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"Thank you for today's call. Following our conversation, I can confirm that the read that you provided us on 20th of October 03705, runs in line with previous readings received and that the reading 07123 taken by our meter man is incorrect. I trust that this satisfies your query and I have closed your complaint today."
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At least our Housing Benefit has been reinstated by Newham Council (see previous blog post).
On 11 October Declan attended a preliminary hearing at Central London County Court to battle a motion written by an expensive firm of solicitors, working pro bono, to strike out his case against St Mungo's under the Data Protection Act. It turns out there will be a one-day hearing of the case in the new year, but the next day we received a letter from Newham Council stating they have suspended our Housing Benefit because they were informed we had vacated our home. They're asking for so many proofs that Declan has indexed a 57-page bundle of documents. This is his complaint about the Council's refusal to accept Network for Church Monitoring as a company limited by guarantee:
Kim Bromley-Derry
Chief Executive
Newham Council
Address removed for email
24 October 2016
Dear Mr Bromley-Derry,
Re: Complaint Failure to Make a Reasonable Decision
I refer to the attached document from Newham Benefits Service. I have repeatedly informed Abdul Karim that Network for Church Monitoring is a company limited by guarantee (as noted in Companies House).
The share capital (£2) is notional as the company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The share capital refers to the amount guaranteed by the members on liquidation. The company does not have shareholders or pay dividends.
Yours sincerely,
Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring
"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
We were evicted from our previous flat on 14 March 2013 because according to our then live-in landlady's ex-husband, Dr Nigel McKenzie, a consultant psychiatrist in Highgate Mental Health Centre, our flat was needed for somebody with a mental illness. Former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler also lived with human rights activist Belinda McKenzie in the same political 'safe house' for a couple of years until 2007. According to BBC Panorama, 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 indeed unfortunate that Shayler declared himself the Messiah in 2007, became a squatter, and was subsequently ridiculed in the press for changing his name to Delores Kane. A New Statesman article published in September 2006 featuring Shayler and Belinda gives no indication that Shayler believed he was the Messiah at that time; whilst a Daily Mail interview with him the following year reveals he believed himself to be Jesus by June 2007. He has never regained his normal self.
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 read here.
BBC PANORAMA: The David Shayler Affair (August 1998)
Former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair", according to BBC Panorama. He was jailed for seven weeks in 2002 for breaking the Official Secrets Act.
For the attention of Graziano Fiorelli, Chairman of Mail Boxes Etc. Global
Simon Cowie
Chairman
Mail Boxes Etc. UK
Address removed for email
21 October 2016
Dear Mr Cowie,
Further to my e-letter dated 20 October 2016. I have this afternoon spoken with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
Unfortunately, it takes the ICO up to six months to close 90% of their cases, therefore it is not an option by way of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Time is of the essence now that my revenue mail to the mailbox I rent from MBE King's Cross has been frozen by HM Revenue and Customs because Royal Mail does not have a proper address for the King's Cross location on its database.
Would you have an ADR proposal that will prevent litigation?
Yours sincerely,
Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring
Glad you compiled this odious record of mistaken blockage. What possesses the site? Surely after multiple postings they must know your content is neither lewd nor extreme.
We are calling this Facebook's 16th block since 1 December 2015 - in the video above they even call it a block themselves. Since this morning Facebook has stopped me from posting to groups without first passing through a time-consuming security check for every post I wish to make; and this for an undisclosed period of time and without any stated reason. Normally they block me from joining and posting to groups, blocks have been extended seemingly for the fun of it, and to date have run up to six days at a time. I only post to groups articles that I have published on our Church and State website. I also only post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with; in fact, I am extremely careful on Facebook but it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference. Facebook did not respond to any of my previous fifteen appeals, so I'm not expecting a response to my appeal tonight. It reads:
For the attention of Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Facebook
18 October 2016
Dear Facebook,
I wish to appeal your decision this morning to stop me from posting to groups without first passing through a time-consuming security check for every post I wish to make (called by Facebook a "block"); and this for an undisclosed period of time and without any stated reason. I haven't posted to groups at all today, and yesterday I only posted to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with.
I have made a video of the security check I must pass through to post to groups; it can be viewed at https://youtu.be/N3iKqEwT9dM. In this instance, I tried to post an article titled "The Truth Seeker: 143 Years of Blasphemy!" to an atheist group I actively participate in almost on a daily basis. This is Facebook's 16th block since 1 December 2015:
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
16th 18 October 2016 (ongoing)
Facebook has not responded to any of my previous fifteen appeals, notwithstanding that I only ever post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with. I also only post to groups articles that I have already published on our Church and State website, which has as Honorary Associates over fifty notable scholars from around the world.
Yours faithfully,
Lola Heavey
Webmaster
Network for Church Monitoring
www.churchandstate.org.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
Draft paragraph 42 of Declan's next updated complaint to the United Nations.
42. On 13 August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why the Applicant's wife had been barred. The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since 1 December 2015, Facebook has blocked the Applicant's wife from posting to pages and/or groups on sixteen separate occasions, and up to six days at a time. On 22 December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Steve Hatch, the Managing Director of Facebook UK, asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously. To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already published on the Church and State website. Nonetheless, Facebook has not acknowledged or responded to any of the Applicant's wife's sixteen appeals since 1 December 2015. Each of the following blocks are well accounted for in the Applicant's wife's N4CM blog:
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
16th 18-23 October 2016 (6 days)
UPDATE 24 October (1.08am): Facebook's 16th block since 1 December 2015 has been lifted. No response to my appeal above.
Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch
'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
Yesterday it was Declan's preliminary hearing at Central London County Court, which he won (see previous blog), and today we received a letter from Newham Council stating they have suspended our Housing Benefit. You really can't make it up.
RE: Newham Council
High Court Letter before Claim re backdated suspension of our Housing Benefit.
County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice
Declan's preliminary hearing against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's takes place tomorrow morning at the Central London County Court. This is his Opening Statement to the court:
It is St Mungo's contention that there was no need for this issue to be a matter of litigation as they were willing to address any concerns that I had about my records throughout. This is a misrepresentation of the material facts. St Mungo's only deleted the two action notes in dispute within days of this hearing, notwithstanding a Defence that alleged at para 5.b. that they had "rectified any errors or inaccuracies identified in the Action Notes". This has been the modus operandi throughout these proceedings that has caused great distress and financial hardship, not only because of the false, fabricated and inaccurate action notes that were created in the first instance, but also for all that St Mungo's has put me through to have these action notes deleted. I therefore request damages for distress and instead of my costs, punitive damages that will prevent a recurrence of these violations of the Data Protection Act. Alternatively, I respectfully request leave to appeal.
This is Declan's reply to St Mungo's Defence:
UPDATE 11 October (1.30pm): Despite St Mungo's insistence that the case should be struck out, a one-day hearing on the sole issue of damages will take place in the new year.
Further to my letter of 28 September regarding my complaint about serious staff misconduct involving criminal or near criminal behaviour, I wish to complain that my agent’s application online yesterday to add my email to my self-assessment contact details revealed that my address as effective from 28 September had been changed once again without notification from me or my agent. Please see my agent’s emails of 5 October and 30 September attached.
I called your customer service line this afternoon and informed them over the phone that they needed to change the address on my self-assessment to read 254 PENTONVILLE ROAD because my agent’s application online last week had been overruled and had simply corrected the post code. HMRC had once again changed the second line of my address to 252-254 PENTONVILLE ROAD which I pointed out in length is incorrect in my letter of 28 September. The correct address should read:
Suite 101
254 Pentonville Road
Islington
London
N1 9JY
Please provide me with a letter confirming that you have the correct address above and that you will not change it again without notification from me or my agent. Please also tell me the next step I need to take if I am not happy with your response. I would prefer not to have to bring this matter to the attention of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Yours faithfully,
Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring
'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
Please consider donating to Church and State!
All proceeds from the sale of these e-books are used to keep the Church and State website up and running.
This is Facebook's 15th block since 1 December 2015, preventing me from joining and posting to groups until tomorrow morning, and without any stated reason. These Facebook blocks have been extended seemingly for the fun of it, and to date have run up to six days at a time. I only post to groups articles that I have already posted to our Church and State website. I also only post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with; in fact, I am extremely careful on Facebook but it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference. Facebook did not respond to any of my previous fourteen appeals, so I'm not expecting a response to my appeal this afternoon. It reads:
For the attention of Facebook Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg
4 October 2016
Dear Facebook,
I wish to appeal your decision this morning to block me from joining and posting to groups until tomorrow morning and without any stated reason. I haven't posted to groups today, and yesterday I only posted to a few atheist groups (no more than six or seven) that I am well familiar with.
This is Facebook's 15th block since 1 December 2015:
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
Please note that I only ever post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with, and I only ever post articles that I have already posted to our Church and State website. Facebook has not responded to any of my previous fourteen appeals.
Yours faithfully,
Lola Heavey
Webmaster
Network for Church Monitoring
"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
Draft paragraph 42 of Declan's next updated complaint to the United Nations.
42. On 13 August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why the Applicant's wife had been barred. The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since 1 December 2015, Facebook has blocked the Applicant's wife from posting to pages and/or groups on fifteen separate occasions, and up to six days at a time. On 22 December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Steve Hatch, the Managing Director of Facebook UK, asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously. To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already posted to the Church and State website. Nonetheless, Facebook has not acknowledged or responded to any of the Applicant's wife's fifteen appeals since 1 December 2015. Each of the following blocks are well accounted for in the Applicant's wife's N4CM blog:
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
UPDATE 5 October (8.05am): Facebook's 15th block since 1 December 2015 has been lifted. No response to my appeal above.
Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch
'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
Please could you put a stop to these outrageous blocks.
Sincerely,
Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring
"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
'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
Please consider donating to Church and State!
All proceeds from the sale of these e-books are used to keep the Church and State website up and running.
We are calling this Facebook's 14th block since 1 December 2015. Since 29 September, Facebook has blocked me from posting to groups without first passing through a time-consuming security check for every post I wish to make; and this for an undisclosed period of time and without any stated reason. They did not respond to any of my previous thirteen appeals, so I don't expect a response to my appeal below. We now have, however, a full-blown paragraph on Facebook for Declan's next updated complaint to the United Nations (further below). We also agree with our good friend and colleague in Washington DC, Don Collins, who wrote in response to my appeal: "Terrific!! The only way to win is to be the squeaky wheel that gets oiled!"
29 September 2016
Dear Facebook,
I wish to appeal your decision this evening to block me from posting to groups without first passing through a time-consuming security check for every post I wish to make; and this for an undisclosed period of time and without any stated reason.
I have made a video of the security check I must pass through to post to groups; it can be viewed at https://youtu.be/CkTFgZCg8MA. In this instance, I tried to post an article titled "Global overpopulation is the real issue" to Population Speak Out Discussions, a group I actively participate in almost on a daily basis.
Please note that I only ever post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with, and I only ever post articles that I have already posted to our Church and State website.
Yours faithfully,
Lola Heavey
Webmaster
Network for Church Monitoring
"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
This is the video:
RE: Facebook
Draft paragraph 42 of Declan's next updated complaint to the United Nations.
42. On 13 August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why the Applicant's wife had been barred. The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since 1 December 2015, Facebook has blocked the Applicant's wife from posting to pages and/or groups on fourteen separate occasions, and up to six days at a time. On 22 December 2015, Shadow Home Office Minister Lyn Brown made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Steve Hatch, the Managing Director of Facebook UK, asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously. To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already posted to the Church and State website. Nonetheless, Facebook has not acknowledged or responded to any of the Applicant's wife's fourteen appeals since 1 December 2015. Each of the following blocks are well accounted for in the Applicant's wife's N4CM blog:
1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September (ongoing)
Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a former Franciscan monk who became one of the best-known champions and a prolific popularizer of freethought and rationalism in the first half of the 20th century, had this to say:
"The criticism of religion seems to be an unpopular job. I am, as more zealous and self-sacrificing purveyors of skepticism will assure you, really a timid and innocuous person, yet I have had my life threatened in Sydney and have been protected by friendly guns in Denver. I have heard ladies of Minneapolis regret that none had the courage to shoot me, and British Spiritualist clergymen have deplored in their journal 'Light,' that I have never yet had the horsewhipping which I have merited. Friends have rushed before me in the streets of London to protect me, they imagined, from a vitriol-thrower, and sailors have been bribed by clergymen of the southern seas to put my luggage ashore a thousand miles away from my destination. I have been forced by the pressure of the Catholic Church on a London publisher to tear up a literary contract worth at least twenty thousand dollars, and have had my books shamelessly misrepresented in the press and expelled, under menaces, from booksellers' shops. Insults, injuries, intrigues, lies, libels, vituperations, depreciations..."
What's changed?
'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
I am a former social psychologist from Madrid. My husband Declan, a former physical education teacher, is from Dublin. We came to England in 2003 from Ireland with the then-aim of forming a network organisation for those abused by church. We were twice forced, through no fault of our own, to live rough on the streets of London for almost 4 years in total, from November 2006 to July 2009 and from April 2013 to May 2014. Declan established Network for Church Monitoring as a nonprofit company limited by guarantee in 2011. We are currently living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' Section 21 eviction notice from our landlord, Peabody Trust housing association. This notwithstanding that our tenancy is a flat that falls under the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (see paragraph 3 under "Church and State" below). We have no children.
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).
[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.
