[NB: a full transcript of exactly what was said to and by me by the political party members inside the polling station is at the end after this Email.]
To: "Merrick Cockell"; "Returning Officer"; "Notting Barns Ward Safer Neighbourhoods Team"; "BBC News Channel"
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:13 PM
Subject: I object most strongly to the presence of political party members inside my polling location accosting people as they enter/depart the large polling room.
Councillor Merrick Cockell, Leader
Royal Borough Kensington & Chelsea
Town Hall
Hornton Street
London W8
Dear Mr Cockell
I object strongly to the presence of the three political party members I encountered today while voting at the Thomas Jones Primary School on St Marks Road just south of Lancaster Road.
The three people each wearing large coloured ribbons representing the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties were inside the school just at the inside entrance to the large voting room seated on a row of chairs and/or standing talking with people.
When I went in, a seated male said "Hi" to me. I ignored him, said nothing and walked into the large room to cast my vote.
As I left studiously ignoring these three people, one of them, a woman, started talking to me. I paused, looked back, and she got up from her chair coming over to me asking "Have we got your . . .".
I cut her off at this point telling her that I objected to their presence inside the polling place. She then repeated what I had said to the other two adding "We are entitled to be here."
I said nothing in response to this claim and added that I would be making a complaint as I left.
I assumed that she was going to ask me for my polling card information which has happened in the past. I've always objected to this event each time I've voted and have been against this since my first vote in this country and council in 1992.
I do not believe that any political party member has the right to be inside the polling area carrying out political activity regardless of what it might be.
No one has the right to know my personal details from my polling card. It is private information which only those in an official voting verification role have the right to request when they give me a ballot.
The fact that I am voting is a matter of privacy as well and is my right to disclose as I please but not the right of political party members to know that I was present casting a ballot at any given time.
I also believe that they prey upon people by pretending to be in an official capacity inside the school polling location at the entrance of the actual voting room thus intimidating people to provide the information as if it were an officially required act.
The woman had asked me "Have WE got your . . . " The "WE" carried air official authority request as if they were entitled to something and acting in an official voting capacity.
She also claimed she had the right to be there which I do not believe to be the case.
I do not believe that political party members should be any closer than some 50 feet from the street entrance to the polling place on election day in any a capacity that reflects electioneering as was the case here.
After I left, I walked down St Marks Road to the north encountering a PCSO and regular police officer talking at the corner of what believe might have been Bartle Road.
I stopped and let them know about this situation that I considered to be wrong leaving it to their discretion about what to do given overall problems in the area and whether or not this is actually something which is contrary to rules/regulations regarding polling place electioneering.
Sincerely yours
Gary D Chance
cc Returning Officer, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Notting Barns Ward Safer Neighbourhoods Team
BBC News Channel
Addendum not included in the Email: Human rights violation of privacy by non-polling station staff asking me for my "number" and/or details as it actually happened inside the polling station as described in the above Email:
13:16:17 "Hello, sir," said male political party member sitting on chair right next to entrance of the voting room amid talking by female who was standing with a male. I ignored him and went into voting room.
13:16:32 "Hello," I said as I began the voting process.
13:18:59 "Sir," says a female party member sitting in chair as I passed by from the voting room toward the exit; "Will you excuse me," she asks. "Have we got your number or your [date/data to] requirements?" she asked.
13:19:04 "I strongly object to your presence here, and I'm asking you to leave the premises. You're not supposed to be on the premises . . ." I said.
13:19:10 "Yes, we are. We're allowed to be," said a female. "Yes, we really are," said what sounds like a second female voice.
13:19:13 "I will register a complaint about this," I said. "Fine you do," said a female. "All three parties," I added.
13:19:17 "You mustn't have been here very long. I think . . . ," said a female as I departed.
By my accent she was recognising me as a foreigner while implying I was not knowledgeable of polling station procedures permitting them to be present asking for details from my polling card which was private and confidential to anyone except polling station staff. This is a ploy to undermine people personally in order to intimidate and obtain information requested. I refused to engage in any kind of conversation and departed.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Manish Sood: Gordon Brown Worst Prime Minister
From: "Gary D Chance"
To: "Manish Sood"; "BBC News Channel"
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: You are absolutely and profoundly correct in what you have said perhaps far more than you realise.
BBC News: "Election 2010: Brown worst PM says Labour candidate"
Manish Sood
Labour Party Candidate for
North West Norfolk
Dear Mr Sood
You above all others have spoken the truth at a critical time in history. Many will try to bully you into submission, but I hope that you will stick to what you have said and get on with honest campaigning. You do yourself and the nation a great service.
I say this because I've been subjected to totally invasive surveillance technology torture abuse for 11.5+ years after reporting child abuse in an adjoining flat to the local Council exactly 12 years ago tomorrow.
Three months later surveillance technology was provided to the child abusers in mid-August 1998 along with others engaged in antisocial and criminal behaviour to use as a weapon against me 24/7/365 to stop my reporting and drive me out.
The surveillance technology has escalated all along as I continued my extensive reporting to all and sundry including Prime Minister Tony Blair starting in September 1999 after significant reporting failed to stop what had become ongoing child abuse that by then which also included adult abuse.
In February 2001 US government agents joined with their most sophisticated surveillance technology ever known seven months before 9/11 and subverted my legal processing in the High Court seeking protection from this abuse.
In July/August 2001 still before 9/11 I sent daily diary/logs consisting of some 15 to 20 pages of extensive detailed torture including sleep deprivation logs about this atrocious surveillance torture abuse to cabinet members including Prime Minister Blair, Chancellor Brown, Home Secretary Blunkett and others including the media
Ministers of this Labour government have been corrupt to the core and an apology for this extreme abuse of power is due the people of the UK and the Queen as you suggest.
I suspect that you do not know about this particular activity and are making your statements based upon other aspects of the corruption which I've also noted growing and occurring. This government has been corrupt to its core for many years.
This should, I hope, give you a more firm foundation upon which to continue your statements about the darkest of all possible times in British history from the abuse of surveillance technology of the kind I've experienced for social control, torture, medical experimentation, surveillance R&D and the assassination of people like me who speak the truth.
Please keep up your honesty and speaking the truth. It is the only way democracy in the UK can be saved.
Sincerely yours
Gary
http://www.garydchance.com
http://garydchance.tripod.com/surveillance
http://garydchance.bravejournal.com
http://garydchance-gary.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/garydchance
http://www.myspace.com/garydchance
http://twitter.com/garydchance
To: "Manish Sood"; "BBC News Channel"
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: You are absolutely and profoundly correct in what you have said perhaps far more than you realise.
BBC News: "Election 2010: Brown worst PM says Labour candidate"
Manish Sood
Labour Party Candidate for
North West Norfolk
Dear Mr Sood
You above all others have spoken the truth at a critical time in history. Many will try to bully you into submission, but I hope that you will stick to what you have said and get on with honest campaigning. You do yourself and the nation a great service.
I say this because I've been subjected to totally invasive surveillance technology torture abuse for 11.5+ years after reporting child abuse in an adjoining flat to the local Council exactly 12 years ago tomorrow.
Three months later surveillance technology was provided to the child abusers in mid-August 1998 along with others engaged in antisocial and criminal behaviour to use as a weapon against me 24/7/365 to stop my reporting and drive me out.
The surveillance technology has escalated all along as I continued my extensive reporting to all and sundry including Prime Minister Tony Blair starting in September 1999 after significant reporting failed to stop what had become ongoing child abuse that by then which also included adult abuse.
In February 2001 US government agents joined with their most sophisticated surveillance technology ever known seven months before 9/11 and subverted my legal processing in the High Court seeking protection from this abuse.
In July/August 2001 still before 9/11 I sent daily diary/logs consisting of some 15 to 20 pages of extensive detailed torture including sleep deprivation logs about this atrocious surveillance torture abuse to cabinet members including Prime Minister Blair, Chancellor Brown, Home Secretary Blunkett and others including the media
Ministers of this Labour government have been corrupt to the core and an apology for this extreme abuse of power is due the people of the UK and the Queen as you suggest.
I suspect that you do not know about this particular activity and are making your statements based upon other aspects of the corruption which I've also noted growing and occurring. This government has been corrupt to its core for many years.
This should, I hope, give you a more firm foundation upon which to continue your statements about the darkest of all possible times in British history from the abuse of surveillance technology of the kind I've experienced for social control, torture, medical experimentation, surveillance R&D and the assassination of people like me who speak the truth.
Please keep up your honesty and speaking the truth. It is the only way democracy in the UK can be saved.
Sincerely yours
Gary
http://www.garydchance.com
http://garydchance.tripod.com/surveillance
http://garydchance.bravejournal.com
http://garydchance-gary.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/garydchance
http://www.myspace.com/garydchance
http://twitter.com/garydchance
Monday, 3 May 2010
Hislop, Durrell, Gellhorn and Tyranny
From: "Gary D Chance"
To: "BBC News Channel"; "Victoria Hislop"
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 4:43 PM
Subject: Talking Books: Victoria Hislop "A Spirit of Place" "The Island": the leper colony on Crete; and "The Return": the Spanish Civil War.
I thoroughly enjoyed your interview with her and found it quite fascinating. I've learned something about her and her books which I'll make a mental note to read.
I immediately began thinking about Lawrence Durrell's "A Spirit of Place" when she used this phrase in the context of understanding a location on her travels.
Durrell was a traveller, poet, commentator and novelist as well as a sometime journalist or press person for the British government on Cypress 1952 to 1955.
I pulled out his "A Spirit of Place" and found this amusing and relevant bit about political inclinations described in 1949 from his vantage point in Belgrade. This came from a letter to Theodore Stephanides in 1949 while he was with the British Embassy there:
"There is little news except that what I have seen here has turned me firmly reactionary and Tory: the blank dead end which labour leads towards seems to be this machine state, with its censored press, its long matching columns of political prisoners guarded by Tommy guns. Philistinism, puritanism and cruelty. Luckily the whole edifice has begun to crumble, and one has the pleasurable job of aiding and abetting this blockheaded people to demolish their own ideological Palace of Pleasures." (Lawrence Durrell, "A Spirit of Place: letters and essays on travel," E P Dutton & Co, New York, 1971, edited by Alan G Thomas, p 101)
Given my experience with this Labour government during the past 12 years, Durrell's perception of it as an end product manifestation seen in Yugoslavia 60 years ago is quite telling about the direction its power would take.
The horrors of the Spanish Civil War are what I would have thought and not at all romantic given the carnage. I find it interesting that you should have mentioned Eric Blair, Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in this context for I had begun thinking about them as the discussion developed especially the latter.
I was wondering how such carnage and brutality of the Spanish Civil War could have not been as significant as Martha Gellhorn's visit to Dachau a couple days after its liberation later in 1945. She said that this profoundly changed her life after which it was never the same again. She wrote a novel "Point of No Return" about it and described it in an essay collected among others in "The Face of War."
The incredible inhumanity of person to person beggars belief in war, but the atrocities of the concentration camps were incomprehensible after their exposure. For someone seeing this first hand at liberation could have been unbearable.
Which brings me to the point that the surveillance technology torture and medical experimentation to which I've been subjected 24/7/356 for 11.5+ years while this Labour government has been in power are echoed by both Durrell and Gellhorn in their writings but have been brought to London by technology so sophisticated that even the BBC doesn't want to report it.
Travel is a marvellous stimulus, but often the whole world and then some can be found in our own backyard.
Gary
cc Victoria Hislop c/o David Miller, Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd
To: "BBC News Channel"; "Victoria Hislop"
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 4:43 PM
Subject: Talking Books: Victoria Hislop "A Spirit of Place" "The Island": the leper colony on Crete; and "The Return": the Spanish Civil War.
I thoroughly enjoyed your interview with her and found it quite fascinating. I've learned something about her and her books which I'll make a mental note to read.
I immediately began thinking about Lawrence Durrell's "A Spirit of Place" when she used this phrase in the context of understanding a location on her travels.
Durrell was a traveller, poet, commentator and novelist as well as a sometime journalist or press person for the British government on Cypress 1952 to 1955.
I pulled out his "A Spirit of Place" and found this amusing and relevant bit about political inclinations described in 1949 from his vantage point in Belgrade. This came from a letter to Theodore Stephanides in 1949 while he was with the British Embassy there:
"There is little news except that what I have seen here has turned me firmly reactionary and Tory: the blank dead end which labour leads towards seems to be this machine state, with its censored press, its long matching columns of political prisoners guarded by Tommy guns. Philistinism, puritanism and cruelty. Luckily the whole edifice has begun to crumble, and one has the pleasurable job of aiding and abetting this blockheaded people to demolish their own ideological Palace of Pleasures." (Lawrence Durrell, "A Spirit of Place: letters and essays on travel," E P Dutton & Co, New York, 1971, edited by Alan G Thomas, p 101)
Given my experience with this Labour government during the past 12 years, Durrell's perception of it as an end product manifestation seen in Yugoslavia 60 years ago is quite telling about the direction its power would take.
The horrors of the Spanish Civil War are what I would have thought and not at all romantic given the carnage. I find it interesting that you should have mentioned Eric Blair, Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in this context for I had begun thinking about them as the discussion developed especially the latter.
I was wondering how such carnage and brutality of the Spanish Civil War could have not been as significant as Martha Gellhorn's visit to Dachau a couple days after its liberation later in 1945. She said that this profoundly changed her life after which it was never the same again. She wrote a novel "Point of No Return" about it and described it in an essay collected among others in "The Face of War."
The incredible inhumanity of person to person beggars belief in war, but the atrocities of the concentration camps were incomprehensible after their exposure. For someone seeing this first hand at liberation could have been unbearable.
Which brings me to the point that the surveillance technology torture and medical experimentation to which I've been subjected 24/7/356 for 11.5+ years while this Labour government has been in power are echoed by both Durrell and Gellhorn in their writings but have been brought to London by technology so sophisticated that even the BBC doesn't want to report it.
Travel is a marvellous stimulus, but often the whole world and then some can be found in our own backyard.
Gary
cc Victoria Hislop c/o David Miller, Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd
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