To all Danners, allies and everyone else who cares...
As many of you know me I have been served another injunction on me by East
Riding of Yorkshire Council for me complaining and asserting my basic human
and civil rights to ask questions and try to arrrange meetings with Senior
Executives/Councillors to discuss the long drawn out embattlment since 1995
with them about the Counc and Health continued none implementation of all my
jointly commissioned clinical, access and others resports and 'careplans' in
my case.
I have for years pro-actively campaigned and been a national Neurodiverse
'user-led' consultant to the DRC and Prime Minister's Improving Life Chances
report and also internationally within the UN Disability Convention around
the needs of disabled people experiencing living with
NeuroDiversity/Autistic Spectrum Conditions and mental health
issues/distress.
Within my campaigning advisory and educational work I have taken this
peaceful 'non-violent' protest locally also to Senior Managers/ Councillors
here in the East Riding Of Yorkshire Council and Hull City Council and also
within the local NHS Trusts and other public bodies and Charities too,
including MIND, SCOPE and Mencap as a Professional Neurodiverse disabled
person and for doing so now, not for the first time I have been issued
another injunction.
Many public bodies are now using 'Injunctions' as 'Civil-Asbos' against
disabled basic human rights and civil liberities campaigners, due to the
fact that within civil law the 'defendant' is seen as 'guilty' under 'On the
balance of probabilities' and the claimant (including public bodies) know
that the 'The standard of proof' has a lower threshold within a County Court
which then means that 'Civil-Asbos' are a lot easier to be enforced in the
Civil Courts on disabled people human rights and civil liberities
camapigners, as I have found out and experienced in my own case.
If the 'injuction' is then breached', then you are in 'contempt of court'
and many be sent to prison and aslo 'criminal proceedings' may also be added
and you may then also be sent to prison, or find fora criminal offence too.
What's the distinctions between Civil Law and Criminal Law
http://sixthsense.osfc.ac.uk/citizenship/distinction_crim_civil/distinction_crim_civil.asp
This is different to 'Asbos' which are issued for 'criminal-offences' and in
'criminal law' the state as to proof it's case on 'Beyond all reasonable
doubt '.
Civil ASBOs and criminal CRASBOs as well as civil remedies such as
injunctions. Delegates agreed that a consistent approach ...
I can't find any legal advocates to take my case on, so as they say I am
'up-the-creek' here, unless any of you can get me a legal advocate?
I like to point out that my own case is a waring to all Danner's, especially
as it is been debated here that DAN Actions may have to take place to
FREEOURPEOPLE/ FEEDOURPEOPLE.
As I said, I have taken my protests usually on my own here in the East
Riding, due to there be no other disabled people who would 'join-me' in my
own personal case and that also 'speaking-out' for other children, adults,
families and carers who experience living with NeuroDiversity/Autistic
Spectrum Conditions and mental health issues/distress and for other disabled
people too.
I can remember being warned by Clair Lewis not to do any protests and
cmapigning alone and isolated and how vulnerable I would be. Clair you was
right sister and I should have listened to you, but what other options did I
have?
As I said in the current climate any forms of 'direct-action' is frowned
upon by the Government, public bodies and Society, including by many
disabled people too. any kind of 'direct-action' is being seen as
'anti-social-behaviour' and is being dealt with by local authorities Anti
Social Behaviour Teams here in the UK:-
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=using+injunctions+as+Civil-Asbos&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
Times have changed now and the days of 'free-speech' and the 'right to
protest and free association' have long disappeared within most western
democracies where basic human rights and civil liberities are 'stamped-out'
by neo-liberal Government and the is f-all any of us can do about it without
an uprising and 'collective-action'.
Any Danner's and others need to know the 'risks' they are taken and if you
are a disabled person from a poor socio-economic background don't expect to
recieve any legal support and ais to defend yourself in Court. The truth is
that is doesn't happen and I have found out the hard way, especially within
'civil-cases' in County Courts.
Last night I was speaking with Adrian Whyatt, who was the Danner who
attended SCOPE's Right to Independent Living lobby and many Danner's on
Danmail had a go at Adrian for attending this event and that Adrian was not
representing DAN had he was quoted in the media.
Adrian and I discussed how democratic was DAN?
How decisions are made with DAN?
Adrian believes that DAN has no democratic decison making in place at all
He also expressed is concerns around how policies and direct-action
decisions are voted on within DAN?
I can agrreed with Adrain on these points.
Is there not anyway that Danmail could be made more democratic and we could
vote on policy decisions and other issues?
Is the no way that the moderators could us a tool on Danmail that we all
could electronically vote on various policies, issues ect?
Could we not us this electronic voting system to measure people's views,
feelings, attitudes and behaviour on various issues that effect and impact
on DAN and the disabled people movement and from this we know what everyone
within DAN wants, needs to do and where we are going?
Would that be more democratic and inclusive for all?
Yours
Colin Revell
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