A Night at the Family Court

By Michael Knight

Wednesday 10 June 2009

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Recently I saw A Night at the Museum 2 and it was a great film. However, a few days later I woke up thinking of the similarities between this movie and the Family Court. Weird but true.

Making this comparison highlighted to me the depth of the scars that were obviously imprinted upon my subconscious from the trauma inflicted upon me by this damaging court and lawyers over many years. It has now been almost eleven years since first entering this 'gas chamber'. I wonder how many other people could attest to this?

This movie had a dinosaur, thieves, madness, trickery, deception, illusion, power imbalance and disparity plus it was a place where things appeared not quite right, and somehow abnormal in comparison with what most normal people thought and believed.

Yep... this sounded like the Family Court alright I thought.

The Easter statue depicted to me the court somehow. It was big, made of stone, stiff and somewhat useless. However, in fairness to the film character (if you could call it that) the statue did appear to have a heart, was humorous and certainly exhibited charm making me laugh.

However, the real analogy clincher was when the statue thumped out the words "You Dumb Dumb — you give me Gum Gum" in my view epitomized the court exactly. Metaphorically of course, I could hear the court say those words "You Dumb Dumb" and "you give me Mun Mun". Mun being short for money.

If this is true and not my twisted perception of this institution they call the Family Court, the title being a misnomer at the very least, hopefully more and more people may wake up, sparing many families from atrocities that only a few dare imagine.

Yet another day Beyond Separation and as they say "sharing is caring".

All the best
Michael