Church and State blog: 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

Monday, January 11, 2021

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

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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

Church and State

MAYOR OF LONDON RSI PROPERTY
DAY 406 IN A WEEKLY PERIODIC TENANCY
SUBJECT TO A SECTION 21 NOTICE

(SEE PARA. 3 BELOW)

1. Our 308 Honorary Associates include 20 Nobel Prize laureates. Declan and I are engaged in a project that deals with the publication of issues significant to social policy in a number of key areas, e.g., climate change, population, futurism, atheism, and free speech. Established as Network for Church Monitoring, a non-profit company limited by guarantee, our main publication, found at the website, Church and State, calls attention to subjects, not the least which have been critical of the interaction between religious and secular institutions. We have been the target of numerous threats and actions, e.g., the former resulting in threats to Declan's life, and the latter, which have led to vandalism. The various incidents are on record with the police and other official agencies.

2. There are no less than 63 Nobel Prize laureates on the Church and State website from 20 Honorary Associates, eight articles, nine book excerpts and 33 petition signatories. (For example, one Nobel laureate signed our Nobel petition in support of human embryonic stem cell research and gave us permission to excerpt from one of his books.) Our list of associates also includes 18 US National Medal laureates, and six Turing Award laureates (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science). We have published one article and excerpted from the books of seven members of the British House of Lords. And there are 31 knighted professors on the site from 13 Honorary Associates, one book excerpt and 21 petition signatories. These figures are despite the never-ending assault on our email (this link reveals the targeting of our emails to, among others, a close colleague in Washington, DC as well as space advocates and Nobel laureates).

3. This is Day 406 for us living under the threat to life of a 'no fault' eviction by Peabody Trust.[1] We live in a Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) property. Peabody's appalling new terms of tenancy have forced us into an unstable weekly periodic tenancy that poses a threat to Declan's life and inhibits our ability to exercise our rights. Declan accumulated quite a history with the Housing Ombudsman Service before he received the Ombudsman's decision not to investigate a referral from Lyn Brown MP on jurisdictional grounds. The Ombudsman was asked to consider whether or not our tenancy has been renewed like for like; and whether, if not, it should be in light of the landlord having accused us of not signing a like-for-like agreement. The Equality and Human Rights Commission will not accept a referral of discrimination from Ms Brown, the Commission's helpline (EASS) having grossly distorted the complaint against Peabody. We no longer have pro se access to the courts (see next paragraph).

4. This eviction matter came before District Judge Ruth Fine at the Central London County Court on 30 June 2020, when both counsel for St Mungo's (the charity in effective control of our tenancy) and Declan presented their positions. Declan lost the case and was ordered to pay £1,850 in costs. A publishing colleague in America cleared these costs within 24 hours of my blog post about this hearing for strike out on a related issue that was the essence of the claim, i.e., that St Mungo's would take a phone call to confirm that we are clients of the Mayor of London's RSI programme. Within a week of the hearing, St Mungo's had agreed to take this phone call for us both, the Court having ruled that they were not obliged to do so despite our circumstances. This time we escaped bankruptcy (counsel for St Mungo's asked for £3,407.50 in costs), but consider that to seek pro se access to justice in the courts has become far too dangerous for us. Declan currently has before the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman the decision of the Information Commissioner that allows St Mungo's to continue processing coercive support plans without our knowledge or consent and that also poses a threat to his life.

5. When it comes to traffic, we have had 10.7 million hits in the past three years on Facebook; however, I left the platform on 13 March 2021 for one year rather than risk being banned for life. It is indisputable that with any sort of level playing field Church and State would have far exceeded 2.5 million hits last year. In addition to a large variety of blocks without explanation, Facebook had so severely restricted our Page's distribution by October 2020 that it was almost as good as an unpublished page.[2] Currently, we are up to their 85th block since 1 December 2015, and as usual without an explanation. This block records as one half of their 3rd double block in the first five weeks of this year that lasted 60 days. Our traffic has also been curtailed by over 2.5K blocks on access to Church and State since 26 July 2016, including 29 full distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since 17 May 2019 that have lasted for as long as 54 hours at a time.[3] About 70% of our hits are from Americans.

"This is precisely the hard hitting kind of response needed to clarify the unfair way Facebook is treating your highly reputable site." Don Collins, Founder, International Services Assistance Fund, Washington DC

Last updated: 26/06/21

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[1] Once a fixed term has elapsed, the landlord has the option to seek eviction even if the tenant has upheld their obligations in full (though of course the landlord must still apply for and obtain a county court order).

[2] 17/10/20: 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

[3] Since October 2019, we have been defining a full DDoS attack as having such a high volume of up to 4-minute blocks on access to Church and State that we don't bother recording them all.

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