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Dads' protests target Sedgemoor
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| The Fathers 4 Justice Santa Claus scarecrow sits atop the M5 landmark. |
DADS' rights campaign group Fathers 4 Justice launched its third publicity stunt in Sedgemoor in less than 12 months this week - and this time their protest gimmick has a festive feel.
After previously targeting the Willow Man and the M5 at North Petherton, the daredevil lobbyists this time struck all along the M5 corridor, at North Petherton, Edithmead and Sedgemoor Services.
Those behind the high-profile stunts daubed paint slogans on agricultural bales, hung banners from motorway bridges and left behind scarecrowds dressed as Santa Clause - all to promote their seasonal slogan: "Put the Father back into Christmas."
This is to spread their message that family laws governing parental access to children need to be balanced to be fair to fathers.
And although police moved quickly to remove traces of the group's actions, a South-West spokesman for the movement warned that more could follow over the Christmas period.
He spokesman said: "This Christmas, at least one million children in this country will be denied access to their parents or grandparents by the flawed family system that allows children to be exposed to a succession of mum's fleeting boyfriends, lovers and stepfathers with whom they have no biological connection, but gives no automatic rights of access to their real dads of grandparents.
"Dads only want the same right of access as mum's latest boyfriend.
"We as dads and grandparents love our children and just wish to spend time with them. Dads are angry at being treated like cash points by "Flash" Gordon Brown's Government.
"This (latest round of stunts) is just a taster of what you can expect and is just the beginning in the lead-up to Christmas."
3:32pm Tuesday 18th December 2007
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CommentPosted by: Mark Harris, Glastonbury on 8:02pm Wed 19 Dec 07
Glad to see Fathers 4 Justice are continuing their campaign against the corrupt UK family courts.
I myself went to these insane Westcountry family court's what was believed to be a UK record 133 times to see kids that wanted to see me. But the secret family courts did nothing for them, they preferred to pleasure an obstructive mother while ignoring their duty to my children. Instead my three daughters had to take the law into their own hands and run away from their mother before we all got what we wanted-our family father/daughters relationship restored.
My daughters and I have just written a book called FAMILY COURT HELL, about our family court experience. Visit amazon co uk and search for FAMILY COURT HELL for more detail of what actually takes place in these corrupt courts.
Glad to see Fathers 4 Justice are continuing their campaign against the corrupt UK family courts.
I myself went to these insane Westcountry family court's what was believed to be a UK record 133 times to see kids that wanted to see me. But the secret family courts did nothing for them, they preferred to pleasure an obstructive mother while ignoring their duty to my children. Instead my three daughters had to take the law into their own hands and run away from their mother before we all got what we wanted-our family father/daughters relationship restored.
My daughters and I have just written a book called FAMILY COURT HELL, about our family court experience. Visit amazon co uk and search for FAMILY COURT HELL for more detail of what actually takes place in these corrupt courts.
Posted by: gale, east coast on 1:58am Thu 20 Dec 07
Thanks for bringing some attention to the extortion of fed. funds through the false accusations brought to removed children as head counting for the welfare of such agencies and family court systems. Goal 2000 leave no child with their [bold]bold[/bold] family!
Thanks for bringing some attention to the extortion of fed. funds through the false accusations brought to removed children as head counting for the welfare of such agencies and family court systems. Goal 2000 leave no child with their family!
Posted by: paul parmenter, Norfolk on 6:59am Fri 21 Dec 07
These protests will only continue, and escalate, as more and more cases are churned out by these awful courts, until someone has the guts and decency to overhaul the whole wretched system and restore justice to families - from which it is conspicuously absent right now. Mark Harris' case is an indictment of the shameful system that wrecks people's lives in order to provide a gravy train for an army of heartless officials, lawyers, judges and politicians.
These protests will only continue, and escalate, as more and more cases are churned out by these awful courts, until someone has the guts and decency to overhaul the whole wretched system and restore justice to families - from which it is conspicuously absent right now. Mark Harris' case is an indictment of the shameful system that wrecks people's lives in order to provide a gravy train for an army of heartless officials, lawyers, judges and politicians.
Posted by: Father Christmas (not), East Anglia on 3:43pm Mon 24 Dec 07
[bold]WHY AM I SUCH A GULLIBLE FOOL???[/bold]
Due to the fact that my ex partner and mother of my children recently admitted to me that she "fell out of love" with me soon after our youngest daughter was born (over 4 years ago) and again to my brother during a telephone conversation to him, I personally feel that I may have been swindled into agreeing to sell the former family house and into relocating the family unit…
I had unfortunately lost my retail business to liquidation after the sudden death of my business partner to Cancer; therefore I was understandably tempted by my ex's suggestion of relocation, for a fresh start, to a little town 60 miles away from where we were living as a family at the time. My ex's mother reassured me that this would be a good idea and offered us her house nearby, just until a suitable house was found. I now personally feel that the persuasive reassurances were to win my consent to sell the family home (as I was openly unsure about the whole idea) a house which we had recently paid the mortgage in full, mostly through the sale of my second home which I owned prior to knowing the ex.
Soon after we moved into her mother's house, living there was made 'quite difficult' for me (and that's all I dare say as I do not wish to throw any slanderous accusations here). Anyway, one thing led to another and my ex's mother eventually asked me to leave and I respected her wishes, it being her house. My ex's mother soon went about making it 'quite uncomfortable' for me to visit my children, eventually stopping me altogether through a solicitor's letter threatening an injunction order. I took legal advice and I discovered that I didn't have many rights as an unmarried father.
Both my children were then placed into a private 'Waldorf Holistic Anthroposophy' School without first gaining my approval, consent or signature which concerned me due to the following information http://homepage.mac.
com/nonlevitating/th
irteen.html She then removed my children from the dance school that I had been taking them to every Saturday (during contact), to another of her choice and I discovered that I was powerless to do anything.
At the time, I mentioned to my ex that I felt it only fair for us both to have an equal say as parents. I proposed a legal signed contract drawn up through our solicitors for this purpose and it was made quite clear to me that they did not see this as a good idea. From that point I became suspicious that I was slowly being expelled from my children's lives altogether.
After jointly raising my children from birth and without ever harming them in any way, I found that I was being 'legally' stopped from seeing my children, followed by a request that I only communicate with my ex through her solicitor. After I queried this, I was then informed by my ex's solicitor that for a 4-week period my ex would only allow me to see my children at a contact centre, my eldest daughter doing her very best to reassure me over the phone that I would be allowed to take her to the zoo afterwards (she was wrong)…
WHY AM I SUCH A GULLIBLE FOOL???
Due to the fact that my ex partner and mother of my children recently admitted to me that she "fell out of love" with me soon after our youngest daughter was born (over 4 years ago) and again to my brother during a telephone conversation to him, I personally feel that I may have been swindled into agreeing to sell the former family house and into relocating the family unit…
I had unfortunately lost my retail business to liquidation after the sudden death of my business partner to Cancer; therefore I was understandably tempted by my ex's suggestion of relocation, for a fresh start, to a little town 60 miles away from where we were living as a family at the time. My ex's mother reassured me that this would be a good idea and offered us her house nearby, just until a suitable house was found. I now personally feel that the persuasive reassurances were to win my consent to sell the family home (as I was openly unsure about the whole idea) a house which we had recently paid the mortgage in full, mostly through the sale of my second home which I owned prior to knowing the ex.
Soon after we moved into her mother's house, living there was made 'quite difficult' for me (and that's all I dare say as I do not wish to throw any slanderous accusations here). Anyway, one thing led to another and my ex's mother eventually asked me to leave and I respected her wishes, it being her house. My ex's mother soon went about making it 'quite uncomfortable' for me to visit my children, eventually stopping me altogether through a solicitor's letter threatening an injunction order. I took legal advice and I discovered that I didn't have many rights as an unmarried father.
Both my children were then placed into a private 'Waldorf Holistic Anthroposophy' School without first gaining my approval, consent or signature which concerned me due to the following information http://homepage.mac.
com/nonlevitating/th
irteen.html She then removed my children from the dance school that I had been taking them to every Saturday (during contact), to another of her choice and I discovered that I was powerless to do anything.
At the time, I mentioned to my ex that I felt it only fair for us both to have an equal say as parents. I proposed a legal signed contract drawn up through our solicitors for this purpose and it was made quite clear to me that they did not see this as a good idea. From that point I became suspicious that I was slowly being expelled from my children's lives altogether.
After jointly raising my children from birth and without ever harming them in any way, I found that I was being 'legally' stopped from seeing my children, followed by a request that I only communicate with my ex through her solicitor. After I queried this, I was then informed by my ex's solicitor that for a 4-week period my ex would only allow me to see my children at a contact centre, my eldest daughter doing her very best to reassure me over the phone that I would be allowed to take her to the zoo afterwards (she was wrong)…
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