Community | July 19, 2009 | 8 comments

Separated Dad or Terrorist – Both treated the same.

source: http://www.realfathersforjustice.org/news/index.php?itemid=280&catid=4

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MotherForTruth
16 July 2009: Category: News Posted by: Toon
A demonstration was staged today outside Harrow crown court after M25 protester Geoff Hibbert was jailed for six months.

After already spending a month on remand in Wormwoods Scrubs Geoff is expected to be incarcerated for at least another ten weeks before becoming eligible for early release, his appeal has been lodged and is ongoing.

Judge Alan Greenwood drew gasps from the gallery as he concluded that these type of protests were not justified as there is; "no problem with family law" and that the sentence was a "deterrent" to future protests.

Rffj believe that if you are a UK citizen you now have no rights to carry out a peaceful protest under this police state, sponsored by a failing Labour government who have continued to erode our civil liberties with rafts of new legislation aimed at silencing those who dare to question.

In our criminal courts we regularly see shoplifters, burglers, muggers and fraudsters walk free or receive a token slap on the wrist despite having previous criminal records.

Yet here we see a hard-working peaceful father, who had no previous police record, criminalised and jailed for his first offence.

Geoff has spent over fifty thousand pounds in legal fees trying to secure a relationship with his daughter, he has not seen her for around two years.

He simply wished to highlight the injustice he encountered by staging a peaceful protest - after fully exploring every other legal avenue what other option was available to him?

Rffj pledge that the protests will continue with increased frequency and to ensure maximum disruption to the workings of family courts and all of their associated agencies, the war against fathers has reached a new level today, we must all stand together and fight the injustice then hit back hard after the treatment of our brother Geoff Hibbert by the state.
  1. groups:
    Community,   US Politics,   Law and Justice,   Police State
  2. tags:
    Parental Rights,  Fathers 4 Justice,  Family Law,  family courts
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8 comments // Separated Dad or Terrorist – Both treated the same.

  • MotherForTruth
  • weenis
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      weenis  

    • if citizens don't agree with the government, they have a legal right to try to change it. it's unlawful for a judge to jail a man for protesting. it's ridiculous that they can't do anything about it.

    • 2 years ago
  • justadad
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      justadad  
    • weenis:

      You might also think that it would be unlawful for given members of community to retaliate against citizenry when such citizenry endeavors with expressions befitting "law."

    • 2 years ago
  • justadad
    • 0
      justadad  

    • Perhaps an axis within has been of far more damaging concern than any of the three of the more famous recitations to abroad?

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
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      regjoeschmo  

    • He has made a mark on this movement, and will be forever remembered for this..... From what I know of RFFJ, this is not over....... They are a great group, and are not as radical as the F4J folk before them. Unfortunately small disagreements over philosophy and/or types of action to be taken cause extreme polarization amongst these activists, but sooner or later things like this will shine through and show the world we are something to be considered.....

    • 2 years ago
  • kiltedandfree
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      kiltedandfree  

    • This guy gets a bum rap with the family court then gets another bum rap from the judge who jails the guy for disagreeing with his opinion. This is not freedom any more, this is what any law abiding citizen should protest. When peaceful protesters can be jailed for disagreeing with a judge the time is now for them to step up the demonstrations and show what true civil unrest can do if the judge continues to practice his personal brand of law. I'm sure this never happens in the US. Yeah, right. When judges rule from personal feelings rather than the letter of the law our society erodes from the inside. The three branches of the government were set up so that no one branch could not get too powerful and allow situations where judges rule from personal, political or financial reasons. Especially political leanings should not be a part of a judges rulings. Granted they have feelings to and can get caught up in an emotional case, however, aren't they taught in school to keep objective instead of emotional or irrational?

    • 2 years ago
  • galwayman
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      galwayman  

    • Men are not treated equally in divorce or family court. its been going on a long time both here and in Britain. The laws need to be changed to reflect that a child has 2 parents and both parents must be treated equally! Too often the Parent with custody holds the children hostage,making unreasonable demands on the parent to see their children! This happens in those rare cases where the father gets custody as well!

    • 2 years ago
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