Friday 28th June 2013 – Breaking News: F4J Public Statement
We understand that another desperate dad has this afternoon made an appeal for help in his case by affixing a photograph of his son to a picture in the National Gallery. We will supply more details when we have them.
The protest comes hours after Tim Haries appeared in court charged with writing ‘help’ on the Queen’s portrait in the National Gallery.
Fathers4Justice said today that it was abandoning its five-year long attempted engagement with the political establishment and called on fathers to take independent weekly direct action in an attempt to defend themselves and the 1,000 families a week destroyed in the secret family courts.
The group asked fathers to follow the footsteps of the courageous women in the Suffragettes over 100 years ago.
Said a spokeswoman for the group, “We have reached a tipping point in the campaign. For every 1,000 families destroyed each week in the family courts, fathers should respond in kind with peaceful non violent direct action, by either writing ‘help’ or placing pictures of their children in significant places where they are visible to the world.”
“We can no longer stem the tide of desperation and anger of fathers who have had their families destroyed and their hopes betrayed by a government that promised equal parenting but only delivered desperation.”
“Fathers have a duty of care to protect themselves and their families and give themselves a voice which the politicians and media have denied them for over a decade.”
The organisation said it was also now refusing to engage with national media over what it described as deliberately inaccurate and misleading reporting of the campaign and the crisis in the family courts. It was also refusing to deal with the government, police, courts, judiciary and any other organisations involved in family law and said it was considering shutting down all conventional social media.
The group was this week banned from Twitter after what it called political censorship over a dispute with Tory MP Caroline Nokes over broken election promises.
Fathers4Justice will not be making any further statements or giving interviews, save updates on the events in London today via its website and Facebook pages.
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