Alec Baldwin's Profane Taped Rage at Child
Alec Baldwin did abused women and children in custody litigation a favor by providing a Class A example of how such men treat their children, demean and denigrate the mother's of their children, but scream at the top of their lungs that they are being treated unfairly by the courts and spout claims that it is all the protective mother's fault because she is a psycho, alienating bitch.
Baldwin goes into a lengthy and profane diatribe to his 11 year old daughter on her cell phone voice mail. Not only does he swear, call her names, call her mother names and threaten her, but his rant demonstrates he doesn't even have a clue as to how old she is.
Further sickening is some of the public's response, which is representative of the treatment of domestic violence victims in society and underlying support of abuse against women and children. So many people have justified his treatment of his daughter and ex wife as being "deserved" or "provoked" and equate Kim Basinger's attempts to protect her daughter from this abusive parenting as equally abusive.
There is NO excuse for woman abuse and child abuse and Basinger is to be applauded for doing every thing she can for their child.
It should be clear to anyone who truly has children's best interests at heart to curtail visitation and contact with a parent who thinks that he is entitled to get love and attention by demanding it. Court personnel hearing this case and so many others like it should consider how it feels to be treated like this by your father.
The Baldwin tape illustrates common sense in child raising and human behavior, as well as the findings in domestic violence literature related to custody issues: children reject parents that bully them, threaten them and humiliate them. One can only imagine the terror at visiting the parent who made threats as he did.
Father's rights groups are all over the net in support of Baldwin and justifying his behavior. Basinger is being pilloried for supposed "parental alienation". The only alienation going on is that the Baldwin has created for himself.
So now he is caught and busy trying to gain sympathy by playing the victim.
No surprise here--this is what batterers do.
This tape confirms what Basinger has been saying all along, clearly demonstrating the way abusive men use Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) against abused women and children and
shows in detail the ways abusive men justify, minimize and excuse their behaviors and how society is complicit in the cover-up.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/19/alec-baldwins-threatening-message-to-daughter/
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-basingerapr24,0,5459394.story?coll=la-home-entertainment
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/081006/new_20060810001.shtml
Woman points camera at domestic violenceDocumentary to show how DV, courts impact children
An Eagle River documentary maker is examining the impacts of domestic violence on children and the shortfalls of the Alaskan judicial system that she said often grants joint custody to parents with a history of domestic violence.
Elisa Fleener is writing, directing and producing the documentary with the working title "Who Will Hear Our Voices."
Rhonda Street, a domestic violence investigator with the Anchorage Police Department, said Alaska has the highest rate of domestic violence in the country and the department responds to about 300 domestic violence calls a month.
"It's very prevalent in our community here and across the nation," Fleener said, adding that a majority of the victims she spoke with are women.
Fleener, 50, said she began working on the project in November 2005 with funds supplied through a chancellor's grant received by the University of Alaska Anchorage's sociology and justice departments, which coordinated the production of the documentary with her.
Since then, Fleener has been on a journey of discovery that has taken her to the doorsteps of battered wives and into the judicial system that determines the fate of children throughout the state.
Fleener, who lived in a volatile home as a child, said she has seen the impacts of domestic violence throughout her life.
"I grew up in a house where my parents fought a lot, and it had really affected me. It has affected my life," she said.
In compiling the information for the documentary, Fleener said she talked with a gamut of personalities, to include Tanya Brown, who is Nicole Simpson's sister. Local women also shared their stories of domestic violence and the impacts of being forced by courts to share custody or allow visitation with their children with their former abusive partners.
"The children are used as pawns in these situations," Fleener said. "I'm really concerned about the children. It just breaks my heart to hear some of the stories I've heard."
Melanie Horner, 31, of Eagle River went in front of the camera as a means of dealing with the domestic violence she experienced and to help educate the public on how imperative responsible court rulings are to the well being of children, despite the difficulty she has discussing her experiences.
"It's not something that you want to go out and talk about to a documentary, and it's not something you want to go to a columnist about," she said. "A lot of people didn't know. It's a secret thing a lot of the time, and the effects of having your name being printed or your picture on the TV, that in itself is really hard."
Horner said she was in a destructive relationship with her ex-husband for 10 years before she realized how seriously it was impacting her. She said she left him in 2002, after being married for about six years, when her daughter began to emulate his abusive behavior.
She said she is currently in appeal over the court's decision to allow her ex-husband to share joint custody of her daughter despite documented domestic violence evidence she presented in court.
"They believe it happened in the past. It didn't directly happen to her, so the connection of it affecting her isn't quite made," Horner said.
Fleener said the documentary examines how parents such as Horner often seek to protect children by removing them from homes filled with domestic violence only to be seen as impeding with the perpetrator's rights as a parent.
Family lawyer Allen Bailey of Anchorage has worked for 32 years representing abuse victims and prosecuting domestic violence perpetrators. He says Fleener's examination of the state's Friendly Parent Rule could shed some light on why many judges grant abusive parents custodial and visitation rights.
According to Bailey, the Friendly Parent Rule concept was adopted by the Alaska Legislature in the early '80s and stressed the importance of each parent's willingness to foster a loving and frequent relationship with the other, which often worked against parents who removed children from abusive homes.
"A good parent that has been victimized by her partner is going to want to protect her children from the risk of spending too much time with their dad or being in his custody. That's normal. It's good parenting," Bailey said, adding that visitation or joint custody is often granted because separating children from abusive parents is sometimes viewed as interfering with their rights by the courts.
Bailey also participated in the documentary as a family court authority and as someone who has had personal experiences with domestic violence.
"I represent abuse victims, both men and women. I have been a witness in a domestic homicide before I went to law school. My best friend was murdered by an ex-girlfriend. I've had clients shot, stabbed, raped, every degree of assault that there is. The children have been sexually abused, and this is something that needs to change," he said.
Fleener said she hopes the documentary will educate lawyers, judges and mental health professionals on the long-term effects of domestic violence.
"It seems to me that it is kind of disregarded. The issues that happen in a domestic violence relationship continue on," she said. "There's still control and there's still issues that are presented and when there's a child involved, it's really easy for them to continue to control you."
Horner agreed saying she continues to struggle with her ex-husband's controlling behavior.
"You cannot co-parent with someone who is trying to control you," she said. "There's no communication."
Fleener said the documentary is scheduled to be released in November, and she has tentative commitments for it to air on local television. She said UAA would incorporate it into its curriculum as well to help educate the next generation of judicial officials.
"I think that on a grander scale I can effect the society as a whole," Fleener said. "I mean, we live in a very violent society and this situation just makes it even more violent. We're breeding and cloning these kinds of kids in these situations. I hope it helps in making our society a more peaceful place."
Reach the reporter at mary.rall@alaskastar.com. Click here to return to story:http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/081006/new_20060810001.shtml
Woman points camera at domestic violenceDocumentary to show how DV, courts impact children
An Eagle River documentary maker is examining the impacts of domestic violence on children and the shortfalls of the Alaskan judicial system that she said often grants joint custody to parents with a history of domestic violence.
Elisa Fleener is writing, directing and producing the documentary with the working title "Who Will Hear Our Voices."
Rhonda Street, a domestic violence investigator with the Anchorage Police Department, said Alaska has the highest rate of domestic violence in the country and the department responds to about 300 domestic violence calls a month.
"It's very prevalent in our community here and across the nation," Fleener said, adding that a majority of the victims she spoke with are women.
Fleener, 50, said she began working on the project in November 2005 with funds supplied through a chancellor's grant received by the University of Alaska Anchorage's sociology and justice departments, which coordinated the production of the documentary with her.
Since then, Fleener has been on a journey of discovery that has taken her to the doorsteps of battered wives and into the judicial system that determines the fate of children throughout the state.
Fleener, who lived in a volatile home as a child, said she has seen the impacts of domestic violence throughout her life.
"I grew up in a house where my parents fought a lot, and it had really affected me. It has affected my life," she said.
In compiling the information for the documentary, Fleener said she talked with a gamut of personalities, to include Tanya Brown, who is Nicole Simpson's sister. Local women also shared their stories of domestic violence and the impacts of being forced by courts to share custody or allow visitation with their children with their former abusive partners.
"The children are used as pawns in these situations," Fleener said. "I'm really concerned about the children. It just breaks my heart to hear some of the stories I've heard."
Melanie Horner, 31, of Eagle River went in front of the camera as a means of dealing with the domestic violence she experienced and to help educate the public on how imperative responsible court rulings are to the well being of children, despite the difficulty she has discussing her experiences.
"It's not something that you want to go out and talk about to a documentary, and it's not something you want to go to a columnist about," she said. "A lot of people didn't know. It's a secret thing a lot of the time, and the effects of having your name being printed or your picture on the TV, that in itself is really hard."
Horner said she was in a destructive relationship with her ex-husband for 10 years before she realized how seriously it was impacting her. She said she left him in 2002, after being married for about six years, when her daughter began to emulate his abusive behavior.
She said she is currently in appeal over the court's decision to allow her ex-husband to share joint custody of her daughter despite documented domestic violence evidence she presented in court.
"They believe it happened in the past. It didn't directly happen to her, so the connection of it affecting her isn't quite made," Horner said.
Fleener said the documentary examines how parents such as Horner often seek to protect children by removing them from homes filled with domestic violence only to be seen as impeding with the perpetrator's rights as a parent.
Family lawyer Allen Bailey of Anchorage has worked for 32 years representing abuse victims and prosecuting domestic violence perpetrators. He says Fleener's examination of the state's Friendly Parent Rule could shed some light on why many judges grant abusive parents custodial and visitation rights.
According to Bailey, the Friendly Parent Rule concept was adopted by the Alaska Legislature in the early '80s and stressed the importance of each parent's willingness to foster a loving and frequent relationship with the other, which often worked against parents who removed children from abusive homes.
"A good parent that has been victimized by her partner is going to want to protect her children from the risk of spending too much time with their dad or being in his custody. That's normal. It's good parenting," Bailey said, adding that visitation or joint custody is often granted because separating children from abusive parents is sometimes viewed as interfering with their rights by the courts.
Bailey also participated in the documentary as a family court authority and as someone who has had personal experiences with domestic violence.
"I represent abuse victims, both men and women. I have been a witness in a domestic homicide before I went to law school. My best friend was murdered by an ex-girlfriend. I've had clients shot, stabbed, raped, every degree of assault that there is. The children have been sexually abused, and this is something that needs to change," he said.
Fleener said she hopes the documentary will educate lawyers, judges and mental health professionals on the long-term effects of domestic violence.
"It seems to me that it is kind of disregarded. The issues that happen in a domestic violence relationship continue on," she said. "There's still control and there's still issues that are presented and when there's a child involved, it's really easy for them to continue to control you."
Horner agreed saying she continues to struggle with her ex-husband's controlling behavior.
"You cannot co-parent with someone who is trying to control you," she said. "There's no communication."
Fleener said the documentary is scheduled to be released in November, and she has tentative commitments for it to air on local television. She said UAA would incorporate it into its curriculum as well to help educate the next generation of judicial officials.
"I think that on a grander scale I can effect the society as a whole," Fleener said. "I mean, we live in a very violent society and this situation just makes it even more violent. We're breeding and cloning these kinds of kids in these situations. I hope it helps in making our society a more peaceful place."
Reach the reporter at mary.rall@alaskastar.com. Click here to return to story:http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/081006/new_20060810001.shtml
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Attack on Women's Rights Week
Ya know, if a person loved a good conspiracy theory, one might start thinking something was up following the Alito nomination. First comes the Supreme Court decision to end the injunction against abortion protestors harrassing women outside clinics providing abortions and ruling that federal racketeering and extortion laws couldn't be used to ban the demonstrators.
Then there is the spate of state legislation written or in the works to limit or eliminate abortions in South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee. Oh, wait, I'm not imagining a conspiracy. There most certainly is one --the intent all along was to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the pro-lifers are racing with glee to get to their new Bushie Supreme Court to give it a whirl. Some of these new laws provide no exception for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Let me spell this out clearly. The states have decided to force women to become receptacles. Roll back the clock.
Oh yes, lets not forget the Illinois judge that threatened a 20 year old woman with jail if she continued to refuse to watch a video of her own alleged gang rape at age 16. He relented eventually, but Judge Kennedy still says he may show the video in open court after her testimony. Ah yes, let's drag the victim through the mud just for fun. This video could be seen by just the judge and jury, the consenting parties and their attorneys, but no, let's traumatize the victim all over again by showing it to anyone who walks through the courtroom door.
http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=11691§ionID=1150
Ya know, if a person loved a good conspiracy theory, one might start thinking something was up following the Alito nomination. First comes the Supreme Court decision to end the injunction against abortion protestors harrassing women outside clinics providing abortions and ruling that federal racketeering and extortion laws couldn't be used to ban the demonstrators.
Then there is the spate of state legislation written or in the works to limit or eliminate abortions in South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Tennessee. Oh, wait, I'm not imagining a conspiracy. There most certainly is one --the intent all along was to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the pro-lifers are racing with glee to get to their new Bushie Supreme Court to give it a whirl. Some of these new laws provide no exception for pregnancies caused by rape or incest. Let me spell this out clearly. The states have decided to force women to become receptacles. Roll back the clock.
Oh yes, lets not forget the Illinois judge that threatened a 20 year old woman with jail if she continued to refuse to watch a video of her own alleged gang rape at age 16. He relented eventually, but Judge Kennedy still says he may show the video in open court after her testimony. Ah yes, let's drag the victim through the mud just for fun. This video could be seen by just the judge and jury, the consenting parties and their attorneys, but no, let's traumatize the victim all over again by showing it to anyone who walks through the courtroom door.
http://khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=11691§ionID=1150
Friday, March 03, 2006
Wounded Boy's Mother Relates Past Threats to Kill Children If She Left
A Minnesota fugitive pulled a gun on law enforcement officers who had blocked in his car as he waited at a Homer, Alaska airport parking lot. Within the car were his 6 month old and 2 year old children. Shots were exchanged and the 2 year old was critically injured. State child protection services have taken custody of the two children. The children's mother indicated they told her she was an unfit mother for "abandoning" her children to a dangerous man. This man was the father of the children, and according to the mother had repeatedly kept the children from her, and on the several occasions where she tried to escape his violence, he would threaten to kill them if she didn't return.
It remains to be seen if state child protection workers will take heed of the Nicholson
v. Scoppeta federal class action lawsuit brought by a group of battered women in New York for the same sort of attitudes and treatment. Federal Judge Weinstein found that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services had been violating the constitutional rights of mothers and their children by removing children from their homes simply because their mothers are victims of domestic violence. The women prevailed.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/7496264p-7406799c.html
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7493514p-7403615c.html
A Minnesota fugitive pulled a gun on law enforcement officers who had blocked in his car as he waited at a Homer, Alaska airport parking lot. Within the car were his 6 month old and 2 year old children. Shots were exchanged and the 2 year old was critically injured. State child protection services have taken custody of the two children. The children's mother indicated they told her she was an unfit mother for "abandoning" her children to a dangerous man. This man was the father of the children, and according to the mother had repeatedly kept the children from her, and on the several occasions where she tried to escape his violence, he would threaten to kill them if she didn't return.
It remains to be seen if state child protection workers will take heed of the Nicholson
v. Scoppeta federal class action lawsuit brought by a group of battered women in New York for the same sort of attitudes and treatment. Federal Judge Weinstein found that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services had been violating the constitutional rights of mothers and their children by removing children from their homes simply because their mothers are victims of domestic violence. The women prevailed.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/7496264p-7406799c.html
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7493514p-7403615c.html
Monday, February 27, 2006
I picked up the movie "North Country" over the weekend. Its based on the story of the nation's first class-action sexual-harassment suit, which settled in 1998, two decades after the abuse started. Although the courtroom dramatics at the end were a little--no strike-that-- a lot unbelievable, the overall film was well done. I related to what the women had gone through having had more than one boss over my long career in a male-dominated industry that thought it just fine to make comments about my physique, ogle, make sexual innuendo and even threaten my job at one time. I remember being told by other male co-workers to "lighten up" and "oh, that's just the way so & so is--he's harmless. Yeah, right. Funny that a management consultant did not see it that way and advised upper management to remedy at least one of those work situations pronto before I lost my entire sense of humor and slapped them with a lawsuit. They were lucky that at the time I was more forgiving and naive.
Unimaginable what these women had to endure in order to keep their jobs. I was fortunate in being able to have other employment options, one of which was starting my own business and becoming head-to-head competition for the worst of the idiots. No one should have to put up with this crap, but it still goes on today. The Clarence Thomas hearing was not that long ago. It was interesting to watch with my significant other who could empathize with the women, but had none of their experience and could subsequently easily accept the closing titles showing a settlement for the women. For me, it took quite some time to put the themes aside again. I hope that my daughter never have to encounter this in the job market and actually be considered for her accomplishments rather than her physical attributes.
Unimaginable what these women had to endure in order to keep their jobs. I was fortunate in being able to have other employment options, one of which was starting my own business and becoming head-to-head competition for the worst of the idiots. No one should have to put up with this crap, but it still goes on today. The Clarence Thomas hearing was not that long ago. It was interesting to watch with my significant other who could empathize with the women, but had none of their experience and could subsequently easily accept the closing titles showing a settlement for the women. For me, it took quite some time to put the themes aside again. I hope that my daughter never have to encounter this in the job market and actually be considered for her accomplishments rather than her physical attributes.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Derek Sawyer, 32 of Glennallen, Alaska, has been charged with Murder in the first degree for the shooting death of his wife, Gretchen Sawyer, who was 20 years old at the time of her death. During the initial investigation, he claimed she had been shot while he was showering by their 2-year old son. Crime scene reconstruction by the Alaska State Trooper Cold Case Unit and further forensic testing of evidence indicated the child was not the shooter. There had been a prior divorce filing, paternity of the 2 year old had been in question at the time, and the couple had recently reconciled and were purportedly planning a move to Gretchen's home state.
Kudos to senior assistant attorney Rick Svobodny and Susan Parkes, deputy attorney general for reviving this case. One has to wonder how it ever went un-investigated in the first place.
The next question remains...who has been raising the couple's child then and who is caring for him now?
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/7474066p-7384293c.html
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/v-printer/story/7474066p-7384293c.html
Kudos to senior assistant attorney Rick Svobodny and Susan Parkes, deputy attorney general for reviving this case. One has to wonder how it ever went un-investigated in the first place.
The next question remains...who has been raising the couple's child then and who is caring for him now?
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/7474066p-7384293c.html
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/v-printer/story/7474066p-7384293c.html
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Women and Public Policy in Alaska
The Gender Equality Section of the Alaska Bar and the Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers are presenting a forum on Women in Public Policy. Wednesday, Mar. 8, at 12 noon, in the Hilton Hotel Chart Room. Call 907-566-6257 by Monday, Mar. 6 to RSVP. The panel will feature Susan Reeves (moderator), Judge Morgan Christen, Marcia Davis, Heather Kendall-Miller, and Gail Schubert. Topics include: the role of women in policy development, women as policy-makers, women as those who carry out the policies of other decision-makers, and why women are needed in public policy roles. 1 CLE credit.
The Gender Equality Section of the Alaska Bar and the Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers are presenting a forum on Women in Public Policy. Wednesday, Mar. 8, at 12 noon, in the Hilton Hotel Chart Room. Call 907-566-6257 by Monday, Mar. 6 to RSVP. The panel will feature Susan Reeves (moderator), Judge Morgan Christen, Marcia Davis, Heather Kendall-Miller, and Gail Schubert. Topics include: the role of women in policy development, women as policy-makers, women as those who carry out the policies of other decision-makers, and why women are needed in public policy roles. 1 CLE credit.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Superior Court Judges Standing for Retention Election in 2006
Weeks, Zervos, Erlich, Esch, Bolger, Brown,Huguelet, Michalski, Morse, Smith, Suddock, Tan, Torrisi, Volland, Wolverton, Devaney, Olsen, Wood.
In talking with many Alaskan voters, the Polar Digress has found that few have any idea about how their state judges are truly performing.
So Alaska, here's time to disseminate information. How have these Superior Court judges performed on the most important cases that come before them--child custody cases? Any children sent to abusive homes unsupervised? Any given over to the full custody of theirs or their protective parent's abuser? Time to get the word out.
Weeks, Zervos, Erlich, Esch, Bolger, Brown,Huguelet, Michalski, Morse, Smith, Suddock, Tan, Torrisi, Volland, Wolverton, Devaney, Olsen, Wood.
In talking with many Alaskan voters, the Polar Digress has found that few have any idea about how their state judges are truly performing.
So Alaska, here's time to disseminate information. How have these Superior Court judges performed on the most important cases that come before them--child custody cases? Any children sent to abusive homes unsupervised? Any given over to the full custody of theirs or their protective parent's abuser? Time to get the word out.
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