(Please look at my "advertisement" soliciting a lawyer in my previous blog if you are a lawyer or know of one that might be interested. And on to today's blog):

I admit that I could be considered a biased party in comments on the charges against me, but I will strive for objectivity anyway, even if whomever put together the charging document against me didn't. Such is the stuff of integrity--acting with integrity when others do not. That may seem a bit of an odd statement if you don't know about my long quest to protect your safety when flying and you've only read what little is out there in the press currently about me and judged me accordingly, but my website has most of the info you need to judge what really motivates me.

It isn't extortion as the county wants you to believe. Such a motive Boeing would even have to refute, as when they contacted me in 2002 after I contacted them they tacitly admitted that that was not the case. I told them to ignore anything in the letter I sent them that dealt with my own legal rights if they even thought such a thing by my attempting to protect my legal rights in the letter. Protecting my legal rights was only a small part of the letter in any event, as I made it clear my overriding concern was that Boeing end the fraud I witnessed every day in Quality Assurance at BCA.

What makes the concept of extortion even more preposterous is the fact that at that point, in my first of two letters to Boeing's chief counsel, I did not know that Boeing Headquarters knew about or participated in covering up the noted fraud. Indeed, I hoped they knew nothing about it, and therefore would investigate it and end it when the FAA chose not to. Although I never was or will be an extortionist, there was no reason anyone with that bent could have used at that point to extort money from Boeing. Boeing Headquarters management had done nothing wrong at that point, and was innocent, I dearly hoped, of any complicity in the fraud I saw in the lower echelons of management at Boeing I was reporting to Boeing Headquarters in the letter. This whole subject of extortion is distasteful to me to even write about. I don't know why they chose to even attach that word to anything I did in the charging papers. I had thought that in this day and age only the guilty told mistruths in sworn documents--not the prosecutors. I guess this low hanging mistruth will be covered in trial should it come to that, and when disproved, will damage their credibility as it should.

Dan Satterberg, the acting King County Prosecutor who brought these charges against me after Norm Maleng's death, shows some political savvy in doing so. Even though the charges should have never been brought if even a minimal review of the case was performed, the integrity of the charges is not the point, I believe. Mr. Satterburg is in a heated contest as the Republican candidate in November's election for King County Prosecutor to serve out the remainder of Norm Maleng's term. Mr. Satterberg is obviously in a tough battle because, even though you would swear Norm Maleng and Mr. Satterberg were twins effectively joined at the hip by perusing his campaign web site, and Norm seems to be posthumously campaigning for Mr. Satterberg by all of the pictures of them smiling together on the web site--similar to what Lloyd Bentsen said to Dan Quayle during a famous debate--he is no Norm Maleng. He will have to run under his own name on the ballot as a Republican in a Democratic County. Norm Maleng was respected in the county despite his being a Republican--not because he was one. Republicans today don't poll as well today as they used to. So, I think Mr. Satterberg has an uphill battle, which I think is why they are so agressively going after early endorsements to lock up as many as possible before other candidates get around to asking for them.

There is another component even more important than endorsements--and that is campaign cash. And that is where Mr. Satterberg's brilliance seems to shine at least briefly in these highly questionable charges. By bringing these charges Mr. Sattersberg ensures his campaign will be well funded, indeed. Surely, Boeing will fill his campaign coffers and offer any other assistance his campaign needs as a result. While I saw no Boeing endorsements offhand on Mr. Sattersberg's campaign site yet, I did see many from one of Boeing's chief legal firms, if not the largest legal firm Boeing works with--Perkins Coie. Savvy campaign fundraising indeed. When you are campaining in a county that is overwhelmingly Democratic, a huge campaign chest is likely your only hope in order to launch a large media campaign to convince Democratic voters to vote for you even though you aren't of their party for some reason. And convincing them you are just like Norm Maleng may be a tough sell, indeed, when there are already so many apparent differences.

But back to the subject this blog is titled for--the question that we all should be wondering about the answer to given recent events--Why can't you, the public, get justice? Why are large corporations able to ask for it and our public servants serve their interests even in highly questionable circumstances, but they refuse to serve our interests in bringing corporate criminals to justice? Why is the public unable to get clear evidence of corporate fraud investigated and prosecuted, while corporations seem to get everything they want, right or wrong? Why can corporations demand and get what they see as "justice," when the public is denied justice themselves? Interesting questions to ponder.

Enough about the politicization and changes in the prosecutors office post Maleng. Look to my site soon if you want a better place to put your money if you are looking for justice to be done--keeping people trying to protect your safety and security out of prison--yes, Gerald Eastman's (The Last Inspector's) Legal Defense Fund will debut here as soon as I can figure out how to do it. Check back often for a chance to contribute to a worthy cause--your safety and security. Of course, any money you contribute will only be used for my legal defense from these frivolous charges.