Hawk and the Raven

Felippe Jacques (72±) and Michael L. Johnson (45±) (Council House Kapos (thugs)) played a prominent role with Stephen A. Mitchell (40) in harassing Lauren Jeanne Hawk (64), an activist born in San Mateo, California, now living at Council House.

Mitchell has constructively evicted several tenants for political and racist reasons without due process of law. He employees Jacques and several other thugs to coerce tenants to spy upon their neighbors, then sign declarations containing false allegations that Mitchell can use in court. [Five Kapos]

Several sources (who prefer not to be named to avoid retaliation) say that a similar situation arose prior to a court hearing on complaints filed by Mitchell against Hawk (30 Jun 05) which resulted in the court granting a no-contact order against her.

Jacques wrote about Hawk (25 Nov 04): Unfortunately . . . her stupidity is only matched by her craziness. A fat and smelly woman. She will never raise [sic] above a small nuisance and will stay on the level of dysfunctional morons [Jacques then named other tenants as dysfunctional morons - a black person and two Jews - names withheld].

Hawk claimed that Mitchell constantly harassed her by humiliating her publicly with ad hominem remarks designed to provoke a “rude and abusive” response so that he could evict her. This tactic has allowed Mitchell to manufacture “evidence” for eviction proceedings for several years.

Although Mitchell presently has Hawk under an eviction notice and a no-contact order for “rude and abusive” behavior (obtained on allegedly perjured testimony), he does not interpret Jacques’s comments or his own ad hominem remarks as rude and abusive. This forms part of a pattern in which Mitchell does not define his terms in lease addenda. He then uses them arbitrarily to suit his own purposes, mainly to restrict speech protected under the First Amendment that criticizes his management of Council House.

Hawk has competent legal counsel for a trial on eviction and First Amendment issues before Washington Superior Court, Seattle (02 Aug 05). Elena Luisa Garella, Attorney-at-Law, a prominent Seattle First Amendment lawyer (already lead attorney in another action against Mitchell and Council House under review in Washington Supreme Court) and Kaustuv Das, Davis Wright Tremaine, will represent Hawk. They will both work under the aegis of the Housing Justice Project (KCBA) and will challenge Council House on grounds that Mitchell has tried to evict Hawk for exercising her right to freedom of speech and on several other issues. Alex J. Rose, Short Cressman & Burgess, Seattle, represents Stephen A. Mitchell and Council House Inc.

Ex Parte Commissioner Kimberley Prochnau, Washington Superior Court, granted a temporary no-contact order naming five Council House people and staff pending a Superior Court trial (02 Aug 05). Contra Cabal must not list those names due to an unconstitutional prior restraint previously granted to Council House by Washington Superior Court now under Washington Supreme Court review.
[Order on Civil Motion]
[Washington Supreme Court]

Six of the eight witnesses who offered testimony against Hawk previously filed perjured declarations against other Council House tenants. Directors and their thugs have consistently suborned a tenant elite since 2001. In addition, six directors committed perjury which they used to pervert justice. Mitchell also tampered with each of the tenant witnesses for the petitioner in the 2001 case now before Washington Supreme Court. He either unlawfully evicted them, tried to bribe them, or had his Kapos seriously harass them. [Supreme Court Review]

In Washington state, perjury by signing misleading declarations or giving false testimony classifies as a class B felony which carries a maximum punishment of ten years in a correctional institution, and/or a $20,000 fine, on each count. Corrupt judges have repeatedly disallowed discovery and cross-examination that would have exposed those crimes: instead, they granted Council House directors impunity. [Impunity] [Pattern or Practice]

Probably for the first time in the history of Council House, a tenant will impose her right to face and question her accusers. In a series of other constructive evictions, based upon suborned perjury or coerced testimony, tenants did not have the benefit of counsel who would conduct discovery.

Discovery, a compulsory process, allows pretrial disclosure. It enables litigants to obtain information before trial through demands for production of documents, deposition of potential witnesses, and written interrogatories under oath. Garella will subpoena principal witnesses for examination.

Previously, Council House directors and their lawyers denied tenants due process of law and corrupt judges made unjust decisions. When tenants won their cases in more ethical courts, Council House obtained new trials using their tame judges or ignored court decisions and evicted tenants anyway.

Hawk claims that she has some Cherokee blood and that her ancestors belonged to the Red Hawk clan. She says that she changed her name from Valerie Jeanne Michaud several years ago “to make a statement about the condition of the Native American”. She has legally used the name Lauren Jeanne Hawk ever since.

Hawk, a common term in the Indian lexicon for a raptorial bird, usually inhabits river bottoms, swamps, and forest glades, which strongly associates it with water. In human affairs, it emanates from the Cherokee war bundle as a deity with great war powers, most particularly those pertaining to the efficacy of language. Warriors bestow upon it the very great honor of offering it human dogs as a ritual sacrifice. Jeanne Hawk has a particular taste for rabid dogs at Council House.

Confined in a wheelchair, Hawk filed a formal complaint regarding racism which included use of the term “nigger” by another resident. Disingenuously, Mitchell told her to call Bremerton Housing Authority (BHA) with her complaint. He knew that BHA would do nothing because HUD officials support landlords against tenants using laissez faire policies.

Prior to exposure in Contra Cabal, Mark T. M-ll-en (a former administrator) withheld information about BHA complaint procedures for many years. He manipulated the rules when tenants realized they had a legal right to complain. [HUD-Seattle and Bremerton Contract Administrator]

The same day that Hawk complained to him about harassment, Mitchell served her with an eviction warning for “rude and abusive behavior”. Two weeks later he sent her a final warning (23 Nov 04). That started a reaction that degenerated over six months and eventually involved other government agencies (05 May 05).

Both M-ll-en and Mitchell have abused tenants using censorship, kill-the-messenger, and zero tolerance policies for about ten years. Mitchell appeared for a Washington Supreme Court review (23 Jun 05) of First Amendment violations and unlawful use of antiharassment lawsuits which he used to evict and imprison another tenant.

An appellate judge (Mary Kay Becker) lost her bid for a seat on the Supreme Court for an alleged cover-up and bias in the same case. Despite the international furor that he created through his elder abuse and unconstitutional behavior, Mitchell persists with impunity granted by superior court and appellate judges, now the subject of Supreme Court review.
[Bimbo Limbo] [Supreme Court Review]

A Psycho-Mythological Dance The behavior described in Hawk and the Raven follows a classic Jungian pattern. Within that pattern, the most important task imposed upon a person relates to fulfillment through a process of individuation - achievement of harmony between conscious and unconscious to make a person whole. xxCarl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, famous for his concept of the collective unconscious shared by human minds, named and defined many of the cultural practices described in ancient mythology still relevant today. xxJung based his psychology on psychic totality and energizing. He defined two dimensions in the unconscious: personal (repressed or forgotten content of mental and material life) and archetypes (images, patterns, and symbols in dreams and fantasies defined by mythology and religion). He also defined a collective unconscious (acts and mental patterns shared within cultures and among all human beings). xxIn simple terms, Jungian psychology addresses the concept of introvert and extrovert personalities and the four psychological functions of sensation, intuition, thinking and feeling. The joker in a set of playing cards, used in some games as the highest-ranking card or as a wild card, provides an analogy. xxThe joker symbolizes an annoying, inept, insolent person who seeks admiration for his cleverness and uses it as a deceptive means of gaining power over other people. These traits particularly apply to thespians who have not individuated and cannot return from their acting persona to a rational and normal life. Living in a fantasy world, they abuse others to show their supremacy. In mythology, the joker acts as a trickster, the alter ego of the Raven. xxRaven derives his creative intelligence from appetite. It begins with a concern with feeding and ends with an ability to create and unmask deceit. He starts out hungry but before long he becomes master of creative deception that, according to a long tradition, ranks as a prerequisite of stage acting. [Thespian Liar] xxRaven sometimes devises stratagems to catch his meal and sometimes acts stupidly. He frequently relies on his prey to help him spring the traps he makes and sometimes he gets snared in his own devices. He knows that destructive forces exist and that his intelligence arose not just to feed himself but to outwit other predators. He frequently forgets that to overcome cunning one needs more cunning. xxRaven defines as both culture hero and fool, also clever predator and unintelligent prey. His intelligence springs from his appetite in two ways; to satiate hunger and to create hunger in his adversaries. He desires to remove himself from the predatory game altogether and constantly changes himself to see how far he can go and still feed himself. He knows that if he stops feeding, then he will no longer have power and wealth. xxAn idiot can survive if enough people believe his lies. Raven tells people whom he wants to control that he has important work for them. He explains that many bad people exist and that they must annihilate them or suffer death themselves. He says that peers will then honor them. [Thespian Liar’s Liars] xxThespian liars follow this path by starting out-of-work and hungry. Through lying and deception they gain power and money at the expense of others. However, Raven eventually fails miserably through an inability to individuate. Council House Raven has commenced that decline. xxA lack of understanding of psychological functions, and a dearth of individuation among directors, managers, and several tenants at Council House, has created a ten-year pattern of elder abuse and legal action that has now reached international proportions. xxLawyers and prosecutors will choreograph the Raven's dances for the last act in the Council House tragicomedy. Raven can then take his final curtain call before he goes to jail where he will find a very touchy-feely audience that really appreciates queer thespians.

Hawk’s complaint started a chain of unsupported accusations by Mitchell and his Kapos of “rude and abusive behavior“, a catch-all phrase that he inserted unlawfully into leases several years ago. He has used the term repeatedly to trump up charges that have racist undertones but has never defined it. His accusations and evictions under that clause have predominantly related to constitutionally protected speech. He uses a team of elitist tenants whom he openly calls upon to manufacture evidence and commit perjury to support his contentions.

Mitchell posted a ten-day notice to quit on Hawk’s door (04 Apr 05) as retaliation for her civil rights work “against his racist behavior”. She said it contained terms “so erroneous that it would take pages to answer” and that she found it “distorted, abusive, and full of outright lies” - a believable statement considering his previous pattern of pathological lying. [Thespian Liar]

Mitchell enlisted one of his thugs, Michael Lewis Johnson, to harass Hawk (20 Apr 05). Mitchell uses a team of thugs to harass and inform on tenants. Johnson, an illegal resident by virtue of age, lives with his queer partner Glen Thompson and poses as a care giver in return for harassing other tenants whom Mitchell selects. He evidently holds a power of attorney over Thompson. Johnson has a five-year history of tenant physical assault which has involved police intervention. [Five Kapos] [Queer Connection]

Mitchell contradicted himself by signing a HUD Owner’s/Tenant’s Certification of Compliance with respect to Hawk (after pressure from City of Seattle, Human Services Department, Aging and Disability Services (28 Apr 05)). Four days later he contradicted himself again by serving Hawk with a notice of material non-compliance with her lease.

Mitchell also wrote a long letter to Hawk which condoned racism. He effectively justified use of the term “nigger” as free speech which he had previously banned as “rude and abusive behavior”.

On another occasion, Hawk says Mitchell told her that he deserved the high salary that he received because tenants collected welfare in a subsidized building and he had no respect for them, especially Hawk who ranked as the lowest of the low.

On a formal complaint by Hawk, Seattle Office of Civil Rights (SOCR) began to investigate charges of discrimination that she made against Stephen A. Mitchell and Council House. Hawk says she also filed complaints with Glen Youngblood (HUD).

City of Seattle procedures for civil rights complaints seem quite clear. However, SOCR, along with several other departments that come under the auspices of Thomas A. Carr, City Attorney, have ignored them, apparently for political reasons.

Under city rules, SOCR determines whether a complaint qualifies, then, after receiving a formal complaint, calls for a full investigation. If the case does not qualify, then SOCR must refer the complaint to another agency for action. Upon qualification, an investigator contacts the person charged and meets with the complainant before conducting interviews and gathering evidence.

If the investigator finds reasonable cause for the evidence to support the charge, then the search for a remedy begins. SOCR can only administratively close the case if they cannot complete an investigation or if the complainant chooses to settle in court.

Hawk wrote (05 Jun 05) that Steven N. Zwerin (32), Investigator, SOCR, had made a decision to close her civil rights complaint arbitrarily without interviewing her and to settle everything by putting another grab bar in her bathroom and by stopping eviction proceedings against her.

He evidently did not stop the eviction proceedings, evidenced by a preliminary hearing (30 Jun 05) (which imposed no-contact orders against Hawk) and a trial set for hearing in Washington Superior Court (02 Aug 05). Hawk said that Zwerin also dropped all the freedom of speech issues integral to her complaints.

Zwerin then contacted Hawk with another set of promises that he apparently did not keep. Evidently, that has resulted in Mitchell (a Council House director and administrator) using the same catch-22 that he has used several times before - refusal to accept rent then eviction for non-payment of rent.

Hawk says that Zwerin immediately formed a cozy relationship with Mitchell when she filed her formal civil rights complaint with SOCR - behavior that contravenes established procedures for investigation of complaints. She says that Mitchell retaliated for the filing by harassing her and placed her under surveillance with cameras and coerced other tenants to report her every move.

Hawk, wrote (28 May 05): He [Mitchell] has gotten crazy about watching all the surveillance tapes to see what I am up to. Everyone who speaks to me is now targeted for retaliation. He believes he is still in control here and that the world is not only unaware of his behavior but they have no ability to affect him. On the other hand he is riddled with fear so that he becomes more bizarre as the days pass.

Moreover, she claims that Mitchell ostracized her by retaliating against anyone with whom she speaks under a policy that he and his predecessor Mark T. M-ll-en have had in place for at least ten years. Mitchell commonly uses those methods when tenants file complaints under what he calls his "zero-tolerance" policy.

The arbitrary dismissal of charges against Mitchell and Council House, sparked a fact-checking inquiry with questions addressed to Zwerin. The request gave him a chance to respond to what seemed a negative or inadequate response to a request for action on a civil rights issue.

The request explained to him that the questions related to an article ready for publication about recent problems that tenants have had with Stephen A. Mitchell, his rental agent Audrey F. Dunbar (35), and Council House directors. It also explained that the article contained documented evidence of dereliction by City of Seattle generally, and employees of the City Attorney's office particularly, to address serious complaints over an extended period. [City of Seattle]

Interviews with Council House sources verified what Hawk said with regard to surveillance, harassment, and ostracism. Instead of responding to media inquiries, Zwerin instructed a SOCR flak to reply with evasive answers that did not address the issues. His silence tends to confirm the already validated facts. A prepublication request sent to him thirty days later gave him another chance to refute statements that could damage his reputation. He did not reply.

Documents show many violations of federal and state laws, also municipal ordinances that appear to violate Hawk's lease and her constitutional and civil rights. Hawk has many physical disabilities that confine her to a wheelchair and she probably classifies as a vulnerable adult.

Interviews over several months showed that Hawk appeared to possess all her mental faculties and communicates in a moderately consistent manner. She has several serious illnesses which need constant medical attention and claims that constant harassment has worsened her physical condition.

Investigations at Council House for more than five years show an extensive pattern or practice of elder abuse and denial of civil and human rights, also due process of law. "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.

Zwerin did not provide Hawk with a copy of Mitchell's answer to her complaint or give her an opportunity to reply to it and closed his investigation on her civil rights issues without making a written determination or report. He did not address her constitutional (First Amendment) issues and no investigation took place although he promised her that it would.

Hawk said (05 Jun 05): I had told them in the beginning that I could not present my case on the phone as it would take a couple of hours and I was assured that the inspector assigned to my case would speak to me BEFORE any charges were made. They said they understood they could not make my complaint until they got all the info and they knew that the eviction was just a part of the whole so they absolutely would allow me to speak to an investigator in person before they did anything. Instead they took the eviction and made it sound like that was my only complaint.

Zwerin did not interview Hawk personally and did not give her a copy of City of Seattle ordinances that explain her right to appeal his decisions or a copy of federal documents that explain her right to appeal under HUD regulations. Moreover, he did not give her copies of documents relating to her complaints and Mitchell's answers. Zwerin gave Hawk the bum’s rush by arbitrarily closing the case in consideration of providing her with a grab bar and without due process (03 Jun 05).

Audrey F. Dunbar (35), Council House Rental Agent, immediately resumed her harassment of Hawk. A tenant heard her shouting at Hawk in a public place:

Her consistent "rude and abusive" behavior toward tenants leaves no surprise that Dunbar had all four tires on her car slashed three times; ostensibly by distressed Council House tenants whom she abused. [Tire Slashing]

To evade complying with public disclosure laws, Zwerin then reopened the case within eight hours of receiving a media request for documents (06 Jun 05). That effectively returned all documents to work product status and avoided public scrutiny of dereliction by his office. He then contacted Hawk (06 Jun 05) to make an appointment which he did not keep (07 Jun 05).

Assuming that he had beaten the civil rights charges, Mitchell (a Council House director and administrator) then used the same catch-22 against Hawk that he used several times before to evict tenants - refusal to accept rent and eviction for non-payment of that rent.

City of Seattle regulations call for SOCR to conduct a fair and impartial investigation. SOCR does not validate a charge until its employees have collected all relevant information. They must provide written findings of fact and a determination of reasonable cause or no reasonable cause.

Moreover, SOCR has not initiated a facilitated resolution process that could avoid protracted litigation. Instead, Zwerin evidently took an easy way out that absolved Mitchell of a multitude of civil and human rights violations in which he has indulged for at least five years.

Zwerin reinstated Hawk’s civil rights complaint and met with her (13 Jun 05) but has not brought the civil rights investigation to a conclusion. It evidently remains in limbo in the same way that many other complaints and public records requests made to City of Seattle remain in limbo while Council House directors and administrators continue to break laws and indulge in elder abuse.

Council House directors have shown indifference to tenant abuse by their managers and thugs for an extended period and several organizations now have them under investigation on racial discrimination issues. Directors have denied tenants their right to complain in violation of their constitutional right to freedom of expression.

Hawk claims that Mitchell suborned testimony that resulted in the no-contact order against her (30 Jun 05). Mitchell has a history of threatening or coercing tenants who will not perjure themselves for him and retaliates against tenants that testify against him by evicting them.

A Council House elite and Kapos (enforcers) have established procedures for harassing tenants whom Mitchell does not like. They have no particular reason except that their targets do not comply with Mitchell's political dictates or possess different attributes to his own. Mitchell mobilized that elite to start a campaign against Hawk and to suborn perjury against her for use in court.

A tenant [name withheld to avoid retaliation] reported that, despite the sub judice status of Hawk’s case, Mitchell again harassed her by calling police to intimidate her when she attended a tenants' meeting. Prior to her arrival at the meeting he called police and had an officer respond. He then indulged in rabble-rousing and tried to persuade elitists to support him in having Hawk arrested because she might make them feel uncomfortable. (13 Jul 05).

Hawk says that she rolled out of the elevator in her wheelchair at 09:20 to find a police officer sitting in a chair looking at her. She went into the meeting room and sat at the table closest to the door near the Kapos who always sit in that corner. After about two minutes, Mitchell entered the room and pointed at Hawk saying “that's her” to the officer.

Hawk claims that about 40 minutes into the meeting Mitchell started a “hate routine”. He told tenants to file complaints with the district attorney who would eagerly press charges against her if tenants "felt uncomfortable" around her.

Hawk said: I didn't have to say anything, all they had to do was to feel uncomfortable.

Mitchell echoed a statement reportedly made by Nancy Sweiven, another one of his thugs, who complained that she "felt uncomfortable" parking her car next to a vehicle owned by a black tenant.

Few people dispute that Hawk has different attributes to members of a politically correct society; however, dissent forms an important part of democracy and the First Amendment probably protects her views more than run-of-the-mill speech. [Political Correctness]

Victor DeLeon, President, Council House, received a letter from Hawk entreating him to take action through conciliation. Hawk says that she told DeLeon on the telephone that she wished to conciliate and had approached him because Mitchell had lied to the board of directors and violated laws. According to Hawk, DeLeon replied that he would try to get the board to speak with her and that he would keep an open mind even though he remained a big supporter of Mitchell. She says they never called.

DeLeon has a history of perjury that supports Mitchell. He lied to have a tenant, whom Mitchell had jailed without due process of law, moved from general population to solitary confinement. He conspired with other board members and Lynn Wartnik (wife of Judge Anthony P. Wartnik) to file perjured testimony that effectively caused placement among accused murderers and rapists. Lynn Wartnik and Sheila Sternberg, while co-presidents of Council House, knowingly forged and filed HUD documents so that officials would approve Mitchell's appointment as administrator. [Rampant Judicial Delusion]

Council House will never have peace without justice. Managers have provoked individuals to symbolic violence by tire slashing in a similar way that governments provoked terrorists to cause the recent carnage in London (07 Jul 05). On the sixtieth anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in history (which included six million Jewish deaths in the Shoah and death of five million other minorities) that a board of directors consisting entirely of Jews* should behave in this disgusting, immoral, and racist way, boggles the mind.
[Who Killed Jackie Nations? - Tire Slashing]

[Nmesis]

*Apart from Mitchell the token goy.
*Ages shown (30 Jun 05).

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