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January 18, 2009 at 4:05 P.M. Hours of obstructions and cyberharassment make it impossible for me to write at my MSN group, Critique. I cannot say whether essays have been vandalized. I am sad and surprised to discover that ideas that I set forth and defended in reviewing the original Shaft movie were, I believe, PLAGIARIZED in today's article by Manohla Dargis & A.O. Scott, "How the Movies Made a President," in The New York Times, January 18, 2009, at p. 1 ("Arts & Leisure"). ("What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")
I received no acknowledgment, despite the "copyright" and "all rights reserved" notice in my MSN group. How can any journalist be a part of censorship and plagiarism? The New York Times?! Furthermore, I believe Ms. Dargis visited my sites to read my comments on her work in "The Reader': A Movie Review" and "'Revolutionary Road': A Movie Review."
How can someone "like" Ms. Dargis write for The New York Times? Politics? What is the true identity of Ms. Dargis? Ginger Thompson? Bob Menendez? I wonder whether these persons know Daniel Mendelsohn whose essay reviewing "Brideshead Revisited is so similar to mine. ("'Brideshead Revisited': A Mocie Review.")
You need not acknowledge or respect the creative or intellectual work of someone you consider sub-human, according to the Times. You can even plagiarize and try to destroy that person's work because you feel no need to accord to the author the minimal respect to which every person is entitled. Those members of minority groups (like me) who have the temerity to write well or freely need not be accorded due consideration. Under the circumstances, talk directed at me of free speech or ethics is absurd. I am blocking, among other hackers:
http://www.msnusers.com/common/js/1576564590... (NJ?)
If MSN Groups continues to exist and other users can access Critique, assuming that my copyright-protected essays are not being altered, I urge readers to continue to see my work there.
Luis Posada Carriles is an anti-Castro Right-winger, alleged terrorist and sadist.
January 28, 2009 at 12:15 P.M. An attack on my computer connections, disabling my security system, resulted in destroying my child's Internet connection, I believe, also defacing and vandalizing a number of essays -- like this one and others. I will struggle to make the necessary corrections and provide assistance to my child. My opinions and the provisions of the U.S. Constitution have not changed.
January 27, 2009 at 11:03 A.M. My cable signal has been blocked, illegally, and I cannot access my home e-mail account. I suspect that someone did not like this essay. I will continue to struggle to post this work and to write on-line. This censorship and intimidation campaign is unconstitutional and criminal. Regardless of what you think of my opinions, this sort of brutality cannot be allowed to prevail in a free society.
Simon Romero & Damien Cave, "Venezuela Will Push U.S. to Hand Over Man Tied to Plane Bombing," The New York Times, January 23, 2009, at p. A5. ("Damien Cave" suggests that someone has been reading Herman Hesse.)
Jim Holt, "New York Has Become a World Capital of Philosophy," in New York, December 22-29, 2008, at p. 72. (" ... and there's even a sprinkling of Hegelians, Nietzscheans, and phenomenologists at the New School.")
Emily Nussbaum, "Choosing The Gray Lady," in New York, January 19-26, 2009, at p. 28. (Young turks at the Times are not averse to doing "favors" for powerful politicians, allegedly.)
Luis Posada Carriles is sought by the Venezuelan government as a naturalized citizen of that country for acts of terrorism, including the downing of a Cuban civilian airliner with 73 passengers on board. All of the innocent persons travelling on that plane were killed. Their photos appear below. (No images can be posted at blogger because of damage to my computer caused by hackers.) The U.S. government protected Mr. Posada Carriles, as a former C.I.A. agent (allegedly), who was part of the agency's "exploding cigar" efforts against Fidel Castro.
"Mr. Posada, 80, is charged ... with masterminding the bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane as it flew over Barbados, killing all 73 people on board, including dozens of Cuban civilians and a 9-year-old Guyanese girl. It was the Western Hemisphere's first act of midair terrorism, the bloodiest of a series of bombings aimed at weakening Fidel Castro's government."
The U.S. government has taken a radical position against world terrorism, inviting the cooperation of other countries, ostensibly, to punish all terrorists for their crimes. Mr. Posada Carriles happens to be a Right-wing terrorist, allegedly, living happily in Miami, while painting landscapes for a living. This does not sound like a sufficiently macho job for a super anti-Communist. The persons whose lives ended when that airplane fell to earth will not be living into old age, like Posada-Carriles, nor will they enjoy looking at paintings.
Victims' relatives are not concerned about Mr. Posada Carriles' politics or views of Fidel Castro. However, they are disturbed by the hypocrisy of the U.S. government that shelters this man from liability, reportedly, or even from being tried for these heinous offenses. It is impossible to believe that such a man will bring democracy or freedom to any country. Does the N.J. Supreme Court or legal establishment (Senator Bob?) consider Mr. Posada Carriles "ethical" whereas I am not? If so, then I must disagree. ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")
The first "error" inserted in this text since my previous review of the work has been discovered and corrected. This may explain the disabling of my security updating system recently. No doubt other essays have been similarly vandalized by Miami's champions of the "American way of life."
If the concern is that Mr. Posada Carriles will be tortured in Venezuela or Cuba (like persons in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib) -- if he is returned to either country, Cuban and non-Cuban citizens were among his victims -- then there is nothing to prevent a trial in American federal courts applying international human rights law or Florida criminal law. There are precedents for U.S. courts applying foreign substantive laws, usually in civil cases. Murder laws are pretty much the same all over the world. Murder is a crime even when victims are residents of Communist countries. Preventing me from speaking or accessing the Internet does not change this reality. (The foregoing sentence was altered. I have now restored the deleted word to that sentence.)
Mr. Posada Carriles was photographed visiting U.S. federal courts on a prior occasion. (Images may be blocked by New Jersey's Cubanoids.)
The main reason that Mr. Posada Carriles and his ilk have escaped liability, so far, is an alleged affiliation with Cuban-American politicians, like New Jersey's Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?") Also, Big "Mel" Martinez, former Florida Republicano Senator, is an alleged "friend" of these paramilitary anti-Castro groups. This is something I can neither confirm nor deny at this time. Mr. Menendez has issued a press release stating that he is "for all the people." Is Ginger Thompson of the Times is related to Manohla Dargis? See what purports to be the English language article, Ginger Thompson, "Couple's Capitol Ties Said to Veil Spying for Cuba," in The New York Times, June 19, 2009, at p. 1. (Ms. Thompson's creative use of the English language defies description by me.)
I wonder whether Ginger Thompson and Manohla Dargis are "friends"? Or are they the same person? Jean Paul Rathbone? Do you wish to delete a word from one of my sentences, again?
Have either of those men, Menendez or Martinez -- whether directly or indirectly -- received political contributions in any manner from Mr. Posada Carriles and/or any organization espousing anti-Castro views that has opposed extradition of Mr. Posada Carriles? If so, then should these Senators and other Cuban-American politicians not refrain from taking any stand (publicly or privately) concerning this extradition request, in order to preserve the appearance at least of disinterested decision-making with regard to such matters on the part of the federal judiciary and Congress? I suspect so. ("Menendez" has been changed several times to "Memendez.")
Radical Right-wing Cubanazos have been rumored to engage in organized crime in order to collect funds for their anti-Castro efforts. I suspect that organized crime by any groups is about collecting funds for themselves.
Realistically, I doubt that Mr. Posada Carriles will be extradited by the U.S. or charged with any crimes that bear a rational relationship to his alleged actions. I am aware of his legal experiences and charges in Louisiana. This absolution will have the effect of diminishing or destroying U.S. credibility on terrorism throughout the world by making it clear to everyone that Americans have a double standard depending on the political views of the terrorists in question or the identities of their victims. This essay usually produces either a death threat or interference with my computer's cable signal. ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security!" and "Miami's Cubanoids Protest Against Peace!")
Right-wing anti-Castro forces or quasi-military groups operate with impunity -- or with the assistance of corrupt politicians in places like New Jersey -- who then censor Constitutionally protected speech, like my blogs, whereas all Arab political groups and Leftist intellectuals, as well as activists, can count on harassment and worse from "protected goons" serving in New Jersey's legislature or judiciary. Is this "ethical," Mr. Menendez?
Forty minutes of harassment preceded my writing efforts today. Cyberattacks have mostly damaged my family members' efforts to make use of Internet resources. About one out of fifty hits at my blogs are counted. I am illegally prevented from accessing MSN groups. My books are suppressed in America. I am plagiarized and denied publication opportunities. I understand that my writings are being read outside the U.S. and, especially, in Cuba and China. I am grateful for this attention.
My second book, specifically, is suppressed and not sent to on-line booksellers, even as I am still prohibited from accessing MSN groups, every morning, if that site still exists. These censorship and suppression efforts are made possible by state action and are, I believe, content-based. I wonder whether there is a "connection" to Ms. Dargis from the Cuban-American community?
My response to the continuing harassment and insertions of "errors" is a long awaited essay on further corruption in the Garden State. The opinion of Mr. Posada-Carriles concerning my "ethics" does not trouble me. I say the same concerning the views of Mr. Menendez. ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?" and "Senator Bob Struggles to Find His conscience.")
All Cuban-American politicians -- including the befuddled Congresswoman from Miami who hung up on President Obama, Iliana Ross-Lehtinen ("Who knew it was really him calling little-old-me?") -- are expected to anounce publicly, on a daily basis, that they are "against Communism" and in favor of "censorship-of-socialist-weird-people-who-refuse-to-live-in-Miami-or-Miami-Beach." ("Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")
Among the likely co-conspirators are "Lincoln" Diaz Balart, former Florida politician and "firebrand" in the "struggle against Communism" and friends, like "Jose" Diaz-Balart, who is a less intelligent version of Lincoln Diaz-Balart. That's not saying much, Jose. It should sadden you to think that the name "Lincoln" can be attached to any kind of suppression of freedoms or to the persons who favor such totalitarianism, allegedly.
I am afraid that the category of "weird" persons includes me, according to many Cubanazos and Cubanazas. Here is a gold medallion for you, plastic covers for the couch, and a nice Guayavera. These are unisex items. Mazeltov. (Again: "Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "Miami's Cubanoids Protest Against Peace!")
Congresswoman Ross-Lehtinen favors the death penalty for Communists, allegedly, also for liberals and advocates for the environment and/or persons adopting non-traditional lifestyles. Ms. Ross-Lehtinen is undecided concerning the possible execution of Jon Stewart and Bill Maher as well as other liberal commentators and/or "Godless, pinko, semi-Communists!" (Well, she had to be right about something!)
The Congresswoman is not on record as favoring the extradition of Mr. Posada Carriles, despite the heinous crimes alleged against him. Is the Congresswoman getting soft on criminals? Does Ms. Ross-Lehtinen's attitude to criminals depend on the criminal's politics? ("And How!")
Pictures of dozens killed who are only some of the alleged victims of Mr. Posada Carriles' "activities" are available on-line. The response from the Cuban-American community in Union City and Miami has been amused indifference: "Boys will be boys ..." said one promiment politician from West New York, New Jersey -- who is, perhaps, a former gym teacher. Mr. Albio Sires is rumored to have insisted that opposing candidates "drop and do fifty pushups!" This is a man we need in the U.S. Congress.
The terror victims' family members did not laugh merrily over this alleged display of humor and wit.
I am told that someone called "Leslie Martinez," Cubanaza-Republicana and advocate (allegedly) of "public executions" and "conspicuous consumption" in the vicinity of the University of Miami, insisted that we "must get tough on crime," but not on "alleged" Right-wing Cuban-American criminals or terrorists, since (allegedly) they are not Communists, or Arabs. Shopping, Leslie? Let me guess: You live in Coral Gables?
I am sure that Ms. Martinez is "for" the First Amendment and all Constitutional rights for persons like herself. I wonder whether Ms. Martinez knows "Manohla Dargis"? ("What is it like to be plagiarized?") Perhaps Jim Holt has also met Ms. Dargis and/or Benedict Carey, Ginger Thompson maybe?
Mr. Holt appears to be dismissive of the "sprinkling" of phenomenologists and hermeneuticists who constitute a large portion of students of Western thought in the world, whether in Latin America, Europe or Asia. They are not analytical philosophers or American pragmatists. Hence, there is no need to take such philosophies (or philosophers) seriously. Right, Jim? Jim has been to Columbia University. This entitles Jim to explain such things to the rest of us. Isn't that right, Mr. Holt?
Attacks against this essay and all essays at my sites will be constant. Chinese philosophers are in need of Mr. Holt's instruction, along with those lesser persons (like myself) who presume to contribute to phenomenological-hermeneutics because, naively, we believe that this theoretical approach is vital and important today. A collection of essays dealing with China's enagement with phenomenology-hermeneutics and Marxism is available. I suggest a glance at Derrida's Specters of Marx.
Is it possible that any journalist at The New York Times would be a part of censorship and suppressions of speech efforts? I can only hope that no writer would contribute to such criminality.
