F4J create big stink in UK Family Court Labour Union

Father's rights protestors 'fart gas' attack on Wandsworth trade union

11:55am Sunday 14th December 2008

Police arrested two fathers’ rights campaigners after they sprayed fart gas through the letterbox of a trade union office in Wandsworth.

Fathers 4 Justice claim two campaigners caused the stink at the NAPO office in Chivalry Road near Clapham Junction at 1pm on Friday.

The campaigners, including one from Epsom, targeted the union, that represents family court and probation workers, because they “wanted to get the message across that the bias family laws system and those that support it stinks”, according to a spokesperson for the protest group.

The office was not evacuated but police said they were called to the scene after a pungent whiff was left behind by a foam like substance sprayed from a can.

No one was injured but the two men were arrested.

Police could not confirm at this time if they were released or charged following questioning.

A Fathers 4 Justice spokesman said the action was the start of a series of stunts planned by the campaign group, that fights for fathers rights in the family court system.

The campaign group hit the headlines last month when its protestor John Paul Stanesby, 43, was jailed for two months after scaling deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman’s Herne Hill home dressed as a super hero.

Dressed as superhero "Captain Conception" he unfurled a banner from a bedroom window reading "A Father is for life, not just conception" during the protest in June.

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Mike Murphy, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada says... 4:54pm Sun 14 Dec 08

Good for F4J. The conspiracy within Family Courts causes great distress to Dads and these workers are part and parcel of an oppressive system that stinks to high heaven. What a metaphor. Excellent work lads.

UK Socialist Thinktank bursts bubbles of some Feminist Myths

You have to believe the pendulum has swung way too far in one direction when the Socialist Labour Government's own think tank concludes Feminist Mythology is at play with decision making in the UK. One never ceases to be amazed. Will the socialist feminists in the Laborious :>) Government listen. Not likely says the odds makers.

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Feminist myths 'are making equality laws unfair to men'

By Steve Doughty Last updated at 1:02 AM on 08th November 2008

Further sex equality legislation should be stopped because it is unfair to men, according to an analysis published by a Labour think tank.

The idea that all women at work are victims of discrimination is a 'feminist myth', argued a senior academic. Many want to raise families rather than pursue careers.

'The myth that all or most women would be just as careerist as men, if only they were given the opportunity, has been exploded,' Dr Catherine Hakim said.

While women can choose between work and family, men have fewer choices, a senior academic said

'The trend towards flexibility in the workforce has also made it clearer that some occupations and jobs will never be family friendly.'

The call from Dr Hakim will provoke unease among ministers and Labour MPs because it has been published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, the party's most influential think tank over the past decade.

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is already thinking about whether to push on with planned new family-friendly laws next spring because of their impact on small businesses.

However, the Government's Equality Commission and feminist ministers are determined to bring in laws to combat what they see as widespread prejudice against women workers.

Dr Hakim, a senior research fellow at the London School of Economics, said: 'The most misleading feminist myth is that women are united in their goals and priorities.

'Around one quarter of women - and men - now remain childless, mostly by choice, and their interests and priorities differ substantially from those of parents.

'I predict that men will continue to dominate in the workforce and public life while women will continue to dominate in family life, even in the absence of sex discrimination, because there are some residual differences in tastes, values and lifestyle choices that have a cumulative impact.'

In a direct challenge to the official Whitehall view, she declared: 'So why do feminists continue to demand a strengthening of gender equality laws?

'Largely because feminists continue to manufacture myths about women's oppression.'

Dr Hakim said that while women could choose between work and family, men had fewer choices. 'Perhaps equality legislation should address this imbalance,' she said

Find this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083966/Feminist-myths-making-equality-laws-unfair-men.html

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