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.
