Thursday, August 18, 2011

Declan reports Facebook to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal


In our About page statement, I added last night that within one week of Declan’s application to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) above regarding the interception of our communications and directed surveillance, our live-in landlady, human rights activist Belinda McKenzie, served us with backdated notice to vacate our home by the end of January (see previous blog). In fact, within that week Facebook disabled my account without warning or cause and SiteGround blocked my IP address, the latter of which prevented me from accessing our website for the first time since the web host began hosting the site back in December 2010. Although my IP address is now unblocked, Facebook has yet to get back to me or restore my account. We also have no idea who or what is next in the queue; but whomever or whatever it is, this afternoon Declan opened up a fast track to the IPT with Facebook:
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Perhaps our jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus (of the Department for Work and Pensions), will be next. They have lined us up for a one-hour interview next Thursday to take a shot at our jobseekers agreements with the DWP, which we always far exceed. It is scheduled to take place prior to our 'sign on', a prerequisite to our receipt the following Tuesday of £211, the money we receive for the both of us every two weeks. We smell trouble. After all, it was the DWP that forced us to sleep rough on the streets of London for more than 2 1/2 years, from 3 November 2006 and 13 July 2009, because Declan didn’t 'sign on' TWO DAYS BEFORE he was due to do so on 29 September 2006 (see paragraph 10 of the application to the IPT above; paragraphs 2 and 3 give a bit of our background).

It still baffles me that Belinda didn’t say anything to us about vacating our flat until three weeks after our one-year tenancy agreement ran out on 26 July, despite us emailing her twice for a new agreement (we have been here since July 2009); then she leaves an undated notice for us in the hall together with a new six-month agreement backdated to 26 July. Declan’s application to the IPT on 10 August includes two stunning photographs of MI5 whistleblower David Shayler, who lived for a couple of years in one of the rooms below us, until 2007 more or less. According to the BBC, Shayler "caused the biggest crisis of official secrecy since the spy catcher affair". By around 2007, he had been successfully neutralised: he changed his name to Delores Kane, declared himself to be Jesus, and became a squatter. A New Statesman article dated 11 September 2006 featuring Belinda and Shayler gives no indication that he believed he was the Messiah at that time.


Human rights activist Belinda McKenzie speaking at the UK Rally against child abuse, 4 June 2011, Trafalgar Square

We assume Belinda knows that come the end of January it is likely to be freezing cold, if not actually snowing!