Biden, the VAWA, and the Constitution

Senator Joe Biden has proudly and unabashedly co-authored one of the most blatently discriminatory and unconstitutional acts to go into the books since the Jim Crow laws of the nineteenth century. I am talking about the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). This law provides billions of dollars annually to fund programs and provide aid for victims of abuse.

Women victims. Only.

Oh, the sponsors of the Act say that Men and Children are not excluded, and that the title is an "unfortunate accident that leads to misunderstanding". Supporters of the bill also assert that it only appears that men are excluded because of the disproportionate number of women abuse victims to men.

In the words of Sarah Palin: "Well, there you go again, Joe".

The reality is that the funded programs are exclusionary. These funds are used for things like "educational programs" that indoctrinate women into believeing that all men are rapists and abusers. They also fund legal clinics that represent abuse victims free of charge. Women victims, not men or children. They fund victim's abuse shelters; sheters that do not provide services for men or their children. Incidentally, I understand that these shelters are where much of the indoctrinary "educational programs" are hosted.

Further the perception that men are not victims is a complete fraud. Many studies have been done that show women are at least as like as men to be abusers in a relationship. However, the statistics are greatly skewed because for one thing, men cannot get public assistance when they are abused, and thus are not counted. Obviously if shelters only take in women victims, then only they get any recognition. Where do the men go?

States have implemented draconian anti-domestic violence laws that pretty much make men responsponsible for all domestic violence incidents regardless of the actaul circumstances. As such, most men are justifiably relutant to report abuse to them for fear of being accused themselves. I know this first hand, as this is exactly what happened to me.

So, not only can men not get help if they need it, most are afraid to even report it. Gee, no wonder it looks like only women are victims. And hence why there is such overwhelming support for VAWA.

But there is a glimmer of hope that the truth may someday come out. A recent Califiornia Supreme Court ruling stated that publically funded shelters that exclude men are discriminatory and unconstitutional under California law. Other lawsuits are sure to follow.

Yet Senator O-Biden still fervently supports this unconstitutional legislation. One wonders how we can trust someone who will soon take the Oath of the Office of the President of the United States, in which they "swear to uphold the constitution", when they support laws that have been proven unconstitutional?

Say it ain't so, Joe