{"id":812,"date":"2014-02-24T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T10:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2014-02-26T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T11:42:47","slug":"attempted-citizens-arrest-of-cullum-mcalpine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2014\/02\/24\/attempted-citizens-arrest-of-cullum-mcalpine\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted citizens arrest of Cullum McAlpine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Arrest warrant\" src=\"http:\/\/reelnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1601729_828145487201145_662151871_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>See <a href=\"http:\/\/reelnews.co.uk\/blacklisted-workers-serve-arrest-warrant-on-cullum-mcalpine\/\">Reel News coverage <\/a>of the historic attempt to bring a self-confessed blacklister to justice.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blacklist Support Group has attempted to serve a Citizens Arrest Warrant on Callum McAlpine, first ever chair of covert and illegal blacklister the Consulting Association.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted arrest on Friday 21 February &#8211;\u00a0 the fifth anniversary of the raid on the Consulting Association by the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office &#8211;\u00a0 took place at the Sir\u00a0Robert McAlpine Ltd\u00a0London offices. Callum McAlpine admitted to a parliamentary select committee this was the venue for the first and subsequent Consulting Association meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Blacklist Support Group members combed the corridors in an attempt to serve the notice. McAlpine staff claimed Callum McAlpine was not in the building. No senior figure from the company emerged to meet with the activists, who were attempting to enforce the law.<\/p>\n<p>No director or senior manager has faced charges for what is a patent legal and human rights offence. Over a similar period, phone hacking of celebrities has led to a series of prosecutions, some of which are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>While the celebrity victims of phone hacking certainly suffered a criminal breach of privacy, blacklisted workers endured this and were denied work as a result. The consequences of the blacklist were usually devastating and sometime fatal.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Reel News coverage of the historic attempt to bring a self-confessed blacklister to justice. The Blacklist Support Group has attempted to serve a Citizens Arrest Warrant on Callum McAlpine, first ever chair of covert and illegal blacklister the Consulting Association. The attempted arrest on Friday 21 February &#8211;\u00a0 the fifth anniversary of the raid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/2014\/02\/24\/attempted-citizens-arrest-of-cullum-mcalpine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attempted citizens arrest of Cullum McAlpine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hazards.org\/blacklistblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}