"Those who silence dissent are on the wrong side of history."

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:

http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/040220/1322_hounsou_1.jpg

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:

http://www.nndb.com/people/881/000022815/Sean_Connery_2.jpg

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.

How Censorship Works in America.

September 15, 2008 at 11:53 A.M. As of this time, I have not been able to write at my MSN group nor to change the image in the "Welcome" greeting due to frustrating obstructions, hackers, and other cyberwarfare or cyberstalking. I will try throughout the day to reach that site and to do what I can when I get there. This obstruction and denial of access is usually indicative of vandalism of the writings. I will struggle to make corrections. Frustrations are designed to bring about a collapse or paralyzing despair. Frustrations are also methods of censorship and silencing. I will continue to struggle. ("Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory.")

September 14, 2008 at 5:19 P.M. I was obstructed and denied access to my MSN group, as I struggled to post a revised version of an essay that was vandalized overnight -- an essay dealing will illegal medical experimentation in America and New Jersey. I will run scans for the rest of the day, struggling to overcome censorship efforts to write at Critique.

September 13, 2008 at 11:18 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group, again, due to obstructions and illegal blocking of my cable signal this morning. I will keep trying throughout the day to write somehow and somewhere.

September 12, 2008 at 3:35 P.M. I was just obstructed, again, as I tried to reach my MSN group. I will try throughout the day to return to my hotmail account and group. This sort of obstruction usually means that "errors" are being inserted in my essays. I will do my best to make corrections as quickly as possible. (See "What is it like to be tortured?")

September 11, 2008 at 1:44 P.M. I was just obstructed as I was writing at my MSN group. I will struggle to get back to that site. I am still unable to post images at blogger. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ, Senator Bob?)

September 10, 2008 at 9:28 A.M. access to my MSN group was blocked, an essay was duplicated. I was prevented from making corrections. Harassment value is the goal, I guess. I will spend the rest of the day seeking to regain access to Critique. I will try to continue writing under these circumstances.

September 9, 2008 at 1:33 P.M. My cable signal was illegally blocked moments ago, denying me access to MSN. I will struggle to return to my sites and continue working on essays today. This usually means that more writings have been defaced or vandalized. I will do my best to repair the harm done, eventually.

September 8, 2008 at 9:05 A.M. I was just blocked from accessing my MSN group, which is not an unusual censorship and harassment tactic. I will spend the rest of today trying to get back to my group to repair the harm done to essays at that site. I will do my best to continue writing, somehow, although much good work may be lost because I may be unable to do it under these circumstances. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

September 5, 2008 at 2:52 P.M. After numerous attempts to post this text at my MSN group, I will struggle to post it here. Hackers prevent me from posting this work at Critique. New Jersey's $36 BILLION dollar "short-fall" resulting (partly) from theft due to corruption necessitates a sharp increase in toll costs on the Turnpike and Parkway. I cannot print an article discussing these developments, but I can refer the reader to that article. Spacing has been affected by hackers. No images can be posted at these blogs due to obstructions. Won't they steal the toll money?

http://wwww.msnbc.com/id/26550468/ 9-5-08. (Tolls and fees to rise in New Jersey.)


I sent a manuscript to a small publisher I found on-line. I have decided to post a copy of my cover letter. I expect "anonymous" messages to this publisher about what a terrible person I am, which is bound to indicate that the book is likely to sell many copies. This essay has also been altered and defaced. Anyone wishing to express an inclination to purchase thousands of copies of this immortal work should feel free to do so. A novel is next. I will find some way to put this essay collection out there, somehow. Calling me a terrible person only means that I am like every other author. Nice people may have little to write about.

It is very weird to discover that the publisher I found on-line two days ago, apparently, no longer exists. My submission was just returned to me. This is very discouraging and frustrating, of course, but there are other publishers and on-demand printers out there. I will keep searching and trying to put the words "out there." My daily war against cyberstalkers and censorship has made me pretty determined and indestructible in my efforts to communicate my anger and outrage at these injustices.

Does anyone know what happened to "Mr. Rodney Ohebsion" at http://www.immidiex.com/ or http://www.immidiex.com/ ? What is http://www.doubleclick.com/? Why is Norton Security blocking them all the time? I also never received an explanation from "Mr./Ms. Prather" at Publish America. Is there such a person? I wonder why the book was rejected? Probably just not right for them, I guess. "Alina Falcone?" "Howard Masia, Esq.?"

I have just sent an e-mail to "T.Ratliff" asking for an explanation. I am looking forward to his/her response. I finally managed to upload my manuscript to Lulu, despite all kinds of obstacles. Several attempts to purchase an ISBN and a copy of the book have been unsuccessful because of problems of one sort or another. I have received an e-mail from "Pay-Pal" asking for personal information to "verify" my account. I do not have an "e-bay" account. I do not have a "Pay-Pal" account. Why would they want my personal information? Do you think that New Jersey lawyers and politicians can be behind these tactics? Besides, the thefts and rapes and other crimes that one has come to expect from many members of the N.J. bar.

Letters have been removed from my manuscripts at Lulu during my "revisions phase" in order (I believe) to frustrate posting efforts. I can not know whether the books have survived as I wrote them or are still available. I cannot know whether my ISBN number for my second book is valid. They kept the money for it.

I have resubmitted my manuscript by e-mail to http://publishamerica.com/ Let's see what happens. Nothing so far. I am simply ignored. Weird, they were so enthusiastic and suddenly -- for no discernible reason -- they rejected the book. Now, no response. My e-mails seem to take so long to arrive at their destination. I wonder why that is? Is Publish America affiliated with one of the major parties? Maybe they "know people" in New Jersey? Have they been "reached," as they say in Trenton? Why are my Internet transactions obstructed? Perhaps I will receive another threatening letter from Trenton. (See "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!")

Efforts to renew my security service are a war every year. Ethics, Mr. Rabner?

Dear Mr. Internet Publisher:

Attached is my manuscript for Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006. This collection divides neatly into metaphysical, political, ethical and religious concerns. Some of the essays have been published previously. This is indicated in footnotes when appropriate.

I have published one previous book Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Freedom (Lulu: 2004). This work is available on-line, where it has received close to 10,000 hits to date. This is an estimate. It is also selling reasonably well, as best I can determine, considering that it is available for free. As with my previous book -- though I wish to retain the copyright -- I will donate all proceeds from sales of this collection to the publisher to promote Internet publishing opportunities for ordinary people. I will advertise the book myself and seek to obtain reviews. I may even sell copies of it on Manhattan's subway trains. One author sold 15,000 books that way. I will create links to the book and publisher's sites at my blogs. Give me a decent-looking book and I will make it worth your while.

I am a writer living in New York. My profile is available on-line. Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome, even if you choose not to publish the book -- whether for safety reasons or any other concerns -- I will be grateful for your critique.

Thank you for your time and attention to my work.

Maybe I should say that I went to Smith College and attended a "Bread Loaf Conference" in the mid-west? Nah, I don't think so.

This experience of not being published is significant. This is true whoever represented him- or herself as "Publish America" in those mysterious e-mails sent to me soliciting the manuscript. Senator Bob? We'll find out. I am describing this episode in detail because it is reflective of something ugly that I am trying to capture for those who have not experienced it. A lifetime of insults and condescension, trivializing dismissiveness and "instruction" directed at me, usually by middle-brow types (or worse) in positions of authority in academia and the legal system. Too much of American culture is the blind leading the sighted, provided that the blind reside in suburbia and are "nice." Race and ethnicity may not be entirely irrelevant to such experiences. (See "What a man's gotta do" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

People who have read a fraction of what I've absorbed will recommend books on feminism, politics, history and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy (I want that one!) without realizing how much I have read or how intensely and for how long I have been studying these issues. Patronizing, insulting condescension becomes almost a daily feature of life -- for some of us, not all of us. Why me? I am so nice to children and dogs. The challenge is to cope with fury at insulting dismissals of one's thoughts by persons incapable of understanding them and the contradictions of a corrupt, racist, ethically tainted legal system. Millions live with this level of rage and hatred produced by such treatment, rarely as much criminality or hypocrisy as I have experienced. I hope and expect that any lawyers (or teachers) who have participated in this effort at psychological torture will lose their professional licenses in whatever state they dwell. "Ethics?"

We have not been well-served by energetic and self-important mediocrities in high places -- law, literature and philosophy in America have also not been well-served by such people. They are the gate-keepers of culture and political power. The culture police. They seek out non-threatening, dull-witted minority types, persons who will strive only for their own self-enrichment and further personal power, if elected to office or given an "opportunity" to lead. You know who those people are. Minority officials who do not play that game, simply get passed over.

I wonder why Donald M. Payne was not appointed to the Senate by New Jersey's Governor Corzine? Racism, ethnic and religious rivalry will be detectable in these decisions or so-called "evaluations." Persons who will be deemed to write well will really churn out the tepid, lifeless prose that is reflective of tepid and lifeless "situations." Anger, even rage, fury, the experience of evil, struggle, violence and hunger will make rare appearances -- except in fraudulent forms -- in the safe and sanitized writing of our times. (See "Senator Obama and 'The New Yorker'" and "Skinny People Dressed in Black.")

Why is Amiri Baraka not sufficiently appreciated? Real literature and philosophy may well take place "elsewhere." No longer in American mainstream literature -- with all exceptions granted -- will we find that music produced only by Apollo's Lyre. These intellectual provinces where writing still happens will be a locus of struggle and pain, of love, redemption and hope. It is there, in that struggle, where you will find broken lives, true, but still human lives. Not on Park Avenue, but in Brooklyn or Alphabet City, in the West Village or Inwood, even in Texas or Indiana there is somebody working on the "Great American Novel." Philip Roth has already written "The Great American Novel," several times.

The message delivered by a culture that has mastered the art of indirection is that you do not matter. What you say is unimportant. What we have done to you -- however terrible it may be -- is therefore insignificant. Reading ten times more books and writing better prose will guarantee you nothing in the competition for cultural recognition. It will not matter if you have something to say, that you say it well, or that we need to hear it. The rewards will go to what is safe, familiar, dull and to those who embody those qualities. The consequences of this can be seen all around us. We get both the culture and society that we deserve. Scary. Worse, excellence and originality become categories of guilt that, somehow, justify criminal censorship and suppression of creative work. This may explain the journalism of Rafael Pi Roman.

I will continue to write. I will also record my adventures in publishing in this space. I fully expect more hackers and alterations of this text as the only response to what I say.

What a pleasant surprise to receive an invitation to submit a short story:

GinoskoEditor@AOL.com
Monday, June 18, 2007; 2:01 P.M.
Sent to me at: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Heading: SUBMISSIONS.

Juan-

Accepting short fiction & poetry for the 5th issue of the literary journal ginosko.

Editorial lead time 1-3 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints; receives email & postal submissions. Length flexible. Copyright reverts to author.

Publishing as semiannual ezine--summer & winter. Moving towards printed version to be distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Selecting material for anthology.

Downloadable issues on website: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/ezine circulation 2200+.

Also looking for artwork, photography, CDs to post on website and links to exchange.

Ginosko (ghin-oce-koe)

To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth by experience.

GINOSKO LITERARY JOURNAL Robert Paul Cesaretti, PO Box 246, Fairfax, CA 94978

Isn't it nice that this e-mail -- from what purports to be a literary journal asking for a short story from me -- was addressed to me on a first name basis. The return address listed, once again:

Ginosko@AOL.com;


date: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 2:01 P.M.;


recipient: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com;


heading: SUBMISSIONS.

How curious that there is no such journal? Why send me a request for a short story from a non-existent literary journal?


In a letter dated September 27, 2005 bearing the signature of "Bonnie Williamson," identified as "Assistant Acquisitions Editor," the following was communicated to me: "I would like to invite you to send your complete manuscript to us." I still have this letter. This was after I identified the text as a collection of previously published essays. The following information was provided for "Publish America," the alleged "publisher":

Publish America, LLLP.
http://www.publishamerica.com/
Incorporated in Fredrick Maryland
Member of the Association of American Publishers
Baltimore
USA: P.O. BOX 151
Frederick, MD 21705-0151
Phone 301-695-1707
Fax: 301-631-9073

Is Publish America really Bob Menendez? Is engaging in Internet fraud something a U.S. Senator should do? I doubt it.

On December 1, 2006, after submitting my manuscript, I received this e-mail:

From :PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent :Friday, December 1, 2006 3:31 PM
To :gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject :Your submission has been rejected

Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:

Thank you for your submission of "Why I Am Not an Ethical Relativist: Collected Essays 2000-2006" to PublishAmerica. I have reviewed it today, December 1, 2006. This work does not currently fit our requirements. We cannot consider previously published works, including works published on the Internet. Please do not take this [as] a setback to [for?] all your hard work as a writer.

We wish you the best of luck.

Sincerely,

Acquisitions Department PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/


After several months, I have been told that Publish America does not want my book because several of my essays have been published or "linked" previously in scholarly journals, like The Laing Studies Journal, Philosophy and/or Applied Ethics, New York Press, Massdensity. Thus, the fact that essays were considered publishable by scholarly journals and periodicals was deemed detrimental, preventing publication of my work in book form. These persons are going to "instruct" me on the issues and writing. O.K., fair enough.

Why did Publish America invite my submission of this manuscript KNOWING that it was collection of previously published essays in order to reject the essays because they were previously published?

I will struggle to put this essay collection out there, somehow, and I will save enough money to purchase an ISBN number. I can't do this work until after Christmas. This allows me to make additional corrections to errors that have "surfaced" suddenly in the text. Gifts for my loved-ones (including someone I may not see again) come first, especially her gift. I will continue to make corrections -- sometimes the same corrections, as I say, dozens of times -- after hackers alter these texts, while ignoring insulting e-mails, numerous anonymous phone calls at all hours, together with other harassments. (Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Ethics, Stuart? Is this what they call "disconfirmation of identity and feeding back a negative self-image to the victim"?

How does one respond to a deliberate illegal attempt at dehumanization and denigration from persons who comment on one's ethics? These people are New Jersey lawyers, judges, politicians who disapprove of my ethics. You decide who is "unethical." Who has the money stolen from my office? How about my watch? Stuart? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Politics has a lot to do with these determinations, I am sure, and (naturally) the political-organized crime group in New Jersey does not like me for some reason. I don't know why. No doubt they are influential with the "politically-affiliated" media. I am afraid they will like me even less in the future. Henry Miller was unpublished for twenty years. Now his books do very well. True, he's dead. But I am sure that Miller's happy to know -- wherever he is -- that while his sins were scarlet, his books are read. ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!" and "The Heidegger Controversy.")

Dozens of memoirs from people who got laid last summer (or so they claim) in the Hamptons are in the publishing pipeline. I can't wait to read them. I'm rewriting and revising the book, before assigning an ISBN number to it. I'll keep writing. (See "The Long Goodbye.")

My second submission to "Publish America" was rejected. I wonder why?

From :M.N. Prather
Sent : Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:45 PM
To : Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject : Query Letter Followup


Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:

Thank you for your query concerning "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays," on 9/27/2005 BW. We requested [Why?] your submissions package on the same day, but have not yet received it.

If I can be of any further assistance, please contact me.

I look forward to receiving and considering "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays soon."

Best regards,

M.N. Prather Executive Director PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/

Numerous "theoretical" expressions of interest from persons seemingly already familiar with my writings, suddenly resulted in fear and rejection.

The following web sites are being blocked as I write these words:
http://adfram.mediaplex.com/ad/js/198-43498-20 (NJ, JS? "Superior Court Judge"?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/N2992.MSN.com_/... (NJ, Doubleclick?)

My most frequent attacker, as of my last scan, is computer #82.165.24351. NJ Government? Judiciary? How strange.

Words of Wisdom from a publisher:

From : PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent : Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:28 PM
To : "Juan Menendez"
Subject : Juan Menendez: Status


Dear Mr. Galis-Menendez,

I apologize for the wait. Due to the large number of submissions we receive [punctuation?] we have not yet had a chance to review your book. We review manuscripts in the order they are received and we should be getting to yours shorty. [Is that last word an insult?]

Thank you for your patience in this matter. Let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

Tim Ratliff [What an interesting name.]

Acquisitions DepartmentPublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/

Is it possible that persons paid by taxpayers have spent their time (and your money!) illegally harassing and committing crimes against me -- like stealing from me -- because my opinions are not popular among the Mafiosi in New Jersey government or because they don't like me? We will find out. 1988-2010. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks," then "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System."

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, federal criminal law, copyright law, interstate laws designed to prohibit spreading of illegality -- all have been violated, for years, by my cybertormentors/cybercriminals and the Jersey Boys, with impunity. I wonder what they're all so worried about? Why do my writings alarm you? These are the people who judge my ethics and character. I consider most of them worthless scumbacks, some from Ridgewood, New Jersey. ("More Trouble for Ridgewood, New Jersey.")

Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? Anne Milgram? No more threatening letters from Trenton today? See again: "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" Is silence from the A.G. complicity in this criminality? Where is America's "independent" media? No wonder people around the world laugh when we speak of a free press.

My essay entitled "Is this atheism's moment?" has been submitted to Quodlibet, an Internet journal of theology and philosophy, allegedly, but it was returned to me unopened for some reason. "David Foutz" is identified as the editor of this journal. How curious? Perhaps I will try again. http://www.quodlibet.net/misc/howto.shtml and http://www.quodlibet.net/ ("Carol Mateo? Larissa MacFarquahr? Patricia Cohen? Ginger Thompson? Manohla Dargis? Caitlin Flanagan? Are these names all used by the same person or persons?")

I resubmitted the essay. I have received no response. To ensure that a distorted version of this essay does not appear, I will retain and republish the original for purposes of comparison.

On May 22, 2007 at 2:30 P.M. there were 639 intrusion attempts against my computer and 106 web sites were blocked. The day is young. Main attacker computer #24.192.174.68. (NJ Supreme Court?)

On May 24, 2007 I cannot print out items from my msn group. This is the sort of insult and crime that may help to illustrate my argument in this essay. I only get a blank piece of paper with the following address on it:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N2998.MSNAdDirectResponse/2304119.3;sz=728x90;ord=159625831?cli... (December 18, 2007 at 11:11 A.M. I am blocking this same site.)

June 9, 2009 over the past 24 hours or so, in addition to numerous calls from "anonymous," I have received these and many other calls: 6/9/09 at 11:54 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/9/09 at 11:04 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 4:32 P.M. 000-000-0000; 6/8/09 at 3:05 P.M. 800-285-4812; 6/8/09 at 11:49 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 11:07 A.M. 800-285-4812.

Allow me to make something clear to New Jersey mafiosi: If you are involved in hurting children or any young women, I will do my best to lock you up for a very long time. Won't it be a million laughs to discover that some of the people involved in hacking into my computer are involved in Internet porn? I think so. You know what is even funnier? A lot of those people are now on the agenda of their local FBI offices. Mazeltov.

I have reason to believe that the true number of visitors to my books' site is not recorded accurately. On May 27, 2007 at 6:07 A.M. there were 743 intrusion attempts against my computer, 130 web sites blocked and numerous illegal connections to my computer and spyware, which I will detail in a future post. The number of visitors to these blogs is also not recorded accurately -- not even "approximately." 25-50,000 hits at blogspot?

If you care about the First Amendment, then these crimes committed against me over a period of years, on a daily basis -- probably with the blessings of the authorities in at least one state -- should trouble you. Today, it is me who is censored, stolen from, raped, assaulted, destroyed professionally. Tomorrow or next week, it will be you or someone you love. This is not what the Framers envisioned for a free society. Do you want to chat about "ethics," Stuart Rabner? My opinions will change as a result of these tactics.

New Jersey's forensic psychiatrists make use of modern questioning techniques, hypnosis, secret drugging, anxiety, and far more unpleasant methods against persons who have often committed no crimes. These methods often make young women available for sexual assaults. Frustration and economic devastation, sexual humiliation -- all are said to be very popular with these "highly ethical" agents and information-gatherers of the Garden State. (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

How does a Jew become "Mengele"? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Who do you think will be next? ("R.D. Laing and Evil.")

Access to my MSN account is blocked. Numerous obstacles make writing very difficult today. Hackers have affected the spacing of these notes and will insert "errors" repeatedly. I was obstructed while trying to work at my MSN group today. September 4, 2008 at 1:19 P.M. My security system has been attacked and is flashing a red warning. September 4, 2008 at 1:40 P.M., then August 31, 2007 at 7:31 P.M. I will continue to try to regain access to my msn account. I am blocking all of the following:

http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnnkcpc01800http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210
...

What follows is a slightly edited (for clarity) correspondence between myself and Lulu Press, which is very enlightening. There are many more e-mails exchanged on this issue. Mysteriously, I have received a response to my latest inquiry before posting this essay. I am now advised that this is all a computer "glitch." No one intended to remove or disable my download feature which will be restored immediately. I just checked this morning, the book is still not downloadable. Eventually, the book will be downloadable, for free.

The book should be sent to book sellers. I can not determine at this time what further damage has been done to these copyright protected books, whether they are still available as I wrote them, or whether they are available for free download on-line. I hope they are. All I have to do, they tell me, is change the title to my book -- requiring a new ISBN number (presumably) -- upload it again (with a new title page and separate copyright page, indicating that the book is published by Lulu, listing the ISBN number that will no longer apply!), which will result in the book being kicked back and not being distributed, yet again. Frustration?

Frustration tactics, combined with an all-out assault on self-esteem and disconfirmation of identity; feeding back to a person who reads as much as I do, that I am not well-read or intelligent; destroying social relationships for the victim and others (providing further disconfirmation of identity); adding stress from daily defacements and vandalism of written work; denigration of one's views, opinions, mind, more theft, when combined with additional threats and anxiety, like destruction of economic relations -- along with other harms, naturally -- can devastate a person very nicely. "It is a real job" not allowing such crimes to alter one's sunny disposition. Luckily, I continue to be the epitome of charm.

Ideally, efforts should then be made to instill and use guilt and other humiliations as weapons. I suggest a careful reading of the biography of Paul Robeson. Government experimentation with the use of social science as a "weapon" to control populations should worry you. Philosophy Cafe? See Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York: Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Alfred W. McCoy, CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), then "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and finally, "What is it like to be tortured?"

I can't wait to see you, Terry Tuchin? I am asked, in effect, to purchase a new ISBN number, or a new proof copy, or both; to add a new title page, or copyright page, or both; after changing the title, requiring a new ISBN number. Meanwhile, my first book has been distributed to Amazon, along with Barnes and Noble, without a separate copyright page and has received close to 6,000 hits so far. I suspect the number of visitors to my blogs and books is greater than I am told. Perhaps, 25,000 + readers/hits.

My ISBN number for this second book is ISBN #978-1-4303-2393-8, 9000; Lulu is already identified with its logo next to that number and there is a Lulu id number #567258, since Lulu is already the publisher of this book and has been for some time: Why are these new difficulties created? Who is responsible for this confusion? Or is it deliberate? Why is the book still not available for download? Has this ISBN number been registered? If so, on what date was it registered? A revised version of the text listing the ISBN number has been uploaded to the Lulu site. Nothing happens. Decent looking versions of these two books would sell thousands of copies.

I suspect that, if I were dealing with a Japanese firm, I would receive a somewhat higher level of customer care. I wonder whether Lulu employees are subject to "influence" (i.e., cash) from the Jersey Boys? Maybe they are the Jersey Boys? Hackers have altered the spacing of paragraphs in this post. I wonder why? Maybe they object to a single reference to Fidel Castro in my collection of essays which would constitute "content-based" censorship with "state contacts." This is an actionable offense and a crime.

Letter No. #1:

From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:13:00 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X

Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.

Subject: Approved:

Published By Lulu Distribution Service

Dear Juan,

I checked with accounting, and Lulu does not retain anythng [sic.] out of the ordinary from the sales of your books. We are not keeping your royalties. Wheyour [sic.] book sells retail copies, there is no royalty, so neither you nor Lulu make profit. However, if you look at the pricing section of your book(s), you'll see that there is a royalty if the book sells on Lulu.co, rather than in retail settings. This means that if someone were to purchase your book from Lulu.c you would receive a royalty. If you don't want one, [one what?] you may choose to donate your royalties to a cha; many Lulu authors do this. [sic.]

Alternately, you can make your books unavailable on Lulu by setting them as Private Access. This won't affect their availability witother retailers. [sic.] lease ensure that your pricing is set the way you want bef approving the book, because you will have to pay a revision fee to change the price later. [sic.]

We have not required you to change your older boo to reflect our IBN-on-the-copyright-page requirement because we did not find it necessary to force established Lulu authors to revise their books, so we grandfathered those books. [sic.] Since Lulu is working to estalish a whole new method of publishing, we have had to adjust as we go to meet the demands of the existing industry.

What I can confirm for you is that if your book meets all o Lulu's Mandator Requirements for distribution, found here:

http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements, there will be no other obstacles to distibution. [sic.]

Thank you very much.Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.

Regards,

KatyD (Lulu support) [Irony?]

Letter No. #2:

Dear KatyD, et al.:

What I can confirm for you is that when books are sold, money is paid to the publisher. When Lulu is the publisher, then Lulu receives the money. Whether that money is called a "royalty" or a "profit," or "cost," is irrelevant to the receipt of the money by Lulu, which will not happen for long if Lulu were losing money on these transactions. Hence, my guess is that Lulu makes good money, then pays taxes on what it classifies as "profit" (a small portion of the money actually received), and not on total sums received. Relax, I am not the IRS.

["Errors" were inserted in this text since yesterday by hackers.]

I have asked for and receive no royalty. My "charity" is Lulu. You have "changed your policies," you tell me. However, previously published books without the ISBN number are not affected and may be distributed to book sellers. If this is so, then the "requirement" in the industry is not such a "requirement" after all -- since books that do not meet that "requirement" are publishable in America and sold on line, today, still, every day. This includes numerous Lulu titles.

Hacking into my computer to alter this text will not change the idiocy of Lulu's response and stance.

At this time, you cannot confirm what are those new Lulu requirements that I must "meet" or what they will be, since my request for such a confirmation is denied. As a result, after I place my ISBN number on a new title page and purchase a new book, I may well find that "requirements" have changed (once again), so that I will be "required" to remove the thirteen digit number from my title page and purchase another proof copy -- but only to have the process repeated after that, da capo, forcing me to include the thirteen digit number on yet another title page. Such a process might become a tiny bit frustrating.

[More "errors" were inserted since yesterday in this message. I will do my best to continue making corrections.]

I will stay in touch.

Regards,

Juan Galis-Menendez

Letter No. #3:

From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Published By Lulu Distribution Issue (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:35:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.

Dear Juan,

I was reviewing your title, "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006," for Published By Lulu, when I noticed there was no ISBN on your title's copyright page. The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution ( http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements ) states that all titles submitted to Published By Lulu must contain a copyright page displaying each title's correct, 13-digit ISBN.

I have set your title to Approve/Deny status, so you may edit your title without incurring a revision fee. (You will find your Approve/Deny status link, to create your new revision under the "Publish" tab under your title's listing.) Please take this opportunity to look over The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution and make all the changes necessary to make sure your title meets up [sic.] to Distribution standards. When you have done this, please upload your newly revised files to your project's account, then complete all the publishing steps.

Finally, purchase a proof copy [another one?] to make sure there are no adverse printing errors that have occurred as a result of the edits you have made to your files.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.

Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.

Letter No. #4:

The item below purports to come from the IRS:

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.30. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here

Regards,

Internal Revenue Service

A Note with irony detected by me:

Imagine that, the IRS sending me "regards"! Isn't it a crime for someone other than the IRS to claim to be the IRS? I am blocking:

http://atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90 (Senator Bob?)http://view.atmt.com/iview/msnkhac001160x600 (NJ Government?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn_Cusa/B2 (Cuban American National Foundation? CUSA? Commerce Department under Bush Administration Secretary Gutierrez?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnfmm.com (Doubleclick?)

My access to the site where my books are located is obstructed as of September 8, 2007 at 1:02 P.M. As a result, I cannot determine whether my books are still available, check my downloads, or make any alterations. The goal of these frustration efforts is to silence and censor Constitutionally protected speech and to induce further frustration.

Having already generated over a thousand dollars for Lulu's greedy owners, this policy of censoring and obstructing the distribution of my work -- together with inane and insane justification efforts -- is foolish for this on-line publisher.

This experience with "customer disservice" is indicative of some troubles in American commerce these days -- stupidity and short-sightedness, for example.

I am looking for other publishing "options."

Letter No. #5:

I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/msn/iview/msnnkhac00178x90 (Senator Bob and/or Staff?)

Dear Mr. or Ms. "Distribution Services":

I will not change my title. I will not pay for a revision or new ISBN number. I could not have listed that number on the title page before purchasing it or uploading the text, since I did not know what the number would be. Otherwise, I will try to see to it that the book meets with all specifications for distribution. I notice that you have now abandoned the request for a separate copyright page, new title, or new ISBN number.

Why do I already have a Lulu id # if this work is not published by Lulu? Lulu itself has listed the work as "published by Lulu." Incidentally, I did not list the thirteen digit number in my previous Lulu title before that book was distributed and this "non-listing" was not a problem. The book is available everywhere. Incidentally, I appreciate the "personal touch."

Can I speak to the manager?

"Regards,"

Juan Galis-Menendez

P.S.: I published our exchanges in my blog. I hope you don't mind. Think of it as free advertising!

September 21, 2009 10:10 A.M. spacing in this essay was altered by hackers since my previous review of this work. Apparently, police departments in New Jersey towns operate as private armies for local bosses "targeting" enemies or persons they dislike to the indifference of the Attorney General and state police.

Letter No. #6:

From: "Distribution Services" orders@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:37:02 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service

Dear Juan,

Since Lulu is a self-publishing site, we do not alter your text block or make changes to your book for you. It is your responsibility to do so. In addition, I can assure you that Lulu's profit in this scenario comes from the 20% that we keep of your royalty. All other costs are base printing costs or retail markups, which Lulu does not keep.

You recieve [sic.] the remaining 80% of the royalty.

It is very clear in the Mandatory Distribution Requirements that the ISBN must be included on the copyright page of your book before it can be fed into distribution channels. This is an industry standard that is not required when you sell only on Lulu, but is required for outside retail sale. Please see the Mandatory Distribution Requirements here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements.

You may also look over the Published by Lulu License Agreement, the terms of which you accepted when you purchased the package, here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=pbl_agreement.

All that has to happen at this point is that you need to put your ISBN on your copyright page and upload this corrected version during a revision to your book. Gary has already reset your book to Approve/Deny status so that you can make these changes with no revision fee. Then, since you have made a change to the book, you will need to purchase a new proof copy to ensure that it still prints correctly. [emphasis added]

I know you don't want to do this, but had you met all Mandatory Requirements for Distribution [I did!] before ordering your original proof, this would not be necessary. I'm sure you understand. [I sure do.]

Hopefully, this clarifies the issue, and I sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding about what is required for distribution that may have occurred previously. [Huh? Who had the stop sign?]

Thank you.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.

Regards,

Katy DLulu Support

Letter No. #7:

Dear Gary/KatyD/Distribution Support:

Since I have donated 100% of my royalties/earnings/proceeds of sales to Lulu, your profits are not "20% of the amount that would normally be distributed to an author as royalty" but ALL of the proceeds from the sale of the book. I have asked for and receive no royalties of any kind whatsoever.

My previous book was distributed without my inclusion of the ISBN number on the title page, including distribution to Barnes & Noble and Amazon, even though the agreement I "signed" then is identical to the one signed now. My first book is STILL BEING DISTRIBUTED AND AVAILABLE THROUGH BARNES & NOBLE, WITHOUT THE ISBN NUMBER ON THE TITLE PAGE, as are other titles from Lulu. I should not be required to purchase a new copy from Lulu. These difficulties should not arise at this point.

I have uploaded a revised version of the book with the ISBN number, which may be invalid since the money I paid for that number has (apparently) been stolen by Lulu.

Is Lulu "connected" to New Jersey in any way? Why is this so difficult when so many other titles from Lulu are being distributed without the ISBN number on the title page? Don't you want to work with me to generate fees for Lulu?

Is there no one capable of making an honest effort to resolve this matter that will put money in your accounts?

Regards,

Juan Galis-Menendez

Letter No. #8:

Dear Lulu/Price Support/KatyD/Gary:

I do not receive royalties. All sums earned from the sale of my books are retained by Lulu as per an exchange of e-mails. It doesn't matter what my "royalties" are "set at." Both my first book and quite a few Lulu books today are available through distributors without an ISBN number on the title page. Now you are telling me that, although this is true, Lulu has changed its requirements, so that I must add my ISBN number to my title page and purchase a new book, before I will have the book distributed.

[An "error" was inserted and corrected in the foregoing paragraph since my previous review. January 4, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. The thirteen digit ISBN number is already printed in the published copy by LULU, which I have in my possession.]

Will you please confirm that these new requirements are the only remaining obstacles to distributing the book?

I think I have my answer concerning New Jersey's politicians. Thank you for your invaluable assistance.

Regards,

Juan Galis-Menendez

Letter No. #9:

From: distro@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:33:09 -0400

Thank you for approving "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006."

You have completed your portion of the Published By Lulu process. Your book information will be sent to Bowker's Books In Print and once approved by Bowker, Lulu will upload your title to our distribution network. Should there be any problems with your title in Books In Print, we will contact you. This process is generally completed within 2-3 weeks. You can expect to see your book listed on Amazon and other online retailers within the next 6 to 8 weeks.

Regards,

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Letter No. #10:
From: Juan Menendez
Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!

Dear Sir/Madam:

This is the third time that I have approved this book, assuming it is the book that I wrote and of which I have obtained a copy [with ISBN number!]. My download of this text was first available for free; then only for a fee; and now, not at all.

Although my purchase of the ISBN number and approval of my book took place months ago, it is still not being distributed to booksellers online and there are concerns that it may be altered or tampered with before distribution.

My recent notes in response to several previous e-mails thanking me for approving the same book, with the single ISBN (I have a print copy in my possession, so that future copies should be identical to this one and not mysteriously "damaged"), are copied below.

Why are there so many problems about this? How can this be such a problem?

Please advise concerning what "boss" we need to speak to in order to resolve these difficulties.

Very truly yours and "Regards,"

Juan Galis-Menendez

Letter No. #11:

To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK91-----.)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:07:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91------.

Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!

Dear Juan,

We have sent you emails regarding your book, on July 31, and again on August 8, telling you that we could not process your book because it is mandatory to add your ISBN number to your copyright page. Also, it is mandatory that the copyright page must be separate from the Title page.

[None of this was or is necessary or "mandatory" with my first book. Many Lulu books by other authors TODAY are not subject to this requirement and are distributed to on-line booksellers.]

Letter No. #12:

RE: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK----.)

Dear Anne Marie C:

I received a written message indicating that the book would be distributed and no new title page was required, [and] without my consent, the download feature was disabled, the book has been approved at least three times.

Isn't it possible to do a little better than this? Is there a supervisor (or "boss") we can speak to about this problem? Does Lulu have anything to do with New Jersey politicians?

Regards,

Juan Galis-Menendez

Letter No. #13:

From: "Distribution Services"
To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:11:30 -0400

Reference number: LTK91 --.

Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!

Dear Juan,

I apologize for any inconvenience. I see you have another ticket open where you are communicating with Gary regarding CID 56 ---. So, before we go any further, can you specify if this ticket is regarding the same CID?

[What "ticket"? Which "ticket"? Are we "going" somewhere? Clearly not. I refuse to go anywhere with my ticket "open."]

If this is about the same CID, then the issue, as I see it, is that your book does not meet the mandatory Distribution Requirements http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements

I understand you have already bought a proof copy, but you must meet the requirements. [Say what?]

Please edit your book to meet the requirements. All that includes is adding an ISBN to your copyright page and having a seperate [sic.] title page.

I would like to help you, but we will not do this editing for you. Since these changes are substantial enough, you will need to order another proof. However, I'd be happy to refund your proof copy order once you place it.

I'm not sure I understand the issue about your downloads, but please let me know whether you would like it enabled(price?) or disabled and I'll make sure it stays that way.

[What is "it"?]

If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.Regards,Mo TLulu Supporthttp://www.lulu.com/helphttp://www.lulu.com/serviceshttp://www.lulu.com/forums---------------Original Message---------------

Letter No. #14:

Dear "Anne-Marie C" and/or a.k.a. "Gary":

I need something else. August 30, 2007 I visited the Lulu site to enable the download feature of my second book. This morning, August 31st, the book "Why I am not an Ethical Relativist 2000-2006" is still not available for free download nor is it available for download at a fee.

["Errors" have been inserted in this text since my last review of it. No doubt more will be added in the future.]

I have tried to make it clear to Lulu that ALL fees are to be kept by the publisher. It is in your interest to be helpful (not the opposite) in this matter. No explanation was offered by Lulu for why the download was disabled, without my consent, in the first place, or at whose order this was done. This has nothing to do with an ISBN number on the title page.

After my receipt of your first note, I received another note from Lulu informing me, yet again, that my book was in fact being sent to Bowker's for distribution to book sellers. Hence, the contents of your note suggesting that I am required to repost the entire manuscript of my book in order to change the one line on the title [or a new copyright] page to say "Published by Lulu" -- something I was told I could not do when I initially uploaded the text -- and then to purchase a new copy, or new ISBN number, seems very bizarre and irrational to me. My printed copy of the book already indicates that the work is "published by Lulu."

There must be some other way to deal with this situation. This is especially true since lulu prints this information that you are now asking me to supply on its published copy of my book -- as I say ad infinitum -- something which Lulu has already done, since I happen to have a published copy of my book in my possession with the published by Lulu ISBN.

You have represented to me that you will be responsible for ensuring that the download of my book is available. I will hold you to that promise. I will also publish the exchange of letters between us for the benefit of any persons considering Lulu, as a P.O.D. publisher. If this is the experience of someone putting a thousand dollars and more, so far, in your coffers (whether this sum is called a "profit" has to do with avoiding taxes, probably), I shudder to think of what others have experienced.

I am somewhat less than blissfully happy with my "Lulu Adventure." I look forward to your response. Curiously, e-mails I have received -- allegedly from the IRS -- tend to have the same closing as your "notes." I wonder whether the IRS signs off on letters with the word: "Regards"? Despite the cruel humor of IRS agents, I think this is unlikely.

Strangely, the same patterns appear in my correspondence with "Publish America" as in my letters to and from "Lulu." Incidentally, I already have a separate title page and an ISBN number. But what the hell?

Have a lovely day and don't take any wooden nickels.

"Regards,"

Juan Galis-Menendez


New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner is a so-called "champion of free speech rights." Does that include my rights to free speech, Mr. Rabner? How do you feel about freedom of speech, Ms. Quinn? City Council Speaker? Will any light be shed on this mystery?

The Long Goodbye.

September 1, 2008 at 11:56 A.M. I was just obstructed in my efforts to reach my MSN group. This usually means that "errors" are being reinserted in essays. I will do my best to make all corrections as soon as possible.

August 30, 2008 at 11:14 A.M. I was working at Critique, when I was suddenly obstructed from accessing my essays. I will spend the rest of the day struggling to get back to my group, then trying to repair the harm done to essays. No images can be posted at these blogs or at my profile. I will continue to struggle.

August 28, 2008 at 11:17 A.M. I was unable to access my MSN group this morning. I am still trying to do that. I will persist throughout the day in this effort.

August 24, 2008 at 12:30 P.M. I was just blocked as I tried to access Critique. This usually means that new "error-insertions" and other vandalism is taking place, once again, before the eyes of the world, even as America's presidential election and party conventions are "celebrated." I will struggle throughout the day to regain access to my sites. Images still cannot be posted at this blog and my book will not be sent to on-line book sellers.

August 23, 2008 at 7:29 P.M. I was just obstructed from accessing my MSN group, after posting speeches for Barack Obama and John McCain. Sabotage and vandalism are always expected, together with more defacements of my writings, despite the protections of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I will spend the rest of the evening struggling to regain access to my sites.

August 21, 2008 at 11:21 A.M. I am experiencing the usual harassment, denying me access to Critique. This means that essays are probably being altered or otherwise vandalized. When I regain access to my MSN group, I will try to discover the harm done and make necessary repairs. I am still blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ)

August 20, 2008 at 11:00 A.M. I was obstructed when reading my e-mails at hotmail. For the moment I cannot access MSN. I will do my best to get back to Critique in order to repair any harm done or vandalism to the essays at that site. I will run scans throughout the day.

August 19, 2008 at 11:28 A.M. I was just obstructed in efforts to reach my group. I will persist in my efforts to post a revised essay. I will run scans throughout the day. This sort of obstruction usually means that new vandalism of the essays either has or will take place. I do not believe that such a pattern of harassment on-line can take place without the cooperation of government. (See "Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba" and "Today's Cuban Revolutionaries Are on the Internet.")

August 18, 2008 at 4:15 P.M. I am unable to access my MSN group. Several of my essays have been vandalized, after the hobbling of my computer last week. I will struggle throughout the rest of the day and tomorrow to reach my group in order to post essays.

An e-mail from my security system informs me that my system has been automatically renewed. How curious? I am not within 10 days of expiration. I must "reboot" my computer, or so I am told, in order for the renewal to take place. I never know whether I will be able to continue writing. However, I will try later to reboot my computer.

"Auto Protect and fraud protection" is off and cannot be turned on at this time. This means that all writings are insecure.

August 7, 2008, at 12:16 P.M. I have not yet been able to access my MSN account. I will continue to try throughout the day to do so.

August 8, 2008 at 10:55 A.M. My computer shuts off windows every three minutes or so with spyware warnings. I am running scans. I will continue to try to write today. This may have to do with my discussion of the government's organized crime investigation-cooperation of ANTHONY DELVESCOVO (allegedly "connected" to Jaynee LaVecchia and/or Senator "Bob" Menendez). See "Construction Official's Case is Dropped," in The New York Times, August 7, 2008, at p. B3.

This may also have to do with a number of public corruption scandals in New Jersey. Further developments are anticipated. Due to the computer harassment, I may be unable to write today. However, I will struggle to do so. After the scans, I will try to restart my computer. All efforts to defend against this virus have failed. I can write for three minute intervals. I will keep struggling.

Writing has been impossible, as anticipated, due to hackers, vandalizing of essays, inability to reach my sites. The first of many likely news accounts of further corruption and alleged theft of public funds in New Jersey (and elsewhere) has already appeared. Feel free to notify law enforcement in your area:
John Eligion, "Company Is Accused Of Fleecing Port Authority," in The New York Times, August 8, 2008, at p. 3. (My fraud prevention feature is, seemingly, permanently disabled.) Alleged affiliations between these ostensible "fleecers" of public money and P.A. insiders and/or N.J. legal establishment figures is "under investigation." Any word on the anticipated indictment of Senator Bob?

George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (London: Penguin, 1971).

It is a beautiful morning in New York. Later I will walk in the city. I felt that I should try to post these words, as a farewell of sorts. I am unable to access the Internet or my sites. I cannot -- as of 10:40 A.M. on August 7, 2008 -- communicate my opinions and feelings at my home computer. I will search for another computer beginning today. I will find a way to post these words on-line.

Yesterday, once again, several of my essays were damaged. Some of those essays have been altered on so many occasions that it is now impossible for me to estimate the number of times when I have been forced to make corrections. The goal of this process, which I have experienced for years and documented extensively, is to crush the spirit of a human being. The destruction of a life and mind is a means of controlling a person by transforming him into something that is less than human. After all of his tortures, Winston Smith's greatest performance was the sincere love of Big Brother.

The mega-societies in which we live -- I am sure that the phenomenon that I describe and endure, every day, is bigger than any one country -- limit the space permitted to the human spirit in order for public authority to become pervasive and total. The aim of postmodernist governments is to replace God in the human scale of values. To argue that such an ambition is unethical or evil is absurd, in the eyes of officials, because governments define the scope of good and evil.

"Right and wrong is relative to power." There is no love. No goodness. No justice. "Money is the meaning of life." These things have been said to me by American attorneys, judges, officials. The same persons sworn to uphold freedom of speech, privacy rights, democracy are responsible for censoring a tortured dissident and intellectual, whose greatest offense is to think and speak of the collective loss of our souls and to point out corruption. I am about to commit this grave offense, yet again.

Referring to me as a "pseudo-intellectual" is not discouraging because an intellectual, for me, is only a life-long student. The one thing I know about myself is that I am a student. My words are written in sand. My essays may be destroyed at any time. Each morning dozens of "errors" are inserted in writings that I have struggled with great care to compose, sometimes working for hours and days, weeks and months on a single sentence or paragraph. There is no other word for such efforts but "work." The energy and resources devoted to the infliction of suffering on a person whose crime is independence of thought and the free expression of his opinions reveals the depravities of power-hunger in some people and their sick need for domination of others. This appetite for power is enhanced by our newest technologies of sadism.

Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? (See Meditatio ad Malum et Caritas, "Habeas Corpus," and "What is homeland security?")

The experience of torture (I believe) at the hands of Cuban-American Fascists protected by their friends in the American legal system or its most corrupt managers (in violation of the U.S. Constitution), is a graduate education in the politics of the real world. Far from discouraging or destroying my values, this nightmare has confirmed my sense of their urgency and truth. Winston Smith's greatest achievement would be to persuade Big Brother to love human freedom, respecting the dignity of men and women, by demonstrating that -- even when faced with enormous pain, rape, theft -- we may still affirm our humanity, asking that the worst be done to us and not to our loved-ones, while insisting on dignity, pride, and the reality of goodness.

At my final hour and always, I will insist that 2 + 2 = 4. I love a few people in this world, including at least one woman who needs to know that she cannot lose my love. I will find a way to write that message, no matter what the cost to me may be. The defeat of Orwell's nightmare vision of the future is to replace Winston Smith in room 101 with Robert Bolt's Sir Thomas More, who confronts totalitarianism with humanity's "adamantine sense of self" and indestructible dignity. (See "Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

Perhaps respect can no longer be expected by Americans from their government officials. However, respect is still demanded by the American people -- and all others in the world -- as the first ingredient of political association. This respect is guaranteed to all under the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, as well as the United Nations Charter signed and largely created by the United States of America. (Thank you, Eleanor Roosevelt.) Rights and respect are not a gift of the State. My rights are not negotiable because they are "inherent" in my humanity. My freedom and rights are part of what I am, not merely things that I have.

This is what it means to be an American or a human being. We decide on the meaning of our political identity, not government officials acting without our consent, secretly, or without the sanction of law. Government always has the power to violate my integrity, as a human being, but government never has the legitimate authority to violate my rights.

My computer has been battered, repaired several times, subjected to a relentless assault. My security system has been disabled and made ineffective. But then, much the same may be said of me. I have been violated and severely damaged. My psychic "security system" has been under attack for many years. Maybe I have also been injured beyond repair. All of us will be, eventually. I may be denied the means to write -- like a man whose oxygen supply is cut off -- in order for "experts" to observe one person's fascinating death throes and agony. I will hold on and persist in my struggle.

My inspiration is (and always will be) Jefferson and Lincoln, FDR and Dr. King, Kennedy and Clinton (refusing a politically-motivated attempt to undermine the franchise of voters), Reagan at the Berlin Wall, even Yeltsin before the tanks and China's current miracle as well as the transformations taking place in Cuba. There is always hope. I think of Nelson Mandela and smile as I type these words.

Inducing anxiety and stress, threats to family and one's peace of mind, can force a person into himself, imprisoning the "subject" in an externally imposed silence. Silence and apathy are the co-conspirators of illegitimate power, as are secrecy and surveillance. A new attack shuts off my windows operating system, regularly, as I try to write these sentences. (A letter was apparently deleted from the foregoing sentence, then restored to it.)

I have decided, after nearly 20 years -- noise fills my room again! -- of what I can only describe as psychological torture, to reaffirm my commitment to this struggle to think and speak freely in opposition to all attempts to control, discipline, coopt, "subjectivate" or manipulate the human mind and spirit by reducing a person to the status of a "thing." For any Jewish person to lend him- or herself to imposing such evil on another human being, after the events of the twentieth century, is tragic and discouraging. It saddens me to know that such horror is possible. I am not a slave. I am not a laboratory animal. No person is or can be.

My ability to communicate may be taken from me at any time. It has been taken from me in the past at irregular intervals, illegally. I cannot avoid expressing my disgust and dismay at the actions of so many members of the Cuban-American community and their friends, at corrupt judges and tribunals in the Garden State, for what they have made of the gift that is the U.S. Constitution. My great comfort is the certainty that what this document says of human freedom and equality for every person, under a government of limited powers, cannot be destroyed or made untrue by anyone. (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

How can I believe in America after what I have experienced? It is my American independence that tells me that what I have suffered is evil. God (or love) is beyond the control of laws and men, as are all fundamental ethical and spiritual freedoms of human beings:

"We cannot give up on utopian hope or socialism. We cannot give up on progress. They are not less apt in light of what we know about the bad side of human nature. They are more necessary."
This is the crucial insight:

" ... To accept the world as it (more or less) is, is to help to prolong a state of grave danger. This world, accomodating and countenancing too much of what is not to be tolerated -- plain, persistent injustice, stark, avoidable human suffering -- is a world very receptive to present and future atrocity, a world overpopulated with bystanders. It is one in which the idea is harder and harder to resist that just anything may be done to people while others look on; and there be no consequence. As long as the situation lasts, it degrades the moral culture of the planet. It poisons the conscience of humankind."

Norman Geras, The Contract of Mutual Indifference (New York & London: Verso, 1998), p. 120.