February 27, 2009 at 1:00 P.M. Attempts to visit MSN to access my e-mail or visit my group were just obstructed. Attempts to post an image here at blogger were also obstructed. The effort to suppress my writings and silence me have been routine for many years. I will continue to struggle to return to my hotmail account, to Critique, and to cope with the effects of torture while (somehow) continuing to write. What follows is the URL for the image that I would have used today:
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I cannot escape the feeling or intuition that much of this hostility towards me results from my advocacy of positions defended by President Obama. What would-be censors and all racists or fascists fail to understand is that these tactics of monopolization of conversations embarass and humiliate only their proponents, never their victims. eppur se mouve ...
February 27, 2009 at 8:41 A.M. Access to MSN is still blocked by N.J. hackers:
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Is there no one in New Jersey ashamed and disgusted by what the state has come to represent to the nation and world? Mr. Rabner, your tribunal and your legal system are objects of loathing and ridicule, deservedly, as a result of your state's and your own visible and most obvious incompetence. New Jersey is the home of unethical lawyering and "judging." You and your disgraced predecessors must bear great responsibility for this situation which is hurting the residents of New Jersey. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
Have you no sense of shame, sir? Are you not concerned to live an ethical life, Mr. Rabner? Continuing apathy is unacceptable in a "Chief Justice" of a failed and even criminal legal system. You, Mr. Rabner, have lost the right to claim respect for your tainted decisions, for yourself, or for the N.J. legal system, as you continue to wallow in deliberate ignorance of heinous criminality by the very public entities entrusted with abiding by and enforcing the law: 200 convictions? (See "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester.")
Seeking to suppress or deface my writings or further censorship will not affect the undeniable validity of these criticisms. Do you speak of "ethics," Mr. Rabner? Do you honestly believe or claim that you or your legal system can escape an encounter with me or a public effort to justify two decades of criminality and cover-ups? It is not "profiles in courage" in Trenton, New Jersey. However, someone will need to lease or borrow the decency for an encounter with me, soon, face-to-face. The sooner the better, Mr. Rabner. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
I write this after the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. I opted for the CNN coverage of this wonderful event. Earlier this morning, I experienced censorship and harassment, in the form of defacements of an essay posted yesterday focusing on President Obama's views on race in America. I am sure that this cybercensorship is intended to discourage my writing efforts. It has the opposite of the desired effect on me. President Obama said: "Those who silence dissent are on the wrong side of history."
This encounter with hatred and malice, together with attempts to suppress speech, is now routine for me. Journalists at The New York Times, for example, are not censored and do not face this sort of emotional warfare when expressing opinions or describing events objectively. Writers in America's premier newspapers -- mostly products of establishment schools and political "friendships" -- are not silenced, even when they engage in plagiarism or publish banalities. ("What is it like to be plagiarized?")
I continue to believe that this unconstitutional attempt to suppress my speech by government officials in New Jersey, or their hirelings from the most unsavory corners of the Garden State, will fail in the fullness of time. It cannot be true that all of New Jersey is "unsavory." We hope. Phone calls received from 407-000-1234 on January 20, 2009 at 1:21 P.M. Perhaps this call is from a well-wisher and friend at the Brennan Courthouse, Jersey City, New Jersey.
I begin yet another year of struggle with a renewal of my commitment to face my torturers and to share my life with all of those I love. I will persist in my struggle for the truth of my life and for an end to an era of cover-ups and corruption, even in the putrid neighborhoods of Trenton and Jersey City, New Jersey. The accent in that last sentence is on "-hoods."
New Jersey's courtrooms should be equipped with a wooden box for depositing bribes. Maybe they are these days. America's Constitution cannot survive relegation of government power to the darkness of smoke-filled backrooms. The light of day to protect "the People's" (Mr. Obama) sacred interest and trust is freedom of speech and an independent media willing to speak truth to power. I can only hope that no journalist would assist censorship efforts against anyone -- not for any reason -- certainly not as a result of a hidden relationship with powerful politicians, like Senator Menendez. Is it all about some cash in envelopes at The New York Times?
Ms. Milgram, do you believe in the U.S. Constitution? Mr. Rabner, do you enforce First Amendment rights, even for "the little people"? I urge men and women who live by words to recognize that loss of my freedom of speech to out-of-control political corruption is the abandonment or surrender of your rights of access and expression. There is no more fundamental right under our Constitution:
"To speak of the 'purposes' of the first amendment's protections of speech, press, assembly, petition, and (by implication) association is to risk begging the central question posed by the Constitution's most majestic guarantee: is the freedom of speech to be regarded only as a means to some further end -- like successful self-government, or social stability, or (somewhat less instrumentally) the discovery and dissemination of truth -- or is freedom of speech in part also an end in itself, an expression of the sort of society we wish to become and the sort of persons we wish to be? No adequate conception of so basic an element of our fundamental law, it will be argued here, can be developed in purely instrumental or purposive terms."
Laurence Tribe, American Constitutional Law (New York: Foundation Press, 1988), p. 785 (emphasis added).
President Obama rightly noted the challenges we face, as a people, and spoke of the great resources we possess in order to meet those challenges. The culture of cynicism and nihilism ("it's all relative"), behind-the-back destructiveness or malice, hatred and cover-ups can no longer be the method of coping with adversaries, for it is nothing more than government criminality. This must be true even in New Jersey. Torture must end. Truth will set us free. There will be a day of reckoning.
Genuine dialogue, not evasion and official lies, implicit or explicit -- nor lies stated anonymously or under pseudonyms in the coopted media -- must remain our only hope, together with confidence in reason and the power of words. Is it not time to tell the truth, Mr. Rabner? Continued silence, at this point, can only be interpreted as mendacity. We are running out of time to do the right thing. Shame on you for your timidity, Mr. Rabner. The clock is ticking, Ms. Milgram ... or is that a bomb, I hear, that is about to explode?
"What after all is literature" -- or all speech -- "but the passage of time in words? The time through which words pass is measured both by the history outside the sentences and the tempo of history in the sentences. Writing is a way of creating the time of one's time."
Richard Poirier, Norman Mailer (New York: Viking Press, 1972), pp. 55-56.
