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

Part 1: Heavey v Single Homeless Project: Declan gets his Central London County Court hearing date at last

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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.

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Sky TV: Breach of Contract

Part 1 (21 Jan): Oops! We lose our Sky TV service (WITH UPDATE)

Declan awaits a reply to this e-letter this morning to Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch, which will be brought to the attention of the Telecommunications Ombudsman in the absence of a reply or a deadlock letter from Sky TV:

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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear:

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Heavey v Single Homeless Project: Declan gets his Central London County Court hearing date at last

Part 1: 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?

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This is our Chairman's strong rebuttal of SHP's accusation that Declan and I are both mentally ill, an accusation they have circulated online among any number of support and other agencies that we have yet to have identified by court order:

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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear:

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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?

Oops! We lose our Sky TV service (WITH UPDATE)

Previous blog posted minutes before losing our Sky TV service: Information Commissioner: DWP's money offer fails to resolve Declan's data protection case against Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith

21 Jan 4.24pm: I post the previous blog
21 Jan 4.30pm: We lose our Sky NOW TV service

UPDATE: 24 Jan 10.00am: Still no Sky NOW TV service; NOW TV Team provided with link to this blog.

Still no explanation forthcoming from NOW TV Team (and we are considering cancellation of our Sky NOW TV contract for Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations, but not before complaining to Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch for yet another UN Communication exhibit in respect of denial of rights and services):

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Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear:

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Update (25 Jan): Sky TV: Breach of Contract

Information Commissioner: DWP's money offer fails to resolve Declan's data protection case against Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith

Part 1: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith's defiance of the Data Protection Act 1998: Complaint to the Information Commissioner

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Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraph 31

31. On 7 January 2014, the Applicant and his wife enrolled in a three-month rolling winter night shelter programme for rough sleepers run by the West London Churches Homeless Concern (WLCHC). Two days later, on 9 January, they turned up at Barnsbury Jobcentre of the Department for Work and Pensions to sign on for Jobseeker’s Allowance only to be told that the Applicant’s joint claim had been terminated because they had earlier refused to agree to Jobseeker’s Agreements drawn up by the Jobcentre that they had argued were inappropriate. Neither the Applicant nor his wife were issued with a letter of termination with or without appeal rights, and on 22 January the Applicant filed a claim in the High Court for judicial review against Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith on the ground of procedural unfairness (see Annex 10, Department for Work and Pensions: Application for Judicial Review, pp. 28-33) [emphasis added]. Secretary of State Duncan Smith, in the Acknowledgement of Service, acknowledged that the Applicant had legitimate grounds for refusing to sign his Jobseeker’s Agreement as varied by the Jobcentre and he accordingly paid the Applicant arrears of Jobseeker's Allowance to 9 January 2014 (see Annex 11, Department for Work and Pensions: Order by High Judge Phillips, p. 34). On 21 January 2014, the day before the Applicant lodged his case in the High Court against Secretary of State Duncan Smith, he and his wife were approached by a WLCHC worker about an offer of a flat that had been made by the Single Homeless Project (SHP) on behalf of Mayor of London Boris Johnson's Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First programme; however, the offer was dependent upon the Applicant and his wife receiving Jobseeker’s Allowance or alternatively producing two employment contracts that would cover the amount they would need to qualify for Housing Benefit. On 5 February 2014, following a donation from an American benefactor, the Applicant and his wife presented SHP GLA Housing First with two such contracts as employees of N4CM, but they were nevertheless rendered street homeless when the WLCHC night shelters closed on 13 April 2014, due to the accommodation on offer being unavailable.

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Update (our NOW TV service cut within minutes of posting this blog): Oops! We lose our Now TV service

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith's defiance of the Data Protection Act 1998: Complaint to the Information Commissioner

Part 1: P60 for the tax year 2013/14: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith defies the Data Protection Act 1998

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P60 for the tax year 2013/14: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith defies the Data Protection Act 1998

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

On 19 December Declan was forced to write to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith for a P60 for the tax year 2013/14 (see blog of 4 January, "What will it take to get an accurate P60 from the Department for Work and Pensions for the tax year 2013/14?"). After waiting for over 8 months for the document, this morning Declan received a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) citing the sum of money we received from November 2013 to January 2014 based on a new claim for Jobseeker's Allowance that neither of us signed, not the sum we received from the DWP for the relevant tax year 2013/14. All the Information Commissioner could do for us with the Single Homeless Project was get them to release information to us (see blog of 28 December, "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?"). We are not sure what the Information Commissioner will be able to do for us to get the DWP to give us a P60 for the tax year 2013/14 that they have given everybody else, but that is to whom Declan's next letter will be addressed for his updated complaint to the United Nations. This time last year, on 22 January, Declan filed a case in the High Court against Secretary of State Duncan Smith and won the case within a month (the court order is presented below). We do not expect such a quick result this time round and have no idea what it will take to get an accurate P60 for the tax year 2013/14 from the DWP.

Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraph 31

31. On 7 January 2014, the Applicant and his wife enrolled in a three-month rolling winter night shelter programme for rough sleepers run by the West London Churches Homeless Concern (WLCHC). Two days later, on 9 January, they turned up at Barnsbury Jobcentre of the Department for Work and Pensions to sign on for Jobseeker’s Allowance only to be told that the Applicant’s joint claim had been terminated because they had earlier refused to agree to Jobseeker’s Agreements drawn up by the Jobcentre that they had argued were inappropriate. Neither the Applicant nor his wife were issued with a letter of termination with or without appeal rights, and on 22 January the Applicant filed a claim in the High Court for judicial review against Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith on the ground of procedural unfairness (see Annex 10, Department for Work and Pensions: Application for Judicial Review, pp. 28-33) [emphasis added]. Secretary of State Duncan Smith, in the Acknowledgement of Service, acknowledged that the Applicant had legitimate grounds for refusing to sign his Jobseeker’s Agreement as varied by the Jobcentre and he accordingly paid the Applicant arrears of Jobseeker's Allowance to 9 January 2014 (see Annex 11, Department for Work and Pensions: Order by High Judge Phillips, p. 34). On 21 January 2014, the day before the Applicant lodged his case in the High Court against Secretary of State Duncan Smith, he and his wife were approached by a WLCHC worker about an offer of a flat that had been made by the Single Homeless Project (SHP) on behalf of Mayor of London Boris Johnson's Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First programme; however, the offer was dependent upon the Applicant and his wife receiving Jobseeker’s Allowance or alternatively producing two employment contracts that would cover the amount they would need to qualify for Housing Benefit. On 5 February 2014, following a donation from an American benefactor, the Applicant and his wife presented SHP GLA Housing First with two such contracts as employees of N4CM, but they were nevertheless rendered street homeless when the WLCHC night shelters closed on 13 April 2014, due to the accommodation on offer being unavailable.

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Gobbledygook? Declan's email this afternoon to try to remedy bedroom leak he first reported to the housing association landlord on 25 September 2014

Part 1: 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?

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St Mungo's Broadway: Updated complaint to the UN (revised paragraphs 29 and 30)

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

Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraphs 29 and 30

29. As a direct result of the accommodation blockade through surveillance that the Applicant and his wife experienced in London and in Brighton for the best part of a year previous (see paragraphs 25-28 above), they were forced back into sleeping rough on the streets of the City of London on 14 April 2013 having been evicted from a 'safe house' after months of serious harassment which included the removal of their flat door (see paragraph 24 above). They returned to the same sleeping pitch they had before coming off the streets in July 2009, which they continued to use until it was fenced off in December 2013. Within days of their street homelessness, the homeless charity St Mungo's Broadway, then called Broadway Homelessness and Support, denied them support to access the private rented sector (see paragraph 30 below). This notwithstanding that the Applicant: (a) had been provided with the deposit on a flat and one month's rent up front by a benefactor in America; (b) had a perfect Housing Benefit track record; (c) had an immaculate credit report from the credit reporting agency Experian; (d) had a wholly acceptable reference letter from his previous tenancy stating that the Applicant and his wife "kept the property in very good order, were quiet and paid the rent on time"; and (e) had two personal references of the highest quality, one of which had been written by a retired American physician then living in London (see Annex 22, St Mungo's Broadway: Personal references, pp. 59-60).

30. In March 2013, St Mungo's Broadway CEO Howard Sinclair wrote in The Guardian that there are occasions when the charity accommodates rough sleepers straight from the streets. According to Mr Sinclair in the same article, in addition to the Mayor of London having provided Broadway with £5 million under his No Second Night Out project, the charity had received £10 million from London and Quadrant Housing Trust, alongside the support of three other trusts, to accommodate people in London for whom there had been no other option. Nonetheless, on 29 August 2013 the Applicant was forced to file a claim in the High Court for judicial review against Commissioner of Police for the City of London Adrian Leppard and Home Secretary Theresa May following the decision of the former not to ask Broadway to engage with him and his wife in relation to their welfare and access to the charity's service for supporting clients to find accommodation in the private rented sector (see Annex 24, City of London Police: Reply from Commissioner Adrian Leppard (2013), p. 63). The Applicant argued in court papers that it was unreasonable for the City of London Police to refuse to ask Broadway to help them find private sector accommodation whilst at the same time threatening them with hosings by street cleaners (see Annex 25, City of London Police: Application for Judicial Review, pp. 64-69). On 6 February 2014, Deputy High Court Judge Bidder ruled: "The refusal of the First Defendant to ask the charity 'Broadway' to engage or help the Claimant and his wife with their welfare or accommodation is not arguably unreasonable. It is not its job to intervene in any disagreement between a charity and those seeking that charity's help" (see Annex 26, City of London Police: Order by Deputy High Court Judge Bidding, p. 70). Remarkably, despite this history, St Mungo's Broadway is currently seeking to illegally break the Applicant and his wife's housing contract with the Mayor of London's Greater London Authority (GLA) Housing First programme under threat of eviction (see paragraph 35 below). [emphasis added]

Our flat door is removed by the live-in landlady's builder

This is the court order quoted above that Declan will be using against Howard Sinclair should St Mungo's Broadway attempt to carry out their threat to have us evicted:

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It seems incredible to us that of all the homeless organisations in London it should be Mr Sinclair's St Mungo's Broadway that we are battling at this point in time. But then again perhaps we shouldn't be surprised... it definitely qualifies as 'radical':

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What will it take to get an accurate P60 from the Department for Work and Pensions for the tax year 2013/14?

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

Updated complaint to the UN: Revised paragraph 38

38. Despite Minister Featherstone's letter to the Home Secretary in June 2010 regarding the interception of the Applicant and his wife's emails (see paragraph 6 above), there has been no response from the Home Office into why they continue to encounter problems with their email. The Applicant has also amassed irrefutable evidence relating to the sabotage of his and his wife's mail, including the non-delivery of registered items. In the case of Heavey v Haringey Council (see paragraph 24(1) above), the Applicant was denied an oral hearing which he otherwise may have been entitled to had he received an order from the Court when it was sent to him. Subsequently, the Applicant's application for an order extending time for renewing his application for permission to apply for judicial review to an oral hearing and for the file of his claim to be re-opened was refused by Mitting J (see Annex 12, Haringey Council: Order by High Court Judge Mitting, p. 35). On 19 December 2014, the Applicant complained to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith about the Department for Work and Pensions and the on-going manipulation of his data (see Annex 9, Department for Work and Pensions: Complaint to Secretary of State re manipulation of data, pp. 27-28). The Applicant still awaits receipt of an accurate P60 from the Department for the tax year 2013-2014, the original document having been mailed to an address that was neither authorized nor consented to by him. [emphasis added]

Three blogs back I stated that all the Information Commissioner could do for us with the Single Homeless Project was to get them to release information to us (see blog of 28 December, "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?"). We are not sure what the Information Commissioner will be able to do for us to get the Department for Work and Pensions to give us a P60 for the tax year 2013/14 that they have given everybody else, but that is to whom Declan's next letter will be addressed if this e-letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, dated 19 December 2014, about the on-going manipulation of our data has been to no avail:

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This reminds me of a quick blog I posted on 23 October titled "If you are under surveillance check your NHS records (especially your surname!)". As human rights lawyer Jules Carey put it on twitter: "Conform or suffer 'the 4 Ds' (Deny / Disrupt / Degrade / Deceive) ► #GCHQ's radical spycraft techniques by @ggreenwald http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/glenn-greenwald-anonymous-mass-surveillance-governments-nasa-no-place-to-hide"

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Update: P60: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions defies the Data Protection Act 1998