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Campaign Diary

What's Happened so far

This is an uneven mixture of Campaign History and News retired from the main page.

• Prehistory, resolved long ago
  (but it doesn't occur to anybody
  to tell the police this.)
• Accusations, tedious mucking around.
• Faked Charges.
• Pushing into Court.
• Reluctance of police to go to Court.
  You wouldn't think it would be difficult to get the police into Court, would you? But they kept stalling, and it took months.
• Incarceration without trial.
• Campaign start
  (Inside prison, originally tagging onto a subdirectory of my personal homepage).
• Deal with police, reason why, Release.
• (Delay, due to problems following imprisonment.)
  During which time, maintenance to this site:
  • Chucking the multipart bits off the main starting page, and turning it into a proper index/contents page. (Complex parts of Guidelines remain in draft form.)
  • Problems with indenting fixed.
  • Another Printing/Display improvement to the logo. The green flash was intended to be Copper Oxide colour, reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty. (Done offline, new Contact Cards printed and in circulation, uploaded.)
  • Moved to a new, snappier, Internet Address:
    Freedoms.4t.com (The old address, now phased out, was
    Miracle.s5.com/Freedom .)  The move was be completed circa mid-to-late February 2002AD, delayed by a week by illness.
  • Astoundingly expensive, Professional quality Posters printed and posted up.
  • Response to request for leaflets; designed, printed and dished out.
  • Discussion Forum split into helpful categories.
  • Initial foray made into Urban75's infamous Bulletin Board area.
  • Handing out merchandise in the summer crowds.
  • Recovered from "Folk Flu", a virulent disease carried by Folk Singers. (Last's over two weeks, down to a minor cough after that.)
  • Upgraded the Webring.
  • The Posters age, and, one by one, are taken down.
    There's no phone number on them, and that doesn't help.
  • The Webring expands, as a Human Rights Centre in New York joins it, after a few technical difficulties.
• Rummaging around for opinions in the widely-visited Channel4 Forums (Channel4 News), disappointingly producing only a morbid interest in my particular Case. Nonetheless, this was incorporated into the FAQ.
• The Webring Logo vanishes, as a technical hitch is encountered during a backup attempt; the worst time to come across such a thing.
• The Logo reappears, after sending $15 to an Image Hosting company in Arizona. An adventure doing this with no credit card.
• A help page for persistent reoccuring problems with the Webring is published.
• The Home Office publishes the Deaths in Custody statistics for early 2002AD: Wiltshire constabulary's figures are strangely missing, despite at least one alleged m*r**r being known to the Freedom Campaign.
  There is a charity specialising in Deaths in police Custody, called "INQUEST".
• Wiltshire County Council appeals for members of the Public to join the police Authority board; the badly-named independent Watchdog body for the police.
  They want diverse applications, but just how diverse are they willing to accept? (Note: This is not an implied accusation of corruption against the Wiltshire police Authority.)
  A week later, still no visits to this site from the police or APA. Posters in the town centre, a letter to their headquarters, correspondence with the Home Office directly and by proxy, everyone talking about it, what do I have to do? Write an advertisment in blood in their HQ reception?! (Note: This is not a suggestion that any supporters of this Campaign should write anything in blood anywhere. The Freedom Campaign does not endorse the writing of advertisment copy in bodily fluids.)
• The police Authority reject my application, though not at first, and say they have decided not to pass my details on to the Home Office.
• The Server Logs reveal a visit from a secure terminal at the Home Office.
  Hmmmm.
• The following disclaimer containing popularised search terms moved off the Announcemnts section of the main page:
  This Campaign is nothing to do with the Chocolate and Freedom Party, which is a work of fiction in the TV programme "Bootleg", broadcast by Burberry and the BBC.
  However, by coincidence "Bootleg" raises issues similar to the both current aggressive behaviour of the police, and wider Civil Liberties abuses highlighted in the Webring. The Freedom Campaign is not associated with "Bootleg", and takes no position on any aspect of chocolate.
• Handed out leaflets & cards in the Christmas crowds. (And on the train etc.)
• Debatable points, eg, do the police do some good as well? (Do they?)
• Communications Links: Making a serious start reactivating them.
• A list of all British Bail Hostels. (Response to search query.)
• List of all British Prisons.
• CSS Added to this site. In other words, more stability across various machines, prettier bulletted lists, and even better support for disabled viewers.
• Posters that were decorating my cell.
• We are currently exploring possibilities for mutual assistance with the-facts.org.uk, a wider anti-corruption group in the North of England.
  (But not now, since half of them ran out on the other half. Local support remains; their ability to pursue it does not.)
• Mass Webring promotion, from a stable, non-Hotmail address, so as not to be mistaken for spam.
• Right-wing police forums discovered from info on Urban75, started posting to. Constructive critisium appears to "offend" the police; discussions continue.
• The local police nick a charity-funded helicopter from the Ambulance Service and hover it at low level directly over The Freedom Campaign's headquarters, making the building rattle and strengthening the Campaign's Case, if not the roof (which happily was reinforced last summer). If pigs can fly....
• Offline & local activities are ascending into a frenzy of activity, and we will shortly (late Spring) be appealing for local (Chippenham/Swindon) volunteers again (he says, before the current ruffle with the funding).
• The Home Office has updated it's list of Closed Prisons, and our more accessible page has also been updated.
  Our definitions [page] of Corruption has also expanded.
• All bits relating to the previous Discussion Forum redirected to the new one.
• Additional funding appears on the horizon (ie, I land a Job).
  It'll be about a month before I fill in all the poverty holes in my budget and can start spending on the Campaign, though.
• Two weeks in, I discover my new job pays a basic rate of £1.75/Hr, and start looking for another.
• Several weeks later, I receive a payment of £140.00 (still not the full amount I am due) and I put that toward site upgrades for the Campaign.
• New Funding appeared on the horizon (and then ran away again and hid behind a tree), as I struggled with potential employers, loans, Trusts, and things.
• The Discussion Forum has underwent revision (again). The debris from tests was tidied-up.
• The older Summaries structure merged into the Forum.
• I engaged in dialogue with off-duty police through various right-wing forums.
• An instant-feedback area was added to the main page.
• The Bank Holiday 2003AD:
  Chippenham grows over Christmas, when locals come back, and the end-of-May Bank Holiday, where locals leave, and visitors arrive. Because of the publicity-opportunity and discussion that takes place over this period, the announcements were rather-messily extended into a bulletin.
  The Freedom Campaign is not associated with the Folk Festival; posters that you see are just there because of the massive crowds.
  Posters went up, mostly, in shop windows this year. (The same prints as last year, although Bigger.)
  Problem discovered relating to the expense of digital prints and popular windows rotating their posters so that none remain up for more than three days in some cases. So in future, new posters to be colour-photocopied from remaining digital prints, and more shops to be targeted, especially those able to display for extended periods.
  It took until SUNd^~22/6/2003AD to remove The Bank Holiday announcments. (I'm rushed off my little furry feet here.)
• The Chesnut Tree Café, which is not a café, and contains no trees or Chesnuts, joins the Webring.
• The police phone back in reply to an email to the Ambulance-Service part of that helicopter thingy. Funding related, not reply-able until Monday.
• Irritating pop-up and banner advertising removed from the site (THUr^~26/6/2003AD) and the Webring (late TUEs^~24/6/2003AD)!
• Start of October 2003AD:
  Site seemed to have frozen in the updates department, but this was in fact due to me being struck down with a jaw infection that required hospital treatment, just as I was preparing a big update. Announcement made in Comments Box when out of the GWH, which was all I could manage at the time!
  I expected to be recovered in early October, and the updates to hit the site late October, which is roughly what happened.
• Mid-March 2004AD, and maybe some earlier:
  • Good News for Independent Decisions as the PCA has been superseded by the IPCC: Long overdue. (policethepolice.org successfully lobbied for it last year.)
    Meanwhile, is SOCA set to become the Government's new political football in the national policing game?
    (SOCA is being formed as part of the Police Reform Act to combine the previous multi-agency approach to coordinated [or not] national-level crime.)
  • Meanwhile in this Campaign, we're all out fundraising, researching, and search-indexing.
  • Comprehensive offline tests affecting the structure of this site, and accessibility in the List of Closed Prisons are nearer completion, and will be implemented when the fundraising wind's down. (An update from the Home Office about Prisons was expected in December, but they put it out early in October, and I noticed late, so the backlog prolongs.)
  •  ALERT! The email address incertia@hotNOSPAMmail.com is now being monitored by the local police, so it can not longer be regarded as secure. Hence it is also available for all your messages of police abuse. (Remembering to post from an anonymous address.) I just hope they're enjoying my junkmail as much as I am. emailing via other addresses will be switched about as necessary to maintain security.
  • A big "Cheers Guys" to all the people who have stopped me [Rob'] in the street last summer and expressed their Support for the Campaign.
  • Snappier main page in alpha-test, for the curious (test over). A rollover test, for the even more curious (also over). (The full page is now available as the Forums Index.)
  • We have reopened possibilities for mutual assistance with www.swindonboroughcouncil.com  (a site aimed at promoting moral and ethical standards within public service).
  • Webring: Dublin's Gemini Club.
  • The Discussion Forum has been revised. The older Summaries structure is now merged into the Forum.
  • Thank you to all the shops in Chippenham town centre and Bath city centre who allowed or requested Posters in their windows during May 2003AD.
  • This Campaign is soaring. Posters have run out from surprise demand (more "soon"), and people are asking to join. A draft structure is in place to facilitate this.
• Old News from before June 2004AD:
  • We are mutually assisting SOFAP.
  • There's a new group fighting police brutality in London: Policewatch. 'Seem's to be primarily a News service.
  • Some new structure added to this site, summarising introductory content and allowing you to expand content where you choose.
    Thank you for all your comments: We will reply fully as soon as possible.
  • News: Anti-Corruption Investigator assaulted in her own home infront of her children by Merseyside police, takes them to Court.
  • Information: The police are the only organisation you can get legal aid to sue, which show's you what the legal profession think of the police. The IPCC is now operational, with new powers against the police.
  • We have been sent a copy of The Phoenix Report, detailing persecution in Swindon.
  • Tell us what you think of this site! Better than reciprocal links, you can join the first and only UK Civ Lib Webring, and easier to get on than iCan: Making it easier for people to find Civ Lib groups.
  • We are mutually assisting Parents 4 Protest. P4P are fighting problems with the Family Courts denying access rights for both parents.
  • Most of the 'Campaign will be down at Avebury for the Solstice; it's just been pointed out to me that's kicking off on our doorstep. What could be more relevant?
    There might be free parking left over on Marlborough Common from the police's hypocrisy over the 800th anniversary, but don't rely on it. Bus service 6 (01722 336855 for timetable info) runs every two hours between Avebury and Marlborough.
  • There was a slight problem at Avebury: We lost track of ourselves.
    It would appear that each of the three key people going there hit individual disasters. Troy is still missing, presumed stoned; if anyone finds him, please get in touch.
  • News: The Pub where bits of the Campaign met most often at various times has suddenly been taken over. "Porter Blacks is Dead: Long Live Porter Blacks!" (This isn't a disaster as such though; all concerned are going on in bigger and brighter ways, but it is a bit of a wrench, particularly for the Pub's staff, who find themselves forceably sliced away from their management.)
  • Thanks to Óglaigh na hÉireann for updated information on military custody.
  • Big Funding has arrived! (One of the Campaign Workers has got a better paid outside-Job.)
• Was called "Just Done", but quite clearly wasn't, and is now totally out of just-done-date: (Date range unclear.)
  • Infailible Discussion Forum, unusually hosted on the local 'Server.
  • Feedback input to the Forums direct from the main page.
  • Just looked at this Diary and thought that I ought to revise it a bit more often... (Routinely-done now.) [Ha!]
  • Blocks page added & linked-in, as part of the site-wide structural revision.
• Misc. older points: (Date range also unclear)
  • (Fleeting) contact with Bullytown.com and merseysidepolice.com, whom are in the process of joining the Webring. (?)
  • Attempts made to contact PRAG, a group highlighting parking charge scams in Canterbury; their site has moved but they are difficult to contact; attempts continue.
  • Contact with P4P, who did join [the Webring].
  • The remains of the old externally-hosted Discussion Board on /talk, removed to Digests of Comments and Questions, among with related links.
  • Various concentrations of information on the main page: There is too much diverse info there presently, and confusing other was removed to specific subpages. A complex rollover was be added also, bringing the /talk page, or rather an include of it (echoing itself back on the old /talk page) into the new main page layout. A draft Rollover of this sort was under tests. Concept versions of smaller main pages were trialed offline also.
  • Standard bits added to all pages to allow switching of textsize & columns, and navigation aids across pages. The first page with controls for these features was the Prisons List, both because it is the most visited, and because it previously had single-page switchable navigation aids.
  • Search boxes added to the majority of pages, along with a new Advanced Search page.
    Search enquires quadruple overnight, so this was a good idea.
  • Extra checking for broken links ("triple-both" external, internal, and errors of the site search engine).
  • An unbelievably long list of upgrades to the Search Directory, and also an automatic submission form.
  • Er, putting the items hastily labeled "now done" in the right lists.
• Old News from the end of 2004AD:
  • And so another nutty year draw's to a close. Another month, another armed siege; once again the only people who really had guns were the police camped out on the pavement terrorising the town's citizens as usual.
  • 'Massive load of updates put in, previously constantly interrupted by successful Fundraising.
  • CGI Access arrived early, in November 2004AD!!
  • New helpful highlighting when returning to the Expanded Contents is coming online. The Prisons Reference has been heavily revised again.
  • The Prison Service has declined to comment on whether the "HMP" prisons names will change when it merges with the NPS to form the NOMS.
  • Avebury has been entirely dropped for the time being, due to logistical difficulties.
  • The author of The Phoenix Report, detailing persecution in Swindon, has taken the authorities concerned to Court.
• Old News and events from over 2005AD:
  • The first long-distance convert speed cameras were switched on 13th April 2005AD on the M4 by Chippenham bandits, Imean police: Persecuting hapless motorists on a road purpose-built for high speed.
  • Fathers 4 Justice joined the Webring!
  • We didn't hear any more from Shine about the Sky One documentary they wanted out help with, before their deadline, so it's safe to assume that's not happening anymore.
  • We have brought a new Top-Level Domain (freedom.is). Shortly, bits of it may be available for sub-letting. We are in the process of transferring to this address.
  • Old News about parking:
    Is this trivial?

    Is this?

    
    Derision has been voiced over the shots of police breaking traffic laws.
    The IPCC say falling police driving standards have contributed to the number of fatal crashes involving police cars quadrupling in the last eight years.
    

    
    If we have to have laws, they should apply equally to all.
    If we have to have police, they should make things better, not worse.

    Two points:

    1. Anyone can legally double-park in an emergency. That doesn't mean all the police there are doing that.
    2. There are too many double yellow lines around. It would not be surprising if there are some in a car park somewhere.

What's Planned

(But not when or where; incase the police and other criminals start watching this site.)

Points that are generally ongoing most of the time:

• Campaign Expansion.
• I am (still) hurrying to include the latest round of feedback:
  • What I am doing to further this? (Right now, typing this (though clearly not fast enough)), and dishing out little Contact Cards in Pubs, raising points back to this site.
• Publicity Drive:
  • Contacting more similar sites.
  • Putting up more Posters, more visibly (ie, front windows of Cafés rather than back walls of Pubs), once I have a phone number to put on them, and money to fund the phone line.
• Expanding the Webring further, and helping existing membergroups with any problems.
• Rummaging around in more discussion forums for opinions, Experiences 'n' Suggestions.
• Getting Letters ready to send out in relation to the Webring; substantally delayed because many email-replies responded positively after a few week's pause.
  (Delayed further by funding hiccups and further further delayed by waiting for site upgrades.)

Happening Now:

• Just Done:
  (See also the latest changes in the domain switchover.)
  • Brought a new top-level domain: freedom.is
    Tests ongoing for the new site on a freedom.is domain.
  • Upgraded pages on the old site ready for changeover to the new one, which involved replacing much ISML with file-compatible php.
    This also removed the need for most of the javascript, making pages load much faster, and making them even more accessible.
    Also, some pages had a javascript-controlled type=button submit button, instead of a proper type=submit control, which meant that older and alternative Browsers could not use them, and that pressing <Enter> on them would not submit the form. The upgrades fixed that too.
  • CSS Upgraded where necessary, so that pages would display correctly when it was switched off.
  • Use of the IPCC and FOI actually made, releasing the stack of actions to take, although sticking to the principle that only one complaint/request can be pursued at a time, and so starting with the most serious.
    A side-effect of this was the discovery that not only the complaints dept., but also the FOI dept, were located in the local [Chippenham] station of Wilts police.
• Coming up next: (Also Cf. the Coming Up [support] page.)
  • To add controls for the new features, and more actual navaids, columns, and Contents Lists to more pages. (Important ones done.)
  • To add LINK elements to all pages (eventually). (Major pages serviced.)
  • Contacting some interested parties.
  • Another round of Posters, these ones using the new domain name and a new (for us) method of publicity.
• Planned for later on:
  • An 070 phone line is [was] planned "soon", to enable people without internet access to contribute to the new forums.
  • More Posters will go up later, eventually with the new phone number on, and hopefully a snappier Domain Name, in time. (Domain got, number not.)
  • Gathering-up of previous research feedback, and adding to the digested/summarised texts now within the new Forums. (Partly done.)
  • Comparisons between Bail Hostels and Channel 4's Big Brother.
  • Comparisons between imprisonment and the police in general, with BBC2's "the Experiment".
  • Building up a list of safe (ie, uninhabited) [physical] sites to meet "dangerous" (violent) criminals that support the police; thus avoiding bringing unseemly violence to Pubs.
  • Groundwork to check people (supporters and unrecognised victims) are still alive, groundwork to [indirectly] watch the more despicable activities of the police.
  • Perhaps some kind of public survey or event; future, future.
    More probably, a mass leafleting run in a public area; this happened December 2001AD, and produced many willing transient leafleting volunteers (Cheers).
  • The sell of directories from the new domain name; defered until the tax position is clearer. There are other potential problems: If the Campaign start's making money from it, where does that leave our non-profit status? If we're not definable as a charity under the increasingly-complex rules, where does that leave our inability to operate as a traditional business (which we're not)?
    So until then, any directories will either be for Campaign use, use of Members of the Campaign, or as temporary unpaid gifts.
    In other words, hardly any decently-named ones will be used until subletting becomes practiable.

Discussion list/Guestbook/Corkboard

More interactivity (DISCUSSION LIST ONLINE). Again! Technical difficulties surmounted!! AGAIN!! Utterly improved.

Try also a Discussion Forum ALSO NOW ONLINE, next to add a forum of my own in groups.google.com), as requested.

currently only email (us@freedoms.4tNOSPAM.com), not recommended,
and the Mobile +44 (0)7811 550086. Postal mail is better, right now.

FAQ: Frequently asked Questions

police Corruption: Is This Still a Free Country?

Good question.

So what exactly did you do [to deserve this police action]?

I didn't. The police started the action, partly prompted by various tiny outside parties consisting of idiots with power.

What were you Charged with?

Harassment, as in stalking. (Which is ridiculous and particularly hypocritical coming from the police.)

So why did the lady in question make that Charge if you're friends with her?

She didn't. The police did. The lady in question strongly disagrees with and has on occasion publicly protested against these charges which the police claim she is making. (These claims crumbled under scrutiny at one of the police's own Interviews, however.)

Why is this site seemingly not updated for ages, then by a huge lump all in one go?

Please bear in mind that this site is being RAPIDLY updated following my Release from prison, both offline at home, and online in a (recently installed of heating) intercafé by a railway station; that doubles both as a crèche and a noisy meeting-house. Also please bear in mind that as I write type these words I have other things to do as well, and, as things now really start to take off, I am being deluged by material that I have only just (very luckily) installed the tools and procedure to deal with.

I notice some parts of the document structure are empty. Why is this?

A Note from The Past:
  Due to limited computer access at the Bail Hostel, this page is in a "lumpy" form, and will be revised once my freedoms have swapped around again. Probably November 2001AD. ('Turned out to be early December.) It's not easy publishing a website from prison, so I trust you'll understand this site being a little rough round the edges. The content's rushed in here, that's the main thing.

Please note: There is morbid interest in my Case in particular. If you are morbidly interested in this, or you find yourself criminalised as a victim of crime, there is now a sub-FAQ just for you.

The Lacking Lexicon:
What the police say....
...and what they mean

We don't want this to go to Court because we don't want you to get a criminal record.

We don't want this to go to Court because we don't have any evidence.

I'm going home to get my bayonet.

I'm going home to hide behind the sofa.
(Okay, that's a from a Biker.)

Oxymoron Collection

• Open Prison
• Military Intelligence
• Hospital Trust

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