I just got an e-mail from Jim Peterson of Veterans Abroad. Been a while since I've heard from him. Anyway, he shared with me a letter of his which has recently been published by Jenn Sierra, a conservative female blogger. The letter is interesting, especially where Jim compares the parliamentary governments found in European countries, to the system we've got in the USA. (Jim lives in Europe, hence the word "abroad.") I have pasted the text below, almost exactly as it appears in Jenn Sierra's blog -- with most of the links still embedded:

"Men Sacrificing their Rights to Feminists - and it’s Not an Issue in the 2008 Election

"» by Jenn Sierra
"(UPDATED)
"…from Jim Peterson, of Veterans Abroad:
"It’s been awhile since I last wrote about the acute men’s rights problem in the US today. Except for a promising challenge against VAWA [Violence Against Women Act] in a federal court in New York City (presented by men who can prove that foreign women married them for citizenship and then pretended the husband was abusing them in order to speed up the immigration process), there has been little to report in the fight to stop men from slowly losing more of their rights now that the Bush Administration completely caved in to victim feminists.
"Here, however, is a good article from Marc Rudov (whom I often disagree with): Men’s Silence Is Women’s Gold
"Men’s rights do need to be discussed as part of the 2008 election process. If America had a parliamentary system, as many countries have here in Europe, there would be a party in the center representing males or libertarians holding 5% of the vote while holding the swing vote on every issue. I live in Germany where men are thus protected from opportunistic politicians in the two main right and left political parties.
"Because the USA has an all-or-nothing 2 party system with both parties ignoring the male vote (how many times did you see any media or candidate say they want the male vote), men can only influence politics by refusing to vote (or helping to teach the Republicans a lesson in November).
"Meanwhile, I would like to see you help overturn the IMBRA and VAWA laws. I have written enough about them.
"You don’t agree with the Republican judge who said “There is no fundamental liberty interest in an American contacting a foreign citizen”? You do not agree with the foundation of both those laws which has the US Government and Bush Administration stating that men who date and marry foreign women “tend to be abusive losers with control issues?”
"And you cannot agree that marriage is something that men should be intrinsically punished for entering into? VAWA makes it much smarter for men to just keep long term girlfriends."

As an addendum, let me just say that the "long term girlfriend plan" won't be an option forever -- they'll find a way to make it unfeasible, or make it pointless.

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