by Kenneth G. Dzaman
Wednesday, Sep. 05, 2001 at 4:20 AM kennspace@hotmail.com JUST is as JUST does WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE (JJWSOS) PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503
Suicide is personal execution. Execution is homicide (defined by a coroner).
The desire to create homicide and terrorism is a sickness.
A mentally ill culture of execution, terrorists, and suicidal people; will kill US all.
error [(This letter is being published on every IndyMedia site around the world and in the US; (plus other web sites and forums); and will be sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: September 4th, 2001.).)]. This letter is published on this public web site: http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6473&group=webcast
Dear Seattle Times and The Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 4th, 2001
I have a question for the Seattle media: The "bridge jumper" August 28th, 2001; was a lobbyist in Olympia; What does she lobby for? Do you care - or know? Why do you not report it? Who cares what she lobbies for? She is obviously one of the weak, best not to talk about her. I have seen her labeled "mentally ill", "a young woman", "a legislative lobbyist in Olympia", "a public protestor"; as "distraught over a personal relationship"; "a distraught 26 year old", "a canal jumper", "threatening suicide in a public place"; I feel the only "mentally ill" feeling she has are the one's the Seattle media is choosing to ignore; It is called "intolerance towards another persons experience and feelings", and this "intolerance" creates the need for a "mental illness" for you to see and label (along with all the "other" labels.). Fine, Seattle media can ignore it all you want to, but I have one question for you; What did she lobby the Washington legislature for in Olympia? (I will be letting you and a lot of others know.).
Suicide is personal execution. Execution is homicide (defined by a coroner). Homicide and terrorism is a sickness. A mentally ill culture of execution, terrorists, and suicidal people; will kill US all.
WE CREATE EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE THROUGH IGNORANCE AND FEELING IGNORANCE. THE SEATTLE MEDIA CAN IGNORE THE TERRORISM THEY ARE CREATING AND LABEL IT "RESTRAINT" ALL YOU WANT; IT WILL ONLY TERRORIZE AND KILL PEOPLE; IT IS "IGNORANCE".
Sincerely, Kenn Dzaman
SENT TO SEATTLE MEDIA AUGUST 19th, 2001: .............................................................. Dear Editor of the Seattle Times, (Sent - August 19th, 2001).
Whether it is Seattle police on the streets, or the "surgical" killing done in a "death chamber", killing a human being for any reason, is murderous and terrorism. (State sanctioned.). The idea that when a police officer kills someone it is somehow "justified" because they are a police officer, is ridiculous. When anyone kills anyone, or suffers a traumatic human death, whether it is by accident or with intention; they could lose their job, their family - everything that is precious. They may even become a "self - terrorist" and kill themselves. When a person is involved in human death, the more traumatic it is, and the more responsibility they feel for its creation; the more of their personal humanity will die. A person can only suffer human death in silence for so long, - before all that is left is terror. It is the personal human justice every person feels from the experience they have "set" themselves up for; called, your "feeling conscience".
The culture of the United States has created millions of these disenfranchised people; they blow up high schools, federal buildings, beat their wives and kids, and generally just create the terror they are feeling.
A police officer is a human being, it is time we started treating them as such. As soon as the Seattle police are on the same side as the "public" they are supposed to serve and protect, I imagine that will be possible. With the federal drug war, as it now stands, there are two cultures in Seattle: Seattle people and Seattle police.
Sincerely, Kenn Dzaman ]
......................... "Execution is Government-Sponsored Terrorism";
.............................................................. "Long wait is finally over for Tim Blake Nelson's 'O'";
[( By SEAN AXMAKER; SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER; Saturday, September 1, 2001;
It's been a long road for Tim Blake Nelson to get his second feature "O" out of limbo and in front of an audience, about 1 1/2 years. "It wasn't fun," Nelson said. ............................................................... The controversy came in the midst of editing the film. "The shooting was finished and the editing begun when, in spring of 1998, the Columbine massacre shocked the nation. Six weeks later, after the first cut was completed, Miramax was worried. Harvey (Weinstein) has a different agenda than several years ago, when Miramax was putting out 'Priest' and 'Kids.' I just think it became a movie they didn't want to put out," Nelson said. "Harvey's concern, he told me, is that there would be copycat murders." So why did Dimension hold back a film that tackles the tangled issues of teen violence, racism and self-esteem with intelligence and sensitivity while releasing "Scream" sequels and other slasher films featuring sadistic acts of violence against teenagers? "I asked the same question." Nelson paused, shifted in his seat, and continued. "You know, that's for them to answer." .................................................................. And again, to put it more succinctly, I think it's about how a society will ultimately destroy a foreign entity, some other, that is able to infiltrate it, in doing so harnessing the worst aspects of society: society's cruelty, society's intolerance, society's passiveness in the face of injustice. All that is really at work in high school with adolescents. In fact, it's heightened." )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/movies/37285_nelson01.shtml
[( By GORDY HOLT, LEWIS KAMB AND VANESSA HO; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS; Wednesday, August 29, 2001; Passing motorists, Metro bus passengers and truck drivers hurled insults and urged a distraught woman to jump from her perch on the railing of the Interstate 5 Ship Canal Bridge Tuesday morning. [Threatening to jump] High above the Ship Canal, a distraught 26-year-old woman sits on the southbound railing of the Interstate 5 bridge yesterday morning after leaving her car. Meryl Schenker / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Click for larger photo Police rushed to the scene to try to talk the 26-year-old Tacoma-area woman out of attempting suicide. But as the region's busiest freeway disintegrated into a massive traffic jam, the mood of some commuters grew ugly. http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/36928_jump29.shtml
.............................................................. "Rush-hour traffic tied up for hours by I-5 jumper"; "Northbound motorists reportedly urged the woman to jump";
[( SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF; Tuesday, August 28, 2001; Southbound traffic on Interstate 5 approaching the Lake Washington ship canal was at a standstill for hours during rush hour Tuesday when a woman climbed onto the bridge railing and threatened to jump. She plunged into the canal about three hours after parking her car in the southbound lanes and mounting the bridge railing. Three police boats were waiting below, and one picked her up and rushed to Ivar's dock nearby. The woman, 28, was put on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to Harborview Medical Center, where she was in critical condition with chest and abdominal injuries. )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/36811_bridge28ww.shtml
....................................... "Woman in critical condition after jumping from Ship Canal Bridge";
[( By Dave Birkland and Christine Clarridge; Seattle Times staff reporters; Tuesday, August 28, 2001; - 01:01 p.m. Pacific; The woman who jumped from the west side of the Ship Canal Bridge on Interstate 5 this morning survived the jump and tied up traffic on the freeway for nearly four hours during rush hour. The 28-year-old woman, whose identity wasn't available, was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She jumped shortly after 10 a.m. after halting traffic in several directions for several hours. The traffic jam was so bad that vehicles were backed up from the bridge north to Shoreline, from I-5 east on State Route 520 to Kirkland and for several miles south to Boeing Field. The woman jumped from a railing adjacent to the southbound lanes, but police were forced to shut down the northbound lanes because passing motorists were shouting encouragement for her to jump, police said. Duane Fish, Seattle police spokesman, said while police negotiators were trying to develop a rapport with the woman, motorists heading north were shouting such things as, "jump," "get it over with," "just do it." "Our crises people were out there trying to save a life. It made it extremely difficult for them," Fish said. ............. Dave Birkland can be reached at 206-464-2204 or at dbirkland@seattletimes.com. )] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134334413_jumper28m.html
...................... "A day of despair, anger on I-5: Woman survives plunge; commute halted 3½ hours";
[( By Christine Clarridge and Dave Birkland; Seattle Times staff reporters; Local News; Wednesday, August 29, 2001; As negotiators tried unsuccessfully to talk a woman off the Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle yesterday morning, traffic throughout the area froze for 3½ hours. )] http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/ vortex/display?slug=jumper29m& date=20010829&query=woman+survives
................................................................ "Police shocked by level of anger at canal jumper";
[( By Carol M. Ostrom; Seattle Times staff reporter; Local News; Wednesday, August 29, 2001; She was perched on the edge of the freeway railing, the murky water of the Ship Canal 160 feet below. Contemplating the end of her life at age 26, perhaps all she needed was a hand, a hug, a sign that she mattered. That wasn't the message she got from her fellow human beings driving past. )] http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/ display?slug=catcalls29m& date=20010829&query=canal+jumper
............................... "High-profile suicide attempt draws nation's attention"; "As media pick up on story, compassionate messages flow to woman who jumped";
[( By GORDY HOLT; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER; Thursday, August 30, 2001; Seattle and much of the nation are pouring out their hearts to the Tacoma woman who survived a suicidal leap off the Ship Canal Bridge Tuesday amid shouts of "jump" from passing motorists. The story hit yesterday's "Today" show on NBC, whose host, Matt Lauer, called it "the terrible story out of Seattle." "What makes the story even more horrific," he said, "is that some angry motorists actually shouted at the woman to jump." )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/37061_jumper30.shtml
................................................ "Mentally ill endure racial bias"; "Minorities suffermore illnesses but get inferior care, report says";
[( By ERICA GOODE THE NEW YORK TIMES; Seattle post Intelligencer; [Nation/World]; Monday, August 27, 2001; The United States' ethnic and racial minorities face large and troubling disparities in mental health care, the surgeon general said yesterday in a broad and comprehensive report that offered a rare look at the mental health needs and obstacles to treatment of four minority groups. Minorities in the United States, the surgeon general, Dr. David Satcher, said, "suffer a disproportionate burden of mental illness" because people in those groups often have less access to services than other Americans, receive lower-quality care and are less likely to seek help when they are in distress. .................................. And because of the stigma attached to mental illness in some minority cultures, he said, members of those groups are often reluctant to use services, even when they are available. ................................... In addition, the report found, racism and discrimination can lead to errors in diagnosis or to inappropriate treatment. .......................... Among some minorities, the report said, distrust and fear of the mental health system and practitioners are common. ............................. Satcher urged members of minority groups to seek out help when they suffered from "depression or anxiety or anything that interferes with one's ability to function." ............................ http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/36660_mental27.shtml
............................................................... "Murderer might not survive suicide try"; "Doctors say leap from jail balcony left Charles Finch paralyzed below waist";
[( By DAVID FISHER; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER; [Northwest]; Monday, October 30, 2000; EVERETT -- Double-murderer Charles Finch might not survive long enough to find out whether a Snohomish County jury would agree to put him to death, his doctors have testified. Even if he lives, his injuries might be grave enough to bring his second death-penalty trial to a halt before the jury gets the chance to deliberate. NOTE: This article has been updated since it was originally published in the newspaper. Doctors told Superior Court Judge Ronald L. Castleberry today that Finch's condition had worsened and he could die within 24 hours. Castleberry delayed a scheduled sentencing hearing and sent jurors home until Tuesday. Finch, 51, apparently tried to commit suicide Wednesday night with a 14-foot jump from a mezzanine railing in the Snohomish County Jail. )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/finc30.shtml
............................................................... "Execution raises questions of fairness"; "ELLEDGE: Some officials consider revamping method used for providing defense attorneys in capital cases";
[( Linda Ashton; The Associated Press; The Tacoma News Tribune; August 27, 2001; WALLA WALLA - When James Homer Elledge admitted stabbing and strangling a Lynnwood woman in a church basement in April 1998, he told police he had nothing to lose with a confession. "I've already ... made my bed, now I gotta sleep in it the rest of my life 'cause I'm never getting out again," said Elledge, who at the time was on parole for fatally bludgeoning a Seattle motel manager with a hammer. He pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to the aggravated first-degree murder of Eloise Jane Fitzner, and instructed his lawyer not to put on a defense during the penalty phase of his capital case. "There is a very wicked part of me, and this wicked part of me needs to die," Elledge told the jury that condemned him for Fitzner's death. http://www.tribnet.com/
........................................... "VIEWPOINT: Elledge execution makes Washington residents participants in suicide"; "VIEWPOINT: Death row inmate's refusal to allow adequate defense is not how system should work";
[( Judith W. Kay; Tacoma News Tribune; August 26, 2001; The upcoming execution of James Elledge (who waived his rights to appeal) makes every Washingtonian an unwitting assistant to suicide ........................... A third of all Washingtonians oppose the death penalty. Yet Locke has chosen to forge ahead, forcing, through an unfair process, all Washingtonians to be accomplices in Elledge's execution. Judith W. Kay teaches social ethics at the University of Puget Sound and is president of the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. ........)] http://www.tribnet.com/ [{( (Who is killing who? See next two articles.). )}]
......................................................... "Execution leaves a trail of unease";
[( By REBEKAH DENN AND DAVID FISHER; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS; Wednesday, August 29, 2001; WALLA WALLA -- At 12:52 a.m., it was over. After a life of crime and murder, James Homer Elledge, 58, was put to death in the Washington State Penitentiary's death chamber yesterday morning as 13 witnesses watched. On the surface, Elledge's death by lethal injection was unremarkable. When the moment came, the Lynnwood church janitor showed only the barest flicker of a twitch -- some interpreted it as a last breath -- as a series of lethal drugs flowed through a preset intravenous tube and stopped his heart. )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/36916_elledge29.shtml
....................................................................... "Suicide: Don't avoid the issue, experts say"; "Doctor urges a 'massive' public education campaign";
[( By GORDY HOLT; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER; Saturday, September 1, 2001; Suicide remains a fearful topic that many Americans keep in the closet. Most experts agree it's important to "demystify" suicide, alerting the public to warning signs and preventive measures, but they're divided on whether it's also beneficial to publicize suicide attempts such as the distraught Pierce County woman's 160-foot leap this week into Lake Union. Some say the news media should do more to bring attention to the issue -- even by covering suicides as they now cover murders. )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/37368_suicide01.shtml
.................................................. "Warning on Suicide Copycats; Media: Report says news coverage should treat cases as mental illness to prevent influencing those who are vulnerable."; Abstract: In a report released Thursday and endorsed by the surgeon general and the National Institute of Mental Health, the panel cited scientific evidence showing that rates of suicides and suicide attempts rise after high-profile or frequent news coverage of an instance of suicide. "The hope [is] that by early diagnosis and effective treatment, we can in fact prevent many suicides," he said.. )]
....................................................................... "Suicide attempt brings out Seattle's worst"; "Who raised these people?";
[( By DEBORAH MATHIS; SYNDICATED COLUMNIST; Friday, August 31, 2001; WASHINGTON -- There is nothing new under the sun. Every act of human nature -- whether heinous or marvelous -- is a repeat of some past event. Only the names, places and dates are different, though many are lost and forgotten in the passage of time. Still, our capacity to be amazed, amused or alarmed abides. At least for the most part. We are so bombarded by astonishing and outrageous acts these days, that I'm not sure our emotions can keep up. Witness, Tuesday morning in Seattle, that great and lovely city tucked into the country's far northwest corner. )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/37153_mathis31.shtml
.................................................... "Police learn about mentally ill";
[( By Alex Fryer; The Seattle Times Company; Local News : Monday, September 03, 2001; Ben Morrison graduated from the state's six-month police academy course last year after receiving about four hours of training on how to interact with the mentally ill. A young Seattle cop assigned to the North Precinct, Morrison quickly realized the half-day wasn't nearly enough. "I didn't know I'd be dealing with them as much as I have," he said, adding, "that's pretty sad." )] http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/ vortex/display?slug=mental03m& date=20010903&query=restraint
.................................................. "Media should focus on mental health issues of suicide, panel says";
[( ANUJ GUPTA; The Associated Press; The Tacoma News Tribune; Monday August 27, 2001; Suicide stories also ought to shy away from an exscessive focus on grieving relatives, friends and community members, the report said. .. )] ............................................................
.............................................................. "The problem is, we don't always want to face the problem";
[( Jerry Large / Times staff columnist; Lifestyles; Sunday, August 12, 2001; A couple of weeks ago, I asked you to tell me about the one or two biggest events or changes in your community over the past year. But most of what you wrote could have been said five years ago, or 10. ...................................... "I find it interesting that here in Seattle we tend to dwell on the problems more. Whenever there is some sort of march of demonstrators the media tends to always have to refer to either the WTO or Mardi Gras, but we never assume that maybe nothing will come of it." She's right about not blowing every incident out of proportion. We still live in a good place. Dynamism and decency can co-exist, but there will always be tension between them. We need to take a deep breath, and figure out which irritants we can live with and which threaten to pull the house down. We don't have to keep following California's cities. Jerry Large can be reached at 206-464-3346 or jlarge@seattletimes.com. )] http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/ display?slug=jdl12forweb& date=20010812&query=jerry+large
Sandi Thompson-Royer; Spokane; [Opinion]; Letters to the Editor; - Seattle Post Intelligencer; Wednesday, August 8, 2001; On Aug. 28 at 3 a.m., most of us will be sound asleep while James Elledge is scheduled to be executed at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary. Intimate participants in the execution will be employees of the prison system. I cannot even begin to imagine what it must be like for them to go to work that day. I think I would call in sick. Having worked for more than 15 years as an advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and hearing their horrific stories, compassion for offenders does not come easy for me. However, I still believe if we continue to execute human beings, we are perpetuating violence in our society and asking individual human beings like those who work in the prison system to participate in an act that must crush the soul to its very core. I agree with Henry Schwarzchild, former member of the board of directors of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, who said, "We must refuse as citizens to be made into willing co-conspirators with a violent crime." )] http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/opinion/34309_ltrs8.shtml RENTON
.............................................................. "Police say I-5 shooting was road rage";
....................................................... "Police use of deadly force fraught with complexity, second-guessing";
[( By Michael Ko; Seattle Times Eastside bureau; Local News; Sunday, August 19, 2001; )] http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/ display?slug=shooting19m0& date=20010819&query=police+who+shoot+have
[(Posted on every Indymedia site around the world and in the US; (plus other web sites and forums); and sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: August 30th, 2001.).)]. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6382&group=webcast
Dear Seattle, August 30th, 2001
[ Meditation on life, Suicide, and Execution: (Trauma is born - or created? Trauma is born By US all. Terrorism is born by us all. Suicide is born by us all. Execution is born by us all.).].
[(Maybe we could have an; Execution day in Seattle! Close down I-5 once every couple month's so we can push off the people we want to execute, and those that want to jump can also! (ha, ha - trauma humor...)!].
There is a very fine line between suicide and terrorism in human created death. As you can see by the events on August 29th, 2001*; Execution and suicide are a form of terrorism. (As is any human created death of another human being). The "fine line" between individual terrorism (suicide) and cultural terrorism (execution) is in who dies. (It usually takes a "trauma" to create "hope"; (like being born.). Please, do not try to create hope by surviving or dying from jumping off a bridge or killing another human being, there are better ways!).
*[(Events August 29th, 2001: Public execution of James Elledge - and public attempted execution (suicide) of the "bridge jumper"). - (One of my best friends had a baby August 29th!!!! Boy, black hair! All fingers and toes and big hands! Congratulations Dan and Julie! Welcome Max Devine to our world! (Maxamillion Devine has been born!).].
The truth is, that the whole of your life's experience is but the outer expression of your inner feelings. Meditation is not the "thought" process some people feel it is; it is in feeling, before the process of thought. In meditation, a person reflects and feels their experiences. To feel life and try to understand it is a very complex process. Meditation done correctly will create the action in your life, to act on your feelings in your day to day existence, without "invisible walls" denying their existence, and making it hard for you to be, who you want to be. So you are sitting on a very high bridge contemplating life, is that terrorism? Terrorism is the intention and creation of human death; individual, or "others".
So I feel there are 100's and even thousands of "suicidal terrorist's" out "there". What do you think and feel they are going to do? How do you stop a suicide, a terrorist, or terrorism? By not creating it.
We can ignore these "suicidal terrorists" as long as we want to, but I am here to tell you; It will create terrorism, suicide, and death in Seattle; Just like it did in Littleton or Oklahoma City.
Sincerely, Kenneth G. Dzaman [ JJWSOS ] - JUST-is as JUST-does -WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE.] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 email: kennspace@hotmail.com phone:206-271-8562
[( A call from Littleton Colorado to Seattle Washington::::: (Hi!..... -- mom called..... -- I talked to dad also!.... here is what they didn't say...). WORD - CONSUMPTION - INTOLERANCE + Execution - or - SUICIDE? = IGNORANCE - is - FEAR. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6320&group=webcast WORD - CONSUMPTION - INTOLERANCE + Execution - o r- SUICIDE? = IGNORANCE - is - FEAR. )]
David S. Broder Jim Brunner - The Seattle Times Mike Lewis - The Seattle Times Kathleen Merryman - Tacoma News Tribune Mike Carter - The Seattle Times Tan Vinh - The Seattle Times Robert L. Jamieson JR. - The Seattle Post Intelligencer Jerry Large - The Seattle Times Nicole Brodeur - The Seattle Times Geov Parrish - Seattle Weekly Sean Gonsalves - Cape Cod Online, Jerry large - The Seattle Times, Candy Hatcher - The Seattle Times, Susan Paynter - The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Micheal R. Fancher - The Seattle Times, REBEKAH DENN - Seattle Post Intelligencer,
Go jump off a bridge! Go jump in a lake! I do not know, how much more I can take....
sure, it is not "our" fault... How could it be?
Execution and Suicide are very closely related, do you feel it yet, it is called; TERRORISM. I love that woman who jumped off the I-5 bridge! Most people commit suicide alone and at home, and everyone gets to easily and "surgically" ignore it, well....
you can not ignore someone jumping off a bridge in rush hour while we (The State of Washington - Residents) execute another human being.
Execution, suicide and terrorism; - It is US.
Sincerely, Kenn
PS; Go ahead and flush the toilet on this jump. No need to look at what you are creating for too long. Send it away, where you won't have to look at it or deal with it - but someone will have to...
Go ahead and flush the toilet on this execution.......it is done.
Time to move on!
NOW, where is my Prozac? Oh - here it is - right next to my credit card...
JJWSOS [ JUST-is as JUST-does - WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. ] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 email: kennspace@hotmail.com
For Complete Essay and References see these articles posted on these web sites and many others: ......................................................... SEATTLE: JUST-IS Creating the HARD ABUSIVE PEACE OF INTOLERANCE AND "NORMALCEY". by Kenneth G. Dzaman 4:11pm Mon Sep 3 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Intolerance, Discrimination, and Fear; creating Terrorism; created by Seattle Government, Media, and the Seattle Police Department. A Formal Complaint of Seattle Government, - Seattle Media, and - Seattle Police Department Abuse. September 3rd, 2001 Intolerance, Discrimination, and Fear; creating Terrorism; created by Seattle Government, Media, and the Seattle Police Department. A Formal Complaint of Seattle Government, - Seattle Media, and - Seattle Police Department Abuse. The Creation of Intolerance: http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6457&group=webcast
....................................................... File a formal e-complaint with the SPD's Office of Professional Accountability. by Space 2001 9:31pm Sun Sep 2 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com SEPT-5th; 4th & Cherry; 1:30pm-5:pm; 11th flr; -IMPORTANT MEETINGS -BE THERE! [(PLEASE FORWARD INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEETINGS TO OTHERS!!)!] IMPORTANT MEETINGS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5th, 2001; 4th and Cherry; Municipal Bulding; 11th Floor; 2:00pm and 5:30pm. If you witnessed/experienced police misconduct last Saturday, testify at the next City Council Public Safety Committee meeting. 2pm Wednesday September 5 on the 11th floor of the Municipal Building at 4th and Cherry downtown. Second Meeting of JJWSOS is scheduled September 8th, 2001; at 12:noon; @ the Peace Cafe; 5828 Roosevelt Way NE. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6440&group=webcast
............................................................................. SEPT-5th; 4th & Cherry; 1:30pm-5:pm; 11th flr;-IMPORTANT MEETINGS-BE THERE! by Kenneth G. Dzaman 7:04pm Sun Sep 2 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com IMPORTANT MEETINGS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5th, 2001; 4th and Cherry; Municipal Bulding; 11th Floor; 2:00pm and 5:30pm (PLEASE FORWARD INFORMATION ABOUT THESE MEETINGS!!)! If you witnessed/experienced police misconduct last Saturday, testify at the next City Council Public Safety Committee meeting. 2pm Wednesday September 5 on the 11th floor of the Municipal Building at 4th and Cherry downtown. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6439&group=webcast
............................................ Absolute Racism In the US Criminal Justice System; Is "ABSOLUTE RACISM". by Space 2001 8:32pm Sat Sep 1 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com (The Criminal Justice System Is Criminal; Police Force and Abuse Trauma; Intolerance and Ignorance Creating Fear: TERRORISM (suicide and execution). A Police "FORCE" Out of Control; As I slammed my fist through the wall again. (This letter has been published on (almost) every IndyMedia site around the world and in the US; (plus other web sites and forums); and was sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: September 1st, 2001.).)]. This letter is published on this public web site: http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6422&group=webcast
...................................................................... A Police "FORCE" Out of Control; As I slammed my fist through the wall again. by Kenneth G. Dzaman 5:57pm Sat Sep 1 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com
GOALS: FBI investigation into the internal affairs of the Seattle police department as to how and why this "shootout" happened; - With the FBI filing charges - if the FBI or a grand jury finds laws were broken in the use of deadly force; - and a possible conspiracy to withhold information from the public - by the Seattle police department - that endangered the public and the Seattle police department. A Police "FORCE" Out of Control; As I slammed my fist through the wall again. (See ABSTRACT 1 that follows for explanation of "automatic-reaction" force.). (Please help me edit this letter and deliver it to the Seattle city council at 1:30 pm Wednesday September 5th, 2001; 11th floor Municipal Building - at 4th and Cherry in downtown Seattle.!! City Council Public Safety Meeting: September 5th, 2001: 2:00pm.
If you feel it can be made to communicate any better, please offer your criticism or praise.....on what you feel it could also say, or say "better"...) By Kenn Dzaman A Police "FORCE" out of Control: Racial Profiling charges against Seattle Police department. (Federal statistics show facts of racial profiling in the US.). WTO abuse and lawsuits. Mardi Gras Video of murder - videotaped by Seattle police department. (Questionable withholding of force.). Questionable use of force in killing of unarmed motorists and civilians. Questionable use of force August 25th, 2001; ("protest"?.). Seattle Police Shootout between the Seattle police department - and three Seattle police officer's. Subject: My Experience August 25th, 2001; Walking and driving in Seattle.: http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6422&group=webcast
................................................................ Meeting of [JJWSOS] - The Peace Cafe; 5828 Roosevelt Way NE: Sept. 1, 12:NOON by Kenneth G. Dzaman 11:13pm Fri Aug 31 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Trauma is born By US all: Terrorism. [(Posted on every IndyMedia site around the world and in the US; (plus other web sites and forums); and sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: September 1st, 2001.).)]. September 1st, 2001 Automatic reaction - Good or Bad?. Seattle Cops shooting at Seattle cops. (What was the threat? Seattle police driving Seattle police cars?). http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6407&group=webcast
.............................................................. Automatic reaction - Good or Bad?. Cops shooting at cops. by Kenneth G. Dzaman 5:39pm Fri Aug 31 '01 address: [ JJWSOS ] - JUST-is as JUST-does -WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE.] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Automatic reaction - Good or Bad?. Seattle Cops shooting at Seattle cops. (What was the threat? Their cars? That's a pretty "automatic" response!).). Dear Seattle Times, August 31,2001 Seattle is ignoring the terror the Seattle Police Department is creating - from the killing of unarmed motorists, to video taping murder, to WTO abuse, - and now - public Seattle police officer "shootouts" on public streets! (I resided in the WTO "riot zone" and the Seattle police were very abusive all week. - And were the only people (and are) the only people in Seattle I truly fear.). Now you have the Seattle police crashing a Seattle police car into a Seattle police car; - while the Seattle police officers are on duty; (to "serve and protect the public"), and having a shootout with uniformed Seattle police officers and trying to kill Seattle police officers. Seattle police officers, in uniform, on duty, try to "justifiably" kill each other, and everything is "a-okay!". Maybe they shouldn't have rammed each other?- yeah, - that was the Seattle police departments mistake - they shouldn't have rammed each other. What about identifying a "potential" target or "threat" before shooting? Oh, it was done correctly and to the book? Sounds like the "legal" book on the internal investigations of the Seattle police needs to be burned. For an internal Seattle police department problem - that was allowed to be repeated - that created a public shootout between Seattle police officers; on Seattle streets; For it to be "labeled" a "justifiable shooting" is nothing short of ridiculous and absolute "racism" in our justice system. Ignorance, - intolerance, and hatred - is obviously going to be Seattle's "new" motto. But traffic will "flow" smoothly! Ignorance is bliss Seattle. So I will leave you to it. I am moving from Seattle September 15th, 2001. Goodbye! Sincerely, Kenn Dzaman http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6405&group=webcast
............................................................ Trauma is born - or created? Trauma is born By US all. Terrorism.... by Kenneth G. Dzaman 6:22pm Thu Aug 30 '01 address: JUST-is as JUST-does + WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 email: kennspace@hotmail.com [ Meditation on life, Suicide, and Execution: (Trauma is born - or created? Trauma is born By US all. Terrorism is born by us all. Suicide is born by us all. Execution is born by us all.).]. [(Posted on every Indymedia site (plus other web sites and forums) and sent to 2,000 activists, newspapers, and organizations (people); plus 500 in United States Federal Government; and 150 or so in local (Seattle) government: August 30th, 2001.).)]. Dear Seattle, August 30th, 2001 http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6382&group=webcast
.............................................................. WORD -CONSUMPTION -INTOLERANCE +Execution-or-SUICIDE? =IGNORANCE-is-FEAR. by Kenneth G. Dzaman 11:07am Wed Aug 29 '01 address: JJWSOS [ JUST-is as JUST-does - WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE. ] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com WORD-CONSUMPTION-INTOLERANCE +Execution-or-SUICIDE? =IGNORANCE-is-FEAR. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6320&group=webcast
................................................... Meditation on life, Suicide, and Execution: (Trauma is born - or created?). by kenneth Dzaman 1:47pm Thu Aug 30 '01 address: [ JJWSOS ] - JUST-is as JUST-does -WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE.] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com
.....SEATTLE A Call to Seattle RESIDENTS - WITNESS'S NEEDED; To Seattle Police officers - crashing into Seattle police officer's, and shooting 20 to 39(?) bullets at Seattle Police officers; July 10th, 2001; 1:32 AM; [Just North of - the crest of the hill - at east Roanoke St and Harvard Ave East - (on Capitol Hill).]. If you live in the area and have felt, (or feel), any "endangerment" (or fear) due to this event; (or if you feel you have any information you would like to witness); Please contact: ..... WITNESS, PO Box 85503, SEA WA, 98145-1503 ...... ...[Email: kennspace@hotmail.com]
Dear Seattle, August 30th, 2001
Meditation on life, Suicide, and Execution: (Trauma is born - or created?). (Maybe we could have an; Execution day! Close down I5 once every couple month's so we can push off the people we want to execute, and those that want to jump can also! (ha, ha - trauma humor...)!
There is a very fine line between suicide and terrorism in human created death. As you can see by the events on August 29th, 2001*; Execution and suicide are a form of terrorism. (As is any human created death of another human being). The "fine line" between individual terrorism (suicide) and cultural terrorism (execution) is in who dies. (It usually takes a "trauma" to create "hope"; (like being born.). Please, do not try to create hope by surviving or dying from jumping off a bridge or killing another human being, there are better ways!).
*[(Events August 29th, 2001: Public execution of James Elledge - and public attempted execution (suicide) of the "bridge jumper"). - (One of my best friends had a baby August 29th!!!! Boy, black hair! All fingers and toes and big hands! Congratulations Dan and Julie! Welcome Max Devine to our world! (Maxamillion Devine has been born!).]
The truth is, that the whole of your life's experience is but the outer expression of your inner feelings. Meditation is not the "thought" process some people feel it is; it is in feeling, before the process of thought. In meditation, a person reflects and feels their experiences. To feel life and try to understand it is a very complex process. Meditation done correctly will create the action in your life, to act on your feelings in your day to day existence, without "invisible walls" denying their existence, and making it hard for you to be, who you want to be. So you are sitting on a very high bridge contemplating life, is that terrorism? Terrorism is the intention and creation of human death; individual, or "others".
So I feel there are 100's and even thousands of "suicidal terrorist's" out "there". What do you think and feel they are going to do? How do you stop a suicide, a terrorist, or terrorism? By not creating it. We can ignore these "suicidal terrorists" as long as we want to, but I am here to tell you; It will create terrorism, suicide, and death in Seattle; Just like it did in Littleton or Oklahoma City. Sincerely, Kenneth G. Dzaman [ JJWSOS ] - JUST-is as JUST-does -WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE.] PO BOX 85503, SEA WA 98145-1503 email: kennspace@hotmail.com phone:206-271-8562 Kenneth G. Dzaman [( A call from Littleton Colorado to Seattle Washington::::: (Hi!..... -- mom called..... -- I talked to dad also!.... here is what they didn't say...). WORD-CONSUMPTION-INTOLERANCE+Execution-or-SUICIDE?=IGNORANCE-is-FEAR. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6320&group=webcast
........................................ Coroner calls it "homicide" by Burke 9:37pm Tue Aug 28 '01 (Modified on 6:43pm Wed Aug 29 '01) kilgore@dangpow.com Elledge executed in Walla Walla. Is it Homicide or not? Tonight I was browsing through the articles on the front page of the Seattle Times website and I came accross information of last nights execution in Walla Walla. Anyone who is opposed to the death penalty may agree with me here that this is quite a strange article because in it the coroner lists the mans death as "homocide." If this was the case shouldnt there be a party that is responsible? Here is a clip "Walla Walla County Coroner Stephen Ames said he took the body out at 1:05 a.m. He said there would be no autopsy, as Elledge had requested. He described Elledge's body as that of a "normal, healthy male." Blood samples were taken to verify the lethal injection, the results of which will not be ready for several weeks, he said. He listed the cause of death as homicide, noting that it was an execution." Think what you will, but it seems to me that someone should be held accountable. Full Article http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134334390_execution28m.html http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6304&group=webcast
..................................................... DEAR EDITOR OF 1500 WORLD and NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS (emailing now-August 26, 2001) by Kenneth G. Dzaman 12:49am Mon Aug 27 '01 (Modified on 5:40pm Mon Aug 27 '01) address: Just is as Just does - Witness Society Of Seattle: (JJWSOS) PO Box 85503, SEA WA, 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com I feel when Seattle police officers, - start shooting at Seattle police officers, - while on duty as Seattle police officers, - in the uniform of a Seattle police officer, - driving a Seattle police car; LAWS HAVE BEEN BROKEN! SEATTLE IS IGNORING THIS! I am moving. (But not before I do all I can to see this investigated - the Seattle police department's internal firearms review board is the only "agency" now investigating this "incident"; - I find that disturbing.). http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6170&group=webcast
............................................ An open letter to The Seattle Police and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske by Kenn Dzaman 11:12am Sun Aug 26 '01 (Modified on 5:59pm Mon Aug 27 '01) address: JUST is as JUST does WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE (JJWSOS) PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com (I sent this letter to hundreds of Seattle Police Officers. No, I am not "smart". I am "mad". ha, ha, ha......) Dear Seattle Police, Could someone please give this to "officer" CHIRO. - I have asked Mark Sidran and Mayor Paul Schell to forward this to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, I talked with him last night about this, but could one of you please see that Gil Kerlikowske gets a copy of this - before I show up in his office next week? )I will call him first, and we have already talked briefly about it.). Thanks, Kenn http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6140&group=webcast
..................................................... I was there - it cost me $245.00 - I know I should have taken the bus.... but,,, by Kenneth G. Dzaman 11:18pm Sat Aug 25 '01 (Modified on 7:59pm Thu Aug 30 '01) address: JUST is as JUST does WITNESS SOCIETY OF SEATTLE (JJWSOS) PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com I drove up at 5:15pm..to Denny Park... I should have taken the bus. As I pulled off Aurora...an unmarked Seattle Police Car started to follow me, after a couple turns, I turned into a parking lot. I got to talk to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kelikowske!! I had put my back license plate on the front.. the three Seattle police officers took about 30 minutes to check me out... One was very very mean and played with his gun and stared me down the whole time.. I asked him how he was doing, he said nothing, just stared at me looking as mean and tough as he could, you almost felt sorry for him, almost, he was a total jerk. (Last name Chiro - the other two officers were "nice".). The officers that signed the $258.00 ticket were Phay and G. Rice (they treated me with at least a little respect - Chiro,,, I finally looked him in the eyes and said; "You are a very mean man". http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6080&group=webcast
.................................................... Just is as Just does-Witness Society Of Seattle:(JJWSOS)(Meeting;Sept.;1st;2001) by Kenn Dzaman 7:51pm Fri Aug 24 '01 address: WITNESS PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6048&group=webcast
................................................. Dear Editor of the Seattle Times by SPACE 2001 - (SPACE SAYS; "GET EVOLVED 11:36am Sun Aug 19 '01 address: WITNESS, PO Box 85503, SEA WA, 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, let US strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations..... ( [] ) ............... Abraham Lincoln............ Dear Editor of the Seattle Times, [{( This letter is published on this and other web sites, - and has been emailed to a lot of other different resources: )}] [Seattle Times: August 19, 2001: "When cops draw their guns. Dear Editor of the Seattle Times, Whether it is Seattle police on the streets, or the "surgical" killing done in a "death chamber", killing a human being for any reason, is murderous and terrorism. (State sanctioned.). The idea that when a police officer kills someone it is somehow "justified" because they are a police officer, is ridiculous. When anyone kills anyone, or suffers a traumatic human death, whether it is by accident or with intention; they could lose their job, their family - everything that is precious. They may even become a "self - terrorist" and kill themselves. When a person is involved in human death, the more traumatic it is, and the more responsibility they feel for its creation; the more of their personal humanity will die. A person can only suffer human death in silence for so long, - before all that is left is terror. It is the personal human justice every person feels from the experience they have "set" themselves up for; called, your "feeling conscience". The culture of the United States has created millions of these disenfranchised people; they blow up high schools, federal buildings, beat their wives and kids, and generally just create the terror they are feeling. A police officer is a human being, it is time we started treating them as such. As soon as the Seattle police are on the same side as the "public" they are supposed to serve and protect, I imagine that will be possible. With the federal drug war, as it now stands, there are two cultures in Seattle: Seattle people and Seattle police. Sincerely, Kenn Dzaman http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5932&group=webcast
.................................................. Death (execution?) will kill you, Mr, Governor; it will kill US all. by SPACE 2001 -(SPACE SAYS; "GET EVOLVED"!)! 5:18pm Sat Aug 18 '01 kennspace@hotmail.com Death (execution?) will kill you, Governor Gary Locke; it will kill US all. - THE DRUG WAR CREATES NATIONAL (natural cult-ural predominance of) RACIALLY BIASED EXECUTUION. Death (execution?) will kill you, Mr, Governor; it will kill US all. - THE DRUG WAR CREATES NATIONAL (natural cult-ural predominance of) RACIALLY BIASED EXECUTUION. Surgical Killing; Part #1: - EXECUTION IS HUMAN TERRORISM-MURDER. Surgical Killing; Part #2: - THE DRUG WAR CREATES NATIONAL (natural cult-ural predominance of) RACIALLY BIASED EXECUTUION. Surgical Killing; Part #3: (continuation and completion)- THE DRUG WAR CREATES NATIONAL (natural cult-ural predominance of) RACIALLY BIASED EXECUTUION. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5924&group=webcast
........................................................ Dear Executioner - Governor Gary Locke,
Death (execution?) will kill you Governor Gary Locke. Did you see on the FRONT PAGE of the Seattle PI (today August 18, 2001? "State's chief justice calls for reform in death penalty justice system". I am calling for "reform" also. It must end. You are an executioner and a killer creating terrorism, and you could stop at any time. (This letter is posted on the Internet (at this) and many other news sites: Execution is Government-Sponsored Terrorism-Murder. (Surgical Killing; Part #1). This letter appeared in the Seattle Press June 22, 2001 - I am repeating it. - It has also been posted around the world. Please stop killing people and calling it "execution", if you are going to kill them, please, call it what it is; execution is terrorism and murder, Governor Gary Locke - and have no doubt in your mind, body, or soul; it is what you, Governor Gary Locke, are creating. Sincerely, Kenneth G. Dzaman http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5924&group=webcast
................................................................. NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE; + SEATTLE WASHINGTON. by SPACE 2001 - (SPACE SAYS; "GET EVOLVED"!)! 1:25pm Sat Aug 18 '01 address: WITNESS, PO Box 85503, SEA WA, 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle -- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations..... ( [] ) ............... Abraham Lincoln............................... .................................................... NATIONAL PRESS RELEASE; + SEATTLE WASHINGTON. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5921&group=webcast
................................................................ Dear Mr. Sidran and Mayor Paul Schell, by SPACE 2001 10:27pm Thu Aug 16 '01 address: WITNESS, PO Box 85503, SEA WA, 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Wow, the New York Times! I have reached as many (probably more) people than read the New York Times! (most of) This email has been posted on 100's of web site's, and it is being distributed worldwide! In the last 48 hours, - this email has gone out to over 5,000 newspapers and activist web sites; around the world. (A lot of them are "listservers" I have joined over the last year, - they send it everywhere and to everyone! It has taken me years to get my email list this far!). http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5913&group=webcast
........................................ Witness's Needed: PLEASE! HELP - POST THIS AD IN SEATTLE. by Kenneth G. Dzaman 6:44pm Sun Aug 12 '01 address: Space 2001 PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Racism in the (good ole) USA
I can see like a bullet right through the heart of the USA like an accident in slow motion
raise the rent
and move the dirt out of town Date : Fri, 10 Aug 2001 07:37:50 -0700 http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5819&group=webcast
.............................................................. UPDATED: FRUSTRATION + INTOLERANCE + TERRORISM = FEAR. by Kenneth G. Dzaman 8:24am Sat Aug 11 '01 address: Space 2001 PO BOX 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com
Racism in the (good ole) USA
I can see like a bullet right through the heart of the USA like an accident in slow motion
raise the rent
and move the dirt out of town http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5788&group=webcast
................................................................. Community Accountability when the Seattle police are suspected of breaking laws. by Kenn Dzaman 5:27pm Thu Aug 9 '01 address: Space 2001 PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145 kennspace@hotmail.com Daily Update on Filing charges against the Seattle Police. I need (and am looking for)a good lawyer in Seattle, please help with referrals or other information....thank you,, Kenn. (I will try to keep people as well informed as I can - as I work through this process. (I feel this is something everyone should probably learn.)). http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5764&group=webcast
.......................................... Racism, Intolerance, and Saettle Police Accountability by Kenneth G. Dzaman 3:47am Thu Aug 9 '01 (Modified on 9:01pm Thu Aug 9 '01) address: PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145-15033 kennspace@hotmail.com Is the Seattle Police Deapartment, or individual Seattle Police officers; Accountable for crimes they may have committed? (Beyond apologies or civil monetary settlements?)?? Dear Concerned Human Being, Where is the - "community and public" responsibility?? INTOLERANCE: In Seattle. (It is what I felt all day today as I tried to find out what to do about the Seattle police being charged with breaking the law..). How easy it is to have "others" arrested and put in jail, when "others" break laws. I am finding, - when the Seattle police break laws, (from my experience so far), it doesn't sound like the Seattle police are put in jail or charged with crimes (they have committed on duty). (And there is nowhere to "realistically" report it, without personally filing suit against the police, and having personal evidence against them...What about "community" evidence??? Is it not what Seattle police officers use in arresting "suspects"??? (At least I feel it is the way it is "supposed" to be,, -- the laws passed by the community, suspects may have broken them, so they are arrested???....). I am also feeling that I am being presented with the -"cultural"- feeling, that taking police to court for breaking laws; is somehow, - a "cultural taboo" and should not be discussed. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5751&group=webcast
....................................................................... Racism, Police Abuse, and Drug Intolerance by Kenn Dzaman 10:16pm Sun Aug 5 '01 address: Space 2001 PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com The Seattle Police Department has broken laws, and should be held accountable. Please take a look at this (rather long - but hopefully interesting) article. I feel it needs to be discussed, because the Seattle mainstream press is not confronting or discussing the real problems of Seattle people and police abuse. Thank you, Kenn Dzaman http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5681&group=webcast
............................................................. Local Police-Responsibility, and the CHARGE of Racism by Kenn Dzaman 5:14am Wed Aug 1 '01 address: Space 2001 PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145-1503 kennspace@hotmail.com Who is responsible for local police mistakes? Dear Concerned Human Beings, Writers, Editors, and "others", Aug. 1, 2001 Local Police-Responsibility, -And The CHARGE of Racism. The New York Times is doing the United States, and the city of Seattle, a great disservice. The New York Times is creating fear in Seattle, and being ignorant. The New York Times should be ashamed of it's reporting on the Seattle Police Chief, Gil Kerlikowske, on July 30, 2001; It is a slap in the face to Seattle. The New York Times could report on other facts, -on Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske's performance; But like the Seattle media, The New York Times has chosen ignorance. (I would call The New York Times and the local Seattle media racist, except The New York Times and the local Seattle media would not here it.). Sincerely, Kenn Dzaman_____ http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5519&group=webcast
........................................................ Local-Police-Responsibility,and the CHARGE of Racism in the United States by Kenn Dzaman 1:43am Sun Jul 29 '01 address: PO Box 85503 SEA, WA, 98145-1503 phone: 206-271-8562 kennspace@hotmail.com "I feel" - if the Seattle police department is not held accountable for their exchange of bullets; no one is. I do not feel the city of Seattle is focusing on the foundation causing the problem of street violence and racism between the Seattle police department and the public; it is the Federal drug war. Dear Seattle Journalists, writers, editors, and Concerned Human Beings, You have all recently written articles on violence and race related issues. Yet you fail to openly discuss the events and the fear that is being created from them, and the true basis of the race issues at hand in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department, and this country, may well be racist, and it is time to stop. You are feeding and helping to create the fear on Seattle streets buy not discussing these issues truthfuly. Fine if the United States is not racist, but like anything else, until it is proven and experienced, it is all just talk. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5436&group=webcast
........................................................... An open letter to the People of Seattle by Kenneth G. Dzaman 5:05am Fri Jul 20 '01 address: Space 2001 PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145 phone: 206-271-8562 kennspace@hotmail.com Petition and Public Court Case Against the Seattle Police Department. Help from Residents of Seattle, (and any other witnesses or victims) of abuse or negligence by the Seattle Police Department is being requested. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5193&group=webcast
......................................................... Revocation of Seattle Police Departments Certification and Re-Training PETITION by Kenn Dzaman 3:51am Wed Jul 18 '01 address: Space 2001 PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145 phone: 206-632-0449 kennspace@hotmail.com A petitiion calling for responsibility in the Seattle police departments repeated "internal" communication problems that have put Seattle residents at negligent risk. To: The County Commissioners of King County Washington, the Sheriff of King County Washington, the Governor of Washington, the Washington House of Representatives, the Washington Senate, the Mayor of Seattle, the Seattle Chief of Police, the Citizens of Seattle Washington, the Washington State Prosecutors Office, and citizens of the State of Washington; We, the undersigned residents of Seattle Washington; Feel the communication within the Seattle Police department, and the Seattle police departments communication with the public, has been irreparably damaged. http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5144&group=webcast
..................................... Please help me charge the Seattle police with a crime. by Kenn Dzaman-Space 2001 7:22pm Sat Jul 14 '01 (Modified on 6:02pm Sun Jul 15 '01) address: Kenn Dzaman Space 2001 PO Box 85503 Sea WA 98145 phone: 206-271-8562 kennspace@hotmail.com Please, I feel the Seattle police put my life in unecessary negligent danger. I need as many witnesses and people who feel the same way, to step forward and communicate with me. This is a well documented case, it will take organizing the gathering of witnessed accounts, and people who also feel their life was, and is, in danger due to ongoing police communication problems. Please contact me if you can help. http://seattle.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=5072&group=webcast
.......................................................... Dear Seattle Times by Space 2001 1:25am Fri Jul 13 '01 (Modified on 2:25pm Fri Jul 13 '01) A comment to Seattle Times (I emailed them) on their coverage of the Police shooting 39 shots at each other, while no "criminals" where present. Dear Seattle Times, To say no one was hurt when three Seattle police officers shoot at each other, is like saying no one is hurt when a bank is robbed. I often go through the area where this shooting occurred, and I am very hurt. Any faith I had in the Seattle police is now gone. The Seattle police officers stray bullets, (they shot at each other), threatened my life and safety. (They obviously did not know where there bullets where going.) The Seattle police should be held to the same standards as anyone. The Seattle police shot at each other, obviously with ignorance, negligence, and passion. (They luckily missed?) A crime of ignorance, negligence, or passion, is still a crime; we are not at war. (Unless I have not been notified.) The three Seattle police officers should be charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and reckless endangerment. The three Seattle police officers tried to kill each other and fired twenty shots at each other, while no criminals where around, only themselves. (Don?t police cars have lots of numbers and license plates on them, and radios for communication? How about race, age, and size of the criminal ? police officers? Does any of this matter?) To say no one was hurt from these three Seattle police officers shooting at each other incenses me. The Seattle Times has reaffirmed my loss of faith in personal responsibility in the Seattle police force. The lack of reaction by your newspaper, and in the Seattle people in general, has confirmed my decision to move out of Seattle. (The lack of responsibility in the creation of this ?criminal? event is appalling. The ?criminal? was well known, allowed to go on ?ride alongs?, and had ?the run of the station?. He returned the stolen car, then was arrested. The ?criminal? did not have a gun, and there was no ?criminal? around when the police started shooting at each other. The real sad part is, the ?very severe emotional problems? the criminal was known to be suffering.) I have one request, for it will take me six to twelve months to move. I am 42, white, 6?-4?, 185lbs., balding, -with three piercings. Seattle police and other gun owners, I do not own a gun, I do not drive during rush hours, and I do not road rage?.. -please- -do not shoot me. Sincerely, Kenneth G. Dzaman PO Box 85503 SEA WA 98145 Phone: 206-271-8562 Email; kennspace@hotmail.com http://seattle.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=4976&group=webcast
........................................................ Rally to Protest Racial Profiling and Police Brutality, Tomorrow (7/9) by AV 5:53pm Sun Jul 8 '01 (Modified on 9:06pm Sun Jul 8 '01) Tomorrow, July 9, 2001, at 5:30 PM a march is planned from 23rd and Union (the corner where the SPD took the life of Aaron Roberts) to the SPD's East Precinct. Join the People's Union for Economic Justice and others to protest police brutality and racial profiling and to demand police accountability. As the Aaron Roberts shooting fades from front-page news let's remind Seattle that problems of race, policing and accountability continue and must be addressed. http://seattle.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=4606&group=webcast