The trouble with establishing a dictatorship through stealth is that people both within and without the system begin to protest. Not everyone is afraid. Some speak their minds. Some fight. And when people fight, inevitably the truth starts to leak. Initially such leaks can be put down to “conspiracy theory,” or “eccentricity,” but eventually, as the dictatorship gets closer to fruition, the numbers of people seeing the truth are too great. It is at that point, that the establishment acts to silence the dissenters.
Maurice Kirk is one man who has caused that establishment no end of trouble.
Maurice Kirk is a capable veterinary surgeon. He has been fighting establishment corruption for decades. He has taken a civil case against South Wales Police for harassment because they have been covertly monitoring his movements for a long time. That case is due to come to court in January 2010. It is clear now that South Wales Police, in collusion with the Judiciary, intend that Maurice Kirk will not be attending that court case.
In June this year, Maurice Kirk was arrested on the charges of possession of a firearm, and offering the gun for sale. The gun concerned was a decommissioned WW1 machine gun, which he obtained attached to a replica First World War Airco DH2 aircraft. The gun had no trigger. It had holes drilled in it. You can see quite clearly in the photograph, that the barrel is blocked. In fact, it was made up of salvaged parts from several other WW1 guns, with the sole purpose of looking good on the DH2.
- Maurice Kirk, machine gun in hand
The aircraft, gun included, was, at one time, owned by the RAF. It has had many owners since, including Maurice. It has appeared at air shows with gun attached. Maurice sold the aircraft one year before his arrest.
By coincidence, the arrest and subsequent search of the family home occurred just after he was required to exchange documents with the solicitors defending South Wales Police in his case against them for harassment.
Following his arrest, Maurice was held without bail at Cardiff Prison. He went on hunger strike.
Maurice Kirk has an adventurous streak. He’s an aviation enthusiast. As a busy farm animal vet, he found that flying himself from farm to farm was the only way he could fit all his calls into the day. One day an American sponsor offered to finance his taking part in the London to Sydney Air Race, which he completed in 2001 in a 1946 Piper Cub. He then attempted an around the world trip, which came to a sticky end when he landed close to George Dubya’s ranch in Texas, and attempted to hand deliver a letter.
It was as a result of that escapade that Maurice discovered how bad things have become in this world. Despite the Federal Aviation Authority agreeing that he had committed no crime, he was arrested, subjected to psychiatric assessment, and deported for life from the United States. His aircraft did not go with him.
Some time later, Maurice found himself at an aviation gathering next door to Prince Charles’ Gloucestershire home. He thought he might deliver a letter to Charles, if he was in. He wasn’t, but that’s how Maurice came to the attention of Tony Blair’s Fixated Threat Assessment Centre.
One of the problems that the establishment has, is that we’re not far enough along the road to dictatorship that they can start actually killing people in any numbers. Occasionally, for example David Kelly, they take the risk.
For Maurice Kirk, and activists like him, they don’t want to draw attention to him by killing him, and they don’t dare go to a full trial. A trial results in facts ending up in the official record. Worse, trials, at least for a while longer, have juries. The truth will out, as they say, and they are scared of that.
So the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre is there to make sure that in circumstances such as these, instead of prosecuting a charge in the courts, the charge is used as an excuse for a corrupt judge to order psychological and psychiatric assessments. All it takes is for some so-called psychiatrist to say that he feels an assessment should take place, and before you know it, you’re “Sectioned.”
And that’s exactly what happened to Maurice Kirk.
Prior to his arrest, the FTAC approached Maurice’s GP, asking for a psychological assessment. The FTAC expert involved was a Doctor David James, who Maurice characterises as “bright, informed and helpful.” Dr. James came to the written conclusion that Maurice was perfectly sane; absolutely no threat whatsoever.
Despite that, after nineteen days of hunger strike, someone from the FTAC, had Maurice taken to court on the 7th August, and an order was made under Section 35 of the Mental Health Act, for him to be incarcerated in a nearby loony bin for “assessment.”
He is still there.
Since entering Caswell Clinic, he has been subjected to 35 hours of one to one interrogation with the following doctors and psychologists:
- Dr Tegwyn Williams
- Dr Gaynor Jones
- Professor Roger Wood
- Dr Ruth Bagenshaw
- Dr Joseph Sylvester
Dr Roger Wood is a psychologist at Swansea University. According to his profile on the university’s website, he researches the “impact of acquired brain injury, particularly orbito-frontal injury, on behaviour, cognition and social functioning. Clinical effectiveness of brain injury rehabilitation techniques in respect of social outcome. Long term sequelae of traumatic brain injury. Forensic neuropsychological assessment to identify neurobehavioural disability associated with ‘frontal’ dysfunction.”
So it is plain to see what they are attempting.
35 hours of one to one interrogation have found no evidence of mental illness. Yet at his latest court appearance, Maurice was returned to Caswell for a further 28 days, for further “assessment.”
But while this ordeal is clearly traumatic for Maurice, he is not alone. We are aware of others who are experiencing similar treatment at the hands of this out of control Government.
The establishment of the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre is a direct attack on those of us who would dare to speak out against the police state we are living in. What’s next? Mental health courts? Maurice certainly thinks so and we agree.
Canada has had mental health courts for a couple of years now. The idea behind them is that people considered to be mentally ill, and charged with “minor” offenses, are given a choice – attend the mental health court, or go through the normal courts and risk a prison sentence. Anyone choosing the mental health court route is closely “monitored” for compliance with any treatment regime, including drugs. Mental health courts in Canada have been hailed as a great success. It is presented as a voluntary scheme, a “moral” contract between the offender and the court, where the offender and opt out at any time and face a normal criminal proceeding. If the treatment programme is completed, the original charge is dropped or expunged.
Maybe I’m just being cynical, but that sounds very much like the choice given to Winston Smith at the end of 1984.
Keep up to date with Maurice at his website: http://kirkflyingvet.com/
This post is tagged Corruption, Dictatorship, Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, FTAC, Judiciary, Maurice Kirk, Mental Health
This is exactly what we were discussing a few weeks ago.
http://forums.ukcolumn.org/showthread.php?tid=66
Spread the story and write those letters people or we will all be facing this sort of treatment in the future.
From today’s Guardian.
“the case of Grant Wilkinson, aged 34, who was imprisoned at Reading crown court for converting replica guns into live weapons at a secret factory….Police linked his guns to 50 shootings and eight murders”
If they can create this kind of link – where they punish a man for what others did with them after they left his posession – then they will surely try to portray Maurice Kirk as an earlier link in the same kind of chain……e.g. the kind of man who would sell replica guns to someone like Grant Wilkinson.
He should get a lawyer, not try to defend himself.
There’s nothing to defend. Many people had the gun with the aircraft before him. Some people have had it since. None of them is being prosecuted. There is no crime here.
Agreed Mike.
Not many people have flown an aircraft into former Pres. Bush’s weed patch and I guess that the forensic psych powers that be, perhaps the very same powers that would have advised King Herod on the advisabiity of the slaughter or the innocents, would of course tend to suppose that Mr. Kirk’s bunged-up aircraft gun posed a potentially lethal and soon to be activated symbol of his pent up rage.
The FTAC will most of all want to be seen at this stage and thin end of their extra-judicious exertions and controlling wedge to be doing ‘the right thing’ so as to gain credibility and public approval towards the understanding that their paranoid operations (in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics-and beyond) are excusable, when they are not.
The only thing that worried me in connection with Mr. Kirk was the crumpled state of the map he was using and turning every which way in mid-flght as per the film shown on his website about his aerial travels.
The FTAC are a laughing stock. But it is no laughing matter that Maurice Kirk is currently beng detained, interrogated and having his frontal lobes scanned and prodded by the psych-feds. He should be released immediately and if he was ever deemed on the basis of proper evidence to be guilty of a crime, he should instead have been lawfully questioned as a free man, and/or properly and lawfully charged.
Initially such leaks can be put down to “conspiracy theory,” or “eccentricity,” but eventually, as the absolutism gets afterpiece to fruition, the numbers of humans seeing the accuracy are too great.
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[b]As there are millions of antique weapons in the hands of collectors and dealers up and down the U.K. and especially when it is taken into consideration that the gentleman involved in this case, a proffesional person by career who has an absolutely uncontradictable claim to the classification of ‘antique collector/enthusiast’ through his demonstrable links to public activities centering upon those predilictions I can tell you flattly that there is neither any criminal offence involved in his prior ownership of an antique nor is there any discontinuity with the norms of civil behaviour.
You can buy (or sell) any number of number of decommissioned weapons, six shooters for folks who like to dress as Roy Rodgers at the weekend or shmiezers and lugers and decomissioned stick granades if your big turn on is playing at S.S. troopers with your mistress.
You can also own FULLY FUNCTIONING antique weapons of certain types, most commonly you will find flintlock and muzzel-loading weapons are quite popular and prized collectables.
Saying this you need reasonable grounds for owning these items, it helps your case to register as a collector with the police if you intend to have anything more unusual than the common-a-garden muzzel loading pieces, it’s not compulsory to do so though. All antique dealers (antique arms dealers or not) can also register with the police on a voluntery basis.
In the case of Maurice Kirk it’s absolutely clear to anyone in the know that no crime has been commited, but unfortunately not many members of the public are in the know when it comes to the letter and spirit of the law concerning antiques, it’s more likely the average Daily Tabloid reader is cowering behind his setee out of media inflicted terror of knife crime and ‘home-grown’ terrorism, which is a state of affairs agencies like this ‘Fixated Threat Assesment Centre’ take maximum advantage of. Modern eastern european history is scarred by this phenomenon.
The picture of Mr.Kirk attached to the leading article might not be portraying him too favourably. He’s comeing off a bit like a rubbish terminator in that snap, after maybe taking a puppy hostage to demand info on the whereabouts of Sarah Connor from a scared but camera utillising secret service man, all Blair Witch style. In all actuality though out of the two things Mr.Kirk is holding in the picture it’s actualy the jack russell that is the most dangerous.
To be perfectly reasonable if a threat assesment has to be completed on Mr.Kirk it in no way should involve him loosing his liberty unless he commited a crime or there is reason to think he might immenaintely commit a crime, or for his own safety. Flying into the Crawford Ranch in texas in a light aircraft with a big bollocks machine gun sticking out in front and a jack russell dangling out of the cockpit besides you like some dystopic sci-fi Kevin Costner co-star is pretty likely going to get someone (you) killed, but that is not what Maurice Kirk did, Maurice kirk did nothing more illegal than deliver a letter and this creepy organisation the Fixated Threat Assesment Centre thought it could with the apparent collusion of the police cobble together the pretense of a firearms offence purely as a ruse to be able to hold Kirk against his will (see the legal clarification I provide below) when there simply is no crime what-so-ever.
For the record I think Kirk ill advised if he flew within security perimeters, off F.A.A. registered flightpaths or made reckless endangerment to himself or others, but I’ve read nothing that would sujest this, prosecution would naturaly follow reckless endangerment and this is not a reckless endangerment case, it’s a made up, phoney-balloney firearms case.
This sinister organisation, sinister because it’s behaviour is like the I.R.S. (or worse organisations… it’s like the I.R.S. of your life, not just your money) in that it is conduct unbecoming to members of the human race. It thinks that in collusion with ever willing british police it can cobble together a ‘crime(?)’ (legaly owning/selling an antique piece of brik-a-brac) that is no way illegal along with the heinious offence of having delivered a letter and with that deprive you of your liberty – dishonestly. The ownership of the antique and the letter delivering escapades are not linked, in criminal law, I assure you but they are linked by the obviously across the board auspices of these creeps… that is to say by a political body, a political ‘authority’.
This is very similar to the treatment applied to the Iraqi shoe thrower, God bless his little cotton socks, I saw that event live and Bush came out from the incident doing immediate off the cuff interveiws during which he maintained insinuations that the shoe thrower was clearly insane by virtue soley of the fact he’d thrown his shoes at him (I just noticed the pun, sorry). That was enough to get the iraqi immediately sectioned. It seems we have a pattern emerging, any reproachment of (supposed) authority in a non-prescribed (therefore non-controled) mannor constitutes grounds for immediate covert internment, under the auspices of the mental health act.
Here below is the legal clarification on the ownership of antique guns, and my advice is to seek status as a political prisoner.
P.S… to the doctors listed above there are duties and ethical standards to live up to. Practising your trade on political prisoners, holding a man against his will when there is no crime and probing and probing away for a fault or a flaw in that person is exactly how Matthew Hopkins the 17th century ‘witchfinder general’ psychologicaly tortured his victims too.[/b]
In the United Kingdom, antique guns are exempt from most controls, but the definition of “antique” in Section 58(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 is vague. Interpretation of the law is often left up to local police officials. However, guidance was issued by the Home Office in paragraph 2.7 of ‘Firearms Law: Guidance to the Police’ in 1989, suggesting that a range of vintage firearms might be considered for ‘antique’ status (’vintage’ for those purposes means manufactured before 1939). Following advice from the Firearms Consultative Committee (FCC), the Government issued further guidance in a circular letter to chief officers on 19 November 1992, as follows:
The provisions of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997 do not apply to any antique firearm held as a curiosity or ornament. The word ‘antique’ is not defined in the Act, but it is suggested that the categories below should be used as a guide in deciding whether a particular firearm might be considered an ‘antique’ for these purposes. Part I: Old weapons which should benefit from exemption as antiques under section 58 (2) of the Firearms Act 1968 a) All muzzle-loading firearms; b) Breech-loading firearms capable of discharging a rim-fire cartridge other than 4mm, 5mm, .22″ or .23″ (or their metric equivalents), 6mm or 9mm rimfire; c) Breech-loading firearms using ignition systems other than rimfire and centerfire (These include pin-fire and needle-fire ignition systems, as well as the more obscure lip fire, cup-primed, teat lip and base fire systems); d) Breech-loading center-fire arms originally chambered for one of the obsolete cartridges listed in Annex B and which retain their original chambering; e) Vintage (pre 1939) rifles, shotguns and punt guns chambered for the following cartridges expressed in imperial measurements: 32 bore 24 bore, 14 bore, 10 bore (5/8″ and 2 7/8″ only), 8 bore, 4 bore, 3 bore, 2 bore, 1 1/8 bore, 1 1/4 bore and 1 1/2 bore, and vintage punt guns and shotguns with bores of 10 or greater. Note (i) – The exemption does not apply to ammunition, and the possession of live ammunition suitable for use with an otherwise antique firearm will normally indicate that the firearm is not possessed as a curio or ornament. Note (ii) – The exemption does not apply to firearms of modern manufacture which otherwise conform to the description above. Fully working modern firing replicas of muzzle-loading and breech-loading firearms, for example those used to fire blanks by historical re-enactment societies but capable of firing live ammunition, must be held on certificate. For these purposes, ‘modern manufacture’ should be taken to mean manufacture after the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Old weapons which should not benefit from the exemption as antiques under section 58(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 NB: This list is not exhaustive and there may be other types and calibres of firearms that should be considered ‘modern’ rather than ‘antique’. a) Shotguns and smooth-bored guns, including shot pistols, chambered for standard shot gun cartridges, .22 inch, .23 inch, 6mm cartridges. b) Rifles and handguns chambered for 4mm, 5mm, .22 inch, .23 inch, 6mm or 9mm rim-fire ammunition;c) Revolvers, single-shot pistols and self-loading pistols which are chambered for, and will accept, popular center-fire cartridges of the type .25, .32, .38, .380, .44, .450, .455 and .476 inch, or their metric equivalents including 6.35, 7.62, 7.63, 7.65 , 8 and 9mm, unless otherwise specified; d) Modern reproduction firearms or old firearms which have been modified to allow the use of shotgun cartridges or cartridges not listed in Annex B; e) Extensively modified weapons (eg Sawn off shotguns); f ) Very signalling pistols chambered for 1 and 1 1/2 inch cartridges or 26.5/27mm cartridges; g) Pump-action and self-loading center fire rifles, except that examples originally chambered for one of the obsolete cartridges listed at Annex B and retaining that original chambering, may benefit from exemption as antiques under section 58(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 (as amended).
Hi ALL,
You know what they are Policing now OUR Thoughts! This is so George Orwellian (1984) well no one can say he didn’t try and warn us. We LET this happen by turning our eyes to all the bad things politicians were doing and NOT VOTING them out. 35% Voters Turnout the Suffragettes and MANY other groups who fought for the Magna Carta, Common Law etc and even thought they were doing the right thing fighting Nazi’/Communism when the real enemy was at home.
We MUST start a petition at the downing street site to get Maurice OUT! I will go and do This NOW. Otherwise it will be us next, for having the audacity to be on sites like THIS ONE!
It’s time to get off OUR Butts and start acting, get away from Eastenders, X Factor and all the shit they throw at us to numb our minds and begin acting like intelligent, humane and democratic society citizens. We MUST NOT let them keep doing more and more and taking away our freedoms when we just watch and pretend nothing is happening as we DON’T want to rock the boat. TIME TO ROCK THIS BOAT![hr]
AS I Promised, I have organised an E-Petition to 10 Downing Street. I am waiting for Approval from the Web Petition Team, AS SOON as I receive approval I will be back to ask you to tell ALL Your friends and contacts to sign up for this.
Thanks Guys n Gals we have to make a stand NOW all they will be taking ALL of US away one day.[hr]
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From today’s Guardian.
“the case of Grant Wilkinson, aged 34, who was imprisoned at Reading crown court for converting replica guns into live weapons at a secret factory….Police linked his guns to 50 shootings and eight murders”
If they can create this kind of link – where they punish a man for what others did with them after they left his posession – then they will surely try to portray Maurice Kirk as an earlier link in the same kind of chain……e.g. the kind of man who would sell replica guns to someone like Grant Wilkinson.
He should get a lawyer, not try to defend himself.
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THIS was a bit different mate, he WAS Converting replica firearms to make them fire live ammunition, what did he think was going to happen. Get some orders from the Police Firearms division.
Maurice Kirk had a decommissioned firearm, sold to him ON an aircraft, NOT ABLE to fire anything and they lock him up.
The guy converting replica firearms intended for someone to get shot when he made the guns, whether or not he fired them. Maurice Kirk is a pain in the Butt for the South Wales Police so they want him taken OUT of the Way.