Booneville Democrat Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:07 PM PST
LITTLE ROCK The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the state Department of Human Services decision to terminate the parental rights of an Arkansas man who was serving in the Army in Iraq when his wife’s boyfriend severely injured his 5-month-old son.
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Navajo adoption raises questions
Valley Courier Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:29 PM PDT
ALAMOSA An attempt by foster parents to terminate parental rights and adopt a half-Navajo child has resulted in a jurisdictional question in the Alamosa County Court: Does the case stay in the Alamosa District Court or should it be moved to the Navajo Nation’s Tribal Judicial System?
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DADS and MOMS PAC, Plan to attend. Take a look at the Fathers video. Blue October will play in Royal Oak. Click on the press release to preview the video. We need a volunteer to introduce the band. THU, 13 OCT 2011 James Semerad DADS and MOMS PAC 6632 Telegraph Road, Suite 110 ( phone: 248-467-1204 www.dadsmomspac.org info@dadsmomspac.org From: acfc [mailto:info@acfc.org]
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Dr. Phil Show to Feature Male Victims of DV |
Dear Jim Semerad, Stop Abusive and Violent Environments is pleased to announce that the Dr. Phil Show will be featuring a program devoted to the topic of male victims of domestic violence. The program will be aired in mid-September. The show will feature SAVE spokesman Philip W. Cook and several male victims of partner abuse. The decision to devote a program to male victims followed Dr. Phil McGraw's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 13, 2011 - see SAVE's July 25 press release: For more information on how domestic violence programs discriminate against male victims, see SAVE's Special Report: http://www.saveservices.org/downloads/Domestic-Violence-Programs-Discriminate-Against-Male-Victims SAVE applauds the Dr. Phil Show for its recognition and support of all victims of domestic violence. Sincerely, teri
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Are You a Victim of Paternity Fraud? We Want to Know About Your Case–Please Click Here.
Fathers and Families has helped introduce two new paternity fraud bills (SB 375 and SB 377) into the California legislature, both sponsored by Senator Roderick Wright (D-Inglewood).
There are many reasons to support these bills, including fairness for the men targeted by paternity fraud. But there are also compelling medical reasons to combat paternity fraud. In our official support letter for SB 375 and SB 377, Ned Holstein, M.D., M.S., F & F's Founder and Chairman of the Board, wrote:
Current California law declares that there is a compelling state interest in determining paternity for all children. SB 375 would instead declare that there is a "compelling state interest in determining biological paternity for all children." Current California law allows minors to sign paternity judgments without parental consent or legal counsel. SB 377 would prohibit this practice, which currently leads to many errors in assigning paternity.
Speaking as a physician and a Harvard-educated public health specialist, I'm writing to you because I believe SB 375 and SB 377 are important steps towards recognizing and promoting the medical importance of correctly identifying a child's paternity…
Medical schools and medical journals continuously urge physicians, particularly pediatricians, to investigate their patients' family histories. The U.S. Surgeon General has launched a major national initiative (https://familyhistory.hhs.gov) to encourage all American families to learn more about their family health histories.
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, "Knowing your family history can help your doctor predict your risk of developing diseases like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer." This is not possible when the wrong man is identified as the father of a child.
Fathers and Families has many supporters within the medical community. Fifty of our physician supporters have agreed to be listed as endorsers of the following statement:
As physicians, we agree with the U.S. Surgeon General and the National Institutes of Health that good patient care includes accurate family histories. For this reason, we endorse the principle of employing reasonable means, including DNA testing, to accurately determine children's paternity.
Fathers and Families' full SB 375 and SB 377 support letter and the list of physician signatories can be seen here.
H.R. 2790, The Child and Family Services Extension and Enhancement Act
Posted by: "Leonard Henderson" leonard@familyrights.us
H.R. 2790, The Child and Family Services Extension and Enhancement Act
Introduced August 2, 2011
H.R. 2790 would amend part B of title IV of the Social Security Act
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OP_Home/ssact/ssact-toc.htm
to extend the child and family services program through fiscal year 2016.
Tell your Representatives to VOTE NO on
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
H.R. 2790 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/112_HR_2790.html
Read the entire Bill http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.2790:
We believe this is one of the "Great Grandmothers" of
the Child Abuse Industry that destroys families on the
slightest pretence.
We believe this is one of the huge hoses siphoning off
money from the Social Security system, and we believe
MUCH of the money is going into FRAUD.
Our figures show that anywhere between $300
Billion and One Trillion Dollars a year (or more) is
going down this rat hole, depending on how much of the
downstream damage you include.
See Full Story at AFRA Activism http://familyrights.us/activism/hr_2790.html
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Hello, I am hoping you can pass the study information below on to your members in case they are interested in participating, or allow me to pass it along on the listserv. This research will help us to better understand the needs of fathers and stepfathers, who are a very under-studied group. Most people enjoy participating and find the project interesting. Thanks so much for your help! I am a graduate student at the University of Michigan in clinical psychology. I am writing you today in hopes that you might be able to help me with a research study that I am currently running. The research study is designed to look at issues that fathers and stepfathers face. For this study, I need fathers and stepfathers to complete a 15-20 minute online research survey. Participants will receive $7 in the form of an amazon.com gift card for their participation. Here is the link to the survey: http://umichpsych.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eqFHvGAWGk7Z0i0 If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Thanks, Danielle Shapiro, M.S. Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology Department of Psychology University of Michigan 2248 East Hall |
Have we created a Matriarchy that is bankrupting nations, abusing children?
The new feminism (second wave [the radicals]) who have to be a part of everything male while acting in a misandric fashion are creating a sadistic Matriarchy across the globe. If Men and women split everything 50/50 and women get 50% of the man's 50 and 7/8ths of the remaining twenty five percent as special entitlements that equals 97.25% - maybe that is why females make the majority of retail purchases.
I can envision men reading this crossing their legs, wringing their hands uncomfortably almost whining: I hope they read the rest of this, check out the links, STOP, breathe and then reflect: the truth is in the studies. We have for decades lazily subscribed to urban myth even though lies have been proven and dispelled: Warshak
Apparently the Jewish community is concerned with a dwindling male membership The end of Jewish Men are not the Protestant and Catholic Communities facing the same situation?
Not all single mothers are sadistic but images of Britney, Lindsey and Casey should wake us up a little simply look up female violence on You Tube . "`Oh say it is not true" exclaim the gentlemen twisting in their seats, perhaps, but this material is not made up Bringing Attention to Abuse By Females it is true Google has tried to censor such material as hate speech preferring homosexual friendly comments (sorry their editorial preference and a true statement simply ask bloggers).
All mothers probably are not that violent despite the ones we have seen grabbing their children by the arm in the grocery store, we do know (even if we are afraid to discuss it) at least some moms utilize the electronic babysitter, we have been talking about it for decades, but could it lead to this: Should parents of obese kids lose custody?
· Essential There are only about one hundred and six entries there
You could also try Research there are only thirty-eight hyper-linked references there.
The Public Broadcast System actually airs programming that touches upon religion, last weekend I listened to a Catholic Bishop lamenting the injury upon all of those poor families that the current budget debacle will cause. I am certain the Bishop truly had in mind social injustice to less fortunate people _ I truly believe the Bishop had no conception at all he really is lamenting a minor loss in funding for the enabling of single mother homes whilst depriving children of their fathers.
There is no logic in promoting Fatherhood whilst denigrating Fathers. There is no logic in promoting a social system that separates children from their fathers whilst costing America three hundred thirty-six billion dollars annually Sex, money…and national bankruptcies.
Perhaps no one really cares enough to have read this far, or someone is yawning, or instead of twisting in their seat someone has urinated, can we seriously imagine grown adults so afraid of women, there are afraid to read this?
Mothers are sacred, mothers are scary, what am I thinking, well I am not the happiest camper in the entire world but I am not alone; Mother's Day 2011: not so Purdy – Americas's PBS documentary, Mother, mother, where are you?, Another Broken Heart truth to tell this is but a minor glimpse of the anecdotal evidence.
As the men continue to cringe I can imagine someone uttering a derogatory remark. Do we even know how to educate males STOP, please do not be so sure about yourself, have you read anything found here: Michael Gurian , any of these Books for Fathers .
Long letter, nothing is simple, our children deserve their Fathers, our Boys deserve to be treated for who they are, our Congregations, Synagogues and Parishes deserve participation from both sexes.
New Ohio Abortion Legislation: Fathers Will Have Final Say
http://x.mensnewsdaily.com/2011/07/new-ohio-abortion-legislation-fathers-will-have-final-say/
July 2, 2011
By Jeffery M. Leving
Legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives (House Bill 252) requires written consent from the father of an unborn child in order to perform an abortion. The bill will put to test the “it’s my body, it’s my right” notion of pro-choice activists by adding the rights of the father of the unborn child into the equation. Ideally, the decision of abortion should be a consensus between both parents, with both parties being involved in any decisions regarding the child.
This is a significant legal and social issue where parental rights are heavily unbalanced due to the fact that a father plays no role in a matter as critical as his unborn child’s life. If a woman decides to keep her child, the father is required to pay child support regardless of whether he wanted to keep the child or not, or face future jail time. A father currently has no say. Alternatively he cannot opt-out of parenthood, but a woman can: She can do so by abortion.
Under the Ohio Bill, a woman must have written consent from the father; if a woman is claiming rape, she must file a police report, provide other court documents or an official complaint of the incident. If the woman chooses to undergo an abortion in this case, the physician must have “reasonable cause” to believe the woman’s claim of rape and thus, perform an abortion. In cases where the father may be unknown, a list of all potential fathers must be submitted to a physician. They will all be contacted and summoned to a paternity test. If the father is not found, no abortion can be performed. The bill would turn abortion without a father’s permission or naming a “false biological father” into a first-degree misdemeanor with a maximum $1,000 fine. A second occasion of providing false information would be considered a fifth degree felony.
“When the fetus is viable, no person shall perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman without the written informed consent of the father of the fetus,” the bill text reads.
State Representative John Adams says that the bill was not written to cause controversy. He says that it is important that both parties who created the unborn child have a say in whether or not the pregnancy is terminated. “Since the father will have the responsibility of child support, he should have rights regarding the birth or destruction of the fetus,” according to veteran matrimonial attorney Anthony D’Agostino (http://dadsrights.com).
Recently, an instance regarding an alleged lack of father notification in regards to an abortion has commanded national attention. In New Mexico, a man lashed out at his ex-girlfriend by means of an anti-abortion billboard after the ex-girlfriend had allegedly undergone an abortion procedure without any notification to the purported father. The billboard depicts a 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant with text that reads, “This Would Have Been a Picture of My 2-Month Old Baby If the Mother Had Decided Not To Kill Our Child!” The case seems more about the ex-girlfriend’s privacy than about father’s rights.
Regarding the paternal veto or override of an abortion, that is a decision which should be eventually decided in Ohio. This important decision can set legislative precedent for every other state in our nation.
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This is not a thread, this is a CALL TO ACTION, send out emails to people other than on this email, no time to preach to the choir or resume old animosities: PLEASE PASS THE WORD FOREWORD, we all have separate email lists, separate blog spots.
A library of bibliographic citations and a library of empirical evidence at Antimisandry dot com http://www.antimisandry.com and the New West Michigan DADS Blog http://www.westmichigandads.wordpress.com . Although I could duplicate both libraries at other blogs and websites I am still building the current two sites, with an absolute abundance of information, it may take another year to get both bibliographic and empiric citations current with all available resources.
It is about time to put these resources to use: remember when we felt fortunate to have material from Braver or Horn or a book by Rhodes or Amneus. Now we have more than I could list in a month.
Most of us know how to inspire the old school campaign, most of us know where all of the hatchets are buried, most of us are most probably tired of the slow pace: Let's get 'er done!
Even if we all end up posting in the same places it will only build interest and momentum. Dr. Ed Bartlett just released an E-lert today, all of these items have a synergy.
I know it takes time to post or write.
I face this whole situation everyday with my youngest, I am living it still.
Copy and paste, who cares, we have three hundred million people to reach in the US, seven billion on the globe. This is a time urgent situation, act now or lose another decade.
here is a brief starting place:
Can we start spreading the word? We can not mitigate misandry without changing public perception.
Daylight has a post here certainly something we can all lend a hand in even our guests:
Another Single Mother Columninst Gets It Wrong
Penelope has a post here:
Should parents of obese kids lose custody?
BobV01 has a post here:
The one hundred billion dollar man
Percy has a post here:
and another here:
Education gap swept under carpet
There are many pages at AM with similar material, some old posts with newer versions of the same concept, some are new.
The US is facing a debt ceiling and the EU yesterday voted to bailout Italy, this is the time when all of this material should be cross posted everywhere AND when each of us should be writing to clergy, legislators and public policy makers constantly
[ http://antimisandry.com/campaigns-news/write-letter-41252.html#post265859 ]
Re: write a letter
United States Senators
United States House of Representatives
Directory of Representatives · House.gov
Like it, reddit it cross post, write letters to the editor or to television programs THIS IS THE TIME TO BE HEARD. For our future, for our children, for our economic future let Fathers be Dads, LET US BE HEARD
Bob van Ee, Executive Director West Michigan DADS
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http://www.westmichigandads.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F857C19DF628DB60!133.entry
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We have been working diligently on this film and have added more to it, including about Parental Alienation and the simple fact that the custodial parent has more rights than the non-custodial parent.
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Candidates Pawlenty, Huntsman Tell F & F Activists 2 Parent Involvement After Divorce Is Crucial
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F & F member Jeff Oligny (right, near cameras) asks popular presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty (left) about family court reform at June 12 campaign event. |
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F & F member Lorraine Corbeil (left), a grandmother, tells Pawlenty (right) 'all parents should have shared parenting.' |
A contingent of Fathers and Families' Election 2012 Campaign activists attended New Hampshire GOP events over the weekend and asked presidential candidates Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman about shared parenting.
F & F member Jeff Oligny asked Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, a popular presidential candidate, about family court reform. Oligny, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, told Pawlenty:
In today's family law system, most non-custodial parents only get to spend a few days a month with their children. This is devastating for a lot of children who love both of their parents and want to spend time with them. How do you plan on fixing it?
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F & F activist/NH House member Jeff Oligny (left) with Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman (right) at June 10 event. |
Pawlenty replied:
[O]ne of the most significant determining factors of how children are going to do in school and more broadly in life is the degree of involvement and engagement of their parents in their lives. We want to encourage that to the fullest extent possible. And so the laws…as they relate to the relative balance between custodial and non-custodial [should reflect] that we want both parents engaged and productive…in their children's lives.
Pawlenty, who finished tied for 2nd in a recent New Hampshire GOP Straw Poll, was also questioned on the subject by F & F member Lorraine Corbeil, a grandmother. Corbeil told Pawlenty, "We feel that all parents should have shared parenting. Mothers and fathers," to which Pawlenty replied "Right," and noted "a lot of states have made some progress about that." He also explained:
I know you [have to] make sure you have the best interest of the child, first. In some cases one of the parents has some other life issues that you have to put into the equation, too.
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Pawlenty's response is reasonable–certainly we acknowledge that there are situations in which shared parenting is not appropriate, particularly if there's solid evidence that one of the parents is abusive or is unfit due to substance abuse problems, mental illness, etc.
F & F activists also took family court reform to another Republican presidential hopeful, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (pictured). At a June 10, event Oligny asked Governor Huntsman:
I think we would all agree that children value their parents probably more than anything in the world. And unfortunately, non-custodial parents in this country only get a chance to see their children a few days a month. And this is devastating for a lot of children who love and want to spend time with their family…what do you think you might be able to do about it?
Huntsman replied:
I totally agree with your assessment on the need for children to be able to bond and interact with their parents. When they're there, they do better. And when they are estranged, they do worse. There is something about a parent figure that is so critically important and indispensable in the lives of families.
I'm somewhat familiar with some cases that have played out in Utah where fathers in particular were estranged from their children. Unfortunately, caught up in the legal system, caught up in bureaucracy, we did what we could do. But I understand where you are coming from and if you have any specific solutions on how we ought to be looking at this issue, I'd love to hear them.
Pawlenty and Huntsman certainly stopped short of specifically calling for family court reform, in contrast to what Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Gary Johnson told F & F activists over the past couple weeks. However, we commend both of them for publicly recognizing the importance of two parent involvement in children lives after divorce or separation, and expressing interest in how to reform the system to promote it.
To learn more, please visit Fathers and Families' Election 2012 Campaign.
To watch videos of the various candidates' remarks, visit http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=78374271&msgid=1012426&act=YLE9&c=386094&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffathersandfamilies.
Viewpoint: Legal system forces divorced dads out of kids' lives
www.mlive.com
By Keith Ledbetter It's often been said that nothing is more American than
motherhood, apple pie and Chevrolet. This commonly used phrase reflects the
reality that even in an era of inclusion, acceptance and equality in
American culture, fatherhood can't compete with the sanctity of motherhood.
As w...
Let's get HB 4778 a hearing in the Michigan Judiciary Committee.
Darrick Scott-Farnsworth
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Father's groups argue court system biased against dads
The State Journal-Register Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:29 PM PDT
Keith Sergent of Springfield has been fighting for eight months for the right to be a father to his 16-month-old daughter, Avery. He says he's dealing with what many father’s rights advocacy groups argue is a court system that is biased in favor of mothers.
Darrick Scott-Farnsworth
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/17/fathers-children-benefit-from-shared-custody/#.TfvaCNBB5QA;email
Given that most Americans believe children should have a relationship with both their mother and their father, one has to wonder why state legislators and family court judges think children need only a mother and a check following divorce ("Dad, mom in home is essential, Americans say," Nation, Friday).
The answer, basically, is that legislators and family court judges follow feminist jurisprudence, mothers' wishes, the money from divorce lawyers and the domestic violence industry rather than the best interests of the child. Research indicates that having parents divorce is stressful for children but that having the government intervene to divorce children from their fathers makes developmental outcomes even worse.
Specifically, social-science research clearly shows that the children of divorce fare best when the structure of the post-divorce family resembles most closely the structure of the intact, married family, which is divorce law based on the presumption of equal, shared parenting, and fare worst when the father-child relationship is severed or marginalized by family court awards of physical custody to the mother with visitation to the father. This scenario represents 85 percent to 90 percent of divorces. Most critically, the children of divorce want equal shared parenting following divorce.
Taxpayers have a vested interest in shared, equal custody following divorce. Research demonstrates that fathers have a far greater impact on attenuating negative adolescent and young adult developmental outcomes and high-risk sexual, drug, alcohol and criminal behaviors than do mothers. Attenuating negative outcomes not only saves taxpayer dollars but also saves children emotional pain.
I urge all Americans to take a moment to think about the children of divorce, think about contacting their elected officials and consider asking them to serve children, not special interests.
Emeritus professor of psychology
Florida International University
Miami
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Shared parenting legislation 'not in the interests of children'
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-parenting-legislation-children.html
Darrick Scott-Farnsworth's comment:
Bad science on child custody.
Another individual liberty that the collective claims to have power over is our individual right to parent our child. People, please start looking at what your politicians are saying about protecting your children from you and think about how they are willing to do this without clear and convincing evidence. After pondering this I’d like you to question yourself on why it is that you keep voting for these people who make laws that violate the right of others to their property and then violate our right to parent our children. Does it not follow, these people think that the collective has the right to “excess profits” why not the right for them to determine “the best interest of the child”?
*Op Ed: Group rights are a dangerous illusion *
"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more
justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be
justified in silencing mankind."- John Stuart Mill
*By R. Lee Wrights*
BURNET, Texas (June 12) - It is popular and expedient in politics to
champion taxpayer rights, state's rights, patient rights, gay rights,
people-with-disabilities rights, even animal rights. Name any group, or make
one up, and undoubtedly someone will advocate for that group's "rights." The
problem is - there is no such thing as "group rights." Group rights are an
illusion conjured up by politicians and special interests to increase their
influence and power.
The simple, basic truth is that all rights belong to the individual. You are
born with your rights and no power on earth can take them away from you. You
cannot give your rights away. They end only when you die, and not a
split-second sooner. Individual rights cannot be divided or multiplied; and,
individual rights are superior to any other claimed rights.
Individual rights mean you can adopt whatever culture you want and live any
lifestyle you choose to live. We have the individual right to worship or not
worship whatever god we want without interference from anyone else, so long
as we do not interfere with the rights of other individuals to do the same.
It is the fundamental and universal concept recognized by our nation's
Founders. As a result of this recognition, the superiority of individual
rights became the foundation of the United States government.
The view that our rights are granted to us by the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights is equally incorrect and dangerous. As important and eloquently
written as these two documents are, they grant us nothing. America's
founding documents merely recognized, and seek to guarantee the recognition,
of the individual human rights shared by all of mankind. The Bill of Rights
does not declare human rights are valid from a set date forward. The Bill of
Rights is a proclamation to the world of something that has always been… the
sanctity, superiority and supremacy of individual human rights. The
Constitution is to serve as a warrantee of those rights, not a grant of
privilege that allows us to embrace and enjoy them.
Individual rights are the "self-evident truths" Thomas Jefferson wrote about
when he penned the words in the Declaration of Independence that "all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness." He was not expressing any new ideas or concepts. He was telling
people something that had always been. Individuals have rights by birth that
cannot be given or taken away.
Two people, 200 people, 2 million people, even the world's populations
combined do not have more rights than one person. There are no such things
as "state's rights," there are only human rights possessed by people
individually from birth. A "state" may have more influence, more power, and
theoretically, a greater ability to protect individual rights. There is
certainly strength in numbers, as they say. Labor unions have proven that
numbers mean power in politics. But no group of individuals has more rights
than any one individual, nor do groups acquire special rights by being
organized.
Power and rights are simply not the same thing. The individual right to
freedom of association allows people to band together to protect their
individual rights. Such associations can become agencies designed to
control, limit, restrict or even abolish the individual rights of people who
don't belong to that group. However, even if they are successful, any law
that suppresses the rights of individuals can be nullified by the people.
As Jefferson wrote, "...law is often but the tyrant's will and always so
when it violates the rights of the individual." It makes no difference if
that tyrant is a single person or a group of people united under common
cause. The rights of the many are never greater, can never be greater, than
the rights of the few, or even the one. If we accept the illusion of group
rights, we also accept the legitimacy of tyranny. That is why when it comes
to human rights, no number is greater than one.
*R. Lee Wrights, 53, a libertarian writer and political activist, is seeking
the presidential nomination because he believes the Libertarian message in
2012 must be a loud, clear and unequivocal call to stop all war. To that end
he has pledged that 10 percent of all donations to his campaign will be
spent for ballot access so that the stop all war message can be heard in all
50 states. Wrights is a lifetime member of the **Libertarian
Party< http://lp.org/ >
** and co-founder and editor of the free speech online magazine **Liberty
For All <http://libertyforall.net/>**. Born in Winston-Salem, N.C., he now
lives and works in Texas.*
*Lee Wrights for President* <http://www.wrights2012.com/>
Contact: Brian Irving, press secretary
*press@wrights2012.com*
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