The Backlash! - March 1996

Wingspan

Ugly is as ugly does?

Funny stuff. Keep up the good work.

VoiceMale/The Men's Column

I'm looking for men who'd be willing to reflect on the decade of their lives they've most recently completed. That is, if you're in your 30s, I'd be interested in learning about your 20s; if you're in your 40s, I'd want to hear about your 30s. I will be writing four columns in May that focus on the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s, in men's lives. Part of the point of the series is to promote the idea of "elderhood," in which older men share their experiences and struggles with younger men.

If you would like to participate, I would need from you answers to some or all of the following five questions BY APRIL 15. Write as long or short as you wish.

1. What were the main events of the previous decade in your life? (e.g., graduation from college, first joy, marriage, first child, divorce, new career, death of family member, or anything else you deem important.)

2. What were the most important struggles you encountered during the decade? (e.g., finding a job, commitment to a relationship, drug or alcohol addiction, being satisfied at work, raising a child through infancy or puberty, etc.)

3. Looking back at yourself at the beginning of the decade and at the end, what changed most about you in that decade? In what way did you most grow up?

4. If you had a chance to do that decade again, what would you do differently?

5. If you had a chance to counsel a man entering that decade now, what would you suggest to him?

Thanks for considering helping out. After reading your responses, I will get back to you if I have any questions. E-mail me if you have any questions.

The Liberator

Put me on your list to forward any hot items related to:

1. Landmark court cases
2. Interesting studies/reports of credible or terrible value
3. Short editorial opinions on subjects you are interested in (200-400 words
4. Really great fathers victories
5. Really sick stories about bad court cases
6. False domestic abuse cases
7. Any other hot issues you happen to come across.
8. Removal of public officials for abuses of fathers or system rules/regs.

Credits will certainly be given!

Editor: Of course, all such submissions are welcome for publication here at The Backlash, site as well. Since RFD publishes The Liberator in hardcopy, while The Backlash! is a netzine, there is little risk of overlap.

Letter to Oprah

Your decision to parade those sweet little girls around on national TV is reprehensible. Not only were you guilty of exploiting their unusual condition, you committed an act of child pornography when you showed them nude in the bathtub with their legs spead apart.

Were you aware that Larry Makey (sp?) may have been watching them when you did that? He has spent the last eight years in prison in Texas after admitting that he has molested more than 200 small children. Today's show could not have been planned without the help of a certifiable pervert or pedophile.

Tonight on 20-20, he also admitted that he saw something recently (today) on TV that got him excited. He will be released from prison next week. He left little doubt as to what he was doing while viewing those little nude girls.

Your efforts to appeal to the prurient nature of your viewiers is sickening. If you had any sense of honor at all, you'd take a sledge hammer to every TV camera in your studio, and move back to that shack in Mississippi where you belong.

I've been a regular viewer since 1988, but will never watch your show again. Your promise to clean up your part of the talk show circuit was pure hype and bullshit.

How would you like it if I made up a diagram of your body parts and labeled them "Vagina, etc." Well, I'll tell you what lady: I'm going to locate a picture of you and label your mouth with an arrow, "Asshole."

I have a six year old son who I don't see very often anymore, because I can't stand to hear his cries and see the look in his eyes when I have to leave him to whatever his mother and her boy friend do to him. We have the Child Protective Services and the Family Court Services that don't give a rat's ass about abused and molested children. They're more interested in "empowering" some stupid, brutal cow.

Since you're so hot to display people's misfortunes in graphic detail, why not do a show on domestic violenc, and invite. Oh... To hell with it... And you.

cc: U.S. Attorney general, WA State Attorney general

Trade Net

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We'll be on the air: Tuesday evenings between 9 and 11 on KYPA 1230 AM on the dial.

We will not be doing a therapy show. We will open the lines to discuss the relationship and issues between women and men and we will do it from a balanced perspective. We will also talk about issues that the mainstream stations do not cover.

We have purchased the time and have to get sponsors. We already have five - a chiropractor; an author, Art Klein, who wrote Dad & Son; a web page designer; a woman who does non-surgical face lifts; and a stock broker. We offer rates that are considerably lower than any of the other stations in LA and the coverage area includes all of Los Angeles county, parts of Riverside county to the south and San Bernadino county to the east. If you know of anyone who could advertise with us, have them call us at (310) 829-3353 for details.

Tell people you know in LA about what we are doing.

Tuesday evenings -- 9 to 11 -- KYPA 1230 AM on the dial.

Mens Studies

Please mail us : Roland C Powell, Practice Director, Mens Studies Group, Dept. of Physiology, Basic Medical Sciences, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Hospital, Medical School, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS Great Britain

Four alarm

This bill is the most tolitarian, anti-family, marxist thing I have ever seen. It is automated devastation of the family at the social and economic destruction of the hardworking men who built this country.

It is the feminists dream come true, and it is anything but a welfare reform bill.

We need to pound the Republicans, support anyone's campaign except Dole, and tell the Republicans that we are going to throw both Democrats and Republicans out of Congress if they don't get back to the basics and set the marriage market free.

I am shocked.

We can build support among the following communities by applying pro-family language:

1. Most Christian organizations
2. Concerned Women for America
3. Health Care Industries
4. Unions
5. Big business which doesn't want to be forced to take over family responsibilities.
6. Buchanan campaign
7. Most organizations interested in balanced budgets and tax reform.

Presently, I am trying to negotiate a position on the Dole campaign to reorient the Republican party. I have offered them a "Contract for the Family", and am offering to give them the politically correct speech necessary for a bulletproof pro-family campaign.

Today, I will tell them that they either bring me into the organization, or I will organize and all-out campaign in support of Buchanan to kill the Dole campaign.

We can't let Dole in if Republicans are going to be this way. At least Clinton will keep HR4 from passing.

I urge all fathers/pro-family/2nd wife/grandparents people to get moving fast.

Following is some text from the latest version of HR4. I am horrified.

Among other things, it will become legal to garnish a fathers parents to satisfy an arrearage of support. The list goes on. Get Moving Now!!! Heat up Republican's fax/email/phone lines and tell them to put me in the Dole campaign or we're gonna kill the Dole campaign.

If you help me, I think I can make a tremendous difference in the next elections, and make HR4 go away.

SEC. 369. STATE LAW AUTHORIZING SUSPENSION OF LICENSES.

(16) Authority to withhold or suspend licenses.--Procedures under which the State has (and uses in appropriate cases) authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of driver's licenses, professional and occupational licenses, and recreational licenses of individuals owing overdue support or failing, after receiving appropriate notice, to comply with subpoenas or warrants relating to paternity or child support proceedings.''

SEC. 370. DENIAL OF PASSPORTS FOR NONPAYMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT.

(1) Secretarial responsibility.--Section 452 (42 U.S.C. 652), as amended by section 345 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(k)(1) If the Secretary receives a certification by a State agency in accordance with the requirements of section 454(31) that an individual owes arrearages of child support in an amount exceeding $5,000, the Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of State for action (with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of passports) pursuant to section 370(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1995.

(2) The Secretary shall not be liable to an individual for any action with respect to a certification by a State agency under this section.

(2) State case agency responsibility.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), as amended by sections 301(b), 303(a), 312(b), 313(a), 333, and 343(b) of this Act, is amended--

(A) by striking "and" at the end of paragraph (29);

(B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (30) and inserting "; and"; and

(C) by adding after paragraph (30) the following new paragraph:

(31) provide that the State agency will have in effect a procedure for certifying to the Secretary, for purposes of the procedure under section 452(k), determinations that individuals owe arrearages of child support in an amount exceeding $5,000, under which procedure--

(A) each individual concerned is afforded notice of such determination and the consequences thereof, and an opportunity to contest the determination; and

(B) the certification by the State agency is furnished to the Secretary in such format, and accompanied by such supporting documentation, as the Secretary may require.

(1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall, upon certification by the Secretary of Health and Human Services transmitted under section 452(k) of the Social Security Act, refuse to issue a passport to such individual, and may revoke, restrict, or limit a passport issued previously to such individual.

(2) Limit on liability.--The Secretary of State shall not be liable to an individual for any action with respect to a certification by a State agency under this section.

SEC. 303. PRIVACY SAFEGUARDS.

(1) by striking "and" at the end of paragraph (24);

(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (25) and inserting "; and"; and

(3) by adding after paragraph (25) the following new paragraph:

(26) will have in effect safeguards, applicable to all confidential information handled by the State agency, that are designed to protect the privacy rights of the parties, including--

(A) safeguards against unauthorized use or disclosure of information relating to proceedings or actions to establish paternity, or to establish or enforce support;

(B) prohibitions against the release of information on the whereabouts of 1 party to another party against whom a protective order with respect to the former party has been entered; and

(C) prohibitions against the release of information on the whereabouts of 1 party to another party if the State has reason to believe that the release of the information may result in physical or emotional harm to the former party.

SEC. 304. RIGHTS TO NOTIFICATION AND HEARINGS.

(12) provide for the establishment of procedures to require the State to provide individuals who are applying for or receiving services under the State plan, or who are parties to cases in which services are being provided under the State plan--

(A) with notice of all proceedings in which support obligations might be established or modified; and

(B) with a copy of any order establishing or modifying a child support obligation, or (in the case of a petition for modification) a notice of determination that there should be no change in the amount of the child support award, within 14 days after issuance of such order or determination;

SEC. 341. PERFORMANCE-BASED INCENTIVES AND PENALTIES.

351. SIMPLIFIED PROCESS FOR REVIEW AND ADJUSTMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.

(10) Review and adjustment of support orders upon request.--

Procedures under which the State shall review and adjust each support order being enforced under this part upon the request of either parent or the State if there is an assignment. Such procedures shall provide the following:

(A) In general.--

(i) 3-year cycle.--Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), the State shall review and, as appropriate, adjust the support order every 3 years, taking into account the best interests of the child involved.

(ii) Methods of adjustment.--The State may elect to review and, if appropriate, adjust an order pursuant to clause (i) by--

(I) reviewing and, if appropriate, adjusting the order in accordance with the guidelines established pursuant to section 467(a) if the amount of the child support award under the order differs from the amount that would be awarded in accordance with the guidelines; or

(II) applying a cost-of-living adjustment to the order in accordance with a formula developed by the State and permit either party to contest the adjustment, within 30 days after the date of the notice of the adjustment, by making a request for review and, if appropriate, adjustment of the order in accordance with the child support guidelines established pursuant to section 467(a).

SEC. 361. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE COLLECTION OF ARREARAGES.

(1) by striking "and" at the end of paragraph (3);

(2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and inserting, "and";

(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(5) no additional fee may be assessed for adjustments to an amount previously certified pursuant to such section 452(b) with respect to the same obligor."; and

(4) by striking "Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare" each place it appears and inserting "Secretary of Health and Human Services."

SEC. 373. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS AGAINST PATERNAL OR MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS IN CASES OF MINOR PARENTS.

(18) Enforcement of orders against paternal or maternal grandparents.--Procedures under which, at the State's option, any child support order enforced under this part with respect to a child of minor parents, if the custodial parents of such child is receiving assistance under the State program under part A, shall be enforceable, jointly and severally, against the parents of the noncustodial parents of such child."

SEC. 377. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS FOR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.

"(19) Health care coverage.--Procedures under which all child support orders enforced pursuant to this part shall include a provision for the health care coverage of the child, and in the case in which a noncustodial parent provides such coverage and changes employment, and the new employer provides health care coverage, the State agency shall transfer notice of the provision to the employer, which notice shall operate to enroll the child in the noncustodial parent's health plan, unless the noncustodial parent contests the notice."

SEC. 459A. INTERNATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

(1) Declaration.--The Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is authorized to declare any foreign country (or a political subdivision thereof) to be a foreign reciprocating country if the foreign country has established, or undertakes to establish, procedures for the establishment and enforcement of duties of support owed to obligees who are residents of the United States, and such procedures are substantially in conformity with the standards prescribed under subsection (b).

(2) Revocation.--A declaration with respect to a foreign country made pursuant to paragraph (1) may be revoked if the Secretaries of State and Health and Human Services determine that--

(A) the procedures established by the foreign nation regarding the establishment and enforcement of duties of support have been so changed, or the foreign nation's implementation of such procedures is so unsatisfactory, that such procedures do not meet the criteria for such a declaration; or

(B) continued operation of the declaration is not consistent with the purposes of this part.

(3) Form of declaration.--A declaration under paragraph (1) may be made in the form of an international agreement, in connection with an international agreement or corresponding foreign declaration, or on a unilateral basis.

(1) Mandatory elements.--Child support enforcement procedures of a foreign country which may be the subject of a declaration pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall include the following elements:

(A) The foreign country (or political subdivision thereof) has in effect procedures, available to residents of the United States--

(i) for establishment of paternity, and for establishment of orders of support for children and custodial parents; and

(ii) for enforcement of orders to provide support to children and custodial parents, including procedures for collection and appropriate distribution of support payments under such orders.

(B) The procedures described in subparagraph (A), including legal and administrative assistance, are provided to residents of the United States at no cost.

(C) An agency of the foreign country is designated as a Central Authority responsible for--

(i) facilitating child support enforcement in cases involving residents of the foreign nation and residents of the United States; and

(ii) ensuring compliance with the standards established pursuant to this subsection.

(2) Additional elements.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of State, in consultation with the States, may establish such additional standards as may be considered necessary to further the purposes of this section.

(1) development of uniform forms and procedures for use in such cases;

(2) notification of foreign reciprocating countries of the State of residence of individuals sought for support enforcement purposes, on the basis of information provided by the Federal Parent Locator Service; and

(3) such other oversight, assistance, and coordination activities as the Secretary may find necessary and appropriate.