Obama Has Subverted Our 4th Amendment Rights

by Hawaiian Libertarian on December 27, 2009

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While I was on the road for the past few days, I’ve been disconnected from the internet. Since I do not watch regular TV except for NFL Football and MMA, and do not read newspapers or magazines (i.e., I do my best to avoid the instruments of propaganda meant to herd we the sheeple), I did not find out about Obama’s latest action that certainly lends credence to the claims that he is nothing more than a puppet for a Globalist elite working to implement Global Governance…our Brave New World Order.

What am I talking about here?

Check out this executive order he signed last week…

Office of the Press Secretary

Executive Order — Amending Executive Order 12425

EXECUTIVE ORDER AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425
DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.

So what does this mean?

From Threatswatch.org:

Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order “Amending Executive Order 12425.” It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other “International Organizations” as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.

By removing language from President Reagan’s 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates – now operates – on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Through EO 12425, President Reagan extended to INTERPOL recognition as an “International Organization.” In short, the privileges and immunities afforded foreign diplomats was extended to INTERPOL. Two sets of important privileges and immunities were withheld: Section 2© and the remaining sections cited (all of which deal with differing taxes).

And then comes December 17, 2009, and President Obama. The exemptions in EO 12425 were removed.

Section 2c of the United States International Organizations Immunities Act is the crucial piece.

Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation. The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable.

Inviolable archives means INTERPOL records are beyond US citizens’ Freedom of Information Act requests and from American legal or investigative discovery (“unless such immunity be expressly waived.”)

Property and assets being immune from search and confiscation means precisely that. Wherever they may be in the United States. This could conceivably include human assets – Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.

International police agency just granted powers of immunity from the US Constitutional law.

Obama’s Christmas gift to the nation was to sign away our 4th Amendment Right protections to an International police force entity.

How much more hope for this kind of change must we be forced to believe in?

{ 293 comments… read them below or add one }

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 03:14

So, you’re upset, because suddenly “rendition” can happen at home too…. ?

Master Dogen December 27, 2009 at 03:33

AfOR:

Well… isn’t that upsetting?

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 03:43

@ Master Dogen.

Well, it depends. If you had always maintained that all “rendition” was immoral, illegal and just plain wrong, then yes, this would be cause for further upset.

If, however, you justified it beforehand because it only happened to raghead terr-rists, then no, it is no cause for further upset, because nothing has changed.

When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I am not Jewish.

Paul December 27, 2009 at 04:38

Yes all this does give what Alex Jones has been saying for some time more credibility. To give ‘immunity’ to a foreign police force does rather give the feeling that America is an occupied country. Of course there are those who feel that America is occupied by its own government, just like everywhere else.

Living as I do in the UK this information does make me suspicious as to whether there is a similar situation here in Europe with INTERPOL being granted immunity. Does any one know about this?

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 04:51

I’ll probably get ripped apart for this but…..

Is a Global New World Order such a bad thing? i mean really?

Any power that seeks to oppress the world as whole IMO would achieve an elusive unified global effort to over throw it, it wont be Brits fighting separately to limit government or Americans fighting separately it will be a unified world fighting against tyrany.

If the world marches with no serious protest to a global Oligarchy without actively fighting back and stays subjugated if such an Oligarchy as been exposed as oppressive instead of unifying and fighting back, then….as the saying goes “you get the government, you deserve”.

I personally think a new World Order is long overdue. Perhaps this is the common enemy to unite humankind short of an Alien invasion.

Away with religion and nationalistics sentiments, one planet under the Laws of the Universe IMO, with free movement of people and labour. True freedom as the birds have with no regards to State boundarys when they migrate.

Here comes the assaults
/Flame proof Immunity jacket on.

Chris December 27, 2009 at 05:16

Obama hasn’t done anything and this never ending cry that he is the boogeyman is beyond stupid. Anybody who thinks the President has the power to do half of what is claimed or SHOULD have as much power as people think he does has no real understanding of the American government and how it was created.

There is only one culprit that is the cause for the continuing decline of the American standard of living and the constant eroding of freedom and rights. That culprit is the American people who don’t have the slightest clue about how their government is supposed to function and who are completely ignorant and weak and allow those in power to take advantage of them. The founding fathers of this country did not create a democracy and for good reason. The fact that the people are too stupid to to even know this fact is why.

Paul December 27, 2009 at 05:49

I am not sure I can answer The Caliph’s question. Rather I have a question of my own. There are those who oppose what they see as encroaching world government because they see it as an erosion of American independence and sovereignty. I on the other hand see it in entirely the opposite way. The new world order is just the consolidation of American world power. If the UN is to run the world then it will be a UN dominated and controlled by the USA and its friends in Europe.

So is the new world order just a camouflage for American global domination or is it something different ?

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 05:59

The Caliph,

I understand what you are saying… the world is getting smaller, and differing regulations etc. are often burdensome.

However, there are very few places left in the world where people even have the ability to resist – America still has the right to bear arms, most of the rest of us don’t. In Canada, we have almost gotten the long-gun registry abolished that was created in the 1990′s, but, until then… it’s slingshots and pointy sticks.

Also, if there is going to be a new global order, there has to be attention paid to securing the rights of the individual, and if you research into these things and the nature of government being constructed, there is no doubt that the system being created is totalitarian and will be tyranical. The UN’s form of a Constitution, for example, is a direct knock off of the Soviet Constitution – namely, it is missing the words acknowledging “God/Creator” as the giver of our rights. This makes the State the highest authority, wheras the Constitution of Free Nations all acknowledge God as a higher authority than the State. Totalitarian States declare that the state grants you your rights, and that such rights are subjected to law. Free countries have inalienable rights granted by God/Creator, and do not permit the government to monkey with those rights.

Property rights are also not being protected, but rather, deconstructed.

Certainly the jackass leaders that are trying to sign us away to this crap are aware of this… and nobody says a damn thing.

A Global Order that enshrines the rights that Americans enjoy might not even bother me too much, even though it would still be treason to erect such a government… a Global Order based on totalitarianism is what is being erected however.

I think it may come down to it that perhaps this bugger cannot be stopped, and if that is the case, it might be the best course of action to start demanding that our rights be properly enshrined in any future agreements, or the prosecution and punishment for treason ought to be carried out against those who ignore our rights.

jeff December 27, 2009 at 06:02

One world government means that there is nowhere to escape from it.

It means us and them.

When those who work for gorvernment become too powerful, the people suffer, as they become more and more subjected to the whims of those with power.

This is happened throughout history.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 06:06

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain UNALIENABLE Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men…” — United States Declaration of Independence

“The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize that, in the enjoyment of those rights provided by the State … the State may subject such rights only to such limitations as are determined by law.” — Article Four of the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The US Founding Fathers woulda called them fightin’ words. It has taken a lot of blood throughout history to get our rights, and, it will be bloody hard to get them back if we throw them away. It is much easier to maintain than to destroy and rebuild from scratch.

barsin December 27, 2009 at 07:16

Not sure what this story has to do with men in particular.

Seems more like you’re using this site to push your political political beliefs.

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 07:32

Global Government or not, this is the thing that divides most men.

To me, GG is just about the worst thing that can happen, because it takes the option of GYOW away.
GG government is preferred by men who want a nice, safe job in some administration. This makes me call such men enemies.

If I can’t turn my back on someone and leave them, then I’m their slave!

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 07:39

@ Ragnar

If I can’t turn my back on someone and leave them, then I’m their slave!

I am afraid that according to that definition we have all been slaves for an absolute minimum of 30 years.

There is no-where to run if “they” decide to reel you in.

Give it another 5 or 10 years and converting to Muslim and living under Sharia law is going to start looking very attractive for a surprising proportion of men.

Read up on “water monopolies”

The USA is a classic example of a water monopoly, there is nothing outside strong enough to topple it, and nothing inside to stop it decaying. The only unknown is when the sudden and dramatic crash happens and the water monopoly comes down like the WTC, with apparently “no warning”.

jeff December 27, 2009 at 08:02

Afor

“I am afraid that according to that definition we have all been slaves for an absolute minimum of 30 years.”

Not true. One world government is somewhat more inescapable than what we have ever had.

Where did you get the 30 years from? Care to explain?

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 08:03

Caliph,

I don’t usually get involved in this sort of discussion, but if you’re that naive, please help out natural selection and kill yourself. I’m really not kidding, and I’m not even angry or upset. Rationally speaking, it’s the best option for everyone. Don’t question it. Just do it. Please.

One World Government will have its own interests, which will trump local interests. People should not be governed by strangers with different cultures, values and interests who live thousands of miles away. That’s the opposite of progress.

Fuck…I’ve spent the past two dates researching an idiotic state law. Poorly thought out, the people who hand out “training” look sketchy and unaccountable, pretty clearly just a nanny state government scam to over-regulate and collect fees, and there’s really no comparable law for it in 48 other states.

But I have the comfort of saying “well, I could just move.” One World Government, as others have said, means there is nowhere to move or escape it. The grass is NEVER greener. And there is no such thing as a benevolent all-powerful organization.

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 08:13

@AfOR
Thanks for the headsup on Water monopolies.

About Global Government on could read up upon “Rules of the Sea” which basicly means that the UN gets the remaining territory of the globe. This is especially bad for those of us who has the freedom of living aboard a sailing vessel.

Again – “turning your back upon” – in connection with domestic violence. All the regulations do is to control men. Take away DV laws and the only thing that happens is that women need to take male opinion into their considerations, not that women, general, get slapped around.

We know that . . .
Women know that . . .
The Government know that . . .

The Government want the control . . . and seduces women into believing it is their protector!

Nothing could be more wrong and today we need to hold women accountable for their actions – let them lie in the bed they made!

Furthermore we need to form Brotherhoods that can change our governments. There are many ways for this beyond direct action!

Rebel December 27, 2009 at 08:59

“Give it another 5 or 10 years and converting to Muslim and living under Sharia law is going to start looking very attractive for a surprising proportion of men.”

This thought has been in my mind for some time.

I am not looking forward to anything of that sort. But if I have to chose between two evils, I will take the lesser one and for now, Islam seems a far better alternative than being a slave to a feminazi state, which is where we are heading.

As time ticks away, we see in what direction this is taking us: the global enslavement of males.

I don’t know about you, but I think a nuclear holocaust is a better solution than slavery..

I do expect a lot of turmoil in the few years to come.
Our freedom as men must be earned back: we all know what that means… certainly not peace.
I would expect, also, radical Muslims to recruit among our street gangs. I wonder how come it hasn’t been done yet.
Nature will find a way to solve the “human question”.

In the end, the Grim Reaper may be summoned for a massive “job”.

Humanity might have to start again from scratch, as has happened before. Maybe this is the natural order of things.

Pro-male/Anti-feminist Tech December 27, 2009 at 09:52

Is a Global New World Order such a bad thing? i mean really?

If I’m the one that’s running it, it will be a good thing. Otherwise I can’t be so sure.

You have already gotten this answer, but one world government does mean no escape with some implicit assumptions. The first is that some form of extreme inpating is impossible. This would mean basically living in the bush, and it may very well be impossible to get out. The second assumption is that there are no space colonies. If a world government were to happen tomorrow this is correct, but it won’t. Mars is far away, and a one world totalitarian government on Earth would have a great deal of trouble controlling Mars if the Martian colonies decided to revolt.

I do think some of the worries about one world government are overblown. Getting hundreds of millions of Americans to go along is hard enough as we see here. A billion Indians, a billion Chinese, the Russians, a billion Muslims, etc. aren’t going to go for it either. I’m willing to make the prediction that the first one world government will be on Mars. In other words, one world government won’t matter as a vehicle for totalitarianism since the scope of human civilization will have expanded to more than one world. Of course, the conspiracy theories will move to one solar system government at that point.

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 10:04

@ Rebel

I am not looking forward to anything of that sort. But if I have to chose between two evils, I will take the lesser one and for now, Islam seems a far better alternative than being a slave to a feminazi state, which is where we are heading.

Why, do you think, Islam has been the target of a sustained campaign of disinformation and derogation for the past decade?

I have lived in Islamic countries most of my life, it is AT LEAST as flexible and universal a religion as catholicism / christianity, it already has evolved into sub groups, such as those that prohibit the artistic representation of living creatures, and those that do not.

It is a smaller step for Islam to say..

1/ OK, we will keep the “turn around three times and say ‘I divorce thee’ each time” divorce.
2/ OK, we will keep the wife and children as chattels of the man.
3/ OK, we will keep the non usury of Islamic banking.
4/ OK, we will keep the “every time you steal to fund your crack habit, we will cut off one hand”.
5/ Well, we will make weak alcohol in moderation frowned upon, but permissible (this is even before synthetic alcohol http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/26/1826205)
6/ Well, we will make bacon sandwiches in moderation frowned upon, but permissible.
7/ Well, we will permit designed stubble instead of a full beard.

These are in fact smaller moves than catholicism / christianity has made with respect to female clergy and now female bishops.

Oh the irony of that, original sin, satan’s gate, once upon a time a woman on the rag was not even permitted into a church.

Islam already has that one cured.

Seriously, Islam could be a major contender within 10 years, which is why the MSM has been slighting it at every opportunity for the past 10 years.

Nothing has changed, the clergy / church is still a favourite tool of subjugation.

Tarl December 27, 2009 at 10:23

People should not be governed by strangers with different cultures, values and interests who live thousands of miles away. That’s the opposite of progress.

Some people should. =)

The opposite of progress for all of Africa and the Middle East, and some parts of Asia, was when the local people stopped being governed by strangers with different cultures, values and interests who live thousands of miles away.

null December 27, 2009 at 10:32

Rebel: “I am not looking forward to anything of that sort. But if I have to chose between two evils, I will take the lesser one and for now, Islam seems a far better alternative than being a slave to a feminazi state, which is where we are heading.”

Move to Pakistan or Afghanistan, then. Or maybe Somalia. See how you like it.

AfOR: “I have lived in Islamic countries most of my life, it is AT LEAST as flexible and universal a religion as catholicism / christianity”

I assume this is a joke. Islam is the least flexible and most extremist major belief system in existence. The Islamization of the Western world would mean the end of the Western world.

“it already has evolved into sub groups, such as those that prohibit the artistic representation of living creatures, and those that do not.”

From an infidel’s perspective the differences between these subgroups are trivial at best.

“Seriously, Islam could be a major contender within 10 years, which is why the MSM has been slighting it at every opportunity for the past 10 years.”

Except in reality the MSM is pro-Islam.

As for the Interpol thing, to my knowledge they don’t have the power to arrest anyone, and have no field agents. They just act as a coordinator between police agencies of different countries.

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 10:39

Islam is the least flexible and most extremist major belief system in existence. The Islamization of the Western world would mean the end of the Western world.

-null

I’d agree with the latter, but not the former. Islam has traditionally been more tolerant of heterodoxy and other cults than Christianity. Of course, that’s only once it has been established as the dominant religion in any given area.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 10:41

Heh, well you’ve got me there, Tarl.

But as we’re probably about to learn in Afghanistan, you can lead a horse to water…

If people want to live in the dark ages, I am sympathetic to that. Modern, civilized, protected men feel superior because they have Tylenol and cable television, but many clearly ache for the drama and excitement of more dangerous lives. That’s what half our movies are about.

Either conquer savages, subjugate them and make them your people or let them enjoy lives that are “poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” I’d happily stop feeding and supporting Africa, for instance. We can’t afford it anyway. Cut ‘em off and let ‘em sort themselves out.

Rebel December 27, 2009 at 10:48

“I assume this is a joke. Islam is the least flexible and most extremist major belief system in existence. ”

Second only to the religion of feminism.

By the way, Islam is quickly becoming the dominant religion: thanks to feminism for the destruction of Christianity.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 11:40

The thing with all of this Global Governance thing that is going on, is that too many people think that pointing out the connections to all kinds of various forces or figures in the background is the way to illustrate what is going on.

I don’t think of it that way at all.

I think of it like this:

I walk by a vacant lot every day. At first, all there is are piles of lumber. That is all that it is. I never see no workers, nor even can verify for certain that people work at the site.

But, after a while, the lumber begins to form more and more patterns and shapes, until it becomes evident that a frame of a building is being erected. After a while, plywood is on a floor, a roof is going on top, and there are holes for windows in the framing.

It’s not yet a house, but it is pretty obvious that it soon will be. I don’t even need to see any carpenters, nor know who is the general contractor. It just becomes obvious that it is a house. And, since I know it is a house, I know these pieces of wood just didn’t magically move from the pile of lumber and into the formation of a house. There is a plan, and there is people putting that plan into action.

It’s the same thing as erecting Global Government – there must come a point where people no longer can deny what is being erected, and certainly the frame work for globally encompassing regulatory bodies are being erected.

Also, in regard to a “plan” that is controlled to the nth detail by shadowy conspiracy figures, that is not how it works.

Think of a shepherd and his flock. When he moves them, all of the sheep don’t follow in a straight line. Some might be walking north, but individual sheep might at times be walking in a north easterly direction. However, if you were sitting on a cliff overlooking the flock, you would be able to see that the shepherd is indeed moving them intentionally where he wants the flock to go – and they are going north.

Also, in another thread, Angry Harry mentioned in regard to this subject, that he doesn’t need to know how a computer works in order to fight it by smashing it with a bat.

True.

But, that will be noisy, messy, and might even get you arrested.

You could also get the owner’s manual, read it, and learn if there is an on/off switch – or, you could look for the electrical outlet and simply unplug it.

Same as, if I wanted to destroy your car, I could take a bat and smash the crap out of it.

Another way would be to learn how a car works, and then in the middle of the night, to sneak underneath and clip the brake lines… the result will be the same.

This is what is going on – there are certain “pillars” that society once used to understand were essential for healthy society. And, somehow, the screws have been purposefully loosened. I might not know exactly how the pillar will fall, but if I weaken it enough, I can expect a general set of events to follow, even if I can’t direct each detail.

Take the UN’s Right’s of the Child that is attached to the CEDAW.

It will basically elevate the rights of the child to be higher than the parents’ rights. This is just an out and out disaster waiting to happen, and even though I cannot predict each and everything that will result, I can reasonably expect that elevating children higher than parents will be damaging to everyone within the family. It’s not all of the things that happen after which are orchestrated, but rather, the few “pins” that have been purposefully removed that set off a chain of events.

For example – Under the CEDAW, which Canada signed (but the USA has not), some teenage girl took her father to court and won her case under her new “rights.” These details might not be 100% precise, but it is close enough – She was using the internet in her room to arrange with friends to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night or something like that, and the father grounded her from the computer and took it out of her room, I think. She took the father to court, and won, and he was forced to return it to her room because he had violated her rights to communication and access to information or something like that, under the CEDAW’s Rights of the Child.

Under the CEDAW, your child also has religious rights which you may not infringe upon. So, despite your family being Catholic, eight year old Johnny might come home and decide to worship Islam, or Buddha, or Satan or whatever, and you would be infringing upon his rights to prevent him in any way from choosing his own worship – a child!

How can a family operate like this?

They can’t!

With the emergence of game – and, btw, game actually isn’t new because many of these things were known for quite a while already.

If you have a look at it that way, you can see what happened – women’s rights and position were elevated above men’s rights/position, and it is just a complete disaster.

If you understood a thing or two about game, you would have to be able to see that it is not good at all for marriage to have this feature, but rather destructive.

It doesn’t mean that someone is behind each and every subsequent thing – but, check into the important points what changed, and you can see that they get foisted upon people – things like No Fault Divorce which was not even something most people even understood, and certainly the population was not screaming out for it, except for those extremist radicals who were calling for the destruction of marriage in order to destroy society. It was no accident.

After a while, you can see that a framework is being built, rather than just individual pieces of lumber – and that means a plan rather than randomness, and it means someone must be behind that plan – pulling out the pins.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 11:42

I already wrote several blog posts explaining why Men’s News Daily is failing the men’s rights movement by alienating potential supporters with unrelated partisan politics. You can see the post here: http://jayhammers.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-men-news-daily-fails-men-rights.html

Please don’t turn The Spearhead into Men’s News Daily.

A well-done global government would be beneficial to humanity in the long run as we colonize space. If we are to survive AND thrive long-term we need to get off this planet and we need to stop all the in-fighting.

Chris Matthews recently asked Pat Buchanan if he thinks it’s “every man for himself” in this world. Pat responded it’s “every country for itself”. That’s foolish.

The government has its uses. It’s unwise to think the less government, the better. And by government, we really mean community. We want to be able to call 911 and get help in an emergency, don’t we? It should not be “every man for himself” or “every country for itself” simply because that will make it harder for humanity to make progress.

As far as this Executive Order goes, I’d like to hear an explanation before jumping to hysterical conclusions. I have a hard time believing anything that comes from the right these days when much of it tends to be conspiracy theories over global warming, birth certificates, and communism reminiscent of McCarthyism.

Stick to the issues. Men’s rights can exist in a capitalist society and a socialist society.

From my blog post: “You fail to realize that although there is a set of liberal talking points and a set of conservative talking points in America, there are such things as individuals who do not blindly agree with every platitude thrown out by one side of the political spectrum. Men’s rights can exist in a world where global warming is fact or in one where it is fiction. Men’s rights can exist in a world where America is all about big government and social programs or in one where it is pure capitalism. Men’s rights can exist in a world where everyone is a liberal or in one where everyone is a conservative. Men’s rights can exist in a world somewhere in between. Just because radical feminism and man-made global warming are both labeled liberal ideas does not mean the two are strung together inseparably. In fact we do more harm by falsely placing them side by side on what is supposed to be a site about men’s rights when we should really be striving to show the world that men’s rights is an issue everyone can get behind.”

Reality2010 December 27, 2009 at 11:49

The only problem I have with the whole ‘Obama is the boogey man’ is that all of these Fox style Republicans are only NOW starting to bemoan the loss of our freedoms.

We went through EIGHT YEARS of a living nightmare of the loss of our freedoms with the WORST president in all of U.S. history who outspent any liberal ever. Who also did NOTHING for men’s rights – NOTHING.

Yes, I can clearly see Obama for what is truly is – a socialistic nightmare and I’m dreading what is to come. But spare me the Obama fear mongering if you’re not going to even acknowledge the nightmare erosion of rights during the Bush years and they way he got away with murder by playing stupid.

That’s what makes me sick about Fox and all of these so-called conservatives. Bush is the worst thing that could have ever happened to conservatives and he set it all up for Obama to walk right in with sweeping powers. I just see more of the same.

Change? Where?

null December 27, 2009 at 12:05

Welmer: “I’d agree with the latter, but not the former. Islam has traditionally been more tolerant of heterodoxy and other cults than Christianity.”

If this is the case, why is the Western world so tolerant and freewheeling while the Islamic world is not? Even the most liberal Islamic nations are draconian theocracies compared to the Western world, or otherwise fucked up.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 12:20

Actually, guys, “Men’s Rights” are the basic rights of society.

We are the scumbags – the low man on the totem pole of preference.

We are the people who need rights more than anyone else.

So, yes, these things like Global Warming and other subequent scams, which are seeking to curtail our rights and freedoms, are Men’s Rights.

It is the scum that nobody cares about who need rights the most – not the prefered people.

And, also, the USA is not the world. In fact, despite what many MRA’s think, the USA is not the worst feminist hellhole on the planet. The USA has been resistant because it has by far the best Constitution on the planet – one that is very difficult to destroy. Granted, your culture of movies etc. is pretty extreme, but you still have 10 times the options to fight back that most of the rest of the world does. The problem with living in Rome is, you are the center of the universe – the most important place, and so you usually know less about the outside world, than the outside world knows about you. That is not an insult, but it is a feature of every center of the empire.

Canada used to have a strong Constitution and guaranteed rights too. And, back then we were as strong and prosperous as America – in fact, even moreso. Our rights were rewritten by Trudeau a few decades ago, and of note is how he paid so much attention to the wording used (and also, he studied Marxism intensely during the 40′s). See what is the result? It is not that the rights of individuals are protected, but rather that minority rights have become elevated over and above the majority – minorities are being used to curtail the rights of everyone else here.

Many of the things that America is going through right now, Canada went through 15 or 20 years ago, and many of the things Canada went through back then, Scandinavia went through even a decade or two earlier. We can chart the path by now – the hard part is getting America to see it, because they are the center of the universe, and we know much more about them than they know about us. Many of the worst aspects of what has been erected won’t be fully used until America is brought into the fold – do it too early, and too many Americans will start getting uppity – and you will be the hardest people of all if that happens, because you have the best rights – and you are armed up to your eyeballs.

Btw, Jay, I disliked Bush much more than Obama – but, what Obama is doing is right out in the open. Oh, and, btw, what Obama is doing is putting America deeply into debt the same way Trudeau did to Canada (an increase of over 1100% in our debt), and he is putting in the same social programs as Trudeau did, and Obama (and Shitlery) discusses rewriting the Constitution, as did Trudeau, and so on, and so on. I mean, other people have gone down this road before you, and the results are predictable.

barsin December 27, 2009 at 12:27

Yeah, I could do without this paranoiac NWO conspiracy nuttiness trying to piggyback it’s way in on the legitimate grievances men have.

There are already a metric fuck ton of irrelevant backwater shitholes on the internet for this lunatic garbage.

Moreover, I fail to see what this post has to do with men’s issues even tangentially. Interpol? Does the author even try to tie it in? This post doesn’t seem to belong here.

Incidentally, I find the picture is very offensive. NWO goes against everything The Joker stands for, and to use his image in this fashion makes all innocent little Hawaiian civilians fair game.

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 13:02

If this is the case, why is the Western world so tolerant and freewheeling while the Islamic world is not? Even the most liberal Islamic nations are draconian theocracies compared to the Western world, or otherwise fucked up.

-null

Because the Western world is no longer Christian.

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 13:15

Please don’t turn The Spearhead into Men’s News Daily.

-Jay Hammers

The Spearhead has pretty loose editorial guidelines, and we’re happy to have dissenting opinions. It’s really up to the authors to put their views on display. Actually, the only stuff I haven’t published has been copyrighted material, for obvious reasons. Alternative views, counterpoints and rebuttals are entirely welcome, so long as they are intelligible and still pro-men in spirit.

In fact, I wish we had a pro-male liberal/progressive contributor, but for some reason these people seem to be very difficult to find.

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 13:23

@ Jay Hammers
“Stick to the issues. Men’s rights can exist in a capitalist society and a socialist society.”

How about googling ‘Feminism (is a) Marxist tool’ ?

The totalitarianism in governments, which we are presently facing, in the west, are a result of marxist ideas. Whether this is a conspiracy or not doesn’t matter, the end result matters.

Mens Rights are the basis for any society without them the society crumbles.

null December 27, 2009 at 13:58

“Because the Western world is no longer Christian.”

Yes it is. Even if it wasn’t, why hasn’t the Islamic world followed suit? If they’re so wonderfully progressive, why are they still stuck in the dark ages?

ray December 27, 2009 at 14:02

Yeah, I could do without this paranoiac NWO conspiracy nuttiness trying to piggyback it’s way in on the legitimate grievances men have.

___________

the NWO is the New Woman Order, and every step it takes towards further entrenching its power around the planet directly affects men, and adds further “grievances”

the further empowerment of the NWO by Obie via Interpol will disproportionately be used to oppress males (esp poor, disenfranchised, and/or uppity males) in the western world, and to further consolidate the matriarchies that already obtain across the west

oh lookee, i see the NWO let that Domestic Violence Monster, charlie sheen, out of his cage, after holding him over christmas without bond

seeing as how he’s such a risk to escape to borneo

wakie wakie people, that’s just as much a manifestation of the NWO as Obie’s Interpol gambit

we’ll see if charlie does a tiger woods and begins grovelling at his Male Unworthiness and paying his wife hush money

i also see that the Medea blackout concerning the v questionable circumstances surrounding chris henry’s death continues

while most of the world is busy denying that anything is happening, the New Woman Order has essentially finished its agenda, doing whatever it wants in america and elsewhere

and if you think national sovereignty or your magnificent Constitution is gonna protect you, you are definitely matrix-bound and sand-buried

all theyre doing now is dotting the eyes and crossing the doubles

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 14:24

Yes it is.

-null

Not officially. Big difference when church and state are separate.

Even if it wasn’t, why hasn’t the Islamic world followed suit? If they’re so wonderfully progressive, why are they still stuck in the dark ages?

Nobody said the Muslims were “progressive.” They’re simply more “tolerant” of different faiths under their jurisdiction. Probably has something to do with the jizya, but I’m pretty sure other factors are at work. As for being relatively underdeveloped, that has to do with Islam being mainly in the global South. I don’t know what about the religion itself can be blamed for that, except perhaps its provisions for slavery.

As for the West becoming Islamic, it will never happen. Islam had a better chance of conquering China, but Muslims ran out of steam before they could pull that off. There are cultural barriers that would prove insurmountable in the West. Also, people tend to underestimate how warlike and aggressive Europeans actually can be.

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 14:30

@ Null

Yes it is. Even if it wasn’t, why hasn’t the Islamic world followed suit? If they’re so wonderfully progressive, why are they still stuck in the dark ages?

This is a remarkably ignorant comment.

Islam and Christianity come from just about the same place geographically, until the discovery of oil, that region of the planet had fuck all, no coal, no iron ore, no great forests, no nothing really.

Europe of course has coal, iron ore, etc etc etc, so it did rather well.

No natural resources pretty much means no modern civilisation.

If you look at a map of predominantly Islamic countries, they are basically the countries with fuck all in the natural resources stakes prior to the discovery of oil this past century.

http://www.islamproject.org/images/muslim_2000_final.jpg

As far as being stuck in the dark ages goes, you obviously do not realise just how much of “our” culture we owe directly to Islam.

Yeah, what did the romans ever do for us? and the christians, and the moslems…. the answer is always one hell of a lot more than you think.

Here is one for you, discriminating between criminal intent and criminal action, a foundation of all western law, actually came from the Koran originally… before that, we did not discriminate between the two.

5 year old burns the house down accidentally and kills his baby brother, that’s murder, kill him.

that’s how we used to do it.

Look up “New Roman Law”

btw, the Koran is very specific about banning racism.

How about things like grammar and cryptology, yup, not western either.

adan flores December 27, 2009 at 14:35

Button up, folks: next stop, the Sovereignity Clause of the US Constitution?

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 14:38

When Roman Law Ruled the Western World

Starting as a small kingdom, Rome grew to be republic and then an empire that lasted about 500 years in Western Europe and almost another thousand years in the eastern Mediterranean. During that time, the Romans introduced elements of civil and criminal law that provided the foundation for the legal systems of most nations in the Western world today.

Rome began as a small kingdom around 750 B.C. As in all ancient societies, Roman law began with custom. A custom is a way of doing things over time. Perhaps the most unique and far-reaching custom of the ancient Romans was the idea of patria potestas. This Latin term refers to the power of the Roman father over his wife, children, and other members of his family. His word was literally the law.

In early times, the father held life and death power over his children. He could leave an unwanted or deformed newborn infant in the forest to die of exposure. He could also sell his children into slavery.

A father’s absolute power over his family lasted until he died. His children, even though they may have been adults, could not own property because the father legally owned all the possessions of family members. Nor could children marry without the father’s consent.

Just because a father held the power of a dictator did not always require that he act like one. In practice, many fathers gladly gave up their rights over their adult children. When a daughter married, she usually left her father’s control and came under the power of her husband. Fathers also legally emancipated or freed their sons to become independent.

Under patria potestas, the Roman father acted as a judge to settle legal matters within the family. When a conflict occurred between families, the fathers of each would negotiate a settlement.

Law in the Roman Republic

After the Romans established a republic in 509 B.C., they created several lawmaking bodies representing different classes of people. At first, only the upper-class patricians made the laws. But before long, the lower-class plebeians gained this right.

About 60 years after the founding of the Roman Republic, discontented plebeians demanded a written code of laws and legal rights. The plebeians complained that because the laws were not in writing, government authorities and creditors could easily abuse the people.

After some resistance from the patricians, a committee produced 12 bronze tablets that together contained Rome’s first law code. Called the Twelve Tables, this code recorded important legal concepts such as:

* rules to settle boundary and other property disputes.
* formulas to make contracts and wills.
* protections for debtors.
* rights of citizens, such as the right to be represented by someone in a legal matter.

Around 570 B.C., the Romans created the praetor system for settling conflicts. It largely replaced the role of families and fathers in the legal system. Under the new system, the praetor, a powerful government official, took written complaints from citizens and investigated them. The praetor decided whether to authorize a trial before a judge. The plaintiff, the one bringing the complaint, and the defendant then presented their evidence to the judge. Finally, the praetor decided the case and, if the plaintiff won, ordered a remedy or compensation of some type. The praetor system handled criminal offenses in the same way.

Appointed to one-year terms, the praetors became increasingly powerful judicial officials. They began the practice of issuing a written statement, called the Praetor’s Edict, as their term of office began. This edict described the rights the praetor intended to enforce and what remedies he would recommend for wrongful acts. Eventually, the edict became a standard set of legal principles and rules passed from one praetor to another. Praetors used their edicts to interpret the Twelve Tables, as well as the laws passed by the assemblies of the Republic.

Family Law, Civil Wrongs, and Jury Courts

Family law in the Roman Republic set the minimum age for marriage at 14 for males and 12 for females. No formal ceremony, religious or otherwise, was necessary. The fathers of both families, however, still had to give consent. The male-dominated system also required the wife to bring a dowry (usually some kind of property) to her husband, who then controlled it. But either spouse could divorce the other without having to go through any legal formalities.

Slavery was common in ancient Rome. One became a slave by being captured in war, born to a slave mother, or convicted for certain offenses. Masters had near absolute power over their slaves during the republic, including the right to kill them. Masters could also free their slaves. When this happened, the slave automatically became a Roman citizen.

Throughout most of the long history of the Roman Republic, the law treated criminal offenses as “civil wrongs” that were handled in lawsuits between the victim and the accused offender. For example, the Praetor’s Edict declared that if a judge found a person guilty of certain kinds of stealing, he had to pay his victim four times the value of the stolen goods. Judges decided the compensation due a victim for personal injuries, usually a sum of money.

Around 80 B.C., toward the end of the republic, the government created jury courts that specialized in particular crimes. Each court had a presiding judge and up to 75 jury members, who were chosen by lot to decide a case. At first, only patrician senators could serve as jurors, but later, juries included men from other propertied classes.

Any male Roman citizen could accuse someone of a crime and seek to prosecute him or her before a jury court. To bring a case, the accuser had to take an oath that his prosecution was in good faith. The accused person remained free while each side prepared for the trial. Both sides had the right to challenge jurors and demand that they be replaced.

At the trial, the accusers had to be present and often conducted their own prosecution. The defendants could represent themselves or be represented by one or more advocates. These advocates were typically experienced public speakers rather than experts in the law. Lawyers did exist, but they offered their advice (for free) outside the court trial.

The trial procedure would be familiar to us today: opening speeches, examination and cross-examination of witnesses, introduction of other evidence such as documents, and closing speeches. The Romans considered important any evidence about the defendant’s character. The judge could order the punishment of a witness who committed perjury. It was necessary for a majority of the jurors to find a defendant guilty. If the jury split evenly, the defendant would go free.

Under the jury court system, the law assigned penalties for crimes. Punishments included fines, flogging, loss of citizenship, banishment, forced labor in government mines, and death by crucifixion or by beasts in the arena, such as the famous Coliseum. Lower-class criminals suffered physical punishment and death much more frequently than upper-class offenders for the same crime. Although there was no right of appeal, a lawmaking assembly could pardon a convicted criminal.

Imperial Law

After Caesar Augustus established the Roman Empire in 31 B.C., imperial officials and courts directly controlled by the emperor replaced the jury courts. The emperor also assumed the power to make and interpret the laws.

Imperial court officers took over the job of prosecuting criminal defendants. A network of spies and investigators passed on evidence to the imperial prosecutors. Torture became a common method for gathering evidence and securing confessions. The concept of a fair trial further suffered because the emperor could always dictate the verdict.

For some offenses, the emperor confiscated the convicted criminal’s property. In many cases, this impoverished the offender’s entire family. Augustus made adultery a crime, forcing a guilty wife to divorce her husband, surrender a portion of her dowry to him, and lose a third of her property. While a wife could not accuse her husband of adultery, she could divorce him. A wife, but not an unmarried woman, could be punished (usually by banishment) for abortion since the law considered that her husband had been deprived of an heir. The penalty for rape was death.

Treason could include a variety of acts from armed rebellion to cursing the emperor. Those found guilty would be banished or executed and would also have their property confiscated. Private organizations of all kinds were carefully controlled or outlawed because they provided opportunities for people to meet and conspire against the emperor. This was one reason why emperors banned the early Christian Church.

The Romans usually did not tamper with the local customs and laws of the peoples they conquered. After centuries of Roman rule, however, Roman law began to apply to citizens and foreigners alike throughout the empire. The jus gentium (“law of the nations”) included trade laws, rulings by governors and judges in the provinces, as well as edicts by the emperors. The concept of a single law for all peoples became more of a reality in A.D. 212 when Emperor Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire.

Some changes occurred in Roman law when Christianity became the official religion of the Empire in A.D. 395. For example, a marriage was not legal unless the couple had received the blessing of a Church priest. Divorce became much more difficult. The emperors also outlawed the old pagan religious cults.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe in A.D. 476, Roman law underwent a long decline. In the eastern part of the Empire, however, the law of the Romans continued to flourish under emperors like Justinian.

In A.D. 534, Justinian published the final version of a new Roman law code. This monumental work preserved, clarified, and updated centuries of Roman lawmaking since the Twelve Tables codified early Roman law almost a thousand years earlier. Justinian’s Code kept Roman law alive in the eastern Empire for nearly another thousand years.

Although Roman law seemed to disappear entirely after the final conquest of the eastern empire by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the Christian church preserved much of it in its own canon (religious) law. In addition, Roman law experienced a revival of interest by scholars during the Renaissance.

In modern times, Roman law became the basis for several Western European law codes including those of France (Napoleonic Code), Austria, and Germany. In turn, these codes influenced many other countries such as Spain, Egypt, Japan, and even the state of Louisiana.

In the Western world, only England, its colonies, and Scandinavian countries developed law systems different from ancient Rome’s. But even these countries are indebted to the Romans for creating many legal concepts, principles, and rights that govern the lives of their citizens today.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 14:41

@ Jack Donovan

Perhaps you dont really comprehend me, i’m sure i insuated in there that an all powerful government if its tyranical will face for the 1st time in history a unified global effort to topple. How is that such a bad thing?

The staus quo now is if you are unfortunate to be born in North Korea you are not allowed to leave your country, you’re sadly subject to the whims of your dictator, but Kin jong Ill’s threat to liberty doesnt affect you in teh U.S, hence you’re not actively doing anything to ensure the Liberty of North Koreans are you?.

The way i see it, if such a dictator threatened you as an American and all the Brits and Chinese and everybody else, it will be one dictator against all of humanity.

Think about it? A global government invariably ties the liberty and rights of the whole world as one, you will no longer be able to sit comfortably in U.S while Mugabe goes nuts in Zimbabwe, nah, a threat to Zimbabwe will automatically be a threat to you aswell under a Global government.

The difference between me and you is that, i have faith in all humanity. I believe when our combined liberties are threatened, we will stand together for once and fight as a single unit, its either that or we perish as a single unit under the weight of the New World Order.

And if humanity the NWO does turn out tyrannical then as a human species we will have to fight it and when/if we defeat it, we will as a species ensure it doesnt take root anywhere else. No more sitting in front of your T.v and thinking “meh, poor Iraqis, or Iranians, orZimbabweans, those bastard dictators”. No you will actively expend yourself to secure their rights because you will finally understand the meaning of

“Liberty and freedom for all” or how ever it is in you American anthem.

PONDER THAT.

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 14:44

posted because those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.

Factory December 27, 2009 at 14:50

I think Federz has it on point when he says he may not know who’s doing it, but that pile of lumber is looking a lot like a house…

I also think that, while quite possibly relevant, discussion of these things amounts to nothing more than intellectual exercise.

And I love those…

Here’s a good argument in favour of one world government (which human nature resists vehemently):

What if there’s space aliens out there, and they want to get us into a position where we MAY have a shot at defending ourselves. And the recent spate of conquering alien sci-fi is merely psychological preparation? Maybe there’s warring factions, one that sold us out to aliens, the other that is trying to mount a real defense.

What if, in short, we live in an X-files movie?

I’m not making light of the subject matter here, and given the size of the Universe and increasingly strange quantum physics, this scenario is technically possible…

My point is that we may as well talk about alien incursions, with the amount of power we have to stop it, should it indeed exist. It’ll provide about as much credibility too.

There may indeed be a larger design involved. There is also the possibility that there is not. Maybe it’s several groups unintentionally propping each other up, stranger things have happened.

But in my mind, this subject matter remains firmly in the “cool intellectual exercise” category. Something I can mull over while I’m taking a SawZall to the foundations of that house….

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 14:54

The difference between me and you is that, i have faith in all humanity. I believe when our combined liberties are threatened, we will stand together for once and fight as a single unit, its either that or we perish as a single unit under the weight of the New World Order.

You must be doing bong hits.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 14:54

All the folks who think i’m crazy are IMO the cowards.

Not every situation you will come across in your life will leave you the Go Your Own Way Option.

Right now dictatorships thrive and liberties are squashed because those who can, simply get out. Look at all the run aways form N Korea and Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa.

What i want to see is what a universal brotherhood will do when all the escape routes are blocked off.

Thats right Gentlemen, what will you do when the NWO comes to your little escape location? Will you then stop running or will you finally face your pursuer and fight to the bitter end?

Will you fight to the bitter end knowing this time its not just the blokes on the spearhead, or just men in U.S or in the western world fighting a common enemy, but a unified global brotherhood agaisnt tyranny?

Thats right fellas, the option of escaping you soft tyranny AKA feminism may be taken and you may have to face real tyranny and global hegemony with no GYOW option.

WHO amongst you has the balls to stand and fight then?

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 14:57

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 2:54 pm

“You must be doing bong hits”.

Nah if a unfied humanity fails to defeat a Tyranical NWO then we deserve as a species whatever the fuck is coming our way end of story. But if we do we realise we’re not different afterall and the “Tyrannical NWO” would have invariably left us with a common ground and a blueprint for Global peace.

Its that fucking simple, together we stand apart we fall.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 15:09

Tarl December 27, 2009 at 10:23 am
“People should not be governed by strangers with different cultures, values and interests who live thousands of miles away. That’s the opposite of progress.

Some people should. =)

The opposite of progress for all of Africa and the Middle East, and some parts of Asia, was when the local people stopped being governed by strangers with different cultures, values and interests who live thousands of miles away”.

Ask the locals if they consider the foreign rule more progressive, especially ask the Congo(former zaire) what the think of losing half their population thanks to King leopolds policies.

That said, did different tribes who otherwise woulda hated each other or been at war (ironically as they now) not unite to over throw their common European tyrannical enemy? Now amplify that on a Global Scale.

Like i said before, its simple-

NWO goes tyranical

Option 1: Fight as individual unites along old national boundaries and lose miserably.

Option 2: Unify and fight as one single species. Great odds of success.

Option 3: Do nothing and just die in the end anyway.

Perhaps guys in the West are most opposed to what they consider colonisation because they havent experienced such since Rome fell over 2k years ago? Well according to Tarls logic its time the west gets ruled by others because it failed in a simple task as regulatiing its own women.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 15:16

Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand were all colonies.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 15:20

@AfOR

When Roman Law Ruled the Western World

It’s a bad idea to copy and paste copyrighted material without crediting the source. Perhaps Welmer will be kind enough to add that statement for you.

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 15:25

It’s a bad idea to copy and paste copyrighted material without crediting the source. Perhaps Welmer will be kind enough to add that statement for you.

In this case it’s probably fair use, but crediting the source is always helpful for readers and better serves to make the point.

null December 27, 2009 at 15:29

Welmer: “Not officially. Big difference when church and state are separate.”

Doesn’t have to be official.

“Nobody said the Muslims were “progressive.” They’re simply more “tolerant” of different faiths under their jurisdiction.”

Except, of course, that they aren’t. Muslims are famous for their religious intolerance.

“As for the West becoming Islamic, it will never happen. Islam had a better chance of conquering China, but Muslims ran out of steam before they could pull that off. There are cultural barriers that would prove insurmountable in the West. Also, people tend to underestimate how warlike and aggressive Europeans actually can be.”

The Islamization of Europe is already well under way. Nobody can fight it because nobody will admit that it’s happening (that would be politically incorrect). Even in France where the Muslim population occasionally launches a violent intifada, the government does practically nothing.

AfOR: “No natural resources pretty much means no modern civilisation.”

Except that’s not the problem at all. The Islamic world is fucked up because of Islam. There is no other reason for it. It’s also ridiculous to appeal to factors that ceased to be relevant a long time ago. Just because they allegedly did not have this or that natural resources in year X doesn’t mean they have to go around honor killing women and murdering infidels in the 21st century.

This is the same shit as “Africa is doing poorly just because of colonialism!”

“As far as being stuck in the dark ages goes, you obviously do not realise just how much of “our” culture we owe directly to Islam.”

99,9 % of these claims are bullshit, most of them to the degree that even cursory Googling will debunk them. Historical revisionism and Islamic propaganda. In reality the rest of the world owes Islam very, very little.

“How about things like grammar and cryptology, yup, not western either.”

Both of them predate the existence of Islam.

Comment_Whatever December 27, 2009 at 15:32

What those here have failed to understand is that no nation, no power, allows other powers to run willy-nilly around it’s land without any controls UNLESS IT HAS NO CHOICE.

American has waned far more than you think.

You should be moving in the direction of away.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 15:34

@JD

“i have faith in all humanity. I believe when our combined liberties are threatened, we will stand together for once and fight as a single unit”…..The Caliph

You must be doing bong hits.

Agreed.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 15:40

Caliph –

Nah if a unified humanity fails to defeat a Tyranical NWO then we deserve as a species whatever the fuck is coming our way end of story. But if we do we realise we’re not different afterall and the “Tyrannical NWO” would have invariably left us with a common ground and a blueprint for Global peace.

And more tyranny. Because it wouldn’t last. Large scale revolutions have a tendency to collapse into infighting and eventually more (and often worse) tyranny. Chinese, Russian, French…

Have you EVER cracked a history book?

Big systems of any kind are not the way to go. And without a common culture to unite men, they will Balkanize and splinter into small competing hierarchical groups like gangs in the slums. A tyrannical NWO would have the power to control communication (the power is there for the taking) to the extent that no grand scale cooperation or dissent (what you’re talking about would require billions of men to organize effectively) would even be possible.

Let me break down human psychology for you at the personal level.

I think you are wrong. What you want for the world is wrong. We probably don’t share much in the way of culture or values. Therefore, you are not my people. Therefore, I wouldn’t fight for you. Therefore, your tears are but water.

Men are tribal. Women weep for everyone.

NWO is a worst case, science fiction movie scenario.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 15:47

“How about googling ‘Feminism (is a) Marxist tool’ ?”

That’s fine, then let’s have an article about that. Not about Obama “stealing away our rights” if there are no ties to men’s rights issues.

You have to realize that there are a LOT of progressives out there who are starting to see how feminism has gone too far, how it is more about female privilege today. I know them! And progressives are around half of the country, a powerful force.

Do we need to reinforce the idea that all men’s rights activists are disgruntled conservatives who are perceived as wishing for the old days? We aren’t going to win this war by tearing down the foundations of feminism. We’re going to come to a truce by demonstrating how men are mistreated and devalued and how it affects children and families. Plenty of progressives have been brainwashed into believing all the lies feminists have told but they are not beyond hope.

I just know we won’t gain anything with half of the country by attacking the gains women have made rather than focusing on what men and families have lost. Progressives want to see progress and it just so happens that granting men equal rights is the definition of progress. They just need to be made aware.

If the meat of an article does not relate to men’s rights, what exactly is the reasoning behind posting it on a men’s rights website? An article on men’s rights triggers discussion on men’s issues and will raise awareness for visitors coming to the site. An article on other topics will take the focus off men’s right issues and do nothing to raise awareness about men’s rights.

I have to say that it is counter-productive to post unrelated partisan pieces on a men’s rights website, whether they’re liberal or conservative views. Either way you will push away potential supporters of men’s rights who might otherwise have taken our views into consideration.

Is it really worth it?

Harry December 27, 2009 at 15:58

@Caliph

While I sympathise with your view that a global government might unite people in ways through which they can overcome any major oppression or adversity, I think that History shows that matters do not turn out like this when governments and government workers become too powerful; e.g. see …

http://www.angryharry.com/esGovernmentalBeast.htm

Somehow, we really need to address this issue before it is too late.

But, of course, I hope you are right!

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 16:04

I guess my point is we all have differing views but we can agree that men’s rights are important and need to be restored. We may have different views about how to accomplish that so let’s discuss them here. Or do we really have a problem cooperating to achieve a goal like feminists would claim?

The majority of my blog posts relate to men’s rights issues but I’ve written blog posts on global warming, big government, and other topics. I still wouldn’t post one of them here unless the meat of it dealt with men’s rights. I honestly don’t really care if every men’s rights activist agrees with my other views. I do care that we agree men’s rights are an issue and I worry that newcomers who are interested won’t ever get to that point if we don’t maintain focus on our goal to achieve equal rights for men.

Harry December 27, 2009 at 16:09

@Caliph

I continue, …

If we – the people – do not keep a close eye on the NWO ball, and take good note of what they are doing, then they will walk all over us – for sure.

As such, I think that it is a mistake to undermine too strongly those people who are trying to raise awareness of what seems to be happening, and of what might happen if we are not very vigilant.

If we are vigilant, then what you predict (and hope for) will more likely come to pass – which would be nice.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 16:12

@Jay Hammers

Men’s rights can exist in a capitalist society and a socialist society.

Disagree. You mean well but you have not grasped the big picture.

Feminism is the handmaiden of socialism. Socialism compels the able and the productive to share the fruits of their labors with the feckless, the unproductive and the unlucky. Feminism can not exist without this socialist philosophical underpinning.

Socialism, feminism and big government are the Dark Trinity, with environmentalism their secular religion.

Harry December 27, 2009 at 16:14

@Jay Hammers

“I worry that newcomers who are interested won’t ever get to that point if we don’t maintain focus on our goal to achieve equal rights for men.”

The growth of government and the LOSS of rights for men are inextricably entwined as Fedders pointed out.

Might I suggest this piece which tries to give some insight into why governments (left and right) are so keen on breaking down people’s relationships.

http://www.angryharry.com/esWhyGovernmentsLoveFeminism.htm

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 16:17

@Jay Hammers
We kill socialism by killing feminism – remove the female voting base.
Liberalism/Socialism/Marxism/Communism is the real culprit.
There is no ‘mens movement’ with socialist ideas.
That’s anyway not a mens movement.
Off course this means we will have to fight and rebuild everything from scratch, when it’s over.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 16:45

@Jay Hammers

but I’ve written blog posts on global warming, big government, and other topics. I still wouldn’t post one of them here unless the meat of it dealt with men’s rights

These issues are all tightly connected. A conservative culture is necessarily driven by traditional masculine values of objectivity, liberty and self-reliance. A feminized culture elevates feelings and subjective values (“the personal is political”) above Newtonian reality so that a feminist can claim that Einstein “priviliged” the speed of light over other equally important speeds without being ridiculed into academic oblivion.

A preposterous lie like anthropogenic global warming can only exist in such a feminized culture, where science is politicized and the scientific method itself has been subverted.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 17:03

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Caliph –

“Let me break down human psychology for you at the personal level.

I think you are wrong. What you want for the world is wrong. We probably don’t share much in the way of culture or values. Therefore, you are not my people. Therefore, I wouldn’t fight for you. Therefore, your tears are but water”.

This right here Jack Donovan. I want you to go and reflect on that sentence especially the phrase “you are not my people”.

Its quite telling isnt it? I guess i am really hitting the bong because i made the fallacy of assuming that you as a mens right advocate were interested in all men not just American men.

And all that talk about the universal rights of men being the same worldwide? or you dont really believe that rhetoric and you’re one of those “all men are equal some are more equal kind of guy”?

Ofcourse i am not your people as you succintly put it, except i’m being plagued by one aspect of the same multi-tentacled organism plaguing you.

Lets assume you defeat the American arm of this alleged NWO, how long do you think you will last if the rest of the world fell vicitim to it? How long then before my problem becomes your problem?.

But never mind, since i’m not “American” i’m not your people, carry on as you were Jack.

On a second thought, last i checked you were Homosexual with no kids. That way of life/orientation produces no genetic progeny, so why dont you let those of us with actual existing genetic progeny and ways of life/orientation that fosters the continued existence of Humanity worry about which direction we want to take. You afterall have no stake in the future so FUCK OFF.

“YOUR KIND DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REPRODUCE ITSELF, THANK HEAVENS I’M NOT YOUR KIND”.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 17:23

@Caliph

“I continue, …

If we – the people – do not keep a close eye on the NWO ball, and take good note of what they are doing, then they will walk all over us – for sure.”

I dont disagree with that statement Harry, its still in line with my general thinking that the NWO can only ever be as powerful as we the people allow it to get.

We the people in the case being the whole world. That is one massive juggernaut to try to subjugate unless ofcourse they already sabotage themselves with a “you’re not my people” mentaility and dont rise up to suppport each other regardless whether the other’s problem is starting to affect them directly.

Wait a minute isnt that what got us here in the 1st place and allowed the elite to accumulate so much power? Their exploitation of our general “my people sentiment”.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 17:33

@Caliph

I guess i am really hitting the bong because i made the fallacy of assuming that you as a mens right advocate were interested in all men not just American men.

Go back and read Jack’s post again. He was not making a personal statement. And…though his writing was slightly ambiguous, he was NOT making a personal statement directed at you. So….what we have here is a failure to communicate. And your rant, though impressive…..not required.

Jack’s paragraph was his illustration of how the tribes of humanity relate to each other. i.e. not too well.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 17:56

The Caliph –

Losers always bring up the homo thing when they’re emotional and losing.

Sorry, you’re living in fantasy world. Promoting some NWO on the basis that it will bring men all over the world together is completely asinine, based on even the most rudimentary understanding of history and human nature.

Fiercely Independent John Nada December 27, 2009 at 18:02

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 2:54 pm

All the folks who think i’m crazy are IMO the cowards.

Not every situation you will come across in your life will leave you the Go Your Own Way Option.

Right now dictatorships thrive and liberties are squashed because those who can, simply get out. Look at all the run aways form N Korea and Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa.

What i want to see is what a universal brotherhood will do when all the escape routes are blocked off.

Thats right Gentlemen, what will you do when the NWO comes to your little escape location? Will you then stop running or will you finally face your pursuer and fight to the bitter end?

Will you fight to the bitter end knowing this time its not just the blokes on the spearhead, or just men in U.S or in the western world fighting a common enemy, but a unified global brotherhood agaisnt tyranny?

Thats right fellas, the option of escaping you soft tyranny AKA feminism may be taken and you may have to face real tyranny and global hegemony with no GYOW option.

WHO amongst you has the balls to stand and fight then?
***
Good question. Glad you asked.

You know, zed put this question to me 3 or 4 years ago and I could not answer it, until now. Being outside the Matrix (and the wisdom of maturity) has given me an insight like no other.

Simply: I would have never left U.S. and would have stayed and fought until my last breath had I thought it was worth a damn to do so. But living on the outside and having a benchmark to compare it against, you couldn’t PAY me to live there again. The misandry was toxic enough for me as an adult not to stomach it, I can’t imagine what it’s like for my 10. y.o. son’s malleable little mind.

America, in principle is worth shedding blood for. I love my country and honestly believe the U.S. Constitution is the greatest document ever written but to quote the investment tycoon Doug Casey, America is an idea, not a country. America is a state of mind.

whiskey December 27, 2009 at 18:15

The Caliph and Obama belong to the same class of men: those who believe in some fuzzy, idealized, “Small World” Disneyland ride of internationalism. As an American my interests, and ideals, and way of life are vastly different than a Somalis, or Pakistanis, or Saudis, or Chinese man’s. I have less in common with THEM than a I do the most radical gay lesbian American woman on the planet. Rosie O’Donnell is closer to me culturally and in my interests than a man from Nigeria or Somalia. Among other things, Rosie O’Donnell won’t try to blow me and the airliner I am sitting in out of the sky with explosive underpants.

Obama’s action are a threat because they undermine US Sovereignty. Placing Americans under the arrest powers, without recourse, of foreign police agencies. This is something Bush resisted, along with calls to put America under the ICC, because of the precise threat to US Sovereignty.

At a stroke, ALL of the protections of the Constitution are nullified, to push Obama’s fuzzy, transnational utopian agenda.

I don’t have a problem with rendition, which was begun under Clinton and continues under Obama — rendition takes foreign nationals (not US citizens) who come under US custody and renders them to foreign nations where quite likely they are tortured for information. So What?

First, this was the inevitable result of Liberals pushing for Lawfare, and granting the full US civil rights to enemies captured on foreign battlefields (i.e. Afghanistan, Iran, etc.) Done by the Supremes and the Obama Administration (see the civilian, Miranda-rights trial of KSM the 9/11 Mastermind). Not being able to treat enemy combatants who violate the rules of war (as FDR did in hanging Nazi spy-saboteurs) the US has no other choice but to render. Since the enemy wants to do his best to kill me, I don’t care.

Second, I fully understand that Muslim men are my enemy. Muslim men want to either kill me or make me their slave. Not all of them, but most of them certainly. They certainly want to make Western women their sex slaves. A not insignificant portion of Western women would like this as well, I think. Which also makes Muslim men my enemy.

Of course I have enemies, I am a human being. Rationally, I understand this and don’t care a whit when my enemies suffer — they certainly don’t care when I do, or mine do. Muslims are my enemy — they try to kill people just like me all the time. So if some Jihadist gets rendered to Egypt where he is tortured, I don’t care at all. Like Clinton, I say the more the better. Or as Al Gore said, “he’s a terrorist. Render his ass.”

Obama is not the Joker. He is a cultural Muslim at least, and thus my enemy (as a non-Muslim Western man). Of course he wants Interpol as his helpful pal to “arrest” Bush and others who believe in US Sovereignty and US laws over foreign ones (something unpopular among women, and feminized elites who have no allegiance but money and their fellow elites).

I wish Obama was the Joker — he’d be alone without all those allies everywhere.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 18:38

@ Jack Donovan

“Losers always bring up the homo thing when they’re emotional and losing”.

Its not a loser thing its a fact. Of what interest is 70 years from now to you if you wont be alive and will have no children left behind to worry about?

Your SIR are the (genetic) loser here, i have a kid and plan to have more kids.

“Sorry, you’re living in fantasy world. Promoting some NWO on the basis that it will bring men all over the world together is completely asinine, based on even the most rudimentary understanding of history and human nature”.

Why do you think they (PTB) have launched an assault on nationality ( see European union and African Union) and religion see islam being lined with terrorism?

Like you said culture is why humanity has a problem living together, where is the power base of culture? Yep the Family unit, who is the glue holding the family unit? Yep the woman of the house.

Why do you think they’re promoting feminism in Africa after civial war has done a thorough job of ravaging the culture?

Why do you think they want women to vote and want democracy in the middle-east?

To rule humanity our cultural indentities 1st have to be destroyed (see multiculturalism).

The New World Order will have to take care of those things which have caused balkanisation between peoples. Its the only way to easily hold sway over all humanity.

DONT YOU get it folks? People without traditions and religion tend to have few differences in belief system.

The only cultural institution left will be the State…the NWO Super state.

For the New World Order to succeed cultures (religion is part of culture) will be destroyed, hence a New World Order will only be possible in an ideologically homogenised world.

An ideologically homogenised world is a massive force indeed one which you cant hope to subjugate, because the peoples have no differences to capitalise on to divide and conquer.

In a world where being gay doesnt cause you (Jack Donovan) problems with xtian fundies or muslims are you telling me you wont find more common ground with such people?

In essence the tools required to establish a NWO also ensures that it will be diffcult for it to be malevolent. Because there is no national,religious or tradional impediments to a unified human resistance.

The obvious questions ofcourse is….. if this is my reasoning, why am i here on a mens website dedicated to combating feminism which is a tool for the NWO which i ideologically support?

Well like i said ironically if the NWO goes tyrannical, some of its tools can be used to defeat it, such as a multicultural global effort of all men, because we no longer see cultural differences between our fellow men. No more “not my people so not my business mentality”.

The family unit however is the achiles heel, how to preserve it while allowing other NWO agendas is the question i personally am seeking an answer for.

It takes only common sense to understand that to make men want to fight against a possible tyranical NWO they must have a vested stake in society, IMO this vested stake is the Family unit.

Whether a combined effort by all humanity against a possibly tyranical NWO can succeed or possibly even be mounted will depend a lot on if we manage to save the basic cell of all societies, that one belief system which pervades all human cultures the belief in ‘THE NUCLEAR FAMILY UNIT’.

That is why i’m here, the NWO will take care of the minor issues that may be impediments to a united world front, but our ability to resist fully a malevolent global government and achieve a world government on our own terms is Dependment on the FAMILY.

FYI Jack Donovan these comment

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 8:03 am
Caliph,
“I don’t usually get involved in this sort of discussion, but if you’re that naive, please help out natural selection and kill yourself. I’m really not kidding, and I’m not even angry or upset. Rationally speaking, it’s the best option for everyone. Don’t question it. Just do it. Please”.

Above was your 1st attack on me, then came the bong comment, you had it coming mate, you certainly had it coming.

Ironic it came from a homosexual already earmarked for extinction by natural selection. Nature has spoken Jack Donovan.
It decided it wants to propagate my genes, hence why i was able to knock up my mrs, hell be attracted to her in the 1st place.

Now do us all a favour and go Kill YOURSELF and speed up you natural de-selection process and stop being a useless eater.

The Caliph OUT

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 18:44

@Whiskey

BTW the NWO is done destroying all traditional and cultural insitutions on a Global scale you maye indeed have more in common with a Somali than that fellow from New Mexico.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 18:49

6:44pm comment was supposed to be
“by the time the NWO is done destroying traditions and cultureson a Global scale you maye indeed have more in common with a Somali than that fellow from New Mexico”

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 18:54

@Whiskey

“I don’t have a problem with rendition, which was begun under Clinton and continues under Obama — rendition takes foreign nationals (not US citizens) who come under US custody and renders them to foreign nations where quite likely they are tortured for information. So What?”

Now i’m guessing a Yemeni holds similar views,
probably something along the lines of ” I dont have a problem with al-qaeda as long as they keep blowing up those infidels and not on Arab soil”

This is why your cultural believes and traditions aswell as those of said Yemeni need to be destroyed and brought crashing to the ground.

When that happens all we’ll have left is
Whiskey & Unknown Yemeni- ” I dont have a problem with injustice to others as long as it doesnt affect me or people i know, and care about or feel an afinity for”

Make sense?

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 18:55

@ Whiskey

See how you have a lot in common with al-qaeda supporting Pakistani or Yemeni?

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 19:02

Caliph, a significant percentage of human begins report having homosexual thoughts. There must be some reason homosexuality survived throughout the generations even though natural selection would tend not to favor it. Within a decade or two homosexuals will be able to have children and that barrier will no longer exist.

Anyway, no one is going to change anyone’s mind here about these other issues. And no one is going to raise awareness of men’s rights by debating them. For those of you who write articles here on this men’s rights website, consider that it is not productive to write them about topics without explaining the connection to men’s rights issues.

You have to ask yourselves if you want to make this site a platform to complain about all the perceived injustices of the world or to raise awareness for men’s rights.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:04

I’d rather be Canadian.

DT December 27, 2009 at 19:09

Since Obama does not meet the natural born citizen requirement of the U.S. Constitution (he held dual citizenship at birth even if he was born in Hawaii), nothing he does is legal or binding because is not legally president.

The problem is gathering the resources necessary to force the issue in the courts and bring practice in line with law.

It’s worth pursuing this even if a judgement cannot be won until after Obama is elected out of office because otherwise we will be stuck with his changes. It is necessary to have his presidency and his actions declared illegal, null, and void, so that nothing is left of his attempt to undermine and destroy our Constitution and way of life.

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 19:09

@The Caliph
“Like you said culture is why humanity has a problem living together, where is the power base of culture? Yep the Family unit, who is the glue holding the family unit? Yep the woman of the house.

Downright a lie – a communist lie – the basis for the family is men banding and respecting each others property rights, among that staying away from other mens women, thus giving women no other choice!

This was the leap that men took away from the animal kingdom and thereby turned themselves into mankind.

The dynamics of nature makes it such that none of us can escape competition. So when ‘rights’ are extended to encompass all and everyone of the species Homo Sapiens they loose their value and men start to form groups in other ways.

Those who gain from a global government are the meager loosers who want to control everyone else by proxy force.

Harry December 27, 2009 at 19:10

@Caliph

“by the time the NWO is done destroying traditions and cultures on a Global scale you maye indeed have more in common with a Somali than that fellow from New Mexico””

Excellent point – which seems valid to me.

I would also add that whatever-men-have-in-common (and their common interests) have been purposely hidden from view by the usual culprits.

Whenever do we hear about “men’s issues” and “men’s concerns” in the MSM or from government?

It is not in the interests of the powers-that-be (and the powers-that-have-been) for men to be too concerned about their own welfare, or the welfare of other men,

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 19:11

I suppose one good thing here is the varying points of view expressed in the comments. A visitor with a strong point of view either way who reads these comments would find that he or she can agree wholeheartedly with some MRAs and disagree completely with others.

It would, however, be nice if the comments reflected a unified commitment to equal rights for men. Instead some are infused with personal attacks which won’t gain the movement any respect or attention.

3DShooter December 27, 2009 at 19:15

The duopoly gov’t of this country, amerika, both republican and democrat have been wiping their asses with the constitution for decades now. One such as myself would argue that this has been the case since amerika’s first tyrant president – dishonest Abe.

Government by it’s nature never respects the just restraints that were intended to be applied to it.

For those flag waving amerikan patriots – WAKE UP, we live in a Marxist oligarchy not in a constitutional republic.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:18

Jay Hammers,

It has been my observation/experience, that people with your attitude have done much to actually harm men’s rights by forbidding certain subjects. Although, I am not trying to say that your intentions are malicious, but a lot of us have evolved this way after much searching and studying and effort. I once believed the same. I’ll bet most did.

It’s like looking for a cure for cancer, but demanding that such a cure can only come from synthetic drugs, and not from natural cures or other avenues.

I, for one, have no intention of letting people limit me, because I really mean it when I say I want to destroy these mother fuckers. And I don’t give a shit really what avenue I have to take. Of the places that tried to limit my ideas and viewpoints, not a one of I would trade a bucket of piss to waste my time and efforts at. I go elsewhere in a big hurry. MGTOW needed to be created merely to get out from under the restrictive hegemony that used to be the MRM, which once was just feminism and a pair of hairy testicles, both just screeching for their piece of the equality pie.

I hate equality pie.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 19:18

Guys n gals, you have to be realistic. No one’s going to take away women’s right to vote, no one’s going to remove Obama from the presidency talking about his birth, no one’s going to disprove anthropogenic climate change any time soon. But men’s rights ARE going to get better. There’s no question about that and the men’s movement is already gaining speed. How fast we go is dependent on you.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 19:23

“It’s like looking for a cure for cancer, but demanding that such a cure can only come from synthetic drugs, and not from natural cures or other avenues.”

I never said to do that. Explore any cures for the inequality men face as you see fit. But show me how your cure will work to benefit the men’s movement or it ain’t a cure at all.

Also, the men’s rights movement != MGTOW.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:25

Btw, nor should things be “dumbed down” for the newbies. That keeps everyone stupid, for lack of intellectual stimulation. This argument too, has been quite destructive to the MRM.

If we men have one thing going for us, I’ll tell you what it is: It is our noggins.

The more educated we make ourselves the better.

Better to have 10% of the people at 100%, than 100% of the people at 10%.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:26

Jay,

We are trying to show you something.

You just refuse to look, and try to discredit our efforts.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 19:28

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 7:09 pm
@The Caliph
“Like you said culture is why humanity has a problem living together, where is the power base of culture? Yep the Family unit, who is the glue holding the family unit? Yep the woman of the house.”

Downright a lie – a communist lie – the basis for the family is men banding and respecting each others property rights, among that staying away from other mens women, thus giving women no other choice!

If you disgree about women being the family unit glue then please explain to me why, it is then that a significant change in the attitude of women has led to increase in the breakdown of the family unit?

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:31

Also, the men’s rights movement != MGTOW.

True.

But when it first arrived, it was made up of dirty dog sonsabitches who were saying things that everyone disaproved of. A more ragtag bunch of misfits that had banned from more places, you had never seen.

Not that I was ever a misfit, and I’ve certainly never been banned. I’ve been loved everywhere I go.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 19:34

@ Ragnar

“men banding and respecting each others property rights, among that staying away from other mens women, thus giving women no other choice!”

The above is reponsible for civilisation not the family unit.

The family unit started when the ancient homo sapien females started dedicating themselves to a single male and ensuring he has no doubts about being the sire of her progeny, hence entitling herself to a significant amount of his efforts towards raising her offspring.

When that lone homosapien male came across another homo sapien with a similar arangment with a female similar to his female. They then decided to go hunting together and realised, as long as i dont mess with your female or kids, we can actually achieve more, as a team, then they recruited more similar male/female pair bonds and thus civilisation was born.

Disclaimer: this is my own understanding of evoltionary pyschology or the origins of civilisation. I make no claims to the orginality of this thought.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:40

The family unit, with mother-led household, is a herd of mammals.

Herds of mammals are naturally communist.

http://no-maam.blogspot.com/2008/02/questionators-should-women-have-right.html

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 19:44

The Caliph -

Above was your 1st attack on me, then came the bong comment, you had it coming mate, you certainly had it coming.

I’m not your mate. You’re saying that like it “hurt” me in some way.

There’s nothing you’ve presented that I haven’t thought longer and harder about than you have. You’re making assumptions based on reasonable but incorrect guesses. (I’ve spent the majority of my “public” career attacking gays for being NWO nuts).

You’re a novice at this, you’re emotional, all over the place and completely unhinged. I started by mocking you, because I don’t really value your opinion or take you seriously.

I just wanted to make certain that is clear for those reading along.

There are those who I would attempt to “justify my existence” for. You are not one of them. You’re just a fruitcake commenter, a stranger of no consequence.

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 19:46

@ fedrz

I said glue, the middle class is central to any countries economy but the middle class isnt the only one allowed to or running the country for that matter.

Women are the glue is different from women run the family, men run the family…only as long as women allow them to without pulling it apart as we can observe happening all around us. Comprehende.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 19:59

Caliph,

Well, I guess, if you think that is a family. I think of it like a herd of cows. And I don’t think of a cow with a calf, walking around in a herd, to be a family. They rely on eachother, and are a communal “family” with lesser ties than occur in real families.

When I see a herd of cows… well… that’s just dinner.

Btw, did you know that it is a Marxist technique to define all families as “equal” so that they can be destructed with Critical Theory?

Critical Theory (Marxism) can also be used by us, and very effectively. If only people would stop putting up roadblocks, so we could get down to the business of showing them how we could fight back.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 20:01

Jay –

For those of you who write articles here on this men’s rights website, consider that it is not productive to write them about topics without explaining the connection to men’s rights issues.

I generally do try to make a case for why my articles are relevant to men, but this site isn’t formatted strictly for “men’s rights issues.” It’s not strictly a political activism site. Those already exist.

I do not speak for Welmer–this is his project and he runs the show–but a broader range of social commentary, including entertainment and seemingly random “of interest to men” pieces have been part of it from the get-go. I am sympathetic to many of the issues facing men’s rights activists and I post relevant news items when I find them, but I am not an activist myself and I don’t write in-depth about legal issues. I’m a writer who writes about men and ideas of interest to men–based on my own interests and the interests of my friends and the interests of men who share my values. The site advertises itself very loosely as “men’s movement,” not as an MRA site–though there is some of that, too.

If you want us all to play “hide the conservative/libertarian so my progressive/liberal friends won’t be offended” I think you’re misreading, from what I have seen, the leanings of many of the posters (and readers) here. If this were to become an MRA version of the Huffington Post, I would probably not be involved.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 20:12

Incidentally…

One of the paleoconservative sites I like best (Takimag) appeals to me precisely because it has an unlikely mix of characters whose views sometimes overlap and sometimes come into conflict. Old School Catholics, HBD, Pagan heavy metal fans, secular conservatives, university professors, college students and a radio guy who goes by “The Southern Avenger.” It keeps things interesting and helps ideas mix and reformulate and evolve…

…I also think that’s part of the charm here at The Spearhead. It’s not quite an echo chamber, and there are some competing interests who share some common ground.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 21:18

I agree, Jack.

Welmer’s got a good formula going here. This site is a resounding success.

Of course, it would be better if everyone just believed me right off, and called me the Grande Puba.

But, whaddya do? If I had everything in the world I wanted today, then I’d have to shoot myself tomorrow.

Paul Elam December 27, 2009 at 21:32

I didn’t see this thread till there were 96 comments. I am shocked, unless he has been banned, to not see Globalman’s comments at least a dozen times.

What bothers me about this way too brief piece is not that it doesn’t relate to men’s rights, but that, knowingly or not, it plays into the same polemics that serve to keep us distracted from the fact that globalization isn’t a product of the left.

It might lead people to think that Obama is somehow the king puppet behind our loss of constitutional freedoms, while of course the socons wipe their butts daily with the constitution, and have contributed more in recent times to undermining our sovereign status than liberals.

It plays into the conservative good/liberal bad crap that you can more easily get from 5 minutes on Fox News or CNN, and without the effort to read through the paragraph of legal gibberish.

It isn’t Obama that is the puppet for globalization, it is the entire government. The corporatocracy that actually runs things loves this kind of sound bite of a piece, because all it would do in most circles is inspire partisan bickering, which is the distraction of choice for the corporate gods.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 21:45

@Jay Hammer

no one’s going to disprove anthropogenic climate change any time soon

You’re making an elementary logical error. The burden of proof is on the claimant – you – to prove that global warming is human-caused. Asking me to prove that global warming is NOT human-caused is like asking an atheist to prove that God does not exist.

This of course is to be expected from a woolly-headed leftie with no understanding of science. Regardless, I like this subject and would be happy to debate. Lay out your case and I’ll rebut with some facts.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 21:55

Paul Elam,

Have you ever noticed that it alternates?

I think one side goes national, and then the next side goes international.

For example: Clinton was “international” – immensely popular, and the Clintons had much that they did to affect the world stage.

Bush attacked internally, and took away many internal freedoms in the USA – or, set the ball in motion.

Now, Obama again is International.

Just an observation/theory, which I have no real proof of, but… 8 years of one, then 8 years of the other. By the time one is over, people have forgotten the one before that, and so on.

Of course, Bush started a war, lol, but, I wonder if others have seen this, or if I am just imagining things. It seems to alternate by administration.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 21:59

Laws protecting men’s rights will have a very tough time passing without progressive buy-in.

I’m an engineer, Charles, and I understand science well enough. The evidence points to man-made climate change, just like the evidence points to dinosaurs roaming the earth millions of years ago. Most woolly-headed scientists agree and those that don’t generally have conflicting interests and know very little about climatology.

When the evidence points to climate change and said climate change will likely have a significant negative impact on humanity we are compelled to take precautions.

I’ll put the burden of proof on you – prove to me that climate change is not occurring. Do you think it’s a possibility?

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:00

@Jay Hammer

I’ll get you started with some easy stuff. Here’s my precis of the scientific method:
1. Establish a hypothesis.
2. Test the hypothesis by experiment and observation.
3. Determine whether the experimental data supports or disproves the hypothesis.
4. Publish results, with descriptions of methods and ALL experimental data.
5. Other scientists attempt to replicate your work.
6. Repeat.

There is hardly a member of the Hockey (Stick) Team who even qualifies as a scientist, given the concerted efforts of Mann, Jones, Hansen and others to subvert the scientific process, particularly at step 4, by destroying, altering and hiding data and by obstructing step 5 in every possible way. IMHO, this is sufficient on its own to discredit so-called climate SCIENCE as practiced by the Hockey Team, as it is obviously not science at all.

Over to you.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:12

Jay Hammers,

You’ve just lost all credibility with me, my friend.

What the UN did with that Global Warming Scam was no different than the attack on Pearl Harbor. That was a concerted attack on freedom and sovereignty.

I want to see Al Gore swing from a rope.

This is such a fucking scam, it makes me fucking furious.

I’m not gonna buy a fucking Prius when a goddamn Moose farts out 13,000kms equivalent of car emmisions a year.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article2310627.ece

And, again, how about you Globaloney Warming Zealots addressing the preservation of our rights? Doesn’t seem to matter at all.

Has nothing to do with left or right. It has to do with stupidity.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7125799376864842891#

Pfft. Globaloney Warming Morons are losing hard and fast, but still screeching. Half of Canadians now believe it is a scam, even the MSM is starting to report it, because every talk in show has people calling in to scream.

Besides, it would be great for Canada. And, it’s obviously not happening.

But, I have some Arctic Oceanfront property that I can sell you… should be worth quite a bit a few years, eh?

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:13

@Jay Hammer

I’m an engineer, Charles, and I understand science well enough

Then you should be ashamed, as you have not applied the critical thinking of which you should be capable.

The evidence points to man-made climate change

I say again, what evidence? Claiming it does not make it so. I can lay out the case for AGW in five sentences. You are obviously afraid to do so.

When the evidence points to climate change and said climate change will likely have a significant negative impact on humanity we are compelled to take precautions.

This is female logic. Security-blanket measures to protect against the boogeyman. What does “significant impact” mean? What do you mean by “precautions’? You absolutely have not thought this through.

prove to me that climate change is not occurring.

Very funny. Climate change has always occurred and always will occur. Humans have not, do not and will never have any ability to change or control this in any way.

If that is the best you can do, I am not impressed.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:13

Oh, please, “Climate Gate” has been debunked repeatedly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnVQ2fROOg

I’m not going to argue against Fox “News” and far right-wing talking points, they have all already been debunked.

Please don’t act as if conservatives are the champions of science. Progressives always have been and still are. The global warming controversy is like Galileo versus the church all over again. Reason versus theology, the theology that man couldn’t possibly harm the earth, a theology driven by big oil and coal greed.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:13

I’ll let Charles do the arguing.

In the meantime, I’m gonna try and figure out why MARS is warming!

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:19

Humanity has had stupendous effects on the world already. CO2 levels, killing off species, deforestation, pollution of the oceans. The list is endless and not really up for debate.

You’re not going to offend me by claiming I’m using female logic. Are you trying to attack my masculinity? You sound like a feminist.

I’m not going to spend aeons explaining every point I make to you, Charles. Google it or remain ignorant.

And I repeat: Do you think anthropogenic climate change is a possibility?

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 22:20

fedrz -

Of course, it would be better if everyone just believed me right off, and called me the Grande Puba.

It’s actually “Grand Poobah.” Which is why, sadly, it is clear that you are not always right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Poobah

Just bustin’ your balls, man.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:24

I, however, AM always right. :)

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:26

@Jay Hammer

The global warming controversy is like Galileo versus the church all over again.

Nice. You forgot to compare me to a Holocaust-denier.

How exactly, are you so certain that you are right? Wouldn’t you say that your certainty resembles religious belief far more than it resembles a science-based assessment of an extraordinarily complex subject?

The most amusing aspect of the AGW religion – to me anyway – is that the weight of evidence suggests that the global climate has entered a cooling period that will last several decades, perhaps longer. It will become progressively harder for you to cling to your fallacious ideas. At some point you will have no choice but to renounce them.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:26

I just attack moronic bullshit.

WHAT ABOUT OUR RIGHTS?

WHY IS THE ONLY SOLUTION THE ENDING OF SOVEREIGNTY?

Why not end no fault divorce? Huh?

46% of all emission supposedly come from homes… imagine then, more people living together as families. Don’t tell one of you brilliant engineers has not been able to do the math.

It’s bullshit, and it’s an attack on freedom.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 22:27

Hey, when I am 20 feet under water I am gonna feel soooo stupid. Until then…

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:27

In Canada, we call it Puba. It’s our culture.

G December 27, 2009 at 22:31

Charles,

even we were wrong, and there is no climate change (man-made or not), all the actions taken to reduce carbon monoxide are STILL praiseworthy. The solar & wind technologies are still progress going into the right direction.

I don’t see why you could be against that.

Jack Donovan December 27, 2009 at 22:33

It would be kind of ironic if human pollution ended up kicking off another Ice Age instead of “warming.”

I’d piss me off though, because snow is in my fucking way.

I tend to think we’re dealing with sciences in their infancy (a couple hundred years–at best–of reliable tracking) and they know about as much about what is going to happen as the evening meteorologist.

OMG! ARCTIC BLAST!!!!!!
STAY INSIDE AND DRINK LOTS OF WATER – WHEN WILL THIS HEAT WAVE END??!!!!

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:33

@Jay Hammer

I’m not going to spend aeons explaining every point I make to you,

You haven’t explained any of them. All you have done is repeat the tax-loving, freedom-loathing, capitalism-denying, man-hating socialist party line. Are you sure you are on the right web site?

G December 27, 2009 at 22:34

Charles,
about the “who is right” thing…
“Ambiguity : vector of progress”. Anonymous

G December 27, 2009 at 22:36

Jack, im already living in snow for half of the year in Canada, don’t ruin my day…

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:38

Here is the sea level marked at mean tide in 1841 compared to today.

http://www.john-daly.com/

Time to buy waterwing stock!

When this is all over, some people better get rope burns on their necks.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:42

Well, yeah. They are predicting the tempature within a couple degrees, 100 years in the future.

When has the weather been accurately predictable within a couple of degrees in even a few weeks or days. Come on now.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:43

Indeed, if humanity survives for long enough one of us will be proven wrong. And not necessarily in mere decades.

The weight of evidence suggests anthropogenic climate change, as the scientific community has clearly demonstrated. I believe intelligent scientists, mostly men, because they have not led me astray before. You believe right-wing commentators who flunked out of college and have no understanding of science.

I think I’m fine where I am, but I don’t deny there is a possibility that I’ll be proven wrong. I think the likelihood is high enough, however, that I won’t change my mind until I actually see evidence to the contrary. Your arguments do not provide any such evidence nor have any I’ve seen over the years from right-wingers echoing talking points.

I consider the idea of Heaven ludicrous and I consider myself an atheist because of it. Not an agnostic because that’s half-assed. It simply doesn’t make any sense, much like it doesn’t make any sense for countless scientists to get behind some vast conspiracy to promote global warming to fill Al Gore’s pockets. It’s preposterous.

The only reason there is a fight in the U.S. against the idea of global warming is that it will cut into big energy profits and it could increase the amount citizens pay for energy. And I’m sorry but staunch individualism won’t work in this case. Your desire to pollute the environment must be met with resistance for the good of humanity. You have your rights but they cannot be allowed to interfere with mine. Just because you want to save some money doesn’t mean others, including your children, should suffer for it in the long run.

And here’s where you call me a fear-monger, but no, I am a logic-monger. Which is why I am for equal rights regardless of gender.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:45

@G

even we were wrong, and there is no climate change (man-made or not), all the actions taken to reduce carbon monoxide are STILL praiseworthy.

Thank you for your contribution. There is a very, very, VERY significant difference between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Here it is. Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas, a pollutant, one of the reasons that the EPA mandated catalytic converters on automobiles. Carbon dioxide is one of the two gases – the other is oxygen – on which all life on Earth depends. The fact that you confused the two proves my point. You have no understanding of the science and yet are sure you are qualified to have an opinion on this subject. I resent that fact that people like you and Jay are conspiring to take away my freedoms.

The solar & wind technologies are still progress going into the right direction. I don’t see why you could be against that.

I am against that because most so-called Green technologies are uneconomic malinvestments made with public money.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:46

“Well, yeah. They are predicting the tempature within a couple degrees, 100 years in the future.

When has the weather been accurately predictable within a couple of degrees in even a few weeks or days. Come on now.”

I can’t help but laugh.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:47

G,

It is wrong to use the “good for the environment” excuse to justify a blatantly fraudulent scam.

And it is wrong to portray those speaking out against the Globaloney Warming Hoax as anti-environmental.

That’s crap.

I care very much about the environment, and enjoy it to the fullest. But, this is NOT the way.

Even Al Traitor Gore admits that they sensationalized things – in otherwords, he’s a fraud. A global, treasonous, snake oil salesman.

Al Gore couldn’t even survive a fucking night in a tent in his back yard without burning $100 bills to keep a fire going, and here he is…

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:49

What about the water mark, Jay?

I thought you were an engineer.

1841 – how far into the Industrial Revolution was that?

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:50

And, again, why is the ONLY solution the ending of National Sovereignty?

In other words, TREASON.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 22:54

Our biggest Global Warming Fanatic in Canada is Dr. David Fruitfly Suzuki.

The asshole has a big home in Kitselano, a 10 acre retreat on a Gulf Island, and a cabin up north. And the fucking jackass is demanding that all of us lowly mooks live in boxes in the sky to save the environment.

Sadly, treason only gets you life in prison in Canada.

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 22:55

@Jay

I consider the idea of Heaven ludicrous and I consider myself an atheist because of it.

You’re sure there’s no God, but you’re also sure that humans are changing the climate. Perfect.

I think I’m fine where I am, but I don’t deny there is a possibility that I’ll be proven wrong. I think the likelihood is high enough, however, that I won’t change my mind until I actually see evidence to the contrary.

Common ground.

Did you know, by the way, that by the IPCC’s own numbers, humans contribute less than 5% of the Carbon Dioxide going into the atmosphere every year? Less than 5%. The rest comes from natural sources. So that even if humanity were to cut CO2 emissions by 50%, an action that would utterly lay waste to all the world’s industrial economies, that CO2 going into the atmosphere would be reduced by only 2-1/2%.

AGW is all about taxes and control, Jay. You are being used.

Jay Hammers December 27, 2009 at 22:58

With the advent of the world wide web there is no excuse to remain so ignorant. Do a quick Google Search and all of the arguments here against anthropogenic climate change are quickly refuted (by science). This is as it has always been when I’ve considered “evidence” against global warming. None of the arguments has ever convinced me because none have held any merit and all have been refuted.

I am not one who always holds steadfast to one point of view, as evidence by the fact that I am against affirmative action and female privilege even though I grew up with them. And just because most liberal viewpoints are wise and most conservative viewpoints are ignorant, I don’t discount individual viewpoints within each camp “just because”.

I have done the research and considered both points of view. Obviously many of you have not and are completely unwilling to do so. That’s your choice but don’t bother trying to argue with me if you’re just going to spout talking points which have already been clearly refuted.

I have several blog posts on my website regarding global warming and the foolishness of posting far right-wing propaganda on men’s rights sites. Feel free to look for “Search this Blog” on my site for more information.

Conservatives may be the driving force behind men’s rights now but liberals will be with us soon enough and liberals are the ones who will convince the public of the importance of equal gender rights. No one is going to convince the public to side with far right-wingers as the younger generations become more enlightened. Children are learning how to use the Internet at young ages these days. And unlike you, they will know how to use Google.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 23:01

It’s odd, that at Copenhagen, they had all kinds of Pacific Islands talking about the rising sea levels rising on their islands.

This is an HL thread, and so, perhaps he might know.

Isn’t it true that coral islands are usually either rising or falling? Isn’t that how lagoons get developed?

I live on the Pacific Ocean, and, gee, it ain’t rising here! Maybe its a different Pacific.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 23:10

I have blog posts on Globaloney Warming too, Jay… SO?

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 23:11

WHAT ABOUT THE WATER MARK?

http://www.john-daly.com/

Why did we fork over money to help move villages in the Pacific?

Charles Martel December 27, 2009 at 23:12

@Jay

You are a stand-up guy. It’s 2:15 am here on the East Coast. Meeting adjourned.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 23:18

I’m proud Canada got an award at Copenhagen for not giving a shit about Global Warming.

Stephen Harper, you’ve got my support.

fedrz December 27, 2009 at 23:53

“The threat of environmental crisis will be the ‘international disaster key’ that will unlock the New World Order.” — Mikhail Gorbachev, quoted in “A Special Report: The Wildlands Project Unleashes Its War On Mankind”, by Marilyn Brannan, Associate Editor, Monetary & Economic Review, 1996, p. 5

Keating December 28, 2009 at 00:00

@ Jay

You’re a Warm-Monger.

end of.

btw, if it were possible, I would motion to remove your man card.

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 00:05

Chastising bloggers for not knowing how to use Google is pretty hilarious.

Holy moly and slap my grandma, Jay discovered Google. Lookie over here boys! Golly!

And just because most liberal viewpoints are wise and most conservative viewpoints are ignorant, I don’t discount individual viewpoints within each camp “just because”.

Your bias is evident enough in your phrasing. I’m certain you fancy yourself a free-thinking moderate, but you’re pretty clearly a liberal, happy to laugh along with John Stewart at those “wacky” Americans.

Global warming, aside from being about a power grab and a transfer of wealth, fits a little too tidily into the SWPL self-hatred/self-negation model.

I’d agree with whoever said some of the advances implemented in the name of the green religion are probably for the best. Aside from being the best feel-good marketing gimmick for housewives since breast cancer awareness, some of the green stuff is not half bad.

Grass-fed beef is delicious.

DT December 28, 2009 at 01:37

Guys n gals, you have to be realistic. No one’s going to take away women’s right to vote, no one’s going to remove Obama from the presidency talking about his birth, no one’s going to disprove anthropogenic climate change any time soon.

The AGW climate models completely failed to predict the climate we observed in this decade. Therefore the theory is falsified. Nobody needs to disprove it, it has fallen apart all on its own.

What were you saying about the other two?

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 01:44

i <3 liberals

DT December 28, 2009 at 01:46

The weight of evidence suggests anthropogenic climate change, as the scientific community has clearly demonstrated.

There is no joint scientific community opinion or consensus on this matter, and there never has been. There are not two opposing opinions on climate change, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different opinions as to the relative importance of different inputs into our complex, chaotic, and still poorly understood climate system. Just this past month I read two new papers, neither of which fit into clear cut sides as portrayed in propaganda on the topic. One argued that CFCs, not CO2, were primarily responsible for the observed warming of the late 20th century and that anthropogenic input into the system has been on the decline since CFCs were banned. Another argued that anthropogenic influences pale in comparison to the influences of cosmic radiation, which is moderated by the sun’s magnetic field.

While I can’t tell you precisely how each input contributes to our climate, and neither can anybody else, I can tell you that AGW theory is simplistic, ignorant, naive, and falsified. The projections made in the 1990′s failed to materialize, and a scientific hypothesis which cannot predict observable behavior is a falsified one which either must be overhauled or discarded.

Our climate system is far more complex than any theory published to date to explain it. We are possibly a century away from being able to fully understand and accurately model it.

I believe intelligent scientists, mostly men, because they have not led me astray before. You believe right-wing commentators who flunked out of college and have no understanding of science.

Can you honestly say you’ve read a single paper on the topic? Because you do not speak as one who is knowledgeable about this topic.

I think I’m fine where I am, but I don’t deny there is a possibility that I’ll be proven wrong. I think the likelihood is high enough, however, that I won’t change my mind until I actually see evidence to the contrary. Your arguments do not provide any such evidence nor have any I’ve seen over the years from right-wingers echoing talking points.

Here are 450 peer reviewed papers by scientists skeptical of AGW theory:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/15/reference-450-skeptical-peer-reviewed-papers/

It simply doesn’t make any sense, much like it doesn’t make any sense for countless scientists to get behind some vast conspiracy to promote global warming to fill Al Gore’s pockets. It’s preposterous.

Here’s a petition of 31,486 scientists who disagree with AGW theory. This petition is 10x larger than any petition I’ve seen in support of AGW theory.

http://www.petitionproject.org/

The only reason there is a fight in the U.S. against the idea of global warming is that it will cut into big energy profits and it could increase the amount citizens pay for energy.

Hundreds of skeptical papers, thousands of skeptical scientists, and dropping temperatures when AGW models projected faster than ever warming have nothing to do with it?

Your desire to pollute the environment must be met with resistance for the good of humanity.

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is necessary for all life on Earth. Higher atmospheric CO2 leads to increased vegetation on the Earth, which leads to both larger animal populations and greater variety of species. It never ceases to amaze me that people fall for the idea that higher CO2 and/or higher temperatures will harm life when in fact all historical evidence points to the opposite, that life does better as CO2 levels rise, and as temperatures rise. We know for certain that human beings do much, much better during warm periods. Just compare human history and progress during the Roman or Medieval warm periods and the Little Ice Age.

None of the arguments has ever convinced me because none have held any merit and all have been refuted.

Jay, I don’t believe for one minute that you’ve given any serious study or consideration to opposing viewpoints.

Icaros2010 December 28, 2009 at 01:59

American political discussions are something all-together different, as seen here. Not a slightest sign of rational discussion. Memeplexes reinforced. Clichés abound. Reputations, in my eyes at least, taking beatings.

Now back to your regular programming, cultural warriors.

barsin December 28, 2009 at 02:05

“Conservatives may be the driving force behind men’s rights…”

Yeah, driving it into obscurity.

If anything, the tendency is for conservatives to turn MRA sites, message boards, what have you, into Limbaugh-esque hellholes over time. Thus they become about as irrelevant as their opinions apparently are to Republican lawmakers. Honestly, if somebody can point me to one thing Republicans have done for men….

I haven’t seen any of this damage caused by progressives within the movement that fedrz is seeing, but then again, if Karl Marx jumped out of my closet waggling his tongue and tormenting me every night, I might be seeing things too. If anything, conservatives have massively damaged the movement by dragging the rest of their bloated agenda into the mix, alienating the fuck out of anyone not in lockstep with their more idiosyncratic views.

Progressives have only been conspicuous in their absence, as most of them are in full support of the g.d. matriarchy, kinda like Republican politicians. More of them seem to be waking up, though (the progressives, not the…) and I think that’s an unconditional good thing. Finding out you’re a second class citizen breaks all kinds of ideological barriers. I think it should be encouraged.

Who knows, conservatives, if you don’t condemn those liberal whore pansies out of hand a few of them might even swallow some of that pig-shit you call a platform. Hey, someday their social conscience might atrophy beneath the level of rabies infested hyenas and they can become libertarians. But in the meantime we can all agree on one thing. that this situation sucks for men.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 02:11

Yes, I am a true liberal, I’m actually what liberalism should be! Affirmative action laws are discriminatory and thus should be abolished. Men’s rights have been eroded and thus should be restored, a product of feminism. Westernized society’s tendency to value physical appearance over enduring qualities such as intellect will only harm society in the long run and thus should be mitigated. It does society no good for everyone to act like brainless sluts and manwhores constantly.

I’m a true liberal and proud of it. Liberalism in Westernized society today is not really liberalism.

Here’s a list someone proposed of 10 liberal values:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/liberal-values_b_31218.html

#2 and #5:
2. Liberals believe individuals should be tolerant and respectful of difference.
5. Liberals believe government must respect and affirmatively safeguard the liberty, equality and dignity of each individual.

Liberalism today has twisted these to promote discriminatory practices based on political correctness. Not everyone is born equal in every aspect. That much is well-documented by scientific evidence even though it isn’t PC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between-group_differences_in_IQ

Widespread evidence also shows that men do not have equal rights in Westernized societies.

Now what’s not well-documented is scientific evidence showing we don’t need to adapt to climate change. We do.

I am what liberals should be, baby, and I base my views on evidence. I do not hold to very many, if any, societal conventions. Think of me as a liberal alien being from another planet, not bound by society’s expectations and biases. I am a rationalist, always have been.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:19

Have you actually contributed anything but mindless bile to this thread, Barsin?

Nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to read. Yet, you and the other leftard keep dancing around here like a couple of morons.

Btw, did you know that being a Conservative in Canada means being about the equivalent of a Democrat in Canada? What do you know about my politics, you mouthpiece? I’m neither left nor right, and don’t even vote. I am opposed to lippy shits like you who attack with no foundation right from the get go.

I don’t see anything behind your argument except for liberalesque whining and snivelling. How typical.

Interesting, that it is the two leftards marching in here telling everyone else what they can and can’t do, or even talk about.

Wow!

How progressive.

Lol!

You two guys are a joke.

Paul December 28, 2009 at 02:20

I have to comment on Null’s rather overheated attack on Islam (not sure why as its has nothing to do with the 4th Amendment).

Firstly Islam is not stuck in the Dark Ages as you suggest as there was no dark ages in Islam. The Dark Ages was the period in Western Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not fall in the East. If fact the Dark Ages overlap with what is called the golden age of Islam.

But the whole tone of your attack Null is just so typical of American arrogance. You complain endlessly about how you are treated in the USA but in they same breath denounce the others as being ‘fucked up nations’. Look there is a bigoted journal on the Internet call Men’s News Daily. Why don’t you go wallow over there.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:20

Democrat in the USA, lol – The Conservatives here are Centrist – there is nobody to the political right of them. Makes you wonder how far to the left our Liberal and NDP party are, eh?

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:24

I suspect the MRM will get further without Barsin and Jay Hammer than with them… but, stick around. It seems that you guys make pretty good target practice for the rest of us, and that actually does help the MRM. But, I doubt you are gonna win anyone to your way of thinking… sounds a little fembot to me, your guys arguments.

I second the motion to remove your man-cards.

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 02:27

@ Ferdz

No, I hadn’t noticed it, but it makes sense. And it goes back further than 8 years. I can easily see it back to Reagan (thanks for no-fault divorce!), then Carter (the fucking buffoon) and on down the line. Liberals have pushed a globalist agenda through the use of international popularity and conservatives have done it in the name of protecting nationalism.

SSDD

Thanks for pointing it out in the way you did.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 02:35

If it’s feminine to try to educate my intellectual inferior, fedrz, and to vote, well then I guess I’m all woman. If it comforts your obviously flimsy sense of masculinity to continue to spout platitudes and attack others with whatever drivel you can think of off the top of your head, then I’m all for it. Why don’t you come here and rest your head on my lap? Thattaboy.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 02:39

I think next time I see an argument like this over men’s rights I will just quote barsin. Well said.

I should’ve been done with this already but I unexpectedly had to stay up tonight.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:39

Did you actually present an argument there, Jay? Or did your panties bunch up in the back when you tried those shaming tactics so typical of feminists?

Seriously now.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:42

Btw, Jay and Barsin.

It is pretty rich for you guys to march in here and demand how to best be the MRM. Jay has a blog that gets no hits and comments at all, and Barsin is just a non-clickable name… yet, it appears they want a consulting job to help Welmer increase hits, while he probably is scoring more hits in a day than Jay gets in a month, and certainly than Barsin gets in a lifetime.

I’ll bet these two swifties both have Ph D’s… seems about the right intellect plus unfounded superiority complex.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 02:52

Good god! Jay, did you actually link to Huffington Post to make your argument?

I rest my case.

Welmer December 28, 2009 at 03:02

American political discussions are something all-together different, as seen here. Not a slightest sign of rational discussion. Memeplexes reinforced. Clichés abound. Reputations, in my eyes at least, taking beatings.

Now back to your regular programming, cultural warriors.

-Icaros

One thing about America is that there is a strong Messianic/eschatological strain in our national discourse. Hence you have the “War on Terror,” the “War on Climate Change,” etc. Part of what happened is that we set up a system of government designed to contain power through the so-called “checks and balances,” so in order to get things done Americans raise huge alarms to overwhelm the opposition. This started way back in the 19th century. You can see some of it in the popular debate over the Mexican War, if you’re interested in the history.

I would argue that irrational debate is a direct result of the limited nature of government in America combined with its size and diversity. To get anything done you have to forge a consensus, and to do that you have to appeal to more than simple reason to get over the roadblocks. You wouldn’t believe the assault on reason leading up to the Iraq War. After a full-bore campaign of lies and hysteria, most Americans thought that Saddam Hussein had ordered the attacks on the WTC. They were grabbing hack reporters from all over the place to write up this garbage and coming up with the most ridiculous stories, such as the “Niger yellowcake,” to scare people into thinking we were about to get nuked.

As for the climate change thing, I’m pretty cynical about it. I know, for example, that there’s no way in hell China and India will go along with plans to reduce emissions — it would destroy their economic growth and might even topple the CCP if they did so. So whether or not anthropogenic climate change exists is a moot point; someone will be using that oil, coal and gas no matter what. And to be honest, I see the same kind of crap about global warming that I saw in the War on Terror, that is, a lot of lies and exaggerations. Just today I saw an obviously photoshopped picture of a penguin floating on a small piece of ice next to palm trees on public television, suggesting that the penguins are all dying off from global warming (they even mixed up the poles, saying that Arctic melting was threatening penguins). It was so retarded I had to laugh, but there you go…

Personally, I’m pro-nuke, but too many of the greens here can’t stomach nuclear power, which would be the most realistic way to reduce carbon emissions. Hell, we have enough uranium and thorium to provide all our energy needs for millions of years. But I guess my point is that if humans are causing climate change, we are not going to stop it short of another Word War III, and there’s no sense in tilting at windmills in Copenhagen in that case.

Migu December 28, 2009 at 03:19

Awesome thread.

@ the homo hater.
Gay sperm impregnates the same as straight sperm. I guess our homosexual men can reproduce after all. I would even venture to guess they have been reproducing since ancient times. After all Jack is here today isn’t he?

Charles Martel December 28, 2009 at 04:08

@DT

There is no joint scientific community opinion or consensus on this matter, and there never has been.

I grab a few hours sleep and wake to write the definitive AGW rebuttal only to find you have already written it. Your post is a tour de force. Bravo!

gwallan December 28, 2009 at 04:34

fedrz asked Paul Elam…

Have you ever noticed that it alternates?

It’s more accurate to say that each progressive administration continues the little perversions and corruptions of the previous administration only varied to fit their particular ideology de jeur.

Paul refers to the creation of division in political discourse. In mainstream politics this would be termed “wedging”. It is a pointer to shallow leadership and ideology on the part of the wedgers. The true leaders do not lead by destabilising their opponents. The true, honest ideology leads through it’s own strength rather than it’s alternative’s weaknesses. They lead by showing a new or better way. The way to overcome the wedge is to show unity in the face of it.

It is a political tactic with long history but one which has become exceedingly common through the past century.

The resort of charlatans.

And a western world that makes it’s choices based on the “wisdom” of junkies and whores and the assorted “beautiful people”. A world that lives it’s individual lives by peering vicariously into the lives of others in all sorts of ways.

The noble experiment that was the west – the ideal of individual liberty and true democracy – is moribund at best.

Valé.

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 07:11

Jay –

I am what liberals should be, baby, and I base my views on evidence. I do not hold to very many, if any, societal conventions. Think of me as a liberal alien being from another planet, not bound by society’s expectations and biases. I am a rationalist, always have been.

You’ve just captured something that liberals claim to be, but rarely if ever are in practice. It’s a good thing to try to be, but everyone has interests and biases that influence their opinions and the ideas they choose to accept. I have yet to meet an unbiased human who is wholly rational. This is a conceit.

A flaw in this way of thinking is also that it makes an enemy of tradition and tends to throw it out before it really has a substantial basis for doing so. For most liberals, tradition is suspect and the newest, most fashionable information–subject to change according to the scientific process and further investigation–is favored over anything “traditional” which has worked for years.

Feminism is a great example of how liberals and scientists jumped on a bandwagon together and encouraged society to throw the baby out with the bathwater, only to find later that many had distorted evidence and claims and that things didn’t work out quite like they thought they would. Many scientists and even feminists now acknowledge that men and women are different on some basic levels that go beyond mere “conditioning” and playing with different toys, but liberals and scientists pounded the social conditioning drum and advocated hysterically for public policy changes based on that view, invoking “science” and mocking the “old, irrational conservatives.”

A truly conservative approach (as opposed to a crazy neocon blowhard approach) would wait longer and change more incrementally, with a bias in favor of what has worked in the past.

Bob Smith December 28, 2009 at 07:47

If the UN is to run the world then it will be a UN dominated and controlled by the USA and its friends in Europe.

The UN isn’t controlled by the US and Europe anymore. It’s controlled by the OIC.

Harry December 28, 2009 at 08:04

@Jay

Have you seen the lecture by Professor Jasper Kirkby – to be found almost at the top of my page here, …

http://www.harrysnews.com

It’s quite enjoyable – but a bit technical.

He looks at the effect of cosmic rays on our climate.

And he doesn’t seem to have an axe to grind over the CO2 issue.

It seems that we are heading for an ice age. LOL!

Ragnar December 28, 2009 at 08:17

@fedrz

Also, the men’s rights movement != MGTOW.

True.

But when it first arrived, it was made up of dirty dog sonsabitches who were saying things that everyone disaproved of. A more ragtag bunch of misfits that had banned from more places, you had never seen.

Not that I was ever a misfit, and I’ve certainly never been banned. I’ve been loved everywhere I go.

Thanks for the kind words!
I think this shows more about how the society had become in every aspect. It was impossible to say anything, in defense of men, without being shouted down and shamed into oblivion.
That was even the case at the old Collosseum which was supposed to be a mens site, but was finally burned down.

To me, that event was the start of the Mens Movement. Of course I know that a number of men has been fighting for mens rights long before that – I’m one myself, but some of the best from those days actually do a lot of writing here today, more than I ever will accomplish.

Comment_Whatever December 28, 2009 at 08:41

Guys n gals, you have to be realistic. No one’s going to take away women’s right to vote, no one’s going to remove Obama from the presidency talking about his birth, no one’s going to disprove anthropogenic climate change any time soon.

Brass tacks, a leader is someone people listen to. Even by threat this is true. After all, the people who carry out the threat have to listen to him. If they don’t, then he has no threat.

Legitimacy, and belief in your RIGHT to be in charge is essential.

Feminists, and progressives, understand this. As is obvious from how they act, night and day, every day.

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 08:41

I laugh when I listen to Ministry’s New World Order as some alarmist ‘warning’ that some incompetent, privileged Ivy League old boy fop like Bush I could ever establish some NWO on a fornicating Grunge Generation X.

The real and true New World Order fascists were Sick Willy and his 8-year blowjob on the UN and our current Fuerher Obama and his grandiose dreams of World Socialism. He’s the perfect bridge between Hitler and Stalin.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 08:42

Actually, if there is one thing that should give us hope that the Global Beast can be stopped, I think it must be what has happened to Globaloney Warming, and the way it is getting discredited.

This was truly the people sticking it back to their enemies by using the internet.

And, like I said earlier, what was on the internet certainly was forced onto the MSM by the average people – here in Canada anyway.

I watch the Business News Channel pretty frequently, and they often have political guests on some of their segments which you can call into. Lol! These guys on the news tried and tried and tried to ignore the people calling in to challenge whatever BS about Climate Change was getting foisted on them, and after a while, the News was receiving such floods of mail that you could see it on them, and they even admitted it – they couldn’t even mention Climate Change anymore without getting several thousands of people writing in demanding that their questions get answered. They demanded that Climategate get discussed, and they demanded that political leaders be asked tough questions – and the Media certainly got the message that the people are angry. In the last poll, over 50% of Canadians believe Global Warming is a scam that has been sensationalized by special interests, and we wanted nothing to do with it.

And screw Copenhagen for trying to shame Prime Minister Harper for his inaction on Global Warming. He is listening to the voice of the people he represents, and flipping Copenhagen the bird like we told him to. Lol, I love how the opposition pestered him and pestered him that he didn’t want to even go to Copenhagen, and only sent our Minister of Environment… after enough pressure, he finally agreed to show up… which he did… for lunch, and then he left and went back home. LOL!

The people do have the power to back these media jackasses up against the wall and scare the crap out of them.

Btw, that Business Channel used to have a talk show where they had a divorce lawyer on to discuss various laws in that regard. The PCists didn’t win there either, because there were a lot of men who would call in, pissed off, and give it back to them straight.

I don’t know who the one guy was, but he was a pretty dedicated MRA. I’ve heard him call in several times, and when he gets on the air, he rattles off his spiel and when they start to try to cut him off, he always blurts out an MRM website on the air really loudly. “DUMP YOUR WIFE NOW DOT COM! DUMP YOUR WIFE NOW DOT COM!”… click… silence.

Lol!

Good job, whoever you are. I salute you.

Ragnar December 28, 2009 at 08:53

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 7:34 pm
@ Ragnar
“men banding and respecting each others property rights, among that staying away from other mens women, thus giving women no other choice!”

The above is reponsible for civilisation not the family unit.

The family unit started when the ancient homo sapien females started dedicating themselves to a single male and ensuring he has no doubts about being the sire of her progeny, hence entitling herself to a significant amount of his efforts towards raising her offspring.

That’s totally ridiculus, whatever makes you think that.

Women living with their children is not a family, never was – it’s the way of nature. That is how monkeys live.
As soon as women get their ‘indepence’ they choose to live the way that gives them the most, no matter how that is.
This tells us that it was men who made the family, by sharing the women. It gave us all* a tremendous success and a better life.

You will need to understand that banding will never happen among men without respect for property rights. The idea of banding + respecting the rights of other men, (versus the winner takes it all), was the idea that made men able to step out of the animal kingdom and create advanced societies.

Women reverting to their old ways actually proves that they are not our equals and doesn’t belong to mankind, albeit they belong to the same species as men. You might put it in a more blunt way; “Men learned to band, cooperate and live with monkeys!”

It went wrong when some men got the idea that the monkeys were our equals!

*) us all = men

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 09:14

Ragnar

Women living with their children is not a family, never was – it’s the way of nature. That is how monkeys live.

So that explains Detroit.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 10:18

Jack-

A flaw in this way of thinking is also that it makes an enemy of tradition and tends to throw it out before it really has a substantial basis for doing so. For most liberals, tradition is suspect and the newest, most fashionable information–subject to change according to the scientific process and further investigation–is favored over anything “traditional” which has worked for years.

Perhaps, but a common flaw among conservative thinking is the belief that the old ways of doing things are necessarily the best ways. We live in a vastly different society today than just a century ago and we need to adjust to the changes and yes, analyze their effects.

Let’s look at an example. Homosexuals adopting children. What reasons would conservatives give against it? Well, a thoughtful conservative might claim the child won’t have a father or mother and the family unit will not be intact, that somehow this harms the child. Now why is it that this could be the case? Do I think that children inherently need a mother and father? No, I don’t, actually. I think that society TELLS us they do. And when the child realizes this, he or she perceives their family to be different, they perceive that they are missing something they were owed. It’s not “normal”, and this is why it might have an affect on the child – because our society tells us we are missing something if we don’t have a father and a mother.

If we all grew up with two dads, we would perceive it as “normal” and it wouldn’t be a thing. Do I think that these couples have the same capacity as a heterosexual couple to love and care for a child? Yes. It’s only society’s expectations that cause trouble.

Now take a single mother. There are plenty of statistics showing that children of single mom homes more often have problems with substance abuse, the law, suicide, etc. Is it because a single mother is necessarily worse for a child than a two-parent household? Maybe, and it’s really due to society’s expectations. Society tells us we should have a dad. Also because of society’s expectations, women generally do not grow up with the necessary skills to take on the supportive father role. Combine that with the emotions associated with being a single mom in a world that expects two-parent heterosexual households while at the same time condemning women who have an abortion in order to avoid that situation, and you get quite a dysfunctional little “family” more often than not.

That’s not to say that all single mom households are dysfunctional – some single moms persevere through all this and because society accepts single mom households more often than before, the children may not feel society’s disapproving gaze enough to let it affect them. If the mom constantly tells them their father was a deadbeat who abandoned them, regardless of whether it’s true, the child is going to suffer for it. It’s very situational. If the child perceives himself or herself as being abandoned it’s going to leave a mark on his or her ego.

Today society expects men to be the primary breadwinners and then blames them for not spending enough time with their children. It is this expectation that causes children to feel neglected by their fathers. In a reasonable society, everyone, including children, would understand that if a father must spend time away from his family to provide for them then that is not only acceptable, it is noble. I have a feeling that traditionally people realized this and you didn’t have wives and children complaining all the time that their husband and father doesn’t spend enough time at home. But feminism convinced us otherwise. Can anyone confirm that?

The point is that tradition is exactly what leads society to place expectations on individuals that often are negative. I never make the assumption that the way society is today is better than another alternative just because tradition says it is. For this reason, every society is resistant to change whether or not that change is for the better.

In order to gain “a substantial basis” for throwing out tradition, society moves slowly, experimenting, discovering what works and what does not. Obviously – to me and probably everyone here – the anti-male society we have today is not working. That’s not to say that feminism itself is naturally harmful. I believe strongly that a society in which both genders have equal rights, in which men and women are not confined into limited gender-based roles, can succeed in the long run.

I think society progresses slowly enough as it is so I’ll never be a conservative. We do not have unlimited time on this planet and I tend to think more about the future than the present, the end result rather than the immediate one. Perhaps it was necessary for feminism to swing too far in order to get equal rights within control in the minimum period of time. It’s like a proportional controller: If the gain is set too low, we’ll never get there. If the gain is set too high it will oscillate out of control indefinitely. If it’s set appropriately it will swing past the control target but it will come back to control shortly thereafter. I believe feminism’s “gains” went too far but that we’re nearing the point where the controller is gong to swing back down towards equality for both sexes.

anonymous December 28, 2009 at 10:27

Tedious and off-target. Please stop writing for The Spearhead and write for somewhere else.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 10:28

Very clever, Firepower. Collectively the commenters here have alienated progressives, moderates, women, and minorities. I’m sure we’ll get a lot accomplished with the power of conservative white males, a dying breed. Oh wait, conservative white males don’t have any power these days. I guess it’s every conservative white male for himself.

null December 28, 2009 at 10:53

Paul: “Firstly Islam is not stuck in the Dark Ages as you suggest as there was no dark ages in Islam. The Dark Ages was the period in Western Europe following the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire did not fall in the East. If fact the Dark Ages overlap with what is called the golden age of Islam.”

Really, Captain Obvious? Islam is “stuck in the dark ages” in the sense that it’s ridiculously archaic and barbaric and should have no business existing in the modern world in its current form.

“But the whole tone of your attack Null is just so typical of American arrogance.”

Except I’m not American, I’m European.

“Look there is a bigoted journal on the Internet call Men’s News Daily. Why don’t you go wallow over there.”

What does bigoted mean? Oh, that’s right: it doesn’t mean anything. It’s an emotional kneejerk response.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 10:54

@Jay Hammers-

I sympathize with your views, as I know they are coming from a pure, benevolent place. It is best to become A-political here, in terms of political parties. It is just easier to isolate, discuss, and defend specific issues. I also, agree that tradition is the enemy of evolution, but remember that evolution is brutal and works by killing off the losers. Like you were getting at, moderation, balance, is the key.

“Maybe, and it’s really due to society’s expectations. Society tells us we should have a dad.”

Not anymore. Trust me, boys, adolescent males, and young men all need a father. It is a complicated situation, but basically masculine identity has to be learned somewhere, and it is always better for it to be learned from a dad than from the streets.

And as far as global warming/cooling goes; it is too complicated to say for certainty, too important to not prepare and take precautions, but too early to take bold actions. Trust but verify. I’ve heard all types of contradictory climate stuff, like our pollution has helped stave off a impending ice-age, that as the world warms, it creates more cloud cover which deflects the sun and cools it back off, that we really only need to worry about the ocean currents grinding to a halt, etc. etc. We may end up pumping extra CO2 into the atmosphere in the coming decades to try to warm it up. Who knows? But right now, in two wars, the great recession, scientific uncertainty, and the breakdown of the nuclear family, we can afford to wait a little. I personally rather live on a more bio-productive tropical planet with lots of hurricanes and a devastated coast line then live on a planet Hoth (Of course, I do live in the foothills of the Apalachin mountains, so the water won’t reach me). Glaciers are a bitch however. They will mow down New York City. Hurricanes, well, I’ve always advocated anchored steel beam housing frames anyways (lets not forget that termites do as much damage as any terrorist or weather event).

As a whole, I like a lot of what you are saying in your last post, even where I disagree. We don’t like So-Cons anymore than liberal progressives. We are trying to come up with a new belief system. Right now, we advocate personal choice. Freedom basically. Don’t let the people around here scare you off. We all test each other’s limits. We really only care about two things; You’re not a pussy and can stand the heat of no holds barred debate and deconstruction, and you hate feminism, and plan to use the skills and emotional fortitude learned here against it. I’m not saying some people won’t dislike you, just that we all agree to dislike and like as we see fit, but we don’t quit the team. The best ideas will rise to the top. If you believe in them, keep arguing for them (within reason, don’t spam). Some of my favorite mentors here don’t like each other much. Having everyone love you, like everyone loves me, is rare and not realisitic to expect in a forum of debate and dialouge. I’m just the exception to the rule. Everyone here does love me, right? j/k, if the j/k is even remotely necessary

And all religions, just like political parties, are ultimately naive and narrow minded. Much truth is found in them, yes, but so are lies and misconceptions.
Although science isn’t perfect, it inherently is aware of its own imperfections and trys to self-correct and stay open minded. Obviously, even science is corrupted for political purposes. At the end of the day, you can only put faith in yourself. Thats what men do.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 10:59

Hey team. Where has Arbitrary been lately? I miss his analysis.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 11:08

And Jay, watch the pain I’m about to bring on myself.

Uuckhumm,… I actually like Obama. He is being manipulated by entities that do not have our best interests at heart, but I have faith that he will be a net gain for our country as a whole and I believe he will realize the error of feminism’s ways before the end of his administration. (How is that irrational optimism going to rub the logic-mongers around here)

And! And!….I believe we should tax the hell out of the top 1% until we pay off all our countries debt.

-Heat sinking missles locked on target. Prepare to execute evasive maneuvers. Use anti-missle humor flares….Now! Dive! Dive!-

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 11:19

@ Paul

Look there is a bigoted journal on the Internet call Men’s News Daily. Why don’t you go wallow over there.

Oh, do please fuck off. MND, just like every other MRA site out there has some occasional problems with right wing neocon ideologues. And like anyone else, we get our share of obnoxious feminists, tin foil hat wearing conspiracy nuts, left wing Utopian pinheads and the plain stupid.

Welcome to the world of free speech.

And it will remain free as long as we don’t kowtow to assholes that label everything they don’t agree with as bigotry.

Your tactic is one of a feminist who would call MND, and this site, as sexist, misogynist and the like. So if you think MND is a bigoted forum, please do more than call names and make your case to prove it. Otherwise, know that you have just revealed yourself as spewing bile and nothing else.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 11:34

Really, Captain Obvious? Islam is “stuck in the dark ages” in the sense that it’s ridiculously archaic and barbaric and should have no business existing in the modern world in its current form.

Are we talking about Islam or Christianity?

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 11:34

@Paul Elam-

You’ve gotten feisty lately. I hope that is for the best. I’ve always got your back either way.

Ragnar December 28, 2009 at 11:41

The family unit started when the ancient homo sapien females started dedicating themselves to a single male and ensuring he has no doubts about being the sire of her progeny, hence entitling herself to a significant amount of his efforts towards raising her offspring.

Collectively the commenters here have alienated progressives, moderates, women, and minorities.

Hm . . . Maybe I have offended someone . . . that’s fine!

Try the top qoute rewritten to present time.

“We can restart the family when females start to dedicate themselves to a single male and ensuring he has no doubts about being the sire of her progeny, thus entitling herself to a significant amount of his efforts towards raising her offspring!”

That’s so funny I don’t know where to begin. :D

Well you will need to change the way we rear children. Then the school system and the media . . . and the people in the school and . . .
The Justice system will be another chapter
-
sorry, I don’t whether to cry or laugh out loud!
-
. . . and the female should spend the males efforts on the children, not herself . . . wauuuww, I’m flabbergastered, at loss for words.

Then we should tax the top 1% to pay for it all. <_<

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 11:55

@ Jabherwochie

Thanks, and I probably need to settle down. In this particular case, where it involves MND, I have had the reigns there for just four months and have been charged with all of the following. 1. Being a bigot. 2. Being a feminist plant (no shit) 3. Of course being a misogynist. 4. Being a right wing nut case. 5. Being a left wing nut case.

Not whining here, I know it comes with the territory. I am probably just adjusting to all of it. But I know that my temper has been a tad short of late. You were most kind and diplomatic in pointing it out.

I think I will go fishing this weekend. :)

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 11:57

Jay Hammers

Very clever, Firepower. Collectively the commenters here have alienated progressives, moderates, women, and minorities. I’m sure we’ll get a lot accomplished with the power of conservative white males

I hear ya bro: what did white guys ever do for us except science, philosophy and civilization. Kids today hate that stuff when it comes to homework.

We need more progressives, moderates, women, and minorities to advance men even more than they have already.

Yep.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 11:58

Perhaps Paul is upset over my e-mail to the contributors for MND requesting they pull their submissions because a website that purports to be dedicated to men’s rights but 50% of the time spouts unrelated far-right propaganda is no good for the men’s rights movement. This was after he posted this from http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/12/14/dockers-ad-campaign-a-good-fit-with-some-alterations/

Paul Elam
2009-12-15 at 3:19 pm
@ Jay

In the area of diverse opinions, I would encourage you to consider how many websites similar to this one would allow this type of posting to continue. Indeed, how many of of them would have both the editor and publisher come in to the thread to field your questions in the face of all this ranting?

I think you may be on the only one.

That being said, as far as your wishes that this website loses support and traffic, I welcome you to make your personal contribution to that end at any time you so choose.

After I took Paul up on his offer and sent an e-mail out to all contributors, I was sad to see almost all my posts removed.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:01

Firepower, I really don’t care what you think. You’re not facing reality if you think bigotry is going to help at all. What I do care about is the fact that ignorant people like you will slow down the men’s rights movement unnecessarily.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 12:11

@Jay Hammers-

I like you less now. An e-mail to contributors? We have a word for that on the mean streets of this internet playground; tattle-tell. And MND removes whatever posts it wants. One of mine was removed (Marc Rudolph had it coming.) This is not MND, and Paul Elam, althought the Editor and Chief, is not MND anymore than Welmer is represented by the diverse contributors here. This is an open forum (but not completely, Welmer banned a submissive female wanting to be our blog bitch), and MND, for its own reasons is just less open. The diversity of the internet is wonderful, isn’t it? You do like diversity, don’t you?

I said we have two rules here. Hate feminists, and don’t be a pussy. You are dangerously close to being a pussy.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 12:18

“”"We have a word for that on the mean streets of this internet playground; tattle-tell. “”"

And the above is a shitty joke. Don’t respond to it. I could have been more on target. Whatever you call it (seems a lot like censorship) it wasn’t cool.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:26

I don’t hate feminists and voicing my opinion, opening eyes are surely the marks of a beefy, muscle-bound masculine man.

People like Firepower are more detrimental to men’s rights than radical feminists. Radical feminists look feminists look crazy; bigots make men’s rights activists look crazy.

I really find it amusing how so many of the people commenting here try to challenge my masculinity. I’m for men’s rights, not male domination. I’m against strict gender roles while a lot of you seem to be for them. Men deserve all the choices women do. If I wanted to be a “pussy” I damn well should have that right. Your ape-like posturing isn’t going to impress anyone.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 12:26

@ Paul Elam,

No, I hadn’t noticed it, but it makes sense. And it goes back further than 8 years. I can easily see it back to Reagan (thanks for no-fault divorce!), then Carter (the fucking buffoon) and on down the line. Liberals have pushed a globalist agenda through the use of international popularity and conservatives have done it in the name of protecting nationalism. — Paul Elam

Yeah, like Reagan started “The War on Drugs” which sucked many freedoms from the average American on their own soil, and Bush was “The War on Terror” which further demolished internal American freedoms.

Clinton, and especially his wife, cozied up close to the UN, had enormous popularity outside of the USA and cozied America onto the global stage. (Bill had popularity, but I don’t think Shitlery ever did). Obama is now doing the same, pretty much apologizing to the world for America being America, and his leadership brings America more under the global umbrella – and receives widespread acceptance from the rest of the world.

Right-Left-Right-Left. Marching towards the destruction of what America once stood for. Both sides are selling out their own people.

8 years is a long time to forget, and it seems that most people do.

If I didn’t know better, I’d say it was purposeful brainwashing steps:

1 – Unfreeze the subject from the current comfort zone
2 – Move the subject to the next level
3 – Freeze the subject at the new level until it becomes the new comfort zone
4 – Repeat until you get to your goal

With POW’s, torture and pain is used to push people through the steps faster. But, shock + time + forgetfulness is just as effective to create a new comfort zone. It just takes longer, but is more effective on large groups.

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 12:31

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Firepower, I really don’t care what you think…ignorant people like you will slow down the men’s rights movement unnecessarily

Didn’t know it needed necessary slowing down in the first place.

meh. You don’t need me. You have plenty of allies of – what did you lionize them as?
Ah, yes:
progressives, moderates, women, and minorities.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:32

I copied Paul and whoever else runs MND on my e-mail. It was quite above board. Contributors should be aware of the negative effect of MND on the men’s rights movement. I’m struggling to see what you think you’re going to accomplish by telling the world you hate feminists and anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a pussy. Men’s rights will only succeed in gaining equality and equal opportunity. You’re puerile to think we’re going to elevate ourselves above women somehow as long as society continues to progress. You may as well pray for a meltdown of society, the end of days, the apocalypse. Plenty of right-wingers already are. That’s the only way you’ll ever see this dream world of yours.

globalman December 28, 2009 at 12:32

Damn HL,
It is so frustrating trying to wake you men up. It really is.

TRUTH: OBAMA has NOT subverted your 4th Amendment Rights.

TRUTH: ANYONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE A CITIZEN OF THE ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ HAS NO RIGHTS.

I did this topic to death over on MND and was abused and villified for speaking the truth. Anyone who thinks they are a ‘citizen’ of a cunt-tree does not have ANY inalienable rights. Their rights can be removed by the state at any point in time the state chooses which is exactly what is happening in the US now. What you think are ‘rights’ like ‘liberty’ are ‘privileges’ that can be removed. You are in fact SLAVES and you are so ignorant you don’t know it and so willful you won’t learn it.

Do you guys have ANY idea how frustrating it is to keep typing in this place “please listen…things are much worse than you know”? I guess you don’t. Because if you did you would be saying:

“Hey, GM, if we are slaves and we have no rights can you please explain to me how that is? That is not what I think is true but you seem to really believe it, so please present your point of view so I can understand it?”

And even when I am asked for ‘evidence’ and ‘proof’ and I put it into my intro post on the forums do many (or even any) guys here actually go and look? Nope. Not many, maybe not any.

I asked a number of times ‘How many men know how to claim their rights?’ and got no answers. I’ve put my claim of right on the forum and there is no discussion. Men here do NOT want to understand how to claim their rights. They just want to complain when they have what they perceive as rights taken from them.

Well take it from me. If you think you are a ‘citizen’ you have no rights. They are being removed slowly but surely. And if you do not know how to claim your rights and then defend them then you will have them taken from you, including your right to life. And tough shit to you for choosing to be ignorant.

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 12:34

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm

If I wanted to be a “pussy” I damn well should have that right.

By God – you tell ‘em!
It’s what Yorktown, D-Day & Okinawa were fought for.
And by God, what a success it was.
If only vets knew.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:34

Do I think women had equal rights 50 years ago? No. Do I think women had it worse than men 50 years ago? No. There were trade-offs on both sides and no one had a full range of options in life. What feminism gave women was the opportunity to make their own choices about who they want to be. Instead of being constrained to the role of housewife, a woman can go to school and work. But men are still constrained to the traditional roles of 50 years ago. It’s not acceptable for men to be “house-husbands,” we are still expected to go to school and work. Previously men and women were confined to distinct roles. This worked for centuries but society has changed and now only men are confined to distinct roles. Now men must strive for their own rights and choices so that both sexes have the full range of options in life and we not only have equal rights but BETTER rights.

Should the traditional family makeup, with dominant male and submissive female, be accepted? Yes. Should it be the only choice? No. Society needs to accept every family situation. If it did, children would be better off regardless of whether they have a mom, a dad, two dads, or two moms.

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:35

And back to global warming:

I can apply Occam’s Razor to global warming. Does it make more sense that scientists have vastly conspired to come up with global warming to fill Al Gore’s pockets or that scientists have done what they’ve always done and used the scientific method? Easy, apply the Razor. Now when I go around and look for arguments against global warming 95% of them are ignorant, have no scientific basis, and are quite obviously pushed by big oil and coal special interests. The few arguments against that appear to be reasonable do not refute global warming. Apply Occam’s Razor and we find that big energy has paid off lawmakers, much like they health insurance companies have to block health reform, and they’ve convinced the ignorant little people that it is not a problem- all for short-term profit.

It’s really quite obvious and aligns with everything else I’ve seen from the far right. Most of what I see from the right these days is greed, always lies, always misinformation and ignorance. The pattern is undeniable. Even many supporters of men’s rights on the right seem to be fueled by ignorance, they just happened to get it right because for once, just as with resistance to affirmative action policies, liberal values align with white male conservative interests. I must consider the source for resistance to global warming, and the source is extremely unreliable. Conservatism is the boy who cried wolf.

Although science isn’t perfect, it inherently is aware of its own imperfections and trys to self-correct and stay open minded. Obviously, even science is corrupted for political purposes. At the end of the day, you can only put faith in yourself. Thats what men do.

I am keenly aware of this. I think it’s vastly more likely than not that human beings contribute directly to climate change and that climate change has the potential to be dangerous to humanity.

Regardless, conservation must be practiced because for the time being this is the only planet we have and our natural resources cannot support this population indefinitely whether you’re considering fossil fuels or water itself. Perhaps if nuclear fusion as an energy resource becomes a reality the concern for energy will not be as great, but we will still have limited resources on this planet. And we need a form of worldwide governance because without it we cannot enforce conservation of our joint resources and prevention of pollution. We really are all in this together and if we want humanity to survive and thrive we should and can act now to prepare for the future. If conservatives can’t see this, they are not looking at the big picture, they are being short-sighted, and they will be recorded as such in the annals of history.

Enjoy!

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 12:36

After I took Paul up on his offer and sent an e-mail out to all contributors, I was sad to see almost all my posts removed.

So really, you yourself are quite willing to undermine men’s rights if they don’t follow your totalitarian demands to change to 100% your way of doing things.

And yet, you accuse us of being the ones who are undermining men’s rights.

Even though I think you are a shmuck, and might back hand return your silly attacks back at you, if I saw that you were trying to bring issues to your fellow leftards in your own leftard way, I wouldn’t lift a finger to undermine you in anyway – even if I didn’t agree with your ideology.

I’d take you out behind the shed and shelack you there, where it didn’t undermine Men’s Rights. I certainly wouldn’t e-mail around to my allies to attack you. I’d just leave you to it and not bother with you.

The MRM doesn’t need helpers like you.

Kinda like AH says – It’s like having a child help you put up wallpaper. No thanks!

It’s a free country, you know. There is nothing stopping you from starting up your own Men’s Movement that appeals to a far larger segment of the population, and thus, making our little peanut contributions irrelevant.

It’s called The Free Market.

I’m certain you must have read about it.

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 12:36

Perhaps Paul is upset over my e-mail to the contributors for MND requesting they pull their submissions because a website that purports to be dedicated to men’s rights but 50% of the time spouts unrelated far-right propaganda is no good for the men’s rights movement.

It is a bit of a quandary here. I do have some boundary issues to consider regarding editorial decisions at MND. But at the same time, I welcome the opportunity to address this on neutral grounds.

First, I wasn’t near as upset over your email as some of our contributors, who dismissed it as nonsense. And actually, I feel just fine telling you that it was actually myself and one other contributor that AGREED with much, but not all of what you had to say.

The problem arose in that you seemed to think that you concerns would be best expressed by obnoxiously demanding revision of editorial policy, hurling insults and invective in the process, in the comment section of a non related article. It wasn’t an absence of reason that got you zapped, it was an absence of social skills, and a complete disregard for the people who work very hard to make MND a voice for men’s issues.

Your emotional outburst seems to continue here. While there are certainly some articles that lean far right that have made it to our pages, the number of 50% is even more fraudulent and arbitrary than the gender wage gap alleged by the AAUW.

In short, you just made the number up as you went along. People deserve better than that. Thinking people demand,/i> better.

But to the core of your poorly approached campaign to influence MND’s editorial direction. I thought of it a long time before you showed up and have been doing much in that direction, though I am not surprised you haven’t noticed.

I have appointed two editorial board members, including the Chairman, of the On Step Institute, which is seeking (and succeeding) to install legitimate male studies programs in major American universities. I have rewritten editorial guidelines, and what you can’t see, and couldn’t possibly see, are the submissions, mostly from the far right, that I reject for publication.

The point is that my mission at MND is to move it from a more politically oriented source of electronic media to one that will ultimately become the academic voice of the men’s rights movement.

Men, particularly MRA’s, are still political creatures, and so their ideas and beliefs won’t be summarily dismissed, now or in the future. But I think that anyone who examines my writings and the overall site content since my appointment can easily see that my intent is to focus less on politics as usual and focus more on the issues of men and boys in western culture.

That has been my intent since I have been there. And I am clearly following through on it. Those efforts won’t be helped or hindered by anyone sniping at my heals.

You seem to be a person concerned with the MRM being too closely aligned with the polemics of the far right. I am one of those people, too. The difference is that I find respectful communication and a willingness to dialogue more beneficial than presenting my ideas like a common troll.

I also think a healthy respect for the idea that Rome wasn’t built in a day to be of real utility.

Just saying.

Firepower December 28, 2009 at 12:48

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Contributors should be aware of the negative effect of MND on the men’s rights movement…You may as well pray for a meltdown of society, the end of days, the apocalypse. Plenty of right-wingers already are.

Your problem lies in you having an anti “right-winger” agenda – and you aren’t too subtle about it.

If you think anything substantial will be accomplished by hallowed “left-wingers”

you need to envisage 1960′s Hippies not with just acid, “free” love and Hendrix helming your revolution,

but additonally, these charmers, in today’s current incarnation, are dumbed-down Globaloneys saddled with Internet Porn.

LOTS of it.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 12:50

” Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm

I don’t hate feminists and voicing my opinion, opening eyes are surely the marks of a beefy, muscle-bound masculine man.”

I hate feminist and for damn good reason. A friend of my arch-enemy is an enemy. And we have our reasons for allowing radicalism. You apparently haven’t been reading us for long. We are trying to get on the radar of the mainstream consciencnous. Excuse us for not being polite while we are politely ignored.

“I really find it amusing how so many of the people commenting here try to challenge my masculinity. I’m for men’s rights, not male domination. I’m against strict gender roles while a lot of you seem to be for them. Men deserve all the choices women do. If I wanted to be a “pussy” I damn well should have that right. Your ape-like posturing isn’t going to impress anyone.”

I’m a geek dude. My strength is in my mind. Did I say anything about muscles? The biggest, strongest, most testosterone fueled meathead can be a pussy, and the smallest, weakest, cripple can be the most manly of us all. You don’t know me, or us, very well apparantly. A lot of nerds hang out here. It is the internet. (I do happen to be able to beat peoples ass, but I attribute that to inner strength blah, blah, blah,)

“bigots make men’s rights activists look crazy.”

Good. When I get in a fight, the first thing I want, is for my opponent to think I’m crazy.

And let me rephrase my previous comment; You are dangerously close to being a pussy….on the inside. Better? In a war, where does moderation fit in? This ain’t peace keeping or nation building. We have an enemy who hates us for who we are, for what we can’t change, and you call for political correct moderation? You don’t understand the damage feminism did to my psyche, and does to the psyche of young men across our globe.

Start you own blog, “Moderate Men for Equality”. I’m sure the chicks will love it. Why don’t you bust out your guitar and sing us all a song while you’re at it….Kumbiyah my lord, kumbiyah….

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 12:55

“I’m a geek dude. My strength is in my mind. Did I say anything about muscles? The biggest, strongest, most testosterone fueled meathead can be a pussy, and the smallest, weakest, cripple can be the most manly of us all. You don’t know me, or us, very well apparantly. A lot of nerds hang out here. It is the internet. (I do happen to be able to beat peoples ass, but I attribute that to inner strength blah, blah, blah,) ”

Ignore that. I misread you. Haste makes waste. But to the your point:

“I really find it amusing how so many of the people commenting here try to challenge my masculinity. I’m for men’s rights, not male domination. I’m against strict gender roles while a lot of you seem to be for them. Men deserve all the choices women do. If I wanted to be a “pussy” I damn well should have that right. Your ape-like posturing isn’t going to impress anyone.”

We don’t advocate one path. We advocate choice; MRA, PUA, GAME, MGTOW, and ghosting. Some here are So-Con and want to go back to the way it was, some are liberal progressive like you and want no gender rules. I’m an evolutionist, and to me nature cannot be ignored, and men and women have certain traits that must be accepted, nurtured, and directed to positive use, not shamed, repressed, and left pent up to fester and rot.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 12:57

You can be a pussy, but then don’t bitch when I give you a wedgy and take your lunch money.

No one should choose to be evil, lazy, or gluttoness. Sometimes, there are bad choices.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 13:03

“I’m struggling to see what you think you’re going to accomplish by telling the world you hate feminists and anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a pussy.”

I said you were dangerously close to being a pussy because you sent emails to contributors at MND like a bitch. You don’t see us trying to shut down feminist websites do you? Let your ideas stand on their own. What you did was like crying to momma or the teacher cuz the rest of the kids won’t play the game you want to play.

Icaros2010 December 28, 2009 at 13:09

Jay Hammers:

Do I think that children inherently need a mother and father? No, I don’t, actually. I think that society TELLS us they do.

I agree that children might not inherently need two parents, but I do think that men and women have very likely evolved different skills, specialities and strategies in raising children, which complement each other.

There is even some experimental evidence (e.g. women recognizing and responding to the cries of their own children), and the stereotype of women being nurturing doesn’t come out of thin air. So it’s probably not just all society’s random beliefs, socialization and social constructions. But blank slatism can be cured.

Of course, children can end up perfectly fine and well-adjusted in all kinds of settings, even after abuse, but how likely it is, will be another matter. Judith Rich Harris’s The Nurture Assumption and No Two Alike bring interesting perpectives to these issues.

As a social question this is anyhow quite marginal and will not have major consequences in the pure numbers sense, unlike widespread single parenthood.

I never make the assumption that the way society is today is better than another alternative just because tradition says it is.

That’s not a bad way to think and consider new things, but you shouldn’t think that anything is possible just by using enough brute force social engineering, or that every new solution will lead to equally good outcomes compared to the tried and tested ones. “First, do no harm”, sounds like a reasonable starting point to me.

I do hope you will stick around, it’s good to have all kinds of viewpoints on board. In general though, I don’t think that men’s rights have much to do with (American) conservative or liberal politics as such, and linking them could be malproductive.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 13:13

The thing about “left vs. right” that escapes many people is that it is a relative term. It needs the other to define itself and find its position.

You can really see this here in Canada.

Our furthest “right” party is the Conservatives, who currenly hold power.

However, along the political spectrum, the Conservative Party of Canada has nearly identical ideology to the Democrat Party of the USA. And, therefore that also means that the furthest left in America is still the same as the furthest right in Canada. Lol!

And yet, even though the Conservatives here would be considered full blown Democrats in the USA, the Conservatives are constantly under attack for being Bush lovers and are accused of being extreme rightwing, redneck racist warmongers.

It is where the other parties sit that defines “left & right,” not the actual party ideology itself.

Although, granted, Stephen Harper of the Conservatives is a leader that does appear to be further to the right than his actual party… just like Obama appears to be further to the left than his actual party. Both of these men appear to be trying to move the party further towards their personal politics than what the party currently is.

HR Lincoln December 28, 2009 at 13:14

Caliph – “The difference between me and you is that, i have faith in all humanity. I believe when our combined liberties are threatened, we will stand together for once and fight as a single unit, …”

“combined liberties” is about as oxymoronic expression as I can imagine. No such thing. The collective is the enemy of liberty.

Paul December 28, 2009 at 13:15

@Paul Elam
“Oh, do please fuck off.”

Just noticed your kind words to me. Actually getting people to fuck off it a bit of a speciality of yours. You drove definingmanhood off You Tube and also managed to start you editorship of MND by pissing off Bernard Chapin. So I suppose telling me to fuck off is to be expected. Pretty cowardly though. But I wont respond in kind. Nor will I fuck off. I will simply ignore you and MND. Eventually you may succeed in getting every body to fuck off and then all that will be left will be your ego.

Icaros2010 December 28, 2009 at 13:29

Jay Hammers:

Men deserve all the choices women do. If I wanted to be a “pussy” I damn well should have that right.

Those are good points, and I too support equality in this sense. (In theory, at least, there are some other considerations too.)

However, there are certain factors which prevent men from adopting more varied gender roles in practice. The major one: women.

As the phrase goes, women select, men display, and not that many women are interested in pairing with unconventional men who don’t display any alpha charasteristics, to use PUA lingo.

It’s a risky choice to make for an individual man who is interested in reproducing or just having sex. Or just having status among the bulk of men.

globalman December 28, 2009 at 13:33

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 4:51 am
“Is a Global New World Order such a bad thing? i mean really?”
There has been a pretty much global ‘new world order’ for all of human history. The ‘new’ one will simply make it easier to make slaves of you. No. It is not a bad thing for those at the top. For those at the bottom who are slaves? Well? Just ask yourself. Do you like being a slave? You are. Do you want to partake in something like WW III? You know, as willingly as men partook in WW I and II?

Today you are slaves. You pay your income taxes and your mortgages out of fear. BOTH are ‘voluntary’ and do not need to be paid yet you go to work for 45 years in order to pay these things and ‘earn a living’. You have been so brainwashed into it that you think this is called ‘freedom’. I have a problem with paying income taxes and mortgages. I have a problem with working 2,000+ hours a year as I did for 26 years.

barsin December 27, 2009 at 12:27 pm
“Yeah, I could do without this paranoiac NWO conspiracy nuttiness”
Barsin, when, exactly, does the truth become ‘nuttiness’. I must have missed that lesson in kindergarten. Can you please explain that to me?

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 1:15 pm
“The Spearhead has pretty loose editorial guidelines, and we’re happy to have dissenting opinions. It’s really up to the authors to put their views on display.”
And this is exactly what gives Spearhead it’s value. Allowing dissenting opinions to stand and allowing men to study and understand and come to their own conclusions. The only ‘censorship’ I support here is getting the women out of the way so more decent discussion can take place. I spend too much time scrolling past wimmins posts.

Welmer December 27, 2009 at 2:24 pm
“Big difference when church and state are separate.”
I hate to break it to you but the church and state are NOT separate in the west. Who signs the marriage contract on behalf of the state? The minister of the church, that’s who. It’s called deceit. It’s everywhere.

AfOR December 27, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Nice to see someone actually does their homework!!

Ragnar December 27, 2009 at 4:17 pm
“We kill socialism by killing feminism – remove the female voting base.”
It is actually even easier. We kill socialism and feminism and the current tyranny by simply claiming our right to be free men who are not subject to government or legislation passed by those governments. We simply MGTOW and refuse the ‘benefit’ of ‘paying’ for our ‘guvment’. Then it does not matter who the wimmin vote for or what the guvment says. Since they can not lawfully take your ‘money’ off you they will just have to do without you. This is how it is with me. They just have to do without me. I have GMOW.

Fiercely Independent John Nada December 27, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I second what John had to say. I will never live in Australia again. It’s a crap cunt-tree now. I will fight for and defend the rights of men in Australia but most of them are too stupid or too cowardly to fight for themselves and that’s a real shame. I’ve made remarkable progress on defending my rights and, by extension, the rights of any man in Australia. But, surprisingly, they are not very interested in defending their own rights. Australia is NOT worth ‘fighting’ for. The liberty and lives of men IS worth fighting for. But they are not fighting yet. They don’t see it as ‘bad’ enough yet. Just like I didn’t see it as ‘bad enough’ two years ago.

Paul Elam December 27, 2009 at 9:32 pm
“I am shocked, unless he has been banned, to not see Globalman’s comments at least a dozen times.”
Paul, I do have other things to do. I was on a date saturday with my fav#2 and then spent the day at a health spa yesterday to recover. After all. I am 45 and a good massage, sauna, whirlpool and similar really helps me wind down. These are just some of the joys of not being married. :-) It was the weekend after christmas after all. I can’t spend ALL my time waking men up.. ;-)

The Caliph December 27, 2009 at 7:34 pm
“The family unit started when the ancient homo sapien females started dedicating themselves to a single male and ensuring he has no doubts about being the sire of her progeny, hence entitling herself to a significant amount of his efforts towards raising her offspring.”
Wow dude. What ARE you smoking because I want some of that shit if it makes me see such visions!! Women did nothing. The Illuminati forced men to defend women and children on pain of death and THAT became the ‘family’. Women have NEVER dedicated themselves to ANYTHING in the entire history of the fucking human race. Nothing….EVER! Women can’t even dedicate themselves to wearing the same pair of shoes for a day.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 13:37

Everytime I read through the spearhead comments, fedrz seems to be begging for attention by spamming all the posts. Seriously, how much free time do you have? (thats a serious question for the record). I’m guessing you spend at least 99% of the day either commenting on here or obsessing over marxism (get some new material lmao), with maybe an hour or so dedicated to either eating/taking a dump. I think you raise some good points but it’s like a one trick poney show. And the rest of the commenters here aren’t much better. I am yet to read any comments that can rival globalman’s or harry’s, who have good insight imho.

Anyway, the answer to all men’s problems is to decrease government to ensure liberty. In fact, if that was the ONLY message repeated at the end of EVERY post on the-spearhead, then that would be progress!

globalman December 28, 2009 at 13:37

Gents,
just on the topic of ‘rights’. All those in former british colonies that still have common law in place have all the rights they could ever want or need. They just need to know how to claim them and then they need to be prepared to defend them. No point claiming a right if you are not going to defend it.

I have claimed all the rights I think I need, though I might think of some more. Now? It is up to me to defend those rights against any and all oppressors. The only thing needed to defend those rights is a common law de jour court complete with de jour jury. That men here are completely dis-interested in the idea of common law and de jour juries tells me I might have to go to plan B and shoot people lawfull who infringe my rights. It’s called ‘education’ gents. Those who live in common law countries who do not know how it works might want to learn. If you do not? You have no rights. If you think your CON-stitution somehow ‘guarantees’ your rights you have been decieved.

Ragnar December 28, 2009 at 13:39

HR Lincoln December 28, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Caliph – “The difference between me and you is that, i have faith in all humanity. I believe when our combined liberties are threatened, we will stand together for once and fight as a single unit, …”

“combined liberties” is about as oxymoronic expression as I can imagine. No such thing. The collective is the enemy of liberty.

That’s very well said HR Lincoln.

On the political scale we have Liberty in one end and Socialism/Marxism/Feminism/Fascism in the other.

There’s a link that actually says it all;

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party

I. The Cultish Traits of the CCP
The Communist Party is essentially an evil cult that harms mankind.

Although the Communist Party has never called itself a religion, it matches every single trait of a religion (Table 1). At the beginning of its establishment, it regarded Marxism as the absolute truth in the world. It piously worshipped Marx as its spiritual God, and exhorted people to engage in a life-long struggle for the goal of building a “communist heaven on earth.”

You can easily adapt this to the leftist lingo, policies and harassment in the Western World.

Socialism/Marxism/Feminism/Fascism has the same traits as a real physical enemy;

To freedom loving people they take our jobs, our families, our means of production and our country.

That’s an enemy!

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 13:40

I “drove” definingmanhood off youtube? Please tell me you are kidding. I don’t suppose you would care to illuminate all here on exactly how I managed to drive someone off a monster like youtube all by myself?

And yes, I had a difference with Chapin, but one that neither of us seem to to have carried it to extremes. Bernard has regularly posted supportive comments to my youtube videos since that time, and I have used him in mine as a glowing example of a Men’s Rights Activist.

Though we obviously differ on what happened and why, it seems clear that Bernard values the movement more than he does carrying a grudge. Another reason I will continue to point to him as one of the more clear examples of what an MRA should be, IMO.

As to pissing people off, as I said in another post, it comes with the territory. No matter what I do and no matter what action I take, someone will take offense and call names. I am a big boy and can handle it. Being ignored is the easy part.

At any rate, you have my public apology for the utterance of “fuck off.” That is a reflection of my temper these days and not my chosen form of communication. But I don’t apologize for the sentiment behind the statement.

You took a cheap, unsubstantiated drive by shot at something I value. It didn’t exactly rate a “fuck off” but it didn’t rate any respect either.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 13:41

@Icaros2010-

Nailing it. I’m glad when I’m not making my points as sharply as I can ( I do this at work with a lot of other things going on ) that someone always steps up to the plate. Feels good to be on a team, even if we scuffle with each other a lot, thats just to prepare us for battling it out with another team, and if they ain’t scuffling it out like we do, they should be easy to beat.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 13:49

I keep hearing people talk about the US constitution. Yes the US has a good constitution, but get this: it is MEANINGLESS! After all, the unconstitutional laws that have been passed (VAWA for example) PROVE that sheeple don’t even care about their rights or their constitution! How pathetic. Even a good constitution is worthless without it being adhered to.

Gunslingergregi December 28, 2009 at 13:51

””””””I asked a number of times ‘How many men know how to claim their rights?’ and got no answers. I’ve put my claim of right on the forum and there is no discussion. Men here do NOT want to understand how to claim their rights. They just want to complain when they have what they perceive as rights taken from them.”””’

To be able to claim your rights you just need cash and some balls.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 13:54

globalman: the tone in most of your posts seems to be that men can somehow opt out of the system, right? Well, show the links and the laws that PROVE this. Just how can men stop false allegations of abuse that VAWA gladly allows vindictive women to use at their will?

You have some good posts here but sometimes, I feel you talk out your ass. Please prove your statements with links to law/legislation that can back them up. Anything less is meaningless.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 13:54

Tired Gill,

If I was looking for attention, I’d go back to writing for my own blog. I got a lot more attention that way than I get this way… or, I could have taken up the offers to be a regular writer here. That would have been easier too.

This is just a habit that I have gotten into to pass the time after having a few years of free time on my hands due to illness, and deciding to put it to good use by researching and writing about certain subjects.

Your contribution there sure had a lot of meat to it though. Keep up the good work.

Mr.M December 28, 2009 at 13:56

tired gill re: globalman:

You have some good posts here but sometimes, I feel you talk out your ass. Please prove your statements with links to law/legislation that can back them up. Anything less is meaningless.

Pretty sure global has a “introduction” post up in the spearhead forum that has a bunch of links wrt what you’re asking about. I know several people have asked him to post his resources, and to his credit, he has – just not every time he posts.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 14:05

Fedrz, the thing is, you clearly have a good knowledge on marxism/feminism. The way you throw quotes around and challenge quite a few comments says to me that you spend at least 99% of your time on this stuff, and you’ve probably researched it for decades too. Am I right in guessing you don’t have any hobbies aside from marxism/feminism? Not that it’s a bad thing, but it seems like you (and others like globalman) spend more time posting on this website than anyone else on here. You should be given credit for contributing so heavily here, and that, buddy, is actually a compliment!

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 14:07

You know, I think some of the problems we run into here is that we assume everyone has been following along since the beginning. I don’t know how many times I hear a Globalman Spiel, a variation on the same theme, then someone says, “back it up”, he says “do you’re own research, I’ve provided enough facts and evidence”, then somone points to Globie’s links in some other thread, and on and on it goes, the cycle continues. Same thing with explaining why we don’t censor or protest against the radical extremist or the men who come here to vent with hyperbole. I’m sick of explaining to noobies why we need to stir up a shit storm to get our message acknowledged by the mainstream media. Welmer. Solve these problems. Please. Time to put the cherry of perfection on top of your sundae of excellence. I know its a lot of work, but at least we are taking care of the sprinkles.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 14:08

Mr M: globalman does make great posts and points, but he hasn’t (to my knowledge) actually backed up his posts with links to actual legislation that would enable men to ”opt out” of the system. For example, being screwed in family court, false allegations courtesy of VAWA etc etc. Unless I missed it, he needs to fully explain his posts as they’re only half-informative otherwise.

tiredgill December 28, 2009 at 14:13

Jabherwochie: the only links I could find from globalman were links to his own problems/issues. Everything else he writes about the NWO etc is perfectly understandable, and I actually agree with much he says. I’m no n00bie for the record, the NWO agenda and it’s totalitarianism is obvious, as is the link with feminism and the attack on liberty. You clearly didn’t even read my post properly which makes you appear mildly retarded that it’s not even funny.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 14:24

It was a general statement, not directed at you specifically. Your exchange just brought up the issue to my mind, and I just used Globie and extremist as randomly selected examples of something we often have to rejustify around here. Sorry for the confusion. We all are mildly retarded in some ways. I might go so far as to say I am extremely mildly retarded. Sometimes I have something profound to say. I’ll let you know when that happens. I normally pat myself on the back.

Jabherwochie December 28, 2009 at 14:27

And I would never think someone named “tiredgill” is a noobie. You sound like you’ve been around the block a couple times, and the school of hardknocks is the best education available.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 14:46

Tiredgill,

My entire life changed for the worse a few years ago, and so did my lifestyle and hobbies. Suddenly I had none, and was freaking myself out with all kinds of scenarios of what might happen in my life if things didn’t turn out well.

I had been mildly involved in the online MRM, but not in too serious of a way – being a forum member etc. I had talked to AH and he recommended me to start a blog, and shortly after, I bumped into Zed…

I asked Zed to put me to work shovelling gravel… told him I wanted to get a Ph D. in the MRM. We came up with the MGTOW Library, where I started trying to catalogue all of the various articles around the web. Anyways, for a few years, I spent between 8 and 12hrs a day reading about these issues, cataloguing articles, and writing my own articles, and so on.

After a while, it started to become clear to me that much of what the MRM wanted was not only unacheivable, but, it was not even really correct. Most of it was not pushing for Men’s Rights, really, but was demanding the government force androgyny upon us.

And, I mean, I read everything. Twice! Angry Harry’s at least six times, top to bottom, lol! Zed’s too. But, I also read everything I could about it even when it went outside of “the main” and off into Zionism, or Henry Makow’s ideas, the Illuminati, Rockefellers etc. etc.

Like I said, I have no desire to argue with people about “who,” but, I did start to recognize certain patterns, and I followed a lot of the paths, and just kept researching and researching.

I also had a few other subjects I was studying of my own accord. For example, I read a lot of political science, and anthropology and religion and myths were also interesting… and the more I learned, the more it “all came together,” and became more and more related.

I also observed that while many people could talk to other like-minded people about, say, the Rockefellers, they also turned off a lot of people from taking them seriously, precisely because of mentioning it, and how many varied sources manipulated that information for their own agendas.

So, I decided to start talking about Marxism, and the various techniques and philosophies behind it. My goal was to describe the “system” and how it worked, without ever trying to point a finger at whoever was behind it in the shadows. I have my suspicions, but I couldn’t prove it 100%. So, I decided if I just kept on showing people “the system,” that eventually it would build up as a “dam” where it was no longer deniable what was going on. And, when they got to that point, they would “spill over my dam” and go beyond me to find out “who” on their own.

In fact, back when I was just beginning, the biggest problem I found was our lack of education, and how disadvantaged we are compared to feminists. Feminists have a university system to educate them. In other words, they don’t get exposed to second year material until they’ve properly learned the first year material.

It was my observation that, by contrast, the MRM was stuck in a “one room school.” We had beginners learning the basics of adding and subtracting, alongside people learning trig. This was hindering us, I figured, because the newer guys, who understandably were not as informed all of the various issues in depth, were always presenting arguments that were derailing the guys that ought to be moving forward along in their education. So, I hoped that my “dam” idea of building information only about one subject and not derailing it into other various ones, would be the only way that we could escape “the one room school.”

That’s why I so rarely go beyond Marxism. I just stick to philosophy, theory, and technique.

If it is a one trick pony, well, that was kinda the point.

And now, here we are.

Lol, but, yes. It has become a habit, and I’m still in the half and half of transitioning back into a new life that hopefully resembles the one I had a few years ago.

But, along the way, the internet and books became mostly my life – and also, mostly the way that I related to the world. Lol, I have a real difficult time even watching TV or a movie now, as the internet is much more entertaining to me, and exciting.

Btw, I don’t really write too many places anymore. This is about the only place that I write about these issues anymore, and usually, I will only harp on a thread like this one – about a subject I know about, and where I know the authors of the thread have been longtime internet friends and allies of mine, such as Hawaiian Libertarian or Zed etc.

I like the Spearhead, because on a thread like this one, with lots of comments appearing, it is possible to have real debates and such – that don’t take days to complete. What I enjoy doing is having the “ideas” run around in my brain to think about while I am doing other tasks in my day, and then coming back 15 or 30 minutes later, and seeing if there are responses, and so on – this keeps my brain chugging at full speed all day, and I find that it actually educates me and keeps me sharp to do so. I don’t research all that much anymore either – but, over the years, I have compiled resources and tools for battling on the web that have become quite considerable, and they are all organized and at the ready. I usually don’t need to use to google to find stuff – I’ve got it all organized in various locations at the MGTOW Library, or on various locations on my blog, and I can whip it out and fire it off like it is nothing now.

ray December 28, 2009 at 15:20

until one understands that NWO stands for New Woman Order, one wont understand the uselessness — and indeed, the counterproductivity — of endless discussions of politics and ideology

much less the counterproductivity of pretending there IS no NWO

i cant understand how any modern american male, looking honestly at his government and culture, could identify with either ideopolitical bloc, given that both “sides” utterly support, fund, and enforce the matriarchy, whether in the US or internationally as the NWO

still, it’s refreshing to see a self-identified leftie (jay hammers) on a men’s rights board, if only for the novelty :O)

the idea that via “progressivism” boys and men are going to be granted some nebulous “equal rights” in returning that Pesky Pendulum to “center” is absolutely ludicrous, however

(in a way, it’s kind of sweet, in its naivete)

the NWO, which is based in america, is a gender-supremacist, totalitarian alliance/construct, it has no interest in either equity or equality

its goal is total destruction of masculinity, fatherhood, sonship, and of the connection between humanity and god

the New Woman Order is a religion, but it is not New

the dominance of the early/current MRM by rightwingers was/is a given, considering that the ideopolitical left is merely a front for feminism (i.e., support for feminism and feminists is THE mandatory plank in the leftist religion)

however, the dominance of the MRM by rightwingers has stifled open debate and greatly slowed progress, with “unaligned” commenters and writers consistently Not Welcome at MRM sites, or relegated to obscurity

then the MRA pundits sit around and wonder why The Movement aint Moving! lol

long ago the New Woman Order folded both the ideopolitical left AND right into its agendas . . . as Executive Branch operations and orders clearly prove over the past four decades

but the MRM guys who are righties (i.e., most guys) cant leggo of the political teat, because that teat is attached to the economic/material comforts theyve gotten used to, and arent about to give up

they want no real disruption to The Way Theyre Accustomed to Living, so cling to rightie politics . . . but unfortunately Our Way of Life is inextricable intertwined with america as A Womans Nation and the New World as Whatever Woman Says It Is

this is reflected in the MRM websites, alienating and excluding meritorious work not because it didnt serve the MRM, but because it challenged the groupthink of rightie ideology and politics — and challenged the pack-status and the personal pyschological comfort-zones of site admins and owners

this is slowly improving, as a few rightie antifeminists gradually come to realize that their beloved ideologies, laws, and nations in fact serve feminism and the New Woman Order — that theyve been duped, partly because they wanted to be (precisely as the boomer leftie males were duped largely by their own desires)

this post began by showing Obie with the Jokerface, as if this anti-constitutional clown suddenly surfaced on the national radar

but Obie didnt bring the New Woman Order into existence or power . . . he is simply the first mangina to sit officially over the NWO, in the sense that Maria Shriver (et al.) are no longer even trying to hide the fact that feminism has won, not just in the anglosphere but increasingly all across the planet

Obie didnt “subvert” the constitution all by himself — and its no good pretending that the rightie presidents preceding him werent also NWO stooges

speaking of the NWO, on a more positive and inclusive note, i was v glad to see that Mensactivism.org posted a piece about the OutFuckingRageous Arrest of charlie sheen for “domestic violence”

http://news.mensactivism.org/

while domestically and internationally the NWO is busy ensuring that Interpol and CEOP and Etc have global jurisdiction to oppress MEN, to ensure that MEN dont rise up against the NWO, on the home front:

– tiger woods is beaten with a deadly weapon by his Domestic Violence Criminal wife, and yet grovels before Der Matriarchy and pays her off with millions in hush-money; the perpetrator is female, therefore she isnt arrested, and instead is feted and rewarded as a victim; the Medea is silent, except to castigate his Badness and her Goodness

– Mary J. Blighe, a strong supporter of feminism and the D.V. Ma-Sheen, punches her husband in public; she is not arrested and no D.V. charges result; no calls from the government, women’s organizations, or The Medea for the perpetrator to be jailed, preferably without bail

– based only on the word of his wife, charlie sheen is locked up — WITHOUT BAIL — over christmas to “teach him a lesson” for daring to call her on her frequent drunken-ness; did the NWO stop to sort out the problem? no, it did what the NWO does, it obeyed The Woman and punished the male; now that sheen is out, we’re starting to hear a slightly different story — turns out Sweet Little Kupkake was drunk-off-her-ass AND the aggressor

but who does the State instantly and unquestioningly obey? whose State is it?

these recent incidents are GREAT for the MRM, and should be publicized to the max, because one-by-one guys like Sheen and Chris Henry and Woods are getting what many millions of other guys have gotten over the past half-century — abused and stomped — and now it’s trickling up to those elements of society that heretofore have been shielded from the FemState . . . and suddenly we’re not quite as alone in our opposition to the NWO as we were even three months ago

Jay Hammers December 28, 2009 at 16:28

So really, you yourself are quite willing to undermine men’s rights if they don’t follow your totalitarian demands to change to 100% your way of doing things.

I’m not undermining men’s rights, I’m legitimizing it. I should not have to form a men’s rights website for progressives and moderates but I may have to one day if people want to turn every MRA website into a conservative propaganda + a little men’s rights. That’s what MND is. It should be possible to create a website that discusses men’s rights and isn’t overrun by silly right-wing fear-mongering. Call men’s news daily “Right-wing conspiracy theories and a dash of men’s rights daily” and I’ll be happy because at least it will represent itself honestly.

It’s a free country, you know. There is nothing stopping you from starting up your own Men’s Movement that appeals to a far larger segment of the population, and thus, making our little peanut contributions irrelevant.

People like Warren Farrell who are fighting for men’s rights through wisdom and intelligent dialogue are accomplishing something in the men’s rights movement. I don’t need to start my own men’s movement. I don’t think you understand that your views are not men’s rights, they’re about men’s privilege, a movement doomed to failure.

First, I wasn’t near as upset over your email as some of our contributors, who dismissed it as nonsense

Some of them did, to be sure.

The problem arose in that you seemed to think that you concerns would be best expressed by obnoxiously demanding revision of editorial policy, hurling insults and invective in the process, in the comment section of a non related article.

I really don’t care if I came off as obnoxious for pointing out the irrelevance of half of men’s news daily articles. The responses I got were full of insults and invective. Your comment section wasn’t functioning and I decided to record my thoughts in another while they were fresh in my mind. I apologize.

Your emotional outburst seems to continue here. While there are certainly some articles that lean far right that have made it to our pages, the number of 50% is even more fraudulent and arbitrary than the gender wage gap alleged by the AAUW.

If you compare my responses to those of several of the posters here I think you’ll see my responses are founded in reason. Furthermore, when I spotted Men’s News Daily a large number of articles had nothing to do with men’s rights and were instead attacks against progressives and Obama. Yes, every other post was about something other than men’s rights. Still today you can see for yourself the make-up of the articles: http://mensnewsdaily.com/

Several of your contributors don’t even discuss men’s rights but just babble on about conspiracy theories I’ve heard a million times from right-wing political machines like Fox News. You claim to be “the premier on-line publication for publishing articles, news stories and opinion on world politics with a foundational focus men’s rights and activism in western culture.” Yet several of your contributors don’t seem to understand that. I don’t give a damn if it’s not my place to tell you what you’re doing is harmful to men’s rights. Obviously you can continues to mislead and I can continue to point out the failings of MND.

The difference is that I find respectful communication and a willingness to dialogue more beneficial than presenting my ideas like a common troll.

I’ve been respectful as I felt necessary. Some people here and on MND don’t deserve respect but I still gave them the benefit of the doubt. I’ve presented my ideas quite kindly under the circumstances.

I also think a healthy respect for the idea that Rome wasn’t built in a day to be of real utility.

So why slow it down? What, do you think you’re going to convert a bunch of far right-wingers who hate women and want male privilege into the people that will convince the public to buy in to men’s rights? That’s the only type of people you’re going to get at MND so good luck becoming academic. You can’t turn shit into gold.

In a war, where does moderation fit in? This ain’t peace keeping or nation building. We have an enemy who hates us for who we are, for what we can’t change, and you call for political correct moderation? You don’t understand the damage feminism did to my psyche, and does to the psyche of young men across our globe.

Many feminists are worthy of your anger and mine. Trust me, I’ve had a lot of anger toward women in general in the past but I realize now that they’re not all out to get us. There are some self-described feminists who actually care about equal rights. I think it’s unfortunate that we have to have feminism and masculism before the “gender transition movement” but that’s that. To say that you hate all feminists, it seems too strong. Perhaps it’s not, however. I do believe there is value in showing our anger. Perhaps it’s not worth more mild language just to garner the support of the few feminists who will support men’s rights. I certainly don’t think hatred against women, minorities, and liberals is going to get men’s rights activists anywhere in the long run, and I don’t mean you specifically.

We don’t advocate one path. We advocate choice; MRA, PUA, GAME, MGTOW, and ghosting. Some here are So-Con and want to go back to the way it was, some are liberal progressive like you and want no gender rules. I’m an evolutionist, and to me nature cannot be ignored, and men and women have certain traits that must be accepted, nurtured, and directed to positive use, not shamed, repressed, and left pent up to fester and rot.

All “flavors” of men’s rights activism share one thing in common – men’s rights. I think it is counter-productive for a community that supports mainly one flavor to label themselves broadly as men’s rights activists. MGTOW’s website clearly defines what they’re about, which is great. It doesn’t refer to itself as the best place for men’s rights news. I think it is valuable to discuss the aspects of the different flavors and to have articles by contributors who adhere to different flavors. I’m not going to agree with them on some things but it will cause discussion, at least. Articles completely unrelated to men’s rights are another matter.

I said you were dangerously close to being a pussy because you sent emails to contributors at MND like a bitch. You don’t see us trying to shut down feminist websites do you? Let your ideas stand on their own. What you did was like crying to momma or the teacher cuz the rest of the kids won’t play the game you want to play.

I would prefer to have MND change its description to be more accurate so that it no longer purports to be the #1 source for men’s issues. There are far better choices out there for men’s news. I simply wished to make my plea to contributors to realize that MND is doing the men’s rights movement a disservice by not being more clear on this point. I sent it by private e-mail and copied the site admins as well, because there is no guarantee that contributors will read every blog post.

There is even some experimental evidence (e.g. women recognizing and responding to the cries of their own children), and the stereotype of women being nurturing doesn’t come out of thin air. So it’s probably not just all society’s random beliefs, socialization and social constructions. But blank slatism can be cured.

I agree there are natural differences between the sexes, certainly.

That’s not a bad way to think and consider new things, but you shouldn’t think that anything is possible just by using enough brute force social engineering, or that every new solution will lead to equally good outcomes compared to the tried and tested ones. “First, do no harm”, sounds like a reasonable starting point to me.

That’s true but I don’t think we know today what is possible. I recognize human beings have inherent flaws. If we really can’t adapt to overcome them, we’re doomed. Change is slow and it’s not always good, but we aren’t where we need to be today. Can we really get there? I don’t know.

In general though, I don’t think that men’s rights have much to do with (American) conservative or liberal politics as such, and linking them could be malproductive.

That’s really my point exactly, and that’s why if I contributed an article I would focus on men’s rights.

As the phrase goes, women select, men display, and not that many women are interested in pairing with unconventional men who don’t display any alpha charasteristics, to use PUA lingo.

Yes and I still think a lot of that can be explained by society/nurture though I s’pose a lot of it… perhaps even more can also be explained by nature. It’s all intertwined with perceptions of sexuality as well, so it’s not something that will change quickly. This is one of those human flaws I talked about. Perhaps I’m being naive hoping that the vast majority of human beings can be reasonable any time soon.

And this is exactly what gives Spearhead it’s value. Allowing dissenting opinions to stand and allowing men to study and understand and come to their own conclusions. The only ‘censorship’ I support here is getting the women out of the way so more decent discussion can take place. I spend too much time scrolling past wimmins posts.

Riiiight.

Anyway, the answer to all men’s problems is to decrease government to ensure liberty. In fact, if that was the ONLY message repeated at the end of EVERY post on the-spearhead, then that would be progress!

Decreasing government may ensure liberty for the few, but at the cost of liberty for the many. There are certainly some things the government is too involved in and plenty other areas where it does not do enough. There’s a happy medium somewhere because I hope you can agree that anarchy is worse than what we have now. There must be a balance between individualism and the needs of the many if our SOCIETY is to survive and thrive with fairness for all. Sure it’s an ideal and I think it could be possible far in the future, or much sooner if I became Dictator of Earth.

The collective is the enemy of liberty.

That’s a lie and I don’t care who said it. On a planet with limited space you must have a community that bands together to guarantee liberty for all or you’re bound to have it taken away by someone else expressing their “liberty”. It’s a naive statement.

Hawaiian Libertarian December 28, 2009 at 16:38

Aofr – So, you’re upset, because suddenly “rendition” can happen at home too…. ?

Yup.

Caliph – Is a Global New World Order such a bad thing? i mean really?

Really.

Chris – Obama hasn’t done anything and this never ending cry that he is the boogeyman is beyond stupid.

I never called him a boogeyman. He’s a puppet, a stooge. And he’s only doing what he’s told…same as Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. et al. The last US President that decided not to play ball with the puppet masters got shot in the head while driving through Dallas.

That culprit is the American people who don’t have the slightest clue about how their government is supposed to function and who are completely ignorant and weak and allow those in power to take advantage of them. The founding fathers of this country did not create a democracy and for good reason. The fact that the people are too stupid to to even know this fact is why.

How do you think so many American people got this way in the first place?

Barsin – Not sure what this story has to do with men in particular. Seems more like you’re using this site to push your political political beliefs.

Oh really? And what political beliefs would you suppose I’m trying to push based on this article? And that you cannot see how this relates to men in particular merely highlights your own failure to see the big picture here…

Jay Hammers – I already wrote several blog posts explaining why Men’s News Daily is failing the men’s rights movement by alienating potential supporters with unrelated partisan politics.

Please don’t turn The Spearhead into Men’s News Daily.

In what way can my post be construed as “unrelated partisan politics?” It is certainly tangentially related to much of what we discuss here. As for “MND” the Spearhead will never turn into MND…because we are the Spearhead. We’ve been doing this sort of thing since it’s inception, and our numbers have only gotten better. Who are you to tell us what we can or cannot write about here?

A well-done global government would be beneficial to humanity in the long run as we colonize space.

Oh…I see. Another collectivist communitarian dreaming of a global utopia. Time to ignore the bleating of this sheeple.

The only problem I have with the whole ‘Obama is the boogey man’ is that all of these Fox style Republicans are only NOW starting to bemoan the loss of our freedoms.

You don’t have to tell me…the only problem is that who’s doing what NOW is most relevant. Should we ignore what Obama is doing right now because some people didn’t care when Bush was doing similar things?

I don’t think so.

Barsin – Yeah, I could do without this paranoiac NWO conspiracy nuttiness trying to piggyback it’s way in on the legitimate grievances men have.

Connect the dots, dumb ass. This latest executive order gives an international police entity immunity from the limitations imposed on our own entities. In other words, INTERPOL has just been granted carte-blanche to do as they will without transparency or oversight. This is not another legitimate grievance?

There are already a metric fuck ton of irrelevant backwater shitholes on the internet for this lunatic garbage.

Lunatic garbage? I posted the exact executive order posted on the whitehouse website…and the contents of that EO are undeniable! Obama granted an international organization extra-Constitutional powers…and pointing this out is “lunatic garbage?”

Moreover, I fail to see what this post has to do with men’s issues even tangentially. Interpol? Does the author even try to tie it in? This post doesn’t seem to belong here.

What is it with the proliferation of asshats that continually log on here to try and tell we authors what does or does not belong here? Don’t like it? Go start your own Spearhead.

Incidentally, I find the picture is very offensive.

Which confirms how appropriate it was for me to use it for this post.

NWO goes against everything The Joker stands for, and to use his image in this fashion makes all innocent little Hawaiian civilians fair game.

Bring it. I’ll show you exactly what “fair game” is.

Ray - the NWO is the New Woman Order, and every step it takes towards further entrenching its power around the planet directly affects men, and adds further “grievances”

BINGO. Take note all you naysayers griping about the appropriateness of this article.

Jay Hammers – You have to realize that there are a LOT of progressives out there who are starting to see how feminism has gone too far, how it is more about female privilege today. I know them! And progressives are around half of the country, a powerful force.

LMAO. YOU have to realize that “progressives” are the biggest conformist sheeple out there who have been duped into the largest block of useful idiocy in the nation. The fact that you think you are “protesting” female privilege while still clinging to your “progressive” ideology merely shows that mainstream mass media and institutional indoctrination has been inculcated so thoroughly that you fail to make the connection between the collectivist ideals of your entire ideology and female privilege you supposedly protest.

Educate yourself and de-program your brainwashed mind! Stop being a useful idiot!

Paul Elam - It plays into the conservative good/liberal bad crap that you can more easily get from 5 minutes on Fox News or CNN, and without the effort to read through the paragraph of legal gibberish.

Paul, can someone please point to me where this dynamic appears anywhere in my brief post on this article? Nowhere did I even mention “conservatism vs. liberalism.” I’m well aware of the game being played on us all with regards to dialectic two party politics. I concur with every single point fedrz has made on this thread regarding the “right” side of the dialectic being just as responsible for the current state of affairs as the “left” side is.

The only thing is, THIS article is focused on the most recent action, perpetrated by the current man wielding the power of the Presidency. Do we have to post a disclaimer or belabor how bad the “right” side is in order to be able to point out the current malfeasance of the “left?”

Jay Hammers - Laws protecting men’s rights will have a very tough time passing without progressive buy-in.

You really are a useful idiot of the highest magnitude. All of the laws that have been passed that have taken away men’s rights were all achieved PRECISELY by getting all of the ‘progressives” to buy-in.

anonymous – Tedious and off-target. Please stop writing for The Spearhead and write for somewhere else.

No.

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 16:42

Jay –

I believe strongly that a society in which both genders have equal rights, in which men and women are not confined into limited gender-based roles, can succeed in the long run.

I believed essentially the same thing from my teens until my early 30s. I’m a conservative/traditionalist by conversion, not via “received opinion.” I slowly started to see things a different way, little by little, and came to view the future progressives are “progressing” toward as a dystopia sculpted in the image of what liberal educators think sounds exciting. It’s Star Trek, a pleasant fiction that in practice would require the same kinds of totalitarian measures to sustain that progressives think they’re fighting against. Simply an inversion of what’s valued, with the interests of the old sacrificed for the interests of the new ruling class and ideology.

I like this phrase I found a few months back

“an aesthetic protest against the kind of world the Left built…”

It’s out of context. But increasingly that’s what my writing represents. I don’t think the world the left wants is truly better or even viable. It just seems nicer, and less “mean,” and that’s why people like it. It’s an emotional response, a sympathy for those on the fringes of previous societies with disregard for what held those societies together or why they were designed the way they were. My response to it is also, at least in part, emotional.

Not that it really matters,but I give no rhetorical points for sticking up for homosexuals. In the world I’d prefer, men would venerate their ancestors and their heritage enough to marry and reproduce, and any homosexual tendencies would be channeled or worked out on the side. I don’t think homosexuality needs to be criminalized, and I think it could be better understood, but I think men should have a sense of duty and effeminacy should be strongly discouraged at the social level.

We’re not in my world, though, so I think the best way is to hold the reproductive nuclear family as an ideal and find a supporting path of honor for men who “have their wires crossed.”

Any more would derail this thread even further, and be a waste of good writing time.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 16:43

Thought you had better things to do?

http://jayhammers.blogspot.com/2009/12/ive-got-more-important-things-to-do.html

So, now you’re a liar whose word can’t be counted on either. You lose points the more your gums flap.

You are indeed undermining Men’s Rights if you think that YOU, the MIGHTY JAY, has the right to attack MRA’s and whine and snivel like a little baby that we all have to come over to your way of thinking, or we are just entirely discredited. You even clearly announced your crime.

Notice that no-one here has advocated attacking your little pissant blog, even though you are speaking at a group of people that could easily round up enough allies to be a real pest to you?

Not all of us overly care for Warren Farrell, nor his Alan Alda approach. But, none of us campaign against him and try to undermine him – the way that turkeys like you do.

If you want to know something, you are solidifying in many people’s minds why left leaning men are a total waste of time, and ought to be written off with the rest of the androgynizing shmucks this PC society has created.

Didn’t you have something better to do?

Shouldn’t you be giving away all your possessions to homeless women, moderates and minorities or something?

Hawaiian Libertarian December 28, 2009 at 16:47

Globalman – And if you do not know how to claim your rights and then defend them then you will have them taken from you, including your right to life. And tough shit to you for choosing to be ignorant.

Believe me Global, I get what you’re trying to say. I also know that I will defend my rights as long as I’m breathing and capable. I’d prefer dying on my feet to living on my knees.

Jabberwochie – Start you own blog, “Moderate Men for Equality”. I’m sure the chicks will love it. Why don’t you bust out your guitar and sing us all a song while you’re at it….Kumbiyah my lord, kumbiyah….

LOL – except, Jays would be “Progressive Men for Equality.” I’m sure the chicks will love it too.

David December 28, 2009 at 17:06

“I second what John had to say. I will never live in Australia again. It’s a crap cunt-tree now.”

David: I live in Australia, and it is a good country for men. From everything I read, America is a feminist dump by comparison.

Men still get a lot of respect in Australia. And the women are sane.

Paul Elam December 28, 2009 at 17:07

I really don’t care if I came off as obnoxious

Understood, but at least you know why you weren’t taken seriously.

If you compare my responses to those of several of the posters here I think you’ll see my responses are founded in reason.

I am not comparing your comments to those of other posters. I only did what I said and compared your allegation that 50% of the articles at MND were from right wing ideologues to reality. It is just not true, and nowhere near it. Shifting the topic to other posters who don’t like MND is disingenuous. That is something else that will cost your credibility, though I clearly got you don’t care about your own believability.

I’ve been respectful as I felt necessary

And the distinguishing mark of a troll is that they seldom, if ever, think common courtesy is “necessary”

There are currently 18 headlines on MND’s front page, and I can identify one of them that qualifies for being suspect as too polemic. Keep in mind that just because someone is conservative doesn’t mean they can’t accurately address the issues of men and boys. Take the article By Gordon Finley on ObamaCare and how it affects men and boys by expanding offices on women’s health and ignoring the needs for men’s.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2009/12/22/males-and-seniors-will-lose-under-obamacare/

Under that article you will find the following comment from me:

A very short piece that speaks in an impeccably relevant voice, refreshingly absent of extraneous political rhetoric and focused where it should be, on how policy affects men and boys in this culture.

Where the MRM and mainstream politics cross paths, I wish I saw a lot more of this, instead of what frequently happens, which sadly boils down to someone saying “Men’s rights are great. Now vote for Sarah Palin.”

Thanks for raising the rent, Dr. Finley.

Sorry, but you are just an absolute failure at making a case here. You are obviously unable to see past a handful of articles you don’t agree with. Those handful of articles are a problem for me, but you are alleging things you can’t prove, making accusations in conflict with reality, behaving like a forum troll and standing on the fact that you don’t accept responsibility for anything you say or do.

This (the MRM) is not an environment where anyone can toss out some half-ass stat like “50%, yadda, yadda, yadda,” with absolutely no support and expect to do anything but put egg on their face. It is behavior reserved solely for those who care not if their face is dirty or clean.

At this point you have been given more time and respect than you come close to having earned. So until you can make a point and back it up with some reality you are going on ignore.

Cheers

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 17:14

David,

That’s kinda weird, because while men in Australia generally tend to boast about how manly Australian men are (not including you, it’s just something I’ve noticed) I’ve also gotten the sense that at least legally they are a lot more in line with European style PC. Firearms laws being an example I’ve seen cited.

America, outside of major cities and especially if you don’t work for the government or a major PC corporation, is really not a complete feminist shithole yet. Yet.

Folks in the country and outer suburbs tend to be a lot more traditional.

Gx1080 December 28, 2009 at 17:29

Given that is the guy who happily passed the law that allows Wall Street and all the wimmin voters in Medicine steal money off people at gun-point by obligatory HealthCare, I wouldn’t be surprised if he allowed surrender of the US. Is not like liberals wouldn’t like it either, after a lot of PC-rationalization bullshit, of course.

Or, he’s the only guy who wants to play clean against a bunch of criminal thugs. In which case, he shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions in International Politics in the first place.

David December 28, 2009 at 17:44

Jack Donovan:

” That’s kinda weird, because while men in Australia generally tend to boast about how manly Australian men are (not including you, it’s just something I’ve noticed) I’ve also gotten the sense that at least legally they are a lot more in line with European style PC. Firearms laws being an example I’ve seen cited.

America, outside of major cities and especially if you don’t work for the government or a major PC corporation, is really not a complete feminist shithole yet. Yet.

Folks in the country and outer suburbs tend to be a lot more traditional. ”

David: I am really pleased to read this. You American men sound so unhappy on sites like this and on the men’s blogs. And you make it sound like the American media is totally feminised. But then I watch American TV shows, and I don’t see them as that bad. In fact, I think American women get abused a fair bit. America just about invented all of the humiliating forms of striptease that women do; you expect your females to provide you with all imaginable sex acts; and use appalling slang (“nail”, “bitch”, “motherfucker”, “fuck the shit out of”). American men seem brutal about women.

The reason we don’t have firearms in our homes in Australia is that we never did. It’s not part of our culture. Some men hunt, and country blokes will have a rifle – to put down injured animals, shoot rabbits, whatever. But even our cops didn’t have guns until quite recently, as I recall.

My little joke on this is that Australia started as a penal colony, and you don’t arm convicts.

A lot of that manly Australian thing is a bit of a joke. Australians like to make things up to entertain and mislead foreigners. Australian men know that Crocodile Dundee was a joke. Like all stereotypes, there is an element of truth, but it is mostly just for laughs these days.

I work with quite a few women, and they are OK. In fact my workplace is heavily female, being in the health line, but the women are mostly pretty sane.

We do have feminism, and leftist elites, and a leftist public broadcaster; but a man can get away with a lot in Australia. It’s always been a man’s country. There were literally more men than women in Australia until about 1950, if I recall.

This is funny and fairly instructive of Australian attitudes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Hr5GbRC7Q

I don’t mean to be rude, but you Americans all seem to hate each other. Australians just aren’t that polarised.

BTW, I have seen American men depicted as tough, for example on the British TV comedy Fawlty Towers.

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 17:57

David -

You American men sound so unhappy on sites like this and on the men’s blogs. And you make it sound like the American media is totally feminised.

Well…it is an “issues” blog, not a bar. So people are going to argue about “issues.”

And men who are completely feminized don’t see feminization as a threat, after all, there’s nothing to be angry about when you’re all limp-wristed Emo kids. Masculine ideals are being routinely attacked in the media and in laws, and manliness is stigmatized completely at an academic level, but this doesn’t necessarily trickle all the way down to normal life. Actually, I take that back–it does, but just as a trickle.

And America really is polarized. That much is true. A lot of liberals will gasp and shame each other for even associating with a “Republican” (a term liberals/progressives exchange freely with “Nazi” and “fascist”) and a lot of “Republicans” (A weird, confused group right now–not quite conservative so much as neo-conservative and grasping at straws) consider most liberal men to be castrated lapdog traitors.

InternetWood December 28, 2009 at 18:14

David said:

In fact, I think American women get abused a fair bit. America just about invented all of the humiliating forms of striptease that women do; you expect your females to provide you with all imaginable sex acts; and use appalling slang (“nail”, “bitch”, “motherfucker”, “fuck the shit out of”). American men seem brutal about women.

Their mommas should wash their potty mouths out with soap!

Really, David, you are clearly a feminized man. Or pretending to be one.

Anti-porn, anti-bad-words, sex is dirty, and a complete inability to understand reality.

American men seem brutal about women.

Define brutal. Women actually being hurt, or women having their feelings ‘hurt’?

Again, maybe David should re-evaluate his close relationship with his mother.

David December 28, 2009 at 18:29

“Really, David, you are clearly a feminized man. Or pretending to be one.

Anti-porn, anti-bad-words, sex is dirty, and a complete inability to understand reality.”

David: America and Australia are much cruder places now than even a few years ago. And I put this down to American popular culture.

Maybe I am “feminized”, but my wife has ironed my shirts for twenty years. So I must be doing something right.

Mr.M December 28, 2009 at 18:34

To be fair to David…

Women do get abused in America (and elsewhere). Those DV statistics we cite show that its reciprocal, or, it goes both-ways. The reality is people are capable of many types of abuse, whether it be from a male or female.

HOWEVER – the problem in America is that it feels the pendulum has swung too far in how the government handles said issues, and how the mainstream-media portrays living in the US. Of course, it depends what kind of TV shows, or media, you watch…if all you do is watch “MANSWERS” and internet porn, then your view is probably a little skewed.

In any case, the reality is that most TV programming (news, sitcoms, soap operas, prime-time dramas, OPRAH) are female-oriented. I believe welmer took a fair amount of time on his blog speaking about how the most recent trend, that is, the increase in discretionary income for women, led many companies to begin to cater towards female audiences.

Ever watch the Morning News? For the past month I’ve made it a point to watch ~15 minutes every morning and only today did I hear about how a man did something good (an interview w/ the father who just custody of his son from Brazil). Otherwise its – bad man (Tiger Woods), good woman (too many to list), woman who is probably bad but we’ll present her in a nice/better spotlight (Amanda Knox), etc.

I like to think I’m fairly objective in my thoughts – but the more I watch contemporary TV/media the more I realize how feminized the West is.

Mr.M December 28, 2009 at 18:40

Oh – I thought this one was particularly slanted: the news did an piece about alcoholism in women and how absolutely terrible, shameful, and deadly it is…and 30% of all alcoholics are women.

I don’t think the word “men” was mentioned once. Even after they indirectly cited that 70% of alcoholics are men. The underlying message I cannot ignore anymore is: You (man) are expendable.

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 19:34

Mr. M,

Seen something similar here a little while ago. I couldn’t believe it.

In Vancouver, they were suddenly concerned that there was a 10% or 15% increase in homeless women living on the streets… but, then again, women only make up something like 15% of the homeless in the first place. So, they were quite concerned that the ratio had turned into something like 17% of the homeless were women… and out came the Waaaaaambulance to help out the poor waifs, to get that ratio back to where it was supposed to be.

Good grief, Charlie Brown!

Jack Donovan December 28, 2009 at 19:53

Mr. M –

Of course, it depends what kind of TV shows, or media, you watch…if all you do is watch “MANSWERS” and internet porn, then your view is probably a little skewed.

Yeah, TV is not a good gauge of reality. In reality if you hit a woman in public other men would jump you and beat you for it. Most men I know would balk at the suggestion of actually hitting a woman, though they would laugh about the idea of it.

Also, feminists and Hollywood liberals like the fantasy of the perpetually oppressed woman and reaffirms their beliefs. It creates drama. We’re talking about a group of people who pick a new minority/oppressed group to make a touching drama about each year. They gobble that shit up during award season, which is pretty much the height of SWPL.

Entertainment is at least much about the myths a people want to believe about themselves as it is about the daily reality of their lives.

InternetWood December 28, 2009 at 20:38

David said:

David: America and Australia are much cruder places now than even a few years ago. And I put this down to American popular culture.

Maybe I am “feminized”, but my wife has ironed my shirts for twenty years. So I must be doing something right.

Since you are wealthy enough to HAVE a stay at home wife, we can add middle/upper classer hating on the have-nots.

Well, David, that makes you 37 at least. So I think we can add oldster hating on the young’in to your list of endearing traits.

Well, the list of your glorious wonderfulness definitely spills over.

The Caliph December 28, 2009 at 20:45

David is a woman.

The Caliph December 28, 2009 at 20:50

Doesnt take a psychoanalytic genius to distill that fact from her writing pattern.

As an example only a woman would use a loaded word like abuse and then use examples like “America just about invented all of the humiliating forms of striptease that women do; you expect your females to provide you with all imaginable sex acts; and use appalling slang”.

When men think of the word abuse, even abuse of women. That line of thinking isnt an example that will pop to mind.

I wasnt born yesterday David , come clean woman.

David December 28, 2009 at 22:35

My wife works part-time. She still finds time to iron my shirts and prepare all my meals.

I am not particularly rich.

I am not a woman. I am very proud to be a man. Always have been.

You people think you have psychic powers, or you are projecting.

My wife regularly accuses me of being a misogynist. But I still find that American popular culture is humiliating to women.

Ragnar December 28, 2009 at 22:39

fedrz December 28, 2009 at 14:46
Tiredgill,

My entire life changed for the worse a few years ago, and so did my lifestyle and hobbies. Suddenly I had none, and was freaking myself out with all kinds of scenarios of what might happen in my life if things didn’t turn out well.

I had been mildly involved in the online MRM, but not in too serious of a way – being a forum member etc. I had talked to AH and he recommended me to start a blog, and shortly after, I bumped into Zed…

-

I usually don’t need to use to google to find stuff – I’ve got it all organized in various locations at the MGTOW Library, or on various locations on my blog, and I can whip it out and fire it off like it is nothing now.

Thanks Fedrz for all the good work.
Funny we have followed partly the same path’s as I have also studied (read) some philosophy, mythology and political stuff.
The many years on the has stopped me from from arguing too much and instead resorted to staing my general pow’s in very short and provocative form. I don’t have the time for lengthy discussions that end up in arguments about semantics or political shaming.

So my general viewpoints are;
MEN are MANKIND, not women or other life forms.
Men only join forces when there is a mutual respect for property.
You cannot be a collectivist and work for freedom, but you can run your own ‘collective’ (family).

Let’s keep our heads up even when places like this is overrun by leftists and progessives.

Welmer December 28, 2009 at 22:47

My wife regularly accuses me of being a misogynist. But I still find that American popular culture is humiliating to women.

-David

Although I don’t know for sure about Australia, British women are somewhat more feminine than American women. American pop culture may appear to be humiliating to women from the perspective of someone who isn’t familiar with how brash, loud and masculine our women can be. In many cases, American women feel empowered by raunch. So while it seems humiliating from an outside point of view, it is actually something of a power trip for American women, many of whom like nothing better than to be an object of pornographic desire as well as a domineering bitch.

Epoxytocin No. 87 December 28, 2009 at 23:04

@ David

America just about invented all of the humiliating forms of striptease that women do; you expect your females to provide you with all imaginable sex acts; and use appalling slang (“nail”, “bitch”, “motherfucker”, “fuck the shit out of”)

You’ve been married for that long, and you don’t “expect your female to provide you with all imaginable sex acts”? Or, for that matter, make her perform “humiliating forms of striptease”, or “use appalling slang” when you’re … fucking the shit out of her?

In my experience, a long-term relationship without these elements lasts about, oh, six weeks, at the most, before it starts devolving down that long slippery slope toward feminine discontent.
And we know how powerful feminine discontent can be, in today’s world.

Every madonna is someone’s whore.

David December 28, 2009 at 23:21

Epoxytocin No. 87

“You’ve been married for that long, and you don’t “expect your female to provide you with all imaginable sex acts”? Or, for that matter, make her perform “humiliating forms of striptease”, or “use appalling slang” when you’re … fucking the shit out of her?

In my experience, a long-term relationship without these elements lasts about, oh, six weeks, at the most, before it starts devolving down that long slippery slope toward feminine discontent.
And we know how powerful feminine discontent can be, in today’s world.

Every madonna is someone’s whore.”

David: You make some interesting points. I am still thinking about this, but I suppose it is one thing to have a woman do some of this stuff for you, and another to have women do it publicly or to have the culture just assume that a wife or girlfriend should do these things as a matter of course.

Of course I have done stuff with my wife. I have spanked my wife many times for fun, fucked her up the arse a fair bit, and so on. Made her swallow. Doesn’t mean I think it’s moral.

I like your last line.

Welmer December 28, 2009 at 23:24

BTW, David and other Aussies, for some reason my son thinks Australia is a paradise. He’s just a month short of five years old, and he has planned out his life in Australia, which includes a big, green house on a lake, a jet boat, and a special garage for his personal bulldozer. He also said that there would be an office in his house for daddy, and I told him that’s good enough for me. There was something about robotic pets in there, but that’s beyond my comprehension, so I’ll wait and see what the future brings…

I have no idea why he has such a thing for Australia, but hey, if the kid’s got a dream I won’t get in his way (so long as he makes good on the office promise).

Epoxytocin No. 87 December 29, 2009 at 01:04

I suppose it is one thing to have a woman do some of this stuff for you, and another to have women do it publicly or to have the culture just assume that a wife or girlfriend should do these things as a matter of course.

You’re getting warmer.

The correct dichotomy is: It’s one thing – a beautiful thing – to have your woman, whom you direct, cherish, protect, and possess, do these things for you. It’s another thing – not such a beautiful thing – to have a culture that tells women that it’s “empowering” to do them with any random person who comes down the pike.

As for “assuming that a wife or girlfriend should do these things as a matter of course”:
Well, yes.
Your writing has the subtext that a woman is making some sort of sacrifice by “doing these things”. That’s sad. If you know even Thing No. 1 about women, you should know that wanting to “do these things” – dripping with excitement at the thought of humbling, even humiliating, themselves at the whim of a worthy man – is the apex of normal female desire.
But, of course, it’s reciprocal. You can’t just expect your woman to be an instant slut; you must be the man who makes your woman drip with excitement at the thought of abasing herself at your feet, and burn with frustration if you make her wait.

Unfortunately, the culture teaches men quite the opposite; moreover, it has also omitted the “worthy man” part in its teachings to women. This is the only reason why women ever feel abused or degraded by “dirty” sex; they aren’t giving themselves to a worthy man. That’s a problem on both sides of the equation.

See here.

Epoxytocin No. 87 December 29, 2009 at 01:09

@ Welmer

I have no idea why he has such a thing for Australia, but hey, if the kid’s got a dream I won’t get in his way (so long as he makes good on the office promise).

Dude. He’s five. Five-year-olds have some pretty shitty reasons for where they want to live.

When I was five, I wanted to move to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), because:
* It was purple on my globe;
* I liked the name “Ouagadougou”;
* The country’s border looks like a hornless rhino head.

After that, I wanted to move to the entirely fictional republic of Esteria.

Kids are cool. (Especially me, I was the height of cool. Yeah.)

The LILest LIL of them all December 29, 2009 at 01:19

Dude. He’s five. Five-year-olds have some pretty shitty reasons for where they want to live.

When I was five, I wanted to move to Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), because:
* It was purple on my globe;
* I liked the name “Ouagadougou”;
* The country’s border looks like a hornless rhino head.

After that, I wanted to move to the entirely fictional republic of Esteria.

And 25 years later, he wants to move to Boise, Idaho.

Because the Boise State football field is blue.

David December 29, 2009 at 02:31

Epoxytocin No. 87:

“If you know even Thing No. 1 about women, you should know that wanting to “do these things” – dripping with excitement at the thought of humbling, even humiliating, themselves at the whim of a worthy man – is the apex of normal female desire.
But, of course, it’s reciprocal. You can’t just expect your woman to be an instant slut; you must be the man who makes your woman drip with excitement at the thought of abasing herself at your feet, and burn with frustration if you make her wait.”

David: Yes. This is the great truth that no-one will admit to. There is a hint of it in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Epoxytocin No. 87 December 29, 2009 at 02:38

This is the great truth that no-one will admit to.

Heh. Women will “admit” it, loudly, breathlessly, and repeatedly.

But the catch-87 here is that … (wait for it) … they’ll only “admit” it to guys who’ve already figured it out.

nilk December 29, 2009 at 05:00

The reason we don’t have firearms in our homes in Australia is that we never did.

@David.

That’s rubbish.

The reason we don’t have firearms in our homes in Australia is because John Howard had a momentary lapse of reason and brought in our restrictive gun laws after Port Arthur.

We may not have had a “gun culture” as America understands it, but there were still plenty of people around who had guns and liked to keep them handy.

Even if it was for the occasional expedition out to the block to shoot rabbits.

We have totally feminised police, especially here in Victoria, with Simon Overboard following in Christine Nixon’s steps.

She was the Police Commissioner who came from NSW for the job, even though she’d done very little real, practical policing. She drove a desk, and managed to turn our police force into a farce.

We’ve some fine serving police, but the pc/feminazi rules and regs mean that they are nowhere near as good as they could be.

David December 29, 2009 at 05:21

Yes, Epoxytocin, women in intimate moments will admit it, but not the broader culture. It is weird what women will do for you, especially when they first fall in love. (I read an academic paper once that said that extreme submissiveness was a normal part of early pair bonding in women). When we were “dating”, as you Americans say, my now wife got me to take her down to a quiet spot near a local lake late one evening and asked me to smack her around.

What I have found of late is that applying “game” to my marriage has helped keep that spirit alive, to some degree. (Not that I want to smack her around!) It definitely works, although it requires commitment. Treating her more brusquely has had one effect that nothing else has ever achieved – she is starting to seriously lose some excess weight.

But that spirit has vanished from most popular culture. I remember TV even as late as the Seventies which contained more than a whiff of that old sexy female submissiveness as a given. (My wife likes to find old movies with girls getting spanked, by John Wayne and so on.) But that’s all gone now.

I know what you mean about sexiness now being construed as “empowerment”. I just think this is more female self-delusion. Believe me, when I see a woman doing a pole dance on some TV program, it doesn’t look empowering to me.

I had a failed engagement as a young man. Funny thing was that the girl, a stuck-up bitch, became incredibly submissive a couple of times, towards the end of our relationship. I think I must have finally triggered something deep in her almost by accident. I think deep down most women have the capacity to be like this, although proving it would be too dangerous and too much hard work in some cases.

I suppose the big question is why does this phase not last in most relationships.

I did get an answer to another question that was bothering me. Why do so many quality young men seem to end up marrying such fat and unappealing women these days? These blokes are often nice-looking, of good character, with good jobs. And they marry ugly girls. I finally realised that they are great guys, but they have that Beta mentality.

Jabherwochie December 29, 2009 at 07:04

Much of my anger towards feminism, and remember I was a teenager throughout the 1990′s, was that I was naturally nice and wanted people to like me, (it wasn’t to get into a girls pants, I was like that by nature to everyone) so when feminism told me men were bad for being abusive, domineering brutes, it reinforced my belief that I was being honorable, noble, and kind, and would and should be rewarded for that behavior with the love of a women. It was only after women used, abused, and ignored me consistently up to around the age of 23, at which point I just sorta had an emotional paradigm shift and started resenting women and women’s sexual power, that women all of a sudden started getting into me. Keep in mind, before this shift, I was popular, middle class, in college, lifted weights, outgoing, smart, talented, was known for fighting, etc., but it was only up to the point that I lost all respect and good will towards women that I could affectively deal with them by A. telling them what they wanted to hear, not the truth B. ignoring their emotions as best I could C. dismissing their flawed ideas with my superior intellect (humorlessly obviously) and D. most importantly, was no longer emotionally affected by their rejection, and started to play the numbers game, hitting on anything that moved. This was a natural evolution. I had never heard of “Game”, although much of what I was doing has foundations in Game, although I’m sure what I was doing would be considered crude by true practitioners, it was still 100% more affective than getting to know a girl, falling in love, and expressing my feelings to her. That is what feminism says should be, and what should work. It was a lie. So much of my youth was wasted, pining for the love and acceptance of women based on a pretty lie. Your youth is the foundation of your life. Had I known better, who knows what I might have become. Feminism stripped me of my potential. Feminsim fucked me in plenty of other ways also. With such a high IQ, although they tried to ship me off to special schools, which I refused for bad reasons in hindsight, I should have been dealt with in a different way then just being allowed to sleep in class because “Justin is an exception.” Thanks education system. Thanks for allowing me to meet the minimum required of me. A masculine school system would have said, “Fuck you, you lazy pretentous fuck, we’ve got big plans for your mind! Society can’t afford to let it go to waste! Instead of focusing your energies on being popular and getting laid, we need you to find a cure for cancer! Now, here are the books you need to learn! Instead of sitting in class sleeping, learn at your own pace how you want!” But instead, our feminized education system didn’t want to hold me up as someone special or different in any way that would seem unfair to others, at least more than just allowing me to be a smartass and sleep in class. They just wanted to cram me in a box like all the rest. They couldn’t think outside the assembly line of sheeple-citizen production. Treating everyone as equals is unfair. It is unequal. Fuck feminism. I have my reasons for hating it. NO logic will change that emotion. I’ve still got time to make a mark. I’m young enough. Now it might just happen to be through the destruction of feminism. Oh, how the worm turns.

Sorry for the rant. It just comes out at times.

Cunt December 29, 2009 at 07:07

And 25 years later, he wants to move to Boise, Idaho.

Because the Boise State football field is blue.

And 25 years later….he wants to hand his nutsack over to a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-faced chink because being with a self-styled member of the ultra-elite class that is ‘above Donald Trump’ (despite the “aristocratic” chink having been adopted….d’oh!) confers prestige.

Snark December 29, 2009 at 07:12

Jaberwochie,

It was a good rant, very good in fact, so there’s no need to apologise. You’re quite right in all your assertions.

Firepower December 29, 2009 at 09:16

I will put this thread BACK on track, free from derailment invective.

It’s simple:

Jay Hammers is a mindless fascist
and
Obama is a mindful one.

You may now pay me with either Porter, or Ale. Maybe a Stout…

David Brandt December 29, 2009 at 09:41

Jaberwochie
“Treating everyone as equals is unfair. It is unequal. Fuck feminism. ”
See, this is what gets me. You’re correct of course–if we were all the same, i. e. ‘equal’. Not everyone is Tesla or Shakespeare, nor could they be–it is reality,
or what we all experience as being real. Attempting to and expecting reality and universal law to bend to your opinions/beliefs/ideas is sheer idiocy. Yet THAT is precisely what feminism attempts to do. I haven’t read anything in your post that I personally don’t agree with completely. I don’t know if you even see how often you hit that damn nail squarely on the head, but it happens quite frequently–and quite often when you get pissed off–that comes from being passionate about what you’re expressing.

“Fuck feminism. I have my reasons for hating it. NO logic will change that emotion.” Logic is the reason so many of us hate it–while many have said that it has set men free I’ll tell you what else it has done, and this makes my blood boil. When I was a kid (which was a long time ago relatively speaking) boys were expected to act different because they are different. In fourth grade, my best friend (and I’ll write his name here in case he’s reading this) Sean O’Driscoll and I would go across the street from the school in back of the police department of W. Milwaukee. We would beat the shit out of each other, and we were pretty fairly matched so it lasted awhile–just for fun. I always wondered why those cops never went out there to break it up, or the teachers for that matter–but they seemed to have common sense, and as far as the cops went that was probably something they did when they were boys. Personally, I think they were making bets. These days they’d have a swat team out there. We have feminist indoctrinated ‘teachers’ who want to drug the boy out of our sons and grandsons, and will call CPS and the police to make sure they’re on their drugs if their dad is standing up and saying no, (happened in Rio Rancho, NM not that long ago), and/or ‘mom’s who go along with turning their son’s into something more easily ‘controlled’. This is not setting us free–it inspires feelings of femicidal/manginacidal rage in me.

“I just sorta had an emotional paradigm shift”
It means you became more aware and broke free of another one. We are born into this world with control paradigms–and the more we break, the better off we are.

“Your youth is the foundation of your life. Had I known better, who knows what I might have become. Feminism stripped me of my potential. Feminsim fucked me in plenty of other ways also. With such a high IQ, although they tried to ship me off to special schools, which I refused for bad reasons in hindsight, I should have been dealt with in a different way then just being allowed to sleep in class because “Justin is an exception.”

Bingo. How many potential Teslas, Einsteins, and since you’re an artist, insert the name of any famous male artist here……have been suppressed and have been truly oppressed (a word I’ve come to hate because of it’s misuse by feminists, but is literally happening) because of what you’ve just described? With the exception of anomalies, the constructive, creative abilities exist in men. I don’t even need to show examples since they are all around us and within us all the time. If feminism set us free, we are paying a terrible price for that freedom, and what you have described here Jabber is that price. You, as a teacher observed it upcloseandpersonal.

Jabherwochie December 29, 2009 at 11:07

@David and Snark-

Thanks.

I hope to pay back your kind words, as they give me strength and resolve, by one day doing something purposeful and substantial in this war against feminism.

David December 29, 2009 at 14:23

Jabherwochie:

” I was like that by nature to everyone) so when feminism told me men were bad for being abusive, domineering brutes, it reinforced my belief that I was being honorable, noble, and kind, and would and should be rewarded for that behavior with the love of a women. ”

David: We are massively lied to about a few important issues. That is, the culture consistently misrepresents the truth about some important matters, and this is one of them. Women don’t want a man who is a brute, but they want a man who can be “brutish” at times. Just as all sex is not rape (another feminist canard), all male assertion is not abuse.

There is no one way of having “game”. For example, people mock nerds, but being nerdy can also mean being a bit cold and emotionally distant, and some women are turned on by this. I am a scientist, and a lot of my girlfriends have had scientist fathers. I think they get turned on by the remoteness of technically-minded men. It has also helped me that I have always been good-looking and I am a fairly big bloke. Also, my first instinct when seeing a pretty girl has always been to want to dominate her. I can’t really conceive of an egalitarian relationship. They just sound, as young people say today, gay.

And I have never been the guy with the chocs and flowers. I am not the “supplicatory” type. If a girl doesn’t like you, forget her.

Growing up with sisters helps a man have a realistic attitude to women. Also, Jabherwochie, you are quite a bit younger than me, and I got the tail end of the Old World attitude to men and women. Also, as I’ve said above, Australia is a more masculine country. We don’t “valorise” feminism as much as you Americans, where you seem to get it in your morning cereal. Intellectual movements simply aren’t taken as seriously here. That old British pragmatism, I suppose.

Who is going to tell the young men what I have always known instinctively, and what I have learned? There is one nice, pussywhipped, young husband I know. I have taken him aside once or twice to try to give him some friendly hints (his wife is a Catholic mum with three young kids who want to go into politics – in the good old days, she would have been laughed at for this and told, quite rightly, to stay home and serve her family). But I think he is stuck in his situation.

ray December 29, 2009 at 15:16

“He’s just a month short of five years old, and he has planned out his life in Australia, which includes a big, green house on a lake, a jet boat, and a special garage for his personal bulldozer.”

lol yeah keep that dozer pristine cause it’s got a lotta work ahead

returning to business:

this was an important post

obama’s signing away of sovereignty to Interpol is merely the latest NWO gambit, building on the traitorous actions of the half-dozen chief execs/govt before him — and understand that those “expanded police powers” ARE going to be used to enforce the anti-male New Woman Order agendas and “laws”

speaking of . . . the Medea really needs its smirking face rubbed in its own lies and hypocrisy, and the DV incidents of the past few months set up perfectly for MRA responses and activity

glad to see that Mensactivism.org is covering the Charlie “Dont Hit Me Ma”-Sheen fiasco

http://news.mensactivism.org/node/14488#comments

one site contributor, Matt, even wrote a handy complaint letter, readymade for the Medea

the Desert Light, trudy schuett, also pitches in here

http://partnerabuse.com/2009/12/28/charlie-sheen-mary-j-blige-and-tiger-woods-%E2%80%93-stuff-happens/

yo charlie sounds like Apocalypse is N.O.W. ;O)

thought the PI was tough? hey you were only PLAYING at rowing upriver

how you like the REAL jungle? never get off the fucking boat, baby

you should have strangled that spook and general when you had them in the trailer

NOW theyve got you by the balls, in your own livingroom

Lady Raine December 29, 2009 at 15:57

Oh, wait….now Obama is a Feminist????

I don’t understand why there are men here claiming that this is part of a “Feminist Agenda”. Ummmmm you do realize that this law applies to both men AND women, right?

How do some of you people come to these ridiculous far-reaching conclusions that don’t even make logical sense?

While Obama is most certainly an idiot, a douche-bag, and a pawn for the Black Man’s Ego…..he is no more FOR women than he is anyone else. He’s just like every other politician….he’s a slimebag that’s out for no one but himself.

But sure, why don’t you keep handing the power over to the Feminists by validating their claims about how “ridiculous” and “misogynistic” men still are.

I don’t think some of you gentlemen realize that your blind hate for women, your misogyny, and your desire to destroy all women no matter who they are or what they represent is literally HANDING the Feminists the evidence to back up their argument about you.

wow December 29, 2009 at 16:13

How about $385 million allocated to femi-twit groups with the economic stimulus. How about a ministry for women and girls issues???

LR: STFU

Snark December 29, 2009 at 16:34

your blind hate for women, your misogyny, and your desire to destroy all women

Ahaahahhahahahaahaahhahaha

Lady Raine December 29, 2009 at 17:04

How about $385 million allocated to femi-twit groups with the economic stimulus. How about a ministry for women and girls issues???

How about the trillions of dollars that are spent by Liberals on ANY minority group whether it’s the poor, Blacks, Asians, Mexicans, Jews, or even a Cyclops?

Again, you are segregating just ONE tiny thing that the Liberals do for EVERY group that has ever laid claim to “being oppressed”.

You are attempting to make his move “Feminist” in nature….when in actuality hes doing what EVERY Liberal does….making victims out of people who may not have any want, need, or desire to BE a victim.

And making criminals out of anyone who isn’t ASHAMED that they DON’T live as a victim. It has nothing to do with a “Feminist Agenda” (considering the REAL hardcore Feminists are rare) and you know it. You just want something else to hate on women for. Simple as that.

fedrz December 29, 2009 at 17:05

Why is being a misogynist a bad thing?

***shrugs***

Nobody kicks a dead dog.

ray December 29, 2009 at 17:11

Ummmmm you do realize that this law applies to both men AND women, right?

oh yeah, smacks forehead, how could we be so stupid

giving Interpol carte blanche applies to both men AND women!!

why, theyre gonna be running around the planet just SLAVERING to arrest women!

hey, the laws apply EQUALLY!

like the Drug War

like affirmative action

like preferential hiring, advancement, and retention laws

like criminal prosecution

like the Gulag System in which 93% of the victims are male

like sexual harrassment laws

like DV laws

yeah we’ve had plenty of your Equality and of your Laws

your little Rain of Terror there, Lady, is about to doused

Fiercely Independent John Nada December 29, 2009 at 17:34

***Oh boy.
Let’s see, how long was he in office before he created the (unconstitutional) Office of Women and Girls? Or better yet, before he signed the Lily Ledbetter Act into law?

I normally don’t even waste my time on Waldos but this one makes my shit itch.

The invitation is still open to those who want to learn how to make videos for FREE. (Especially given the socialist undercurrent that runs strong in this meme.)

Simply email me. We’re about 15 strong and growing…

Fiercely Independent John Nada December 29, 2009 at 17:45

***
Error.
“Council On Women and Girls”
and
that the Lilly Ledbetter act is unconstitutional.

Lady Raine December 29, 2009 at 19:08

Ray–

In all sincerity your shrieking, ridiculous rant just makes you look silly. I am not a Feminist and this imaginary “Feminist Takeover” is imaginary on your part.

There are indeed laws that allow women to take advantage. Those women are criminals and deserve to punished as such.

It’s clear that you have no idea who or what you are angry at. It’s weird, but I know plenty of women who get up, go to work, bust their ass, come home, cook dinner, feed their kids, go to bed and get up the next day to do the same thing. It’s what normal adults do.

If you want to spend your life shrieking about how “all women are out to get you” when I think I can honestly say that MOST of us women get “hurt” by laws supporting office lackeys and gold-diggers just as much as they hurt YOU, but you’ll never see that truth nor admit it even if you did.

Your particular brand of hate really DOES just make me think that those crazy “FemNazi’s” who say “all men are misogynistic, penis-driven, woman-hating fools” might just have a more valid argument than I previously thought.

Good luck trying to find a “winner” of a gender war. LOL….are you not aware that there can BE no winner of THAT particular war without BOTH genders losing in the end? Silly child, you clearly don’t understand what it is you are really angry at.

Lady Raine December 29, 2009 at 19:09

AGH! “Nothing BUT imaginary on your part”

Dammit.

Lady Raine December 29, 2009 at 19:12

Let’s see, how long was he in office before he created the (unconstitutional) Office of Women and Girls?

Again, that’s weird….most of us Americans can think of about 100 OTHER things NOT relating to women at all that the Government has done that is “unconstitutional” such as the Patriot Act (just for an example) or how Blacks can get a scholarship just for being Black… but yeah….you’re right…. those things only negatively affect MEN, right?

No one is going to take your arguments seriously if you are going to continue to present it in such a blind, one-sided, completely irrational manner.

fedrz December 29, 2009 at 19:17

I took his argument seriously.

Brian December 29, 2009 at 19:47

like affirmative action

like preferential hiring, advancement, and retention laws

like criminal prosecution

like the Gulag System in which 93% of the victims are male

like sexual harrassment laws

like DV laws

All the laws mentioned above basically give women a leg up on men, and should be abolished completely.

You can also add to that list: marital rape law, and Title IX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX).

Fiercely Independent John Nada December 29, 2009 at 20:17

No one is going to take your arguments seriously if you are going to continue to present it in such a blind, one-sided, completely irrational manner.

***
LOL, I’m simply making an observation within the framework of the conversation. You know, like the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action by far have been..doh! WHITE WOMEN. Typical–shiftless and always wanting something for nothing, LOL!

I could care less about feminists think of me (male or female). My goal is to remove the veil of protection so that you may all bear the brunt of your “wise” decisions unreservedly.

And I must admit, more than a few of us are tiptoeing quietly from the Matrix. Me, I’ll be watching it all unfold from high in the magnificent Andes mountains. What a symphony that will be, eh? The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be sweeter than Beethoven’s 9th…

ray December 30, 2009 at 14:22

fierce john–

“You know, like the biggest beneficiaries of Affirmative Action by far have been..doh! WHITE WOMEN. Typical–shiftless and always wanting something for nothing, LOL”

the ’64 Civil Rights Act was intended to help BLACK MEN support families, join society, and turn the matriarchal ghettos into something less matriarchal and ghettoish

so who got the benefit from CRA ’64?

well WHITE WOMEN of course!

while the ghettos grew

in my decades amongst america’s workplaces, who was constantly trying to undermine and belittle my work?

who was spreading male-hate via gossip and office cliques?

who arranged to close down departments (like campus VA offices) staffed by males?

who always schemed to get me fired, or to make the work environment so onerous that it forced me to quit?

who was haranguing me in the classrooms and emasculating me in the media?

well it wasnt BLACK MEN, baby

the hard truth for white boys is that our OWN WOMEN betrayed us massively — but our destruction and defeat wasnt enough, now their stooge Maria Shriver has to screech Womans Wonderful Victory from the rooftops

yet Lady Pain here wants me to hate on the DARKIES for what WHITE WOMEN did, in their astounding selfishness, smugness, greed, and misandry

sorry but i lived through it, i saw exactly what happened, take your racism and gendersupremacy elsewhere

“And I must admit, more than a few of us are tiptoeing quietly from the Matrix.”

tiptoe, run, or stay and stomp it from within, it’s all good

chic noir December 30, 2009 at 18:24

ray the ‘64 Civil Rights Act was intended to help BLACK MEN support families, join society, and turn the matriarchal ghettos into something less matriarchal and ghettoish
actually, during that time the “ghettos” weren’t yet mariachal darling.

chic noir December 30, 2009 at 18:37

David

Maybe I am “feminized”, but my wife has ironed my shirts for twenty years. So I must be doing something right.

*Chic noir fists bumps david*
*hands david a whiskey*
I like your style david.

Epoxy, there are parts of the world where people don’t do any of the acts you and David mentioned, there marriages survive as well as most marriages will.

P.S. if you were just an average looking guy you would find it much more difficult to find a woman ready and willing to debase herself for you.

Hawaiian Libertarian December 30, 2009 at 18:51

ray the ‘64 Civil Rights Act was intended to help BLACK MEN support families, join society, and turn the matriarchal ghettos into something less matriarchal and ghettoish
actually, during that time the “ghettos” weren’t yet mariachal darling.

Yes they were.

Read: The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies

David December 30, 2009 at 19:00

chic noir:

” *Chic noir fists bumps david*
*hands david a whiskey*
I like your style david.

Epoxy, there are parts of the world where people don’t do any of the acts you and David mentioned, there marriages survive as well as most marriages will.

P.S. if you were just an average looking guy you would find it much more difficult to find a woman ready and willing to debase herself for you. ”

David: I suspect you will find this funny, but I have always thought it unfair that some men get all the feminine admiration, and I have not traded on my good looks. I was being modest, actually. I was a VERY good-looking young man indeed.

I don’t like men who use power or looks or whatever to screw lots of silly women. My father did a bit of that.

I have actually refused to have sex with a couple of girls, nice-looking ones too, partly for religious reasons. I have had anal sex with a woman (same one) about twenty times. I really enjoyed it, but I don’t do it now, for moral reasons. I don’t even like my wife taking me in her mouth. Catholic morality.

I think God was good to me. He made me very cute, so that I would attract a wife, and this made up for my scientist’s shyness. With all due respect, chic noir, I have never been that interested in chasing women. Too much trouble.

That said, I want my marriage to work. And that is where “game” has come in very useful. I have been using this technique with my wife for a couple of months now (I have always used some of it instinctively). And it really works. I think we are both happier.

But, sorry, chic noir, I have only known a few women really well, and two of them were willing to “debase themselves” in ways that you would find really shocking, and I won’t outline. Maybe my being really handsome helped, but I suspect it was just that women really will do amazing things, if they are in the right frame of mind. Women should watch for this tendency in themselves, and be careful.

Jay Hammers December 30, 2009 at 21:12

HL, I find it amusing that sheep like you have been convinced by the right-wing media that you’re not sheep at all. You don’t get the big picture and I don’t think you ever will. Liberalism will prevail. A global government is necessary in the long run. I acknowledge the likelihood that it won’t be perfect, especially at first. But it need not turn into a totalitarian regime as you would have your fellow sheeple believe. There are plenty of liberal sheep, and there are plenty more conservative sheep. Conservatives by definition wish to maintain the status quo. Conservative voices will get quieter and quieter and finally die out. Good luck with that. I’ll keep doing meaningful commentary on real issues.

MND has always been conservative but at least when Bush was president they mostly did real stories on men’s rights. Now the site is too infused with right-wing whining to be of any value to the movement. It continues to do more harm than good for the movement.

fedrz December 30, 2009 at 21:57

Most of us never thought about left or right until you showed up, Hammerhead.

Good job! Now we know what we don’t want to be: YOU!

LILGRL December 30, 2009 at 22:02

P.S. if you were just an average looking guy you would find it much more difficult to find a woman ready and willing to debase herself for you.

Awww, chic…I LOVE HIM FOR HIS BRAINS.

Our first date was at the New York Public Library (the Rose Reading Room), and the next day he showed me that 2^5 x 9^2 = 2592 (this is cooler if you see it written out on paper). And then he started talking about the bitty 5 and the bitty 2, and how cute they were.

Obviously, this sealed the deal.

*Hexadecimal +
*Public libraries +
*Math trix

HOW COULD I RESIST?!

SRSLY.

LILGRL December 30, 2009 at 22:05

A realtime comment from the homefront:

“‘Bitty’ is supposed to have one ‘t’.”

And you wonder why my name is all caps, no spaces, and lacking in letters. SRSLY.

Jack Donovan December 30, 2009 at 23:17

A global government is necessary in the long run. I acknowledge the likelihood that it won’t be perfect, especially at first. But it need not turn into a totalitarian regime as you would have your fellow sheeple believe.

At least he’s honest about his childishly naive beliefs.

I think we should all buy each other a Coke, hold up our lighters and sing a few verses of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” That’s really the gist of this. A recycled hippie pipe dream about peace, love and understanding. It’s a “feel good” message.

Such beliefs are about as “scientific” as a belief in the rapture, heaven or any other sweet-sounding soft-focus bullshit.

There is nothing in human history to even hint that this is remotely possible. It’s as viable as Prohibition and Communism…for approximately the same reasons.

Must be Sean Hannity that put that in my head. Because I listen to Hannity and Limbaugh. And Bill O’ Reilly. Because that’s what people who don’t believe in liberal pipe dreams do, right?

fedrz December 31, 2009 at 01:48

I think that Jay Hammers and Lady Raine would be a match made in Heaven.

Jay is a leftard in need of a lost cause to donate all his possessions to, and Raine is a ball-busting beyotch looking for a nice-guy who doesn’t want to remain attached to his balls.

“Hand ‘em over, Charlie Brown… you can trusssssst me!”

http://www.spearhead-match.com

Icaros2010 December 31, 2009 at 02:25

Parts of this discussion remind me of some of the ideas seen in “Survival of the Fittest Ideas: The New Style of War — a Struggle Among Memes” and put forward by, among others, David Brin.

According to this helpful but crude categorization, there are four basic worldviews:

Paranoia, “Take the best recent example: one can understand Russian traditional xenophobia and dread of enemies lurking on the horizon, given their history of repeated invasion at least once per generation, for a thousand years.”
Machismo, “Wherever you see women oppressed and the environment ignored, wherever professionalism and skill are downgraded in favor of strutting and male-bonded loyalty groups, it’s a good bet that Machismo sets a culture’s major chord.”
The East, “Everyone should subsume their sense of self to the larger group, to the nation, to the tribe, whatever. It’s more complicated than that, of course. For example, while the Eastern Meme hews to the ancient human pattern of pyramidal social hierarchies and a highly privileged leadership class — just like Paranoia, Feudalism, and Machismo — it also moderates many of the worst effects of hierarchy. The crux: individualism is dangerous. Deviation and eccentricity are worse. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”
Dogma of Otherness, “The Dogma of Otherness is a worldview that actually encourages an appetite for newness. A hunger for diversity. An eagerness for change. Tolerance, naturally, plays a major role in the legends spread by this culture. (Look at the underlying message contained in most episodes of situation comedies!) A second pervasive thread, seen in the vast majority of our films and novels, is suspicion of authority.”

You could use that classification to better understand some of the perspectives found on the “manosphere” as well. Machismo could perhaps be connected to the practioners of game (in addition to DoO) and the upholders of traditional masculine virtues and values. Some parts seem very traditional and religious in their outlook (the East). Jay Hammers’s views in this discussion seem to resemble “dogma of otherness” mixed in with “the East”. I’m personally in the same “Dogma of Otherness” boat, though I try to look at all the evidence and to refrain from idealistic or implausible political thinking.

This post itself about Obama and goverment powers maybe could be classified as partly “paranoia” and partly “suspicion of authority” (SOA). Global government is perhaps more about “The East”, or at least would be if put to practice under the current global situation. Yes, it could easily mean totalitarianism; after all, China represents 20 % of the world population. In my opinion, it’s still good to have alternatives and healthy competition between national states.

On the other hand, I do see value in global co-operation simply because interdependency lowers the risk of war and conflict. Standardization is also useful to have to a certain extent. But currently I fail to see the advantages of One World Government or such, even if it would be somehow possible to create one. The question seems more theoretical than anything else for the foreseeable future.

@Jabherwochie: why, thank you. I aim to please. Mostly myself, tho, I’m no angel.
@Firepower: “Jay Hammers is a mindless fascist”. I think you actually mean “mindless communist.” HTH.

Ragnar December 31, 2009 at 02:29

@ Jack Donovan December 30, 2009 at 23:17

At least he’s honest about his childishly naive beliefs.

Thanks for many good posts.
Global Government is the ultimate evil as it is the idea of total control over human nature. A supporter of this may be childishly naive, but I question if we can afford to regard them as that.
That is too dangerous for Mankind.
We got to regard them as evil – as enemy!

Ragnar December 31, 2009 at 02:49

@Icaros2010 December 31, 2009 at 02:25

On the other hand, I do see value in global co-operation simply because interdependency lowers the risk of war and conflict.

Right, but isn’t co-operation the absolute opposite of Global Government?

Real co-operation includes the right to turn your back on anyone else if you do not want to co-operate, thus it is a vital part of the pressure of negotiations. So basicly the ultimate treath of war ensures the best forms of co-operation.

Global Government is, on the contrary, the nanny state handing out benefits to those who present themselves as the most needy – in theory.
Basicly Global Government only serves the ‘administrators’ and delegate everyone else to the state of slavery.

It is possible to write lengthy essays on this subject . . .

So it is much easier to simply say;

“Burn Feminists (of any gender) on the stake!” [ . . . or something to the same effect.]

This will scare some women and might result in some women getting burned*, as you cannot be sure it will not happen. It also burn mental calories among liberals and exhausting the enemy is a good thing – for the moment.

This is mainly a psychological war and we need to be better fighting it!

*) I’m not advocating this, just saying it to scare women.

Icaros2010 December 31, 2009 at 04:31

@Ragnar:

“Global Government is, on the contrary, the nanny state handing out benefits to those who present themselves as the most needy – in theory.”

Well, global government could mean pretty much anything from minarchism to a full blown 1984-esque police state, if we don’t draw a definitional sketch first. But as I don’t think that anything like that will happen in the foreseeable future, I don’t think that it’s worth spending time on.

Ragnar December 31, 2009 at 04:37

All right Icaros, but the important part is to stall any effort that could end in a 1984-esque police state. We also know that socialism and it’s ugly offspring, the welfare state works to that end.

Jay Hammers December 31, 2009 at 12:15

I think you’re right that I’m being naive regarding one government. It’s likely that humanity’s very nature will prevent a sustainable and fair global government from ever being formed. Perhaps the only way for human beings to achieve an equilibrium is to have competing states which MAY work together when the need arises. As we expand into the stars isolated colonies will seek independence and evolution will start over once again. The strongest will prosper. But not necessarily the brightest. Ah well, I guess it’s something.

Kevin K January 4, 2010 at 05:09

The MSM discovered this over the holiday in response to all the internet worrying. They actually go to the trouble to actually do some reporting, rather than to go into full hysteria instantly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/31interpol.html?_r=2

Here are some useful quotes :

“We don’t send officers into the field to arrest people; we don’t have agents that go investigate crimes,” said Rachel Billington, an Interpol spokeswoman. “This is always done by the national police in the member country under their national laws.”

and

Mr. Reagan’s order did not include other standard privileges — like immunity from certain tax requirements and from having its property or records subject to search and seizure — because at the time, Interpol had no permanent office or employees on United States soil.

That changed in 2004, when Interpol opened a liaison office at the United Nations in New York City. The office consists of five staff members, Ms. Billington said, and they have access to law enforcement information submitted by other countries with restrictions on who may receive it.

and

LaTonya Miller, the spokeswoman for the Justice Department’s Interpol bureau, said the order would have no effect on the bureau. It routinely receives and responds to Freedom of Information Act requests, she said, and will continue to do so.

Icaros2010 January 5, 2010 at 06:02

Yes, apparently this threat to U.S. sovereignty is being exaggerated. Obama isn’t sending Interpol agents to take you all to Guantanamo just yet.

Americans arrested on our soil by INTERPOL officers.

“It’s merely an administrative organization that services its member countries (currently 188 in number) by facilitating and coordinating the sharing of law enforcement organization.”

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/interpol.asp

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