June 17, 2009 at 3:40 P.M. my computer screen is partially obscured. Various computer obstacles -- together with noise and other distractions -- make writing difficult. I will continue to work on "Is Joel T. Leyner, Esq. New Jersey's Slimiest Fixer?" and "New Jersey's Slimy Politics in Corrupt Courtrooms." ("Debbie Poritz Likes the Ladies!") Thus far, I have refrained from posting the more vicious attacks that I have prepared against these loathsome individuals whose exploits I plan to discuss for many years to come. Much depends on "developments" now in the works.
October 13, 2009 at 10:06 A.M. An icon has reappeared on my computer screen identified as "Live Update" for Security. Apparently, this is not a live update from my security system. Whoever is responsible for this icon is violating trademark and copyright as well as privacy laws. These violations may be added to the criminal violations of civil rights and the Constitution. New Jersey, perhaps? What a shock that would be. I can only hope that no lawyer or judge would be a part of such criminality. Criminal violations of a victim's civil rights is grounds for disbarment and indictment.
David W. Chen, "Torricelli Is Linked to Inquiry On Pensions," in The New York Times, April 24, 2009, at p. A21. (Former U.S. Senator "Bob" Torricelli and "others" linked to a widening inquiry on disappearing MILLIONS from New York's and, possibly, New Jersey's pension funds.)
Mr. Torricelli and Senator Menendez are both members of the New Jersey Bar Association, as is Mr. Ginarte and Neil M. Cohen, Sybil R. Moses, Maurice J. Gallipoli, Stuart ("I Love Prisco") Rabner, Jaynee LaVecchia and other unsavory persons. OAE? DRB? AG? Time to remove another letter from one of these essays. Mr. Torricelli is a lobbyist for Taiwan interests; Mr. Menendez is the "pointman" in promoting the embargo against Cuba. ("New Jersey is $46 BILLION 'Short' in Pension Funds.")
April 24, 2009 at 1:32 P.M. a new virus froze my computer. I have struggled to regain access to this blog. I will try public computers later today. A new series of arrests in New Jersey yesterday, not covered in the New York Times, has resulted in many charges against members of a N.J. child porn ring with international "connections." How many N.J. attorneys worked "for" this child porn ring, if any, has not been determined. Coverage was provided on NBC news yesterday evening. The investigation is continuing and may lead to more N.J. political and judicial figures. This is the third such wave of arrests of child molesters in the past few years not to involve the N.J. Attorney General. Very little coverage of these matters is found in New Jersey media.
I wish to draw attention to two recent editorials in the "Times." Let us begin with "The Dysfunctional Human Rights Council," which appeared on April 11, 2009 at page A16.
"The Bush administration -- which disdained the United Nations only slightly more than it did the hard work of diplomacy -- chose to boycott the United Nations' highly dysfunctional Human Rights Council. The Obama administration has decided to run for a seat on it. That may be the best chance to shape up this international embarassment, but it won't be easy."
The jargon of pop-psychology is repulsive to many readers and suggests middle-brow reasoning, while the cultural blindness and unconscious nationalism -- also ignorance of "foreigners" -- displayed by this writer is enough to make the editorial absurd to intelligent readers from all over the world, even if they agree with many of the opinions expressed by the writer, as I do.
In February, 2010 welcome changes in the Times may restore some credibility to this newspaper.
We are the international embarassment these days: Torture, drugging, duress, beatings, rape with broomsticks, waterboarding and other atrocities have come to DEFINE the U.S. to billions of persons in the world. The leisurely debate concerning our options and whether "torture" is "wrong" or "works sometimes" is not simply insensitive or "dysfunctional," it is absurd and evil. Part of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde quality of American politics is captured in the duality between Mr. Obama (Jekyll) and Mr. Cheney (Hyde).
American lawyers rationalized and happily lied to provide a basis for this barbarism. Some of these shady lawyers are now U.S. Circuit Court judges or occupants of other distinguished legal positions. They will not be prosecuted for their crimes. Most likely, they will not be disciplined professionally. They will be rewarded for these atrocities. These are the persons who will judge the "ethics" of their colleagues. I am not overly concerned about the ethical opinions of such persons. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
"The council frequently and unsparingly condemns Israel, but when it comes to Sudan's genocide in Darfur or the murderous crimes of Robert Mugabe in Zimbawe, it has cynically and shamefully pulled its punches. Last month, it endorsed an ill-considered Pakistani resolution against defaming religions that could easily be used to justify censorship and official persecution of unbelievers."
Popular sentiment in the world holds the U.S. responsible for a dirty war against Islam, for outrageous tortures, grotesque and heinous misuses of medical learning to torment and destroy mostly innocent human beings, public censorship of dissident intellectuals struggling to write on-line after being unfairly denied publication rights.
Billions in the world whose views of religion, the wonders of atheism, and need for gay marriage rights (which I favor) may not coincide with this editorialist's views happen to be governed by leaders whose cooperation is desperately needed in the "War on Terror." We will not get that cooperation by expressing disdain for the religion(s) of the peoples of those nations.
Disdain for the "little brown people" -- who are seen as in need of America's "instruction" concerning human rights issues -- will not be helpful in our renewed effort to enlist their "cooperation." Notice that this has nothing to do with the fact that most readers will agree about the Bush administration's failures and great crimes.
"The council's weakness is part of a larger problem at the United Nations. Rather than risk criticism of their own policies, members all too willingly enable [more psychobabble] each other's excesses -- and call it respect for national sovereignty. And like too many other United Nations bodies, the council apportions membership on the basis of regional bloc politics, not merit or performance. As a result, countries like [you mean those inferior places that are "like" one another?] Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Cuba -- all current members -- sit in judgment of others' human rights performance," -- judging others is something only for the U.S. to do! -- "while routinely violating the rights of their own people."
For those who are tortured or RAPED by the U.S. or state governments in America, this paragraph is a little bizarre because the U.S. routinely violates the rights of its own people. This is to say nothing about the hundreds of thousands or (some say) millions killed in our Iraqui adventure, including thousands of young Americans and five hundred thousand children. Please see Joy Gordon's "The Invisible War":
"Making the council credible will require countries that are genuinely committed to human rights to stand up to the relatively small number of egregious violators [like us?] and the much larger group that gives them cover. That will not always be easy for Washington since some chronic abusers -- Egypt and Pakistan come to mind -- are allies or strategic partners of the United States." (Saudi Arabia?)
At the moment, the U.S. is widely regarded as the most egregious violator of human rights on the world stage. I do not agree with this assessment. However, I do think that we are the most PUBLIC violator of human rights -- and by far the most disdainful of world opinion -- also the most HYPOCRITICAL of all nations as signaled by continuing official pronouncements concerning our respect for free speech as contrasted with my daily experience of censorship, defacements, vandalisms, and suppression of these writings and others. Is MSN closed? ("How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
Have Time/Warner's computers really "gone down" so that they cannot help me with the mysterious loss of my television signal? Perhaps Senator Bob will know the answers to these questions. ("Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")
My unhappy struggle to write freely and to survive a barrage of slanders, economic pressures, professional destruction and social harm, thefts, rapes, and other injuries resulting from political targeting, secretly, by New Jersey government officials may be seen as symbolic of America's reality and increasing distance from its foundational documents and values. This is not a situation which Mr. Obama can ignore.
The following comments appear in "Medically Assisted Torture" featured in "The New York Times" on April 9, 2009, at page A26:
"There was a great deal to be troubled by in a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross documenting the kinds of torture and abuse inflicted on terrorism suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency. One disturbing footnote is that medical personnel were deeply involved in facilitating the abuses [Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli?] which were intended to coerce suspects into providing intelligence."
Both Tuchin and Riccioli have represented themselves as physicians ("Doc"?) with expertise in forensic medicine. Rumors of F.B.I. use of hypnosis and other psychological torture techniques against the Black Liberation Army and Black Panther Party in the early seventies are still unexplored by investigators seeking the origins of our contemporary policies. I am sure that we will find the same small group of torturers responsible for many crimes over decades. ("An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")
I am sure that Terry Tuchin would have assisted eagerly in such efforts at psychological assassination and that persons "like" Tuchin assisted in the torments of Assata Shakur in New Jersey, probably with the knowledge or blessings of people "like" Debbie Poritz and Stuart Rabner. If Ms. Shakur managed to escape rape and psychological torments, it would be a miracle. New Jersey may be one of the few jurisdictions that favor "therapeutic rape and theft." ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Ethics, Mr. Rabner? Censorship, Anne Milgram? Cybercrime, Ms. Poritz? The only reasonable conclusion is that Ms. Shakur is entitled to humanitarian asylum in any nation accepting the UN Charter. Shame on all of you in Trenton, New Jersey.
"The report, prepared in 2007 but kept secret until it was published by The New York Review of Books, was based on Red Cross interviews in late 2006 with 14 'high value detainees,' who include some of the most dangerous terrorists in custody. [Like the nine year-old Palestinian killed by an American bomb in Gaza?] The prisoners' complaints gain credibility because they describe similar abuses and [they] had been kept in isolation at different locations, with no chance to concoct a common story."
"Various prisoners said they had been subjected to waterboarding, forced to stand for days with their arms shackled overhead, confined in small boxes, beaten and kicked, slammed repeatedly into walls, prevented from sleeping, deprived of solid food, forced to remain naked for weeks or months at a stretch, often in frigid cells and immersed in cold water. All were kept in continuous solitary confinement for their C.I.A. detention, ranging from 16 months to more than four years."
Isolation can be achieved through the destruction of personal relationships, professional or economic pressures, use of family members or friends and neighbors as spies for government agencies, which misrepresent the victim as a"monster" (and their own authority) to the victim's friends and colleagues. Interruptions in television or phone signals may help with this effort. This method can devastate victims very nicely. The following words were written by a victim of New Jersey's psychological torture methods well before 9/11:
" ... There was a doctor [Tuchin?] who was as bad as the [N.J.] state troopers. ... The point was just to do everything possible to make me suffer. ... [The air conditioning was raised to a freezing level in a hospital room where the victim was kept.] ... I was not allowed physical therapy, or medical treatment in the hospital, we had to get a court order for simple things like a rubber ball so I could squeeze my hand and teach myself how to use it again."
Noise fills the room in which I write on a regular basis, cybercrime is a daily reality, my writings are censored and suppressed in America. I cannot say how many persons have visited these sites. I live with the aftermath of rape, secret vilification, often correcting inserted "errors" in necessary communication efforts fifty times or more, not eating for eight or ten days at a time without altering my workout and study schedule as part of my struggle. ("How Censorship Works in America.")
Are we worried about free speech in Cuba? The list of inhumanities detailed by Assata Shakur emanating from the same sources who have tortured me, publicly, is depressing and infuriating. I am sure that this is the proverbial "tip of the iceberg." Assata Shakur, "Prisoner in the United States," in "Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries in America" (New York & Paris: Columbia-Semiotexte, 1993), pp. 205-220.
It is obscene that, with all of the reasonable doubts as to his guilt that now exist, Mumia Abu-Jamal remains in a prison cell after more than twenty years facing execution. The governor of Pennsylvania -- this is a state matter that the U.S. president cannot address unless the matter i seized by the U.S. Justice Department -- should issue a proclamation of leniency and pardon for Mumia Abu-Jamal to protect the remnants of legal integrity in America. Almost 30 years with a death sentence hanging over Abu-Jamal's head is psychological torture.
Do you speak to me of "ethics," Ms. Milgram? ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
"Medical personnel seem to have been involved mostly as facilitators rather than torturers or interrogators. ["Errors" inserted in this essay since my previous review.] In one case, they monitored a detainees' oxygen saturation with a device attached to his finger so waterboarding could be stopped before the prisoner suffocated. [It is more fun for torturers if victims live.] In another case, an amputee forced to stand with his arms shackled overhead had his intact leg checked daily for signs of dangerous swelling. Several detainees said health workers [nurses, doctors] sometimes instructed interrogators to continue, adjust or stop particular methods of abuse."
I am denied access to my sites, also use of images, harassment of me and defacements of my texts are continuous on a daily basis. Despite my history of abuse at the hands of state torturers and desperate efforts to communicate my experiences -- experiences resulting from the actions of persons claiming some training in psychology, law or medicine -- the measure of readers at my blogs is broken to convey the impression of irrelevance, threatening letters are received from the "D.R.B." Financial pressures, insults, destruction of creative opportunities, disconfirmation of identity, denials of earned recognition, plagiarism, censorship and much worse CONTINUES after several decades. These tactics are on display for the world to see. ("What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "What is it like to be tortured?" then "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
My first book has reached China and India. My second book is suppressed. I have no idea of how many readers or visitors to my sites have discovered my writings. A conservative estimate is 10,000 to 15,000 (maybe, by now, I have reached 25,000 to 50,000) regular readers of my books and blogs are out there. Anybody know a publisher? ("An Unpleasant Encounter With New Jersey's State Police" and "Mafia Involvement in New Jersey Courts and Politics.")
Where is America's so-called "independent" media to cover this horror? Intimidated by the mafia? Orchestrated media silence calls into question the independence and/or integrity of the American news media. I direct readers interested in this issue to the writings of Noam Chomsky.
"Such activities violate the ethical codes of major health organizations, both national and international. The Red Cross called [this policy] 'a gross breach of medical ethics' that in some cases 'amounted to participation [by PHYSICIANS!] in TORTURE and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.' ..."
Please see again "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry A. Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli." For a sample of the sort of persons given legal and political power in New Jersey, see "We don't know from nothing" (Guttenberg mayor taking bribes so 14 year-olds could "dance" in Guttenberg bars) and "Neil M. Cohen, Esq. and Conduct Unbecoming to the Legislature in New Jersey" and "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester.")
These are typically "ethical" New Jersey officials, according to state authorities -- until the feds arrest them. How do taxpayers feel about paying for Mr. Cohen's child porn and the computer on which he enjoyed that material? Are New Jersey's taxpayers unknowingly financing the computer crimes that I struggle against? I suspect so.
"None of the health personnel wore identification, but the prisoners inferred that they were physicians or psychologists. They also could have been paramedics."
Is Diana a graduate of any medical program? Is Diana a licensed therapist of any kind now or was she ever a "therapist"? What was the relationship between Diana Lisa Riccioli and Deborah T. Poritz when Ms. Poritz was "Chief Justice" of the New Jersey Supreme Court? Amorous? Friendly? Cruising partners? When did Nydia Hernandez get involved in this little drama? Is Terry Tuchin, as he claimed, a CIA agent? Was, or is, Terry Tuchin a medical doctor? Was Tuchin granted permission, surreptitiously, to violate my Constitutional and human rights -- as well as my clients' and family members' rights! -- beginning in November, 1988 and continuing in 2010 as well as beyond this year? If so, by whom was Tuchin granted this unconstitutional and criminal power? ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!" and "Jennifer Velez is a 'Dyke Magnet!'")
"The report underscores the need to have full-scale investigation into these abusive practices and into who merely participated in them. Only then will we know whether indictments or, in the case of physicians, the loss of medical licenses, are appropriate."
I cannot see the lower portion of my computer screen or access the control panel of my computer. I cannot return to Google. I will continue to write, somehow.
" ... torture BREAKS people; and that [includes] 'purely' interrogational torture, something that [supposedly] leaves 'no lasting damage,' is thus yet another fantasy. To allow torture at all, therefore -- whether or not legally normalized -- would be grotesque."
Bob Brecher, "Torture and the Ticking Bomb" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), p. 75.
If you are a citizen of a country whose government is criticized by the U.S. for "human rights problems," and you discover these articles about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo -- or New Jersey -- in your newspaper, will you be concerned or impressed by these criticisms of your society's human rights performance from a government responsible for such "crimes against humanity" and lying about it? Still stonewalling, Anne? Time to insert another "error" in this text? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
What did you know, Ms. Milgram? And when did you know it? Have we betrayed our Constitution by legalizing torture and State murder without due process of law? ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.")
Periodical Sources:
"Errors" are routinely inserted in my writings to maximize psychological harm. This process will continue even as access to MSN is blocked (for me) by New Jersey's protected cybercriminals. No italics or bold script were available when I posted these titles. No images can be posted by me at any of my sites:
1. "A Necessary Supreme Court Showdown," (Editorial) The New York Times, March 30, 2009, at p. A26.
2. David Johnson, "Top Aides to Testify in U.S. Attorney Firings," The New York Times, March 15, 2009, at p. A19.
3. John Schwartz, "Judge Weighs Dismissing Case in U.S. Attorneys' Firings," The New York Times, March 17, 2009, at p. A13.
4. Adam Liptak, "Justices Erase Court Ruling That Allowed a Detention," The New York Times, March 7, 2009, at p. A9.
5. "Release of Memos Fuels Push for Inquiry Into Bush's Terror-Fighting Policies," The New York Times, March 4, 2009, at p. A18.
6. "Medically Assisted Torture," (Editorial) The New York Times, March 4, 2009, at p. A18. (American doctors -- like Ridgewood, New Jersey's Terry A. Tuchin -- "assist and facilitate" in tormenting and devastating witnesses, especially Muslims, questioned by branches of the U.S. government. Rape, theft, other crimes against such victims are also common as is experimentation with infectious diseases deliberately introduced into the bodies of America's victims.)
7. Kirk Johnson, "Author of 9/11 Essay Was Wrongly Fired, Jury Says," The New York Times, April 3, 2009, at p. A19. (Political censorship in America. "What is it like to be censored in America?")
8. "The Dysfunctional Human Rights Council," (Editorial) The New York Times, April 11, 2009, at p. A16. (U.S. lectures the world about freedom of speech and tolerance of dissent as American critics of government are fired, disbarred, threatened and books are suppressed or burned.)
9. Scott Shane, "Divisions Arose Over Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure," The New York Times, April 18, 2009, at p. A1.
10. Mark Mazzetti, "Release of C.I.A. Interrogation Memos May Open the Door to More Revelations," The New York Times, April 18, 2009, at p. A1.
11. Mark Mazzetti & Scott Shane, "Memos Spell Out Brutal C.I.A. Mode of Interrogation," The New York Times, April 17, 2009, at p. A1.
12. Eric Litchblau & James Risen, "Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps Exceed Law," The New York Times, April 16, 2009, at p. A1. (America as carceral network.)
13. Scott Shane & Mark Mazetti, "In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Past Use," The New York Times, April 17, 2009, at p. A1.
14. Peter Baker & Scott Shane, "Pressure Grows to Investigate Interrogations," The New York Times, April 21, 2009, at p. A1.
15. Jane Perlez, "Taliban Seize Pakistan Area Near Capital," The New York Times, April 23, 2009, at p. A1. (Fundamentalist forces friendly to Ossama bin Laden may topple government friendly to U.S., while we continue to fire "robot bombs" at villages in Pakistan. Threats of a Pakistani governmental collapse were predicted in these writings months ago.)
If it is inhumane to experiment on "retired monkeys," then it may be equally inhumane to torture, rape and steal from persons whose "ethics" are questioned by their criminal tormentors.
Especially Noteworthy:
Mark Danner, "US Torture: Voices From the Black Sites," The New York Review of Books, April 9, 2009, at p. 62.
Mark Danner, "The Red Cross Report on Torture and What it Means for the U.S.," The New York Review of Books, April 30, 2009, at p. 48.
