Access to our Church and State website: A record-breaking 35 blocks in one day today. Declan has already started his Particulars of Claim against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2016)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice

Heavey v St Mungo's (2019)

UPDATE 29 April (5.05pm): Not a squeak! Today we're dealing with absolute silence from St Mungo's, which is ominous, and swiftly heading for Particulars of Claim under the Human Rights Act Articles 8 (protection of family life and home) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination). Declan will probably draw up the particulars this week. I am battling the internet connection speeds I am getting on my primary laptop; see my previous post yesterday, The internet connection on my primary laptop is taken away again. The previous record for this form of assault is over three months on the same laptop. Declan pays British Telecom £900 per year for Superfast Fibre 2 Unlimited broadband with an average speed advertised at 67Mb. He has been experiencing no issues this month with speeds on his primary laptop. I, on the other hand, have been struggling since last Monday. Today I can hardly open a page.



29 April (previous post): Pre-Action Letter: The Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's withhold case notes in clear violation of Declan's rights under the Human Rights Act. Details of Claim revealed in this post. Particulars of Claim up next (WITH UPDATE 29/4/2019)

27 June 2018: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 30/4/2019: re 1,865th block since 26 July 2016).

Claimant: Declan Heavey
Defendant: St Mungo's

Particulars of Claim

This is paragraph 4 of particulars.

4. For over two months from late June 2018, the Claimant and his wife were dealing with problems with inaccurate case notes. This commenced following a first meeting on 25 June 2018 between the Claimant's wife and her TST caseworker. Dominic Williamson is Executive Director of Strategy and Policy for the Defendant. The problems with the Claimant's wife's case notes got more serious on 1 August 2018 when the Claimant discovered that notes Mr. Williamson assured the court at both the preliminary hearing and at trial the year previous had been rectified by him were in fact held under the Claimant's wife's name. On 20 August 2018, Mr. Williamson responded: "If you wife is wants to change what her record says she should speak to her TST worker in the first instance [sic]. If this does not resolve the issue then she can use the St. Mungo's complaints procedure." The Claimant's previous court action was dismissed by the court. On 24 January 2019, Mr. Williamson wrote: "The court case concerned your complaint about the notes on your record. My understanding is that following the court case it became apparent that the note in contention was mirrored on your wife's record - which I don't recall being aware of at the time - and this was subsequently amended to reflect the change we had made to yours. The court was therefore not misled." The Claimant does not accept that the court was not misled.

UPDATE 16 May (11.15am): All Particulars of Claim against St Mungo's are disclosed in my newer post of 7 May, Particulars of Claim: Declan is once again ready to issue court proceedings against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019). The post also reveals Declan's pre-action letter to St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair dated 26 April. Sinclair has breached protocol by neither resolving nor replying to this letter. Ignoring the letter records as yet another violation in a string of violations by this Mayor of London-commissioned charity that have had a destabilising effect upon our tenancy month in, month out for an entire year. Declan has at the ready his claim to be filed at the Central London County Court. No further notice will be issued. On another front, since last December, we have had a problem with email blockage the likes of which we have never known; see my post of 22 April, Email interception: Immediately after this complaint to our local MP a test email to two close colleagues has been blocked. A 2010 parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019). The post also reveals details of the sabotage of Declan's emails to Nobel laureates since 21 February; the details are eye-watering.



From My Picks:

8 May: Greater London Authority: The Mayor of London's Rough Sleeping Team at City Hall breach the GLA's Code of Conduct by contacting St Mungo's on Declan's behalf without his authority or consent (WITH UPDATE 16/5/2019)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Pre-Action Letter: The Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's withhold case notes in clear violation of Declan's rights under the Human Rights Act. Details of Claim revealed in this post. Particulars of Claim up next (WITH UPDATE 29/4/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice

Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

Trial held in the Central London County Court, Royal Courts of Justice on 20 February 2017.

On 23 August 2018, Declan complained to the Information Commissioner's Office about case notes St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson assured the Court at trial in February 2017 had been rectified by him but were in fact being held under my name. It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings so-called rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation. DJ Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim at trial. Williamson: "The court case concerned your complaint about the notes on your record. My understanding is that following the court case it became apparent that the note in contention was mirrored on your wife's record - which I don't recall being aware of at the time - and this was subsequently amended to reflect the change we had made to yours. The court was therefore not misled." We do not accept that the court was not misled.

4 January: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!

Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face. Only last January, Declan came within days of filing in the Central London County Court a second claim against St Mungo's in three years; see my post of 27 January, Particulars of Claim: Declan is forced to issue court proceedings against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's without further notice (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019). For over two months he has been fighting for the first of two unrecorded meetings, held on 18 February, to be recorded as agreed with St Mungo's TST during the second unrecorded meeting over a month ago. This is the latest in a string of violations that have had a destabilising effect upon our tenancy month in, month out for almost a year. Last Friday he issued St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair this pre-action letter under the Human Rights Act 1998:

Howard Sinclair
Chief Executive
St Mungo's
3 Thomas More Square
London
E1W 1YW

26 April 2019

Pre-Action Letter

Dear Mr Sinclair

In re Breaches of the Human Rights Act 1998

I have been fighting for over two months for notes from the first of two unrecorded meetings, held on 18 February, to be inputted into your Opal system as agreed with the St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) during the second unrecorded meeting over a month ago. The withholding of these and other notes is done in clear violation of my rights under the Human Rights Act (HRA), which compels charities such as St Mungo's to treat everyone equally, with fairness, dignity and respect.

This withholding of information comes on foot of a string of other violations of the HRA that have had a destabilising effect upon my and my wife's tenancy month in, month out for almost a year. Please could you provide me with a clear written explanation of why the decision has now been made not to immediately input into your Opal system agreed-upon notes from five different dates, and in a manner that does not violate my rights under the HRA. For example, my wife and I do not agree to emails (and/or their attachments) from any party being used as notes.

I have seen and fought the awful results of email and other forms of communication, such as my calls in to the TST duty line, being turned into notes without my knowledge or consent. There should, however, be no reason why the five agreed-upon notes currently at issue cannot be inputted into Opal in the same manner as those notes already on the system. Please note that it is both unfair and unreasonable for St Mungo's to expect me to attend a meeting to discuss this matter when the charity will not explain to me in writing why agreed-upon notes from two meetings this year, and more besides, are currently being withheld.

Time is of the essence in this matter, as the ongoing withholding of this information could have serious consequences for me in the short term, depending on why these notes are being withheld. Therefore, if I do not receive a full response from you within 14 days of the date of this letter, I intend to issue court proceedings without further notice.

Yours sincerely

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

Claimant: Declan Heavey
Defendant: St Mungo's

Brief details of claim

The Claimant and his wife are tenants of Defendant's Clearing House. For almost a year, the Claimant has been battling the Defendant to stabilise his and his wife's tenancy. First it was problems with the renewal of their tenancy agreement, which took over two months and the threat of court action to resolve. For over two months from late June 2018, it was problems with inaccurate case notes, which got even more serious on 1 August 2018 when the Claimant discovered that notes the Defendant had assured the Court the year previous had been rectified were in fact being held under the Claimant's wife's name. In January 2019, the Claimant discovered that outrageous communication notes were being held without his knowledge or consent since May 2018. These notes were subsequently deleted but the Defendant is currently refusing without explanation to input into its Opal system agreed-upon notes dating back to February 2019. These four examples are by no means exhaustive. The Claimant contends that in the context of his supported housing tenancy, the serial breaching of the Human Rights Act by the Defendant that has occurred, and continues to occur, constitutes discrimination, a type of harassment, and a threat to life. The Claimant is therefore making an application to the Court for a declaration that the Defendant has acted unlawfully and in dereliction of its duty. The Claimant seeks damages for distress and costs.

Value

The Claimant expects to recover not more than £1,000.

Last May St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

UPDATE 29 April (5.05pm): Not a squeak! Today we're dealing with absolute silence from St Mungo's, which is ominous, and swiftly heading for Particulars of Claim under the Human Rights Act Articles 8 (protection of family life and home) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination). Declan will probably draw up the particulars this week. I am battling the internet connection speeds I am getting on my primary laptop; see my previous post yesterday, The internet connection on my primary laptop is taken away again. The previous record for this form of assault is over three months on the same laptop. Declan pays British Telecom £900 per year for Superfast Fibre 2 Unlimited broadband with an average speed advertised at 67Mb. He has been experiencing no issues this month with speeds on his primary laptop. I, on the other hand, have been struggling since last Monday. Today I can hardly open a page.





From My Picks:

8 April: Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

The internet connection on my primary laptop is taken away again. The previous record for this form of assault is over three months on the same laptop

Is the on-off assault on our two primary laptops more criminal than the removal of our flat door in 2012?

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

7 February: The targeting of our two primary laptops runs into a record-breaking third month. My primary laptop has been targeted for over three months (WITH UPDATE 19/2/2019)



From My Picks:

29 April (newer post): Pre-Action Letter: The Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's withhold case notes in clear violation of Declan's rights under the Human Rights Act. Details of Claim revealed in this post. Particulars of Claim up next.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Declan's year in, year out battle with the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's over case notes shows no signs of abating (WITH UPDATE 26/4/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice

Heavey v St Mungo's (2016)

Trial held in the Central London County Court, Royal Courts of Justice on 20 February 2017.

On 23 August 2018, Declan complained to the Information Commissioner's Office about case notes St Mungo's Executive Director Dominic Williamson assured the Court at trial in February 2017 had been rectified by him but were in fact being held under my name. It took the scheduling of a preliminary hearing in October 2016 to have case notes from two meetings so-called rectified by Williamson as Declan had requested all along; and that rectification only took place after a failed attempt by an international firm of solicitors, Osborne Clarke, to have Declan's claim struck out on the papers. The judge at the preliminary hearing dismissed St Mungo's application to strike out Declan's claim for compensation. DJ Avent's order dated 11 March 2017 does not state why he dismissed the claim at trial. Williamson: "The court case concerned your complaint about the notes on your record. My understanding is that following the court case it became apparent that the note in contention was mirrored on your wife's record - which I don't recall being aware of at the time - and this was subsequently amended to reflect the change we had made to yours. The court was therefore not misled." We do not accept that the court was not misled.

4 January: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!

Declan and I are housed in a flat that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. It has been acknowledged by the Greater London Authority in court papers that both Declan and I can live independently – we do not have addictions or mental illness or behavioural issues. Our needs are solely related to the harassment, discrimination and intimidation we routinely face. Earlier this month Declan wrote to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding this support from St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204). This morning he has written to St Mungo's CEO Howard Sinclair about his year in, year out battle with this charity over case notes that shows no signs of abating.

Howard Sinclair
CEO
St Mungo's

Address removed for email


25 April 2019

Dear Mr Sinclair,

Yesterday evening I received a telephone call from St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST).

I am concerned that I could not be provided with any assurance whatsoever that agreed-upon notes dating back to 18 February will be inputted into your Opal system in a manner that I had thought had been established before I received this phone call.

Last January, after a protracted legal battle and with court proceedings appearing imminent, I received the email below from St Mungo's TST Service Manager Robert Buck. It states: "Moving forward all and any notes will be agreed upon by you and TST before inputting into our Opal system." Please note that neither my wife nor I agree to emails (and/or their attachments) from any party being used as notes under any circumstances.

I have seen and fought the awful results of email and other forms of communication (such as my calls in to the TST duty line) being turned into notes without my knowledge or consent. I therefore await to hear back from St Mungo's TST on the question of the manner by which agreed-upon notes will be inputted into your Opal system, if different from the format presented in Mr Buck's email below.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

18 February 2019[1]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3pm on 18 February. On 1 February Declan and TST North came to an agreement regarding support going forward. Marc: Send supporting email to Sense.

6 March 2019[2]
Marc: Supporting email sent to Sense.

15 March 2019[3]
Met with Declan at his home today at 3.30pm on 15 March. Meeting following Declan's interview with Sense on 7 March. Marc: Enhanced supporting email sent to KEEN London containing up-front reference to Declan's former homelessness.

22 March 2019[4]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Volunteer coordinator is due to return next week and shall contact regarding supporting email.

2 April 2019[5]
Marc: Contacted KEEN London. Spoke with volunteer coordinator and waiting for application to be forwarded.

____________________________
1-3 These three notes were agreed upon during said meeting of 15 March 2019.
4-5 The wording of these latter two action notes was agreed upon by email on 17 April 2019.

Last May St Mungo's made the international press for all the wrong reasons. They are accused of helping to get rough sleepers arrested and deported. When the story came through my Russia Today (RT) news feed, it left Declan gob smacked. He subsequently spoke with Diane Taylor, the journalist covering the story for the Guardian.

EU freedom for rough sleepers infringed - shock horror. https://t.co/RuJKrSEiTm

— Andrew Martin (@devonprof) May 14, 2018

UPDATE 26 April (1.02pm): Not an iota! Yesterday Declan received a response from St Mungo's to the above. A St Mungo's TST line manager wants to meet him! Declan responded that it is unfair and unreasonable for this line manager to expect him to meet her when she will not explain what is preventing her from inputting into their Opal system agreed-upon notes since 18 February, including those from two meetings that have already taken place. Today we're dealing with absolute silence, which is ominous, and swiftly heading for a pre-action letter under the Human Rights Act Articles 8 (protection of family life and home) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination). This is a case Declan never declared closed last January; see my post of 27 January, Particulars of Claim: Declan is forced to issue court proceedings against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's without further notice (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019). He will probably issue that pre-action letter this evening, given the destabilisation of our tenancy that has occurred and continues. Declan has been fighting for over two months for the first of two unrecorded meetings, held on 18 February, to be recorded as agreed with St Mungo's TST during the second unrecorded meeting over a month ago. You could't make it up!



From My Picks:

8 April: Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Blocks on access to our Church and State website continue to escalate. A record-breaking 199 blocks last month

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

19 April: Tonight every category page in our Church and State website has been reduced to zero Facebook likes/shares. Our 5 Most Popular articles have 3.4 million Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero

18 April: This afternoon Declan has emailed 12 Nobel laureates using Mailtrack. Not one email has been read. Tonight he will email 50 out of 100 venture capitalists (WITH UPDATE 19/4/2019)

17 April: Facebook: The social network's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and with no explanation as usual. Two Parliamentary letters to Facebook revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE - DAY 4 20/4/2019)

Blocks on access to our Church and State website

Two weeks ago
- Sunday 7/4: 1 block
- Friday 12/4: 1 block
Last week
- Thursday 18/4: 3 blocks
- Friday: 19/4: 4 blocks
- Saturday 20/4: 6 blocks
This week
- Sunday 21/4: 1 block
- Monday 22/4: 8 blocks
- Tuesday 23/4: 5 blocks (and counting)

Update Summation 23 April 2019

1,817 blocks on access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (89 blocks 2016; 871 blocks 2017; 516 blocks 2018; 341 blocks 2019); 53 blocks in May 2018 that included 6 blocks on 8 May, the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations; a record-breaking 199 blocks last month that included a record-breaking 19 blocks in one day on 25 March; 45 blocks this month that includes Facebook's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015; 14 blocks this week; 5 blocks so far today (as of 23 April at 4.55pm).

89 blocks 2016
871 blocks 2017
516 blocks 2018
- January 2018: 55 blocks
- February 2018: 45 blocks
- March 2018: 59 blocks
- April 2018: 42 blocks
- May 2018: 53 blocks
- June 2018: 38 blocks
- July 2018: 31 blocks
- August 2018: 28 blocks
- September 2018: 34 blocks
- October 2018: 42 blocks
- November 2018: 43 blocks
- December 2018: 46 blocks
341 blocks 2019
- January 2019: 44 blocks
- February 2019: 53 blocks
- March 2019: 199 blocks (new record)
- April 2019: 45 blocks

27 June 2019: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 23/4/2019: re 1,817th block since 26 July 2016)

From My Picks:

22 April: Email interception: Immediately after this complaint to our local MP a test email to two close colleagues has been blocked. A 2010 parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: How many resends will it take to get one test email through to a close colleague in America? Our current record is eight resends without an email having been read (WITH UPDATE 22/4/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

22 April (previous post): Email interception: Immediately after this complaint to our local MP a test email to two close colleagues has been blocked. A 2010 parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post

Update Summation 22 April 2019



Resent test email read this afternoon.

As of 22 April at 4.25pm

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: Immediately after this complaint to our local MP a test email to two close colleagues has been blocked. A 2010 parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE 27/6/2019)

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population". Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

Declan's unread test email yesterday.

Declan and I have had a problem with email blockage since last December the likes of which we have never known, and it's across board. We can no longer tell when, if at all, anyone will receive an email from either one of us. Declan has actually lost track of all the unread emails and unread resends to one close colleague in particular, but has been meticulously keeping up with his emails to Nobel laureates (see update). Yesterday we received an email from this colleague in America. He wrote: "I am shocked to learn about this blockage! I have not gotten an email from you for weeks until today. Please keep us informed about your progress in fixing the problem. Concerned." We were then amazed that neither he nor another colleague received a test email requested from Declan following this complaint to our local Member of Parliament Lyn Brown (Labour) yesterday afternoon:

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


21 April 2019

Dear Ms. Brown,

As my local MP, I am forwarding to you an email I have received this afternoon from a close colleague about his concern that my and my wife's emails are being blocked. I would be most grateful if you could please let me know if you can be of any assistance in correcting the outrageous manipulation of my and my wife's email in undermining our part-time jobs as employees of Network for Church Monitoring.

In April 2010, an American professor wrote to then Minister Lynne Featherstone: "I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference." An (unsuccessful) application I subsequently made to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in 2011 has had absolutely no effect, and if anything the situation has gotten substantially worse. For some details, please see my wife's updated blog post here.

I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

(Contact details withheld)

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UPDATE 27 June (11.15am): Our MP acknowledged by autoreply Declan's email last April (above), but hasn't responded to it. I recorded on 21 February that according to Mailtrack, 68 Nobel laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email. Before 31 March, only 24 out of his 187 resends had been read (see below). Since that date, Declan has been trying to email Nobel laureates a second time (28 unread emails) as well as those who have not heard from him previously (126 unread emails). We still can't tell when, if at all, anyone will receive an email (this link has been updated this morning to reveal that so far this month 154 of our emails have gone unread). And we are currently experiencing Facebook's 59th block (57 days) against Church and State since 1 December 2015, and, as usual, without an explanation. On this occasion, they are blocking the page listing all the groups I belong to. Despite opposition from Facebook, Church and State topped more than 3 million hits in 11 months from January to November 2017. Subsequently, Facebook's blocks against the site have gone from 47 days in 2017 to 179 days in 2018 plus 94 days this year. Nonetheless, we get hundreds of thousands of hits - 2.3 million hits in 2018 despite the equivalent of six months of these blocks; and 3 million hits this year despite over three months of blocks. These Facebook blocks are in addition to over 2,000 blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, plus full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks lasting from as long as 24 hours. (SiteGround is paid $1,000 per year to host Church and State and manage the server.) About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

On 21 February 68 Nobel Laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email.

Emails resent to Nobel Laureates

21 February: 25 emails resent, 21 unread (4 read)
22 February: 27 emails resent, 23 unread (4 read)
25 February: 46 emails resent, 43 unread (3 read)
26 February: 2 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 1 unread (1 read)
1 March: 5 emails resent, 5 unread (0 read)
2 March: 5 emails resent, 4 unread (1 read)
3 March: 8 emails resent, 5 unread (3 read)
4 March: 8 emails resent, 6 unread (2 read)
5 March: 11 emails resent, 10 unread (1 read)
6 March: 8 emails resent, 7 unread (1 read)
7 March: 10 emails resent, 10 unread (0 read)
8 March: 10 emails resent, 9 unread (1 read)
30 March: 22 emails resent, 19 unread (3 read)

Totals: 187 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 163 unread (24 read)

The above statistics apply to the 68 Nobel laureates recorded on 21 February as not having read Declan's email. Since 31 March, Declan has been trying to email Nobel laureates a second time (28 unread emails) as well as those who have not heard from him previously (126 unread emails).

Not included in the figures above is an email to a Nobel laureate on 4 March confirming his listing as an Honorary Associate that went unread. This has happened four times this year with Nobel laureates, most recently on 1 April.

30 December 2018: Our emails now are getting through to no one, not to Nobel laureates or even our closest colleagues. Declan will keep trying to get through to Nobel laureates with the use of his mobile phone (WITH UPDATE 22/4/2019)

Last April every category page in our Church and State website was reduced to zero Facebook likes/shares. Our 5 Most Popular articles have 4.8 million (the first 1.8m) Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero.




'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Last month access to our Church and State website was blocked a record-breaking 199 times. Now these blocks kick off again. Today Declan will email 30 venture capitalists.

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

19 April (previous post): Tonight every category page in our Church and State website has been reduced to zero Facebook likes/shares. Our 5 Most Popular articles have 3.4 million Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero

18 April: This afternoon Declan has emailed 12 Nobel laureates using Mailtrack. Not one email has been read. Tonight he will email 50 out of 100 venture capitalists (WITH UPDATE 19/4/2019)

17 April: Facebook: The social network's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and with no explanation as usual. Two Parliamentary letters to Facebook revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE - DAY 4 20/4/2019)

Blocks on access to our Church and State website

Last week
- Sunday 7/4: 1 block
- Friday 12/4: 1 block
This week
- Thursday 18/4: 3 blocks
- Friday: 19/4: 4 blocks
- Saturday 20/4: 5 blocks (and counting)

Update Summation 20 April 2019

1,802 blocks on access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (89 blocks 2016; 871 blocks 2017; 516 blocks 2018; 326 blocks 2019); 53 blocks in May 2018 that included 6 blocks on 8 May, the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations; a record-breaking 199 blocks last month that included a record-breaking 19 blocks in one day on 25 March; 30 blocks this month that includes Facebook's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015; 5 blocks so far today (as of 20 April at 2.05pm).

89 blocks 2016
871 blocks 2017
516 blocks 2018
- January 2018: 55 blocks
- February 2018: 45 blocks
- March 2018: 59 blocks
- April 2018: 42 blocks
- May 2018: 53 blocks
- June 2018: 38 blocks
- July 2018: 31 blocks
- August 2018: 28 blocks
- September 2018: 34 blocks
- October 2018: 42 blocks
- November 2018: 43 blocks
- December 2018: 46 blocks
326 blocks 2019
- January 2019: 44 blocks
- February 2019: 53 blocks
- March 2019: 199 blocks (new record)
- April 2019: 30 blocks

27 June 2019: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 20/4/2019: re 1,802nd block since 26 July 2016)

From My Picks:

8 April: Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Tonight every category page in our Church and State website has been reduced to zero Facebook likes/shares. Our 5 Most Popular articles have 3.4 million Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).

18 April (previous post): This afternoon Declan has emailed 12 Nobel laureates using Mailtrack. Not one email has been read. Tonight he will email 50 out of 100 venture capitalists (WITH UPDATE 19/4/2019)

Tonight:

In fact, these 5 Most Popular articles have 3.4 million Facebook likes/shares between them, not zero.

Two days ago:

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/04/oklahoma-republican-declares-that-rape-is-the-will-of-god/ 653K

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/03/its-time-to-start-calling-evangelicals-what-they-are-the-american-taliban/ 829K

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2016/09/pat-robertson-non-religious-children-should-be-beaten-until-they-respect-christian-beliefs/ 634K

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/12/retired-priest-hell-was-invented-by-the-church-to-control-people-with-fear/ 665K

http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/10/cardinal-says-gay-couples-shouldnt-be-invited-to-family-gatherings-if-children-are-present/ 627K

And we are currently experiencing Facebook's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and, as usual, without an explanation; see my post of 17 April, Facebook: The social network's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and with no explanation as usual. Two Parliamentary letters to Facebook revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE - DAY 3 19/4/2019). Despite opposition from Facebook, Church and State topped more than 3 million hits in 11 months from January to November 2017. Subsequently, Facebook's blocks against the site have gone from 47 days in 2017 to 179 days in 2018 plus 37 days this year. Nonetheless, we get hundreds of thousands of hits - over 2 million hits in 2018 despite the equivalent of six months of these blocks; and 1.6 million hits this year despite over one month of the same blocks. About 70% of our hits are from Americans.



From My Picks:

8 April: Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

This afternoon Declan has emailed 12 Nobel laureates using Mailtrack. Not one email has been read. Tonight he will email 50 out of 100 venture capitalists (WITH UPDATE 19/4/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Ted Cruz asks if Facebook is a "neutral public forum". Mark Zuckerberg admits Silicon Valley is an "extremely left-leaning place" and claims he tries to make sure the company does not have a political bias. pic.twitter.com/gaWw7ORQDY

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) April 10, 2018

17 April: Facebook: The social network's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and with no explanation as usual (WITH UPDATE - DAY 2 18/4/2019)

Update Summation 19 April 2019



12 emails to Nobel Laureates, 10 unread (2 read)
50 emails to venture capitalists, 24 unread (26 read)

30 December 2018: Our emails now are getting through to no one, not to Nobel laureates or even our closest colleagues. Declan will keep trying to get through to Nobel laureates with the use of his mobile phone (WITH UPDATE 19/4/2019)

As of 19 April at 12.42pm

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: Only one out of the 20 emails sent to Nobel laureates yesterday was read. Overnight one email to a Nobel laureate was read a record-breaking two weeks after it was sent

I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.
- An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Update Summation 18 April 2019

On 21 February, 68 Nobel Laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email.

Emails resent to Nobel Laureates

21 February: 25 emails resent, 21 unread (4 read)
22 February: 27 emails resent, 23 unread (4 read)
25 February: 46 emails resent, 43 unread (3 read)
26 February: 2 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 1 unread (1 read)
1 March: 5 emails resent, 5 unread (0 read)
2 March: 5 emails resent, 4 unread (1 read)
3 March: 8 emails resent, 5 unread (3 read)
4 March: 8 emails resent, 6 unread (2 read)
5 March: 11 emails resent, 10 unread (1 read)
6 March: 8 emails resent, 7 unread (1 read)
7 March: 10 emails resent, 10 unread (0 read)
8 March: 10 emails resent, 9 unread (1 read)
30 March: 22 emails resent, 19 unread (3 read)

Totals: 187 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 163 unread (24 read)

The above statistics apply to those Nobel laureates recorded on 21 February as not having read Declan's email. Since 31 March, Declan has been trying to email Nobel laureates a second time (21 unread emails) as well as those who have not heard from him previously (66 unread emails).

Not included in the figures above is an email to a Nobel Laureate on 4 March confirming his listing as an Honorary Associate that went unread. This now has happened four times this year, most recently on 1 April.

On 6 January, the three out of eight emails to professors that were not read were to Nobel laureates. Today one email to a Nobel laureate was read a record-breaking two weeks after it was sent.

30 December 2018: Our emails now are getting through to no one, not to Nobel laureates or even our closest colleagues. Declan will keep trying to get through to Nobel laureates with the use of his mobile phone (WITH UPDATE 18/4/2019)

As of 18 April at 12.43pm

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'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Facebook: The social network's 58th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, and with no explanation as usual. Two Parliamentary letters to Facebook revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE - DAY 4 20/4/2019)

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Ted Cruz asks if Facebook is a "neutral public forum". Mark Zuckerberg admits Silicon Valley is an "extremely left-leaning place" and claims he tries to make sure the company does not have a political bias. pic.twitter.com/gaWw7ORQDY

— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) April 10, 2018

Facebook does not have a political bias? Despite opposition from the social network, our Church and State website topped more than 3 million hits in 11 months from January to November 2017. Subsequently, Facebook's blocks against the site have gone from 47 days in 2017 to 179 days in 2018 plus 37 days this year. Nonetheless, we get hundreds of thousands of hits - over 2 million hits in 2018 despite the equivalent of six months of these blocks; and 1.6 million hits this year despite over one month of the same blocks. Tonight I received this notification of their 58th block against Church and State since 1 December 2015:



These notifications without an explanation come out of the blue. In March 2018 they blocked me from posting Church and State articles in groups four times for a total of 29 out of 31 days, and all without explanation. There's no way of knowing for sure whether or not the rest of this month will be another wipeout from Facebook, and without an explanation being given.

Facebook blocks (in days)

179 days in 2018
- January 2018: 16 days
- February 2018: 15 days
- March 2018: 29 days
- April 2018: 17 days
- May 2018: No blocks in May
- June 2018: 14 days
- July 2018: 17 days
- August 2018: 11 days
- September 2018: 12 days
- October 2018: 16 days
- November 2018: 19 days
- December 2018: 13 days
37 days in 2019
- January 2019: 16 days
- February 2019: 13 days
- March 2019: 4 days
- April 2019: 4 days (until 20 April)

Three Facebook blocks ago, on 12 February, I posted Fighting for survival in London: Facebook's concerted campaign against our Church and State website shows no signs of waning (WITH UPDATE 19/2/2019: re Block 55 DAY 8). The post reveals that we have been, and remain, under attack on a number of fronts. For example, the now on-off assault on our two primary laptops aside, the category pages in Church and State are under attack daily to fluctuating extent. As I point out in my earlier post about Royal Mail's service, all three of the articles below have over 1/2 million Facebook likes/shares, not zero. This evening the first article stands at 829K, the second article at 634K, and the third article at 627K.


Our 5 Most Popular articles have over 3.4 million Facebook likes/shares between them.

UPDATE 20 April (2.11pm): On 17 April I appealed this latest block from Facebook, and true to form, there has been and will likely be no response from them (day 4). They say they will be lifting the block tonight, but we are well used to extensions without explanation. On another front, we've been dealing with the sabotage of our emails to Nobel laureates and our closest colleagues for months now. Earlier this week, I posted Email interception: Nobelists, close colleagues, associates and new contacts - it's across board. Yesterday 11 emails sent using Mailtrack. Seven unread. A parliamentary letter to now Prime Minister Theresa May revealed in this post (WITH UPDATE 20/4/2019). Last month we also had an unprecedented 199 blocks on access to our Church and State website; see my post of 26 March, Blocks on access to our Church and State website hit a whole new level. And we still cannot get emails through to close colleagues no matter how many times we resend them (WITH UPDATE 31/3/2019). (SiteGround is paid $1,000 per year to host our Church and State website and manage the server.)

'Independent' court scrutinising MI5 is located inside Home Office http://t.co/ZezpDipCPx via @guardian

— Ian Cobain (@IanCobain) March 5, 2014

Re: Investigatory Powers Tribunal

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) dismissed Declan's complaint against the secret services on papers in less than three weeks, on 1 September 2011, stating that it was "obviously unsustainable". Declan is currently working on his updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This is his paragraph 11.

11. The IPT was created in October 2000 by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and given the power to investigate any complaints against GCHQ, MI5 or MI6, as well as complaints about surveillance operations mounted by the police or any other public bodies. The Guardian reported on 5 March 2014 that the tribunal, which claims to be completely independent of the UK Government, is secretly operating from a base within the Home Office, by which it is funded. The newspaper found that the IPT had investigated about 1,500 complaints and upheld only 10, five of which concerned members of one family who had all lodged complaints about surveillance by their local council. No complaint against any of the intelligence agencies had ever been upheld. The discovery that the IPT is lodged within a Whitehall department fuelled criticisms of the tribunal that had been levelled by rights groups, lawyers and complainants. The IPT's critics complain that the secrecy is excessive and that its procedures are stacked so heavily in favour of the government and against complainants that it is fundamentally unfair. According to The Guardian, some senior lawyers have described the IPT as "Kafkaesque", while one eminent barrister has dismissed it as a "kangaroo court". The newspaper also reports that because of the secrecy surrounding the tribunal and the perception that it is unfair, many would-be complainants spurn it.

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From My Picks:

8 April: Threat to Life: Declan writes to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan about the blockade across London on his volunteer applications notwithstanding his support from the Mayor-commissioned St Mungo's (Local Government Ombudsman Case ID: 18011204)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/

Email interception: No end in sight. Yesterday 10 emails sent using Mailtrack. Six unread

I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.
- An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

Our Church and State website has no less than 57 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).

Update Summation 17 April 2019

On 21 February, 68 Nobel Laureates out of those Declan has emailed since 3 January had not seen their email.

Emails resent to Nobel Laureates

21 February: 25 emails resent, 21 unread (4 read)
22 February: 27 emails resent, 23 unread (4 read)
25 February: 46 emails resent, 43 unread (3 read)
26 February: 2 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 1 unread (1 read)
1 March: 5 emails resent, 5 unread (0 read)
2 March: 5 emails resent, 4 unread (1 read)
3 March: 8 emails resent, 5 unread (3 read)
4 March: 8 emails resent, 6 unread (2 read)
5 March: 11 emails resent, 10 unread (1 read)
6 March: 8 emails resent, 7 unread (1 read)
7 March: 10 emails resent, 10 unread (0 read)
8 March: 10 emails resent, 9 unread (1 read)
30 March: 22 emails resent, 19 unread (3 read)

Totals: 187 emails resent, 2 phone calls, 163 unread (24 read)

The above statistics apply to those Nobel laureates recorded on 21 February as not having read Declan's email. Since 31 March, Declan has been trying to email Nobel laureates a second time (18 unread emails) as well as those who have not heard from him previously (50 unread emails).

Not included in the figures above is an email to a Nobel Laureate on 4 March confirming his listing as an Honorary Associate that went unread. This now has happened four times this year, most recently on 1 April.

On 6 January, the three out of eight emails to professors that were not read were to Nobel laureates. What a coincidence!

30 December 2018: Our emails now are getting through to no one, not to Nobel laureates or even our closest colleagues. Declan will keep trying to get through to Nobel laureates with the use of his mobile phone (WITH UPDATE 17/4/2019)

As of 17 April at 8.36am

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'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

http://churchandstate.org.uk/about/