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Printed and signed copies of the e-mail
reproduced below were sent through the recorded
delivery post yesterday to:
1)
Dr
Thomas Foster (UK Consultant Psychiatrist at Omagh Hospital,
Northern Ireland);
2) Republic of
Ireland Prime Minister Brian Cowan
TD;
and
3) UK Prime Minister
Gordon Brown MP.
A "public" copy of the e-mail --
complete with Yahoo message identification and Internet
tracking information- - has also been placed at the following
Internet address (which some viewers may find easier to
read than the "forwarded" version below):
http://www.humanrig htsireland. com/DrThomasFost
er/11August2008/Letter.htm
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--- On Mon, 11/8/08, William Finnerty
<newinngalway@ yahoo.co. uk>
wrote:
From: William Finnerty <newinngalway@
yahoo.co. uk>
Subject: State Tyranny and the treatment
of associated Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(C-PTSD)
To: "Dr Thomas Foster (Consultant Psychiatrist,
Omagh & Fermanagh Hospital, Northern Ireland)"
<tfoster@slt. n-i.nhs.uk>
Cc: "Chief Inspector
Michael Winters (Omagh Police Station)" <omagh@psni.pnn.
police.uk>, "Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy (Chief
Commissioner of Police, Republic of Ireland)"
<comstaff@iol. ie>, "Northern Ireland Chief Constable
Sir Hugh Orde OBE" <information@ nipolicingboard.
org.uk>, "Northern Ireland Health Minister Michael
McGimpsey MLA" <private.office@ dhsspsni. gov.uk>, "The
Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, UK Secretary of State for Health"
<dhmail@dh.gsi. gov.uk>, "National Institute for Health
and Clinical Excellence" <nice@nice.org. uk>, "Geraldine
Kerr (The Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma &
Transformation) " <info@nictt.org>, "Northern Ireland
Social Security Agency (Reference Disability Case Reference
52-82267 for YH615974D)" <Private.Office@ dsdni.gov.
uk>, "Republic of Ireland Prime Minister Brian Cowen TD"
<taoiseach@taoiseach .irlgov.ie>, "Deputy Prime Minister
Mary Coughlan TD" <Mary.Coughlan@ oireachtas. ie>,
"Health Minister Mary Harney TD" <info@maryharney. ie>,
"Justice Minister Dermot Ahern TD" <Dermot.Ahern@
oireachtas. ie>, "John Gormley TD (Republic of Ireland
Green Party Leader & Minister for Environment, Heritage
and Local Government)" <john.gormley@ oireachtas. ie>,
"Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin TD"
<Micheal.Martin@ oireachtas. ie>, "Gerard Madden(Senior
Social Worker, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland)"
<gmadden@slt. n-i.nhs.uk>, "Gerald Finnerty &
Marjorie Dolan (New Inn, County Galway)" <margieandgerald@
yahoo.ie>, "Siobhan Finnerty" <siobhandean@ bigpond.com.
au>, "Adrian O' Kane (Lawyer at Patrick Fahy & Co,
Omagh)" <adrian.okane@ pfahy.com>, "Michael Farrell
(Lawyer, Irish Human Rights Commissioner) "
<info@ihrc.ie>, "Ciara Macklin (Lawyer, Fair &
Murtagh)" <ciaramacklin@ fair-murtagh. ie>, "Gearoid
Geraghty (Lawyer, Fair & Murtagh, Ballinasloe, County
Galway)" <gearoidgeraghty@ fair-murtagh. ie>, "Greg
Nolan (Lawyer at Patrick Hogan & Co., Ballinalsloe, County
Galway, Republic of Ireland)" <greg@phoganandco. com>,
"Shauna Gillan (Barrister, Matrix Chambers, London)"
<shaunagillan@ matrixlaw. co.uk>, "John Reilly
(Barrister, Tooks Chambers, London)" <clerks@tooks.
co.uk>, "Geraldine Kennedy (Irish Times Editor)"
<gkennedy@irish- times.ie>, "Miriam Cotton & David
Manning" <editors@mediabite. org>, "Vincent Browne"
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National TV Station)" <newsdesk@rte. ie>, "Sir Anthony
O'Reilly, Newspaper Proprietor" <independent.
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<newsroom@utvplc. com>, "Polly Toynbee (Journalist &
Broadcaster) " <Polly.toynbee@ guardian. co.uk>, "John
Pilger (Documentary Film Maker)" <pilgereditor@
gmail.com>, "Rupert Murdock" <letters@thetimes.
co.uk>, "Sky News" <news@sky.com>, "BBC NEWS"
<newsonline@bbc. co.uk>, "Jon Snow, Presenter, Channel 4
News" <jon.snow@itn. co.uk>, "France 24"
<webdesk@france24. com>, "Al Jazeera" <listeningpost@
aljazeera. net>, "Ashley Mote(Independent MEP for South
East England Region)" <ashley.mote@ btconnect. com>,
"Christopher Story FRSA" <cstory@worldreports .org>,
"Prime Minister Gordon Brown MP" <webmaster@pmo.
gov.uk>, "Jose Manuel Barroso (Lawyer & President of
European Union Commission)" <sg-web-president@ ec.europa.
eu>, "European Union & French President Nicolas
Sarkozy" <webmasterpresident@ europarl. europa.eu>, "The
Registrar, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe,
Strasbourg (Re: ECHR Case Reference: 25077/05)"
<infopoint@coe. int>, "The Democracy Defined Campaign"
<campaign@democracyd efined.org>, "Claire Smith
(President of World Archaeological Congress)"
<claire.smith@ flinders. edu.au>, "World Archaeological
Congress Executive" <wacinfo@flinders. edu.au>, "The
Spirit of
Vercingetorix (Alesia, Castlestrange, Le Tene, and
Turoe)" <vercingetorixirelan d@yahoo.ie>, "The Spirit of
King Ollamh Fodhla, Great Banqueting Hall (Hill of Tara) &
Ulster" <ollamhfodhla@ yahoo.co. uk>
Date: Monday, 11
August, 2008, 3:32 PM
Dear Dr Foster,
As you may
already know, I received some very welcome and long-awaited
information from Gerry Madden (Senior Social Worker) on
July 7th last.
The main reason I met Gerry Madden on
July 7th was so that he could hand me copies of the papers he
had received a few days earlier from the Garda Siochana
(Republic of Ireland Police), which clearly state that
(following a recent review of my case):
"There are
now no outstanding warrants or charges against William
Finnerty and he is free to return (to the Republic of Ireland)
at any time".
A scanned copy of the letter
in question (dated July 2nd 2008), from Superintendent Enda
Walshe, can be viewed at http://www.humanrightsireland. com/SuperintendentEndaWalshe/ 2July2008/Letter.htm
While
this is truly wonderful news for me, it is not unfortunately
-- by any means -- the end of the long drawn out saga I
accidentally got myself involved in when I returned to the
Republic of Ireland in 1998, to retire in the village in
County Galway (New Inn) which I grew up in as a
child.
Within hours of I returning to my retirement
home in New Inn during the Summer of 1998, I was
surprised and deeply shocked to see a front page headline in a
local newspaper announcing plans which involved the location
of a huge "superdump" close to the world famous
Turoe Stone, which also happens to be close to my
retirement home.
It is also the case that both my home
in New Inn, and the Turoe Stone, sit almost on top of the
Esker Riada: which is arguably the oldest and most
important of the ancient roadways still in use in the world --
at least from the viewpoint of
"western" human history and all
of the cultures closely connected with
Christianity -- and
almost certainly the most important of Ireland's "natural"
monuments.
Some additional information on the Esker
Riada, which as you may already know formed naturally around
10,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age in North
Western Europe, can be found at http://homepage. eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/chaplefinnerty/ esker/riada1. htm ; and, there is
also some information on the elaborately carved Turoe Stone,
which is widely regarded as the most important piece of Celtic
stone-art in the world, at http://homepage. eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/protest/nov21_stone. htm. Believed to be in
excess of 2,000 years old, and positioned approximately
one-third of the way up from its base, the human design carved
into this large piece of granite includes a very clear and
very contrasting single set of straight "linear" symbols
frequently associated with ancient Greece & Rome, and
which was almost certainly intended to remind people of the
strong links (which included much conflict and bloodshed on
occasions) between these three large and very influential
ancient culture-groups of Western Europe: Celtic, Greek, and
Roman.
After learning of the superdump announcement,
things gradually went from bad to worse (from my viewpoint)
until -- and I'm skipping over several closely related issues
in this letter to you because you were not in any way involved
with them -- I first met you and your team in Omagh
Hospital several years later, on the morning of
December 9th 2004. (Among other things for example,
during the intervening period in question it became clear that
the Republic of Ireland Government, under the leadership of
former Prime Minster Ahern TD who, as you will no doubt
already know, had to resign some months ago because of his
growing involvement with tribunals investigating corruption,
was producing and sustaining
unconstitutional legislation:
which, in addition to being grossly corrupt, is also
completely unlawful of course.)
Getting back to my
first meeting with you, and according to notes I made at the
time, I took printed copies of two e-mails (each containing
some handwritten notes) to the meeting I had with you on
December 9th 2004: which I left with you and your four-person
team, and which I believed you -- or a member of your team,
which included Dr Kelly -- would study carefully between then
and the next meeting I had with you.
Electronic copies
of the two e-mails in question can be viewed at the following
locations:
1) Email dated December 6th
2004 to Ms Ciara Macklin (Lawyer at Fair &
Murtagh):
http://www.constitutionofireland.com/CiaraMacklin /6December2008/Email.htm
2) Email (dated November 29th 2004) to
Gearoid Geraghty (Lawyer at Fair & Murtagh):
http://www.constitutionofireland.
com/FairMurtaghE mail29Nov2004TrackingCopy. htm
An hour or so before my second meeting with you and
your team, on December 13th 2004, during a pre-meeting
interview with Nurse Sally Sheridan, I handed her a
note (to take to you and your full team) which set out my main
concerns at the time. A scanned copy of the note in question
can be seen at: http://www.humanrightsireland. com/DrThomasFost
er/13December2004/MainConcerns. htm
When I entered the room where
your team-meeting was being held an hour or so later, and to
my great surprise and amazement, it very quickly became clear
that you had decided to completely ignore the entire contents
of all three of the items of correspondence referred to just
above; and, that you had also decided to have me put out of
the hospital the following day (December 14th 2004) with
nowhere to go, and with no support of any kind.
Why did
you do this to me? -- having due regard for the fact that I
agreed to enter Omagh hospital just seven days earlier, on
account of the fact that a number of health care professionals
I met in Omagh on December 7th 2004 obviously believed I was
in a suicidal state of mind, and gently made comments and
suggestions (to me) along such lines for the purpose of
ensuring I took up their kind and caring offer of finding me a
bed in the local hospital?
There is also of course the
matter of Article 5 of The Universal Declaration on
Human Rights (produced in 1948) which
states:
"No one shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment."
The full text of this United
Nations document can be viewed at: http://www.un. org/Overview/rights.html .
By having me thrown out
of the hospital in the way that you did on December 14th 2004,
you subjected me to mental torture of a kind which I believe
is an extremely serious criminal offence, and it is for this
reason I am copying this e-mail to the police.
For the
benefit of the police, and other interested parties, I wish to
make it clear that some months after I was thrown out of Omagh
Hospital (completely against my wishes), Dr McCavert GP
diagnosed me as suffering from Complex-Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder, and a copy of his "To Whom It May
Concern Letter" which states this can be seen at:
http://www.european courtofhumanrightswilliamfinnert y.com/DrMcCavert28October2005/Letter.htm
Also, and as Gerry Madden
has related in his letter dated November 7th 2005 to
former Justice Minister Michael McDowell (Republic of
Ireland), I believe I was already suffering from
C-PTSD (Complex-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
in May 2002, some 30 months or so before I
came under your care in Omagh Hospital in December 2004; a
copy of the letter in question, written by Gerry Madden, can
be seen at http://www.europeancourtofhumanrigh
tswilliamfinnerty.com/Constitution/GerardMadden7
November2005/ Letter.htm .
In fact, and
although I did not have a name for this medical condition
until Gerry Madden and Dr McCavert provided me with one in
2005, I believe I have been suffering from C-PTSD since
sometime around year 2000, which is when I first started to
experience the set of symptoms that I now know are commonly
associated (among medical practitioners and social workers
that is) with C-PTSD.
Please note that (so far) I have
never received any treatment from a suitably experienced
psychiatrist or psychologist for the C-PTSD I suffer with,
even though it is clear that there are psychologists who can
provide such treatment; please see scanned copy of the
Irish Times newspaper article (by psychologist Marie
Murray) which Gerry Madden handed me on April 19th 2006
(which is of course well over two years ago now) at: http://www.european courtofhumanrigh
tswilliamfinnerty.com/MarieMurra y19April2006/IrishTimesArticl e.htm .
I have raised the
matter of the long standing -- and ongoing -- difficulties I
am having in receiving treatment for C-PTSD in my latter to Dr
McCavert dated February 2nd 2008, which can be seen at:
http://www.humanrightsireland. com/DrMichaelMcC
avert/2February2008Letter. htm .
Please
note my letter at the address just above contains reference to
the set of symptoms (C-PTSD symptoms as I see them) which I
continue to suffer from, and a copy of the Northern Ireland
"Centre for Trauma & Transformation" Flier which lists
them can be seen at http://www.humanrig htsireland. com/NI-TraumaCen
tre/25January2008/Flier.htm .
In his
written reply to me dated March 9th 2008, a scanned copy of
which can be viewed at http://www.humanrightsireland. com/DrMichaelMcCavertGP/9March2008.htm , Dr McCavert states: "I
have written and spoken to the psychiatric team via
Gerry Madden and I feel that is all I should do at
present."
Largely as a result of this statement
from Dr McCavert I decided not to go to see him (as he
suggested in his March 9th 2008 letter to me): even though
there is a possibility -- according to earlier correspondence
I have received from Dr McCavert -- that I may be suffering
from prostate cancer.
In my letter to hospital
consultant Mr GK Holland dated March 3rd 1998 (copy at
http://www.humanrig htsireland. com/CKMulholland
/3March2008/Letter.htm ), please note that I made
it clear I would contact his office for a new appointment (to
have the TRUS and biopsy examination of my prostate gland
carried out) in the event that I received "reassuring news"
from Dr McCavert regarding the issues I had earlier written to
him about. Unfortunately, when I received Dr Cavert's letter
dated March 9th 2008 (copy at http://www.humanrightsireland. com/DrMichaelMcCavertGP/9March2008.htm ), I did not find the
contents at all reassuring. Neither has anything happened
since then to improve that situation, and consequently I
continue to feel extremely unsafe about presenting myself for
surgical procedures of any kind.
Although I'm not sure
about this, and please correct me if I'm wrong, I suspect that
you possibly head the "psychiatric team" Dr McCavert has
referred to in his letter to me dated March 9th 2008?
I
had hoped to clarify this matter of who headed the
"psychiatric team" in question with Gerry Madden on July 16th
last. However, Gerry Madden failed to turn up for the meeting
he had arranged for 11.30 am (on July 16th), and as I had not
received any message from him for the purpose of re-scheduling
or cancelling the meeting in question, and as nothing like
this had ever happened before regarding the many earlier
meetings I have had with Gerry Madden, I went around to
Lissan House (Social Workers Centre) at around 12.15 pm (on July 16th) in an
effort to try and find out what had gone
wrong.
Eventually, after speaking to two other members
of staff at Lissan House, I spoke with Joan
Blee (the Duty Officer at Lissan House) for about 20
minutes, during which time she informed me that Gerry Madden
was off work because his mother was ill. I outlined my general
situation to Ms Blee, highlighted my concerns regarding the
possibility of having prostate cancer, and left her a printed
copy of an e-mail I sent to Gerry Madden two days earlier
(i.e. on July 14th): with a strong request that the printed
e-mail copy in question be placed with my case file. My
understanding was that someone from Lissan House would contact
me in the days that followed. Please note however, that nobody
connected with Lissan House has contacted me since then --
which is now well over three weeks ago.
A copy of my
e-mail to Gerry Madden dated July 14th 2008 can be viewed at
http://www.humanrig htsireland. com/GerardMadden
/14July2008/Email.htm , which I believe may
contain some clues as to why I have not heard anything from
anybody at Lissan House (since July 16th): despite the fact
that I left a printed copy of the e-mail in question with Joan
Blee on July 16th -- after I had briefly discussed the main
parts of the e-mail with her.
I feel that you (and
others reading this e-mail) should now also know that, in an
effort to try and communicate the overall range and
seriousness of the difficulties I have unintentionally ended
up getting mixed up in (in one way or another), as a result of
innocently deciding to retire in the Republic of Ireland in
1998, I sent a printed copy of the letter at the following
address to Dr McCavert on May 9th 2008: http://www.humanrightsireland. com/PrimeMiniste
rCowen/9May2008/Email.htm
Unfortunately,
it appears -- from my viewpoint at least -- that Dr McCavert
is completely ignoring the entire contents of the registered
letter I sent to Prime Minister Brian Cowan TD at the
address just above: which, for reasons that I feel should be
obvious to Dr McCavert and the "psychiatric team" he refers
to, is adding significantly to the growing C-PTSD problem I've
had for the past 8 years or so, and which I've still not
received any medical treatment for from a psychologist or
psychiatrist. How, I find myself wondering, can Dr McCavert
and the psychiatric team he refers to, justify leaving me to
cope all on my own with the set of major political and legal
difficulties I have outlined in my letter to Prime Minister
Cowan dated May 9th 2008? -- and which Prime Minister Cowan is
not acknowledging incidentally. (Please note that I have not
received any acknowledgement of receipt from Prime Minister
Cowan TD, or from Dr McCavert GP, to the registered letters I
sent to them on May 9th 2008, and scanned copies of the
associated Post Office Receipts can be seen at http://www.humanrightsireland. com/PrimeMinisterCowen/9May2008/Email.htm .)
In conclusion,
I would like to briefly reiterate the main questions (relating
to you) that I have already raised above:
1)
Why did you suddenly decide to have me thrown out of Omagh
Hospital (with nowhere to go) on December 14th 2004: at a time
when I was suffering very badly from untreated Complex-Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder?
2) Why did you
completely ignore (from my viewpoint that is) the entire
contents of the three items of correspondence I provided you
and your team with while I was in Omagh Hospital during
the period December 7th to 14th 2004?
3)
Assuming that you do actually head the "psychiatric team"
which Dr McCavert GP has referred to in his
letter to me dated March 9th 2008, why is it that you
appear to be still preventing me from getting the professional
treatment I need for C-PTSD: well over 3 years after I first
came into contact with you? With regard to this point, please
note that the Internet is awash with medical reports which
very strongly suggest that C-PTSD should be treated as soon as
possible after the traumatic events have occurred, and that I
have showed one such report to Gerry Madden the last time I
saw him on July 7th 2008. By way of providing an example, a
sample statement from one of these reports reads as
follows: "In Williams and Sommer's
(1994) comprehensive book of treatment, it is reported that
the most successful therapeutic interventions are those
implemented immediately following the traumatic event."
For future reference
purposes, I intend to place a copy of this e-mail at
the following address later today:
http://www.humanrig htsireland. com/DrThomasFost
er/11August2008/Letter.htm
I will also
send a printed and signed copy of this e-mail to you later
today (through the recorded delivery post) to the following
postal address:
Dr Thomas Foster (Consultant
Psychiatrist)
c/o Cedar Ville
Tyrone & Fermanagh
Hospital
Donaghanie Road
Omagh
County
Tyrone
Northern Ireland
BT79 ONS
With due regard
for the fact that I may have
prostate cancer, a medical
situation which needs to be very carefully watched according
to every one of the several reports on the subject I have read
on the Internet, I hope to receive a written reply from you to
the above three questions at your earliest convenience
please.
Yours sincerely,
William
Finnerty. (Related web site: http://www.humanrightsireland.com
)
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