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History
This exposé describes the adverse affect upon senior citizens kept in perpetual fear of eviction and incarceration by delusional managers and deranged thugs. The articles describe an ongoing pattern of mismanagement, provocation, racial abuse, discrimination, misappropriation, and physical assault at Council House, Seattle - a taxpayer-subsidized, independent-living facility for senior citizens.
The use of pseudonyms and name suppression complies with a gag order issued by Judge James A. Doerty, Washington Superior Court. That order violates constitutional rights to freedom of expression and assembly and his decision now awaits appellate review. [Name Shaming and Blaming] [Court-Facilitated Terror Campaign]
A prior restraint applies to online publication of full texts, therefore, these articles include only excerpted material. The restraint applies to publication of names and political cartoons pending appeal of the gag order. By a unanimous decision of the Washington Supreme Court, that Doerty’s order now awaits a hearing before the appellate court. Doerty has since constructively recused himself. [Obtain unexpurgated documents from Webspinner@ContraCabal.org. List documents requested.]
At Council House, neo-fascists treat virtually all senior citizen residents as vulnerable adults. By that, they essentially conclude that no resident has the ability to reason and have confirmed that conclusion in court documents. During interviews with several Council House residents about their experiences with administrators they revealed gross negligence and abuse by managers. Successive administrators have used resident thugs to enforce their ideology. [Vulnerable Adults]
Management abuse and misappropriation have allegedly contributed to at least two deaths at Council House. US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD-Seattle) officials received many cries for help from residents over an extended period. However, in a consort with directors, they have ignored the problems and allowed a bad situation to deteriorate over several years then covered it up.
Moreover, the directors and their administrators use mental health propaganda to cover up their alleged crimes, to intimidate witnesses, and to ostracize residents for filing complaints. They use an insane minority to threaten and coerce law-abiding senior citizens. Residents live in fear of ostracism and eviction if they do not accept the neo-fascist ideologies of administrators.
Those administrators use violent thugs for their own ends and employ several deranged residents to cover up their unlawful activity. This has a debilitating affect upon residents generally - some of them approaching an advanced age.
Federal regulations do not allow people with mental health problems to occupy independent-living facilities let alone violent thugs. Several Council House thugs need professional psychiatric help from qualified mental health experts. Others may need confinement in a facility designed and licensed for that purpose. Each of the thugs should suffer prosecution and eviction in keeping with their alleged crimes. [Five Kapos]
History
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) formed a non-profit corporation then built (1972) and later refurbished Council House, a residence for senior citizens on Capitol Hill, Seattle. They obtained federal financial assistance through HUD for the original construction and rehabilitation. Council House attorneys call it a “non-profit charitable organization”. Tenants know otherwise.
Council House has a history of tenant abuse and misappropriation of government funds that continues with court protection despite media exposure. HUD has neglected to address the issues although its officers in Seattle and Washington DC have known about the problems for several years.
The directors, members of their families, and their attorneys have subverted judges of the Washington superior court. They have used their religion and false claims of anti-Semitism in attempts to cover up their alleged crimes. They have implemented racist policies and have a distinct conflict of interest.
Conclusion
Judge Doerty, in collusion with Council House directors, duped the appellate court into dropping an appeal of his decisions by falsifying financial means. Five judges of Washington supreme court handed down a unanimous decision that the appellate court must hear the case that they previously refused to schedule. The supreme court based its decision on Doerty’s draconian findings that resulted my ultra-security, solitary confinement in King County jail as punishment for revealing and reporting alleged crimes.
The directors actions cover up the activities of their employee Stephen M. (39) (Council House administrator) and others. Stephen M. has organized a Kafkaesque fantasy over several years, A stage actor, unable to obtain full-time employment in theater, he has acted out his fantasies using mentally impaired thugs to the detriment of residents generally. In the opinion of several residents and observers, the directors should never have given him the job in the first place because he lacks the mandated qualifications.
The directors, instead of addressing the issues of abuse and misappropriation would rather cover it up. To that end, they have used kill-the-messenger techniques and resorted to practices outlawed in Europe for about three centuries - prior restraint and web site destruction (the equivalent of book-burning). They have used corrupt lawyers and judges as enforcers.
Truth does not surface when writers must work under a veil of orthodoxy (political correctness). Nor do conscience-stricken authors concerned about their own orthodoxy tell the truth. The truth can only come from writers who do not live in fear of what they publish. Jailing me for publishing truth did not silence me. Everything that Judge Doerty wanted removed still appears on the web at three web sites. He could not silence me with his gag orders. Instead, he gave me a new topic: “What I saw and experienced in King County jail”.
Censorship and prior restraint place exclusive conditions on freedom of expression and, consequently, personal freedom. Any type of censorship restricts, to narrowly defined criteria usually determined by an oligarchy, what people may say. Politically correct ideologies require everyone to learn the same way, to teach the same way, to research the same way, to discourse the same way, and to write the same way.
Subsequently, that conformity destroys any vestige of individuality. Exclusivity based upon race and religion forces everyone to become a clone of someone else. It enables those in power to deny freedom of expression to dissenters. It also allows them to destroy the careers of nonconformists. This describes the neo-fascist practices at Council House.
By restricting postings to a web site at the directors’ request, Judge Doerty condoned a prior restraint, thus:
. . . directly or indirectly, (indirectly means requesting, agreeing, or soliciting anyone else to do this) any personal identifying information including, but not limited to the name, address, phone number, social security number, or photograph, of any current, former or future staff member, resident, board member, or agent, including attorneys, of Council House.
That ambiguous order violates constitutional law and makes valid communication impossible. It could apply to millions of people unknown to the author. In addition, locking out a professor/journalist from his research documents, computer databases, and library, then jailing him in order to silence him, also classifies as prior restraint.
Parliament allowed such restrictions on freedom of the press by passing the Press Licensing Order, London, 1643, later repealed. Jonathan Swift suffered under those laws. Authorities locked him out of London for his Catholicism and satire.
Doerty has arbitrarily incorporated similar restrictions into his findings. He bypasses both US and Washington State constitutions to enforce Judaic conformity. The directors go several steps further - they jail authors for what they have written and published then try to destroy the books and the press.
Nmesis.
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Judge James A. Doerty, Superior Court, State of Washington, issued two anti-harassment orders and contempt citations to censor this forum by prior restraint at the behest of Council House directors and their administrator. Mary Kay Becker, Washington Court of Appeals affirmed them. Washington Supreme Court reversed most of those decisions (30 Mar 06).
[Washington Supreme Court - Decision] [Background Information]
Using their financial power, the directors obtained SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) court orders and contempt citations using perjured testimony against the author of valid exposé. They then had him jailed in solitary confinement.
In this case, SLAPP consists of frivolous charges designed to bankrupt an opponent and create a prior restraint. The landlords have used this tactic on several occasions to try to cover up issues that affect all their tenants.
Doerty thwarted an appeal of his findings for more than five years by withholding court documents and other manipulation. The author/publisher claims judicial bias and arbitrary censorship that deny him his rights under the First Amendment to the US Constitution and Washington State Constitution. Doerty has challenged a principle journalism ethic - seek truth and report it - by denying a reporter’s First Amendment rights. Doerty then wrote biased decisions all without due process of law.
His findings enabled Council House directors to cover up crimes that they and their administrators allegedly committed. A Washington Supreme Court review has allowed the public to know the names of people involved in elder abuse. It will also give an ethical prosecutor an opportunity to consider felony charges of homicide by abuse against Council House directors and their staff. [Homicide by Abuse]
Homicide ranks as a class A felony punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in a state correctional institution or by a fine of fifty thousand dollars or both. Both the victim’s family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by allegedly defrauding federal and state agencies prior to death of a resident. [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]
Doerty’s order precluded naming the people involved which forced redaction of copy pending review. Washington Supreme Court reversed the trial court decision which relieves restrictions on publishing details regarding resident deaths and other abuse.
Washington Supreme Court
Council House, Seattle - Summary
Supreme Court Decision #1
Supreme Court Decision #2
Civil Issues
Appellant [Trummel]
Respondents [Mitchell and Council House Inc.]
Appellant Reply [Trummel]
Contempt Issues
Appellant [Trummel]
Respondents [Mitchell and Council House Inc.]
Appellant Reply [Trummel]
Amicus Curiae
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
National Union of Journalists/London Freelance Branch (NUJ)
Seattle Weekly
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