Petition for Public Inquiry to
Kenneth Clarke QC, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens and by extension the first duty of a trade union is to protect its members. Justice relies upon principles and procedures founded in law
and precedent; otherwise, a state of anarchy exists
which has no place in a democracy.
Petitioner
Paul Trummel, Professor Emeritus
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The following synopsis and position paper (4,750± words) relates to behaviour by former Labour government ministers and NUJ/IFJ officers during the past decade that resulted in illegal jailing with torture and several near-death experiences followed by a series of NUJ kangaroo courts to cover up unlawful activities. NUJ expelled the Petitioner from his trade union by denying due process of law. By that, NUJ officials and officers, in a consort with Labour government ministers, violated his human and civil rights. Petitioner requests a public inquiry into denial of his human and civil rights on grounds of age discrimination, violation of human rights and civil liberties and dereliction by NUJ Officers and officials, former Labour government ministers and HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office with a view to reparation. Linked appendices contain documented evidence which substantiate all assertions. |
Synopsis
Justice relies upon principles and procedures founded in law and precedent; otherwise, a state of anarchy exists which has no place in a democracy. Political expedience by Labour government ministers and National Union of Journalists (NUJ) officials has resulted in an anarchistic, extreme-left splinter group (NUJ-Left) effectively taking control of NUJ by using a pattern or practice of illegal actions in violation of Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
[Trade Union and Labour Relations]
They have used railroading techniques and kangaroo courts with a total disregard for rules, law, and mandated procedures to prevent resolution of complaints through conciliation processes. By that, they have delayed and denied due process of law in order to bury dereliction by David C Broom, former HM Consul (Seattle) and HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). [NUJ Code of Conduct]
Railroading procedures dragoon or compel, subjugate, and persecute by coercion, threats, and imprisonment. They form an integral part of most kangaroo court procedures. NUJ has railroaded Petitioner to deny him due process of law by forcing rapid litigation and preventing careful consideration of the issues in a cover-up of illegal imprisonment without trial on trumped-up charges. [Railroading]
nota bene - 06 March 2011
In an email message to the Petitioner the same day as the Petition for Public Inquiry media release, Maureen L Mitchell (WSBA #30356 now with Summit Law Group, Seattle) claimed: “The anti-harassment order entered by Judge Doerty is permanent and remains in effect”. That statement opens the door to question what Summit Law Group partners will do to stop her making false and misleading statements about issues already determined by both Washington Supreme and Seattle Municipal courts.
During 2001, Stephen A Mitchell, Director, Council House, Seattle criminally assaulted, unlawfully evicted and jailed tenants. He had complicity in homicide and suicide, bribed and tampered with witnesses, filed false and misleading criminal charges, and publicly boasted that he would make tenants "prisoners in their apartments".
Maureen Mitchell participated in that abuse and repeatedly filed false and misleading harassment charges and perjured declarations against Petitioner for exposing alleged crimes. Lawyers for both parties stipulated the declarations inadmissible and both supreme and municipal courts ruled them out.
Stephen Mitchell forged documents and his attorney Maureen Mitchell orchestrated a campaign of subornation and perjury among elderly people to try to force Petitioner to take down his web site which exposed homicide by abuse and other criminal activity at Council House. They both knew that the content of the articles on the web and in print contained fully researched and truthful statements which they could not claim as defamation or libel so they filed fraudulent harassment complaints.
[Tall Structure Terror] [Who Killed Jackie Nations?] [Last Cruel Days]
Broom conspired ex parte with Judge James A Doerty, Washington Superior Court to grant impunity to Seattle Zionist mafiosi who committed perjury, subornation, and racism on a grand scale. Doerty gave them and their lawyers absolute anonymity and stretched anti-harassment definitions. He claimed that news gathering constituted "surveillance" and that reporting crimes by whistleblowing defined as "harassment". By that, he violated First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. [Violation of Human Rights]
Doerty denied benefit of legal counsel to the Petitioner, a British national, and Broom neglected to provide embassy support (in violation of Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Universal Declaration of Human Rights) by not challenging Doerty’s abuse of judicial process. Broom left Petitioner (then approaching 70 years of age) to languish in arguably the worst prison conditions in the State of Washington for 111 days of an indeterminate contempt of court sentence based upon a catch-22 and suborned testimony. [Without Let or Hindrance]
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Petitioner suffered torture and several near-death experiences during 25 days incommunicado solitary confinement among murderers and rapists which Doerty claimed would “ratchet up coercion” to remove web sites located in Holland from the Internet. He held Petitioner hostage for almost four months without charges, legal representation or trial effectively as “a political prisoner incommunicado”. [Cruel and Unusual Punishment]
Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary has supervised two legal officers during the past decade: Claire Susan Kirby (SRA #21078) and Roy Martin Mincoff (SRA #112029). Both Kirby and Mincoff allegedly committed gross professional misconduct presently under investigation by Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). They conspired with Labour government ministers for almost a decade to pervert the course of justice by use of railroading, anarchistic arbitrage and kangaroo courts in attempts to cover up dereliction by Broom and FCO. Dear and Mincoff received a £262,000.00 “educational grant” as an incentive to drop support of the Petitioner and FCO destroyed incriminating documents then delayed and denied investigation of complaints for almost a decade. [Agism]
Although NUJ officials and officers promised solidarity with Petitioner prior to his eviction and jailing his member of parliament, Gareth R Thomas MP (Harrow West - former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for International Development), and Dear neglected their duty of care by implementing laissez faire policies. Thomas arranged the Labour government payoff while Dear et alia orchestrated a cover-up of FCO dereliction in a direct conflict of interest. [Evasion]
David Miliband MP, Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; Sir Peter Ricketts, Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service; Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States and Jack Straw MP, former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, although apprised of the situation, did nothing. [Without Let or Hindrance]
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David Miliband MP, Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; Sir Peter Ricketts, Permanent Under-Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service; Sir Nigel Sheinwald, British Ambassador to the United States; Jack Straw MP, Former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor; and Gareth Thomas MP, Former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for International Development colluded in a cover-up of HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office dereliction with Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists.
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Washington Supreme Court handed down a unanimous finding by nine judges that reversed all Superior Court findings by Judge James A Doerty (WSBA #4937) and Washington Court of Appeals Judge Mary Kay Becker (WSBA #13027) et alia. Seattle Municipal Court dismissed frivolous criminal charges filed by Stephen Mitchell in consort with Seattle Police Department and Seattle City Attorney Thomas A Carr (WSBA #19845), charges filed with malicious intent to send Petitioner back to jail and preempt the Supreme Court decision.
[Anarchy] [Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 1963]
The supreme court found that constitutionally protected content did not by any stretch of imagination warrant Draconian measures that included eviction and indeterminate imprisonment of journalists in solitary confinement using contempt of court harassment orders. After four years of litigation, the court vindicated Petitioner for publishing newsletters and web sites which included specifically targeted articles that exposed terrorism and elder abuse.
[Perjury and Subornation] [Tall Structure Terror] [Who Killed Jackie Nations?]
Those findings prohibited future censorship, prior restraint, and Internet denial-of-service attacks upon printed and electronic publications. However, Seattle mafiosi and NUJ officials and officers continued to harass Petitioner by sabotaging web sites and computer applications. By that, they imposed international prior restraint despite the supreme court ruling. [Supreme Court Decision]
Dear ordered a prior restraint on all NUJ publications and colluded with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to order a media blackout that has lasted for more than nine years. Press Complaints Commission (PCC) conspired with Dear to evade processing complaints against Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC and NUJ for prior restraint. [The Fifth Estate]
Mincoff refused to obtain a restraining order against the principal hacker, Ronald A. Johnson, Vice President, Computing and Communications, University of Washington (since removed from that position although he continues to receive approximately $330,000.00/pa salary plus benefits) which effectively granted him impunity to overload the sites with traffic until they crashed. He also destroyed computer systems and applications which resulted in losses of more than £500,000.00 during the first half of 2008. Dear and Mincoff allowed that sabotage by their neglect to provide a duty of care and refusal to provide member services. [Cyber-Terrorism]
The NUJ cover-up has resulted in filing of frivolous and vexatious disciplinary complaints by Dear and Mincoff against Petitioner also false and misleading criminal charges with Metropolitan police. That malfeasance included the cover-up of a recent threat of grievous bodily harm by Christopher Graham Wheal, an NUJ officer, in retaliation for Petitioner pursuing his civil and human rights.
[Grievous Bodily Harm Threat]
Metropolitan (Lewisham) police presently have an investigation in progress to establish probable cause for referral of that incident to Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as do two other police divisions investigating actual bodily harm associated with NUJ activity against the Petitioner also an abduction attempt. [Wheal Email]
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Will you piss off with your inane ramblings. My nephew was killed in a tragic accident on Tuesday and all I get is wank from you. Now take me off your email list, or better still, fuck off and die you complete and utter tosser*. One more peep from you and if I bring harassment charges you'll be lucky. I find you personally I'll fucking break your legs. [sic] Christopher Graham Wheal, NUJ Officer. |
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This reprobate describes himself as a journalist and writing instructor. *tosser. A derogatory term for a stupid, irritating, or ridiculous person.
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Peter Murray, President, NUJ National Executive Council has tried to intimidate Petitioner by arbitrarily expulsion from NUJ/IFJ membership. Murray cited a rule not in evidence as his authority and joined Dear and Mincoff in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in UK, Scotland, and Ireland by employing jurisdictional arbitrage. [Perverting the Course of Justice]
Referrals to several UK and Scotland police divisions presently await investigation of Dear, Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ Deputy General Secretary) and other NUJ employees for criminal activity. They have exacerbated the situation by preempting criminal proceedings and organizing a string of sycophants to convene a National Executive Council panel hearing in violation of NUJ rules and UK laws.
[NUJ/NEC Panel Portfolio]
They unlawfully used international arbitrage in an abuse of process by ignoring the fact that the issues effectively became sub judice after police referral. The criminal referrals must now involve investigation by Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC-UK) and Police Complaints Commission of Scotland (PCCS) due to dereliction by, and alleged collusion among, NUJ officials and UK police officers while investigating criminal complaints. [Anarchistic Arbitrage]
Articles and linked PDFs on the web sites support all assertions.
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Position Paper
Introduction
The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens and by extension the first duty of a trade union is to protect its members.
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Seattle Zionist mafiosi threatened the Petitioner, a long-term NUJ member in good standing, that if he did not stop exposing their elder abuse, homicide and terrorist affinity they would take action with intent to jail him. Craig Steven Sternberg (WSBA #521), a mafia lawyer, then organized a kafkaesque plot to destroy Petitioner’s reputation and have him jailed afer checking Petitioner’s credentials with the NUJ membership secretary who verified his good standing.
Judge James A Doerty, Washington Superior Court (a mafia straw judge) declared that International and UK press cards had no validity in the State of Washington and that Petitioner must allow the mafia to decide what he could or could not publish. Doerty ordered the removal of all the names from published articles and Petitioner complied by using pseudonyms.
Doerty refused to allow Petitioner to file his UK and International press cards with the court as evidence that he held bona fide credentials as a journalist. Doerty then called Petitioner a "poseur" and declared his press cards "bogus".
Doerty then redefined ethical evidence gathering related to suspected criminal activity as unlawful surveillance and interviewing willing sources as harassment or intimidation of possible witnesses without an iota of evidence. Doerty then arbitrarily jailed Petitioner using several contempt of court findings.
Doerty then effected a universal prior restraint and later ordered the removal of web sites from the Internet. Petitioner refused to accept the coercion to prevent a legal precedent that would adversely affect all journalists. He cited his rights under US First Amendment of the US Constitution and EU laws as a British subject.
A rogue lawyer then arranged with hackers to destroy a web site by flooding it: overloading it with traffic until it crashed in a similar sabotage campaign to the recent denial-of-service attacks on WikiLeaks and associated servers.
Mafiosi suborned perjury in a conspiracy, locked the Petitioner out of his home so that he lost most of his possessions and academic research data which also caused the death of his dog.
Sternberg et alia then railroaded Petitioner to serve an indeterminate sentence without benefit of legal counsel or UK consulate support. In sixty years, Petitioner’s only brushes with the law amounted to two speeding tickets. Although NUJ officials and officers previously agreed to help Petitioner, Jeremy Dear, NUJ General Secretary neglected his duty of care by implementing a laissez faire policy and has since mercilessly derogated and harassed him for almost a decade.
Ethos
Petitioner establishes his good character and credibility by stating that 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. He has published in print since 1944 and on the web since 1992.
Academic and professional credentials:
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
Professor Emeritus, Communication and Rhetoric
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)
For 66 years, Petitioner has not received a single lawful challenge to the authenticity of his investigative reporting and has no history of libel actions. Since the millennium, he has written hundreds of articles on harassment of senior citizens and homicide by abuse. He also exposed a terrorist cell in a tall building in Seattle and reported it to Federal Bureau of Investigation (prior to the World Trade Center disaster in New York).
Petitioner has held international press credentials for more than fifty years; spent twenty years as a new media industry CEO and systems designer/consultant; and, twenty years as a post-graduate professor teaching computer industry executives and students of journalism, law, and graphic design working on their masters or doctoral degrees. He has attended hundreds of business, faculty, and trade union committee meetings and spoken at dozens of national and international conventions both professional and academic.
Petitioner holds the General Service Medal granted for active service in the Suez Canal Zone and territorial waters of Egypt 1951 through 1953. He served an additional term with the territorial army in an Air Observation Post Squadron, Royal Regiment of Artillery 1954 through 1960 having initially trained in the Air Training Corps while at Henry Thornton Grammar School, South London in the mid-1940s.
History
Prior to an NUJ National Executive Council (NEC) meeting (26 Oct 01), NUJ duty of care for Petitioner complied with NUJ rules and regulations also international human rights conventions. However, as soon as Jeremy Dear, a rabid Marxist and alleged psychopath, took office as General Secretary (01 Feb 02), the negotiations fell apart and have remained that way for nine years.
Instead of complying with Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, Dear and Claire Susan Kirby, NUJ In-house Solicitor implemented laissez faire policies. 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. Laissez faire has effectively granted NUJ officials and officers impunity.
Those policies, for which Dear and Kirby have no mitigating excuses, allowed them to neglect to request HM Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to intervene on behalf of the Petitioner in accordance with Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Their repeated stonewalling allowed HM consul and commercial attaché (David C Broom) posing as Consul-General, Seattle, Washington to collude with Judge James A Doerty, Washington Superior Court.
Broom acquiesced to Doerty’s abuse of process and ignorance of international law for “commercial reasons”. UK FCO destroyed the documents relating to Broom’s machination; however, Petitioner has copies. Both NUJ and FCO have since evaded their duty of care, abused process, and destroyed or silently withheld documents to cover up their dereliction. Dear and Kirby have done nothing to mitigate their abuse of process.
Doerty destroyed court records and transcripts then relocated the court stenographer to Florida so that she remained outside Washington State jurisdiction and could not be used as a witness. He then issued another contempt citation when Petitioner requested copies of first-party court records and transcripts.
By not responding to the abuse of process, Dear and Kirby left Petitioner (then approaching 70 years of age) to languish in jail for 111 days (27 Feb 02), arguably under the worst prison conditions in the State of Washington. He suffered torture and near-death experiences during 25 days incommunicado solitary confinement among murderers and rapists as part of an indeterminate sentence effectively a “political prisoner incommunicado”.
Doerty and Broom conspired to move Petitioner to solitary confinement for no other reason than to force him to remove constitutionally protected EU web sites hosted in Holland from the Internet. Petitioner could not comply while in solitary confinement so Doerty issued yet another contempt citation by claiming worldwide jurisdiction over the Internet.
In King County Jail, a prisoner receives a maximum of ten days “in the hole” with telephone access and legal representation for assaulting a guard. In contrast, Petitioner spent 25 days of torture in solitary confinement without telephone access or legal representation for not taking down a web site to comply with a catch-22 orchestrated by Doerty.
Neither Jeremy Dear nor Aidan White legally challenged Doerty’s outrageous behaviour. They have since covered up their dereliction with prior restraint, arbitrarily cancelled Petitioner’s international press card and recently expelled him from NUJ (01 Dec 10) which effectively also expels him from IFJ. The lack of an international press card puts him at risk when on international assignments and effectively grants Doerty impunity to coerce other non-US journalists to self-censor their work.
Petitioner, now approaching 78 years of age, must spend his retirement years trying to reinstate his professional reputation and to mitigate the damage caused by NUJ and FCO officials and officers through harassment, dereliction, abuse of process, and cover-up of criminal activity. In any legal action against NUJ, Petitioner will show that he has done everything possible during the past decade to mitigate damage caused by alleged international crimes which have effectively bankrupted him by barratry.
That mitigation only proves an effort to contain monetary damages pursuant to law. Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) and Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) filings fulfil a mitigative purpose but do not reduce the severity of NUJ neglect to provide a duty of care to Petitioner or condone abuse of process by NUJ and FCO officials and officers.
Dear held the position of General Secretary elect with Claire S Kirby as NUJ Legal Officer and took over as General Secretary (01 Feb 02). He had a four-month transition to work with Kirby (who had held her position as NUJ In-house Solicitor for two years) toward resolution of legal issues that could have prevented the jailing.
That issue rested with Gareth R Thomas MP (Harrow West), former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for International Development (then Petitioner’s MP) to address and make reparations after a public inquiry. He did nothing to mitigate the situation; instead, he double-crossed Petitioner (his constituent) by organizing a payoff to NUJ.
During his term as General Secretary, Dear has supervised two legal officers: Claire Susan Kirby (SRA #21078) 21 Oct 99 through 01 Sep 05 and Roy Martin Mincoff (SRA #112029) 03 Aug 05 through the present time. Both Kirby and Mincoff have allegedly committed gross professional misconduct reported to Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Although SRA required a resolution procedure, neither Mincoff nor Kirby satisfactorily complied with that mandate.
By filing false and misleading information, Mincoff has consistently abused SRA processes. He issued outrageous statements which Dear parroted and Kirby (now at Thompsons Solicitors, Cardiff Office) has remained incommunicative. Both legal officers have coerced low-echelon proxies (straws) and used email aliases to handle their correspondence in attempts to distance themselves from the issues and evade responsibility for alleged professional misconduct.
Philip Sutcliffe - now London Freelance Branch (LFB), National Executive Council (NEC) officer - received a summary of issues and a list of 14 items (17 Oct 01) that he had requested for presentation to an LFB committee. The committee discussed that information at some length and appointed Sutcliffe as liaison officer. It adopted a broad view that LFB would insure all the support available, appropriate, and feasible (22 Oct 01).
Clarification of that statement emphasized: That the issues related to deprivation of freelance employment, something that any union should address; and that prior restraint impacts upon the global issues of web site content and the employment contracts that relate to all journalists which must have a basis in international law (23 Oct 01).
Prior to Dear taking office, John Foster, then NUJ General Secretary and John Toner, National Freelance Organiser, discussed the issues with Aidan White, General Secretary, International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (visiting London at the time) (26 Oct 01) who agreed to look into the threatened jailing of Petitioner following his unlawful eviction in Seattle.
Philip Sutcliffe met with White that same evening who asked him to forward details which Sutcliffe claims that he sent. Sutcliffe reported that Foster/Toner/White had not yet made a decision but that he felt that they had given the issues serious consideration (29 Oct 01).
White has since adopted a laissez faire policy by taking no action in compliance with IFJ rules and principles (except to write a short piece that denounced the jailing). He has joined with Dear in a cover-up of NUJ dereliction and collaborated with him in international prior restraint and jurisdictional arbitrage.
Dear attended the NUJ National Executive Council (NEC) meeting (26 Oct 01) at which NEC announced his election as General Secretary (01 Feb 02). Constituents returned 6,402 papers out of 24,872 issued and Dear received 3,427 votes. NUJ reelected Dear in 2006 unopposed for an additional five-year term: the first time that unopposed reelection occurred in over a century. Dear will remain as General Secretary until (31 Jan 12) unless impeached in the meantime.
After the jailing, Sutcliffe, who had a duty of care to Petitioner as his branch officer, did not follow union rules and legal procedures, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations or Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Instead, in an unofficial “cry for mercy” he tried to intervene with the Seattle mafia that had jailed Petitioner. By that, Sutcliffe exacerbated the situation and added strength to mafiosi coercion.
Friends and professional journalists in US contacted the UK Seattle consul (Broom) in an attempt to persuade him to intervene. Members of the National Writers Union (NWU/US) attended court, filed supportive affidavits, and visited Petitioner in jail; however, the judge would not allow them to give evidence. Jonathan Tasini (NWU President) mounted media campaigns in solidarity. Dear, Kirby and Broom did absolutely nothing.
That cover-up of dereliction and abrogation of a duty of care involved imposition of an absolute NUJ/BBC media blackout on the issues. That blackout prevented NUJ members from knowing about dire circumstances affecting a member in Seattle which precluded them from offering their solidarity - union of interests, purposes, and sympathies.
Dear ordered a prior restraint on all NUJ publications and colluded with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to order a media blackout that has lasted for more than nine years. Press Complaints Commission (PCC) conspired with Dear to prevent the processing of complaints against Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC and NUJ for prior restraint.
The media blackout continues at this writing (02 Mar 11). A reasonable person can only classify Dear’s inaction as blatant discrimination when one considers the age of Petitioner and the derogation that NUJ elected officers and officials have heaped upon him to evade punishment for their illegal acts.
Their malfeasance includes a recent threat of grievous bodily harm by Christopher Graham Wheal, an NUJ officer, against Petitioner to try to stop him pursuing his civil and human rights. Metropolitan (Lewisham) police presently have an investigation in progress to establish probable cause for referral of that incident to Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) as do two other police divisions for actual bodily harm incidents against the Petitioner and an abduction attempt.
The cover-up has also resulted in the filing of an NUJ frivolous and vexatious disciplinary complaint by Dear and Mincoff against Petitioner and false and misleading criminal charges with Metropolitan police.
Dear has received a string of informal and formal opportunities that requested him to reply with a reasoned proposal that addressed the issues. He replied with a parroted version of a general denial that Mincoff wrote to SRA. Ongoing independent investigations by law enforcement agencies involve unethical and illegal activities by NUJ officials and officers which include misappropriation and political misuse of trade union and government funds.
Dear claimed that he is not "...in a constitutional position to instruct lay members (branch officials) to provide information" despite provisions in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to the contrary. By that, Dear started a merry-go-round that effectively transferred his executive responsibilities back to branch officials who have since either harassed Petitioner to try to silence him or referred the issues back to Dear.
Despite his ultimate responsibility for everything that occurs in NUJ, Dear has effectively abdicated. Moreover, he has instructed his staff to withhold member documents, obstructed attendance by Petitioner at an annual delegate meeting which prevented him from stating his case and arbitrarily removed his international press card and NUJ membership. Mincoff retaliated for the complaints to police by filing malicious criminal complaints against Petitioner with two police divisions.
Washington Supreme Court
Petitioner instructed his own legal counsel who pursued the case through the courts to Washington State Supreme Court. Nine supreme court judges unanimously reversed trial court decisions that imposed prior restraint on Petitioner before his jailing in King County Jail, Seattle for an indeterminate sentence without legal counsel or due process of law contrary to Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a Washington State Delegate, National Writers Union (NWU) and member of National Union of Journalists (NUJ), Petitioner had challenged arbitrary court decisions that violated US constitutional and EU journalism rights.
Washington Supreme Court (30 Mar 06) handed down a unanimous reversal of Superior Court findings by Judge James A Doerty (WSBA #4937) and Washington Court of Appeals Judge Mary Kay Becker (WSBA #13027) et alia. Seattle Municipal Court dismissed frivolous criminal charges filed by Seattle mafia and Seattle City Attorney Thomas A Carr (WSBA #19845). After four years of litigation, the reversals and dismissals completely vindicated Petitioner of any wrongdoing.
During that four years, Dear did nothing to support Petitioner although he falsely claimed to have contacted FCO to arrange an investigation. Instead, he negotiated a quid pro quo between NUJ and Gareth R Thomas MP (Harrow West), former Minister of State in a distinct conflict of interest. In return, Dear and Mincoff covered up FCO dereliction in return for a £262,000.00 “educational grant” as an incentive to drop the case.
Washington supreme court findings prohibited future censorship, prior restraint, and Internet denial-of-service attacks upon printed and electronic publications. However, NUJ officials and officers continue to harass Petitioner. They bring malicious claims of violation of NUJ rules; interfere with his rights as a journalist; file false and misleading criminal charges with police; and commit Internet denial-of-service attacks. Meanwhile, their prior restraint and BBC media blackouts continue.
The supreme court action cost NUJ nothing. NUJ did not participate or provide any legal, moral, or ethical support. Petitioner arranged for pro bono lawyers in US to handle five amici curiae filings. More important, the supreme court reversed legal findings that restricted traditional and new media journalists from publishing their work using unlawful censorship and prior restraint: precisely the pattern followed by NUJ officials and officers since that finding.
Despite those findings, Seattle mafia and its associates have extended their Internet harassment by destruction of web sites and computer applications causing losses of more than £500,000.00 during the first half of 2008 which Dear and Mincoff effectively condoned through laissez faire. That amount does not include inestimable collateral damage through subscriber and newsletter losses that resulted from Internet denial-of-service attacks and other computer crimes now under investigation by UK law enforcement agencies.
Dear, Kirby, and Mincoff received notice of all the events but evaded their responsibility to act; instead, they put into effect a series of unlawful delaying tactics and prior restraint now subject to SRA complaints which involve both NUJ and Thompsons Solicitors.
Dear, Kirby, and Mincoff, aware of all the maneuvers by Seattle mafia, UK Consul (Seattle), and FCO, have done nothing about them over a nine-year period. They neglected to act in accordance with Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and EU laws. Reginald (Tim) Gopsill, former Editor, Journalist (NUJ magazine) orchestrated a UK media blackout to cover up their neglect which prevented NUJ members from knowing about the case and providing their support in solidarity with Petitioner.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Dereliction
FCO appointed David C Broom, Consul, British Consulate, Seattle during December 1999 and removed him during July 2004 prior to the consulate closing (30 Sep 05) when it transferred all documents to British Consulate-General, San Francisco.
The generic term "consul" defines a diplomat or official representative of a government in one state who resides in the territory of another. Most nations maintain consulates in major foreign cities with the primary purpose of safeguarding their resident and traveling citizens while on foreign soil. A secondary duty relates to maintaining commercial interests.
Broom claimed in Seattle Times: "Britain and Washington state are major trading partners; as British consul general, I am vested in the state's recovery and continued competitiveness and economic success". In several other articles he also signed himself "Consul General"; however, Robin Newmann, Vice Consul Political, Press and Public Affairs, British Consulate-General, San Francisco refuted Broom's claim to that title.
Heads of British consulates classify as consuls not consuls general. The British government reserves the term "consul general" for heads of consulates-general and does not permit people of lower rank to use it. This misnomer represents only one of a series of misrepresentations and lies propagated by Broom during his term in Seattle. A diplomatic source who worked with Broom during a previous foreign assignment verified repugnant, undiplomatic behavior by Broom.
During Broom's tenure, Doerty committed judicial misconduct, perverted the course of justice, and violated constitutional and human rights of a British subject. Doerty issued a series of contempt orders effectively to silence investigative reporting. He misapplied law by granting a restraining order which deprived the journalist of his constitutional rights to free speech and liberty then imprisoned him indefinitely.
Broom claimed to represent UK government and British interests in Washington state and promised to provide services to British nationals. Requested several times to visit Petitioner in jail by Petitioner’s friends and professional colleagues, Broom neglected to do so. Instead, he accepted at face value the perjured testimony that Doerty sent to him attached to a letter after two unlawful ex parte (in secret with bias) discussions. Doerty recorded those conversations and the documents that he sent to him in both a letter and in his court findings.
Although aware of the circumstances, Broom did nothing to mitigate damage. Instead, he consorted with the judge apparently to protect commercial interests allied to Seattle mafia for whom Doerty acted as a straw judge. Broom lied in writing about his ex parte involvement with Doerty and withheld official documents.
Consulate-General, San Francisco admitted to destroying records probably in an attempt to cover up Broom's dereliction. Like any fox that hears the sound of barking, Broom has since gone to ground in North Seattle.
Now, a cover-up allows a powerful political and criminal element in Seattle to harass the journalist whenever he enters the US despite the Washington Supreme Court finding in his favor. That unanimous finding by nine judges reversed Doerty's decisions made in consort with straw judges, city officials, and Broom posing as a British Consul-General.
Perverting the Course of Justice
Jeremy Dear, General Secretary, National Union of Journalists (NUJ) et alia, and successive rogue In-house Solicitors Claire Susan Kirby (Thompsons Solicitors, Cardiff) and Roy Martin Mincoff have repeatedly conspired with others to pervert the course of justice through railroading, anarchistic arbitrage and kangaroo courts, thereby establishing malicious intent.
Peter Murray, President, NUJ National Executive Council tried to intimidate Petitioner by arbitrarily expelling him from NUJ membership. He cited NUJ Rule 24 Disciplinary Proceedings, a rule not in evidence, as his authority. Murray ignored the fact that five police divisions and other law enforcement agencies have NUJ officials and officers under investigation for alleged criminal activity.
The cost of legal research, documentation, preparation and writing a refutation made necessary by false representation and neglect to disclose information by Peter Murray, NUJ President (which classifies as an abuse of his position) amounts to £2,500.00. The total cost to date of defending the frivolous and vexatious complaints filed by Dear and Stanistreet in a consort with his FoC Barry Fitzpatrick, NUJ Officials Chapel and Mincoff now exceeds £85,000.00.
Murray has joined Dear and Mincoff in a conspiracy to commit serious criminal offences in UK and Irish jurisdictions. A common law offence, perverting the course of justice carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. It can include any of three acts: fabricating or disposing of evidence; intimidating or threatening a witness or juror; and intimidating or threatening a judge. NUJ officials and officers have allegedly committed crimes in all three categories.
Railroading denies due process of law by forcing rapid litigation to prevent careful consideration and criticism. It allows conviction of an accused person without a fair trial on trumped-up charges. That procedure dragoons or compels, subjugates, and persecutes by coercion, threats, and imprisonment. Railroading forms an essential part of the kangaroo court procedures used by NUJ.
Both Dear and Fitzpatrick completely ignored NUJ Rules then fabricated evidence to support a kangaroo court. They consistently referred to Appendix C without citing a specific rule. By that, they arguably broadened the scope of the appendices to allow use of them in a general context.
If an NUJ official has a disciplinary complaint against a member for alleged conduct detrimental to the interests of the union, then he must follow NUJ procedures. Before the current hearing, Dear did not file a complaint with NUJ Ethics Council (EC) within six months of the alleged occurrence. Instead, he filed a malicious complaint directly with NUJ National Executive Council (NEC) which he controls politically although NUJ rules call for hearings by neutral parties. By that, he denied natural justice.
If a member files a complaint directly with EC or NEC, then those bodies must try to settle the issues by conciliation Should attempts at conciliation fail, then NEC may decide to hold a formal hearing. Dear’s refusal or neglect to conciliate shows a deliberate attempt to harass an elderly member by using railroading techniques and kangaroo courts. By that, Dear perverted the course of justice and has repeatedly evaded conciliation processes by frustrating a public inquiry.
Conclusion
Justice relies upon principles and procedures founded in law and precedent; otherwise, a state of anarchy exists which has no place in a democracy. NUJ member apathy and anarchy has resulted in a pattern or practice of illegal actions by an extreme left-wing splinter group (NUJ-Left). NUJ officials and officers use railroading techniques and kangaroo courts with a total disregard for rules, law, and mandated procedures. They have prevented resolution of complaints through conciliation processes and denied due process of law.
Seattle mafiosi forged documents to try to force Petitioner to take down his web site which exposed their criminal activities. They knew that the content contained truthful statements and that they could not claim defamation or libel so they claimed harassment. They stretched anti-harassment definitions to claim that news gathering constituted "surveillance" and reporting crimes by whistleblowing defined as "harassment".
NUJ prior restraint and a BBC media blackout has lasted for more than nine years due to procrastination by judges in an ex parte consort which allowed Seattle mafia and others outside the ambit anonymously to commit perjury, subornation, and racism on a grand scale. Other NUJ members have challenged that neglect in a plethora of law suits not connected with Petitioner. That litigation has shown a pattern or practice of malicious criminal intent, ostensibly to cover up crimes and racism, identical to, and in parallel with, Petitioner’s experience. By that, NUJ has established a pattern or practice.
Washington supreme court found that constitutionally protected content did not by any stretch of imagination warrant Draconian measures that included eviction and indeterminate imprisonment of journalists with solitary confinement. Those findings vindicated Petitioner for publishing newsletters and web sites.
Seattle Municipal Court dismissed six frivolous criminal charges (21 Apr 06) filed by Seattle mafia in a consort with Seattle Police Department and Thomas A Carr, Seattle City Attorney. Carr prosecuted them with malicious intent to send Petitioner back to jail to preempt the supreme court decision.
Dear has spent four years since the supreme court finding harassing Petitioner to prevent him obtaining reparations from Seattle mafia and for gross neglect by NUJ officials and officers. That cover-up has resulted in the filing of a frivolous and vexatious disciplinary complaint against Petitioner. That NUJ complaint retaliated for Petitioner demanding his member and human rights.
Referrals to several UK police divisions presently await investigation of Dear, Michelle Stanistreet (NUJ Deputy General Secretary) and other NUJ employees for criminal activity. Dear and Stanistreet exacerbated the situation by trying to preempt criminal proceedings. They organized a string of sycophants who convened a National Executive Council committee hearing using jurisdictional arbitrage in violation of NUJ rules and UK laws.
The criminal referrals must involve investigation by Independent Police Complaints Commission (UK) and Police Complaints Commission of Scotland due to dereliction by, and alleged collusion among, NUJ officials and UK police officers while investigating criminal complaints.
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