The Jersey Boys Are Masters of Distraction.

Jo Craven McGinty & David W.Chen, "New Jersey, Trying to Save in '02, Drove Up Pension Costs Instead," in The New York Times, June 15, 2007, at p. A1.
David Kociniewski, "Often Accused, Never Charged, Newark's Ex-Mayor Faces U.S.," in The New York Times, June 15, 2007, at P. B1.

June 28, 2007 at 4:33 P.M. hackers are preventing me from printing items from my msn group, where letters have been deleted from essays. I get a blank page with no address at the bottom. I am blocking http://view.atdmt.com/msn/iview/msnnkhac001728; http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N29998.msn/B2246

I cannot tell how much damage has been done to my MSN writings at this point. My Norton System is still damaged. These are crimes which continue to go unpunished, even as those responsible for these crimes judge the conduct of others. New Jersey is home to organized crime and unprecedented levels of hypocrisy. This harassment is routine.

The following essay may produce a new wave of attacks against my computer from New Jersey's power structure or hirelings. Overnight a number of "errors" were inserted that have now been corrected. June 16, 2007 at 10:16 A.M.

June 19, 2007 at 3:39 P.M., my acess to MSN is blocked. I will keep trying during the course of the day to regain access to my account and group. I am blocking: http://m1.2mdn.net.viewad/817grey.gif and http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3754.sitemsn.comn/B...

June 20, 2007 at 10:45 A.M. I am unable to print items from my computer, receiving only a blank page with this address on it:

http://ads.pointroll.com/PRServe/?ad=g030W2007420192018&pos=h&pub=msn&size=728_90&code=n...

These efforts at censorship take place in a society that criminalizes interference with free speech. They cannot continue for a period of years without the cooperation of government entities. Who will next receive such treatment? What opinions will be prohibited in the future? My Norton Security system is still damaged. I will do my best to continue writing.

June 20, 2007 at 3:25 P.M. I have discovered new "errors" inserted in this text. I am blocking the following sites:

http://m1.2mdn.net/viewad/817-grey.gif and http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N763.networksite.ww...

June 24, 2007 at 2:28 P.M. I am unable to print items from my group receiving only a blank paper with this address:

http://view.atdmt.com/MSN/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct/01

Whenever things get difficult for the Jersey Syndicate, they make it a point to throw someone -- preferably a minority group member from their own Democratic party, like Sharpe James maybe -- to the feds. This serves as a distraction, played up for all its worth through their employees and friends in the media. "We have newspaper people on the payroll," New Jersey politicians say, as they chuckle over their latest thievery. The New York Times? The Star Ledger?

With the budget battle not happening this year, thanks to Corzine's unexpected return to Trenton, after an accident the Jersey Boys planned (or hoped?) would "take him out" permanently, there is little to serve as a smoke screen for long expected "unpleasant" publicity as all of the Christmas Tree theft and pension fund games begin to come to light.

New Jersey's Supreme Court decided (with two dissents!) that mental retardation precludes imposition of the death penalty, but not life in prison. In fact, mental impairment that is substantial enough -- or severe retardation -- should preclude any criminal liability. Two of these so-called justices are willing to see mentally impaired persons, unaware of what is happening to them (or why), be killed by the state. All of the members of this disgraced tribunal are unaware of how uncivilized this entire discussion of the death penalty appears to the rest of the nations of the world, especially those in the developed world. Ronald Smothers, "New Jersey Court Says Showing of Mental Retardation Can Block Execution," in The New York Times, June 19, 2007, at p. B4.

Heads will roll in Trenton, many heads will roll and soon. As with any criminal enterprise, everybody in Trenton is secretly informing against their "friends" (not to mention state Supreme Court justices conspiring to get charges filed against their brethren), while pretending to stand-up under the federal pressure. When you hear a New Jersey politician say, "You can trust me!" Run for the hills.

The power of political bosses "running things" is threatening the independence of the judiciary in New Jersey. That's what the U.S. Supreme Court should be worried about.

The bad cops are Codey and Roberts, together with other backstage "operators." The good cops trying to bring the budget mess and culture of thievery under control are Corzine and (surprisingly) Menendez, who is at least trying to remain or appear neutral. "On the one hand," Senator Menendez said, "but on the other hand ..." You can't blame him. Menendez wants to see how all of this "struggle" will play out before determining where he stands, after taking a poll and consulting with his political contributors. The best hope for New Jersey's Democrats is an honest, young politician -- like Cory Booker, from Newark. Tostones, Bob?

"To gain Mr. Booker's backing last fall, the Devils' principal owner, Jeffrey Vanderbeek, agreed to provide close to 5,000 free tickets each season for local children and $250,000 each year for sports and recreation. He also promised that Newark residents would get first dibs on permanent arena jobs."

Andrew Jacobs, "Owners Push New Arena, But Residents Fear Change," in The New York Times, at p. B1

Jobs and supplemental spending from the building of a new stadium means that the James-Booker mayoralties will combine to bring millions of dollars into Newark. What these men have figured out is that, minorities fighting over crumbs, means that things do not change in a progressive way.

African-Americans have a special moral claim and entitlement that no other ethnic group should claim. This is due to the legacy of slavery based on race. I believe this is an inescapable and irrefutable moral conclusion. Whatever discrimination persons from other ethnic groups have faced simply "pales" by comparison with racism in America. I know that this will make me unpopular with persons from my own ethnic group, but it happens to be true. Hacking into my computer to destroy my writings or threatening me will not change that truth.

New Jersey should make an emergency request to borrow New York's Attorney General, Mr. Andrew Cuomo. Mr. Cuomo has grown in his current position, actually prosecuting political corruption during his first months in office. This is unheard of zeal in New Jersey, where there are certainly fine county prosecutors neglected by the political structure, even as corruption usually results in a judgeship -- or a spot on the Supreme Court -- for perpetrators.

African-Americans have figured out that, as usual, they are getting screwed by the Trenton Syndicate. Sharpe James is an altar boy compared to most New Jersey politicians. Mr. James is no longer actively involved in politics. James was fined $44,000 for "campaign finance irregularities."

In a state where many political contributions are in the form of cash in a brown paper bag, Mr. James decided to declare legally the money he received and to reimburse the moneys deemed "improperly" charged to the city. He also paid the $44,000 fine. Selective leaks to the feds coming out of Trenton, probably, leave the U.S. attorney with no option in the matter. Mr. James should ask himself: "Who is feeding information, accurate or not, to the feds and why do they want to distract people from the millions -- and even BILLIONS -- disappearing from the pension fund, to say nothing of 'Christmas Tree' items?"

Why Mr. James, I wonder? Why do the Trenton Boys, especially other prominent Essex County politicians -- who shall remain nameless -- feel that they need a distraction right about now? Take a wild guess.

Another dismissal of a questionable administrator at UMDNJ -- where $100 MILLION OR MORE vanished without so much as a "by your leave" -- will result in NO ONE -- NOT ANYBODY -- going to prison because thieves all claim to be white persons. On the other hand, Wayne R. Bryant and Sharpe James may have to look forward to years of legal hassels. Both men -- yes, even Mr. Bryant -- are child-like compared to the big time crooks in the "family-like" organization running much of the Garden State. This explains the putrid aroma of corruption escaping from the corridors of power and New Jersey's Supreme Court chambers. (See "SYBIL R. MOSES and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

"In 2002, struggling to close a huge budget gap" -- which was probably caused by all the money they stole the previous year -- "the New Jersey Legislature hurriedly passed a bill offering thousands of New Jersey employees generous early retirement packages. Unions applauded because layoffs had been averted. Gov. James E. McGreevey claimed the state would save millions by cutting its payroll."

McGreevey was also often accused of "shenanigans," but never (so far!) actually indicted: "... savings have proved negligible compared with the long term cost of the plan. By its own accounting, the state would have to set aside $617 MILLION today to finance those sweetened pensions" -- many such tasty pensions probably went to old buddies of the Jersey Boys who know how to show their appreciation -- "[this will] double the amount [New Jersey] says it will have saved by trimming the work-force and reducing salaries." In other words, they lost twice the money that they claim to have "saved" with their shenanigans. (Hackers recently inserted errors in this last sentence, which I have now corrected.)

How much is coming back to the politicians under the table? I bet it's really tasty and sweet all right. Anybody will retire if they can get one of those "sweet" pensions. So what if you kick back a few grand? It's the suckers' (taxpayers') money anyway. Trenton politicians respond only with a horrifying smile and a slurred greeting: "How the hell are ya?"

More than HALF-A-BILLION quacamoles lost to the taxpayers or forked over by the people as a result of incompetence or worse. (Inserting errors in this text proves my point, by the way, morons.) However, New Jersey's politicians are eager to discuss the proposed law to ban smoking in cars when there are children in a vehicle. It is really your wallet that is being "smoked" by these Jersey Boys (of all genders) with a loud laugh and some Champagne:

"Hey, have a cigar! How about a fruit basket?" Sanctioning a justice because he gave somebody a business card is a distraction from the politically tainted decision-making on the most disgraced high court in the United States, the New Jersey Supreme Court. How do you live with yourself, Stuart Rabner? How do you look in the mirror in the morning, then judge other people? Richard J. Codey -- upon unveiling his portrait as Governor -- said he "expected that his picture would hang in a post office."

Freudian slip, Richard? Worse, much worse seems to be involved in New Jersey than little-old Freudian slips. No wonder they want to obstruct my communications. They don't want you reading this stuff.

"These and other pension enhancements" -- that means, "shenanigans" -- "combined with years of skipping payments into the system, have undermined the state's ability to meet its pension obligations without raising taxes, borrowing money or shifting taxes from other state programs, experts and lawmakers warn."

Wait till your dad finds out that his pension check may not be coming soon. Won't he be surprised? Will it be O.K. that his pension money was stolen if safety laws say that he can't smoke in the car with the grandkids? I doubt it. Oh, happy Father's Day! By the way, dad, your pension is gone. Mazeltov.

New Jersey's politicians must think people are stupid. As for Stuart Rabner, there is much concern in the African-American community, also among poor people and other minority group members -- whether their so-called representatives in Trenton express it or not -- that Mr. Rabner will continue the "don't ask, don't tell" policies of the current court when it comes to political corruption, cronyism, favoritism and secrecy that can be denied publicly, all of which has characterized the Poritz-Zazzali Court's dismally failed policies and unsound decisions.

New Jersey's Supreme Court and legal system have become laughing stocks and sources of disgust for decent people everywhere. (I anticipate that "errors" will be inserted in this essay, again, soon. I experienced difficulties in getting back into this blog at 9:41 P.M.)

Where are those reports, Terry? Who gets to read them? What other matters are handled secretly? How many others are tortured in the Garden State? Who else gets raped "for their own good"? Let us direct these questions to New Jersey's 36 year-old attorney general, Ms. Ann Milgram.

Saying Goodbye to Richard Rorty.

A window of opportunity amidst all of the computer assaults exists, so I will post this essay. I never know whether I will be able to continue writing or what new horror awaits me when I get on the computer in the morning. The number of visitors to this blog or to my books' sites is probably grossly underestimated. I am finding it difficult to get my ISBN number. I'll keep trying. Damage to these essays and more frustrations are always expected. The struggle continues, every day. See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture."


Richard Rorty, "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids," in Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin, 1999), p. 3.
Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 189-199.
Mark Edmundson, ed., Wild Orchids and Trotsky (London: Penguin, 1993), pp. 1-29.
Stephen F. Eisenman, The Abu Ghraib Effect (London: Reaktion 2007), entirety.


I was saddened to learn of Richard Rorty's recent death. I disagreed with some of his philosophical conclusions, while finding others very persuasive. I always enjoyed reading his cool and elegant prose. He is second only to Brand Blanschard as a prose stylist and philosopher of the post-war generation in America. It happens that I was reading some stories by Raymond Chandler and came upon his summary of Philip Marlowe's character, which (I believe) defines Rorty:

"To me, he is the American mind: a heavy portion of rugged realism, a dash of good hard vulgarity," -- Rorty could never be vulgar, but he was prosaic and unpretentious -- "a strong overtone of strident wit, an equally strong undertone of pure sentimentalism, an ocean of slang, and an utterly unexpected range of sensitivity."

Maybe that's me too. As a way of saying goodbye to our friend, Richard Rorty -- how about a closer look at his classic autobiographical essay "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids"?

I.

This essay is the most personal of Rorty's writings and provides a perspective on all of his works. Rorty begins by acknowledging his status as whipping boy for both the Right and Left of the political spectrum. Rorty's work has been criticized by those who haven't bothered to read it on the grounds that he is: 1) a "relativistic, irrationalist, deconstructing, sneering, smirking intellectual," an "elitist" who is also "unpatriotic"; and 2) Rorty is an alleged "intellectual snob" who has "nothing to say to blacks, or other groups who have been shunted aside by American society."

Notice that this is as much or more an insult directed against African-Americans and other minorities as it is against Rorty. People who say that African-Americans don't care about Kant, Hegel or Marx should have a chat with the internationally respected scholar of modern German thought -- Angela Davis. As for Richard Rorty's anti-Americanism, Rorty writes: "I see America pretty much as Whitman and Dewey did, as opening a prospect of unlimited democratic vistas."

I concur:

"I think that our country, despite its present and past atrocities, despite its continuing eagerness to elect fools and knaves to higher office -- is a good example of the best kind of society so far invented."

That statement doesn't sound unpatriotic to me. There is a duality in Rorty's psyche and intellectual project -- similar to a division found in most good minds -- between inner and outer selves, so-called subjective and objective aspects of a single human perspective. Rorty's aesthetic interests, symbolized in this essay by his childhood love of orchids, is contrasted with the philosopher's sense of social responsibility, aimed at overcoming the subjective/objective division, or what he might have described in his youthful Marxist phase as "praxis." Religious persons -- notably thinkers in the Third World's tradition of liberation theology -- speak of a "salvific mission," a calling to be of service to others in a communal project of liberation. Rorty says:

"I wanted to be both a ... nerdy recluse and fighter for justice."

Again:

"My starting point was the discovery of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, a book which I read as saying: granted that philosophy is just a matter of out-redescribing the last philosopher, the cunning of reason can make use even of this sort of competition. It can use it to weave the conceptual fabric of a freer, better, more just society."

Rorty's heros are Hegel and later Dewey, Proust and Nabokov. Rorty's diagnosis of the failure of the intellectual project of Western civilization, aside from scientific and technological achievements of an instrumental sort, is worth pondering:

"As I tried to figure out what had gone wrong, I gradually decided that the whole idea of holding reality and justice in a single vision had been a mistake -- that pursuit of such a vision had been precisely what led Plato astray."

In the absence of religion, there was one alternative:

"I decided the hope of getting a single vision by becoming a philosopher had been a self-deceptive atheist's way out, so I decided to write a book about what intellectual life might be like if one could give up the Platonic attempt to hold reality and justice in a single vision."

Rorty's life is an effort to hold reality and justice in a single vision. Rorty substituted what his orchid symbolized, literature and all art, for absolute (or objective?) truth, relegating philosophy to the secondary task of interpretation and description. Philosophy was to find MEANING rather than TRUTH. Big words get capital letters in Steven King's blue collar America, where I happen to live. If you don't like it, tough. In fact, TOUGH.

Rorty believed in the superiority of his moral view and in his obligation to work for the causes required by that moral view, while arguing for his unique brand of "cultural relativism." Is there a contradiction in these commitments and in Rorty's intellectual stance? Yes.

Despite Rorty's brilliant philosophical fencing. No one landed a hit against Rorty during his life in published exchanges with the best philosophical minds in the world. I would have done no better in debate against him. I am sure that there is indeed a contradiction in Rorty's project. But then, there is a contradiction in human life and in all of us. There is a similar tension in most or all of the best philosophical systems. There would have to be if we are living dual-aspect lives, as material and spiritual beings -- earth-bound and leaping into flight -- which we should be. We must live within contradictions. This is true even if we do not contain multitudes.

Problems not adequately explored by Rorty's critics include the question of whether Rorty merely discovered a new religion, the religion of art, as others fashioned the religion of science. Rorty certainly has a religious and Romantic mind. Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett display a somewhat excessive fondness for the methods of science in all aspects of life that seems much more bizarre -- and mystical -- to many people in the world than Rorty's fondness for, say, Nabokov.

The politically correct thought-police in New Jersey would happily burn Lolita, for example, with a glee worthy of Savonarola. Indeed, New Jersey's fashionistas are tempted and sometimes do burn people like Rorty, in the effort to make the world safe for Ralph Nader and "The Colbert Report." I have spent hours today seeking to post two poems, one by Lord Byron and the other by Shakespeare, neither of which (evidently) met with the approval of the forces of political correctness. True, neither of those poets was a woman. However, Shakespeare may be described as a male lesbian.

II.

I might have some fun at Rorty's expense by highlighting the contradictions at the center of his thinking, so as to suggest incoherence and collapsing foundations. Many lesser minds engage in book-length efforts to do exactly that, succeeding only in demonstrating their own obtuse lack of comprehension. Such a critique is unworthy of a philosopher and disrespectful of a great thinker who is no longer here to respond. I will do something different. Rorty did not set out to be the Kant who wrote The Critique of Pure Reason. In fact, Rorty's goal was not only to do the opposite, but to suggest that what Kant had done could no longer be done by anyone -- which was a way of trying to do what Kant had done.

I will take up Rorty's project, suggesting that we turn it on its head, as Marx is said to have done for Hegel. I will offer one interpretation, a liberal-ironic interpretation of Rorty that does not challenge or accept his foundational-anti-foundationalism. (This last sentence has already been altered several times by hackers.) We will leave our epistemological and metaphysical issues for another day. Let's get into the whole beauty thing. Let's play with Rorty's ideas. They're really fun and provocative.

Let us take up Rorty's gauntlet and examine the "engaged aesthetics" advocated by Yale's answer to France's Jean Paul Sartre. I contend (this would have been much to Rorty's surprise) that we will discover a very Kantian morality and also what we may designate by the word "God" at the center of the beautiful objects Rorty revered along with the shared moral struggle for which he worked. Somehow, on the way to becoming Dewey, Rorty discovered the idealist child inside his pragmatist's heart. Consider two quotations, the first from Rorty's Contigency, Irony, and Solidarity; the second, from an important recent essay by art historian Stephen F. Eisenman:

"... solidarity is not best thought of as a recognition of a core self, the human essence in all human beings. Rather, it is best thought of as the ability to see more and more traditional differences (of tribe, race, customs, and the like) as unimportant when compared with similarities with respect to pain and humiliation -- the ability to think of people wildly different from ourselves as included in the range of 'us.' That is why I said ... that detailed descriptions of particular varieties of pain and humiliation (in, e.g., novels or ethnographies), rather than philosophical or religious treatises, were the modern intellectual's principal contributions to moral progress."

Visual arts and films might be added to Rorty's list of art objects. Rorty goes on to criticize Kant for emphasizing rationality and obligation, rather than feeling. My answer: What about Kant's final Critique of Judgment? This view of Kant, without his Hegelian corrective and with too little emphasis on Kantian aesthetics and religious thinking, is debatable at best. I planned to suggest a reading of my essay on the ontological proof, but that essay has been damaged by hackers. If it still exists, please see "Is it rational to believe in God?" at Critique. http://www.Critique@groups.msn.com/ (MSN groups has closed?)

"The modern tradition in art -- from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century -- has had multiple and diverse national iterations, and encompassed many styles and subjects, but whether made in Spain, the United States, France or Mexico, it has almost always articulated a vision of subjectivity that precludes the treatment of human beings as things. It exists under the modern rubric of the 'categorical impertive,' the idea, found in the philosophies of Kant, that individuals must act only according to those principles or maxims that they would wish to become a universal law. [I wonder where that idea comes from?] Whatever its particular politics, modern art -- whether a landscape by Cezanne, a mural by Rivera, a still-life by Picasso, or a drip painting by Jackson Pollack -- has implicitly represented the value of personal independence and autonomous thought. It has first of all obeyed the injunctions of art and the rules of imagination, not the dictates of party or faction. When modern works of art have done otherwise, they have flirted with authoritarianism. The torture photographs from Abu Ghraib precisely enshrine objectification and heteronomous thought: the idea that certain people by virtue of race, religion, rationality, gender or sexual preference may be denied rights to basic freedoms of action, association and thought (and even to life itself), and that the greatest ethical imperative is to follow orders. The Abu Ghraib pictures represent a moral universe in which people are used as mere (disposable) means to ends, the latter being the gratification of the torturer, the obtaining of information, the camaraderie of occupying forces and the coercive inscription on bodies and minds of national, racial and religious superiority or inferiority." (Eisenman, p. 14.)

As one who has been forced to dwell in that moral universe, the "theater of cruelty" (Artaud) depicted in the Abu Ghraib pictures -- only to have torturers comment on my ethics -- I feel the importance of the truth in Professor Eisenman's insight and its connection to Richard Rorty's best work, which was aimed against the seductiveness of cruelty. I have no doubt that the people who torture me, who delight in defacing and destroying my writings, would relish the opportunity to torture others at Abu Ghraib. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

The Abu Ghraib pictures are not art. Nevertheless, they cannot help gesture in the direction of high art works in the Western tradition, as their opposites, since the imagery of such revered works forms the structure of our thinking in terms of all images, linking with the cinematic discourse which now shapes human identity everywhere. At the center of our languages of images, I suggest, we will find a moral hope close to Professor Rorty's heart and a yearning for love. Alternatively, by turning away from that center, we walk towards Auschwitz and Abu Ghraib, or the Gulags.

What draws us to an encounter with great art is spiritual power. That spiritual power insists on showing us the "inmost parts" of us, where we discover not difference, but sameness. My suffering neighbor, the child entering a concentration camp, a man beaten and covered in feces, Abu Ghraib's "Shit Boy," the Muslim man "crucified" to his bunk is all of us -- because, in a language of symbols, every tortured person is Christ. To articulate the subjective, as Rorty suggested artists must do, is to transcend human subjectivity in unity with all of humanity and with that love which binds us together for which there is a short word, God. (See "The Art of Robert Downey, Jr." and "The Art of Melanie Griffith.")

That tortured and suffering human being is the negation of the Law in Judaism. The evil in torture or terrorism is the denial of the prophet's teaching, correctly understood, for Muslims, or the failure to see God's handiwork in others for Jews and Christians. One lesson learned in the twentieth century from Munch and Picasso, as much as from the experience of the Holocaust, is the possibility of terrors and horrors found even in great objects of art and in the most "accomplished" individuals, who are so easily transformed into servants of power, turning away from this message of unity, spirituality and compassion. (The word "turning" in this last sentence has been corrected in the same way three times so far.) This ambiguity that we are -- both Angels and Beasts -- is not often commented upon by Professor Rorty. It is the great subject for the critic George Steiner. Where we find love, we also find hate. Where we find beauty, we also find horror. Where we find peace, we also find strife:

"Amnesty International indexes more than one hundred nations (which includes Israel and Britain), [Cuba and the United States,] at whose behest torture is accepted practice. The sytematic economic and sexual abuse of children is thought, by qualified observers to be at its highest level in human history (the number of children in 'slave factories' or on serf farms is put at 200 million). Thus, the invention of the inhuman continues without end." (Errata, p. 119.)

Amidst all of this suffering we have the nearly unbearable beauty of one man's gesture of compassion or love; one woman's protection of a child; one person's feeding of another -- all resulting from the recognition that the other's pain is one's own. This recognition is the deepest meaning of the greatest painting of the twentieth century "Guernica."

If you can imagine the level of a person who might slash that masterpiece by Picasso because the artist was a "Communist," then you will appreciate the sadism involved in altering this essay (whatever its merits may be) for the pleasure of hurting its author, as he makes the same corrections many times.

Love is the resolution offered by Wyath's "Christina's World." It is love alone which redeems the human condition and provides meaning, even at Dachau, allowing us to see the beauty in others. This achieved synthesis of self and other is the meaning of a man's gentle touch of a woman's face that says: "I know ... I understand and accept this gift of the pain that you feel." (See "The Soldier and the Ballerina.") Rorty understood and argued this point in the eloquent American language of aesthetics and moral commitment. (See Santayana's Sense of Beauty.) An earlier philosopher, as I suggested in my critique of Rorty's ethics, offered the same message in more pithy phrases while suffering on a cross. That's not bad company, Richard. Rorty will debate some of his favorites -- Dewey, James, Derrida and Proust, Nabokov, Orwell, even Kant and Hegel as his books are read by generations of humble students, like me, with great respect and gratitude.

Dormi bene, Richard Rorty.

It's Jamba Time!

My Norton Security's "intrusion detection" feature is currently disabled. I am unable to operate my computer. I do not know when I will be able to do so again. I cannot restore that feature at this time. I cannot return to my msn group. June 13, 2007 at 10:38 A.M. I planned to write about Richard Rorty, but these developments make that impossible. Please see "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court." The contents of my e-mail folder have been deleted. I attempted to open an e-mail from The Nation and experienced these difficulties. Connection: http://www.nyc.rr.com/ (24.29.102.101), Pap3 (110), from HPPAV (24.193.70.253), 4728, 814 bytes sent, 397881 bytes received, 1:53.483 elapsed time. My intrusion detection feature cannot be reconfigured at this time. I will try to make do without it for as long as I can.

Hackers have damaged this essay. I will do my best to make repairs, fully expecting that I will have to make the same corrections again in the future. I am unable to access or read essays at my msn group at the moment. June 12, 2007 at 2:13 P.M.

I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/HHC/iview/msnnkcal01600 http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001300x250 andhttp://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3754.sitemsn.com/B.

I tried to print an item from my group, but could not do so. I signed out and tried again, receiving only a blank piece of paper with this address on it:

http://ads.pointroll.com/PRServe/?ad=g030W2007420192018&pos=h&pub=msn&size=798_90&code=n...

I thought I lived in a free society where such obvious efforts to destroy or suppress speech were deemed impermissible criminal violations of federal civil rights.

Why are these crimes allowed to go unpunished? How can persons sworn to uphold the Constitution be part of suppressing speech? What are they afraid of?

Thank you to "Campus I" for listing my book. http://www.campusi.com/ Also, to Amazon, France: http://www.amazon.fr/

Thank you to http://www.grabber.com/ and http://www.buy.com/ as well as http://www.theplanetogo@blogspot.com/

I have been unable to purchase an ISBN number for my second book, but I will keep trying to do so. Finally, I was successful. Now one book is seemingkly unavailable for free download. My most important goal for both books is that they be available free of charge for download.

As of this writing, I have changed my blogger password about ten times over the past two days. I cannot change my photo or post images at my blogs as I write these words. The political opinions expressed in my blogs, I believe, have seemingly resulted in my daily encounter with a number of viruses and other obstacles, making access to my blogs very difficult. I am sure that these experiences are related to my accusations against New Jersey's power-structure.

If the goal of harassment efforts is to produce frustration and anger so that I will stop writing, then I am pretty sure that it will not work. It took me quite a while to get into my blog/group this morning. I will keep running scans. A new essay dealing with the work of Angela Davis continues to be obstructed. I will try to post it later. I am afraid that the format of my blogs may be affected yet again. Errors and deletions of words, letters, entire essays are a constant threat as part of an effort at frustration or discouragement. I will continue to write.

Publishers appear, ask for my manuscript, then disappear again. I receive encouraging letters expressing interest, then (suddenly) my work is rejected without being read, but my manuscript is not returned. Weird.

Writing under these conditions is like composing a symphony in the midst of a military battle. This has the effect of making me more determined to continue writing, mostly because I refuse to give in to this sort of Fascism and thuggery. As long as one person is interested in reading what I write, I will find a way to post that writing somewhere. Several essays in the blog have been affected -- paragraph spacing is altered, words are brought together.

Why worry about little old me if my writing is so worthless? The following words are for Mumia Abu Jamal:

"... we must fight for your life as though it were our own -- which it is -- and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night."

JAMES BALDWIN'S LETTER TO ANGELA DAVIS, CONFINED IN MARIN COUNTY JAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1970.

I am ready for anything now because I have discovered "Jamba Juice" with a mega "Vita Boost!" Not only do I feel smarter, but my sexual potency has been "enhanced." I cannot be certain of getting back into the blogs/group after I sign off for the day. However, I will keep trying. Sometimes there are brief periods of normalcy; at other times, there are problems with posting and backspacing, as I say, words disappear or letters are destroyed.

I will also continue to laugh, even as I protest against the corruptions of one state's legal and political system, which has become a hideous caricature of legality, mostly run by political operatives of organized crime and self-professed "whores" of the court. I will not be intimidated, so don't allow yourself to be intimidated either. If there is no new post after two days, then you can be sure that I am unable to access this site.

If I experience an unfortunate accident of some kind, then please read "A Letter From a Condemned Man" and "Tuchin, Riccioli and New Jersey's Agency of Torture." You can believe that my final thoughts will be my favorite Anthony Hopkins quote: "Fuck 'em."

The French underground during the Nazi era had a slogan -- "Resist! Rebel! Fight!" In May of 1968, the slogan might have been changed to -- "Resist! Rebel! Fight! Against Conformity!"

In 1971, Marxist philosopher Georg Lukacs -- while expressing support for Angela Davis -- recognized that the problem of injustice and of flawed legal proceedings exists in every human society ...

"... if prejudices against the accused are systematically and demagogically spread and encouraged, it is possible to take a man's [or a woman's] freedom and even [to] allow him [or her] to be murdered while formally obeying all the rules of judicial procedure."

After all, they say, it's "nothing personal."

New Jersey's Torture Doctors -- Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.

Hackers may insert errors into this essay on a regular basis. The goal of such tactics is to cause further frustration and psychological harm to me, while preventing readers from absorbing this information. My Norton Security system is still partly disabled. (I have just corrected this last sentence for the fifth time in an identical fashion.) Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 8:27 P.M.

Nat Hentoff, "The Torture Doctors -- These Physicians Have a Strange Way of Preserving the American Way of Life," in The Village Voice, June 6, 2007 and http://www.villagevoice.com/generic/show_print.php?id=76862&page=&issue=0723&printcde=MzU0Mz...
Mark Mazzetti & Tim Weiner, "Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War," in The New York Times, June 27, 2007, at p. A1.
Robert Whitaker, Mad in America (Cambridge: Perseus, 2002), pp. 233-250. (Illegal, even criminal efforts by psychiatrists to worsen the symptoms of persons experiencing emotional troubles -- or even "normals" without symptoms prior to research -- destroying lives, causing pain and suffering, "to learn from uninformed victims.")
Dahlia Lithwick, "Inside Gitmo," in The New York Times (Book Review), December 16, 2007, at p. 11.
Clive Stafford Smith, Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side (New York: Nation Books, 2007).


"For all the press coverage of abuses, including torture, of our 'detainees,' most Americans are unaware of the partnership between military interrogators and military doctors and psychiatrists in 'breaking' prisoners who refuse to provide information. A chilling account of this utter betrayal of medical ethics appeared in the July 2005 New England Journal of Medicine ('Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay'), hardly a widely circulated publication."

People in the United States fail to appreciate the global revulsion produced by -- and the continuing importance of -- this story of torture, both in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib (also at home) throughout the world. The atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq are every bit as hateful to most people in many countries as what happened on 9/11. This is not surprising since the number of civilian casualties in Iraq now approaches 500,000 or more. The symbolic importance of the torture pictures is also ignored in Washington.

"[Torture] is an issue that strongly informs world opinion of this country, and Americans remain clueless about it. Sign up for daily news alerts about Guantanamo and you learn that the foreign papers regularly publish articles on hunger strikes, silent prisoner releases and legal wrangling at the camp. Major American papers rarely cover these things, and most of us would be hard pressed to name a detainee held there." (Lithwick, p. 11. Coincidence?)

The techniques used in Guantanamo were first developed through secret experimentation on victims within the United States, many of whom will never know that they were questioned under hypnosis, manipulated, or otherwise affected by the misuse of forensic psychiatric methods at the hands of unscrupulous and sadistic torturers trained in psychology and psychiatry, such as New Jersey's Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli. Many of these victims have committed no crimes. They have never been informed of the experiments performed, secretly, on them nor of the tortures and violations of rights to which they have been subjected.

How many officials in New Jersey are aware of the activities of those two torturers, Tuchin and Riccioli? Who authorized their criminal actions beginning in 1988? Who is responsible for the continuing cover-up of their hateful crimes? Victims' lives, personal and professional relationships may be destroyed, with impunity, by so-called "therapists" making use of these secret techniques. Where are those reports, Terry? How about the videos and other tapes? Do you supply sexual victims to judges to get away with your crimes? Does Diana do such a thing? Does this explain Diana's "closeness" to judges and justices or former justices?

My tortures began in 1988, long before 9/11 and the heightened security measures that followed that event. I consented to nothing. "We'll just pretend that nothing happened," right Terry? The secrecy concerning such "psych-ops" means that victims are deceived or told nothing about what has been done to them, by whom they have been victimized, what drugs have been given, if any, what hypnosis techniques were used, which records and films have been retained by officials. Lack of knowledge and cover-ups, the impossibility of "moving on" is part of the life-long effects of these horrible tortures, tortures which sometimes allow the authorities to obstruct justice (criminal offense), while denying victims the truth concerning their own lives. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" at my msn group, Critique.)

"One former CIA psychologist, who still feels guilty about his participation in certain Agency operations, believes that the CIA's fixation on control and manipulation mirrors, in a more virulent form, the way Americans deal with each other generally. 'I don't think the CIA is too far removed from the culture,' he says. [I do.] 'It's just a matter of degree. If you put a lot of money out there, there are many people who are lacking the ethics even of the CIA. At least the Agency had an ideological basis.' This psychiatrist believes that the United States has become an extremely control-oriented society -- from the classroom to politics to television advertising. Spying and the PAS techniques are unique only in that they are more systematic and secret."

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, p. 189. (See my essay on "Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meaning of Prison.") See also, Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors," in Donald L. Niewyk, ed., The Holocaust (Boston: Houghton & Miflin, 2003), p. 60.

"For fifty years, American scientists conducted experiments [on unsuspecting citizens] expected to worsen the symptoms of their mentally ill patients" -- or to create symptoms for persons without them -- "and as they did so, time and again, they misled [victims,] hiding their true purposes from them. This experimentation was done primarily on vulnerable people who did not know what was being done to them, which was precisely the type of science that the Nurenberg Code had sought to banish."

Robert Whitaker, Mad in America (Cambridge: Perseus, 2002), p. 247. (These experiments persisted through the nineties and may still be committed today.)

Government agencies and courts secretly condone these heinous criminal actions in violation of the U.S. Constitution, becoming co-conspirators to crimes against humanity, then seek some offense that might be used to blame the victim. If necessary, victims are framed to provide cover for torturers and their allies, usually after victims are sexually assaulted. Only one book has followed upon the revelation of the Defense Department's use of torture doctors: Steven Miles, Oath Betrayed.

"The book was published by Random House last year, but has largely disappeared from press and public attention. In his April 7 interview with Miles, Peter Rowe of The San Diego Union Tribune noted that 'Amazon reported that 227, 826 other volumes were outselling Oath Betrayed."

"... it was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who authorized the collaboration between interrogators and doctors preparing prisoners for torture." (One new "error" inserted by N.J. hackers since my previous review of this essay.)

Did Deborah T. Poritz authorize the tortures, Terry? Did you submit those mysterious reports concerning me that I am not allowed to see to the New Jersey Supreme Court? Did Ms. Poritz "approve" of the sexual humiliation and abuse? Or were details not disclosed? Who else was present at these sessions? How many other lives have been destroyed by you? Did Diana fill you in or invite you to join her sessions of "sexual contact" with victims? How many have been raped? Did Diana supply Debbie with sexual "conquests"?

"In an April 2003 memorandum, Donald Rumsfeld ordered that 'interrogations must always ... take into account ... a detainee's emotional and physical strengths and weaknesses ... [and] manipulate [those] emotions and weaknesses.' ..."

"... doctors suggested how to break a victim down ... [One] approach aimed at a prisoner's personal vulnerabilities, his worst fears, for example."

"No detail was too insignificant for these specialists in cruel and inhuman treatment."

How do you live in Clifton (Riccioli) or Ridgewood (Tuchin), New Jersey and lead a normal life, while knowing that you torture people for the state? How does a Jew become Mengele, Terry? How many victims are sitting in mental institutions or prisons not knowing what has been done to them or why? How do you live with yourself, Tuchin? What do you say to yourself that makes it O.K.? How do your "judicial protectors" live with themselves, then judge others, after swearing to uphold the same Constitution which they violate? How do you keep from throwing up when you see yourself in the mirror, Riccioli? Ethics? In New Jersey? Do you believe that deleting letters or inserting other "errors" in this essay does anything other than confirm these accusations?

"One psychologist authorized the use of snarling dogs to 'exploit individual phobias.' And another psychologist ... suggested putting the prisoner in a swivel chair to prevent him from fixing his eyes on one spot thereby avoiding the guards."

Experiments using hypnosis have focused on inducing amnesia -- including amnesia about professional responsibilities or jobs to be done -- and making use of quickly inflicted hypnosis without the awareness of victims. These techniques have been found especially useful for obtaining "sexual gratification" by some very twisted persons. See John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (New York: Dell, 1988), pp. 194-205.

"Moreover, Steven Miles reports in Oath Betrayed [2006] that 'a civil lawsuit and an FBI memo describe four prisoners -- three at Guantanamo and one apparently in Afghanistan -- who were denied a prostetic limb [and] antibiotics for festering wounds' ... until they cooperated with investigators."

Is this allowed under the Hypocratic Oath? Is this medicine? Is this legal ethics? Were all your victims minority lawyers, Terry? Why were they "selected" for participation in this hideous secret experiment? Did victims come from all walks of life? Are all of your victims -- the women you have sex with under hypnosis -- minority group members, Diana? After sufficient damage is done there is little fear by torturers that victims will have either the resources or inclination to pursue their legal remedies. What's the connection between forensic psychiatrists and New Jersey's OAE? Was Diana supplying judges or justices, besides Debbie, with sexual conquests? Is that why this is still being covered-up? How friendly are Diana and Debbie today? Is that "friendship" what this is all about? Is that why it's o.k. to attack my computer every day?

"Another detailed source of how the torture doctors operate is the soon to-be-updated 2005 report, 'Break Them Down: Systematic Use of Psychological Torture by U.S. Forces' from the Physicians for Human Rights (phrusa.org)." http://www.phrusa.org/ (forthcoming, 2008).

I will be writing to this organization about my experiences. I will then post my letter here. Physicians under AMA and International Principles of Medical Ethics are prohibited from participating in torture and "all forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." Everything you, Terry and Diana, have done to me is an abomination prohibited under the Nuremberg Code. For you -- or anyone contaminated by you or your methods -- to speak of "ethics" to me is a grotesque "affront to decency." This includes New Jersey's Supreme Court to the extent that it has been aware of or a part of these atrocities. They must have been aware of the horror for many years. They must be aware of it today. New Jersey has chosen to "demur."

Do you pay off powerful officials in New Jersey, Terry and Diana? If not, then how do you get away with your crimes? How's the "family-like" organization, Diana?

"Are none of the doctors in these prisons troubled by what they see, even if some are not directly involved? 'There is evidence,' says Physicians for Human Rights, 'of failure on the part of health professionals to report abuse as well as evidence of complicity in acts of physical and psychological torture.' ..."

So far, nothing has happened in New Jersey. No sanctions have been imposed for these horrible crimes. A cover-up continues. What have you become, Stuart Rabner? Didn't you put your hand on the Bible when you took your oath of office? Did that oath mean something to you? Does the Constitution mean something to you? Do you believe in freedom of speech?

"The Jersey Boys and the Constitution."

Attempts to frustrate my communications will not alter the fact that New Jersey is governed by crooks and their hangers-on -- with a few exceptions -- crooks seeking to suppress the speech of critics. Nothing will prevent those critics (like me) from pointing out the continuing theft of public money ($4.5 billion has disappeared or is "short" in accumulated previous budgets, $100 million stolen from UMDNJ), along with participation by "connected" guys and gals (often, it seems, while wearing judicial robes) in state-sanctioned criminal activities -- like cybercensorship.

Those entrusted with responsibility for administering the New Jersey "legal system" -- which is rightly regarded as a joke everywhere -- must bear the bulk of the blame, even as they are caught absconding with public funds while sending others to prison for doing less evil than they commit, routinely and happily, on a daily basis. Have you no shame? What have you become? How do you live with yourselves? How do you find the nerve to judge others, whose faults pale by comparison with yours, as you wear judicial robes and offer citizens your dazzling smiles?

Take a look at the photo of New Jersey's Supreme Court justices as I protest against continuing attempts to silence me and to destroy my work. Is this how you wish for your tax dollars to be spent in New Jersey? Do you long to pay for fancy dinners, enjoyed by comfortable judges, in celebration of their latest tax-payer provided portraits? Does this make the illness of children contaminated by mercury in south Jersey, failing schools, soaring cancer rates, exploding child prostitution in Atlantic City and elsewhere, millions stolen from UMDNJ, and worse crimes permissible? How do you respond to the self-satisfied belch issued by those mediocrities placed over you by clubhouse politicians, as they suggest that the poor and hungry should simply "eat cake" -- provided by the taxpayers, of course?

Reported in David Kociniewski, "Rivals in New Jersey Senate Race Mute Party Affiliations," in The New York Times, September 12, 2006, at p. B2:

"For months, the Kean campaign ... referred to Senator Menendez as 'Boss Bob,' saying he is a worthy heir to the nefarious political tradition of using public office for private gain. ... "

"Mr. Menendez has a [difficult] time separating himself from some things in his past, like the recent revelation that a social service agency, which he helped to get federal financing, paid him more than $300,000 to rent space in a building that he used to own in Union City."

According to Republican Senate candidate, Tom Kean:

"[Menendez] is the one who wanted to be the boss of a political machine at the same time that he was serving in the congress."

The information against Menendez has probably been leaked to the press and to his opponent by the Camden Democrats, who are far more corrupt than any Hudson County politician, but who hope to take over the state entirely, placing their own "made members" in judicial seats. An on-going investigation of state Senator John Lynch produced unsurprising "revelations" of greed and influence among those who appoint judges. Multiple investigations are leading to new areas of "exploration."

Threatening independent-minded persons and their family members, or even destroying their writings, will not alter these facts. I will not be prevented from articulating them -- from an Internet Cafe if I have to -- until something is done about the corruption in New Jersey that has demolished lives and continues to do so, as organized crime retains a stranglehold on the courts and state government in that much-suffering jurisdiction.

It has been suggested that when Democrats regain the White House and appoint a new U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, I will be framed for something or be made to "disappear," so that I'll remain silent. I hope for more from the U.S. Attorney's Office. At this point in my life, my concern is to speak the truth to power and to work for a direct confrontation with some notorious malefactors in New Jersey. Personal safety is not high on my list of considerations.

No justice, no peace.

You ain't seen nothing yet!

My teenage daughter was recently followed by a strange man when she was on her way to school. She managed to get away from this person and run into her school. Two days ago, someone bumped into her and stole her cellphone or she lost it. Any information downloaded or other use of that phone, once it was no longer in her possession, should not be her responsibility. It's weird that such things happened so closely together.

Several essays at my msn group have again been altered by hackers, notably my long article on Godwin and Wollstonecraft. I will make repairs as quickly as I can. Please see "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "Bob Menendez Has Not Been Indicted -- Yet!" June 7, 2007 at 11:57 A.M.

Attempts to print items from my group left me with a blank piece of paper bearing this address:

http://view.atdmt.com/MSN/iview/msnnkhac00178x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct/01


Tina Kelley, "Asbury Park: Sewage Spill Closes Beaches," The New York Times, June 6, 2007, at p. B8.
David Kocieniewski & Andrew Jacobs, "McGreevey Finds Revising An Image is Not So Easy," in The New York Times, September 15, 2006, at p. B5.
Laura Masnerus, "New Jersey Opposition Leads to Utility Merger's Collapse," in The New York Times, September 15, 2006, at p. B5.
David Kocieniewski, "Guilty Plea Expected From Former Senate Leader in Trenton," in The New York Times, September 15, 2006, at p. B1.
David Kocieniewski, "Ex-Leader of New Jersey Senate Is Guilty of Corruption," in The New York Times, September 16, 2006, at p. B2.
David W. Chen, "A Legal and Political Force: U.S. Attorney Emerges as Factor in Campaign for the Senate," in The New York Times, September 16, 2006, at p. B2.
David W. Chen, "A Push for $3 Billion for New Jersey School Projects," in The New York Times, September 15, 2006, at p. B5.


"About two miles of beaches from Del south to Bradley Beach, were closed yesterday after a pipe broke at the Asbury Park sewage treatment plant, Monmouth County officials said."

The legal and moral sewage being released into the American legal and political systems from New Jersey is far more unbearable and threatening to the health of Americans. The poisons of corruption, graft, organized crime involvement in court decisions is escaping from New Jersey's putrid neighborhoods, then insinuating itself into innocent communities located elsewhere in the country.

"The pipe ... released about half a million gallons of partly treated sewage into the Atlantic Ocean between 3:00 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. yesterday, said William Simmons, the county's environmental health coordinator."

Is "untreated sewage" kind of like "shit"? Didn't Mr. Simmons once work as a chaufer? Anyway, I am sure that this sewage will add to your pleasure when you visit the Jersey shore on your vacation this summer. Stop by Trenton and ask the politicians: "How the hell are ya?" Talk about "shit-covered." In every sense, New Jersey can only be described as "feces-covered" territory. Make that "sewage-covered." (I am making corrections of "errors" inserted into this text, fully expecting to make the same corrections again, as the "brain dead" goons from New Jersey help to prove my point about them.)

New Jersey is a place that should serve as a warning to other states. It is the example of what can happen when some of the worst tendencies in American political culture are allowed to go out of control and metastasize, becoming an enormous tumor that devours the political body. Drug money, judicially protected prostitution syndicates that exploit young women and men, illegal gambling operations that hurt tax paying Atlantic City casinos -- all have excellent representation in Trenton. Law-abiding residents of New Jersey often have no such representation.

For decades a partnership developed between New Jersey's organized crime "families" and local politics, where all mechanisms of the state -- including courts, police, public educational institutions and medical facilities, social scientists and other "experts" on the public's tab -- were regarded as a treasure chest to be exploited and emptied of contents, looted by a cabal of political operatives or "made men" of the organization, playing musical chairs with appointed positions in government, even as their buddies "arranged" to get themselves elected to office.

Voters were given few options. Many were pressured to vote "a certain way" in order to keep their public jobs, so as to make money to support their families. Others -- usually minority group members, who did not know any better -- were and are used as front people, to convey a false impression of "diversity" and (conveniently) to take the fall when the feds get a little unhappy. Thank goodness Ms. Cunningham was elected in Jersey City, things may actually improve on her watch.

Political ideologues or persons committed to specific policy issues are duped into serving these power-brokers by being told that struggles are about contested issues. Machinations and political wars in New Jersey are never about anything but political power for the "Jersey Boys," who have no beliefs or political ideals, other than a firm commitment to their own enrichment, preferably at the expense of the public. How are you, Senator Bob?

A case in point is the trajectory of former Senator John A. Lynch, Jr. and his one-time "apprentice" and side-kick, former Governor James McGreevey. Lynch was Batman; McGreevey was Robin. These two were made for each other. Their counterparts are still out there, in the aromatic marshlands of political bosses and operatives, along with their media friends. If you get past the cigar smoke (though never in public places), you will find these hacks plotting to put "Joey in there" or to take "Richie" out of there. "There" is New Jersey government. These are the soldiers and crews selecting cadidates for judgeships, representative office, public committees, zoning boards and all other "spots" where money flows -- flows right into their pockets.

The recent collapse of a proposed utility merger that might well have resulted in much cheaper and more efficient energy for middle class communities (now losing power every time there is a rain storm) was said to have been derailed by so-called "connected" appointed officials, following orders to flex their muscles.The idea, allegedly, is to let Governor Corzine and others know that the "Machine" can control such matters.

The public and the corporate interests who might have gained from this transaction -- including those in other states who approved the deal -- will be "screwed," as it were, unless the Trenton Syndicate gets what it wants, which is absolute power in New Jersey and a license to steal. They already steal without a license.

I don't care if McGreevey or anyone else wants to have sex with a moose or an advark. I don't care about anyone's sexual preference. I am in favor of same sex unions receiving due recognition from the legal system. People's sexual lives are not the state's business. Putting your "main squeeze" on the public payroll for a six-figure salary, so you can have little "afternoon delight" whenever you want it, that's not so cool. Let's all chip in and get McGreevey a copy of Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" or "The Importance of Being Ernest."

I fully expect a barrage of viruses and other difficulties in posting my essays immediately after I write this one. I don't know why. You think it's a coincidence? McGreevey's patron and (allegedly) one of the traditional "five bosses" running state politics, offered a ...

"... public apology for adding another chapter to New Jersey's storied history of political corruption, [none other than] the former Senate president, John A. Lynch, Jr. -- once the most influential power broker in the state -- pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of official misconduct and tax evasion." ("Ex-Leader of New Jersey Senate is Guilty of Corruption," p. B2.)

In addition to a tax evasion charge, "Mr. Lynch, whose political machine once gave him the power to APPOINT JUDGES, shape legislation and pave James E. McGreevey's path to the governor's office, admitted that in 1998 and 1999 he used his public office to help win permit approvals for a mining company that eventually funneled more than $25,000 to him as a 'success fee.' ..." Id.

It was a "success" all right. Is this unusual? No. I bet Lynch was a lawyer and the OAE didn't see a thing. There are probably worse offenders still in state government. They will not receive the attention of the corrupt and inept legal ethics enforcement mechanism (OAE), which is reserved for politically powerless and unruly attorneys, preferably minorities. Asking Lynch to surrender his law license after the feds have convicted him of his crimes is irrelevant to my point.

New Jersey's legal ethics system is a farce, controlled by and responsive to political pressures, sold out and even criminal in its contempt for the rights of those it pursues, while ignoring the worst offenders who happen to be "connected." The OAE is used as a weapon in political struggles by the Jersey Syndicate. The agency's reputation for stupidity and incompetence, political influence, and staffing by "make-believe" lawyers (really beaureaucrats) was confirmed in my experience. There are excellent, honest, highly ethical attorneys working at the AG's office and for the OAE, but their hands are tied by politics and unofficial decision-making. There are also hacks, morons, political whores in Trenton's positions of power.

"Although the plea involved only one deal in a career that spanned nearly three decades, lawyers familiar with the case said that after scouring Mr. Lynch's business and political records for more than four years, investigators were preparing to push for indictments on a wide range of charges involving at least six different transactions."

The typical response by the Machine to the daily reality of corruption charges against their own is to destroy honest prosecutors or judges in the media, so as to intimidate people. Media people are said to be on the payroll. Maybe that explains some of the poor thinking and dreadful writing recently in elite publications. Hence, all the "happy news" in New Jersey's "free" community newspapers. Legal ethics committees, again, are often staffed by "politically active" members of the bar who can be used, sometimes unknowingly, to hurt political radicals or others not "playing ball" with the powers that be in Trenton. It is no response to these charges to hack into my computer and insert a typo in my essay.

U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie is an equal opportunity corruption buster. He doesn't care if you're a Republican or Democrat. He objects to theft of public funds by anybody, even during election season. Hence, the recent subpoenas served on the Menendez campaign in connection with receipt by Menendez of $300,000 in rent payments over ten years by an organization receiving federal money during that same period. Quid pro quo? (I have just corrected an "error" in this last sentence.)

The U.S. Attorney's Office is no joke. You don't "make a phone call" to fix things with them, which makes the office incomprehensible to people in New Jersey: "What's with this guy?" Cheech says: "Who do we gotta talk to about about this trouble maker? Geez. Nothing's easy no more." Such comments are easily overheard in Trenton's corridors of power or near the New Jersey Senate building.

Suggestions that Mr. Christie is politically motivated are nonsense. He is hoping to destroy or damage a system of political corruption that has destroyed lives for decades, that threatens the legitimate poltical system of that jurisdiction, the Constitution -- and your rights, if you live there. Attempts to smear Mr. Christie are a final indication of both the desperation among the machine's players and their lack of scruples.

"... two former federal prosecutors in New Jersey [Democrats] said in interviews on Friday that investigations and subpoenas are often driven from the ground up by career prosecutors, not from the top down. 'If Chris Christie went into a section chief's office and said,' 'I saw this in the paper and I want you to drop subpoenas,' the guy [or gal] would resign,' said one former prosecutor, a Democrat who deals regularly with Mr. Christie's office. 'In my experience with the U.S. attorney's office, timing is not something that they care about.' ..."

Finding himself described as "the one-eyed man who is king," will not deter Mr. Christie from going after the bosses telling judges and justices, as well as other legal players, what to do in New Jersey. Christie's "one eye" seems to work pretty well at spotting political corruption.

Corruption is costing the people of New Jersey billions of dollars, reducing the quality of public services, destroying the professional reputations and lives of many good people in government (like Zulima Farber), intimidating law enforcement and turning New Jersey into an Orwellian nightmare. Crooks are using public information and power for nefarious purposes at the behest of unelected "big shots." It also makes New Jersey's Supreme Court look incompetent and ridiculous, which it is. Somebody should wake them up. The answer is not to threaten the lives of critics or their family members -- who may be children -- but to make necessary reforms and acknowledge judicial errors. Ethics? Is solicitation of grievances "ethical," fellas? How about when a target is selected, secretly, by politicians?

Why or how the New Jersey Supreme Court can continue to cover-up -- as I am sure it does -- torture sessions by shrinks, like Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli, working (surreptitiously) for state agencies is beyond me. Does mob influence in New Jersey extend to the state's highest court? I hope not. It is those "big shots" who are finding it difficult to sleep easily these days, since the bells that toll in Trenton are tolling for them. There will be a day of reckoning. Soon.

New Jersey Judges Indulge in Sexual Exploitation and Child Porn.

June 2, 2007 at 12:25 P.M. there were 11 intrusion attempts. My main attacker was 24.192.175.47. New Jersey again.


If I find myself framed for something or having an unfortunate accident while in custody, I would hope that readers will examine "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Is New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz unethical or only incompetent?" as well as "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court."

I am experiencing difficulties regularly in posting essays at my MSN group, in my blogs, and obstacles make writing difficult today. I will keep struggling. Hackers may be expected to tamper with these texts or alter them. Ask "Justice" Virginia Long: Why? Payoffs? Political favors? How about it Virginia?

This essay has been featured at: http://infoeuro.biz/id/8572/ (International attention is most welcome. Businesses must decide whether New Jersey offers a healthy climate for economic activity.)

John P. Martin, "Feds Charge 14 in Jersey for 'Nightmare' Child Porn," The Star Ledger, October 19, 2006; http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-9/1161234596130430.xml&coll=1
Tina Kelley, "New Jersey: New Rules for Day Care Centers," The New York Times, October 19, 2006, at B8.

"Federal agents arrested more than 100 men across the country yesterday, including 14 in New Jersey" -- which seems to have been home base for much of this activity in the U.S. -- "[men] who they said subscribed to one of the most repulsive child pornography networks investigators have found, one that included photos and videos of adults sexually assaulting infants."

One theory is that much of this sexual behavior is extracted from minors who are subjected to hypnosis and/or drugging, with the assistance of persons trained in psychology and in the use of these techniques. What are you up to these days, Diana? How about Terry? Is everything hunky-dory with you two? Are your victims keeping you busy? Still working secretly for the OAE, Terry? How's the "family-like organization," Diana? Everything peachy-keen? (See "New Jersey Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, N.J.")

None of this child porn can exist in New Jersey -- where nearly everybody is on the take or under the control of political-criminal organizations -- without a lot of people being paid off. This probably includes judges and justices. Several of those arrested held positions of public trust and authority.

"A retired [New Jersey] Superior Court judge accused of traveling abroad to have sex with a minor was released on bail yesterday from a federal detention center and placed under house arrest. The retired New Jersey Superior Court judge Steven W. Thompson, 57, is charged with traveling to Russia to have sex with a boy between the ages of 13 and 16, prosecutors said. He is charged with two felonies, which carry a total of 25 years in prison. Mr. Thompson was released yesterday on $2 million bail and placed under 24-hour house arrest at his home in Avalon under the supervision of his mother, Mildred Thompson. A federal magistrate banned Mr. Thompson from having contact with children, except for supervised visits with his nieces, and from using a computer, which could be used to obtain pornography."

Tyrone Richardson, "Metro Briefing -- New Jersey: Camden Ex-Judge Is Under House Arrest," The New York Times, April 27, 2003 and http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E6DF1139F934A1576BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spo...

I wonder if any of these child molesters work for the OAE or law courts? I wouldn't be surprised if they do. Ethics? How about another threatening letter from the DRB? Were you behind that letter, John? Several profiles of judges engaging in despicable conduct are coming up in the months and years ahead. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")

"The case referred by the Newark division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, marked the second national child pornography investigation to spring from New Jersey in the past four years. The previous case led to the arrests of more than 1,000 subscribers worldwide and convictions against two Belarussians who managed the network."

"How the hell are ya?" Politicians in Trenton respond.

" ... 'As this investigation amply illustrates, there is no safe haven for child predators,' according to Kyle Hutchins, special agent in charge of Newark's ICE office."

The New Jersey suspects included three men with ties to state government and local political machines (without such ties they would not be "in" New Jersey government or the state's notoriously corrupt judiciary):

"Each of these New Jersey men was charged this summer, immediately after they were identified as subscribers, so [federal] prosecutors could remove them from their positions of authority."

New Jersey law enforcement, including New Jersey's "invisible" new Attorney General, Stuart Rabner, "missed" this little operation -- and could not arrest ANY of the state's participants in this loathsome activity -- and the A.G. also could not name or go after ANY ONE (NOT ONE) of the corrupt officials who allowed this operation to exist. Although the feds are arresting far more criminals and corrupt local officials than New Jersey's Attorney General, the feds have less than half the personnel that the Trenton authorities employ. I wonder why that is? Corruption? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Mr. Rabner is likely to become New Jersey's next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He did. Ain't you feeling better already? I know I am.

In the same day's New York Times, it is reported that "in the future" child day care centers applying for licenses in New Jersey will have to show that their buildings were not previously used as dump sites or pose any health hazzard. This means that they will not be able to use New Jersey buildings at all for such purposes, since most properties in New Jersey are built over venomous pollution and chemical waste -- in the same way that the state's government and courts are built on moral corruption and filth, hypocrisy, mendacity, avarice and crime. If you own a house in Ridgewood, New Jersey -- I hope you like chromium and radium.

These are the persons in New Jersey's government judging the ethics of others. Why? They have no ethical awareness themselves, so why are they the "moral superiors" of others? They're not, you say. That's exactly my point. They violate rules of ethics themselves, the same rules which they claim to enforce. They do much worse than that, I am afraid, to the indifference of New Jersey law enforcement. "We can learn from you." I bet you can.

New Jersey judges (with all exceptions granted) are arrogant, often stupid, more often incapable of complex or profound thought. Yet they are certain of their intellectual and moral superiority as compared with the likes of you and me. They cover up "crimes against humanity" -- like the psychological and physical tortures that I have described and experienced -- so as to hide their own flaws and failures, while speaking to others of ethics. (See "New Jersey's 'Crimes Against Humanity'" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' legal System.")

Oh, boy! New "errors" inserted and corrected since my previous review of this work. ("Sybil R. Moses Joins the Lesbian Love-Fest!" and "Debbie Poritz Likes the Ladies!")

This modification of the law will distract the public from asking why no one has gone after building owners who allowed their properties to be used as child care centers KNOWING that they were contaminated by mercury because they had previously been used as thermometer factories. I wonder if any of them are lawyers? If they are, would the OAE be interested? Somehow, I doubt it.

David Kocieniewski, "Newark: Hospital's Use of Helicopter is Questioned," The New York Times, January 16, 2007, at p. B7:

"New Jersey's state medical school may have improperly billed Medicaid for helicopter 'ambulance flights' [more like jaunts to Atlantic City on the taxpayer's tab, probably to attend 'sex shows,'] according to a report released yesterday by a federal monitor. A former federal judge, Herbert J. Stern, who was appointed a year ago to investigate financial irregularities at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, noted in the report that the school had made many policy and personnel changes to address widespread problems with overbilling, nepotism and wasteful spending. [New Jersey's U.S. Attorney] Christopher Christie said that more arrests are likely."

Legality? No, just "business as usual" in the Garden State. Geez, Louise ... Louisa, good luck with the "L-word." Hey, did you and Judge Tolentino "get along" while you were her law clerk?

John Holl, "Camden: Computer Pornography Charge," The New York Times, February 12, 2007, at p. B6.

"A man who taught seminars about whales to elementary school students was arrested last week and charged with possession of child pornography, the state police said. The man STUART GOLDMAN, 63, was arrested on Friday after the state police found pornographic images on his computer, said Sgt. Stephen Jones, a spokesman. The computer was seized last March when the state police charged Mr. Goldman with having marijuana plants in his house in Barrington, Sergeant Jones said. Mr. Goldman has pleaded guilty to the drug charges, the state police said."

There are also several continuing investigations resulting from arrests last year of members of an international child porn ring based in New Jersey. Information extracted from computers by law enforcement is rumored to have included "persons in public life." Assuming this material was not planted in those computers by Jersey cops, one can only welcome this surprising diligence in New Jersey.

There is a widespread concern that efforts by the Trenton Syndicate are underway to "nip" any further inquiry "in the bud." Alleged connections between "influential" underworld figures and local political machines are more worrisome, together with continuing, highly disturbing allegations that law enforcement and judicial persons in New Jersey received "sexual favors" as payoffs.

Many believe that these investigations are related. Multiple sources of information have, allegedly, become available to law enforcement agencies, from several jurisdictions, concerned about leaks or possible political cover-ups. There will probably be more arrests by federal authorities in the weeks and months ahead. Further anouncements are "anticipated." We better hope the feds get involved or the whole thing will just "go away." Any assistance you can provide to federal authorities concerning political corruption and crime among powerful people in New Jersey will be greatly appreciated. Please insert more "errors" soon.

New Jersey Pension Funds to be Examined by Feds.

Mary Williams Walsh, "New Jersey Says Its Pension Fund Is Being Examined by the S.E.C.," in The New York Times, June 1, 2007, at p. B1.
David W. Chen, "Attorney General is Called Corzine's Top Pick for Chief Judge," in The New York Times, June 1, 2007, at p. 5.
"Trenton: Republicans Demand Corzine's E-Mail," in The New York Times, June 1, 2007, at p. B4.

The Spanish word "palanca" is spelled with a "c" in Cassell's Compact Spanish Dictionary (New York: Dell, 1969), p. 159 and with a "k" by many Right-wing Cuban-Americans.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an inquiry into New Jersey's handling of its pension fund for public employees, a move that suggests federal regulators are concerned that the state did not properly disclose its contributions to the fund."

More like New Jersey's lack of contributions. Incidentally, it must be admitted that even Miami and the state of Florida look like Switzerland compared to New Jersey.

"In a statement issued yesterday, the New Jersey state treasury said it was cooperating with the S.E.C., which was also sharing information with the United States attorney's office."

I have my doubts about that "cooperation." This is what is known in New Jersey political circles as "all kinda heat coming down." The F.B.I. and I.R.S. are usually not far behind when they get a little inkling of ... "booboos" here and there.

Politicians in New Jersey have a tendency to "misplace" ten or twenty million dollars every year. The feds are somewhat sympathetic. They're understanding folks. Gentle reminders from the U.S. attorney usually result in somebody "finding" the missing money -- quickly. However, the situation now is about BILLIONS OF GUACAMOLES going on vacation in the tropics, FOR YEARS, possibly staying in the offshore accounts of Trenton's regulars. That's the kind of thing that those pesky feds tend to get miffed about.

Thank goodness the same Trenton politicians and judges responsible for the integrity of pension funds are entrusted with enforcing legal ethics rules. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")

"The inquiry follows a report in The New York Times in April about accounting manouvers" -- Is that what they call it now? "Manouvers"? -- "that made it look as if New Jersey was putting more cash into the pension fund than it actually did OVER MANY YEARS. Some of the offering statements for New Jersey's bonds, for example, incorrectly described money spent on health insurance as pension contributions. The S.E.C. has the authority to make sure the state makes full and correct financial disclosures to the financial market."

An "error" was inserted in The New York Times quotation. Did you guys mean to insert an "error" in my text? I have now corrected that "error."

The failure to do so could jeopardize the integrity of the bond markets resulting in devastating harm to the economy as a whole. Securities and bonds must be preserved as a trustworthy market because "capital dislikes risk," as economists will tell us, and historians will point to the events leading up to financial crises in the past. Money leaves markets when things get shady. I wonder why New Jersey is having financial troubles? Jobs and investors are leaving the state.

As an example of what not to do, think of the Cuban Stock/Bond Market, prior to 1959 -- which certainly made some people very wealthy -- but it was not always immune from insider trading "issues." This Cuban financial market was the source of the untranslatable political connotations of the Spanish word "Palanca." (I've seen the word spelled with a "c," also with a "k." Take your pick.) The closest English equivalent is "pull," meaning influence or leverage. New Jersey politicians like the concept of "pull." The mob was prominent in fifties Cuba and seems to be doing quite well in New Jersey.

"... One possible area of inquiry is whether officials were improperly rewarded in connection with pension transactions, as may have happened in a recent pension fund scandal in San Diego. Five officials have been indicted there."

Yep, the word is "INDICTED." I have been told that several Latino lawyers in Hudson County have been disbarred. I wonder whether this could be true? We'll find out soon.

"State officials acknowledge that the pension fund has a serious deficit of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS and needs big contributions that will require cuts in other programs, higher taxes or another source."

Gee Whiz, I wonder how the Jersey Boys got into this mess? Makes you think some of those guys are not honest, huh? ... Ethics?

"... it could also affect New Jersey's credit worthiness. ..."

"Steven T. Miller, an I.R.S. commissioner, said in a speech to lawyers last month that the agency should include government pension plans in its enforcement. 'How could it not, with one in five Americans employed by governments?' he said. 'Coverage and asset protection are of vital importance here, as recent headlines indicate.' ..."

The Jersey Boys are good at protecting their assets. Right, Senator Bob?

"Gov. Jon S. Corzine plans to nominate Attorney General Stuart Rabner to be the next chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, potentially leaving [Rabner's] imprint on the state's legal landscape for the next two decades, administration officials said yesterday."

"If Mr. Rabner, who turns 47 on June 30" -- he's still in his wonder years! -- "is confirmed by the Senate and serves until the mandatory retirement age of 70, he will break by six years the record for the longest tenure of a New Jersey Chief Justice."

Let us demur, for now, and hope for the best from good old Stu. Whatta-ya need to end this humiliating spectacle for New Jersey, Stuart? You can't duck this confrontation forever. Why not have one of your friends insert an "error" in one of my writings? You'll feel better. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Public officials in New Jersey are seeking Mr. Corzine's private e-mails, which are deemed discoverable in the public interest. Yet there are persons denied the truth about their own lives, including medical records of experiments performed upon them, without their valid legal consent, interrogation sessions under hypnosis and other horrors, by public officials who are, allegedly, concerned to enforce ethics rules in a state that legally guarantees open records and access to documents to all persons. Is that guarantee of accessibility a lie? Many people are forced to conclude that it is. Ethics? In New Jersey? Naaa ... Never happen.

Children Endangered by New Jersey's Political Corruption.

Tina Kelley, "Tainted Soil Around a School Stirs Up Dust and Distrust," in The New York Times, May 31, 2007, at p. B7.

"PARAMUS, N.J., May 30 -- After a week of confusion and worry that led the mayor here to step in and close a middle school, state environmental workers on Wednesday carted away two truckloads of soil contaminated with old, banned pesticides unearthed last fall."

Most of New Jersey has served as an illegal dump site for the mob working for industries that hope to save money by getting rid of pollutants without satisfying federal anti-pollution and dangerous waste management legislation. New Jersey mobsters are good at getting rid of things and people -- for a small fee -- so a few tons of pollutants are "no problem ... just bring the money and forget about it."

Hudson County floats over a carpet of lethal chromium, something which is unknown to most residents of that aromatic territory. Parts of Bergen County and many beach areas -- especially Tom's River -- are saturated with secret burial sites, where illegal chemicals and an occasional dead mafioso fertilize people's gardens. Politicians in Trenton (and judges everywhere in the Garden State) chuckle over this little problem and ask for their "cut." This is because they are "highly ethical."

"Students at the West Brook Middle School and their parents questioned why the soil -- containing pesticides at levels of up to 39 times the state's safety guidelines -- was not removed when it was discovered five months ago, and why we were told of the problem only last week."

When questioned about this, New Jersey politicians respond: "Hey, wadda-ya want? We had talk to talk to some people. See what we gonna do. Now we gotta find some other place to take the bodies ... Geez."

The children's welfare is a minor annoyance. The cancers that may develop during their teenage years should not get in the way of making a little money now. That's what politics is all about -- making the most of your opportunities, financially speaking. Right, Senator Bob? "On the one hand, but then on the other hand." How's that deal in Bayonne coming along, Senator Bob? Are the "chumps" still doing the financing?

"School officials said that approximately 40 cubic yards of dirt, possibly contaminated decades ago, was dug up during renovations to the 47 year-old school last fall. It was piled near classrooms."

When The New York Times says chemical waste was "dug up" rather than "discovered," you know the newspaper is discussing events in New Jersey. Badda-bing, badda-boom. He-he-he ... Geez.

"In December, an environmental testing group hired by the school district found the dirt contained chlordane, aldrin and dieldrin, chemicals banned by the Environmental Protection Agency because of concerns about their effects on human health."

Some day these almost daily accounts of visible incompetence, unethical conduct among New Jersey government officials as well as corrupt judges, followed by attempted cover-ups, will no longer make the news. It will no longer be news, only more of the same from New Jersey. Ethics? How do you even speak the word and continue to cover-up atrocities as members of New Jersey's shit stained Supreme Court? Disseminating smears about me will not conceal this criminality forever.

Why should we expect anything different from a state whose highest court displays equally nefarious behavior and cavalier disregard for its own insensitivity, along with disdain for the ethical claims of others? Portraits anyone? Wait, this article is a portrait of New Jersey life and law, even of new Jersey's Supreme Court justices. That lethal pollution is what you have become in Trenton's political circles and courtrooms. How do you live with your digusting hypocrisy, Stuart Rabner?

No worries. Business as usual. New Jersey's "politics as usual" is America's malignant tumor -- and a little surgery is now required.