Heterodoxy or Orthodoxy of Dissent?

The National Council of Jewish Women formed a non-profit corporation then built and later refurbished Council House, a residence for senior citizens on Capitol Hill, Seattle. They obtained federal financial assistance through the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the original construction and rehabilitation.

Two successive administrators and their staff have consistently neglected to comply with HUD directives when managing the building and dealing with residents over a fifteen-year period. They have shown a pattern of violating federal laws and denying residents their civil rights. They deny due process of law and use an aggressive administrative staff and five violent enforcers to silence detractors.

Consistently, they use kill-the-messenger techniques and police to destroy any lawful criticism. They use coercive persuasion to cover their incompetence then abuse power to avoid responsibility. They instill fear to try to manage the minds of senior citizens within a predetermined ideology.

The directors keep their names and addresses secret and obtain injunctions to restrain journalists from publishing them. However, they use similar information taken from residents' private files to intimidate them. They have agreed not to reveal any information that they have collected under a federal agreement. However, they arbitrarily reveal confidential information that residents have entrusted to them when it suits their "disciplinary" and "zero tolerance" policies.

The administrator keeps two sets of personal files on residents, one for government inspection and the other to harass and blackmail residents. He refuses access to them although federal law permits residents to examine their personal files. Moreover, he calls their emergency contacts and professional associates to try to elicit prejudicial information to place on file for future use against them.

The directors have repeatedly swindled the federal government and abused senior citizens who reside in this government financially-assisted residence that they claim to "own". Moreover, they have coerced government officials and politicians into covering up unlawful behavior. They have now persuaded a gullible superior court judge that authenticated reports to government officials harass them personally.

The administrator, a professional actor and pathological liar with a cruel supremacist disposition, promotes himself as "a nice guy" - so did Joseph Goebbels. With his sadistic resident scribe he spreads hate speech to protect the all-Jewish board of directors. He screams anti-Semitism every time anyone criticizes their aberrant behavior and threatens non-Jewish residents with action by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) if they complain. He has even instructed a Jewish resident to file a false report against another resident with ADL to silence dissent. Paradoxically, he accuses residents of racism yet follows zero tolerance and absolutist ideologies himself. He frequently calls the police to enforce them.

Residents live in fear. If they inadvertently offend the administrator through freely and assertively expressing themselves then thugs coerce them into writing apologies (confessions). Refusal to comply has resulted in incarceration of sick, elderly people based upon false evidence of violence and trumped up mental illness reports.

Residents transported to Harborview Medical Center, without any access to qualified counselors, stayed strapped to gurneys in a corridor most of the night. They did not have their medication with them or any contact with their friends or relatives. The administrator has also railroaded other people out of their homes using antiharassment orders instead of unlawful detainer actions because he could not provide probable cause for eviction.

Apparently, the directors, whose ancestors more than likely survived the European holocaust then acquired wealth, think that they can harass other less fortunate survivors of that same holocaust. Ironically, they employ three supremacists to manage the building and its inhabitants. They knowingly allow zero tolerance policies to evade regulations mandated by US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that prohibit them.

The directors provide virtually unlimited money to their administrator to employ lawyers to harass and intimidate residents. Recently, a lawyer colluded with him to manufacture evidence. The directors refuse to recognize their manager's behavior and that of his staff or the thugs that they use to control residents. They practice willful blindness. The public must now hold them accountable for their racism, discriminatory practices, and subornation.⁽¹⁾

The directors must realize that they lost the privilege to operate this senior citizens' residence as an exclusively Jewish establishment the day that they accepted millions of taxpayer dollars. Residents have paid that money to the US government in taxes over many years. The directors agreed to conform to federal law notwithstanding race, color, creed, national origin, gender, age, or familial status when they accepted that money. The law requires that they also allow freedom of expression without retaliation. However, they openly deny due process of law and freedom of expression by misapplying antiharassment statutes.

The directors have consistently violated both the spirit and intent of federal equal opportunity laws by manipulating employment criteria. Those laws preclude discrimination in both housing and employment. They require the directors to advertise in a way that provides equal opportunity to all qualified applicants. This means that any qualified person may apply for housing or employment.

For example, the directors have declined to advertise nationally for replacement staff. They have voiced fears that national advertising would result in black people applying for positions. They have for years excluded non-Jewish people from board participation and have designated the building Jewish. They use it for predominantly Jewish functions and have a synagogue in the basement. They offer no facilities to other religions and openly discourage their use of the building.

Council House directors have taken taxpayer money for purposes controlled by federal law and have not complied with those laws. They have used kill-the-messenger techniques to silence their detractors. Moreover, they try to prevent public disclosure of their actions by journalists lawfully involved in newsgathering. They file antiharassment motions and arrange concealment of public documents to that end.

In a similar situation, Magistrate Brian Steinke (St. Joseph County, Indiana) recently (01 Nov 01) denied a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader an antiharassment order. The KKK leader wanted an order that would prevent a South Bend Tribune reporter from writing about his activities.⁽²⁾ Unlike Steinke, Judge James A. Doerty, Superior Court, State of Washington, has unconstitutionally controverted that type of ruling. He supports Council House directors in journalist harassment - he apparently prefers their kill-the-messenger strategies to punishing supremacists and perjurers.

Publishing information creates public awareness about misuse of public money and the suffering of senior citizens that results from those misappropriations. Council House directors have spent thousands of dollars on legal fees to try to prevent publication of information about their activities. They have also obtained bogus antiharassment orders for prior restraint that suggests desperation. The ongoing distribution of vile propaganda and hate speech by their managers and agents serves to prove a fear of exposure.

Instead of following the free speech rational articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill they prefer to disseminate disinformation like Joseph Goebbels and his ilk. Evidently, their parents did not teach them very much about freedom of expression, or the lack of it. They have resorted to the same tactics that Nazis probably used to victimize their kin and the US government used against African Americans in the South and Japanese Americans in the West.

Council House consists of a strange mix of elitist anarchy and oligarchy. This has resulted in management deliberately promoting fear among residents using intimidation and propaganda that excludes membership in a privileged, special interest group.

Using wealth and power to harass and intimidate the aged and powerless encourages forceful criticism. Ironically, these second and third generation Jewish immigrants insist on making residents intellectually and politically uniform within their definition of "diversity". This leads the public to believe that they encourage marginalized points of view when they do not.

In fact the Council House directors use "diversity", propaganda, and the police to silence residents and to retaliate against those who speak out. They have created an orthodoxy of dissent⁽³⁾ to suppress heterodoxy (nonconformity) and use thugs to enforce it. The public must soon bring these practices to an end - legally.

Nmesis.

1. RCW 9A.72. Perjury and Interference with Official Procedures.

2. Associated Press, Klan leader sentenced to six months probation for harassing reporter by telephone (01 Nov 01/10:50).

3. Stanley Kurtz, Free Speech and an Orthodoxy of Dissent, Chronicle of Higher Education (26 Oct 01), B24.