Incompetence and Willful Blindness

Phyllis M Wise (with Glenn, Kerr, Neel, and Wasley)

Case studies address repugnant moral and ethical behavior encountered in US universities
during many years as a corporate CEO and professor.


Machiavellian principles have applied at University of Washington also within
Washington Executive and Judicial branches for more than two decades.

Mark A Emmert, President, University of Washington.
Christine O Gregoire, Governor, State of Washington.

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.
[RCW 9A.60.070] [RCW 9A.20.021]

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]


The author writes as a retired industry information technology and communications CEO, graphic design consultant, university administrator, and professor . . .

Blindness

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.

Phyllis M Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Washington.

Incompetence

Deans, chancellors and vice provosts report to Phyllis M Wise ($336,384.00/pa), Provost and Executive Vice President who joined University of Washington (UW) (1 Aug 05). She recently took part in a television series which she claimed culminated a campus-wide effort to define core values as part of a new vision statement. She said that she explored the attributes that make the university "uniquely Washington" and focused on “discovery” as the heart of everything done there: a conclusion derived from a two-year experience. Clearly with tongue-in-cheek wisdom, Wise claimed in an all-encompassing statement that the UW standard of excellence requires that:

We recruit the best, most diverse, and innovative faculty and staff from around the world, encouraging a vibrant intellectual community for our students. We link academic excellence to cutting edge research through scholarly exploration and intellectual rigor. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of ethics, as a beacon for our community and the world. [Propaganda] [Political Correctness - Propaganda]

Wise did not mention discovery of myriad crimes committed by the people for whom she holds responsibility and the unlawful cover-up of malfeasance which she has not reported for prosecution.

The author states in an equally all-encompassing statement, based upon a twenty-year experience with UW, that it has (at least within Colleges of Engineering and Education) some of the most unprofessional, unaccomplished, unethical, and corrupt administrators and faculty members in the US. Unfortunately, all-encompassing statements tar innocent minorities with the same brush as the guilty who rely on political correctness and willful silence by colleagues to cover up their crimes.
[Sherking Responsibility] [TC - Kangaroo Court] [Political Correctness] [TC - Hearing] [Impunity]

Fraudulent Academic Credentials

Wise has neither addressed Internet denial-of-service attacks nor kangaroo courts that UW has conducted without regard for the rights of individuals. She has allowed decisions that result from foregone conclusions made in secret and based upon political expedience to stand. Neither has she investigated current complaints; instead, she plays the part of a highly paid flak. She has resorted to laissez faire practices and willful blindness in an attempt to cover up the level of incompetence that she has reached as an administrator.

To her credit, unlike other UW administrators, Wise has not used fraudulent academic credentials. Registrars at Swarthmore College and University of Michigan validated the degrees that Wise claimed in her CV. With all her zoology experience, it seems that she has accepted employment in the right place.

Phyllis Mary (Wang) Wise

Swarthmore College, BA Zoology (12 Jun 67). (Registrar has not sent attendance dates.)
University of Michigan, MA Zoology (3 May 69). 08/1967 through 05/1969.
University of Michigan, PhD Zoology (6 May 72). 08/1969 through 05/1972.
University of Michigan, Postdoctoral Fellow 1972-74. (Registrar has not validated this item.)

Allen D Glenn, The Egotistic Skunk, University of Washington.

Allen D Glenn ($177,336.00/pa), former Dean, College of Education maliciously destroyed legitimate academic credentials of another professor while he claimed two dubious masters degrees and a doctorate himself. Close examination of his attendance at Kansas State Teachers College and University of Michigan shows distinct anomalies which registrars at those institutions cannot adequately explain. They furnished criteria which do not support the experience or the degrees Glenn claimed.

Instead of responding to a request for clarification of his public statements, Glenn accused the author of harassing him by asking. He again exhibited a psychotic transference of his obvious fear of exposure by lying and making false and misleading accusations. He now claims email harassment and refusal to remove his name from mailing lists although the editor suppressed his name twelve months before and he received no mailings after the suppression.

This behavior reflects his aberrant behavior over two decades during which he allegedly committed myriad crimes which Wise has not investigated. Instead, she continues to cover them up using willful blindness. In law, the term “willful blindness” describes contrived ignorance in which an individual seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for wrongful acts by intentionally remaining unaware of facts that involve personal liability. [The Yellow-Brick Road]

Ironically, Glenn attended University of Michigan during the same period as Wise: Wise spent the normal five-year minimum to earn masters and doctorate degrees while Glenn spent only two years for similar degrees. Evidently the Wizard of Oz intervened. [Easy Riders]

Allen Deuane Glenn

Ottawa University, BA History/Political Science (31 May 64). 08/1960 through 05/1964
Kansas State Teachers College, MS Social Sciences (16 Aug 68). 08/1966 through 08/1968.
University of Michigan, MA Education (02 May 70). 08/1968 through 08/1970 (sic)
University of Michigan, PhD, Education (09 Aug 70). 08/1968 through 08/1970 (sic).

Glenn needs to explain how he earned both a U Michigan MA and PhD in two years when it took Wise five years to earn similar degrees at that university during the same era. Examination of his attendance and work record at both Kansas State Teachers College and University of Michigan show distinct anomalies. Documents do not record experience or transfer qualifications that meet U Michigan admissions criteria and registrars have not adequately explained accelerated degree awards.

Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan reported:

Since the MA can be earned simultaneously with the PhD, and if the student had the relevant experience when starting the program, it was possible to earn both degrees within 2 years. . . . Those who have not had adequate preliminary training, owing either to the scope of quality of their previous work or to change in their field of specialization, must also take additional work as determined by the Graduate School or by their department to make up the deficiency either in the field of specialization, in cognate areas, or both.

Evidently, Glenn did not meet those requirements and refuses to explain himself. A Kansas State Teachers College social science major does not equate with a University of Michigan education major and Glenn has not shown otherwise despite receiving three opportunities to do so.

That investigation also raised questions about an academically incestuous appointment of Glenn's successor Patricia A Wasley ($189,180.00/pa), Dean, College of Education which certainly smacks of another instance of not what you know, but who you know.

University Week (10 May 01)

Wasley’s relationship to the campus community is rich, longstanding and bound by family ties. She earned her doctorate on this campus. So when President Richard L McCormick offered her the position in the summer of 2000 it was an invitation to one of UW’s native daughters to come home. She says: “My grandparents went here. My brother went here. To the degree that any institution can feel like home, the University of Washington feels like home to me".

Patricia A Wasley, College of Education, University of Washington.

A reasonable person must ask why Wasley would personally donate up to $10,000.00 to a state university during her third year on the job ostensibly to recruit outstanding students and support them throughout their graduate careers if a quid pro quo did not exist. College of Education has consistently claimed that it has so many applicants (without paying them) that it cannot accommodate all of them. State universities have become the unethical private domain of local families instead of family members maintaining the traditional ethic by competing for jobs away from the institutions at which they graduated.

Joseph St Hilaire ($80,928.00/pa), Registrar, Western Washington University (WWU) has neglected to validate the degrees that Wasley claims. In view of the fraudulent academic credentials published by Judge Mary Kay Becker, WA Court of Appeals, and a cover-up by WWU of other alleged crimes, Wasley would do well to instruct WWU to release copies of her transcripts for credential validation without delay.

Evidence points to Glenn having obtained easy rider degrees from University of Michigan and Wasley an easy rider position as dean through an academically incestuous political appointment and degrees obtained while swimming in the state cesspool at Western Washington University. Perhaps release of her academic records would allay a faculty impression that she obtained her position using her ass-wiggling attributes. [Easy Riders]

If administrators in taxpayer-funded institutions take no action on issues that come within their purview when they discover that a felony exists, then they become liable with the person who committed the felony. In Washington state, issuing a false academic credential or concealing the fact that one exists classifies as a class C felony punishable by confinement in a state correctional institution for five years, or by a fine of ten thousand dollars, or by both. [RCW 9A.60.070] [RCW 9A.20.021] [False Academic Credentials - Christine Gregoire/Mary Kay Becker]

Three months after Wasley graduated with a PhD from College of Education (1989), Glenn maliciously destroyed the ratified registration of an associate professor from another university who possessed many more credentials and much more experience than Wasley. Both Glenn and Richard S Neel, Associate Dean ignored the fact that James I Doi, a previous dean, had approved the registration.

Steven G Olswang, The Ultimate Machiavelli, University of Washington.

As a novice dean, Glenn arbitrarily and fraudulently cancelled a PhD registration which Stephen T Kerr ($136,416.00/pa) der Rottenführer (later associate dean) ratified at a final interview at which he stated: "You have found an intellectual home here". Glenn retroactively held a kangaroo court to cover up multiple malfeasance then withheld public records to further cover up alleged crimes orchestrated in his behalf by Steven G Olswang ($190,560.00/pa). [The Ultimate Machiavelli]

At a single prearranged interview to discuss issues, Glenn behaved insolently by walking around an open office in attempts to evade discussion. His attitude consistently indicated that he has some psychological quirk (probably short-man's syndrome). He consigned a highly qualified associate professor (considered a "star" by other universities) to an undergraduate program after the professor had accepted an offer of a teaching position and an invitation to move to University of Washington to complete a second PhD.

Glenn and Neel passed false and misleading information to a novice admissions administrator, John F Swiney, and coerced him to provide a negative evaluation that supported Neel’s incompetence and unlawful actions. Using identical humiliation tactics, Swiney said without interrogation or discussion: "Your total education equates to what you would have gained from one year at a community college" . . . "You will have to earn an undergraduate degree first and then pass the graduate record examination". Swiney ignored the fact that the visiting professor and doctoral candidate already held a US masters degree, UK baccalaureate and masters degree equivalencies, and had completed all doctoral work for a PhD at another US university then arbitrarily cancelled the registration without the right to appeal his decision.

Glenn consigned the professor to a COGS (baccalaureate) program - as a student not as a professor! Glenn then insisted that he take a graduate record examination as part of the harassment and humiliation conspiracy. Wise has had two years to examine the evidence and to address those issues yet has maintained political silence. [Malicious Evaluation and Career Devastation]

University of Michigan registration staff cooperated with credential validation and have furnished information about other UW administrators. As a result, Glenn will become subject to a case study that will address a cover-up of myriad crimes and suspect academic credentials concealed by willful blindness of faculty members and laissez faire attitudes by UW administrators. [The Yellow-Brick Road]

Wise neither classifies as an incestuous administrator nor political appointee; however, there the compliment ends. She has reached her level of incompetence as an executive by accepting the position as UW Provost and Executive Vice President at a taxpayer-funded salary of $0.34 million and adopted the same laissez faire policies used by her predecessor to deny due process of law.

Laissez Faire

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 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 Washington state employees to act with indifference.

An eighteenth-century doctrine, laissez faire favors capitalist self-interest as a means to obtain optimal prosperity and freedom. In fact, it benefits the wealthy to the detriment of others and classifies as a dangerous economic gamble that relies upon secrecy which should have no place in the academe. George Bernard Shaw described laissez faire as the most tyrannous and disastrous of all orthodoxies.

The practice primarily frustrates accumulation of knowledge and allows university and government officials to withhold public records to hamper a free flow of information. Not only does the public have a right to know, it also has a need to know; however, Wise and her administrators do everything within their power to restrict access to public information despite laws to the contrary. They evade their responsibilities and deny public accountability.

Incompetence

A concept introduced by Canadian academician Laurence J Peter claimed that in any hierarchy an employee tends to rise to a level of incompetence. Predominantly, UW administrators advance to their highest level of competence then receive promotion to, and remain at, a level of incompetence.

When administrators automatically use anything that works well until it meets with disaster or their demise, they actualize that principle. The temptation to use what worked before, even when it exceeds its effective scope, portends failure. The circular argument, that the need to have powerful administrators to make academic decisions in a system that makes academic decisions through its powerful administrators provides a recipe for disaster.

Wise (who holds ultimate responsibility for investigation and referral for prosecution of campus crimes) received a five-day notice which informed her of an Internet denial-of-service attack (3 May 08). Those attacks continued on a daily basis. The notice also informed her about false academic credentials used by Ronald A Johnson, the person allegedly responsible for the attacks; however, Wise chose not to respond.

The situation has now escalated to the point where the author has asked Rob McKenna, Attorney General, State of Washington to arrange for the issue of a cease and desist order to Mark A Emmert, President and Phyllis A Wise, Provost and Executive Vice President. In Washington state, administrators who knowingly condone illegal acts arguably classify in law as accessories before or after the fact which could make them liable to prosecution for committing crimes. If they continue their posture, then they will probably leave themselves wide open to Federal investigation and prosecution under the RICO statutes for evading responsibility to investigate both current crimes, five illegal kangaroo courts, and denial of due process of law. [Internet Denial of Service Attacks]

UW Graduate School convened one of those kangaroo courts to deny due process of law. Judith A Ramey with Jan H Spyridakis, then Associate Professors, Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering and Mark P Haselkorn, then Chair and Professor willfully destroyed another professor's career by forgery and character assassination. Their reward included promotion to full professor for Ramey and Spyridakis with Ramey as department chair. They both received salary increases way above the campus average. [Kangaroo Court]

An independent investigation would expose what they did; however, Wise continues to cover up the unlawful denial of due process by her predecessor Lee L Huntsman also malfeasance by former Vice President Steven G Olswang. Wise apparently believes that she can ignore events that took place before her arrival on campus; however, when she accepted her present appointment she also accepted responsibility for outstanding issues. Kangaroo courts, or using the UW synonym "risk management protocols", amount to nothing more than denial of due process of law by using a system of self-regulation that supports political expedience. [The Ultimate Machiavelli]

Wise exhibits the pernicious practice by which competent faculty members at one level receive automatic promotion to university administration regardless of ability to do the job. This benefits neither the individual nor the university. This situation primarily results from the contrast in earning capacity among administrators and professors which engenders a reach for power and wealth predicated upon a sociopathic need for control and greed. Competent professors tend to become incompetent administrators then (to protect themselves) change from ethical people into Machiavellian monsters without consideration for anybody apart from themselves.

Changing the focus on promotion as a reward and increasing compensation for staying in a particular position (with administrative salaries capped commensurate with faculty member salaries) would probably dissuade faculty members from leaving the positions in which they excel. The essence of a good university does not depend upon administrators; instead, it results from a well-developed and well-paid faculty. Presently, the inanimate cart leads and the vibrant horse follows.

Peter’s principle holds that in a hierarchy members gain promotion so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they receive promotion to a position at which they exceed their level of competence (they reach their level of incompetence) and remain there. Peter's corollary states:

In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his [or her] duties . . . work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Promotion does not serve as a reward for success when automatic promotion follows competence in a given position. Then a person can only stop enforced promotion to a level of incompetence by appearing ineligible for promotion or faking stagnancy. For example, professors whose academic excellence results in promotion to an administrative position requiring management skills find themselves incompetent as managers.

One way that organizations attempt to avoid this effect rest with abstaining from promoting a worker until he or she shows the skills and work habits needed to succeed to the next higher job. Thus, a worker does not receive promotion if he or she does not already display management abilities. The corollary provides that employees dedicated to their current jobs will not receive promotion for their efforts, but would, instead, receive a pay increase.

An employee’s eventual incompetence does not necessarily relate to increased difficulty of work in the higher-ranking position but relates more to a different type of work from the job in which the employee previously excelled. Teaching and research require very different skills to management. Good professors usually make incompetent administrators . . . they think too much and have too many ethics.

Universities can overcome the problem by not promoting people until they show leadership skills and have the appropriate academic credentials to support them enough to succeed competently in their new position. Then, a person does not receive promotion to manage others without the personal attributes and education that insure success. Presently, the promotion relates not to what one knows but who one knows in an academically incestuous environment which has resulted in the present disaster at University of Washington.

Some forward-looking organizations recognize that technical people, many of them subliterate, may have value for their technical skills but perform badly as managers. To overcome the problem, they provide parallel career paths which allow good technical people to acquire pay and status but prevent them from reaching their level of incompetence in a management or teaching position. This stops insecure, unintelligent, corrupt technical people slithering their way to obscenely paid administrative and faculty positions based on nepotism and academic incest. [Sociopathic Trio - WIP] [False Academic Credentials]

Peter pointed out that a class or social stratification system efficiently avoids incompetence. In a caste system, lower-level competent workers do not receive promotion above their level of competence when members of a higher class have preference. Peter claimed:

The prospect of starting near the top of the pyramid will attract to the hierarchy a group of brilliant [higher class] employees who would never have come there at all if they had been forced to start at the bottom. [Thus the hierarchies] . . . are more efficient than those of a classless or equalitarian society.

Apart from the inherent illegality and discrimination of such an arrangement in government-funded environments, Peter ignored the fact that just as many sociopaths and idiots inhabit the upper social classes as they do the lower classes which negates the principle.

Finale

The author’s five-year stint as a consultant to Mensa (1973) (dealing with member demographics and their personal achievements during programming of an advanced technological database) showed that fifty percent of Mensa members polled (1976) received salaries below the poverty level. This showed that they had an inability to apply their intelligence to gaining skills which caused them to remain incompetent, but intelligent enough to post a Mensa certificate on their wall.

Wise must wise up and discover the core values of the criminal activity at the heart of her new vision statements. Taxpayers do not pay her $0.34 million to listen to her vagaries while she covers up white-collar crime that includes Internet vandalism, misuse of public funds, and abuse of political and legal power.

Wise must explain how she intends to end the academic abuse and criminal conduct then arrange for punishment of the guilty according to law. Emmert’s current practice of "disappearing" perpetrators with large payoffs then granting them impunity does not suffice. The Emmert and Wise vaudeville act must quickly learn to comply with law or leave so that properly trained managers willing to comply with laws can replace them.

[Nmesis]

Editor's Note: The essay Academic Cabalism, published in 1996, applies just as much to University of Washington administrators and UW College of Education as it does to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - only the names differ. [Academic Cabalism]

All salaries shown per annum after annualizing. See Portable Document File (PDF) for citations.

Christine O Gregoire - Retouched Beauty Masks Corruption

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?
2. Was the act or omission essential to the execution of that policy, program, or objective?
3. Did it involve agency policy evaluation, judgment, and expertise?
4. Did the agency possess constitutional, statutory, or lawful authority?

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.

Anarchy

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.

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.


Nothing Succeeds Like Excess

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]



This statement counters record falsification, withholding, destruction, and forgery for political expedience by registrars at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington. See curriculum vitae menus for substantiating information.

Paul Trummel PhD (RPI ABD), PhD (UW ABD), MS (RPI), MSc (UK), BSc (UK)
UK equivalencies in graphic communication recognized by Boston University, Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Fitchburg State College, San Jose State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and University of Washington with comparability twice certified by International Education Research Foundation (IERF), a credential evaluation service accredited by US Department of Education

Associate Professor, Communication and Rhetoric (Retired)
Special Doctor of Philosophy Program (SPhD), University of Washington
Fellow, International Society of Typographic Designers (FISTD)
Fellow, Institute of Paper Printing and Publishing (FIOP)
Member, Society of Authors, London

International Federation of Journalists, Brussels (International Press Card)
National Union of Journalists, London (UK Press Card)




Letters to the Editor

Let us Assume says Becker

Secondary Teacher (Retired)

As an American citizen I would hate to think that justice is as poor in the rest of the United States as is reflected in this hearing in Seattle, WA. As a former secondary teacher, I am equally appalled at the quality of education as reflected by Judge Becker's comments. Somebody in her teacher training missed the axiom: this is the problem, what is the issue.



A Seattle Jew Speaks Out

Senior Citizen

After reading how the Jewish Mafia operates in Seattle at Council House, an apartment block for senior living, I cannot help contrasting it to my own experience growing up Jewish in Seattle . . . hate-mongering at its worst . . . [Judaism] has never served me positively. On the other hand, Jungian psychology/philosophy has been my course and continues to support my psyche's conscious development - my "religion" of sorts.



Another Jim Jones?

Lauren Jeanne Hawk

Remember how Jim Jones started in San Francisco? The authorities thought he was terrific and he had widespread support. Whenever Mitchell talks about people who have resisted him, his face distorts and his anger pours out. . . . Many people have told me they support me fully but can’t take the chance to go to the authorities for fear of retribution from Mitchell. The sadness I feel for their fear and stress keeps me going.



First-Rate Gay Lawyers
in Town

Foggy

. . . 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.



Becker is a liberal woman who does not care about the law!

Janet Lanterman

Mary Kay Becker - A lazy opinionated woman, who uses the judge's bench to promote her own beliefs instead of following the law. . . . The attorneys involved in the case were stunned, and felt betrayed by the judicial system and especially Becker who was supposed to be smart.


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Nothing Succeeds like Excess

Academic freedom, an absolute right not an abstract philosophy, should not subserve economic considerations.

Moreover, information technology remains a right not a privilege despite technocratic claims to the contrary.

Legislative and judicial decisions have determined the right of individuals to distribute information freely and the Bill of Rights documents the protection individuals should expect from the state.

However, laws do not provide much protection when despotic administrators interfere with computer resources because they disagree with the content of messages: a disagreement probably based upon disclosure of their own malfeasance.

They fear dissent and have an aversion to controversy. Their addiction to political correctness frequently causes them to invoke censorship of Internet activities.

They not only empower their systems administrators to handle frivolous email complaints by arbitrarily removing computer access but also allow them to censor incoming mail - an outrageous invasion of personal privacy.

They act upon an irrational expectation that certain categories of email may contain something that Big Mama would not wish others to read then arbitrarily reject it.

Interference with email transmission not specifically proscribed by federal law classifies as a federal offense which Rensselaer and University of Washington officials commit with impunity.



About the Author

Paul Trummel (Nmesis)

Paul Trummel, published since 1944, uses the pseudonym Nmesis and openly declares personal or conflicting interests.

These conflicts may relate to topics or to opinion, especially when the content draws upon advocacy, experience, conclusion, or interpretation.

As an accredited journalist, he conforms with the code of conduct and ethics of the journalism profession, tested by courts in both Great Britain and the USA.

Since 1947, he has worked as a journalist, an editor (commercial and academic peer-review), a technical communicator, an associate professor (visual communi-cation and rhetoric), and as an administrator at several leading universities.

He has held international press credentials since 1959 and holds two elected international graphic arts fellowships.

He earned professional letters in the UK that translated into two baccalaureate degrees and a terminal graduate degree in the US.

He has also earned a Rensselaer graduate degree and two US PhD degrees (now ABD).

[Sherking Responsibility]

He taught graduate level students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern University, Fitchburg State College,
San Jose State University, Massachusetts Bay Community College, and a private institute of graphic design.

He held an administrative post at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and has lectured at universities in US, Europe, and Japan.

In 1957 (London), he founded and operated the first full-service technical communication organization, a group of publishing and technical/graphic communication companies where he held the position of chief executive officer.

In 1973 (Connecticut), he designed and marketed the first typesetting system driven by a minicomputer, the precursor for today's desktop publishing systems.

He has won an international silver medal for his satire and a US city award for his educational programs for disadvantaged people.

Since 1992, he has investigated and written several hundred articles on bureaucratic and elder abuse.

He founded Contra Cabal, one of the first electronic magazines to appear on the web, for which he develops the site, writes articles, designs pages, and produces graphics.

http://ContraCabal.org

Contra Cabal has now published for almost fifteen years.

Earlier, it published as email for six years. The hits/month now range between 100,000 and 150,000 with more than a million hits during the past twelve months.

Articles cover ongoing criminal activity by bureaucrats and elder abuse.

They describe the actions of corrupt judges and gross misconduct by lawyers who file frivolous law suits against tenants in government financially-assisted housing.

They outline how managers use unlawful retaliatory measures and propaganda to destroy the reputations of people who report illegal activity and racism.

Washington Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court decision that effectively allowed prior restraint and defined journalism inquiry as surveillance and harassment.

Repeatedly, lawyers who could find no fault with content instead personally attacked the author or his genre.

A corrupt judge imposed prior restraint and jailed him for contempt when he challenged the court decisions as a basic violation of constitutional and human rights.

To further coerce him, in consort with other jurists, the judge then arbitrarily transferred him to solitary confinement among murderers and rapists.

His published work in the print media for more than sixty years has received no challenge relating to accuracy.

People, among them elected judges and lawyers upon whom the public should be able to rely, have tried to stop him publishing information on politically sensitive issues.

That prior restraint, and restrictions on personal mobility, has now become a matter of international concern.

American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU - Seattle),
International Federation of Journalists
(IFJ- Brussels),
National Union of Journalists
(NUJ - London),
American Society of Authors and Editors
(ASAE - New York),
and Seattle Weekly
have all filed amicus curiae briefs with Washington Supreme Court in support of his successful First Amendment stance.

Credential validation upon request by journalists and other responsible parties from:


Contra Cabal Foundation

Contra Cabal web sites have achieved an extraordinary readership.

If Paul Trummel dies before he completes his work, then trustees have authority to continue publication as an educational project through the newly formed Contra Cabal Foundation, London which will own all publication rights.

The Foundation will publish Contra Cabal in perpetuity in the way that Sonia Orwell posthumously published the collected works of George Orwell.

Foundation trustees and directors (professional people, lawyers, and academicians in UK and US connected directly and indirectly with the International Federation of Journalists) will supervise editorial and design functions using young investigative reporters and graphic designers who wish to further their education in journalism.

They will receive trade union freelance rates of payment for their work.

Contra Cabal Foundation will respect former trustee the late William D Winn's last admonition "Go get 'em!" by continuing to report academic malfeasance and to expose morally repugnant academicians and public officials.

Readers should consider the articles and case studies as a work in progress.

More information about academic or government fraud and deceit frequently surfaces after victims or their associates read Contra Cabal.

That information becomes part of a relevant case study after verification and validation.

Students and current faculty members write letters to the editor on politically sensitive issues.

Some correspondents request name withholding to avoid retaliation.

Contra Cabal electronic magazine contains expose and satire.

Probably one of the first to appear on the web, it has now published since 1992.

The hits/month range between 100,000 and 150,000 with more than 1.5 million hits by about 60,000 unique visitors during the past twelve months.

Contra Cabal Foundation information available upon request by journalists and other responsible parties from:


ContraCabal.org
ContraCabal.net
ContraCabal.com
ContraCabal.us