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May 18,
2009
There is a group of activists
among us who have found the perfect way to advance their statist, anti-family
agenda. They ply their issue by relying on a devious mixture of exaggerations,
half-truths, and bald-faced lies.
I’m referring, of
course, to the domestic violence industry. DV operatives make bogus claims
designed to garner ever-expanding federal funding, which in turn is used to
disseminate more biased factoids that keep women in a continuous state of fear.
It’s a multi-billion dollar, taxpayer-financed scam, and I’m
here to blow the whistle.
Last week Dear Abby devoted
her column to helping a man who had been pummeled and maimed by his wife. And according to a 2006 Harris poll, 55% of Americans know of a man who has
been physically abused by his wife or girlfriend.
But the domestic violence
industry works day and night to make you think the Roper poll got it wrong --
that abused men are a statistical rarity, and such men probably had it coming
anyway.
Here’s the latest
example of the abuse industry’s ms.-information: the Security and
Financial Empowerment (SAFE) Act. The bill was recently introduced in Congress
by representatives Lucille Roybal-Allard of California and Ted Poe of Texas.
(The fact that Poe is a Republican shows how far the GOP has wandered from its
core principles of late.)
The bill contains 33 findings
– supposedly a series of verifiable facts that everyone can agree are
true. But this time around, someone got very creative with the truth.
Last month RADAR, a
Maryland-based watchdog group, released its analysis of the SAFE Act findings.
I’ll give you fair warning, this one’s a doozy.
The SAFE Act starts off with
this chestnut: “Violence against women has been reported to be the
leading cause of injury to women.” That’s a prime example of
crackpot science. Because according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, the leading causes of injury to women are unintentional falls,
automobile accidents, and over-exertion.
The SAFE Act goes on to
assert, “According to recent Government estimates, approximately 987,400
rapes occur annually in the United States.” Want to know the real
number? Only 90,427, according to the FBI.
The SAFE Act wants us to
believe that “each year there are 5,300,000 non-fatal violent
victimizations committed by intimate partners against women.” That claim
reminds us of the old Yiddish proverb about a half-truth being a whole lie.
Because the same survey that reached the 5.3 million number reported a similar
number of male victims of physical abuse.
For several of its claims,
the SAFE Act cites research by Joan Zorza. Problem is, Zorza is not a
researcher. She’s a lawyer and well-known advocate for an assortment of
radical feminist causes.
All in all, only 4 of the
SAFE Act findings are accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable. All the rest are
vague, misleading, exaggerated, or even intentionally deceptive.
There’s a lot more
that’s wrong with the SAFE Act, including the fact that it will open the
floodgates to even more false allegations of abuse
and impose a gigantic unfunded liability on American businesses.
So why did representatives
Roybal-Allard and Poe risk bringing dishonor upon themselves by sponsoring this
piece of legislative clap trap?
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