In a recent interview for EADT Fathers-4-Justice vet Matt O'Connor has spoken of the hard and personal cost of these past three years.

He points to the shocking use of the Fathers-4-Justice name by splinter groups who have become so fustrated that violence is now thier only option. He also speaks of death threats.

I do not wish to make his pain look small but over two years ago I had started saying that "this issue" (of mens rights) was going to become a hell of a lot more dangerouse if something was not done.

I pointed to the Austrailian Black Shirts movement and said look it is begining. I pointed back in time to the "womens liberation" movement and saw that broken windows, direct action and massive high publicity stunts had failed to get the rights of women addressed. It was esculating and would have continued to the point of IRA / PLO (etc) levels of psudo civil war had not world war two cropped up and proven the point for the ladies.

Matt see's the violence and is shocked. I see the same violence and see that things are going just as one might expect them to. In the next five years expect arson attacks and possibly mild assults and even small scale riots as things continue to esculate.

WHY: because when ever the civil rights of a group are oppressed rebellion of increasing violence is the result.

11/28/2005 10:14:00 AM -