March 4, 2008 at 2:29 P.M. I am unable to "back up" items after running security checks. I will continue to run scans 24 hours per day, struggling to work at my home e-mail account. More corruption trials, theft, graft and other such issues affecting New Jersey officials, lawyers, politicians and no doubt compromised OAE officials may be seen in Richard G. Jones, "Affair Is Cited At Fraud Trial Of Ex-Mayor Of Newark," in The New York Times, March 4, 2008, at p. B1. (See New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "More Crooked Judges in Jersey City.")
February 5, 2008 at 12:27 P.M. I am unable to print from my msn group. I am left with a blank page bearing this address:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N3285.msndm/B1714331.99;dcadv=895178;sz=728x90;ord=102410539?clic...
February 5, 2008 at 10:18 A.M. calls received from: 410-774-8066.
February 4, 2008 at 2:42 P.M. I experienced difficulties posting at MSN. I am blocking:
http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/js/711-55224-206... (NJ?)
February 4, 2008 at 11:04 A.M., then again at 2:45 P.M., I received a telephone call from (201) 225-0986. The caller identified himself as "Circuit City." How curious that I receive a phone call from "Circuit City" in New Jersey concerning a "Samsung" t.v. set? Probably just a mistake.
Please see "What is it like to be tortured?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" at my MSN group, Critique. I am unable to access my books on-line. I believe they are still available. New "errors" were inserted by hackers overnight. February 2, 2008 at 12:42 P.M. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01
February 1, 2008 at 7:35 A.M. spacing was affected overnight in a post at Critique. I am blocking:
http://m1.2mdn.net/viewad/1139854/112-1x1... (criminal violation)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N3880.SD2527.3880/... (criminal violation)
January 30, 2008 at 3:01 P.M. I blocked:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N2998.MSN/B26753...
http://view.atdmt.com/OY6/iview/msnnkall01000...
I am in receipt of a letter allegedly from "Janette Garcia, Costs Coordinator." The postage permit dated "January 25, 2008" states: "Mailed From 08648, 011A0413002687" and return address: "P.O. Box 962, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0962." Certified mail, R.R. #"70070220000209611926."
I am informed that I am being billed for $10,144.38. Evidently, this is the cost of the "ethics" litigation brought against me. (Sue somebody, then demand all costs!) Perhaps I am not "cooperating."
"This amount is due no later than February 4, 2008. If you fail to remit payment by the due date, interest will be assessed on the outstanding balance, and we will proceed to file a judgment against you with the Clerk of the Superior Court R. 1:20-17 (e) (3), without further notice."
Furthermore,
"In order to avoid further action send your certified check, bank check or money order to this office. Your check should be made payable to DISCIPLINARY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE."
Well, unfortunately, I cannot send you a certified check or money order for these "costs." No doubt they are unrelated to my (publicly) expressed opinions, even though they have surfaced many years after this litigation "ended." Certainly, long after I reimbursed all fees to clients for work I was unable to complete due to my suspension as a result of this very same litigation brought by you.
I understand that you will enter a judgment against me. However, I am unemployed at this time. I have no bank account. I have no assets of any kind. This may have something to do with the experiences described in these posts. Any assets received by me at any future time will go to charities. You are welcome to go after those charities, if any, to collect debts for these so-called "costs." Perhaps Lieutenant Andriani of the Hoboken Police Department will be in charge of these funds. It is my understanding that this cited Rule is not applicable to my situation. (More "errors" will be inserted in these essays on a daily basis.)
I will continue to write. My response to this letter -- saying exactly what I have stated here -- will be written by hand on their own letter and sent back, immediately and happily, by certified mail to:
Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex (Irony?)
P.O. Box 962
Trenton, New Jersey 08625-1011
attention: "Janette Garcia."
Have a nice day. Incidentally, this letter seems like your immortal prose, John. Why the anonymity?
Showing posts with label N.J. Legal System.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N.J. Legal System.. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thursday, October 25, 2007
A Soldier From the Camden Family Pleads Guilty.
"Camden: School Board Ex-Chief Pleads Guilty," in The New York Times, Otober 24, 2007, at p. B2.
David W. Chen, "South Jersey Democrats Poised to Shake Things Up," in The New York Times, October 24, 2007, at p. B3.
Michael Dobbs, To Play the King/House of Cards (London: Fontana, 1993).
Attempts to print a news story pertaining to the shocking law suit filed against the Hoboken Police Department by 5 Hispanic officers, alleging heinous ethnic and racist slurs made by ANGELO ANDRIANI -- who allegedly "intimidated" and "harassed" these officers and CARMEN LA BRUNO, who is fond of the n-word and other anti-black comments, allegedly, both of whom even described themselves as "God" to these Latino officers -- were obstructed on October 25, 2007 at 6:51 P.M. leaving me with a blank piece of paper bearing this address:
"A former Pleasantville school board president pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to attempted extortion in connection with school district construction contracts. The former president Jayson Adams, 27, accepted bribes in exchange for supporting bids for work in the Pleasantville Public Schools from F.B.I. informants posing as roofing and insurance contractors. As part of the plea agreement, he faces up to six and a half years in federal prison. A second former board member, Rafael Velez, pleaded guilty to the same charge yesterday, admitting that he had accepted bribes totaling $4,000 and had made arrangements to be paid $15,000 more. He faces a possible sentence of three to four years in prison. The men are among 11 current and former public officials in New Jersey arrested last month in a sweeping bribery sting."
This is only the beginning.
" ... Mr Codey is not very concerned about the Republicans, however. [Codey] is more wary, some party members say, of his fellow Democrats in South Jersey. They are allies of a longtime rival of his: George E. Norcross, III, the leader of the Camden County political machine and widely acknowledged to be the most influential power-broker in New Jersey."
Notice that Mr. Norcross holds no elective office and is still reputed to be much more powerful than Governor Corzine:
"Mr. Norcross dismissed that talk as idle speculation."
" ... 'I fully expect all of the Democratic Senators in South Jersey to support Dick Codey and will encourage them to continue his leadership as Senate president,' he said in a telephone interview on Friday."
Typical bullshit.
"Then referring to Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr., who is an ally and business associate of his, Mr. Norcross added, 'Joe Roberts and Dick Codey have worked well together for the state and for South Jersey.' ..."
What's really going on? Well, there are several theories (as usual): Codey and Roberts work very well with Norcross, but they can all see that Menendez may be indicted soon. Naturally, there will be a scramble for power in the junior Senator's absence, should Senator Bob find himself on the way to federal prison, which seems likely. Bob is on the phone cashing in chips, trying to run political interference against Christopher J. Christie. These tactics are generally unsuccessful with the feds.
The question is who will move in to the lucrative North Jersey patronage mill and power-base? No one in the party wants to look happy about Menendez getting busted (even though most of them are thrilled!), since they want Menendez people to support them and not the Republicans, and at the same time, they hope to send the message that, for once, New Jersey Democrats are going to be honest. They usually laugh after saying such things. New Jersey's Republicans also laugh. Republicans are like missionaries compared to the Democrats in New Jersey.
The Jersey Boys are playing a good cop/bad cop routine where Codey is the good cop, concerned about North Jersey, and Norcross (who can't be voted out of office) is the bad cop, seeking to take over Hudson County for the powers of darkness and the gaming industry -- these are overlapping categories.
Codey promises to keep the barbarians outside of the city gates, if they make him Chancellor and Emperor. Codey might become a new "Metternich from Essex County," promising to negotiate a new peace after the "Vienna Congress" (make that Newark) -- if he is granted absolute power. Meanwhile, Codey, Roberts and Norcross will split the loot later, while the Republicans are left trying, desperately, to defend the policies of the George W. Bush Administration, an unenviable task, even as Corey Booker is isolated and made irrelevant to the suburbs.
New Jersey politics will then remain "white man's country." Tuchin and Riccioli will continue to do their dirty deeds for the powers that be and nothing happens in response to the visible criminality and incompetence among members of the judiciary and the laughable as well as corrupt New Jersey Supreme Court.
Codey, Roberts and Norcross may be evil -- "you may wish to say that, but I couldn't possibly comment!" -- however, they are not stupid.
David W. Chen, "South Jersey Democrats Poised to Shake Things Up," in The New York Times, October 24, 2007, at p. B3.
Michael Dobbs, To Play the King/House of Cards (London: Fontana, 1993).
Attempts to print a news story pertaining to the shocking law suit filed against the Hoboken Police Department by 5 Hispanic officers, alleging heinous ethnic and racist slurs made by ANGELO ANDRIANI -- who allegedly "intimidated" and "harassed" these officers and CARMEN LA BRUNO, who is fond of the n-word and other anti-black comments, allegedly, both of whom even described themselves as "God" to these Latino officers -- were obstructed on October 25, 2007 at 6:51 P.M. leaving me with a blank piece of paper bearing this address:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N4174.centro/B2306167.56;sz=728x90;ord=248470536?
The story can be found at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=5724554 (See references to Hoboken policemen DAVID ROBERTS and KEN FERRANTE). I wonder whether these police officers or any others have been part of the criminal harassment efforts directed against this site? I have a feeling we're going to find out. I have run several scans today, but I am unable to connect to the "Live Update" server for my security system, which is being blocked.
"A former Pleasantville school board president pleaded guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to attempted extortion in connection with school district construction contracts. The former president Jayson Adams, 27, accepted bribes in exchange for supporting bids for work in the Pleasantville Public Schools from F.B.I. informants posing as roofing and insurance contractors. As part of the plea agreement, he faces up to six and a half years in federal prison. A second former board member, Rafael Velez, pleaded guilty to the same charge yesterday, admitting that he had accepted bribes totaling $4,000 and had made arrangements to be paid $15,000 more. He faces a possible sentence of three to four years in prison. The men are among 11 current and former public officials in New Jersey arrested last month in a sweeping bribery sting."
This is only the beginning.
" ... Mr Codey is not very concerned about the Republicans, however. [Codey] is more wary, some party members say, of his fellow Democrats in South Jersey. They are allies of a longtime rival of his: George E. Norcross, III, the leader of the Camden County political machine and widely acknowledged to be the most influential power-broker in New Jersey."
Notice that Mr. Norcross holds no elective office and is still reputed to be much more powerful than Governor Corzine:
"Mr. Norcross dismissed that talk as idle speculation."
" ... 'I fully expect all of the Democratic Senators in South Jersey to support Dick Codey and will encourage them to continue his leadership as Senate president,' he said in a telephone interview on Friday."
Typical bullshit.
"Then referring to Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts Jr., who is an ally and business associate of his, Mr. Norcross added, 'Joe Roberts and Dick Codey have worked well together for the state and for South Jersey.' ..."
What's really going on? Well, there are several theories (as usual): Codey and Roberts work very well with Norcross, but they can all see that Menendez may be indicted soon. Naturally, there will be a scramble for power in the junior Senator's absence, should Senator Bob find himself on the way to federal prison, which seems likely. Bob is on the phone cashing in chips, trying to run political interference against Christopher J. Christie. These tactics are generally unsuccessful with the feds.
The question is who will move in to the lucrative North Jersey patronage mill and power-base? No one in the party wants to look happy about Menendez getting busted (even though most of them are thrilled!), since they want Menendez people to support them and not the Republicans, and at the same time, they hope to send the message that, for once, New Jersey Democrats are going to be honest. They usually laugh after saying such things. New Jersey's Republicans also laugh. Republicans are like missionaries compared to the Democrats in New Jersey.
The Jersey Boys are playing a good cop/bad cop routine where Codey is the good cop, concerned about North Jersey, and Norcross (who can't be voted out of office) is the bad cop, seeking to take over Hudson County for the powers of darkness and the gaming industry -- these are overlapping categories.
Codey promises to keep the barbarians outside of the city gates, if they make him Chancellor and Emperor. Codey might become a new "Metternich from Essex County," promising to negotiate a new peace after the "Vienna Congress" (make that Newark) -- if he is granted absolute power. Meanwhile, Codey, Roberts and Norcross will split the loot later, while the Republicans are left trying, desperately, to defend the policies of the George W. Bush Administration, an unenviable task, even as Corey Booker is isolated and made irrelevant to the suburbs.
New Jersey politics will then remain "white man's country." Tuchin and Riccioli will continue to do their dirty deeds for the powers that be and nothing happens in response to the visible criminality and incompetence among members of the judiciary and the laughable as well as corrupt New Jersey Supreme Court.
Codey, Roberts and Norcross may be evil -- "you may wish to say that, but I couldn't possibly comment!" -- however, they are not stupid.
Monday, October 15, 2007
More Racism Charges Against New Jersey's State Police.
Joyce Carol Oates, "A Troubling Encounter With the State Police," in The New York Times, New Jersey and the Region, October 14, 2007, at p. 21.
"An Ethics Syllabus," in The New York Times, October 14, 2007, New Jersey and the Region, at p. 21.
"Trenton: Corrections Department Criticized," in The New York Times, October 16, 2007, at p. B4.
Norman Mailer, "Introduction," In the Belly of the Beast (New York: Vintage, 1981), pp. ix-xvi.
Amnesty International, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (New York: Seven Stories, 2000).
Spacing has been affected in this essay and new obstacles as well as "errors" inserted in the text are always anticipated. More harassing phone calls on October 15, 2007 at 11:32 A.M. from 520-124-6246. As of 9:24 P.M. I am unable to access MSN and have been prevented from posting at blogger for hours. I will keep trying. My book is still not being distributed to book sellers. On October 17, 2007 at 6:58 P.M. more annoying calls from 305-375-7280. Florida. CANF? For some reason, my print-out of this essay -- at page three -- is without a page number or an address at the bottom of the page. I wonder why? I am blocking:
Access to my MSN account is still being blocked by hackers mysteriously using N.J. government computers. I have decided to spend some time this morning not posting a revised version of my essay on "America's Holocaust," since that is impossible at this time, but discussing once again the sad and ugly spectacle of corruption, malice, racism and hypocrisy among New Jersey's judges and police officials. (Numerous "errors" have been inserted in this text, even in draft form, so I will correct them. I fully anticipate that I will need to do so again in the future.)
"... I was being driven back from a literary event in New York to my home in Princeton," Joyce Carol Oates writes, "by a black driver for a well-known limousine service. At about 11 p.m., somewhere on the turnpike between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey state troopers signaled for my driver to pull over. They subjected him to approximately 40 minutes of harsh and repetitive interrogation ('What's your name?' 'Where do you live?' 'Where are you headed?' and so on) for no evident reason."
The reason was skin color. In a similar way, numerous harassment efforts are directed at websites with my writings, from behind the scenes probably, any prospective publishers or opportunities that come my way will be destroyed (if New Jersey authorities, I believe, become aware of them), obstructions to writing efforts on-line, hundreds and even thousands of viruses, illegal spyware, other attacks against my system are routine. These efforts have persisted and will go on for much longer than forty minutes -- for years, in fact, as a kind of "ass covering efffort" to discourage continued criticisms of the Garden State's torture practices, together with denying, ignoring or stonewalling in response to effforts to obtain Tuchin's and Riccioli's secretly prepared and filed reports, along with the truth concerning my life. How many others are tortured and raped, in every sense, by New Jersey authorities we may never know. (See "Even in New Jersey There Comes a Time When Silence is Betrayal.")
"There were two white troopers who demanded to see the driver's and my identification" -- the troopers had no legal right to demand the passenger's identification -- "forced the driver to get out of the car and subjected him to questioning with increased belligerence."
Had Ms. Oates not been a passenger and witness, it is highly likely that her driver would have been struck or severely beaten, then charged with "resisting arrest" and accused of failing to use a turn signal or not wearing a seat belt, or the old stand-by: "warrants for parking tickets." These warrants can be generated any time by friends at headquarters, then shrugged off as a good faith mistake. In the same way, police in some New Jersey cities have illegal guns handy to plant on African-Americans murdered "by mistake" in order to make things look good -- allegedly. I would not be surprised if something similar turns out to have happened in Mumia Abu-Jamal's case. No wonder they want to discourage me from writing. They are concerned about people reading these truths. They should be.
"I was not allowed to know what was going on, and when after about 10 minutes I made a tentative gesture to open the car door, the troopers yelled at me, 'Stay in the car lady!' They then walked the driver about 20 feet away from the limousine, to continue to interrogate or harass him out of earshot."
The troopers will say that persons are kept in their vehicle to protect officers from passengers who will fire at them. This is true, as far as it goes, but the real reason in most instances where troopers know that there is no real danger is to isolate and increase anxiety on their victims-"suspects" (who are inevitably African-Americans). Also, the goal was no doubt to create problems for the driver with his client and employer, since passengers tend not to enjoy being kept waiting for nearly an hour for no reason or being treated like a felon, also for no reason. (A new "error" that is not found in my printed version of this essay was just inserted in the text.) Curiously, torture and rape are even more distressing for victims, regardless of whether these things are said to be for the victim's "own good." (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
"I called my husband on my cellphone to explain that I was going to be late returning home, as it looked as if my driver was being 'arrested' for some reason."
For no reason other than race.
"(As the minutes passed, it occurred to me to dial 911 and report this incident, but, with my instinct for irony, I guessed that the police officers who would be notified about the incident would be these very New Jersey state troopers, which would have made them even more angry and belligerent.)"
What they want is homage. They want you to bow, humiliate yourself, grant their superiority and god-like status, then they'll let the average innocent person go. This is something that one might manage on a single occasion -- without being too proud of it -- but unless a man has lost all semblance of dignity and self-esteem, pride is not something that will be surrendered for long and much less for a lifetime.
The unpardonable sin which places some African-American men and women as well as "others" in U.S. prisons -- or even leads to the gas chamber in some cases -- is an unwillingness to accept slavery. To insist on one's human rights and dignity, over a period of years, despite hypnosis, psychological torture, and professional destruction may well constitute a capital offense for minority persons in New Jersey.
"Fortunately for both of us the driver was unfailingly courteous, soft-spoken and obedient. Perhaps he'd been pulled over by New Jersey state troopers before."
Very likely. Such a surrender of a man's dignity, over a period of years will reach the point at which he has no more pride to give, for he has been made into nothing, something sub-human. African-American women understand what has been done to their husbands, fathers, sons in ways that most white women do not. Hence, they have a different measure by which to judge conduct that is incomprehensible for those who cannot imagine such experiences over a lifetime.
They will be repeated -- these rituals of humiliation -- preferably with the assistance of sold out minority persons. There are minorities so broken on this wheel of power that they become its servants at the expense of their brothers and sisters. I have seen homeless men opening doors and performing in public, a kind of hideous caricature-dance of racist stereotypes into which they have been transfomed, like marionettes begging for coins, like the "things" that they have been made into. Some people will die before they accept such a role. Anything that breaks a human being's psyche in such a manner is evil. (More "errors" inserted and corrected.)
You are witnessing daily efforts to destroy these writings (and this writer) for saying unsayable things in America, also for refusing to accept or legitimate, crimes against humanity committed against him and others in New Jersey. I am running my scans. I will persist in the struggle to speak this truth to corrupt officials in New Jersey and the world. Is it possible for you to remain silent and indifferent to what you are seeing?
"There is a paradox at the core of penology," Norman Mailer writes, "and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best -- that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising, and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror. ... prison is equipped to grind down criminals who are cowards into social submission, but can only break the spirit of brave men [and women] who are criminals, or anneal them until they are harder than the steel that encloses them."
America's future may well depend on whether we understand what is being said in this next paragraph:
"If you can conceive of a society (it is very difficult these days) that is more concerned with the creative potential of violent young men [and women] than with the threat they pose to the suburbs, then a few solutions for future prisons may be there. ... [Young minority persons] are drawn to crime as a positive experience -- because it is more exciting, more meaningful, more mysterious, more transcendental, more religious than any other experience they have known."
This is not to glorify crime or violence -- certainly not violence against women -- such violence is something which has always been impossible for me. No one is saying that crime is a positive experience. Mailer argues that if society dehumanizes men and women -- reducing one group to sexual organs and the other to a capacity for violence -- then decides to break them in pieces for displaying the very qualities demanded of them for survival, then you can be sure that a few of these men and women will prefer death to the surrender of their humanity. America's power-structure and legal system is hardly in a position to caution others about violence. (See "Michel Foucault, Gillian Rose, Angela Davis and the Hermeneutics of Prison.")
That choice between human dignity and torture is only forced on some persons in a society that is afflicted with a serious disease -- a disease called "racism" and social injustice, a disease opposed to the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, a disease against which we must struggle at all times. The fascism witnessed (in a small way) by Ms. Oates has been experienced in not so small ways by many of us for years. This includes a person I love.
"If the police officers hoped to provoke him into 'resisting arrest' so that they could beat him, or worse," Ms. Oates writes, "they must have been disappointed."
They would have beaten him, regardless of whether this African-American driver "resisted arrest," except for the affluent white woman heading home to Princeton. None of this will be on the bar exam, boys and girls. Nonsense concerning "ethics standards" imposed on officials will always be irrelevant to what happens behind-the-scenes in New Jersey. It is also irrelevant to the reality of disappearing funds from the Garden State's prison budgets:
"For the second time in two years, an audit has found that the [New Jersey] State Corrections Department failed to adequately monitor its multimillion dollar contract for inmate dental services. [A lot of inmates received expensive dental care (allegedly), but it seems to have disappeared when the inmates are examined.] In a report released yesterday, Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper concluded that the department could not guarantee that inmates were getting services that were paid for or that the state was not overpaying the contractor, Correctional Medical Services. [Terry Tuchin in "white man's country"?] Spokesmen for the Corrections Department and Correctional Medical Services said they could not comment."
New York Times, October 16, 2007, at p. B4. (Who are New Jersey's thieves and crooks again?)
Much of New Jersey law and adjudication is a transparent lie that some of us refuse to live. Perhaps this is because we are not "gentlemen." Every time I see young African-American children playing in the park or on the streets, I am reminded that one in three of them will end up in prison. Another of the three will be killed. Maybe one out of three will be permitted to struggle through life. The enormity of this horror and loss for all of us -- surgeons, artists, philosophers, scientists thrown away -- brings tears to my eyes. I will not be silenced. This may be the tenth time that I have corrected the same "errors" inserted in this essay. (See "What is it like to be tortured?") Overnight, several new "errors" were inserted in the foregoing paragraph. I have now corrected them, once again. How is the spacing in this essay?
To say this, that I weep for African-American children, is to open myself to the criticism -- usually from the same fascists tormenting that driver and, sadly, also many Latino men -- that I am not "manly" enough. I believe that a willingness to embrace painful emotions is what it means to be adults, for both men and women, who nevertheless refuse to sacrifice all capacity for laughter, play and hope for the sake of their children, those same children who are now so threatened.
"After what seemed like a very long time, they allowed the driver to return to the car and resume the drive back to Princeton."
Guess what happened next?
"I asked him what had been wrong, and he said that they'd claimed he had 'outstanding warrants' of some kind, but they were letting him go so that he could drive me home. Next morning, when I called the limousine service. I was told that the driver did not have 'outstanding warrants' and that he hadn't violated any law that anyone knew of."
Something of that man's spirit was left on a dark stretch of road that night. In the words of Amnesty International, a false death warrant issued to Mumia Abu-Jamal and many others, "is playing politics with a man's life" -- does this ring a bell, Richard J. Codey? Senator Bob? -- "The unnecessary infliction of suffering upon a prisoner by a government official constitutes torture." The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000), p. 53.
Psychological torture is the daily experience of millions of African-American men and women, also of others in our throw-away culture. How do we live with this grotesque reality? Norman Mailer says:
"We do not live ... in a world that tries to solve its prison problems. Even to assume we do is utopian. The underlying horror may be that we all inhabit the swollen tissues of a body politic that is drenched in bad conscience, so bad indeed that the laugh of the hyena reverberates from every TV set, and is in danger of becoming our true national anthem. We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. The mugger becomes the size of Golgotha and the middle class retires into walled cities [prisons?] with armed guards. Here, the prisons have wall-to-wall carpeting, and the guards address the inmates as 'Sir,' and bow. But they are prisons. The measure of the progressive imprisonment of all society is to be found at the base -- in the penitentiaries themselves. The bad conscience of society comes to focus in the burning lens of the penitentiary."
Think of Foucault and Davis as you read this paragraph:
"That is why we do not speak of improving the prisons -- which is to say, taking them through some mighty transmogrifications -- but only of fortifying law and order. But that is no more feasible than the dream of remission in the cancer patient. ... [W]e won't get law and order without a revolution in the prison system."
"An Ethics Syllabus," in The New York Times, October 14, 2007, New Jersey and the Region, at p. 21.
"Trenton: Corrections Department Criticized," in The New York Times, October 16, 2007, at p. B4.
Norman Mailer, "Introduction," In the Belly of the Beast (New York: Vintage, 1981), pp. ix-xvi.
Amnesty International, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (New York: Seven Stories, 2000).
Spacing has been affected in this essay and new obstacles as well as "errors" inserted in the text are always anticipated. More harassing phone calls on October 15, 2007 at 11:32 A.M. from 520-124-6246. As of 9:24 P.M. I am unable to access MSN and have been prevented from posting at blogger for hours. I will keep trying. My book is still not being distributed to book sellers. On October 17, 2007 at 6:58 P.M. more annoying calls from 305-375-7280. Florida. CANF? For some reason, my print-out of this essay -- at page three -- is without a page number or an address at the bottom of the page. I wonder why? I am blocking:
http://m1.2mdn.net/viewad/1B2188119-default_1x1.gif (illegal tracking?)
http://ad.N2434.doubleclick,net/a/N2434.msn/B2...
On October 18, 2007 at 9:25 A.M. I was unable to print items from my MSN group. I received only a blank page bearing this address:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01
On October 21, 2007 at 10:30 A.M. I am unable to print items receiving only a blank page with this address at the top left corner: ngc_728_ihm_initial_SA and at the bottom of the page is this address:
http://view.atdmt.com/MSI/iview/scntcngc0210000048msi/direct/01?click= (National Security Agency? NGC?)
October 23, 2007 at 11:34 A.M. 301-392-8254. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Spacing problems continue.)
Access to my MSN account is still being blocked by hackers mysteriously using N.J. government computers. I have decided to spend some time this morning not posting a revised version of my essay on "America's Holocaust," since that is impossible at this time, but discussing once again the sad and ugly spectacle of corruption, malice, racism and hypocrisy among New Jersey's judges and police officials. (Numerous "errors" have been inserted in this text, even in draft form, so I will correct them. I fully anticipate that I will need to do so again in the future.)
"... I was being driven back from a literary event in New York to my home in Princeton," Joyce Carol Oates writes, "by a black driver for a well-known limousine service. At about 11 p.m., somewhere on the turnpike between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey state troopers signaled for my driver to pull over. They subjected him to approximately 40 minutes of harsh and repetitive interrogation ('What's your name?' 'Where do you live?' 'Where are you headed?' and so on) for no evident reason."
The reason was skin color. In a similar way, numerous harassment efforts are directed at websites with my writings, from behind the scenes probably, any prospective publishers or opportunities that come my way will be destroyed (if New Jersey authorities, I believe, become aware of them), obstructions to writing efforts on-line, hundreds and even thousands of viruses, illegal spyware, other attacks against my system are routine. These efforts have persisted and will go on for much longer than forty minutes -- for years, in fact, as a kind of "ass covering efffort" to discourage continued criticisms of the Garden State's torture practices, together with denying, ignoring or stonewalling in response to effforts to obtain Tuchin's and Riccioli's secretly prepared and filed reports, along with the truth concerning my life. How many others are tortured and raped, in every sense, by New Jersey authorities we may never know. (See "Even in New Jersey There Comes a Time When Silence is Betrayal.")
"There were two white troopers who demanded to see the driver's and my identification" -- the troopers had no legal right to demand the passenger's identification -- "forced the driver to get out of the car and subjected him to questioning with increased belligerence."
Had Ms. Oates not been a passenger and witness, it is highly likely that her driver would have been struck or severely beaten, then charged with "resisting arrest" and accused of failing to use a turn signal or not wearing a seat belt, or the old stand-by: "warrants for parking tickets." These warrants can be generated any time by friends at headquarters, then shrugged off as a good faith mistake. In the same way, police in some New Jersey cities have illegal guns handy to plant on African-Americans murdered "by mistake" in order to make things look good -- allegedly. I would not be surprised if something similar turns out to have happened in Mumia Abu-Jamal's case. No wonder they want to discourage me from writing. They are concerned about people reading these truths. They should be.
"I was not allowed to know what was going on, and when after about 10 minutes I made a tentative gesture to open the car door, the troopers yelled at me, 'Stay in the car lady!' They then walked the driver about 20 feet away from the limousine, to continue to interrogate or harass him out of earshot."
The troopers will say that persons are kept in their vehicle to protect officers from passengers who will fire at them. This is true, as far as it goes, but the real reason in most instances where troopers know that there is no real danger is to isolate and increase anxiety on their victims-"suspects" (who are inevitably African-Americans). Also, the goal was no doubt to create problems for the driver with his client and employer, since passengers tend not to enjoy being kept waiting for nearly an hour for no reason or being treated like a felon, also for no reason. (A new "error" that is not found in my printed version of this essay was just inserted in the text.) Curiously, torture and rape are even more distressing for victims, regardless of whether these things are said to be for the victim's "own good." (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
"I called my husband on my cellphone to explain that I was going to be late returning home, as it looked as if my driver was being 'arrested' for some reason."
For no reason other than race.
"(As the minutes passed, it occurred to me to dial 911 and report this incident, but, with my instinct for irony, I guessed that the police officers who would be notified about the incident would be these very New Jersey state troopers, which would have made them even more angry and belligerent.)"
What they want is homage. They want you to bow, humiliate yourself, grant their superiority and god-like status, then they'll let the average innocent person go. This is something that one might manage on a single occasion -- without being too proud of it -- but unless a man has lost all semblance of dignity and self-esteem, pride is not something that will be surrendered for long and much less for a lifetime.
The unpardonable sin which places some African-American men and women as well as "others" in U.S. prisons -- or even leads to the gas chamber in some cases -- is an unwillingness to accept slavery. To insist on one's human rights and dignity, over a period of years, despite hypnosis, psychological torture, and professional destruction may well constitute a capital offense for minority persons in New Jersey.
"Fortunately for both of us the driver was unfailingly courteous, soft-spoken and obedient. Perhaps he'd been pulled over by New Jersey state troopers before."
Very likely. Such a surrender of a man's dignity, over a period of years will reach the point at which he has no more pride to give, for he has been made into nothing, something sub-human. African-American women understand what has been done to their husbands, fathers, sons in ways that most white women do not. Hence, they have a different measure by which to judge conduct that is incomprehensible for those who cannot imagine such experiences over a lifetime.
They will be repeated -- these rituals of humiliation -- preferably with the assistance of sold out minority persons. There are minorities so broken on this wheel of power that they become its servants at the expense of their brothers and sisters. I have seen homeless men opening doors and performing in public, a kind of hideous caricature-dance of racist stereotypes into which they have been transfomed, like marionettes begging for coins, like the "things" that they have been made into. Some people will die before they accept such a role. Anything that breaks a human being's psyche in such a manner is evil. (More "errors" inserted and corrected.)
You are witnessing daily efforts to destroy these writings (and this writer) for saying unsayable things in America, also for refusing to accept or legitimate, crimes against humanity committed against him and others in New Jersey. I am running my scans. I will persist in the struggle to speak this truth to corrupt officials in New Jersey and the world. Is it possible for you to remain silent and indifferent to what you are seeing?
"There is a paradox at the core of penology," Norman Mailer writes, "and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young are sent to prison, but the best -- that is, the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising, and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror. ... prison is equipped to grind down criminals who are cowards into social submission, but can only break the spirit of brave men [and women] who are criminals, or anneal them until they are harder than the steel that encloses them."
America's future may well depend on whether we understand what is being said in this next paragraph:
"If you can conceive of a society (it is very difficult these days) that is more concerned with the creative potential of violent young men [and women] than with the threat they pose to the suburbs, then a few solutions for future prisons may be there. ... [Young minority persons] are drawn to crime as a positive experience -- because it is more exciting, more meaningful, more mysterious, more transcendental, more religious than any other experience they have known."
This is not to glorify crime or violence -- certainly not violence against women -- such violence is something which has always been impossible for me. No one is saying that crime is a positive experience. Mailer argues that if society dehumanizes men and women -- reducing one group to sexual organs and the other to a capacity for violence -- then decides to break them in pieces for displaying the very qualities demanded of them for survival, then you can be sure that a few of these men and women will prefer death to the surrender of their humanity. America's power-structure and legal system is hardly in a position to caution others about violence. (See "Michel Foucault, Gillian Rose, Angela Davis and the Hermeneutics of Prison.")
That choice between human dignity and torture is only forced on some persons in a society that is afflicted with a serious disease -- a disease called "racism" and social injustice, a disease opposed to the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, a disease against which we must struggle at all times. The fascism witnessed (in a small way) by Ms. Oates has been experienced in not so small ways by many of us for years. This includes a person I love.
"If the police officers hoped to provoke him into 'resisting arrest' so that they could beat him, or worse," Ms. Oates writes, "they must have been disappointed."
They would have beaten him, regardless of whether this African-American driver "resisted arrest," except for the affluent white woman heading home to Princeton. None of this will be on the bar exam, boys and girls. Nonsense concerning "ethics standards" imposed on officials will always be irrelevant to what happens behind-the-scenes in New Jersey. It is also irrelevant to the reality of disappearing funds from the Garden State's prison budgets:
"For the second time in two years, an audit has found that the [New Jersey] State Corrections Department failed to adequately monitor its multimillion dollar contract for inmate dental services. [A lot of inmates received expensive dental care (allegedly), but it seems to have disappeared when the inmates are examined.] In a report released yesterday, Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper concluded that the department could not guarantee that inmates were getting services that were paid for or that the state was not overpaying the contractor, Correctional Medical Services. [Terry Tuchin in "white man's country"?] Spokesmen for the Corrections Department and Correctional Medical Services said they could not comment."
New York Times, October 16, 2007, at p. B4. (Who are New Jersey's thieves and crooks again?)
Much of New Jersey law and adjudication is a transparent lie that some of us refuse to live. Perhaps this is because we are not "gentlemen." Every time I see young African-American children playing in the park or on the streets, I am reminded that one in three of them will end up in prison. Another of the three will be killed. Maybe one out of three will be permitted to struggle through life. The enormity of this horror and loss for all of us -- surgeons, artists, philosophers, scientists thrown away -- brings tears to my eyes. I will not be silenced. This may be the tenth time that I have corrected the same "errors" inserted in this essay. (See "What is it like to be tortured?") Overnight, several new "errors" were inserted in the foregoing paragraph. I have now corrected them, once again. How is the spacing in this essay?
To say this, that I weep for African-American children, is to open myself to the criticism -- usually from the same fascists tormenting that driver and, sadly, also many Latino men -- that I am not "manly" enough. I believe that a willingness to embrace painful emotions is what it means to be adults, for both men and women, who nevertheless refuse to sacrifice all capacity for laughter, play and hope for the sake of their children, those same children who are now so threatened.
"After what seemed like a very long time, they allowed the driver to return to the car and resume the drive back to Princeton."
Guess what happened next?
"I asked him what had been wrong, and he said that they'd claimed he had 'outstanding warrants' of some kind, but they were letting him go so that he could drive me home. Next morning, when I called the limousine service. I was told that the driver did not have 'outstanding warrants' and that he hadn't violated any law that anyone knew of."
Something of that man's spirit was left on a dark stretch of road that night. In the words of Amnesty International, a false death warrant issued to Mumia Abu-Jamal and many others, "is playing politics with a man's life" -- does this ring a bell, Richard J. Codey? Senator Bob? -- "The unnecessary infliction of suffering upon a prisoner by a government official constitutes torture." The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000), p. 53.
Psychological torture is the daily experience of millions of African-American men and women, also of others in our throw-away culture. How do we live with this grotesque reality? Norman Mailer says:
"We do not live ... in a world that tries to solve its prison problems. Even to assume we do is utopian. The underlying horror may be that we all inhabit the swollen tissues of a body politic that is drenched in bad conscience, so bad indeed that the laugh of the hyena reverberates from every TV set, and is in danger of becoming our true national anthem. We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. The mugger becomes the size of Golgotha and the middle class retires into walled cities [prisons?] with armed guards. Here, the prisons have wall-to-wall carpeting, and the guards address the inmates as 'Sir,' and bow. But they are prisons. The measure of the progressive imprisonment of all society is to be found at the base -- in the penitentiaries themselves. The bad conscience of society comes to focus in the burning lens of the penitentiary."
Think of Foucault and Davis as you read this paragraph:
"That is why we do not speak of improving the prisons -- which is to say, taking them through some mighty transmogrifications -- but only of fortifying law and order. But that is no more feasible than the dream of remission in the cancer patient. ... [W]e won't get law and order without a revolution in the prison system."
Thursday, October 11, 2007
More Crooked Judges and Fixed Cases in New Jersey.
Jonathan Miller, "In Parking-Pinched Jersey City, Four Judges Are Suspected of Fixing Tickets," in The New York Times, October 10, 2007, at p. B1.
Jonathan Miller, "Jersey City: Another Judge Steps Down," in The New York Times, October 11, 2007, at p. B6.
Jonathan Miller, "Judges on Other Side of the Bench Plead Not Guilty," in The New York Times, November 2, 2007, at p. B4.
Spacing will be affected, letters will be deleted, harassment and further obstacles to communication must be expected from New Jersey's FECES-SMEARED TRIBUNALS AND THE JUDICIAL WHORES FOUND IN THEM, LIKE VERMIN IN GARBAGE DUMPS. Let's dump on them! Notice that my essay on the Jena 6 case has been particularly infuriating to the Jersey Boys. Swastikas?
October 13, 2007 at 10:45 A.M. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001300x250... (N.J. Hackers/Senator Bob's people?)
October 15, 2007 at 10:46 A.M. several attempts to post a revised version of my essay on the Jena 6 case have been obstructed and navigating at my MSN group is impossible. I will try throughout the day to post that revised essay. Unfortunately, this will delay or obstruct other projects. These frustration tactics and harassment efforts help me to persist in my struggle. See "What is it like to be tortured?"
"JERSEY CITY, Oct. 9 -- Four of the city's 10 municipal court judges -- including the former chief judge -- are being investigated by the New Jersey attorney general's office on suspicion of fixing parking tickets for friends or family, and in at least one case for a colleague on the bench, officials here say." (How is the spacing in this essay?)
What else is new? Judges in New Jersey's municipal courts are well-known to "fix" not only tickets, but many of the small criminal matters that routinely come before them -- such as assaults, thefts, drug possession cases and so on. These judges are political animals routinely pressured to "decide" cases one way or another. I recall one municipal judge -- not in Jersey City -- saying that he was "under a lot of pressure" to find a particular defendant guilty. This was while the case was pending before him and well before all of the evidence had been submitted for consideration. Half the battle in New Jersey legal practice is figuring out what's really going on behind the scenes, which criminal conspiracy is affecting your case.
One attorney was "asked," she claimed, by the municipal judge in town to question another attorney's clients to see whether she might take them away from that so-called "colleague" at the time and (probably) split the money with the judge. Prohibitions against breaching confidentiality and other ethics rules, as well as legal violations, were set aside. You ever heard of confidentiality, Terry? How about conflict of interest? Who cares about the Constitution or fiduciary relations? Not New Jersey's judges. The only evidence that matters in New Jersey's "legally-pinched" court proceedings is a phone call from a political "boss" to the local judge telling him or her: "We want to get this guy!"
What happened to the independence of the judiciary? For some reason, I think I know what that must be like for the victim. Judges are told to "take care" of friends of local political "officials" or to "take care of the mayor's people." You can be sure that, if they want to be reappointed (and get the medical benefits and pension that goes with the robes), they'll "go along to get along." These are the Brandeis-like legal geniuses deciding on the ethics of attorneys designated for destruction by their whore-masters in Trenton. "It cost me $25,000 in cash to get this judgeship, you think I'm going to make waves?" Nah ...
New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin, who represents Ms. Molina, "said that the state attorney general Anne Milgram, had unfairly singled out the judges." In Krovatin's words:
"If there is a systemwide problem with the practice of 'courtesy dismissals' of ... summonses -- in Jersey City and other municipalities in the state -- it ought to be addressed with a systemwide solution. ..."
The message sent between the lines in this text is that every municipal court in the state routinely dismisses charges against members of the club. Worse happens in the Garden State's bemerded Superior Court. Right, Maurice? So who cares about Jersey City? The Camden Machine does, since Menendez is on his way to Danberry Federal Penitentiary, probably, and the powers that be want to flex their muscles. Geez. This lawyer is saying to the capo di tutti capi, the political brass in Trenton: "Do you really want to open this can of worms? Why not forget about it?" After all, it's not like the New Jersey attorney general is a federal prosecutor or a real law enforcement officer anyway. Who cares? Trenton doesn't.
I am experiencing an attack on my computer and obstructions to my writing efforts as I type these words. Numerous essays have been defaced overnight, probably, and will be again. I will continue to make the same corrections as often as necessary. I wonder why the Jersey Boys are upset? They should have their friends in the newspapers put out good news. Right, Jay? How about mafia-inspired attacks against Chris Christie?
"During the past month, the chief judge has resigned and the three other judges have taken leaves of absence. In addition, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, STUART RABNER, has assigned the day-to-day operations of the court to a Superior Court judge from Hudson County."
What a relief, huh? This just means that the bribes will be more expensive. The state attorney general Anne Milgram -- who, allegedly, enjoys M-TV's "Open House" -- is looking into this typical situation in Jersey City, most likely because the Camden Machine wants to embarass Mayor Healy and promises to deliver a judgeship to Anne (I wouldn't trust them, Anne) if she causes a little ruckus in Hudson County. Anne obviously wants to get herself a Superior Court judgeship. Has she ever tried a case anywhere? Apparently not. What the hell. Don't worry, Anne, it's just like on t.v.!
"Hey, wadda-ya gonna do? Judges gotta make a living too. Have a fruit basket. We'll make Cheech the next municipal judge."
Nothing surprises me when it comes to New Jersey's mob-infested legal profession and tainted tribunals. Debbie is happy if they line up some "chics" for her. Stuart likes to "chat" with Anne Milgram. Everything is coming up roses. Is a Superior Court judgeship still $20 to $25 thousand in "contributions" (plus, you may have to fix the "four way check," which goes for another $15 thou), right boys and girls?
"In a state regularly buffeted by the indictments and convictions of public officials, the trial court administrator here, Joseph F. Davis" -- Little Joe! -- "added an ominous note."
All of New Jersey is an ominous note. The place is a disgusting, overflowing toilet of corruption.
"People are concerned with what they're seeing ..."
This is a man of wisdom. No shit, Little Joe?
"According to officials here, the judges being investigated include Chief Judge Wanda Molina" -- who was an o.k. prosecutor -- "Pauline E. Sica, Irwin Rosen and Victor G. Sison, who took unpaid leaves."
You will find the same behavior in most Hudson County municipal courts, whose personnel will lie about this well-known reality. Ethics? These are the same people serving on the county ethics committees, which are even more political entities and far more corrupt. Go ahead, tell me how superior you "judges" are to mere mortals. Do not trust any New Jersey judge or tribunal. Do not go to the authorities in New Jersey with allegations of corruption in the political and legal system. Go to the federal government or U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, CHRISTOPHER J. CHRISTIE in Newark.
"According to officials, Ms. Molina is suspected of trying to have numerous tickets dismissed that had been issued to a companion while she was chief judge. Judge Sica is suspected of using her influence to seek the dismissal of a ticket issued to a judicial colleague. Judge Rosen is suspected of dismissing a ticket that had been issued to himself."
He found himself "not guilty." The biggest joke concerns who has been asked to restore "integrity" to this farce. The "Honorable" MAURICE J. GALLIPOLI (these guys and gals like to see their names in caps -- except when they're indicted!) of Hudson County is overseeing the Municipal Court in Jersey City. All the "rug merchants" better watch out. (See "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Many of the people writing tickets are alleged to sit in a diner not far from Journal Square with a list of license plates targeted for harassment by the Jersey Boys, writing tickets for unseen parking offenses. Badda-bing, badda-boom. "The Boss says we gotta get that lawyer!" Is that right, guys? This was always a Union City specialty, right Bob? Harass an enemy with tickets.
Maurice has already achieved spectacular results with the Superior Court, so anything's possible at the municipal level. More judges are resigning after allegations of fraud and theft from what is laughingly known as "the judicial bench" in New Jersey. This is only the beginning:
"A fifth Municipal Court judge in Jersey City has left office in the midst of state investigation into ticket fixing in the city, the mayor's office said yesterday. The judge, Vincent A. Signorile" -- Vinnie "the Shark"! -- "a former city councilman, informed the court yesterday that he was taking an unpaid leave of absence. A spokeswoman for Mayor Jeremiah T. Healy said the leave was connected to the investigation. One other judge has resigned, three judges have taken leaves, a court worker has resigned and another has been suspended. The state assumed control of the court this month. The mayor appointed replacements for the judges yesterday, and they are expected to be sworn in today."
Hey, the Jersey Boys put in another "error" while I was away. That's great! It means I'm getting to them. Keep your eyes on this post and let's see what they try next. 50% of the Municipal Court Judges in Jersey City are corrupt, apparently, and that figure is an understatement (hey, they did it again!) -- it is also typical of what goes on throughout the state. In my opinion, things are worse at the Superior Court level.
This is nothing compared to the blatant criminality just under the surface of New Jersey's legal laugh track at the state's disgraced Supreme Court. Where's the OAE? Where's good old Stuart? Still waiting for instructions from the Boys in black shirts and white ties, Stu? Where art thou, Stu? He's "demurring" -- with or without Anne? Hey, isn't Anne Milgram a Dyke? Whatta ya gonna do? That's Jersey for ya!
Jonathan Miller, "Jersey City: Another Judge Steps Down," in The New York Times, October 11, 2007, at p. B6.
Jonathan Miller, "Judges on Other Side of the Bench Plead Not Guilty," in The New York Times, November 2, 2007, at p. B4.
Spacing will be affected, letters will be deleted, harassment and further obstacles to communication must be expected from New Jersey's FECES-SMEARED TRIBUNALS AND THE JUDICIAL WHORES FOUND IN THEM, LIKE VERMIN IN GARBAGE DUMPS. Let's dump on them! Notice that my essay on the Jena 6 case has been particularly infuriating to the Jersey Boys. Swastikas?
October 13, 2007 at 10:45 A.M. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001300x250... (N.J. Hackers/Senator Bob's people?)
October 15, 2007 at 10:46 A.M. several attempts to post a revised version of my essay on the Jena 6 case have been obstructed and navigating at my MSN group is impossible. I will try throughout the day to post that revised essay. Unfortunately, this will delay or obstruct other projects. These frustration tactics and harassment efforts help me to persist in my struggle. See "What is it like to be tortured?"
"JERSEY CITY, Oct. 9 -- Four of the city's 10 municipal court judges -- including the former chief judge -- are being investigated by the New Jersey attorney general's office on suspicion of fixing parking tickets for friends or family, and in at least one case for a colleague on the bench, officials here say." (How is the spacing in this essay?)
What else is new? Judges in New Jersey's municipal courts are well-known to "fix" not only tickets, but many of the small criminal matters that routinely come before them -- such as assaults, thefts, drug possession cases and so on. These judges are political animals routinely pressured to "decide" cases one way or another. I recall one municipal judge -- not in Jersey City -- saying that he was "under a lot of pressure" to find a particular defendant guilty. This was while the case was pending before him and well before all of the evidence had been submitted for consideration. Half the battle in New Jersey legal practice is figuring out what's really going on behind the scenes, which criminal conspiracy is affecting your case.
One attorney was "asked," she claimed, by the municipal judge in town to question another attorney's clients to see whether she might take them away from that so-called "colleague" at the time and (probably) split the money with the judge. Prohibitions against breaching confidentiality and other ethics rules, as well as legal violations, were set aside. You ever heard of confidentiality, Terry? How about conflict of interest? Who cares about the Constitution or fiduciary relations? Not New Jersey's judges. The only evidence that matters in New Jersey's "legally-pinched" court proceedings is a phone call from a political "boss" to the local judge telling him or her: "We want to get this guy!"
What happened to the independence of the judiciary? For some reason, I think I know what that must be like for the victim. Judges are told to "take care" of friends of local political "officials" or to "take care of the mayor's people." You can be sure that, if they want to be reappointed (and get the medical benefits and pension that goes with the robes), they'll "go along to get along." These are the Brandeis-like legal geniuses deciding on the ethics of attorneys designated for destruction by their whore-masters in Trenton. "It cost me $25,000 in cash to get this judgeship, you think I'm going to make waves?" Nah ...
New Jersey attorney Gerald Krovatin, who represents Ms. Molina, "said that the state attorney general Anne Milgram, had unfairly singled out the judges." In Krovatin's words:
"If there is a systemwide problem with the practice of 'courtesy dismissals' of ... summonses -- in Jersey City and other municipalities in the state -- it ought to be addressed with a systemwide solution. ..."
The message sent between the lines in this text is that every municipal court in the state routinely dismisses charges against members of the club. Worse happens in the Garden State's bemerded Superior Court. Right, Maurice? So who cares about Jersey City? The Camden Machine does, since Menendez is on his way to Danberry Federal Penitentiary, probably, and the powers that be want to flex their muscles. Geez. This lawyer is saying to the capo di tutti capi, the political brass in Trenton: "Do you really want to open this can of worms? Why not forget about it?" After all, it's not like the New Jersey attorney general is a federal prosecutor or a real law enforcement officer anyway. Who cares? Trenton doesn't.
I am experiencing an attack on my computer and obstructions to my writing efforts as I type these words. Numerous essays have been defaced overnight, probably, and will be again. I will continue to make the same corrections as often as necessary. I wonder why the Jersey Boys are upset? They should have their friends in the newspapers put out good news. Right, Jay? How about mafia-inspired attacks against Chris Christie?
"During the past month, the chief judge has resigned and the three other judges have taken leaves of absence. In addition, the chief justice of the state Supreme Court, STUART RABNER, has assigned the day-to-day operations of the court to a Superior Court judge from Hudson County."
What a relief, huh? This just means that the bribes will be more expensive. The state attorney general Anne Milgram -- who, allegedly, enjoys M-TV's "Open House" -- is looking into this typical situation in Jersey City, most likely because the Camden Machine wants to embarass Mayor Healy and promises to deliver a judgeship to Anne (I wouldn't trust them, Anne) if she causes a little ruckus in Hudson County. Anne obviously wants to get herself a Superior Court judgeship. Has she ever tried a case anywhere? Apparently not. What the hell. Don't worry, Anne, it's just like on t.v.!
"Hey, wadda-ya gonna do? Judges gotta make a living too. Have a fruit basket. We'll make Cheech the next municipal judge."
Nothing surprises me when it comes to New Jersey's mob-infested legal profession and tainted tribunals. Debbie is happy if they line up some "chics" for her. Stuart likes to "chat" with Anne Milgram. Everything is coming up roses. Is a Superior Court judgeship still $20 to $25 thousand in "contributions" (plus, you may have to fix the "four way check," which goes for another $15 thou), right boys and girls?
"In a state regularly buffeted by the indictments and convictions of public officials, the trial court administrator here, Joseph F. Davis" -- Little Joe! -- "added an ominous note."
All of New Jersey is an ominous note. The place is a disgusting, overflowing toilet of corruption.
"People are concerned with what they're seeing ..."
This is a man of wisdom. No shit, Little Joe?
"According to officials here, the judges being investigated include Chief Judge Wanda Molina" -- who was an o.k. prosecutor -- "Pauline E. Sica, Irwin Rosen and Victor G. Sison, who took unpaid leaves."
You will find the same behavior in most Hudson County municipal courts, whose personnel will lie about this well-known reality. Ethics? These are the same people serving on the county ethics committees, which are even more political entities and far more corrupt. Go ahead, tell me how superior you "judges" are to mere mortals. Do not trust any New Jersey judge or tribunal. Do not go to the authorities in New Jersey with allegations of corruption in the political and legal system. Go to the federal government or U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, CHRISTOPHER J. CHRISTIE in Newark.
"According to officials, Ms. Molina is suspected of trying to have numerous tickets dismissed that had been issued to a companion while she was chief judge. Judge Sica is suspected of using her influence to seek the dismissal of a ticket issued to a judicial colleague. Judge Rosen is suspected of dismissing a ticket that had been issued to himself."
He found himself "not guilty." The biggest joke concerns who has been asked to restore "integrity" to this farce. The "Honorable" MAURICE J. GALLIPOLI (these guys and gals like to see their names in caps -- except when they're indicted!) of Hudson County is overseeing the Municipal Court in Jersey City. All the "rug merchants" better watch out. (See "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Many of the people writing tickets are alleged to sit in a diner not far from Journal Square with a list of license plates targeted for harassment by the Jersey Boys, writing tickets for unseen parking offenses. Badda-bing, badda-boom. "The Boss says we gotta get that lawyer!" Is that right, guys? This was always a Union City specialty, right Bob? Harass an enemy with tickets.
Maurice has already achieved spectacular results with the Superior Court, so anything's possible at the municipal level. More judges are resigning after allegations of fraud and theft from what is laughingly known as "the judicial bench" in New Jersey. This is only the beginning:
"A fifth Municipal Court judge in Jersey City has left office in the midst of state investigation into ticket fixing in the city, the mayor's office said yesterday. The judge, Vincent A. Signorile" -- Vinnie "the Shark"! -- "a former city councilman, informed the court yesterday that he was taking an unpaid leave of absence. A spokeswoman for Mayor Jeremiah T. Healy said the leave was connected to the investigation. One other judge has resigned, three judges have taken leaves, a court worker has resigned and another has been suspended. The state assumed control of the court this month. The mayor appointed replacements for the judges yesterday, and they are expected to be sworn in today."
Hey, the Jersey Boys put in another "error" while I was away. That's great! It means I'm getting to them. Keep your eyes on this post and let's see what they try next. 50% of the Municipal Court Judges in Jersey City are corrupt, apparently, and that figure is an understatement (hey, they did it again!) -- it is also typical of what goes on throughout the state. In my opinion, things are worse at the Superior Court level.
This is nothing compared to the blatant criminality just under the surface of New Jersey's legal laugh track at the state's disgraced Supreme Court. Where's the OAE? Where's good old Stuart? Still waiting for instructions from the Boys in black shirts and white ties, Stu? Where art thou, Stu? He's "demurring" -- with or without Anne? Hey, isn't Anne Milgram a Dyke? Whatta ya gonna do? That's Jersey for ya!
Friday, August 3, 2007
Politically "Connected" Developer Fined In New Jersey.
Ken Belson, "Trenton: Meadowlands Developer Fined," in The New York Times, August 2, 2007 at p. B4.
"EnCap Golf Holdings, a developer that has faltered in its bid to transform garbage dumps in the Meadowlands into homes and an entertainment district, has been fined $1.054 MILLION for allowing methane gas to escape from one of its construction sites, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said yesterday. According to agency documents, the gas was released from the Kingsland Landfill in Lyndhurst" -- Lyndhurst is reputedly (and allegedly) big time mob territory -- "where one of EnCap's construction sites is located. The leaks were detected from October of last year through July 24. Methane gas is typically funneled through underground pipes [like drug money to New Jersey politicians and judges] underneath the landfill. EnCap, which is owned by Cheroke Investment Partners in North Carolina, was also fined for not obtaining permits to operate the landfill. The company plans to appeal the fine, a spokesman said."
Don't worry, they'll just call their friends on the New Jersey Supreme Court, allegedly. This week the Paterson School district was required to remain under supervision as a result of defective performance and creative accounting for expeditures. That's what they call "the new math."
"Hey, wadda-ya gonna do. Same old, same old ... know what I mean?"
"EnCap Golf Holdings, a developer that has faltered in its bid to transform garbage dumps in the Meadowlands into homes and an entertainment district, has been fined $1.054 MILLION for allowing methane gas to escape from one of its construction sites, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said yesterday. According to agency documents, the gas was released from the Kingsland Landfill in Lyndhurst" -- Lyndhurst is reputedly (and allegedly) big time mob territory -- "where one of EnCap's construction sites is located. The leaks were detected from October of last year through July 24. Methane gas is typically funneled through underground pipes [like drug money to New Jersey politicians and judges] underneath the landfill. EnCap, which is owned by Cheroke Investment Partners in North Carolina, was also fined for not obtaining permits to operate the landfill. The company plans to appeal the fine, a spokesman said."
Don't worry, they'll just call their friends on the New Jersey Supreme Court, allegedly. This week the Paterson School district was required to remain under supervision as a result of defective performance and creative accounting for expeditures. That's what they call "the new math."
"Hey, wadda-ya gonna do. Same old, same old ... know what I mean?"
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