February 2, 2010 at 9:56 A.M. "Error" inserted and corrected.
January 4, 2010 at 12:05 P.M. Essays were defaced overnight. I have made all corrections. I expect additional attacks against these writings from N.J.'s government hackers. ("Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
December 27, 2009 at 3:51 P.M. Obstructions made it difficult to reach these blogs just now. "Errors" may have been inserted in essays, again. I will attempt to make all corrections quickly. I expect additional cybercrime emanating from Trenton, New Jersey.
David E. Sanger & Eric Schmitt, "U.S. and Britain Close Embassies in Yemen Capital: Terror Threats Cited," in The New York Times, January 4, 2010, at p. A1. (Did Yemen provide intelligence assistance to the bombers killing CIA agents in Afghanistan? Are there any countries in the Middle East where Americans are not subject to threats?)
Alissa J. Rubin, "Taliban Release Video of American Soldier Captured in June in Afghanistan," in The New York Times, December 26, 2009, at p. A4. (Video released on Christmas day to maximize psychological impact -- just like the OAE, which enjoys screwing up people's holidays.)
Andrew Jacobs, "In Sentence Of Activist, China Gives West a Chill," in The New York Times, December 26, 2009, at p. A4.
Mark Mazzetti, "C.I.A. Takes On Expanded Role On Front Lines," in The New York Times, January 1, 2010, at p. A1. (We can all relax since the boys from Virginia have arrived.)
Charlie Savage, "Charges Voided for Contractors in Iraq Killings," in The New York Times, January 1, 2010, at p. A1. (No rapes? NJ state troopers include rape in their activities.)
Scott Shane, "9/11 Shadow Is Cast Again," in The New York Times, December 31, 2009, at p. A1. (Repetition of incompetence that allowed for the events of 9/11.)
Mark Mazzetti & Eric Lipton, "U.S. Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror: Details on Breakdown," in The New York Times, December 31, 2009, at p. A1. (Aside from the bogus dad wandering into the American embassy, the bad guys were obviously feeding us this terrorist -- and still we almost failed to prevent this attack.)
Alissa J. Rubin & Mark Mazzetti, "8 Americans, Most With C.I.A., Reported Killed in Afghan Blast," in The New York Times, December 31, 2009, at p. A1. (How many local governments -- besides Pakistan -- are sharing intelligence with our enemies to get rid of American intelligence operatives in the area? "We don't need the little brown people," the C.I.A. says.)
I am always supportive of any person incarcerated or otherwise punished for the expression of opinions. This includes Liu Xiaobobo, recently sentenced in China to 11 years in prison for "antigovernmental activites." ("Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal" and "Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Unconstitutionality of the Death Penalty.")
China is at the brink of a magnificent moment in its long history. We are not in a position to "pressure" China. To suggest such a thing about China's government (that we can "compel" China to take a specific action) is absurd. People who are not stupid understand that "China is too big to be placed in anyone's pocket," to quote Fidel Castro. Castro said the same of Cuba. Miami's Cubanazos disagree with Castro. Cubanoid politicians would like Cuba to achieve a Honduras-like level of "freedom" and the "rule of law." ("Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")
We can engage in a moral appeal recognizing, as citizens of a country burdened with terrible human rights issues, human solidarity with a suffering Chinese intellectual and his family, requesting the compassion and tolerance of China's government. I believe that on human rights issues China is probably superior to New Jersey, certainly less hypocritical than the soiled American jurisdiction governed by the mafia. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
Does Mr. Torricelli still represent Taiwan's interests as a lobbyist? This affiliation -- and alliances with Cubanazos by way of "El Bobo" Menendez -- may explain much of the hostile press for China's government in recent issues of the New York Times. Is it true that you can purchase slanted articles in the Times? I cannot imagine any other explanation for "Manohla Dargis"? ("Manohla Dargis Stikes Again!")
January 4, 2010 at 11:58 A.M. I have just discovered newly inserted "errors" in several essays by way of a response from the Trenton boys. I will do my best to correct all of the writings damaged in this latest criminal cyberattack. Ethics?
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated in the U.S. for close to 30 years. The real reason for that continuing incarceration, as many persons believe, is Mr. Abu-Jamal's crusading journalism and radical politics. Some of us have been subjected to psychological torture and rape, stolen from and demonized in American society (still pretending that nothing happened, Anne Milgram?) because of our opinions or activism. American torturers are permitted to escape legal punishment before the eyes of the world. ("American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles" and "Havana Nights and CIA Tapes.")
I express my solidarity with all tortured and incarcerated dissidents, including men and women experiencing such fates in the United States of America. America's so-called "touchless torture techniques" have been borrowed by the Afghanistan and Iraqui opposition forces as well as Al Qaeda. We will see many more American soldiers tortured, tragically, as persons within our nation's borders will be captured and turned into instruments of anti-American propaganda. Perhaps family members will be tortured to increase pressure on dissidents in America. ("U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture.")
Terrorist factions and revolutionary movements around the world are concerned to duplicate the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo horrors by making victims of American citizens. Do we understand this threat? Are we prepared for these coming terrorist attacks, Mr. Obama? Most of them will be directed against New Yorkers. I am a New Yorker.
I infer from the continuing denials and obfuscations of atrocities for which New Jersey's legal system is responsible that we are simply going to "ignore" this looming threat. This may not be very smart. How much credibility do we have on human rights issues after Bush/Cheney? Zero? ("Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
"The Taliban released video of a captured American soldier on Friday, the second to surface since he was seized in southern Afghanistan about six months ago."
The video reflects many separate sessions cobbled together to achieve a desired effect, edited, contrived -- Hollywood methods are also being emulated by the Taliban. I believe that tapes and video of psychological tortures in New Jersey will be instructive in terms of these "methods." (See the movies "Bob Roberts" and "Bulworth.")
"Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Idaho, was captured in late June in Paktika Province, a rural, mountainous region along the Pakistani border where the Taliban have a large presence. The circumstances of his capture remain unclear. Initially, military officials said he had walked off his outpost in eastern Afghanistan. But in the first video, which the Taliban sent out in July, ["Captured American on Video by Taliban"] Private Bergdahl said he had been captured after he lagged behind during a patrol."
Psychological torture is a terrible and life-long crippling injury to any person that is a particularly vicious weapon in the hands of sadists. Persons who are especially selected for such disgusting criminal methods -- like Terry Tuchin in New Jersey -- delight in inflicting suffering on their victims. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Americans are regarded as the world's greatest experts in this so-called "art" of touchless torture. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.") Psychological torture, including SECRET use of hypnosis and drugging in interrogations, frustrations and economic harms, also cybercrime and censorship -- I am sure that this American soldier has experienced most of these methods, probably without realizing it -- is always a "crime against humanity." ("Crimes Against Humanity in New Jersey" and "How Censorship Works in America.")
"The 36-minute video was posted on a web site affiliated with the Afghan Taliban, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant Islamist Web sites. The video alternates clips of Private Bergdahl with those of him [?] in the traditional Afghan shalwar kameez tunic and simple cap worn by many men here."
Here?
" ... [Bergdahl] criticizes the United States, which has TORTURED MUSLIM CAPTIVES 'in Bergram, in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib,' he has been treated fairly. [I have not been treated fairly.] The United States Army, he says, gives its soldiers propaganda about the people they are fighting." (emphasis added)
Attacks on this essay, making use of governmental resources, possibly with the assistance of American journalists employed by our "independent media," will be constant in violation of copyright and U.S. Constitutional laws. This protected criminality -- in which American attorneys may also participate -- is deemed "ethical." My opposition to these censorship and torture tactics, also rejection of attempts to produce violent reactions from victims, makes me "unethical." (Again: "How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
America's orchestrated media silence in response to the atrocities that you are witnessing undermines any claims that the U.S. press is free and independent, much less concerned about victims of psychological torture anywhere. What follows are the words of Private Bergdahl:
"One of the biggest illusions that the Army gives us coming over here as a soldier, as a private in their army, is that we're coming over here to fight a terrorist group of men."
This brave and suffering young man goes on to say:
"We are fighting a country and a people that are well-organized and extremely smart of how to fight. I keep bringing up the point of history to people that I talk to. You simply need to look at their history" -- the Russians, earlier the British, were fought to a standstill in those mountains -- "to know that the Afghan people know how to fight [a guerrilla war,] and they have lived this way since the beginning of their people ..." (Vietnam?)
A Taliban spokesperson warns that if there is no deal, more soldiers will be captured. A humanitarian gesture by the Taliban would earn American attention for Taliban concerns much more than further tortures of this young soldier. The young man is not responsible for the statements that he is making.
A new Taliban technique in Afghanistan (which suggests cooperation between Al Qaeda and other anti-U.S. factions) is generating popular unrest against the American military forces, using the people as a weapon. This also suggests the assistance of foreign powers.
Ordinary Americans ask for the release this young man as well as his return to family and friends. Such a step by the Taliban may constitute a first effort in the direction of genuine negotiations leading to the cessation of hostilities, also the release of Mr. Bergdahl would be a demonstration of good will that is expressive of the Afghan and American people's hopes for peace. Ishallah.
