“Now is the time for all good men to fight for their rights before they have no rights left,” Roy Den Hollander.
By Dan Murphy
The Westchester community said a prayer for one of their most popular and effective public servants after the news broke last week that among the possible targets of lunatic, men’s rights advocate Roy Den Hollander was New York State Chief Judge and longtime Westchester resident Janet DiFiore.
Last week, Den Hollander killed the son of New Jersey Federal Judge Esther Salas and wounding her husband before killing himself in upstate New York. Among the items found on Den Hollander by the FBI was information on DiFiore, including her name, photograph and address of the NYS Court of Appeals that she presides over in Albany. The DiFiore’s live in Bronxville.
DiFiore was notified shortly after the information was discovered in Den Hollander’s car after his suicide. The reason for the attack on Judge Salas and possible future attack on DiFiore is not known. Den Hollander dressed up as a FedEx deliveryman on July 19 and went to the North Brunswick, New Jersey home of US District Court Judge Esther Salas, her husband Mark Anderl, and 20-year old son Daniel Anderl.
Den Hollander fatally shot Daniel Anderl, and then shot Mark Anderl multiple times before fleeing the area before taking a shot at Judge Salas, who was in the basement at the time of the attack. The shooter had criticized Judge Salas on social media and appeared before her in Federal Court in 2015, in a case where he challenged the military’s all male draft registration.
Den Hollander prided himself on being known as an “anti-Feminist” lawyer and for challenging in court, “ladies nights” events in bars, which were designed to attract women to local drinking establishments but Del Hollander argued were discriminatory against men.
Among Del Hollander’s other strange lawsuits was a filing against the concept of ‘bottle service’ at high priced night clubs, claiming that they discriminating against men and violated their human rights, and a suit filed against Columbia University and their women’s studies program, claiming that the program was “a bastion of bigotry against men.”
Unlike the connection between Den Hollander and Judge Salas, nobody has yet been able to find a legal connection between the shooter and DiFiore, who is best known in Westchester for serving ten years as District Attorney from 2009-2016.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said that DiFiore has been placed under the protection of the State Police. “In the car that the body was found [in], they also saw a picture of our Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, her name and her address, so I have directed the state police to provide security for our chief judge,” said Cuomo. “We’re in the midst of an investigation on it right now, but the circumstances are very troubling, obviously.”
Den Hollander, 72 and dying of cancer, posted an online manifesto of anti-women hatred and called Judge Salas “a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama.” Progressive minded women were called by Den Hollander “feminazis,” and called on men to use their last remaining source of power, guns.
Recently, Chief Judge DiFiore had called for a return to in person court appearances. Calling it a “constitutional obligation” to transition back to in-person court cases and arguments, DiFiore said that measures are now in place to keep the courthouses clean and stop the spread of the coronavirus.
