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Can I celebrate your diligence, Bettina, your perseverance and your resilience? I can imagine that you ask the question “is it worth it?” regularly. You have been on the receiving end of shocking abuse.

But for men like me, who have experienced indifference and hostility when reporting female on male IPV, your advocacy is inspirational. I’m so sad for the men who have lost hope, but I urge you to continue as long as you are motivated.

And thank you. Paul.

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Dec 28, 2022·edited Dec 28, 2022

Thanks, Bettina, for this very sad and inciteful piece that honor the two men mentioned who sadly could take no more. We must do more

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Bettina I am so sorry that two men whom you grew to know well have taken their own lives.

Here is a Perth case. Manning is a middle class suburb south of Perth. A migrant cleaner was at work at the Manning Bowling Club when he surprised a young woman at the till, in the bar area, where she had broken in. She ran outside yelling that she had been raped. Two vigilante neighbours confronted the cleaner and beat the hell out of him using some implement. He is now both cognitively and physically impaired, big time. Cannot manage his own affairs, NDIS client for tue rest of his life. The woman was definitely jailed for the theft and I think for the false claim, but have not verified that part yet

This whole ‘we must believe the victim’ stuff is dangerous as hell. We must test the accuser’s evidence first. 

Hang in there Bettina. 🙂

Rgds

Gerard

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A good friend of mine was going through separation. Definitely non-violent soft natured man but lost his business and house to a wife who was violent and, in one circumstance, knocked him unconscious. But did the court take any notice? Not one bit. Totally corrupt.

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I do believe there has been an anti- male bias in the justice system. However it’s important to take a balanced, evidence- based approach in addressing this. ( as Bettina dies). Comments about the Taliban and extremist remarks will attract a negative reaction rather than focusing attention on unjust treatment of men in the system.

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 As UK journalist James Delingpole writes, “The UN is a terrible organisation: a bloated talking shop for technocrats, bureaucrats, kleptocrats, third-world beggars, globalists, socialists and other overindulged, grasping cry-bullies, meddlers, and no-hopers.”

Here's a clipping from 'The Canberra Times' dated 11th Nov 1966

"STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Swedish Major General von Horn has made a sweeping indictment of United Nations peace keeping forces, charging the world body as being riddled with espionage and corruption. Von Horn, who commanded U.N. troops in Congo, Palestine and Yemen, said in his 400-page memoirs, “Soldiers of Peace”, that some U.N. employees “clearly had taken the job mainly to make money in suspicious ways — smuggling, black market deals, espionage and corruption”. The 63-year-old General said he resigned from his last post as head of the U.N. observer group in Vemen after only two months because “the whole situation was a farce”. Describing his visit to the United Nations in 1963, he said: “New member states revelled in politically inspired generosity of the Big Powers and had already discovered that it paid off to act noisily, contemptuously and insolently”. He said, the U.N. administrative section blocked his efforts to get rid of civilian employees active in smuggling, black market, espionage or corruption because it abhorred “having to agree that such things existed" UNITED NATIONS — A spokesman for Secretory-General Thant declined to comment on the attack on the world body by General Von Horn. He said Mr Thant had read press reports quoting the book but not the book itself. He added that the Secretary-General would not comment now or later."

Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/265934162

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My son was destroyed by false allegations against him. Her family also were part of the lies. He lost his job & his children. The woman's plan was always to portray him as a monster to gain full custody of the children which she has succeeded in doing. Her wage is $117,000 a year as a child safety worker & he still has to pay money from his unemployment benefits. He had a good job and was happy to share the costs equally but that wasn’t good enough she used strategies that she uses in her job to convince everyone she was in danger.

My husband and I were criticised by corrupt prosecutors for supporting our son, well to all those lying women I will support a man over a woman anyway.

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I have posted this article into Facebook in my name Roger Crook.

I explain my view in the post.

This is the social challenge of out time and I applaud Bettina for the work she does.

I wish I had the money to help. I have and will continue to do all I can without the 'necessary'.

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Bless your courageous, loving heart, Betinna. I feel sickened by the suicide of the man you wrote about. I know he is just one of many similar tragedies taking place each week here in Australia and not one person with a public megaphone on a Big Tech platform or in the MSM gives a flying fuck about our men and boys.

Those cops ought to be charged with manslaughter.

What terrifies me the most is the fact that so many women can coldly crucify the man they once professed to love and sleep like a baby after their lies and false accusations place their husbands in prison or on the end of a noose.

Yet they dare to call masculinity toxic.

Yet we are still bombarded with news stories like this one which I heard on the news this week. More women than men were sacked by Elon Musk when he took over Twitter. Where do you begin after you have stopped weeping and gnashing your teeth?

If it so happened that more men had been sacked by Elon would that have made the news or been a headline in a newspaper? Of course not. Does the fact that more women were on the payroll at Twitter get a mention? Every issue presented in our media is almost always presented through the lens of the man hating, victimhood brigade who control the sick fodder being fed to our ignorant, distracted society.

Men are literally being driven to suicide as a direct result of the brainwashing of our public through the most powerful of megaphones in our country-big tech, our so-called education system, media and politicians. Sadly, we seem to have no capacity to silence their endless lies despite the fact that the truth and facts are all on our side!

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As a Social Worker I received many referrals from Community Corrections from men who were involved in domestic violence. Invariably their female partners 'demanded' that they receive assistance with their physical violence against their male partners (consistent with Erin Pizzey' s experience).

Their motivation was their concern about the affects of their behaviour on their children. I found working with these people was extremely enjoyable and rewarding. They were determined, worked hard and achieved much. Sharing this information with my Social Work colleagues never went down well. In fact I was directed by a new Social Work manager not to continue in this work.

I am no longer a Social Worker. I am studying to become a registered Psychologist.

Colin

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Thank you Bettina, very few women believe in us enough to help. Hopefully more will join you in the push for true equality. To those men close to giving up and ending their lives, please grit your teeth and hang on, call a mate, tell someone you're in trouble and need company. I can't solve your problems but I can sit there beside you in the darkness..

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Another tragic suicide caused by the unfair Family Court and nobody can be held accountable. Judges magistrates police etc., all the leaches working in the so called "justice" system have " immunity " from legal action .

This should change and imagine if this man's parents and family could sue the Family Court for his death , it could be said that the Family Court has a "duty of care" and by driving this man to suicide it clearly failed .

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This is confronting. Andrew's case has many similarities with our own. Some differences too. First up, ours was in NZ. Although my wife was considered unfit, the authorities decided to use that to say that both of us were unfit - "We have concerns about both of them!" But most of all, my wife had such poor self control, that she destroyed her own case - had she not done so, the court would never have revised their mindset. I think Andrew was a hero , although when people talk of me that way, I dismiss it and reply "I am just a parent doing what a parent should do!" Obviously Andrew saw it that way too, but the similarities remind me of the past ordeal, - He will have lived a nightmare day and night. Rest in Peace Andrew. So now what of the children's lot? Will the mother and her supporters be permitted to convince that Andrew was a whacko?, or just another abuser violent male? you get the picture. Will she be able to continue her abuse of the children, and if anyone suggests the government or NGO's / churches etc will keep the children safe, I would consider them a part of the problem. The children . . ?? . . There was a time, I was apart from the kids, and I know most of what they went through, and how the Sisterhood and its infiltrated authoritarian bodies they exploit and misuse power to manipulate / exploit them. Unlike Andrew, I was granted custody, but only if I lived on welfare - so the interventions by the sisterhoods organisations continued. BUT THE DAMAGE to the children was permanent, and I am sure Andrews girls will be injured for life too. It is a nightmare that keep on playing. In NZ they claim to "have the children's best interests at heart!" - they delude themselves, they only seek power, control, the destruction of family, and if the unfit parent happens to be the mum, then they contrive that she will not need to get real psycho - treatment. My experience though is , There is no happy ending.

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You are confused. I am not referring to weakness of suicide. I am referring to weakness of all men who complain but do nothing about it like lobby the legal system representatives who have abandoned the well established principle of presumption of innocence. There are women in the legal system also. If you think we should wait until more women of the calibre of bettina raise a hue and cry we are in for a big disappointment as we have already seen. hard to blame them when men are doing nothing as well (with a very few noteworthy exception)s.

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Sad to read of another two victims of our hopelessly lopsided criminal justice system. Really good update about these positive developments, which just confirms what we've known for a long time about grafting morally-bankrupt globalist bureaucracies such as the UN and the EU. Nothing beats getting organised. There's new hope on the ideologically-based censorship front with the recent Twitter revelations exposing the deep corruption of social media platforms when it comes to shutting down legitimate free speech. As Musk has pointed out, all those "conspiracy theories" you heard about Twitter have turned out to be true - and then some. They are no longer theories. This is not a complete solution by any means, but making it harder to impose controls on the free exchange of views is another step in the right direction.

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It's very reassuring to realise that an intelligent and capable right thinking woman is sticking up for us guys. I have given up on women for about sixteen years and engaged in mental self defence against marauding females. I know there are plenty of good women out there but how can recognise them and trust them. Rational selfishness and the Alexander Technique are my allies.

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