Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Amazon: The office chair I ordered on 19 October arrives this afternoon. Their next day delivery only took 9 days! The Police close their investigation into crime reference 5330050/20 for want of evidence

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).







Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October, our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. We're told that on 10 November the communal door lock will be changed and our flat door repaired.


17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results

We have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial, but seldom with our second BT YouView box. The screenshot above was taken on 21 October and lasted six days despite a strong internet connection throughout the period.


22 October: Will we ever know a good BT TV service? We now pay the British telecom giant over £800 a year



Newer post: Facebook continues to ensure that Church and State gets little or no traffic from our Page. The Financial Ombudsman Service will update Declan every three months on the progress of the complaint he submitted last February following the non-payment of his salary by standing order (regularly updated)

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Declan is still waiting for NatWest Bank to acknowledge the error made in the latest misspelling of his surname. This case is now with the Financial Ombudsman Service for resolution

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Headquarters in Gogarburn. The RBS owns National Westminster Bank (NatWest).


On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 14:11, Declan Heavey wrote:
Dear NatWest Complaints Team,

I wish to complain that this morning my wife was unable to transfer money to my account because the payee name wouldn't verify with the account details.

Please can you acknowledge the bank's error in this regard, which was subsequently resolved by a member of your team.

Yours faithfully,

Declan Heavey



Declan's complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service:

Tell us about your complaint - what happened?

On 7 October 2020, I complained to NatWest that that morning my wife was unable to transfer money online from her account to my account because the payee name wouldn't verify with the account details. I respectfully asked NatWest to acknowledge the bank's error in the misspelling of my surname, which was subsequently resolved by their Complaints team over the telephone. NatWest have responded: "As the complaint has already been investigated within the bank and then by FOS, we would not look to investigate it again. However, if you remain unhappy with the outcome to your FOS case I can suggest you contact the FOS investigator who our records show as Emma Smith on 0207 964 0108." Previously, on 30 July 2020, my surname had been misspelt by a cashier "Mr D * Henry" instead of "Mr D * Heavey" in the electronic transfer of a substantial amount of money to a third party (St Mungo's). This time my wife was unable to transfer money to my account on 7 October 2020 because of the payee name "Declan * Haeavey" instead of "Declan * Heavey". These are two completely different and unrelated complaints. I was not and am not asking NatWest or FOS to investigate a complaint again, but to look at a new complaint involving the misspelling of my surname in a completely different way, in an entirely different setting, and three weeks after FOS closed their case on 16 September 2020. I do not seek to have that case re-opened.

How have you been affected - financially or otherwise?

I was not aware that NatWest had allocated to the latest (and different) misspelling of my surname the same complaint reference PHO-0286035420. I understand that because of this, they have made a final decision not to acknowledge the bank's error in this latest misspelling of my surname and have instead referred me to FOS. This has and continues to cause me distress and inconvenience. There can be no resolution of my latest complaint against NatWest without this acknowledgement because of the increased concern generated by the absence of it.
 
How would you like the business to put things right for you?

I would like NatWest to acknowledge the bank's error that prevented my wife from transferring money to my account on 7 October 2020 because the payee name wouldn't verify with the account details. I would again make clear that this problem was subsequently resolved by their Complaints team over the telephone, but I have received no written acknowledgement of the error that could have and would put things right for me. I have made clear to NatWest that I do not believe this should have been or should be treated as the complaint that has already been investigated within the bank and then FOS. As previously stated, this is a new complaint involving the misspelling of my surname in a completely different way, in an entirely different setting, and three weeks after FOS closed their case on 16 September 2020.

Submitted on 28 October 2020


Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October, our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. We're told that on 10 November the communal door lock will be changed and our flat door repaired.


17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results



Newer post: Facebook continues to ensure that Church and State gets little or no traffic from our Page. The Financial Ombudsman Service will update Declan every three months on the progress of the complaint he submitted last February following the non-payment of his salary by standing order (regularly updated)

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Monday, October 26, 2020

The never-ending assault on our email continues unabated. My correspondence with one of the world's leading space advocates has been severed. Nobel Laureates also continue to be targeted

I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).
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).



24 May: Excessively targeted category: One of these 24 emails Declan sent to knighted professors yesterday has been read this morning. The only one read! Today Declan will try getting through to 21 Nobel Prize laureates (WITH UPDATE 27/05/20)


The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Headquarters in Gogarburn. The RBS owns National Westminster Bank (NatWest).


Declan currently has NatWest Bank (owned by RBS) before the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). An investigator at FOS has found that the RBS Executive Case Manager wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan compensation on 17 February that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up a replacement standing order on the Network for Church Monitoring business account for the payment of his salary. His complaint about the subsequent cancellation of the standing order without his knowledge or consent that resulted in the non-payment of his salary on 24 February has been passed to the Ombudsman. His salary continues to be paid online by quick transfer from the business account to his personal account pending an ombudsman's final decision. FOS is required to publish final decisions by their ombudsmen on their website.

FOS investigator: "NatWest have said although the cancellation was processed on the 12th February 2020, it wasn't uploaded for processing until later – so it didn't actually cancel until the 19 February 2020."


14 October: NatWest Bank: Declan's complaint about the non-payment of his salary on 24 February has been passed to the Financial Ombudsman for a decision to be published on their website. The never-ending assault on our email continues unabated

Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October, our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. We're told that on 10 November the communal door lock will be changed and our flat door repaired.


17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results

We have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial, but not with our second BT YouView box. Our BT TV service has been unreliabe for years regardless of the quality of our internet connection (the screenshot above was taken on 21 October with a strong internet, and it hasn't changed since).


22 October: Will we ever know a good BT TV service? We now pay the British telecom giant over £800 a year



Sidebar footnote 2 (from "Church and State", para. 5):

17 October: 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

 
Our list of 286 Honorary Associates includes 17 Nobel Prize laureates, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these three categories of emails in particular.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Today Declan will try emailing some of the world's leading free speech advocates. His email yesterday to one such advocate was blocked along with every one of our Church and State emails these past two days

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).



Previous post: Another complete wipeout on our Church and State emails yesterday. My email correspondence with one of the world's leading space advocates severed this week. Nobel Laureates also continue to be targeted

Our list of 285 Honorary Associates includes 17 Nobel Prize laureates, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these three categories of emails in particular.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Another complete wipeout on our Church and State emails yesterday. My email correspondence with one of the world's leading space advocates severed this week. Nobel Laureates also continue to be targeted

I am truly appalled by the unlawful violation of the Heavey's basic right to send and receive email without interference. I would be most grateful for anything you may be able to do by way of taking measures to correct this gross abuse.

An American professor to then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone in 2010

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).
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).

This Mailtrack report this morning relates to Declan's email address.


This Mailtrack report yesterday relates to my email address.


9 October: Yesterday I received no Mailtrack alerts and this morning no Mailtrack report. Almost certainly my two permission emails yesterday to space advocates were blocked. Today Declan will email 20 distinguished scientists and experts. It wouldn't be the first time that not one of his 20 emails gets through



Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October, our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. We're told that on 10 November the communal door lock will be changed and our flat door repaired.


17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results

We have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial, but not with our second BT YouView box. Our BT TV service has been unreliabe for years regardless of the quality of our internet connection (the screenshot above was taken on 21 October with a strong internet, and it hasn't changed since).


22 October: Will we ever know a good BT TV service? We now pay the British telecom giant over £800 a year



Sidebar footnote 2 (from "Church and State", para. 5):

17 October: 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

 
Our list of 285 Honorary Associates includes 17 Nobel Prize laureates, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these three categories of emails in particular.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Will we ever know a good BT TV service? We now pay the British telecom giant over £800 a year



"I do not wish to have a fourth BT engineer in my flat. Nor do I believe that a third YouView box will make the slightest bit of difference. I have spent an extraordinary amount of time over the years dealing with BT on this issue and internet cuts."

- Extract from an email of Declan's to BT Executive Level Complaints on 28 September 2020

On 29 September, Declan complained to BT Executive Level Complaints following his receipt of a bill for services that included a charge for a TV service that he had cancelled. The charge was refunded later that morning:



5 October: British Telecom (day 7): Are we back to non-stop internet cuts? I am now reading books on space travel offline using my tablet and to good effect. Space advocates galore!

Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. Last Friday our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. We were in the flat at the time and our double locked door held firm against this forceful attempt to gain entry. See my blog post here about this crime incident.


17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results



Sidebar footnote 2 (from "Church and State", para. 5):

17 October: 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

 
Our list of 285 Honorary Associates includes 17 Nobel Prize laureates, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these three categories of emails in particular.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Monday, October 19, 2020

Our landlord Peabody Trust told Declan last Friday that they will be changing the lock of the communal door downstairs (job no. 2108601/1). This morning we learn from the job contractor that the lock will be changed on the communal door next month together with the repair of our flat door

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).



Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 2425692/17. Last Friday our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. We were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. Our landlord Peabody Trust told Declan that they will be changing the lock of the communal door (job no. 2108601/1), and repairing our flat door next month (job no. 2108576/1). This morning he phoned the job contractor. It turns out that both of these jobs will be carried out on 10 November at the same time. Last Friday night, within a few hours of the vandalisation of our door, Declan received through the Housing Ombudsman Service Peabody's response to his Stage 1 complaint about new tenancy terms - four months after he made the complaint. He escalated the complaint literally the first thing the next morning. Also this morning, Peabody have confirmed that his complaint has been escalated to stage 2 of their complaints procedure. If he does not receive a stage 2 response by the end of 18 working days, Peabody will have once again breached their own complaints procedure and he will then be in a position to go back to the Housing Ombudsman Service and let them know.

17 October: Declan asks Peabody to escalate his Stage 1 complaint about new terms of tenancy. Last night we received their response from the Housing Ombudsman Service after our flat door was vandalised (crime reference no. 5304416/20)

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. Our tenancy is a flat, which falls under the Mayor's Rough Sleepers Initiative.


The following is the full content of paragraph 1 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar.

1. Our 285 Honorary Associates include 17 Nobel 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., population, climate change, 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.

9 February: Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5304416/20. Vandalisation of our outdoor gas meter box



I am once again reminded of the removal of our flat door in 2012. (It was the Independent Police Complaints Commission's finding on that occasion that since our then live-in landlady had subsequently signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass us, there was no requirement for the Metropolitan Police to take further action.)


We were evicted from our previous flat in 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. As Declan states in paragraph 8 of his recent updated complaint to the UN, 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's 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's 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 Associate Professor in Journalism at Edinburgh Napier 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.

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Saturday, October 17, 2020

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

9/10/2020

Sorry our efforts to reach Sheryl Samberg have not brought any perceivable results.

Don Collins
Founder, International Services Assistance Fund

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).
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).

On 4 September, Declan's 60th birthday, Facebook unreasonably threatened to unpublish our Page called "Network for Church Monitoring"; see my post of 4 September: Has Facebook accused me of praising Hitler? They say our Network for Church Monitoring page is at risk of being unpublished for the posting of this meme in 2017, and only allowed me to agree or disagree with their decision. Two Parliamentary letters to them revealed in this post. Since that date, they have severely restricted the distribution of the page. On 25 September, I discovered and complained that I had been accused of posting an altered photo that I do not recall posting - no link was provided to this posting. At that time the International Services Assistance Fund (ISAF) in Washington, DC were drafting a letter to Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Samberg. The figures for our Honorary Associates have improved since 30 September, when the letter was mailed. We now have 285 associates that include 17 Nobel Laureates. Declan received permission from the founder and former president of ISAF for me to publish the text of the headed letter. ISAF's efforts to reach COO Samberg still have not brought any perceivable results.

September 30, 2020

Ms. Sheryl Samberg
Chief Operating Officer
Facebook
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Dear Ms. Sandberg:

Watching the Trump nomination of Judge Barrett which will set a 6 to 3 conservative margin on key Supreme Court decisions for years to come doubtless disturbed you as much as women all over America.

Every generation needs to understand that real personal freedom is not the unique creature of originalism.

I am prompted by Facebook's remarkable contributions to the lives of the billions to write you this letter.
 
You were born in Washington, DC where I have lived most of my 94 years. You announced your engagement to remarry in February after earlier tragically losing your husband, the father of your two children.

Good things can happen after bad, as I found out when I remarried. It was to the love of my life when I was 69. We will celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary on November 26th.

My MD father founded Pathfinder International in 1956. Working for women's reproductive rights aside from raising 5 children has been my main inspirational focus of my life.

Our non-profit, ISAF, on September 21, 1990 in time for the Clinton Bush Presidential 1990 campaign helped create a powerful film entitled "Whose Choice?" which at the suggestion of Jane Fonda to her then husband, Ted Turner, was shown on Turner Broadcasting System on September 21, 1990 and subsequently many other audiences. You can access that information on the attached sheet here. http://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/02/whose-choice-a-pro-abortion-film/

Let me be clear this is a not a solicitation for any financial aid but rather a plea for survival which would entail no monetary investment but could continue to allow a modest London web site to educate and encourage the liberal causes that I am sure you agree with.

About 10 years ago at the suggestion of a trusted friend, Bill Ryerson, who heads Population Media Center, my husband, Don Collins and I met its founders, Declan and Lola Heavey in London to learn about their amazing commitment to pressing issues to which we have devoted our working lives.
  
I have served on the local PPFA board and many other civic boards as well as Pathfinder. Don served on the National Board of Planned Parenthood and as founding Chairs the boards of what has now become FHI360, a major international development agency and Ipas, which works to facilitate choice options for women overseas. He founded ISAF in 1976. 

Since our initial meetings with the Heaveys in London, we have provided the main funding toward their education program.

Their personal history is fascinating, but I will be brief here. After several years of living literally homeless in the streets of London the Heaveys managed to secure modest public housing accommodation.

From there they have been able to continue to operate what has become an extensive website to which many important authors contribute significant articles that report on the general welfare of people everywhere. The site is a favorite of mine and many Nobelists. In fact, the site has no less than 59 Nobelists on it, as well as a distinguished list of 283 Honorary Associates that includes 16 Nobelists, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors.

A look at their site – www.churchandstate.org.uk – will quickly acquaint you with its interesting and clearly liberal political positions on choice and particularly women's rights in general. Their non-profit project deals with powerful articles on issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., population, climate change, futurism, atheism, and free speech.

The Heaveys have expressed concern about threats Facebook has made to unpublish their page called "Network for Church Monitoring" and Lola's account known as "Lola.Heavey".

Lola on 9/25 complained about another alleged violation: namely that on 15 September Facebook stated that she shared an altered photo on her Page called "Network for Church Monitoring". However, no link was provided to this posting and thus Lola has no recollection of sharing such a photo.

Your career, Ms. Samberg, offers such a powerful example of what we see as women's place in our embattled world's future. With 40 percent of women's babies in America now born unplanned and world human numbers increasing to almost 8 billion by 2024, having been only 2 billion only 90 years ago it is obvious from nature's present reaction that this cannot continue without inflicting much damage.

So my only request to you is to allow this worthy site the chance to put these views to our audiences without interruption.

We are hopeful that a look at the distinguished scientists and experts who have endorsed our work may encourage your willingness to allow this vital education program to continue uninterrupted.

Thank you for your consideration.

Cordially

Sarah G Epstein
Secretary, Board of Directors

Enclosures





When it comes to our traffic, it has to be indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded the 5.7 million hits we had last year and our 2.2 million hits this year (see the last paragraph under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar). Our top five articles have 6.5 million Facebook likes/shares between them.


I had to upload this image titled "5 Most Popular" to an alternative host for images on 21 October. It is another one of my images in MediaFire that does not appear on their site.

Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. Yesterday evening our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan and I were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. We're told that on 10 November the communal door lock will be changed and our flat door repaired.


17 October: Declan asks Peabody to escalate his Stage 1 complaint about new terms of tenancy. Last night we received their response from the Housing Ombudsman Service after our flat door had been vandalised earlier in the evening (crime reference no. 5304416/20)



Our list of 285 Honorary Associates includes 17 Nobel Prize laureates, 11 US National Medal of Science laureates and 12 knighted professors notwithstanding the excessive targeting of these three categories of emails in particular.

http://churchandstate.org.uk/honorary-associates/

"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Last night Declan received Peabody's response through the Housing Ombudsman Service four months after he made his complaint. How long will it take the landlord to reply to the escalated complaint he made this morning?



Our flat door was vandalised yesterday evening by two thugs with a crowbar. Declan reported the incident with Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 2425692/17. We were in the flat at the time and fortunately our double locked door held firm. It's my opinion that they just wanted to break the door lock but didn't have enough time. The communal door lock downstairs wasn't broken. See my blog post about this crime incident here. Last night Declan received through the Housing Ombudsman Service Peabody's response to his Stage 1 complaint about new tenancy terms - four months after he made this complaint. First thing this morning he escalated the complaint for consideration by Peabody's Customer Experience Team. If he does not receive a stage 2 response by the end of 18 working days, Peabody will again have breached their own complaints procedure and he will then be in a position to go back to the Housing Ombudsman Service and let them know. This is his request this morning that Peabody escalate this matter to a Stage 2 complaint for him, or, alternatively, provide him with a final response letter for the Ombudsman to consider:

What is your complaint (Please add as much detail as possible including any reference numbers you may have)?

Ref: CAS-506345-C3J0K0

I am not satisfied with Head of Specialist Housing Management Sonia Palfey's response dated 7 September 2020 to the Stage 1 complaint I raised with Peabody about new terms of tenancy. I received Ms Palfrey's response through the Housing Ombudsman Service last night. I respectfully ask you to escalate this matter to a Stage 2 complaint for me, or, alternatively, provide me with a final response letter for the Ombudsman to consider.
  
By way of background, my wife and I have been living in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiate (RSI) property that is owned by Peabody. Our tenancy has been twice renewed like for like as requested. The original two-year term expired in 2016, and again in 2018 but Peabody agreed to new tenancies on like-for-like terms on both occasions. In an email of 27 April 2020, Housing Officer Rukia Khatun asserted in relation to the third agreement offered that "the terms are the same and a like for like as requested". In a further email of 1 May 2020, Ms Khatun falsely accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement.

On 27 May 2020, I received an email from Area Housing Manager Rosealeen Sogunro about the third renewal of our tenancy. By way of supporting evidence, after I have submitted this form, I will email you this email from Ms Sogunro, the Stage 1 response I received last night from Ms Palfrey and an updated document titled 'Comparative Screenshots'. It is my contention that, given Peabody's apparent ongoing insistence that we have been offered a tenancy like for like as requested, it is only fair and reasonable that you produce such a document. Instead, my wife and I have been previously falsely accused of not signing a like-for-like agreement and continue to be provided with assurances that are not reflected in the new tenancy agreement.
 
My wife and I are currently not protected from a 'no fault' eviction in a weekly periodic tenancy. Despite Ms Palfrey's apparent assurance that no action of this sort will be taken, our legal position in respect to Section 21 possession poses a direct threat to my life. It also has a destabilising effect on our tenancy and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. For example, my wife cannot resume a volunteer position she held in the community for four years. I am also forced to maintain a suspension on my voluntary work in the community. The level of pressure and uncertainty connected with our tenancy is not only unfair to us but also to the community centre my wife has been volunteering in since June 2016. The centre obviously wants someone who is reliable and able to commit to set days and times.
  
How would you like us to resolve your complaint?

To resolve my complaint I request a tenancy like for like as requested, as has been issued twice before, and not a tenancy agreement that is not remotely the same document. Substantial and/or adverse variations include: unspecified visiting support that neither I nor my wife wants or needs; the removal from the agreement of the rent cap for social housing; the both of us remaining liable for rent and service charges until the end of the fixed term if Peabody does not agree to the termination of the tenancy despite our one month's notice in advance; and the stipulation of a much shorter length of time in rent arrears for possession.

Consider, for example, that the stipulated time in arrears for possession has been reduced from 8 weeks to 14 days. This in itself renders the new tenancy agreement unsignable, thereby destabilising our tenancy and inhibiting our ability to exercise our rights. Newham Council has already twice suspended our housing benefit because of erroneous notifications from the Department for Work and Pensions that we had vacated. We have not had any contact with the Department during our tenancy due to us both having been part-time employed.

I reiterate in conclusion that my wife and I have no legal protection from a 'no fault' eviction in a weekly periodic tenancy, and to assert otherwise is both factually disingenuous and unsupported by law. I have sought and received legal advice from a UK lawyer on this point, and a Housing legal advisor such as Shelter concurs on their website. I am a 60-year-old asthmatic with a long history of serious respiratory illness, thus placing me in the high-risk group for COVID-19 and other viral respiratory infections. That my wife and I should be forced to live under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction in an RSI designated property seems to us to be unconscionable. There is no question that such an eviction would return us to the streets for the third time through no fault of our own, and this time with little or no prospect of ever being housed again.

Submitted 17/10/20

17 October: Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results

Part 1: Housing Ombudsman Service. Two days ago Declan complained to Lyn Brown MP about this statutory service. Yesterday our flat door was vandalised. And ISAF's letter to Facebook's COO last month has gotten no results

DAY 154 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A 'NO FAULT' SECTION 21 NOTICE
MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY

14/04/20

With the background as provided above, the Heaveys now are facing an eviction notice from their landlord, Peabody Trust housing association. The tenancy is a flat, which falls under the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative. Pardoning my intrusion into English law, but in fairness there does not appear to be any reason for the eviction, relying apparently entirely on the discretion of the landlord.

Joseph R. Carvalko, Esq., American lawyer (full letter here)

Our Church and State website has no less than 59 Nobel Laureates on it despite the never-ending assault on our email; see paragraph 2 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar (updated today).
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).
DJ Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs

02/07/20

Looks like they could use a bit more money—another $300 would no doubt be a big lift.
There must be a large handling fee for the money transfer!
The poor apparently are still treated in London like Oliver Twist!
So glad you made the transfer so promptly.
These are remarkable people!

Donald A. Collins, Sr.
Founder, International Services Assistance Fund


The Central London County Court is based at the Royal Courts of Justice.

Heavey v St Mungo's (2020)

Application hearing for strike out held by conference call before the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020.

What the issue in these court proceedings boiled down to was whether the Court would decide that Declan and I should live in a destabilised tenancy that inhibits our ability to exercise our rights and poses a threat to his life, simply because the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's Tenancy Sustainment Team in North London (TST North) would not even take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of theirs. Declan argued that this was not proportionate and lawful. But District Judge Ruth Fine agreed with counsel for St Mungo's that TST North was not obliged to take such a phone call and ordered him to pay £1,850 in costs. Declan had asked the Judge to take into consideration that St Mungo's had clocked up exorbitant legal fees without mentioning this phone call in their application for strike out.[1] Less than a week later, TST North had agreed to take the phone call for us both. But our landlord Peabody Trust will not renew our tenancy like for like as twice before, thereby preventing us from engaging the Mayor's TST service due to the ongoing destabilisation of our tenancy (Housing Ombudsman ref: 202002510).

30 June: District Judge Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs. St Mungo's are under no obligation to even vouch over the phone that we are clients of the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's TST programme (WITH UPDATE 17/10/20)

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[1] On 23 June Batchelors Solicitors sent Declan a £3,407.50 bill of costs. St Mungo's counsel asked the Judge for this exact amount even though, at the time of submitting these costs to the court before the hearing for strike out, St Mungo's had never once mentioned the phone call that was the essence of Declan's claim against this taxpayer-funded charity. In 2017/18, St Mungo's turnover was £89.6 million. Declan's debt to them was cleared by a publishing colleague within 24 hours of my blog post above. Having averted bankruptcy, we now consider that to seek pro se (in person) access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us.

Declan and I are housed in a flat, owned by Peabody Trust, that is part of the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative programme. Alongside our tenancy is access to the Mayor's Tenancy Sustainment Team (TST) at St Mungo's. On 28 July we received District Judge Ruth Fine's Order from the hearing on 30 June (see above). It has come at a cost, but two things are now indisputable: (1) Neither Declan nor I have "the vulnerabilities of those presenting with addictions or mental illness" (Skeleton Argument, Counsel for St Mungo's, para. 5). (2) It is presented as a statement of fact by St Mungo's that our support needs are "solely related to the belief-related harassment, discrimination, intimidation and victimisation" that we routinely face (Skeleton Argument, Counsel for St Mungo's, para. 19(a)). This is day 154 for us in a weekly periodic tenancy under the threat to life of a 'no fault' Section 21 eviction notice. Less than a week after the hearing on 30 June, St Mungo's TST North had agreed to take the phone call that was the essence of Declan's claim. They are now willing to vouch over the phone that we are both clients of this Mayor of London TST service. But Peabody will not renew our tenancy like for like as twice before, thereby preventing us from engaging TST North due to the ongoing destabilisation of our tenancy.

Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. Yesterday evening our flat door was vandalised by two thugs with a crowbar. We were in the flat at the time and our double locked door held firm against this forceful attempt to gain entry. See my blog post about this crime incident here.


Last night, after the vandalisation of our flat door, Declan received through the Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS) Peabody's response to him dated 7 September 2020 about new tenancy terms. A couple of days ago, he copied Ombudsman Richard Blakeway into this email to Lyn Brown MP about HOS:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 16:29, Declan Heavey wrote:
For the attention of Richard Blakeway, Housing Ombudsman

Rt Hon Lyn Brown MP
Member of Parliament for West Ham

Address removed for email


15 October 2020

Dear Ms. Brown,

Housing Ombudsman Service

I am writing to you in my capacity as a tenant living in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative designated property in your constituency to make you aware of my serious concerns about the Housing Ombudsman Service (HOS). My landlord, Peabody Trust housing association, has missed three HOS deadlines since 15 June to respond to my Stage 1 complaint about tenancy terms.

Last August I had written to the Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, before HOS delivered on a commitment to write to Peabody a second time five weeks after their first deadline. On 30 September, no one in HOS would speak to me about my service complaint a week earlier below that should have elicited a response from them within three working days. (Their Complaints Procedure states: "We will let you know within three working days that we have received your service complaint and if we are considering it.") I was then told the following Friday to wait until the close of the day for their response.

This is the 16th working day since my service complaint and I have still heard nothing back from HOS.

Since 17 May 2020, my wife and I have been living in a weekly periodic tenancy under the threat to life of a 'no fault' Section 21 eviction notice. I contend before HOS that the fixed-term tenancy offered is not remotely a like-for-like agreement and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. I further contend that since Peabody have insisted that they have offered a tenancy "like for like as requested", it is only fair and reasonable that they produce such a document. Instead, Peabody has falsely accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement, and I have been provided by them with assurances that are not reflected in their new tenancy agreement.

Our legal position in respect to Section 21 possession poses a direct threat to my life. I am a 60-year-old asthmatic with a long history of serious respiratory illness, thus placing me in the high-risk group for COVID-19 and other viral respiratory infections. The new tenancy agreement also has a destabilising effect on our tenancy and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. For example, my wife cannot resume a volunteer position she held in the community for four years. I am also forced to maintain a suspension on my voluntary work in the community. The level of pressure and uncertainty connected with our tenancy is not only unfair to us but also to the community centre my wife has been volunteering in since June 2016. The centre obviously wants someone who is reliable and able to commit to set days and times.

I would very much like you to raise these issues with the Secretary of State. You can contact me at dheavey@gmail.com or by phone on 0788 043 7681.

Thank you for your help with this matter and I look forward to your response.

Best wishes,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

17 October: Declan asks Peabody to escalate his Stage 1 complaint about new terms of tenancy. Last night we received their response from the Housing Ombudsman Service after our flat door had been vandalised earlier in the evening (crime reference no. 5304416/20)

Comparative screenshots

Peabody has insisted that we have been offered like-for-like terms. Really? Their new clause 24 from section D, by no means our only concern, could force any RSI tenant into declaring bankruptcy in any number of scenarios. Never mind the fact that Peabody missed at least two HOS deadlines since 15 June to respond to Declan's Stage 1 complaint about new tenancy terms.

Our existing tenancy specifies one month's notice or four weeks' rent when we want to end the tenancy:

The tenancy on offer states that if we do not give Peabody one month's notice before we want to move out, or they do not explicitly accept a surrender of our tenancy in writing after we have given them a month's notice, we will remain liable for rent and service charges until the end of the fixed term:


Like for like? More comparative screenshots:

3 May: Peabody Trust: The appalling terms of tenancy on offer. Declan will seek from the Housing Ombudsman a declaration of incompatibility pursuant to the Human Rights Act 1998 (WITH UPDATE 17/10/20)

We no longer have pro se access to the courts

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan


The following is the full content of paragraph 4 under "Church and State" on this blog's sidebar.

4. This eviction matter previously came before District Judge Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June, 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 Declan's 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.

Who can say that Declan does not have opposition?

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Headquarters in Gogarburn. The RBS owns National Westminster Bank (NatWest).


Declan currently has NatWest Bank (owned by RBS) before the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). An investigator at FOS has found that the RBS Executive Case Manager wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan compensation on 17 February that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up a replacement standing order on the Network for Church Monitoring business account for the payment of his salary. His complaint about the subsequent cancellation of the standing order without his knowledge or consent that resulted in the non-payment of his salary on 24 February has been passed to the Ombudsman. His salary continues to be paid online by quick transfer from the business account to his personal account pending an ombudsman's final decision. FOS is required to publish final decisions by their ombudsmen on their website.

FOS investigator: "NatWest have said although the cancellation was processed on the 12th February 2020, it wasn't uploaded for processing until later – so it didn't actually cancel until the 19 February 2020."


14 October: NatWest Bank: Declan's complaint about the non-payment of his salary on 24 February has been passed to the Financial Ombudsman for a decision to be published on their website. The never-ending assault on our email continues unabated


This Mailtrack report relates to Declan's email address.


It's not just my permission emails on space travel (see previous post). This year we have also had major problems getting through by email to a close colleague in Washington DC. This particularly applies to the past three months. One email only got through this week after eight resends. We also know of emails from him and at least two of his op-eds that have also been blocked in the past few months. We were actually surprised that another close colleague in America received Declan's email in relation to his return for Corporation Tax this year, after all the trouble he had filing the return online with HM Revenue and Customs free of prosecution.

26 August: HM Revenue and Customs (day 11): Declan has written to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Will he be able today to submit his return online without facing prosecution, when he could have done so last February (WITH UPDATE 28/08/20)



From sidebar (see "Church and State", para. 5):

On 4 September, which also happened to be Declan's 60th birthday, HOS set Peabody their third and final deadline to respond to his complaint. Almost immediately that same day we were unreasonably threatened by Facebook that our Page would be unpublished by them. For the six weeks since 4 September, Facebook have dramatically restricted the distribution of the page from 120-400K a week for years to an unprecedented low 7-8K post reach a week. It hasn't mattered what, when or how often I post. Our Church and State website has been deriving little or no traffic from the page.

17 October (newer post): 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

 
"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 (1930-2020), (then) President, Americans for Religious Liberty

17 October: Part 2: Information Commissioner's Office. We are still waiting for the ICO to engage with Declan about support documents held by the Mayor of London-commissioned St Mungo's that stand in flagrant breach of our written agreement for support and add to the destabilisation of our tenancy (previous post)