AN OPEN LETTER TO LORD RAMSBOTHAM

Lord Ramsbotham,

I have been betrayed again. I thought those men Peter and Mark (Benidorm) who I shared the correspondence between yourself and me in which I told you all about my son and his classmates being taken to Drake Hall Prison in a minibus from the special school for disabled youngsters they were all attending for PE lessons, without consulting the parents or asking our consent, I truly thought Peter and Mark and their elderly mothers were also victims of institutional abuse, in short, I took them for their word, a dangerous thing to do in this day and age, I had no idea that "Mark" (if that is really his name) was involved in the program called Benidorm when I contacted him from the website he had put his telephone number on.

Please Lord Ramsbotham, please, just do the right thing, I urge you. You know it's wrong what's been happening, I don't need to tell you that, you should listen to your own concience telling you it is wrong. I think you are a kind hearted man who just got sucked into believing that this scheme was benign, I know how these bad men gild their horrible schemes in such a way they appear to be good, and how crafty these bad men are, but you yourself inside your heart must know that what has been happening is not right, it is totally totally wrong!

Please, for the sake of the children, the ones these bad men haven't even yet got their hands on, please tell of what you know, please don't keep these bad secrets, please, I do beg you.

Barbara

ARE THEY ALL PSYCHICS AT STAFFORD BRANCH OF THE SAMARITANS?

Or are they simply spying on the people who have contacted them for support, stalking them?

Lets put it this way: How come the woman I spoke to this afternoon round about 3.00pm from Stafford Samaritans with the Cannock accent knew what I was going to say about Drake Hall prison before I'd even had chance to say it?

LORD JUSTICE FULFORD

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Earlier this month, Queen Mary, University of London, launched a specialist legal advice centre for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people.

The Pink Law Legal Advice Centre, the first of its kind in higher education, has been established in partnership with three top City law firms and will offer free and impartial legal advice on issue such as employment discrimination, civil partnerships and cohabitation.

The guest of honour at the launch event was Sir Adrian Fulford.

In his address, he spoke about his experiences as an openly gay man in the legal profession and reflected that in the past decade: “it’s as if the warp-drive has suddenly been attached to LGBT rights.”

Mr Justice Fulford’s appointment as a High Court judge in 2002 was the first time that an openly homosexual QC had been appointed to the court.

Mr Justice Fulford, known outside court as Sir Adrian, was subsequently elected at the United Nations in 2003 to serve as a judge on the International Criminal Court.

Here are his remarks at the launch of Pink Law Legal Advice Centre:

One of the advantages, and I assure you there aren’t many of them, of what sometimes feels like extreme old age, is that you gain a perspective on events that you simply didn’t have before.

Particularly you get a historical focus through which a bright light shines on events taking place today.

For me the past has been crucial in appreciating how vitally important this new venture within the Queen Mary legal advice centre is.

When I came of age in the law in the mid 1970′s, nothing remotely resembling the Pink Law project existed.

Although even then was a time of seismic and exciting change as regards to the provision of free legal advice.

I worked for some years myself as a caseworker at a centre in Earls Court, now sadly long gone. And there were other organisations which at the time seemed unbelievably revolutionary.

There was the Advisory Service for Squatters which, I was amazed to find courtesy of Google today, still exists. Release, which continues to give advice and assistance to those with drug problems and numerous other similar organisations.

But the area of sexuality even in those times of radical change and progress, was a complete desert. A few enterprising lawyers set up a gay legal advice service on a voluntary basis providing evening telephone advice but it was wholly dependent of volunteers and I can find no trace of its existence now.

The legal profession has always been conservative, although less so now than the days gone by. And back then for many who did not conform to the heterosexual standard, particularly if you were not from a privileged background, there was simply nowhere to go for advice and help.

It’s perhaps in 2008 world in which we live in Western Europe to get across how intimidating and hostile it could be thirty years ago.

There were no firms who specialised in this area or made it known that they specialised in this area. And as a result it was extremely difficult to find a decent hearing from your solicitor if you were to see him or her or any kind of proper service.

And the Bar was as bad if not worse. In my early days, I defended countless men on gross indecency and importuning charges. And I can vividly recall the raw hostility that came flooding, first in the direction of my clients and pretty quickly, my way when some of the older pin-stripped prosecutors and dinosaur judges realised not only was the defendant gay but horror of horrors also was his barrister.

To be out as a practitioner in the year 1978, which is the year I was called, was something of a rollercoaster of a ride. Some of my colleagues were fantastic, others were simply gross in their rudeness and prejudices.

People lost jobs, families were destroyed, lives were broken by the large number of prosecutions of men for such absurdities as allegedly chatting up other men in places such as Old Brompton Rd, thereby ‘persistently importuning for an immoral purpose.’

It sounds quite ludicrous to think of those court cases now. Policemen in supposedly provocative tight t-shirts and jeans, acting effectively as agent-provocateurs along that stretch of road between the Colherne pub and the Brompton cemetery in Earls Court.

And that was something that was repeated in every town and city, the length and breadth of the country. What a waste of time and money. What warped morality and how unbelievably destructive it was.

The workplace could be an equal nightmare for the LGBT community.

Men and women losing their jobs and facing real discrimination because of their private life. And as for adopting children, you were practically branded a paedophile for even suggesting the idea. And few lawyers were prepared to assist in any attempt to redress those sorts of discriminatory practice.

And inheritance arrangements, what actually happened in respect to the true legal position, when one partner died in a relationship, could be dire.

So many men and women suddenly found themselves homeless and without anything, when the relatives of the person who had been ostracised by his or her family for years suddenly descended out of thin air, having not been seen for years, on the day they departed to take every last stick of furniture. No ‘civil partnerships’ back then and the law did not smile sympathetically on claims that were akin to spouses or wives.

Now why am I visiting the past? It’s not just the autumnal reminiscences of an aging judge. But rather, I seek to highlight that we have suddenly travelled a long way in a very short period of time. To use the language of ‘Star-Trek’, it’s as if the warp-drive has suddenly been attached to LGBT rights.

In truth, I cannot conceive that we will in the predictable future return to the ghastliness of thirty-plus years ago.

But that said, when you scratch the surface, particularly in times of difficulty when people feel threatened, prejudice, misunderstanding, fear and conservatism with a small ‘c’ can be found on occasion lurking surprisingly close to the surface.

While we have every reason to be confident about the future, we should also strive to ensure that we do not become blasé about the present. We should not take these fundamental advances for granted.

And the more deeply rooted the projects like this become, providing an invaluable service and benefit to both the legal advisers and to clients alike, the more certain we can be that Pink Law will not be an anomaly but rather the shape of things to come.

From the perspective of this somewhat seasoned campaigner, my thoughts are that the monthly Pink Law advice sessions that are a deeply welcome development and should be nurtured and encouraged.

Not just for those that participate in them, the advisers and the advised, but also for what they represent of the changed circumstances and the far healthier environment in which we now live.

Other faculties should follow this innovative and imaginative lead and other leaders in the legal establishment should emulate the steps taken by Reed Smith, Field Fisher Waterhouse and Mischon de Reya, who have shown real generosity and imagination.

Finally a word about Queen Mary’s. The academics and other staff who have enabled this to happen are too often taken for granted or are forgotten all together. In my view, you are to be congratulated heartily for ensuring that this has come to pass. I wish you all the very best of luck.

HARRIET HARMAN AND THE DELIBERATE COVER UP OF CHILD ABUSE AND PERSECUTION OF CHILD ABUSE VICTIMS

I have a personal grievance with Harriet Harman, because I wrote to the MOJ many times while I was going through 7 years of being persecuted bullied and threatened (Richard Gardners "Threat Therapy) in the Secret Family Courts, and she is one of the people who the MOJ referred to wtite back to me.

I had discovered that what was being used against me in the secret family courts was PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME, and that had been invented by an American paedophile called Richard Gardner.

Harman and others from the MOJ lied to me, she told me that Parental Alienation Syndrome is not used in the UK, when she knew it was being used all over the UK, in secret family courts all over the UK. At the time, I had no idea of Harriet Harmans involvement with the Paedophile Information Exchange or the NCCL.

Harriet Harman did know not only that syndromes that had been invented by American paedophiles were being used all over the UK, she also knew that in 2005 200 women had been put into jail because of beng accused in secret courts of "Contempt of Court" and that is the charge PAS accused women are put in jail on when the judge uses Gardners "Threat Therapy" on them.

I hope Harriet Harman reads this post and decides to try to sue me, as I am a very angry women and would relish the prospect of a proper fight in a court of law, and this time it wouldnt be a secret one either. Harriet Harman and her creepy skulking crafty friends have blighted my life, and she knows it. Hearing people like Emily Thornberry praise Harriet Harman as some sort of advocate for womens rights is like hearing Thatcher praised as a champion of women, absolutly sickening. Not only did Harriet Harman and her colleagues in Parliament and the BBC make the UK a dangerous place to be a mother, they have turned the UK into a paedophiles paradise.

I also want to know why my son and his friends from a school for disabled students was taken to prison for PE lessons. Bill Cash and Jeremy Lefroy know all about that, so does Ian Parry, and I'm sure Harriet Harman is also fully aware of that sort of thing going on because all pigs feed from the same trough!

I've just realised that Emily Thornberry is Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, so surely she herself must also be aware of the massive cover up of the abuse of childrens home children in Islington? But these people would rather all rally round one another defending the undefendable than lifting even the tip of their little finger to try to defend little children from the determined as hell paedophiles that prey on them!

TAKING DISABLED CHILDREN FROM A SPECIAL SCHOOL TO A PRISON TO DO GYM

Disabled children shouldn't be taken to a prison to do gym, and especially without the parents permission or knowledge.

How were we supposed to know if they were being put in the care of someone like Thomas Hamilton when they do things like that?

TIME FOR CHANGE ARE STALKING ME ON TWITTER

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=time%20to%20change%20government%20funding&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CEMQFjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fnews%2F20-million-to-knock-down-mental-health-stigma&ei=TJwIU9P-Fu2e7AaKi4CIDg&usg=AFQjCNFASVV1zvwW5w0auYH443rWoygaLA&sig2=dCVwdpp0KE9mQJBAXe41fA&bvm=bv.61725948,d.bGQ

I HAVE ASKED TIME FOR CHANGE TO STOP STALKING ME ON TWITTER, I DON'T WANT ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH COMIC RELIEF, TIME FOR CHANGE, MIND OR RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS OR ANY OTHER DODGY CHARITY WHICH TAKES GOVERNMENT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE AND DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE INSTEAD.

MIND WERE GOOD AT ONE TIME, BUT THEY ARE RUBBISH NOW, AND I DON'T WANT ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH ANY OF THESE DODGY ORGANISATIONS, AND CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT THEM STALKING ME ON TWITTER!


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£20 million to knock down mental health stigma




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Department of Health
Page history:Published 10 October 2011 Minister:Paul Burstow MP . ..



The government is joining forces with Comic Relief to help tackle mental health stigma, with funding of up to £20 million









The government is joining forces with Comic Relief to help tackle mental health stigma, with funding of up to £20 million for Time to Change, the leading stigma and anti-discrimination campaign, run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness.

This is the first time that the long-standing campaign has received government funding: up to £16 million over the next four years. It will also receive £4million from Comic Relief - the second time the charity has awarded its largest UK grant to Time to Change.

Time to Change runs events and campaigns as varied as getting young men and women into the boxing gym where they can meet people, pick up new skills and improve their mental health and confidence; and campaigning to change public behaviour towards people with mental health problems. The new funding will allow Time to Change to reach 29 million members of the public and increase the confidence of 100,000 people with mental health problems to challenge stigma and discrimination.

Care Services Minister Paul Burstow this week visited Duke McKenzie’s fitness centre in Crystal Palace, where Time to Change has sent scores of young men and women with mental health problems.

Speaking at Duke’s, Paul Burstow said:

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One in four of us will experience some form of mental health problem during our lives. Unfortunately, people often have to cope with stigma and discrimination alongside their condition, in their families, their classrooms and their work places.
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Time to Change is already making a big difference. Many of the young people who go to Duke’s went with low confidence having never had the chance to talk to others in an open environment. Its helped boost self-confidence; and the people at the gym get to see that people with mental health problems are no different to the rest of us.
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Coping with a mental health condition is difficult enough without the added burden of overcoming discrimination too. That’s why I am committing up to £16 million over the next three and a half years to Time to Change to help fight the negative attitudes people have towards mental health conditions.”

Comic Relief Chief Executive, Kevin Cahill, said:

“
Comic Relief has a long standing commitment to helping people with mental health problems across the UK and has been working on this particular campaign since 2007. Four years on, we’re really starting to see some positive results - but we understand change takes time, and this next phase of the campaign will build on the success to date and the important lessons we have learned so far.
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All too often people with mental health problems are blighted by the prejudice, ignorance and fear that surround it and Comic Relief is committed to working with Time to Change to overcome this.”

Time to Change Director, Sue Baker, said:

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Stigma and discrimination ruin lives, and prevent people with mental health problems using their full potential and playing an active part in society. We have worked hard over the last four years to secure the beginnings of change in society, and have seen robust evidence of a reduction in discrimination. But it takes more than four years to overturn decades of prejudice - this is the work of a generation. Mind and Rethink Mental Illness are grateful for this new funding which will make a difference to the lives of millions of people - those with mental health problems and those around them.”

The funding will help Time to Change continue its work until March 2015 and help change attitudes and behaviours on a mass scale, empowering individuals to tackle discrimination across all sectors and communities.

It will fund the next phase of this highly successful campaign, including testing new approaches to tackling mental health stigma and discrimination amongst children and young people, and starting with some specific work with the African Caribbean community.

ENDS

Additional supportive comments

Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind said:

“
For generations we have swept mental illness under the carpet as a society. We’ve been afraid to talk about it and afraid to understand it.
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The consequences for those experiencing mental health problems has been devastating. Stigma and discrimination has stopped people working, socialising and living life to the full. Over the last few years, Time to Change has made real progress in changing societal attitudes but we won’t give up until the job is done. We thank the Government and Comic Relief for their support and look forward to a future when anyone with a mental health problem has the opportunity to realise their ambitions.”

Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness said:

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This is a fantastic opportunity to improve the lives of the thousands of people affected by mental illness and Rethink Mental Illness is proud to be playing its part in this movement for change.
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It means in particular new focus on the stigma faced by children, young people and people from African Caribbean communities, offering hope to a new generation that they can grow up without the fear of discrimination blighting their lives.
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The funding is an acknowledgement of both the importance of continuing to tackle stigma around mental illness and also the excellent results Time to Change has achieved so far.”

Notes to Editors

1) Visit the Time to Change website for more information.

2) Time to Change is a programme run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, set up in 2007, that tackles mental health stigma and discrimination. It works closely with people with mental health problems to build their confidence and leadership skills to address stigma.

As a result of this campaign, so far there has been a four per cent reduction in the discrimination that people with mental health problems report, as well as improvements to public attitudes. According to data from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, the reduction in discrimination equates to 23,500 more people living lives completely free from discrimination compared to at the start of the campaign and 71,540 fewer people experiencing discrimination when looking for work.

3) The source of statistics in this press release: Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in Great Britain, Office of National Statistics, 2005.



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Published:10 October 2011
Organisation:Department of HealthMinister:Paul Burstow MP

JOB'S COMPLAINTS

I want to know why God is letting wicked people and demons persecute me.

Job asked the same question.

Why does God allow children and babies be abused? Why does God let murderers get away with it?

Why am I sitting here sick, and why do I get ill so much?

Why are paedophiles employed by MI5 allowed to spy and harass child abuse victims?

Why is every politician in the UK allowing this to happen?

Why is God allowing it to happen?

I'm asking God these questions, and I expect there will be creepy people coming here pretending to be God answering them, but I already know what God's voice sounds like, so God help me not to be tricked!