November 3, 2008 at 10:01 A.M. (according to my computer). I was just barred from my group, then I lost my net access. I will struggle to reach my group throughout the day, then I will do my best to repair the harm done to essays during this interval. I am in receipt of a note, purporting to come from my friend Jason, advising me of MSN Groups "real" closing.
I am reminded also of a Supreme Court case in which a university chose to create a separate law school for one student, when the African-American candidate was granted admission to the law school by the U.S. Supremes, rather than to integrate their facility. MSN groups will close to shelter the Jersey Boys from criticism? Let us hope not. I will continue to search for an alternative site. Images still cannot be posted at blogger or with my profile. Perhaps it is time to reconsider First Amendment law. I am more nervous about unfettered Democrat party control of government. Let us hope for the best.
November 2, 2008 at 9:07 P.M. There was interference with my wireless access, depriving other users also of access. My service was just restored. I cannot say, at this point, how many writings have been damaged or how extensively. Essays examining New Jersey Municipal Law practice and profiles of old "friends" -- who are now illustrious members of the judiciary, some by very interesting means -- will be my response to these tactics. I can never be sure of regaining access to this blog or that my work will not be destroyed. I will continue to write.
November 1, 2008 at 12:44 A.M. "Skinny People Dressed in Black" was altered overnight. I made necessary corrections. I will continue to try to deal with the harassment efforts directed against my sites. Any news on the N.J. indictments front?
October 30, 2007 at 8:28 A.M. I was just obstructed in efforts to reach MSN. I will keep trying throughout the day.
October 29, 2008 at 8:25 A.M. Several attempts to reach my MSN group were prevented this morning. My computer was frozen, attacks will be constant today. This may mean that indictments are being handed down by the feds in New Jersey. I am afraid that this sort of cyberattack usually means that essays are being vandalized, altered, damaged. I will do my best to make repairs when I get back to Critique.
I continue to receive notices that MSN Groups is "closing" as of February 21, 2009. I will continue to struggle to write until that date, then I will transfer the essays at that site to another location where images can be posted. My image-posting feature at blogger is still disabled. I will run scans all day.
October 28, 2008 at 8:52 A.M. My computer security system was disabled yesterday for about one hour, presumably by hackers. As a result, any number of essays may have been altered, defaced, deleted or otherwise damaged. I was just prevented from accessing my group at MSN, which usually means that "errors" are being inserted in my writings. I will do my best to return to that site and make corrections. (See "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London & New York: Verso, 2004), p. 83.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday (New York: Laurel, 1984), p. 3.
Fidel Castro, "Letter to the Court of Appeals," in Revolutionary Struggle: The Selected Works of Fidel Castro (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972), p. 163.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, "Castroenteritis," in Mea Cuba (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994), pp. 279-329.
I am including a photograph of Fidel Castro and Castro's great friend, Richard M. Nixon (at MSN), because the photo of Che Guevara in dialogue with Jean Paul Sartre was blocked today at Critique. I am sure that use of the photo in a discussion of censorship will infuriate the "Cubanazos" even more than Guevara chatting with Sartre and De Beauvoir. I say this as an opponent of Castro's policies and, for that matter, of Nixon's policies. I will not be intimidated or "conditioned" into abandoning my opinions. I cannot be threatened or silenced by anyone.
I have spent several hours today -- October 19, 2008 -- being denied access to my own sites, blocked, obstructed, seeing my essays altered, defaced, vandalized and having to regain Internet access, painfully, only to be blocked once more. This deliberate effort to suppress speech, to inflict mental suffering through frustration, suffering inflicted on a person known to have endured nearly two decades of psychological torture -- including every form of secret violation of his human rights -- all to control a person, a human being who has committed no crime, can only take place with the cooperation of the authorities in an American jurisdiction. This is the saddest realization for me.
Whatever this is called and however it may be rationalized, it can only be described as sadism and evil. There is no form of cruelty that is for a person's -- or victim's -- "own good." Don't supply yourself (NJ) with any fig leafs. You hurt people because you like hurting people. You are not and never have been any kind of therapist or legal official. You are evil. You like being evil. You will also be punished for what you have done, eventually. I have to hope that this is true. You will not prevent me from speaking. You will not silence me. You will not stop me from criticizing a corrupt and inept legal system in New Jersey that makes this daily horror possible. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
I can not understand or forgive the guilty bystanders who allow this atrocity to continue, either out of fear or complicity with evil. You must share responsibility and guilt for these crimes -- even as the institutions of New Jersey must share in the stench of these foul deeds. I will continue to try to regain access to my sites. I don't seem able to remove an icon from my desk top labeled "Launch Internet Explorer 4." I do not know what this means, or if it means anything, but I will keep fighting. Maybe indictments are finally being handed down in this matter. It's about time. I cannot be certain whether MSN Groups is "closing" in February, 2009. Several notices to this effect have been sent to me. I doubt it.
As a law student, I discovered a special interest in First Amendment jurisprudence. I was fortunate to attend a seminar dealing with this area of American Constitutional law. I believe that the principle of freedom of speech is a magnificent and always endangered aspect of American society for which we must struggle every day. You do not suppress the speech of your neighbor, even if you disagree or regard that speech (or any form of expression) as more than mistaken. You should express your own opinions -- hopefully, these exchanges of opinions can be civil -- while avoiding the assassination of your political antagonists. This refraining from violence will disappoint the "Cubanazos" (of all genders). ("Why U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture.")
"Agreement on disagreement" is the essential requirement in a democracy and free society. If you can't make that commitment -- or if you fail to see that such tolerance for dissent and disagreement is a matter of right -- then you will never be a free person, much less will you be in a position to bring "freedom" to others. This is especially intended for the Cuban-American Right-wingers and their political protection in Florida and New Jersey. You can't beat up ideas.
Over this past weekend, I have made corrections of a single essay -- previously corrected dozens of times -- where the "errors" inserted were not to be found in earlier printed versions of the same text. The goal of these efforts -- part of a long series of crimes committed against me -- is to bring about a kind of collapse through despair and frustration. I feel stronger and more determined after such experiences. First Amendment violations are much worse when they are committed or made possible by "state action." It doesn't take much to establish the necessary state action. Anne Milgram? Senator Bob?
I will focus on further allegations of corruption, criminality, fraud, mendacity and bias in the New Jersey legal system. I will make certain to disseminate those charges against Garden State law and lawyers, as widely as possible, through the Internet. I will make it a project to attack that corrupt legal system, to chip away at the courts and officials of that foul-smelling turf for the rest of my life. I suspect that there are forces amplifying my critique already. I am sure that there will be more such assistance. Given the opportunity to do so, I will speak publicly of these matters. (See "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.") My discussions will always be supported by objective sources and solid research in legal materials.
The Constitution of the United States of America, First Amendment, remains a marvel of the world and a great humanistic achievement, equalled in a tiny number of other societies (perhaps) and surpassed in none. That magnificent document is almost a miracle in the history of human political and legal life. Here is what the First Amendment says concerning speech:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free excercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
The principle was applied to the states through the "due process" clauses of the 4th and 14th Amendments. Like Justice Hugo Black, I am pretty generous in First Amendment disputes in favor of the free expression principle as well as the autonomy of every human conscience -- especially when it comes to political controversies -- because free speech is at the heart of our democracy. American society has made a public commitment to this idea. We have sacrificed human lives to defend this freedom. America set an example for the world during two centuries and more. America's exemplary status may now have been lost. I am "petitioning the government for a redress of some grievances."
People have gone to prison rather than surrender their free speech rights or other fundamental rights which are essential to their humanity, like privacy and self-determination. I will not abandon my right to speak freely. I will not be conditioned into refraining from criticizing the New Jersey mafia and/or their political protection. I will not legitimate the crimes committed against me or the incompetence of the tribunals that have allowed this twenty-year odyssey to continue for much too long. Mr. Rabner, these crimes must be placed at your doorstep.
October 28, 2008 at 9:05 A.M. efforts to reach my MSN group were obstructed this morning. This essay was posted at Critique and vandalized overnight. At this time, I am unable to post the corrected version of the text. However, I will spend the rest of the day and night in an effort to do so. It will be defaced, once again. I will continue to revise and re-post it, against all obstructions. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
New Jersey has relinquished any authority to speak of "ethics" in tainted and increasingly meaningless, bought and paid for legal proceedings in the most corrupt jurisdiction in the nation. (See "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead" and "How Censorship Works in America.") Writing to fundamentalist would-be censors of his books, Kurt Vonnegut said:
"It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. Our American heirs may find it incredible, as most foreigners do right now, that a nation would want to enforce as a law something which sounds more like a dream, ... "
Free speech has become only a dream (or a lie?), much too often, thanks to the latest technologies of surveillance and control as well as the sadism that they feed. Internet texts are subject to alteration (very easily) with the resources of government. This essay has been revised several times, thus far, after "errors" mysteriously appeared in the text. Journalists should take heed. The practices directed against me will be used soon against large publications. This struggle -- my daily fight for the oxygen of freedom -- will soon be shared by my literary friends on the margins of America's political conversation.
October 27, 2008 at 7:01 P.M. my computer's clock shows "5:58 P.M." as the time. I wonder what happened during the hour or so that the clock and my security system, perhaps, were not working? Have any essays been altered by hackers today? What a shock that would be!
My right to speak and your right of access to my words are inseparable. This very text is written without the certainty that I will be able to reach my sites in order to post it. Worse, I anticipate the daily wars that will be fought by me to repair and restore the essay -- after many insertions of "errors" and defacements -- intended to further harm a person who can only be described as a "tortured dissident." I dread the thought that such psychological torture of a person is aided and abetted (for a small fee) by so-called journalists or political party "soldiers," along with members of the bar in any American jursidiction. Writing of the revolution in American jurisprudential understandings after 9/11, Judith Butler says:
"The U.S. shows contempt for its own constitution and the protocols of international law in relegating law to an instrumentality of the state and suspending law in the interests of the state. When a reporter asked the DOD [Department of Defense] representatives why a military tribunal system was required, given that both a civil court and a military court system already exist, they responded that they needed another "instrument," given the new circumstances. The law is not that to which the state is subject nor that which distinguishes between lawful state action and unlawful, but is now expressly understood as an instrument, an instrumentality of power, one that can be applied and suspended at will." -- This was the view of Dr. Goebbels in Nazi Germany. -- "Sovereignty consists now in the variable application, contortion, and suspension of the law; it is, in its current form, a relation to law: exploitative, instrumental, disdainful, preemptory, arbitrary."
Press reports indicate that American military forces have carried out raids resulting in the killing of an alleged terrorist in Syria, a non-combatant nation, also in Pakistan (a country that is ostensibly assisting the U.S. in the "War on Terror"), both actions are clear violations of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations at peace with the United States.
Eight civilians were killed in Syria, including women and children. The number of persons killed in Pakistan is not reported. No expression of condolences or offers of compensation have been forthcoming from American officials. There has been no prominent discussion in the U.S. media of these crimes committed by Americans. My fight against New Jersey's censorship and state criminality is a pretty lonely one sometimes. America's military action weakens the previously pro-U.S. -- or at least neutral -- governments in those countries and strengthens Islamic fundamentalist factions.
" ... in justifying the attack American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries' consent."
Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker, "Officials Say U.S. Killed an Iraqui in Raid in Syria," in The New York Times, October 28, 2008, at p. A1.
If Russia, for example, determined that a wanted terrorist was living in Scranton, Pennsylvania, then sent elite military forces into the U.S. on a mission to kill the person and "took out" a dozen more civilians who happened to be standing by, then explained that this was a matter of Russia's definition of their national security, would we agree that the action is legitimate? I doubt it.
These countries that were previously neutral -- bear this point in mind -- whose intelligence agencies may not have given assistance to anti-American factions before, will certainly do so now. Furthermore, they will establish relations with other countries that feel "aggrieved" in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East to sponsor actions harmful of American interests, probably within the next five years.
The animosity directed at the current U.S. government will come back to haunt all of us (and our children) for many years to come in the form of economic harm as well as quasi-military strikes at U.S. targets in the world. I do not believe that current military actions will make us safer. I am sure that they make the world a more dangerous place for everyone, especially women and children in many countries. You can be sure that people in several countries are thinking of ways to repeat the Abu Ghraib horrors with Americans as victims, probably right here in New York.
My daily encounter with (I believe) government-protected forces for censorship in America is being seen by many persons in the world. This makes a lie of America's Constitution and undermines our credibility in free speech and all human rights cases. I realize that many Right-wing Cuban-American paramilitary groups do not approve of my opinions because they are insufficiently hostile to the Cuban people or any people. I admit to disapproving of the mafia. I do not ask that persons approve of my opinions or agree with them. I am merely seeking to use my right to speak freely in protest of torture and suppression of speech as well as years of abuse at the hands of politically powerful persons. I will continue to struggle to do exactly that. (See "Letter From a Torture Chamber" and "What is it like to be tortured?" as well as "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
I will do my best to return to MSN and repair the harm done to my writings during this period of obstruction and denials of access to my own work. The anticipated response from the forces engaged in this censorship effort will be to crank up the slander machine. Incidents in my life from infancy will be twisted into insults and disseminated as "personal attacks." At this point, even such an effort at character assassination coupled with economic harm may backfire against my adversaries in the Garden State.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Mafia Involvement in New Jersey's State Police!
October 26, 2008 at 4:16 P.M. A number of essays were vandalized, again, at Critique -- including "The 'Galatea Scenario' and the Mind/Body Problem" which was corrected yesterday. I will correct and post it again. I will then post a revised version of "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary" and "Does N.J. Justice Wallace Smoke Weed?"
More essays examining Union City's Municipal Court and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office are coming up.
October 24, 2008 at 12:53 P.M. Access to MSN was obstructed just "now." MSN Groups, according to a notice I received, is scheduled to "close" in February, 2009. I wonder whether this is true. Why would someone send me a false notice? I will struggle to correct any "errors" inserted by hackers during this time when I am unable to reach my group.
October 23, 2008 at 11:17 A.M. I was unable to reach my group just now. This sort of struggle is not unusual. Several essays have been altered in small ways -- missing captions for photos, letters or words deleted. I will try to make corrections when I can return to my MSN account.
October 22, 2008 at 8:56 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group this morning, being obstructed each time I reach the site. I will run scans and do my best to post new work or make changes at some point during the course of the day. This struggle will prevent efforts to write new essays or stories. I will keep trying to write on-line. This is routine harassment.
October 21, 2008 at 12:20 P.M. I am struggling to return to Critique, after being denied access to that site at approximately 11:08 A.M., still running scans.
October 19, 2008 at 8:41 P.M. I am again unable to return to Critique. Apparently, intrusions have resulted in alterations of my desk top icons. I will struggle to return to MSN and to repair the harm done to these writings. Several more essays have, apparently, been vandalized. Trenton?
October 19, 2008 at 6:16 P.M. As of this time, I have been unable to regain access to my MSN group. I cannot say how many more essays have been vandalized or defaced. I will continue to struggle to get back to that site. Cyberharassment and crank calls continue on a daily basis. (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.")
October 19, 2008 at 4:57 P.M. efforts to reach Critique are obstructed by cyberattacks. The essay which appears below was altered at my MSN group. The corrected text cannot be posted at that site at this time. I will spend the rest of the evening trying to post that essay, then I will try again tomorrow to continue writing at my group.
Allegations of marijuana use against New Jersey Justice Wallace remain uncorroborated, if also undenied by the state justice. No person using Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) should be a judge in the Garden State. I wonder why I encounter cyberattacks on a daily basis? Is it possible that such censorship efforts are content-based and associated with New Jersey government officials abusing public authority? I shudder to think that such a thing is possible.
New Jersey's "cowardly legal lion," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner (D) and A.G. Anne Milgram (D) seem incapable to examining the accusations against N.J.'s legal system. Cyberwars continue. October 18, 2008 at 7:50 A.M. New "errors" inserted and corrections made. October 19, 2008 at 4:38 P.M.
October 4, 2007 at 9:23 A.M. I am unable to access my MSN account to continue working on an essay dealing with the Jena 6 case. I will spend the rest of the day trying to reach my MSN account. Maybe there are more swastikas being posted in fields near police stations in New Jersey. Spacing may be affected in this essay. At 9:52 A.M., I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/Jaction/ko/msn_MSNBC... (NJ)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Richard G. Jones, "New Jersey Agrees to Settle Trooper's Harassment Suit," in The New York Times, October 2, 2007, at p. B2.
Jeremy W. Peters, "In New Jersey, Corruption May Alter Politics. Or Not," in The New York Times, October 3, 2007, at B1.
"NEWARK, Oct. 1 -- Officials with the New Jersey attorney general's office said on Monday that the state had agreed to a $400,000.00 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former state trooper who said that he was beaten and harassed by members of a secret group of rogue officers within the State Police."
Any "settlement" offered to me will be will be substantially donated to 9/11 victims and other charities. You can't "buy" me. An organized crime group made up of State Police officers -- how do they feel about swastikas? -- terrorizes law enforcement officers in alliance with big time criminals or selected politicians in New Jersey, allegedly, doing the dirty work for the Trenton Syndicate, knowing that they will never be prosecuted or charged in the Garden State for their many crimes.
It is unknown, at this time, how many members of the Garden State's discredited Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) are subject to the influence of these rogue cops or "made members" of this state police mafia group.
Now you know why federal supervision of police was needed (and still is vital) in New Jersey. No wonder good old Stuart Rabner (who can't be as dumb as he looks, since no one could be that stupid) is afraid to act on what is now an obvious pattern of gross criminality, professional incompetence, and worse (Tuchin and Riccioli), as well as continuing conspiracies to violate civil rights and then cover-up the violations. Maybe the Lords of Discipline have a squad of cybercriminals. (More "errors" have been inserted in this text since last night.)
"The former trooper, Justin Hopson, filed the lawsuit in 2003. In it, he described a series of beatings, threats and acts of vandalism that he said occurred after he refused to support an arrest by another trooper in 2002."
"Mr. Hopson said he was attacked by members of a loose-knit group within the State Police known as the Lords of Discipline. For years, minority and female troopers have complained that they have been harassed by members of the group."
Sexual harassment of female officers and women drivers is a routine perk claimed by these guys, probably with the eager assistance of so-called "therapists." Tuchin? Riccioli? A little hypnosis and you're all set.
"In 2005, the state attorney general's office issued a report that found seven troopers guilty of harassing their colleagues. The troopers received punishments ranging from reprimands to 45 day suspensions, but the attorney general's office said it found no evidence that the Lords of Discipline existed within the State Police."
Everybody in New Jersey government, including Stuart Rabner and Anne Milgram (unless she is even more incompetent than even I have thought) knows that the Lords of Discipline exists and is scared shitless of being targeted by the "boys." A lot more than 7 officers are involved. Soon federal prosecutors and judges will be designated for destruction, through illicit, behind-the-back character assassinations and economic warfare. The "rogue" troopers are viciously racist and homophobic, probably connected to Garden State mafia families and subject to bribes.
No wonder there is so much racial profiling and a grotesque history of frame-ups in the legal system of New Jersey. These guys must be related to the people who "got" Mumia Abu-Jamal. Please send any amount you can afford to the legal effort to free Mumia. The address is available on-line. Anyone subjected to "evaluation" by a forensic psychologist or psychoanalyst in New Jersey will be tortured for information, under hypnosis probably. (See "Jaynee La Vecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
"... Mr. Hopson, 33, filed suit after the March 2002 arrest of a woman for drunken driving, which he said was improper because the woman had not been behind the wheel. At the time of the arrest, Mr. Hopson had been on the job 11 days."
Fabricating criminal charges, filing false police reports, lying to investigators -- are all crimes. Not one of the troopers responsible for these actions, allegedly, has been charged or even been investigated for these offenses.
I wonder who is providing political protection for The Lords of Discipline? Richard J. Cody, Speaker Roberts, Bob Menendez, or others? Probably, it's all of the above.
Ms. Milgram through her spokesperson, David Wald, is lying (in my opinion) by denying the existence of this organization and knows that she's lying. The OAE exists "under" the attorney general's office, so there is no danger that these lies will result in ethics charges or any other difficulties for those offering them to the public with a straight face.
Ms. Milgram will probably end up as a judge, requiring people to swear to tell the truth in her courtroom. She won't be disciplined or disbarred when these statements concerning the non-existence of the Lords of Discipline are shown to be blatant lies. And they will be. There are rumors of federal investigations soon to result in more indictments.
Efforts against (more "errors" and corrections?) Mr. Hopson began with psychological torture: "When Mr. Hopson refused to endorse fellow troopers' versions of events surrounding the arrest" -- was the young woman who was arrested physically attractive? -- "a campaign to silence him began. First, there were threatening notes left around his station house in the Troop A region, which covers much of South Jersey."
If the young woman was attractive that would be a reason to arrest her and have some fun with her in the station. If she objects to such treatment, then she'll fall and hurt herself on the way to jail. Ms. Milgram's continuing silence is complicity in such despicable behavior by her state police officers. Sex workers are subjected to harassment, theft and rape by cops and also by criminals. This exploitation would end if commercial activity for money were legalized.
"Then, Mr. Hopson said, his car was vandalized. By the time he sued the state in December 2003, Mr. Hopson said that he had been the victim of a series of beatings at the hands of another trooper."
"Mr. Hopson's lawyer, William H. Buckman, said that the Lords of Discipline is part of an unseemly subculture within the State Police."
"The agency is operating under the auspices of a federal monitor because of findings that it had improperly targeted drivers for moving violations [and parking tickets?] because of their race."
New Jersey's Supreme Court and the state's Attorney General, Anne Milgram, as well as Governor Jon S. Corzine must bear ultimate responsibility for these crimes, taking place for years, suggesting continuing, humiliating indifference to and complicity in police criminality on the part of the state's legal institutions. The whole world is watching.
Ethics? Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? How does a Jew become Mengele? Or Eichman? Swastikas are O.K., Stuart? Who do you think will be next if these unconstitutional tactics become widespread? Have you no shame about the daily violation of a person's civil rights taking place before your eyes and the world thanks to the actions (and inactions) of New Jersey officials? (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
In response to this disgraceful episode of criminality among law enforcement officials and corruption in high places, New Jersey's tainted legal authorities say that voters may not care about corruption since they will assume (correctly, in New Jersey) that politics is always corrupt.
"This could be the year that corruption dominates the political debate and Republicans wrest seats from the Democrats, who have controlled both houses of the Legislature since 2004. But political experts say they do not see that happening, not in a state where Democrats dominate the Legislature and occupy the governor's office and both United States Senate seats. And not in a state where voters have grown callused about government corruption."
Take a look at your children -- if you live in New Jersey -- and ask yourself whether MORE government and judiciary by the mob is what you wish to see in their future. Any indictments this week, boys? Senator Robert ("Big Pappa") Menendez said: "I am for all the people."
More essays examining Union City's Municipal Court and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office are coming up.
October 24, 2008 at 12:53 P.M. Access to MSN was obstructed just "now." MSN Groups, according to a notice I received, is scheduled to "close" in February, 2009. I wonder whether this is true. Why would someone send me a false notice? I will struggle to correct any "errors" inserted by hackers during this time when I am unable to reach my group.
October 23, 2008 at 11:17 A.M. I was unable to reach my group just now. This sort of struggle is not unusual. Several essays have been altered in small ways -- missing captions for photos, letters or words deleted. I will try to make corrections when I can return to my MSN account.
October 22, 2008 at 8:56 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group this morning, being obstructed each time I reach the site. I will run scans and do my best to post new work or make changes at some point during the course of the day. This struggle will prevent efforts to write new essays or stories. I will keep trying to write on-line. This is routine harassment.
October 21, 2008 at 12:20 P.M. I am struggling to return to Critique, after being denied access to that site at approximately 11:08 A.M., still running scans.
October 19, 2008 at 8:41 P.M. I am again unable to return to Critique. Apparently, intrusions have resulted in alterations of my desk top icons. I will struggle to return to MSN and to repair the harm done to these writings. Several more essays have, apparently, been vandalized. Trenton?
October 19, 2008 at 6:16 P.M. As of this time, I have been unable to regain access to my MSN group. I cannot say how many more essays have been vandalized or defaced. I will continue to struggle to get back to that site. Cyberharassment and crank calls continue on a daily basis. (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.")
October 19, 2008 at 4:57 P.M. efforts to reach Critique are obstructed by cyberattacks. The essay which appears below was altered at my MSN group. The corrected text cannot be posted at that site at this time. I will spend the rest of the evening trying to post that essay, then I will try again tomorrow to continue writing at my group.
Allegations of marijuana use against New Jersey Justice Wallace remain uncorroborated, if also undenied by the state justice. No person using Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) should be a judge in the Garden State. I wonder why I encounter cyberattacks on a daily basis? Is it possible that such censorship efforts are content-based and associated with New Jersey government officials abusing public authority? I shudder to think that such a thing is possible.
New Jersey's "cowardly legal lion," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner (D) and A.G. Anne Milgram (D) seem incapable to examining the accusations against N.J.'s legal system. Cyberwars continue. October 18, 2008 at 7:50 A.M. New "errors" inserted and corrections made. October 19, 2008 at 4:38 P.M.
October 4, 2007 at 9:23 A.M. I am unable to access my MSN account to continue working on an essay dealing with the Jena 6 case. I will spend the rest of the day trying to reach my MSN account. Maybe there are more swastikas being posted in fields near police stations in New Jersey. Spacing may be affected in this essay. At 9:52 A.M., I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/Jaction/ko/msn_MSNBC... (NJ)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Richard G. Jones, "New Jersey Agrees to Settle Trooper's Harassment Suit," in The New York Times, October 2, 2007, at p. B2.
Jeremy W. Peters, "In New Jersey, Corruption May Alter Politics. Or Not," in The New York Times, October 3, 2007, at B1.
"NEWARK, Oct. 1 -- Officials with the New Jersey attorney general's office said on Monday that the state had agreed to a $400,000.00 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former state trooper who said that he was beaten and harassed by members of a secret group of rogue officers within the State Police."
Any "settlement" offered to me will be will be substantially donated to 9/11 victims and other charities. You can't "buy" me. An organized crime group made up of State Police officers -- how do they feel about swastikas? -- terrorizes law enforcement officers in alliance with big time criminals or selected politicians in New Jersey, allegedly, doing the dirty work for the Trenton Syndicate, knowing that they will never be prosecuted or charged in the Garden State for their many crimes.
It is unknown, at this time, how many members of the Garden State's discredited Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) are subject to the influence of these rogue cops or "made members" of this state police mafia group.
Now you know why federal supervision of police was needed (and still is vital) in New Jersey. No wonder good old Stuart Rabner (who can't be as dumb as he looks, since no one could be that stupid) is afraid to act on what is now an obvious pattern of gross criminality, professional incompetence, and worse (Tuchin and Riccioli), as well as continuing conspiracies to violate civil rights and then cover-up the violations. Maybe the Lords of Discipline have a squad of cybercriminals. (More "errors" have been inserted in this text since last night.)
"The former trooper, Justin Hopson, filed the lawsuit in 2003. In it, he described a series of beatings, threats and acts of vandalism that he said occurred after he refused to support an arrest by another trooper in 2002."
"Mr. Hopson said he was attacked by members of a loose-knit group within the State Police known as the Lords of Discipline. For years, minority and female troopers have complained that they have been harassed by members of the group."
Sexual harassment of female officers and women drivers is a routine perk claimed by these guys, probably with the eager assistance of so-called "therapists." Tuchin? Riccioli? A little hypnosis and you're all set.
"In 2005, the state attorney general's office issued a report that found seven troopers guilty of harassing their colleagues. The troopers received punishments ranging from reprimands to 45 day suspensions, but the attorney general's office said it found no evidence that the Lords of Discipline existed within the State Police."
Everybody in New Jersey government, including Stuart Rabner and Anne Milgram (unless she is even more incompetent than even I have thought) knows that the Lords of Discipline exists and is scared shitless of being targeted by the "boys." A lot more than 7 officers are involved. Soon federal prosecutors and judges will be designated for destruction, through illicit, behind-the-back character assassinations and economic warfare. The "rogue" troopers are viciously racist and homophobic, probably connected to Garden State mafia families and subject to bribes.
No wonder there is so much racial profiling and a grotesque history of frame-ups in the legal system of New Jersey. These guys must be related to the people who "got" Mumia Abu-Jamal. Please send any amount you can afford to the legal effort to free Mumia. The address is available on-line. Anyone subjected to "evaluation" by a forensic psychologist or psychoanalyst in New Jersey will be tortured for information, under hypnosis probably. (See "Jaynee La Vecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
"... Mr. Hopson, 33, filed suit after the March 2002 arrest of a woman for drunken driving, which he said was improper because the woman had not been behind the wheel. At the time of the arrest, Mr. Hopson had been on the job 11 days."
Fabricating criminal charges, filing false police reports, lying to investigators -- are all crimes. Not one of the troopers responsible for these actions, allegedly, has been charged or even been investigated for these offenses.
I wonder who is providing political protection for The Lords of Discipline? Richard J. Cody, Speaker Roberts, Bob Menendez, or others? Probably, it's all of the above.
Ms. Milgram through her spokesperson, David Wald, is lying (in my opinion) by denying the existence of this organization and knows that she's lying. The OAE exists "under" the attorney general's office, so there is no danger that these lies will result in ethics charges or any other difficulties for those offering them to the public with a straight face.
Ms. Milgram will probably end up as a judge, requiring people to swear to tell the truth in her courtroom. She won't be disciplined or disbarred when these statements concerning the non-existence of the Lords of Discipline are shown to be blatant lies. And they will be. There are rumors of federal investigations soon to result in more indictments.
Efforts against (more "errors" and corrections?) Mr. Hopson began with psychological torture: "When Mr. Hopson refused to endorse fellow troopers' versions of events surrounding the arrest" -- was the young woman who was arrested physically attractive? -- "a campaign to silence him began. First, there were threatening notes left around his station house in the Troop A region, which covers much of South Jersey."
If the young woman was attractive that would be a reason to arrest her and have some fun with her in the station. If she objects to such treatment, then she'll fall and hurt herself on the way to jail. Ms. Milgram's continuing silence is complicity in such despicable behavior by her state police officers. Sex workers are subjected to harassment, theft and rape by cops and also by criminals. This exploitation would end if commercial activity for money were legalized.
"Then, Mr. Hopson said, his car was vandalized. By the time he sued the state in December 2003, Mr. Hopson said that he had been the victim of a series of beatings at the hands of another trooper."
"Mr. Hopson's lawyer, William H. Buckman, said that the Lords of Discipline is part of an unseemly subculture within the State Police."
"The agency is operating under the auspices of a federal monitor because of findings that it had improperly targeted drivers for moving violations [and parking tickets?] because of their race."
New Jersey's Supreme Court and the state's Attorney General, Anne Milgram, as well as Governor Jon S. Corzine must bear ultimate responsibility for these crimes, taking place for years, suggesting continuing, humiliating indifference to and complicity in police criminality on the part of the state's legal institutions. The whole world is watching.
Ethics? Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? How does a Jew become Mengele? Or Eichman? Swastikas are O.K., Stuart? Who do you think will be next if these unconstitutional tactics become widespread? Have you no shame about the daily violation of a person's civil rights taking place before your eyes and the world thanks to the actions (and inactions) of New Jersey officials? (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
In response to this disgraceful episode of criminality among law enforcement officials and corruption in high places, New Jersey's tainted legal authorities say that voters may not care about corruption since they will assume (correctly, in New Jersey) that politics is always corrupt.
"This could be the year that corruption dominates the political debate and Republicans wrest seats from the Democrats, who have controlled both houses of the Legislature since 2004. But political experts say they do not see that happening, not in a state where Democrats dominate the Legislature and occupy the governor's office and both United States Senate seats. And not in a state where voters have grown callused about government corruption."
Take a look at your children -- if you live in New Jersey -- and ask yourself whether MORE government and judiciary by the mob is what you wish to see in their future. Any indictments this week, boys? Senator Robert ("Big Pappa") Menendez said: "I am for all the people."
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
You Can't Fix Stupid!
October 18, 2008 at 3:22 P.M. I am unable to access my MSN group to post a new essay on Bernard Williams' philosophy. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text, as I continue to correct them. I will persist in my efforts.
October 18, 2008 at 8:19 A.M. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text. I continue to make corrections. Have a good one! A good day, that is.
October 17, 2008 at 12:28 P.M. I have been unable to reach Critique, so far today. But the day is young. I will keep trying to do so. Perhaps I will receive another visit from the "Independence Party" or "Publish America." Calls from 760-526-8513 at 11:06 A.M. Several essays at MSN have probably been vandalized. I will do my best to make all necessary corrections as quickly as possible. Calls from Time Warner, but no answer when I pick up: October 17, 2008 at 10:53 A.M. from 718-358-0900; 6:59 P.M. from 718-358-0900. How curious?
October 16, 2008 at 7:23 P.M. I just received a call from 917-822-2142 in connection, I was told, with the effort to stop the city from moving the wonderful Center School Middle School from its present location -- an effort to prevent that move that I support. Attempts to reach my group immediately after this call (when I provided my e-mail address) resulted in denials of access to my group at MSN. I am sure that this is just a coincidence. I will struggle to return to my site and correct any defacements or vandalism of my writings that have suddenly appeared in my work. (Please notice carefully whether damage is done to these writings while I am away.)
October 15, 2008 at 6:39 P.M. After three attempts, I am unable to access my MSN account and group. I will persist in my efforts to do so. I will continue to run scans, struggling to write every day. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
October 15, 2008 at 12:02 P.M. I was obstructed a couple times in my efforts to reach MSN. I will continue to struggle to do so. Writing an essay on Bernard Williams under such circumstances is very difficult. I will continue to write it anyway. Please see "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey," also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey." Hackers may access my accounts to tamper with these writings at any time.
October 14, 2008 at 8:03 A.M. My cyberwar with the N.J. Mafia continues, as the final Presidential debate is telecast tonight. (Tomorrow ?) Latinos can count on a talking dog from Beverly Hills in recognition of our political status. We have finally arrived. I was denied access to the Internet or "Ethernet" from about 10:00 A.M. until approximately 1:00 P.M. Only two essays at Critique appear to have been altered, so far, but I will keep checking to see what other damage has been done today.
October 13, 2008 at 7:03 P.M. A notice was just posted in my building indicating that cable service, affecting my computer, would be interrupted tomorrow, from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., which is surprising since I never received a call or written notice from Time Warner informing me of this interruption. Regular maintenance? Probably just a coincidence. In the event that I cannot regain access to my sites, I will try to find a public computer.
October 13, 2008 at 11:21 A.M. a new attack against my computer system requires me to run scans for the second time this morning. I will try to reach my MSN group later to determine what damage has been done, how many essays have been vandalized, then to make all necessary corrections. Perhaps those new indictments in New Jersey will finally be anounced. (See "Ethical Newspeak in Lucky Luciano's Havana" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
I do not know whether I will be able to continue writing for a while. However, I will try to do so. Call received this morning from 760-204-8405 at 10:55 A.M.
October 12, 2008 at 1:11 P.M. Several essays at Critique were damaged, apparently several at this blog also, with the goal of maximizing frustration in order to induce collapse. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "The Long Goodbye.") I will struggle to make all necessary corrections as soon as possible.
October 8, 2008 at 4:22 P.M. Efforts to reach my MSN group were obstructed just now. I will continue to attempt to reach that site throughout the day today, then again tomorrow. I can never say whether I will be able to write again. If I am able to do so, then I will examine the U.S. decision to grant a special license to Ramon Raul Sanchez Rizo to send supposed "humanitarian assistance" to Cuba.
Cuba has classified Mr. Sanchez Rizo as a "terrorist" after several incidents in which Cubans and Cuban interests were victims, including the destruction of a civilian airliner, allegedly, in which 73 persons on board were killed -- including Americans. I expect that N.J.'s protected hackers will try to destroy my computer, probably by using N.J. governmental resources or Florida facilities. I will do my best to continue writing.
In the event that I experience an unfortunate "lethal accident," please see "Denuncia concession de Estados Unidos a terrorista anticubano," http://www.prensa-latina.cu/print.asp?ID={c9F89683-4878-4F92-8C8B-7E2C34EBED08})&language=... (Accents are not available on this keyboard).
If these allegations against Mr. Rizo are accurate, then the U.S. decision is comparable to Pakistan making Ossama bin Laden a special envoy to the U.S. for humanitarian assistance. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not prove you are correct about something by preventing a person from speaking or writing on-line. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" at my much-attacked MSN group, Critique.)
October 8, 2008 at 10:26 A.M. I am always concerned that cyberstalkers will prevent my regaining access to these blogs, especially after a week such as this. I will do my best to continue writing from somewhere. Any assistance that you can provide to federal authorities concerning corruption in New Jersey government and law will be deeply appreciated.
As Garden State state workers' pension funds disappear into the "Twilight Zone," jobs vanish -- along with public revenue stolen by crooked politicians and judges -- while N.J.'s hapless victims of corruption trudge on to the Turnpike and Parkway where tolls are rising, even as service as well as maintenance is declining, thanks to more corruption in state politics and tainted courts. The place just takes your breath away -- literally, from all the putrid stench escaping from the N.J. Supreme Court's chambers.
"New Jersey -- Come See for Yourself!" N.J.'s "slogan" cost $250,000 and was used for 6 months. For $20.00 and all the doughnuts I can eat, I'll give them a better slogan. They can use it as long as they like: "Did something die? Or are we in New Jersey?" Badda-bing, badda-boom!
"Playing Into Mr. Morales's Hands," in The New York Times, October 7, 2008, at p. A30.
Alfred W. McCoy, "Propagating Torture," in CIA Interrogation -- From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), pp. 60-107, especially pp. 80-87. (Development of psychological torture in Latin America by CIA-trained forces that are now used in the so-called against persons in the U.S., I believe, and in the "War on Terror.")
As I write this essay, I've spent several days frustrated by cyberstalkers enjoying the protection of an American jurisdiction in the commission of their crimes against me -- crimes like suppressing and censoring a tortured dissident's speech. Today, obstacles and hackers prevent me from accessing my hotmail account or MSN group, Critique. I cannot post images at these blogs. My books will not be sent to online booksellers. I do not know whether I have valid ISBN numbers for those books.
I will continue to struggle against all forms of cyberstalking and -warfare. Eventually -- either from my home computer or a public computer -- I'll get to post my writings and images online. Years of this kind of frustration and stress- or anxiety-inducement, combined with well-planned economic and social harm, allow a person to develop superb resistance skills -- if one survives.
Many persons do not survive emotional torments for long. Such tactics have become a routine feature of life for inmates in America's prisons and for many others in society who are deemed sufficiently "interesting" to warrant torture. Genius, unusual creativity, or just "abnormality" is are categories of guilt in the United States of America or at least in New Jersey. American psychologists are experts in the techniques of hurting and (perhaps) even killing people by means of psychological methods. The persons who do such things for money disapprove of my ethics. I disapprove of their ethics. Did you torture many Arabs, Terry? Still like the ladies -- especially unconscious ones -- Diana?
The devastation and long-term emotional harm suffered by victims (I shudder to think of what is done to women inmates, routinely, in American women's prisons) is a matter of indifference to the monsters experimenting on unwilling and powerless persons. You have no ethics at N.J.'s OAE. Hence, your opinions of my character and ethics are, and will remain, of utter indifference to me. The people I am dealing with -- N.J.'s government lawyers, I believe, and social scientists -- don't care that state action to suppress speech and conspiracies to violate a victim's civil rights happen to be federal crimes and unconstitutional. These crimes continue to be committed, publicly.
As long as N.J.'s minions can claim "plausible denial," meaning that they can LIE and hope to be believed, they have no hesitation about resorting to such despicable tactics. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, A.G. Anne Milgram, Gov. Jon S. Corzine -- all seem incapable of "controlling the situation" or halting the abuse and daily human rights violations, taking place PUBLICLY. Such officials may even cooperate with these efforts to undermine my Constitutional rights, which is also to undermine every other person's rights.
This continuing situation is a sad comment on the hypocrisy and lie that is now, too often, America's legal system. Each day that this nightmare scripted by Kafka continues, New Jersey's legal system and befouled judiciary will suffer a further denigration and loss of respect. No wonder there is so much unfair and dangerous antiamericanism in the world. This is not what the U.S. legal system was intended to be. How does someone like Anne Milgram become "Attorney General" anywhere?
It may help to illustrate the flawed reasoning in all efforts at "conditioning responses" based on behaviorist methods that are still popular with U.S. government officials and so-called intelligence agents, like the men and women who should have prevented the 9/11 attacks, to focus on U.S.-Bolivian relations:
"Bolivia has become markedly less cooperative with American counternarcotics efforts, as evidenced by a large increase in coca cultivation. And Mr. Morales regularly stokes anti-Yankee sentiment to undercut his opposition and divert attention from his government's poor performance." -- A poor performance for which the U.S. probably bears some blame! -- "Last month, Mr. Morales expelled the American Ambassador Philip Goldberg."
People resent the American "kick in the ass" approach to eliciting desired conduct from victims. Even when leaders appear to be cooperating or smile to our faces, they are assisting America's enemies from behind the scenes, hoping to harm us as pay-back for such "conditioning." Pakistan? I certainly resent brutality and censorship, or other "conditioning" when it is directed at me, why should we be surprised when others feel the same way? 18 or 20 intrusion attempts today, so far, 10 viruses or security risks identified, obstructions and more cyberwarfare. (For my experiences with N.J.'s version of Dr. Mengele, see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
I will continue to resist and struggle against such efforts, redirecting them at the criminal legal system from which they come. I wonder who is getting indicted next in Trenton? Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe it'll be Senator Bob. To suggest that my non-criminal "weird" behavior ten years ago that was generated, deliberately, by such torturers somehow excuses these crimes committed against me, today or even then, is absurd. On the basis on "transferred intent" in criminal law, it makes N.J.'s culpability against me and others, much worse. Distraught effects are predictable in a torture chamber and attributable to torturers, not their victims. Even those pretending to cooperate with such conditioning will act, secretly, against would-be conditioners. For example, Latin America is on the verge of exploding against U.S. interests:
"Mr. Morales doesn't tire of saying that Bolivia will neither 'retreat nor submit' to Washington's will, and he has been [developing] relations with Iran and Venezuela. After Bolivia was classified as 'uncooperative' with American anti-drug efforts last month, the government in La Paz said it would seek help -- and military helicopters -- from Russia instead. Last week, it rejected an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over Bolivian territory."
Antiamericanism is increasing in Brazil, Central America, even Mexico. Will it take a tragedy for people in the U.S. to understand that you cannot "condition" persons into opinions or actions that you like, certainly not for very long? I hope not. The long-term effects of such efforts at conditioning will always be much worse than the original problem that you are seeking to resolve. You will CREATE ENEMIES by using these tactics. How much has N.J. spent on torture efforts against me since 1988? Millions?
Mysteriously, even though I am one of those unintelligent Latinos, my writings may be suggestive to thinkers in a number of fields. One sentence that sheds new light on a difficult problem or set of issues justifies my writing effort. By censoring me, suppressing my books and/or seeking to "destroy my mind" (Tuchin, Riccioli), a message is sent to the world that the U.S. is as totalitarian as any other country when it comes to dissidents in American society -- unless such dissidents are coopted graduates of, say, Yale University.
You make America's championing of free speech and human rights in the world as well as the U.S. Constitution a cruel lie by continued tortures and censorship aimed at me. I will never stop fighting for my rights. I will not be censored nor will I sanction the crimes committed against me by Trenton officials and/or their hirelings. I will continue to write.
October 18, 2008 at 8:19 A.M. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text. I continue to make corrections. Have a good one! A good day, that is.
October 17, 2008 at 12:28 P.M. I have been unable to reach Critique, so far today. But the day is young. I will keep trying to do so. Perhaps I will receive another visit from the "Independence Party" or "Publish America." Calls from 760-526-8513 at 11:06 A.M. Several essays at MSN have probably been vandalized. I will do my best to make all necessary corrections as quickly as possible. Calls from Time Warner, but no answer when I pick up: October 17, 2008 at 10:53 A.M. from 718-358-0900; 6:59 P.M. from 718-358-0900. How curious?
October 16, 2008 at 7:23 P.M. I just received a call from 917-822-2142 in connection, I was told, with the effort to stop the city from moving the wonderful Center School Middle School from its present location -- an effort to prevent that move that I support. Attempts to reach my group immediately after this call (when I provided my e-mail address) resulted in denials of access to my group at MSN. I am sure that this is just a coincidence. I will struggle to return to my site and correct any defacements or vandalism of my writings that have suddenly appeared in my work. (Please notice carefully whether damage is done to these writings while I am away.)
October 15, 2008 at 6:39 P.M. After three attempts, I am unable to access my MSN account and group. I will persist in my efforts to do so. I will continue to run scans, struggling to write every day. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
October 15, 2008 at 12:02 P.M. I was obstructed a couple times in my efforts to reach MSN. I will continue to struggle to do so. Writing an essay on Bernard Williams under such circumstances is very difficult. I will continue to write it anyway. Please see "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey," also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey." Hackers may access my accounts to tamper with these writings at any time.
October 14, 2008 at 8:03 A.M. My cyberwar with the N.J. Mafia continues, as the final Presidential debate is telecast tonight. (Tomorrow ?) Latinos can count on a talking dog from Beverly Hills in recognition of our political status. We have finally arrived. I was denied access to the Internet or "Ethernet" from about 10:00 A.M. until approximately 1:00 P.M. Only two essays at Critique appear to have been altered, so far, but I will keep checking to see what other damage has been done today.
October 13, 2008 at 7:03 P.M. A notice was just posted in my building indicating that cable service, affecting my computer, would be interrupted tomorrow, from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., which is surprising since I never received a call or written notice from Time Warner informing me of this interruption. Regular maintenance? Probably just a coincidence. In the event that I cannot regain access to my sites, I will try to find a public computer.
October 13, 2008 at 11:21 A.M. a new attack against my computer system requires me to run scans for the second time this morning. I will try to reach my MSN group later to determine what damage has been done, how many essays have been vandalized, then to make all necessary corrections. Perhaps those new indictments in New Jersey will finally be anounced. (See "Ethical Newspeak in Lucky Luciano's Havana" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
I do not know whether I will be able to continue writing for a while. However, I will try to do so. Call received this morning from 760-204-8405 at 10:55 A.M.
October 12, 2008 at 1:11 P.M. Several essays at Critique were damaged, apparently several at this blog also, with the goal of maximizing frustration in order to induce collapse. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "The Long Goodbye.") I will struggle to make all necessary corrections as soon as possible.
October 8, 2008 at 4:22 P.M. Efforts to reach my MSN group were obstructed just now. I will continue to attempt to reach that site throughout the day today, then again tomorrow. I can never say whether I will be able to write again. If I am able to do so, then I will examine the U.S. decision to grant a special license to Ramon Raul Sanchez Rizo to send supposed "humanitarian assistance" to Cuba.
Cuba has classified Mr. Sanchez Rizo as a "terrorist" after several incidents in which Cubans and Cuban interests were victims, including the destruction of a civilian airliner, allegedly, in which 73 persons on board were killed -- including Americans. I expect that N.J.'s protected hackers will try to destroy my computer, probably by using N.J. governmental resources or Florida facilities. I will do my best to continue writing.
In the event that I experience an unfortunate "lethal accident," please see "Denuncia concession de Estados Unidos a terrorista anticubano," http://www.prensa-latina.cu/print.asp?ID={c9F89683-4878-4F92-8C8B-7E2C34EBED08})&language=... (Accents are not available on this keyboard).
If these allegations against Mr. Rizo are accurate, then the U.S. decision is comparable to Pakistan making Ossama bin Laden a special envoy to the U.S. for humanitarian assistance. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not prove you are correct about something by preventing a person from speaking or writing on-line. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" at my much-attacked MSN group, Critique.)
October 8, 2008 at 10:26 A.M. I am always concerned that cyberstalkers will prevent my regaining access to these blogs, especially after a week such as this. I will do my best to continue writing from somewhere. Any assistance that you can provide to federal authorities concerning corruption in New Jersey government and law will be deeply appreciated.
As Garden State state workers' pension funds disappear into the "Twilight Zone," jobs vanish -- along with public revenue stolen by crooked politicians and judges -- while N.J.'s hapless victims of corruption trudge on to the Turnpike and Parkway where tolls are rising, even as service as well as maintenance is declining, thanks to more corruption in state politics and tainted courts. The place just takes your breath away -- literally, from all the putrid stench escaping from the N.J. Supreme Court's chambers.
"New Jersey -- Come See for Yourself!" N.J.'s "slogan" cost $250,000 and was used for 6 months. For $20.00 and all the doughnuts I can eat, I'll give them a better slogan. They can use it as long as they like: "Did something die? Or are we in New Jersey?" Badda-bing, badda-boom!
"Playing Into Mr. Morales's Hands," in The New York Times, October 7, 2008, at p. A30.
Alfred W. McCoy, "Propagating Torture," in CIA Interrogation -- From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), pp. 60-107, especially pp. 80-87. (Development of psychological torture in Latin America by CIA-trained forces that are now used in the so-called against persons in the U.S., I believe, and in the "War on Terror.")
As I write this essay, I've spent several days frustrated by cyberstalkers enjoying the protection of an American jurisdiction in the commission of their crimes against me -- crimes like suppressing and censoring a tortured dissident's speech. Today, obstacles and hackers prevent me from accessing my hotmail account or MSN group, Critique. I cannot post images at these blogs. My books will not be sent to online booksellers. I do not know whether I have valid ISBN numbers for those books.
I will continue to struggle against all forms of cyberstalking and -warfare. Eventually -- either from my home computer or a public computer -- I'll get to post my writings and images online. Years of this kind of frustration and stress- or anxiety-inducement, combined with well-planned economic and social harm, allow a person to develop superb resistance skills -- if one survives.
Many persons do not survive emotional torments for long. Such tactics have become a routine feature of life for inmates in America's prisons and for many others in society who are deemed sufficiently "interesting" to warrant torture. Genius, unusual creativity, or just "abnormality" is are categories of guilt in the United States of America or at least in New Jersey. American psychologists are experts in the techniques of hurting and (perhaps) even killing people by means of psychological methods. The persons who do such things for money disapprove of my ethics. I disapprove of their ethics. Did you torture many Arabs, Terry? Still like the ladies -- especially unconscious ones -- Diana?
The devastation and long-term emotional harm suffered by victims (I shudder to think of what is done to women inmates, routinely, in American women's prisons) is a matter of indifference to the monsters experimenting on unwilling and powerless persons. You have no ethics at N.J.'s OAE. Hence, your opinions of my character and ethics are, and will remain, of utter indifference to me. The people I am dealing with -- N.J.'s government lawyers, I believe, and social scientists -- don't care that state action to suppress speech and conspiracies to violate a victim's civil rights happen to be federal crimes and unconstitutional. These crimes continue to be committed, publicly.
As long as N.J.'s minions can claim "plausible denial," meaning that they can LIE and hope to be believed, they have no hesitation about resorting to such despicable tactics. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, A.G. Anne Milgram, Gov. Jon S. Corzine -- all seem incapable of "controlling the situation" or halting the abuse and daily human rights violations, taking place PUBLICLY. Such officials may even cooperate with these efforts to undermine my Constitutional rights, which is also to undermine every other person's rights.
This continuing situation is a sad comment on the hypocrisy and lie that is now, too often, America's legal system. Each day that this nightmare scripted by Kafka continues, New Jersey's legal system and befouled judiciary will suffer a further denigration and loss of respect. No wonder there is so much unfair and dangerous antiamericanism in the world. This is not what the U.S. legal system was intended to be. How does someone like Anne Milgram become "Attorney General" anywhere?
It may help to illustrate the flawed reasoning in all efforts at "conditioning responses" based on behaviorist methods that are still popular with U.S. government officials and so-called intelligence agents, like the men and women who should have prevented the 9/11 attacks, to focus on U.S.-Bolivian relations:
"Bolivia has become markedly less cooperative with American counternarcotics efforts, as evidenced by a large increase in coca cultivation. And Mr. Morales regularly stokes anti-Yankee sentiment to undercut his opposition and divert attention from his government's poor performance." -- A poor performance for which the U.S. probably bears some blame! -- "Last month, Mr. Morales expelled the American Ambassador Philip Goldberg."
People resent the American "kick in the ass" approach to eliciting desired conduct from victims. Even when leaders appear to be cooperating or smile to our faces, they are assisting America's enemies from behind the scenes, hoping to harm us as pay-back for such "conditioning." Pakistan? I certainly resent brutality and censorship, or other "conditioning" when it is directed at me, why should we be surprised when others feel the same way? 18 or 20 intrusion attempts today, so far, 10 viruses or security risks identified, obstructions and more cyberwarfare. (For my experiences with N.J.'s version of Dr. Mengele, see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
I will continue to resist and struggle against such efforts, redirecting them at the criminal legal system from which they come. I wonder who is getting indicted next in Trenton? Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe it'll be Senator Bob. To suggest that my non-criminal "weird" behavior ten years ago that was generated, deliberately, by such torturers somehow excuses these crimes committed against me, today or even then, is absurd. On the basis on "transferred intent" in criminal law, it makes N.J.'s culpability against me and others, much worse. Distraught effects are predictable in a torture chamber and attributable to torturers, not their victims. Even those pretending to cooperate with such conditioning will act, secretly, against would-be conditioners. For example, Latin America is on the verge of exploding against U.S. interests:
"Mr. Morales doesn't tire of saying that Bolivia will neither 'retreat nor submit' to Washington's will, and he has been [developing] relations with Iran and Venezuela. After Bolivia was classified as 'uncooperative' with American anti-drug efforts last month, the government in La Paz said it would seek help -- and military helicopters -- from Russia instead. Last week, it rejected an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over Bolivian territory."
Antiamericanism is increasing in Brazil, Central America, even Mexico. Will it take a tragedy for people in the U.S. to understand that you cannot "condition" persons into opinions or actions that you like, certainly not for very long? I hope not. The long-term effects of such efforts at conditioning will always be much worse than the original problem that you are seeking to resolve. You will CREATE ENEMIES by using these tactics. How much has N.J. spent on torture efforts against me since 1988? Millions?
Mysteriously, even though I am one of those unintelligent Latinos, my writings may be suggestive to thinkers in a number of fields. One sentence that sheds new light on a difficult problem or set of issues justifies my writing effort. By censoring me, suppressing my books and/or seeking to "destroy my mind" (Tuchin, Riccioli), a message is sent to the world that the U.S. is as totalitarian as any other country when it comes to dissidents in American society -- unless such dissidents are coopted graduates of, say, Yale University.
You make America's championing of free speech and human rights in the world as well as the U.S. Constitution a cruel lie by continued tortures and censorship aimed at me. I will never stop fighting for my rights. I will not be censored nor will I sanction the crimes committed against me by Trenton officials and/or their hirelings. I will continue to write.
Friday, October 3, 2008
"Eagle Eye": A Movie Review.
October 7, 2008 at 9:38 A.M. As of this time, all efforts to reach my MSN group have been prevented by cyberstalkers and obstacles of one sort or another, I will spend the rest of the day struggling to get to my sites. I am running scans at this time. I will attempt to repair any damage done to writings at Critique at my earliest opportunity. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
October 6, 2008 at 7:08 P.M. A massive attack against my security system makes it impossible for me to update my system or to apply updates. I am attempting to back up files. I will then try to run a comprehensive scan, again, even if I cannot update my system at all.
The goal of this effort is to prevent accessing my sites, in order to allow for new attacks and defacements or vandalism of my writings in a society that CRIMINALIZES interference with free speech rights. This is part of the cyberstalking I deal with every day, emanating from New Jersey's government computers, usually just before the indictment of prominent members of the bar and judiciary.
Tell your friends in law enforcement about this fascinating spectacle. I will try to protect my writings and to make all corrections of inserted "errors," as quickly as possible. I will continue to search for public computers in order to write. Any assistance that can be provided will be appreciated. (See "The Long Goodbye" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Anne Milgram? Shame on you.
October 5, 2008 at 8:30 P.M. The past half hour has been spent seeking to access my essays at Critique. At this time, I am unable to do so. I will try again later. Then again tomorrow and the next day, from this computer and other computers, until I can continue to write at my MSN group. If I am unable to write at MSN, then I will create another blog elsewhere. Unfortunately, I cannot control or determine what damage may be done to my writings at MSN tonight. I will correct any harm done to my work at such time as I am able to return to that site, if I am ever able to do so. Otherwise, I will reproduce every essay at that site elsewhere on the Internet. Most of them are available at these blogs.
October 5, 2008 at 7:56 P.M. A new computer virus or other form of cyberstalking has resulted in slowing down and otherwise obstructing my access to my sites. As a result, I am unable to reach Critique at this time. I will try again tomorrow. I will focus on more profiles of corrupt or questionable N.J. judges. I will examine allegations of cash payoffs for public services in New Jersey's Municipalities, using "objective" published sources. I will also make a trip to the Garden State to research legal issues pertaining to MORE allegations against members of the bar and judiciary. If I am unable to post essays at Critique, I will create a new blog from another computer. I am unable to back-up files at this time.
October 5, 2008 at 5:56 P.M. Due to cyberstalking and harassment, no images can be posted at this blog. Call received from 818-663-9452 at 5:51 P.M. on October 5, 2008. Probably just a coincidence. Numerous essays have been vandalized at Critique. I will do my best to make corrections at the earliest opportunity. (See "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Efforts to obstruct my Internet access or opportunities to reach my sites are a daily experience for me. I will do my best to continue writing. (See "How Censorship Works in America.")
October 3, 2008 at 3:05 P.M. I am unable to post this essay-review at Critique. My efforts during most of the day to post this essay -- or even to reach my sites -- have been frustrated by N.J. hackers and obstacles that I can only describe as cyber-crimes and -warfare. I am deeply saddened and hurt by these experiences, not so much for myself as for the U.S. Constitution. I am concerned about the society in which my child will live her life. I hope that you are also concerned. I do not know whether I will be able to reach my MSN group again. I cannot say what damage has been done to my MSN essays. I will struggle every day to reach my sites and continue writing.
Eagle Eye (2008), Dream Works, Steven Spielberg (Producer), D.J. Caruso (Director), John Glenn & D.J. Caruso (Script), Shia LeBeouf (Jerry), Michelle Monaghan (Rachel), Rosario Dawson (Agent Perez), Billy Bob Thornton (F.B.I. Agent to the Stars).
I am the perfect audience for this biting and perceptive Swiftian satire of America under the Bush Administration's "War on the Constitution." New Jersey's Democrat-Mafia machine is way ahead of the feds in this effort to curtail our civil liberties. Trenton has already eliminated most of our rights, secretly, while proclaiming (publicly) continued adherence to the rule of law.
Jerry is a struggling "copy associate" who has decided to take a leave of absence from Stanford University in order to travel and "explore himself." This alone makes him suspicious to the feds. Why would anyone wish to see Asia? Anybody who goes to a foreign country is already a potential terrorist. Guys impressed by the discussion among rocket scientists playing poker with Jerry early in this film should note: Do not take that special gal to "Red Lobster" or "The Olive Garden." Either it's McDonald's -- so she'll know you care -- or you bite the bullet and spring for some chi-chi bistro in your town where you'll cough up $100.00 for lettuce bearing a French name. The French name for you -- as the much-sought patron of such an establishment -- is "asshole." Women like to see you suffer for love. So do fancy French restaurant owners.
Jerry's foreign adventure results in the all-too familiar struggle against poverty in America's demoralized urban centers. The hunt for rent money briefly transforms our hero into yet another minority male, a "white negro," looking forward to a pleasant encounter with the police. Suddenly, Jerry "encounters" a large deposit of cash that has materialized in his bank account. I almost never have that problem. He then withdraws some of this cash, receiving the first of several calls from a mysterious female voice urging him to escape the premises before the arrival of the F.B.I. The Morpheus-like calls in the Matrix are obviously invoked in this gesture of recognition for the Watchowski brothers of Chicago. All I can say is "Whoa ..." (See "'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")
The buzz surrounding the Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle, "Inception," is intense. Di Caprio is in a James Bond-Matrix concoction that is supposed to be both a date movie and edge-of-your-seat thriller with ideas for the geeks thrown in -- like butter on your popcorn cupercombo, plus twizzlers. Mega awesome.
Jerry finds himself brutally arrested in his own apartment. Can you imagine that? Security forces entering a person's home without a warrant, probably, just like in those totalitarian countries that we read about? It can't happen here, right?
Jerry's apartment is suddenly filled with what looks like the inventory from a local Home Depo that turns out to be the ingredients for building a bomb. This immediately makes our friend, Jerry, a "terrorist" to the F.B.I. man, played with efficiency and professional zeal by Mr. Thornton of Arkansas. Hey, "Billy Bob" what are you doing in this movie? Making money?
Rachel is a divorced single mom who receives an equally puzzling call from the same female voice threatening her child's life if she fails to cooperate. Government officials engaged in these clandestine social control efforts -- which are always denied publicly by other government officials -- are ruthless and sadistic, savoring the opportunity to cause pain and destroy lives as signs of their "thoroughness." I wonder why there is so much anti-Americanism in the world today? (Feel free to write "antiamericanism" or "anti-Americanism," both are correct.)
Probably the hostility to us is coming from irrational little brown people, who do not attend Smith College, even as they envy us our precious bounty. Thanksgiving is coming up. Don't forget to say "thank you" to President Bush for all that he has done for you.
Billy Bob Thornton is unrecognizable in the role of an F.B.I. "fancy-cop" with a sense of humor and very little trust in human goodness. He doubts our hero's explanations and is annoyed by distractions, like the 6th and 4th Amendments' requirement of a Miranda warning -- requirements which are ignored in this movie as they are, routinely, in American life. Suspects are subjected to custodial questioning without issuing any warnings, also in denial of 6th Amendment rights to counsel and 5th Amendment rights to silence. What the hell? Aren't you against terrorism?
If Jerry's skin were a little darker, he'd be tortured by our boys in blue. I suggest that Jerry sue the U.S. government. Of course, these days, they'd throw out the law suit and execute Jerry, clandestinely, at least they would -- and probably do all the time -- in New Jersey. (See "Why U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
Did I mention that I cannot access my MSN group today? Hackers are preventing me from posting essays at MSN -- again. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?") The movie turns into a mega-chase sequence -- as Jerry gets out of jail unfree -- with tributes to great predecessor films, such as The Fugitive and The Matrix.
The tongue-in-cheek irony is on display in phone calls warning of forthcoming effects and crashes as, more ironically, Spielberg's masterpiece A.I. gets a nod in the junkyard scene. Machines pick up and destroy other machines, all orchestrated by a mechanical intelligence that is both unfeeling and out of control. Metaphor? Or grim realism? I'm dealing with a very stupid human version of that computer that suffers from the same lack of affect. Diana?
The absence of affect makes the supercomputer in this movie idiotic, blind to the moral consequences of "her" actions, including the human suffering that she produces. This artificial intelligence is an autistic version of Kubrick's HAL in 2001, A Space Odyssey: "Open the pod bay door, Hal ..."
The computer "defense system" -- in a nice ironic touch worthy of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell -- has decided to assassinate the President of the United States (disappointingly depicted as a gray-haired generic white male), because "he" has undermined American security and the Constitution. The point being made is that our hyper security-minded culture and all of the new legislation of "surveillance and control" (Michel Foucault) may be creating the very horror they were designed to protect against.
Calls received from 610-915-5214 (Trenton? D.C.?) at 1:08 P.M. on October 3, 2008. Coincidence? More calls. More harassment. More viruses, spyware, intrusion into my computer. I am so surprised at these tactics. Somebody must be getting indicted in New Jersey. Keep your fingers crossed.
Maybe, if I am lucky, tomorrow I will be able to reach my sites despite all the new obstacles. The allusion to the Declaration of Independence is meant to remind audience members of what government in a free society should be concerned with -- protecting civil liberties and enforcing your rights to privacy, freedom of speech and autonomy, while ensuring that no action is taken upon your life by any of the mechanisms of the State without due process of law.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men [persons] are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with CERTAIN [inherent and] inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty" -- LIBERTY! -- "and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that wherever any form of government BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles ..."
Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence," in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York: The Viking Press, 1975), p. 236 (July 4, 1776).
Was Thomas Jefferson a "terrorist"? Did Jefferson fail to "adjust"?
Dr. Strangelove is another source for this suggestion of security mechanisms and operatives out of control and confused concerning the identity of the real enemy. No one seems to give a second thought to the planned assassination of an alleged "terrorist" and whoever accompanied him at the start of the film, despite the fact that this person (let alone the others with him) has, evidently, never been tried and found guilty of anything, even as the officials involved in this operation may be mistaken about what this person has done or who he is. "Mistakes make themselves" when it comes to security forces and State terrorists. New Jersey?
Mr. Caruso is clearly a Spielberg and Kubrick fan. Me too. I am also a fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights that once guaranteed all of us freedom of expression as well as access to controversial ideas and those who create them. Denial of my right to free speech is also obstruction of your right of access to what I say.
Mr. Caruso's bitter finale before the "Committee" where he acknowledges the deaths of so many good people resulting from "mistakes," little "boo-boos" made by government officials, is an insistence on accountability and apologies from those responsible for destroying so many brave American men and women, along with millions of others in poorly defined and failed military actions, or as a result of pointless imprisonment and torture. No wonder I cannot reach my MSN group or post essays today. These are dangerous thoughts.
In October, 2009 the death count in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed the 5,000 mark; the total number of American and non-American deaths, military and civilian, has been placed at the one million mark, after the two Iraq wars.
Denial of access to my own work in violation of my right to speak, publicly, of such issues is a way of "protecting" my civil liberties, allegedly, or for my "own good." Orwell explained it so well in Goldstein's Manual in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is slavery." Huxley concurred when he saw the uses to which technology might be put. Foucault defined "Panopticism" as the "principle of surveillance upon which contemporary totalitarian nations would thrive." Arriving at the same response to this horror that we live with, every day, are Kurt Vonnegut in Harrison Bergeron and Yevgeny Zamyatin in the classic dystopian novel, We:
" ... Zamyatin says: This is where we are going. Stop while there is still time. Throughout the poetry and the mockery, there is great warmth -- for Russia, for man -- and profound grief over the particularly insane ordeals they were to suffer in our century of terror, so uncannily foreseen in the novel, [as they are in this allegorical film, which is not to be taken literally concerning what is technologically feasible] and so profoundly faced. For Zamyatin, himself to such an extreme degree a victim of these ordeals, is remarkable in his utter lack of cynicism or bitterness. Anger, mockery, rebellion -- but no self-pity and no bitterness, [directed at] all who attempt to force life into a rigid mold: You will not, you cannot prevail. Man will not be destroyed."
" ... We is a warning, and a challenge, and a call to action. It is perhaps the fullest statement of Zamyatin's intellectual philosophy and emotional concerns. [The novel is a protest against] the totally controlled society ... where emotion is banished (yet survives), where every moment is lived according to schedule in a glass-enclosed city of glass houses and absolute straight lines, where even lovemaking is done on scheduled days and scheduled hours. ...
Mirra Ginsburg, "Introduction," in Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (New York: Anchor, 1972), pp. v-xx.
Zamyatin would have been horrified at the nihilism and torture that has been accepted in U.S. law under the impression that these things liberate us from intolerance and dogmatism in society, when they are merely the latest example of both, as well as an absolutist rejection of the Absolute or God, together with abandonment of basic human values and dignity -- values which must be rooted in "nature and nature's God" (Thomas Jefferson).
Censorship, secrecy, government paternalism are steps in the direction of the gulag -- even when they are rationalized with talk of "security needs." Compare Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (New York: Pocket Books, 1987) with John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control -- The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York: Dell, 1988). See also Ian I. Mitroff & Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Stephen Labaton, "Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk," in The New York Times, October 3, 2008, at p. A1. (Wall Street has been America's greatest "unreality industry.")
These anxieties have found expression in several recent films where insecurity is given imaginative form: See, for example, Tell No One (2008). France is picking up on many of these themes and adding a philosophical twist. Also recommended is Richard Matheson's 7 Steps to Midnight (New York: Tom Doherty, 1993). Matheson's masterpiece anticipates Eagle Eye by more than a decade and must be considered prophetic after 9/11 gave birth to the "National Security State."
Michelle Monaghan's charm always captures my heart. If you are being chased by the F.B.I. and other mysterious and dark powers, then Michelle's "Rachel" is definitely the gal to have with you. She doesn't mind getting her hair messed up. If she is asked by a supercomputer to murder you, she'll feel really "terrible about it." Plus Michelle is definitely a babe. Mr. Le Beouf is a pleasant "Jerry" who seems to have his heart in the right place. Wounded and bloodied but unbowed, Jerry is nice to children and promises to return to Stanford in order to attend law school, thus becoming "responsible" at last.
Jerry gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rachel gets Jerry. Spielberg and Caruso get your money. The cash will allow these men to open a fancy French restaurant to which you can imagine taking Michelle Monaghan for an expensive dinner -- where she will laugh at all of your jokes while wearing a low cut black dress and that exploding crystal necklace to increase the danger during your evening of seduction.
The movie rocks with plenty of explosions for those who do not wish to think too much, usually because they are (happily) incapable of much thought. In other words, I am referring to men. The invasive camera angles (derived from recent Russian cinema) adds to the "coolness" factor. I gotta see this movie in IMAX. A few more moments lingering over Rosario Dawson's "Agent Perez" -- who would have been fascinating in the lead! -- would not hurt.
Also, I would prefer that Billy Bob Thorton's F.B.I. official not die. Thornton's character should be nominated for the Presidency in a possible sequel, where he debates the supercomputer on ethics and political issues. Melanie Griffith as the supercomputer debating the protagonist concerning the logic of utopia would have been fascinating. Let actors be the ultimate "special effect."
Thumbs up for this fun-filled action-romance-thriller that is number one in the box office this week. Very cool.
October 6, 2008 at 7:08 P.M. A massive attack against my security system makes it impossible for me to update my system or to apply updates. I am attempting to back up files. I will then try to run a comprehensive scan, again, even if I cannot update my system at all.
The goal of this effort is to prevent accessing my sites, in order to allow for new attacks and defacements or vandalism of my writings in a society that CRIMINALIZES interference with free speech rights. This is part of the cyberstalking I deal with every day, emanating from New Jersey's government computers, usually just before the indictment of prominent members of the bar and judiciary.
Tell your friends in law enforcement about this fascinating spectacle. I will try to protect my writings and to make all corrections of inserted "errors," as quickly as possible. I will continue to search for public computers in order to write. Any assistance that can be provided will be appreciated. (See "The Long Goodbye" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Anne Milgram? Shame on you.
October 5, 2008 at 8:30 P.M. The past half hour has been spent seeking to access my essays at Critique. At this time, I am unable to do so. I will try again later. Then again tomorrow and the next day, from this computer and other computers, until I can continue to write at my MSN group. If I am unable to write at MSN, then I will create another blog elsewhere. Unfortunately, I cannot control or determine what damage may be done to my writings at MSN tonight. I will correct any harm done to my work at such time as I am able to return to that site, if I am ever able to do so. Otherwise, I will reproduce every essay at that site elsewhere on the Internet. Most of them are available at these blogs.
October 5, 2008 at 7:56 P.M. A new computer virus or other form of cyberstalking has resulted in slowing down and otherwise obstructing my access to my sites. As a result, I am unable to reach Critique at this time. I will try again tomorrow. I will focus on more profiles of corrupt or questionable N.J. judges. I will examine allegations of cash payoffs for public services in New Jersey's Municipalities, using "objective" published sources. I will also make a trip to the Garden State to research legal issues pertaining to MORE allegations against members of the bar and judiciary. If I am unable to post essays at Critique, I will create a new blog from another computer. I am unable to back-up files at this time.
October 5, 2008 at 5:56 P.M. Due to cyberstalking and harassment, no images can be posted at this blog. Call received from 818-663-9452 at 5:51 P.M. on October 5, 2008. Probably just a coincidence. Numerous essays have been vandalized at Critique. I will do my best to make corrections at the earliest opportunity. (See "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Efforts to obstruct my Internet access or opportunities to reach my sites are a daily experience for me. I will do my best to continue writing. (See "How Censorship Works in America.")
October 3, 2008 at 3:05 P.M. I am unable to post this essay-review at Critique. My efforts during most of the day to post this essay -- or even to reach my sites -- have been frustrated by N.J. hackers and obstacles that I can only describe as cyber-crimes and -warfare. I am deeply saddened and hurt by these experiences, not so much for myself as for the U.S. Constitution. I am concerned about the society in which my child will live her life. I hope that you are also concerned. I do not know whether I will be able to reach my MSN group again. I cannot say what damage has been done to my MSN essays. I will struggle every day to reach my sites and continue writing.
Eagle Eye (2008), Dream Works, Steven Spielberg (Producer), D.J. Caruso (Director), John Glenn & D.J. Caruso (Script), Shia LeBeouf (Jerry), Michelle Monaghan (Rachel), Rosario Dawson (Agent Perez), Billy Bob Thornton (F.B.I. Agent to the Stars).
I am the perfect audience for this biting and perceptive Swiftian satire of America under the Bush Administration's "War on the Constitution." New Jersey's Democrat-Mafia machine is way ahead of the feds in this effort to curtail our civil liberties. Trenton has already eliminated most of our rights, secretly, while proclaiming (publicly) continued adherence to the rule of law.
Jerry is a struggling "copy associate" who has decided to take a leave of absence from Stanford University in order to travel and "explore himself." This alone makes him suspicious to the feds. Why would anyone wish to see Asia? Anybody who goes to a foreign country is already a potential terrorist. Guys impressed by the discussion among rocket scientists playing poker with Jerry early in this film should note: Do not take that special gal to "Red Lobster" or "The Olive Garden." Either it's McDonald's -- so she'll know you care -- or you bite the bullet and spring for some chi-chi bistro in your town where you'll cough up $100.00 for lettuce bearing a French name. The French name for you -- as the much-sought patron of such an establishment -- is "asshole." Women like to see you suffer for love. So do fancy French restaurant owners.
Jerry's foreign adventure results in the all-too familiar struggle against poverty in America's demoralized urban centers. The hunt for rent money briefly transforms our hero into yet another minority male, a "white negro," looking forward to a pleasant encounter with the police. Suddenly, Jerry "encounters" a large deposit of cash that has materialized in his bank account. I almost never have that problem. He then withdraws some of this cash, receiving the first of several calls from a mysterious female voice urging him to escape the premises before the arrival of the F.B.I. The Morpheus-like calls in the Matrix are obviously invoked in this gesture of recognition for the Watchowski brothers of Chicago. All I can say is "Whoa ..." (See "'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")
The buzz surrounding the Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle, "Inception," is intense. Di Caprio is in a James Bond-Matrix concoction that is supposed to be both a date movie and edge-of-your-seat thriller with ideas for the geeks thrown in -- like butter on your popcorn cupercombo, plus twizzlers. Mega awesome.
Jerry finds himself brutally arrested in his own apartment. Can you imagine that? Security forces entering a person's home without a warrant, probably, just like in those totalitarian countries that we read about? It can't happen here, right?
Jerry's apartment is suddenly filled with what looks like the inventory from a local Home Depo that turns out to be the ingredients for building a bomb. This immediately makes our friend, Jerry, a "terrorist" to the F.B.I. man, played with efficiency and professional zeal by Mr. Thornton of Arkansas. Hey, "Billy Bob" what are you doing in this movie? Making money?
Rachel is a divorced single mom who receives an equally puzzling call from the same female voice threatening her child's life if she fails to cooperate. Government officials engaged in these clandestine social control efforts -- which are always denied publicly by other government officials -- are ruthless and sadistic, savoring the opportunity to cause pain and destroy lives as signs of their "thoroughness." I wonder why there is so much anti-Americanism in the world today? (Feel free to write "antiamericanism" or "anti-Americanism," both are correct.)
Probably the hostility to us is coming from irrational little brown people, who do not attend Smith College, even as they envy us our precious bounty. Thanksgiving is coming up. Don't forget to say "thank you" to President Bush for all that he has done for you.
Billy Bob Thornton is unrecognizable in the role of an F.B.I. "fancy-cop" with a sense of humor and very little trust in human goodness. He doubts our hero's explanations and is annoyed by distractions, like the 6th and 4th Amendments' requirement of a Miranda warning -- requirements which are ignored in this movie as they are, routinely, in American life. Suspects are subjected to custodial questioning without issuing any warnings, also in denial of 6th Amendment rights to counsel and 5th Amendment rights to silence. What the hell? Aren't you against terrorism?
If Jerry's skin were a little darker, he'd be tortured by our boys in blue. I suggest that Jerry sue the U.S. government. Of course, these days, they'd throw out the law suit and execute Jerry, clandestinely, at least they would -- and probably do all the time -- in New Jersey. (See "Why U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
Did I mention that I cannot access my MSN group today? Hackers are preventing me from posting essays at MSN -- again. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?") The movie turns into a mega-chase sequence -- as Jerry gets out of jail unfree -- with tributes to great predecessor films, such as The Fugitive and The Matrix.
The tongue-in-cheek irony is on display in phone calls warning of forthcoming effects and crashes as, more ironically, Spielberg's masterpiece A.I. gets a nod in the junkyard scene. Machines pick up and destroy other machines, all orchestrated by a mechanical intelligence that is both unfeeling and out of control. Metaphor? Or grim realism? I'm dealing with a very stupid human version of that computer that suffers from the same lack of affect. Diana?
The absence of affect makes the supercomputer in this movie idiotic, blind to the moral consequences of "her" actions, including the human suffering that she produces. This artificial intelligence is an autistic version of Kubrick's HAL in 2001, A Space Odyssey: "Open the pod bay door, Hal ..."
The computer "defense system" -- in a nice ironic touch worthy of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell -- has decided to assassinate the President of the United States (disappointingly depicted as a gray-haired generic white male), because "he" has undermined American security and the Constitution. The point being made is that our hyper security-minded culture and all of the new legislation of "surveillance and control" (Michel Foucault) may be creating the very horror they were designed to protect against.
Calls received from 610-915-5214 (Trenton? D.C.?) at 1:08 P.M. on October 3, 2008. Coincidence? More calls. More harassment. More viruses, spyware, intrusion into my computer. I am so surprised at these tactics. Somebody must be getting indicted in New Jersey. Keep your fingers crossed.
Maybe, if I am lucky, tomorrow I will be able to reach my sites despite all the new obstacles. The allusion to the Declaration of Independence is meant to remind audience members of what government in a free society should be concerned with -- protecting civil liberties and enforcing your rights to privacy, freedom of speech and autonomy, while ensuring that no action is taken upon your life by any of the mechanisms of the State without due process of law.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men [persons] are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with CERTAIN [inherent and] inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty" -- LIBERTY! -- "and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that wherever any form of government BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles ..."
Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence," in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York: The Viking Press, 1975), p. 236 (July 4, 1776).
Was Thomas Jefferson a "terrorist"? Did Jefferson fail to "adjust"?
Dr. Strangelove is another source for this suggestion of security mechanisms and operatives out of control and confused concerning the identity of the real enemy. No one seems to give a second thought to the planned assassination of an alleged "terrorist" and whoever accompanied him at the start of the film, despite the fact that this person (let alone the others with him) has, evidently, never been tried and found guilty of anything, even as the officials involved in this operation may be mistaken about what this person has done or who he is. "Mistakes make themselves" when it comes to security forces and State terrorists. New Jersey?
Mr. Caruso is clearly a Spielberg and Kubrick fan. Me too. I am also a fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights that once guaranteed all of us freedom of expression as well as access to controversial ideas and those who create them. Denial of my right to free speech is also obstruction of your right of access to what I say.
Mr. Caruso's bitter finale before the "Committee" where he acknowledges the deaths of so many good people resulting from "mistakes," little "boo-boos" made by government officials, is an insistence on accountability and apologies from those responsible for destroying so many brave American men and women, along with millions of others in poorly defined and failed military actions, or as a result of pointless imprisonment and torture. No wonder I cannot reach my MSN group or post essays today. These are dangerous thoughts.
In October, 2009 the death count in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed the 5,000 mark; the total number of American and non-American deaths, military and civilian, has been placed at the one million mark, after the two Iraq wars.
Denial of access to my own work in violation of my right to speak, publicly, of such issues is a way of "protecting" my civil liberties, allegedly, or for my "own good." Orwell explained it so well in Goldstein's Manual in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is slavery." Huxley concurred when he saw the uses to which technology might be put. Foucault defined "Panopticism" as the "principle of surveillance upon which contemporary totalitarian nations would thrive." Arriving at the same response to this horror that we live with, every day, are Kurt Vonnegut in Harrison Bergeron and Yevgeny Zamyatin in the classic dystopian novel, We:
" ... Zamyatin says: This is where we are going. Stop while there is still time. Throughout the poetry and the mockery, there is great warmth -- for Russia, for man -- and profound grief over the particularly insane ordeals they were to suffer in our century of terror, so uncannily foreseen in the novel, [as they are in this allegorical film, which is not to be taken literally concerning what is technologically feasible] and so profoundly faced. For Zamyatin, himself to such an extreme degree a victim of these ordeals, is remarkable in his utter lack of cynicism or bitterness. Anger, mockery, rebellion -- but no self-pity and no bitterness, [directed at] all who attempt to force life into a rigid mold: You will not, you cannot prevail. Man will not be destroyed."
" ... We is a warning, and a challenge, and a call to action. It is perhaps the fullest statement of Zamyatin's intellectual philosophy and emotional concerns. [The novel is a protest against] the totally controlled society ... where emotion is banished (yet survives), where every moment is lived according to schedule in a glass-enclosed city of glass houses and absolute straight lines, where even lovemaking is done on scheduled days and scheduled hours. ...
Mirra Ginsburg, "Introduction," in Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (New York: Anchor, 1972), pp. v-xx.
Zamyatin would have been horrified at the nihilism and torture that has been accepted in U.S. law under the impression that these things liberate us from intolerance and dogmatism in society, when they are merely the latest example of both, as well as an absolutist rejection of the Absolute or God, together with abandonment of basic human values and dignity -- values which must be rooted in "nature and nature's God" (Thomas Jefferson).
Censorship, secrecy, government paternalism are steps in the direction of the gulag -- even when they are rationalized with talk of "security needs." Compare Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (New York: Pocket Books, 1987) with John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control -- The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York: Dell, 1988). See also Ian I. Mitroff & Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Stephen Labaton, "Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk," in The New York Times, October 3, 2008, at p. A1. (Wall Street has been America's greatest "unreality industry.")
These anxieties have found expression in several recent films where insecurity is given imaginative form: See, for example, Tell No One (2008). France is picking up on many of these themes and adding a philosophical twist. Also recommended is Richard Matheson's 7 Steps to Midnight (New York: Tom Doherty, 1993). Matheson's masterpiece anticipates Eagle Eye by more than a decade and must be considered prophetic after 9/11 gave birth to the "National Security State."
Michelle Monaghan's charm always captures my heart. If you are being chased by the F.B.I. and other mysterious and dark powers, then Michelle's "Rachel" is definitely the gal to have with you. She doesn't mind getting her hair messed up. If she is asked by a supercomputer to murder you, she'll feel really "terrible about it." Plus Michelle is definitely a babe. Mr. Le Beouf is a pleasant "Jerry" who seems to have his heart in the right place. Wounded and bloodied but unbowed, Jerry is nice to children and promises to return to Stanford in order to attend law school, thus becoming "responsible" at last.
Jerry gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rachel gets Jerry. Spielberg and Caruso get your money. The cash will allow these men to open a fancy French restaurant to which you can imagine taking Michelle Monaghan for an expensive dinner -- where she will laugh at all of your jokes while wearing a low cut black dress and that exploding crystal necklace to increase the danger during your evening of seduction.
The movie rocks with plenty of explosions for those who do not wish to think too much, usually because they are (happily) incapable of much thought. In other words, I am referring to men. The invasive camera angles (derived from recent Russian cinema) adds to the "coolness" factor. I gotta see this movie in IMAX. A few more moments lingering over Rosario Dawson's "Agent Perez" -- who would have been fascinating in the lead! -- would not hurt.
Also, I would prefer that Billy Bob Thorton's F.B.I. official not die. Thornton's character should be nominated for the Presidency in a possible sequel, where he debates the supercomputer on ethics and political issues. Melanie Griffith as the supercomputer debating the protagonist concerning the logic of utopia would have been fascinating. Let actors be the ultimate "special effect."
Thumbs up for this fun-filled action-romance-thriller that is number one in the box office this week. Very cool.
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