Goughs legal beagle

Fathers 4 Justice a complete buggers muddle?

Here I go again on my own…….  Arnie with his limited intellect will do his best to make sense of all this.

• I made the Captain Pugwash video out of frustration and I was totally unaware that the F4J leadership was imploding in a power struggle.

• I have never been a member of Fathers 4 Justice…… EVER!! I don’t know one person who has ever been a member.

• I had one email exchange with Matt O Connor in 2003. I was complaining about his tactics. The particular tactics that I was annoyed about were: A Legal firm in Bristol were being targeted by flooding their phone lines, fax lines and e mail with abusive comments. Matt O Connor/a team member propagated my hotmail address to some other people who added me as a contact on MSN and then generally questioned my sexuality, physical strength and were really quite abusive before I blocked them.

• Matt O Connor did reply and was unrepentant but I didn’t raise the issue of the brown skirts.

• In 2004 a judge who was particularly pissed off with F4J threw out cafcass’s recommendation for shared residence and told me he didn’t agree with pressure groups like F4J and implied  I was a member and split up my children. That has been my children’s reality from  the ages of 13 & 10.
  Not all F4J fault and there were other factors at play(Corrupt Legal Firm with a name similar to my blog) but you certainly were not helpful to me or my family.

That is the history, top and bottom of it. I fully appreciate that we all have different methods of achieving the same goal and no man has the monopoly on solutions.  I have always had an interest in the movement from its conception. I am a father of two children and I want justice, so I am a member of Fathers4justice, de facto, DEAL with IT!
I reported here that from the ashes a new group had formed and that I had joined the forum.
Last night I removed all my postings because nothing has changed.  Apparently my blog is comprised of “ inconsistent ramblings”  and a public meltdown by Matt O Connor is supposedly addressed to me. Personally if I were Matt I would claim identity theft/excessive alcohol/psychiatric issues and get it removed ASAP.

The paranoia that has characterised the F4J leadership has progressively strangled the movement and splintered it into a thousand  paranoid pieces and has hatched this bizarre re launch.

Since the Captain Pugwash video I have had a few e mail contacts from genuine members of Fathers4justice and without exception they have been nice blokes and we have exchanged views like adults.
I know that quite a few F4J members have joined the wikivorce community as result of my postings, I also know quite a few other blogs exist as result of my actions. I also know that in a community of 13,000 members my threads are some of the most read in the entire forum, 6000 views on the Fathers4Justice thread, so they may well be inconsistent ramblings to you Sir, but that is not the view of many reasonable people. Virtually nobody has sought to defend F4J and all I was asking for was a suspension of dare devil tactics for the ADULT reasons that I explained at the start of thread, which incidental has still not been addressed by ANY SENIOR MEMBER of fathers 4 justice, despite all the posturing in the various media portals.

Forums: In the wikivorce community I have mounted a serious attack on a professional organisation of over 5000 solicitors(RESOLUTION) with the intention of getting professional standards to actually mean something. The owner of wikivorce gets his income from a partnership with the legal profession, and at no point have any of my postings been removed, that gentlemen is a PROPERLY moderated forum.
The ridiculous attitude that has surrounded F4J forums 2003 -2008 is 99.9% of the problems that you now face; if you stifle debate, then you become elitist and detached from reality and that is what you have become and that is NOT the fault of just one man.
My advice to you all, is read Matt O Connors letter and think of the part you played in that meltdown rather than blaming the world and his wife and more specifically Arnie.

Fathers4 justice as its founder correctly identifies is an idea, and thus he will always be an honorary member of that idea. I dare say he will fight to defend his legacy until a coherent voice replaces it, but I hope that he realise when the correct time has come to give his batman suit to his children and start acting in a more dignified manner as the elder statesman of fathers4justice movement.

The media has changed and protest groups have become open source, so you all best come to terms with that FACT and start being a little more inclusive.