The phrase 'presumption of male guilt' I used above indicates the primary result of the Violence Against Women Act: I had the misfortune of enduring a custody dispute which first became court business in 2000, involving my son who had been abducted by his mother in 1998 when he was only four months old. Prior to the case finally being brought before the court, after two years of my persistently urging both law enforcement and the courts to look into his mother's having taken him out of the home and over State lines (which is a federal felony), I had been repeatedly astonished that everyone in the official world was reflexively treating me as some kind of suspect or threat to the mother and child, when no evidence to this effect had ever existed. I had made no move to approach my ex or her family members who had colluded in the abduction other than to implore officials to intervene, and be met continually with a refusal to do so.
What I did not recognize until many years later, when I was given a tip about VAWA being before the US Congress for renewal in 2011, was that already by 1998 when my son was taken from me the entire divorce-custody industry had already been heavily influenced by training programs funded by the DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Further research indicated that VAWA's primary function since its 1994 passage had been to create the OVW and to thus distribute grants to thousands of recipients across the USA, ranging from storefront private-sector social-work practices to police departments, district attorneys' offices, tribal organizations and university programs, etc, etc.
I managed to dig up some of the training materials which had been circulated by OVW: these were consistently authored by non-profit groups indicating a radical feminist ideology in which maleness itself was presented as grounds for suspicion, and were always accompanied by an official disclaimer to the effect that neither DOJ nor any other edifice of the federal government was to be held liable for their contents. The organizations which had authored these materials were themselves DOJ-OVW grant recipients, having been paid in advance to compile whatever contents they deemed fitting, which was then categorically disclaimed by the very government which had funded them.
And what I also managed to learn about VAWA and its everyday functions, primarily as a grant-distribution mechanism, and the attendant abuses of those funds across the USA, is a much, much longer and in too many ways extremely personal and painful story.
And I have yet to find any credible evidence that passing VAWA has ever helped keep women safe.
All my findings indicate that presumption of male guilt was thereby made into a universal default policy in the official sector from 1994 onward, mostly by means of personalized career pressures aimed at those who become suspected of adhering to the presumption of innocence for all accused parties, and that nobody is particularly interested in protecting anyone male from THAT.
The phrase 'presumption of male guilt' I used above indicates the primary result of the Violence Against Women Act: I had the misfortune of enduring a custody dispute which first became court business in 2000, involving my son who had been abducted by his mother in 1998 when he was only four months old. Prior to the case finally being brought before the court, after two years of my persistently urging both law enforcement and the courts to look into his mother's having taken him out of the home and over State lines (which is a federal felony), I had been repeatedly astonished that everyone in the official world was reflexively treating me as some kind of suspect or threat to the mother and child, when no evidence to this effect had ever existed. I had made no move to approach my ex or her family members who had colluded in the abduction other than to implore officials to intervene, and be met continually with a refusal to do so.
What I did not recognize until many years later, when I was given a tip about VAWA being before the US Congress for renewal in 2011, was that already by 1998 when my son was taken from me the entire divorce-custody industry had already been heavily influenced by training programs funded by the DOJ's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Further research indicated that VAWA's primary function since its 1994 passage had been to create the OVW and to thus distribute grants to thousands of recipients across the USA, ranging from storefront private-sector social-work practices to police departments, district attorneys' offices, tribal organizations and university programs, etc, etc.
I managed to dig up some of the training materials which had been circulated by OVW: these were consistently authored by non-profit groups indicating a radical feminist ideology in which maleness itself was presented as grounds for suspicion, and were always accompanied by an official disclaimer to the effect that neither DOJ nor any other edifice of the federal government was to be held liable for their contents. The organizations which had authored these materials were themselves DOJ-OVW grant recipients, having been paid in advance to compile whatever contents they deemed fitting, which was then categorically disclaimed by the very government which had funded them.
And what I also managed to learn about VAWA and its everyday functions, primarily as a grant-distribution mechanism, and the attendant abuses of those funds across the USA, is a much, much longer and in too many ways extremely personal and painful story.
And I have yet to find any credible evidence that passing VAWA has ever helped keep women safe.
All my findings indicate that presumption of male guilt was thereby made into a universal default policy in the official sector from 1994 onward, mostly by means of personalized career pressures aimed at those who become suspected of adhering to the presumption of innocence for all accused parties, and that nobody is particularly interested in protecting anyone male from THAT.