DAILY PRESS : La Walt Disney sta sviluppando un Film sui Fathers 4 Justice
FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE ON THE BIG SCREEN
BY TINA ROWE T.ROWE@BEPP.CO.UK
08:00 - 09 February 2007
They scaled the walls of Buckingham Palace and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, closed roads and motorways and handcuffed themselves to Government Ministers.But now the antics of the controversial Fathers 4 Justice campaigners are being developed into a movie by a subsidiary of Walt Disney.
Fathers 4 Justice confirmed the film project yesterday, as they invited fathers from across the West to join them in Bristol later this month for the launch of a new campaign for more rights for fathers.
And they say the new protest could lead to more roads and bridges in the city being temporarily closed.
F4J is using the city as its national springboard for a tour of the UK in the coming weeks in the build up to what they have called Fathers 4 Justice Day in June.
The organisation is about to launch a new campaign with a new theme and a wave of spectacular direct action protests on national and local landmarks.
In London, on Father's Day, the group will launch its biggest national demonstration to date.
The group has also written what is being described by one journalist as a "highly inflammable" book on the secret Family Courts which is due to be published in May though Orion Books.
Yesterday, it emerged a film script about the campaign is due to be finished in March.
The campaigners hope the film, being made by Walt Disney subsidiary Miramax Pictures in New York, will garner further publicity when it is eventually released.
Richard Adams, Somerset- based South-West co-ordinator, said yesterday: "The new campaign is a response to Government reforms that have been deliberately derailed and Department for Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman's refusal to enter talks with F4J. "
F4J founder Matt O'Connor said: "We accept the Government's rejection of talks as a formal invitation for us to resume our campaign of civil disruption against Britain's secret Family Courts.
"The Minister might think she can sweep the crisis in Family Law under the omnipresent cloak of secrecy.
"She might have thought that F4J had been assassinated last year after the Leo Blair kidnap story, but she'd be seriously mistaken. We're back. "
Mr O'Connor is scathing about the courts, likening the treatment of fathers to that of terrorist suspects.
"They give fathers 'contact orders'. These aren't contact orders, these are control orders that control the movement and time dads spend with their children. They are given out in secret courts - just like terrorists," he said.
IF the Family Courts are so great, what does the Government have to hide? What is so secret? F4J will keep asking the difficult questions - and people can draw their own conclusions."
Mr O'Connor will announce details of the campaign at the meeting on February 28 alongside Richard Adams, Nigel Ace and local stalwart Jeff Skinner, along with Buckingham Palace protester Jason Hatch and the three other "superheroes" from the Clifton Suspension Bridge protest.
