The Reference in the column to the left to 'Phase 2' of my complaints
against South Yorkshire Police and the South Yorkshire Police and Crime
Commissioner.
Phase 1 involved emails and documents which are generally thorough, detailed
often long or very long, with abundant argument and evidence - these
predominate in the pages listed in the first column of this page. Now, I'll
be including more varied approaches. I've wide experience of campaigning.
Below, a copy of an email I sent to the PCC Office on 17 March. The text is written in the stilted style
appropriate to communicating with officialdom. A far more informal style
will be the norm in Phase 2.
The copy:
After the two images provided here, explanation of the reasons for their
inclusion and some possible uses.
So far, the materials I have produced to further my
complaints against South Yorkshire Police and the South Yorkshire Police
and Crime Commissioner
have taken the form of emails and Website documents which are generally
thorough, detailed, often long or very long, with argument and evidence.
I now intend to further my complaints using a wider range of methods. I have
very substantial experience in campaigning for a variety of causes in
the field of
human rights and animal welfare, and over a very long period of time. I
have also written on campaigning methods. I spoke at an Annual General
Meeting
of Amnesty International and expressed the view that many of the
campaigning methods of Amnesty International were demonstrably
ineffective, of the need to give far more thought to campaigning methods. The motion I instigated
was passed overwhelmingly by the members who attended, about 1000 in
number,as were the other motions I've instigated, on anti-personnel mines,
which injure and kill civilians long after a conflict has ended, and
human rights abuses in China.
Most of my campaigning has been for large organizations
but I have also engaged in 'solo' campaigning. It's a simple matter to
have colour leaflets printed, with
an image and explanation, and that is what I did in one solo campaign
which was reported in local newspapers - the Sheffield Star and a
newspaper in East Anglia -
and a national newspaper, the Daily Telegraph. This was before the Web
gave new opportunities in campaigning.
I'm giving a great deal of thought to methods of
campaigning in connection with my complaints. It's quite likely that
eventually, I'll be producing You Tube videos topublicize these issues (as well as other issues.) Producing colour
leaflets for distribution to publicize the issues is another strong
possibility. One of the images above,
on Christian hate crime, could be used as an illustration on leaflets,
but there are many other possibilities. Now, I mention another technique
in the
repertoire of campaigning techniques, use of my van to publicize the
issues and bring the issues. It's very likely that I'll proceed with
this form of publicity, and soon. 'Strategic locations' for parking the van
would allow opportunities for maximum impact, but so far I've given
little thought to this particular
aspect. I don't undertake action without first giving a great deal of
thought to the contribution of the action to an overall plan or
campaign, the potential effectiveness of
action, potential disadvantages of the action, and any ethical
dimensions.
The photograph of one side of the van shows that I have
publicity material for my project, 'Paul Hurt Design-Construction' on
two of the panels. The Website page
www.linkagenet.com/themes/billingsgate2.htm has not been
started yet. It will be unlike the other Web pages which deal with these
issues. In the new page, I'll
use short, striking pieces of text with many images rather than extended
text.
[I didn't proceed with the page with that address. The page added to the
site is this page, with this address. So far, I haven't made use of
'short, striking pieces of text.'
A third panel of the van which is available for use on this side
is blank at the
moment. The sign shown above is just one example of a
sign-with-a-message. There are many other possibilities. The signs on
the van are magnetic and can be removed
when not required. When I have available two magnetic signs, one for
each side of the van - or a wider range of magnetic signs - then I can
attach them to the van when required.
They would not be left in place for most of the time.
I hope my determination to pursue my complaints is not in
question, or my determination to pursue my case using a variety of
campaigning techniques. It will be found, I'm sure, that the information conveyed here takes an unusual form but as I see
it, a fresh approach is needed. A new phase in my activities has begun.
I will be concentrating more and more
on the issue of hate and hate crime. It's farcical, grotesque, deeply
disturbing that police time, police money, police resources can be
devoted to action against someone, myself, of
course, for calling someone a 'blundering buffoon' and for sending a
courteous letter about allotment law, security and related issues on
allotments whilst doing nothing about very serious forms of 'Hate Crime,' what I refer to as 'Christian hate
crime.' I've given a much more comprehensive set of examples of
Christian hate crime in my emails to the two panels
and in the pages of my Web site.
Obviously, if any objections are made to the content of
the proposed sign or other signs I design, then I'll take the objections
into account. Unlike so many of the people I've discussed in my Website, I not only believe in the importance of free expression
but I practise what I believe. I do make it clear on the Home Page that
I don't endorse unrestricted free expression.
'Arise!' the large group of Churches in Sheffield and North Derbyshire -
they include the Rock Christian Centre, the Philadelphia Network Church
and Sheffield
Cathedral - claim to have distributed leaflets to every property in
Sheffield a few years ago. I can well believe that Arise! distributed
leaflets to most properties. The leaflets were evangelistic. They promoted Jesus as Saviour. The organization also
claims that members walked along every street in Sheffield, praying as
they walked.
Publicity material outside
Churches is very common, of course. To
give an example, outside a Church near to me, 'New Life Begins with
Jesus.' The Websites of innumerable Churches and other Christian
organizations publicize many grotesque, savage, inhuman views, whic surely amount to hate crime, using the criteria given by proponents of a
certain view of hate crime, the view of South Yorkshire
Police and Dr Billings. I can see no possible objection - or no
rational objection - to my use of leaflets and publicity material to
give reasoned objections to Christian belief. In all my activities in
the field of counter-evangelism (which is only a part of my wide-ranging
activities) I have never yet encountered the least willingness to
counter my criticisms, to produce any argument and evidence at all. I do
regard the silence as having significance.
Two more images.
I think that all the material here is relevant to the
work of the Independent Ethics Panel, but not just to these people. No
emails are provided for any members of the panel. If no email
addresses are provided, then all I can do is to request that material I
submit should be made available to members of the Panel. I request that
the material in this email should be made
available to members of the Panel, and, also, to members of the Police
and Crime Panel. Although I have email addresses for most members of the
PCP, I do not have the email
addresses of all members.
I made a request concerning various other issues in an
email sent to the office on 7 March but have received no reply. An
extract from the email, with mention of unresolved matters:
' ... I haven't been able to
find sources of information concerning these issues -
(1) documentary evidence concerning grants awarded by the PCC since
his election to the office in 2014. (2) Missing minutes - according
to the page
https://southyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk/what-we-do/iep/meetings-agendas-minutes/
the
minutes of the Independent Ethics Panel are only available for the
meetings up to and including the meeting of
16 December 2021. Mention is made of minutes for the first two
meetings of 2021 but no clickable link is provided. (3) I have been
able to find very little information about 'Hate Crime.' I would
like information about sources of information available to the
public. How can the public come to an informed opinion about this
very contentious policing issue if there is insufficient information
available? I would expect to be available, not exhaustive coverage
in the public domain but coverage which is about far more than case
numbers, increases or decreases in case numbers. To be specific,
what are some of the spoken comments, tweets or facebook posts or
other written comments which have involved police action? I am also
very concerned about the omissions - spoken or written comments
which came into the public domain and had prominence -
language which South Yorkshire Police could have known about /but
which never resulted in police action.] My site gives an example, on
the page www.linkagenet.com/themes/police-pcc-panels.htm It
concerns Councillor Abdul Khayum, a former Chair of the Police and
Crime Panel. A very short extract from the page:
