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Contra Cabal Reprise
by Foggy
Seattle's most dangerous journalist and one of my heroes, Paul Trummel, is on the march again. Still under a gag order, it was standing-room-only in the Kafka Room at the Washington Court of Appeals on Friday the 14th when he appeared for the Supreme-Court, Chilliwack Middle School CONTRA CABAL mandated hearing of his appeal. The Appeals Court didn't want to hear his case originally. To get even with him for going over their heads to the state Supreme Court, they denied him access to many of the transcripts and documents he needed to argue his appeal. It'll be a few weeks before their decision is properly cooked.
Bear in mind that the gag-order prohibits him from using names on his web page. That’s why he has to use pseuds. And it's difficult not to notice that his wry British wit has come to the fore. That web page is starting to look like a Monty Python production. Wicked K00L! [Court of Appeals - Trummel v. Mitchell]
Paul, a retired communication and rhetoric professor, who was repeatedly referred to disingenuously as 'a former university employee' by both the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I newspapers in their hack pieces on him, made international headlines a short while ago for his Contra Cabal investigative-journalism web page dealing with abuses at the seniors home he was living in. It pushed a multitude of buttons:
- abuse of the oldsters at government-funded care facilities
- misappropriation of federal funds by religious groups
- incompetent, crooked judges
- judicial misuse of public office for personal revenge
- the constitutional right of a journalist to be 'free-lance'
- manipulation and misrepresentation by the local media
- the state AG Office's inability to maintain bench standards
- the cozy, bigotted little Old Boyz Club that runs Seattle
As during the WTO Fiasco, Hooterville once again made a Global Ass of itself. And for the same reasons - an adolescent inability to restrain its baser hillbilly instincts. King County Inferior Court judge Jimmy "The Token Twinkie" Doerty threw the law books in the trash and Mr. Trummel in KingCo Jail's ultra-security section for four months. Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, was one of his neighbors. His crime? He refused to censor the part of his web page that contained the publically available names and addresses of the board running a seniors home.
Grounds? As a free-lance journalist, he wasn't a REAL journalist and therefore not allowed to write investigative journalism pieces! This was ignoring a lifetime of work as a professional journalist and two professorships at major American universities. The notion a free-lancer isn't a real journalist was later summarily dismissed as preposterous by the Washington State Supreme Court as they ordered the Appeals Court to hear Mr. Trummel's case.
Jimmy was just doing a favor for his buddy senior judge "Phat Tony" Wartnik (the drunk driver's best friend) whose wife happens to be on that board and sort-of runs the place. It was a Court of Appeals - Trummel vs. Mitchell bare-ass personal revenge trip against Mr. Trummel and contemptuous abuse of public office by Judge Jimmy and Phat Tony. It had nothing whatsoever to do with law, justice or anything even vaguely noble or honorable.
Even after the web page was eventually altered, the original version, complete with the offending names, was freely available at any of the many Internet website archiving services. Jimmy, like most judges, is a technological illiterate and didn't know about such things. Since personal revenge was his motive, it's not surprising he didn't make any effort to block the information. Google, arguably the largest and most popular search engine on the Net, is notoriously cooperative with such efforts by government thugs. This obviously wasn't about protecting the names, this was about Sticking It To Mr. Trummel.
But then Jimmy, a former Children’s Court babysitter before he stumbled into his $100,000+/yr judgeship, ain't exactly a legal whiz to begin with. With literally no judicial background whatsoever, he's mooching off his fellow Gays to hold his job.
With all the first-rate Gay lawyers in town, a little weasel like Jimmy was a poor choice for the bench. But, since the others are too busy making tons of money and aren't as willing to kiss political ass as he is, he got the job after barely squeaking in during the vote. He kept his homosexuality a big secret right up until the last moment. You would have thought he was ashamed of being Gay or something. Then, trailing in the polls and with nothing left to lose, he came popping out of the closet as Mr. Queer Seattle. Whatever works eh. Once he had the job he climbed back in his closet and has done nothing to repay the Gay community for its help. What are Little People for, after all, except to help Big People like Jimmy.
BTW - Judge Jimmy has been threatening to charge people writing him particularly nasty emails. Fuck him. Say whatever you think is appropriate. Bear in mind that uttering credible threats is a felony offense. But you'd be stupid to use your Real Name emailing a judge anyways. You might as well get a bulls eye tattooed in the middle of your forehead for the cops to aim at. Use an anonomizer. Not being bright enough to find the "Reply" button and being pretty much an asshole, Jimmy won't acknowledge, let alone respond to, anything you write no matter how much you suck-up to him. Just blast away and CC: a copy to Mr. Trummel. Paul's got a whole pile of emails he got off Jimmy's own web page. The idiot left them in the open. Judge Twinkie's one VERY unpopular guy judging from that pile.
Foggy
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