Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraph 8

Part 1: St Mungo’s Broadway: Seeking to illegally break our contract with the Mayor of London's Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First programme under threat of eviction

Revised paragraph 8

8. The Applicant informed the IPT that he and his wife were living at the time in the same 'safe house' MI5 whistleblower David Shayler lived in for a couple of years (until 2007), where they were being repeatedly threatened and harassed by their live-in landlady, human rights activist Belinda McKenzie (see paragraphs 23-24 below). According to BBC Panorama, Mr Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair" – he was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act. It is unfortunate that Mr Shayler declared that he was the Messiah in 2007, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press and media for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article published in September 2006 featuring Mr Shayler and Ms McKenzie gives no indication that Mr Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with Mr Shayler explicitly shows he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007 (see Annex 2, MI5/GCHQ: MI5 whistleblower David Shayler, p. 19). The Applicant and his wife were evicted from their flat in this property on 14 March 2013, after Ms McKenzie's ex-husband, Dr Nigel McKenzie, a consultant psychiatrist in Highgate Mental Health Centre, wrote a letter to a Circuit Court judge on behalf of Ms McKenzie, stating that the Applicant and his wife’s flat was required for somebody with a mental illness (see paragraph 25 below).

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

The Esquire article below* is mentioned in a Guardian article dated 27 March 2012. It is an eye-opener, highlighting the monitoring and surveillance that Shayler had to live with back in 2000, and the contradictory briefings and slanders that were coming out of the British establishment and the media. The author, Dr Eamonn O'Neill, is a lecturer in journalism at Strathclyde University.

*On 2 May 2013, Issuu removed this pdf from my Issuu account following a copyright complaint by Hearst Communications. I had uploaded the article to my Issuu account in December 2012. In March 2013, when last I checked, the article had been viewed more than 15,000 times. It can be viewed here.

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.

Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraphs 1-2

Part 1: Are we 'domestic extremists'? Metropolitan Police Service acknowledges receipt of Declan's request to know if he is on police databases

Revised paragraphs 1-2:

A. Information Concerning the Applicant of the Communication

1. The Applicant in this Communication is Declan Heavey, a citizen of the Republic of Ireland who lives in London in the United Kingdom. He was born on 4 September 1960 and is a former teacher. His wife is a naturalized Irish citizen born on 26 March 1965 in Madrid in Spain. She is a former psychologist and lives with the Applicant in London. They have no children. After moving to the United Kingdom in August 2003, the Applicant founded the Network for Church Monitoring (N4CM), a non-profit he registered as a company limited by guarantee in January 2011. He is currently employed as the Managing Director of N4CM, and his wife as the Webmaster of N4CM's Church and State website at churchandstate.org.uk. In 2014, N4CM's Church and State Press published two e-books; the second e-book, The Family Planning Fiasco: How the Vatican Subverted Family Planning in the Developing World by veteran senior development official Dr Dieter Ehrhardt, has been described by Dr Halfdan Mahler, WHO Director-General 1972-1988, as "consistent with my own life experience with population and should be read by everyone concerned with the future of the planet".

2. The Applicant and his wife were forced to sleep rough on the streets of London for almost four years in total, from 4 November 2006 to 13 July 2009 (see paragraphs 20-22 below) and from 14 April 2013 to 15 May 2014 (see paragraphs 23-26 below). This notwithstanding that participants in Church and State include 39 Nobel Prize winners, 13 US National Medal of Science winners, seven prominent members of the UK's House of Lords, and hundreds of distinguished scholars from around the world. Before the Applicant and his wife were made street homeless for the second time, having been evicted from a 'safe house' on 14 March 2013 (see paragraph 8 below), they were nominated for the US-based Population Institute's Global Media Award 2013 for a website described by one of the two nominators as "the most important cutting edge population website ever created" (see Annex 1, Declan and Lola Heavey: Global Media Award Nominees, p. 18).

Prof Milton P Siegel, who for 24 years was the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization, speaks to our Chairman Dr Stephen D Mumford in 1992 to reveal that although there was a consensus that overpopulation was a grave public health threat and would be a major cause of preventable death not too far in the future, the Vatican successfully fought off the incorporation of family planning and birth control into official WHO policy. This video is available for public viewing for the first time. Read the full transcript of the interview here.

Dr Stephen D Mumford: "One of the bleakest facts of this century has been the unchecked growth in world population, with its resulting strain on the planet’s life-support systems and misery for countless millions of human beings. This represents an ethical failure of catastrophic proportions on the part of the peoples of the democratic West who, while providing the medical and agricultural advances which make it feasible for all people to live longer, healthier lives, have at the same time allowed their governments to be manipulated by the Vatican and other religious interests to block effective dissemination of the knowledge and use of population-growth-control measures. As documented in [the video above], the source of this calamity is to be found in the early days of the United Nations Organization, when the Western democracies that controlled the agenda of such UNO agencies as the fledgling World Health Organization caved in to political pressure from the Vatican out of fear of its influence on their Catholic voters. In today’s more secular Western democracies, the power of the Vatican to control the votes of its adherents is much diminished. However, we can see that on questions such as population-growth-control, this decrease in Vatican political power is offset in the United States by the increased power of fundamentalist Protestantism and on the international scene by rising fundamentalist Islam."

Church and State website

Church and State Press

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

Heavey v Single Homeless Project: Will the Central London County Court rule we consented to declarations for online referral that we are paying our own salaries and that we are both mentally ill, and despite our photographic evidence to the contrary?

Declan and I are clients of the Mayor of London's Greater London Authority Housing First programme. Last May we were housed by the Single Homeless Project (SHP), one of three charitable organisations that operate the Housing First service. At the time we wondered why we were put in an accommodation under the tutelage of the Mayor of London when we had been evicted from our previous flat and forced to sleep on the streets of London for over a year, where we were harassed and threatened by the police (see blog of 2 October, "City of London Police: If you want to challenge our word against yours again, you need to make an application to the High Court for permission to apply for judicial review").

It has transpired that SHP Housing First has circulated among any number of agencies via online referral that we are paying our own salaries as employees of Network for Church Monitoring (N4CM) and that we are both mentally ill. We are currently waiting for a ruling from the Central London County Court on this matter (see blog of 22 November, "Declan's response to the Single Homeless Project CEO's submission to the Central London County Court [DATA PROTECTION]"), the High Court having already ruled that the Mayor of London bears no responsibility for the Housing First programme he funds (see blog of 5 November, "High Court rules that the Mayor of London bears no responsibility for his Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First Programme").

In the UK, data-protection law is often cited in the media as a powerful piece of legislation and organisations can't just write whatever they want:

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Nonetheless, all the Information Commissioner could do for us was instruct SHP to disclose the information they hold about us on their computerised database. This is a screenshot of section 4 of the paper version of a referral form we completed with a SHP Housing First worker last March, co-signed by the worker himself:

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It is quite clear from the above that we have incurred a personal debt of £6,000, but not according to SHP. They split the paper version of the form into two online forms, one for Declan and one for myself, and make out in both forms that we are paying our own salaries; they even made up their own scam to deliver this make-believe story, but more about that in the next paragraph. Under "Rent Arrears and Debt" that is in a different format than specified by the paper version of the form, not only do they not register a personal debt for either of us (£0.00), but on Declan's online form they add: "Mr Heavey has an American benefactor who has financed his website in a salaried manner. This totals £6000." On my online form, it reads: "Mrs Heavey and her partner have a debt of £6000 to an American benefactor who is paying them a salary over the course of this year. They wish to return this money." This is our photographic evidence:

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As if this was not sufficient, they then made up the scam that our salaries are to facilitate our application for accommodation and that we could still qualify for benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). If we were not paying our own salaries as part of this scam, we could not possibly qualify for benefits from the DWP because our salaries exceed the amount permitted for either of us to claim Jobseeker's Allowance. Contrary to SHP's made-believe story below, we are not claiming benefits from the DWP because we are not paying our own salaries and are therefore not entitled to claim any benefits from the DWP. Our Housing Benefit claim is paid by Newham Council, not DWP. This is our photographic evidence of a scam made up by SHP but never perpetrated by us:

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And here's more made-up information that could only apply if I was paying my own salary:

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Not only do we both have jobs but Declan has tried every possible means to communicate to SHP that we are not paying our own salaries. Our debt of £6,000 comes from a loan of £3,028.14 that was wired to us from America in October 2012 and a second loan of £3,140.15 that was wired to us in August 2013 (both loans are verifiable by bank statements, tax declarations and emails), and neither loan has anything to do with the £5,935.68 that was lodged to an account for N4CM in February 2014 in order to support our salaries for one year. Even this email from N4CM Chairman Dr Stephen Mumford to SHP splitting the two sums of money - £6,000 and £5,935.68 - has fallen on deaf ears:

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Perhaps the ulterior motive for these breaches of the Data Protection Act lies in Dr Mumford's strong rebuttal of the personal opinion of a SHP Housing First manager who had not even met us when she declared that we are both mentally ill, an unqualified and biased opinion they also steadfastly refuse to remove from our personal data on their computerised database:

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We claim that of the eight principles of good information handling cited in the Data Protection exhibit above, SHP have broken no less than five principles. Our data was not (1) fairly and lawfully processed; (2) processed for limited purposes; (3) adequate, relevant and not excessive; (4) accurate; and (5) processed in line with data subject's rights. Will the Central London County Court rule we consented to declarations for online referral that we are paying our own salaries and that we are both mentally ill, when we most certainly did neither? And why would SHP put us through the courts after over a year of street homelessness when they could rectify all this data in a matter of minutes?

Heavey v Single Homeless Project

Brief details of claim

On 19 March 2014, the Claimant made a formal Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act 1998 for any information held about him on the Defendant’s computerised database. This information was only submitted by the Defendant to the Claimant on 5 August 2014, following instruction from the Information Commissioner's Office. The Claimant then discovered that personal data contained in a printed referral form dated 17 March 2014 had been inaccurately entered online by the Defendant and submitted to the Clearing House for accommodation purposes. On 15 August 2014, the Claimant and his employer both wrote to the Defendant about inaccurate financial data that leaves the Claimant open to accusations of deception and fraud, but neither has been able to elicit a response from the Defendant on the matter. The Claimant is therefore making an application to the Court for a declaration that the Defendant has acted unlawfully and an order that the data controller rectify those financial data and any other personal data in respect of which he is the data controller and which contain an expression of opinion which appears to the Court to be based on the inaccurate financial data. He also seeks an award of damages and punitive damages for breach of data protection obligations.

Church and State website

Church and State Press

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

If you would like to help us personally, please feel free to pick up one of our books (shameless plug, I know, but every sale helps us to work our way out of our precarious situation). There is currently five books available in Church and State Press here, and all proceeds from the first four of these books go to us with the authors' permission. Thank you all for all the support you have given us, and I hope we can keep our Church and State website going despite the constant threats.

Update (8 May 2015): Declan is vindicated in court and wins £750 in damages from the Single Homeless Project

Are we 'domestic extremists'? Metropolitan Police Service acknowledges receipt of Declan's request to know if he is on police databases

Part 1: High Court rules that the Mayor of London bears no responsibility for his Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First Programme

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The Guardian: Are you a 'domestic extremist'? How to ask if you are on police databases

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Declan is currently updating his complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This is his revised paragraph 12 concerning discriminatory surveillance: nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

12. It is important to underscore that the discriminatory surveillance suffered by the Applicant and his wife is not an isolated event. Rather, it is emblematic of a larger pattern of surveillance by law enforcement officials in the UK that has been well-documented by international and domestic human rights bodies. In May 2012 Liberty, one of the UK's leading civil liberties and human rights organisations, expressed concern that "state sanctioned surveillance against specific individuals takes place on a massive scale". British police and government agencies are requesting personal information about Facebook users more than almost anywhere else in the world (behind the USA and India), according to the company's Government Requests Report 2013. Since the Guardian began publishing material leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden in June 2013, there have been a spate of top secret GCHQ documents reported on and published around the world. On 19 February 2014 Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald, through whom Snowden's revelations came to the world, listed some of these documents: "They include detailed reports on GCHQ's attempts to compromise basic encryption methods used to safeguard internet security, the GCHQ's role in spying on the Brazilian oil company Petrobras, the GCHQ's targeting of UN charities and officials, the GCHQ's use of 'dirty tricks' including 'honeytraps' and fake victim blog posts, the GCHQ's attacks on 'hactivists', GCHQ's surveillance of YouTube and Blogger activity and related activities to covertly influence internet discourse, GCHQ's surveillance through phone apps such as 'Angry Birds', and GCHQ's covert monitoring of visitors to the WikiLeaks website." In February 2014, the Independent reported that GCHQ's online covert actions follow the "4 D's": deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. Privacy groups have now commenced lawsuits against GCHQ for the use of malware to spy on mobile and internet users across the UK.

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

The publication of our second e-book on Amazon Kindle is far from a straightforward exercise

The book, "The Family Planning Fiasco" by veteran senior development official Dr Dieter Ehrhardt has now been published on Amazon Kindle but the strangest of things happened prior to its publication. All the links were working perfectly when I checked the ebook in Amazon's Kindle Previewer. However, after I uploaded the ebook to Amazon Kindle, we discovered that some of the links in the table of contents were not working, including a link to Dr Ehrhardt's sensational article in the appendices, "On Family Planning: Replies to questions asked by a friend in the Vatican". I thought I was going to have to postpone the publication of the ebook and contact Amazon with all my evidence, when the anomaly mysteriously resolved itself the next day.

"This book is consistent with my own life experience with population and should be read by everyone concerned with the future of the planet."

- Dr Halfdan Mahler
WHO Director-General 1972-1988

By Dieter Ehrhardt: On Family Planning: Replies to questions asked by a friend in the Vatican

Prof Milton P Siegel, who for 24 years was the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization, speaks to our Chairman Dr Stephen D Mumford in 1992 to reveal that although there was a consensus that overpopulation was a grave public health threat and would be a major cause of preventable death not too far in the future, the Vatican successfully fought off the incorporation of family planning and birth control into official WHO policy. This video is available for public viewing for the first time. Read the full transcript of the interview here.

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