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Racial Prejudice and Civil Rights
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Civil and Human Rights Violations
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Fourteen articles describe racism and civil rights violations by Stephen A. Mitchell, directors, lawyers, staff, Kapos (enforcers), and some tenants at Council House during the past five years. They contain evidence of dereliction by government officials and their investigators which has resulted in unlawful evictions of physically and financially disadvantaged elderly people.
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Council House directors have shown indifference to tenant abuse by managers and their thugs. They have denied tenants their right to complain in violation of their constitutional right to freedom of expression. They have also either threatened them with eviction or evicted them for filing legitimate complaints with government agencies.
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Fully researched and documented, the articles allege that government officials have not dealt with complaints in accordance with law. They have consorted with Council House directors and their lawyers to conduct a whitewash of multiple instances of elder abuse and racism. By that, they violated Civil Rights Act Title VIII and Seattle Open Housing Ordinance.
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Investigation revealed an extensive pattern or practice of elder abuse, violation of civil and human rights, and denial of due process of law. The term "pattern or practice" means an intentional violation of rights granted by the Civil Rights Act evidenced by more than an isolated instance, or by regular repeated conduct in violation of that Act.
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John W. Meyers, US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); Thomas A. Carr, City Attorney, City of Seattle; Germaine W. Covington, Director, Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR); Norm Maleng, King County Prosecuting Attorney; and their employees, have neglected to investigate allegations of racism, elder abuse, and homicide by abuse. Evidently, they covered up those crimes for political expediency. Consequently, two Council House tenants filed in US District Court, Western District of Washington, for injunctive relief.
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Prior to publication, all people mentioned had a chance to refute statements that could negatively affect their reputations or cause investigation or prosecution.
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[Introduction to New/Updated Articles] [Constitutional Rights Initiative]
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Civil rights proponents have focused upon individual discrimination since the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Generally, they now deny that it exists and paper over that falsity with political correctness. More seriously, a recent US supreme court decision moved to repeal inadequate past reforms by adding an “intent to discriminate” provision to anti-discrimination law making it almost impossible to obtain relief. This provision evidences in a case now before Washington Superior Court - Lauren Jeanne Hawk (26 Sep 05).
If the directors of Council House, Seattle, with their stated exclusion of people of color at any meaningful level of employment or directorship, thoroughly investigated they would find infinitely more than exclusion. They would find solidified within their Jewish ghetto an anti-black attitude. This has occurred despite pious claims to the suffering of their own race and centuries of anti-Semitism.
A tragic irony encompasses Council House directors. They all belong to the Jewish faith and several of them hold prominent positions in synagogues. In their arrogance and disregard for law, they have apparently abandoned Jewish religious morals in favor of a secular commitment to Zionism. That particularly affects people of color because it singles them out for surveillance and harassment based upon the color of their skin.
In their arrogance, Council House directors unlawfully exhibit an Israeli flag and a picture of Golda Meir in a US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) financially-assisted apartment block. Tenants swear allegiance to the US flag and simultaneously acknowledge a foreign flag which provokes dissent and brings punishment if they voice an opinion.
About two hundred nonresidents held a bar mitzvah in the combined dining room and lounge. They held a religious ritual that some residents found distasteful and imposed their exclusive criteria upon all residents. By that they violated federal law
The existence of an orthodox synagogue in the basement also affronts many people especially when a rabbi unlawfully leases an apartment. Staff lock tenant elevators, close the laundry room during services, and allow use of the public rooms for Jewish religious ceremonies while prohibiting use of the word “Jesus” within the building.
The directors do not realize that they lost the privilege to operate Council House as an exclusive Jewish establishment the day that they accepted millions of taxpayer dollars: money that most residents paid to the US government over many years. They also agreed to conform to federal law regarding race, religion, national origin, and freedom of expression.
Probably relatives of people who suffered in Europe, the directors have benefitted from an ongoing institutional scam known as the Holocaust industry. Institutional reparations blackmail of European banks has developed over fifty years following the Shoah, yet very few Holocaust survivors have received their share.
A Council House tenant who actually suffered in a concentration camp and lost his family to the gas chambers has still not received a penny. Mechanisms exist for him to receive his due in his declining years and the directors know about them.
Lynn C. Wartnik, former co-president, has evidently known this survivor through her father for many years yet she has done nothing to alleviate his suffering. He ranks as “Eurotrash”, a term comparable to “nigger”, in the eyes of her managers and their Kapos. [Hornet Nests - Ransom]
To verify and validate his contentions and opinions about Council House, the author visited Dachau (Germany) and Terezín (Czech Republic) concentration camps to examine records. At Terezín he found a distinct correlation with Council House. Nazis used artistic endeavors as a sop to the International Red Cross in a similar way to which Council House now feigns benevolence and uses propaganda to mislead its oversight authorities.
The directors thrive on prejudice, misuse of power, and greed. They condone elder abuse as they perceive that others abused their forebears - a role reversal of abuser and abused. This becomes abundantly clear if one investigates leisure programs.
Managers secretly extend invitations to an elite before announcement of events and trips, then tell other applicants of over-subscription when they apply to participate. This effectively excludes blacks, whom Mitchell overtly treats as unwashed and unwanted, from involvement.
Council House directors have deliberately precluded people from other races or faiths from board participation and have prevented black people from applying for the position of administrator. Those decisions contravened HUD employment directives that specifically preclude discrimination in government-funded housing and employment.
Contra Cabal criticism apparently forced HUD to reprimand Council House for discrimination in advertising apartment vacancies in a single publication - The Jewish Transcript. Council House must now advertise vacancies in a series of ethnic papers. However, they still practice employment discrimination. Meanwhile, that rag (with a Council House director on its board) continues to publish outrageous propaganda about non-existent achievements and glorifies Kapos.
The directors ratified appointment of Stephen (aka Stefan) Mitchell, a neo-fascist, out-of-work stage actor, without qualifications for the job, as administrator. Co-presidents Lynn Wartnik and Sheila Sternberg recommended him after making false declarations and submitting his forged resume to HUD.
Later interviewed, an unsuccessful job applicant who had qualifications and experience far in excess of Mitchell, said that instead of the directors interviewing her, they left it to Mitchell who (for obvious reasons) denied her employment. HUD officials have since withheld public records to cover up complicity in employment discrimination.
Council House has adopted “intent to discriminate” doctrines. Some staff and tenants have demonstrated unrestrained racism not only against people of color but against members of their own ethnic or racial group who have little power. Minorities live daily with the effects of both individual and institutional racism. [Pattern or Practice]
Managers have arbitrarily wielded their administrative power over those with no power regardless of race with misanthropic vigor. Having full knowledge of these incidents the directors do nothing. Instead, they persist in trying to kill the messengers that report their crimes to government authorities as they have recently done in the Hawk case.
Neo-fascist ideology and racism run rampant at Council House and has greatly increased since Mitchell became building manager. The directors continue to condone neo-fascism supported by judicial connivance aided and abetted by laissez faire attitudes at HUD.
HUD has full knowledge of this unlawful behavior, yet continues to neglect to investigate complaints or to take any action against Council House directors for institutional racism. Their managers and Kapos continue to spread hate and violence.
Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR) claims to have launched a citywide effort to create a community where residents experience cultural and ethnic diversity as an asset. However, officials evidently fail to understand the basic principle of cultural pluralism in a democracy.
Mayor Gregory Nickels (City of Seattle) has known about the situation at Council House for the whole of his term. Although that situation involves multiple elder abuse, and at least two cases of alleged homicide by abuse, he has done nothing to investigate them. Neither has he done anything to alleviate the racial discrimination and elder abuse that runs rampant.
Municipal government officials deny that collective discrimination exists among law enforcement officers, government employees, and state actors. They act in similar racist ways to individuals - collectively they exhibit their individual bigotry. Steven Zwerin (SOCR) has demonstrated that reality.
The original complaint focused upon racism and nothing else. SOCR accepted it on that basis. Predominantly, the complaint related to an affluent Jewish minority group practicing racism against black people.
Instead of setting up a balanced team to investigate the complaint, SOCR apparently employed a Jewish lawyer from a wealthy family. To employ only a Jew to investigate racism by wealthy Jews ranks as preposterous - a truism confirmed by Zwerin’s behavior and attitudes during his investigation.
Even if he possessed a modicum of ethics, a reasonable person would doubt his neutrality given the partiality and bias expected by the general public. The fact that SOCR did not involve Zwerin’s partner Frederick Arcala, a black man, in the investigation further accentuates the bias.
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A Neutral Party
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Not aligned with, supporting, or favoring either side in a dispute.
Having no political preference.
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It is important to understand SOCR’s role of neutrality during the filing, investigation and resolution of your claim. SOCR does not take sides in a case. We do not "speak for" the Charging Party; nor do we "represent" the Respondent. Our job is to enforce the City of Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws. We strive to be fair, honest and impartial. [SOCR - A Neutral Party]
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No direct correlation exists between race and political conduct, social thinking, and values, even if one allows for class differences. Singling out a biological given rather than paying attention to all the other factors reflects a divisive political agenda instead of sociological fact. Zwerin deliberately singled out people whom he would interview and those whom he would not - by race.
Hawk claims that Zwerin buried her list of witnesses, which appears nowhere in the findings, after selecting two Jews and one black man for interview. He then neglected to file their statements and conveniently omitted the list from SOCR documentation.
That list contained the names of ten Council House tenants (two Jews, seven black people, and one white person) all willing to testify for Hawk on racism issues. Moreover, Zwerin refused to let Hawk have an attorney present at the witness interviews or to give her a list of the witnesses filed by Mitchell. He still has not told her what questions he asked or given her an opportunity to refute the answers.
Angela Milton-Dawson (SOCR) gave Hawk an undertaking that she would protect witness names by using pseudonyms. Hawk asked Zwerin to honor that promise and not disclose names of her witnesses to Mitchell for fear that he would retaliate against them,
Despite the promised anonymity, Zwerin disclosed the names by giving a list to Gretchen H-rb-s-n, Bullshit Harass Bendover (BHB), Seattle, a lawyer acting for Mitchell and Council House. She transmitted the information to Mitchell who immediately tampered with some witnesses and intimidated others. Hawk claims that she has copies of email messages that prove Zwerin and H-rb-s-n colluded before Hawk formally filed her complaint.
Although the whole investigation revolved around racial prejudice against blacks by Jews, Zwerin only interviewed one black person on the list and did not record what he said. Moreover, Zwerin set aside testimony by two Jews that favored Hawk whom H-rb-s-n had interviewed without their attorney present. Apparently, both witnesses described racist events that Zwerin and H-rb-s-n did not want on record. No testimony by any of Hawk’s ten witnesses appears anywhere in the record.
Zwerin allowed H-rb-s-n to “adjust” the testimony of witnesses that favored Mitchell several of whom had a history of committing perjury for him. H-rb-s-n then returned the amended and signed statements to Zwerin who apparently filed them as work product. This strengthens Hawk’s claim that Zwerin did not act as a neutral investigator.
H-rb-s-n apparently now wants to enter the doctored statements as evidence in Hawk’s eviction trial. It seems that the sole purpose of H-rb-s-n’s involvement in the SOCR investigation related more to preparing witnesses and evidence for an eviction trial and not to assist in achieving an equitable decision in a civil rights investigation. She apparently used an access opportunity to manufacture evidence favorable to her client, probably the reason that SCaB employed her as straw lawyer in the first place. [Straw-Man Stratagem]
Hawk bitterly complains that Zwerin disclosed her confidential witness names to Mitchell which allowed him to retaliate against them for even agreeing to testify. This continues a pattern of witness tampering and perjury that he has used for at least four years, and currently uses, despite exposure of this unlawful coercion of elderly people.
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Mediation Hypocrisy
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Expressing agreement not supported by conviction.
Disingenuousness and lying.
Professing qualities, beliefs, and virtues one does not possess.
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In mediation, a trained person assists parties to reach negotiated resolution of disputes. Mediators guarantee confidentiality but do not make a determination; instead, they help to explore options and reconcile differences, amicably.
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Descendants of slaves and empathic white people forced a partial dismantling of official discrimination with civil rights laws. The evasion of those mandates has resulted in new racial instability and tension. So-called racial reforms temporarily ameliorated injustice and inequality to contain social protest but introduced a new era of institutionalized racism.
The term “race” primarily relates to biology not to sociology. However, social, political, and religious views become established as part of biological difference when people equate race with religion, national origin, or language. The term “institutional racism” addresses the collective neglect of society in general, and institutions in particular, to provide services and justice to people of a particular color, culture, or ethnicity.
Racial prejudice manifests in processes, procedures, attitudes, and behavior that discriminate through prejudice, ignorance, stereotyping, and profiling. All those conditions disadvantage minority or ethnic people.
The modicum of success in the civil rights movement came about by a synthesis of mass mobilization and a tactical alliance - threats of violence compromised national interests. Government feared the radical potential of the black movement and decided to face that threat but not from any change of heart.
The alliance, organized by racial moderates, sought to ameliorate racial conflict and end racial dictatorship. Reforms did occur and reduced the political challenge posed by anti-racist organizations, however, they also allowed institutionalized racism to flourish.
Radicals of all races paid a price for their revolt - socialism, and political nationalism. They chose to forego their vision of a major social transformation to avoid marginalization, repression, and death. Black people remain on the fringe of two societies because marginalization prevents them from fusing.
From this arises a morbid self-consciousness. Moral hesitancy, fatal to self-confidence, forces black people to live a double life. This duplication within a single person of thoughts, duties, and social class gives rise to contradictory words and ideals that dichotomize thought - presence or revolt, hypocrisy or radicalism.
This “cultural conflict”requires self-evaluation through the eyes of observers with contempt or pity and denies black people an individuation process. It demands that they question their intrinsic worth through failed self-confidence.
An affluent white society robs minorities of their identity, both as individuals and as groups. It refuses to give them equal protection and justice under the law. In fact, white society deliberately uses law to discriminate against people of color as occurs with racial profiling. A minority group defines as a subordinate group having members with less control or power over their constitutional and legal rights than members of a dominant group.
Humanity denied through tortured thoughts and ideals brings anguish to people seeking to affirm both their national and ethnic identities. This stems from refusal of whites to fully recognize black civil rights while concurrently holding blacks to civil responsibilities. Self-assertion has intrinsic benefits at the risk of perceived insubordination. To openly plead for respect effectively forfeits self-respect in the pleading.
Institutions that respond to people of color and whites differently act as racists in outcome if not overt intent. They know that if they behave in overtly racist ways they will probably fall foul of the law. Instead, they adopt policies of inherent racism that do not specifically exclude people of color but nevertheless have a similar intent and result.
Social, cultural, and legal elements hold together a diverse mosaic that includes commitment by all people in mutual tolerance to a democratic way of life. The Constitution and its Bill of Rights guarantee protection for that way of life. Strength within that mosaic comes from appreciating one’s own heritage and complements rather than compromises a heterogeneous society.
The fundamental problems of racial injustice and inequality remain as the basic elements of neo-fascist, white supremacist rule. Racism thrives through support from socio-economic and political cartels protected by government agencies and a corrupt judiciary. Consequently, race retains its significance as a social phenomenon and defines identity and opportunity despite a trumpeted civil rights revolution. Hypocrisy within an an established oligarchy in Seattle government perpetuates that condition.
[Nmesis]
Excerpted and expanded peer-reviewed material. [Institutionalized Racism]
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