The Namesake - Richard (Rick) L Johnson - Abstract and Media Release

Internet Denial-of-Service Attacks have expanded from University of Washington, Information Technology systems to City of Seattle computers. A City of Seattle server downloaded an identical bot to the one used by University of Washington, Information Technology employees, 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 from a City of Seattle server, duplicated one sent by his namesake Ronald Allan Johnson or UW IT staff. It is a technical impracticality that two crackers would or could write code for identical bots within the same time frame.

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 which asked them to order a stop to Internet denial-of-service attacks. Instead, of responding to the issues, they covered it 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.

A request for documents under Washington Public Disclosure Act (PDA) met with stonewalling by Cecilia Ugas-Downey, Public Disclosure Coordinator. She sent a job description for Johnson but did not fully meet the PDA request, denied access to public records using an unlawful general denial, and informed Johnson that she had received a PDA request and misquoted law as authority to do so.

Withholding public records by City of Seattle followed filing 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.

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 the homicides with the help of City of Seattle.

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.

Officials 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.

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, to evade civil or criminal liability by feigning ignorance of facts that involve personal liability.

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.

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