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March 5, 2008
by Eugene E. Narrett, Ph.D.
Some Americans may know of legislation to disarm Veterans returning from military service as part of ongoing attempts to negate second amendment rights. This tendency distinguishes modern dictatorial regimes that prefer servants to citizens, that dislike accountability and, perhaps worst, intend to do things to citizens that might occasion ordinary decent people to seek justice as supported by Second Amendment rights. The following real life horror story relates to these matters. It was brought to my attention by a post from the "5301 Club." The members of this club are working for America's survival and renewal. Their focus is Veteran's issues that affect the structure of our society and all our lives. They take their name from Federal law, USC, Title 38, 5301(a) (1) that protects Veterans by reserving for them alone compensation they earned by sacrifice of their health during service. The statute reads in part that these payments are "exempt from taxation…from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary" [1]. That would seem sufficiently explicit to insure that the Veteran who paid with part of their health or mobility would receive this compensation and that it would "NOT be liable to attachment, levy or seizure under any legal process whatever." But we live in "interesting times," these post-Modern days when words mean whatever the "Master" says they mean" (as Humpty Dumpty shouted). "Everything is a social construct" is the today's dogma, -- gender, the family, a nation, whatever: the Red Queen says, "off with their heads!" men are utterly expendable [1]. Not only justice but even law become impossible when words lose their meanings and the victim and outcome are designated before the game begins. The ultimate 'masters' today are the petty tyrants of family law in which the guaranteed winning play is to crush the man even when what's at stake is a Vet's 5301 disability compensation. Jere Berry of 5301 notes that Veteran's disability compensation "is tax exempt, and uniquely awarded to a single individual based on their specific disabilities." Nevertheless, heartless enforcers of the feminist world state, so long and ruthlessly sought by utopian "social scientists" and their corporate enablers are using these payments as "divisible assets in divorce courts nationwide" (http://www.offe2008.org) [2]. Men who already have given chunks of their lives are having their ability to live the rest of it looted. Not even Veterans are immune from the tortures of "family law." For nearly three decades, ignored by the corporate controlled media, few Americans have noticed and fewer acted as feminist ideology has suffused these courts and many sectors of society. The goals of this well-financed ideology, explicit in Marxism and Sociology and fundamental to the "welfare" state include destroying the family, gender, the status and reality of fathers so that women 'marry' the state and its appointed "care-givers." In due course, via their damaged kids, they also serve the pharmaceutical-psych testing and prescribing industry. Criminalizing or pathologizing normal behavior is a major part of the new State. After raging through the general public these horrors have now attacked even the disability compensation of Veterans. Primed by presentations of men as irrelevant and inadequate, the juggernaut of female-initiated "no-fault" divorce in which the man is always wrong is enmeshed with many government programs that reduce the real security and core unit of society: children with a father and mother in their own home. First approved in California under Ronald Reagan, no-fault divorce is now so entrenched that it assaults the benefits of disabled veterans; the 'masters' must sense that Americans are too busy with the pressures of getting by amid a collapsing economy to notice or do much to halt the atrocities. And no wonder: when have you heard a discussion or even a mention of divorce courts and bias against fathers on the media? Yet it has ravaged scores of millions of Americans. One of many bitter jokes in this aspect of post-modern, end-game American life is that the father has little idea, and no de facto ability or right to know if the "child support" the court orders them to pay to the mother is actually used to support the child or children. If a father pushes to find out he will eventually be punished but will learn nothing. And yet the "custodial parent," almost always the mother who almost always initiates the "no-fault" divorce in which the father is treated like a criminal but lacks the protections that law affords to defendants in criminal cases, receives these monies and alimony tax free to use as she sees fit. Here is one of the perversions that characterize our darkening days: a Veteran that gives his health in national service has his disability compensation taken at least in part and given tax free to a spouse or girl friend who often, in effect, has kidnapped his children since that too is the reality that no-fault divorce creates: it not only legalizes but rewards and exalts maternal kidnapping, desertion of marriage and theft. There are several ironies here: let us note just one that dates to the origin of modern feminism and still resonates in the media. In A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) Mary Wollstonecraft argued that marriage was a form of prostitution in which a woman sold herself in exchange for maintenance instead of being fully independent and "equal." That same 'argument,' disdaining nature, love, loyalty, tradition and the basic unit of stable and prosperous societies has been a feminist truism but only in recent decades with no-fault divorce have we seen the claim vindicated in a way very different than the first feminist intended. Since women gained the right to initiate divorce early in the twentieth century (and then the right to vote which has not exactly led to an era of peace, foreign or domestic, as they claimed, but a state of perpetual and unnatural wars) they have indeed, with state sanction made marriage into a form of prostitution. A woman 'contracts' knowing that whenever she wishes she can dissolve the 'union' with a phone call and unsubstantiated claims of "abuse" or of being "in fear" and then seize the children, home, and most of whatever other assets there are, even the disability compensation of a crippled Veteran. Those who want America destroyed are pleased because destroying families is another form of destroying the borders or of integrity in academics. Confirmation of this chaos was provided by one of the talking hairstyles on FOX news. During a discussion of Paul McCartney's divorce settlement in which his newly ex-wife secured about $130 million after four years of marriage, a pert blond commentator boomed out, "well, she earned it!" When the anchor asked if she realized what she was saying, she beamed and affirmed her view. Hurray for feminism, the Nanny State and its infinite compassion! No-fault divorce has let women turn marriage into predatory prostitution: men be damned, children be damned, the family, the nation, the future all crumble in the mad greed and power lust of these surpassingly cruel times. Why don't the candidates of "hope" and "compassion" attend to these grievances? This is the context of the terrible situation in which divorced disabled Veterans find themselves. Perhaps the horror will rouse people to corrective action. There still is enough shame in this culture that few politicians will stand before a parade of disabled Vets and their supporters protesting these kinds of abuses. The 5301 club notes that "most divorce court judges wrongly treat veteran's disability compensation the same as military retirement pay." But it's not: "Military retirement pay is not tax exempt, and is paid out by the Department of Defense, not the Department of Veterans Affairs" as disability benefits are, Berry writes. Yet Veterans that resist illegal demands to sign away their dearly earned compensation are charged with contempt and even jailed. It is cold comfort to know that it is common for fathers ensnared in "family law" to be ordered to sign decrees to which they object, including the divorce filing in the first place, "or else." The pain of the Veterans may help shine light into this dark area of American decay and perhaps fill the cavity. Club 5301 notes that "disability compensation should never be considered as an 'asset' in determining a disabled veteran's net worth" and thus become part of the kitty to "divide" with an ex wife. Moreover, "most American taxpayers would be surprised to learn that millions of tax dollars they thought were going to pay for veteran's benefits - were in fact being diverted to able body non-military ex-spouses in the form of alimony, or spousal support" [3] (italics added). Family courts depend on this psychological terror, and upon inducing depression and desperation in the Veteran to get them to sign away their compensation. They know that they will not be able to collect it from the VA that "won't give it to anyone but the disabled veteran that earned the benefit," the Club adds. Some people blather about "water-boarding" but ignore this routine torture and coercion. Club 5301, whose information campaign is known as "Operation Firing for Effect" OFFE "has authored a customized prenuptial agreement for future disabled veterans to consider before getting married." Contact their site for information which, until redress is gained is probably the only way a veteran can protect his or her potential disability compensation. Looking further ahead, rallies of citizens, together with Veterans hurt by this judicial and illegal tyranny should gather at Statehouses and newspaper offices demanding that their grievances be heard and redressed. It also is seasonable to demand that their concerns be addressed with specific plans for remediation by candidates for President, congress and State legislatures. States in which groups and efforts are underway include the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, New Jersey, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio and Colorado. OFFE invites inquiries to jerebeery@aol.com. This matter is an injustice and breach of faith so glaring that it may be one the politicians will amend. Notes: 1. Charles L. Dodgson, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) quotes from Humpty Dumpty and the Queen of Hearts… 2. Here is the full text posted by Club 5301: …to protect disability compensation from third party awards; USC, Title 38, 5301(a)(1), Payments of benefits due or to become due under any law administered by the Secretary shall not be assignable except to the extent specifically authorized by law, and such payments made to, or on account of, a beneficiary shall be exempt from taxation, shall be exempt from the claim of creditors, and shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary. 3. See http://www.offe2008.org for quotes and news.
Dr. Eugene Narrett is a writer and teacher in Massachusetts and is the author of Gathered Against Jerusalem: Essays on a False Peace (Dec. 2000). His book, Israel Awakened: A Chronicle of the Oslo War (2001), is currently available at www.1stbooks.com/bookview/7421. His latest book, WW III: the War on the Jews and the Rise of the World Security State (2007), is available at www.lightcatcherbooks.com. Visit his website at www.israelendtimes.com.
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