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How Feminists Have Destabilized Marriage in Massachusetts
They're Still Working Against Marriage with Our Tax Dollars

This story about the 25th anniversary of a women's center in Greenfield
explains how feminists have intentionally destabilized marriage throughout
Massachusetts. They believe that women will not be "free" until marriage
has been eliminated.

By Atty. J. Edward Pawlick
February 20, 2001

Most social workers in Greenfield back in 1975 were concerned with
all the people and all the families.

But feminist Joan Featherman was thinking of only one group.

"I'd been working for a number of years in feminist concerns," she told
the Greenfield Recorder last month in a feature story about her 25th year
in that city. Her only goal was to "help" the women of the area.

She was a federal VISTA volunteer and family law advocate with the
poverty lawyers. They were intent on terminating marriage, not trying
to help usband and wife through the rough spots. They started offering
free divorces, not marriage counseling.

''Because of the free divorces, the battered women came in droves,''
Featherman told the Recorder.

'Domestic Violence' Was Important
In the first year, they reported that about two women a week called the
emergency hot line as victims of "domestic violence." But these lawyers
define "domestic violence" to include "boy friends" of only a few days as
well as married couples. They don't report how many callers came from
each category because, to them, there is no difference between boy friends
and husbands.

Featherman and the poverty lawyers opened their new organization in 1976
at 34 Bank Row in Greenfield. The budget in 1977 was $5,231. Today
they receive $1.6 million in federal and state money that is distributed by
the Supreme Judicial Court, according to  the Recorder. They have about
50 staff members, both full- and part-time and five offices in that rural area.
They called it New England Learning Center for Women in Transition
(NELCWIT).

There are 18 other organizations across the state just like it which are
supported by the poverty lawyer programs of the SJC. But there is not
one group of this kind for men in the entire state. The only groups for men
are those which many men are required to attend if they wish to see their
children or stay out of jail. These programs are run by other feminists
and it is assumed in these programs that the men are the violent ones even
if they are not. These re-education programs have been compared by those
who have experienced them to those in Cambodia and Laos. Even so, they
are not free to the men who must pay upwards of $1,000 to attend. No one
is ever allowed to talk about their wives; everyone has only "partners."

The radical feminists had announced in the 1960s that their goal was to
replace the family as the fundamental unit of society. This was necessary,
they said, in order for women to have their "freedom." Even Betty Friedan
stated that this might be necessary. They wanted the children raised by
the government in gleaming daycare centers with both mothers and fathers
out working.

It is apparent that Joan Featherman has successfully worked toward that
goal in Franklin County for twenty-five years.

Legal Aid Became Politicized in the 1970s
Joan Featherman arrived in Greenfield in the 1970s because the local legal
aid lawyers across the country were being replaced by lawyers from the
federal government. This system of federal lawyers in every county in the
country was started by Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." It was soon
supplemented with state money. All of the money is distributed in
Massachusetts by the Supreme Judicial Court. The idea of local lawyers
helping the poor as an organized effort has disappeared although many
lawyers continue to do so on an ad hoc basis.

The goal of the poverty lawyers is to change the system, not represent
just one party who is involved with a legal problem.

One of their favored groups is the feminists. Even though the research is
now showing that a larger number of women are violent than men in domestic
disputes, the goal of the "poverty lawyers" is to protect only women. The
assumption is that all women are victims and all men are evil. There are
19 free legal centers across the state of Massachusetts that do nothing
except represent "battered women," but there is no help at all for
battered men.

Most lawyers and judges believe they are protecting individuals, but the
radicals understand that the goal of their lawyers is to change the basic
unit of society.

The federalization of the legal aid lawyers has increased litigation. We
have become a litigious society. Up until the 1970s, protracted court
battles were seen as a waste of time and money by everyone. They all
realized they had an inducement to settle. All of this changed, however,
when the "poverty lawyers" appeared. They had the resources of the federal
government behind them and they had no reason to settle. They could, and
do, use every trick to make the other party finally give up in
desperation.

The people at NELCWIT will claim that they also try to help couples who
wish to stay together. They have a course which they say is "designed for
couples who wish to end violence in their relationship." But the title
itself implies that this course is aimed only at helping men overcome
their "violent natures."

[Story in box (website), below: -- Ed.]
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How NELCWIT Interfered in a Kidnapping

When a woman kidnapped her child in the state of Washington and was
captured in Greenfield a few months ago by the FBI, about 24 women
and their children gathered in the courtroom in Greenfield in an attempt
to fight the lonely father who had arrived from across the country to
retrieve his frightened daughter.

Many wondered why this father was immediately slapped with a restraining
order by the courts of Massachusetts as soon as he arrived in the state.
After all, he had legal custody of the child.

Who were these women with so much free time on their hands and so
much political power in the courts?

They came from NELCWIT.

It gets $1.6 million/year from the poverty lawyers (who are supported by
state and federal tax dollars and IOLTA, or "Interest on Lawyers' Trust
Accounts"). It is friends with the SJC which uses unconstitutional IOLTA
money to fund it and similar organizations.

Now we can understand why the SJC is so loath to give up the $7 million
a year it receives from IOLTA.

(The latest word from the state of Washington is that daughter and father
are very happy now that they have finally gotten away from our feminist
judges.)
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