Men, Divorce and Suicide: Another View

[ANCPR]

Hello,

I just saw this piece at http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/stories/banks022602.htm

The primary site is http://www.mensnewsdaily.com

Note especially in this commentary, the quote from Stephen Baskerville, paraphrasing
the story of Solomon.  It's truly amazing.

Lowell Jaks, ANCPR http://ancpr.org

Men, Divorce and Suicide: Another View

February 26, 2002


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by Adrian Banks

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San Grewal, Life Writer for the Toronto Star, recently wrote an article on "Men,
Divorce, and Suicide." The article pointed out that men account for 80% of Canada's
suicides, and that divorced men commit suicide twice as much as men who are married
or single. Mr. Grewal, after stating some statistics on suicide, said "Despite the
numbers in the report, which was not conducted to make any specific connections,
there has been no research since to explore the relationship between male suicide and
divorce."

So what is the main cause of suicide? What is the one thing that could be done that
would cause a significant drop in the suicides among divorced men? The answer to this
question is not that difficult, but before someone can accept the truth of the main
causes of suicide, one must first accept the truth that slavery is just as much an
institution today as it has been throughout history. The more oppressive and cruel
the enslavement, the more suicides there will be among the enslaved classes of
society. Why do you think that, in pre civil war times, slaves were kept in the holes
of ships and not allowed on the decks? Simple, it kept the slave trader's precious
cargo of labor from jumping into the ocean. As Winston Churchill stated during World
War II, "it is better to perish that to live as slaves."

Massive and expanding social programs have trapped the people in a process of
increasing servitude. In America, anyone who takes the time to do the research, can
see that the income tax, when it began with the 16th amendment in 1913, was a tax
that was only supposed to tax the gains and profits of corporate activity. It was not
initially designed to be a general labor tax to support a process of gradual
socialism. In America, the Social Security Act of 1935 was the first law that
perverted the income tax into a general labor tax by starting taxing labor at the
rate of 1% of wages in 1937. Social Security, by the way, was one of the main planks
of the Socialist Party Platform of 1932. Today, according to the census bureau, all
forms of taxation combine forces to despoil workers of around half their labor.
Medieval barons exacted less labor from their serfs than today's tax system exacts
from workers, and the serfs were considered slaves.

In a divorce situation today, there need not be any legitimate grounds thanks to no
fault divorce. A man can be a hard working fellow who supports his family and loves
his children, but if his wife decides to divorce him, there is nothing he can do. He
will be dragged through the system and ordered to pay child support for the children
he has bred. Here is a system of slavery implemented by the force of law. The courts
that are used by those in power to enforce the slave codes that accompany the
divorce/child support growth industry are called "family courts." These courts do
nothing to try and hold families together. Calling such courts by the name "family
courts" is misleading and hypocritical. It is not in the "family court's" interest to
hold families together. There's way too much money involved.

The enslavement of millions of souls will yield enormous wealth to those in power,
and when slavery is imposed in a cannibalistic fashion, the only means of
emancipation is through suicide. The lawmakers, lawyers, and judges all grow fat by
fastening a yoke around the necks of millions of working people, mostly men. This is
why thousands of Jews committed suicide under the rule of the Nazis. The same
principle applies today in the divorce/child support growth industry. There will be
no reduction in the suicide rates of divorced men unless they are emancipated from
their slavery. In fact, as Wendy McElroy, editor of ifeminists.com pointed out in Mr.
Grewal's Toronto Star article, the suicide rate among men will only get worse if
nothing is done.

Mr. Grewal's article gave the example of Darrin White, a railway engineer from Prince
George, B.C., who hanged himself two years ago. The child support orders that the
courts issued against him took almost everything he earned, and left him with nothing
to live on. He did not consent to his divorce. He was enslaved to a very high degree,
and chose emancipation through suicide. Only two members of Canada's parliament
thought that changes needed to be made in the laws. This shows how calloused
lawmakers can be. It shows contempt for the sanctity of human life, all because of
the love of Mammon. The lawmakers, lawyers, and judges stating that they are acting
"in the best interest of the children" simply adds to the hypocrisy.

According to the old Roman Law, the right of "usufruct" always applied to slaves.
This meant that the slave's labor did not belong to him, but to a master. But the
master, in exchange for using the slaves labor and services, had certain
responsibilities imposed upon him by law. These same responsibilities existed in pre
civil war times in America. As J.H. Hammond, who was governor of South Carolina in
pre civil war times put it, masters had the duty "to clothe, feed, nurse, support
through childhood, and pension in old age, a race of slaves." This quote comes from
COTTON IS KING AND PRO-SLAVERY ARGUMENTS, which was last published in 1860. Governor
Hammond also pointed out the enormous pecuniary interest the slaveholders had in the
labor of their slaves, and that the South would go to war before they would give up
the enormous sums of money that their precious labor yielded them, and history shows
that they did.

Slavery in the form of bondage is dead, but slavery in the form of mere cannibalism
is alive and well. In fact, it is progressively growing. The lawmakers, lawyers, and
judges who cannibalize the people's labor accept none of the responsibilities of
masters like the old masters did who held slaves in bondage.

Consider the following written by Stephen Baskerville, professor of political
science, Howard University, Washington, D.C.:



IF SOLOMON HAD BEEN AN AMERICAN FAMILY COURT JUDGE (with apologies to I Kings
3:16-28)
by Stephen Baskerville

And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half
to the other.

Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned
upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay
it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.

Then the king answered and said to the first, As thou hast spoken, even so shall it
be. Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: though she be not the mother
thereof, yet hath she established a routine which I durst not disrupt. Then spake he
again and said, Henceforth shalt thou keep thyself from off the presence of thy child
except it be every second Sabbath and Wednesday dinner, and thou shalt pay unto the
other fifty shekels of silver each month as child support, because thou hast brought
forth this child into the world, and now thou dost abandon it.

And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. And the people saw
how it profiteth to steal a child, and lo, it came to pass from that time forth that
there was much snatching of children in the land.

And thereafter the docket of Solomon waxed exceedingly great, and constrained was he
to appoint judges to rule over the land; lawyers also appointed he them. And the
people brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
horses, and mules, and oxen, and sheep, and garments, and houses, and laid them
before the feet of the lawyers for the recovery of their children. And the riches of
Solomon and of the judges and lawyers grew exceedingly much, even as the sand that is
on the sea shore . . .



Baskerville's piece goes to the heart of the matter: Instead of accepting their
responsibilities of masters, the cannibals of human labor are able to absolve
themselves of those responsibilities by adding more servitude upon workers who were
already slaves to start with. As servitude continues to increase with time, more
families will be destroyed and the divorce/child support industry will draw more
victims into its vortex, thus expanding the great labor feast. An increase in the
suicide rates of divorced men is inevitable, and the people who are primarily
responsible for this growing suicide pogrom are the lawmakers, lawyers, and judges
who uphold the system.

Adrian Banks


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Adrian Banks is a writer and a Libertarian.