MEMO Dear Neighbor

MEMO

TO: Eastlake Neighbors

FROM: Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

DATE: July 25, 2012 A.D.

SUBJECT: defamatory rumors and consequential damages

Dear Neighbor,

I am sharing this letter with you to inform you about personal problems I am having with certain members of our community, and to solicit any assistance you may be willing to provide me in resolving these problems to the mutual satisfaction of all concerned.

A few months ago, I found it necessary to write to the proprietors of a certain local business, to complain about one of its employees for insinuating that I was “building a bomb” in my dwelling unit.

I am hardly the kind of person who would resort to such criminal behavior; on the contrary, after transferring to UCLA from St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, California, in March of 1968, I have actively opposed America’s wars many times, even when that stance hurt me in very damaging ways.

I was extremely disappointed when the local business proprietors neglected to reply, failed to apologize, and fell totally silent, when some kind of response, either written or verbal, was certainly warranted under the circumstances, in my opinion at least.

Now, it appears that this same type of defamatory behavior has reached officials of the University of Washington. On May 8 of this year, I applied for admission to the Summer Only 2012 session at UW, because I was very interested in enrolling in one of 2 Human Rights classes being offering by 2 different UW Departments.

The day after I submitted my application and paid the $60.00 fee, I was told by an official of the Registrar’s Office that there was a “hold” on my application because, as they put it, there was “open police action” involving me. This came as a great surprise to me.

Within the same hour, I went directly to the UW Campus Police Department and spent about 30 minutes with a veteran Lieutenant. After checking their internal records, and after doing a routine warrant check downtown with the Seattle Police Department, he politely informed me that there was no “open police action” involving me, there were no outstanding warrants for my arrest, and I have no criminal record whatsoever -- no misdemeanors, no felonies, none.

Today, I received a very brief letter from the University Registrar, claiming that “my application was not processed” and “returning the fee to me in a money order.” This was a rather questionable claim, because placing any kind of “hold” on a routine application for a Summer Only session certainly constitutes evidence that some sort of “processing” must have occurred.

What is most disturbing to me about this letter is the fact that I had previously made every effort to inform the proper University officials of the findings that were politely and respectfully shared with me by that veteran Lieutenant of the UW Campus Police.

Therefore, any reasonable UW official should have admitted their gross negligence in this matter, particularly after realizing that the Registrar’s Office had evidently not made any effort to confirm this rumor about “open police action” involving me. Instead, they had relied entirely upon unsubstantiated hearsay.

A routine telephone call to the UW Campus Police would certainly have clarified this matter in no time at all. It only took me no more than 30 minutes to obtain that confirmation, after walking directly to the UW Campus Police office on N.E. Boat Street.

Moreover, the Registrar’s Office then failed to remove the hold, even after being told that there was no such “open police action”. In my studied opinion, at the very least this was an act of gross negligence by all personnel who have been involved in obstructing my access to higher education at UW, including also certain academic personnel.

And, in point of law, that gross negligence appears to have also violated several different provisions of two (2) Human Rights Treaties to which our Federal Government is a State Party i.e. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Both of those U.S. Treaties are elevated to the status of supreme Law of our Land by the Supremacy Clause.

Article 26 of the Declaration reads:

Everyone has the right to education. ...

Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

Article 19 of the Covenant reads:

Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

As one neighbor observed today, there is a rather painful irony in the fact that the classes I wanted to take were scheduled specifically to study International Human Rights law, in theory and in practice.

If you might be willing and able, I would certainly appreciate any information you can provide me that might help me track down the source of the damaging and terribly false rumor about “building bombs” in my dwelling unit.

Similarly, if you can provide me with any useful insights concerning what motivations UW officials might have to obstruct my access to higher education, I will certainly appreciate that information too.

If you don’t mind, any communications from you to me are best put in writing and mailed to the SHIP TO address after my name below.

Meanwhile, and for your information, I have exercised my right to lodge a formal complaint against specific UW Registrar officials with the Consumer Protection Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s office, with offices in downtown Seattle. And, I am presently waiting for that office to assign a proper case number and to request a formal response from those same UW Registrar officials.

I will look forward to hearing from you, and thank you very much for your consideration.

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell

Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

Private Attorney General, 18 U.S.C. 1964(a)

http://www.supremelaw.org/decs/agency/private.attorney.general.htm

Criminal Investigator and Federal Witness: 18 U.S.C. 1510, 1512-13

U.S. Mail:

Paul Andrew Mitchell

c/o Lake Union Mail

117 East Louisa Street

Seattle 98102-3203

WASHINGTON STATE, USA