Don't Throw Your Crayons!
Don't throw your crayons 11/5/04
The ridiculousness and stupidity of "domestic violence" laws continues to sink to new lows as witness the following story from Avon, in Eagle County, Colorado near Vail:
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Avon school principal's husband arrested for throwing crayons
Abstracted from an article in the October 10, 2004, issue of Speakout!
Story by Mike Cacioppo and used with permission
According to a Town of Avon police report, Kimberly Walter, the principal of Meadow Mountain Elementary School, dialed 911 on October 4th and hung up. However, the police dispatcher sent an Avon cop to her home where she told Officer Jonathon Lovins that she and her husband, Richard, were having an argument about finances. According to Lovins' report, they "get into arguments about once a month."
According to the school district, Kimberly Walter earns approximately $70,938 annually, plus $12,059 in annual benefits. Plus, she recently received a check for approximately $9,000 from the school district's recent additional cost of living increase.
"Kimberly said the arguments sometimes get heated like this, but she just picks up the phone as if she is going to call 911, and that usually calms Richard down and ends the argument," Lovins wrote.
The report continued: "Kimberly said there was no hitting or pushing, but Richard did throw a box of crayons across the room."
The thrown crayons resulted in "minor crayon marks" about "5 to 6 inches above the table," according to Lovins' report.*
Lovins then walked Richard Francis outside the home and cuffed him before taking him to the Eagle County jail. **
"Kimberly was upset that I arrested Richard," Lovins wrote. "Kimberly told me that she would now never call 911, unless she was getting the crap beat out of her."
* The officer searched their home without a warrant.
** A warrantless arrest is mandatory when "probable cause" is found. At least a night in jail is required, with an average of 5 days, though we've heard of many cases where the man spends 15-26 days in jail in such cases before being given a hearing and allowed to bond out.
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In similar cases: From Naples, Florida, we hear of a man being arrested for DV after throwing a doughnut. From Rhode Island a police officer's wife tells us her next door neighbor was arrested on DV charges for flicking a cigarette butt to the ground in their driveway in a contemptuous manner in front of his wife.
But Eagle County seems to be constructing a special niche for itself in male persecution, the Kobe Bryant case simply being the most famous one recently. Among many other inane cases, in 2000 an enamored swain took on some liquid courage in Avon with the intent of asking his girlfriend to marry him. Instead they got into a loud argument and the neighbors called the police, who then maced him, handcuffed him, beat him, and threw him down stairs (see Avon cops accused of abuse). In another case an Eagle County woman had her boyfriend arrested and then went to visit him in jail the next day. The Eagle County DA then charged the man with violating a restraining order. And these are just a few of many such cases there.
I often wonder about couples who have never so much as had a pillow fight, or thrown each other down on the bed or a couch and wrestled and made love. What sad relationships those must be! But now, of course, such fun and games are "domestic violence."
One of the most astounding things, however, is how rare real violence is in "domestic violence" cases. Both defense and prosecution attorneys tell me that real violence only occurs in about 3% of the cases that come before the courts.
Colorado, presently leading the nation, and likely the world, in draconian and insane laws against domestic violence, has just elected a Democratic House and Senate. One can reasonably predict even more totalitarian laws against men, marriage, and families in the coming two years as a result. Already restraining orders outnumber marriages in this state.
I am left aghast at the folly of these laws and the representatives who pass them!
Charles E. Corry, Ph.D., F.G.S.A.
President, Equal Justice Foundation http://www.ejfi.org/
455 Bear Creek Road
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906-5820
Telephone: (719) 520-1089
Domestic violence against men in Colorado: http://www.dvmen.org
Personal home page: http://corry.ws
Curriculum vitae: http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/charleselmocorry/Default.aspx
The ridiculousness and stupidity of "domestic violence" laws continues to sink to new lows as witness the following story from Avon, in Eagle County, Colorado near Vail:
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Avon school principal's husband arrested for throwing crayons
Abstracted from an article in the October 10, 2004, issue of Speakout!
Story by Mike Cacioppo and used with permission
According to a Town of Avon police report, Kimberly Walter, the principal of Meadow Mountain Elementary School, dialed 911 on October 4th and hung up. However, the police dispatcher sent an Avon cop to her home where she told Officer Jonathon Lovins that she and her husband, Richard, were having an argument about finances. According to Lovins' report, they "get into arguments about once a month."
According to the school district, Kimberly Walter earns approximately $70,938 annually, plus $12,059 in annual benefits. Plus, she recently received a check for approximately $9,000 from the school district's recent additional cost of living increase.
"Kimberly said the arguments sometimes get heated like this, but she just picks up the phone as if she is going to call 911, and that usually calms Richard down and ends the argument," Lovins wrote.
The report continued: "Kimberly said there was no hitting or pushing, but Richard did throw a box of crayons across the room."
The thrown crayons resulted in "minor crayon marks" about "5 to 6 inches above the table," according to Lovins' report.*
Lovins then walked Richard Francis outside the home and cuffed him before taking him to the Eagle County jail. **
"Kimberly was upset that I arrested Richard," Lovins wrote. "Kimberly told me that she would now never call 911, unless she was getting the crap beat out of her."
* The officer searched their home without a warrant.
** A warrantless arrest is mandatory when "probable cause" is found. At least a night in jail is required, with an average of 5 days, though we've heard of many cases where the man spends 15-26 days in jail in such cases before being given a hearing and allowed to bond out.
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In similar cases: From Naples, Florida, we hear of a man being arrested for DV after throwing a doughnut. From Rhode Island a police officer's wife tells us her next door neighbor was arrested on DV charges for flicking a cigarette butt to the ground in their driveway in a contemptuous manner in front of his wife.
But Eagle County seems to be constructing a special niche for itself in male persecution, the Kobe Bryant case simply being the most famous one recently. Among many other inane cases, in 2000 an enamored swain took on some liquid courage in Avon with the intent of asking his girlfriend to marry him. Instead they got into a loud argument and the neighbors called the police, who then maced him, handcuffed him, beat him, and threw him down stairs (see Avon cops accused of abuse). In another case an Eagle County woman had her boyfriend arrested and then went to visit him in jail the next day. The Eagle County DA then charged the man with violating a restraining order. And these are just a few of many such cases there.
I often wonder about couples who have never so much as had a pillow fight, or thrown each other down on the bed or a couch and wrestled and made love. What sad relationships those must be! But now, of course, such fun and games are "domestic violence."
One of the most astounding things, however, is how rare real violence is in "domestic violence" cases. Both defense and prosecution attorneys tell me that real violence only occurs in about 3% of the cases that come before the courts.
Colorado, presently leading the nation, and likely the world, in draconian and insane laws against domestic violence, has just elected a Democratic House and Senate. One can reasonably predict even more totalitarian laws against men, marriage, and families in the coming two years as a result. Already restraining orders outnumber marriages in this state.
I am left aghast at the folly of these laws and the representatives who pass them!
Charles E. Corry, Ph.D., F.G.S.A.
President, Equal Justice Foundation http://www.ejfi.org/
455 Bear Creek Road
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906-5820
Telephone: (719) 520-1089
Domestic violence against men in Colorado: http://www.dvmen.org
Personal home page: http://corry.ws
Curriculum vitae: http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/charleselmocorry/Default.aspx
posted by Shattered Men | 7:58 PM
1 Comments:
I often wonder what the world is coming too... Our men can't be men.. we have no rights really in correcting our children without them being taken away... and yet our children can divorce us... can skip school.. and basically run all over us..and if we dont have control over them then it is our fault... and yes.. to an extent it is our fault.. but then how can we parent or teach our children anything when the way we try to correct them is wrong.. i am an abuse survivor from an abusive parent and uncle.. i started out not correcting my son at all because of what i went through.. now i'm trying to get control of the mistakes i made with him.. My son is a very well mannered child.. he has some issues when he gets frustrated but we all do.. he does not scream and throw fits and he never really did even when he was younger.. he is 11 years old and growing into a fine young man... but on the days he dont get his way or i ask him to do chores..lol.. then his fits are.. well.. him pouting...
my daughter on the other hand is a different story.. she has seen the way her cousins act and she is very much into throwing her fits and screaming and trying to get her way of things... she even sometimes hits herself when she is very mad.. she is only 4 yrs old... i do not give in to her at all.. she is learning that her fits will get her no where in my book....
so all in all i'm doing a pretty good job of raising my children and my sons father does a great job normally in helping as well.. we are better friends now then we ever were.. he is more apart of my sons life now then when he was younger.. they have a great relationship going.. the only fault i can really find is how he is teaching our son to be a womanizer...
so why am i complaining??? because i see so many wonderful parents out there that are being blamed for the way their children are... when it is society at large that is ruining our children.....
Now i watched how my dad was treated by my mother too and that is how i came to join shatteredmen the yahoo group... i thought i could put my 2 cents in their.. i met Ken and other members of the group and i see the men and women out there that are hurting and in pain because of abusive spouses...
and then i read articles like this and i can't believe things have gotten so out of control... What will we as a world continue to let the feminist do to our Men and our sons... what will become of my son when he is older?? will he be allowed to be the man he should be?? Will he beable to have any kind of back bone at all???? or will the feminist get to him and ruin him like they are so many people??? it's not just the men either... they look down their noses at wives who stay at home and take care of their children... what is up with that? putting down women because they are doing what is natural as a wife and mother should be doing????
I think i have gone on long enough.. i pray that many will start to see these articles that are being posted and will see the work Ken is doing here.. God is leading him in the path he has chosen... prayers and luv Ken.... God Blesses you... jenny
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