Facebook's intermittent second double block this year (day 4). The suppression of our Page continues into this year. No let up from Pixsy

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).

28/01/21: "Since this morning, I have been blocked from banning trolls on my Page. Please could you restore this facility to me? All I can do at the moment is hide or delete abusive comments."

28/01/21: "Tonight I have been unable to see the comments on my Page. Please could you restore this facility to me? All that can be seen when you click on the comments button are replies without any comments visible."

Facebook's first quadruple block

Facebook's first quadruple block was updated on 25 August 2020. (1) I couldn't scroll after seeing 4-5 posts in groups I belong to (22 days); (2) I couldn't post in these groups (38 days); (3) I couldn't post in our Page (39 days); (4) I couldn't access a list of my groups (481 days). On 18 July 2020, I was threatened with the termination of my account without reason or cause.

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



On 4 September 2020, which also happened to be Declan's 60th birthday, the Housing Ombudsman Service set our landlord Peabody Trust a third and final deadline to respond to his Stage 1 complaint. Almost immediately that same day we were unreasonably threatened by Facebook that our Page would be unpublished by them. For the rest of the year, the distribution of the page was dramatically reduced from 120-400K to an average 5-10K post reach for the previous seven days. This month we have had an average 15K-20K in this post reach. What, when or how often I post continues to have little or no effect on the suppression of the post reach on any one given day.

17 October 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

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

Declan has had RBS's NatWest before the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) since February 2020 following the non-payment of his salary by standing order. The Financial Ombudsman has effectively found in a final decision that the Executive Case Manager at RBS wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan compensation on 17 February 2020 - in recognition of issues he had experienced in setting up two replacement standing orders on the Network for Church Monitoring business account - that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up the replacement standing order for the payment of his salary. Declan's 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 2020 was passed by the investigator to an ombudsman, who is the former Team Manager at FOS and has held roles at Alliance and Leicester (now Santander). His salary continues to be paid by manual transfer. Below is a link to his response to the ombudsman's final decision. He is still waiting for FOS to advise him that the decision has been published 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."

26 January: NatWest Bank: Declan responds to the Financial Ombudsman's final decision for their website. Pixsy continues to chase payment for the past non-commercial use of one image on the Church and State website

31 January: Pixsy (day 82): I have found Declan's Motion to Dismiss to fight their threatened court action in an article titled "Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling". No sooner had we heard from them than they were named and shamed by Computer Weekly and it's a truly sickening read (updated daily)

For months we experienced an almost total blockade of our emails to prominent space advocates anywhere in the world (only the latest targeted group). That blockade extended to an offer of financial help to us personally last month. We continue to have problems getting emails through to a close colleague in Washington, DC. Declan's use of his mobile phone to try to get my permission emails through to prominent space advocates has also proven unsuccessful. On both recent occasions the leading expert could only be reached through voice mail because, we assume, of the pandemic that is still raging in America. Most recently, we have had the honour of listing a Hall of Famer astronaut among our Honorary Associates. It was one of the few emails that we have gotten through to prominent space advocates since last September. (A distinction is made here between a prominent space advocate and someone who has written an article about space travel. I do get some permission emails through to space writers, but regrettably not very many and only occasionally.)

23 December 2020: The blockade of Church and State emails extends to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy with their outrageous Third Notice threaten our Church and State website. And Declan's primary laptop targeted this afternoon

From My Picks:

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

31 January: We're still waiting for Lyn Brown MP's referral to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Why must the Commission's helpline distort Declan's claim of discrimination against the landlord?[1] (updated daily)

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[1] This is DAY 260 for us living under the legal threat to life of a no fault eviction by Peabody Trust. We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative designated property.

Our list of 287 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

NatWest Bank: Declan responds to the Financial Ombudsman's final decision for their website. Pixsy continues to chase payment for the past non-commercial use of one image on the Church and State website

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 Plc (NatWest).

Declan has had RBS's NatWest before the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) since February 2020 following the non-payment of his salary by standing order. The Financial Ombudsman has effectively found that the Executive Case Manager at RBS wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan £100 compensation on 17 February 2020 - in recognition of issues he had experienced in setting up two replacement standing orders on the Network for Church Monitoring business account - that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up the replacement standing order for the payment of his salary (an additional £75 was paid on 18 March 2020). Declan's 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 2020 was passed by the investigator to the Ombudsman in October 2020. His salary continues to be paid by manual transfer. Below is his response this evening to Ombudsman Cathy Bovan's final decision. She is the former Team Manager at FOS and has held roles at Alliance and Leicester (now Santander). Declan's response was addressed to the investigator and copied to RBS CEO Alison Rose for her information:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 18:25, Declan Heavey wrote:
For the attention of Alison Rose, Chief Executive, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group

Pritti Darbar
Investigator
Financial Ombudsman Service

Address removed for email


26 January 2021

Dear Ms Darbar,

Thank you for the Financial Ombudsman's final decision about, inter alia, the cancellation of the standing order without my permission that resulted in the non-payment of my salary on 24 February 2020. Please find my completed reply form attached. The form only allows me to indicate whether or not I accept the decision, so I provide my reasons for not accepting the decision in this covering email for all parties involved.

In a final decision dated 26 January 2021, an ombudsman concludes that National Westminster Plc (NatWest) has already paid £175 in recognition of the issues of setting up the said standing order and thinks that represents fair settlement to my complaint.

On 25 February 2020, I submitted my complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). I then had to wait almost eight months before I received NatWest's explanation (citing "some error") for why my salary wasn't paid the day previous. I only first received this explanation via FOS on 8 October 2020, more than four months after NatWest had paid the £175 in total mentioned above.
 
I did not receive a response directly from NatWest to this aspect of my complaint, which they say had been sent to me on 12 March 2020 via Royal Mail. I believe that it is noteworthy that an additional £75 was not paid until 18 March 2020 in furtherance of this response. NatWest's letter states: "Due to the distress and inconvenience this issue has caused, I have credited your account ending 400 with the sum of £75.00" (emphasis added).

As I stated in my response to the ombudsman's provisional decision, it seems clear from the timeline that NatWest could have updated FOS far sooner than they did that they had responded in March 2020 to my complaint about the non-payment of my salary the month previous. I think this falls short of the service they ought to have provided at the time, but this is not sufficiently accounted for in the ombudsman's decision in my view.

My salary continues to be paid by manual transfer. Please let me know when the ombudsman's final decision is published on your website.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

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."

The FOS investigator (not the ombudsman) wrote that "when the executive team wrote to you, they wouldn't have been reasonably aware a cancellation was in the system and would've seen two standing orders set up - one for your [sic] and one for your wife". This is that email from RBS Executive Case Manager Mandy Durkin:

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 17:02, Durkin, Mandy (Executive Response Team) wrote:
Our Ref: PHO-0264121920
17 February 2020

Dear Mr Heavey

Re: Network for Church Monitoring Ltd.

Thank you for your recent emails addressed to Alison Rose, our Chief Executive. Alison has passed your correspondence to me and asked that I contact you on her behalf.

Please accept my apologies for the recent issues and poor service you have described in connection with setting up replacement standing orders. You have outlined that the instructions were taken incorrectly by Tom McKeon on your initial visit to NatWest Stratford Broadway Branch on 11 February 2020 and that you have had need to duplicate the request and visited another branch as a result.

I have discussed your concerns with Tom, who conveyed his apologies and confirmed that he had set up the instruction incorrectly and not verified the payment frequency. Regrettably, this failure has initiated your subsequent follow up contacts to the bank in order to seek correcting actions. I am sorry for the administration errors and lack of support you've described receiving. From my review of bank records I can confirm that the correcting actions are now completed in full.

All previous lapsed and incorrect standing orders have been cancelled. There are now two remaining active standing orders that have been set up as you requested, one payable to yourself and one payable to Mrs Heavey, for the amount of £140 fortnightly. The instructions are set up with an initial payment date of 24 February 2020 and a final payment date of 8 February 2021, against the reference *****400.

I am genuinely sorry for the trouble and frustration we have caused you. While there is no substitute for getting things right first time, I have credited £100 compensation to account number ending *400 in recognition of your time, travel costs and inconvenience in this case.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to bring this matter to our attention and allowing me the opportunity to address your concerns. I trust that these actions have resolved matters for you. Please don't hesitate to contact me should you have any further questions or queries in this regard.

Although I hope it won't be necessary, I am obliged to advise you that you have the right to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service, free of charge – but you must do so within six months of the date of this email. If you do not refer your complaint in time, the Ombudsman will not have our permission to consider your complaint and so will only be able to do so in very limited circumstances (for example, if the Ombudsman believes that the delay was as a result of exceptional circumstances). Further information about the service is available in their leaflet http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/publications/consumer-leaflet.htm and on their website www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Yours sincerely

Mandy

Mandy Durkin | Executive Case Manager| Customer Service & Operations | Commercial Banking

For months we experienced an almost total blockade of our emails to prominent space advocates anywhere in the world (only the latest targeted group). That blockade extended to an offer of financial help to us personally last month. We continue to have problems getting emails through to a close colleague in Washington, DC. Declan's use of his mobile phone to try to get my permission emails through to prominent space advocates has also proven unsuccessful. On both recent occasions the leading expert could only be reached through voice mail because, we assume, of the pandemic that is still raging in America. Most recently, we have had the honour of listing a Hall of Famer astronaut among our Honorary Associates. It was one of the few emails that we have gotten through to prominent space advocates since last September. (A distinction is made here between a prominent space advocate and someone who has written an article about space travel. I do get some permission emails through to space writers, but regrettably not very many and only occasionally.)

23 December 2020: The blockade of Church and State emails extends to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy with their outrageous Third Notice threaten our Church and State website. And Declan's primary laptop targeted this afternoon

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

From My Picks:

26 January: Pixsy (day 77): I have found Declan's Motion to Dismiss to fight their threatened court action in an article titled "Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling". No sooner had we heard from them than they were named and shamed by Computer Weekly and it's a truly sickening read (updated daily)



Our list of 287 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

One half of Facebook's first double block this year remains in place (day 4). The Equality Advisory Support Service ignore and compound their distortion Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust and dismiss his case for the second time for referral to the Equality and Human Rights Commission

DAY 240 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).



On the night of 8 January I told Facebook about being unable to schedule posts. I wrote: "Since this morning, I have been unable to schedule posts. When I post a link, no photo appears. This happens no matter what the website involved (please see attachment)." No explanation provided. This block remains in place this morning (on day 4).



On the night of 8 January I also told Facebook about being unable to share articles from the platform. I wrote: "Tonight I am unable to share articles from Facebook. When I try to share an article, I am prevented from writing anything. I am also prevented from including the original post (please see attachment)." No explanation provided. This facility was restored to me the following day (on day 2).

EASS: Targeted blindness?

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Date: 11/01/2021
Reference Number: 210111-000042
Subject: My Stage 2 complaint

Dear Equality Advisory Support Service,

I wish to make a Stage 2 complaint, under the EASS complaints procedure, about the dismissal of my request for the referral of my case of discrimination to the Equality and Human Rights Commission via your service.

The case of discrimination is against Peabody Trust for proposed new terms of a Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) tenancy.

First, your support centre expressed the view that I am not being discriminated against because it was falsely contended by them that I mentioned that I am no longer a tenant of Clearing House which is part of St Mungo's on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA). I have never said or written that I am a former Clearing House tenant. On the contrary, I wrote that: "I am making this complaint to you for discrimination against me as a Clearing House tenant."

I also provided a quote from the GLA establishing that I am a Clearing House tenant.

Second, nowhere in the new tenancy does it state as contended by your support centre that I am living in temporary accommodation and could be at risk of eviction to help other rough sleepers on the way to permanent housing. This interpretation of the two-year fixed-term tenancy is wrong.

A review of the above reveals a deliberate manipulation and distortion of the evidence showing bias.

The response to my Stage 1 complaint only exacerbates this situation in my view. Not only is this manipulation and distortion of the evidence ignored, but it is compounded by the unsubstantiated assertion that I do not appear to be treated any differently than any other tenant in my situation. It is absurd of EASS to suggest that I am being treated as other Clearing House tenants in RSI properties.
 
The fact that this referral can be done via either an MP or a solicitor should not negate the validity of this complaint. I do not believe that EASS has dealt with my complaint with respect, courtesy and fairness.

Yours faithfully,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

11 January: Pixsy (day 62): I have found Declan's Motion to Dismiss to fight their threatened court action in an article titled "Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling". No sooner had we heard from them than they were named and shamed by Computer Weekly and it's a truly sickening read (updated daily)

For months we have been dealing with an almost total blockade of our emails to prominent space advocates anywhere in the world (only the latest targeted group). That blockade extended to an offer of financial help to us personally last month. We continue to have major problems getting our emails through to a close colleague in Washington, DC. Declan's use of his mobile phone to try to get my permission emails through to prominent space advocates has also proven unsuccessful. On both recent occasions the leading expert could only be reached through voice mail because, we assume, of the pandemic that is still raging in America. Most recently, we have had the honour of listing a Hall of Famer astronaut among our Honorary Associates. It was one of the few emails that we have gotten through to prominent space advocates since last September. (A distinction is made here between a prominent space advocate and someone who has written an article about space travel. I do get some permission emails through to space writers, but regrettably not very many and only occasionally.)

23 December 2020: The blockade of Church and State emails extends to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy with their outrageous Third Notice threaten our Church and State website. And Declan's primary laptop targeted this afternoon

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

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Facebook's suppression tactics with us



The following information was last updated on 1 January. It will be updated again on 1 February and thereafter on the 1st day of every month this year.

On 4 September 2020, which also happened to be Declan's 60th birthday, the Housing Ombudsman Service set our landlord Peabody Trust a third and final deadline to respond to his Stage 1 complaint. Almost immediately that same day we were unreasonably threatened by Facebook that our Page would be unpublished by them. For the rest of the year, the distribution of the page was dramatically reduced from 120-400K to an average 5-10K post reach for the previous seven days. The New Year has kicked off with a suprising 22k post reach for the previous week. Not once in the last third of last year did we surpass 20K in this post reach. What, when or how often I post continues to have little or no effect on the suppression of the post reach on any one given day.

17 October 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

From My Picks:

6 January: Equality Advisory Support Service: Targeted blindness? We were told yesterday that Lyn Brown MP will let us know by the end of next week whether she will refer Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust to the Equality and Human Rights Commission



Our list of 287 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

Equality Advisory Support Service: Targeted blindness? We were told yesterday that Lyn Brown MP will let us know by the end of next week whether she will refer Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust to the Equality and Human Rights Commission

DAY 235 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).

On 17 December 2020, the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) dismissed in writing Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust for new terms of tenancy that are not only not fair or reasonable, but have forced us into a weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to his life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. He made the case that we are being discriminated against on the grounds of philosophical belief, a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. The EASS dismissed the complaint for referral to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (not public-facing), stating that based on the information provided they are "unable to identify where your protected characteristic is linked with any treatment of discrimination". This decision was based on a gross manipulation and distortion of the evidence showing bias. On 29 December 2020, Declan made his Stage 1 service complaint. EASS: "You will receive an acknowledgement of your complaint within one working day of its receipt. A Team Manager will aim to resolve your complaint within 10 working days. The 10-day timescale will commence from the next working day following the receipt of the complaint." We have been told in an ominous email that we can expect a response on or before next Monday. This was Declan's complaint about their decision:

Date: 29/12/2020
Reference Number: 201213-000013
Subject: My Stage 1 complaint

Dear Equality Advisory Support Service,
  
I wish to make a Stage 1 complaint, under the EASS complaints procedure, about the dismissal of my request for the referral of my case of discrimination to the Equality and Human Rights Commission via your service.
 
The case of discrimination is against Peabody Trust for proposed new terms of a Rough Sleepers Initiative tenancy.
 
First, your support centre is of the view that I am not being discriminated against because they contend that I mentioned that I am no longer a tenant of Clearing House which is part of St Mungo's on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA). I have never said or written that I am a former Clearing House tenant. On the contrary, I wrote that: "I am making this complaint to you for discrimination against me as a Clearing House tenant."
 
I also provided a quote from the GLA establishing that I am a Clearing House tenant.
 
Second, nowhere in the new tenancy does it state that I am living in temporary accommodation and could be at risk of eviction to help other rough sleepers on the way to permanent housing. This interpretation of the two-year fixed-term tenancy is wrong.
 
A review of the above reveals a deliberate manipulation and distortion of the evidence showing bias. The fact that this referral can be done via either an MP or a solicitor should not negate the validity of this complaint in my view.
 
Yours faithfully,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

EASS: Targeted blindness?

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

We were told yesterday that Lyn Brown MP will let us know by the end of next week whether she will refer this letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (not public-facing) despite EASS's dismissal of the complaint.

13 December 2020

Equality and Human Rights Commission
Correspondence Unit
Fleetbank House
2-6 Salisbury Square
London
EC4Y 8JX

Dear Equality and Human Rights Commission,

Complaint against Peabody Trust

Please can you advise if you can take pre-enforcement action to help protect my rights without resorting to a court case.

Contact Reason

Equality Act - Discrimination.

Protected Characteristic

Philosophical belief.

What has happened

On 11 December 2020, I received the enclosed final decision letter ("the letter") from my landlord, Peabody Trust housing association. In the letter, Peabody falsely allege that I have appointed a solicitor in this case.

They also misleadingly state that I am housed by them under the Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) scheme. In fact, my wife and I are tenants of the Clearing House, which is run by St Mungo's on behalf of the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the properties are provided by housing associations – such as Peabody. This fact was clarified by the GLA when their Housing First pilot, which we were a part of, ended. They wrote: "In other words, at the end of the Housing First pilot, the tenants would revert to being Clearing House tenants and as such would fall to be referred to the TST [Tenancy Sustainment Team] like all other Clearing House tenants."

Peabody's proposed new terms of tenancy, taken together with the letter, would inter alia unequivocally disenfranchise me of my right to support from St Mungo's TST. It would leave me instead with "visiting support" from Peabody that I do not want or need. They write: "We do absolutely empathise with you as a former rough sleeper and we hope you will engage with us going forward to further help you with support."

Peabody's letter has been issued to me six months into a supported housing weekly periodic tenancy. It effectively threatens me with 'no fault' short term eviction. Any assurances to the contrary have no value in law, and especially since I have no intention of forgoing support from St Mungo's TST that I am currently being prevented from accessing due to the ongoing destabilisation of my tenancy. In fact, the letter 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. Eviction from an RSI property would leave me wholly vulnerable and with no prospect of being housed.

I have emailed my local MP and three councillors for the referral of my complaint straight to the Housing Ombudsman. Without this referral, I have to wait until the period of eight weeks has passed before the Ombudsman will consider the case. Such is the short-term threat to my tenancy that I am also making this complaint to you for discrimination against me as a Clearing House tenant. It is absurd of Peabody to suggest that I am being treated as other Clearing House tenants in RSI properties.

The Equality Act 2010 states that it is unlawful to discriminate against a person by treating them less favourably because of their protected characteristic; in this case, my philosophical belief. The expression of my secular values and beliefs at my website – www.churchandstate.org.uk – should have no bearing on how I am treated by a housing association. I believe that as the managing director of Network for Church Monitoring, the organisation that runs the site, there is sufficient causal connection between my protected characteristic and the way I am being treated by Peabody.

Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing from you as soon as conveniently possible.

Yours faithfully,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

5 January: Peabody Trust (death threat): Declan has asked Lyn Brown MP for the referral of his complaint to the Equality and Human Rights Commission as well as the Housing Ombudsman. There may be nothing we can do about the Equality Advisory Support Service's distortion and dismissal of the complaint[1]

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[1] Declan's complaint for referral to the Housing Ombudsman is published in this blog post.

DJ Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs

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

Heavey v St Mungo's (2020)

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 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.

30 June 2020: 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 06/01/21)

St Mungos management were repeatedly warned by their staff via Unite that their actions weere unethical, damaged the work of front line staff and were likley to be unlawful. The same senior managers remain in place https://t.co/ZSXwq3Xd81 #homelessness #ukhousing @labhomeless_cam

— UniteHousingWorkers (@UniteHousing) November 5, 2019

2 January: We have once again lost all free view channels using our second BT TV YouView box (day 4). This time it's on an on-off basis and by far more off than on. Four cuts during this period on what's left on HDMI input without these channels. We have had three BT engineers in our flat to date to no avail. No equipment, phone line or aerial fault detected. When we switch from HDMI to Antenna, we have always had and continue to have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial alone.

6 January: British Telecom: No let up on inference on individual TV channels using our second BT YouView box. The blockade of Church and State emails has extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy's threat to Church and State remains open and ongoing



From My Picks:

24 November 2020: For the fourth time Pixsy chase payment without a claim letter for the past non-commercial use of one image on the Church and State website. We're still waiting for Peabody Trust's final decision letter for the Housing Ombudsman to investigate appalling new terms of tenancy



Our list of 287 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

Pixsy have escalated their outrageous threat to our Church and State website (day 57). The Equality Advisory and Support Service distorts and dismisses Declan's case of discrimination. And the never-ending assault on our email has resulted in the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally

9/12/20

Until a license is purchased, this matter remains open and ongoing.

James (no surname), Pixsy Case Management Team

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).



Fourth Notice: Unauthorized Use of Mr. Hiltscher's Image - Case Reference: 002-110889

Yesterday Declan received the equivalent of Pixsy's fourth notice threatening him with court action (see their Third Notice here). For the second time they assure us that the next time we hear from them their case will have been escalated externally. They also misleadingly give the impression that Declan has not responded to their claim when he has repeatedly done so both in writing (twice acknowledged in writing by them) and by phone (four times). He has twice gotten to speak with someone in Pixsy about this case. As soon as they issue us a claim letter, I will be announcing the fact on Twitter, pointing out that this is for our past non-commercial use of one image on the site that I couldn't have possibly known was copyright-protected and needed a license. Declan will then make an open application to Advocate, the Law Society's pro bono unit for legal representation. I found the image here. Pixsy have been pursuing us for almost two months (57 days), but don't seem to care in the least about a website that is running a score of this client's images without authorisation. They are, of course, entitled to do this but it would make for an interesting question in a court of law in our view. Just what is motivating them when it comes to Network for Church Monitoring? They have been informed of our actions and the non-profit's limited financial condition, of which they seem to care not one iota. We actually live below the poverty line and are currently being threatened with eviction back to the streets for the third time through no fault of our own (see "Peabody's threat to Declan's life" below). We also do not consider it irrelevant to this case to mention the fact that the almost total blockade of our Church and State emails revealed in this blog post extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally last month.

9/12/20

I would have no contact whatsoever with these Charlatans!!!!!!!!!

They offer installment payments--a sign of scam in my view.

10 December: We get two reactions from America to Pixsy's Second Notice yesterday. Both are spot-on in our view

Almost immediately after Declan received Pixsy's second notice on 9 December 2020, he received an email from the Financial Ombudsman acknowledging receipt of his response of 24 November 2020 to a provisional decision. There's still nothing on this ombudsman's website about NatWest's non-payment of his salary last February.

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

Declan has had RBS's NatWest before the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) since 25 February 2020 following the non-payment of his salary by standing order. The Financial Ombudsman has effectively found in a provisional decision that the Executive Case Manager at RBS wouldn't have been reasonably aware when she paid Declan compensation on 17 February 2020 - in recognition of issues he had experienced in setting up two replacement standing orders on the Network for Church Monitoring business account - that there had been some error previously made by NatWest in setting up the replacement standing order for the payment of his salary. Declan's 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 2020 was passed by the investigator to an ombudsman, who is the former Team Manager at FOS and has held roles at Alliance and Leicester (now Santander). His salary continues to be paid online by quick transfer from the business account to his personal account pending this ombudsman's final decision that will be published on their website. Below is a link to Declan's response to the ombudsman's provisional decision.

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."

24 November 2020: NatWest Bank: Declan responds to the Financial Ombudsman's provisional decision for their website. Pixsy had just chased for the fourth time in two weeks payment for the past use of one image on the Church and State website

The above is the first of three complaints Declan submitted last year to FOS for resolution. This image from online banking reveals the second time in two months that we discovered that NatWest had made an error with the spelling of his surname:



Bad as that was, it didn't come close to a cashier at NatWest Stratford Broadway branch manually changing Declan's surname from Heavey to Henry before transferring £1,850 to St Mungo's by court order. I covered all three of these complaints to FOS in one blog post on 8 November 2020. FOS's third investigation into the second name change hasn't started yet, although they've asked for further documents under a new case reference number (PNX-3922737-R0H9). Since NatWest referred him to FOS this third time, they've changed the goalposts in respect of the complaint. They now say that I need to raise the complaint with them, even though the change to the payee name in question relates to Declan's account. I'm just the one that discovered the name change when I attempted to send him a payment.

Peabody's threat to Declan's life

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

This is day 235 for us living under the threat to life of a no fault eviction by Peabody Trust. We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) designated property. Peabody's new terms of tenancy are not only not fair or reasonable, but have forced us into a weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Peabody continue to insist that we have been offered a tenancy "like for like as requested", and that effectively there are no material differences between the two tenancy agreements. On 14 December 2020, Lyn Bown MP agreed to refer the case to the Housing Ombudsman. Declan's complaint for referral to the Equality and Human Rights Commission was distorted and dismissed by the Equality Advisory Support Service. It's currently with Ms Brown for referral to the Commission. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next block).

5 January: Peabody Trust (death threat): Declan has asked Lyn Brown MP for the referral of his complaint to the Equality and Human Rights Commission as well as the Housing Ombudsman. There may be nothing we can do about the Equality Advisory Support Service's distortion and dismissal of the complaint

DJ Ruth Fine orders Declan to pay £1,850 in costs

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

Heavey v St Mungo's (2020)

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 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.

30 June 2020: 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 06/01/21)

Metropolitan Police Crime Reference No. 5330050/20. On 16 October 2020, our flat door on the 2nd floor 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, and on 11 November 2020 that lock was changed. Our flat door was repaired by a security contractor on 1 December 2020 with silicone sealant and glue gun. The police closed the case within two days of the crime due to a lack of evidence.

Offer of financial help sabotaged



For months we have been dealing with an almost total blockade of our emails to prominent space advocates anywhere in the world (only the latest targeted group). That blockade extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally last month. We continue to have major problems getting our emails through to a close colleague in Washington, DC. Declan's use of his mobile phone to try to get my permission emails through to prominent space advocates has also proven unsuccessful. On both recent occasions the leading expert could only be reached through voice mail because, we assume, of the pandemic that is still raging in America. Most recently, we have had the honour of listing a Hall of Famer astronaut among our Honorary Associates. It was one of the few emails that we have gotten through to prominent space advocates since last September. (A distinction is made here between a prominent space advocate and someone who has written an article about space travel. I do get some permission emails through to space writers, but regrettably not very many and only occasionally.)

23 December 2020: The blockade of Church and State emails extends to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy with their outrageous Third Notice threaten our Church and State website. And Declan's primary laptop targeted this afternoon

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

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Facebook's suppression tactics with us



The following information was last updated on 1 January. It will be updated again on 1 February and thereafter on the 1st day of every month this year.

On 4 September 2020, which also happened to be Declan's 60th birthday, the Housing Ombudsman Service set our landlord Peabody Trust a third and final deadline to respond to his Stage 1 complaint. Almost immediately that same day we were unreasonably threatened by Facebook that our Page would be unpublished by them. For the rest of the year, the distribution of the page was dramatically reduced from 120-400K to an average 5-10K post reach for the previous seven days. The New Year has kicked off with a suprising 22k post reach for the previous week. Not once in the last third of last year did we surpass 20K in this post reach. What, when or how often I post continues to have little or no effect on the suppression of the post reach on any one given day.

17 October 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

From My Picks:

6 January 2021: Equality Advisory Support Service: Targeted blindness? We were told yesterday that Lyn Brown MP will let us know by the end of next week whether she will refer Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (newer post)



Our list of 287 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

British Telecom: No let up on inference on individual TV channels using our second BT YouView box. The blockade of Church and State emails has extended to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy's threat to Church and State remains open and ongoing

Pixsy's Third Notice that can no longer only be seen by us. One response to their second notice:

9/12/20

Dears

This reminds me of what President Trump has done with the suckers (voters for him) who sent him money because he claimed the Biden election was fraudulent. He collected over $200 million.

These con men can do a lot electronically but enforcing their claim will require bringing a suit. Paying $249 is just a dispute=a small claim. Which has not been proven.

I would ignore and if the matter requires legal help we will help you but until then I would not send them a dime.

file:///C:/Users/Don/Downloads/002-110889_Unauthorised%20Use%20of%20Image.pdf\

Keep us posted.

Don

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).

2 January 2021: We have once again lost all free view channels using our second BT TV YouView box (day 4). This time it's on an on-off basis and by far more off than on. Four cuts during this period on what's left on HDMI input without these channels. We have had three BT engineers in our flat to date to no avail. No equipment, phone line or aerial fault detected. When we switch from HDMI to Antenna, we have always had and continue to have perfect reception on free view channels using our aerial.

10 December 2020: Interference with individual laptops and our TV viewing continue unabated. Six cuts between the two today, and for the first time our TV was rendered inaudible using our second BT YouView box (volume restored with factory reset). We're still waiting for the Financial Ombudsman's decision to be made public

The targeting of one or more of our four operational laptops kicked off again last month. It's either cut the targeted laptop(s) from the internet or slow down the speeds. Seldom, if ever, are two laptops treated the same way at any one time, unless we have been cut off the internet altogether for anything up to 7 days to date.

7 February 2019: The targeting of our two primary laptops runs into a record-breaking third month. My primary laptop has been targeted for over three months (WITH UPDATE 23/12/20)

24 November 2020: NatWest Bank: Declan responds to the Financial Ombudsman's provisional decision for their website. Pixsy had just chased for the fourth time in two weeks payment for the past use of one image on the Church and State website



6 January 2021: Equality Advisory Support Service: Targeted blindness? We were told yesterday that Lyn Brown MP will let us know by the end of next week whether she will refer Declan's complaint of discrimination against Peabody Trust to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (newer post)



23 December 2020: The blockade of Church and State emails extends to the sabotage of an offer of financial help to us personally. Pixsy with their outrageous Third Notice threaten our Church and State website. And Declan's primary laptop targeted this afternoon

UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

From My Picks:

24 November 2020: For the fourth time Pixsy chase payment without a claim letter for the past non-commercial use of one image on the Church and State website. We're still waiting for Peabody Trust's final decision letter for the Housing Ombudsman to investigate appalling new terms of tenancy



Our list of 287 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