('This posting has been deleted by craigslist staff.' - it's THAT good!)


'The domestic violence entrepreneurs and state officials live in a different world from us. A sense of nameless vague threat is always in the background. To hear the pros talk, all the men they deal with are batterers, sexual abusers, or virtually time bombs of violence. Repeated cliches like "at risk" and "a safe place" and "maintaining safety" pepper their sentences...


Recently there have been quite a spate of articles related to the politically charged topic of domestic violence, and the industry that has grown up around it.

Charges have been made - that an attempt to research the organization WOMAN, Incorporated, and a complaint made to the IRS about the same organization, by one Bay Area blogger, were met with by a fraudulently obtained restraining order, surreptitiously solicited, and drafted, by the very agency that was being scrutinized - apparently to interfere with the scrutiny.

From the amount of effort being put into deleting these articles, it's hard not to suspect there's more than just a little fire, at the center of all the smoke.

These charges are addressed elsewhere; just search Craigslist for references to the case number, FDV-93-005153.


However, it has come to our attention that there is a woeful lack of knowledge and understanding, in the Craigslist community, at large, regarding exactly what restraining orders are, and how to defend oneself against them.

In the interests of keeping the Craigslist community strong, and independent, we are publishing the following excellent material.

We apologize, on behalf of the cens^H^H^H^H editorial staff at Craigslist, for the fact that we are crippled by not being able to post the entire text, as a result of posting limitations imposed upon us by those worthy folks, there, at CL HQ.

However, as a workaround, we have published the table of contents; we feel that this will provide everyone so inclined as to follow the links, with much to think about, during the work week, ahead.

How many people do you know who have requested, or been the target of, restraining orders? I can think of three or four, myself.

And how many of these people could have worked out their problems without using that amoral shortcut ... that first choice of the weakling, and the coward - the restraining order?

Inquiring minds want to know. And that's not a crime - that's politics.



A Criminal Defense Attorney's View of the Domestic Violence Industry

by: Paul G. Stuckle, Esq.

Updated: March 12, 2006


Table Of Contents
I. The Special Nature of Domestic Violence Allegations
II. Examples of What is Not Domestic Violence
III. Who is the Real Victim Anyway?
IV. Zero Tolerance and No-Drop Policies
V. The Domestic Violence Industry
VI. Changing the Rules to Convict
VII. Family Violence Legal Facts: A Checklist
VIII. Selecting the Right Attorney
IX. Conclusion
X. Bibliography


"We started getting a lot of push-and-shoves," says Pagan, "or even yelling matches." In the past, police officers would intervene and separate the parties to let them cool off. Now those cases end up in criminal courts. It's exacerbating tensions between the parties, and it's turning law-abiding middle class citizens into criminals."




This article has been brought to you by the Dome$tic Violence Indu$try Industry Awareness Campaign, the fine folks who are bringing you the National Dome$tic Violence Indu$try Industry Awareness Year - see us, on the web, at www.DVIAC.org. We are supported by ongoing harassment and generous amounts of interference from WOMAN, Incorporated, elements of the San Francisco Superior Court's Family Division, and the so-called 'editorial' staff, there, at Craigslist, Incorporated - thank you!