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British High Court Expands ‘Domestic Violence’ to Include Shouting and Criticizing
Robert Franklin, Esq.
fathersandfamilies.org
January 27, 2011
It’s hard to overstate the reach of the British Supreme Court’s ruling in this case (Daily Mail, 1/27/11). It was decided on Thursday and from that date all aspects of domestic violence law have been completely changed.
Prior to the court’s ruling, the word “violence” in British law relating to domestic violence had been interpreted to mean physical assault. Thursday’s decision expands the definition of “violence” to include an astonishing and entirely unprecedented range of behaviors.
- Raising your voice at a husband or wife, or a boyfriend or girlfriend, now counts as domestic violence under the landmark Supreme Court judgment.
The decision also means that denying money to a partner or criticising them can count as violence and bring down draconian domestic violence penalties from the courts.
The case arose when a woman applied to a local council for housing separate from that of her husband. She did so based solely on her claim that he was violent toward her. But when the council learned that he had never been physically violent, it turned her down and she appealed.
The Supreme Court’s ruling means that British taxpayers will get to provide housing for the woman, not because she’s in any physical danger; no one, not even she, claims that. No, the reason she gets a new place to live is that she says her husband shouted at her, a claim he denies. She also said he didn’t give her money for household expenses.
Assuming that he did what she claims he did, he engaged in domestic violence according to the Supreme Court. And after Thursday, so does every other person in England.
Five judges on the court led by Lady Hale seem to have been feeling in the dark for a justification of their decision. On one hand they consulted a dictionary and found that its definition of “violence” includes both physical assault and “extreme fervor, passion or fury.”
That a court should base its opinion on a definition as loose as that beggars reason. A child could imagine a hundred instances to which the words “extreme fervor, passion or fury” would apply that couldn’t conceivably be called domestic violence (or could they?). Sexual passion, excitement about a football game, anger at the government apparently could all qualify.
Perhaps aware of the carte blanche they were giving to courts across the land in future cases, the judges groped for another reason for such a radical change in British law. And, contrary to their consulting the dictionary, they declared that whatever we may think a word’s meaning is, it changes over time and so, irrespective of what Parliament intended and irrespective of what people generally understand the word to mean, it now means something else. And that ’something else’ happens to be what the court said it meant on Thursday. Friday? That may be another matter.
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Serious Assault On 59-yr-old Woman – Blood Everywhere
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Police Use Helicopter to Stop Twig Collector
UK Express
September 2, 2010
POLICE were yesterday accused of wasting public money by using a helicopter to track down a man taking firewood from a forest.
Gareth Pope, 41, spent Bank Holiday Monday collecting twigs with his wife and two children.
But an over-zealous forest warden spotted him at Chinnor Hill Nature Reserve in Oxon, and confronted him before dialling 999.
Dispatchers scrambled a £500-an-hour police helicopter from RAF Benson, Oxon.
When Mr Pope arrived home in Princes Risborough, Bucks, the chopper was hovering overhead.
Two Thames Valley police officers then arrived to inform him he would not be arrested since no offence had been committed.
Sales director Mr Pope said: “It’s outrageous – talk about the police wasting our money. This is so trivial.”
Thames Valley Police defended its use of the chopper, saying it was the “nearest” police vehicle available.
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Puppy-Throwing Girl Caught in Bosnia
9MSN
September 3, 2010
Police in Bosnia say they believe they have located a young woman shown in a video throwing puppies into a river.
Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno say they have found the girl they suspect is seen on the video killing six newborn puppies by throwing them into the river one by one.
The disturbing video provoked worldwide outrage after being posted online earlier this week.
Police say they have located the girl, who is a juvenile, from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.
The girl’s parents will soon be questioned, police said.
Under recently adopted animal protection law, people can be fined up to 5,000 ($A7,030) for cruel treatment of animals.
UK Woman Apologizes for Dumping Cat in Trash
Daily Mail
September 1, 2010
Shamed ‘cat dumper’ Mary Bale has been signed off work with stress following the worldwide furore over her wheelie bin scandal, it emerged today.
The bank clerk became a hate figure when CCTV footage showed her dropping four-year-old Lola into a bin ‘as a joke’.
She has now been signed off work at the Royal Bank of Scotland on full pay for at least three weeks.
Bank chiefs have come under increasing pressure to sack the 45-year-old after customers threatened to boycott the branch in Rugby.
A source at the bank said: ‘She has been under increasing stress from work and has signed off sick.
‘She has a doctor’s note saying she is not fit to work at the moment because she is too stressed.
‘Bosses do not expect her back into work for at least two or three weeks.’
Unmarried Miss Bale, from Coventry, could also face prosecution by the RSPCA after the tabby cat was trapped in the bin for 15 hours.
After the incident, Miss Bale was led away by police to be interviewed by RSPCA officers.
However, a spokesman said the decision to prosecute Miss Bale ‘could take quite a while’ as ‘we want to do a thorough investigation’.
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Brutal LAPD Chase Caught on Video
UK Police Convicted For Beating War Veteran
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Health Council Warns Of Goverment Plan To Claim Ownership Of Every Newborn’s DNA
Pending Minnesota bill will strip citizens of genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
April 4, 2008
A prominent Health Organization has warned that there is an ongoing semi-covert movement by state and federal governments to claim ownership of every newborn baby’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research without the consent of individual citizens.
A pending bill on the floor of the Minnesota House and Senate will strip citizens of genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights, The Citizens Council on Healthcare has warned.
“Today, a state genetic privacy law requires informed parent consent for government testing, ownership and research on the DNA of the newest Minnesota residents. The Minnesota Department of Health wants to eliminate the informed consent requirements. A bill to remove consent requirements for government ownership and genetic research will soon be voted on by the Minnesota House and Senate.” The CCHC website explains.
“Thus far, the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claims ownership to the DNA of 780,000 children (soon to be voting adults) and has provided the DNA of 42,210 children to genetic researchers without parent consent. Approximately, 73,000 children are born in Minnesota every year. About 4.2 million children are born across the nation. All of them are losing their genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights.” the organization’s report continues.
The state treats the activity as an “opt out” program, whereby if the parents of the newborn infant do not specifically opt out of the process, the state presumes its has “informed consent” and that the parents have opted in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBu6Tpvq_9w
Ms. Brase has been warning of the ongoing move for a a number of years. In January 2007 she issued a written testimony to the Minnesota legislature on the unethical and hidden uses of harvested DNA by the state.
Read the 18 page PDF document here.
Recently, Minnesota based researcher and activist Marti Oakley revealed that, according to her polling, the majority of parents or grand parents of newborns have no idea that this is happening.
She writes:
Further, not one knew that they had the right to demand the blood and tissue samples be destroyed after 45 days per written request. Even had they known, and the samples were destroyed (you would have no way of knowing if they really were) the information gleaned from them would still be available and on file…..in perpetuity.
Also unknown to at least the new parents in Minnesota, is that once that 45 days has lapsed, the state now claims that they “own” the DNA of that child.
Though the Minnesota case has received recent public attention, such DNA harvesting is not restricted to that state and is being undertaken nationwide.
The National Conference of State Legislatures lists for all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the various statutes or regulatory provisions under which newborns’ DNA is being collected.
DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. In addition, all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Department of Homeland Security.
In the UK, a similar DNA harvesting program was rejected in 2005 by The Human Genetics Commission, who cited cost and ethical problems in a report to government ministers.
However, DNA profiling of all newborn babies has since been called for by lawmakers and most recently by senior police officers.
Oppose the Minnesota Department of Health’s refusal to fully inform parents
Currently, there is a monumental effort under way by The Citizens Council on Health Care to petition the state to oppose illegal State government ownership of the blood, DNA and genetic test results of newborn citizens in Minnesota. http://www.cchconline.org/petition/babyDNA2007.php
The CCHC is calling on Governor Tim Pawlenty to direct the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to comply with Minnesota state privacy law, to fully inform parents of the genetic testing process and their legal rights–and to dismantle MDH’s illegal warehouse of newborn citizen DNA. (Contact Sue Jeffers directly at: S1U2E3@aol.com )
For more resources on this issue visit the CCHC website.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/l..318_states_claiming_owne.htm
DNA database for children who ’could become criminals’
http://noworldsystem.com/20..e-criminals%e2%80%99/