ATOS send Cease and Desist letter to site critical of ATOS

[norbert]

http://afteratos.org/2011/05/20/atos-re ... /#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://afteratos.org/wp-content/uploads ... Letter.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/user/LloydsTSBLiars" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; scathing , I've put this on as there could be some poor b***er that's got injured or his / her health has caught with them ...then hounded out of the door by Royal Mail and has to go and sign on with the DWP and sent for a " medical " . Forewarned is forearmed .

[POSTMAN]

http://afteratos.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[norbert]

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/05/479784.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"In the manner of the school bully threatening to crush the smallest and most vulnerable kid in the class Atos Origin yesterday wrote to the webmaster and domain owner of http://www.afteratos.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, a web site run by a lone disabled individual, threatening legal action against them regarding libel and infringement of Atos's copyright and trademark."

[Night Tonic]

Quite right too. The disabled bit is immaterial when it comes to copyright infringement He either has unlimited funds or is naive. Barristers don't come cheap.

[BELIAL]

Tis a cruel world when you can sue the mentally impaired for failing to comply with legal statute. I'm not saying you can't ,I'm just saying it don't seem reasonable ,or ethical ,or right

[DGP1]

Tis a cruel world when you can sue the mentally impaired for failing to comply with legal statute. I'm not saying you can't ,I'm just saying it don't seem reasonable ,or ethical ,or right

He could always put it on Twitter.................seems to work for everyone else

[norbert]

Tis a cruel world when you can sue the mentally impaired for failing to comply with legal statute. I'm not saying you can't ,I'm just saying it don't seem reasonable ,or ethical ,or right

Had a look at the comments ...the site could be toned down & change the logo ? , the word allegedly used more a la " Private Eye " magazine ? .....go on the very edge of the law but not the spirit of it .....as this isn't exactly by the Queensberry rules is it ? ; the problem is a Corporate Concept called the Extended Arm or the extended arm of blame if you want to be cynical , ATOS would say they're only doing the DWP's dirty work so NT is right to a point , the junior staff at the DWP who are hand held by ATOS would say they're under pressure from a bullying target culture with the DWP middle managers , they in turn would say they're under pressure from DWP senior / exec management trying to impress Junior & Senior Civil Servants and ultimately Junior and Cabinet Ministers who are only interested in Daily Sieg Heil , Daily EDL , Sun , Dirty Desmond's Express , Times and Maily Torygraph headlines ......to spread their misleading propaganda

Personally I think ATOSH are trying it on and hoping they'll buckle . A4e played the same game with a similar critical of site and it's still on the net . Ethically they're a dreadful company .....the problem in this country there's no written constitution , that's one reason why Thatcher aided by a huge majority got away with screaming blue murder in the 80's , Unum Provident who are a Claim Denier factory lost a lawsuit in the very right wing land of the free across the pond and were banned from operating in a few states . Unum Provident assisted ATOS with the LIMA software .

http://www.intensiveactivity.com/atos-o ... 08,28.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; " The most damning fact about the system is that Atos will get £500m over seven years for running the WCA, while fraud in incapacity benefit over this period would add up to around £250m: the tests intended to stop fraud cost twice as much as the fraud. This means that the only way Atos can offer value for money is if they cut £250m off the employment and support allowance caseload – so that there is indeed an implicit target " Apparently Fraud is between 1-2 % , I could buy that as claimants would have to get supporting evidence from Specialists / Consultants in many instances ....second only to God in NHS Hospitals .....you will get professional skivvers , old soldiers , malingerers that slip through the net but they appear to be a very small minority ...once they were necessary evils

Somebody made a interesting point about MacLibel http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; " The McLibel Trial is the infamous British court case between McDonald's and a former postman & a gardener from London (Helen Steel and Dave Morris). It ran for two and a half years and became the longest ever English trial. The defendants were denied legal aid and their right to a jury, so the whole trial was heard by a single Judge, Mr Justice Bell. He delivered his verdict in June 1997. "

[Holmey]

Quite right too. The disabled bit is immaterial when it comes to copyright infringement He either has unlimited funds or is naive. Barristers don't come cheap.

Or he may be very legally aware, very cunning, have no tangible assets and understand the Streisand Effect ;)

Tis a cruel world when you can sue the mentally impaired for failing to comply with legal statute. I'm not saying you can't ,I'm just saying it don't seem reasonable ,or ethical, or right

I think you will find the person being threatened with legal action is not mentally impaired, but somebody who plays a very good game of legal chess ;)

[norbert]

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2011/05 ... -cripples/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -23147158/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://afteratos.org/2011/05/22/propose ... os-origin/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; they have toned it down Cartoon Steve Bell The Guardian

http://gimphag.net/2011/01/26/uno/#comments" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Re ATOS Origin

AN amputee had her application for disability handouts knocked back — in case her leg GREW BACK! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -back.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; my apologies for using a link out of that Murdoch comic ...but it proves a point


Angry.... Beryl was refused disability benefits.
Stunned Beryl Prescott, 57, was told to wait three months and apply again in case her severed limb “got better”.
Hard-working Beryl — a former nurse who says she has paid taxes all her life — applied for incapacity benefits after losing her right leg to gangrene.

But officials knocked her back three times because they couldn’t be sure she was genuinely disabled.

Baffled Beryl enlisted the services of her local MP and eventually won £1,700 in back-payments.

She fumed: “Apparently, you have to wait three months after you come out of hospital before you can apply in case you get better.

‘No respect’

“I’m not a doctor but I am pretty sure that wasn’t going to happen – I don’t have a magic grow bag.”

Hard-up Beryl, who is also diabetic and partially-sighted, developed a life-threatening infection in her leg in December last year.

Surgeons had no choice but to lose the diseased limb in order to save her.

She applied for DLA — disabled living allowance — in February, April and June but was declined on all three occasions.

She said: “I am not a fraudster, I’m not trying it on – I have a prosthetic leg!

“My GP wrote to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) saying it was disgusting that I had been refused the allowance.

“It seems you have to be almost comatose to get anything.

“It sickens me that you do your best and pay your bills all your life and then you get treated with no respect.”

Officials wrote to Beryl of Crossens, Merseyside, earlier this month to confirm that she was entitled to payouts after all.

The Government insist on a three month qualification period for all new cases — but Beryl waited nearly eight.

Southport MP John Pugh — who fought her case — fears claims are being rejected without being properly read.


He said: “Mrs Prescott should have had DLA thrown at her, because not only had she lost a leg, but she was also visually impaired. However she was consistently refused the money.

“You have to question the sanity of a system that denies a benefit to a client who so obviously meets all the main criteria for it.

“I don’t know whether this bizarre decision is due to lunacy or negligence, or both. But either way, it needs to be sorted out fast.”

A spokesman for the DWP said: “We cannot comment on individual cases.

“Entitlement is based on the effect of disability on the need for help with personal care and, or, the extent of walking difficulties, rather than on the existence of a particular illness or condition.”

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Aunty’s Comment – AMAZING!! But has been know to come true – if you are a Starfish. Are these people fit to be in charge of our Health? Who is healthy and who is the sick in the head? Disabled or Atos/UNUM?

[ken_uk]

Ask for a copy of the medical report (not just seeing what is on screen) if you have a medical with atos.

If they dont allow it, report the doctor to the GMC, or the nurse to the NMWC, they HAVE to show you it before it is sent according to both GMC and NMWC.

They dont do that for benefits though, not sure about in the workplace, worth a try though.

Because these unethical liars need striking off.