Facebook: Letter to our MP

Our problems with Facebook are getting worse. After spending a bunch of hours attempting to get our new fan page for Network for Church Monitoring around, I have almost nothing to show for it. Now our wall has been vandalised! In the previous blog, What has Facebook done with our IP addresses?, I wrote that Declan was going to write to our MP, Lynne Featherstone, a minister in the Home Office, to inquire if Facebook has been given some sort of instruction with respect to our IP addresses. Little did I know that his email would include the vandalisation of our wall:

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Declan is still waiting to hear from Mr Justice Sycamore regarding his claim for judicial review (see blog of 3 December 2010 By Order of Mr Justice Sycamore Declan resubmits his claim for judicial review). Yet this afternoon we once again ran into our local jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus. The Customer Service Manager Taru Shah would not permit the following information to be held on their computer system (see blog of 21 January A4E: Third breach of contract and very serious misconduct):

Customer delivered by hand for the attention of Patrice Mulligan a copy of her complaint of 21 January against her A4E Advisor, Greg Janiszek, for very serious misconduct. Customer has asked me to write this.

What they wouldn't register for the manager by hand, Declan will be sending to the manager by registered post tomorrow. Who knows what’s cooking between this jobcentre and A4E Camden? But, whatever it is, we are up for it: Court of Appeal, Small Claims Court and/or Tribunal. Declan actually saw this coming in his application for urgent consideration of his claim for a judicial review:

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What has Facebook done with our IP addresses?

This afternoon I had to go to the local internet cafe to get a Facebook page for Network for Church Monitoring, now a registered company (see blog of 17 January Companies House refuses to register NAC: "Offensive company name"). I tried at our flat with both my laptop and Declan's notebook but was prevented from doing so: Facebook kept asking me to provide a response for their security check without providing me the security check to respond to! I tried with all my browsers and even deleted my browsers' history, but to no avail. What has Facebook done with our IP addresses?

Declan will write to our MP, Lynne Featherstone, a minister in the Home Office, to inquire if Facebook has been given some sort of instruction with respect to our IP addresses (see blog of 19 January Manager of A4E Camden tries it out ... again!; in this blog I publish a letter from Featherstone confirming that she has written to the Home Secretary regarding the unlawful violation of our basic right to send and receive email without interference.) Only this month the US Department of Justice sent subpoenas to Google, Facebook and Twitter demanding that they hand over information on those closely associated with WikiLeaks. It was Twitter that broke the story. Rop Gonggrijp, one of WikiLeaks' associates praised Twitter, stating: "Heaven knows how many places have received similar subpoenas and just quietly submitted all they had on me".

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A4E: Third breach of contract and very serious misconduct

I am tired of blogging about Action for Employment (A4E), a private company that, as the interviewer in the video above points out, has received £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department for Work and Pensions. I am also tired of writing to its founder and chairman, Emma Harrison CBE, and so is Declan. This time the company has crossed the line with me, though, and I am now looking at my A4E employment officer, Greg Janiszek, for patently illegal activity, if not criminal:

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A4E are actually contracted by the Government to help us find work experience: on-the-job training and support consisting of a month of full-time unpaid work. Declan and I are seeking our "work boost" with a premier not-for-profit organisation. Already Janiszek is making excuses ... you would think that with £300 million of Government training contracts this company would have little difficulty providing people with relevant training and support?


Secret Millionaire Emma Harrison goes to Dagenham, one of Britain's poorest areas and home to Europe's largest council estate. A steel worker's daughter, 43 year old Harrison is Britain's richest female entrepreneur.

A4E refuse me a Journey Plan

If Declan thought he had it blase with the manager of A4E Camden yesterday (see previous blog), it was nothing on my encounter this morning with my A4E employment officer, Greg (he has told me that I can no longer write his surname in my blog!). Bottom line here is that Declan has just informed the chairman and owner of this private company that, within two weeks of this email/letter to her, he will file his claim in the small claims court against A4E for proper damages, relatively speaking (see blog of 6 January Manager of A4E Camden Declan's new Personal Career Coach; this blog features a video of Declan taking on A4E last September outside of a branch of theirs in London that had him escorted from the building by the police the week previous):

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Among Greg's many contentions is that I am making "excuses" for my non-use of my email account to apply for jobs. There is no supplying this employment officer with evidence that my email account is hacked and my online movements monitored. In yesterday's blog, I published a letter from a Home Office minister on the issue. This is another email/letter that I have brought to Greg's attention on several occasions which speaks of "(what appears to be) outrageous manipulation of the Heaveys' email" and that the distinguished McKnight Professor Emeritus from America is "truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heaveys' basic right to send and receive email without interference":

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What "excuses"? As the distinguished professor mentioned in the email/letter above, Declan has a petition to the UN that has already been signed by no less than 28 Nobel laureates, but has repeatedly had to shelve it. The last Nobel laureate who signed, Sir Tim Hunt from the London Research Institute, did so with a phone call from Declan. I'm actually finding it difficult to restrain myself here. Declan says there is absolutely nothing he would prefer at this particular time than to have this employment officer on the spot in the High Court (see blog of 3 December 2010 By Order of Mr Justice Sycamore Declan resubmits his claim for judicial review), the Central London County Court (small claims), or a tribunal. Damn, I'm so annoyed that this is the video I mentioned above - of Declan taking on A4E last September outside of a branch of theirs in London that had him escorted from the building by the police the week previous (the letter from the Queen that Declan refers to in this video is archived here):



Bring on the Central London County Court.

Manager of A4E Camden tries it out ... again!

If A4E do not want to find themselves in the Small Claims Court on Thursday, they are certainly skating very thin ice (see previous blog). This morning Declan had his first meeting with his latest A4E employment officer, the manager of A4E Camden. Once again this manager, David Lawson, has found himself doing the rounds. This is Declan's email this evening to Lawson's chairman, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the CEO of Jobcentre Plus (of the Department for Work and Pensions):

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Lawson had such a blase attitude about Declan's High Court proceedings (see blog of 3 December 2010 By Order of Mr Justice Sycamore Declan resubmits his claim for judicial review) that Declan says it was a chore briefing him. Declan did manage, however, to explain why we are sending all our CVs and application forms to non-profits through the post. This is a letter Declan received last June from our MP, Lynne Featherstone, now a minister in the Home Office, regarding the unlawful violation of our basic right to send and receive email without interference (she has yet to prompt a response into why we have been encountering these problems):

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Declan also made a point of letting this employment officer know that his petition to the UN regarding stem cell research, which has already been signed by no less than 28 Nobel laureates as well as hundreds of other distinguished scholars, has once again had to be shelved because almost no scientist was getting his email in their Inbox (see here); that our blog and the NAC website has been hacked and vandalised several times (see here and here); that abuse has been hurled at us via Skype (see here); that over 300 draft documents have been erased from our Gmail account (see here); and that the original NAC website was suspended in March 2008 due to a Spamcop report that was drawn up the day after the Home Office denied that a warrant had been issued to intercept our communications (see here).

As I stated in the previous blog, I have my A4E employment officer, Greg Janiszek, to see tomorrow. Tonight Declan will include me in his claim against A4E that he is fully prepared to file at the Central London County Court (our small claims court) on Thursday. Suffice to say that A4E, in our first six months with them, have wiped us of any little bit of savings we might have had to help us get back on our feet after more than 2 1/2 years sleeping rough on the streets of London because Declan did not "sign on" TWO DAYS BEFORE he was due to do so (see blog of 21 June 2010 Department for Work and Pensions double breaches the Data Protection Act: Letter to the Information Commissioner).

We are incorporated as Network for Church Monitoring Ltd

As I said in yesterday's blog, Companies House, the UK Registrar of Companies, refused to register Network of those Abused by Church as a company because it was an "offensive company name". So we had to change the name and this morning the company was incorporated as Network for Church Monitoring Ltd, a company limited by guarantee. Frankly, Declan and I think the new name is much better: it has a journalistic sound to it, which we believe will improve the perception of the organisation at every level, including with other non-profits. Everybody wants to see accountability and monitoring, including of religious institutions. MonChurch is, I think, an important organisation.

Declan is still waiting to hear from Mr Justice Sycamore regarding his claim for judicial review (see blog of 3 December 2010 By Order of Mr Justice Sycamore Declan resubmits his claim for judicial review). Declan is taking on Action for Employment (A4E), a private company and the largest provider of welfare to work programmes on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (see blog of 6 January Manager of A4E Camden Declan's new Personal Career Coach; this blog features a video of Declan taking on A4E last September outside of a branch of theirs in London that had him escorted from the building by the police the week previous).

Declan is in fact fully prepared to file a claim against A4E at our small claims court, the Central London County Court, on Thursday - at 9.30am tomorrow morning he has his first meeting with his latest employment officer, the manager of A4E Camden, who has been informed by the DWP that the provisions of the Jobseeker's Act 1995 do not apply to A4E (we're waiting to hear from Mr Justice Sycamore on that one); on Wednesday I have to deal with my employment officer with whom I have had plenty of run-ins (see blog of 30 September A4E: Letter to the Irish Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform).

On Sunday I published another world exclusive in NAC (it will be MonChurch soon!): an excerpt from Debbie Purdy's book, It's Not Because I Want to Die. Purdy - the face of Britain′s right-to-die campaign - suffers from multiple sclerosis. In July 2009 she won a significant legal victory in the UK’s House of Lords which lawyers have described as a turning point for the law on assisted suicide. We are honoured and proud to promote her book, which I found inspirational.

Over the last few weeks, we have published world-exclusive excerpts from books by the eminent human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC (here), British cultural icon Stephen Fry (here), House of Lords Peer Baroness Mary Warnock (here), as well as the celebrated Debbie Purdy. And that with the wrong name! What is the manager of A4E going to suggest tomorrow, that with a university degree Declan should pack shelves in supermarkets? A4E of course have done absolutely nothing for us; it's the complete opposite, in fact. But more about that later, no doubt, and possibly in more court-filed documents this Thursday.

Companies House refuses to register NAC: "Offensive company name"

This morning Companies House, the UK Registrar of Companies, refused to incorporate NAC as a company. According to Andrew Fletcher, the Head of the Sensitive Words Department, Network of those Abused by Church is an "offensive company name". Maybe if Companies House was located inside the Vatican, they would have an excuse to be annoyed, but in the UK? Oh, and maybe the US organisation Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) should be made aware that if they're ever thinking of opening an office here, they should think first about a new name! Declan has been working very hard on the Articles of Association and wasn't too impressed. This was his email this evening to Fletcher:

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Anyway, I have come up with a new name, Network for Church Monitoring. Surely Church can be monitored?

We lose the internet at our flat ... again!

Last night we lost our internet connection. One moment I am in Facebook putting around an exclusive excerpt from Baroness Mary Warnock's latest book, "Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion Out of Politics", and, at the next, I am staring at a blank monitor. Declan's notebook didn't have access to the internet either. I am uploading this blog from the local internet cafe and of course now both Declan and I are subject to being squeezed in public libraries (see blog of 2 April "Back to being 'squeezed' in public libraries").

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Manager of A4E Camden Declan's new Personal Career Coach!

Declan is still waiting to hear from Mr Justice Sycamore regarding his claim for judicial review (see blog of 3 December By Order of Mr Justice Sycamore Declan resubmits his claim for judicial review). But this morning, while job searching in Action for Employment (A4E) Camden, he was informed that he has a new Personal Career Coach: THE MANAGER! So David Lawson, the manager of A4E Camden, in addition to his demanding job as a manager is now also going to be Declan's new employment officer. Is it me, or is there a hidden agenda here? At the very least, this most certainly ups the ante on Declan's application to the High Court for a judicial review, and renders an application to the Court of Appeal an absolute certainty should his application be rejected. This is Declan's opening email to Lawson this afternoon:

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In the YouTube video below, recorded last September, Declan takes on A4E outside a branch of theirs in London that had him escorted from the building by the police the week previous. It is this dispute that is currently the subject of Declan’s application for permission to apply for a judicial review. Not only has Declan got his application to the Court of Appeal primed to receive Mr Justice Sycamore's next order, but he also has an application against A4E (based on current circumstances) written up and ready to file in the Small Claims Court - the bottom line here is that A4E, in our first six months with them, have wiped us of any little bit of savings we might have had to help us get back on our feet after more than 2 1/2 years sleeping rough on the streets of London. The letter from the Queen that Declan refers to in this video is archived here:



Declan is fired up and ready to go on every front - me too for that matter!