I am trying to get a solicitor ++ UPDATED ++

Given that I am expecting to be detained again at any time, I thought it prudent to see if I can arrange legal representation beforehand. So I am beginning to contact solicitors.

My previous solicitors have proved to be unreliable. The Mental Health sector seems too dominated by those with Labour sympathies. They also take the contents of the medical records as being the truth and will not consider that the details may be biased, or false. Once the FTAC gets mentioned then there seems to be an assumption of guilt.

Last night I emailed one well known firm enquiring if they would represent me. They have the required experience as they advertise the fact on their website which boasts about notable clients. I know that they have read the e-mail because I got a read receipt. I know that they have been to this blog as I can see their visit in the logs. However, they have chosen not to respond. I will give them the rest of the day before outing them.

Tomorrow, I will try another firm, but I expect the same response. This is the world I live in. A hostile government. Denied any means of earning a living. Denied political representation. Denied medical treatment. Denied legal representation. Why is this acceptable to all but a few?

I am at a loss as to what I can do. All I get from people is the platitude ‘stuff happens, live with it and move on’. The point is, I cannot move on; I am trapped in this nightmare without any means of escape. I have done nothing to warrant this. I am just a random drive-by victim.

All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace.

UPDATE

The firm that I tried to contact was Bindmans.

To recap:

• I send an email at 21:30 on 3 February and received a delivery receipt.
• A read-receipt was received at 10:13 on 4 February from Linda McGivern [L.McGivern@bindmans.com]
• My server logs show a visit to this blog from someone at Bindmans at 10:24
• No response was received from them
• A reminder/request for explanation was sent at 15:37 which has generated no response.

On the home page of their website they use they boast “...ethical positioning and moral commitment of a standard civil liberties practice with the quality of the Magic Circle”. Maybe this should be subject to some qualification.

I am in desperate need of help; my complaint is sound and has ample supporting evidence. One can only speculate as to the reasons why a firm such as Bindmans would refuse to get involved. I expect this will happen with everyone else I try.

UPDATE II (06 Feb 10)

This morning I received a letter from Mr Paul Ridge of Bindmans Solicitors claiming that the reason why they cannot take on my case is because of capacity problems.

It doesn’t stop them from defending notorious murderers and rapists, self proclaimed seditionists, and the traitors, fraudsters and thieves in the Houses of Parliament.

However, an innocent victim of this government that has had his livelihood stolen, been refused help that he is legally entitled to and unlawfully imprisoned cannot get any help. Are they saying that it is fine to abduct someone and lock them in a mental hospital? Corruptly section them without any proper evidence? For doctors to subject someone to what is degrading treatment in anybody’s judgement and could be considered torture? To begin to forcibly drug someone after four months of doing nothing just so they can justify the continued imprisonment?

We have a country that treats fraudsters, thieves, rapists and murders better that those that are innocent and just want to work and produce a large net benefit to the country.

More Labour dirty trick and vindictiveness

The dirty tricks department of the Labour government are trying to make me homeless again. They have dragged up a disputed rent overlap from four years ago and a pursuing payment. I was placed in a temporary flat while I was applying for permanent a place. When I was allocated on it was at year end. I was given only a few weeks to move in. The place was disgustingly filthy and I had no furniture whatsoever. I made an application for a grant but these things take time to process because to the laziness and incompetence of the staff. I had no option but to stay where I was.

In the end I was given no option; I had to leave where I was and move in despite not having anything. There was a period when the overlap was disputed, but that went away. I presumed that the matter had been settled.

Now, four years later, they have brought up this so-called debt again. I do not believe that I owe them any money at all. I certainly do not have the funds or assets to pay them.

This is obviously a bit of vindictive dirty tricks. I have asked for the date and location of the court hearing. I will publish them on this blog. I will attempt to defend myself, but if I fail then I will kill myself in front of everyone. Although I would have taken my own life, it will be another murder by the Labour government.

For the attention of Mr Abdul Tarekh (020 7364 7465) of Tower Hamlets council: you are a collaborator with this evil government; you have blood on your hands.

It is such a waste that could easily be settled. All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace.

Ministry of propaganda pays FTAC Watch blog a visit.

Yesterday we were blessed with a comment from someone going by the moniker ‘Jethro’ who said, ‘what is wrong with the idea of the FTAC? Doesn't a stable society that desores [sic] safety and security need a body that keeps an eye on individuals that pose a threat to others?'

As it happens, I was checking my stats as the same time. I spotted someone from the Houses of Parliament (IP address: 194.60.38.10) was in the log and to my surprise, the time stamps match. Spotting that I may be in for a bit of abuse and dirty tricks from the government, I apprehensively published the comment.

It could not go without a response so I replied, ‘The FTAC has got nothing to do with the safety of society but the security of MP's. It is also used to silence anyone who speaks against the government.’

The ‘Jethro’ character tried to make a comment that was just a bit of cut ‘n paste from the standard propaganda about the FTAC and has been covered on this blog anyway, so I deleted that one. He also added, “Yes, I do work in Parliament - there's nothing I have to hide. Are you the person who sends faxes to the offices of MPs (about the FTAC) almost every day?” Do you see what he has done there? He is trying to paint me as a compulsive fanatic. He knows perfectly well that I am not the person that sends faxes, if such a person exists. For a start, I have no means of sending any faxes. He could easily trace where the faxes come from; most have the number at the top. All attempts I have made to contact MPs have been recorded on this blog and fully identify me and refer to this site.

He also said, “Do MPs not deserve safety and security too? Sadly there are mentally ill people in the world, and organisations like FTAC have to exist to stop some of these people crossing the line between 'mentally ill' and 'danger to people's lives'.” My response was “Everyone deserves to live safely and that includes innocent people trying to make a living without the state arbitrarily stealing their livelihood without providing any help finding an alternative way of supporting themselves.

I am just a victim who would like his life back. I have BEGGED for years to be allowed to earn a living, but have been refused help every time. In the end the FTAC sent the police round to abduct me and lock me up. Once held in hospital ‘doctor’ Jonsson contrived any excuse to keep me locked up none of which were valid.”

I went on to say, "Let me make this offer here in public. I am willing to be subjected to any tests you want to establish the state of my mental health, provided those tests are done by someone from outside the NHS, preferably from another country. I am confident that they will not support the fraudulent diagnosis of ‘doctor’ Jonsson. If they do support him then you can do with me what you like (execution please). However, if they support me then I would like my life back in full and those that would imprison me to be imprisoned themselves.
Jethro, if you have any honour in your soul, I BEG you to contact the appropriate ministers in the Home office, DWP and NHS to arrange a meeting with me so that I can make my case that I have been injured by the policies of this government and the behaviour of these departments."

I know that my message has been read as I have checked the stats and there was a visit from the Houses of Parliament at 1:36pm today checking the comments. It will come as a surprise to nobody to hear that I have not gotten any response to my offer.

This is the culture of government in the UK. They would rather brand people and ‘mentally ill’ and have them locked up than risk having them be able to prove that they have been a victim of government policy and incompetence.

As I keep saying: All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace.

Euthanasia for the terminally unemployed

This post is not just a bit self-indulgent self-pity, but an exploration of where things could go. The Telegraph today reports that 80% support assisted suicide. Sir Terry Pratchett is suggesting assisted suicide tribunals. I actually do believe in allowing assisted suicides for the terminally ill. However, there are many dangers that it could be abused. Given the behaviour of the Labour government, it can be guaranteed that it will.

Euthanasia for the terminally unemployed, like me, should be available. For many of those without a job there is no chance that they will ever work again.

For some this may be because they are sick or feckless. Many are older where the employers prefer young staff. Some are surplus to requirements because of changing demand. Others may be displaced because the jobs have been sold or negotiated away by the government as in the case of IT staff.

No money is to be spent on them because either the cost to bring them up to employable standards would be too great or they are of the wrong demographic and are unlikely to support the government.

The outlook for those that are terminally unemployed is that they will remain in poverty for the rest of their lives and continue to be a burden on the state. For some this can be for 40 or 50 years. As poorer people, they will also be a greater drain on the health services as well as inevitable criminals.

To relieve the personal suffering of these people and to reduce the burden on the state it would be helpful if the opportunity to end their lives was made available.

I would welcome the opportunity of being helped to die. I find that I cannot do it on my own. I would rather die with minimal pain, distress and in a dignified way where the results can be cleaned up with little fuss (burn me with the rest of the clinical waste will do fine). The alternative is that I do it alone at home, in pain and with the distinct possibility of great suffering as I try to get it right. I live alone without any contact with anyone so my body will not be discovered until it is in an advanced state of decay.

Of course, I would rather live and be a productive member of society. If I was allowed to work, I would be a higher rate tax payer too. However, the government has other ideas and I am now permanently excluded from working. I am condemned to spend the rest of my life in poverty and squalor. The only alternatives the government has for me is some form of prison either regular or mental.

Further examples of the lies of ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson

Regular reader Rod from Australia has given me an idea for a post. In a response to the post about the stalking by the police, be brings up the issue of monetary compensation. Well, there is a story about that.

Most of my posts are finished with the line “All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace”. Prior to the Labour government destroying my livelihood I was a freelance IT consultant in the finance sector. I had been successful for years and was living in the West End of London. In late 2001 I had the opportunity to some business based in one of the Caribbean tax havens. However, this also required that I also continue with some consultancy work in the UK. The theft of the market for my skills produced a cascade of failures in all parts of my life. It resulted in me being homeless, bankrupt and suffering sever damage to my mental and physical health. Before I became a victim of the Labour government I was a very respectable, successful businessman; now I am a disgusting wreck.

To further set the scene I must describe the strict conditions that I was being held under. I was under ‘one-to-one’ continuous observation which meant that there was somebody watching me all the time. I could not even go to the toilet or shower without someone watching what I was doing. I was held in a room where I was on display to everyone on the ward. No privacy at any time whatsoever. I was not allowed have a change of clothes; so for a whole month I had to remain in the dirty clothes that I use for doing the housework that I was wearing when I was abducted. I was not allowed to perform the most basic of grooming tasks such cut my nails. There was no access to anything to pass the time and definitely no access to any form of media so that I could find out what was going on in the world.

I discussed these conditions with somebody shortly after I was released and they said that this sounds like the techniques outlined in the CIA torture manual. I originally thought that the description was a bit excessive and emotive. However, I traced down the document he was referring to and I can see many analogies between how ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson was treating me and the torture techniques. I was subject to sensory deprivation, humiliation and degradation.

Before I leaned better, I was discussing my plight with ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson or Mile End Hospital. I discussed my prior life and the extensive damage done. Little did I know it at the time, but it was purely an exercise for him to glean a few things upon which to base his lies.

As part of our discussion, the question of the monetary value of my losses came up. Remember that I was held under very stressful conditions and without any access to data to produce and justify an accurate estimate. I roughly worked out the losses of possessions, lost earning to date, what costs would be involved to repair the damage and set me off again. I did not cover future earnings, and I forgot about things like pensions. Because I was working abroad and desperately wanted to leave the UK and return there, I worked in US Dollars rather than Sterling. I estimated that the amount of my losses and cost to repair was somewhere between 1 and 5 million Dollars.

I was clear that this was an estimate of the damage done, but ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson twisted that into a lie that I was demanding 5 million Pounds compensation. This lie was recorded on my notes and has frequently been repeated. Only when it is repeated in my presence do I have any opportunity to rebut this lie. I have never been able to get the lie to be removed from the file or have the truth recorded in the notes and linked to Jonsson’s claims. Anyone that reads the notes will over see his claims and will never see my rebuttal of his lies.

It should also be noted that all the other parts of my history was branded by ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson as delusions such as I was working abroad, and my technical and business knowledge. The abusive conditions I was kept under clearly prevented me from producing any documentary proof at the time. However, when I did finally gain access to documentary proof it was never considered. He maintained that I was delusional about living abroad despite I could produce a passport with multiple stamps in it and I also had the last two utility bills from my overseas home. Only at the final tribunal did he relent by saying during his questioning by saying, “there now appears to be some evidence that supports some aspects of his story”. At no point prior to then had he allowed me to present any documentary evidence to prove him wrong and me right.

The result of my final tribunal was that I was discharged from hospital. The members of the tribunal saw through his lies. Their questions to ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson humiliated him. However, the damaged done by him only extends the desperate plight I am in. His fraudulent imposition of a Section III detention means that I will never work again in my life. Not that I have much chance of ever doing so, but the FTAC will have put me on the ‘no fly’ list and I will be prevented from travelling to some countries such as the United States.

Despite ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson’s fraudulent claims that I am demanding multi-million pounds compensation, I have only ever formally stated ‘I would like my life back’. I am in no way responsible for what happened to me. I was simply going about my business. I was a respectable and honest man. I am a completely innocent drive-by victim of the Labour government’s incompetent and evil policies. What is true is that to ‘give me my life back’ will now cost many millions of pounds because of the extreme extent of the damage done. However, that is not the same thing as me making demands for multi-million pound compensation.

Will my life ever be repaired: NO CHANCE. This government nor any likely successor will never admit to inflicting wholly unwarranted injury to an innocent man like me. I am condemned to spend the rest of my life in poverty and squalor. With the constant fear of what will happen next. It is such a waste of an innocent life. All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace.

So what are my so-called ‘delusions’? Part I

When I was held prisoner by ‘doctor’ Ferdinand Jonsson at Mile End Hospital on orders from the FTAC then justification used was that I was suffering from persistent delusional disorder. However, I was never able to get them to tell me what those delusions were. Actually, they never ever formally told me what their diagnosis was. I asked in several e-mails to management at the hospital for the following information: a) what belief that I had that they claimed to be a delusion, b) evidence that I held that ‘delusion’, and c) evidence that said belief was really was a delusion. Despite frequent requests, they would never tell me. In the absence of a formal list I shall take a few topics that I did talk about that I think that Jonsson and the others claimed as being my delusions.

One of the things that I did say that they had issue with, so I presume that they claim to be one of my delusions, was that they government was issuing large numbers of fraudulent work-permits in the IT sector that were displacing British workers. This was the root cause of my unemployment which led to my homelessness, bankruptcy, ill heath and everything else. The doctors claimed that none of this was happening and it was just a fantasy of mine. For holding this ‘delusion’ I should be locked up forever.

However, in the real world thing are vastly different. The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has fought a battle (I believe incompetently) for years. They have a website dedicated to the issue of ICT abuse. The Association of Professional Staffing Companies frequently complains about it describing it as ‘crazy’. Even the Labour supporting BBC has done several programs reporting the issue. Belatedly the governments own Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) chaired by Professor David Metcalf agree that there was an issue, but only recommended a 10% cut in the numbers.

The problem remains and continues to get coverage. The Times published a piece entitled “Arrival of 30,000 migrant IT workers 'deprives Britons of jobs’” on the 5 January which generated over 200 comments. Many of them gave stories much like mine. One of the trade publications, Computer Weekly, has started a blog by another victim and contains all too familiar stories.

My point being that this is not a delusion or just happening to me. It is a very serious and wide spread issue that is causing massive damage to a large number of people. I have been destroyed by it and refused any help whatsoever despite me BEGGING people at all levels from the local DWP up to members of parliament and the specific ministers in control of the departments. All that got me was for the politicians to get the FTAC to detain me.

Jonsson just decreed all of my reports of these issues to be a delusion and instructed the other doctor and the social worker to agree to a Section 3 detention. This was a complete fraud. There were no genuine grounds for it. I was held as a political prisoner for the crime of wanting to work and objecting to have my livelihood stolen from me. Jonsson would never allow me to provide evidence of anything I said; everything was dismissed.

Just what am I supposed to do? My life has been destroyed; there is absolutely no chance of me ever recovering. I am condemned to living in squalor for the rest of my life. I will never work again, but I live in daily fear of someone in the DWP finding some excuse to take my benefits away. Last year I was seriously considering suicide, but that is just what they want. It will probably be what happens in the end (and I will welcome death), but I intend to make things difficult for as many people as I can before the end. It is such a waste that could have easily been avoided.

As always: All I ever wanted to do was to earn a living in peace.

Comments Enabled

I have been asked again to allow comments on this blog. When I first started this blog I did allow them, but I got a number of highly abusive ones. So I stopped all comments.

Because I have had a number of requests to comment I have enabled comments again. However, I will check them before I publish them. No discussion – my blog, my rules.

Don’t bother leaving comments suggesting that I take my tin foil hat off (I don’t have one), or ‘get help’ (the point is that there is none to be had) because it will never be published.