On Friday June 15, 2011, the world became aware of a man who after years of being brutalized by the family court system, decided to share his pain and outrage with the world, with the intent of shining a bright light on the ongoing feminist corruption and the systematic destruction of human beings by a corrupt court system.
The man’s name was Thomas James Ball. He doused himself in gasoline then self immolated on the steps of a family courthouse in New Hampshire. Mr. Ball chose to use his own agonizing death to focus public attention on the corruption of the family courts. The mainstream media has no interest in human suffering, when it belongs to a man, and before just now, you have probably never heard of him.
In understanding this story, we must first ask ourselves — How much personal agony, how many years of pain does a human have to endure before death by self immolation seems like a rational choice?
And yes, I will stand on the word rational here. Mr. Ball wrote a detailed account of his experience in the family court system, as well as a summary of his research, and his consequent deep understanding of the scope and depth of corruption driving the institution of the family courts. Its long, but its not rambling – and anybody who calls it rambling is doing so to discredit and belittle this man, and to distract you from the very real pain produced in the lives of millions by a corrupt court system.
Thomas James Ball, born 2/21/53 and his wife at the time, Karen Louise Ball (maiden name Primiano), born 3/2/65 had begun divorce proceedings about a decade ago. It was alleged that Ball had committed domestic violence against his 4 year old daughter at the time, Melissa. Karen had called Monadnock Family Services after the incident and was allegedly told that if she did not report the incident to police, that she would be arrested for child abuse. She called Jaffrey PD out of fear of what the government people would do to her family (steal her kids if they were both arrested) and because of their mandatory arrest policy in domestic violence cases, Thomas was arrested. He was found not guilty of simple assault in Cheshire Superior Court, despite slapping his daughter and causing bleeding.
The Jaffrey PD apparently admitted that pressing forward as a domestic violence case was a mistake. His wife’s testimony shows he did not have a history of violence. Thomas figured he’d get to see his kids again after the not guilty. He figured wrong. The court continued to press for counseling at Monadnock Family Services (MFS) prior to allowing Thomas unsupervised visits with his kids. Of course, this is a huge racket for MFS, who likely is paid for every one of the cases they are sent by the court, either by the people involved or by the state of NH.
Thomas claimed Monadnock Family Services misinformed Karen when she was told that she better call the police or she’d be arrested for child abuse. He outlines the history of the case in question in his lawsuit against MFS from 2006. Here’s the PDF of his claims. The court dismissed the case against MFS primarily on a statute of limitations technicality.
Thomas, odyssey with Cheshire superior court’s “justice” system stretched for an entire decade of his life, and despite making child support payments and having unsupervised visitation with his young son, he was unable to have unsupervised visitation with his two daughters, not because he was considered a danger, but because he refused to attend counseling as ordered by the court. Why did he refuse? Because the location of the counseling was to be Monadnock Family Services, the very same agency that he believed was responsible for escalating the situation and intimidating Karen Ball into calling the police in the first place. He wanted the decision on unsupervised visits to be made by the court, but the court kept passing the buck to MFS, therefore he did not participate, as he felt the case worker had a vendetta against him, as she allegedly refused to meet with him until he changed his attitude..
In 2009 he lost his job and was unable to continue making child support payments. As a result, Karen filed for a hearing on contempt of court, which the court scheduled for 6/24, next Friday. You can download Karen’s motion for a contempt hearing here in PDF form. In it, she alleges that Thomas owes thousands in back child support and attorney’s fees and demands the court sentence him to jail until he can pay the amounts demanded.
Of course, one might wonder how a jobless man could pay anything to child support behind bars, and perhaps Thomas was wondering how that might be possible as well. Facing an indefinite jail sentence, during which the amount “owed” would continue to grow, he chose to end his life in the hopes that someone would pay attention to the plight of families destroyed by this horrible system that is supposedly there to protect us. (Of course the truth is, they protect and serve themselves, not us.) He had tried the legal route, filing lawsuits to no avail. He tried to protest, joining the Fatherhood Coalition and picketing courthouses and the state house. Nothing worked.
Thomas James Ball was a man pushed to the brink by an inhumane system enforced by people who act like they have no empathy and are “just doing their jobs”. Thomas had his own issues with which to deal, but by all evidence, and even according to the state, he was NOT a domestic abuser, despite losing control with his daughter, which was clearly the wrong thing to do. Had the people calling themselves the state never gotten involved, maybe his family would still be together.
He wrote a full and detailed description of his life and the events that would lead him to these final days called “My Story” that can also be found here on this site. We encourage anyone who dares reflect on his actions or his self immolation to read it, first!.
On June 15 around 5:30 pm, a 58-year-old New Hampshire father of three, self-immolated in front of the Cheshire County Court House. Ball was pronounced dead at the scene.
Before he died, he sent a letter to The Keene Sentinel to explain his actions. The full text of the letter, his Last Statement, can be found here.
Source: ThomasJamesBall.com
America’s Male Suicide Epidemic
Original Article; By Glenn Sacks
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300,000 Americans who have taken their own lives over the past decade–as many Americans as were killed in combat in World War II. America is in the throes of a largely unrecognized suicide epidemic, as suicide has become the eighth leading cause of death in the United States today, and the third leading cause of death among adolescents. All Americans recognize that our country is rife with violent crime, but few know that 50% more Americans kill themselves than are murdered. Who is committing suicide? For the most part, men. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, males commit suicide four times as often as females do, and have higher suicide rates in every age group. There are many risk factors for suicide, including substance abuse and mental illness, but the two situations in which men are most likely to kill themselves are after the loss of a job, and after a divorce. Because our society strongly defines manhood as the ability to work and provide for one’s loved ones, unemployed men often see themselves as failures and as burdens to their families. Thus it is not surprising that while there is no difference in the suicide rate of employed and unemployed women, the suicide rate of unemployed men is twice that of employed men. It is for this reason that economic crises generally lead to male suicide epidemics. During the Midwest farm crisis of the 1980s, for example, the suicide rate of male farmers tripled. A sharp increase in male suicide occurred after the destruction of Flint, Michigan’s 70 year-old auto industry, as documented in the disturbing 1989 film “Roger and Me.” Some suicide experts fear a rise in suicide related to our current economic downturn. The other most common suicide victims are divorced and/or estranged fathers like Derrick Miller, Martin Romanchick, Steven Cook, Darrin White. In fact, a divorced father is ten times more likely to commit suicide than a divorced mother, and three times more likely to commit suicide than a married father. According to Los Angeles divorce consultant Jayne Major: “Divorced men are often devastated by the loss of their children. It’s a little known fact that in the United States men initiate only a small number of the divorces involving children. Most of the men I deal with never saw their divorces coming, and they are often treated very unfairly by the family courts.” According to Sociology Professor Augustine Kposowa of the University of California at Riverside: “The link between men and their children is often severed because the woman is usually awarded custody. A man may not get to see his children, even with visitation rights. As far as the man is concerned, he has lost his marriage and lost his children and that can lead to depression and suicide.” There have been a rash of father suicides directly related to divorce and mistreatment by the family courts over the past few years. For example: Derrik Miller, a distraught father struggling with overdue child support obligations and adverse family court decisions committed suicide on the steps of the downtown San Diego courthouse Monday. Angrily waving court documents, 43 year-old Derrick Miller walked up to court personnel at the entrance, said “You did this to me,” and shot himself in the head. New York City Police Officer Martin Romanchick, a Medal of Honor recipient, hung himself after being denied access to his children and being arrested 15 times on charges brought by his ex-wife, charges the courts deemed frivolous. Massachusetts father Steven Cook, prevented from seeing his daughter by a protection order based upon unfounded allegations, committed suicide after he was jailed for calling his four-year-old daughter on the wrong day of the week. Darrin White, a Canadian father who was stripped of the right to see his children and was about to be jailed after failing to pay a child support award tantamount to twice his take home pay, hung himself. His 14 year-old daughter Ashlee later wrote to her nation’s Prime Minister, saying, “this country’s justice system has robbed me of one of the most precious gifts in my life, my father.” We’ll never know exactly why these men took their own lives and/or if their suicides could have been prevented. What we do know is that male suicide is one of America’s most serious public health issues, and it is time to address it. |
My Testimony
After reading this, I reflect on a receint obituary I saw of a kingpin feminist who died of natural causes. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2012/03/28/adrienne_rich_feminist_poet_and_essayist_dies/ Seeing the last paragraph of her obituary, I begin to wonder how her three children are doing today. I believe the lesson to learn here is that we fathers must teach our sons never to keep all of our eggs in one basket.
So meanwhile I’ve been writing an open letter to Kody Brown – - the star of the TLC reality show ‘Sister Wives’, whose family is being persecuted by mainstream mormon prosecutors for having a polygamous family.
one . . two . . three . . here it goes:
Our government is like a beat up old rug that smells like ferret pee. It’s time for a new rug. Seeing the government smash families everyday sickens me. A patriarchal polygamous family is the strongest structure known next to the synthetic diamond, and thus difficult for the state to control or dismember. Like an octopus, it would probably take the entire on call staff at the local cps socialist services office to rip it apart and the lezbos couldn’t high five afterwards with broken fingers and bruised knuckles. Like I say ALLWAYS teach our children TO BITE. Not us of course, BUT THEM. Abraham Lincon gave U.S. marshalls the green light to hunt down mormons like jackrabbits, and today mainstream mo’s suffer from mormon guilt, overcompensating for past persecutions. That’s why they are the first to try to bury their own fundamentalists. To the mainstream mo’s, especially males in the legal field, you ilk of federal ambition, STOP TRYING TO APE THE SOPHOMORIC DWADDLERS IN OUR LATTER DAY GOVERNMENT. It is providence that we the people will soon THROW THEM OUT. So enough of you mainstream bureaucrats with your best ludicrous mamas family henpecker impersonations. Your poor hallowed eyes admit that bashing your ancestral soul leaves you with none. I feel embarrased for you seeing you in public like that. You act like a bunch of timid immigrants trying to fit in even if its in the belly of a stupid security state. Let me see you wave your banners HIGH AND PROUD! Polygamy is kool. That’s K-O-O-L! Kody, you have more support outside that church than you know.