Anti-Male Politics as Usual

The following is from an e-mail recieved not long ago from Veterans Abroad:

"Happy 2009 and greetings from overseas. I haven’t written in awhile, but here is a hot item: buried in the USD 800 Billion Stimulus Bill where Obama is taking USD 9000 from you and giving it to his friends, is yet another USD 300 Million for radical feminist groups.

"The NOW sneaked things past some of our watchdogs by deliberately not using the abbreviation VAWA, but instead spelling out Violence Against Women Act. Thus, a search for VAWA won’t find the following on Page 43 and 46 of the Stimulus Bill but the USD 300 Million is listed right there:

http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=amdth1&page=43

"VAWA is filled with unconstitutional elements like IMBRA which force American men to be background checked just to be able to say hello to a foreign woman. IMBRA also makes it impossible to contact a woman who does not have email or who does not understand the need to sign onto a website to “approve potential criminals” and thus never approves of meeting anyone by default. I know many foreign women who have been listed on American marriage agency websites for years and nobody has ever contacted them (because they had only given their home address info to the agencies and IMBRA made it illegal 3 years ago to give out that information despite the wishes of the women to receive post cards and other snail mail). VAWA otherwise makes men guilty until proven innocent in any marital or divorce conflict.

"The NOW just sent me a newsletter crowing about how they forced the Democrat Senators not to compromise on the VAWA funding and how the Republican Senators caved in negotiations on the issue. At least 37 Republican senators, however, just voted no to the entire Stimulus Bill. That might have saved their party from extinction."