Church and State blog: Declan's UN petition: Nothing gets through to France

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Declan's UN petition: Nothing gets through to France

As I said in the blog of 14 March “The manipulation of email”, Declan has received a French translation of the email he has been sending to scientists and academics on his petition to the United Nations, which calls for the establishment of a reasonable timetable for a UN declaration that would draw a distinction between reproductive cloning and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), sometimes referred to as “therapeutic cloning”, while specifically leaving it to UN member states to decide for themselves on SCNT within a regulation framework. A couple of days ago, he also received translations into Spanish and German.

So far this petition has over 600 signatures, including 24 Nobel laureates. Nonetheless, Declan is having an absolute nightmare trying to reactivate it. Not even a letter to Home Secretary Alan Johnson on the possible interception of electronic communications has cut any ice (see the letter in “The manipulation of email”). In fact, since Declan wrote to the Home Office, things have gotten a lot worse. Yesterday, he sent almost 200 emails in Spanish – each was targeted and personalised. He got one failed delivery and one signatory that came from an email that was sent within minutes of him receiving the email that was returned to him. Today he has sent almost 200 emails into France in French – again, each one targeted and personalised. He has not had one autoreply or signature, nothing.

The petition has taken a battering, to such an extent that Declan is preparing to go back to the street tomorrow to look for a solicitor or counsel to represent him pro bono, who might be able to tell (a) whether the statute of limitations has run out on the theft of our money, documents and references or the withholding of evidence by the RC Sisters of Mercy (see blog of 7 February “Sisters of Mercy withhold evidence from the police”), (b) whether our local jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus (of the Department for Work and Pensions), is acting lawfully by directing us to apply for specific jobs on threat of the termination of our benefits (see blog of 14 January “2nd letter to the manager of Highgate Jobcentre”), (c) whether Highgate Jobcentre Plus is acting lawfully by insisting on us taking “training courses” of the choosing of the Jobcentre (see blog of 11 March “Complaint against Highgate Jobcentre Plus”), and (d) what prompt action can be taken to stop the unfair treatment we are getting from Department for Work and Pensions and prevent a recurrence.

For the record, this is Declan's letter on Friday to Jobcentre Plus District Manager Isobel Morton regarding his formal complaint against Highgate Jobcentre Plus at stage 1 of the Department’s complaints procedure (the thread referred to in this email is archived here, and the attachment here):

Subject: My Formal Complaint against Highgate Jobcentre Plus - Stage 1

Dear Ms Isobel Morton

I am writing to you as the Jobcentre Plus District Manager for where I live. Provided below is the thread of my correspondence with Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper with respect to stage 1 of my formal complaint against Highgate Jobcentre Plus, in which I have established that the Jobcentre has refused, and continues to refuse, to refer me to a "Start Your Own Business" Course. Please also see related attachment.

Kindly be advised that should this matter not settle within the next five working days, I will be asking you to look again under Stage 2 of the Department's complaints procedure at the part of my complaint that relates to Mr Freddy Brooks of Highgate Jobcentre Plus threatening me on 11 March 2010 with the termination of my benefits if I do not undertake a "training course" of the choosing of the Jobcentre.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely
Declan Heavey

83 Priory Gardens
London
N6 5QU

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MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: We have permission to publish this ISAF letter of 30 September to Facebook COO Sheryl Samberg. Facebook has so severely restricted our Page's distribution since 4 September that it's almost as good as an unpublished page

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

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