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I just discovered that the piece below ran in Human Events, the weekly
newspaper of politics, on April 28. H.E is an important public policy
newspaper, read by some of the most influential people in Washington,
including the President, cabinet members, and members of Congress. Please send a copy to your lawmakers and local media. Stephen Baskerville ********************************** Human Events, 28 April 2003, p. 22. PBS Documentary Promotes The Myths of 'Domestic Violence' Film Stereotypes Males as Spousal Brutes BY STEPHEN BASKERVILLE PBS recently aired a seven-hour documentary depicting the mindset of
Nazi hatemongers. Extraordinary footage of actual dialogue among
operatives reveal social science and psychotherapy being twisted into
political weapons against targeted groups. The film depicts mass
processing centers railroading thousands into incarceration with no
semblance of due process of law. The film depicts how people paid by the government to disseminate
misinformation about men do, not surprisingly, disseminate
misinformation about men. We then see how government officials who are
paid to separate children from their fathers and jail the fathers
without trial do in fact separate children from their fathers and jail
the fathers without trial. Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman never questions or challenges what his subjects say. More important, he never allows the objects of this media-disseminated gossip and hearsay a word in their own defense. He does offer a glimpse of the semi-totalitarian processing centers for those accused of domestic violence, with mass arrests, mass arraignments via television, and mass incarcerations without trial. Yet even this is obviously whitewashed. "It’s very hard to get into a shelter," Wiseman admits. So obviously he is an approved propagandist, seeing what the shelter directors want him to see. This is reminiscent of glowing reports by credulous westerners who were given carefully controlled tours of the Soviet Union. In reviewing the film, the Washington Post reports that "one-fifth to one-third" of dating teenagers are "being abused verbally, mentally, emotionally, and-or physically by their partners." So all this domestic "violence," it turns out, is not violent at all. It is verbal, mental, and emotional ("or" physical). In other words, it is a violation of no law and not criminal but whatever the "victim" says it is. "Whatever the woman says is what we believe," says one police officer as a man is led away in handcuffs. "I didn’t wish to . . . make a cliché" out of domestic violence, says Wiseman. In fact, this self-indulgent spectacle is seven hours of government clichés. Some troublesome facts viewers are never told by Wiseman or the Post: The Post says "one out of every three women" experiences domestic violence. In fact, no evidence indicates that women are the only or even the primary victims of domestic violence, and a quarter century of academic research attests they are not. Most domestic violence arises during divorce and child custody. An intact family is the safest place for women and children. The Post says, "Child abuse occurs in 70 percent of families that experience domestic violence." Child abuse takes place overwhelmingly in the homes of single mothers. In other words, a father is the natural protector of his children. Post reviewer Judith Gillies says "More than 503,400 women in the United States are stalked by an intimate partner each year." But the US Justice Department defines stalking as any "nonconsensual communication." Legally, a father trying to phone his children is "stalking." Domestic violence hysteria and fear-mongering is now corrupting and discrediting once-reputable news organizations like the New York Times and the Washington Post. The BBC, once respected for its impartial documentaries, recently
broadcast an astounding ten-day blitz on domestic violence that Melanie
Phillips of the Daily Mail calls "a propaganda onslaught . . . the kind
of concerted propaganda exercise one might expect to see in time of war,
with men targeted for attack here by what might be described as gender
fascism." Throughout the U.S. and other democracies, knowingly innocent men are accused of "violence" that everyone in the courtroom knows did not take place. These men lose their children, homes, and savings. They are subject to coerced psychotherapy and coerced confessions and jailed without trial and with no semblance of due process. No one even denies this is taking place. Defenders only insist that, as always, the end justifies the means. Yet neither PBS nor any other media outlets expose this in seven-hour documentaries. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Stephen Baskerville teaches political science at Howard University. The Best Parent is BOTH Parents!
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