The Namesake
Richard (Rick) L Johnson, City of Seattle
Internet Denial-of-Service Attacks (DoS Bots): the lowest level of disingenuousness
conveniently propagandized as "political science" and "risk management".
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Machiavellian principles have applied at University of Washington also within
This series of articles especially relates to malfeasance by Christine O Gregoire, Governor, State of Washington (WA) and Mark A Emmert, President, University of Washington (UW). It exposes officials in the executive and judicial branches of government, especially judges who have committed gross judicial misconduct by ex parte contact and opined on issues not in evidence for political expedience. It discusses public officials who hold no post-graduate academic degrees or other qualifications that a reasonable person would expect for employment in high government office. Particularly, it names officials who have included falsified academic credentials in election campaign material, submitted falsified applications for taxpayer-funded employment, and obtained academic promotion through Easy Rider degrees and political machination - now a criminal offense in State of Washington. A person who falsely claims to possess a credential issued by an institution of higher education to gain a position in government commits a gross misdemeanor. In State of Washington, a gross misdemeanor carries with it maximum punishment of one year imprisonment and/or $5,000 fine. That does not take into account punishment for malfeasance. The term "malfeasance" means misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. It refers, with associated expressions "misfeasance" and "nonfeasance", to neglect in discharging public obligations under common law or statutes. "Impunity" means exemption from penalty and freedom from punishment for malfeasance and other crimes. [Impunity] Academic harassment defines as behavior by university administrators, the executive branch of government, and the judiciary which: unreasonably interferes with faculty member, public intellectual, or student academic performance and freedom of expression both on or off campus; distributes verbal, written or electronic communication with the intent to annoy; interferes with the operation of computer systems; causes unlawful arrest; creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment; directs ad hominem remarks with intent to demean, belittle, or cause personal humiliation or embarrassment; threatens, intimidates, or coerces for unlawful purposes. Abstracts and Roll of Dishonor menus link to articles about named individuals. Whores of Academe and Elder Abuse menus (also textual links) connect to articles by topic. [Roll of Dishonor Case Studies] |
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Prior Restraint and Internet Crimes Governor Christine Gregoire and UW President Mark Emmert permitted a series of Internet crimes in violation of a Washington Supreme Court decision that protects Contra Cabal from prior restraint. Instead of responding to words with more words, they permitted UW technicians to harass the publisher. They destroyed media with intent to prevent exposure of myriad criminal activity by government and university employees. University of Washington, Information Technology used a proxy server in Washington DC for massive web site flooding in another attempt to crash Contra Cabal sites (17 Jun 08). State employees used multiple denial-of-service attacks which caused $500,000 actual plus inestimable collateral damage to computers, databases, applications, and networks in both US and EU. They then prevented this article and others from appearing on the Internet for 21 months. Additional diagnostics and system repairs cost more than $10,000.00 plus cost of collateral damage to associated web sites, subscriber databases, and mailing applications. |
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Internet Denial-of-Service Attacks (DoS Bots) have expanded from University of Washington, Information Technology (UW IT) systems to embrace City of Seattle (CoS) computers. A City of Seattle (CoS) server downloaded (19 May 08) an identical bot to the one used by University of Washington, Information Technology employees (16 May 08). Technical analysis showed that the CoS vandal used an identical modus operandi and caused identical damage to the one used by the UW IT employee.
The bot, attached to an email message ostensibly sent by Richard L (Rick) Johnson (a city employee) from a City of Seattle server duplicated one sent by his namesake Ronald Allan Johnson or UW IT staff. The connection between these two individuals derives not only from their last names but also from the technical impracticality that two crackers would or could write code for identical bots within the same time frame.
Although "Johnson" classifies as a “common name”, the code content of the two email messages outweighs any coincidence: both sent from the same city; both with the same sender last name; both containing identical bots; both causing identical damage; both sent after receiving identical media releases; both within a three-day period.
Washington Governor Christine O Gregoire; Attorney General Rob McKenna; Phyllis M Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington; and Thomas A Carr, Seattle City Attorney received notices of this latest criminal activity. The notices asked them to order a stop to Internet denial-of-service attacks and other alleged criminal activity at UW IT and CoS. Instead, of responding to the issues, they covered them up with willful blindness.
Meanwhile, the vandalism continues. In law, the term "willful blindness" describes contrived ignorance. Officials seek to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability. This latest incident forms part of an ongoing international inquiry and a report to FBI and Interpol.
As part of an investigation, Richard L Johnson received three prepublication notices which gave him an opportunity to explain his alleged criminal activity. Thomas A Carr received a copy. Neither Johnson nor Carr acknowledged the notices or responded to them.
. . . the author gives you notice following the international codes of ethics agreed among journalists. Several of those codes, tested in international courts, have legal precedent. This prepublication notice gives featured individuals a chance to respond to charges affecting their ethics or moral character. People named incidentally receive a copy as a courtesy. For public accountability, the author encourages you to respond in open exchange within five days. He does not solicit personal opinions, therefore, any response should address matters of fact only.
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Since publication of The Namesake (6 Jun 08), University of Washington, Information Technology has again maliciously damaged subscriber mailing systems, opt-in/opt-out applications, and Internet connections making them inoperable. Repair and restoration took three days at a cost in excess of $6,000.00. This single offense defines as malicious mischief in the first degree, a class B felony punishable by confinement in a state correctional institution for a term of ten years, or by a fine in an amount fixed by the court of twenty thousand dollars, or by both such confinement and fine. [The Namesake] Neither Mark A Emmert, President nor Phyllis M Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington have answered complaints about myriad similar Internet denial-of-service attacks; instead they have used willful blindness to evade civil or criminal liability. They have feigned ignorance of facts to evade their personal responsibility to investigate and insure prosecution of malfeasants. [Internet DoS Attacks] Definitions for the purpose of RCW 9A.48.070 through 9A.48.090 inclusive: (1) "Physical damage", in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include the total or partial alteration, damage, obliteration, or erasure of records, information, data, computer programs, or their computer representations, which are recorded for use in computers or the impairment, interruption, or interference with the use of such records, information, data, or computer programs, or the impairment, interruption, or interference with the use of any computer or services provided by computers. "Physical damage" also includes any diminution in the value of any property as the consequence of an act; (2) If more than one item of property is physically damaged as a result of a common scheme or plan by a person and the physical damage to the property would, when considered separately, constitute mischief in the third degree because of value, then the value of the damages may be aggregated in one count. If the sum of the value of all the physical damages exceeds two hundred fifty dollars, the defendant may be charged with and convicted of malicious mischief in the second degree. [RCW 9A.48.100] Following publication of this notice (9 Jun 06), UW IT employees launched another felonious DoS attack which shut down all communication systems for one day. Restoration of service and additional operating costs amounted to $2,000.00 plus inestimable collateral damage. UW IT repeated the DoS attack (12 Jun 08) which confirmed a pattern or practice of programmed vandalism every three days. |
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Washington Public Disclosure Act
A request for documents under Washington Public Disclosure Act (PDA) met with stonewalling by Cecilia Ugas-Downey, Public Disclosure Coordinator, Public Utilities Human Resources, City of Seattle. She sent a job description for Johnson but did not fully meet the PDA request.
Ugas-Downey denied access to public records using an unlawful general denial (a denial that does not give definitive legal reasons for refusal). Moreover, she informed Johnson that she had received a PDA request (which could later construe as collusion in a cover-up of criminal activity) and misquoted law as an authority to do so. She then delayed access to public records beyond the mandated time.
Urgas-Downey has a history of using PDA disingenuously. She quoted an RCW that arguably precludes delay in providing public records without a court order. She has evidently neither filed for an order nor provided information describing how release of a curriculum vitae for a public employee would not serve the public interest.
The examination of any specific public record may be enjoined if, upon motion and affidavit by an agency or its representative or a person who is named in the record or to whom the record specifically pertains, the superior court for the county in which the movant resides or in which the record is maintained, finds that such examination would clearly not be in the public interest.
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Withholding public records by City of Seattle followed frivolous criminal charges against a reporter and formed part of an unlawful pattern or practice of withholding public records by Thomas A Carr, Seattle City Attorney and Jeaneen Watkins, Harassment Advocate. Aided and abetted by lawyers in their office and by King County prosecutor, they have covered up Council House crimes for at least a decade. Instead of prosecuting Council House directors and city employees, Carr has maliciously prosecuted their victims on unsubstantiated evidence. Malicious prosecution classifies as a felony.
Any person without probable cause who fabricates reasons to arrest innocent people and attempts to prosecute them commits a class C felony punishable upon conviction with imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years. Seattle Police Department arrests innocent people on politically expedient say-so while Carr knowingly and maliciously prosecutes them. Carr based criminal charges upon perjured testimony while University of Washington misuses its own regulatory autonomy to do the same thing by record falsification.
At Council House, three vulnerable adults died from neglect and abuse and the directors had five independent tenants unlawfully incarcerated. They have since covered up homicide with the help of City of Seattle. In one case the victim's family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by defrauding both federal and state agencies prior to her death and through disposition of assets. Prior to another death, a Seattle attorney “disappeared” that tenant’s assets. [Who Killed Jackie Nations?] [Last Cruel Days. Homicide?]
More tenants remain at risk and suffer daily abuse at the hands of administrators and directors yet Watkins continues to use willful blindness for political expedience. Effectively, she condoned the cover-up by directors of homicide and false imprisonment of elderly tenants.
Internet DoS Attacks
An increasing number of high-level officials in government and public institutions condone these illegal Internet DoS attacks upon freedom of expression. They give implied permission or impunity which allows the lowest level of Machiavellian behavior and disingenuousness conveniently propagandized as "political science" and "risk management". Properly called political expedience and coercion strategies, impunity allows cyber censors to violate journalism and human rights protected by international laws. [Impunity]
Instead of responding to words with more words, they try to destroy the medium to counter exposure of their malfeasance. Unable to use rational discourse, they use power and money to suppress publication by vandalizing computer systems and destroying intellectual property.
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attackers, the most under-reported vandals in the information industry, attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing information or services. By targeting a computer and its network connection, the 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 exceed byte quotas and prevent delivery of legitimate messages. Bots take advantage of system software bugs which enable buffer overflows and various memory-management problems that allow malicious code to infect a system. They operate automatically as an agent for a cracker or an automatic program.
Denial-of-service attacks affect all journalists as seen from last year's debacle in Estonia which set a dangerous precedent. Similar behavior now takes place globally, particularly in Russia, China and the United States. A cyberwar weapon, these attacks involve assault on electronic communication networks in retaliation for publishing unpopular opinion. [Internet DoS Attacks] [The New York Times - Estonia] [The Silence of the Media Lambs]
Finale
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In law, the term "willful blindness" means contrived ignorance. Officials seek to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability. |
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Meanwhile, The Whore of the Realm and her minions do nothing to stop the elder abuse or the Internet denial-of-service attacks. Instead of responding to the issues, they cover them up using willful blindness. Meanwhile, the vandalism and elder abuse continues. In law, the term "willful blindness" describes contrived ignorance. Officials seek to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability. [Incompetence and Willful Blindness]
Gregoire must immediately issue orders publicly to University of Washington and City of Seattle to cease and desist use of taxpayer resources to fund unlawful denial-of-service attacks that harass and censor journalists to support political expedience. She has covered up serious crime at University of Washington for at least twelve years and by City of Seattle for eight years. Now she must come clean and take action to insure that due process of law takes place. [Internet DoS Attacks] [Seattle Jewish Mafia]
[Nmesis]
All salaries shown per annum after annualizing. See Portable Document File (PDF) for citations.
Whores of the Realm 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. Political expedience coupled with bias defines as malfeasance and provides probable cause for lawsuits against governors who do not enforce constitutional guarantees. If Gregoire does not comply with law, then her malfeasance makes her liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress. Washington state legislature must decide whether Gregoire can answer four questions affirmatively given the extensive, documented malfeasance extant in Washington State executive branch and at University of Washington. In deciding probable cause for impeachment, a reasonable person must ask four questions that relate to any challenged act, omission, or decision: 1. Did the challenge involve a basic governmental policy, program, or objective? If clear and unequivocal answers in the affirmative result, then the challenged act, omission, or decision can, with reasonable confidence, classify as a discretionary governmental process regardless of its lack of wisdom. If one or more of the questions call for, or suggest a negative answer, then an official inquiry must take place into the facts and circumstances. Reasonable grounds, coupled with good-faith, afford a discretionary basis for exemption from lawsuits for official acts performed by governors who hold qualified immunity dependent upon the scope of discretion and responsibilities of their office. However, executive disciplinary action predicates upon whether a governor under any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, exposed a citizen of the United States (or other person within that jurisdiction) to deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by constitutional law. University of Washington administrators continue their autocratic form of government. That institution has the open support of the governor and attorney general in its criminal and exclusionary activities. Gregoire continues to deny due process of law using delay then denial of justice tactics as she has done for several decades.
Computer vandalism and Internet denial-of-service attacks continue. The Cabal has effectively granted criminals impunity and FBI, despite repeated requests, has apparently done nothing to stop the commission of international crime. As governor of a state that claims democracy, Gregoire must: allow voters to decide issues based upon information obtained from the Internet; give them access to information relative to both sides of any particular issue; carry out her duty and responsibility to protect freedom of expression; stop condoning or granting impunity to government-funded censors and technologists; and stop interference with, and destruction of, the careers of controversial journalists and academicians by government officials. Gregoire must immediately issue orders publicly to University of Washington to cease and desist use of taxpayer resources to fund unlawful denial-of-service attacks that harass and censor journalists to support political expedience. Otherwise, she has an international cyberwar to address. She has covered up serious crime at University of Washington for at least twelve years. Now she must come clean and take action to insure that due process of law takes place.
Phyllis M Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington (UW) received twenty-six messages (2008) which asked her to order her staff to stop Internet denial-of-service attacks and other alleged criminal activity. Instead, of responding to the issues, she covered them up using willful blindness. Meanwhile, the vandalism continues. In law, the term "willful blindness" describes contrived ignorance. Officials seek to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability. [Incompetence and Willful Blindness] Former Governor Gary Locke made the following recommendation upon hearing about the UW malfeasance; however, Gregoire (both as attorney general and governor) with Richard L McCormick and Mark A Emmert (successive UW Presidents) has ignored Governor Locke's suggestions for mediation and mitigation: The Superior Court could call a grand jury if so requested by a public attorney on a showing of good cause. Also, the Organized Crime Advisory Board may petition the Supreme Court for an order appointing a special inquiry judge. If a special inquiry judge is appointed, the organized crime advisory board shall, with the consent of the Governor, name a special prosecutor.
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In a separate article, the author defines prior restraint and identifies current events sanctioned by Big Mamas and implemented by their mischievous, intellectually challenged leprechauns. Prior restraint and censorship have recently occurred at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Washington (UW), Seattle Jewish Mafia (SJM) and other universities and government funded institutions. The term "Big Mama" describes totalitarian university presidents and government officials who censor speech protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The term previously applied to Internet censors in the People's Republic of China. The analogy seems apt in light of the politically correct behavior now common in large and prestigious US universities as a parody on Big Brother, the omnipresent leader of a totalitarian state in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. Some content excerpted from Technocratic Despotism: Incognito and Safe from the Vexation of Thinking by Paul Trummel. Licensed to The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), Assembly for Computers in English (ACE) Newsletter, 10(1): (Summer 1996) 10-15. NCTE has since removed the original article from their web site; consequently, the author has linked a PDF of the full text. [Nothing Succeeds Like Excess] [ACE Newsletter] |
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Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK) Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired) International Federation of Journalists, Brussels (International Press Card)
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