Fathers 4 Justice [Hardcover]

"A moving and hilarious account of an angry dad."

"...fiercely intelligent, charmingly foul-mouthed and a fantastic turn of phrase"

"A verbal machinegun"

"Father of the revolution, O'Connor is both compelling and outrageous"

"Not only could O'Connor start a fight in an empty room, it's difficult to imagine him being happier than doing so."

This is Matt O'Connor's personal account of the most controversial protest movement of recent times, FATHERS 4 JUSTICE. Fearlessly honest and utterly irreverent Matt's own story will appeal to anyone whose family relationships have been torn to pieces by divorce and the family courts system. 70,000 people a year go through the family courts and that is the tip of the iceberg: countless uncles and aunts and grandparents are denied contact with nephews/nieces/grandchildren by the remorselessly biased British family court system. Over 40% of divorced fathers are denied contact with their children within two years of the marriage ending. Many fathers get into serious debt, fighting for access in a court system that beats them by financial attrition if it can't win the argument. Matt O'Connor experienced it all. And decided to fight back. Fathers 4 Justice executed some of the most audacious publicity stunts ever seen. Powder-bombing Tony Blair in the Commons and having Batman scale Buckingham Palace petrified the security services and made the 'super heroes' world famous. Now the concept of 'Fathers Rights' has finally been recognised and long overdue reforms are being discussed Find out how one man took on the fight for father's rights by taking on the government with just a handful of other dads, a ladder, and a lot of lycra.

A first hand XXX rated account of what running the world's fastest growing pressure group has been like with no brakes, safety parachute or escape hatch. Regrettably many, many stories and people didn't make it into the final 100,000 word draft because of the judicious editing process and some of the jucier (albeit libellous) stories also fell victim to legal cuts.

The fact that my illiterate, foul-mouthed tome was written in two months flat from copious notes also meant that the publishers had to be ruthless in selecting which events were to be included. If I could have got more in, I would have, but the book would have probable come in volumes 1 -5.

Apologies to those that deserved recognition but are not recognised in name by the book. My testimony hopefully encompasses 1,000 true stories in one. Many, many will argue with it's content - from Judges, solicitors, fanatical feminists to bitter fathers hell-bent on in-fighting - but this is my story, the raw, unexpurgated story of Fathers 4 Justice. Love it or loath it - you can't ignore it.

Matt O'Connor is a freelance marketing consultant.