Alec Baldwin's Psychobabble

Transcribed part of Alec Baldwin's excuses from The View video:

"I had never done this before in my life." [emphasis added]

From NY NOW:

"Recent reports have stated that Alec Baldwin has long been known for his hot temper. Reportedly, he has choked a pedestrian, screamed at a police officer, and thrown temper tantrums on sets which have incited his co-stars to quit their positions. Now added to his list is an angry voice message, in which he called his daughter “a rude, thoughtless little pig.” Clearly,the common thread in all of these incidents is Baldwin and his irrational anger, not a made-up “syndrome.”

In Alec Baldwin's own words:

'[I]s how much the people in the tabloid media are themselves
people who are abused and are people who live with shameful secrets and they make it their career to humiliate you and expose your secrets. Like the guy who is responsible for this tape coming out -- we don't need to say his name. [TMZ's Harvey Levin*] It doesn't really matter -- I called some of my friends of mine in LA and I said what's his story and they told me his story: what he's all about, where he's coming from, what are his secrets you know what I mean and you find out that everybody [emphasis added] who works in tabloid media are people who are filled with self hatred and shame and the way that they manage they manage those feelings is that they destroy the lives of other people and reveal your secrets. And I thought to myself you know it's like I couldn't get over -- you know -- how they beat you all day long."

According news reports, Baldwin's daughter leaked the tape to Levin and has been talking with him ever since. Now, Baldwin is suing TMZ. What an idiot!

I used to love watching Rosie O'Donnell, but those days are over. She sees NOTHING wrong with yelling at her own kids and even has empathy for Baldwin yelling, cussing out and calling his daughter "a thoughtless little pig." You can see kneeslappin' The View interview here:

Alec Baldwin is now blaming his outburst directed at his daughter as a result of Parental Alienation (PA) formerly Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). It's all HER fault, your honor, she parental alienated me. And now he's planning on quitting acting to educate the public on parental alienation and help other abusive fathers. Whaaaa 'teh' *&#^? Giving up his acting career? Yeah, right.

Here's what Alec's about to step into:

PAS is a legal strategy devised by the late Dr. Richard Gardner [a pedophile apologist who stabbed himself to death] to protect abusers from criminal and civil litigation. Now, the fathers' rights attorneys have renamed PA to distance their the legal strategy from Gardner. Dr. Paul Fink, Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Task For on Psychiatric Aspects of Violence has a website at the Leadership Council debunking PAS.

And for a change here's an intelligent response from an African American mom, who unlike Rosie O'Donnell, does get it!

I loved this short video from the Assaulted Women's Helpline PSA
Her name is stupid bitch. If you heard it everyday, you'ld believe it too.

Douglas Bower over at Ezine @articles almost gets it too. He thinks that Baldwin is blaming his daughter for parental alienation. PA doesn't work that way. The fault finding blames the custodial parent, in this case Kim Basinger, for poisoning the mind of their daughter thereby parental alienation him. Otherwise Bowers does a great job pointing out Baldwin's lack of critical thinking skills and not accepting responsibility for child abuse.

One bright spot in this sordid scene is that Baldwin's vow to carry the torch for PA will open the debate to the public, most of whom do have critical thinking skills and my guess is that those who do will see it for what it is and the MSM will have to pull it out of the rock where they've mostly hidden for the past 20 years.

Hello Stop Family Violence Activists
URGENT ALERT!!
ABC's The View and 20/20 will be giving Alec Baldwin a platform to excuse his abuse and to perpetuate the discredited theory of Parental Alienation that gives custody to abusers and places women and children at risk of harm.
ACT NOW!!!
Go to http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/463
to learn more and to send an urgent message to ABC before the View airs on Friday morning!!
Thanks for your quick action on this.
Together, we can.. http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org
Irene Wesier

Blaming the Victim-Alec Baldwin Cries Foul by Claiming He is a Victim of Parental Alienation (PA)Press Release
April 27, 2007
Statement by Marcia A. Pappas, President
Contact #518-452-3944
Blaming the Victim
Alec Baldwin Cries Foul by Claiming He is a Victim of Parental Alienation (PA)
April 27, 2007 – Today the National Organization for Women – New York State, Inc. denounces Alec Baldwin for his most recent outburst, most especially for his claims of “parental alienation” as the reason for the strained relationship between himself and his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland. The custody battle between Baldwin and his ex-wife, Kim Basinger, has lasted for several years, but Alec Baldwin is arguing that so-called “parental alienation” is the excuse for his frequent flare-ups. Formerly labeled Parental Alienation Syndrome, (PAS), Parental Alienation (PA) is now the favorite excuse by so-called father’s rights groups to further abuse protective mothers. NOW denounced this syndrome at it 2006 conference.
Recent reports have stated that Alec Baldwin has long been known for his hot temper. Reportedly, he has choked a pedestrian, screamed at a police officer, and thrown temper tantrums on sets which have incited his co-stars to quit their positions. Now added to his list is an angry voice message, in which he called his daughter “a rude, thoughtless little pig.” Clearly, the common thread in all of these incidents is Baldwin and his irrational anger, not a made-up “syndrome.”
“Parental alienation” is junk science. In order to excuse their outbursts, many of which have been directed at children, controlling husbands/fathers cling to a phenomenon which blames mothers, in foul attempts to identify and excuse their behavior. According to Dr. Paul J. Fink, Past President of the American Psychological Association, “PA as a scientific theory has been excoriated by legitimate researchers across the nation.” Further, according to an APA Task Force Report, “Terms such as ‘parental alienation’ may be used to blame women for children’s reasonable fear of or anger toward their violent father.”
Reporting on Basinger’s claims, in an article entitled “According to Baldwin-Basinger: Look back in anger” By Gina Piccalo and Robert W. Welkos, LA Times, April 27, 2007, “She alleges that there were several "rage episodes" in Ireland's presence. She said he once assaulted a taxi driver while Ireland was in the cab. He is alleged to have called the girl at school one day as she was about to take a test and yelled at her so loudly that "some of Ireland's other classmates heard him," leaving her "embarrassed and very upset." During another alleged "episode" last spring, Ireland sought refuge in her room at Baldwin's apartment, crying and sobbing.”
The National Organization for Women-New York State, is shocked that The View, Bill O’Reilly and other media outlets are giving Baldwin a forum to spew his lies regarding so-called “parental alienation.” It has been well documented that the claim of “parental alienation is a legal tactic used almost exclusively against women after they muster up enough courage to leave the men that batter them and abuse their children. It seems as though it doesn’t matter that Alec Baldwin has become the poster child for abusive men; even when his behavior is well documented and speaks for itself. He is indeed charming, as need be to pull off this behavior. By giving him sympathy and a soapbox, rather than holding him accountable for his actions, The View, Bill O’Reilly and other media outlets are giving him the green light for his unacceptable behavior.
Currently, Baldwin has signed on to write a book about “parental alienation” in the name of father’s rights. In doing so, he will be protecting abusive men and their behavior, and attempting to manipulate the judicial system of the United States. Manipulation of the facts is common behavior by abusers. This is reminiscent of Charles Rothenberg, who set his son on fire in February of 2005 in order to punish his wife and then cried, in essence, "she made me do it."
The National Organization for Women – New York State, Inc. strongly condemns Baldwin’s behavior and resulting claims of “parental alienation”, while also sympathizing with thousands of protective mothers and their children who are continually hurt by claims of this junk science.
-end

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Contemptible court sends juvenile public defender to jail

A split panel, 4-3. on appeal in In re Sherri Jefferson, 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 391 (Ga. Ct. App. 2007), upheld...

From Appellate Law & Practice:

GA: 30 days for making a record of trial court’s strange bias

And Arbitrary & Capricious:

GA: beneath contempt

And Capital Defense Weekly:

Contemptible: juvie public defender sentenced to 30 days for defending her client

The Court of Appeals of Georgia upheld a Juvenile Court of Glynn County Ruling Which Sentences a Female Public Defender to Thirty (30) Days in Jail

GEORGIA - On Friday, March 30, 2007 the Court of Appeals of Georgia upheld a Juvenile Court of Glynn County ruling which sentenced a female public defender (who served the Brunswick Judicial Circuit as its Juvenile Division Chief and Asst Public Defender) to thirty (30) days in jail in which the attorney said to the court "with much respect your honor, you say that you have not prejudged this case but everything that I do to effectively represent my client I am being rebutted. . . with much respect your honor, it appears that you are biased in your view [of this case]." The Judge claimed her statements were disrespectful. George M Rountree had issued an Order and made several statements on the record asserting that he had not prejudged the case, he made those statements without provocation. Judge Ken Smith, a member of the Sons of the Confederate and Juvenile Judge of the Jeff Davis County Court also participated in the sentencing. The attorney is an African-American female and, would be the first female Attorney in Georgia's history to serve a sentence of this sought and possibly the first and only attorney, black or white to have such a sentence imposed. According to the attorney, GPDSC the agency did nothing to assist her office in her defense (however, her circuit defender aided with the trial and appeal). GPDSC continuously interfered with her level of representation when she refused to play politics with agencies like the Department of Juvenile Justice and, further failed to address the long-standing problems that she had problems with the judge in that juvenile court for several months prior to the incident in question which is also documented in a 15 page affidavit which was filed and submitted on May 10, 2006 in the juvenile court as well as with the Georgia Council of Juvenile Judges. The attorney represented a white-male juvenile (B.W. case no.: A06A2253) who was railroaded by the juvenile court and tried as a designated felon which would have resulted in a 5 year prison term. As a result of her representation, the juvenile was not sentenced under the designated felon status and received a jail term of six months in a boot-camp. It appears that no other attorney in this State has suffered such a sentence, especially not a public defender who have long been accused of lack of zealous advocacy.

DA Stephen Kelley and Charles Olson of PAC represented the interest of the juvenile court and Grayson Lane and Sherri Jefferson were the Appellant.

According to Attorney Jefferson she sent "DA Stephen Kelley a faxed memo advising of her intent to serve her sentence and requesting information from him as to when he would like her to proceed. . . she added that, "she is proud to be serving a sentence for providing effective and zealous defense for a juvenile who was victimized by the juvenile court, and that this court decision will not deter her from continuing to zealously defend children of this State, regardless of their race, who are victimized by the Department of Juvenile Justice and/or Glynn County Juvenile Court. She closed by saying "this sentence and decision is an attack against the indigency services of this state and juvenile justice reform which she proudly advocates."

Sherri Jefferson