We are in the throes of a 'civil' war'

national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Wednesday June 09, 2004 11:58 by Roger Eldridge - National Men's Council of Ireland eldridgeandco at eircom dot net knockvicar, Boyle, Co. Roscommon 071 96 67138

A necessary discussion to understand how the EU intends to enslave us and our children

We are in the throes of a 'civil' war being waged by the secular forces against all those who believe in freedom, democracy and who truly care for their children and earnestly want them to have a future free from slavery.

It appears to me that there are forces at work who are purposely or inadvertently causing a division between married and unmarried fathers.

This is obviously good for those trying to stop fathers protecting their children.

So can I start by asking a simple question to all fathers, especially unmarried fathers.

There is a lot of talk on these lists and in the media generally about "fathers rights" and about how fathers are being discriminated against in society and in the courts.

To discriminate against someone is to ignore their rights.

It would appear on a reading of the law that the only fathers who are therefore being 'discriminated' against are married fathers as unmarried fathers do not, in law, have any rights to do anything useful apart from have 'contact' with their child.

The 'useful' role that married fathers play in their children's lives is that they PROTECT THEM from harm and from interference from big business and the tentacles of the state.

The marriage contract actually gives married fathers the authority and control, in law, called Custody to do that. The married father, the husband, is in the strongest position imaginable. In legislation, in Common Law and under the Constitution he has Custody. His wife does not.

The state is supposed to honour and support marriage because in return the husband relieves the state of the burden of protecting and providing for his children.

The 'discrimination' that is going on is that the legal representatives of fathers are completely failing to enforce married fathers legal rights in court. In the vast majority of cases the solicitors and barristers actually act against their client's interests by cajoling him to somehow give up his Custody, usually by means of agreeing to pay maintenance (a declaration that he has deserted or otherwise abandoned his child) or where there is a trumped-up domestic violence allegation by being bullied and lied to by his own legal team to coerce him to sign an 'undertaking' that he will not go near his own family home and so is also failing to protect his children.

Either way his rights are negated by his own actions. The solicitors do this because the court has no jurisdiction to legally remove a fit Custodial father.

Lots of men on these lists and in groups like fathers4justice and parental equality who say they are unmarried fathers keep demanding that they want legislation to give them rights to see their child, presumably of the same strength as those that married fathers have and they expect all fathers to support them.

Yet these same fathers refuse to discuss the FACT that the state is not honouring the laws that give married fathers such extremely strong rights already.

My question simply is. Once unmarried fathers have these 'rights' in place and presumably these rights will stop short of being identical to rights that marriage confers on fathers how do they envisage forcing the state to honour them when the state will get nothing out of giving them these rights that the state is not already getting from married fathers.

In short unmarried fathers demanding any rights more than those that are to be given to ALL PARENTS, mothers and fathers under the new EU Constitution is a nonsense.

In case you haven't read this before I have given below the actual wording of the EU Constitution and some comments. Make sure you are sitting down and haven't eaten anything for an hour that you might suddenly bring up.

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The Charter of Fundamental Rights shall be an integral part of the
New EU Constitution.

Chapter III on EQUALITY must be looked at especially Article 24,

The rights of the child.

1. Children shall have the right to such protection and care as is necessary
for their well-being. They may express their views freely. Such views shall
be taken into consideration on matters which concern them in accordance with
their age and maturity.

2. In all actions relating to children, whether taken by public authorities
or private institutions, the child's best interests must be a primary
consideration.

3. Every child shall have the right to maintain on a regular
basis a personal relationship and direct contact with both his or her
parents, unless that is contrary to his or her interests.

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If this doesn't chill you to the marrow nothing will.

Paragraph 1 states that the EU shall decide what is necessary for YOUR CHILD'S WELL-BEING. It is saying openly that YOUR CHILD'S WISHES shall be considered before YOURS as a parent. The word "shall" in law is the strongest command. It means that a judge has no discretion. It is mandatory. So if big business or the new EU state through the school you pay for suggest to your children that they should have something or do something you feel is wrong for them, bingo YOU LOSE and your kids are lost to your protection forever. You have no authority over your kids ever again after this is passed. You won't even be able to tell them to brush their teeth or say their prayers.

Paragraph 2 is telling you that the state and the state alone shall decide what is best for your child. You as a parent become irrelevant.

Paragraph 3 states quite clearly that YOUR CHILD (your rights do not count at all) shall have the right to have 'a personal relationship and direct contact' with their parents - whooppee but don't get carried away because this is only to be possible if that is not contrary to his or her interests - and guess who is going to decide that. Yes the EU of course.

Can you now see where all of this denial of fathers rights was heading these past fifty years?

Since the beginning of recorded history there has been a dynamic between the three main sources of power in civilised societies - the church, the state and the family (married of course).

With each succeeding generation the balance has tilted one way or another. What we are witnessing today and for the past fifty years is the unbridled lust for power by the secular forces against the church and the authority vested in the married family.

Whereas in the past none of the three forces were able to get the decisive upper hand that position has irreversibly altered today because of the advent of multi-national corporations and the dominance in people's lives of the media.

The state has made an unholy alliance with big business and has infiltrated the media so much that it is able to pour out propaganda at a rate which is almost irresistible.

The church and the married family have taken an almighty bashing by the use of distorted facts and open lies against them.

The secular forces want to enslave the people and to be able to do that proficiently they need to gain complete control of our children.

This is what fathers are up against. This is why marriage is under such extreme attack.

We are in the throes of a 'civil' war being waged by the secular forces against all those who believe in freedom, democracy and who truly care for their children and earnestly want them to have a future free from slavery.

Roger Eldridge