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Updated: BAB Letter of the Week By Rick

Barely A Blog, Feminism, Gender, Law

Letter of the Week is a feature I’ll endeavor to keep up on Barely a Blog, depending on reader input. In response to “Run, Little Man, If You Can,” Rick, a long-time reader, shares his agonizing experience:

The “war on fathers” has never addressed the real culprit here: The Family Court System and its unlimited corruption. With the cooperation of the legal and mental health communities, they, daily, separate caring and loving fathers from their precious children. In my case, the mother left with another woman and my child and I were put on therapy. Is this a sick society or what? Furthermore, when I complained to the judge about the therapy, I was put an “anger management,” where they do whatever it takes to turn you into a sissy they can easily manipulate. “False and malicious allegations” is another tool they use frequently to destroy fathers and deny children their right to a loving father.

It’s a very sick society we live in and we want the world to be like us?

—RICK

Update: Rick writes:

Miss Mercer, I am honored to be a weekly recipient of your updates. I’d like to expand on the subject below. It may help someone going through the hoops to eliminate some of the unwanted and unpleasant headaches, like doing your homework before you hire an attorney. It may save you tens of thousands of dollars.
Thanks again, and keep up your great work.

The “War on Fathers” is a subject I personally know very well. As a divorce man and another victim of the Family Courts, the legal and the mental health communities and everybody else in this “boys club,” committed to destroying families. Regarding “false and malicious allegations” against a father, which they bring with the sole purpose of getting the upper hand in custody cases and ruining the father’s life in the process: For 8 long years and after seven very unethical attorneys, I proved my innocence and was able to see my precious daughter once again. Today, she is a very well balanced young lady (let’s hope it stays that way), soon entering high school, a straight-A student and very proud of her daddy.

Last year, for a school project, she wrote an essay on “My Daddy’s Courage”. When I read it, it broke my heart. NO CHILD ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD should ever be exposed to what our precious children are exposed to in America. It’s a sin, a disgrace and we should ALL be ashamed for it. The mother, at the time, was deeply involved with a married woman and moved over two hundred miles away, taking my daughter with her, without a Court Order. Needles to say, her move was later approved by the Courts, without taking into consideration the fact that we had signed a “Joint Custody Agreement” a month earlier. How can a woman inflict so much pain and sorrow on her own flesh and blood is way beyond me. Unfortunately, they do so, with the full cooperation of the Family Courts System, the legal and mental health communities. May God have mercy on us.

—Rick
South Florida.

Coughing Up Some Coulter Fur Balls

Ann Coulter, Barely A Blog, Media

“Ann Coulter, I imagine, considers herself an individualist, not a collectivist. Which is why her views on grief perplex. About certain September 11 widows Coulter has written the following: “These self-obsessed women seem genuinely unaware that 9-11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them.” (Emphasis added.)

Nations don’t grieve; individuals who incur loss do. The nation, following September 11, can legitimately lay claim to the confusion that comes with a loss of a previous sense of security and to the sorrow that accompanies the deaths of compatriots. However, only the immediate relatives of the victims were in fact bereaved. The nation might be shocked, reeling, but only the families of the dead were utterly devastated. With every day that dawns, they alone face the kind of pain the rest of us cannot fathom…

The idea that people not directly affected by a tragedy ought to perform the rites reserved for the bereaved conjures the image of a tribe in the paroxysmal throws of a grief ritual. It’s inspired by the equally primitive specter of Oprah’s televised group therapy sessions, in which every individual’s pain is equally weighted. ..”

My complete column, “Coughing Up Some Coulter Fur Balls,” is here. A section of the column will be familiar to Barely-A-Blog readers.

I must say that the accusation that Coulter is doing things for money is idiotic ad hominem–attack a person’s unknown motivation. It’s an invalid argument. Today on “Hannity and Colmes,” a Democratic strategist alleged just that. What’s more, she carried on as though she had made a startling discovery. How did she know Coulter had written the book only to make money (not that there’s anything wrong with that; in fact that’s one excellent reason to write a book)? Well, the fool replied, “It’s number one on the New-York Times’ Best-Sellers List.” You can’t beat that for a circular argument. She knows Coulter intended only to make money, because she is making money.

Letters from the Racist Liberal Left

Barely A Blog, Ethics, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Racism

It’s natural to be more inclined to critique the current political guard and its unquestioning supporters. Since we labor under a terribly corrupt Republican administration, one tends to forget what members of the “egalitarian” left are like. I’ll continue to post reminders of the sweep of their prejudice as I get them.–ILANA

From: sshaun002@sympatico.ca [mailto:sshaun002@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 7:16 PM
To: ilana@ilanamercer.com

Hello Mrs. Mercer,

In your world, big business should go unregulated…the American South was not as racist as Hollywood portrays it, gays should be concerned about privacy issues rather than being accepted by society, technically proficient music is better than music that sounds good; white men are an oppressed minority.

You’re married to a White man. You’ve had to modify your position to make it palatable to your own existence….You would do well in the new White Nationalist movements if only you could be White (perhaps you can pass as one now with your new surname?).

Shaun