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Men's Issues and the Culture War in the West

Shutting down my blog on Opera

I have been posting and blogging online for a couple of years now. I have a blog on Wordpress, and Live Journal. Recently Outcast Superstar and Mirror of The Soul have gone dark. They are offline. It has become apparent to me that other venues are generating more interest and traffic. My advice to Men in the US is simple. Our key problem is not Women. It is the indifference of the majority of Men to defend their Rights and Natural Rights in the American Republic. Sports, Cars, Work, Employment, making money has a great priority than fighting to keep their place here.

I contribute on other blogs. But with my business interests taking away my time to provide my input. I must say Adieu to blogging for the near future. My advice to others is for Men to take back their masculinity and stand up for yourselves. Many of the Blogs have become echo chambers of anger and dissatisfaction. With little measurable results. Inept attempts to over turn VAWA, IMBRA, and the Family Court nightmare has failed to a great extent.

As I see it you have the following options. Become a Ghost to society and invisible to Women. Living an un natural life and adopting a Defensive or Mitigation strategy. Make yourself as small a target as possible. Fly under the Radar and avoid detection.

Plan to leave FemAmerica and go Expatriate. Mexico is close by. And is not Mangina territory yet. Or head further South. Wiston Wu has done this. Fred Reed has done this enjoying his Kino Red Wine and living with an agreeable Latina. Good for you Fred. America is no longer a sane place for Men. Opt out. Become you Inc. Rejecting the insults, appeals and shaming language.

Use Women for Sport Sex. Do not commit. Follow the Tom Leykis lifestyle. This has hazards and liabilities. Sexually transmitted Diseases for one. Rape accusations for Angry Women who are dumped after being used for Sport Sex. This is in my view also exploitative. Women have exploited Men, we are not in my view justified in exploiting them. It lowers us to the Feminists level. Victimhood Politics is not a sane way to live.

There you have it. Wishing you well in 2009. This Blog will go quiet for the forseeable future.

DART anti Father ad campagin and the Family Place

Who is it permissible to insult in the US today? Not Moslem Terrorists the media refuses to even call a Terrorist a Terrorist. The media has refused to acknowledge the Honor Killings of two Teenage Sisters in Dallas last year by their Egyptian Moslem Father. Who thought they were not demure enough, and were too friendly with Non Moslem boys. So he took them in his cab to a Hotel and shot them to death.

A Domestic Violence Non Profit called the Family Place. Funded by Donations has just stopped a series of ads calling Boys future Women abusers. And instilling Fear in Children that their Fathers will kill their Mothers. On Father's Day our future POTUS Barrack Hussein Obama, insulted minority Fathers. For not "Manning Up" and doing their part to take care of their Children. Obama and his Running Mate VAWA Joe Biden pandered to Single Women.

Yet it is Women who are choosing Bad Boys over Decent Men. And it is Women who choose to get pregnant by Men. When they have viable options. We continue to treat Women like little Girls in Women's Bodies. Who have no capacity for Self evaluation, self control, or reason. Perpetual Victimhood is what the Feminist movement is all about.

For the controversy over the ads. You can see a video on the local Dallas CBS affiliate. Posted here.
http://cbs11tv.com/local/family.place.Advertisement.2.851056.html

Kay Hymowitz of City Journal recognizes the complaints of Men in Marriage

Seasons Greetings all. To my Christian and Jewish Friends. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah (The Festival of lights). For your own enrichment I highly encourage the Christians to read the history behind the Turkish Bishop for whom the Christian Santa Tradition is derived. A true story of Courage, devotion, and suffering for your Christian faith. This Dark Skinned, Turkish Man was an amazing Human being. And his story is one for the ages. He faced the persecution of the Roman Empire for his beliefs. And did not back down. A far cry from the Wimpy, emasculated, Pansies that pass for Men in our era. This is a result of decades of Male attacks, and criticism of the stoic nature of Men in our Western Society.

More Gender news this week. A Florida Newspaper reports that Linda Bollea the wife of Terry G. Bollea aka. Hulk Hogan is out of money. With a generous $40,000 monthly allowance this Aging Blond Bimbo Cougar has made a joke of herself and other Women. And is a leading contestant for the Shallow Substanceless Attention Whore of the year. Then there is the former Lady McCartney Heather Mills.

She is the poster Child for Gold Digging Skanks. While having an affair with another Man while engaged to Sir Paul McCartney the Troubadour of Beatles Fame. She got pregnant with Sir Paul's youngest Beatrice, made all kinds of Charity promises with Sir Paul's money. Which she never did a thing to earn a dime.

And then reneged on her Promises to the same Charities. She received for four years of Marriage nearly $50 Million. and is now reportedly near run through the money in less than two years. She will have a difficult time snagging another Lifestyle provider. And her reputation is so bad, she is forced to Date a Wealthy 60 something Theater Owner to snag a new Man to prey upon.

Former Shop Lifter, Porn Model, Escort who was engaged to be married when she met the Biggest Better Deal... Sir Paul McCartney and promptly dumped her Fiance. Note to Men if an attractive Woman dumps her love of her life, for your wallet you're officially an idiot. McCartney was vulnerable, loney, and heart broken over the death of his beloved Wife Linda. Who was reasonable, realistic and sweet.

Sir Paul Women have changed. The culture and Feminism has changed Western Women.
Back to Kay Hymowitz. She wrote a Piece several months ago chiding Men for not growing up, manning up and getting Married. Men responded in droves about how much Marriage is a scam today. And they refuse to be scammed into it.

She even posted about it in her recent article. At the end she leaves a note that most of these Men will come around. I agree they will with Foreign Wives, or not cohabitating with Feminized Western Women. Until Women come to the table with a reasonable offer with realistic terms.

Erica Jong's threats of another Civil War if Obama is not elected. Thug politics in the Democratic Party.

As a Boy growing up. I grew up with a liberal Father who was and is a staunch Democrat. Because the Democratic party was the party of Small Business, Working class people, and those who were disenfranchised. No longer it has become the Party of Socialists, Radicals, and the Lunatic Fringe.

The 1960s Hippies and Radicals against America, got into Teaching, the Media, Publishing anywhere they could sway minds and indoctrinate the public. Decades ago the Gay Rights Advocates stated they did not want to indoctrinate our Children. This has proven to be a Huge Lie.

In San Francisco Kindergarten children were taken recently on a Field Trip to City Hall to see two Lesbians married. A Female Kindergarten teacher in Hayward California has had her children sign a Gay Rights Pledge Card. They are five year olds. What was the "inducement to sale"? Two extra cookies? Lies, lies, and yet more lies by the Left.

Now the vacuous Gynosaurs of Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda aka. Hanoi Jane, Eve Ensler, and Eric Jong agree. If Obama is not elected there will be Civil War between Blacks and Whites. Are Blacks really this stupid? I don't think so. Blacks are treated as Pets by the Liberal establishment. Obama is in fact White and Arab, primarily with less than 10% Black.

A recent video on Glenn Beck shown on Youtube is disheartening. And has very scary portends for our Culture. A young Black Woman gushes with enthusiasm how Obama's election means she does not have to worry about paying her Mortgage, or paying to fill up her Car. How stupid is this Woman? And what message is being told by Obama Surrogates to communicate this?

More disturbing is the violence against McCain Palin supporters and thug tactics of Obama supporters. A Seattle Newspaper is publishing the names and Addresses of folks with McCain Palin signs in their yards. Is this an attempt to intimidate Voters? Obama is calling for the creation of an Internal Security Force as large and well funded as the US Military. Is this his vision of a Fascist Socialist Police State?

If it is I am deeply disappointed in my party of registration. Yes I am a registered Democrat. And this violates everything our nation believes in. As angry as I am at Republicans for their mismanagement of Government. That pales into comparison to the DNC for refusing to fully disclose Obama's College Records, Certificates of Live Birth, Medical Records. Obama is getting a free pass in hiding his past.

He ejected from his Airplane, Newspaper Reporters of Papers that endorsed McCain. A coming Iron Curtain is descending upon DC run by this Child of Chicago Thug Politics. I hope he loses the election. I am disappointed that he has turned out to be a Fraud. I was hoping Obama's nomination would heal the Racial divisions in America. Instead it has opened new wounds.

I am sad to report that a Brother in Law's Brother has died of Cancer. He has lost his Father and now two Brothers to Cancer. He passed away peacefully in his sleep last night.

A note of interest. A Stone Monument near Urfa in Turkey has been discovered. That predates Stonehenge by 6000 years. The Smithsonian has an article and pictures on this amazing Edifice, discovered by German Archaeologists. I find this to be an amazing development. The oldest Damn in the World is in Turkey, developed by the Ancient Hittite Culture and recently put back into service.

A relative of My Ex Brother ends his life.

I have posted this on several Men's Rights blogs. This year has been a watershed. My Father has turned 85. My Nephew realized I was posting on several blogs and contacted me. My Ex Brother In Law's Brother who I knew two decades ago ended his life by suicide. He was told by his Skank Wife that she was going to Divorce him. They had no children and he was totally devoted to her. Worse yet, he worked hard. Provided a fine home and lifestyle for his Wife. It was never enough. This reality of this fine Man ending his life sickens and disgusts me.

Of course her Family blames him. Their treatment of him and emotional abuse and manipulation continued after his death. Making the funeral so it was nearly impossible for his Family Members traveling from out of state to attend his funeral. And they consider themselves upstanding honorable, Religious people. His attention Whore Wife, of course played the Victim. Yes I will post it publicly not one word of remorse, not one word of apology. I hope she rots and burns in Hell. Along with the rest of her amoral Family. They cremated his remains despite his Family's opposition.

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Absence from Posting and the hiatus of Robin Steele.

Business Interests have kept me busy for recent months. And my blogs on Wordpress, Opera and Live Journal are venues for me to express my viewpoints and spread the word about Men's Rights. The recent Presidential contest has opened a bridgehead into the Gender Feminist movement. The choice of Sarah Palin portends fundamental changes for US Feminism. As it widens the concept of what a Feminist is.

The Men's movement views this with suspicion. As many Men have been abused by the Laws and Government. And no longer trust US Women at all. That the Los Angeles Chapter of NOW's President endorsed Palin signals a split within the Gender Feminist movement. Perhaps a more reasonable and realistic dialog will begin between Men and Women.

This much I know. Men are angry very angry with Women in the West. The narcissistic self absorbed Attention Whore culture is vile, perverse, and toxic to sanity and a stable society. Men are therefore opting out of Marriage, Family, Church, Voting, College and any affiliation with our culture. This fundamental change by Men has very profound implications.

The sexist and vile smears against Palin by Democrats shows the culture war is turning into a Civil War. How soon before it becomes a "Shooting War" is a guess. A Columnist in the Philadelphia Enquirer wrote if Obama is not elected there would be a "Race War". This is only one of recent threats against McCain Palin supporters. If Obama's supporters are so inclined, let them understand they will reap the Harvest of the Whirlwind they are sowing.

Obama's City is the Murder Capital of America. With 75,000 gang bangers in Chicago. And he did little or nothing to address the crime. Now he wants to run America???? Please give me a break. He has never administered anything. And even his own running mate Joe Biden admits that he is untested. And will tested early in his Presidency.

We are in two Wars. With Major Economic Challenges, the worst since the Great Depression. We have an aggressive and Growing China. Russia modernizing its Military and flexing its military muscle. Its attack on Georgia in the Caucuses has ominous portends for Eastern Europe. Is Russia intent on recreating the Soviet Empire???

On other another note. An irritant who engaged in a deliberate campaign of smearing my Daughter Gina and Myself has taken a hiatus from her Blog. She also operates under the name eMasculist. I simply have not had time nor interest in addressing her idiocy or her lies. She is a pathological liar, who made promises and renegged on them. I still do not know who she/he/it really was? Since her/him/its campaign did not work, they disappeared.

Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring gasoline prices

Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring gasoline prices
By William Tate
This started out as an attempt to create a light and humorous, Letterman-esque Top 10 list. But the items on the list, and the drain Americans are seeing in their pocketbooks because of Democrats' actions (sometimes inaction) are just too tragic for that.

10) ANWR If Bill Clinton had signed into law the Republican Congress's 1995 bill to allow drilling of ANWR instead of vetoing it, ANWR could be producing a million barrels of (non-Opec) oil a day--5% of the nation's consumption. Although speaking in another context, even Democrat Senator Charles Schumer, no proponent of ANWR drilling, admits that "one million barrels per day," would cause the price of gasoline to fall "50 cents a gallon almost immediately," according to a recent George Will column.

9) Coastal Drilling (i.e., not in my backyard) Democrats have consistently fought efforts to drill off the U.S. coast, as evidenced by Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's preotestation against a failed 2005 bill: "Not only does this legislation dismantle the bi-partisan ban on offshore drilling, but it provides a financial incentive for states to do so."
A financial incentive? With the Chinese now slant drilling for oil just 50 miles off the Florida coast, wouldn't that have been a good thing?

8) Insistence on alternative fuels One of the first acts of the new Democrat-controlled congress in 2007 was an energy bill that "calls for a huge increase in the use of ethanol as a motor fuel and requires new appliance efficiency standards." By focusing on alternative fuels such as ethanol, and not more drilling, Democrats have added to the cost of food, worsening starvation problems around the word and increasing inflationary pressures in the U.S., including prices at the pump.

7) Nuclear power Even the French, who sometimes seem to lack the backbone to stand up for anything other than soft cheese, faced down their environmentalists over the need for nuclear power. France now generates 79% of its electricity from nuclear plants, mitigating the need for imported oil. The French have so much cheap energy that France has become the world's largest exporter of electric power. They have plans in place to build more reactors, including an experimental fusion reactor.

The last nuclear reactor built in the United States, according to the US Dept of Energy, was the "River Bend" plant in Louisiana. Its construction began in March of 1977.

Need I say more?

6) Coal "The liquid hydrocarbon fuel available from American coal reserves exceeds the crude oil reserves of the entire world," writes Dr. Arthur Robinson in an article on humanevents.com. The U.S. has approximately one-fourth of the world's known, proven coal reserves. Coal would be a proven, and increasingly clean, source of electric power and--at current prices--a liquified fuel that would reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Yet Dems and their enviro friends have fought, and continue to fight, both coal-mining and coal plants.

5) Refinery capacity "High oil prices are still being propped up by a shortage of refinery capacity and there is little sign of the bottleneck easing until 2010," according to Peak Oil News. And, while voters in South Dakota have approved zoning for what could become the first new oil refinery in the United States in 30 years, the Dems' environmentalist constituency vows to oppose it, just like environmentalists opposed the floodgates that could have saved New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina.

4) Reduced competition With consolidation in the oil industry, has come reduced competition. Remember, most of the major oil company mergers -- Shell-Texaco, BP-Amoco, Exxon-Mobil, BP-ARCO, and Chevron-Texaco -- happened on Clinton's watch. The number of oil refiners dropped from 28 to 19 companies during Clinton's two terms.

3) The Global Warming Myth At a Group of 8 meeting this week, host and Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari "described the issues of climate change and energy as two sides of the same coin and proposed united solutions ... to address both issues simultaneously". As a result of Global Warming hysteria, the Al Gore-negotiated Kyoto Protocol created a worldwide market in carbon-emissions trading. Both 2005 --the year that trading was initiated--and this year --when the trading expanded dramatically -- saw substantial and unexpected price spikes in the cost of oil, leading us to reason Number...

2) Speculation "Given the unchanged equilibrium in global oil supply and demand over recent months amid the explosive rise in oil futures prices ... it is more likely that as much as 60% of the today oil price is pure speculation," writes F. William Engdahl, an Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. According to a June 2006 US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report, US energy futures historically "were traded exclusively on regulated exchanges within the United States... The trading of energy commodities by large firms on OTC electronic exchanges was exempted from (federal) oversight by a provision inserted at the behest of Enron and other large energy traders into the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000." The bill was signed into law by Bill Clinton, in one of his last acts in office.

1) Defeat of President Bush's 2001 energy package According to the BBC, "Key points of Bush('s 2001) plan were to:

-Promote new oil and gas drilling

-Build new nuclear plants

-Improve electricity grid and build new pipelines -$10bn in tax breaks to promote energy efficiency and alternative fuels

A New York Times article, dated May 18, 2001, explained:

"President Bush began an intensive effort today to sell his plan for developing new sources of energy to Congress and the American people, arguing that the country had a future of 'energy abundance if it could break free of the traditional antagonism between energy producers and environmental advocates.

Mr. Bush's plea for a new dialogue came as his administration published the report of an energy task force containing scores of specific proposals... for finding new sources of power and encouraging a range of new energy technologies."

[The Bush plan] "mentions about a dozen areas including land-use restrictions in the Rockies, lease stipulations on offshore areas attractive to oil companies, the vetting of locations for nuclear plants, environmental reviews to upgrade power plants and refineries that could be streamlined or eliminated to help industry find more oil and gas and produce more electricity and gasoline."


The article went on to quote some rather prescient words from the President, "this great country could face a darker future, a future that is, unfortunately, being previewed in rising prices at the gas pump and rolling blackouts in the great state of California" if his plan was not adopted in 2001.

The Times account continued:

"Mr. Bush talked not only of blackouts but of blackmail, raising the specter of a future in which the United States is increasingly vulnerable to foreign oil suppliers...Mr. Bush was praised by many groups for laying out a long-term energy policy. His report contained 105 initiatives..."


Just as President Bush's predictions have been born out, the article quoted from that most sage of Democrats, former President Jimmy Carter:

"World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful," he (Carter) argued. Mr. Carter said "exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality."


But, as a later Times article notes, "the president's ambitious policy quickly became a casualty of energy politics and, notably, harsh criticism from Democrats enraged by the way the White House had created the plan."

In other words, Democrats refused the President's plea to "break free of the traditional antagonism between energy producers and environmental advocates."

Remember that the next time you pull up to the pump ... or the voter's booth.

William Tate is a former award-winning journalist and the author of the new ovel, A Time Like This (www.atimelikethis.us/)

Rainier Hiker Sacrificed Himself to Save His Wife

'He Was a Hero': Hiker Sacrificed Himself to Save Wife, Friend in Mount Rainier Blizzard
By DONNA GORDON
The Associated Press

SEATTLE

A hiker who lost his life on Mount Rainier lay down in the snow and used his body's warmth to protect his wife and a friend from the 70-mph winds of a freak June blizzard, national park officials said.

When it became obvious the trio could not find their way back to base camp in whiteout conditions, they dug a snow trench with their hands. Eduard Burceag, 31, lay down in the snow while his wife and friend lay on top of him. Later, when they begged him to switch places, Burceag refused, saying he was OK.

"In doing so, he probably saved their lives," park spokesman Kevin Bacher said Thursday.

Mariana Burceag, also 31, survived the storm, as did the couple's friend, Daniel Vlad, 34.

Eduard Burceag was just one of the heroes.

When the call came at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday to the Camp Muir base camp, saying three hikers were missing in a blizzard, the National Park Service ranger in charge of rescue operations had little hope they would survive the night.

Kevin Hammonds, 28, described the storm as the worst he had ever seen during his years of hiking and mountain climbing: wind blowing hard enough to knock you off your feet and zero visibility, making it impossible to see your hand in front of your face.

"The fact that any of them made it is noteworthy," Hammonds said Thursday.

His lack of optimism didn't stop Hammonds and a fellow ranger, Joe Franklin, from preparing a search party to head out at first light.

Around 5:30 a.m., Franklin was checking the horizon for any clues to the location of the missing hikers, all natives of Romania who were living in Bellevue, a Seattle suburb.

He saw what looked like a boulder in an unusual spot on the snowfield, then took a closer look with binoculars and realized the shape was moving.

Hammonds grabbed two mountain guides who had stayed the night at Camp Muir, about 10,000 feet up the 14,410-foot mountain, and headed out toward Vlad. Walking through knee-deep, blowing snow, it took about 10 minutes to meet him halfway.

Bacher called Vlad a hero, for his determination to get help.

"It wasn't that he had the physical stamina to do it, but he had the mental will," Bacher said.

One guide helped Vlad back to Camp Muir after directing Hammonds and Eben Reckord of International Mountain Guides toward the Burceags.

"We were able to, more or less, find them right away because he had given us such a good description," Hammonds said. "They would have actually been hard for us to find without his guidance. Where they were definitely was not in eyeshot of camp."

Mariana Burceag was conscious but not coherent, said Hammonds, a trained emergency medical technician. Eduard Burceag was unconscious; they couldn't find a pulse.

"The two of us had to make a decision that she needed our immediate attention," Hammonds said. "It was obvious to us, that ... if left there much longer, she would probably be in the same shape he was."

Hammonds' training told him they had to focus on the person most likely to survive.

They put a second down jacket on Mariana Burceag, placed her in a sleeping bag and onto a sleeping pad, covered her with a small tent and started to drag the whole package toward Camp Muir.

They got about 100 feet closer to the camp before Hammonds and Reckord realized they needed more help. Four more guides answered their call with oxygen, another sleeping bag and a sled. It took another hour for six people to get Mariana Burceag to shelter.

Then the rescuers went back for Eduard Burceag. Perhaps another hour passed before they got him to shelter; attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.

Hammonds said the three were experienced hikers — both Eduard Burceag and Vlad had summited Rainier in the past — and were dressed properly for a spring hike in warm winter jackets, wool hats and gloves, and sturdy boots.

Thick clouds prevented a helicopter evacuation that day. An Army chopper rescued Mariana Burceag and Vlad from the peak Wednesday morning. They were treated for frostbite at a Seattle hospital and released. Eduard Burceag's body was brought down the mountain on a sled Wednesday afternoon.

The Pierce County medical examiner's office confirmed Thursday night that he died of hypothermia.

Reached by telephone in Romania, Eduard Burceag's brother, Cristian, told The Seattle Times his older brother moved to the United States eight years ago and fell in love with Seattle, its mountains, its opportunities.

Cristian Burceag said his mother was visiting his brother and was watching their two young sons while Eduard and Mariana hiked to Camp Muir.

He said he was not surprised his brother died shielding his wife from the blizzard.

"He was a hero for us," the younger Burceag said. "I'm sure he would do that. He knew very well that his children needed a lot of their mother and that was the main thing in his life."

Mom, Girlfriend Accused of Child Torture

Mom, Girlfriend Accused of Child Torture
Police Say Boy Couldn't Open Hands Because of Being Burned on Stove
By DEAN SCHABNER

June 15, 2008—

A 5-year-old Los Angeles boy was fighting for his life today after suffering what police called one of the worst cases of child abuse they have seen, allegedly at the hands of his mother and her live-in girlfriend.

Police said the boy had countless cigarette burns all over his body, including his genitals, was unable to open his hands because he had been forced to put them flat on a hot stove, and was repeatedly beaten and forced to sit in his own urine.

"In my time in policing in 27 years, I have never seen anybody with these kinds of injuries that has lived," Los Angeles Police Department First Assistant Chief James McDonnell said. "And this kid must have a tremendous will to live to be able to still hang on despite what he's been through."

The boy's mother, Starkeisha Brown, 24, was arrested after she turned herself in to police on Friday evening.

Krystal Matthews, 19, who police described as Brown's live-in girlfriend, was arrested earlier Friday when she showed up for an appointment with the state Department of Children's Services, police said.

Brown was charged with suspicion of torture and was held without bail. Matthews was arrested on suspicion of willful harm or injury to a child, and her bail was set at $100,000.

A police spokeswoman said she did not know whether either of the women had hired an attorney.

The boy was hospitalized in critical condition, officials said today.

Police said they first became aware that the boy was at risk on Monday, when Brown and Matthews were called to the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services for an appointment to check on the boy.

Brown and Matthews brought a healthy child of a mutual friend to the appointment and tried to pass him off as Brown's son, officials said. While the three were at DCS, a stranger found the boy abandoned and notified authorities, police said.

"Thankfully, we were later able to locate our victim who had been left abandoned with an unrelated stranger," McDonnell said.

At a news conference on Friday evening, McDonnell said the abuse the boy suffered included being denied basic necessities like food and water and being beaten while suspended from a door with his hands above his head.

The child had a broken tooth with a nerve exposed and was regularly forced to place his hands on a hot stove, McDonnell said.

"Because of the burns and scar tissue, he can't fully open his hands," McDonnell said.

"The treatment of this 5-year-old is akin to a level of torture we hope our military personnel would never encounter, yet this treatment came to this child at the hands of those in a position of trust," Lt. Vincent Neglia of the LAPD's Abused Child Unit said.

Police said they had no information about the boy's father, and they did not know if he had any other relatives.

Though McDonnell said the victim is the only child involved in the case, he said it was unknown if Brown and Matthews had access to other children.

ABC News affiliate KABC in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

Iran police start wider crackdown on un-Islamic dress

Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:25am EDT
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday.

"In its wider crackdown which has started from Saturday, police will confront those who appear in public in an indecent way and will also seal off shops selling un-Islamic dress," the newspaper said, quoting an unnamed police official.

The dress code imposed after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution requires women to cover all their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise the shape of their bodies.

Violators can receive lashes, fines or imprisonment.

The authorities usually launch crackdowns before the hot summer months when women like to wear lighter clothing such as calf-length pants and brightly colored scarves pushed back to expose plenty of hair.

But enforcement of strict moral codes governing women's dress became more strict since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to power in 2005 with the backing of conservative clerics and the Basij religious forces who condemn such "un-Islamic" practices.

"Police will seize women with tight coats and cropped trousers and also men with Western-style hair cut will be arrested," the newspaper said.

Especially in the urban areas, many women ignore traditional head-to-toe black chadors. The Islamic dress code is less commonly challenged in poor suburbs and rural regions.

"Men with Western-style haircuts were confronted by police and also barber shops that gave them such haircuts were sealed off on Sunday," said the daily.
Some women, testing the boundaries of the law by wearing tight clothes were also confronted by morality police, located mainly at the affluent northern Tehran squares.

"Police also swept through popular shopping centers, where such outfits are sold and some of those shops were sealed off," the daily said.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Stephen Weeks)

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