The pair were discovered on Facebook calling the sick and disabled “down and outs” and “parasitic wankers”.
The incidents were widely reported in the mainstream press and came shortly before the Government's de-benefitting boot-boys attempted to shut up a bunch of whining cripples by sending them threatening letters.
James Loughrey - Chief Solicitor and head of ATOS's Dept. of Killa Fish
The shocking tactics used by ATOS Healthcare to silence their sick and disabled critics are rapidly coming to light all over teh Intawebs.
In the last week, website after website after website have been closed after ISP's received letters from ATOS's chief legal-thug James Loughrey.
Another one bites the dust...
More worryingly, Loughrey is also with the aid of LBi , a digital support services company, targeting internet fora and discussion boards where the sick and disabled meet online for mutual support - including the notoriously moderate and respectable CarerWatch.
“On behalf of CW can I thank every1 for their support, here,DMs and via email. Off to hospital most of today so will be later b4 updating u x”
CareWatch's Francis published their response to ATOS on their website this morning:
“CarerWatch is an internet forum for sick and disabled people and their unpaid family carers. This is a private forum and only members are allowed to make/read posts.
We understand from the organisation that hosts our forum that they received a letter from your solicitors threatening to sue us for libel. The provider immediately closed our site down.
This video was made as a tribute and thank you to the authors of
We have many members who are very fragile and the sudden disappearance of a support group has caused a lot of distress and fear. Some are ringing us in tears. We cannot get in contact with all of them though as we have lost their contact details through the closure.
All this distress could have been avoided if you had had the courtesy to contact us first and tell us what had been posted on our site that you considered libellous. Obviously if any post was possibly libellous we would have removed it and all this distress could have been avoided.
People... and websites...
We imagine this distress is unintended and hope you will work with us in looking at the problem and finding a solution.
Please note that this letter, and any reply received from yourselves, will be posted on our website. It is the only means left to us to reach some members and keep them updated.
It is vital we have our forum up and running again to reach those that are isolated.
On behalf of CarerWatch members”
Call a cunt, a cunt.
It's been a bad couple of weeks for ATOS - 12 of their doctors are to face action for misconduct by the General Medical Council and two of their employees are (claims ATOS) facing disciplinary action for describing the sick and disabled as "parasitic wankers" and "down and outs".
One notably effective online campaigner commented:
:( I have a huge fucking urge to troll ATOS again. We have storms tomorrow... I'm really fucking angry over this... To remove a lifeline such as the carer watch forums is sickening.... I'm on the fucking warpath now ATOS. Do you hear me?...
ATOS Healthcare recently bullied a disabled woman into removing her "ATOS Register of Shame" website from the Net.
This is video is a tribute to her and all the other disability activists working to document the shameful work of ATOS Healthcare - the company employed by the UK government to massively reduce the welfare budget.
Google will give you the background, while I continue to prepare for my Grand Day (week (or two)) Out to the High Court in London to get close up and personal with several expert witnesses and a transatlantic Super Injunction...
The Facebook page of the ATOS Healthcare administrator discovered calling the sick and disabled "Parasitic Wankers" has been forwarded to the NWCAC.
Tony Treasure enjoying the ATOS funded lifestyle.
Anthony Treasure quickly deleted his Facebook presence on Sunday morning after Martin Webb and Stuart Wyatt, a Plymouth based disability activist and former serviceman began making fun of him and asking hundreds of people to complain to his bosses.
writing to every one of more than 600 MP's
One of these people, a London based Anarchist spent three days writing to every one of more than 600 MP's demanding Treasure's sacking.
Charmed I'm Sure
Quickly his open Facebook wall filled up with howls of protest from the disabled:
“Hello Mr Treasure.
I've emailed that screenshot of you calling disabled people 'parasitic wankers' to your vicious, morally bankrupt employers - who've been persecuting the sick and disabled for years and to the Guardian, Independent, and the Mirror. (Tell me does the term 'parasitic wankers' also apply to servicemen and women who've lost limbs? )
Schoolboy errors are :-( when you have a mortgage to pay...
Unfortunately for you, your schoolboy error has gone viral ...Welcome to the parasitic wankers club... Neena Agnihotri”
“Can I also add that my "parasitic wanker" has 4 children who are all drafting letters to your bosses as I type this... Ben Polkey”
Atos received many complaints first thing on Monday morning and claim to be taking the matter seriously. As of 18:00 hrs 12 Aug 2011, the New Republic has still not received a reply to our enquiries as to the exact nature of its taking-the-matter-seriously.
Treasure and wife Amelia both said to be tired and emotional
after having visited the New Republic.
They have however asked me, to ask you. to write to them politely and express your feelings on this matter:
Treasure's remarks have unpleasant echoes of language used to denigrate the sick and disabled of pre-war Germany in preparation for their eventual extermination, and the news is even being reported in Japan:
