LETTER FROM MR HALSALL, aka THE SMILING ASSASSIN

THIS POST FIRST APPEARED ON THE LEGENDARY LIVERPOOLEVILCABAL BLOG. IT IS REPRODUCED HERE IN ALL ITS DEFIANT GLORY, BY KIND PERMISSION OF TONY PARRISH.

The City of Liverpool

Executive Director

BY EMAIL
11th August 2006

liverpoolevilcabal@hotmail.com

DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998 SECTION 10 DATA SUBJECT NOTICE


I am given to understand that you are the owner and author of the blog site http://www.liverpool-evil-cabal.blog.com/ albeit acting under the pseudonym of Tony Parrish. As such I am advised that you are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Accordingly, I give you notice under Section 10 of the Data Protection Act 1998 that:-
1. The personal data to which I refer is my name, Philip Halsall, my employment as the Executive Director for Resources at Liverpool City Council and details of my family.
2. I object to your use of my name and/or employment details and/or details of any member of my family in the blog site.
3. I require you to cease the processing of my personal data by 12 noon on Monday, 14th August 2006.
4. The processing of my personal data is causing me and my family substantial damage and distress and is unwarranted.
5. The reason why the processing is causing substantial damage and distress is that the pernicious comments on the blog site about me are untrue and defamatory.
Yours sincerely
Phil Halsall
Executive Director

And this is our response:

Dear Mr Halsall,

Thank you for your email.

We understand that amazingly, at the moment, you are the acting chief executive of Liverpool city council in the absence of Colin Hilton on holiday.
The city council is the biggest employer on Merseyside and as acting chief executive, your name, role and responsibilities are public information.
You are a public servant.
If you do not like your name role and responsibilities being mentioned on the blog, can we suggest that you consider your position...and resign?
You say that the blog has caused unnecessary damage and distress to you and your family and is unwarranted.
Although we regret any upset which may have been caused to your family, we find your comments a bit rich.
First of all it is you who involved your own family in council affairs, with your son's appearance at the Summer Pops.
In other words, you started it, matey.
Secondly, as one of our hundreds of comments has already so ably pointed out, you are the council's S151 Officer.
Last year you apparently had no hesitation, at the evil Henshaw's instigation, in publishing the personal data of the then Leader of the Council and a senior officer, which contained personal information about them and their families.
Did you consider the substantial damage and distress you were causing to them when you followed greedy Henshaw's orders?
Your outrage and hypocrisy now is sickening.
As Corporal Jones would conclude about the cabal: "They don't like it up them!" (we've been searching for a Dad's Army pic of him, but can't find one anywhere, ed)
There is nothing pernicious on this blog.
What is pernicious are the activities of you and your fellow members of the evil cabal, who have ripped off the city of Liverpool's taxpayers for too long.
Can you please now tell us which of the allegations concerning you, are untrue and defamatory?
We will give you the opportunity to respond in detail and will make the blog freely available to you to make your case. The people of Liverpool can then make their own judgement.
We shall give you as long as you need.

Yours etc,

TP

posted by Tony Parrish at 9:20 AM