Cesiumsponge
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Wow.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/4635208/detail.html
Anyone catch the story yesterday on how a Silverdale man had an (not known at the time) inert hand grenade at a Seattle court and was shot to death by police? I don’t have any grudges with the police since they did the right thing given the situation.
However I didn’t know how badly the media could spin stories until I found out the person who was shot was Perry Manley. One news story was even titled “Deadbeat Dad Shot In Seattle Courthouse” even though Manley paid child support until his unemployment and wasn’t a deadbeat.
I suppose they can’t get the other side of the story since he is no longer alive. The news sources paint him as an obsessive psycho bad guy. However, I have heard and seen the guy talk over the years and he is one of the largest post-divorce father’s rights activists and was against heavily gender-biased child support laws. Despite the fact that deadbeat mothers are actually HIGHER per capita than deadbeat fathers (57% of mothers ordered to pay child support actually pay while 68% of fathers who are ordered to pay, pay). He [Manley] (and other father’s rights advocacy groups would make efforts to defend fathers who got the shaft in divorce cases.
He was at Safeco Field last year protesting with a sign that read, “Fathers are parents, not paychecks”. I also listen to (the highest rated) area radio show and Perry has been a regular guest for several years and spoke his passionate cause in a concise, logical, and reasonable manner. The radio show has dedicated all of today to replaying the recorded interviews and audio clips when he was a guest on the show and taking calls from men in similar positions. Also they are also inviting guests that are close personal friends of Manley, who have painted him in an entirely different light than that portrayed thusfar.
The guy has tried for 15 years to get visitation rights from his ex-wife to his own flesh-and-blood children that never panned out. They doubled his child support payments that amounted to 50% (before taxes) so he could barely live comfortably himself. Alimony and child support is supposed to “continue the life the spouse was accustomed to before the divorce. However the excessively high (in terms of income by the payee) child support and alimony made sure he couldn’t continue the life he was accustomed to.
Perry eventually ran out of money after 15 years as a non-custodial parent trying to see his children. Perry eventually tried to take his lawsuit to the federal level. District judge Thomas Zilly denied his lawsuit multiple times and Perry attempted to take action against Judge Zilly by calling his actions treasonous. He actually filed action against Zilly, but somehow Zilly acted as judge on his own action and dismissed his own case.
I saw the ex-wife being interviewed today after the grenade incident and she showed no signs of remorse or emotion regarding her ex-husband. She even had the audacity to claim he was selfish because his suicide by cop came shortly before son’s upcoming birthday and that his daughter’s wedding. Oddly enough she, or the articles covering the event, never mentioned that the ex-wife would NOT let him see their children and the last visitation he managed to get was well over half a year ago, and that after the divorce, the mother would put much effort into telling the kids how the father was a deadbeat loser arsehole which was engrained into them at a young age. She even refused to let Perry walk his own daughter down the aisle at the wedding but it was never mentioned in interviews.
There might be one bit of light to shed though. Supposedly one of the area networks (KIRO7) is going to interview the talk show host of the aforementioned radio show and attempt to get a more well-rounded profile on Perry Manley. However from the displays of these quick-to-jump stories, it appears the guy was painted as a whacko.
I’ve heard dozens of stories where men have gotten the short end of the deal in divorce cases involving children. Sadly most of their voices and stories are never heard.
I guess not being able to properly attend the wedding and not being able to catch his son’s birthday, and ending up alone on Father’s Day was the final straw. I wouldn't have chosen such an action but in his almost two-decade long struggle against "they system", he felt that this act of martyrdom was required as a last ditch effort to exposing his, and thousands of others who are trying to get this very serious problem into the public light. He did this at the ultimate cost of his own life. Sadly, the media has turned it into a one-sided circus.
I can’t believe how much of the story isn’t being told. Maybe the other side will come out in subsequent interviews and weeks gone by, but I doubt it.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/4635208/detail.html
Anyone catch the story yesterday on how a Silverdale man had an (not known at the time) inert hand grenade at a Seattle court and was shot to death by police? I don’t have any grudges with the police since they did the right thing given the situation.
However I didn’t know how badly the media could spin stories until I found out the person who was shot was Perry Manley. One news story was even titled “Deadbeat Dad Shot In Seattle Courthouse” even though Manley paid child support until his unemployment and wasn’t a deadbeat.
I suppose they can’t get the other side of the story since he is no longer alive. The news sources paint him as an obsessive psycho bad guy. However, I have heard and seen the guy talk over the years and he is one of the largest post-divorce father’s rights activists and was against heavily gender-biased child support laws. Despite the fact that deadbeat mothers are actually HIGHER per capita than deadbeat fathers (57% of mothers ordered to pay child support actually pay while 68% of fathers who are ordered to pay, pay). He [Manley] (and other father’s rights advocacy groups would make efforts to defend fathers who got the shaft in divorce cases.
He was at Safeco Field last year protesting with a sign that read, “Fathers are parents, not paychecks”. I also listen to (the highest rated) area radio show and Perry has been a regular guest for several years and spoke his passionate cause in a concise, logical, and reasonable manner. The radio show has dedicated all of today to replaying the recorded interviews and audio clips when he was a guest on the show and taking calls from men in similar positions. Also they are also inviting guests that are close personal friends of Manley, who have painted him in an entirely different light than that portrayed thusfar.
The guy has tried for 15 years to get visitation rights from his ex-wife to his own flesh-and-blood children that never panned out. They doubled his child support payments that amounted to 50% (before taxes) so he could barely live comfortably himself. Alimony and child support is supposed to “continue the life the spouse was accustomed to before the divorce. However the excessively high (in terms of income by the payee) child support and alimony made sure he couldn’t continue the life he was accustomed to.
Perry eventually ran out of money after 15 years as a non-custodial parent trying to see his children. Perry eventually tried to take his lawsuit to the federal level. District judge Thomas Zilly denied his lawsuit multiple times and Perry attempted to take action against Judge Zilly by calling his actions treasonous. He actually filed action against Zilly, but somehow Zilly acted as judge on his own action and dismissed his own case.
I saw the ex-wife being interviewed today after the grenade incident and she showed no signs of remorse or emotion regarding her ex-husband. She even had the audacity to claim he was selfish because his suicide by cop came shortly before son’s upcoming birthday and that his daughter’s wedding. Oddly enough she, or the articles covering the event, never mentioned that the ex-wife would NOT let him see their children and the last visitation he managed to get was well over half a year ago, and that after the divorce, the mother would put much effort into telling the kids how the father was a deadbeat loser arsehole which was engrained into them at a young age. She even refused to let Perry walk his own daughter down the aisle at the wedding but it was never mentioned in interviews.
There might be one bit of light to shed though. Supposedly one of the area networks (KIRO7) is going to interview the talk show host of the aforementioned radio show and attempt to get a more well-rounded profile on Perry Manley. However from the displays of these quick-to-jump stories, it appears the guy was painted as a whacko.
I’ve heard dozens of stories where men have gotten the short end of the deal in divorce cases involving children. Sadly most of their voices and stories are never heard.
I guess not being able to properly attend the wedding and not being able to catch his son’s birthday, and ending up alone on Father’s Day was the final straw. I wouldn't have chosen such an action but in his almost two-decade long struggle against "they system", he felt that this act of martyrdom was required as a last ditch effort to exposing his, and thousands of others who are trying to get this very serious problem into the public light. He did this at the ultimate cost of his own life. Sadly, the media has turned it into a one-sided circus.
I can’t believe how much of the story isn’t being told. Maybe the other side will come out in subsequent interviews and weeks gone by, but I doubt it.
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