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Neo-Fascist Identity Groups
Enforcing political correctness by coercion defines as political repression, an important component of fascism. Several white supremacist organizations still survive. Some of them call themselves Christian. However, they promulgate ideologies that support accountability to supremacist leaders other than Jesus Christ. [Neo-Fascism, Violence, and Indifference]
Many people think that the term “Christian Identity” refers to a Christian religious denomination like Catholic, Moslem, Baptist, or other established religions. This confusion enables racists to provide a "religious" cover for their ideology. They change the meaning of reverence to a supernatural power as creator of the universe into an institutionalized system grounded in belief and worship of a secular leader.
Real religions expect zealous pursuit or conscientious devotion and behavior based upon high moral values. Usually, a spiritual leader or prophet has established a theology. Unfortunately, theology has always provided a basis ripe for exploitation by atheistic supremacists. When people nurtured into a religious environment hear the term “Christian Identity” they do not think in terms of a political party with ungodly and radical beliefs that replace theology with irreligious ideology.
The misnomer "Christian Identity" has two distinct but conflicting meanings:
1. A theology that only white races and associated cultures have descended from the tribes of Israel which makes them the chosen people of God under the covenant of Jacob - a sort of anti-Semitic Semitism.
2. An ideology based upon extreme fundamentalism that adds racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs to an all-white theology. That ideology defines Jews as descendants of Satan and opposes equal rights to queers and supports militia movements.
Both run rampant in the US. Several white supremacist organizations still survive: John Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan; American Nazi Party; neo-Nazis; Posse Comitatus; and, White Aryan Resistance. They all promulgate ideologies that support accountability to a supremacist leader rather than a divine being. Smaller untitled groups emulate them in closed societies like Council House.
Ku Klux Klan ranks as the largest traditional identity group. The movie (The Birth of a Nation) portrayed KKK as a champion of white civilization. It inspired William Simmons, a Christian pastor, to reorganize it in 1915. Another revitalization occurred in the mid 1950's as a reaction to enforced racial integration in the southern US.
Identity groups meet the social needs and aspirations of a supremacist leader and special interests. Adherents fervently believe in a set of doctrines that form the basis of a political, economic, or other controlling system.
The label, “Christian identity” and its confusing definition, enables racial supremacists to provide a "religious" or “spiritual” cover for their activities. Teachings vary within different identity groups. Some advocate separation of all the races. Others call for the extermination of all nonwhites and treat people of color as animals without a soul.
Identity proponents organize within quasi-religious organizations. For example, some of them misuse children’s camps for basic indoctrination and new age spiritual organizations to gain respectability. Others work within closed societies like senior citizen housing where they think that they can control gullible or “vulnerable adults”. They cover all bases from cradle to grave. [Vulnerable Adults]
Some senior citizens become strongly attracted to these "religions". In fact, one sometimes observes dual or even triple memberships in these organizations. This makes it difficult to measure how many people actually belong to any one group. Lately, there seems to have been an upsurge of recruitment among the elderly. Neo-fascists infiltrate senior citizen communities and residents do not realize that they have identity proponents in their midst until too late.
Typically, a group will look and sound like they subscribe to the teachings of a fundamentalist church. By that, they mask their real objectives. They create a false impression that they teach fundamentalism when in fact they persuade seniors to accept supremacist ideologies either through coercion or fear.
At Council House, an apartment block in Seattle, the landlord’s agent and administrator Stephen M. and his assistant Audrey D., articulate, develop, and exploit, all three areas of group identity ideology. They ruthlessly enforce their power as administrators to promote that ideology using five resident enforcers. [Five Kapos].
They follow these policies despite the mandated landlord/tenant relationship. Council House, with its independent-living apartments, does not rank as a nursing home and managers should maintain a distant landlord/tenant relationship and not interfere with the lifestyles of tenants. However the directors and managers have put in place abusive polices widely reported to exist in many nursing homes. They classify tenants as “vulnerable adults” then treat them as though they occupy rooms in a nursing home. This provides a modicum of control as a fiduciary over those tenants gullible enough to accept such control.
M. Generally treats the elderly, especially members of minority groups, as vulnerable adults without the ability to reason - a coercive tactic used in many cults and identity groups. After a while the victims begin to believe that they cannot think for themselves.
New residents in this closed society may not recognize the supremacist rhetoric or the agenda behind it. M. has received extensive training as an actor and knows how to lie convincingly. In many cases, residents do not become aware of the coercion until they have become deeply entrenched and cannot see a way out. They unwittingly sell their souls to the devil. [Art of Thespian Lying]
Council House tenants frequently fall for a carrot-and-stick strategy. Stephen M. combines promised rewards with threatened penalties. He shows his psychotic need to appear as a nice guy to new residents as part of his control strategy. He provides them with the same special privileges that he also provides for an established sycophantic elite. That elite panders to anyone who will give them advantages and allows them to condescend to less affluent tenants or insult black people. These advantages given to a few look like benevolence to an indifferent board of directors who live in a fantasy world with a parallel ideologically. [Freedom of Conscience]
For example, M. provides new residents with transportation and fast computer lines while denying similar privileges to established residents who have decried his neo-fascist ideology. He subjects dissenters to abject abuse and even denies them access to public computers.
Virulent racism directed at black people and anti-Semitism prevail without any restraint among those who fawn over M. Management staff actively support racist behavior and constructively evict those who complain about it. Black people live at Council House only because federal law requires it. Beyond that management treats minority people with condescension and abuse - except for one or two token blacks who have society connections. Audrey D. always includes one of those token people among the privileged Jewish elite, allegedly to avoid criticism. The remainder have to live with her abuse. [Trials of Leon Harris]
In some families, paternalism or identity advocacy relieves estranged family members from responsibility for their parents. Generally, senior citizens rely on their children or a leader as authority figures for "true" information. Some family members gladly abdicate in favor of a leader to control their parents’ lives after they dump their parents into institutions.
Some family members have broken ties with parents who have succumbed to Council House ideology. They broke ties as a result of M.’s disinformation about their parents using privileged information covered by federal privacy regulations. It makes control of the parents easier if he can disinterest families in their welfare.
M. keeps some prospects isolated to stop them from testing their beliefs against reality. He cuts them off from contact with outside ideas and practice through strict censorship of both spoken words and published material. His managers and thugs coerce residents to believe that they can only rely on their leader and his assistants for "true" information. If staff members catch residents talking about subjects that they have censored then they receive reprimands. In some cases thugs threatened them with physical assault. Audrey D. ostracizes non-believers by banishing or excluding them from participation in programs. This deters them from questioning motives. Stephen M. achieves much of this with zero tolerance policies and the use of thugs. [Five Kapos]
Some families take financial advantage of their parents this way. The anticipated appellate court reversal of the trial court decision will relieve the restrictions on publishing details regarding the death of a particular Council House resident and allow naming of the participants in what another court may interpret as negligent homicide. In that case, both the victim’s family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by allegedly defrauding both federal and state agencies. Judge Doerty’s order precludes naming the people involved at this time. [Unanimous Decision] [Appellate Brief #1] [Appellate Brief #2]
Neo-fascist teachings vary, some advocate separation of all the races while others call for extermination. To date, M. does not appear to have exterminated anyone but he has contributed negligently to at least two deaths and incarcerated four residents without due process of law.
Identity groups give haters a sense of power and belonging and a fast way to identify with others who share their ideology. Symbols provide a vocabulary used by a variety of extremist groups. They believe that the biblical "chosen people" stem from a white, gentile European race. They believe that Jews belong to Satan, that the white race is inherently superior, and that blacks and other non-whites rank as "mud people" without a soul.
The message that the white race remains superior and others evil or inferior justifies violent acts. Identity groups justify white supremacy and violence against other races. Felippe Jacques (Marquis de Sade) demonstrates this at Council House where he spreads evil and acts violently and boasts about his protection by Judge James A, Doerty, Washington Superior Court, and, ironically, an all-Jewish board of directors whom he openly describes as:
. . . a bunch of self-congratulating idiots and condescending morons with the distorted view proper to those who have a [world view that reality exists as a whole ascribed or described by a single concept]. In this case their Jewishness. . . .
For once, Felippe Jacques may have told the truth. [Strange Bedfellows]
The Council House directors and their management staff project noble motives and believe that they have a right to determine good from evil from different racially biased perspectives. The more residents who accept the Council House ideology the greater the likelihood of more violence. The special brand of racism practiced by the directors ranks no higher than the ideology practiced by their employees - the belief systems run in parallel.
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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