The electorate stopped Judge Mary Kay Becker from swimming out of the Seattle judicial cesspool to pollute the (relatively) pristine Olympian waters. Voters have put her in limbo until she follows judicial codes and works toward dismissal of Judge James A. Doerty from Superior Court for judicial misconduct. Judge Doerty has: ● Used judicial power as revenge for heterodox opinion. ● Employed anger and incivility to intimidate witnesses. ● Assaulted the self-respect of litigants to silence them. ● Exploited ex parte relationships to achieve personal agendas. ● Took a journalist hostage then demanded silence as ransom. Becker affirmed Doerty's kafkaesque behavior.

Ode to King County Jail

	This case concerns a veteran British journalist sent to jail in Washington State for publishing exposé on a European web site. Seattle judges provoked a worldwide outrage which raised significant questions about rights to free speech and improper use of antiharassment orders for prior restraint.

Jail reaffirmed my belief as a writer in truth and sincerity. It taught me how to understand the other prisoners and the delusional judges that jailed me. It reaffirmed my belief in writing and persuaded me not to change anything as a result of evil or harmful decisions by malevolent judges. In other words, coercion does not work with intelligent people and judges must learn that.

Good writers change only what they wish to change and disdain attempts at enforced change through coercive persuasion. A spell in solitary confinement showed me that murder may rank as the worst crime in the eyes of the law but that does not make murderers the worst of criminals. [Rampant Judicial Delusion]

Jan Michels, Executive Director, Washington State Bar Association (WSBA), inadvertently described widespread hypocrisy among the judiciary on his own turf. He said that a republic once meant allegiance to a country committed to living under the rule of law instead of fear and coercion - a premise that required choosing a judiciary based upon agreed rules that governed the common good. [01]

Access to the justice system remains a constitutional right. However, submission to law means little without the trust and reliability that the law will protect liberty by ensuring "liberty and justice for all". The present system fails to guide and protect. Many people living in Washington cannot trust the justice system to operate in an unbiased way. Judges have personal agendas that violate the foundation of the legal system.

In resolutions passed unanimously by Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) and Board for Judicial Administration (BJA) members declared equal justice for all under law as fundamental to American democracy and the core function of the judicial branch. They also recognized violation of these prerequisites as a serious issue facing the justice system yet do very little about judicial misconduct and malpractice.

Equal justice means having a criminal defense system that assures anyone accused of a crime assistance in protecting their rights under the law. That works in a variety of instances for criminal complaints but access and assistance remain unavailable for civil injustice. Judges accept frivolous complaints from parties with whom they have a biased interest then hand down indeterminate jail sentences for contempt without access to lawyers.

The state can morally defend people accused of crimes in a court of law yet denies wrongfully evicted tenants and victims of frivolous antiharassment suits due process of law. This becomes especially serious when those civil complaints result with indefinite confinement in jail after denial of legal representation. This hypocrisy has become clearly evident in the decisions of Judge James A. Doerty, Washington Superior Court, based upon ex parte communication with, and misconduct by, his backstage pimp, Judge Anthony P. Wartnik.

Washington Governor Gary Locke appointed Doerty to the bench then a few months later the public elected him by general election (07 Nov 00). Within three months he allegedly committed gross judicial misconduct and denied litigants due process of law. Wartnik endorsed Doerty in company with seventeen other superior court judges which shows the incestuous nature of the Washington superior court. These judges now hold some collective responsibility for Doerty’s behavior. They should admit their mistake then publicly refuse to endorse him in the future to protect whatever integrity remains.

Doerty’s bizarre behavior has now become a matter of international concern since he consistently allowed perjury to pervert the legal process by disallowing discovery processes and refutation. The public should lobby for the removal of both Wartnik and Doerty then refuse to vote for their reelection in 2004. If by any chance Wartnik and Doerty develop a modicum of social and moral propriety then it must persuade them not to stand for reelection. The hypocritical pimp and his whore must go down together in the public interest.

Hypocrites deny people whom they try to control the right to remain ungrateful for the indignities imposed upon them. In particular, hypocrisy among non-profit benefactors results from a lack of integrity that denies self-respect and treats disadvantage as a shameful disease or a condition that signifies a sinful soul. The attendant condescension infects disadvantaged people until they become incapable of helping themselves. Crime and criminals confront society with a perplexity of radical evil but only the charitable hypocrite remains rotten to the core. [02]

Members of the judiciary support that hypocrisy through denial of human rights. Mealy-mouthed judges, salve their conscience with cloaks of righteousness and stand as pillars of both secular and religious temples. On attaining power with its contingent wealth, they mimic the behavior of the tyrants who oppressed their ancestors. Their adolescent and cocksure attitudes probably emanate from never having suffered anything except an occasional dip in stock prices.

The dysfunction and cruelty transfers from one generation to another. Tyrants enjoy abusing people with no power who, in fear or with indifference, accept their lot to a point where they even admire their oppressors. The masses eventually find it easier to live under a dictatorship that relieves them from making political decisions. Then they abdicate their responsibility to uphold democratic laws by relying upon a corrupt judiciary to make those decisions for them.

Indifference affects tyrants more than their adversaries as, in their shame, they ignore fundamental morality and religious principles. They fail to realize that the suffering of forebears does not give them a right to turn that suffering into a lucrative industry. They do not have a God-given right to embrace an easy way out of their self-hating dilemma by damning those whom they do not understand. [Hornet Nests]

Unlike a minority of black people living in senior citizen housing complexes, people of color generally provide a cultural majority in prison populations. In both constituencies the organic part of the general population in this so-called free society excludes them from mainstream culture. The controlling groups feel comfortable with exclusion of minorities and prevent assimilation. This provides advantages to an established elite. [Institutionalized Racism]

Dominant groups intuitively know that if they ever seek to purge themselves of their deeply ingrained and suppressed hate they will find themselves at war with themselves. They will find themselves caught in a spasm of self-inflicted emotional and moral confusion. Consequently, they do nothing about the problem which results in even more jails to house those whom they tyrannize.

Hypocrisy, the assumption of a false aura of virtue or goodness while disguising true character or inclinations, runs rampant at Council House, Herzl-Ner Tamid, and in Washington Superior Court. Hypocrisy and lying have become so extensive that it has become impossible to calculate the moral mischief that has resulted.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. [03]

Oscar Wilde and Tennessee Williams described hypocrisy and lying succinctly when they respectively wrote:

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. [04]
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! [05]

Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels), a psychiatric doctor born in London 1949, works at an inner city hospital and a prison in the UK. He recalled his father spluttering with outrage at the movie The Trials of Oscar Wilde - not at the justice or cruelty of the eventual sentence instead the notion that anyone thought Wilde innocent or undeserving of his punishment. This typifies the attitude of Wartnik who arbitrarily insinuates himself into matters that do not concern him then perverts justice to support his wife and her cohorts in alleged malfeasance. Like Dalrymple’s father, Wartnik shows a callous indifference to justice with flippant comments like “He’s right where he should be” when questioned about his own misconduct.

The power of Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol did not end with its propagandistic or prison-reformist message. It also had an implicit recognition of human frailty. Only in prison did Wilde learn the value of truth, sincerity, and goodness. His Ballad realistically describes this reporter’s experience more than a century later. However, Wilde spoke the truth but not the whole truth.

His poem remains programmatic or propagandistic in intent with its clarion call to prison reform in times of indisputable harshness. Wilde loses sight of nature in his zeal for reform which leads to oversimplification. Conversely, journalists must stay with facts and make personal opinion clear from the outset.

Educated and intelligent people survive surprisingly well as prisoners. Perhaps they detach themselves from their predicament and observe everything around them in a deliberately unemotional way. However, their surprising resilience does not prevent recurring nightmares attributable to their jail experience. [Metamorphosis]

The undoubted humanity in Wilde’s verse conveys brotherhood among prisoners a human trait lacking in their judicial tormentors. One feels no pity for an accused murderer but empathy with his human condition. Murder may rank as the worst crime but that does not make murderers the worst criminals. Some judges rank much lower.

Nmesis.

[Ode to King County Jail - Poem]

[Oscar Wilde/Theodore Dalrymple - Arrested Development]

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