatherlessness for so long despite the heavy toll that it has clearly been taking on so many people and on society as a whole.
This heavy toll clearly does not matter to these people.
And why should it? After all, it gives them jobs, money, pensions etc etc etc
Another example would be the way in which educationalists have chosen over the years to teach children to read using one of the most inefficient methods imaginable – a method that was known to disadvantage both our boys and our girls when it came to reading, but which was also known to disadvantage the boys much more. It is inconceivable to me that educationalists in the higher echelons were unaware of the degradation in reading skills that was taking place over the years as a result of using inefficient teaching methods (i.e. the ongoing degradation was being covered up) and it is also inconceivable to me that they were unaware that their teaching methods were, in fact, inefficient; particularly for the boys.
In my view, the method of teaching reading – together with a host of other educational initiatives that have taken place over the years to the detriment of boys – was actually designed to undermine the educational progress of the boys relative to the girls.
And if this is hard to believe, then please bear in mind that these same educationalists, who were for decades so concerned about the lack of female role models in the workplace, are now saying that role models for boys in the educational setting (e.g. having more male teachers in schools) are of no importance at all.
Furthermore, here in the UK, we have had both left-wing politicians and left-wing teachers recently saying that nothing should be done to help our boys catch up with the girls. Even the so-called Equal Opportunities Commission is saying this.
And the question that I keep asking myself is how much more evidence will it take before MRAs wake up to the fact that western governments – particularly left-wing governments – are doing all that they can to undermine their own societies – particularly their own men – and that they are doing this to benefit themselves.
Now, I could give you many more examples which – to my mind at least – provide incontrovertible evidence that many of those people who work for government are malicious and self-serving, but I think I will stop here, and just point out that the lack of concern of western governments over fatherlessness and over the poor education of boys cannot be described as anything other than ‘malicious’ when it comes to assessing their true attitudes toward ‘the people’.
Furthermore, the cost to us all of failing to do anything to solve these two particular problems amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars every year across the western world, and it amounts to a huge amount of unhappiness for millions of people.
Governments, however, benefit hugely from these things. And those at the top know very well that this is the case.
(For further evidence that government workers are very often deceitful and malicious, see my piece entitled Do Not Respect Them.)
Secondly, it is also almost certainly true that the vast majority of ‘government workers’ will have no idea what harm they might be causing to people by supporting and promoting ‘government’ – particularly corrupt government; which is what we mostly seem to have nowadays Their views tend to be very restricted, and they tend only to know what they need to know in order to do their own particular jobs.
However, there will also exist hundreds of thousands of workers in the higher ranks who will just push a little bit here and a little bit there in order to gain some advantage for themselves.
For example, senior police officers will wish to impress their political overlords by gaining as many rape convictions as possible. They will want to earn more brownie points by proclaiming hither and thither that more must be done to catch more rapists. And they will forever argue for more and more resources.
And these police officers are not going to admit openly to the public the fact that, in practice, the vast majority of rape allegations made to them are actually false; because to do so would undermine their own positions.
And so across the western world, with thousands of senior police officers wanting to impress their masters, and with thousands wanting more resources for their departments, the effect of them pushing a little bit here and a little bit there (e.g. exaggerating, misrepresenting the facts etc etc) always in the direction of wanting a little bit more for themselves, amounts to a very large force indeed.
And this large force can be so detrimental to society as a whole, or to a particular group within it, that its nature can be very ‘malicious’ even though the individuals who are creating this force (in this case, senior police officers) are not necessarily intending to be malicious. They might simply be serving themselves by, let us say, putting a certain spin on various issues.
In summary; there will be those at the very top who are well aware of the harm that they are causing to people by, for example, knowingly encouraging fatherlessness (i.e. they are malicious) but there will also be hundreds of thousands of people, slightly lower down the chain, who will be pushing a little bit here and there in the same direction (encouraging fatherlessness) simply in order to maintain their empires – the empires that the malicious people above are promoting and funding.
The result is a huge force that is very decidedly malicious.
3. My own view is that if we take a look at the power currently being wielded by government, by business and by ‘the people’ at this moment in time, we will see that ‘the people’ have a very small voice indeed – with ‘men’ having almost no voice at all. And the following graphic probably represents much better than does the graphic above how the forces from these three groups are currently matched.

Government now has the biggest voice, and the people have the smallest. (For the sake of simplicity, I have not mentioned the mainstream media but, by and large, the output from the mainstream media is still very heavily coloured by government and by business.)
Now, given that government mostly serves itself, and given that government has virtually unassailable resources with which to do so, and given that there is, quite clearly, so very much that government can gain (and hold on to) by continually breaking down people’s relationships, and given that we now have so much irrefutable evidence demonstrating quite clearly that western governments are, indeed, doing their very best on many fronts to break down people’s relationships (a ‘positive development’, according to Harriet Harman) it seems to me that MRAs must do their very best to undermine the power of government.
And the simplest way to do this is to support only those politicians who promise unreservedly to reduce the tax take, and to oppose most vehemently those politicians who are likely to increase it.
This typically means supporting the right rather than the left, but, unfortunately, matters are not so simple, because times have really changed. And there are nowadays very few politicians indeed who have much concern for ‘the people’. Those on the left are, in my view, mostly corrupt through and through – always seeking to empower themselves and their cronies through the further expansion and empowerment of government regardless of the cost to the people – and those on the right are very often pandering to the wishes of big corporations and powerful businesses. And so there is no longer any strong voice within government circles that represents real, ordinary people.
And perhaps the most worrying part about all of this is that any politician – left or right – who dares to stand up for ‘the people’ in any meaningful way will be pushed quite quickly into relative obscurity by the other politicians who will be receiving massive support from very powerful brokers whose only concern is to promote the interests of big business or big government.
(For example, if my memory is correct, trades unions representing government workers in America poured some 100 million dollars into supporting Obama’s campaign for the presidency; i.e. into supporting big government.)
And so, all in all, it seems to me that there is no real representation of ‘the people’ within government (and there is certainly no representation of ‘men’ within it) and, further, that any representation of ‘the people’ that occurs outside of government is nowadays mostly swamped by the huge amount of self-serving propaganda (particularly from government workers) that pours out in favour of ‘big government’. And, unfortunately for us, this deluge of self-serving propaganda is coming from people who benefit very handsomely indeed from breaking apart and undermining people’s relationships.
Their overall strategy is, quite clearly, to ‘divide and rule’ …

… which is one of the oldest and one of the most effective tricks to be found in the handbook of those who wish to empower themselves at the expense of others.
4. Given all the above, how can ‘the people’ possibly counteract the huge forces that pour into the political arena in favour of business and in favour of government? And, in particular, how can ‘men’ ever develop any kind of voice at all? – let alone summon up the resources to counter the hundreds of billions of dollars that seem to be set against them every year.
Well, there is only one solution that I can envisage.
And this involves taking over the consciousness not only of those who rule but also of the general population.
And, basically, this means attracting the attention of millions of people and changing their minds.
And this is exactly what sites like MND and Angry Harry are attempting to do.
So, MRAs, please, please, please, give all our men’s websites all the support that you can.
Without such websites, you have not got a hope of ever taking on those huge self-serving groups that seek to profit from all the problems that they, themselves, are causing you.
12.23.08
Domestic Violence claims men too
12.17.08
The facade called Women Empowerment
Women Empowerment, Women Equality, etc. seem to be the buzzwords these days with more and more articles coming about increased awareness amongst women about their rights. Since so many decades we have been hearing of these campaigns and they are still running. Feminists still seem to cry about women rights and women empowerment and women equality. For the past almost three decades women empowerment is happening and crores of rupees are spent on it every year and yet if the need for the same is felt, then either something is wrong with the women or the empowerment.
Whatever be the cause, in all this efforts by the various lobbies and groups, the real cost of Women Empowerment is being borne by men for whenever they try to talk about their problems / rights / issues, they are subdued saying Women Empowerment is more important and their problems always take a back seat when it comes to implementing solutions. And that is the reason in the past 60 years, not a single rupee has been spent for men’s welfare.
One of the most active areas where women equality echoes is the institution of marriage in India. Marriage in India has always been projected as a “necessary evil” for women and in this process it is the men who are made to pay the price and are told to adjust / compromise at all times asking them to do so in the name of Women Equality. So what exactly is this equality, let’s look at it with a few examples,
1. If a wife wants to open joint account with husband’s salary account – then it is her right and she is preventing misuse. On the other hand, if husband wants to open a joint account with his wife’s salary account, he is interested in her money. And he needs to be sent to jail for Dowry harassment.
2. If wife asks his husband to stay away from his parents, then she does not want any interference from in-laws. When husband asks for the same from his wife to keep little distance from her parents he will be thrown out from the House as per the Domestic Violence Act.
3. If wife ridicules the husband for job then she is encouraging the husband to look for high paying job. When husband asks his wife to look for respectable job – this will be termed as mental cruelty and along with husband all his relatives including parents, siblings will be sent behind bars under IPC 498A.
4. If wife demands a car from husband then she is improving the standard of living. If husband says that they should have a car, then he along with his mother and sister will be sent behind the bars and will not be freed till the time he does not prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had not demanded.
5. If wife demands a flat in her name then she is creating security for the family. If husband says that their family should have a flat on joint name then again he is demanding dowry as flat from wife and in-laws to keep his parents and will be booked as offence punishable along with his mother and sister under 498A and the Domestic Violence Act.
6. If wife goes to media / her husband’s office to complain against husband and in-laws she is asking for justice. If the husband defends his point by replying to the allegations of wife then he is defaming the wife and in-laws and as per the Domestic Violence Act he should be thrown out of his own house.
7. When a couple gets gifts during the marriage from boy’s side then it is considered as stridhan and wife has full right on them, whereas if the husband is given some gift from in-laws then it is dowry and he does not have any right over it.
8. If wife asks the husband to cook meals then she wants husband to share household chores, whereas if the husband asks his wife to cook meal or help him in getting food articles from market then he is confronted with an argument that he should have married a cook not a lady wife.
9. If wife demands more conjugal relations with husband then it is her right. If husband wants the same from wife then he is committing marital rape which is an offense punishable with strict imprisonment.
10. If wife stays away from husband due to any dispute or her own wish then she is said to be protecting herself from cruelties of husband and in-laws. If husband stays away from wife to avoid further confrontation and let things cool down then he has deserted his wife and along with him all his family members are sent behind bars without any investigation under Section 498A of the IPC.
11. If wife wants to divorce and husband doesn’t want so it is normally granted happily by court. If husband wants divorce and wife doesn’t want then it is never given by court.
12. A wife can file innumerable complaints against husband, in-laws, and other relatives of husband in Crime against Women Cell including mother-in-law, married / unmarried sister -in laws, kids from in-laws family. Husband cannot file complaints against wife, her parents or relations. There is no Crime against Men Cell. He does not deserve it, he is supposed to be treated like this only tolerating abuse both from the wife and in – laws and abuse in the form of misuse of laws targeted against him.
13. Wife keeps the custody of minor child as she is considered to be the natural guardian / friend of the child. If husband wants to keep the custody of the child then he is said to be depriving the mother and child of each other’s affections.
14. If wife wants to manage the accounts and balances of money then she is a better manager and is concerned about the family. If husband wants to do the same job then he is a spend thrift with no concern about the family.
15. If wife has extra-marital affair then the husband has deprived her of love, affection and other happiness in life, and she will be rewarded for Bigamy as per New Domestic Violence Act. If husband has extra-marital affair he is a womanizer and is guilty of bigamy, and will be thrown out of house and all his bank account will be attached.
16. If wife take some items from home then it is her right. If husband take few items from home then it is a theft and wife does not hesitate to file a case and the system allows the same as well whereas if a husband tries to file a case he is made to run from pillar to post discouraging him to do so.
17. If wife plays with the child and takes the child to her parents place then she is concerned about child’s growth and providing with balanced family life. If husband plays with the child and want to take the child at times to his parents place he is accused of snatching the child from the wife and her parents and is charged with kidnapping.
18. If wife’s parents come and stay with the couple then it is their right. They have given their daughter. If parents of husband come to visit and stay with the couple then they have come to interfere in couple’s life and ask for dowry.
These instances are just illustrative and not exhaustive of the clear and visible existing bias against men which is carried out under the name of Women Empowerment and the women are enjoying it and so they actually never want to achieve true equality. For they know, the day it is achieved, then the Women Pamperment that is happening will stop. For women, women empowerment is a path where the journey itself is more intriguing and fruitful than the actual result and the stakeholders of the system also benefit a lot from this and thus want to carry it on, albeit at the cost of men.
The system and the society are not ready to make absolutely any efforts to stop it or give men their due rights. For they know it is easy to instigate women to take such steps and break their marriages. The more the marriages break, the more consumerism increases as more households are formed. Moreover people, especially women, tend to spend more to overcome a relationship stress. Increased consumerism directly helps the capitalists as their invested money rotates in the market and they gain, albeit at the cost of the society and age old values, morals and the family structure and the institution of marriage. The same money is used to fund various women empowerment schemes and promote anti – male laws and thus it forms a vicious circle which keeps sucking blood from the society and the sleep walking society is breastfeeding the monster by not objecting to the ongoing injustice.
12.15.08
Press Conference addressing large scale suicides of married men
PRESS RELEASE
Sub: Press Release highlighting skyrocketing suicide rates of married men.
Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), an NGO dedicated to promote the cause of Gender Equality and Family Harmony, wishes to conduct this press conference to bring forth alarming rises in suicides and the causes underlying it. Very Recently the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has published the suicide statistics and its analysis for the year 2007 which is available at its website, http://www.ncrb.nic.in.
Some shocking and heart rendering facts have come to light. Over the last year suicides have gone up by 3.8% and by 28% over the last decade (1997 – 2007). Family problems have emerged as the number one cause for suicides attributing 23.8% to suicides. Moreover for 16.6% suicides the causes are unknown. Allocating proportionately from this category for Family problems, the contribution goes up to 27.75%.
Ø The number of suicides committed by married men is 57,593 whereas 30,064 married women have committed suicides which means almost double the number of married men have committed suicides than married women. Also if one goes by the analysis of 2006, 30% of suicides are due to domestic disputes. So in 2006 close to 16500 married men committed suicide directly due to Domestic Abuse. Also there is a 33% rise in suicides in the decade 1996 – 2006. Hence in 1996 around 11500 married men must have committed suicide directly due to Domestic Violence which gives us an average of 14000 per year.
Ø So in ten years (1996 – 2006) 140,000 married men have committed suicide directly due to “Domestic Abuse”. For 2007, the figure works out to close to 16000. Hence in 11 years 156,000 married men have committed suicide directly due to Domestic Violence. Yet the Government does not feel any need to protect these men. The society ridicules these suicides by passing off these men as weak and irresponsible and cites financial reasons as the cause of suicide. On the contrary, for the years 2006 and 2007 as per NCRB, the suicides due to financial reasons are only 5%.
Ø If we compare the suicide rates for married men and married women, then we find that for married men the suicide rate has increased 6 times in proportion to that for women. Suicide rate for married men have increased by 3.87% over last year, whereas for married women the suicide rate has increased by only 0.65% which is a whopping 6 times less than that for married men.
Ø It is also worthwhile to note here that there is a high density of suicides occurring in the age group 30 – 59. 82.7% suicides of men have occurred in these age groups as these are the main years whence a man rears and raises his family by getting married and fathering children. But marriage itself has become so stressful for men that either to live through it or part from it ultimately ends up in their suicides.
However a positive trend has also been noticed in the suicide analysis. In the year 2007 suicides due to Domestic Abuse have reduced by 2.13%. This year also noticed a surge in the activity by Save Indian Family and related NGOs about the ongoing Legal Terrorism and the presence of a support group to help its victims. The efforts done by the 15000 odd members of the NGOs to create awareness about the misuse of Section 498a of the IPC and other marital laws drawn in favor of women and provide support to those men who are falsely implicated in these laws for extortion has worked wonders.
SIFF feels proud to announce that its efforts has saved close to 700 lives that could have been lost due to unwarranted unleashing of Legal Terrorism on innocent Indian citizens. As is evident from the suicide statistics, family problem is the number one killer for men as 57593 married men have committed suicide as opposed to 30064 married women, SIFF feels that men are unnecessarily cornered and thus having no option left they are forced to commit suicide. There is no communication channel provided to men to vent out their problems. Men face emotional castration right from the age of six as they are continuously, routinely and sub – consciously discouraged to express their emotions and feelings. Those who do so are ridiculed as being weak and ‘womanly’.
SIFF has found that by merely providing this communication channel to men who approach SIFF, it has helped them greatly avoid suicides / suicidal tendencies. A communication channel that does not invalidate their pain and grief and does not justify their problems which unfortunately the society hesitates in giving it to them but does expect sacrifices from them in the name of bearing family responsibility and compromise to keep the marriage intact. SIFF has also found that many men develop suicidal tendencies as they are denied access to their children by their estranged wives and in – laws.
Psychologists often put this argument that men do not express yet they fail to observe that men cannot communicate if they are not given that needed channel to communicate. It has been our experience at SIFF and other related NGOs that men do communicate about their problems to us as they get that necessary communication channel. Today in this press conference SIFF urges the society to provide that communication channel to men lest we see rising number of suicides by them every year and surging distrust amongst men for the society and the system.
The Government that gets 82% of taxes from the men does not feel the need to do anything about men. Men are simply left to fend for themselves by the Government and in the name of vote bank the Government turns a blind eye and a deaf ear to the problems of men. SIFF has been creating awareness about the problems men are facing like fear of false dowry cases and losing everything with one false complaint, high suicide rates, absence of protection / shelter from Domestic Abuse to name a few. Unfortunately these concerns and cries have fallen on deaf ears.
Today in this press conference SIFF raises a question to the Government as to what steps has it planned to arrest the surmounting and skyrocketing suicide rates for men in general and married men in particular. In addition to this SIFF would also like to know the views of independent and parallel social agencies like the United Nations, World Economic Forum on such large scale suicides of men.
In light of the above facts, SIFF demands the following from the Government,
- Set up a Men’s Welfare Ministry and a National Commission for Men to study the problems faced by men and provide solutions for them.
- Allocate budget for men’s welfare.
- Make family an issue in the upcoming elections.
- Conduct a national debate on family issues and break down of family system involving various social and international agencies like the United Nations, World Economic Forum etc.
- Form a study circle formed of people from different walks of life especially citizens, members from SIFF and retired judges to study the problems of men, husbands and propose alternative solutions to the same.
- Provide shelter home to men trapped in domestic / partner violence.
- Give unemployment benefits to unemployed men at the rate of Rs. 600 per month till employment.
- Make all marital laws civil and gender neutral in nature.
- Allow men to take custody of their children as a parent and not as a visitor or a weekend TV program.
- Promulgate the concept of shared parenting for erring couples.
- Make divorces quick and easier so that young men and women do not waste useful years in unnecessary litigations.
Save Indian Family Foundation urges the society, the media, the Government and various other social agencies to take note of the alarming suicide rates of men and take necessary steps to arrest it. The society is urged to give men a communication channel, the media is urged to create awareness about it, while the Government is urged to provide men with protection and lastly the social agencies like the United Nations and World Economic Forum are urged to consider suicides of men as part of their study agenda.
Thanks and Regards
Virag
Public Relations Officer
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore
Invitation for Press Conference on large scale suicides of married men
Invitation for Press Conference
To,
Sub: Invitation for Press Conference on Monday, 22nd December 2008 at 12: 30 pm at Press Club, Bangalore
Respected Sir / Madam,
Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), single largest NGO promoting the cause of Gender Equality and Family Harmony, is organizing a Press Conference on December 22, 2008. This press conference is being conducted to address the issue of large scale suicides being committed by married men lately. We cordially invite your media correspondents / cameramen to this Press Conference and grace the occasion. We look forward to your active participation in making the event a grand success.
Thanks and Regards,
Virag
Public Relations Officer
Save Indian Family Foundation, Bangalore
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