Norm Maleng must be rolling over in his grave. As you likely know, the acting King County Prosecutor filed 16 charges of felony computer tresspass against me for Boeing. It was likely no accident that the filing of these charges came after Norm Maleng's untimely death. I don't know why, but the current acting King County Prosecutor signed Norm Maleng's name posthumously to the charging papers and other related paperwork. To do so besmirches Norm Maleng's long reputation for fairness, I believe. A Republican in a Democratic town, Norm Maleng even won respect from Democratic lawmakers for his fairness. Even though he was a Republican, when the two parties can be rightly (but perhaps crudely) seperated as the party of business (Republicans) and the party of the people (Democrats), I would never have expected him to bow down to Boeing's every whim, even if Boeing is the self described (per one of its corporate managers) most arrogant company on the face of the planet.

It's sad that his legacy may be judged by the travesty of justice these charges against me are. It certainly (absent Norm Maleng's name being signed on the papers) mark a new era for the King County Prosecutor's Office if Mr. Maleng did in fact not approve of these charges. It marks the beginning of an era in which the county will go to any length, ignore any mitigating evidence, twist any logic, and manufacture any motive that serves their purposes in order to do the bidding of a corporation whose own lawbreaking, although very significant in the cases Boeing has not succeeded in keeping out of the public eye, has for the large part not been outed or addressed in any way by the government agencies whose mission it should be to do so, but, like the county, have so far chose not to pursue.

The King County Prosecutor's offices deferrence to Boeing can be excused, I guess, if their bias came from having to deal with the Boeing Legal department during the manufacturing of these charges, and the qualities of the Boeing Legal department, a legal department that I know of no positive acts by for our nation or public, somehow "rubbed off" on them during this process and corrupted its judgement, like that black space gunk from "Spiderman 3" that, once touched, takes over its host and turns their once good motives to the opposite extreme.

What's interesting about these charges is that Norm Maleng, posthumously, accuses me of many things that are not true and could have easily been proven so if the prosecutor's office had not been apparently afraid to talk to me at all before manufacturing the charging papers. Amazing, isn't it? Although you and I are likely not legally savvy, almost everything we have seen on numerous legal TV shows that pride themselves on accuracy shows the suspect being interviewed by the prosecutor before charges are filed. You would think that would be the bare minimum a prosecutor's office would have to do to ensure they did not bring bogus charges against someone because they listened to only half of the story and therefore did not hear the truth. Have people lied to prosecutors in order to get someone charged or their premises searched? Of course. The prosecutor's office apparently has no checks and balances to ensure that does not happen. They just take whatever is reported to them at face value, apparently, like the 5 to 15 billion dollar cost that Boeing told them I might have cost them, a figure that everyone I've seen who has read that has laughed at as ludicrous. Yet it is there in black and white in my charging papers. The prosecutor's office just took that statement from Boeing as the Gospel, not question it or Boeing's true motives that many people have already deduced by themselves with pure common sense--Boeing is using the prosecution of me to deter others who know of Boeing lawbreaking from coming forward.

Indeed, holding the real criminals in this case accountable seems impossible given the bias the "new" posecutors have shown. Ignore evidence of crimes that may even have resulted in deaths by a powerful corporation. Try a powerless public citizen that attempts to bring to justice the corporation that the prosecutors apparently don't want brought to justice. Selective hearing, I think they call it. Sure, I made mistakes attempting to singlehandedly bring Boeing to justice against these odds. But who among us would not use every method at their disposal to bring crimes placing the lives of millions of people at risk to an end?

So think twice before you enter a bank to cash a check with your Ichiro signed bat you just purchased nearby in a bag and you think about "swinging away" at a bank robber's head you just happen to come up behind as you enter the bank as he is mowing down your fellow citizens with his assault rifle. In this county, you may end up in prison for battering the bank robber unconscious or killing him, while the bank robber goes free (if alive) if they are sufficiently well connected.

Yes, I think Norm is rolling over in his grave. What fair and ethical person wouldn't be when their good name they've cultivated over the decades is attached to this injustice? Norm, even though a Republican, wasn't the type of Republican that sides with business over the public interest, especially in a case like this where that is so egregiously being done.