I thought ethics were the rulebook.

I approached Oregon State Parks believing that basic human decency, professional accountability, and institutional integrity were shared values — the foundation we all operated from. I assumed that documenting misconduct would lead to correction, that truth-telling would be welcomed, that maintaining ethical boundaries was not just acceptable but expected.

I was wrong.

What I discovered instead was an institution where ethical consistency is viewed as inflexibility, where accountability requests are treated as attacks, where documentation of misconduct becomes more problematic than the misconduct itself. A system so dependent on people's willingness to absorb harm quietly, to fragment under pressure, to prioritize institutional comfort over ethical clarity, that basic integrity becomes revolutionary.

This archive exists because I maintained what should have been unremarkable standards: I documented interactions, I communicated clearly, I held boundaries, I expected good faith responses to legitimate concerns. These simple practices — which should be institutional norms — made me what they considered an impossible adversary.

Not because I was unreasonable. Not because I was vindictive. Not because I operated outside ethical guidelines.

But because I refused to abandon them.

This archive documents what happens when someone approaches institutional dysfunction with uncompromising ethical clarity. It reveals how systems protect themselves by targeting those who witness their failures. It shows what institutional retaliation looks like when deployed against someone whose only "weapon" is documented truth.

This is not a story about one problematic park or a few bad employees. This is a story about what modern institutions have become when basic human decency is perceived as an existential threat to their operations.

I thought ethics were the rulebook.

They should be.

The archive that follows is proof that they're not — and testimony to what happens when someone refuses to accept that corruption as normal.