Australian Fathers

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They came, they made noise and most importantly, they were HEARD!

It all started in the early morning hours of Friday, June 15, 2012, as the first rally goers began assembling along the sidewalk area directly in front of sprawling concrete steps leading up to The United States Court of Appeals. Some carried banners, while others proudly displayed signs designed to raise awareness of various parental rights related issues. This was their big day! The moment they had all been waiting for, had finally arrived. This was their once in a lifetime opportunity to get one very important message out, “Justice for John Parent;” only two days before Father’s Day.

Within minutes, passing motorists en route to the nearby Wall Street financial district, began lending an additional show of support by honking their horns as they exchanged eye contact with the dedicated rally goers who had eagerly gathered. As the morning went on, a growing numbers of rally goers had continued to steadily arrive and take part in an event that was successfully organized in under two months. By noon, a full fledged media entourage was taking place only a small distance away, prompting many of those in the rally to pursue additional news outlets to further disseminate their message.

Friday’s Rally for Fathers’ event was a tremendous success as a large number of individuals and numerous parenting groups from Connecticut, Upstate New York, New Jersey and Long Island had converged upon Foley Square. The rally was in support of equal rights for fathers in a case being heard on June 15, 2012. The case, John Parent v State of New York, asks a federal appeals court to place limits upon support and custody abuses in our nation’s domestic relations courts. “John Parent” is a fictitious name allowed by court order to represent abused parents in this precedent seeking case.

The staff here at Leon Koziol.Com is asking all of our friends and supporters to share this story with the news media in hopes that they will prepare a timely story for Fathers’ Day. We encourage you to contact the major print newspapers by way of telephone for the purpose of reaching a reporter. Any media inquires should be directed to Dr. Leon Koziol at (315) 796-4000. Additional coverage of the event can be found on FaceBook at: New York Families for Kids

A special thank you goes out to everyone who worked diligently behind the scenes as well as those of you who committed to attending the rally. Again, thank you for helping to make the entire day a tremendous success!

As we prepare for similar future events, it’s imperative that we embark upon a major fundraising campaign in order to help defray the high cost of court filing/copy fees, signage, transportation and other related expenses. Kindly consider making a donation to the Parenting Rights Institute today. If everyone impacted by the issues expressed on www.leonkoziol.com made a small donation that was equivalent to no more than a one hour consultation with an attorney, it could make a world of difference for our cause. Also, be sure to check out www.familyretention.com for conflict resolution, litigation avoidance and a reduction of court costs.

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PLEASE JOIN THIS EVENT AND CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE FOR THIS ONE DAY TO HONOUR THE SACRIFICE OF SERGEANT THOMAS JAMES BALL.

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June 17 is Father’s Day. 2 days after the one year anniversary of Thomas James Ball’s self immolation. The 58 year old soldier set himself on fire in front of a New Hampshire courthouse on June 15, 2011 to protest the crooked child support and custody laws in North America. To all my male friends, please read his story below regardless of your opinions of the men’s rights movement. After all, his becoming of an MRA (Men’s rights activist) started with his desire to preserve his rights as a father…

Thomas was an involved and loving father with no prior track record of domestic violence, as his ex-wife and three children have testified several times in court. April 2001, trying to put his then 4 year old daughter to bed after a 14 hour work day, Thomas lost patience and slapped the child causing a cut on her upper lip. His wife called the local family help line where a female operator threatened her that if she didn’t call the police, she would be the one accused of child abuse. Thomas James ball was arrested the following morning.

Thomas was acquitted of all the charges based on his prior track record but denied unsupervised visitation to the children. This dragged on for 10 years where he was presented with one legal barrier after another just to be able to see his own children. In 2009, at the peak of the global economic recession, Thomas lost his job. Now he started to struggle with the child support payments and lost touch with his children completely. Thomas James Ball, after serving 21 years in the army, was facing a prison sentence for his inability to pay a $3000 child support payment as charged by his ex wife. He sat on a park bench and wrote the following shortly before the suicide:

“It was clear the legal community was in fear of these feminist groups…It had been fifteen months since this first started. Now I was at the end of my DEFENSIVE game. I was free to go on the offensive. I wonder if this would just be wishful thinking, another dream that quietly dies from INACTION. I knew I should go after those who messed with me and my family. The myth that they were protecting my kids had long evaporated from my thoughts. I could have rolled over and played dead that the legal system wanted me to do. But I would have spent the rest of my life wondering, “What if?”

“Nah. Time for me to be the JERK.”

Women initiate 90% of divorces in North America. Women get sole custody of the children 84% of the time. 1 in 5 children under 15 years old (Roughly 38 million) are growing up fatherless.

• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes

• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes

• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes

• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless

“I ain’t never seen a calf following a bull. They always follow the cow. So I always give custody to the mammas.” (Robert Noland, family court Judge, Georgia, USA)

On June 15, 2011 the self proclaimed “Jerk”, Sergeant Thomas James Ball set himself on fire and left his fatherless children a note. Let me share his note with the 38 Million fatherless of North America.

“I have three things to say to my children. First, Daddy loves you. Second, you are my three most favorite people in the world. And last, that you are to stick together no matter how old you get or how far apart you live. Because it is like Grandma always said. The only thing you really have in this world is your family.”

JUNE 15 IS INTERNATIONAL FATHERLESS DAY

JUNE 15 IS THE DAY TO…STAND UP > SPEAK UP > EDUCATE > AGITATE > ORGANIZE > CHANGE.

ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE PICTURE FOR THIS ONE DAY TO HONOUR SERGEANT THOMAS JAMES BALL. HE WAS NOT VIOLENT, NOT A DEAD BEAT, NOT AN EXTREMIST…JUST AN EVERYDAY 9-5 WORKING DAD, PUSHED TO THE BRINK WITH NOTHING LEFT TO SACRIFICE BUT HIS LIFE TO TRY AND OPEN OUR EYES.

Miranda Devine

Miranda Devine Blog                        

–, Saturday, June, 09, 2012, (9:38pm) 

The extraordinary case of the federal court magistrate reduced to writing a letter to two children, explaining why he had cut them off from their father, is part of a painful pendulum shift in Australian family law.

The shared parenting reforms of the Howard era are giving way to a new paradigm in which fathers fear they are being excluded.

Magistrate Tom Altobelli’s letter to the boy, 11, and girl, 6, was nicely written. But it is no substitute for the love of a father whose contact has been limited to letters, birthday cards and gifts.

The mother had accused the father of sexually abusing their daughter. The court heard her belief was based on the predictions of a clairvoyant…

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• Linda J Gottlieb

The “expert” witness and the therapist that the alienator hires is generally a psychologist, who not have expertise in family dynamics unless specialized training above and beyond the Ph.D training is obtained. To disqualify the “expert,” the following questions could be asked at trial:

In your professional opinion, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest, what is the influence of parents on children prior to adolescence? (this should be a high #, and if not, the expert/therapist should be asked to justify a low # eg. who has the great influences.)

And after adolescence? (this should be a relatively high # at least)

Do you believe that parental conflict generally has an adverse effect on children and/or causes the child to react negatively in response? Please rate that effect on a scale of 1-10. (this should be a high #, as even the lay person would acknowledge the impact of parental hostility on children. If the expert doesn’t give a high #, he/she should be asked to justify the answer.)

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Ironically, this week, False Accusations Awareness week, sees changes to the Australian Family Law Act come into effect. For the first time in Australian history these amendments were passed through parliament without bipartisan political support, and then only after a late night stifling of debate in the Senate. These changes in effect give unsubstantiated allegations of family violence primacy above the rights of the child to an ongoing and meaningful relationship with both parents whilst effectively removing legislated penalties for perjury. [1]

In media announcements heralding the legislations coming into effect Labor’s Attorney General Nicola Roxon blatantly lied to the public by claiming “it will remain a criminal offence to make false allegations of violence during court proceedings.”[2] The truth is the only way any women can be punished under the new legislation is by an award of costs against her, this is not a “criminal offence” at all, simply an administrative slap on the wrist, which has rarely if ever been imposed. Such a penalty could only be awarded in the event of a “contravention application” by the father, something advised against by family law practitioners on the basis of it’s negligible chance of being successful and the potential for inflaming an already high conflict situation to the detriment of their prospects of seeing their children.

Of course feminist bloggers have had a field day announcing how beneficial such changes will be in protecting women and children from men’s violence, whilst parading the standard list of false DV Statistics. [3]

Even before the changes became law, in recent weeks we have seen a flurry of emotive reporting from the Australian gynocentric feminist controlled mainstream media concerning a high profile international child abduction case.

Briefly for those who don’t know of the case, a young Australian women moved to Italy to study languages met her Italian beau, married and had 4 children all girls. In 2008 they separated and the Italian court granted shared custody with the father having access one afternoon per week and some weekends. In 2010 the children and mother travelled to Australia ostensibly for a holiday but never returned to Italy and the fathers contact even by phone has been stonewalled ever since.

These events are by definition International Child Abduction and after 2 years of lobbying by the father for the children’s return to Italy the Australian Family court did as it is obliged to under international conventions and ordered the children’s return. The mother then obstructed the execution of this lawful order by sending the children into hiding committing second criminal act.

Next came the leveling of unsubstantiated allegations of abuse against the father and the staging a media circus including airing a contrived obviously edited video on national TV of the children pleading to live with the mother in Australia. Legal haggling continued with the focus being shifted to the “right’s of the children” to determine their futures and the matter referred to the High Court of Australia. It has yet to be resolved.

However in the time since the referral to the high court was made, the Italian father who remains in Australia has been granted supervised visitation with his children, the conduct of such visits rather than showing 4 girls afraid of their father, are testimony to a wholesome and loving relationship.

What should happen of course is, the criminal, in this case the mother should be brought before the courts and treated in exactly the same way a father who abducted his children and breached court orders would be. Instead appeals were made to local members of parliament and senior politicians including the prime minister to intervene, because of overwhelming public support for the girls and their mother.

Voices of reason however are beginning to appear amongst all the mother-centric emotive trash with the recent article by Miranda Divine: “Tug-of-war custody battle is the mother of all issues.” Miranda logically contrasts the criminality of the mother versus the law-abiding actions of the father. [4] Robert Franklin of Fathers and Families has also penned a balanced commentary[5] on the situation.

Meanwhile a federal magistrate has sent a pathetic guilt ridden letter to 2 children he wrongly ordered be alienated from their father even thought he knew the mothers accusations against the father were false.[6]

How much worse do things have to become before an ignorant public realises the damage the corrupt family law system is doing to families and children? Time will tell but the floodgates are now open for a free for all of false allegations. The dodgy lawyers and feminist abuse industry workers are no doubt rubbing their hands with glee.

[1] http://www.f4e.com.au/blog/2011/11/30/australian-parliament-rolls-back-childrens-rights-to-their-dad/

[2] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/protecting-our-children-will-always-be-at-the-heart-of-family-law-20120602-1zoxa.html#ixzz1wjW2dlYU

[3] http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/domestic-violence-laws-dramatically-widened-under-nicola-roxon/#comment-822452

[4] http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/protecting-our-children-will-always-be-at-the-heart-of-family-law-20120602-1zoxa.html#ixzz1wuGyT9nw

[5] http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/05/16/aussie-news-coverage-of-child-abduction-case-blatantly-anti-dad/

[6] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/true-crime-scene/sorry-i-took-daddy-judge/story-fnat7dhc-1226386802260

About Internationalfathers’s channel

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Please email Barry O’Farrell kuringgai@parliament.nsw.gov.au send this link >> http://fathersaustralia.com/?p=1763&preview=true

ATT: office@goward.minister.nsw.gov.au, “ICAC” , complaints@community.nsw.gov.au, I have just recorded an interview regarding Tweed Heads manager Michael Buckley. He was informed last Friday about an illegal brothel which had children as young as 13 working as sex slaves in Tweed Heads. He refused to acknowledge or investigate even after the person returned a second time to give the details of where this brothel could be found. The person told another source and the brothel was raided on Saturday with numerous other girls found at this address.

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From Linda Gottlieb child in crisis

Because of our exceptionally high divorce rate, a rate that is approaching 57% of all marriages, researchers and professionals who support children became concerned about the effects of divorce on children. Various studies were therefore undertaken to assess the consequences of divorce on children.

One alarming statistic arising from the research suggested that, because of the divorce, two thirds of its children are subject to all sorts of mishaps, including drug and alcohol abuse, problems in school, psychiatric and behavioral disturbances, criminal activities, poor peer relationships, and/or adult difficulties with interpersonal relationships…

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by Howard Beale on Thursday, 17 November 2011 at 12:30

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The Family Violence Bill – Gillard’s “Hate Men” laws – takes “He said” out of “He said, She Said” and removes all penalties for lying. This makes it impossible to share in the parenting of one’s own children after divorce.

The “weak” shared parenting  reform of 2006 caused litigated divorce to drop 22%. Gillard/Brown want more divorce for green female votes and power. 70% of unmarried/divorced females vote for welfare protection and social justice [wealth redistribution] of the Big Brother party. Redefining family violence to be whatever the accuser says it is guarantees re-election support from a multi-billion dollar divorce-family violence industry and decimates the traditional conservative voting powerbase of middle class family – a kind of payback for Workchoices attack on Union power but far more dangerous and irreversible..

Massive Hidden Costs – $11 Billion/yr