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Opinions Abound as Trummel Removes Sensitive Information From Website
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posted by CopyGuru
on Wednesday June 26, @02:18PM
from the axe-to-grind dept.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Paul Trummel Case:
1. The 86-year-old Seattle elder must be in good health to have been able to sustain 111 days in jail, including solitary confinement. Then again, maybe not.
2. "[Trummel] is about the same age as the Vice President of the United States and many years younger than a number of his victims, at least one of whom was 86 when she died in hospice, trembling in fear of his harassment," King County Superior Court Judge James Doerty said in his ruling.
3. As Trummel told CNET Radio, he is an empathetic man who wanted to write personal stories about the histories of his co-residents at Council House, the Seattle retirement home where he formally lived. When he discovered there was physical and psychological abuse, he instead published investigative pieces about that on his website, ContraCabal.org.
4. "Factually, the case is about a mean, old man who becomes vicious and threatening when he doesn't get his own way in the chronic disputes he has with employers, landlords, building managers, and neighbors," Judge Doerty said.
5. "He's being punished for speech on the Internet that should be protected," Lucy Dalglish, of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told AP.
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6. Trummel's original website (mirror available here) constituted harassment under Washington state law.
7. "Trummel is a delusional man who believes in his own fantasies about himself--and his writings, full of conspiracy themes, reflect a further damaged personality," a Council House resident told Seattle Weekly.
8. His English-roots deter him from understanding American law, as stated by Judge Doerty: "This is a state court and a proceeding under a state statute governed by the state constitution. Not being an American, perhaps Mr. Trummel has difficulty in understanding this basic principle of a federal republic."
9. Trummel is a freelance journalist with an international press card.
10. He's not a journalist.
11. Judge Doerty couldn't order Trummel to remove information from Contra Cabal if the website was hosted in Europe.
12. Yes he could. ("The Court's ruling was that the Court's jurisdiction in this case is not over the Internet, it's over Mr. Trummel," Doerty wrote.)
13. What does it really matter that Trummel took down personal information about Council House residents and administrators? It's mirrored on many sites, including this one.
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