I mentioned one of the UK's secret prisoners today in the House of Commons. These prisoners are different to those imprisoned through the courts where the Family Court bans the name of the prisoner being revealed.
These are people whose legal capacity to decide where they live is removed from them by the Court of Protection.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 specifies in detail the circumstances in which someone can be jailed ostensibly to protect them. In these situations the system decides that someone does not have either the capacity to decide where they live or indeed to instruct a solicitor to argue about the issue.
There are two problems with how the system currently works.
The first is the wider one of accountability. Someone is locked up with no right to instruct a solicitor to contest the jailing and the media are banned from talking about it.
Obviously my comments in the House of Commons can be reported, but without that it cannot be talked about on threat of imprisonment.
The second is that the system has its usual unreliable expert system of determining whether people have capacity.
To me the idea that someone can be jailed purely on the basis that a social worker employed by the local council thinks they don't have the capacity to decide where they live is very wrong.
On top of all of this it seems very clear that the Mental Capacity Act is not being followed and furthermore
a) I am not being allowed to talk to the secret prisoner ... and
b) Other parties are being threatened in an attempt to prevent them talking to me.
All very very wrong.
These are people whose legal capacity to decide where they live is removed from them by the Court of Protection.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 specifies in detail the circumstances in which someone can be jailed ostensibly to protect them. In these situations the system decides that someone does not have either the capacity to decide where they live or indeed to instruct a solicitor to argue about the issue.
There are two problems with how the system currently works.
The first is the wider one of accountability. Someone is locked up with no right to instruct a solicitor to contest the jailing and the media are banned from talking about it.
Obviously my comments in the House of Commons can be reported, but without that it cannot be talked about on threat of imprisonment.
The second is that the system has its usual unreliable expert system of determining whether people have capacity.
To me the idea that someone can be jailed purely on the basis that a social worker employed by the local council thinks they don't have the capacity to decide where they live is very wrong.
On top of all of this it seems very clear that the Mental Capacity Act is not being followed and furthermore
a) I am not being allowed to talk to the secret prisoner ... and
b) Other parties are being threatened in an attempt to prevent them talking to me.
All very very wrong.
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By your actions, you have shown yourself to be a principled Member of Parliament and you have gained my utmost respect, as there are not many men in Parliament today like you.
I wish you were my MP, and you will see why when you peruse the following, which is self-explanatory: -
Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Jobs & Money, Saturday May 10, 2003:
This man was right all along
“Patrick Cullinane has fought a running battle with the Inland Revenue since the day he was accused of not paying income tax. And the taxman fought dirty - so dirty he lost his home and nearly lost his sanity. Now, a batch of confidential documents reveal fatal weaknesses in the Revenue's case. Phillip Inman reports
Patrick Cullinane's life has been ruined by the Inland Revenue. The government department has bankrupted him, kicked him out of his home, and driven him to a mental breakdown. His brothers and sisters have walked away from him and he has been unable to find work.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,,952455,00.html
Report by Phillip Inman of The Guardian, Financial Section, Monday 25 August 2008
“Evidence put to the high court shows that Cullinane, far from owing tax, was due a rebate.”:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/25/tax.taxandspending1
Patrick Cullinane's address in the House of Commons on 23 April 2009
“This is a short video of the corruption at the Inland Revenue; who conspired with High Court 'Judges' and the Police to pervert the course of Justice. Trial by Jury is the ONLY answer to this Government’s Tyranny.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFakScc9Z80
The video below exposes TWO Police Constables abusing Public Office and breaking the law in unison having shown them evidence of a criminal conspiracy against me; Patrick Cullinane by 13 High Court Gangster ‘Judges’ who ROBBED me of my home and possessions. Watch how these TWO Constables lie through their teeth and tell me that the ROBBERY of my HOME and POSSESSIONS is a CIVIL (sic) matter: -
Patrick Cullinane talks to Police Constables outside the Royal Courts of Injustice, London on 4th October 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeI1xO4luPg
My present Con MP is dragging his heels in my case, while my former three MPs were worse than useless.
Thanks John for highlighting this poor man’s plight in the House of Commons. You are a star.
God Bless you and your good work, and keep you safe
Yours with gratitude,
Patrick Cullinane.
As another victim of our corrupt legal and judicial system, your name is familiar to many people like myself and I applaud you for your honesty and integrity and bravery in supporting 'Victims of the System'.
I know that many MPs, including my own, are aware of the injustices suffered by their constituents, and yet, by their silence, condone and support those injustices.
All of this makes the lone stand that you have made all the more admirable and commendable.
Please be aware that you are not completely alone because you have the support of a great many ordinary people such as myself.
Please do not waiver from your path because, unlike so many, you are doing the job that your constituents elected you to do.
People like ourselves need people like you in positions of power.
Isn't it 'strange' that there is a threat of imprisonment for talking about 'secret prisoners'?
And the strangest must be that there are people paid to decide whether someone can decide or not where to live...
Except that the WORST must be that
a) you, an honourable MP, are not allowed to talk to the secret prisoner; by whom, I wonder?
b) other parties are being threatened in an attempt to prevent them talking to you; who is afraid of what, I wonder???
We are supposed to be a 'Big Society'? A parliamentary democracy?
VICTIMS UNITE! - whether MPs, voters or taxpayers...
Sabine
Publisher, http://victims-unite.net
You are a candle in the darkness they call parliament. Thank you for working so very hard to help the people who are caught in a very corrupt system. We are watching to see if any others will stand beside you and be counted.
You are much appreciated.
Thank God that we have an MP in the House of Commons that is fearless in being prepared to bring real issues that affect victims of Society and the Establishment to the floor of Westminster.
I mirror the words of Patrick Cullinane and Colin Peters.
Pity we do not have an MP wit your guts and determination in South Wales.
The fact that your fellow colleagues at Westminster are fully aware of the injustice and persecution of the people, they, for various reasons choose to ignore it.
To cover up the crimes against the people whom they have an utmost duty to represent makes those MPs just as guilty as the perpetrators themselves. Therefore, could it be said that many of your colleagues that choose to ignore these crimes against the people drawing money from the public purse under false pretences.
Take care my friend!
Yours respectfully,
Meirion Bowen
Thank you for those words in House of Commons, John.
I believe they might have cost me a nasty letter the day after, BUT improved on Friday 5.11.10
Anthony Neil Barker
UN treaty bans secret detention
It's far worse than that anyway, you are barely brushing the tip of the iceberg...
The 'crazy population' in Britain's unofficial prisons have been growing by 30-40% per year these past five years at least, from what I can gather. Govt's own statistics! Maybe the CIA are still going around putting LSD in people's bread, for a bit of a laugh maybe...but do you ever wonder where all the political dissidents in Britain actually are? There must be some, right?
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Are they bringing back the Workhouses in response to the Southern Cross closures?
Norman is a World War II veteran who was framed up for a six year sentence by West Yorkshire police when he was over seventy years old, and abused in Leeds prison, where they tried to section him to keep him locked away forever. They are alleged to have habitually used experimental pschiatric drugs on inmates.
Sectioning a person is the way that the government and police silence victims of crime and injustice.