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Disaster for Non-Custodial Parents

What We Elected

> > Obama and Biden: Two politicians who hate divorced dads even more than they hate the general public.

On November 4th, 2008, the struggle for the rights of divorced dads and non-custodial parents suffered a devastating blow. The election of Barack Obama, and his running mate Joe Biden, brings to the highest seat of executive power two men with a record of persecuting divorced dads and non-custodial parents. Instead of "change", those of us who strive for family law reform can only expect more abuse from an administration guaranteed to be unethical to core.

As we warned our readers before this election, Barack Obama is a phony populist who cannot be trusted to bring about the "change" his supporters demand. The facts are undeniable. He is a friend of major corporations. A friend of financial institutions, like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Lehman Bros. -- entities which caused our recent financial meltdown. He is also a friend of weapons manufacturers, like General Dynamics. Of economists who believe in unbridled globalization. Of warmongering foreign policy advisors, like the strategists who convinced our government to arm Osama bin Laden. Barack Obama is a friend of all these interests, and therefore no friend of ordinary Americans.

Like all political opportunists, Barack Obama tries to score points with the electorate by taking tough stands against groups unable to defend themselves. Divorced dads and non-custodial parents are just such a group. We are not organized on a national level to mount a meaningful resistance to abuses. We have no history of stiff resistance. We are out lobbied by well-funded radical groups whose interests run counter to ours. Which is why Barack Obama bashes absent dads on Father's Day (forgetting that most dads are not absent by choice) and proposes tough new child support enforcement laws when our current laws are heinous (showing no mercy when a non-custodial parent becomes unemployed, sick, or disabled). It's easy to do. Easier than Barack Obama leveling with the American people about his association with convicted felons, or his ties to the establishment he pledges to "change", or the $650 million campaign dollars he raised from mysterious bundlers and foreign donors by violating every campaign finance law.

Such contempt and disregard for the rights of divorced dads and non-custodial parents can only be matched by Obama's vice-president, Joe Biden. As a US senator, Biden championed two discriminative federal family law acts. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is something Biden calls the pride of his "entire career". This act wrongfully assumes that only women are victims of domestic violence; it also violates due process, equal protection, and other civil rights. In 2000, the Supreme Court declared parts of VAWA unconstitutional. Nevertheless, Biden intends to enhance this flawed legislation with the National Domestic Violence Volunteer Attorney Network Act (S. 1515). The act would authorize, on a national level, a network of attorneys to provide free legal services exclusively to women who claim they are victims of domestic violence (even if these claims are fabricated). This brainchild of Biden's would unleash the formidable power of the federal government to place men at a serious disadvantage in all family law proceedings.

Like Obama, Biden would much rather attack divorced dads than talk about his own record of unethical activities and betraying the middle class. Biden is an entrenched political figure who is known to serve large banking institutions incorporated in his home state of Delaware. At the behest of these banks, Biden promoted laws that allow banks to charge loan shark interest rates and make it harder for ordinary Americans to declare bankruptcy (and one of the reasons he gave for doing this was to crack down on divorced dads in child support arrears!). Before this, Biden was a plagiarist and lied to the public about his academic record. And even while Barack Obama railed against the evils of hedge fund managers on the campaign trail, Biden was distancing himself from the fact that his own son and brother were managing a hedge fund (they are now being sued for their hedge fund involvement).

We need look no farther than the behavior of these two politicians to gauge what their regime has in store for us, America, and the world. Obama and Biden serve the interests of big money. They are a continuation of the policies of past administrations, repackaged and cleverly sold to us as something out of the ordinary. To smokescreen their allegiance to big money, they will engage in the politics of hate, division, and distraction like others before them. And they will bring us more greed, militarism, and war.

If Obama and Biden were truly about "change", they would not use one segment of American society as punching bags. And if they treat American citizens in this way, how much worse will they deal with people abroad?

We guarantee that no one will be safe. Already the stage is being set for an invasion of Iran; a dramatic escalation of violence in Afghanistan is also on the agenda; and one can only guess what plans are afoot for the oil rich regions of Africa. Like divorced dads and non-custodial parents, the people of foreign lands will become the punching bags of a government pretending it does not support the interests of the wealthiest few.

As divorced dads and non-custodial parents, we know our government to be abusive. We also know that our government does not represent or serve the interest of ordinary Americans. Nor does it uphold what makes our nation great in this world: the principle that all men and women are created equal and deserving of equal protection.

We know what has been elected this November 4th. Therefore, it is our duty as divorced dads and non-custodial parents to stand up in solidarity against the menace that waits to take office in January 2009.

Published by NCPForce!
11/10/08