Marine Links Clothworkers’ Common Purpose to DLA Piper, Bishopsgate Bomb

United States Marine Field McConnell has linked the Worshipful Company of Clothmakers’ Common Purpose to a Ring of Steel, allegedly built by DLA Piper’s Michael Cassidy after the 1993 Bishopsgate bombing had been staged by proxies to conceal the British Bankers’ Association’s global snuff-film escrow service.

Feeling laconic, McConnell invites rebuttal to his claim that Cassidy’s colleagues at DLA Piper have used the ring of steel to protect the Clothworkers’ virtual war rooms against counter-intelligence agents such as the late Gareth Williams who was allegedly murdered after he had been found to have hacked into the BBA snuff-film archive at Canada Square.

Michael Cassidy - Father of Ring of Steel

The Clothworkers’ Common Purpose was originally developed in the 19th Century by the Lupton Family founders of Dibb Lupton: precedent to DLA Piper.

“Counter-Terrorism: London's Ring Of Steel”


“Olympic 'ring of steel' put into place 13.07.12”

DLA Piper Chairman with BBA agent Barack Obama

The Clothworkers’ Common Purpose – Guild Socialism and de-industrialization.

“http://www.bba.org.uk/about-us/bba-associates The ring of steel is the popular name for the security and surveillance cordon surrounding the City of London, installed to deter the IRA and other threats. The term was borrowed from an earlier stage of the Troubles when the centre of Belfast was fortified against attacks; this fortified perimeter was known as the ring of steel. Purpose Roads entering the City are narrowed and have small chicanes to force drivers to slow down and be recorded by CCTV cameras. These roads typically have a concrete median with a sentry box where police can stand guard and monitor traffic. City planners call these types of precautions "fortress urbanism". Some roads have been closed to traffic entirely. Despite the term "ring of steel", the roadblocks and chicanes are actually created with concrete blocks, sometimes plastic coated, that are wedged together. The measures were introduced by the then Police Commissioner, Owen Kelly, following an IRA bombing campaign in the City in the early 1990s including attacks such as the 1992 Baltic Exchange and 1993 Bishopsgate bombings. Initially the sentry posts were staffed by armed police almost continuously. The ring of steel consisted of plastic cones and on duty policemen which the locals described as the "ring of plastic". It served the purpose of providing a visible sign to the public that the City authorities were taking the threats of more attacks by the IRA seriously. This was replaced by more permanent structures consisting of concrete barriers, checkpoints and thousands of video cameras. Following IRA ceasefires the police presence was curtailed. Attacks outside the ring In 1996, the Provisional IRA attacked an alternate area of Greater London in the 1996 Docklands bombing, resulting in two deaths, 39 other casualties and £85 million worth of damage. The attack by the Provisional IRA showed that while the ring of steel was able to hinder attacks inside the City itself, terrorists could instead target other high value areas such as the Docklands or Westminster, which are not inside the City of London. Recent work Following the September 11 attacks, and a reported increased terrorist threat to the United Kingdom, security has been stepped up again somewhat, with occasional spot checks on vehicles entering the cordon, although not to previous levels. In December 2003, the Ring of Steel was widened to include more businesses in the City. This was as a direct result of a police report that categorized a terrorist attack on the City as "inevitable". Traffic entering the City is also monitored and recorded at the boundary of the London congestion charging zone, which covers a wider area.”

“Michael Cassidy Consultant michael.cassidy@dlapiper.com 3 Noble Street London EC2V 7EE United Kingdom T: +44 (0)20 7796 6887 Michael Cassidy has 35 years of practising law in the City of London. At the forefront of the first half of that period was his role in establishing and advising the Post Office Pension Fund (later split from the BT Fund and jointly managed by Hermes Investment Management). That Fund has always ranked as one of the largest in the UK and its investment profile often involved some of the most far-seeing among the institutions. Michael undertook the tax-planning and legal structuring of all of their world-wide property investments, mostly in the US and Europe but also Australia and Japan. He undertook one of the largest property company take-overs of its period, English & Continental, from the Crown Agents. A number of corporate and property transactions were undertaken at this time with Sir James Goldsmith. It was also the early period of shareholder activism with badly run public companies and Michael advised on these interventions. Later focus moved to pure property development within the UK, mostly the forward-purchase of development projects, the most recent large project on which Michael acted was Land Securities 30 Gresham Street building pre-let to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. This involved site acquisition, planning, road closure, rights of light disputes and achieving vacant possession. In parallel with his legal career, Michael has been involved at senior level in the local government of the City of London, for which he received the CBE in 2004. He was Planning Chairman in the late 1990's just after Margaret Thatcher had opened up financial markets here - his period saw a third of the City being reconstructed. He then Chaired the Policy & Resources Committee, embracing the wider needs of surrounding boroughs and thereby securing a favourable outcome with the arrival of New Labour in government; and, inter alia, introducing the Ring of Steel alongside the City Police in 1993 following the Bishopsgate bomb. Later he Chaired the Barbican Arts Centre for 3 years, moving on to do the same at the Museum of London. He is President of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry. The past year has seen a spate of activity on AIM-listed companies, mostly involving overseas property - Italy, Bulgaria and India. His principal Board-level involvement however has been with British Land plc (10 years service) and UBS Ltd (6 years). Professional Qualification Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales”

“Many of our fellow Livery Companies’ members are bound together by a link to a common trade or a direct involvement with their affiliated schools or almshouses. By contrast, the Clothworkers no longer have any schools and the links to the textile trade are now indirect. Accordingly, the only glue which binds our members together is a family link to the Company, a general interest in charitable work and a sense of community in belonging to an ancient benevolent institution. The Company has recently decided that trusteeship should be its common purpose. There is a serious shortage of trustees of charities in the UK and the quality of governance is variable. We have over 750 members with a broad range of skills and backgrounds living around the UK. A number are already engaged in civil society, whether as a charity trustee, school governor or parish councillor. Our aspiration is that, over time, the majority of our Liverymen will be actively involved in civil society. This builds on the interest that many have in our charitable work through visiting organisations seeking a grant from the Foundation.”

BBA Professional Associates with DLA Piper

Accenture
ADT Fire and Security plc [Allegedly provided access for Bishopsgate snuff film bomber]
Allen & Overy
Allied Bank Philippines (UK) Plc
avantage (UK) Ltd
Bank Monarch Ltd
Bank of England
Bankersalmanac.com
BDO LLP
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co
Business Control Solutions plc
Callcredit Limited
Capital One (Europe) plc
Clifford Chance
DBRS
Deloitte
DLA Piper UK LLP [Common Purpose partner for Clothmakers which allegedly provided snuff film escrow for BBA clients and the Bishopsgate bombers]
Equifax plc
Ernst & Young
Eversheds LLP
Exasoft Plc
Experian
Farrer & Co
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
G4S
Genpact
Government Banking Service
HCL Great Britain Ltd
Herbert Smith
Hinduja Bank (Switzerland) Ltd
Hogan Lovells
Huntswood
IBM
ICICI Bank
ING Direct NV
Innovative Systems, Inc.
Isle of Man Bankers’ Association
Jersey Bankers Association
Kinetic Partners
KnowCo Limited
KPMG
Linklaters LLP
Logica
Mayer Brown
Misys
MORS Software
Morton Fraser LLP
National Savings & Investments
Norton Rose
Oracle
Ordnance Survey
Pannone LLP
Premier European Capital Ltd
Protiviti
PwC
ReD
Selftrade
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
SJ Berwin LLP
Slaughter and May
Speechly Bircham
SunGard
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
The Banking Association of South Africa
The Cayman Islands Bankers’ Association
The Post Office Ltd [Allegedly provided encryption for Bishopsgate snuff film images]
Thinkbanking
VocaLink
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services
Worksmart Solutions Limited
Worldpay
Wragge & Co LLP"

More to follow.



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