May 3, 2010 at 2:07 P.M. More "errors" inserted in "A Philosophical Investigation of Ludwig Wittgenstein." ("Stephen J. Schaeffer and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "More Child-Porn and -Prostitution in New Jersey" as well as "Neil M. Cohen, Esq. and Conduct Unbecoming to the Legislature in New Jersey" then "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
April 3, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. This essay was posted earlier today. Numerous "errors" were inserted in the text. I have now corrected those "errors." Keep 'em coming.
April 3, 2010 at 2:37 P.M. Access to the Internet was denied to me yesterday. Several of my essays were altered or defaced in violation of copyright laws and the U.S. Constitution. Can Cubans believe America's pronouncements concerning free speech or the rights of dissidents? I am afraid not.
May 9, 2008 at 11:06 A.M. I am blocking "spyware":
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3753.msn/B271049...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=1652863;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=1652863;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=1652863;met=...
http://ad.doublelcick.net/activity;src=1652863;met=...
May 8, 2008 at 9:11 A.M. new obstacles prevent me from accessing Critique. Has MSN groups closed? I will do my best to return to my MSN group. I'll try to write today. My image at that group may be blocked. No images can be posted at this blog or with my profile. I will run scans throughout the day. I am blocking:
http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=d...
http://docs.google.com/js/949013627-plus_embed-view.csshttp://dics.google.com/js/30827582-PresentlyIndirect.js ("JS" = Superior Court Judge, New Jersey?)
http://docs.google.com/js/116215014-EmbedSlideshow.js
http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/711-58813-2060-2014 (I do not have an e-bay account!)
http://icedz.ebay.com/ad/212041...
May 6, 2008 at 10:26 A.M. I received a call from 212-645-5985; same caller at 10:34 A.M.; then again at 10:43 A.M.; and at 10:47 A.M.; "anonymous" calls at 10:58 A.M. At 11:02 A.M. I received another call from 212-645-5985 and at 11:06 A.M. from the same caller. Harassment?
May 6, 2008 at 8:51 A.M. several articles critical of Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez were defaced. I am unable at this time to correct them, yet again, in order to re-post them. I am obstructed from accessing my MSN group. I will continue to run scans, devoting the rest of the day to regaining access to my group. Furthermore, I will devote more essays to Senator Bob and New Jersey corruption in response to these tactics. I will do my best to make corrections of writings altered or destroyed by hackers last night. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
May 5, 2008 at 9:16 A.M. It is difficult to post essays at Critique, where a number of essays have already been vandalized today. I will continue to struggle to make necessary corrections. I am blocking:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3753.MSN/B271049... ("ADJ" = Apellate Division Judge, NJ?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=165283;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=165283;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=165283;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=165283;met=...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/activity;src=165283;met=...
Calls received from 757-990-8980 at 9:16 A.M., then again at 9:57 A.M., in addition to the usual anonymous "marketers." Obscene calls are also received regularly from these numbers. These may be "dummy numbers" used by hidden phantom callers.
"In New Jersey's super-corrupt atmosphere, nothing is sacred or beyond conversion to a patronage pit. Seemingly everything Jersey politicians do is designed to help themselves or their friends. Little is done because it is the right thing to do. Sometimes it can be the right thing, but in that case, it's a coincidence."
Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure, The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (New York: St. Martin's, 2008), p. 9.
I have just spent hours coping with the usual harassment, obstructions of access to my sites, defacements and vandalism of essays, destruction of written work, attempts at frustration or inducement of violent reactions. Really, what I experience -- almost on a daily basis -- is a sadistic delight in inflicting emotional and psychological pain on a human being whose mind (weirdly) is both envied and hated. This sick cruelty can only provide a twisted form of sexual pleasure for the would-be tormentor.
I never before fully appreciated to what extent one might be hated for intelligence. Creative ability and imagination are things that inspire hatred, loathing, mostly fear among simple and confused people. These qualities are now grounds for the destruction of human beings in America -- at least, they are in New Jersey. At this point in my life, I have no other explanation for these attacks on my writings. Perhaps there has never been another explanation. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
There is something about intelligence that frightens brutal and ignorant men and women -- who are also beguiled by ideas that they recognize are beautiful and important, but which will always be beyond their grasp. This is felt to be "unfair," somehow. If they (Diana, Terry, and people like them) cannot understand something important, they believe that no one should understand such things or discuss them. These people are called "therapists" -- at least in New Jersey, where they are protected by corrupt police and prosecutors from the consequences of any crimes they commit against dark-skinned or poor people. A great deal of anti-semitism and racism is motivated by hatred of intelligence and beauty. ("Is Humanism Still Possible?" and "New Jersey's KKK Police Shocker.")
Like so much of artistic culture and the true richness of life, these beauties are indestructible. These priceless "things of the mind" cannot be stolen or taken by force. The stupid and cruel person faced with someone who relishes the life of the mind and who offers its fruits -- even to his tormentors -- free of charge, cannot avoid being infuriated not by what he or she will never "know" (which is a lot!), but by what he or she will never "be." It is frustration at your own inadequacies and intellectual limitations that causes you to insert "errors" in my writings. I have learned this lesson from James Baldwin as well as many others. Mr. McGill? ("Miami's Cubanoids Protest AGAINST Peace!")
Was Nydia Hernandez a part of recent dismal events in Trenton? I wonder whether Nydia has visited my sites? Three child-porn rings broken up in New Jersey. (Soon: "Sybil R. Moses Joins the Lesbian Love Fest!")
It is not what I say; rather, it is what I am that is unforgivable. What I am is a thinker. I am someone who chooses to reason and feel (even when it is painful to do so), and whose faults are as great as any other person's faults -- yet who insists on remaining just that: a PERSON. It is only by remaining a person that one can acknowledge faults, while also demanding recognition of injustices and crimes suffered at the hands of others, others whose hypocrisy alone makes them much worse than I am or ever will be. Ethics, Mr. McGill? ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Spacing has been affected in this essay, unfortunately. "Errors" were inserted twice after I posted the work earlier this afternoon. Legal ethics, Mr. Rabner? ("What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "What is it like to be tortured?" then "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")
It is those others who have chosen to abandon their status as persons who are in need of sympathy, not me. These monsters are, in the end, to be pitied. For they can only live comfortably among persons who are as morally repulsive and dimwitted as themselves (Ms. Poritz?), which must be a fate worse than death. And they are, therefore, cursed not to know or be anything but what little they are within themselves, what they have become and will remain in their ideological prisons -- their own envy and greed, anger, and self-chosen stupidity is what they have become and will be forever. Sadly, I must expect more vandalism and censorship of this text. I will continue to write. ("What is it like to be censored in America?")
Showing posts with label New Jersey Political and Judicial Whores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey Political and Judicial Whores. Show all posts
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Monday, September 21, 2009
Corzine in Bed With Casinos!
October 18, 2009 at 10:45 A.M. A new wave of attacks against these writings has resulted in defacements, alterations, disfigurements of essays and short stories. David Kociniewski, "In New Jersey Debate, Talk of Jobs, Taxes and What Pops Up on the Bathroom Scale," in The New York Times, October 17, 2009, at p. A15.
"Mr. Christie's closing statement got the most rousing applause. ... 'Do you believe that New Jersey in the last four years has improved? Do you believe that if we continue the same [corrupt] policies we will get a different result?' he said to cheers from the audience. 'If you elect me, I will bring the change that is necessary.' ..."
September 21, 2009 at 10:23 P.M. I was very pleased to learn of comments and new postings for my book in France and the UK, as well as India and China. Attacks on this essay and all writings in these blogs are expected 24 hours per day from Trenton government offices. I do not drink alcohol. I do not take drugs of any kind. My second book is still suppressed in America. ("How Censorship Works in America.")
There are those in Cuban-American and Republican groups who believe that Senator John McCain's loss of the U.S. presidential election was the result of a conspiracy. I am highly skeptical of all conspiracy theories. I believe that Mr. McCain's loss of the election was the result of receiving fewer votes than his opponent.
Josh Margolin & Claire Heininger, "Governor's Hedge Fund Investment Questioned," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 17.
Tom Moran, "On Democratic Turf, Seeds of Concern for Corzine," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 17.
"Governor to Holley: Resign!," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 18.
Every time I urinate, I think of New Jersey. Today I received some more news of corruption in Trenton to justify my harsh conclusions, giving me a big target to aim at in my urinal -- which features a photo of New Jersey's Supreme Court justices:
"In the ongoing fight over political corruption, Christie has often accused Corzine of being more lenient with prominent Democrats while throwing lesser figures under the bus. After the arrests of 44 PEOPLE in a corruption sting in July, Corzine took a firm stance, calling on all of those accused to resign from office and freezing development in Ridgewood to pressure Mayor Anthony Suarez to quit."
Anthony Suarez enjoys Senator Bob's protection and has not quit. "I don't care about nothing!" Suarez says, allegedly. Did Suarez cough up the ten grand that he received in cash in an envelope in exchange, allegedly, for his "good will"? Think of how irrelevant and incompetent Corzine and Milgram appear to the world.
I think I will add Mr. Suarez's picture to my urinal. I wonder whether pressure has been put on state agencies not to make use of Terry Tuchin's torture services in light of Tuchin's well-known racism and alleged dismissals of African-Americans as "smelly"? Should a Jewish person be a racist, Terry Tuchin? How many of your torture victims are African-Americans and Latinos? All of them? Give me those reports, Terry. I wonder how many of Tuchin's victims are sitting in prison cells in New Jersey?
There are New Jersey attorneys who have cross-examined Tuchin and may be able to provide some useful information concerning the man's so-called "credentials" and "opinions." Any such information will be gratefully received without attribution as to source. All comments concerning New Jersey's power structure are appreciated. I didn't realize how much you people hate each other in New Jersey's corridors of power.
October 18, 2009 at 10:54 A.M. a new "error" was inserted since my previous review. I have now corrected that "error" that was not found in earlier versions of this text.
"There was less public Corzine outrage in August, when the Attorney General's office filed charges against Roselle Council President JAMEL HOLLEY, accusing him of illegally filling out absentee ballots [for dead people, AGAIN?] in a Democratic primary three years ago. Holley is fighting the charges ..." ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
These charges were allegedly motivated by a request put into Anne Milgram by George E. Norcross, III ("The Real Governor of New Jersey"). Isn't the "real governor" Richard J. Codey, Esq.? Senator Bob? It sure isn't Corzine. Maybe that's the problem. Who do we need to call to do something about public criminal civil rights violations emanating from Trenton, New Jersey? Ghost busters?
Anne Milgram, Esq.'s "lesbian love-fest" is endangered because Corzine has (reportedly) put out the word that he wants a new A.G., if he gets reelected. Thank God. No more using the office to get young "chicks," Anne. Do you "socialize" with Deborah T. Poritz, Esq.? Meow Mix? Have fun, ladies.
That's a big "if" for Corzine because the Democrats are losing the inner cities. Minorities see themselves getting screwed out of the stealing sprees in the Garden State's government. It is not bad enough that dead people draw government salaries in New Jersey, but they have to be dead white people.
Corzine is in bed with the Casino investors, which may explain the presence of unsavory elements -- like Joe ("The Enforcer") Doria, Esq. and several other advisers -- especially the token Cuban-Americans. Senator Bob's boys and goons for the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) are, allegedly, prominent among Mr. Corzine's advisers, as Ms. Luchese is a friend of BobbyM's leisurely moments. Or is her name "Li Causi"? Say hi to Gloria, Bob. And give my regards to the twins, Bobby. ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
"Gov. Jon Corzine has a stake in a private hedge fund related to the corporate owner of four New Jersey casinos, an investment Republican critics contend presents at least the appearance of a conflict for a multimillionaire who has vowed" -- Corzine was obviously lying! -- "to stear clear of them."
Them? Oh, you mean conflicts of interest and corruption? Wadda-ya kidding? This is New Jersey! I thought it is a violation of the law for a single owner to have 4 casinos?
New Jersey's casinos are run by the Gambino and Luchese families which have a lot of say, through their bought and paid for politicians, on who gets to be on the New Jersey Gaming Commission that is supposed to "regulate" the gambling industry. Like most things in New Jersey, the mafia families run the show. Care for a roll of quarters? Try the slot machines. All Atlantic City slot machines feature pictures of the public treasury.
As one former Municipal Court judge in Hudson County explained to me: "WE run New Jersey!" He was not referring to officials or politicians, I believe, when he used the word "we." In the words of a prominent New Jersey politician quoted in the Star Ledger:
"Any way you slice it, Jon Corzine has run afoul of the law and certainly afoul of the standard he set for himself ... You cannot be in business with a casino license holder and that is exactly what's happened ..."
Minorities should either vote for "corruption buster" Chris Christie or stay home this election and send the message to the New Jersey political-mafia that they can't take your vote for granted. Tell them that you wanna "wet your beaks."
Stuart Rabner, New Jersey's Chief Justice, is asking his alleged "good friend" and former colleague at the federal prosecutor's office -- indicted attorney, Paul Bergrin, Esq. -- to recommend a sexy spot in Atlantic City for hot action because Bergrin's Whore House is closed. But then, New Jersey's Supreme Court has been called a "low end whore house" -- thanks to Jaynee LaVecchia. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary.")
Say hello to Angelo ("The Horn") Prisco, Stuart. OAE "walking turds" are welcome to post any insults or crap about me that you want -- for a small fee, perhaps. It all helps at this point. Same to you from me. How about deleting or adding a letter to one of my words, "Howard Masia"? "Alina Falcone"?
Dem guys ... Heh, heh, heh.
"Mr. Christie's closing statement got the most rousing applause. ... 'Do you believe that New Jersey in the last four years has improved? Do you believe that if we continue the same [corrupt] policies we will get a different result?' he said to cheers from the audience. 'If you elect me, I will bring the change that is necessary.' ..."
September 21, 2009 at 10:23 P.M. I was very pleased to learn of comments and new postings for my book in France and the UK, as well as India and China. Attacks on this essay and all writings in these blogs are expected 24 hours per day from Trenton government offices. I do not drink alcohol. I do not take drugs of any kind. My second book is still suppressed in America. ("How Censorship Works in America.")
There are those in Cuban-American and Republican groups who believe that Senator John McCain's loss of the U.S. presidential election was the result of a conspiracy. I am highly skeptical of all conspiracy theories. I believe that Mr. McCain's loss of the election was the result of receiving fewer votes than his opponent.
Josh Margolin & Claire Heininger, "Governor's Hedge Fund Investment Questioned," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 17.
Tom Moran, "On Democratic Turf, Seeds of Concern for Corzine," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 17.
"Governor to Holley: Resign!," in Sunday Star Ledger, September 20, 2009, at p. 18.
Every time I urinate, I think of New Jersey. Today I received some more news of corruption in Trenton to justify my harsh conclusions, giving me a big target to aim at in my urinal -- which features a photo of New Jersey's Supreme Court justices:
"In the ongoing fight over political corruption, Christie has often accused Corzine of being more lenient with prominent Democrats while throwing lesser figures under the bus. After the arrests of 44 PEOPLE in a corruption sting in July, Corzine took a firm stance, calling on all of those accused to resign from office and freezing development in Ridgewood to pressure Mayor Anthony Suarez to quit."
Anthony Suarez enjoys Senator Bob's protection and has not quit. "I don't care about nothing!" Suarez says, allegedly. Did Suarez cough up the ten grand that he received in cash in an envelope in exchange, allegedly, for his "good will"? Think of how irrelevant and incompetent Corzine and Milgram appear to the world.
I think I will add Mr. Suarez's picture to my urinal. I wonder whether pressure has been put on state agencies not to make use of Terry Tuchin's torture services in light of Tuchin's well-known racism and alleged dismissals of African-Americans as "smelly"? Should a Jewish person be a racist, Terry Tuchin? How many of your torture victims are African-Americans and Latinos? All of them? Give me those reports, Terry. I wonder how many of Tuchin's victims are sitting in prison cells in New Jersey?
There are New Jersey attorneys who have cross-examined Tuchin and may be able to provide some useful information concerning the man's so-called "credentials" and "opinions." Any such information will be gratefully received without attribution as to source. All comments concerning New Jersey's power structure are appreciated. I didn't realize how much you people hate each other in New Jersey's corridors of power.
October 18, 2009 at 10:54 A.M. a new "error" was inserted since my previous review. I have now corrected that "error" that was not found in earlier versions of this text.
"There was less public Corzine outrage in August, when the Attorney General's office filed charges against Roselle Council President JAMEL HOLLEY, accusing him of illegally filling out absentee ballots [for dead people, AGAIN?] in a Democratic primary three years ago. Holley is fighting the charges ..." ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
These charges were allegedly motivated by a request put into Anne Milgram by George E. Norcross, III ("The Real Governor of New Jersey"). Isn't the "real governor" Richard J. Codey, Esq.? Senator Bob? It sure isn't Corzine. Maybe that's the problem. Who do we need to call to do something about public criminal civil rights violations emanating from Trenton, New Jersey? Ghost busters?
Anne Milgram, Esq.'s "lesbian love-fest" is endangered because Corzine has (reportedly) put out the word that he wants a new A.G., if he gets reelected. Thank God. No more using the office to get young "chicks," Anne. Do you "socialize" with Deborah T. Poritz, Esq.? Meow Mix? Have fun, ladies.
That's a big "if" for Corzine because the Democrats are losing the inner cities. Minorities see themselves getting screwed out of the stealing sprees in the Garden State's government. It is not bad enough that dead people draw government salaries in New Jersey, but they have to be dead white people.
Corzine is in bed with the Casino investors, which may explain the presence of unsavory elements -- like Joe ("The Enforcer") Doria, Esq. and several other advisers -- especially the token Cuban-Americans. Senator Bob's boys and goons for the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) are, allegedly, prominent among Mr. Corzine's advisers, as Ms. Luchese is a friend of BobbyM's leisurely moments. Or is her name "Li Causi"? Say hi to Gloria, Bob. And give my regards to the twins, Bobby. ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
"Gov. Jon Corzine has a stake in a private hedge fund related to the corporate owner of four New Jersey casinos, an investment Republican critics contend presents at least the appearance of a conflict for a multimillionaire who has vowed" -- Corzine was obviously lying! -- "to stear clear of them."
Them? Oh, you mean conflicts of interest and corruption? Wadda-ya kidding? This is New Jersey! I thought it is a violation of the law for a single owner to have 4 casinos?
New Jersey's casinos are run by the Gambino and Luchese families which have a lot of say, through their bought and paid for politicians, on who gets to be on the New Jersey Gaming Commission that is supposed to "regulate" the gambling industry. Like most things in New Jersey, the mafia families run the show. Care for a roll of quarters? Try the slot machines. All Atlantic City slot machines feature pictures of the public treasury.
As one former Municipal Court judge in Hudson County explained to me: "WE run New Jersey!" He was not referring to officials or politicians, I believe, when he used the word "we." In the words of a prominent New Jersey politician quoted in the Star Ledger:
"Any way you slice it, Jon Corzine has run afoul of the law and certainly afoul of the standard he set for himself ... You cannot be in business with a casino license holder and that is exactly what's happened ..."
Minorities should either vote for "corruption buster" Chris Christie or stay home this election and send the message to the New Jersey political-mafia that they can't take your vote for granted. Tell them that you wanna "wet your beaks."
Stuart Rabner, New Jersey's Chief Justice, is asking his alleged "good friend" and former colleague at the federal prosecutor's office -- indicted attorney, Paul Bergrin, Esq. -- to recommend a sexy spot in Atlantic City for hot action because Bergrin's Whore House is closed. But then, New Jersey's Supreme Court has been called a "low end whore house" -- thanks to Jaynee LaVecchia. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary.")
Say hello to Angelo ("The Horn") Prisco, Stuart. OAE "walking turds" are welcome to post any insults or crap about me that you want -- for a small fee, perhaps. It all helps at this point. Same to you from me. How about deleting or adding a letter to one of my words, "Howard Masia"? "Alina Falcone"?
Dem guys ... Heh, heh, heh.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
New Jersey's Criminal Incompetence.
December 3, 2008 at 7:59 A.M. I was just obstructed and denied access to my MSN hotmail account, which continues to be "breached." I will struggle throughout the day to regain access to my sites and e-mail account. (See "How censorship works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
Joel Geier, "Capitalism's Worst Crisis Since the 1930s," in International Socialist Review, November-December, 2008, at p. 10.
Ashley Smith, "Beyond the Surge in Iraq," in International Socialist Review, November-December, 2008, at p. 18.
Somini Segupta, "Terror Attacks Kill Scores in India: U.S. Hostages Reportedly Held in Hotel," in The New York Times, November 27, 2008, at p. A1. (Jewish Center attacked, Jewish hostages and victims.)
Somini Segupta & Keith Bradsher, "Indian Soldiers Seek Survivors of Terror Siege," in The New York Times, November 28, 2008, at p. A1.
Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure, The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (New York: St. Martin's, 2008), entirety.
Mission Statement of New Jersey's Judiciary:
"We are an independent branch of government constitutionally ENTRUSTED with the fair and just resolution of disputes in order to preserve the rule of law and to protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State."
November 26, 2008 at 10:36 A.M. Attempts to access the Internet have been frustrated by obstructions to my home page. I attribute this experience to some interference with my service provider emanating from New Jersey officials' actions, whether direct or indirect. This use of technology suggests the cooperation of corrupt government officials, most likely in the Garden State. Has Senator Bob, finally, been indicted? Not yet?
November 28, 2008 at 12:03 P.M. I am blocking:
http://bp.3.blogger.com/_55y4H355s40/RnktPU6D... (NJ?) Cubanazos for Menendez?
Such denials of access to communications -- like placing a hand over the oxygen mask of a man attached to an artificial breathing apparatus -- are not unprecedented in my life. This censorship does not surprise me. I do not believe that the short story that I intended to post has been lost or destroyed. I am pretty sure that I have managed to keep it safe from alteration. I will try once more to post that story when I regain access to my sites. I was unable to reach Critique until evening arrived. (See "What you will ..." at my MSN group, Critique.)
You are destroying the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, a document for which men and women are dying right now in several places in the world. I hope that those responsible for these crimes are not legal or elected officials in the U.S., nor law enforcement people. I am afraid that this is exactly what they are -- corrupt officials from the Garden State.
I suppose a comment is expected from me in response to these developments. I cannot begin to say what I feel at this point -- frustration, anger, mostly sadness and disappointment that this is what an American jurisdiction has become. Power to injure or inflict emotional suffering on others is not legitimated by being sanctioned through the inaction or incompetence of law enforcement. What this reveals and proves is all that I have been saying about the persons (and I use the word "persons" loosely) engaging in this course of criminal conduct for years.
You have no respect for persons. You do not understand what is a human being or rights to self-determination, freedom of speech, privacy, opinion and thought. Persons are rodent-like speciments to be interfered with and destroyed, then discarded, by monsters like Terry Tuchin or Diana Lisa Riccioli, and/or their "assistants." The only appropriate analogy is to Nazis -- Nazis like Dr. Mengele and bureaucrats like Adolf Eichman. Which one are you? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Are you a bystander to this atrocity? Do you believe that such despicable conduct will fail to leave traces on you? I don't. I think the harm that this attempt to suppress speech and freedom does to the moral culture of American society (as well as law) is irreparable. I will continue to speak and write of it, every day, for the rest of my life. I will continue to hold all of those cooperating with this horror accountable for their actions in the court of public opinion.
The Cuban issue is rhetoric or public relations fodder for what is really sadism. You enjoy hurting and trying to control people, illegally. You probably don't care about Cuba or the United States of America. I care about both countries. I would like to see suffering and poverty alleviated in both places, or anywhere for that matter. Whatever tragedy I suffer -- no matter how injured I may be by this grotesque injustice -- the U.S. Constitution is more damaged and so are you. You, Terry and Diana, are the perpetrators of this disgusting criminality, together with your enablers in New Jersey's tainted legal system. I will find a way to continue writing and demonstrating (with the cooperation of N.J. lawyers and judges) the idiocy and criminality of New Jersey's many corrupt lawyers and judges.
I cannot say whether Republicans or Democrats are more corrupt in New Jersey. It is a close competition. Whichever party and whoever has allowed for this censorship is my nominee for most corrupt political party in America. Persons are not going to be controlled for long through these techniques. You will create and fuel hatred by the use of these foul devices. That hatred will return to you and will damage the lives of idiots who cooperate with surreptitious efforts by N.J. government agencies to violate the rights of persons. How does a Jew become Mengele, Mr. Rabner? All it takes is to "cooperate" with Mengele to become what he is and will always be.
How long will it be before these techniques are used, primarily, against Jews? Do you think that this genie can be kept in the bottle? I don't. A number of societies and intelligence agencies are experimenting with interfering with and disrupting on-line publications and periodicals, like The New York Times which will not discuss -- not publicly, anyway -- the small taste they have had already of how easily their security can be breached and their "copy" altered. My experiences will not be unique. Those responsible for violating my rights must be stopped and punished now, even if they work for N.J.'s state government. I predicted several years ago a connection between Ossama bin Laden and Pakistan's intelligence services:
According to a new book, "The Search for Al Qaeda," by Bruce Riedel, an adviser on South Asia to Mr. Obama, Osama bin Laden worked with the Pakistani intelligence agency in the late 1980s to create Lashkar-e-Taiba as a jihadist group intended to challenge Indian rule in Kashmir. (Times, 11-28-08, p. 18.)
Al Qaeda has become the "Rockefeller Foundation" of international terrorism. You go to them as a torturer with a project: "I want to blow up the statue of liberty." You get funds and technical assistance with your project. Money for your relatives when you die is included and one ticket to paradise with 72 virgins included. Some of the money being doled out by Al Qaeda is stolen from "relief funds" that were sent to Pakistan from the U.S. to bribe Musharaff's Pakistani officials to cooperate with Bush's anti-terrorism efforts, allegedly, even though Bush and the Americans (not American movies and culture) are universally detested. Pakistan is in danger of becoming South Asia's New Jersey.
The United States is facing a series of terrible crises in the world and internally, within its domestic economy and culture. In a terrorist incident occurring in India, Americans and ALL Jews were singled out for harsh treatment. More such incidents threatening everyone of us are on the way. The state of our union is gravely threatened. We ignore these perils to our cost. The dangers are certainly visible to thoughtful persons everywhere in the world.
I hope and trust that many observers are aware of my tortures and experiences -- especially this morning -- after the events of last week. Given the opportunity to do so, I will speak of my experiences of torture and encounters with New Jersey's corrupt and inept public officials as well as judges for the rest of my life. There is no American state nor many countries that come close to New Jersey's moral putridness. How much is all of this torture costing the taxpayers? 1988 to 2008? How many daily intrusions into my system from N.J. computers? Censorship? Conspiracies to violate civil rights? Obstructions of justice? Where are those videos and torture records compiled by Terry Tuchin and pertaining to me?
The frustration which my torturers feel at the inability to prevail in arguments against me -- despite censorship and alterations of my texts, harassments and distractions -- will not be alleviated by this morning's cruelty. I cannot say how many essays have been defaced during the hours when I was unable to access my sites.
What the hacks at the OAE cannot forgive is that I am living proof of the lie that is their view of "inferior" others, like me. This lie is served and preserved by the minority bootlickers kept around for this purpose. That's you, John, and your rule book. (Happy Holidays!) You wanna talk to me about lies, secret criminality, cover-ups. Any time. Where are those reports "filed" by Terry Tuchin and/or Diana Lisa Riccioli? More Videos? What was Riccioli's "relationship" with Ms. Poritz? Were they "close"? Was Diana "supplying" sexual "introductions" to Poritz and/or "others" in Trenton? Is any judge or public official in New Jersey not on the take? (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
I am right about the fundamental dignity of every human being. At some level, even the trolls at the OAE know this. Your disregard for me is also your disdain for the vast bulk of the population of your state and the planet. Racism is pervasive among N.J. lawyers and judges. Let us consider some facts from the most recent International Socialist Review:
"The U.S. government had a budget surplus under Clinton. But under Bush, with the tax cuts and war spending, the budgetary surplus disappeared, and the U.S. went from having a $250 billion government surplus in 2000-2001 to a $300 BILLION deficit in 2002. This stimulated the economy, but it meant that the United States became dependent on foreign capital, since the savings rate in this country had collapsed and was negative in the last years of this boom. Foreign capital, in particular from China, Japan, and the Middle East oil exporting countries" -- Gallipoli's "little brown people" -- "financed the American debt. ..."
What is the situation now?
" ... more than $7 TRILLION has been wiped off the U.S. stock market. Indeed, $1.1 TRILLION in a single day on October 15. As of mid-October, $27 TRILLION had been erased from the stock markets world-wide. [This was a ripple-effect of U.S. incompetence and greed!] Housing values in this country have already declined by $2.5 TRILLION; and bank write-offs are now at $600 to $700 BILLION and expected to be $1.4 TRILLION. ... "
Why should you care about these facts if you don't own stock? My neighbor's $83,000 pension savings over a lifetime was gone in a day. Do you have any idea what it takes for a working guy to save $83,000?
"Unemployment is already at 6.1 percent, and economists are predicting that next year it may rise to 8 or 9 percent. ... "
You will see small and medium sized businesses fail at a rate unprecedented since the great depression.
"The [real] rate of unemployment is 11 percent, if you count the 5 million 'discouraged' workers who have recently stopped looking for work. ... real wages have declined even before this recession has gotten under way. ..."
China and Japan are unlikely to continue financing America's trade deficit at $700-800 BILLION, even $1 TRILLION in a few years. America faces the real possibility of falling into the status of a second-rate power in the second half of the twenty-first century. One year to 18 months from today, we may see unemployment at 15 to 20 percent and crime rates soaring well beyond our capacity to incarcerate felons. Mounting attacks against American symbols may begin to focus on Hollywood targets as well as political symbols of the nation.
I am sure that the new Obama Administration will ponder these dilemmas and work for solutions. It is encouraging that Senator Clinton will become our new Secretary of State. We need our best in Washington, D.C., at this difficult moment, serving in an administration that does not regard intelligence as a form of unacceptable "elitism."
"Bail outs" will not help industries with structural and irremovable problems, like the U.S. automobile industry. The answer is not to torture "dissidents" and so-called "trouble makers" who refuse to "adjust." At some point, you will have to face me. America will have to deal with these realities.
I do a 4 mile trot every day or every other day. I made a note of the parked vehicles I saw last time I walked in the city -- even in blue collar neighborhoods or by the projects close to Columbia University -- almost all of the American vehicles were gas guzzling SUVs or vans. This disdain for the climate and waste of resources is obscene in a society that has never really encountered the idea of limitations of desire or restraints on "upward mobility." History is forcing America to come face-to-face with its own contradictions.
Why is all of this happening now and how is it connected to my experiences? Stupidity. Ignorance. Racism. Disdain for all that is unfamiliar and disregard for the dignity of persons among powerful Americans in New Jersey explain the tortures that you are witnessing. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not establish your correctness or "superiority" over a person by hurting him, secretly, then stealing from him, enslaving, violating, or otherwise seeking what you can never achieve -- which is control of him or theft of his intellectual ability. You may destroy a mind, but you cannot take possession of it. Nationally and globally, America is discovering the errors associated with our embrace of stupidity and disregard for "the little brown people." (See again: "Maurice J.Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
N.J. is $36 BILLION in the hole; pension funds have entered the twilight zone ($500 MILLION short); the state leads the nation in legal corruption and incompetence. You may be better off with corrupt judges than incompetent ones. At least, with a corrupt judge it is a matter of how much you will have to pay. With a moron on the bench anything can happen. Debbie? Stuart? Tolentino? Baber? The list of idiotic New Jersey judges is, seemingly, endless. The list of corrupt judges is probably even longer.
OAE hacks will probably never read as much as I have read already. That's not saying much about me. No matter how much you hurt me, this will remain true. You will not convince me at this point in my life that "my book is shit and that I am shit." (Right, Diana?) I will take great pleasure in saying all of this to the world. My intelligence and articulateness, such as they are, are unforgivable offenses for bigots in the Garden State. What is the relationship between New Jersey and "Publish America"? Lulu?
You cannot control people in these ways, not in New Jersey or Washington, D.C. You will be hurt because you have hurt others, like me, because in a twisted way, you delight in hurting people whom you secretly envy or desire. Diana? Terry? Stuart? N.J. government needs cooperation and assistance, so does America. Indiscriminate torture of victims is not how you will receive cooperation or assistance from anyone. This is how you make lasting enemies by persuading a victim's family members (the little brown people) to inform against him, for example, and by destroying familial relations and friendships as a result, also by your hypocrisy and malice. That's you, Terry.
Do you speak to me of "ethics," Stuart Rabner? How much did you "get out" of the Prisco deal, Stu? How much was stolen from my office? Did Debbie get a cut of that loot? Was Poritz a partner in the scams to milk insurance companies and state government by Tuchin? Who was paying Tuchin, secretly or not? And for what service was he paid? How much did you get for torturing me, Terry? Did you get a piece of any "fees" from stolen prospective clients? Diana? What lawyers were benefitting from these stolen clients? What role did "Bob" play in this illegality, if any? How's "Gloria," Bob?
By now, you probably have some dim inkling that what I have been saying is true or at least philosophically sound -- to the extent that you understand it, which is probably not much. You are hurting other people who do understand what I am saying and whose intellectual work may be enriched by my humble suggestions and efforts. This is part of what is wrong at the moment in America. Traditionally, the society has been open to intellectual talent. It is increasingly closed to people (like me), who are destroyed when they are most needed. This is not wise.
I will run scans. I will attempt to restart my computer. I will try again. I will search for public computers. I will continue to write.
November 26, 2008 at 12:11 P.M. As of this time, there is still no ability to get on-line. This is because a kind of cork seems to have been placed over my Internet connection. Calling for assistance will probably be useless, since this is how the information necessary for this interference was no doubt obtained in the first place, that is, I am a victim of "theft of information" -- among other things.
I am not the only victim. My family members, including my child, may also be affected in their eforts to make use of on-line resources and information. This will be a matter of indifference to the protected criminals in New Jersey responsible for this censorship and torture. Democrat control of the U.S. Justice Department may prevent me from regaining access to my sites or receiving justice. However, I will continue to struggle. I want to make sure that I keep readers well informed about the doings of New Jersey's public officials -- and no, I do not and will not drink alcohol this holiday season. Many more examinations of New Jersey's "legalized" criminality are on the way. If two days pass with no change at my sites, then you may assume that censorship has prevailed in America.
Joel Geier, "Capitalism's Worst Crisis Since the 1930s," in International Socialist Review, November-December, 2008, at p. 10.
Ashley Smith, "Beyond the Surge in Iraq," in International Socialist Review, November-December, 2008, at p. 18.
Somini Segupta, "Terror Attacks Kill Scores in India: U.S. Hostages Reportedly Held in Hotel," in The New York Times, November 27, 2008, at p. A1. (Jewish Center attacked, Jewish hostages and victims.)
Somini Segupta & Keith Bradsher, "Indian Soldiers Seek Survivors of Terror Siege," in The New York Times, November 28, 2008, at p. A1.
Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure, The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (New York: St. Martin's, 2008), entirety.
Mission Statement of New Jersey's Judiciary:
"We are an independent branch of government constitutionally ENTRUSTED with the fair and just resolution of disputes in order to preserve the rule of law and to protect the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States and this State."
November 26, 2008 at 10:36 A.M. Attempts to access the Internet have been frustrated by obstructions to my home page. I attribute this experience to some interference with my service provider emanating from New Jersey officials' actions, whether direct or indirect. This use of technology suggests the cooperation of corrupt government officials, most likely in the Garden State. Has Senator Bob, finally, been indicted? Not yet?
November 28, 2008 at 12:03 P.M. I am blocking:
http://bp.3.blogger.com/_55y4H355s40/RnktPU6D... (NJ?) Cubanazos for Menendez?
Such denials of access to communications -- like placing a hand over the oxygen mask of a man attached to an artificial breathing apparatus -- are not unprecedented in my life. This censorship does not surprise me. I do not believe that the short story that I intended to post has been lost or destroyed. I am pretty sure that I have managed to keep it safe from alteration. I will try once more to post that story when I regain access to my sites. I was unable to reach Critique until evening arrived. (See "What you will ..." at my MSN group, Critique.)
You are destroying the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, a document for which men and women are dying right now in several places in the world. I hope that those responsible for these crimes are not legal or elected officials in the U.S., nor law enforcement people. I am afraid that this is exactly what they are -- corrupt officials from the Garden State.
I suppose a comment is expected from me in response to these developments. I cannot begin to say what I feel at this point -- frustration, anger, mostly sadness and disappointment that this is what an American jurisdiction has become. Power to injure or inflict emotional suffering on others is not legitimated by being sanctioned through the inaction or incompetence of law enforcement. What this reveals and proves is all that I have been saying about the persons (and I use the word "persons" loosely) engaging in this course of criminal conduct for years.
You have no respect for persons. You do not understand what is a human being or rights to self-determination, freedom of speech, privacy, opinion and thought. Persons are rodent-like speciments to be interfered with and destroyed, then discarded, by monsters like Terry Tuchin or Diana Lisa Riccioli, and/or their "assistants." The only appropriate analogy is to Nazis -- Nazis like Dr. Mengele and bureaucrats like Adolf Eichman. Which one are you? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Are you a bystander to this atrocity? Do you believe that such despicable conduct will fail to leave traces on you? I don't. I think the harm that this attempt to suppress speech and freedom does to the moral culture of American society (as well as law) is irreparable. I will continue to speak and write of it, every day, for the rest of my life. I will continue to hold all of those cooperating with this horror accountable for their actions in the court of public opinion.
The Cuban issue is rhetoric or public relations fodder for what is really sadism. You enjoy hurting and trying to control people, illegally. You probably don't care about Cuba or the United States of America. I care about both countries. I would like to see suffering and poverty alleviated in both places, or anywhere for that matter. Whatever tragedy I suffer -- no matter how injured I may be by this grotesque injustice -- the U.S. Constitution is more damaged and so are you. You, Terry and Diana, are the perpetrators of this disgusting criminality, together with your enablers in New Jersey's tainted legal system. I will find a way to continue writing and demonstrating (with the cooperation of N.J. lawyers and judges) the idiocy and criminality of New Jersey's many corrupt lawyers and judges.
I cannot say whether Republicans or Democrats are more corrupt in New Jersey. It is a close competition. Whichever party and whoever has allowed for this censorship is my nominee for most corrupt political party in America. Persons are not going to be controlled for long through these techniques. You will create and fuel hatred by the use of these foul devices. That hatred will return to you and will damage the lives of idiots who cooperate with surreptitious efforts by N.J. government agencies to violate the rights of persons. How does a Jew become Mengele, Mr. Rabner? All it takes is to "cooperate" with Mengele to become what he is and will always be.
How long will it be before these techniques are used, primarily, against Jews? Do you think that this genie can be kept in the bottle? I don't. A number of societies and intelligence agencies are experimenting with interfering with and disrupting on-line publications and periodicals, like The New York Times which will not discuss -- not publicly, anyway -- the small taste they have had already of how easily their security can be breached and their "copy" altered. My experiences will not be unique. Those responsible for violating my rights must be stopped and punished now, even if they work for N.J.'s state government. I predicted several years ago a connection between Ossama bin Laden and Pakistan's intelligence services:
According to a new book, "The Search for Al Qaeda," by Bruce Riedel, an adviser on South Asia to Mr. Obama, Osama bin Laden worked with the Pakistani intelligence agency in the late 1980s to create Lashkar-e-Taiba as a jihadist group intended to challenge Indian rule in Kashmir. (Times, 11-28-08, p. 18.)
Al Qaeda has become the "Rockefeller Foundation" of international terrorism. You go to them as a torturer with a project: "I want to blow up the statue of liberty." You get funds and technical assistance with your project. Money for your relatives when you die is included and one ticket to paradise with 72 virgins included. Some of the money being doled out by Al Qaeda is stolen from "relief funds" that were sent to Pakistan from the U.S. to bribe Musharaff's Pakistani officials to cooperate with Bush's anti-terrorism efforts, allegedly, even though Bush and the Americans (not American movies and culture) are universally detested. Pakistan is in danger of becoming South Asia's New Jersey.
The United States is facing a series of terrible crises in the world and internally, within its domestic economy and culture. In a terrorist incident occurring in India, Americans and ALL Jews were singled out for harsh treatment. More such incidents threatening everyone of us are on the way. The state of our union is gravely threatened. We ignore these perils to our cost. The dangers are certainly visible to thoughtful persons everywhere in the world.
I hope and trust that many observers are aware of my tortures and experiences -- especially this morning -- after the events of last week. Given the opportunity to do so, I will speak of my experiences of torture and encounters with New Jersey's corrupt and inept public officials as well as judges for the rest of my life. There is no American state nor many countries that come close to New Jersey's moral putridness. How much is all of this torture costing the taxpayers? 1988 to 2008? How many daily intrusions into my system from N.J. computers? Censorship? Conspiracies to violate civil rights? Obstructions of justice? Where are those videos and torture records compiled by Terry Tuchin and pertaining to me?
The frustration which my torturers feel at the inability to prevail in arguments against me -- despite censorship and alterations of my texts, harassments and distractions -- will not be alleviated by this morning's cruelty. I cannot say how many essays have been defaced during the hours when I was unable to access my sites.
What the hacks at the OAE cannot forgive is that I am living proof of the lie that is their view of "inferior" others, like me. This lie is served and preserved by the minority bootlickers kept around for this purpose. That's you, John, and your rule book. (Happy Holidays!) You wanna talk to me about lies, secret criminality, cover-ups. Any time. Where are those reports "filed" by Terry Tuchin and/or Diana Lisa Riccioli? More Videos? What was Riccioli's "relationship" with Ms. Poritz? Were they "close"? Was Diana "supplying" sexual "introductions" to Poritz and/or "others" in Trenton? Is any judge or public official in New Jersey not on the take? (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
I am right about the fundamental dignity of every human being. At some level, even the trolls at the OAE know this. Your disregard for me is also your disdain for the vast bulk of the population of your state and the planet. Racism is pervasive among N.J. lawyers and judges. Let us consider some facts from the most recent International Socialist Review:
"The U.S. government had a budget surplus under Clinton. But under Bush, with the tax cuts and war spending, the budgetary surplus disappeared, and the U.S. went from having a $250 billion government surplus in 2000-2001 to a $300 BILLION deficit in 2002. This stimulated the economy, but it meant that the United States became dependent on foreign capital, since the savings rate in this country had collapsed and was negative in the last years of this boom. Foreign capital, in particular from China, Japan, and the Middle East oil exporting countries" -- Gallipoli's "little brown people" -- "financed the American debt. ..."
What is the situation now?
" ... more than $7 TRILLION has been wiped off the U.S. stock market. Indeed, $1.1 TRILLION in a single day on October 15. As of mid-October, $27 TRILLION had been erased from the stock markets world-wide. [This was a ripple-effect of U.S. incompetence and greed!] Housing values in this country have already declined by $2.5 TRILLION; and bank write-offs are now at $600 to $700 BILLION and expected to be $1.4 TRILLION. ... "
Why should you care about these facts if you don't own stock? My neighbor's $83,000 pension savings over a lifetime was gone in a day. Do you have any idea what it takes for a working guy to save $83,000?
"Unemployment is already at 6.1 percent, and economists are predicting that next year it may rise to 8 or 9 percent. ... "
You will see small and medium sized businesses fail at a rate unprecedented since the great depression.
"The [real] rate of unemployment is 11 percent, if you count the 5 million 'discouraged' workers who have recently stopped looking for work. ... real wages have declined even before this recession has gotten under way. ..."
China and Japan are unlikely to continue financing America's trade deficit at $700-800 BILLION, even $1 TRILLION in a few years. America faces the real possibility of falling into the status of a second-rate power in the second half of the twenty-first century. One year to 18 months from today, we may see unemployment at 15 to 20 percent and crime rates soaring well beyond our capacity to incarcerate felons. Mounting attacks against American symbols may begin to focus on Hollywood targets as well as political symbols of the nation.
I am sure that the new Obama Administration will ponder these dilemmas and work for solutions. It is encouraging that Senator Clinton will become our new Secretary of State. We need our best in Washington, D.C., at this difficult moment, serving in an administration that does not regard intelligence as a form of unacceptable "elitism."
"Bail outs" will not help industries with structural and irremovable problems, like the U.S. automobile industry. The answer is not to torture "dissidents" and so-called "trouble makers" who refuse to "adjust." At some point, you will have to face me. America will have to deal with these realities.
I do a 4 mile trot every day or every other day. I made a note of the parked vehicles I saw last time I walked in the city -- even in blue collar neighborhoods or by the projects close to Columbia University -- almost all of the American vehicles were gas guzzling SUVs or vans. This disdain for the climate and waste of resources is obscene in a society that has never really encountered the idea of limitations of desire or restraints on "upward mobility." History is forcing America to come face-to-face with its own contradictions.
Why is all of this happening now and how is it connected to my experiences? Stupidity. Ignorance. Racism. Disdain for all that is unfamiliar and disregard for the dignity of persons among powerful Americans in New Jersey explain the tortures that you are witnessing. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not establish your correctness or "superiority" over a person by hurting him, secretly, then stealing from him, enslaving, violating, or otherwise seeking what you can never achieve -- which is control of him or theft of his intellectual ability. You may destroy a mind, but you cannot take possession of it. Nationally and globally, America is discovering the errors associated with our embrace of stupidity and disregard for "the little brown people." (See again: "Maurice J.Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
N.J. is $36 BILLION in the hole; pension funds have entered the twilight zone ($500 MILLION short); the state leads the nation in legal corruption and incompetence. You may be better off with corrupt judges than incompetent ones. At least, with a corrupt judge it is a matter of how much you will have to pay. With a moron on the bench anything can happen. Debbie? Stuart? Tolentino? Baber? The list of idiotic New Jersey judges is, seemingly, endless. The list of corrupt judges is probably even longer.
OAE hacks will probably never read as much as I have read already. That's not saying much about me. No matter how much you hurt me, this will remain true. You will not convince me at this point in my life that "my book is shit and that I am shit." (Right, Diana?) I will take great pleasure in saying all of this to the world. My intelligence and articulateness, such as they are, are unforgivable offenses for bigots in the Garden State. What is the relationship between New Jersey and "Publish America"? Lulu?
You cannot control people in these ways, not in New Jersey or Washington, D.C. You will be hurt because you have hurt others, like me, because in a twisted way, you delight in hurting people whom you secretly envy or desire. Diana? Terry? Stuart? N.J. government needs cooperation and assistance, so does America. Indiscriminate torture of victims is not how you will receive cooperation or assistance from anyone. This is how you make lasting enemies by persuading a victim's family members (the little brown people) to inform against him, for example, and by destroying familial relations and friendships as a result, also by your hypocrisy and malice. That's you, Terry.
Do you speak to me of "ethics," Stuart Rabner? How much did you "get out" of the Prisco deal, Stu? How much was stolen from my office? Did Debbie get a cut of that loot? Was Poritz a partner in the scams to milk insurance companies and state government by Tuchin? Who was paying Tuchin, secretly or not? And for what service was he paid? How much did you get for torturing me, Terry? Did you get a piece of any "fees" from stolen prospective clients? Diana? What lawyers were benefitting from these stolen clients? What role did "Bob" play in this illegality, if any? How's "Gloria," Bob?
By now, you probably have some dim inkling that what I have been saying is true or at least philosophically sound -- to the extent that you understand it, which is probably not much. You are hurting other people who do understand what I am saying and whose intellectual work may be enriched by my humble suggestions and efforts. This is part of what is wrong at the moment in America. Traditionally, the society has been open to intellectual talent. It is increasingly closed to people (like me), who are destroyed when they are most needed. This is not wise.
I will run scans. I will attempt to restart my computer. I will try again. I will search for public computers. I will continue to write.
November 26, 2008 at 12:11 P.M. As of this time, there is still no ability to get on-line. This is because a kind of cork seems to have been placed over my Internet connection. Calling for assistance will probably be useless, since this is how the information necessary for this interference was no doubt obtained in the first place, that is, I am a victim of "theft of information" -- among other things.
I am not the only victim. My family members, including my child, may also be affected in their eforts to make use of on-line resources and information. This will be a matter of indifference to the protected criminals in New Jersey responsible for this censorship and torture. Democrat control of the U.S. Justice Department may prevent me from regaining access to my sites or receiving justice. However, I will continue to struggle. I want to make sure that I keep readers well informed about the doings of New Jersey's public officials -- and no, I do not and will not drink alcohol this holiday season. Many more examinations of New Jersey's "legalized" criminality are on the way. If two days pass with no change at my sites, then you may assume that censorship has prevailed in America.
Friday, September 5, 2008
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?
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,
Lulu SupportMessenger Café — open for fun 24/7. Hot games, cool activities served daily. Visit now.See what you’re getting into…before you go there
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?
Monday, July 14, 2008
Carla's and Corzine's Soap Opera in New Jersey!
July 15, 2008 at 7:04 P.M. numerous essays were vandalized again. This is at least the fiftieth time that I have made an identical correction to my Schopenhauer essay. Interestingly, the "error" is not found in my printed versions of the essay. Calls received from: 616-980-2020 on July 15, 2008 at 6:24 P.M.; 551-655-1346 on July 14, 2008 at 8:12 A.M.; 805-759-4311 at 5:11 P.M. I am still blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBR00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ)
Tom Hester, Jr., "Jon's Axed Union Gal Strikes Back," in The New York Post, July 12, 2008, at p. 18.
Images have been blocked at Critique today. Other harassment must be expected. July 14, 2008 at 9:51 A.M. (Bastille Day!)
"Carla Katz, the ousted chief of New Jersey's state worker union, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Communications Workers of America, charging that the national group wrongfully booted her."
"The lawsuit alleges the CWA violated its constitution and federal labor laws by removing Katz, Gov. Jon Corzine's former girlfriend, along with the executive board of CWA local 1034 on Monday."
Corzine had spread all kinds of money on Ms. Katz -- like K-y Jelly! -- paying for mortgages and other goodies for his "partner in negotiations concerning union matters." No conflict of interest was seen by these highly ethical persons. Ms. Katz clearly prevailed in those negotiations. However, it was Corzine who was smiling at the Governor's mansion. I wonder why?
Deborah T. Poritz may have been involved in a sexual relationship with Diana Lisa Riccioli who is alleged to have provided the former New Jersey Chief Justice with sexual partners, presumably some of those women were conscious and consented to these "relationships." These entanglements were not disclosed at the time that Marilyn was subjected to hypnosis and drugging, right Diana? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"The national union claimed Katz and the board engaged in fiscal malpractice and suppression of dissent within the 16,000-member local." (emphasis added)
The amount of mafia influence in this union, if any, is not reported in the press. Most labor unions have a colorful history in New Jersey, whose radioactive cranberry fields were the home of the late and unlamented Jimmy Hoffa.
"The complaint -- filed not only by Katz but by 13 other local 1034 officials -- asks a judge to prohibit the national union from taking over the local [and] to restore Katz and other officials to their positions. It also asks the judge to schedule a 'full and fair' hearing on the CWA's charges against Katz and the 1034 board."
$470,000 for Carla from Corzine, lots of ... "friendship" for Corzine from Carla. Isn't she just as cute as a bug's ear? This "exchange" took place while the principals were negotiating for their respective interests. No conflict of interest? These are my "ethical superiors"?
Sexual shenanigans between Governors and judges -- usually involving younger subordinates -- is nothing new in New Jersey. Jim McGreevey's disgraceful and corrupt affair with an unqualified Israeli sailor demonstrates that much. The exact relationship between Debbie Poritz and female "underlings" or "law clerks" is not known. Rumors concerning such matters have circulated for years. Anne Milgram? Diana? Any thoughts "ladies"?
Perhaps this "proclivity" on the part of Poritz explains Trenton's continuing cover-up of the Tuchin/Riccioli torture scandal. (See again: "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Each day that the cover-up continues is a renewal of my tortures. Lawyers always said that you did better arguing before Poritz if you brought along an attractive young woman to smile at then "Chief Justice" Poritz. Perhaps a photo of such a young woman would not have been blocked at my group today. The words "Chief Justice" associated with someone like Poritz makes you wanna puke, doesn't it? ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!")
"The lawsuit asks a judge to prevent CWA officials 'from overthrowing the democratically elected leaders of the local' and from seizing control of the local from its members based upon erroneous, distorted and vindictive allegations."
"CWA spokesman Bob Master said the national union stands by its actions."
"... A July 3 report by Larry Cohen, national Communications Workers of America president, found 'a clear and ongoing pattern' of fiscal wrongdoing by Katz." (emphasis added)
"Fiscal wrongdoing" may be unethical. Allegedly, the millions from Corzine wasn't enough for Carla. Carla likes the bucks, huh? This does sound like a Jersey story. Geez.
"Katz is also embroiled in a fight in state courts to stop e-mails between her and Corzine and his staff from being disclosed. The e-mails were exchanged during state worker contract talks."
Wouldn't it be great if all the posts at the old The Philosophy Cafe at MSN were made public? I kept quite a few print outs. Any more "errors" you want to insert today, boys and girls?
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBR00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ)
Tom Hester, Jr., "Jon's Axed Union Gal Strikes Back," in The New York Post, July 12, 2008, at p. 18.
Images have been blocked at Critique today. Other harassment must be expected. July 14, 2008 at 9:51 A.M. (Bastille Day!)
"Carla Katz, the ousted chief of New Jersey's state worker union, filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against the Communications Workers of America, charging that the national group wrongfully booted her."
"The lawsuit alleges the CWA violated its constitution and federal labor laws by removing Katz, Gov. Jon Corzine's former girlfriend, along with the executive board of CWA local 1034 on Monday."
Corzine had spread all kinds of money on Ms. Katz -- like K-y Jelly! -- paying for mortgages and other goodies for his "partner in negotiations concerning union matters." No conflict of interest was seen by these highly ethical persons. Ms. Katz clearly prevailed in those negotiations. However, it was Corzine who was smiling at the Governor's mansion. I wonder why?
Deborah T. Poritz may have been involved in a sexual relationship with Diana Lisa Riccioli who is alleged to have provided the former New Jersey Chief Justice with sexual partners, presumably some of those women were conscious and consented to these "relationships." These entanglements were not disclosed at the time that Marilyn was subjected to hypnosis and drugging, right Diana? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
"The national union claimed Katz and the board engaged in fiscal malpractice and suppression of dissent within the 16,000-member local." (emphasis added)
The amount of mafia influence in this union, if any, is not reported in the press. Most labor unions have a colorful history in New Jersey, whose radioactive cranberry fields were the home of the late and unlamented Jimmy Hoffa.
"The complaint -- filed not only by Katz but by 13 other local 1034 officials -- asks a judge to prohibit the national union from taking over the local [and] to restore Katz and other officials to their positions. It also asks the judge to schedule a 'full and fair' hearing on the CWA's charges against Katz and the 1034 board."
$470,000 for Carla from Corzine, lots of ... "friendship" for Corzine from Carla. Isn't she just as cute as a bug's ear? This "exchange" took place while the principals were negotiating for their respective interests. No conflict of interest? These are my "ethical superiors"?
Sexual shenanigans between Governors and judges -- usually involving younger subordinates -- is nothing new in New Jersey. Jim McGreevey's disgraceful and corrupt affair with an unqualified Israeli sailor demonstrates that much. The exact relationship between Debbie Poritz and female "underlings" or "law clerks" is not known. Rumors concerning such matters have circulated for years. Anne Milgram? Diana? Any thoughts "ladies"?
Perhaps this "proclivity" on the part of Poritz explains Trenton's continuing cover-up of the Tuchin/Riccioli torture scandal. (See again: "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Each day that the cover-up continues is a renewal of my tortures. Lawyers always said that you did better arguing before Poritz if you brought along an attractive young woman to smile at then "Chief Justice" Poritz. Perhaps a photo of such a young woman would not have been blocked at my group today. The words "Chief Justice" associated with someone like Poritz makes you wanna puke, doesn't it? ("Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest!")
"The lawsuit asks a judge to prevent CWA officials 'from overthrowing the democratically elected leaders of the local' and from seizing control of the local from its members based upon erroneous, distorted and vindictive allegations."
"CWA spokesman Bob Master said the national union stands by its actions."
"... A July 3 report by Larry Cohen, national Communications Workers of America president, found 'a clear and ongoing pattern' of fiscal wrongdoing by Katz." (emphasis added)
"Fiscal wrongdoing" may be unethical. Allegedly, the millions from Corzine wasn't enough for Carla. Carla likes the bucks, huh? This does sound like a Jersey story. Geez.
"Katz is also embroiled in a fight in state courts to stop e-mails between her and Corzine and his staff from being disclosed. The e-mails were exchanged during state worker contract talks."
Wouldn't it be great if all the posts at the old The Philosophy Cafe at MSN were made public? I kept quite a few print outs. Any more "errors" you want to insert today, boys and girls?
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