Blocks on access to Church and State escalate to six so far today (WITH UPDATE 6/2/2019)
Our Church and State website has no less than 48 Nobel Laureates on it; for details, see this blog's sidebar under "Church and State" (updated today).
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms formulates what is the core of free speech. "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression." In an important interpretation of this article, the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. UK (1976) indicated that this "freedom of expression" should be construed as follows. It "is applicable not only to 'information' or 'ideas' that are favourably received, or regarded as inoffensive, or as a matter of indifference, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population." Such are the demands of that pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness without which there is no "democratic society" (see Cliteur, 2010).
4 January 2019: Information Commissioner: Declan battles the Commissioner's Lead Case Officer over the nature of his data complaint against the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's (WITH UPDATE 31/1/2019) What an experience!
Today we have had access to our Church and State website blocked six times (and counting).
1,521st 1 February 2019, 8.23pm (1)
1,522nd 3 February 2019, 6.58am (1)
1,523rd 4 February 2019, 12.33am
1,524th 4 February 2019, 7.15pm (2)
1,525th 5 February 2019, 1.10am
1,526th 5 February 2019, 2.25am
1,527th 5 February 2019, 4.11pm
1,528th 5 February 2019, 6.24pm
1,529th 5 February 2019, 8.33pm
1,530th 5 February 2019, 10.15pm (6)
UPDATES
1,531st 6 February 2019, 5.49am
1,532nd 6 February 2019, 11.22pm (2)
Update Summation 6 February 2019
1,532 blocks on access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (89 blocks 2016; 871 blocks 2017; 516 blocks 2018; 56 blocks 2019); 53 blocks in May 2018 that included 6 blocks on 8 May, the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations; 42 blocks in October 2018 that included an all-time record-breaking 13 blocks in one day on 2 October; 44 blocks last month that included 9 blocks during Facebook's 54th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015; 12 blocks this month; 11 blocks this week; 2 blocks today (as of 6 February at 11.56pm).
January 2018: 55 blocks
February 2018: 45 blocks
March 2018: 59 blocks
April 2018: 42 blocks
May 2018: 53 blocks
June 2018: 38 blocks
July 2018: 31 blocks
August 2018: 28 blocks
September 2018: 34 blocks
October 2018: 42 blocks
November 2018: 43 blocks
December 2018: 46 blocks
January 2019: 44 blocks
February 2019: 12 blocks
27 June 2018: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 6/2/2019: re 1,532nd block since 26 July 2016)
1,532 blocks on access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (89 blocks 2016; 871 blocks 2017; 516 blocks 2018; 56 blocks 2019); 53 blocks in May 2018 that included 6 blocks on 8 May, the same day as Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations; 42 blocks in October 2018 that included an all-time record-breaking 13 blocks in one day on 2 October; 44 blocks last month that included 9 blocks during Facebook's 54th block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015; 12 blocks this month; 11 blocks this week; 2 blocks today (as of 6 February at 11.56pm).
January 2018: 55 blocks
February 2018: 45 blocks
March 2018: 59 blocks
April 2018: 42 blocks
May 2018: 53 blocks
June 2018: 38 blocks
July 2018: 31 blocks
August 2018: 28 blocks
September 2018: 34 blocks
October 2018: 42 blocks
November 2018: 43 blocks
December 2018: 46 blocks
January 2019: 44 blocks
February 2019: 12 blocks
27 June 2018: SITE BLOCKS: The blocks on access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 6/2/2019: re 1,532nd block since 26 July 2016)
This is what a block on access to Church and State looks like on my SiteGround account:
Re: Blocks on access to Church and State (in bold)
Paragraph 37 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
37. St. Mungo's has not been the only stumbling block for the Applicant and his wife during the last two-year period of their tenancy. They are convinced that if they did not have the status of clients of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative programme and housing association accommodation, they would have long been given notice to vacate. These are some examples (by no means exhaustive) that shed light on the high levels of persecution and opposition they have experienced during this period of their tenancy:
(i) After receiving a newsletter from Active Newham that sought volunteer befrienders for older or isolated residents in the community, the Applicant applied on 3 June 2016 to become a volunteer befriender. On 20 July 2016, following the intervention of his local councillor, he met with three senior officials from Newham Council. It is a matter of written record that he was told at this meeting that he would be informed of the date of the next befriending training session, however this has never happened. The Applicant has made several complaints of discrimination against Newham Council on the matter. All have fallen on deaf ears, even though he has recommendations for care work, one of which is written by a retired American physician, then based in London, who received his MD from Harvard Medical School (see Annex 18, p. 46).
(ii) Newham Council has twice suspended the Applicant's Housing Benefit following false notifications from the Department for Work and Pensions that he and his wife had vacated. The first notification, in October 2016, triggered a full-blown investigation by Newham Benefits Service. The Applicant produced a paginated bundle of 57 pages and additional documents and was interrogated for over an hour and a half by a senior council tax and benefits officer before the benefit was de-suspended. The second notification took effect the week before the Applicant's court hearing against St. Mungo's on 20 February 2017, and the benefit was only de-suspended the day after the hearing. The Applicant hasn't even been able to secure his and his wife's address from misconduct by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff, despite several high-level complaints related in part to an unauthorised update to their address by HMRC on 11 July 2017.
(iii) Facebook has waged a concerted campaign against the Applicant and his wife's Church and State website, which escalated in March 2018 with four blocks against the site for a total of 29 out of 31 days (see para. 40 below). There have also been 1,180 blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016 due to internal error notifications that render the site inaccessible for generally one or two minutes (see para. 39 below) – a leading web hosting company, SiteGround, is paid $1,000 per year to host the site and manage the server. And the Applicant and his wife's home internet access – for which the Applicant pays Britain's leading telecommunications company, British Telecom, £850 per year – has been cut 184 times since 26 May 2017 (see para. 41 below). Despite all of this, in November 2017 the Church and State website topped more than 3 million hits over the previous eleven months.
Paragraph 37 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
37. St. Mungo's has not been the only stumbling block for the Applicant and his wife during the last two-year period of their tenancy. They are convinced that if they did not have the status of clients of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative programme and housing association accommodation, they would have long been given notice to vacate. These are some examples (by no means exhaustive) that shed light on the high levels of persecution and opposition they have experienced during this period of their tenancy:
(i) After receiving a newsletter from Active Newham that sought volunteer befrienders for older or isolated residents in the community, the Applicant applied on 3 June 2016 to become a volunteer befriender. On 20 July 2016, following the intervention of his local councillor, he met with three senior officials from Newham Council. It is a matter of written record that he was told at this meeting that he would be informed of the date of the next befriending training session, however this has never happened. The Applicant has made several complaints of discrimination against Newham Council on the matter. All have fallen on deaf ears, even though he has recommendations for care work, one of which is written by a retired American physician, then based in London, who received his MD from Harvard Medical School (see Annex 18, p. 46).
(ii) Newham Council has twice suspended the Applicant's Housing Benefit following false notifications from the Department for Work and Pensions that he and his wife had vacated. The first notification, in October 2016, triggered a full-blown investigation by Newham Benefits Service. The Applicant produced a paginated bundle of 57 pages and additional documents and was interrogated for over an hour and a half by a senior council tax and benefits officer before the benefit was de-suspended. The second notification took effect the week before the Applicant's court hearing against St. Mungo's on 20 February 2017, and the benefit was only de-suspended the day after the hearing. The Applicant hasn't even been able to secure his and his wife's address from misconduct by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff, despite several high-level complaints related in part to an unauthorised update to their address by HMRC on 11 July 2017.
(iii) Facebook has waged a concerted campaign against the Applicant and his wife's Church and State website, which escalated in March 2018 with four blocks against the site for a total of 29 out of 31 days (see para. 40 below). There have also been 1,180 blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016 due to internal error notifications that render the site inaccessible for generally one or two minutes (see para. 39 below) – a leading web hosting company, SiteGround, is paid $1,000 per year to host the site and manage the server. And the Applicant and his wife's home internet access – for which the Applicant pays Britain's leading telecommunications company, British Telecom, £850 per year – has been cut 184 times since 26 May 2017 (see para. 41 below). Despite all of this, in November 2017 the Church and State website topped more than 3 million hits over the previous eleven months.
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8 May 2018: Threat to life: Updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Today we are cut off the internet for a half an hour
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