New Petitions

We thank the committee for hearing the petitions, which were submitted by our organisations over a period of a year. However, we believe that trying to compress discussion of them into such a short time scale does not do justice to what are very serious issues. The petitions are all, in part, connected with discrimination against men.Scottish social services have been shown to be not only incompetent but, we believe, riddled with fraud, corruption, gender discrimination and a strong Illuminati influence undermining the welfare of vulnerable children. That is at its worst during separation, mainly due to the large public moneys that the Legal Aid Board is freely allocating to opposing lawyers—in my child's case, for more than nine years—which leads one to believe that legal fraudsters assume that they are better at protecting children than the children's fathers are. Any suggestion from sources that are abusing those moneys that that practice is being curtailed is a blatant lie. Fathers do not require money to protect their children—their protection is free at source, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, that protection is unlawfully and criminally taken from the children, at the expense of their biological fathers.Until that financial link is severed, children's safety will continue to be undermined, as any separated father knows who has tried to protect his children from the appalling gender fascism that is being perpetrated by lawyers, sheriffs, police court officials, the Legal Aid Board, social workers, doctors, teachers and myriad publicly funded hangers-on who exert a drain on public funds that makes the cost of the new Scottish Parliament building pale by comparison.I am talking about a multibillion-pound fraud, on which the Scottish Executive has failed to put a lid. Many child deaths have occurred due to extreme prejudices while more public money is used to promote that prejudice. Those vast sums are being consumed by a lawless legal fraternity, supposedly to protect children. The way in which they use children in family courts leads to one of the most shameful experiences that men and children have to endure, the persecution of separated fathers being the main daily ritual of incompetent, corrupt and publicly funded legal practitioners. There are many females in the fathers' extended families who also suffer from the loss of contact with their loved ones.Philip Yelland, the director of the Law Society of Scotland's investigations, states that the society has no remit to discipline lawyers for human rights abuses, despite his personal responsibilities under article 17 of the European convention on human rights. The legal profession inquiry, the legal aid inquiry and the Council of the Law Society of Scotland Act 2003 do not have and will not have any effect on the system and may make matters worse. Scottish children and parents will continue to face severe psychological trauma and, potentially, more deaths until the issues that we raise are taken seriously and the Scottish Executive takes immediate emergency measures to address them before any more tragedies occur.We have provided evidence of child deaths where fathers have been separated from their children due to a system that compares to the race hatred that was promoted during apartheid in South Africa. In Scotland, however, it is gender apartheid that is largely responsible for the deaths of children who received no protection from incompetent agencies while they were separated from their biological fathers.Our children are being robbed of their future inheritance by the wheeling and dealing of a corrupt system that is condoned by the upper echelons of the political and legal establishment, despite widespread evidence presented in the inquiries. We demand immediate action to ensure that rights under the ECHR are being upheld in Scottish civil courts. On many occasions, fathers and children face actions without legal representation or funding. There are no audio recordings of those hearings, despite the fact that the equipment is in place to record them. In many cases, there is a need for jury hearings, when large, fraudulent land and property transactions are being perpetrated, leading to the bankruptcy of fathers who face the injustices that flow from major failures within what is a despicable system.Our organisations can state from evidence that has been gathered worldwide that Scotland's civil legal system is one of the most appalling anywhere in the world. Any suggestion by the legal or political fraternity that that is not the case is a blatant lie. The issue is not that family courts need more powers; it is that the abuse of those powers is oppressing and enslaving men. That oppression has reached unprecedented levels—marriage licences can be purchased for very little but there seems to be no upper limit on the legal costs of their removal.The failure to cap the cost of the new Scottish Parliament building poses exactly the same dilemma that is posed to men by uncapped costs imposed by family courts, except that the sums in the latter are many times greater and are a major blight on Scottish society. There is grave concern over the impartiality or otherwise of the Legal Aid Board as a tribunal. The majority of its members are members of the Law Society of Scotland and working sheriffs with potential links to the Illuminati, and they are wholly responsible for publicly funding large-scale male asset stripping while undermining children's human rights. The gender imbalance makes men easy pickings for the criminals operating within the system; there is no legal protection, because of the collusion between the Law Society and the Legal Aid Board.Last month, Bob Geldof stated: "Family law … does not work."He said that family law is absurd, blunt and outdated and stated:"So many of us are hurting and yet the law will treat the man in court (if my case is typical) with contempt, suspicion, disdain and hostility."He added that the law is"unjustly weighted in favour of women."Bizarrely, on the rare occasions when the situation is reversed, it is when the woman is married to a fighter pilot or the ex-husband is classed as landed gentry or is in the same Illuminati lodges as the judge who is hearing the case. That is why there is an urgent need for juries in cases involving expensive land and property divorce divisions. Juries are needed to ensure the impartiality that is required under article 6 of the ECHR and to ensure that justice is seen to be done. A separated man entering the Scottish court system feels like a Christian must have felt when they stepped into the Coliseum in Rome: unarmed, outnumbered and waiting to be eaten alive.Sigmund Freud stated:"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."Why is the devolved Scottish Parliament massively and publicly funding a system that leads to the exact opposite situation? The answer is that that is financially beneficial to all those who gain from the psychological torture and abuse of the children who are separated from the protection of their biological fathers by the ruthless use of outdated Scottish civil law. The situation is entirely incompatible with the rights that fathers and children have and demand under the ECHR—those rights are being undermined daily in our Scottish courts. Ultimately, any legal system that harms a father harms the children. When fathers are robbed, their children are robbed of their inheritance.We have an Auschwitz on our doorstep where appalling human rights abuses of vulnerable children take place. I am talking about the Dungavel concentration camp. How long will it be before the gas chambers are moved in? Our society has been cajoled into accepting human rights abuses as the norm, but they will never be the norm. As six supporters who are at the committee meeting today witnessed, one of our members is being forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs without due process of the law being followed. The legal and political systems in Scotland are acting more like the fascism that led to the Holocaust. That situation is totally unacceptable.The integrity and dignity of the judiciary are paramount in any society. The Scottish judiciary must be made to serve the interests of the people of Scotland. A flawed judiciary promotes insecurity and economic instability and ceases to serve the country's citizenry. The magnitude of the corruption in the Scottish legal system is now alarming. Separation of powers has never given courts an arbitrary and unaccountable authority.The legal system is a corrupt monopoly, which needs to be broken up. It is holding the county to ransom. John Swinney MSP recently stated that, if this is the way in which everyone gets treated by the legal complaints system, there is a need for enormous change of practice and attitude. The separation of powers in the Scottish legal system of jurisprudence has never been an excuse for the Executive or legislators to ignore their constitutional and conscientious duties.My final point on petition PE593 is that the judiciary and all who report to the courts on child custody issues should be properly accountable. There should be accurate audio recordings of hearings and social work interviews, as that would curb the widespread discrimination within the system. Fathers and children should have proper access to legal representation. That would ensure that a child's human rights are not undermined by lack of representation or of funding.On petition PE625, I believe that there should be a full inquiry into the legal aid funding of expert witnesses to ensure that corruption is not tainting the evidence that is being provided to the courts. We raised that issue in March 2001 in petition PE352, but it was ignored. If that petition had been acted on, lives could have been saved.On petition PE632, no lawyer who refuses to act for a client should be given authority through the courts to act to sell a client's heritable property. An investigation should be instigated into collusion in the legal fraternity and there should be laws to prevent fraud by those monopoly powers.On petition PE633, biological fathers should not be prevented by bias and discrimination in divorce actions from protecting their children. The legal system acts like a jackboot brigade in preventing that protection and causing the deaths of children who do not have that protection.On petition PE635, judges have an appalling record of dealing with children. They cause children psychological trauma. My children faced the judges' wrath. Serious steps should be taken to prevent children from being traumatised by insensitive and bullying judges who are not fit to deal with child cases.Finally, petition PE672 deals with the Justice 1 Committee's inquiry into the legal profession. That committee is wholly responsible for the due process of law being seriously undermined in a case concerning one of our members. The outcome was the forcible injection of antipsychotic drugs, against his human rights. The committee failed to ensure that the judiciary is fully accountable in our supposedly civilised society. Can the Justice 1 Committee convener, Christine Grahame, tell us whether any lawyer or judge was disciplined or struck off or whether any compensation was paid for the appalling damage that was done to people's lives by a corrupt legal system?I am sorry, but I am having to squeeze everything that I want to say into a very short space of time.

The last thing that I want to say, convener, is in respect of individual cases. We read in the Parliament's business bulletin about the motion that Frances Curran lodged on the case of Layla Zana, a Kurdish MP. If the Scottish Parliament can spend its time and energies on the human rights abuses of a non-United Kingdom resident, it is appropriate that it should take steps to address human rights issues on its doorstep. I thank the committee for its patience.

If that is okay.

Mr Farquhar would like to speak.

My name is George Farquhar. I am the founder of Project Freedom—Child Rights Watch. I am an investigator, researcher and campaigner, dedicated to the mass public exposure of secret societies' child abuse networks and paedophile rings. For more than five years, I have been researching organised child abuse by certain high-profile members of our social services, who hide behind their secret-society-backed positions of power within the police and justice system, child care and social services and the mass media and medical industries. I have numerous examples of those networks of abuse and of the individuals involved, some of whom are publicly exposed on my website. Since I have been non-violently campaigning in and around Edinburgh against those crimes over the past two years, I have been arrested about eight times by Lothian and Borders police. Although I have been charged with breach of the peace and with failing to give a DNA sample on each of those arrests, I have been found guilty on only one charge of breach of the peace, about which I was later admonished. The circumstances surrounding my last arrest were a little different. I was arrested for taking video footage of a corrupt police officer who had falsified criminal charges and blatantly lied in court in relation to my possible conviction and imprisonment. Having been arrested by the police officer for that action, I was remanded in jail before being taken in front of Procurator Fiscal Smith at Edinburgh sheriff court. Procurator Fiscal Smith immediately lied to the court by stating that I had a history of similar offences, conveniently omitting the fact that I had been found not guilty on all charges bar one. Then, the procurator fiscal, while mumbling under his breath so that I would not be able to hear him, suggested that, because of my history, I should be detained for psychiatric reports. In addition to my trial, which was a kangaroo court, and that corrupt act to veil the truth, I am currently being detained in the Royal Edinburgh hospital, in a clinic for the criminally insane. Since my three months' incarceration as a political prisoner, I have been forcibly injected nine times against my will with high doses of antipsychotic drugs while being held down by numerous hospital staff. That major abuse of human rights for taking video footage of a corrupt police officer is just one of the numerous cover-ups directed against my dedication to expose Government child abuse. I should be out in the street, non-violently campaigning, not incarcerated and drugged up like an insane criminal. Please do whatever you can to rectify the matter—not for my sake, but for all the children, who deserve safety and justice for the crimes perpetrated against them.

I refer you to my evidence and statements. We have already provided numerous petitions with evidence and statements and we would not want to comment any further.

I refer you to our evidence and statements. We have proved today, in relation to a criminal charge, that the due process of law was undermined with respect to Mr Farquhar. We have six witnesses here today, and that is a common—

Well, if they do it with a criminal charge—

You have asked me for evidence. It is evidence enough that the due process of law has been undermined.

I am sorry—I do not want to comment further. I refer you to our statements and evidence. I have given you notice of circumstances that are potentially leading to the abuse and deaths of children. I do not want to make any further comment other than what has been provided in our statements and in the petitions.

This is not only about me. I speak on behalf of organisations. The suggestion that we are talking just about an individual is common practice when we come to the Public Petitions Committee, but we are not. The problem is widespread. I refer you to the evidence and statements. I do not want to be pursued on that. We have given you sufficient evidence, including evidence that due process of law has been undermined. The crux of the matter is the simple fact that, as clearly stated in the Justice 1 Committee's reports on its inquiries into legal aid and the regulation of the legal profession, due process of law has been undermined, particularly by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland Act 2003. That is where the discrimination stems from. We have shown, evidenced and proven to you today that due process of law has been undermined in Scots law. That is sufficient evidence, as far as we are concerned, to show that an investigation is needed into how court staff, judges, lawyers and everybody connected with the courts conduct themselves in relation to the court process to the point where our member has been forcibly injected with antipsychotic drugs because of due process. We are all witnesses to the failures of the kangaroo court no more than 100yd away from this room.

Unfortunately, you still have to give us information as to why due process of law was undermined in our member's case, as in the cases of many fathers in civil actions. That is sufficient. We proved today that due process has been undermined. That has been shown to be widespread in Scottish courts. To us, that is sufficient evidence. We are giving you notice that human rights are being undermined. It is up to the Scottish Parliament and its MSPs to rectify the situation.

There are umpteen instances. In petition PE633, we have cited 10 cases of child deaths when fathers have been separated from their children. There was a recent case in Aberdeen—

I am sorry, I disagree with you.

I do not want to get into that. As I said, we have already given sufficient evidence and statements, but you are trying to undermine that by what you are saying today. We have shown that at least 10 children, and potentially 15, have lost their lives because of separation from their biological fathers. That is from the national papers. If you are not prepared to take national newspapers as sufficient evidence of widespread deaths due to children being separated from their biological fathers, you should not be sitting as an MSP. You are trying to undermine—

She is undermining evidence that there are widespread deaths of children due to separation from their biological fathers. What more evidence do you need than national papers? I do not understand why you are asking for more—

I am sorry, but I do not want to take any further part in the process if that is the concern. We are talking about widespread deaths of children—

I am not prepared to sit here and allow MSPs to undermine important evidence about child fatality and psychological abuse—

I will do, given the attitude towards the petitions. We have been given 10 minutes to address six important petitions on very serious issues.

We refer you to the evidence and statements, but I am not prepared to say any more on the matter. Ann Mallaby and George Farquhar might want to answer your questions.

I would prefer to provide more evidence at a later date, given the manner in which I have been questioned this morning. That is no surprise, because since the devolved Parliament—

Let me finish.

You are controlling this committee—

I am here to say—

I am quite willing to answer any questions.