Mission Statement of New Jersey's Judiciary:
"We are an independent branch of government constitutionally entrusted with the fair and just resolution of disputes in order to preserve the rule of law and to protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State." (emphasis added)
April 10, 2008 at 3:22 P.M. 561-482-7092.
March 29, 2008 at 11:46 A.M. My cable signal was blocked this morning. Accessing these sites has been very difficult. I will not post new essays under these conditions. I will continue to fight. More criticisms of New Jersey criminality in the the courts and government are coming up.
March 29, 2008 at 4:13 P.M. Several attempts to post this essay at blogger were frustrated by hackers and other obstacles, including illegal interference with my cable signal. I will continue to try to post it and to work on new essays exploring criminality in New Jersey's legal institutions. I will provide more names of crooked or incompetent judges and other officials. How many of them are being disbarred? Arrested?
March 26, 2008 at 2:49 P.M. more computer harassment earlier today.
I was working on some difficult fusion arguments, weaving together insights from theoretical physics with some readings in the philosophy of science and jurisprudence, when some typical computer harassment (no doubt caused by the usual suspects in New Jersey) made me lose the thread of my argument. I will come back to the text that I was working on. I will hold the shape of my discourse in my mind until I do. Maybe it's time to "keep it real" with the powers-that-be in Trenton.
I envy not in any moods
The captive void of noble rage,
The linnet born within the cage,
That never knew the summer woods:
I am walking down Broadway on Sunday -- minding my own business (as I usually do) -- when a woman walks directly before me sporting the most beautiful ass that I have seen for at least a year. I suspect she has some Cuban genetic endowment that explains this superior adaptation. The femi-Nazis are shrieking at this point -- "See, it's all about sex! He's just interested in sex with a woman that he thinks he loves!" I will be accused of "objectifying" women. This implies that the aforesaid woman's beautiful ass has now become a "reified abstraction," like a perfect ass just floating in Plato's heaven, not belonging to anyone. This is not true.
In the interest of thematic cogency, I have decided to call this delightful young lady "Emma Woodhouse." I have provided her -- besides her glorious ass -- with an illustrious ancestry, as it were, which I will not discuss as I am a gentleman. It is necessary, apparently, for me to explain to N.J. psychobabblers that human beings are sexual creatures. They are also much more than sexual creatures. Is Sigmund Freud still studied in psychology school? Maybe between sessions with rats? Clearly, not.
No one is going to make me feel guilty about a healthy, perfectly normal sexual reaction and attraction, i.e., an erection, generously provided to me by this kind soul, Ms. Woodhouse, or by any other attractive woman. I will not act on such feelings, of course, because it would be disloyal to the very few women who have been or are in my life in a meaningful way. Emma must be a Cuban-British person.
I envy not the beast that takes
His license in the field of time,
Unfettered by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes;
This normal sexuality is entirely distinct from my passion and need for someone playing a vital role in my life's story and journey. A person whose life is entangled with mine over decades, whose importance in the transformations and meanings of my psyche's adventure is unique -- or matched by very few others -- is a little more than some "fantasy" or an illicit lust. One would have to be an imbecile not to see that. Incidentally, I am "for" lust. And so are you. Like Pascal, I see that we are angels as well as beasts. To remain closer to the angel side of this polarity, we need a few others who matter to us and for whom, we matter.
To be deprived of such a person's company is an irreparable injury, while being invaded in the inmost recesses of one's emotions and subconscious memories -- through unwanted questioning under hypnosis or drugging, for example -- is properly called torture. Such torture is usually accompanied by the laughter of torturers. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
O.K., lets get some cards on the table. My life's journey is entangled with the narratives of only a tiny number of others, that is, in a fundamental way. In a general sense, of course, my life is connected to every other life on the planet. I want and need those few intimate others to be with me, if they want to be with me. I want to play a role in their lives, if they want or need me to play that role. My friendships, sexual desires, affections and loyalties (indeed, my spirituality) are not the business of the state -- and never will be. (One new "error" since this morning.) These personal concerns will not be affected by any sovereign's command. The heart cannot be made to want or to cease from desiring for as long I breathe the strengthening air of this jewelled island. "Staten island?" No, Manhattan.
I recognize the same right to freedom in personal relationships in all others, which is why I favor same-sex unions or gay marriage rights. My opinions and values -- most of all, my feelings -- are my business. None of this inner dialogue is the state's province or subject to unsought public inquiry.
I don't give a shit what you think of me in Trenton. I don't care about the opinions of lowlife scumbuckets, like Diana or Tuchin. Not even the opinions of those they serve and before whom they grovel concern me very much. That means you, Stuart. They shouldn't concern me at all. The opinions of others should have little bearing on such personal life-values for any of us. Your emotions are your own. Your life should be your own. Your loves must be your own.
Nor, what may count itself as blest,
The heart that never plighted troth,
But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;
Nor any want-begotten rest.
I don't want and won't accept N.J. psychobabblers' or crooked judges' advice on these matters. Deleting letters from my writings, threats, insults -- whether from the OAE, DRB, or any other Trenton acronym, or even the Garden State's political mafia in ass-covering mode -- will not change my view of this matter. I will not be intimidated by anyone. I cannot accept or take seriously the ethical judgments of people committing ethics infractions and crimes against the Constitution on a daily basis in the most corrupt and befouled jurisdiction in the nation. The very words "ethics" and "ought" on the lips of N.J.'s Supreme Court justices is now a source of laughter everywhere in the world, including New Jersey.
N.J. is America's overstuffed legal toilet, where the likes of Stuart Rabner and Jaynee LaVecchia float around, allowing the stench of corruption and feces of criminality to pile up. Things are getting much worse, not better by playing these games with my work. They will come back to haunt you. More hostility, deligitimation, undermining of credibility for New Jersey institutions visibly involved in this disgusting pattern of CRIMINAL censorship and desperate cover-ups, after the "Philosophy Cafe" episode, will only undermine what little credibility and respect for judicial decisions remains available in the Garden State.
Laws always depend on both credibility and respect. Without respect or legitimacy -- N.J. has probably lost both in its legal insitutions! -- no legal system can function effectively. These great crimes must be acknowledged by New Jersey. Some attempt should be made to remedy these wrongs. I won't keep any money. You can relax. This isn't about money, for me, but recognition of great wrongs suffered at the hands of people who should have known better than they did and who continue to multiply their many sins with transparent cover-ups.
You want to take out another letter from one of my sentences now? I want those reports and videos prepared by Tuchin and Riccioli, preferably before the forthcoming indictment of Senator Bob, or the next wave of mafia-related scandals engulfs the politics and tribunals of the fetid "Garden State." How are the pension funds, boys and girls? EnCap Golf? Christmas Tree items? Xanadu? What part of this do you not get?
I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most,
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Anne Milgram Does it Again!
March 24, 2008 at 9:50 A.M. I experienced many difficulties accessing this site today. I had to sign in twice. "Errors" will probably be inserted in these essays throughout the day. At my MSN group at 9:22 A.M. I blocked:
http://rtm-ext.ebay.com/rtm
http://ad.farm.mediaplex.com/ad/js/711-55224-877...
Considering that I do not have ebay account, this seems odd -- as does my frequent ebay designation as a "power seller." I am also blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01
Kareem Fahim, "Immigration Referrals by Police Draw Scrutiny," in The New York Times, March 23, 2008, at p. 21. (Metro Section)
Patrick McGeehan & Nina Bernstein, "Businesses Say New York's Clout Is Emigrating, With Visa Policies to Blame," in The New York Times, March 24, 2008, at p. B1.
"WOODBURY, N.J. -- A green card holder from Guatemala said he was asked about his immigration status last month when he went to pick up his nephew from the West Depford, N.J., police station."
"An illegal immigrant from Mexico was arrested March 5 when the car in which he was a PASSENGER was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign in South Harrison Township, N.J."
A passenger has no liability for the errors of a driver. There was no legal basis for asking any questions of this passenger. Unless the police officer "observed" the status of the person's immigration papers from a mere glance in his direction, these questions put to the passenger were illegal. If based on ethnicity and/or race -- which would not surprise me! -- they could have been criminal.
"Seven months after the state attorney general, Anne Milgram, ordered local police departments in New Jersey to question people they arrest for certain crimes about their immigration status and to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities, the rate of such referrals has nearly doubled."
Latino identity has been criminalized by Ms. Milgram, who is said to regard Latino males as her "inferiors." Right, Anne? Still upset that I kicked your ass in debates? Did I do better than Anne Milgram in law school? Have I read more books than Ms. Milgram, despite not being a dyke? These are grave faults.
"But immigrants and their advocates say that some people have been unfairly swept up in the dragnet because of overzealous enforcement or confusion over how Ms. Milgram's directive was supposed to be implemented, creating a chilling effect on some immigrants' relationship with the police."
An underground network exists in New Jersey and in most big states, providing cover for people from other countries, together with documents (usually good and bad fakes, also for the really enterprising, genuine documents are available), allowing for bypassing the authorities on all important matters. Non-idiots in law enforcement are well aware of this reality.
Cooperation from these underground communities and people is vital if cops are to prevent future crimes and terrorist incidents. The current policies are designed to achieve the opposite of trust in these communities. This is what is known among us simple folks as idiotic.
Try to get this through your skull if you're in N.J. law enforcement, especially if you are responsible for preventing future terrorist attacks against Americans. You cannot solve this problem by rounding up every immigrant in the state. The people you're looking for will have valid paperwork, bearing all-American names. They will look like you and your fellow officers. They may be one of your fellow officers. (One "error" inserted and corrected -- we're doing good so far.)
The effectiveness of law enforcement in this difficult area or any other in which the opposition -- i.e., criminals or terrorists -- will be organized and international, with resources in the millions or billions (like the big drug cartels), will depend on intelligence and penetration, not torture and strong arm stuff. Macho swagger will not help. There will be no one for you to "beat up," necessarily, and even lots of trips to the weight room may not help.
Similarly, you will not prevail in an argument with me, or someone like me, by taking letters out of my sentences or engaging in other sabotage efforts against Internet texts. Americans do not and should not have to do such things or to put up with such affronts.
Americans have arguments that are indestructible, in my opinion. In fact, I have made some of them in defense of our Constitutional system. (See "Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution" and "Why I am not an ethical relativist.") One of my arguments is that you have every right to be a nihilist, relativist, Marxist or Right-Winger, along with any other view on ultimate matters that you may wish to adopt, as long as you do not seek to suppress the speech of others.
We need smart people. We need well-educated persons, intellectuals, to cope with our pressing troubles -- including the terrorism issue. The person who will see the associations between discoveries in the sciences and philosophy, developments in law and aesthetics may not be the individual that you expect to be brilliant. Be open to that possibility of being surprised by people.
If you -- all of us -- are not open to unexpected genius or ability in persons, others will be. The best and the brightest people from all over the world must continue to be attracted to this country and city, before all others, if we are to remain the great nation and world capital that we have been during past two centuries.
"... 'This is imposing an incredible human cost on these immigrants,' said Maria Juega of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund. 'They fear contact with authority. Any remote or direct link with the government is now a risk for an immigrant.' ..."
Any sane person should dread contacts with the authorities in New Jersey, since it is necessary to figure out: 1) whether one is dealing with the Gambinos and/or Lucheses; then 2) to discern whether a political boss has been sufficiently appeased (i.e., bribed) in order to ensure delivery of public services already paid for with one's taxes, usually paid for twice-over and then some.
In West New York, a person identifying himself as a cop, went to immigrants' homes to collect payments -- this seemed strange to immigrants confirming that Americans are simply "bizarre" -- payments for delivery of police services if they were ever needed. (Another "error" inserted and corrected since last night.) Immigrants paid up in case they needed the cops or firefighters in an emergency, paid usually every week. Think about that. Who is getting exploited?
Hackers are altering my possessives again. Oh, boy! Most people here illegally are exploited in about a million ways. They are treated like shit by N.J. bosses making money off of them, then ignored as stupid or ignorant, when many of these workers happen to be very well educated. Most are struggling to escape poverty in their native countries, after having completed their educations. In some cases, professionals in poor countries cannot find employment and seek survival wages in America, despite being competent engineers, chemists, accountants. I met many immigrants -- most were illegal and in menial jobs -- who were far better educated than the lawyers AND judges I dealt with on a daily basis.
"The directive was anounced last August amid outrage after a triple murder in which one of the suspects was an illegal immigrant who had been released on bail after previous arrests. It urged officers to inquire about citizenship and nationality when booking people for felonies or drunken driving."
It is not a good idea to allow headlines to dictate social policies because you will then receive dozens of unfavorable headlines when the failed "trendy" policy explodes in your face a few months down the road. Our national schizophrenia on immigration is hurting us in other ways:
"... senior executives of some of the country's biggest corporations, like Alcoa, have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York's ability to compete with other world capitols."
We are losing scientists and engineers, theorists and intellectuals to other countries. This is affecting American high tech industries. More than 60% of American Ph.D.s in science and engineering are born outside the U.S. Many of these people have decided that the prospects of a visit to lovely downtown Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib do not seem very promising, opting instead for cushy jobs in Paris. American competitiveness is being affected by this nonsense. (See "This is my first torture.")
Is this the kind of thing that N.J.'s brilliant attorney general wishes to leave as a legacy of her years in office -- yet another chapter in New Jersey's narrative of incompetence and criminality, insensitivity and exploitation, ethnic discrimination and bias in the most corrupt government in the nation? I hope not. Back to the "lesbian love-fest." Ms. Milgram's only response to this question continues to be: "...Whatever."
http://rtm-ext.ebay.com/rtm
http://ad.farm.mediaplex.com/ad/js/711-55224-877...
Considering that I do not have ebay account, this seems odd -- as does my frequent ebay designation as a "power seller." I am also blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01
Kareem Fahim, "Immigration Referrals by Police Draw Scrutiny," in The New York Times, March 23, 2008, at p. 21. (Metro Section)
Patrick McGeehan & Nina Bernstein, "Businesses Say New York's Clout Is Emigrating, With Visa Policies to Blame," in The New York Times, March 24, 2008, at p. B1.
"WOODBURY, N.J. -- A green card holder from Guatemala said he was asked about his immigration status last month when he went to pick up his nephew from the West Depford, N.J., police station."
"An illegal immigrant from Mexico was arrested March 5 when the car in which he was a PASSENGER was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign in South Harrison Township, N.J."
A passenger has no liability for the errors of a driver. There was no legal basis for asking any questions of this passenger. Unless the police officer "observed" the status of the person's immigration papers from a mere glance in his direction, these questions put to the passenger were illegal. If based on ethnicity and/or race -- which would not surprise me! -- they could have been criminal.
"Seven months after the state attorney general, Anne Milgram, ordered local police departments in New Jersey to question people they arrest for certain crimes about their immigration status and to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities, the rate of such referrals has nearly doubled."
Latino identity has been criminalized by Ms. Milgram, who is said to regard Latino males as her "inferiors." Right, Anne? Still upset that I kicked your ass in debates? Did I do better than Anne Milgram in law school? Have I read more books than Ms. Milgram, despite not being a dyke? These are grave faults.
"But immigrants and their advocates say that some people have been unfairly swept up in the dragnet because of overzealous enforcement or confusion over how Ms. Milgram's directive was supposed to be implemented, creating a chilling effect on some immigrants' relationship with the police."
An underground network exists in New Jersey and in most big states, providing cover for people from other countries, together with documents (usually good and bad fakes, also for the really enterprising, genuine documents are available), allowing for bypassing the authorities on all important matters. Non-idiots in law enforcement are well aware of this reality.
Cooperation from these underground communities and people is vital if cops are to prevent future crimes and terrorist incidents. The current policies are designed to achieve the opposite of trust in these communities. This is what is known among us simple folks as idiotic.
Try to get this through your skull if you're in N.J. law enforcement, especially if you are responsible for preventing future terrorist attacks against Americans. You cannot solve this problem by rounding up every immigrant in the state. The people you're looking for will have valid paperwork, bearing all-American names. They will look like you and your fellow officers. They may be one of your fellow officers. (One "error" inserted and corrected -- we're doing good so far.)
The effectiveness of law enforcement in this difficult area or any other in which the opposition -- i.e., criminals or terrorists -- will be organized and international, with resources in the millions or billions (like the big drug cartels), will depend on intelligence and penetration, not torture and strong arm stuff. Macho swagger will not help. There will be no one for you to "beat up," necessarily, and even lots of trips to the weight room may not help.
Similarly, you will not prevail in an argument with me, or someone like me, by taking letters out of my sentences or engaging in other sabotage efforts against Internet texts. Americans do not and should not have to do such things or to put up with such affronts.
Americans have arguments that are indestructible, in my opinion. In fact, I have made some of them in defense of our Constitutional system. (See "Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution" and "Why I am not an ethical relativist.") One of my arguments is that you have every right to be a nihilist, relativist, Marxist or Right-Winger, along with any other view on ultimate matters that you may wish to adopt, as long as you do not seek to suppress the speech of others.
We need smart people. We need well-educated persons, intellectuals, to cope with our pressing troubles -- including the terrorism issue. The person who will see the associations between discoveries in the sciences and philosophy, developments in law and aesthetics may not be the individual that you expect to be brilliant. Be open to that possibility of being surprised by people.
If you -- all of us -- are not open to unexpected genius or ability in persons, others will be. The best and the brightest people from all over the world must continue to be attracted to this country and city, before all others, if we are to remain the great nation and world capital that we have been during past two centuries.
"... 'This is imposing an incredible human cost on these immigrants,' said Maria Juega of the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund. 'They fear contact with authority. Any remote or direct link with the government is now a risk for an immigrant.' ..."
Any sane person should dread contacts with the authorities in New Jersey, since it is necessary to figure out: 1) whether one is dealing with the Gambinos and/or Lucheses; then 2) to discern whether a political boss has been sufficiently appeased (i.e., bribed) in order to ensure delivery of public services already paid for with one's taxes, usually paid for twice-over and then some.
In West New York, a person identifying himself as a cop, went to immigrants' homes to collect payments -- this seemed strange to immigrants confirming that Americans are simply "bizarre" -- payments for delivery of police services if they were ever needed. (Another "error" inserted and corrected since last night.) Immigrants paid up in case they needed the cops or firefighters in an emergency, paid usually every week. Think about that. Who is getting exploited?
Hackers are altering my possessives again. Oh, boy! Most people here illegally are exploited in about a million ways. They are treated like shit by N.J. bosses making money off of them, then ignored as stupid or ignorant, when many of these workers happen to be very well educated. Most are struggling to escape poverty in their native countries, after having completed their educations. In some cases, professionals in poor countries cannot find employment and seek survival wages in America, despite being competent engineers, chemists, accountants. I met many immigrants -- most were illegal and in menial jobs -- who were far better educated than the lawyers AND judges I dealt with on a daily basis.
"The directive was anounced last August amid outrage after a triple murder in which one of the suspects was an illegal immigrant who had been released on bail after previous arrests. It urged officers to inquire about citizenship and nationality when booking people for felonies or drunken driving."
It is not a good idea to allow headlines to dictate social policies because you will then receive dozens of unfavorable headlines when the failed "trendy" policy explodes in your face a few months down the road. Our national schizophrenia on immigration is hurting us in other ways:
"... senior executives of some of the country's biggest corporations, like Alcoa, have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York's ability to compete with other world capitols."
We are losing scientists and engineers, theorists and intellectuals to other countries. This is affecting American high tech industries. More than 60% of American Ph.D.s in science and engineering are born outside the U.S. Many of these people have decided that the prospects of a visit to lovely downtown Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib do not seem very promising, opting instead for cushy jobs in Paris. American competitiveness is being affected by this nonsense. (See "This is my first torture.")
Is this the kind of thing that N.J.'s brilliant attorney general wishes to leave as a legacy of her years in office -- yet another chapter in New Jersey's narrative of incompetence and criminality, insensitivity and exploitation, ethnic discrimination and bias in the most corrupt government in the nation? I hope not. Back to the "lesbian love-fest." Ms. Milgram's only response to this question continues to be: "...Whatever."
Friday, March 14, 2008
"I love my country too much to be a nationalist."
March 16, 2008 at 11:45 A.M. new computer attacks and obstructions make it very difficult to write today. I will continue to struggle to do my work. Spacing has been affected in several essays dealing with scientific and philosophical issues. The reasons for these attacks are explained below and see "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey."
March 15, 2008 at 9:27 P.M. I noticed a new hacking into my group just now, difficulties in regaining access to it, numerous obstacles to writing and even trouble getting back to this blog. I will try tomorrow -- again the next day and the one after that -- until I can do my work. Please see "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System." I will struggle to correct "errors" inserted in all vandalized essays. (See also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Calls from 321-779-3962 on March 14, 2008 at 12:08 P.M. Also, 718-229-2517. Several anonymous calls as well as the usual "marketers" were received. At 11:26 A.M. I blocked:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3753.msn/B271049... (NJ, AG?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn-dm/B171... ("Ex-Cubanaza M.D.?")
March 15, 2008 at 9:27 P.M. I noticed a new hacking into my group just now, difficulties in regaining access to it, numerous obstacles to writing and even trouble getting back to this blog. I will try tomorrow -- again the next day and the one after that -- until I can do my work. Please see "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System." I will struggle to correct "errors" inserted in all vandalized essays. (See also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Calls from 321-779-3962 on March 14, 2008 at 12:08 P.M. Also, 718-229-2517. Several anonymous calls as well as the usual "marketers" were received. At 11:26 A.M. I blocked:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3753.msn/B271049... (NJ, AG?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn-dm/B171... ("Ex-Cubanaza M.D.?")
I was unable to print items from my msn group, Critique. Attempts to print from my group left me with a blank page bearing this address:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01
Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (New York & London: Penguin, 1994).
Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (New York: Vintage, 1960).
George Orwell, A Collection of Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, 1953).
Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (London & New York: Penguin, 1975).
After experiencing censorship and destruction of creative work, for years, as well as the horrors of psychological tortures and worse, along with forced encounters with persons -- unable to perceive the reality of other human beings' pains -- an abyss opens at my feet that can only be described by the word evil. I realize that the mystery evoked by this word "evil" may be bottomless. Pathology, sin, malice are inadequate words to get at the agony that I and so many others have known. Today the image in my MSN group has been blocked three times (so far), numerous "errors" have appeared in several essays, again. Orchestrated frustration-inducement and inserted "anxieties" combined with artificial financial pressures making use of government power. Ethics?
Ironically and very sadly, Cuban-Americans and their N.J. partners in crime are probably prominent among my cyber-tormentors. The sort of people who speak of freedom and democracy, who are quite prepared to recommend these values to others, often have very little understanding of what these words really mean. Brutality and oppression come in many forms and may be justified by any number of ideologies or causes. I am sure that all such justifications and rationalizations are bandaids on something hideous and dangerous that lurks in the human heart, something associated with the will to power, control, mastery over others. (See "What is it like to be tortured?")
There is no significant difference between Batista's thugs and Castro's jailers. There are such monsters in every human society, including the U.S., as evidenced by the images from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. It is most worrisome and appalling that this malignancy is subtle, hidden away behind a veneer of normality and hypocrisy, usually in unexpected places -- like churches and other religious institutions, or even in American courtrooms.
It was reported in The New York Times that $74 MILLION per year are devoted to efforts to destabilize the Cuban government. This may have something to do with the security efforts undertaken by that government. How much might be accomplished if these funds were devoted to improving the quality of life for individual Cubans? How many more friends would we have on the island? How much more cooperation could we expect from Cuban officials with our anti-terrorism efforts if this money were offered for humanitarian causes? These are your tax dollars at work. Miami's anti-Castro brigades are often the beneficiaries of these sums of money. Opposition to Fidel Castro is frequently about $74 MILLION per year in government "welfare," in a manner of speaking.
A torturer is usually someone who sees himself as a defender of virtue and the "right middle class values." Most frightening of all is a tendency to associate political brutality and violence with notions of masculinity and military power that I have found, from childhood, utterly repulsive. This is true despite my enthusiastic heterosexuality. Anyone who says such things or who feels a need to paint or write poetry, or to create literary fiction -- something as worthless and financially unrewarding as, say, short stories or essays -- will immediately be called a "queer" or "fag." This is supposed to make us cringe in horror at being described in such terms. This is especially true in macho Latino culture, I am afraid, and among the worst of these "steroid-cultures" is the Cuban-American variety, which involves an exaggeration of Cuban machista mores from the nineteen fifties transferred to the twenty-first century. Whether in the sunny splendors of South Beach or the putridness of New Jersey, macho swagger does not appeal to me. (Any more "errors" to be inserted?)
This may well shock you if you are a "Cubanoid" or Cubanazo, I don't give a shit if you call me a "fag." In fact, I think of it as a compliment even if I am not gay. Most of the great artists and many philosophers that I admire happen to be gay -- except when they're not, of course -- so calling me gay is not something that offends me. On the other hand, fascism offends me. I am also not Norwegian. If someone is under the impression that I am a visitor from Norway and speaks to me in that lovely language, I will explain that I am not (despite my Viking-like appearance) a Norwegian. I offer much the same response when it comes to accusations of "gayness." Other people's sexual proclivities or adventures are also not my business and should not be subject to the censure of any observers. Public corruption and greed should be punished regardless of the race, creed, or sexual-orientation of the offender.
This principle will be difficult for some people to grasp: "There is no sin in being gay." Furthermore, all of the world's religions contain this message if you look for it: Love, regardless of the genders of the persons involved in loving relationships, is what we are here to learn and experience. Hurting other people, physically and in other ways, is what we should seek to avoid.
The fascist temperament -- and I am sure that there is such a thing -- is offended and irritated by all complex thought, intelligence, abstract ideas, authentic art, beauty in all its forms. The goal for the fascist is uniformity. Hence, the fondness for the militarization of culture. (Susan Sontag) The idea of difference, experimentation, creativity and self-invention is profoundly distressing to such persons -- who are almost always men -- because such creativity and self-invention forces the fascist to see the arbitrariness and falsity of his own view of life and constructed identity.
For fascists, disagreement and originality are to be crushed violently. By killing or beating up someone smarter than you are or who disagrees with you, you prove that you and your beliefs are better than his, that is, in the fascistic mindset. In fact, what you establish "beyond a reasonable doubt" is your inability to defend those beliefs rationally. This does not mean that your beliefs are false or mistaken. Others may be better able to defend them. It may only mean that you are stupid. Your stupidity would also explain the attractiveness of fascism for you. At this point, letters will be deleted from (or added to) some of the words in this essay. I will have to make corrections many times.
By destroying all that challenges this cherished fascistic notion of normality or the good (goodness is rare and anything but normal), the fascist may convince himself that his own lies are true. In other words, that he is a good and normal person and that "weirdos" deserve what they get. The seductions of power are disguised behind a "responsibility" to be "adults" and "follow the rules." The rules, naturally, are only those created by and serving the fascist's interests. Every fascist supports censorship. They usually favor death penalties and are against gun control, for the excellent reason that a man can always get his gun up, even if other ... eh, "items" fail to rise.
Hannah Arendt's talk of "banality" in association with evil; Jacobo Timmerman's discussion of the torturer's curious thought processes and that human beings morally deformed by such work tend to have their own logic of self-justification, even as they desperately seek their victims' approval and legitimation, all come close to the mark. At some deep level, violence and fascist brutality are desperate attempts to destroy the complexity that baffles and frightens simple men and the women who immitate them. Fascists are persons who want everything to be clear and to inhabit a place of intellectual safety where a cherished worldview will not be questioned. There is no such place.
America is about the opposite notion. The U.S. Constitution is designed to promote dispersal and division of power on the assumption that government power is a necessary evil, at best, and that the individual must come before the state. Conscience, expression, worship are matters of autonomy that must not concern government, as long as the rights of others to the same autonomy is respected by citizens. (See "Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution" and my essay "Ayn Rand's Critique of Immanuel Kant's Philosophy," which was defaced by self-described advocates Randian freedom.)
These are still radical, inspiring, and endangered ideas, threatened by America's own political leaders and judges often enough, but nevertheless still holding on to viability in this dangerous time. Our freedoms are always in peril. However, American contrariness and independence is resourceful and close to indestructible. Americans do not like dictators and will react, eventually, to any attempts to limit their freedoms. I am sure that American popular opinion is undergoing such a reaction now in calling for "change" from the failed policies of the past.
Complexity and contradiction is part of what we are since they are essential to freedom. No one can tell you what is right for you, except your own reason and heart. And what you discover to be right and true, for you, will remain objectively and even absolutely right and true, no matter who approves or disapproves of those judgments, as long as you respect the same autonomy in others. With or without the freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4, it remains the case that 2 + 2 = 4. In discovering that freedom and equality are right for you, you are also learning what is due to all other people. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. This means that loss of your freedom -- even the loss of that weird guy's freedom who is heard typing at all hours -- is the loss of every other person's freedom. Albert Camus speaks for all of us weirdos:
"Tyrants indulge in monologues over millions of solitudes. If we reject oppression and falsehood, on the other hand, this is because we reject solitude. Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men. [Even more so, of all women.] No, it is not you or a distant newspaper that you defend by resisting oppression, but the entire community that unites us over and above frontiers."
It was for this reason that Camus said that: "I love my country too much to be a nationalist." Real love for the United States of America is devotion to the Constitution, which is explicitly a universal defense of the freedom and equality of persons and their protection from the State. "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." My freedom to speak is also yours. Geographical limitations do not enter into this promise, which should apply at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib -- and some day, even in New Jersey.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
More From New Jersey's Tainted Legal Profession.
"Meadowlands Scandal Sounds Familiar," Home News Tribune, March 9, 2008.
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20080309&Category=OPINION01&ArtNo=803090449...
"Anyone with a memory for disastrous public contracts read the Inspector General's report on the EnCap Meadowlands project last week with a drowning sense of deja vu. Wind the clock back several years and you might have replaced EnCap with Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, the company given nearly $600 MILLION to privatize and modernize the state's vehicle inspection system."
That's $600 MILLION of YOUR money, if you live in New Jersey. This massive fraud was greased by attorneys in government and private practice. An essay concerning the criminal and unethical conduct of a number of N.J. attorneys is forthcoming. Where are Trenton's notorious acronyms? OAE? DRB? AG? Xanadu will cost residents of New Jersey BILLIONS for an unfinished mall. To his credit, Richard J. Codey has suggested that this latest disaster should be brought under control, rather than throwing more money at an unfixable situation. Nobody's listening.
"The Parsons contract was eventually declared a 'mamoth boondoggle' by a state agency. [In other words, a scam.] What Parsons lacked in expertise and experience, it more than made up for with sizable campaign contributions, influential lobbyists and even a few jobs to some important folk. When the report was made public, there was a great deal of finger-pointing and angry denunciations of pay to play. And state lawmakers said it would not happen again. It has."
Xanadu?
"The story of EnCap is virtually identical to that of Parsons in every important way. According to the Inspector General the company had neither the expertise nor the experience to do the job it promised; neither did it have the investors or the financial backing it said it did. But it gave to candidates, hired one of the state's most politically connected law firms, [Did they also hire the OAE?] got access to the folks who mattered, and landed the project and plenty of public money that seems to have been relentlessly squandered."
It's all about who you know and whether you are willing to share the bucks when they come in from the government treasury. I heard a former partner of a prominent N.J. politician discussing their cynical grab for dollars in terms of Trenton's contracted legal services, services that were often redundant, unnecessary, or overbilled.
I heard chuckles from political lawyers discussing "phone calls" to politicians to "fix" little ethical messes, like theft of client funds. To discover that the same people "fixing" things become important officials and judges in the Garden State is to realize that the poison of corruption and mafia influence taints every decision by those tribunals, making a mockery of the state's so-called "ethics proceedings."
"And so, nine years, five administrations and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS into a project that was going to turn some stinking old landfills into luxurious golf courses and high-rent residences, the project is knee-deep in garbage."
And the shit of legal corruption, deservedly, covers the Brennan Courthouse. None of the attorneys greasing these massive criminal frauds have been subjected to ethics charges. If they were, the situations would be "fixed," quietly and smoothly. Maybe public pressure can change that -- for a little while. (For a view of a typical New Jersey Superior Court judge, see "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
I am not interested in being nice after being subjected to a torture chamber. More judicial profiles are coming up. New "errors" inserted and corrected overnight. March 13, 2008 at 8:37 A.M. Keep it up fellas, you're helping to prove my point.
"The Inspector General has asked the state Attorney General's Office to look into possible criminal behavior."
Waste of time with Anne Milgram around. Don't bother to expect much from the A.G. I am sure that Ms. Milgram is a wonderful pastry chef, but this little situation is way over her head. No more "errors" inserted by hackers?
"In particular, the company seems to have wilfully misled [lied to?] public agencies in an attempt to get money from both state and local sources, and the law firm comes in for a good deal of censure and questionable tactics."
If any of these lawyers were minority solos, they'd be disbarred by the state, unceremoniously, with the eager assistance of minority frontpersons, the house slaves of the legal machinery. Lying that results in theft of public money in the millions is just fine -- for some people in New Jersey's legal practice. Who wants to talk to me about "ethics"?
"The Inspector General did not investigate public officials, even though the office's summation speaks to a political system that allowed it to happen: 'The project is a study in what can go wrong when a public body with high-minded public policy goals and compelled by its status to engage in fair dealing joins forces with a private entity whose primary goal is to maximize its profit and operates in a buyer beware atmosphere."
Never give a sucker an even break. Rumors of payoffs and political favors for OAE and DRB officials are unconfirmed, though highly likely to be true. Under existing federal criminal law (yes, there is such a thing), silent acquiescence in criminal conduct is grounds for equal liability and impositions of identical penalties. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
"The real question to be answered is how a 'public body with high-minded public policy goals' came to be duped for so long and so much."
They were sharing in the booty, in every sense, that's how they were "duped." OAE? How much did you steal from my office?
"The suspicion in this instance is that high-minded public policy played a poor second fiddle to the greed of public officials and the buddy system still at work in Trenton. The only one, in fact, who seems to have acted both competently and openly was Gov. Jon S. Corzine, when he refused to endorse yet more loans and instead ordered the Inspector General's investigation."
Nothing in N.J.'s legal establishment -- which is essentially coopted by the criminal culture of warped legal practice -- will bring about change. To have such people judge the ethics of anyone is a disgusting form of hypocrisy and farce. You are right to be appalled and furious if you live in the Garden State. The Soprano State, pp. 35-40. ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"Several law makers and public policy groups have called for an investigation by Chris Christie, the federal prosecutor in New Jersey. It's a good idea. The public policy system has failed, yet again. An outsider is needed to find out how and when Trenton keeps going wrong."
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20080309&Category=OPINION01&ArtNo=803090449...
"Anyone with a memory for disastrous public contracts read the Inspector General's report on the EnCap Meadowlands project last week with a drowning sense of deja vu. Wind the clock back several years and you might have replaced EnCap with Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group, the company given nearly $600 MILLION to privatize and modernize the state's vehicle inspection system."
That's $600 MILLION of YOUR money, if you live in New Jersey. This massive fraud was greased by attorneys in government and private practice. An essay concerning the criminal and unethical conduct of a number of N.J. attorneys is forthcoming. Where are Trenton's notorious acronyms? OAE? DRB? AG? Xanadu will cost residents of New Jersey BILLIONS for an unfinished mall. To his credit, Richard J. Codey has suggested that this latest disaster should be brought under control, rather than throwing more money at an unfixable situation. Nobody's listening.
"The Parsons contract was eventually declared a 'mamoth boondoggle' by a state agency. [In other words, a scam.] What Parsons lacked in expertise and experience, it more than made up for with sizable campaign contributions, influential lobbyists and even a few jobs to some important folk. When the report was made public, there was a great deal of finger-pointing and angry denunciations of pay to play. And state lawmakers said it would not happen again. It has."
Xanadu?
"The story of EnCap is virtually identical to that of Parsons in every important way. According to the Inspector General the company had neither the expertise nor the experience to do the job it promised; neither did it have the investors or the financial backing it said it did. But it gave to candidates, hired one of the state's most politically connected law firms, [Did they also hire the OAE?] got access to the folks who mattered, and landed the project and plenty of public money that seems to have been relentlessly squandered."
It's all about who you know and whether you are willing to share the bucks when they come in from the government treasury. I heard a former partner of a prominent N.J. politician discussing their cynical grab for dollars in terms of Trenton's contracted legal services, services that were often redundant, unnecessary, or overbilled.
I heard chuckles from political lawyers discussing "phone calls" to politicians to "fix" little ethical messes, like theft of client funds. To discover that the same people "fixing" things become important officials and judges in the Garden State is to realize that the poison of corruption and mafia influence taints every decision by those tribunals, making a mockery of the state's so-called "ethics proceedings."
"And so, nine years, five administrations and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS into a project that was going to turn some stinking old landfills into luxurious golf courses and high-rent residences, the project is knee-deep in garbage."
And the shit of legal corruption, deservedly, covers the Brennan Courthouse. None of the attorneys greasing these massive criminal frauds have been subjected to ethics charges. If they were, the situations would be "fixed," quietly and smoothly. Maybe public pressure can change that -- for a little while. (For a view of a typical New Jersey Superior Court judge, see "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
I am not interested in being nice after being subjected to a torture chamber. More judicial profiles are coming up. New "errors" inserted and corrected overnight. March 13, 2008 at 8:37 A.M. Keep it up fellas, you're helping to prove my point.
"The Inspector General has asked the state Attorney General's Office to look into possible criminal behavior."
Waste of time with Anne Milgram around. Don't bother to expect much from the A.G. I am sure that Ms. Milgram is a wonderful pastry chef, but this little situation is way over her head. No more "errors" inserted by hackers?
"In particular, the company seems to have wilfully misled [lied to?] public agencies in an attempt to get money from both state and local sources, and the law firm comes in for a good deal of censure and questionable tactics."
If any of these lawyers were minority solos, they'd be disbarred by the state, unceremoniously, with the eager assistance of minority frontpersons, the house slaves of the legal machinery. Lying that results in theft of public money in the millions is just fine -- for some people in New Jersey's legal practice. Who wants to talk to me about "ethics"?
"The Inspector General did not investigate public officials, even though the office's summation speaks to a political system that allowed it to happen: 'The project is a study in what can go wrong when a public body with high-minded public policy goals and compelled by its status to engage in fair dealing joins forces with a private entity whose primary goal is to maximize its profit and operates in a buyer beware atmosphere."
Never give a sucker an even break. Rumors of payoffs and political favors for OAE and DRB officials are unconfirmed, though highly likely to be true. Under existing federal criminal law (yes, there is such a thing), silent acquiescence in criminal conduct is grounds for equal liability and impositions of identical penalties. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
"The real question to be answered is how a 'public body with high-minded public policy goals' came to be duped for so long and so much."
They were sharing in the booty, in every sense, that's how they were "duped." OAE? How much did you steal from my office?
"The suspicion in this instance is that high-minded public policy played a poor second fiddle to the greed of public officials and the buddy system still at work in Trenton. The only one, in fact, who seems to have acted both competently and openly was Gov. Jon S. Corzine, when he refused to endorse yet more loans and instead ordered the Inspector General's investigation."
Nothing in N.J.'s legal establishment -- which is essentially coopted by the criminal culture of warped legal practice -- will bring about change. To have such people judge the ethics of anyone is a disgusting form of hypocrisy and farce. You are right to be appalled and furious if you live in the Garden State. The Soprano State, pp. 35-40. ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"Several law makers and public policy groups have called for an investigation by Chris Christie, the federal prosecutor in New Jersey. It's a good idea. The public policy system has failed, yet again. An outsider is needed to find out how and when Trenton keeps going wrong."
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
N.J. Based Prostitution Ring and N.Y.'s "Pay-For-Luv-Guv"!
Danny Hakim & William K. Rashbaum, "Spitzer, Linked to Sex Ring As a Client, Gives an Apology," in The New York Times, March 11, 2008, at p. A1.
William K. Rashbaum, "Revelations About the Governor Began in Routine Tax Inquiry," in The New York Times, March 11, 2008, at p. A1.
"ALBANY -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer was a client of a high end prostitution ring broken up last week by federal authorities, according to law enforcement officials, a development that threatened to end his career" -- which provides ample grounds for ethics charges for any attorney, leading to disbarment, which should make Deborah T. Poritz and others in Trenton very nervous -- "and turned the state's political world upside down."
I wonder how Diana is feeling the pressure these days? How's the "family-like" organization, Diana? How do you like Paramus? Close to the mall? Is your neighbor Joe Coniglio?
"Mr. Spitzer's involvement with the prostitution operation came last week, the officials said, as federal prosecutors charged four people with operating the service, Emperor's Club V.I.P. Mr. Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap discussing payments and arranging to meet a prostitute in a Washington hotel room last month. The affidavit, which did not identify Mr. Spitzer by name, [the preferred pseudonym was "George Fox"] indicated that he had used the prostitution service before, although it was not clear how often."
Apparently, Mr. Spitzer had earned a $500.00 credit. Strangely, no green stamps were mentioned. This prostitution service was based in Cliffside Park, N.J. (no surprise!) and had global reach. N.J. is a "friendly jurisdiction" for this type of business and other shady or mob activity. Commercial sex should be legalized in order to get rid of the criminal element, as much as possible, to protect sex workers, while avoiding the disclosure of private, consensual adult behavior.
None of this behavior -- if freely-chosen by adults -- should be the government's business. The continuing hypocrisy about the reality of human sexual behavior drains law enforcement resources that might be better used to protect children who are forced into this "business" and to curtail illegal drug sales. I have never paid for nor have I (sadly) been paid for sex. No, I would not accept money for sex -- or I'd be in New Jersey's judiciary with the other whores.
With legalization, client lists would be subject to privacy laws. Sex workers could be granted a limited "privilege and confidentiality right," like other "professionals" in related industries -- such as attorneys and Hollywood agents, also psychotherapists and psychos who are therapists. Diana? Tuchin?
Mr. Spitzer's troubles began as a result of routine tax inquiries. That's what is known, prosaically, as "bullshit." The I.R.S. does not set up shop to investigate finances for a person and industry unless a little bird has told them something really intriguing. I suspect that this "little bird" came from New Jersey. Again, politicians in Trenton should be purchasing indictment insurance. A major prostitution service does not operate in New Jersey without taking care of the local "businesspeople" and allowing politicians or judges (both?) to "dip their wicks," as it were. Who wanted to get Spitzer? The mob? The same people who went after Bernard Kerik?
Investigators detected movement of thousands of dollars in Spitzer's cash. "The money ended up in the bank accounts of what appeared to be shell companies, corporations that essentially had no real business." Their real business is to launder money that comes back to politicians in the form of political contributions and suitcases filled with so-called "clean" cash. Mr. Spitzer made his name by crusading against questionable financial practices on Wall Street. I am sure that money laundering is highly questionable. Right, Senator Bob? ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
I know of several Hudson County attorneys who described counting $300,000 in cash at a closing for some gentlemen from foreign parts purchasing properties with a view of the city. I wondered whether they remembered to inform the IRS of this transaction. What the hell, huh?
$1,000 to $5,000 an hour for young women sounds like a lot of money, but they only keep a fraction of that cash and have lots of costs. Legalization would get rid of exploiters, allow prostitutes to deduct their expenses, give customers privacy rights as well as allowing sex workers to establish professional identities as "corporations" or "limited partnerships" (depending on the tax angles), retaining their own privacy. Most of all, legalization gives sex workers safety, respect, independence and generates fair taxes for government.
Destruction of someone's career and pain to family members are unnecessary side effects of what boils down to a consensual sexual act between a man and woman, where money was given by one person to another. Whatever we feel about such behavior -- I hope no person would ever wish to engage in such conduct, sex for money -- that decision belongs to what Kant called the "autonomous" realm. There are complications in Spitzer's case since he had sent people to prison for less reprehensible conduct and was the chief executive of the state at the time of this disclosure of his "pay-for-luv" habit.
You should not use people as "means" to your "ends." However, if one adult person chooses to be used for purposes of sexual gratification by another adult who chooses to spend money to obtain that gratification, despite the disapproval of others, then (I suppose) in a free society, the State should stay out of the matter as long as no one is hurt. Neither side of this pleasant exchange interests me. However, I will not judge my neighbors who disagree. Furthermore, I am sure that it is a tragic loss for New York to be deprived of a good governor because of this nonsense. It is also unfortunate for Mr. Spitzer to suffer personal career damage or destruction as a result of this lethal lapse in judgment and world-level display of hypocrisy. The sleaze aimed at Governor Patterson probably comes from the same people in New Jersey and not Mr. Cuomo.
This is the sort of unethical conduct we expect from New Jersey politicians, not New York's chief executive. Chris Christie may spoil my fun after he is sworn-in. Is it true that I will hear from you after you are Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Christie? I amstill waiting, Chris.
William K. Rashbaum, "Revelations About the Governor Began in Routine Tax Inquiry," in The New York Times, March 11, 2008, at p. A1.
"ALBANY -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer was a client of a high end prostitution ring broken up last week by federal authorities, according to law enforcement officials, a development that threatened to end his career" -- which provides ample grounds for ethics charges for any attorney, leading to disbarment, which should make Deborah T. Poritz and others in Trenton very nervous -- "and turned the state's political world upside down."
I wonder how Diana is feeling the pressure these days? How's the "family-like" organization, Diana? How do you like Paramus? Close to the mall? Is your neighbor Joe Coniglio?
"Mr. Spitzer's involvement with the prostitution operation came last week, the officials said, as federal prosecutors charged four people with operating the service, Emperor's Club V.I.P. Mr. Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap discussing payments and arranging to meet a prostitute in a Washington hotel room last month. The affidavit, which did not identify Mr. Spitzer by name, [the preferred pseudonym was "George Fox"] indicated that he had used the prostitution service before, although it was not clear how often."
Apparently, Mr. Spitzer had earned a $500.00 credit. Strangely, no green stamps were mentioned. This prostitution service was based in Cliffside Park, N.J. (no surprise!) and had global reach. N.J. is a "friendly jurisdiction" for this type of business and other shady or mob activity. Commercial sex should be legalized in order to get rid of the criminal element, as much as possible, to protect sex workers, while avoiding the disclosure of private, consensual adult behavior.
None of this behavior -- if freely-chosen by adults -- should be the government's business. The continuing hypocrisy about the reality of human sexual behavior drains law enforcement resources that might be better used to protect children who are forced into this "business" and to curtail illegal drug sales. I have never paid for nor have I (sadly) been paid for sex. No, I would not accept money for sex -- or I'd be in New Jersey's judiciary with the other whores.
With legalization, client lists would be subject to privacy laws. Sex workers could be granted a limited "privilege and confidentiality right," like other "professionals" in related industries -- such as attorneys and Hollywood agents, also psychotherapists and psychos who are therapists. Diana? Tuchin?
Mr. Spitzer's troubles began as a result of routine tax inquiries. That's what is known, prosaically, as "bullshit." The I.R.S. does not set up shop to investigate finances for a person and industry unless a little bird has told them something really intriguing. I suspect that this "little bird" came from New Jersey. Again, politicians in Trenton should be purchasing indictment insurance. A major prostitution service does not operate in New Jersey without taking care of the local "businesspeople" and allowing politicians or judges (both?) to "dip their wicks," as it were. Who wanted to get Spitzer? The mob? The same people who went after Bernard Kerik?
Investigators detected movement of thousands of dollars in Spitzer's cash. "The money ended up in the bank accounts of what appeared to be shell companies, corporations that essentially had no real business." Their real business is to launder money that comes back to politicians in the form of political contributions and suitcases filled with so-called "clean" cash. Mr. Spitzer made his name by crusading against questionable financial practices on Wall Street. I am sure that money laundering is highly questionable. Right, Senator Bob? ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
I know of several Hudson County attorneys who described counting $300,000 in cash at a closing for some gentlemen from foreign parts purchasing properties with a view of the city. I wondered whether they remembered to inform the IRS of this transaction. What the hell, huh?
$1,000 to $5,000 an hour for young women sounds like a lot of money, but they only keep a fraction of that cash and have lots of costs. Legalization would get rid of exploiters, allow prostitutes to deduct their expenses, give customers privacy rights as well as allowing sex workers to establish professional identities as "corporations" or "limited partnerships" (depending on the tax angles), retaining their own privacy. Most of all, legalization gives sex workers safety, respect, independence and generates fair taxes for government.
Destruction of someone's career and pain to family members are unnecessary side effects of what boils down to a consensual sexual act between a man and woman, where money was given by one person to another. Whatever we feel about such behavior -- I hope no person would ever wish to engage in such conduct, sex for money -- that decision belongs to what Kant called the "autonomous" realm. There are complications in Spitzer's case since he had sent people to prison for less reprehensible conduct and was the chief executive of the state at the time of this disclosure of his "pay-for-luv" habit.
You should not use people as "means" to your "ends." However, if one adult person chooses to be used for purposes of sexual gratification by another adult who chooses to spend money to obtain that gratification, despite the disapproval of others, then (I suppose) in a free society, the State should stay out of the matter as long as no one is hurt. Neither side of this pleasant exchange interests me. However, I will not judge my neighbors who disagree. Furthermore, I am sure that it is a tragic loss for New York to be deprived of a good governor because of this nonsense. It is also unfortunate for Mr. Spitzer to suffer personal career damage or destruction as a result of this lethal lapse in judgment and world-level display of hypocrisy. The sleaze aimed at Governor Patterson probably comes from the same people in New Jersey and not Mr. Cuomo.
This is the sort of unethical conduct we expect from New Jersey politicians, not New York's chief executive. Chris Christie may spoil my fun after he is sworn-in. Is it true that I will hear from you after you are Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Christie? I amstill waiting, Chris.
Monday, March 10, 2008
New Jersey's Third-World Ethics.
March 6, 2008 at 10:33 A.M. new "errors" were inserted in this essay posted moments ago. I will now correct them. I will continue to do my best to correct "errors" inserted in these writings, on a daily basis, by persons responsible for enforcing First Amendment protections.
Ken Belson, "Delay, Turmoil and High Costs Plague Meadowlands Project," in The New York Times, March 5, 2008, at p. B1.
" ... Nearly a decade later, the $1 BILLION project, hard by the New Jersey Turnpike, is what the state's inspector general calls a 'study in what can go wrong.' There are no homes or hotels, Four Landfills, none completely tamed, still sit where sand traps and water hazards were supposed to perplex golfers."
"That project is just across Route 3, the Main Street of the Meadowlands, from Xanadu, an ungainly 2.3 million square foot complex rising next to Giants Stadium that almost drove one developer into bankruptcy, fell more than a year behind schedule and has filled less than half its retail and entertainment space."
"Together the two projects -- backed in part by nearly $1 BILLION in low-interest loans, tax breaks and infrastructure investments by public agencies -- are reminders of the enormous hurdles to be faced when trying to build in the Meadowlands, a much sought-after location because of its proximity to major highways and millions of affluent consumers."
That's your BILLION smackers being pissed away. Pay attention now: "The problem-plagued projects" -- Senator Bob is said to have his finger in the Xanadu pie by way of surrogate, Kay LiCausi -- "also provide a window into the New Jersey pay-to-play culture populated by well-connected lobbyists, double-dealing politicians ["on the one hand, but on the other hand"] and bare knuckled deal-makers who are called on to navigate the maze of regulatory agencies that often frustrate developers, particularly those from outside New Jersey." (emphasis added)
Spacing has been affected by my old friends from Hudson County, either moron Tolentino or one of her ex-law clerks. Perhaps one of the other assholes in the Garden State now facing indictment. As they whisper in Jersey City, you gotta get some local talent and then you got to leave some milk and cookies for the boys. Hire local muscle and some bribe-delivering shysters. Bosses gotta wet their beaks. The Jersey City mob will have to deal with me forever. Ain't that reassuring? I think so.
"... 'It's a very complex place geologically, politically and structurally,' said Thomas H. Bruinooge, a lawyer and developer in Rutherford who in the 1960s helped establish the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, a planning agency that has tried to recast a region once known for its pig farms [still is, different pigs] and garbage dumps. [different garbage] 'And this is a third-world country when it comes to ethics.' ..." (emphasis added -- and how!)
When the newspaper of record -- which has rarely met a Democrat it didn't like -- gets to this level during a presidential election season ... you know that something stinks in New Jersey. Most people in New Jersey, most lawyers -- most people in the world! -- equate New Jersey with mafia-controlled government, bribery of police, sold-out and corrupt tribunals, everything thought of as the opposite of ethics. Trenton knows this and has adopted a "let's pretend everything is fine" attitude or "kill the messenger." I don't think this strategy will work.
New Jersey is a political catastrophe and betrayal of all sound jurisprudential notions. New Jersey's legal system -- with all exceptions granted -- sickens and disgraces the people of the United States of America. It should. The state's Supreme Court is a revolting example of rewarding political ass-kissers and whores with powerful judicial appointments. (See "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Crimes Against Humanity.")
"Part of the inspector general's focus was EnCap's powerful law firm, DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick, Cole & Wisler, whose partners have counseled New Jersey governors for years, and which also represents the developers of Xanadu. In the past, the firm helped wear down mayors' and councils' resistance to new homes in North Arlington, Lyndhurst and other towns in the Meadowlands."
"The towns were told by the developers -- and misled [you mean, lied to by N.J. lawyers and developers as well as politicians?] -- that mostly private money would be used to remediate the unsightly landfills, which could later be the sites of new homes. However, although EnCap contributed an equity stake of $35 million, the Department of Environmental Protection and other state agencies ended up providing about $300 MILLION in low-interest financing. EnCap may yet receive $100 MILLION more in reimbursements to finish the project."
"... 'This deal is dirtier than the stuff in the landfill,' said Jeff Titel, the chapter director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. 'This thing is the Baghdad of redevelopment.' ..."
Where did all that money go?
What New Jersey's legion of crooked politicians have placed in that radioactive landfill is the U.S. Constitution. We cannot allow that process of trashing your Constitutional rights to continue. Give the feds a call if you can help to put these crooks in prison.
Ken Belson, "Delay, Turmoil and High Costs Plague Meadowlands Project," in The New York Times, March 5, 2008, at p. B1.
" ... Nearly a decade later, the $1 BILLION project, hard by the New Jersey Turnpike, is what the state's inspector general calls a 'study in what can go wrong.' There are no homes or hotels, Four Landfills, none completely tamed, still sit where sand traps and water hazards were supposed to perplex golfers."
"That project is just across Route 3, the Main Street of the Meadowlands, from Xanadu, an ungainly 2.3 million square foot complex rising next to Giants Stadium that almost drove one developer into bankruptcy, fell more than a year behind schedule and has filled less than half its retail and entertainment space."
"Together the two projects -- backed in part by nearly $1 BILLION in low-interest loans, tax breaks and infrastructure investments by public agencies -- are reminders of the enormous hurdles to be faced when trying to build in the Meadowlands, a much sought-after location because of its proximity to major highways and millions of affluent consumers."
That's your BILLION smackers being pissed away. Pay attention now: "The problem-plagued projects" -- Senator Bob is said to have his finger in the Xanadu pie by way of surrogate, Kay LiCausi -- "also provide a window into the New Jersey pay-to-play culture populated by well-connected lobbyists, double-dealing politicians ["on the one hand, but on the other hand"] and bare knuckled deal-makers who are called on to navigate the maze of regulatory agencies that often frustrate developers, particularly those from outside New Jersey." (emphasis added)
Spacing has been affected by my old friends from Hudson County, either moron Tolentino or one of her ex-law clerks. Perhaps one of the other assholes in the Garden State now facing indictment. As they whisper in Jersey City, you gotta get some local talent and then you got to leave some milk and cookies for the boys. Hire local muscle and some bribe-delivering shysters. Bosses gotta wet their beaks. The Jersey City mob will have to deal with me forever. Ain't that reassuring? I think so.
"... 'It's a very complex place geologically, politically and structurally,' said Thomas H. Bruinooge, a lawyer and developer in Rutherford who in the 1960s helped establish the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, a planning agency that has tried to recast a region once known for its pig farms [still is, different pigs] and garbage dumps. [different garbage] 'And this is a third-world country when it comes to ethics.' ..." (emphasis added -- and how!)
When the newspaper of record -- which has rarely met a Democrat it didn't like -- gets to this level during a presidential election season ... you know that something stinks in New Jersey. Most people in New Jersey, most lawyers -- most people in the world! -- equate New Jersey with mafia-controlled government, bribery of police, sold-out and corrupt tribunals, everything thought of as the opposite of ethics. Trenton knows this and has adopted a "let's pretend everything is fine" attitude or "kill the messenger." I don't think this strategy will work.
New Jersey is a political catastrophe and betrayal of all sound jurisprudential notions. New Jersey's legal system -- with all exceptions granted -- sickens and disgraces the people of the United States of America. It should. The state's Supreme Court is a revolting example of rewarding political ass-kissers and whores with powerful judicial appointments. (See "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Crimes Against Humanity.")
"Part of the inspector general's focus was EnCap's powerful law firm, DeCotiis, Fitzpatrick, Cole & Wisler, whose partners have counseled New Jersey governors for years, and which also represents the developers of Xanadu. In the past, the firm helped wear down mayors' and councils' resistance to new homes in North Arlington, Lyndhurst and other towns in the Meadowlands."
"The towns were told by the developers -- and misled [you mean, lied to by N.J. lawyers and developers as well as politicians?] -- that mostly private money would be used to remediate the unsightly landfills, which could later be the sites of new homes. However, although EnCap contributed an equity stake of $35 million, the Department of Environmental Protection and other state agencies ended up providing about $300 MILLION in low-interest financing. EnCap may yet receive $100 MILLION more in reimbursements to finish the project."
"... 'This deal is dirtier than the stuff in the landfill,' said Jeff Titel, the chapter director of the New Jersey Sierra Club. 'This thing is the Baghdad of redevelopment.' ..."
Where did all that money go?
What New Jersey's legion of crooked politicians have placed in that radioactive landfill is the U.S. Constitution. We cannot allow that process of trashing your Constitutional rights to continue. Give the feds a call if you can help to put these crooks in prison.
Cyber Rebels in Cuba Do Not Carry Guns!
Ironically, I am posting this essay after correcting "errors" inserted by N.J. hackers who do not like my criticisms of Senator Bob. It may be that these Cuban students have as much freedom as I do. Maybe more. I wonder how many of them have been tortured or see their writings defaced and vandalized to the indifference of governmental authorities. (Please see "New Jersey's Third-World Ethics" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.") March 10, 2008 at 2:29 P.M.
In fact, newly discovered alterations of the spacing of sentences in this text suggests that Cuban-American Fascist elements can only threaten the freedom of persons struggling for self-expression, whether in the U.S. or Cuba. (I have just corrected an "error" in the foregoing sentence.) The Cubanoids from Miami or elsewhere are deserving of political "Preparation-H," not of your support. It saddens me to think that such persons are the most visible representatives of the Cuban-American community in America. No more "errors" inserted today? March 13, 2008 at 9:40 A.M. Any more "errors" to be inserted today, boys?
James C. McKinley, Jr., "Cyber-Rebels In Cuba Defy the State's Limits," in The New York Times, March 6, 2008, at p. A1.
"HAVANA -- A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media try to suppress."
The Internet is a powerful tool for Democracy and freedom of expression. The Cuban government -- no government -- can contain ideas or the spread of intellectual curiosity, along with a growing desire to take the Cuban "brand" of socialism to a new level -- a level that allows for greater Democratic freedom and the inviolability of basic human rights. (See "Umberto Eco and the Semiotics of Power" as well as my book -- which I cannot see because of hackers -- entitled: Paul Ricouer and the Hermeneutics of Freedom.)
Before we deplore the undeniable repressions of the Cuban political reality, consider that a high official of the Cuban government met with students "face-to-face" in a no-holds-barred, question and answer session, and also that the video tape of the event is circulating in the capitol city.
Cuba is opening up. New ideas are wedging their way into the society. Do you wish to encourage or discourage that process? With a lifting of the embargo, MORE cultural exchanges, a greater participation by Cuba's brilliant young people in the global intellectual conversation of humanity -- the liberation of Cuban scientific and cultural creativity -- will result in improvements in the quality of life for all people, billions of dollars will flow into the economy, while allowing the Revolution to retain greater social equality resulting from the events of 1959. The goal for Cubans may be to bring their Revolution closer to completion by allowing for greater personal freedoms and economic prosperity, without a loss of social equality.
Today's Cuban Revolutionaries are a "Geek Squad." They do not carry guns, only digital cameras and laptops. They are not aiming missiles at the U.S. Students only have questions for the American people, especially for intellectuals and artists in this society. Where is the political courage and conscience of America's young people? From one "Geek" to others in Havana -- Venceremos. (No accents on this keyboard.)
In Havana, today's revolutionaries dress like fighters in the Matrix. "Whoa ..."
"Last month students at a prestigious computer science university videotaped an ugly confrontation they had with Ricardo Alarcon, the President of the National Assembly."
If this were 1963, those students would already be in prison or dead.
"Mr. Alarcon seemed flummoxed when students grilled him on why they could not travel abroad, stay at hotels, earn better wages or use search engines like Google. The video spread like wildfire through Havana, passed from person to person, and seriously damaged Mr. Alarcon's reputation in some circles. "
Can you imagine an unscripted encounter between Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney and a group of sophisticated interlocutors concerning the state of the world? It is difficult to do so these days. Once upon a time, such a thing was not unheard of in American politics.
Cuba's Revolutionary government -- like any government, ANYWHERE -- belongs to you, the people, especially if you are a young person or any kind of student. Cuban students have the admiration and support of intellectuals and dissidents all over the world, struggling (as you are) to speak freely, facing the consequences (which can be devastating, also anywhere) for presuming to think and speak FREELY. Any more "errors" inserted in my essays today? Probably, just a few. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime.")
Like all of you: I am not a slave. I am a free human being. I will think and speak freely, regardless of who approves of my opinions. Being tortured and otherwise "penalized" has not altered my position on this matter. In the immortal words of Billy Joel at his concert in Moscow: "Don't take any shit!"
Whether your would-be silencers are Right-wing Cubanoids from Miami (more "Preparation H" anyone?), or the Cuban Revolutionary government's "nomenklatura," the result is exactly the same -- the suppression of that liberty for which Jose Marti suffered and died, which is the real promise of the United States of America to every person in the country and world. That liberty with equality and a healthy suspicion of government power is what the U.S. Constitution is all about. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.") Don't let anybody tell you something different about America.
Ideas cannot be jailed, tortured, beaten or suppressed for long, not even in New Jersey. I promise you that in some ways, New Jersey is as bad or WORSE (as fraudulent and just as sinister) as the Cuban government at its worst. The "Internet cannot be regulated" and the struggle to make use of this conversation (where we are right now) will never be won by political hacks in any society. In a battle of wits, government hacks -- in every nation -- are unarmed. This is fortunate. Keep fighting. I will struggle with you. Soon. Always.
In fact, newly discovered alterations of the spacing of sentences in this text suggests that Cuban-American Fascist elements can only threaten the freedom of persons struggling for self-expression, whether in the U.S. or Cuba. (I have just corrected an "error" in the foregoing sentence.) The Cubanoids from Miami or elsewhere are deserving of political "Preparation-H," not of your support. It saddens me to think that such persons are the most visible representatives of the Cuban-American community in America. No more "errors" inserted today? March 13, 2008 at 9:40 A.M. Any more "errors" to be inserted today, boys?
James C. McKinley, Jr., "Cyber-Rebels In Cuba Defy the State's Limits," in The New York Times, March 6, 2008, at p. A1.
"HAVANA -- A growing underground network of young people armed with computer memory sticks, digital cameras and clandestine Internet hookups has been mounting some challenges to the Cuban government in recent months, spreading news that the official state media try to suppress."
The Internet is a powerful tool for Democracy and freedom of expression. The Cuban government -- no government -- can contain ideas or the spread of intellectual curiosity, along with a growing desire to take the Cuban "brand" of socialism to a new level -- a level that allows for greater Democratic freedom and the inviolability of basic human rights. (See "Umberto Eco and the Semiotics of Power" as well as my book -- which I cannot see because of hackers -- entitled: Paul Ricouer and the Hermeneutics of Freedom.)
Before we deplore the undeniable repressions of the Cuban political reality, consider that a high official of the Cuban government met with students "face-to-face" in a no-holds-barred, question and answer session, and also that the video tape of the event is circulating in the capitol city.
Cuba is opening up. New ideas are wedging their way into the society. Do you wish to encourage or discourage that process? With a lifting of the embargo, MORE cultural exchanges, a greater participation by Cuba's brilliant young people in the global intellectual conversation of humanity -- the liberation of Cuban scientific and cultural creativity -- will result in improvements in the quality of life for all people, billions of dollars will flow into the economy, while allowing the Revolution to retain greater social equality resulting from the events of 1959. The goal for Cubans may be to bring their Revolution closer to completion by allowing for greater personal freedoms and economic prosperity, without a loss of social equality.
Today's Cuban Revolutionaries are a "Geek Squad." They do not carry guns, only digital cameras and laptops. They are not aiming missiles at the U.S. Students only have questions for the American people, especially for intellectuals and artists in this society. Where is the political courage and conscience of America's young people? From one "Geek" to others in Havana -- Venceremos. (No accents on this keyboard.)
In Havana, today's revolutionaries dress like fighters in the Matrix. "Whoa ..."
"Last month students at a prestigious computer science university videotaped an ugly confrontation they had with Ricardo Alarcon, the President of the National Assembly."
If this were 1963, those students would already be in prison or dead.
"Mr. Alarcon seemed flummoxed when students grilled him on why they could not travel abroad, stay at hotels, earn better wages or use search engines like Google. The video spread like wildfire through Havana, passed from person to person, and seriously damaged Mr. Alarcon's reputation in some circles. "
Can you imagine an unscripted encounter between Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney and a group of sophisticated interlocutors concerning the state of the world? It is difficult to do so these days. Once upon a time, such a thing was not unheard of in American politics.
Cuba's Revolutionary government -- like any government, ANYWHERE -- belongs to you, the people, especially if you are a young person or any kind of student. Cuban students have the admiration and support of intellectuals and dissidents all over the world, struggling (as you are) to speak freely, facing the consequences (which can be devastating, also anywhere) for presuming to think and speak FREELY. Any more "errors" inserted in my essays today? Probably, just a few. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime.")
Like all of you: I am not a slave. I am a free human being. I will think and speak freely, regardless of who approves of my opinions. Being tortured and otherwise "penalized" has not altered my position on this matter. In the immortal words of Billy Joel at his concert in Moscow: "Don't take any shit!"
Whether your would-be silencers are Right-wing Cubanoids from Miami (more "Preparation H" anyone?), or the Cuban Revolutionary government's "nomenklatura," the result is exactly the same -- the suppression of that liberty for which Jose Marti suffered and died, which is the real promise of the United States of America to every person in the country and world. That liberty with equality and a healthy suspicion of government power is what the U.S. Constitution is all about. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.") Don't let anybody tell you something different about America.
Ideas cannot be jailed, tortured, beaten or suppressed for long, not even in New Jersey. I promise you that in some ways, New Jersey is as bad or WORSE (as fraudulent and just as sinister) as the Cuban government at its worst. The "Internet cannot be regulated" and the struggle to make use of this conversation (where we are right now) will never be won by political hacks in any society. In a battle of wits, government hacks -- in every nation -- are unarmed. This is fortunate. Keep fighting. I will struggle with you. Soon. Always.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
"Rendition": A Movie Review.
March 10, 2008 at 9:37 A.M. calls from 704-633-8373. NJ? Inserted "errors" and alterations of this essay must be expected at all times.
When I was in sixth grade, we were assigned an essay topic: "What America means to me?" I answered that question as an immigrant, hoping to become a citizen some day. Reared on Frank Capra films and stories of the American Revolution, I idolized the United States and the U.S. Constitution, both had something to do with freedom for everybody. I was an eager student of history, loving comic book biographies of America's patriots. I wanted to live in a society where people would not be frightened about what they could say, publicly, or who might be listening when they spoke of their values and ideas.
As I read these words, moments after witnessing hackers with access to government resources blocking my image at my MSN group and attacking my writings, again, I wonder what happened to the public legal and political culture in this democracy, also to the First Amendment. I still revere the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This "reverence" provoked laughter in an MSN discussion group not so long ago -- laughter from Americans! -- many of whom claimed to be New Jersey Democrats and, proudly, "relativists." Others saw nothing wrong with torture because we have to get "tough on terrorists." These people claimed to be Republicans. I am an independent. I am sure that there is nothing more patriotic than protest and struggle for civil rights.
As a child in Cuba, I was instructed by my family members to be careful about what I said at school concerning politics, to pretend to agree with everything that was said in my classroom about the government. People were arrested, shot -- including members of my family -- soldiers with guns wandered around the neighborhood. Political posters were everywhere. I detested all of this macho, military swaggering then. I still do today. I also hate militarism when we are guilty of this posturing. I am searching for Joy Gordon's book, Invisible War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).
Unfortunately, new "errors" were inserted in this essay overnight. I will do my best to correct them. It is very fitting that this essay would be selected for such treatment. Please see "What is it like to be tortured?" Even after I make these corrections, "errors" may be reinserted, the process will be continuous. The goal is to maximize frustration and cause or enhance the effects of various psychological tortures that I have experienced. March 13, 2008 at 9:47 A.M. (See "U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture.")
Now I find that, in America -- this land that I love so much -- soldiers with guns are wandering around train stations, people are secretly tortured, arrested, detained without trials, government obstructs and suppresses speech by deliberately isolated, protesting, "tortured" individuals (who are citizens), like me, then lies about it. The tortures are rationalized because victims are deemed to be "unethical." Of course, sometimes the censorship and destruction of writings is based on the contents of the opinions expressed by dissidents. ("What is it like to be tortured?" and "What is it like to be censored in America?")
I am told that this cruelty and illegality -- given only the form of legality, not its substance -- is "necessary to protect the American Constitution and way of life." I think that this is how we lose the American Constitution and way of life. Perhaps we have lost both already. The rule of law and freedom are fragile, always endangered things. Maybe we are no longer worthy of these blessings of liberty. I continue to hope that this is not so.
My freedom from torture and right to speak are also yours. Depriving me of humanity is to deny such respect and recognition to every person in America. Norman Mailer once said that democracy may be an un-natural form of government for persons. Maybe most people expect or need tyrany of some kind. This is a depressing thought.
One of the idiotic assumptions out there is that the Constitution only applies to citizens of the United States. Even lawyers have uttered this imbecility. In fact, any person on U.S. soil is entitled to basic Constitutional due process protections. This explains the reluctance of the government to try detainees within U.S. territory. It is also why people are detained outside the country or turned over to others ("rendition") who agree to do America's dirty work for a small fee. Miami's Cuban-American "operatives" for the Republican party perform a similar role within the nation.
If, let us say, a lawyer can be subjected to hypnosis, questioned for a weekend, then returned to his normal life and the authorities lie about what they have done, with impunity, then we no longer live in a free society. If these tactics are repeated secretly, for years, condoned by courts that are aware of these crimes, together with daily suppressions of speech and denials of truth to people -- denials of the truth of their own lives and the whereabouts of loved-ones -- then we are living under a regime exactly like what the framers of the American Constitution feared and fought against. Is this "torture-condoning society" the sort of country that you want for your children? ("Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President George W. Bush's veto yesterday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists."
"Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened [them to] some methods of torture and said they sullied America's reputation around the world."
Deb Riechman, "Bush Vetos Anti-Torture Bill," Edmonton Sun, March 9, 2008 http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/03/09/pf-4952786.html
Rendition is among a handful of recent films making use of a grittier, hand-held camera approach that makes for a documentary feel to the cinematic text. Cast and crew are internationalized in a demonstration of global cooperation. The focus in this film is multiple and fragmented, as it is in life. All omniscient perspectives are eschewed. We are far from Frank Capra country in this movie. The most puzzling and ambiguous character is the Meryl Streep part.
Streep's State Department/C.I.A. "spook" is a Washington bureaucrat and functionary, a non-person, happily trashing the Constitution and (sincerely) unaware of what she has become or is responsible for ... crimes against humanity and the desecration of the American flag, the most complete betrayal of the men and women who have died for the country. In a bizarre reversal of the relationship envisioned by Jefferson and Adams concerning the priority of persons against the State, citizens and their questions are seen as minor irritants obstructing job performance for government officials, who walk away from citizens asking about disappeared loved-ones.
We are told that: "Torture has saved lives." Has it? Since 9/11 close to a million people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as elsewhere with no end in sight to various military campaigns directly related to post-9/11 efforts against terrorism. War with Iran is actually contemplated in some circles in D.C. Iran is a country with close to a million men under arms and near to developing nuclear weapons, or so we are told. North Korea may have the best small army in the world and actually has such weapons. A possible war with North Korea is also discussed and is reported to be "on the drawing board." The U.S. is associated throughout the world with psychological torture and physical torments of persons who are not charged or tried for any crimes, often detained erroneously, held for years and damaged for life. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
A person in N.J., who commits no crime, is subjected to horrible psychological tortures, then is ignored on a daily basis by the authorities in the most corrupt and mafia-saturated jurisdiction in the country because his protests make him "unethical." There must be many others similarly treated in other parts of the country and elsewhere in the Garden State. All of this is clearly illegal, despite the bandaids provided by hastily drafted and ill-considered legislation, so-called "Patriot Acts" and "Homefront Security" laws adopted in the aftermath of 9/11. America is in danger of becoming an affront to human dignity and the vision of our Constitution. Who are we today? Why are Americans not more disturbed by these developments? Ignorance?
Further alterations of words in this essay serves to illustrate what I mean by pointless cruelty. This simple and poignant story concerns an Egyptian resident of the U.S., seized by the authorities upon reentering the country, based on flawed intelligence, criminally treated and tortured by American allies (who are detested by persons in the countries where these criminals operate, thanks to U.S. aid).
Persons are detained in such countries normally at the request of U.S. officials, officials who remain serenely unapologetic and unconcerned about horror and atrocity, especially when opportunities arise to wear evening clothes to a nice party. (See "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey," also "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
What quality is missing from the Meryl Streep character? Why is she not an admirable human being? Spiritual necrosis? Autism? ("What is law?")
The Egyptian torturer in this film -- who deserved an Oscar nomination -- is a clone for the thugs employed by Batista for the same purpose in Cuba during the fifties, with the same cooperation of American C.I.A. and State Department officials. Similar goons are found in many Latin American countries and are employed, once they leave office, by American corporations doing business in those countries, whose rivers and forests are often destroyed in the search for resources to exploit. People want American investment and they still connect with American culture in cinema. They do not want their environments destroyed, however, or to be robbed of their resources, nor to be tortured, secretly, by criminals acting as enforcers for U.S. officials. Does this surprise you? Would you want such things in your country? Recent events in Honduras, Pakistan, as well as in many other countries illustrate much of what I am saying in this essay.
Staring at a man being tortured, Jake Gyllenhaal's character, the C.I.A. agent, seems baffled by what is taking place and who he has become. During a phone conversation with Meryl Streep's more senior agent, he explains: "This is my first torture." Is there a lack of affect, a deadness in a person that accounts for the reality that is not seen by these people in their Pentagon offices? How would you define this blindness? Or is it a kind of deafness? How is it possible for you to insert "errors" in my essays? Do you envy them that much? Are you frightened by what I am saying about America? Or yourself, perhaps?
I attended an American Law School, graduated and received my J.D., passed a bar examination, practised law for years. I never saw a course in "torture." I do not recall "secrecy operations" as a feature of my legal studies. My study of legal ethics suggests that commission of crimes and criminal cover ups by ethics officials are "unethical" practices. I now live in a Twilight Zone-like reality in which none of this seems to be true any longer, except that nobody will say anything one way or the other, nor will anyone respond to requests for information, even if they are shouted from the rooftops of the Internet. Meanwhile, we are told that psychological torments and "waterboarding remain in the CIA's toolkit." Is this comforting for you? Do you feel safer? I don't. (See "The Torture of Persons.")
People who are legal residents in the U.S. "disappear." University professors who are foreign-born and speak out against these atrocities are fired and may be detained or deported. Lawyers who are subjected to torture and experimentation, for displaying the intended effects of these psychological tortures, are labeled "unethical" and disbarred, then denied the truth about their lives in violation of state laws. The pain and bewilderment that I describe can be seen in Ms. Witherspoon's hauntingly beautiful and delicate features as she seeks answers from her elected officials, receiving nothing in terms of a meaningful response from those officials. "We are looking into it." "Someone will get back to you." Politicians are "for all the people."
"There is a special reason for the United States, among all countries, to choose adherence to the no-torture 'taboo' (and to behave as if it really means it, which would mean, among other things, the end of 'rendering' suspects to torture-friendly countries). One might well believe in a 'contagion effect.' If the United States is widely believed to accept torture as a proper means of fighting the war against terrorism, then why should any other country refrain? The United States is, for better and, most definitely, for worse, the 'new Rome,' the giant colossus bestriding the world and claiming, as well, to speak in behalf of good against evil. Part of the responsibility attached to being such a colossus may be the need to accept certain harms that lesser countries will not accept."
Civilization, freedom, equality and the rule of law come with a willingness to accept some risk. We must live with the danger that 'open societies' are more vulnerable than closed ones, while remaining a free people, served by and not serving our governors. ("Errors" were just inserted and corrected in this essay.)
"Our very size and power may require that we limit our responses in a way that might not be true of smaller countries more 'existentially' threatened by their enemies than the United States has yet been. ..."
This principle would make Cuba's security measures mild by comparison with us.
"... There is no way to avoid the moral difficulties generated by the possibility of torture. We are staring into an abyss, and no one can escape the necessity of a response."
Sanford Levinson, "Contemplating Torture: An Introduction," in Torture: A Collection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 38.
When I was in sixth grade, we were assigned an essay topic: "What America means to me?" I answered that question as an immigrant, hoping to become a citizen some day. Reared on Frank Capra films and stories of the American Revolution, I idolized the United States and the U.S. Constitution, both had something to do with freedom for everybody. I was an eager student of history, loving comic book biographies of America's patriots. I wanted to live in a society where people would not be frightened about what they could say, publicly, or who might be listening when they spoke of their values and ideas.
As I read these words, moments after witnessing hackers with access to government resources blocking my image at my MSN group and attacking my writings, again, I wonder what happened to the public legal and political culture in this democracy, also to the First Amendment. I still revere the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This "reverence" provoked laughter in an MSN discussion group not so long ago -- laughter from Americans! -- many of whom claimed to be New Jersey Democrats and, proudly, "relativists." Others saw nothing wrong with torture because we have to get "tough on terrorists." These people claimed to be Republicans. I am an independent. I am sure that there is nothing more patriotic than protest and struggle for civil rights.
As a child in Cuba, I was instructed by my family members to be careful about what I said at school concerning politics, to pretend to agree with everything that was said in my classroom about the government. People were arrested, shot -- including members of my family -- soldiers with guns wandered around the neighborhood. Political posters were everywhere. I detested all of this macho, military swaggering then. I still do today. I also hate militarism when we are guilty of this posturing. I am searching for Joy Gordon's book, Invisible War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).
Unfortunately, new "errors" were inserted in this essay overnight. I will do my best to correct them. It is very fitting that this essay would be selected for such treatment. Please see "What is it like to be tortured?" Even after I make these corrections, "errors" may be reinserted, the process will be continuous. The goal is to maximize frustration and cause or enhance the effects of various psychological tortures that I have experienced. March 13, 2008 at 9:47 A.M. (See "U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture.")
Now I find that, in America -- this land that I love so much -- soldiers with guns are wandering around train stations, people are secretly tortured, arrested, detained without trials, government obstructs and suppresses speech by deliberately isolated, protesting, "tortured" individuals (who are citizens), like me, then lies about it. The tortures are rationalized because victims are deemed to be "unethical." Of course, sometimes the censorship and destruction of writings is based on the contents of the opinions expressed by dissidents. ("What is it like to be tortured?" and "What is it like to be censored in America?")
I am told that this cruelty and illegality -- given only the form of legality, not its substance -- is "necessary to protect the American Constitution and way of life." I think that this is how we lose the American Constitution and way of life. Perhaps we have lost both already. The rule of law and freedom are fragile, always endangered things. Maybe we are no longer worthy of these blessings of liberty. I continue to hope that this is not so.
My freedom from torture and right to speak are also yours. Depriving me of humanity is to deny such respect and recognition to every person in America. Norman Mailer once said that democracy may be an un-natural form of government for persons. Maybe most people expect or need tyrany of some kind. This is a depressing thought.
One of the idiotic assumptions out there is that the Constitution only applies to citizens of the United States. Even lawyers have uttered this imbecility. In fact, any person on U.S. soil is entitled to basic Constitutional due process protections. This explains the reluctance of the government to try detainees within U.S. territory. It is also why people are detained outside the country or turned over to others ("rendition") who agree to do America's dirty work for a small fee. Miami's Cuban-American "operatives" for the Republican party perform a similar role within the nation.
If, let us say, a lawyer can be subjected to hypnosis, questioned for a weekend, then returned to his normal life and the authorities lie about what they have done, with impunity, then we no longer live in a free society. If these tactics are repeated secretly, for years, condoned by courts that are aware of these crimes, together with daily suppressions of speech and denials of truth to people -- denials of the truth of their own lives and the whereabouts of loved-ones -- then we are living under a regime exactly like what the framers of the American Constitution feared and fought against. Is this "torture-condoning society" the sort of country that you want for your children? ("Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"Democrats and human rights advocates criticized President George W. Bush's veto yesterday of a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists."
"Bush said such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots. His critics likened [them to] some methods of torture and said they sullied America's reputation around the world."
Deb Riechman, "Bush Vetos Anti-Torture Bill," Edmonton Sun, March 9, 2008 http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/03/09/pf-4952786.html
Rendition is among a handful of recent films making use of a grittier, hand-held camera approach that makes for a documentary feel to the cinematic text. Cast and crew are internationalized in a demonstration of global cooperation. The focus in this film is multiple and fragmented, as it is in life. All omniscient perspectives are eschewed. We are far from Frank Capra country in this movie. The most puzzling and ambiguous character is the Meryl Streep part.
Streep's State Department/C.I.A. "spook" is a Washington bureaucrat and functionary, a non-person, happily trashing the Constitution and (sincerely) unaware of what she has become or is responsible for ... crimes against humanity and the desecration of the American flag, the most complete betrayal of the men and women who have died for the country. In a bizarre reversal of the relationship envisioned by Jefferson and Adams concerning the priority of persons against the State, citizens and their questions are seen as minor irritants obstructing job performance for government officials, who walk away from citizens asking about disappeared loved-ones.
We are told that: "Torture has saved lives." Has it? Since 9/11 close to a million people have died in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as elsewhere with no end in sight to various military campaigns directly related to post-9/11 efforts against terrorism. War with Iran is actually contemplated in some circles in D.C. Iran is a country with close to a million men under arms and near to developing nuclear weapons, or so we are told. North Korea may have the best small army in the world and actually has such weapons. A possible war with North Korea is also discussed and is reported to be "on the drawing board." The U.S. is associated throughout the world with psychological torture and physical torments of persons who are not charged or tried for any crimes, often detained erroneously, held for years and damaged for life. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
A person in N.J., who commits no crime, is subjected to horrible psychological tortures, then is ignored on a daily basis by the authorities in the most corrupt and mafia-saturated jurisdiction in the country because his protests make him "unethical." There must be many others similarly treated in other parts of the country and elsewhere in the Garden State. All of this is clearly illegal, despite the bandaids provided by hastily drafted and ill-considered legislation, so-called "Patriot Acts" and "Homefront Security" laws adopted in the aftermath of 9/11. America is in danger of becoming an affront to human dignity and the vision of our Constitution. Who are we today? Why are Americans not more disturbed by these developments? Ignorance?
Further alterations of words in this essay serves to illustrate what I mean by pointless cruelty. This simple and poignant story concerns an Egyptian resident of the U.S., seized by the authorities upon reentering the country, based on flawed intelligence, criminally treated and tortured by American allies (who are detested by persons in the countries where these criminals operate, thanks to U.S. aid).
Persons are detained in such countries normally at the request of U.S. officials, officials who remain serenely unapologetic and unconcerned about horror and atrocity, especially when opportunities arise to wear evening clothes to a nice party. (See "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey," also "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
What quality is missing from the Meryl Streep character? Why is she not an admirable human being? Spiritual necrosis? Autism? ("What is law?")
The Egyptian torturer in this film -- who deserved an Oscar nomination -- is a clone for the thugs employed by Batista for the same purpose in Cuba during the fifties, with the same cooperation of American C.I.A. and State Department officials. Similar goons are found in many Latin American countries and are employed, once they leave office, by American corporations doing business in those countries, whose rivers and forests are often destroyed in the search for resources to exploit. People want American investment and they still connect with American culture in cinema. They do not want their environments destroyed, however, or to be robbed of their resources, nor to be tortured, secretly, by criminals acting as enforcers for U.S. officials. Does this surprise you? Would you want such things in your country? Recent events in Honduras, Pakistan, as well as in many other countries illustrate much of what I am saying in this essay.
Staring at a man being tortured, Jake Gyllenhaal's character, the C.I.A. agent, seems baffled by what is taking place and who he has become. During a phone conversation with Meryl Streep's more senior agent, he explains: "This is my first torture." Is there a lack of affect, a deadness in a person that accounts for the reality that is not seen by these people in their Pentagon offices? How would you define this blindness? Or is it a kind of deafness? How is it possible for you to insert "errors" in my essays? Do you envy them that much? Are you frightened by what I am saying about America? Or yourself, perhaps?
I attended an American Law School, graduated and received my J.D., passed a bar examination, practised law for years. I never saw a course in "torture." I do not recall "secrecy operations" as a feature of my legal studies. My study of legal ethics suggests that commission of crimes and criminal cover ups by ethics officials are "unethical" practices. I now live in a Twilight Zone-like reality in which none of this seems to be true any longer, except that nobody will say anything one way or the other, nor will anyone respond to requests for information, even if they are shouted from the rooftops of the Internet. Meanwhile, we are told that psychological torments and "waterboarding remain in the CIA's toolkit." Is this comforting for you? Do you feel safer? I don't. (See "The Torture of Persons.")
People who are legal residents in the U.S. "disappear." University professors who are foreign-born and speak out against these atrocities are fired and may be detained or deported. Lawyers who are subjected to torture and experimentation, for displaying the intended effects of these psychological tortures, are labeled "unethical" and disbarred, then denied the truth about their lives in violation of state laws. The pain and bewilderment that I describe can be seen in Ms. Witherspoon's hauntingly beautiful and delicate features as she seeks answers from her elected officials, receiving nothing in terms of a meaningful response from those officials. "We are looking into it." "Someone will get back to you." Politicians are "for all the people."
"There is a special reason for the United States, among all countries, to choose adherence to the no-torture 'taboo' (and to behave as if it really means it, which would mean, among other things, the end of 'rendering' suspects to torture-friendly countries). One might well believe in a 'contagion effect.' If the United States is widely believed to accept torture as a proper means of fighting the war against terrorism, then why should any other country refrain? The United States is, for better and, most definitely, for worse, the 'new Rome,' the giant colossus bestriding the world and claiming, as well, to speak in behalf of good against evil. Part of the responsibility attached to being such a colossus may be the need to accept certain harms that lesser countries will not accept."
Civilization, freedom, equality and the rule of law come with a willingness to accept some risk. We must live with the danger that 'open societies' are more vulnerable than closed ones, while remaining a free people, served by and not serving our governors. ("Errors" were just inserted and corrected in this essay.)
"Our very size and power may require that we limit our responses in a way that might not be true of smaller countries more 'existentially' threatened by their enemies than the United States has yet been. ..."
This principle would make Cuba's security measures mild by comparison with us.
"... There is no way to avoid the moral difficulties generated by the possibility of torture. We are staring into an abyss, and no one can escape the necessity of a response."
Sanford Levinson, "Contemplating Torture: An Introduction," in Torture: A Collection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 38.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
New Jersey's Legally-Connected Pimps!
Many obstacles have prevented me from regaining access to these blogs, until now. I will continue to write. March 8, 2008 at 3:01 P.M.
Alan Feuer, "Four Charged With Running Online Prostitution Ring," in The New York Times, March 7, 2008, at p. B3.
"Federal authorities arrested four people Thursday on charges of running an online prostitution ring that served clients in New York, Paris and other cities and took in more than $1 MILLION in profits over four years."
More like five million "clean." Probably and allegedly. (Compare "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" with "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House" and "We don't know from nothing!")
"The ring, known as the Emperor's Club V.I.P., had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to a complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The appointments, made by telephone or through ... an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,000 an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfer or money orders, the complaint said."
Let's guess about what jurisdiction serves as home base for this operation, boys and girls. Where do you think the powers-that-be know how to cooperate with ... shall we say, "business enterprises"? You guessed it:
"According to the office of the United States attorney in Manhattan, MARK BRENER, 62, of New Jersey, was the leader of the ring, but delegated day-to-day business responsibilities to CECIL SUWAL, 23, also of New Jersey. The office said that Ms. Suwal controlled the bank accounts, took applications from prospective prostitutes" -- let me guess, you need two references to good character? -- "and oversaw two booking agents, identified by the authorities as Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, of Brooklyn, and Tanya Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, N.Y."
It is rumored that minors, including pre-teens were available for additional fees, though this is neither confirmed nor denied at this time by anyone. (See again: "We don't know from nothing!" and "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey.")
They are worried about my ethics at the offices of the OAE, not about the lawyers and crooked politicians who must have helped to make this operation viable. You people in Trenton -- including the members of the most corrupt state Supreme Court in the country -- make decent people everywhere sick to their stomachs. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
New Jersey's legal bosses and crooked judges usually require 10-15% off the top for protection, allegedly, plus an occasional show of hospitality towards visiting dignitaries and "bosses." I knew a prominent N.J. "businessperson" who assured me that he could obtain any documents necessary in New Jersey for a reasonable fee within 10 to 14 days. I believe him. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
Illegal aliens who visited my office usually acquired valid legal documents with names of choice on them. It was assumed that "all-American" names were less likely to call attention from the authorities. I was amused to discover people with names like "Thomas Jefferson" or "John Henry" who spoke no English. Movie star names were also "feasible." When you run into a brown-skinned person, who speaks no English and whose driver's license identifies him as "Brad Pitt," you'll know what I mean. Still $1,500.00 for a driver's license in North Bergen's DMV office? More if you go to Wayne? Or have they closed the office in North Bergen? For $5,000 you can be called "George W. Bush"?
Wouldn't it be a hoot to discover that several owners of these shady websites or "shared addresses" have visited my sites? Perhaps there is more interest in philosophy than I suspected in New Jersey's legal sewers. Ethics?
"For its most valued clients, the Emperor's Club offered membership in the elite 'Icon Club,' with hourly fees starting at $5,500, according to the federal complaint. The club also offered clients the opportunity to purchase direct access to a prostitute without having to contact the agency."
The prostitute in that situation probably still has to pay "overhead." These two "persons" are each looking at 25 years in the can. The authorities are said to be sitting on several middle level players and to have hooks in a few more higher ups. I suggest that we look for more arrests soon, together with seemingly unrelated indictments of more prominent political figures in the Garden State on money laundering charges. Senator Bob? No wonder they're inserting new "errors" in my essays. Whenever you see attacks on these writings and new "errors" arising, mysteriously, it usually means that the pressure is rising in Trenton.
The feds are going to sit on a few of these goons hoping that, eventually, they'll develop a condition known as "verbal diarrhoea." The goal is for these suspects to "splatter" (as it were) as many N.J. judges and politicians as possible. Quite a few New Jerseyeans are in the federal pooper scooper already. There's more coming. I will profile more New Jersey judges and legal figures in the weeks and months ahead. I will make some field trips to observe proceedings in New Jersey court rooms and report on all of the rules being violated by judges, providing dates and times, along with the names of offenders in judicial robes. Am I getting through to you, Stuart?
Oh, here is another little tid-bit. A man named "JUAN PABLO RAMOS, 33, who lived in Edgewater, N.J., but worked out of [an Upper East Side] apartment, the authorities said," was arrested on Wednesday. This businessman is alleged to have operated a "heroin mill out of an apartment building opposite a middle school on the Upper East Side."
Cubanoid? Anti-Castro activist? Court officers and others -- including street-level dealers -- were part of this operation, made possible (allegedly) by the protection afforded by the authorities in New Jersey to a multistate operation only "fronted" in Manhattan, which is aimed at your kids. Thank goodness N.Y. cops made the bust. Perhaps the next time we see Mr. Ramos he will be called, "George Clooney."
Anahad O'Connor, "Police Arrest Seven as Members of Heroin Ring," in The New York Times, March 8, 2008, at p. B2.
It will not help with this "gentleman's" defense that "Mr. Ramos was arrested on Wednesday as he was taking about $100,000.00 worth of heroin from a safe and packaging it."
Perhaps when he was seized by constables, Mr. Ramos expressed shock and said: "Hey, how did dat get there? Geez ..."
Senator Bob is expected to say that he is generally "against crime." Have a lovely weekend in Trenton. Please remember that I'm always thinking of you.
Alan Feuer, "Four Charged With Running Online Prostitution Ring," in The New York Times, March 7, 2008, at p. B3.
"Federal authorities arrested four people Thursday on charges of running an online prostitution ring that served clients in New York, Paris and other cities and took in more than $1 MILLION in profits over four years."
More like five million "clean." Probably and allegedly. (Compare "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" with "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House" and "We don't know from nothing!")
"The ring, known as the Emperor's Club V.I.P., had 50 prostitutes available for appointments in New York, Washington, Miami, London and Paris, according to a complaint unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The appointments, made by telephone or through ... an online booking service, cost $1,000 to $5,000 an hour and could be paid for with cash, credit card, wire transfer or money orders, the complaint said."
Let's guess about what jurisdiction serves as home base for this operation, boys and girls. Where do you think the powers-that-be know how to cooperate with ... shall we say, "business enterprises"? You guessed it:
"According to the office of the United States attorney in Manhattan, MARK BRENER, 62, of New Jersey, was the leader of the ring, but delegated day-to-day business responsibilities to CECIL SUWAL, 23, also of New Jersey. The office said that Ms. Suwal controlled the bank accounts, took applications from prospective prostitutes" -- let me guess, you need two references to good character? -- "and oversaw two booking agents, identified by the authorities as Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, of Brooklyn, and Tanya Hollander, 36, of Rhinebeck, N.Y."
It is rumored that minors, including pre-teens were available for additional fees, though this is neither confirmed nor denied at this time by anyone. (See again: "We don't know from nothing!" and "Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne, New Jersey.")
They are worried about my ethics at the offices of the OAE, not about the lawyers and crooked politicians who must have helped to make this operation viable. You people in Trenton -- including the members of the most corrupt state Supreme Court in the country -- make decent people everywhere sick to their stomachs. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
New Jersey's legal bosses and crooked judges usually require 10-15% off the top for protection, allegedly, plus an occasional show of hospitality towards visiting dignitaries and "bosses." I knew a prominent N.J. "businessperson" who assured me that he could obtain any documents necessary in New Jersey for a reasonable fee within 10 to 14 days. I believe him. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
Illegal aliens who visited my office usually acquired valid legal documents with names of choice on them. It was assumed that "all-American" names were less likely to call attention from the authorities. I was amused to discover people with names like "Thomas Jefferson" or "John Henry" who spoke no English. Movie star names were also "feasible." When you run into a brown-skinned person, who speaks no English and whose driver's license identifies him as "Brad Pitt," you'll know what I mean. Still $1,500.00 for a driver's license in North Bergen's DMV office? More if you go to Wayne? Or have they closed the office in North Bergen? For $5,000 you can be called "George W. Bush"?
Wouldn't it be a hoot to discover that several owners of these shady websites or "shared addresses" have visited my sites? Perhaps there is more interest in philosophy than I suspected in New Jersey's legal sewers. Ethics?
"For its most valued clients, the Emperor's Club offered membership in the elite 'Icon Club,' with hourly fees starting at $5,500, according to the federal complaint. The club also offered clients the opportunity to purchase direct access to a prostitute without having to contact the agency."
The prostitute in that situation probably still has to pay "overhead." These two "persons" are each looking at 25 years in the can. The authorities are said to be sitting on several middle level players and to have hooks in a few more higher ups. I suggest that we look for more arrests soon, together with seemingly unrelated indictments of more prominent political figures in the Garden State on money laundering charges. Senator Bob? No wonder they're inserting new "errors" in my essays. Whenever you see attacks on these writings and new "errors" arising, mysteriously, it usually means that the pressure is rising in Trenton.
The feds are going to sit on a few of these goons hoping that, eventually, they'll develop a condition known as "verbal diarrhoea." The goal is for these suspects to "splatter" (as it were) as many N.J. judges and politicians as possible. Quite a few New Jerseyeans are in the federal pooper scooper already. There's more coming. I will profile more New Jersey judges and legal figures in the weeks and months ahead. I will make some field trips to observe proceedings in New Jersey court rooms and report on all of the rules being violated by judges, providing dates and times, along with the names of offenders in judicial robes. Am I getting through to you, Stuart?
Oh, here is another little tid-bit. A man named "JUAN PABLO RAMOS, 33, who lived in Edgewater, N.J., but worked out of [an Upper East Side] apartment, the authorities said," was arrested on Wednesday. This businessman is alleged to have operated a "heroin mill out of an apartment building opposite a middle school on the Upper East Side."
Cubanoid? Anti-Castro activist? Court officers and others -- including street-level dealers -- were part of this operation, made possible (allegedly) by the protection afforded by the authorities in New Jersey to a multistate operation only "fronted" in Manhattan, which is aimed at your kids. Thank goodness N.Y. cops made the bust. Perhaps the next time we see Mr. Ramos he will be called, "George Clooney."
Anahad O'Connor, "Police Arrest Seven as Members of Heroin Ring," in The New York Times, March 8, 2008, at p. B2.
It will not help with this "gentleman's" defense that "Mr. Ramos was arrested on Wednesday as he was taking about $100,000.00 worth of heroin from a safe and packaging it."
Perhaps when he was seized by constables, Mr. Ramos expressed shock and said: "Hey, how did dat get there? Geez ..."
Senator Bob is expected to say that he is generally "against crime." Have a lovely weekend in Trenton. Please remember that I'm always thinking of you.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Law is Dead in New Jersey!
March 5, 2008 at 10:29 A.M. Calls received from 402-727-2510. After about twenty minutes of trying to post this essay at Critique, my screen went blank. I was unable to return to that site. I will run scans all day, again, as I did yesterday. I will struggle to write and post these words at my MSN group.
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-EnCap Contractor Seeks Plea Deal," The Record, on-line edition. http://www.northjersey.com/news/crimeandcourts/EnCap ...
Unfortunately, my image-posting feature -- with these essays and at my blogspot profile has been disabled -- so I cannot supply an image of John and Abigail Adams at Mind Games. I cannot see my books on-line. I do not know how many downloads of those books have taken place, or whether "errors" have been inserted in the text, or what has happened to those works. One of my books is not being distributed to book sellers. I am prevented from working on a memoir at my home computer by hackers destroying my sentences overnight, after I write them during the day. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
In one of Kafka's great parables, he describes a man tried in total silence. Nothing is said against him. No one identifies him- or herself as the enemy or an adversary. Nothing is personal. The important actions and accusations against him take place in his absence. He must guess about who is making them. Why they are being made. And what these accusations may be. This makes it clear that they have nothing to do with him. The bland indifference to horror on the part of observers is the most bizarre and disconcerting aspect of the nightmare I live with on a daily basis. Like God for Friedrich Nietzsche, "Law is dead" in New Jersey -- "and you and I have killed it." Apathy and appeasement in the face of evil are equally disastrous. The only answer is struggle.
January 25, 2008 Mr. Leroy Robinson was arrested in a money laundering case involving the usual suspects in New Jersey, a cast of players prominent in political and legal circles, who are suspiciously close to most major political scandals in the Trenton area, including the EnCap toxic scandal, a political cesspool whose full dimensions are not yet suspected.
"Robinson, 51, of Maplewood, a former Garden State Parkway maintenance supervisor and ex-commissioner at the Essex County Utilities Authority, has been free on $150,000 bond since his arrest ... by the F.B.I."
Anne Milgram and N.J.'s A.G. Office missed this operation. Perhaps they were busy sending me letters.
"A federal complaint charged that Robinson laundered $120,000 in cash in 2004 and 2005 that he believed were collections from an illegal loan-sharking operation."
A number of politicians in the Garden State do loan-sharking on the side, anonymously, by using local hoodlums or cops as collectors and muscle, allegedly. I represented young men who claimed to do this sort of work for such anonymous "gentlemen." No doubt some of these secret "lenders" are judges. Sometimes these young men would explain that they were going out to Vegas to "collect some money" for one of these behind-the-scenes "lenders." That's "extortion," isn't it? Senator Coniglio is charged with a different kind of extortion. Other N.J. politicians and judges are said to be under investigation for extortion right now, soon more of them will be investigated and indicted.
"In a story published Dec. 23, The Record revealed that Robinson shared a mutually beneficial, 10 year relationship with Eric Wisler, a senior partner at the powerful DeCotiis law firm, who had been the lead attorney for the EnCap project until Robinson's arrest."
"As a commissioner of the Essex County Utilities Authority, Robinson approved millions of dollars in no-bid legal work [that] the authority gave to Wisler as general counsel. Robinson also employed Wisler's wife at his Newark insurance company."
No conflicts of interest or loyalties for either Wisler or Robinson? Everything's hunky dory with the DRB?
"Robinson acknowledges that it was Wisler who led him to the $14 MILLION contract to supply fill for the EnCap project."
Earlier Robinson admitted that, after receiving the funds to be laundered, "cash in amounts ranging from $15,000 to $30,000, he allegedly wrote checks to a demolition company disguised as payments for 'consulting services,' minus a 10 percent commission for his laundering services, authorities said."
Hundreds of millions of dollars coming from taxpayers for a project that never happened and was probably never intended to happen, which enriched many politicians and lawyers, in a state with disappearing pension funds, 32 BILLION in debt, 100-400 MILLION missing from UMDNJ, and the largest number of indicted felons of any state in the country -- felons involved in corruption and blatant criminality, both in the legal profession and government circles, which is focusing like a laser beam on what I write, after deleting letters from my texts. If you live in New Jersey, you can sleep easily tonight knowing that your Attorney General, Anne Milgram, is on the job. Sure you can.
The same cast and "crew" play musical chairs with judgeships, appointed positions, legal counsel jobs and other government goodies. Disregarding conflict of interest laws, many of these persons are "secret partners" whacking up the filthy lucre extracted, like molars, from taxpayers who are not given novocaine. Every once in a while, one of these "guys" will suggest to taxpayers that they "turn their heads and cough." Sound familiar, Alex? Howard? Senator Bob? Richard J. Codey? Speaker Roberts? George E. Norcross, III?
No ethics charges are pending against these attorneys, whether in government (incompetence, ineffective assistance of counsel, Anne Milgram?) or in the private sector (Mr. Wisler and DeCotiis no doubt serve on their county's ethics committee). In a letter to her husband, Abigail Adams wrote in November, 1775:
"I am more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ..."
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-EnCap Contractor Seeks Plea Deal," The Record, on-line edition. http://www.northjersey.com/news/crimeandcourts/EnCap ...
Unfortunately, my image-posting feature -- with these essays and at my blogspot profile has been disabled -- so I cannot supply an image of John and Abigail Adams at Mind Games. I cannot see my books on-line. I do not know how many downloads of those books have taken place, or whether "errors" have been inserted in the text, or what has happened to those works. One of my books is not being distributed to book sellers. I am prevented from working on a memoir at my home computer by hackers destroying my sentences overnight, after I write them during the day. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
In one of Kafka's great parables, he describes a man tried in total silence. Nothing is said against him. No one identifies him- or herself as the enemy or an adversary. Nothing is personal. The important actions and accusations against him take place in his absence. He must guess about who is making them. Why they are being made. And what these accusations may be. This makes it clear that they have nothing to do with him. The bland indifference to horror on the part of observers is the most bizarre and disconcerting aspect of the nightmare I live with on a daily basis. Like God for Friedrich Nietzsche, "Law is dead" in New Jersey -- "and you and I have killed it." Apathy and appeasement in the face of evil are equally disastrous. The only answer is struggle.
January 25, 2008 Mr. Leroy Robinson was arrested in a money laundering case involving the usual suspects in New Jersey, a cast of players prominent in political and legal circles, who are suspiciously close to most major political scandals in the Trenton area, including the EnCap toxic scandal, a political cesspool whose full dimensions are not yet suspected.
"Robinson, 51, of Maplewood, a former Garden State Parkway maintenance supervisor and ex-commissioner at the Essex County Utilities Authority, has been free on $150,000 bond since his arrest ... by the F.B.I."
Anne Milgram and N.J.'s A.G. Office missed this operation. Perhaps they were busy sending me letters.
"A federal complaint charged that Robinson laundered $120,000 in cash in 2004 and 2005 that he believed were collections from an illegal loan-sharking operation."
A number of politicians in the Garden State do loan-sharking on the side, anonymously, by using local hoodlums or cops as collectors and muscle, allegedly. I represented young men who claimed to do this sort of work for such anonymous "gentlemen." No doubt some of these secret "lenders" are judges. Sometimes these young men would explain that they were going out to Vegas to "collect some money" for one of these behind-the-scenes "lenders." That's "extortion," isn't it? Senator Coniglio is charged with a different kind of extortion. Other N.J. politicians and judges are said to be under investigation for extortion right now, soon more of them will be investigated and indicted.
"In a story published Dec. 23, The Record revealed that Robinson shared a mutually beneficial, 10 year relationship with Eric Wisler, a senior partner at the powerful DeCotiis law firm, who had been the lead attorney for the EnCap project until Robinson's arrest."
"As a commissioner of the Essex County Utilities Authority, Robinson approved millions of dollars in no-bid legal work [that] the authority gave to Wisler as general counsel. Robinson also employed Wisler's wife at his Newark insurance company."
No conflicts of interest or loyalties for either Wisler or Robinson? Everything's hunky dory with the DRB?
"Robinson acknowledges that it was Wisler who led him to the $14 MILLION contract to supply fill for the EnCap project."
Earlier Robinson admitted that, after receiving the funds to be laundered, "cash in amounts ranging from $15,000 to $30,000, he allegedly wrote checks to a demolition company disguised as payments for 'consulting services,' minus a 10 percent commission for his laundering services, authorities said."
Hundreds of millions of dollars coming from taxpayers for a project that never happened and was probably never intended to happen, which enriched many politicians and lawyers, in a state with disappearing pension funds, 32 BILLION in debt, 100-400 MILLION missing from UMDNJ, and the largest number of indicted felons of any state in the country -- felons involved in corruption and blatant criminality, both in the legal profession and government circles, which is focusing like a laser beam on what I write, after deleting letters from my texts. If you live in New Jersey, you can sleep easily tonight knowing that your Attorney General, Anne Milgram, is on the job. Sure you can.
The same cast and "crew" play musical chairs with judgeships, appointed positions, legal counsel jobs and other government goodies. Disregarding conflict of interest laws, many of these persons are "secret partners" whacking up the filthy lucre extracted, like molars, from taxpayers who are not given novocaine. Every once in a while, one of these "guys" will suggest to taxpayers that they "turn their heads and cough." Sound familiar, Alex? Howard? Senator Bob? Richard J. Codey? Speaker Roberts? George E. Norcross, III?
No ethics charges are pending against these attorneys, whether in government (incompetence, ineffective assistance of counsel, Anne Milgram?) or in the private sector (Mr. Wisler and DeCotiis no doubt serve on their county's ethics committee). In a letter to her husband, Abigail Adams wrote in November, 1775:
"I am more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ..."
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!
A letter from N.J.'s DRB informs me that, despite the fact that the cited rule does not apply to me, "in accordance with R. 1:20-17 (e) (3), we obtained a judgment against you, docketed as J46521-08 on February 26, 2008. The judgment will appear on all future credit checks run in your name." (This judgment is for their costs in bringing an action against me. Notice that the amount of this judgment is not specified. No copy of the filed judgment is attached to this letter.)
Is there such a judgment? Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?"
The letter is dated February 29, 2008. The postage permit is #011A0413002687. The postal code at the bottom of the envelope is #10034453035 c010. (DC?)
"The judgment can only be satisfied by payment in full of your obligation. Once payment has been made, we will file a Warrant of Satisfaction and the Judgment will be removed from your credit history."
"Please send payment in full to this office immediately. ..."
The signature is "Julianne K. DeCore." No person named "Janet Garcia" (the person whose name appeared on the previous letter I received, ostensibly from this same office) is listed as employed at the DRB. At the bottom left corner of the letter are the initials: "JKD:sw."
The following item appeared on Friday, February 22, 2008 in The Record, on-line edition.
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-EnCap Contractor Seeks Plea Deal," in http://www.northjersey.com/news/crimeandcourts/Ex-EnCap_contractor_seeks_plea_deal_in_separate_cas...
"A contractor linked to millions in cost overruns and delays in the EnCap Golf Project is exploring a plea deal with prosecutors in a money-laundering case that grew out of an unrelated federal probe."
The N.J. attorneys named in newspaper accounts of the multi-million dollar EnCap fiasco are NOT listed as subjects of ethics probes nor have they been asked to reimburse these cost overruns or any portion of their multi-million dollar fees. To my knowledge, none of these lawyers have been subjected to questioning under hypnosis by Terry Tuchin or Diana Lisa Riccioli. None have been choked in their homes or raped, stolen from, nor otherwised harassed. None of their writings have been censored or suppressed. They are not subject to daily cybercrime ten years after leaving the state of New Jersey.
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Claire C. Cecchi issued an order Thursday granting a 30-day continuance in the case against Leroy Robinson to allow his lawyer and the government to pursue plea negotiations."
"... Mr. Robinson is a former Parkway maintenance Supervisor [sic.]... a federal complaint charged that Robinson laundered $120,000 in cash in 2004 and 2005 that he believed were collections from an illegal loan sharking operation."
Furthermore,
"As a commissioner of the Essex County Utilities Authority, Robinson approved millions of dollars in no-bid legal work the authority gave to Mr. Wisler [of the DeCotiis firm] as general counsel."
"In a story published Dec. 23, The Record revealed that Robinson shared a mutually beneficial, 10 year relationship with Eric Wisler, a senior partner at the powerful DeCotiis law firm, who had been the lead attorney for the EnCap Golf project until Robinson's arrest."
No legal ethics investigation is listed concerning this law firm or Mr. Wisler. No judgments are listed as being sought or entered against these attorneys. Please see "Crimes Against Humanity in New Jersey" and "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem."
Is there such a judgment? Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?"
The letter is dated February 29, 2008. The postage permit is #011A0413002687. The postal code at the bottom of the envelope is #10034453035 c010. (DC?)
"The judgment can only be satisfied by payment in full of your obligation. Once payment has been made, we will file a Warrant of Satisfaction and the Judgment will be removed from your credit history."
"Please send payment in full to this office immediately. ..."
The signature is "Julianne K. DeCore." No person named "Janet Garcia" (the person whose name appeared on the previous letter I received, ostensibly from this same office) is listed as employed at the DRB. At the bottom left corner of the letter are the initials: "JKD:sw."
The following item appeared on Friday, February 22, 2008 in The Record, on-line edition.
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-EnCap Contractor Seeks Plea Deal," in http://www.northjersey.com/news/crimeandcourts/Ex-EnCap_contractor_seeks_plea_deal_in_separate_cas...
"A contractor linked to millions in cost overruns and delays in the EnCap Golf Project is exploring a plea deal with prosecutors in a money-laundering case that grew out of an unrelated federal probe."
The N.J. attorneys named in newspaper accounts of the multi-million dollar EnCap fiasco are NOT listed as subjects of ethics probes nor have they been asked to reimburse these cost overruns or any portion of their multi-million dollar fees. To my knowledge, none of these lawyers have been subjected to questioning under hypnosis by Terry Tuchin or Diana Lisa Riccioli. None have been choked in their homes or raped, stolen from, nor otherwised harassed. None of their writings have been censored or suppressed. They are not subject to daily cybercrime ten years after leaving the state of New Jersey.
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Claire C. Cecchi issued an order Thursday granting a 30-day continuance in the case against Leroy Robinson to allow his lawyer and the government to pursue plea negotiations."
"... Mr. Robinson is a former Parkway maintenance Supervisor [sic.]... a federal complaint charged that Robinson laundered $120,000 in cash in 2004 and 2005 that he believed were collections from an illegal loan sharking operation."
Furthermore,
"As a commissioner of the Essex County Utilities Authority, Robinson approved millions of dollars in no-bid legal work the authority gave to Mr. Wisler [of the DeCotiis firm] as general counsel."
"In a story published Dec. 23, The Record revealed that Robinson shared a mutually beneficial, 10 year relationship with Eric Wisler, a senior partner at the powerful DeCotiis law firm, who had been the lead attorney for the EnCap Golf project until Robinson's arrest."
No legal ethics investigation is listed concerning this law firm or Mr. Wisler. No judgments are listed as being sought or entered against these attorneys. Please see "Crimes Against Humanity in New Jersey" and "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem."
Ethics, Stuart? Did you get a piece of this pie, Anne?
Sunday, March 2, 2008
N.J. Police Scandal Explodes!
March 4, 2008 at 10:33 A.M. I am prevented from accessing my home e-mail account, calls received from 402-727-2510. I am running scans. I will spend the rest of the day attempting to regain access to my e-mail at my home computer. (An "error" was inserted and corrected in this foregoing sentence.)
March 3, 2008 at 2:03 P.M. call from 704-633-8373. Hoboken Police? New calls at 11:52 A.M. on March 4, 2008 from 704-633-8373.
Jonathan Miller, "Police Scandal Grows to Include Possible Misuse of Money," in The New York Times, March 1, 2008, at p. B3.
"HOBOKEN, N.J. -- A police lieutenant in charge of the SWAT team here who has been at the center of a widening scandal has been accused of improprieties in connection with his involvement with several Hooters waitresses, his lawyer said on Friday."
"Adding to the controversy surrounding the now-disbanded SWAT unit, people close to the case said federal investigators were looking into accusations that for the past 16 years, a fund ostensibly for equipment and gear was misused."
Is "misused" another term for stolen? Were dollars "misappropriated"? Are the cops "crooks" in Hoboken, New Jersey? Why did it take 16 years for somebody to figure this out? Could it be that there is corruption in Hudson County, New Jersey? Naaa ... that could never be true.
"They said that thousands of dollars from that fund, which was collected from team members at the rate of $20 per officer per month, may have been diverted to non-departmental uses."
"Diverted to non-departmental uses"? That means "stolen," doesn't it? Notice the Freudian implications here:
"The same lieutenant accused of posing for pictures with the scantily clad waitresses while they held the team's guns and rifles, Angelo Andriani, was also in charge of the fund, according to a city employee who refused to be identified out of fear of retribution." (emphasis added)
How does it feel to be afraid of speaking publicly in a society that guarantees your freedom of speech? How is this different from people in totalitarian societies intimidated about criticizing the government? At least officials in those societies do not act "secretly," behind-the-backs of targets selected for destruction by anonymous "bosses." This essay has already been altered, damaged and vandalized on several occasions, also publicly and with impunity. In totalitarian societies, at least you know it is the government torturing, stealing, oppressing you and you are usually spared the absurdity of those same monsters judging your ethics as a victim of oppression.
Cops in Hudson County often misuse their authority to target individuals for behind-the-back destruction, usually at the request of politicians worried that, say, a lawyer may "find out too much." Right, Senator Bob? Maybe that lawyer will get to be a thorn in the side of local prosecutors in the town's Municipal Court by embarassing police and "getting people off." We can't have that, right boys?
"Other officers claimed that the police chief, Carmen V. La Bruno, ordered officers to clean out the basement of his home in Clinton [irony?] while on duty, though they have not filed lawsuits."
The Hoboken Police Department has other problems:
"In October, five Hispanic police officers filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court" -- that's already a joke -- "accusing Lieutenant Andriani of creating a racist and hostile work environment and claiming that he had forced some on-duty officers to do work at his home in Verona, New Jersey. Soon afterwards the Hooters photographs began appearing on television and on Web sites."
Verona's Municipal Court judge liked to inquire into the immigration status of Latino attorneys, including the former partner of a judge now in the Appellate Division, a judge who knows this for a fact. I expect that, if questioned, he will lie and deny this. To my knowledge, no action was ever taken against that Municipal Court judge because lawyers were intimidated -- many N.J. lawyers are also afraid of retribution -- while Garden State judges were and still are frightened about enforcing Constitutional rights. So they don't. That explains why my writings are vandalized on a daily basis. I wonder what harassment efforts await me today? Oh, now I know. I can't access my own e-mail.
Judges and other officials are intimidated by secret organizations of cops affiliated with local power-brokers and political bosses, sometimes doubling as mafiosos, engaging in strong-arming efforts or extortion from behind the scenes. A number of N.J. officials are under federal investigation (Hudson County's Prosecutor's Office chose not to indict this Hoboken cop -- I wonder why?), allegedly, for possible civil rights violations. I can think of several bureaucrats in Trenton who should be prosecuted for such offenses, like several hacks at the OAE. (See "New Jersey's KKK Police Shocker!" and "More Crooked Judges in Jersey City," then "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Driving While Black (DWB) in New Jersey.")
"A December 2004 memorandum written by Lieutenant Andriani and sent to Chief La Bruno about the team's expenditures claimed that over a 13-year period, $42,512 had been spent for 'repair and maintenance of city-owned vehicles, equipment and other property.' An attached list showed that the money went to such things as bills, dinners and in one case, $401 to 'party plaques.' The city's corporation counsel, Steven W. Kleinman, said he had 'no reason to doubt' the document's authenticity."
How about this?
"But officers noted that about $68,600 would have been deducted in that period, leaving $26,000 unaccounted for."
Maybe they bought Hooters t-shirts with the 26 grand?
"Mr. Kleinman said that how the fund was handled was certainly 'a matter of concern,' and said that the fund was terminated when the SWAT team was disbanded last fall after the Hooters episode."
I wonder why Hudson County Prosecutor, Edward J. De Fazio, did not indict this guy? I had a very unusual experience with the Hudson County prosecutor's office, which I generally admire and respect. A guy went to them to claim that I "stole" $500 for a legal fee in an uncontested divorce matter. In fact, I actually filed the complaint in the action, paid the filing fee of $175, met with the individual several times, billed him for additional services, phone calls, postage, offered to reimburse his retainer -- even though a civil court said that I did not have to do so in total (without deducting for the filing fee) -- just to get rid of the asshole.
The county prosecutors felt that I was "worthy of investigation." The matter was thrown out, eventually, but how curious it is that this particular lunatic would reach the Hudson County prosecutor's office. I wonder how he got there? Maybe we'll find out.
March 3, 2008 at 2:03 P.M. call from 704-633-8373. Hoboken Police? New calls at 11:52 A.M. on March 4, 2008 from 704-633-8373.
Jonathan Miller, "Police Scandal Grows to Include Possible Misuse of Money," in The New York Times, March 1, 2008, at p. B3.
"HOBOKEN, N.J. -- A police lieutenant in charge of the SWAT team here who has been at the center of a widening scandal has been accused of improprieties in connection with his involvement with several Hooters waitresses, his lawyer said on Friday."
"Adding to the controversy surrounding the now-disbanded SWAT unit, people close to the case said federal investigators were looking into accusations that for the past 16 years, a fund ostensibly for equipment and gear was misused."
Is "misused" another term for stolen? Were dollars "misappropriated"? Are the cops "crooks" in Hoboken, New Jersey? Why did it take 16 years for somebody to figure this out? Could it be that there is corruption in Hudson County, New Jersey? Naaa ... that could never be true.
"They said that thousands of dollars from that fund, which was collected from team members at the rate of $20 per officer per month, may have been diverted to non-departmental uses."
"Diverted to non-departmental uses"? That means "stolen," doesn't it? Notice the Freudian implications here:
"The same lieutenant accused of posing for pictures with the scantily clad waitresses while they held the team's guns and rifles, Angelo Andriani, was also in charge of the fund, according to a city employee who refused to be identified out of fear of retribution." (emphasis added)
How does it feel to be afraid of speaking publicly in a society that guarantees your freedom of speech? How is this different from people in totalitarian societies intimidated about criticizing the government? At least officials in those societies do not act "secretly," behind-the-backs of targets selected for destruction by anonymous "bosses." This essay has already been altered, damaged and vandalized on several occasions, also publicly and with impunity. In totalitarian societies, at least you know it is the government torturing, stealing, oppressing you and you are usually spared the absurdity of those same monsters judging your ethics as a victim of oppression.
Cops in Hudson County often misuse their authority to target individuals for behind-the-back destruction, usually at the request of politicians worried that, say, a lawyer may "find out too much." Right, Senator Bob? Maybe that lawyer will get to be a thorn in the side of local prosecutors in the town's Municipal Court by embarassing police and "getting people off." We can't have that, right boys?
"Other officers claimed that the police chief, Carmen V. La Bruno, ordered officers to clean out the basement of his home in Clinton [irony?] while on duty, though they have not filed lawsuits."
The Hoboken Police Department has other problems:
"In October, five Hispanic police officers filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court" -- that's already a joke -- "accusing Lieutenant Andriani of creating a racist and hostile work environment and claiming that he had forced some on-duty officers to do work at his home in Verona, New Jersey. Soon afterwards the Hooters photographs began appearing on television and on Web sites."
Verona's Municipal Court judge liked to inquire into the immigration status of Latino attorneys, including the former partner of a judge now in the Appellate Division, a judge who knows this for a fact. I expect that, if questioned, he will lie and deny this. To my knowledge, no action was ever taken against that Municipal Court judge because lawyers were intimidated -- many N.J. lawyers are also afraid of retribution -- while Garden State judges were and still are frightened about enforcing Constitutional rights. So they don't. That explains why my writings are vandalized on a daily basis. I wonder what harassment efforts await me today? Oh, now I know. I can't access my own e-mail.
Judges and other officials are intimidated by secret organizations of cops affiliated with local power-brokers and political bosses, sometimes doubling as mafiosos, engaging in strong-arming efforts or extortion from behind the scenes. A number of N.J. officials are under federal investigation (Hudson County's Prosecutor's Office chose not to indict this Hoboken cop -- I wonder why?), allegedly, for possible civil rights violations. I can think of several bureaucrats in Trenton who should be prosecuted for such offenses, like several hacks at the OAE. (See "New Jersey's KKK Police Shocker!" and "More Crooked Judges in Jersey City," then "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Driving While Black (DWB) in New Jersey.")
"A December 2004 memorandum written by Lieutenant Andriani and sent to Chief La Bruno about the team's expenditures claimed that over a 13-year period, $42,512 had been spent for 'repair and maintenance of city-owned vehicles, equipment and other property.' An attached list showed that the money went to such things as bills, dinners and in one case, $401 to 'party plaques.' The city's corporation counsel, Steven W. Kleinman, said he had 'no reason to doubt' the document's authenticity."
How about this?
"But officers noted that about $68,600 would have been deducted in that period, leaving $26,000 unaccounted for."
Maybe they bought Hooters t-shirts with the 26 grand?
"Mr. Kleinman said that how the fund was handled was certainly 'a matter of concern,' and said that the fund was terminated when the SWAT team was disbanded last fall after the Hooters episode."
I wonder why Hudson County Prosecutor, Edward J. De Fazio, did not indict this guy? I had a very unusual experience with the Hudson County prosecutor's office, which I generally admire and respect. A guy went to them to claim that I "stole" $500 for a legal fee in an uncontested divorce matter. In fact, I actually filed the complaint in the action, paid the filing fee of $175, met with the individual several times, billed him for additional services, phone calls, postage, offered to reimburse his retainer -- even though a civil court said that I did not have to do so in total (without deducting for the filing fee) -- just to get rid of the asshole.
The county prosecutors felt that I was "worthy of investigation." The matter was thrown out, eventually, but how curious it is that this particular lunatic would reach the Hudson County prosecutor's office. I wonder how he got there? Maybe we'll find out.
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