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[psychedelic]

Hi,
"jerkwad"..Hmm..I like that. I would agree!

[Pow3hatan]

And the nightmare drags on...

My attorney informed me yesterday afternoon that the judge will schedule one more hearing after realizing he needs further information before he can make a decision! The court didn't tell her anymore than that, so I've no idea what more the judge wants to know or from who.

Waiting now for the notice of the next court date. Hopefully this delay is in my favor, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[Pow3hatan]

Yes, ESL Hobo you got it right...the college's game has been to harass and intimidate me at every chance in hopes of making me give up...but they're only p.....g me off more and motivating me to work harder to win. I've gotten some inspired ideas and taken some new actions in my moments of controlled rage.

Their biggest attempt at intimidation has been trying to sue me in criminal court for passing out some information about what they did to me in front of the school during last summer's graduation ceremony. The police interviewed me once (I refused to answer most questions) and the prosecutor's office called me in last month (no interpreter, so it was postponed to Jan. 21). The college's ploy came clear when the college VP (representing the college) asked me if I would apologize to the people who felt they were offended and drop my lawsuit against the college in exchange for them dropping their attempt to sue me. I made it clear to the VP that I had nothing to apologize for and it will be the college president & other perpetrators who will apologize to me. Also, the only conditions I'll agree to to drop my lawsuit will be my terms, not theirs.

While at the prosecutor's office, I gave them several documents detailing the college's harassment, lies and violations of the law and my rights, and a letter explaining I will not be answering any questions until after all my complaints are thoroughly investigated and action taken against the college by the appropriate law enforcement or government agency. Nobody has handled my complaints of clear & obvious crimes against me for over a year, yet the prosecutor's office wants to call me in for this nonsense that I used the words "wicked witches" in the information I passed out - no names or other identifying information. I'll post the English version here later.

The prosecutor said they would give me an answer, but so far I have not received anything except the notice for the next meeting on Jan. 21.

[romanworld]

[ESL Hobo]

hi,
one more thing,,,your previous attorney ....."going south"... is just another indication that no one wants to get involved with your case.

When a someone here in Taipei says they have to go south for one reason or another,,,it's just a cop out. Really it means, "I am quitting because I can see no good results."

Everyone involved knows this case may set a precident, so they will continue with the stall tactics forever, notice how quickly they repeatidly put their former president in jail. It's a matter of will or the lack thereof and a true miscarriage of justice.

best wishes on the 21st.

mr hobbs

[Pow3hatan]

Here it is...the information I handed out that's got the prosecutor's office doing their "best" impression of investigating serious crime (allegedly by me) in Taiwan:

A terrible, often silent crime is happening in Taiwan. False accusations of sexual harassment and abuse!
It�s victims are either too embarrassed to speak out�or worse, they feel helpless and hopeless because of the lack of protection for the falsely accused and the huge costs to defend themselves.
They are doubly victimized by their dishonest accusers & fellow conspirators and by the Gender Equity/Sexual Harassment laws which are unfairly and unjustly biased toward the accuser.
I am a victim of a such a heinous false accusation!
A student at the ...College of Nursing in June 2007 falsely accused me of �touching her on the waist� in a public place. Out of hundreds of people standing and walking all around us at the outdoor event, nobody else but one co-conspirator classmate claimed to have seen the �touch.� Of course, no one else saw anything because no such �touch� ever occurred!
Since last June, I have been caught in this surreal nightmare having to defend and clear myself of this false accusation and abuse. The nursing college�s improper �investigation� and �decision� against me, all procedures controlled inside the nursing college, were just a sham, a �kangaroo court� to support the goal of a few administrators to push the last foreign English teacher out of the school and discourage me from challenging their wrong.
The W... W...(think "The Wizard of Oz") of ... � two high-ranking administrators � denied me my human and legal rights to a fair and unbiased investigation. The only way since then to correct this injustice has been to file a lawsuit against the three perpetrators who did this to me.
Help me and others like me to stop this harassment and abuse of the innocent before someday you or someone you know becomes the next victim!
One day it could be your own child who is caught in this same web of lies and deceit. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure�prevent this nightmare from happening to you or someone you love!
Contact any of the following to say NO TO FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE and show your support for better laws to protect the innocent in Taiwan:

If anybody is interested in the names & addresses of the contacts, please PM me.

[romanworld]

[ESL Hobo]

Hi,
I would change that to:
False Accusations of Sexual Harassment and/or Slander.

Slander is much more common.
Being accused of and smeared for something that is untrue.
For example, one common way of getting rid of a teacher is spreading the rumor that he or she is Gay.

Of course it is not legally considered slander unless it can be proven with hard evidence.
In most cases there is no hard evidence, it's based on:
RUMOR MONGERING.

And hey there's no law against that!

E-Taiwan News just came out with an article stating that Taiwan ranks very high in being considered a "free" country and rated high on civil liberties.
Unfortunately they were not rated for their SNEAKINESS in dumping ESL Teachers,

[Pow3hatan]

[Pow3hatan]

Yesterday was the second meeting at the prosecutor's office. Here are the high(low)lights:

1. Thankfully the assistant prosecutor first read me my rights, including the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney if I could not afford my own.
2. College asks again if I would be willing to negotiate to drop their attempt to sue me. Almost same ridiculous conditions they presented the first time, except this time instead of asking me to drop my lawsuit against them, they requested I agree to pay some compensation to the "victims" of the "offensive," slanderous comments I'm accused of making. Same answer by me as the first time - "NO"!
3. Prosecutor asked me several questions concerning the information passed out in front of the college and if I did it, etc, but I took the 5th (no answer) on all questions. I later told the assistant prosecutor I could not answer any questions without having an attorney and I had no attorney because I can not afford one.
4. Near the end of the session, the college representative said the college will also request I be deported if found guilty of their allegation. I reminded the judge I have not and did not slander, defame or harm anyone...it is the college who have slandered, defamed, harmed, abused & harassed me. What twisted monsters to accuse me of what they have blatantly done to me! Sick, sick, sick! The real victim here is being further victimized by his oppressors.

If the college has nothing to hide, why are they trying so desperately and dirtily to either scare me off or get me out of here?

5. End of session & assistant prosecutor said the two possibilities at this point are that the case could be dismissed for lack of evidence or reason, or I could be called in again for questioning or for trial.

There was also an interpreter, a Filipino guy who apparently does this kind of work for the court, and it definitely was necessary and helped me to understand what was going on and what was being said. He could also read Chinese which was necessary at the end when I had to read the Chinese transcript of the proceedings and sign for it. There was one important error in one of my statements the interpreter pointed out and with his help it was corrected.

[Pow3hatan]

The time has finally come to bring out the heavy artillery and pound some evil into submission.
For those of you who would like to help, if you have experienced any kind of serious problem (especially involving a crime, false accusation, legal, human rights abuse, etc) that you would like me to include in my report to the authorities here, please write up the relevant and key details and either:

A. post it on this topic
B. PM me, anonymously or not
C. email me at [email protected], anonymously or not

After Chinese New Year I'll be contacting relevant bodies to elevate this campaign to a higher level.

[ESL Hobo]

Hi Powhatan,

Whether or not you choose to drop the case perhaps you could do a series of articles with one of Taiwan's local newspapers about the plight of foreign teachers here, using your story as an example. Finding other teachers to step forward is a great idea especially if you are using the media, they won't need to go on trial, just relate stories to their newspaper audience.

If a newspaper will pick up your story and run with it, it means you have a strong case and their lawyers will protect their newspaper and maybe you as well.

Take care

[citylightsruralcalm]

[Pow3hatan]

Updates coming soon

[Pow3hatan]

The sham of a sham of a sham continues! Already six weeks since the first court decision was to have been made, then cancelled, then I was informed that because the judge on my case would be transferred to the Chen Shui-bian fiasco, my case would be transferred to another judge.

Progress since then: NADA - ZIP - ZILCH!

Once again my lawyer told me (today) that she has not received any notice of the next action or appointment of the new judge to my case. I thought I was living in free-world Taiwan, but, in reality, it seems as far as the law and justice are concerned I'm really in communist China, Vietnam, Cuba, any of a number of repressive, corruption-plagued & rights-averse countries of the world.

On a more positive note, in the past 3 weeks I've gotten off letters & supporting documents to the Chief Prosecutor, the Judicial Yuan (http://www.judicial.gov.tw/en/), the Executive Yuan (http://www.ey.gov.tw/mp.asp?mp=11), and the Control Yuan (http://www.cy.gov.tw/eng/index.asp). So far I've gotten a brief phone call & acknowledgment letter from the Judicial Yuan this week and they said they would investigate and get back to me later.

I had a friend contact one of the popular local print media and supposedly they are interested in doing my story and they're "processing" it and will get back to me when they are ready. I'm writing an introduction to this sordid tale and might send it out to the international media to see if there's any interest to cover this long-running and ongoing saga. If anyone else wrote about such an experience I'd love to read their story.