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Originally posted by joechip
reply to post by Adamanteus
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I agree completely. I find it interesting that no single person has addressed the Constitutional issues from the opposing view. The Constitution doesn't allow for double-standards, yet here we are...in a nation that embraces (hardly notices, mostly) a host of double standards. I'm reading Ron Paul's "The Revolution" at the moment and it is really shocking how that document is ignored, not just by ordinary people, which is understandable, but also by our courts and legislators. The depressing thing is that without an informed and engaged populace, the thugs we call politicians run roughshod over our constitutionally protected freedom, and our "laws" often reward special interests at the expense of these liberties. It is depressing, and this thread actually depresses me further, both the lack of focused debate, and the disinterest in constitutional principles. Nonetheless, nice job on the thread. I'll stay tuned for a rational argument from the other side, but I'm not holding my breath.
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
You all still arguing about this, it's all been said a million times. Stay away from female types. till you have the means, patience to deal with there unsanity, and a good lawyer seems to be a must now a day's. All that 13th amendment is bunk, if one wanted to one could turn it inside out and upside down, just like all words and laws, and you can reach for any statistic you want, and grasp any straw you want to justify whatever you think is right, it still don't mean squat. And I think I don't need to tell anyone here on what the legal system is about, yup it is not a fun thing, best to avoid it, it will hit you were it hurts, it might even be more beneficial to stay in that broken relationship, then to be under the heal of the law. At least till you can move on, in a more peaceful and less traumatic way.
Your pretty much screwed when you decided to get with a female, and I think that is the way it should be, till this whole male by female mating requirement for offspring's thing ends, I see no reason to change it. And not because females are any different, and they do get around no doubt about that. And will use anything they can to there advantage and are not always about there "kids". But because the only way to learn is the hard way, and we can't be having a bunch of unwanted kids on the streets it's not good, or people running around boning each other left and right and not think of the consequences, for there are always consequences.
Originally posted by Aeons
Originally posted by joechip
To elaborate upon my previous point; the supreme court decided, upon principles of privacy, that the government could not, legally, force parenthood upon a citizen in Roe v,. Wade. In other words, sex is most assuredly NOT a contract for children. A woman also knows what her eggs "do," but that in no way means she has entered into a contract when she has sex.
Hiding behind a woman's uterus to squirm away from being a man again. Amazing. You try to get away from your own decisions and consequences by trying to make it out that women having rights is oppressive to you, and then try to save your own hide by throwing women out in front as a distraction.
I mean, some brats hide behind their Mommies when they do stupid things. But I guess you consider it a man's prerogative to hide behind a woman's uterus while trying to lie your way into being a victim of your own decisions.
This is NOT what this decision meant. Lies, damn lies, and statistics indeed.
Your wanting to protect your WALLET isn't the same as a woman legally being allowed to own her own body.
Originally posted by Maslo
I dont know about the US system, but here people that earn minimal amount for survival or less do not pay child support, nor do they go to prison if they cannot pay. Only if they can pay, but dont, then punishing them is the right choice.
When you bring a child into this world, you are responsible for his wellbeing, and it is your duty to do everything you can to assure that wellbeing. Irresponsible parenting is a serious crime.
edit on 8/2/11 by Maslo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Adamanteus
reply to post by joechip
I agree 100% on all of it. Both You and Myself have posted Great points on why it is fact Unconstitutional while the people that have opposing views have stated nothing but arguments based on their own opinions based on their own Morality.
Thank You for the compliments and Thank You for Your contributions.
Originally posted by Travlla
Originally posted by Adamanteus
reply to post by joechip
I agree 100% on all of it. Both You and Myself have posted Great points on why it is fact Unconstitutional while the people that have opposing views have stated nothing but arguments based on their own opinions based on their own Morality.
Thank You for the compliments and Thank You for Your contributions.
In Australia it's the law and a just law i believe ,although you won't go to jail for non payment,being a dead beat dad is looked down on here,we don't have alimony payments here,don't have kids and your not paying anyone anything,
Originally posted by korathin
Originally posted by Travlla
Originally posted by Adamanteus
reply to post by joechip
I agree 100% on all of it. Both You and Myself have posted Great points on why it is fact Unconstitutional while the people that have opposing views have stated nothing but arguments based on their own opinions based on their own Morality.
Thank You for the compliments and Thank You for Your contributions.
In Australia it's the law and a just law i believe ,although you won't go to jail for non payment,being a dead beat dad is looked down on here,we don't have alimony payments here,don't have kids and your not paying anyone anything,
Well Australia also has a much lower(10% I believe) income tax, and if I remember correctly Australia also has a lower child support amounts.
In America imagine you make $40,000 a year. of that 40,000 you are liable for 50% of ii(if your lucky) coming out in child support. But then your also liable for the 24ish%(maybe higher) federal, state and local taxes.
So even if you make 40k a year, after child support and tzes your left with around 11-14,000 dollars. Which is right at the poverty line. So in order to "empower" women to be independent requires millions of men to live at the poverty line. And the kicker, trust me it is a big one, is that when the government looks at the income of the Mother and Father they only see the money made before the government get's involved. They still see it like the guy is bringing home 40k(like 30ishk after taxes) and the mother only bringing home 20kish(before she gets child support). So the feminist controlled government can then justify further increasing Child Support amounts.
And remember that is if he is lucky. Some guy's who couldn't even afford attorneys are required to pay up to 80% of their pre-tax income in child support.
Fathers should help to take care of their children, but if a father is forced to become homeless or winds up in jail because of excessive child support amounts he can't really do the most important thing a father can do, be their for his kid's.
Originally posted by korathin
Originally posted by Maslo
I dont know about the US system, but here people that earn minimal amount for survival or less do not pay child support, nor do they go to prison if they cannot pay. Only if they can pay, but dont, then punishing them is the right choice.
When you bring a child into this world, you are responsible for his wellbeing, and it is your duty to do everything you can to assure that wellbeing. Irresponsible parenting is a serious crime.
edit on 8/2/11 by Maslo because: (no reason given)
In the US if your a male(man or boy) and become so injured you can't work they will still throw you in jail if you fall behind. In America if your homeless+disability they will still throw you in jail, unless of course you have the V card.
Ahh so males have to bear the full burden(because women are now "liberated") of sexuality as a mechanism to keep sexuality down because yous can't shame women anymore. Your reasoning is why the Church and most "conservative" institutions(other than fiscal conservative and libertarianism) are dieing. Your reasoning is no different than the reasoning that Stalin used in this infamous quote: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic".
Words have no meaning to you, human suffering has no meaning to you, because from your perspective you think they "deserve it?". I could name a few mental conditions that cause people to think as such.
Anyone with a healthy conscience cannot stand by and watch as people suffer, and the line "it is for the greater good" rings hollow and untrue.
Slavery is immoral period. Slavery is an affront to nature, intellectualism, enlightenment, reason, and progress.
And in the end your entire reason is "people only learn through suffering, watching other people suffer is OK if I think they deserve it" fails to hold up to the basic definition of reason, it is not your reasoning but your self rationalization to justify advocating madness.
There is a big difference between rationalism/reason and rationalization/ justification of madness-slippery slope.
You don't have to be directly effected by something to be moved by it. The slavery is going on today is no different then what went on in the old South. You have the slaves(fathers), slave holders(mothers), slave whippers(Police) and you have those that benefit from the fruits of slavery(Judges,Lawyers, Bureaucrats).
And how many guy's out their are really such pieces of ^&%$ they would see their own kid's on the street or in rags rather than take their own kid's in? I would wager not many. In-fact very, very few. But because of a few scumbags and the women that churn out babies by them all guy's are made to suffer? NOTY.
The payment rate is somewhat the same(when accounting for the depression and changes in population, increase in custodial fathers) as before all these compulsorily law's where put into place to nab all those "deadbeats".
We can argue semantics and morality all you want, but the cold truth is that if these policies continue the future will be a very bleak place, if there is a future at all. Guy's like you(White Knights who think men should fall on their swords for women at the whim of women) are becoming fewer and fewer.
Manginas are very few and a mostly suicidal bunch. While on the other hand the number of guy's who are waking up to everything is increasing by the day. Then again if I misjudged you and your a nihilist, then any further debate would be pointless as the end results of the current policies would be acceptable.
Because if the SHTF and America has to use the draft or be destroyed, and with a growing number of males who know they are being discriminated against and enslaved + the prideful defiance of youth(combined with anti-male discrimination in education, employment, healthcare and other areas of life), there is no way the West, let alone America could field large enough armies to defend themselves in the advent of an all out war.
Why do you think Congress is trying to green light putting women on front line infantry? Because many of them know in the advent of another engagement they will have to rely on women for front line infantry.
Then their is the risk of Sharia law and islamification of America. Look at all the African American male converts to Islam. They where the first and hardest group to be hit by all this garbage. So it is only a matter of time until we start to see other groups of American males convert to either Islam or equally insane cult groups or fatalistic hate groups.
Nothing good comes from slavery; and the only lesson pain teaches is the lesson of hatred. A lesson were nothing is truly learned and everything is lost.
Your very argument is "without forced child support and/or alimony more kid's will pop out to be left for themselves and it will cost more in taxation aka welfare" is counter productive. Since women know they can get money by getting pregnant by a guy with some money they are more inclined to turkey baste or unilaterally decide to stop taking her birth control without mentioning it to her significant other.
While if she knew she wouldn't get any support without continuous consent she would be more willing and insistent on waiting for marriage and far more careful so as to not bear the financial burden alone.
By forcing all liability on the party with the least amount of rights and choice in the matter you are only supporting and expanding upon what you will fear will happen if the Constitution is properly enforced.