Church and State blog: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

District Court forces us to appeal to a higher court

Received this lunch-time:

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This is our application of 24 October to vary the Order for possession that the Court has returned to us unread:

And this is our Defence of 30 August that the Judge never read:

Live-in landlady succeeds in having our Housing Benefit claim terminated

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On 21 August 2012, our live-in landlady, human rights activist Belinda McKenzie, signed this undertaking to the Court following her builder's removal of our flat door on 27 July 2012. In it, Belinda promises the Court not to harass us for a period of one year or face prison for contempt of court.

Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Vodafone: Letter to the Chief Executive

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Samsung Galaxy S3

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Phones 4u blames Vodafone for setting up my Direct Debit Instruction incorrectly

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Police say live-in landlady accuses us of removing flat door

We received this letter from the police last Saturday:

So if we removed the flat door, why did our live-in landlady, human rights activist Belinda McKenzie, sign this undertaking to the Court following her builder's removal of the door on 27 July 2012?

And so much for these photographs:

That's Belinda in the photograph.

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie (R) listens to a survivor at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Application to the Court to vary judgment

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This is our Defence to the Order for possession that the Judge never read:

Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Vodafone fails to register my smartphone on network

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Samsung Galaxy S3

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Crown Court refuses to stamp or issue receipt for our application to vary judgment

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This is our Defence to the Order for possession that the Judge never read:

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie (R) listens to a survivor at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Monday, October 22, 2012

Declan writes to the Leader of Haringey Council to protect our Housing Benefit

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Live-in landlady breaches her undertaking to the Court not to harass us

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Live-in landlady takes our savings in court costs and expects us to have vacated our flat within two weeks

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie (R) listens to a survivor at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

We are ordered to vacate our flat on or before 1 November and pay live-in landlady her costs

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Friday, October 19, 2012

Live-in landlady's removal of our flat door puts our state benefits at risk

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Click here to view the letter from the Prime Minister re property warrant referred to in the email above.

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That's our live-in landlady in the photograph.

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Declan writes to the Independent Case Examiner to protect our state benefits

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Click here to view the letter from the Prime Minister re property warrant referred to in the email above.

BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)

According to BBC Panorama, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair". In 2002, he was jailed for seven weeks for breaking the Official Secrets Act.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

We lose home access to the Internet

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Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally Against Child Abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Home Internet access ... no broadband connection

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Monday, October 01, 2012

Home Internet access ... zero download speed

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Church and State

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.

Church and State blog

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

District Court forces us to appeal to a higher court

Live-in landlady succeeds in having our Housing Benefit claim terminated

Vodafone: Letter to the Chief Executive

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Phones 4u blames Vodafone for setting up my Direct Debit Instruction incorrectly

Friday, October 26, 2012

Police say live-in landlady accuses us of removing flat door

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Application to the Court to vary judgment

Vodafone fails to register my smartphone on network

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Crown Court refuses to stamp or issue receipt for our application to vary judgment

Monday, October 22, 2012

Declan writes to the Leader of Haringey Council to protect our Housing Benefit

Live-in landlady breaches her undertaking to the Court not to harass us

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Live-in landlady takes our savings in court costs and expects us to have vacated our flat within two weeks

We are ordered to vacate our flat on or before 1 November and pay live-in landlady her costs

Friday, October 19, 2012

Live-in landlady's removal of our flat door puts our state benefits at risk

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Declan writes to the Independent Case Examiner to protect our state benefits

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

We lose home access to the Internet

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Home Internet access ... no broadband connection

Monday, October 01, 2012

Home Internet access ... zero download speed

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