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Tell it to the Judge
Targeted individuals initially attacked the author and maliciously discredited him by libel and slander. They also committed unlawful acts or professional misconduct that further damaged him. Prior to publication, all individuals mentioned had several chances to mitigate damage and to refute statements that could negatively affect their reputations. The author will replace pseudonyms with real names if the subject waives Doerty's prior restraint.
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Contra Cabal welcomes Gretchen am Spinnrade, Bullshit Harass Bendover (BHB) to the nefarious Silence Censor Beleaguer (SCaB) group of lawyers (internationally known as the Scab family) which acts as counsel for Council House, Seattle. Gretchen ranks as the latest of more than a dozen incompetent and corrupt lawyers whom Stephen A. Mitchell (40), a Seattle building manager, and his directors have employed during the past five years.
[The Scab Family - BHB Joins] [Tell it to the Judge - Reprise] [Ravening Sociopath]
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That number does not take into account other lawyers and straw judges whom Council House used for their ex parte dirty work. They all protected Mitchell while he abused elderly people and deprived them of their constitutional rights.
[Constitutional Rights Initiative] [Straw-Man Stratagem] [Seattle Office of Civil Rights] [Racial Prejudice and Civil Rights]
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Silence Censor Beleaguer classifies as a rogue law firm. It employs inept, scabrous tyros straight out of school to handle dirty work for its clients. The partners apparently have a revolving door employment policy.
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Gretchen has evidently got her panties in a twist over a constitutionally protected cartoon published in Contra Cabal. Like the traditional Gretchen, she sits singing at her spinning-wheel while thinking of her next Faustian move. Meanwhile, Bertie Bullshit watches admiringly, then insinuates himself into situations that he neither understands nor properly researches.
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Gretchen has shown that her legal strategies mimic the spinning-wheel, speeding up and slowing down at certain parts of the proceedings always with an eye to evasion and duplicity - a perfect companion for Mitchell who has become an idol to a stream of female attorneys (and a few queer lawyers and judges). The time fast approaches when they will all receive poetic justice.
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Now, the gallant and chivalrous Bertie Bullshit has jumped to protect his protégé and castrated himself in the process. He wrote to William J. Crittenden (a lawyer who does not mind his name being mentioned) to complain about a cartoon.
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Bullshit had the impudence to demand removal of that cartoon from Contra Cabal website. A satirical composition, the cartoon fully complied with an order handed down by King County juvenile Judge James A. Doerty - a prior restraint that now awaits reversal after oral argument in Washington Supreme Court (23 Jun 05). Bullshit chose to defy a Superior Court order then preempt a Supreme Court decision with threats. [Supreme Court Review]
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The cartoonist employed pseudonyms in compliance with specific court direction. They may or may not refer to individuals. However, Bullshit demanded that the author remove the cartoon from the web site within 24 hours and threatened undefined “other remedies”. Typical of SCaB lawyers, Bertie used his first contact with the author to threaten and demean him. Threatening a satirist with legal (or illegal) “remedies” for publishing his work compares with prodding a sleeping tiger with a pitchfork.
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Bullshit neither stated with particularity which statements he found defamatory nor cited an authority supporting his demand. He merely claimed that he found statements in a cartoon offensive and assumed that they applied to an employee of his firm. He claimed that he feared the author would contact employees of BHB. However, Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) does not list a firm under the name Bullshit Harass Bendover so how would one know who to contact?
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Bullshit then cast arbitrary doubts on the emotional stability of the author which opens the door for doubting Bullshit’s mental competence. For an “attorney” to write 160 words in a letter containing threats that he will remove constitutional rights without any legal foundation whatsoever, boggles the mind. It also indicates that he may have psychological problems.
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It seems that Bullshit and Gretchen have come under the pernicious, charismatic shtik of their client. Many people have recognized Mitchell as a raving sociopath like several other members of the dysfunctional Scab family and their queer straw Judge James A. Doerty. Bullshit and Gretchen apparently fit right into the family with their irrational comments and unprofessional behavior. [The Scab Family]
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In the last five years, Mitchell has incurred liabilities and expenditures on frivolous law suits that probably exceed what most large companies would spend in twenty or thirty years. Most of the complaints that he has filed he has fantasized. It seems that Bertie Bullshit has accepted Mitchell's lies and deception and joined his followers in believing his fantasies and projection. Psychological transference has certainly become endemic in Seattle legal circles.
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Transference, defines as a psychoanalytical process whereby a person passes or displaces his own emotions to another person. During psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) passes to the analyst. In rhetoric, the emotional displacement of people who recognize themselves in satirical exposé passes to the satirist. Bullshit should probably contact his shrink not the author’s lawyers.
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Like other members of the Scab family, Bullshit apparently deals with his own emotional conflict (internal or external stresses) by falsely attributing to people he does not know his own unacceptable feelings, impulses, or thoughts through projection, and transference to sate his need to control. This manifests in a pattern or practice of retaliating against people in violation of their civil and constitutional rights when they report wrongdoing - definitely a sign of derangement in a lawyer.
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Similarly, Mitchell bases most of his actions upon transference or projection which classifies not only as illegal but also as immoral. In his denial, he has now ludicrously introduced sensitivity training for staff probably to try to correct his own emotional problems which he projected onto them in the first place.
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It seems from his letter that Bullshit remains perfectly aware of his own affects or impulses then deliberately misinterprets them as justifiable reaction to other people. He mirrors the behavior of his client, an out-of-work actor, who uses his thespian skills to choreograph and project his own sociopathic traits onto others which makes it difficult to know who did what to whom first.
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Evidently, Bullshit missed Rhetoric 101 in law school in which law students learn the basics of argumentation and the use of satire. If he had attended that course, then he would have learned, perhaps from this professor, that one never attacks a satirist first. That rule has prevailed since Aristophanes and Juvenal. He really should prepare an abject apology before the rhetorical guns really open up on him and his firm. However, his arrogance will probably not allow him to do that. If Gretchen had not behaved unprofessionally or illegally, then nothing would need satirizing to draw attention to her wrongdoing.
[Racial Prejudice and Civil Rights] [Seattle Office of Civil Rights]
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Jonathan Swift claimed that people see a reflection of everybody’s face but their own in satirical portrayal - that writing offends only those who recognize themselves. Apparently, Gretchen has recognized herself.
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First Amendment to the US Constitution protects reporters (and cartoonists) against prior restraint and prohibitions on genre or content and prevents people from gagging them. Moreover, WSBA determines that lawyers, whose life and behavior result in public focus or interest, must remain accountable.
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Lawyers must not try to cover up their own crimes or those of their staff by unlawfully trying to silence reporters. Satire and political cartoons classify as protected speech under the First Amendment even if individuals assume the role then do not appreciate the humor.
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Contra Cabal web site contains pure speech in a public forum. First Amendment to the United States Constitution fully protects that speech. Consequently, Bullshit’s complaints have no legal merit.
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Washington State Court Rules of Professional Conduct [RPC] require lawyers to make a full disclosure of their interest. Those rules contain nothing that allows lawyers to remain anonymous and unidentifiable. Yet Judge James A. Doerty issued an order that gives the Scab family protection from exposure and allows them to act unlawfully in a similar way to their clients.
[RPC Rule 8.4 Misconduct] [Impunity]
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By that, Doerty placed a prior restraint upon an author. In effect, he granted the Scab Family a license to kill and sanctioned a conspiracy - a confederacy among lawyers and judges supporting unlawful or criminal acts. [Court-Facilitated Terror]
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Bullshit and his protégé Gretchen have joined that dysfunctional family and shown that they fully qualify for membership. New clients should start to wonder whether Bullshit has reported his mental condition before giving him any assignments. His existing clients probably already know the situation from painful experience. If Bullshit has any more nightmares about Contra Cabal, then perhaps Mitchell, Gretchen, and Jiminy should go with him for dream analysis. They could probably get a group rate if they all see the shrink at the same time.
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[Nmesis]
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© Copyright 2000 by Paul Trummel
All Rights Reserved: 29 Sep 05/10:34 GMT
Edition: #005-13-10/07-0301-16:19
Feedback: Webspinner@ContraCabal.org
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