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Debra
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posted 19 January 2002 11:22 AM      Profile for Debra   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Apparently we still have much to do.

[ January 19, 2002: Message edited by: earthmother ]


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agent007
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posted 19 January 2002 12:26 PM      Profile for agent007     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's the mother of all fights ... never-ending!

What I find particularly interesting in Ms. Landsberg's column is this:

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However, due to an incomprehensible regulation passed in '93 by the Rae government, "no order ..."

Why not "the NDP government?"
Could it be that there's an ongoing Lewis-Rae conflict?
Ah, those background shadows! It gets curiouser and curiouser!

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Tommy_Paine
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posted 19 January 2002 04:40 PM      Profile for Tommy_Paine     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
As you know, I believe there are inequities facing men in Family Law. Specifically because of their gender when it comes to custody issues. (not my fight, thank the gods) And perhaps not specifically because of gender in other aspects of Family Law, but circumstance often puts men in a disadvantageous position there too.

Be that as it may, I'd never crawl into bed with a lobby group like "F.A.C.T.". With persons in authority like coroners giving standing to looney's like "F.A.C.T.", men don't need "feminists" to "screw" us, we're doing a fine job ourselves.

This is straying from the point, but I hope Landsberg isn't adhering to the view that all recovered memory is to be taken without critical examination.

There are incompetent and unscrupulous therapists and others, and false memories not only can be generated, which has been proven through experimentation, it has happened, and innocent people have been put behind bars because of this.

Memory is a very maleable thing, not the video recorder it was once touted to be.


I'm not sure, either that the regulation passed by the "Rae Government" is at all incomprehensible.

It may have been felt that in order to encourage more candor and increase the College's ability to get to the truth, and solve problems within it's community, they needed this regulation.

One could-- and should-- argue that the criminal and civil courts should have precidence over the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and I'd agree.

But I wouldn't say the regulation is "incomprehensible." Misguided, yes.


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Timebandit
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posted 21 January 2002 01:04 AM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good gawd! They might as well have come right out and said "She had it coming...." or "She asked for it..."

These FACT people are deeply, deeply disturbed....


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