Cyber Skunks - Abstract and Media Release

Democracy has become extremely susceptible to irresponsible government officials who have access to substantial amounts of money and use it to control media and terms of debate. This essay gives the electorate an opportunity to reflect upon the anarchy extant in Washington state and particularly malfeasance at University of Washington.

The full text (9,650 words) contains a general overview and four reports that cover alleged criminality at University of Washington (UW) and in Washington State (WA) condoned by UW President and WA Governor through grants of impunity and by unlawful concealment of acts prohibited by Revised Code of Washington (RCW).

1. Malfeasance by high-level university administrators and deans.
2. Internet denial-of service attacks by administrators.
3. False academic credentials and unlawful employment,
4. Cover up by Washington State (WA) Governor.

1. Malfeasance by high-level university administrators and deans.

High-level UW and WA administrators aware of unlawful denial-of-service attacks by UW information technology (IT) staff for twelve years granted the crackers impunity through laissez faire policies. Instead of responding to issues, they have now permitted state employees to start a cyberwar which involves many violations of federal law.

Instead of heeding requests and warnings, they repeatedly allowed UW computer technicians to sabotage computer systems and web sites. Washington governor has for twelve years condoned multiple malfeasance by ignoring complaints submitted using mandated legal procedures and condoned the destruction of public and university records to cover up malfeasance.

With a draconian and biased trial court decision, a UW judicial clone sent this author to jail for an indeterminate period. The case attracted worldwide interest among journalists when they learned of the decision (unanimously reversed by Washington Supreme Court (30 Mar 06)). The author served 111 days (25 days in solitary confinement) for publishing constitutionally protected writing that subscribers can now read on these web pages.

Laissez faire policies do not classify as a defense and withholding public records or neglecting to verify or validate information about crimes compounds existing felonies. Primarily an economic doctrine, laissez faire opposes government regulation or interference so that university administrators can operate according to their own rules in violation of law. It effectively grants them impunity. The term “laissez faire” literally means “let things alone” and has become a convenient way for university administrators to act with indifference without criticism.

2. Internet denial-of service attacks by administrators.

UW administrators orchestrated denial-of-service attacks by allowing their technicians to: crack computer systems; flood web sites; destroy academic databases; censor incoming and outgoing email; sabotage operating systems; deny access to paid accounts; coerce commercial internet providers to restrict service; and used taxpayer funds to cause damage to private computer systems in excess of an estimated $250,000.00/12. They also destroyed academic research databases of inestimable value, investigative journalism files, and university records on UW computers.

By targeting a computer and its network connection, a cracker can prevent users from accessing email, web sites, online banking accounts or other services that rely on the affected computer. By repeatedly sending large email messages to an account, an attacker can prevent delivery of legitimate messages.

These actions classify as “prior restraint” (regulation of content before publication), an unprincipled action which denies rights guaranteed to everyone by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. It particularly applies to the denial of a journalist's constitutional right to gather and publish information or opinions without institutional control or fear of reprisal. That freedom applies to both the electronic and print media and denies censorship or prior restraint to either institutions or individuals.

For public employees to deliberately crack computer systems to vandalize them shows malice. To destroy the means of restoration before committing the destruction shows malice aforethought. To cause the network that serves the computers to fail triples the malfeasance. When done more than once, it defines as a pattern or practice of criminal acts covered by US RICO statutes.

3. False academic credentials and unlawful employment.

A distinguished UW professor described the IT vice president as “the most evil man I have ever met” after studying his pathological lying, abhorrent behavior, and machination. Faculty members and students avoid him like they would avoid a plague. They fear the damage that he can do to their careers and several classified him as a sociopath.

This individual received double the salary paid to a full professor with tenure as a clinical (adjunct) professor then gradually leveraged salary increases by adding false academic credentials to his curriculum vitae. He now receives about four times the original salary although he holds virtually no academic qualifications to justify his appointment as an associate professor with tenure.

In Washington state, a person who falsely claims to possess a credential issued by an institution of higher education to gain a government-funded position commits a gross misdemeanor which carries with it maximum punishment of one year imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine. That punishment does not take into account associated malfeasance.

University deans or department heads who knowingly participate in the granting or sustaining of false credentials become accessories before or after the fact when they give assistance to someone alleged to have committed a felony by submitting false academic credentials or if they neglect to act when they know about other crimes. All administrators and faculty members remain accountable to the State of Washington and by extension US Government

4. Impunity and a cover-up by Washington State (WA) governor.

US federal law provides for extended penalties for criminal acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization. It defines a RICO pattern similar to that in place at University of Washington, effectively granted impunity by Washington state governor. A RICO pattern of racketeering means two or more organized criminal acts which indicate ensuant activity. Those acts include conspiracy to commit crimes of coercion by wrongful use of force or fear.

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation in Government (SLAPP) also silence journalists. Several US state legislatures (including New York and Washington states) have prohibited this unlawful practice by passing legislation to counter an increase in frivolous lawsuits designed to silence people who openly express their views about government agencies and other politically sensitive topics.

Any inquiry must premise upon whether the governor, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any state or territory or the District of Columbia, subjected, or caused to be subjected, a citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws.

Governors of most US states hold qualified immunity dependent upon the scope of discretion and responsibilities of the office. Reasonable grounds, coupled with good-faith, afford a discretionary basis for immunity from lawsuits for official acts performed by the governor. However, US Supreme Court has determined that executive immunity bears the burden of justification based upon the nature of the act performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it. The WA governor has denied due process of law at UW through delay then denial of justice for more than a decade.

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