My complaint letter to Andrew Jackson, Centre Manager, CSA

I AM WRITING TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WEBSITE AND I AM PROVIDING THE MATERIAL BELOW IN THE HOPE THAT IT MAY POINT OUT SOME PERTINENT POINTS, WHICH MAY HELP OTHERS AGAINST THIS ODIOUS, LAWLESS ‘AGENCY’. CSA, PO Box22, Edinburgh, EH91 5BE

Your ref.: 1015973825/MA4/DUD

Saturday 19th January 2013

FAO: Andrew Jackson, Centre Manager, CSA

Dear Mr Jackson

In response to your deliberately intimidating letter dated 08/01/13: I simply can’t ‘prove’ something, which never took place! When I wrote ‘vineyard worker’ on my JSA claim form back in October last year, which is where your ‘information’ comes from, I did so as a generalisation, in order to avoid writing a long-winded description of my activities and movements in the months before.

I was travelling in the UK and Europe, mostly hitch-hiking as I was very short of money, and sometimes I was lucky enough to find the odd day or two of paid work. At the beginning of the year, I was travelling with my friend Wayne, and we found a couple of days work sanding and priming the bottom of a big boat in dry dock in Portimão, Portugal. We also found a couple of days doing some tree-pruning and gardening for a couple close to Loulé, Portugal. The majority of our working time was spent as volunteer workers.

The next time I found some paid work was in Sweden, when I met a young farmer in a town called Askersund, who had chopped down an area of forest and had a rather huge pile of tree trunks ready to be crunched into firewood. Even though there was a good few months worth of work there, which I would have loved to do, I could only manage three half days before I had to give up, because the work was too heavy for my knee to support: I was injured in a Road Traffic Accident in 2011, where my knee was crushed.

Since this accident, I have had to regularly visit my doctor, who finally recommended a scan to my knee, which I had in July, if I remember correctly. After the Radiologist and a specialist consultant surgeon examined the MRI scan, they concluded that I have a complex injury with associated cyst. They recommend that I should have surgery, which is an operation I am still waiting to hear about.

The same injury problems plagued me in France as they did in Sweden. I found a job on a vineyard, but I was only able to work less than five hours a day, because of this injury, and by the third day of working it had swollen up so much, and I was in that much pain, that I could not carry on. My knee would just not allow me to do all of the squatting down that the job requires, so I had to make my apologies to my employer, and move on again.

This has been the history of my working life since the accident and indeed, it is only through the help and support of my friends and family; volunteer working; kindness and charity from ‘strangers’; and my dogged determination to manage come what may, that I have managed to keep my head above water.

I am very grateful to now be in receipt of benefits!

This said, I find it most devious of you, the ‘Child Support’ Agency, to be trying to use these few words I wrote on my JSA claim form as some sort of ‘leverage’ to be used against me! If you are trying to infer from this that I was earning a full-time income as a vineyard worker, then you are way off the mark. I earned a pittance last year, and the vast majority of the money I ‘earned’ came from benefit payments.

If you are not satisfied with this statement of truth, then that is, indeed, your lookout, and I would like to state, ‘for the record’, that I make this statement under duress. I have nothing to ‘prove’ to you.

I will preserve my dignity, and not tirade against any individual member of your agency, but I will condemn you for your collective moral turpitude.

David Tredinnick ‘nailed it’ when he said; “If George Orwell were alive today and looking for a sequel to 1984, I suspect he would have based it on the CSA… “CSA snooping”…spoken of with the same distaste as the poll tax…a modern day equivalent of Big Brother.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4020399.stm

You and your ilk represent neo-Dickensian Britain at its worst. “Hard Times” sees the corrupt, self-vaunting, capitalist Josiah Bounderby abuse and persecute an honest, principled ‘Hand’, (Dickens’ term for the lowest labourers in ‘Coketowns’ factories), Stephen Blackpool to death. Mark its continuing poignancy and relevancy to life in ‘modern’ Britain.

There are sound and manifold reasons why you, and those who ‘sanction’ and ‘empower’ you are so deeply reviled. I would have to put your popularity right ‘up there’ with our ‘greatest moral reformer’, Mr BLIAR himself, who decreed, ever so gallantly, from his lofty, ivory tower, ‘We will make absent father’s pay’: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-dont-forget-why-tony-blair-is-a-pariah-in-his-own-land-7953427.html
Tony Blair is no wrongly dishonoured prophet but a pariah in his own land. He is a pariah because he colluded in an act of abundant wickedness, and untold hundreds of thousands died and millions more suffered monstrously in consequence…so long as this Kraken of deranged self-righteousness believes he has a future in public life, and so long as powerful people are willing to indulge him, it cannot be reiterated often enough.

I resent the unsolicited meddling of dictatorial, politically-motivated, myopic ‘Quangos’ such as you, the CSA. Yet this is the “Age of the Quango”. You have aided chaos and abetted poverty; you have had huge sums of public money thrown at you; the public have formed pressure groups and demonstrated on the streets against you; yet you are still empowered and re-empowered to carry on your dirty work, and it begs the question, why?

For the same reason people staged a huge anti-war demonstration, yet Tony still got his war; for the same reason he still seems to be hanging around like a bad smell – just like you; for the same reason so many other ‘government agencies’ are endemically corrupt: we live in a self-deluding, corporate-governmental plutocracy; not a democracy, rather an anti-democracy.

Created by the British ‘elite’, who abuse the ‘mass media’ as a platform for their inbred, warped sense of ‘ideological superiority’; their murderously biased, narcissistic self-righteousness:
“It’s worth remembering that no matter how much they try, they are part of the British educated elite, that is, ideological fanatics who have long ago lost the capacity to think on any issue of human significance, and entirely in the grip of the state religion.” “Newspeak in the 21st Century”, David Edwards and David Cromwell, p.199, quoting Noam Chomsky.

Article 8, European Convention on Human Rights. Right to respect for private and family life. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

My right to live at peace within my own land, free from the pernicious harassment, for which you are infamous, and my right to be considered ‘Innocent until proven guilty’ are inviolate – yet from the outset, your intimidating letter, with all its inveigled sophistry and legalistic insinuations would have me believe otherwise! Well, the game is up!

I am fully aware of the lawless nature of your modus operandi: I bring to your attention the recent judgement against you in the Court of Appeal, which condemns you, the CSA, for “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” legal failings: http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2012/10/31/child-support-agency-routinely-breaching-the-human-rights-of-fathers/

Your STANDARD WORKING PRACTICES breach the rights of fathers under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. These rights guarantee the ‘Presumption of innocence until guilt is proven’, and similar legal rights. As the article points out, your ‘casual’ reversal of that most fundamental of legal principles, the burden of proof, suggests you behave more like the secret police in a dictatorship, rather than the arm of a democracy.

As John Pilger rightly points out: “The British people have probably never been more politically aware and prepared to clear out decrepit myths and other rubbish while stepping angrily over the babbling brook of bullshit.” http://johnpilger.com/articles/britain-the-depth-of-corruption

I bring your attention to your own babbling brook of bullshit: your intimidating language of inveigled sophistry and legalistic threats, which I refer to above. You are trying to imply that not only am I “guilty until I can prove myself innocent”, but also that you seem to be ‘endowed’ with exceptional ‘legal powers’ to act as both my Judge, my Jury and my Executioner! Here’s a taster; an example of your ‘totalitarianesque’ language:

Please note – Child Support Law permits the estimation of earnings where no income evidence is available or the information provided is unreliable. This provision can be applied without any further notice required.

What an extraordinary statement!

Please allow me to enlighten you: http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/11/04/british-court-child-support-agency-denies-fathers-due-process-of-law/
Two British fathers have prevailed in their lawsuit against England’s Child Support Agency. The much maligned and soon to be defunct agency was called “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” by the Court of Appeal because it routinely failed to provide even the most elementary of due process rights to fathers in child support cases. If we didn’t know as much as we do about the system of family courts, we might be surprised to learn that due process of law as basic as notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend oneself and the presumption of innocence aren’t routinely accorded fathers accused of failing to pay support. But we do know about family courts, so we’re not surprised in the least. For the information of non-lawyers, there are certain basics of due process of law, i.e. things without which there is no due process of law. These concepts are centuries old. They include notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend the charge including calling witnesses on one’s behalf, the charging party bearing the burden of proof and the right to have the charges adjudicated by an impartial tribunal. Of those four, the CSA denied (and has denied for many years) three to non-custodial fathers. In effect, the CSA turned back the legal clock for non-custodial fathers to pre-Magna Carta days. And, not unlike King John at the time, the British government is outraged that it’s forbidden to do what it pleases.

Guffaw; guffaw! Here, here!

There are many ‘interesting things’ I would like to take you to task about, which relate to your lawlessness, and I am grateful to the many groups, which inform me: http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page9349.htm “the CSA/CMEC hold no LAWFUL jurisdiction over any non resident parent and if any NRP has not consented to it, i.e. signed any Maintenance Enquiry Forms or Maintenance Assessment Forms, then no consent has been given to the CSA/CMEC.”
“We are putting together templates on our forum for NRPs to access and print off and send to the CSA, and basically they are asking the CSA for proof of claim that they can lawfully, not legally, (lawful and legal are two different entities), remove money for child maintenance, and if they cannot prove any of their actions LAWFULLY, then that gives the NRP the power to prosecute the CSA/CMEC and have them done for committing treason.”
“Statute legislation is simple, it is known as the Child Support Act 1991 or Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008. A statute is a legislative rule of society given the force of law by consent of the Governed, the Governed are… YOU… If you have not consented to adhering to their forceful law then they cannot lawfully or legally enforce it upon you, and if they have no signed contract between you and themselves then taking money from wages, benefits bank accounts or whatever then this is classed as treason.” “Those of you who had liability orders issued against you then the Magistrates will have also committed treason, we are sorting out template letters for NRPs to send off to the Ministry Of Justice asking for proof of claim why they are not acting within Common Law, this will open up the floodgates and hopefully see the CSA/CMEC shut down and we mean that. We are working hard both myself and Sherri and have a great group of friends running other organisations and hopefully when we start our talks around the country this will also make others aware of the corruption within the CSA/CMEC as well as other corrupt government run agencies.”

You will note that your agency has previously taken money from my state benefits, without so much as a ‘by your leave’. This is something I am going to take you to task about, as it is UNLAWFUL. My first point of call will be to send a copy of this letter to my MP, asking him to investigate this important issue, as well as to solicitors, who have previous experience in taking you to task over your lawlessness.

I have never received any form of notice before you started removing payments from my benefits; no Maintenance Enquiry Forms, nor Maintenance Assessment Forms were sent to me. It is my duty to question the legality of this action, especially as the law stipulates that state benefits are the minimum amount required to live on. It is obvious that you believe ‘due process’ does not apply to you – well, it does!

In light of all of the readily available and abundant information, which pertains to your lawlessness, I certainly do not feel at all obliged to enter into any form of ‘business’ with you; as you so perversely put it: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission collects information for the purpose of dealing with child maintenance. The information we collect about you depends on the reason for your business with us.

Let me make the point clear from the outset: you may make the claim to have ‘business’ with me; but I, in no way whatsoever make any claim to have any ‘business’ with you.

It makes no difference to me if you are a ‘government agency’ or the Prime Minister, you cannot act above the law, even if you claim to have been given dubious ‘legal powers’ by corrupt politicians. If these ‘legal powers’ infringe upon my inviolate human rights, then you are acting unlawfully, and I will oppose you. The recent judgment against you in the Court of Appeal proves my instinct right; that lawlessness is your benchmark. I therefore refuse to sanction the legitimacy of your organisation, or the ‘legal statutes’ you rely upon to ‘justify’ your lawlessness.

Another concern is that, (if you are foolish enough to absorb certain media-backed propaganda, which I personally am not), you purport to be a ‘government agency’ acting to ‘reduce child poverty’. This is just Newspeak; sophistry – the modern word for it is ‘spin’. So just where is your hard evidence? Where are the facts that your ‘government agency’ has reduced child poverty in this, the one European country that undoubtedly needs this the most? Since Thatcher’s corporate-sponsored rout, it is successive governments’ own war against their own people that has produced the extreme impoverishment and breakdown of all that was good in Britain: http://www.cpag.org.uk/child-poverty-facts-and-figures – There are 3.6 million children living in poverty in the UK today. That’s 27 per cent of children, or more than one in four.

I would like to see you produce some real evidence to justify this bullshit statement of yours – I can produce lots of solid and reliable evidence to the contrary. Your ‘agency’ promotes such poverty by murdering parents and deliberately impoverishing fathers. There’s a start. Unlike your statement, I can produce facts to prove the truth of mine.

I am also, of course, concerned about the fact that you are TRADING AS A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY – so you are ‘trading’ to profit financially from compounding the misery of others! Just how low can you go? WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE NOT ‘OBJECTS OF COMMERCE’!

According to the ‘Dead Beat Dads’ Association’, whose word I trust, unlike yours, you are a company with several outstanding County Court Judgements, CCJ’s, against you; issued by various county courts throughout the land: To the tune of some tens of thousands of pounds! This is one such judgement:

http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page9349.htm :
NAME CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY
NUMBER UC5319124
DATE ESTABLISHED AT ADDRESS NO DATA AVAILABLE
ADDRESS ROOM BP5301, BENTON PARK VIEW, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE98

MESSAGE THERE ARE 2 UNSATISFIED CCJS TOTALLING 16742.00 FOR BUSINESSES WITH THIS NAME AT THIS ADDRESS.
ON 14/07/2008, A JUDGMENT OF 13410.00 WAS MADE IN DEWSBURY COURT (CASE NO. 8DW01253) AGAINST CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY, OF ROOM BP5301, BENTON PARK VIEW, LONGBENTON, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE98 1YX, REF. NO. 0810894805.
YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF HERE, DEAD BEAT DADS PAID FOR A REPORT ON A COMPANY TRADING AS THE CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY AND GUESS WHAT CAME UP, THAT’S RIGHT IT HAS INCREASED TO OVER £21,000 SO THEY DON’T EVEN DO GOOD BUSINESS. SO MUCH FOR THE CSA BEING CROWN IMMUNE EVEN GOING BACK A COUPLE A COUPLE OF YEARS. WE ARE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF BEING ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER A SYSTEM THAT WILL REMOVE DEOS, AND TO FORCE THE CSA TO PAY BACK EVERY PENNY THEY HAVE REMOVED FROM YOU, BECAUSE THEY HAD NO AUTHORITY TAKING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
There is the proof, the Child Support Agency who are now controlled by the Child maintenance Enforcement Commission is a company, a run for profit company, they are NOT an authority.

So what else have you been up to? http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page2870.htm – More damning evidence, shown here, of fraudulent court documents, and fraudulent activity in court is compelling: Among other pertinent facts, I note with interest, how an alleged CSA ‘solicitor’ tried to send a man to jail for complying with a court order! This ‘legally-challenged’ ‘solicitor’ was ordered out of the court three times by the judge, who eventually had enough and threw you and your ‘solicitor’ out of court!

What a sad, corrupt organisation you are – a true testament to the blind obeisance to a cult of money-worshipping elitism, and abuse of power and privilege that gets passed off as ‘authority’ and ‘governance’ in this country.

http://www.sikharchives.com/?p=2027 – We are seeing the on-going transformation to a fascist state occurring daily in the nominal liberal democracies of the West. What is being architected is a completely new form of fascism. A state where there is pervasive surveillance and freedom is being redefined as the ‘freedom’ to consume and follow the official line.
The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of the State and the Corporation. It is that social system in which the interests of the State and the corporations merge together. This is the quintessential characteristic of a fascist state.
And while this is going on, brutal Genocidal wars are being waged abroad where millions of innocent men, women and children are slaughtered with high-tech weaponry.
The mind recoils with horror but the voices of dissent are muted. The cowardice and the moral ambiguity is staggering.

This is not just Genocidal warfare abroad, of course, it is Genocidal warfare against the British public, which has been gaining momentum since Thatcher’s days. I would like to point out for the record, that I believe that ‘democracy’ in the UK has been well and truly sold down the Swanee since Thatcher started her ‘secret’ State War against the working class and the poor of this country, including selling off our assets and destroying our communities; Seumas Milne’s excellent 1994 book, The Enemy Within, highlights just how corrupt this State is. These are State crimes of huge significance, and we will reel from these body blows for years to come. As Milne points out, this criminal activity was the work of an ‘alliance’ based on a ‘coincidence of purpose’.

Brian Gerrish of the UK Column calls it ‘Common Purpose’: http://www.cpexposed.com/latest-news/common-purpose-caught-nuclear-fallout-after-attack-press-freedom – What did the exposure of Common Purpose include? In simplest terms the exposure of a hidden web of personal and political connections, together with vested interest and conflict of interest, demonstrating a common purpose in its true sense – namely, to create a press and media crisis, giving rise to the need for a Leveson style ‘investigation’. The final object appearing to be government control of Britain’s press and media.

We know what your game is and John Pilger puts it most succinctly: BLOOD AND MONEY-THE BLAIR DOCTRINE. He could just as well have said ‘Divide and Rule’:
http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-blair-doctrine-blood-and-money – The war on democracy has been successfully exported. In Britain, and in other western countries, such as Australia, journalism and scholarship have been systematically appropriated as the new order’s management class, and democratic ideas have been emptied and refilled, beyond all recognition. Unlike the 1930s, there is a silence of writers, with Harold Pinter almost the lone voice raised in Britain. The promoters of an extreme form of capitalism known as neo-liberalism, the supercult responsible for the greatest inequalities in history, are described as “reformers” and “revolutionaries”. The noble words “freedom” and “liberty” now refer to the divine right of this extremism to “prevail”, the jargon for dominate and control. This vocabulary, which contaminates the news and the pronouncements of the state and its bureaucracy, is from the same lexicon as arbeit macht frei – “work makes you free” – the words over the gates at Auschwitz.

This is why the film “V for Vendetta” has created so much controversy amongst the global elite, and why so many oppressed peoples, including the oppressed people of Britain, find it so enjoyable to watch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/v-for-vendetta-china-tv_n_2335144.html
Beijing-based rights activist Hu Jia wrote on Twitter, which is not accessible to most Chinese because of government Internet controls: “This great film couldn’t be any more appropriate for our current situation. Dictators, prisons, secret police, media control, riots, getting rid of ‘heretics’ … fear, evasion, challenging lies, overcoming fear, resistance, overthrowing tyranny … China’s dictators and its citizens also have this relationship.”

Is it so very much different in the UK, as some in the mass media would like to lead us to believe? I think not. We, too, have an ‘elite’ who are corrupt, greedy, dictatorial, and neo-totalitarian. We live in a corrupt plutocracy, NOT a democracy: Plutocrats ignore their social responsibilities to the poor; abuse their power to serve their own purposes, thereby increasing poverty and nurturing class conflict, and corrupt their societies with greed and hedonism. Sounds familiar?

The problem for us ‘mere citizens’, is that behind these ‘plutocrats’, there are minions like you who are willing to carry out the dirty work of your politico-corporate ‘Masters’. This is why undemocratic, ruthless, lawless ‘state bureaucracies’-cum- ‘government agencies’-cum-‘corporations’ like you, the CSA; and MI6; and Social Services; and the Police; and CAFCASS; and others; etc. think you can get away with murder; because you have been getting away with murder, and often literally:

http://www.ukcolumn.org/forum/child-stealing-state/former-councillors-targeted-ss – “We want to raise awareness of this case in the hope that it will highlight the abuse of innocent families in the UK by Government Agencies who appear to be a law unto themselves and answerable to none.”

http://www.mrdaz.com/csa-riled-by-csahell-com – We have documented proof of their having lied, their having sent documents to the wrong addresses, breached the Data Protection Act and, most worryingly, of them having attempted to goad fathers into suicide. This isn’t rhetoric, this has all happened and has all been reported on the website CSAhell.com. These are facts…
We, the public, have had enough of the corruption, the lies, the feathering of nests, the hatred and the lack of empathy from the CSA – we’re not going to go away quietly, we’re not going to stop what we’re doing, we’re not going to give in to your demands.

http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page3031.htm – Lance Corporal Young was found dead, hanged, in his room after he’d been persecuted by the Child Support Agency. He’d made a phone call to his mother just before he died; telling her how much he loved her. His mother, Rosita Atherly, told the inquest how her son was in tears. His mother called the MOD in an effort to get help for her son, but thirty minutes later Lance Corporal Young was found hanged in his room. A letter from the CSA was lying next to his body, with details about how he was having £300 per month deducted from his wages. This was done at the instruction of the CSA. He was paying for a child who he claimed was not his, and after requesting a DNA test the mother of child failed to show. The persecution at the hands of the CSA drove him to drink, and then finally to suicide. Lance Corporal Young is another example of a man being hounded by the CSA for money he believed he did not owe, for a child that wasn’t even his. Now sadly he is dead, and they cannot take money from him anymore.

http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page420.htm – “IN MEMORY: VICTIMS OF THE CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY”. Listed here are a selection from the many who because of the intolerable financial pressure they were put under took their own lives.

Last year, father-of-two Graham Clay, 30, a stately home curator hanged himself after the CSA trebled his payments. He left a note saying: “No-one will listen. I did my best. All I got was pain.”

40-year-old Mrs Jones was found dead with 6 stab wounds, in the kitchen of her home… Neighbours said her body was discovered by her 12-year-old son, Huw, who screamed: “Mummy’s dead.”
Huw’s grandmother Violet Edwards opened the garage door and saw Mr Jones, 41, slumped in his fume-filled car. His pockets were full of press cuttings highlighting the injustices of the agency.”

http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/information_and_explanation/newspaper_articles/news_articles_1994.htm – Ken Mayo, of the National campaign for Fair Maintenance, said: “The Government must act; Ministers are presiding over a growing catalogue of tragedy. The CSA should be renamed the Child Orphaning Agency…”

Dozens of such cases highlight how government and their agencies are victimizing innocent people to death.

How on earth do you live with your consciences? Do you have a conscience? Life is sacred and precious – but obviously not to you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247130/Cameron-spin-doctor-Craig-Oliver-threatened-Daily-Telegraph-Maria-Miller-investigation.html – David Cameron’s spin doctor was yesterday accused of threatening a newspaper planning to expose details of a Cabinet minister’s expenses… The row began when the Telegraph, which broke the expenses scandal in 2009, investigated Mrs Miller for billing the taxpayer £90,000 for a second home where her parents lived.

Mrs Maria Miller – the former Minister of the CSA! What a ‘Stirling’ example to set – no wonder you do the same thing as Mrs Miller; did she hand-pick you? Mark my words; your own criminality and lawlessness will be your undoing:

http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page359.htm – After years of stating the CSA are corrupt and that non legally qualified non financially licensed members of staff abuse their position in order to suit themselves and to reach targets, well here is the evidence: Child Support Agency worker jailed for £7k fraud on parents Well well well, this is proof of what really goes on, members of staff of the CSA who are there purporting to reduce child poverty, yet have full access to funds being taken from private income, private bank accounts, forced sale of people’s homes, and are able to divert those funds into their own personal accounts. This just goes to show the level these people will go to, it matters not that non resident parents have trouble paying bills after the CSA have dipped into their private affairs and deducted funds unlawfully, it matters not that non resident parents cannot afford to run a car to get to work, yet here we have a public servant working for us defrauding us in order to pay her own bills.

https://www.csahell.com/maria-miller-former-csa-head-using-tax-payers-money-for-her-parents-home-12084.html – It was nice to see the disgusting ex Minister of the CSA finally getting found out about claiming this money for a home her parents live in, tax-payer’s money.
After overseeing the disgusting department that has cost the economy a small fortune and denied any working NRP an opportunity to a life following divorce, I hope she goes to jail, also our new minister Steve Webb has previous in this area.
How in God’s name can anyone vote for these people, Government morals are long gone. They say it’s ok as it is legal and allowed for an MP to claim this. Time they changed the law then as this in the current climate is totally unacceptable Do you not think?….

I AGREE! Yet, most people do not vote for ‘these people’: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-blair-doctrine-blood-and-money – Blair has destroyed the power of parliament and politicised those sections of the civil service… that saw themselves’ as impartial. He is Britain’s president, lacking only the accompanying strains of “Hail to the Chief”. Last installed by little more than a fifth of the eligible population, he is the most undemocratically elected leader in British history. Poll after poll tells us he is also the most reviled.

Maria Miller, former Minister of the CSA; yet another pig-like Minister with her snout in the public trough! No surprise there then. The Daily Mail article above rightly points out that another MP, Tony McNulty, who committed the same crimes in the same manner, was forced to repay his ‘expenses’ and resign – so why not Miller? Is this yet another example of the narcissism so characteristic of dictatorships: “It’s not what you know…, but who you know…?”

To further quote from the Mail article: ‘Maria has obviously been having quite a lot of editors’ meetings around Leveson at the moment. So I am just going to kind of flag up that connection for you to think about.’

Well, I have ‘thought about it’ and it’s easy to join up the dots and find more cover-ups and narcissism at work at the ‘highest’, (read lowest), levels:
http://holliedemandsjustice.org/content/why-its-vital-we-stop-alex-salmonds-leveson-law – In the wake of the Leveson report and the attempts at muzzling the press and internet with regulation, Alex Salmond has decided that he now wants to shut down any dissent and totally silence the press in Scotland.
We republish an article by the Editor Gordon Young in The Drum which highlights why this should be opposed at every level: Tales of alleged fraud, drugs and child rape: Why it’s vital we stop Alex Salmond’s Leveson law
I have to say the composition of the Leveson advisory panel the Scottish Government are proposing doesn’t fill me with confidence.
It includes one Peter Watson of Levy & McRae. Perhaps it might adopt a paragraph the firm had on its website as its credo: “With a low profile, we aim to keep clients off the front page and take swift and effective action where required. Being networked at the highest levels and having access to major decision makers is key to our success.”

What creepy, yet revealing language that is! Hollie’s campaign for justice exposes Leveson with good reason: http://johnpilger.com/articles/leveson-s-punch-and-judy-show-on-the-press-masks-hacking-on-a-scale-you-can-barely-imagine – This is about “hacking” on a vast scale by the state and its intelligence and military arms and “security” corporations. It was unmentionable at the Leveson inquiry, even though the internet was within Leveson’s remit… To the “national security state”, of which the US is the pioneer and model, “perpetual war” is a given; and the public are the enemy – not terrorists… In Britain, this world of subjugated news and information is concealed behind a similar façade of a “free” media, which promotes the extremisms of state corruption and war, consumerism and an impoverishment known as “austerity”. Leveson devoted his “inquiry” to the preservation of this system. My favourite laugh-out-loud quote of His Lordship is: “I have seen no basis at any stage for challenging the integrity of the police.”

That truly is laughable! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2177172/The-police-work-world-clear-rates-So-arent-bothered–1-433-deaths-convictions.html – The charity Inquest, which works with bereaved families, tells us there have been 1,433 deaths following police ‘contact’ since 1990. ‘Contact’ includes deaths in custody, road traffic incidents, pursuits and shootings. Not a single police officer has been found guilty of manslaughter. Not one.
The police are yet another institution who cannot regulate themselves. And it backfires when we see cities in flames. The police themselves warn of more riots. Fundamentally, the police have to be (seen) neither as above the law nor able to get away with murder.

The same applies to every ‘government agency’: I myself was a victim of two thugs in police uniforms who decided they had the ‘right’ to beat me, almost to death! I offered them no ‘provocation’ to do this – as if such action could be justified under any circumstances, anyway. It was only the brave work of the doctors and nurses that saved my life. http://www.inquest.org.uk

http://holliedemandsjustice.org/content/prominent-campaigner-for-justice-speaks-for-all-in-new-year-message – Police corruption being a core issue in Hollie and Anne’s campaign for justice, we fully endorse fellow-campaigner Michael Doherty’s New Year Message delivered outside the Metropolitan Police HQ at New Scotland Yard London on 1 January 2013. Michael has attained the distinction of having mounted a private prosecution against the police and won, so who better qualified to send a message of hope and encouragement to all battling for justice in the UK today. Enjoy, and a Happy New Year to all our supporters!

I was not as fortunate as Michael Doherty, when I mounted my own private prosecution of the police. My solicitor said we had a good case, as we had four witnesses, who had provided written statements to the fact that I was unharmed before being taken into police custody. This included the surgeon who had operated to fix my broken jaw, which was smashed in such a way, that his sworn written statement testified to the fact that it could only have been done with a police baton. Then, out of the blue, all of these four witnesses ‘changed their statements’; or so I was told by a fat barrister I had never seen before. When I telephoned the surgeon, he refused to talk to me and put the phone down. That was the end of my prosecution of the police.

State corruption is truly all-pervasive both within British society and globally: it can be defined as the monopolization of wealth, resources and power by an elitist Status Quo. The reason for this is, of course, historical. Imperialists find it hard to relinquish power; and there is ample proof exposing just how deceitful and ruthless they can be in order to hold onto it.

http://johnpilger.com/articles/britain-the-depth-of-corruption “That so many Labour and Tory politicians are now revealed as personally crooked is no more than a metaphor for the anti-democratic system they have forged together.”

Again, the examples of this are manifold:
http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/letter-from-matt-oconnor-for-the-children-and-families-bill-committee-211112/ – The denial of representation to Fathers4Justice by successive committees, working parties and hearings is an affront to democracy… We represent 36,000 registered families and are the world’s largest equal parenting group… On current projections, in 2014 we will have a larger membership base than the Liberal Democrats… A poll conducted for the Conservative Party in 2011 found that Fathers4Justice was the third highest supported campaign group in the UK on 63% public support behind Amnesty International on 68% and Greenpeace on 69%.
Instead of engaging with Fathers4Justice, MP’s have consistently treated us like a modern day IRA and as political pariahs without any grounds for doing so… As a result 36,000 families have been systematically excluded from the democratic process for the last decade. They have been denied any voice (let alone a representative share of voice) on an issue which touches virtually every family in our country and is impacting upon our children, our society and our economy.
When I started Fathers4Justice ten years ago I could never have imagined that 10 years later we would still be campaigning and that our elected representatives would be opposing equality of treatment for both parents and supporting a secretive and brutal regime that has more in common with North Korea or Iran than it does a modern, progressive democracy.

http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/letter-from-matt-oconnor-for-the-children-and-families-bill-committee-211112/ – The role of government should be to protect families. Instead it has been instrumental in breaking them up… consecutive governments have continued to portray fathers as ‘feckless’ or ‘deadbeats’ and reduced them to the status of cash points. The reality is that without equal rights and responsibilities for fathers, the child support system is doomed to failure.
Our government, children services and family justice system have a history of failing our most vulnerable.
UK accused of ‘failing children’ as it came bottom of a league for child well-being across 21 industrialised countries. (UNICEF 2007).
That is a damning state of affairs.

http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/family-law-division-cafcass-contact-centres – There has also been a sudden explosion of cases of ‘child snatching’ by the State, whereby children have been taken from parents under cover of lies, false evidence and perjury in Court, perpetrated by the very governmental organisations claiming to protect families and children.

http://www.cornwallcommunitynews.co.uk/2012/03/26/cafcass-esque-nightmares – All citizens according to their differing needs are entitled to access to justice, whether as victims of crime, defendants accused of crimes, consumers in debt, children in need of care, or business people in commercial disputes. Our aim is to ensure that access is provided as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost consistent with open justice and that citizens have greater confidence in, and respect for, the system of justice.
So says Her Majesty’s Court Service – except the whole thing is a lie.

http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/letter-from-matt-oconnor-for-the-children-and-families-bill-committee-211112/ – We have repeatedly raised extremely serious allegations of systemic child abuse within the family court system which have never been investigated. These have included the smashing down of a child’s bedroom door by court tipstaff so a child could be removed from the father and taken to live with his mother and the case of a Contact Centre Manager who was found to have been sleeping with one of the children in her centre and grooming other children in her care. The case was covered up by CAFCASS and only came to light because of the valiant efforts of the girl’s father. Yet neither of these, nor thirty other serious abuse allegations submitted by Fathers4Justice have been investigated by the authorities.

http://staffordshiresocialservices.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/blowing-the-whistle-child-stealing-by-the-state/ – This is a conference to expose and bring to trial those helping the State to Steal and Abuse Children. We will Name Name’s, Departments, Authorities, Organisations, Judges, MPs, Police, Psychiatrists and more. With help of those attending, we will expose the real evidence for:
MASSIVE STATE SPONSORED CHILD ABUSE AND TRAFFICKING AND COVER-UPS BY THE STATE AND ITS AGENTS.

http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2012/11/10-days-that-shook-my-world – It’s ten days since I raised a question about intelligence suggesting a paedophile ring that touched the very heart of a previous government. I’d done so because a very credible retired child protection professional had lived with a gnawing suspicion of a cover up for many years.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2012-10-24c.914.9&s=speaker%3A11309#g923.2 – The evidence file used to convict paedophile Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring. One of its members boasts of his links to a senior aide of a former Prime Minister, who says he could smuggle indecent images of children from abroad. The leads were not followed up, but if the file still exists I want to ensure that the Metropolitan police secure the evidence, re-examine it and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No. 10.

http://holliedemandsjustice.org/about_hollie_greig – Denis Mackie had been sharing his daughter, (Hollie Grieg), with a ring of sexual abusers, which included a serving police officer with the Grampian force, Terry Major and an Aberdeen sheriff, Graeme Buchanan.
To the BBC, asking why they pulled the documentary programme on Hollie’s case due to go out in September 2009 on BBC Frontline Scotland and BBC Panorama England? Who gave the order? What has happened to the information collected at the time by the programme-maker who seemed to be on some kind of hotline to the Scottish Crown Office?
Mind the Gaps – between Online and Mainstream Media, Government and Public
Tuesday, 15th January, House of Commons, Committee Rooms, 11am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm
Globalisation strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski[1] recently identified accelerating social change driven by “instant mass communications”, which have been cumulatively stimulating “a universal awakening of mass political consciousness[2].” In the UK, the consequent gulfs between public opinion and government, and between online and mainstream media are widening precariously: poll after poll details public trust plummeting[3][4][5] all round while many political activist websites have grown as busy as mainstream e-commerce and media outlets.
http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/letter-from-matt-oconnor-for-the-children-and-families-bill-committee-211112/ – It is only thanks to the brave men, women and children in Fathers4Justice (and now Children4Justice) that the operation of secret family courts and the separation of children from their fathers now a matter of public interest. We are grateful that whilst we have no support in Parliament, we do enjoy the support of the majority of the British public.

At the heart of the family justice system is a wicked deceit.

The ‘child’s best interests’ claim is relied on by the courts, the family justice system and the government to excuse a multitude of institutional failings. Yet there is not a shred of evidence to support this claim.

http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page2870.htm – we have been conditioned to think that the Magistrates, like the CSA are an authority. During the three years we have been up and running our research along with the help from other friends, we have uncovered a lot of corruption within these so called authorities, and the lengths they will go to in order to obtain funds is disturbing.

OUR GOVERNMENTS AND THEIR AGENCIES ARE PROVEN AND BELLIGERENT LIARS. THERE IS OBVIOUSLY A DELIBERATE AGENDA OF DECEPTION IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE STATUS QUO NO MATTER WHAT – IT IS A COVER-UP AND TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE OF HUGE PROPORTIONS.

I am not keeping this letter to myself of course. It will go where it needs to go, and my thanks go to the people and organisations who have helped inform me, and thus helped me write this ‘open letter of protest’.

They let me know that I am not alone, and that is what you need to know too. I am one of the millions who are standing up for my inalienable rights, as I have always done and will continue to do. It is a testament to the depth of corruption within this, my land of birth that I have had to defend these rights on so many occasions. Well, so be it.

http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/11/04/british-court-child-support-agency-denies-fathers-due-process-of-law/
Like every autocrat in history, the British government takes as given its own wisdom and rectitude. The spokesperson never admits the possibility of error on CSA’s part despite the fact that the agency is now in the process of being torn down due to its astonishing incompetence and dictatorial mindset. But what’s more to the point and more predictable is that the spokesperson evinces no understanding that the rights of individuals are meant to curb the power of governments. Those rights exist, and must be respected by governments, irrespective of the guilt or innocence of the individual… when that governmental intervention comes, it must do so burdened with the obligation to afford each and every father due process of law. That means, among other things, that it is up to the government to prove its case, not the father to disprove it. It’s 2012, almost 800 years since the signing of the Magna Carta. We’re still fighting the same fights.

I am not your cash point. Think about this fact, and the other facts I have raised in this letter.

“Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau) – The judgment of an individual’s conscience is not necessarily inferior to the decisions of a political body or majority, and so “it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right… Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.” He adds, “I cannot for an instant recognize as my government [that] which is the slave’s government also.”

Thoreau’s words still preserve every ounce of their poignancy, as we are still slaves to an entirely unnecessary, artificial, polluting, synthetic economy, totally at odds with ourselves and our natural world and her cycles. This is propped-up, propagandised, promoted, protected and run by our increasingly dictatorial-authoritarian governments, and corporate vested interests:

I would like to finish my letter by thanking my grandfather, and all of my forefathers, millions of them, for fighting to protect my freedom: Appeared front page, Birkenhead News, Saturday 18th November 1944:

BIRKENHEAD MAN’S GALLANTRY. AWARDED GEORGE MEDAL
The award of the George Medal to C.S.M. John Billing of Gladstone Road, Birkenhead was reported in our last issue. The official citation has now been received and reads:
“During the landings in Normandy on June 6th 1944, C.S.M. Billing boarded a ferry to supervise the discharge of stores. Shortly afterwards the ferry struck a mine and the port engine burst into flames. Further mines were then struck and the fire spread to packed oil stacked aft. C.S.M. Billing took over control, and with great coolness and presence of mind organised the removal of ammunition and the evacuation of personnel to a tug. He himself rescued an officer who was lying on the deck of the ferry with a broken leg and also saved the life of a wounded sapper, who had fallen near the blazing petrol cans. The tug later also struck a mine and grounded but C.S.M. Billing eventually succeeded in getting all the injured personnel ashore, where medical attention was available. He showed courage, resource and leadership of a high order.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure – In English social and economic history, enclosure or inclosure[1] is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be common land. In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. Under enclosure, such land is fenced (enclosed) and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. By the 19th century, unenclosed commons had become largely restricted to rough pasture in mountainous areas and to relatively small parts of the lowlands.
The process of enclosure has sometimes been accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist and neo-Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit. This created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. For example: “In agriculture the years between 1760 and 1820 are the years of wholesale enclosure in which, in village after village, common rights are lost”.[2] “Enclosure (when all the sophistications are allowed for) was a plain enough case of class robbery”.[3][4]

CSA, PO Box36, Birmingham, B99 1DW

Your ref.: 1015973825

Wednesday 23rd January 2013

FAO: MICK HANCOCK, B.U. Manager, CSA

Dear Mr Hancock

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your letter, dated 22nd January 2013.

I would like to state for the record, that you have not followed due process in law in making this ‘child maintenance assessment’, and it is nothing but pure fantasy.

I refer you to my letter dated Saturday 19th January 2013, a copy of which I will send along with this letter, which I posted to your PO Box address in Edinburgh, retaining proof of postage of course.

As I suspected would happen, I see you are up to the same low tricks, and dictatorial nonsense, for which you are justly infamous.

Referring to your January 22nd letter, where you write, “We worked out your child maintenance assessment using the information you and the other parent gave us.”

This statement is a plain lie – you have never previously requested any information from me, and the receipt of this, your 22nd January letter, demonstrates, yet again, your total lack of regard for due process in the law, which you are obliged to uphold, whether you like it or not. You did not even wait for my 19th January reply, to your 08/01/2013 letter, where I provide the response you requested, before sending this 22nd January ‘assessment! What utter nonsense.

You will note that a copy of this 19th Jan letter is on its way to my MP, and to solicitors, who have experience in holding you to account for your lawlessness.

As I state in my 19th Jan letter:

I am fully aware of the lawless nature of your modus operandi: I bring to your attention the recent judgement against you in the Court of Appeal, which condemns you, the CSA, for “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” legal failings: http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2012/10/31/child-support-agency-routinely-breaching-the-human-rights-of-fathers/

Your STANDARD WORKING PRACTICES breach the rights of fathers under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. These rights guarantee the ‘Presumption of innocence until guilt is proven’, and similar legal rights. As the article points out, your ‘casual’ reversal of that most fundamental of legal principles, the burden of proof, suggests you behave more like the secret police in a dictatorship, rather than the arm of a democracy.

If you believe that you have a ‘case’ against me, then it is up to you to prove it, and you must do so in a manner which is lawful.

This means that you must follow due process in the law – if you do not do so, then you are acting lawlessly.

You will also note the following from my 19th January letter:

There are many ‘interesting things’ I would like to take you to task about, which relate to your lawlessness, and I am grateful to the many groups, which inform me: http://www.deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page9349.htm “the CSA/CMEC hold no LAWFUL jurisdiction over any non resident parent and if any NRP has not consented to it, i.e. signed any Maintenance Enquiry Forms or Maintenance Assessment Forms, then no consent has been given to the CSA/CMEC.”

As I state in my 19th January letter, you have never previously sent me a Maintenance Enquiry/Assessment form, nor any kind of form or correspondence.

This being the case, how have you been able to make a child maintenance assessment?

Based on what evidence? Where is your proof of claim?

A copy of this letter and your 22nd January letter will also be sent to my MP and solicitors.

If you continue to ignore my rights to due process, and continue to act in a lawless manner towards me, then I will be seeking legal advice in how to prosecute you for unlawful harassment.

I will also be retaining proof of postage for this letter.

I look forward to your reply, and please take careful note of what is written below.

M.Lee

http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/11/04/british-court-child-support-agency-denies-fathers-due-process-of-law/
Two British fathers have prevailed in their lawsuit against England’s Child Support Agency. The much maligned and soon to be defunct agency was called “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” by the Court of Appeal because it routinely failed to provide even the most elementary of due process rights to fathers in child support cases. If we didn’t know as much as we do about the system of family courts, we might be surprised to learn that due process of law as basic as notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend oneself and the presumption of innocence aren’t routinely accorded fathers accused of failing to pay support. But we do know about family courts, so we’re not surprised in the least. For the information of non-lawyers, there are certain basics of due process of law, i.e. things without which there is no due process of law. These concepts are centuries old. They include notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend the charge including calling witnesses on one’s behalf, the charging party bearing the burden of proof and the right to have the charges adjudicated by an impartial tribunal. Of those four, the CSA denied (and has denied for many years) three to non-custodial fathers. In effect, the CSA turned back the legal clock for non-custodial fathers to pre-Magna Carta days. And, not unlike King John at the time, the British government is outraged that it’s forbidden to do what it pleases.

Guffaw; guffaw! Here, here!

Dear Guto Bebb
As my local MP, Betty Williams was formerly a great help to me, at a time when I needed powerful support in trying to combat an obvious case of financial fraud; a common place crime in the UK, which is a true indictment of the ‘white-collar’ lawlessness, which is pervasive here. Why the banking criminals are not behind bars where they belong, is still a question many millions of us want the answers to.
Now, I am bringing to your attention another corrupt body, the ‘Child Support Agency’, which, even given the fact that it’s lawless activities have very recently been justly condemned in the Court of Appeal, still feels at liberty to try and continue to use the same lawless, dirty tricks in order to victimize and extort money from innocent members of the public.
I will not stand for it Mr Bebb – and you can tell your own government that the game is up. I cheer this timely judgement by the Court of Appeal, and I hope it will open the floodgates for many other NRP’s to seek the justice they deserve against this odious, autocratic and lawless agency.
http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/11/04/british-court-child-support-agency-denies-fathers-due-process-of-law/ : “Two British fathers have prevailed in their lawsuit against England’s Child Support Agency. The much maligned and soon to be defunct agency was called “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” by the Court of Appeal because it routinely failed to provide even the most elementary of due process rights to fathers in child support cases. If we didn’t know as much as we do about the system of family courts, we might be surprised to learn that due process of law as basic as notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend oneself and the presumption of innocence aren’t routinely accorded fathers accused of failing to pay support. But we do know about family courts, so we’re not surprised in the least. For the information of non-lawyers, there are certain basics of due process of law, i.e. things without which there is no due process of law. These concepts are centuries old. They include notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend the charge including calling witnesses on one’s behalf, the charging party bearing the burden of proof and the right to have the charges adjudicated by an impartial tribunal. Of those four, the CSA denied (and has denied for many years) three to non-custodial fathers. In effect, the CSA turned back the legal clock for non-custodial fathers to pre-Magna Carta days. And, not unlike King John at the time, the British government is outraged that it’s forbidden to do what it pleases.”
Guffaw; guffaw! Here, here!
As I state in my letters to the CSA, which I have attached to this email: “I am fully aware of the lawless nature of your modus operandi: I bring to your attention the recent judgement against you in the Court of Appeal, which condemns you, the CSA, for “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” legal failings: Your STANDARD WORKING PRACTICES breach the rights of fathers under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. These rights guarantee the ‘Presumption of innocence until guilt is proven’, and similar legal rights. As the article points out, your ‘casual’ reversal of that most fundamental of legal principles, the burden of proof, suggests you behave more like the secret police in a dictatorship, rather than the arm of a democracy.”
You will note, Mr Bebb, that earlier this week the CSA ‘felt at liberty’ to send me a fraudulent ‘Child Maintenance Assessment’; fraudulent, as this ‘assessment’ is based entirely upon their own lies and fabrications, and they have made it without following due process in law.
I refer to their January 22nd letter, where they write; “We worked out your child maintenance assessment using the information you and the other parent gave us.”
This statement is a plain lie – they had never previously requested any information from me, and the receipt of their 22nd January letter, demonstrates, yet again, their total lack of regard for due process in the law, which they are obliged to uphold, whether they like it or not.
The CSA did not even wait for my 19th January reply, to their 08/01/2013 letter, where I provide the response they requested, before sending this 22nd January ‘assessment’!
What utter nonsense.
As well as contacting yourself, as my local MP, I am also in contact with solicitors, and other relevant bodies, who are lobbying for the rights of NRP’s and their families. It is frankly beyond a joke that Fathers For Justice is consistently ignored by government:
http://www.fathers-4-justice.org/letter-from-matt-oconnor-for-the-children-and-families-bill-committee-211112/ – “The denial of representation to Fathers4Justice by successive committees, working parties and hearings is an affront to democracy… We represent 36,000 registered families and are the world’s largest equal parenting group… On current projections, in 2014 we will have a larger membership base than the Liberal Democrats… A poll conducted for the Conservative Party in 2011 found that Fathers4Justice was the third highest supported campaign group in the UK on 63% public support behind Amnesty International on 68% and Greenpeace on 69%.
Instead of engaging with Fathers4Justice, MP’s have consistently treated us like a modern day IRA and as political pariahs without any grounds for doing so… As a result 36,000 families have been systematically excluded from the democratic process for the last decade. They have been denied any voice (let alone a representative share of voice) on an issue which touches virtually every family in our country and is impacting upon our children, our society and our economy.
When I started Fathers4Justice ten years ago I could never have imagined that 10 years later we would still be campaigning and that our elected representatives would be opposing equality of treatment for both parents and supporting a secretive and brutal regime that has more in common with North Korea or Iran than it does a modern, progressive democracy.”
You will note that my letter, 13CSA Harassment.docx, raises many grave concerns as to the obvious lack of democracy in the UK, and how this is allowing heinous corruption to continue seemingly unbridled in certain quarters. Of the greatest concern to most are cases like Holly Griegs’, and the obvious connections between powerful people, crime and paedophilia:
http://holliedemandsjustice.org/content/why-its-vital-we-stop-alex-salmonds-leveson-law – “In the wake of the Leveson report and the attempts at muzzling the press and internet with regulation, Alex Salmond has decided that he now wants to shut down any dissent and totally silence the press in Scotland.
We republish an article by the Editor Gordon Young in The Drum which highlights why this should be opposed at every level: Tales of alleged fraud, drugs and child rape: Why it’s vital we stop Alex Salmond’s Leveson law
I have to say the composition of the Leveson advisory panel the Scottish Government are proposing doesn’t fill me with confidence.
It includes one Peter Watson of Levy & McRae. Perhaps it might adopt a paragraph the firm had on its website as its credo: “With a low profile, we aim to keep clients off the front page and take swift and effective action where required. Being networked at the highest levels and having access to major decision makers is key to our success.”
Our questions need timely answers Mr Bebb.
I look forward to your reply.
Mike Lee

EXAMPLE OF A LETTER TO SEND TO YOUR BANK:

HOME ADDRESS
Barclays Bank,
Leicester,
LE87 2BB

Monday 28th December 2013

NAME
ACCOUNT NO.
SORT CODE

Dear Barclays

I have an account with you; my address, account number and sort code are written above. I need to inform you that I have recently become subject to unsolicited harassment by the Child Support Agency, who have issued an unlawful ‘child maintenance assessment’ against me, which I am disputing.

I am taking the matter up with my local MP, Guto Bebb, and with Stephen Lawson, Partner – Head of Litigation, Will Disputes, Personal Injury and Child Maintenance at http://www.fdrlaw.co.uk .

Mr Lawson recently brought a successful prosecution against the CSA on behalf of two Non Resident Parents, (NRP’s): ”Two British fathers have prevailed in their lawsuit against England’s Child Support Agency. The much maligned and soon to be defunct agency was called “obnoxious” and “unreasonable” by the Court of Appeal because it routinely failed to provide even the most elementary of due process rights to fathers in child support cases”. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/11/04/british-court-child-support-agency-denies-fathers-due-process-of-law/

You will take note, that I have raised just such a complaint against the CSA with Mr Bebb and Mr Lawson. Even in their initial correspondence to me, they have failed in their lawful duty to follow due process in law: Referring to your January 22nd letter, where you write, “We worked out your child maintenance assessment using the information you and the other parent gave us.”

This statement is a plain lie – you have never previously requested any information from me, and the receipt of this, your 22nd January letter, demonstrates, yet again, your total lack of regard for due process in the law, which you are obliged to uphold, whether you like it or not. You did not even wait for my 19th January reply, to your 08/01/2013 letter, where I provide the response you requested, before sending this 22nd January ‘assessment! What utter nonsense.

You will also note that I have sought advice from community support groups such as the Dead Beat Dads Association, Fathers4Justice, and CSAHell, who have informed me, to my horror, that, “A lot of Bank Accounts are being raided and a majority of the banks that are complying with non-legal notices sent to them by non-legally qualified, non-financially licensed members of the CSA staff, are those banks that were bailed out by the Government using public funds.”

I have sought advice as to the legality of these pernicious actions by certain banks, and such actions have been judged to be unlawful by the Court of Appeal. I have also been made aware that banks can be prosecuted for invading private bank accounts and intermeddling with private funds.

I am writing to you in order to seek your absolute and written guarantee, that under no circumstances will you act upon any form of correspondence or ‘demand’ from the Child Support Agency, nor any other ‘government agency’ or third party for that matter, pertaining to my private bank account with you. You need to assure me that you will, under no circumstances, allow the CSA to meddle in my private banking business with you.

For obvious reasons, I need to receive such a guarantee from you, in writing, to this effect.

If you cannot provide me with such a guarantee, then obviously, you cannot justify the trust I have placed in you as my bankers, and this would therefore compromise my basic human rights and freedoms.

I find the increasingly plutocratic and dictatorial nature of governmental ‘authority’, and the concomitant depth of hypocrisy, depravity, and deep, loathsome corruption in financial, political and governmental ‘circles’ nauseating.

As John Pilger, and many others rightly elucidate: http://johnpilger.com/articles/britain-the-depth-of-corruption “That so many Labour and Tory politicians are now revealed as personally crooked is no more than a metaphor for the anti-democratic system they have forged together.”

It is one good reason why I refuse to sanction such dubious ‘authority’, why I actively militate against it.

The CSA are deeply and justly reviled, and I, and no doubt millions of others, welcome this timely judgement by the Court of Appeal. As the Fathers and Families article I quoted above states: Like every autocrat in history, the British government takes as given its own wisdom and rectitude. The spokesperson never admits the possibility of error on CSA’s part despite the fact that the agency is now in the process of being torn down due to its astonishing incompetence and dictatorial mindset. But what’s more to the point and more predictable is that the spokesperson evinces no understanding that the rights of individuals are meant to curb the power of governments. Those rights exist, and must be respected by governments, irrespective of the guilt or innocence of the individual… For the information of non-lawyers, there are certain basics of due process of law, i.e. things without which there is no due process of law. These concepts are centuries old. They include notice of the charge, an opportunity to defend the charge including calling witnesses on one’s behalf, the charging party bearing the burden of proof and the right to have the charges adjudicated by an impartial tribunal. Of those four, the CSA denied (and has denied for many years) three to non-custodial fathers. In effect, the CSA turned back the legal clock for non-custodial fathers to pre-Magna Carta days… And, not unlike King John at the time, the British government is outraged that it’s forbidden to do what it pleases.

Guffaw-guffaw; here-here!

I look forward to your response, and I trust it will be prompt.

Yours faithfully,