HELP!! I NEED LEGAL AID! POLICE RAID! MY COMPUTERS AND PROPERTY STOLEN!
LEGAL AID NEEDED URGENTLY! IN MY ABSENCE, THE POLICE RAIDED MY HOUSE. NO MANDATE SHOWN ME. THEY TOOK MY COMPUTERS AND PAPERS!!! WHY? WHERE ARE HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY?
Absolutely DISGUSTING!! What sort of society are we when no home is safe from thieves — even those calling themselves the people’s guardians and protectors!
Where is respect for the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms? Some who should be defending journalists who expose abuse by the authrorities are using their powers to wreak not only my professional life and steal my property but are they are burning the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
What contempt for the law and the privacy of private property!
Home and Office Violated!
You arrive home in the evening. You find the apartment door wide open. The bed is turned over! Madness! As if I keep treasures there.
Then I look at my desk. My old laptap that has been with me since 2012 is missing. It was fatigued and on its last legs. Why take it? Then I checked further.
I had just bought a replacement at some great sacrifice.
It was gone.
This faithful old laptop had all my files and book texts over the years. It had all the research collected since the launch of Schuman.info in 1999. It had all the development of human rights as a motive for Schuman to start of his brilliant system to stop wars. It had Schuman’s initiation of the
European Community,
NATO
the Council of Europe,
the Court of Human Rights,
peace in all of Europe including Russia. On 9 May 1950 he described to journalists how to achieve Continental Peace. Were politicians listening to his call to ‘Be ready!’
and also
my book on Leonardo da Vinci’s French Last Supper,
my history book on Jesus, James and Joseph and the Temple,
and all work linking all these themes to peace in the Holy Land.
The new computer had not a scrap of information on it. Brand new!
Who are the Burglars?
First thought was to contact the police immediately. But I thought I had better check the whole house first. Had they gone upstairs?
SHOCK! AGAIN!
I found the large screen iMax was gone from the library. I had used this to create a video of all Europe’s history of war and peace, the great Schuman scientific experiment of peace by trust, and the folly of the next generations who later went about destroying the supranational mechanism.
How many know how and why the three European Communties were changed into a system the politicians called the European Union. That debased the Community, stopped its democratic elections and and returned to the age-old system of graft, that inevitably would led to war like that in Ukraine. To the public it slammed doors shut on new controlling institutions like Justice and Foreign Affairs.
Brexit was just one evidence of greedy grasp of power and money, emboldened corruption, rejecting Magna Carta principles and the democratic deficit.
Then the USSR fell as Adenauer and Schuman predicted. I wrote books about this amazing chance in the 1990s. Politicians inspired by such leaders could have united all Europe. I sent copies of my books to all Commissioners and to heads of the institutions like the European Parliament, the Council and the forgotten Consultative Committees who lost out in this unseemly, undemocratic power struggle.
Pitiful Pilferers
We live in age of puny-brained people. Then I noticed that the thieves had used the ladder above the stairwell. It was set up to enable repairs on the roof. They had used it. Underneath the roof glass were two plastic panels at ceiling level. One half of the skylight had been knocked out to find what precious object could be perceived on the other palucid plastic panel. It was a pot of putty. Some potty people had climbed up to see what was worth thieving. As if I would leave treasure on the transparent panel. What idiocy! You enter a house to steal computers and you waste time pinching putty?
Then I noticed some other perculiar things. My book-diary had been taken from my desk. Why take my diary? I had thousands other other books far more interesting! They didn’t seem interested in my many Bible translations. Was there something in it that disturbed them? Why dash off with a desk diary? And ancient history and physical law? Empires rise on emphasing a real or imaginary common good. Some fall wormholed when petty pilfering proliferates into political pillage.
Police Penetration
I called the local police and two Inspectors, whose names I recorded, arrived. I was glad to have their assistance because the matter was becoming complex. I respect policemen who oppose breaking and entering and stealing my diary and my life’s work on computer. Maybe some putty too.
At the other side of the house the tenant said he had been confronted early morning by a banging and a shouting noise. That was two hours after I left the house on an urgent mission. People were threatening to break down the front door if he didn’t open it. He was confronted by six or seven men some in civilian attire and some armed … and some police!
The tenant saw them walk off with my loot, after they called to telephoned mandate specifically for me and a modified address.
The police have still not come to see me to return my property, nor apologized. There were no witnesss to their action. No one noted what the law protectors took. No list has been given me by these officials. There were enough of them to provide at least one who could observe and another who could write another who could phone me and another who could get a lawyer to adjudicate.
Think of it! Two Burglar-chasing politcemen responding to my calls gave me forms to fill out to list missing property. The local Gandarme du Quartier sent me the address of the police force I should contact. Isn’t it more logical that these police chaps should send the list in about what they took and send me a copy? Wouldn’t it be more correct and ethical for whoever has stolen my property without shoing me a warrant to return the property, apologize profusely and send me compensation for lost work and income?
This unfortunately is not the only such case I have heard that tries to put the following human rights in the dustbin of a failed State.
1. Magna Carta principles stipulate that due process of entering property and taking property as well as ensuring that governors should deal equitably according to law arrived at by public bodies.
European Community principles in the Community Charter links all its institutions and all Member States to the Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of the Council of Europe. Its founding principles were annunciated and made law on 18 April 1951 all States and all Communities (Coal and Steel, Euratom, Economic Community or Common Market) have to abide by them.
Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom of Council of Europe. Schuman announced in St James’s Palace, London at the signing of the Statutes of the Council of Europe that adherence to these principles by States defines them as ‘European’. Europe is no longer defined unsuccessfully by geography.
ARTICLE 9 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
ARTICLE 10 Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
This is being typed on an old computer that a friend loaned me.