The blocking of my access to MSN Groups, together with the message that "MSN Groups is closed," means that images cannot be part of my communication efforts. Any media attention that you can bring to this harassment and cybercensorship effort will be greatly appreciated. (See "How Censorship Works in America" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Mission Statement of New Jersey's Judiciary:
"We are an independent branch of government constitutionally ENTRUSTED with the fair and just resolution of disputes in order to preserve the rule of law and to protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution [irony?] and laws of the United States and this State."
Neil A. Lewis, "Official Defends Signing Interrogation Memos," in The New York Times, April 29, 2009, at p. A12.
"The State Secrets Privilege, Tamed," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 30, 2009, at p. A26.
Ian Urbina, "Judge Guilty In Kickbacks Is Accused of Fixing Suits," in The New York Times, February 21, 2009, at p. A10.
Scott Shane, "Justice Dept. Is Reviewing Interrogation Under Bush," in The New York Times, February 17, 2009, at p. A22.
"The Unfinished Case of Maher Arar," (Editorial) in The New York Times, February 18, 2009, at p. A26.
Charles V. Bagli, "New Jersey Takes Another Run at a Major New York Employer," in The New York Times, February 21, 2009, at p. A16.
William Glaberson, "Pentagon Finds Guantanamo Follows Geneva Conventions," in The New York Times, February 21, 2009, at p. A11. (Do these people believe their own bullshit?)
Philippe Sands, Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (New York: macmillan, 2009), entirety.
With the departure of the Bush contingent from Washington, D.C., an effort is underway to repair the harm done to America's legal institutions, loss of respect on a global level for U.S. courts, lawyers and judges. This loss of respect is well-deserved. America's lawyers have been guilty of constructing transparently fraudulent arguments to justify atrocities like secret tortures of detainees who have never been tried or even charged with offenses.
Among the people involved in this heinous evil are persons entrusted with applying the nation's laws and evaluating the "ethics" of others. New Jersey law enforcement and judiciary personnel are contaminated by organized crime. Media indifference and silence, mostly, is taken for granted by a majority of people. At the same time, the U.S. media presumes to judge or criticize the legal systems and human rights records of other societies.
Americans can no longer distinguish journalism from entertainment or propaganda. They wonder why newspapers are going out of business when the average t.v. program, including the news, is aimed at a 6th grade reading level and is still found "too complex" by a majority of test subjects.
These appalling actions by the U.S. contravene binding treaties signed by the American government that seeks to hold other nations to such treaties. American Constitutional provisions prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment," requiring "due process of law" and "equal treatment of persons under law" continue to be violated, every day, both at home and internationally.
New Jersey and a handful of American jurisdictions are defined by mafia control of corrupt institutions, legal incompetence and stupidity at the highest levels of government. During recent years, for example, the plague of grotesque incompetence has spread beyond the borders of any single state, creating an image in the world for American institutions that horrifies even traditional friends -- such as the UK -- and has resulted in international condemnations and protests among activists at home.
Public censorship of powerless critics allows MSN to be "closed" to persons (like me) and for suppression or ignoring of books written by outsiders to the establishment. ("Nihilists in Disneyworld.")
"Mr. Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, is the most well-known victim of the Bush administration's notorious policy of extraordinary rendition, or the outsourcing of interrogations to foreign governments known to use torture. Former President George W. Bush and his aides stubbornly refuse to admit the grave injustice done to Mr. Arar. President Obama must do better."
"Mr. Arar was seized at Kennedy International Airport in 2002 as he tried to change planes on his way home to Canada from a family vacation. He was held in solitary confinement and subjected to harsh questioning before being sent to Syria. He was tortured there and imprisoned for nearly a year in an underground cell the size of a grave until the Syrians finally let him go."
New Jersey is guilty of horrible tortures, complicit in the daily violations of civil rights -- including cyberstalking and cyberharassment directed against me, I believe -- censorship and suppressions of speech, even as the state continues to remain silent concerning the responsibility of state agencies, attorneys, law enforcement officials in these crimes. Guilty persons presume to comment upon and judge my ethics. I am judging their ethics. I find those ethics "wanting."
Ms. Milgram's alleged lesbianism is a matter of indifference to me. On the other hand, such a preference or sexual-orientation -- if it exists -- may have led to a cover-up of crimes committed by her alleged "friends" (or those of Ms. Poritz). This possibility then creates a legitimate ethical and criminal set of issues. Continuing silence and apathy before obvious and public violations of rights is unacceptable, Ms. Milgram. Did Ms. Poritz trade judicial favors for lesbian sex with Ms. Riccioli, alleged "therapist" without a degree?
This points to the hypocrisy and contradictions which many people in the world detect in America's often criminal practices against its professed ideals and legal commitments. We claim to abide by a set of principles found in our Constitution and laws, then we systematically violate those same principles and laws in order to commit terrible crimes before the eyes of the world. Sophistry, rhetoric, rationalizations no longer fool the "little brown people." ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
I am censored, my writings are suppressed, vandalized, defaced, then they are plagiarized. Silence on the part of a coopted media is especially dispiriting. I wish that it were possible to draw the attention of international observers to these events. ("What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
America's legal system and its self-styled "servants" have come to be seen, deservedly, as frauds by millions (maybe billions) of persons in the world. Contrast "Manifesto for America's Unfinished Revolution" with "This is My First Torture." ("Senator Bob, Corrupt Law Firms, and New Jersey Ethics.")
" ... the Bush administration stonewalled the Canadian inquiry and brushed off Mr. Harper's request that the United States, which bears the bulk of responsibility for Mr. Arar's abuse, acknowledge 'inappropriate conduct.' When Mr. Arar sued the United States for denying him his civil rights, the Bush administration -- predictably -- argued that for reasons of national security the case should never be allowed to come to trial."
Compare "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" with "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System."
"The question of whether those and similarly unconvincing claims are sufficient to block Mr. Arar from having his case tried is now pending before the full Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan." ("America's Holocaust" and "Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meanings of Prison.")
" ... President Obama can demonstrate his commitment to human rights and the rule of law by pressing Mr. Arar's case."
The judiciary's continuing apathy and corruption is sickening:
"A judge [with possible ties to South Jersey's Democrat Machine] who pleaded guilty last week to taking part in a kickback scheme has been accused by a Wilkes-Barre newspaper of fixing an unrelated defamation case in which he ordered the paper to pay $3.5 MILLION." (emphasis added)
The amount that plaintiffs receiving this award, if any, were to pay back to this crooked judge (who was probably sharing his "proceeds" with the New Jersey Mafia) is unknown at this time. Whether there was a "cut" for Ms. Milgram or Mr. Rabner -- and if so, how much they expected to receive, if they were to receive anything -- cannot be said today on the basis of the information that is currently made public. Perhaps we will never know the answer to these questions. (See "George E. Norcross, III is the Boss of New Jersey's Law and Politics" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" as well as "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Mafia Involvement in New Jersey's Courts and Politics.")
A letter was deleted from the foregoing paragraph. This is the preferred method of "error-insertion" these days. Deleting a single letter or punctuation mark from a paragraph, preferably the same letter that has been restored several times before. I will continue to make all necessary corrections. (See the introduction to my essay "Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory.")
Do you speak to me of "ethics" in New Jersey's corridors of power? "Fixing" personal injury cases has been rumored to be a routine feature of big personal injury practices. This is neither confirmed nor denied by New Jersey's tainted OAE, which is busy inspecting urinals in the offices of minority solo practioners to ensure that they -- these urinals -- are fair to our handicapped friends, allegedly. Perhaps we should ask Mr. Ginarte in New Jersey whether he has an opinion on this matter. Trouble with the OAE, Jose?
" ... the former judge, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., may have had close ties to a reputed mobster at the heart of the defamation case and ... the award should be reviewed in light of the corruption to which Mr. Ciavarella has now admitted."
Unlike Milgram and Rabner, Mr. Ciavarella has at least admitted committing "errors."
" ... the list of possible conspirators continues to grow in the kickback case, one of the worst episodes of judicial misconduct ... in history. In that case, Mr. Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan, a judge with whom he worked in the court system of Luzerne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty last week in a federal court in Scranton to wire fraud and conspiracy."
These men were "selling" (mostly African-American defendants) to institutions sending a kickback, allegedly, under the table. This is similar to what New Jersey does, also allegedly, in sending victims to "sub-contractors" who extract information through psychological tortures. Cubanazos? Who was paying Tuchin and for what services? How much, if anything, was Tuchin kicking back to Poritz and others? How much did you steal from my office, Diana? How many lawyers were sharing in the loot or stolen clients from my office? Who was cooperating with Tuchin? What did the OAE or New Jersey Supreme Court know and when did they know it? I want all of the records and reports, 1988-2010 and beyond.
This blatant and obvious corruption is neither admitted nor denied by the Garden State, or the so-called OAE, which is among the most corrupt and politically-tainted agencies in state government, allegedly. No wonder OAE lawyers are called, "walking turds."
A number of New Jersey public officials are rumored to have an intense "interest" in attracting businesses that can be stolen from New York and other states to the putrid and poisonous Cranberry Fields of the Garden State. I wonder what that interest might be? Fruit baskets?
"Earlier this month the New Jersey Economic Development Authority granted tentative approval for a 10-year grant to Depository Trust, worth an estimated $74.6 MILLION, under the state's business employment incentive program."
How lovely? I wonder whether businesses considering the Garden State are aware of the nefarious elements wielding power in Trenton and mafia saturation of incompetent courts? I doubt it. Businesses accepting such grants will move back to Manhattan when the New Jersey money runs out, after they share some of it with Trenton's generous public officials.
"The grant would be based on a rebate of state income taxes should the company move to New Jersey, according to GlEN J. PHILIPS, a spokesman for New Jersey's development authority."
Allegations of kickbacks to New Jersey officials as a result of this deal can neither be confirmed nor denied, at this time, as there is insufficient information from which to draw a conclusion. No allegation of corruption surprises residents of New Jersey. 1/3 of the $74.6 MILLION, allegedly, comes back to people like Codey and Menendez. Or is it more than that, "BobbyM"? ("Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!")
What of the American legal profession's laughable so-called "ethics"? Where's the ABA in all of this? NJSBA is consumed with the burning issue of whether they can schedule a golf outing this year.
"The Justice Department's ethics office is in the final stages of a report that sharply criticizes Bush administration lawyers who wrote legal opinions JUSTIFYING waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, [Terry Tuchin probably approves of such torments for gentiles and Muslims, of course!] according to department and Congressional officials."
"The report, by H. Marshall Jarrett, who leads the department's Office of Professional Responsibility, would be the first accounting for legal advice that endorsed interrogation techniques historically considered by the United States and other Western countries to be ILLEGAL TORTURE. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., will have to decide whether to approve the findings and whether to make them public." (emphasis added)
Have you no shame, Ms. Milgram, about the actions (as well as inactions) of the OAE? It is a "real job" being Attorney General, isn't it?
"The report is expected to focus on three former officials of the Justice Department office of Legal Counsel, the Justice Department office that advises the executive branch on the interpretation of the law. They are John Yoo, a Berkely law professor, now a visiting professor at Chapman University, who was the primary author of opinions on torture while at the counsel's office in 2002; Jay S. Bybee, now a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who as head of the office signed the 2002 opinions, which were later withdrawn; and Steven G. Bradbury, who wrote three more still-secret opinions on interrogation in 2005, when he was the top lawyer in the counsel's office."
According to two U.S. Senators, these attorneys gave "legal advice so misguided that it damages America's image around the world and the Justice Department is forced to repudiate it." ("Senator Bob Says: 'Xanadu and You -- Perfect Together!'")
Senator Robert "Big Bob" Menendez said that he "favors the rule of law, usually." This reported statement by Mr. Menendez can neither be confirmed nor denied -- not even by Mr. Menendez. Don't forget to visit your local county courthouse in New Jersey. ("More Problems for Menendez -- Tapes!")
U.S. Senator Robert ("Big Pappa") Menendez (D) is said to be looking for his "cut" on the Xanadu deal. ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
