We don't know from nothing.

Jonathan Miller, "New Jersey Mayor and Wife Face Indictment," in The New York Times, September 29, 2007, at p. B5.

"A North Jersey mayor and his wife have been indicted on federal charges of conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. They are accused of extorting gifts and cash that paid for gambling, plastic surgery and a dog."

"Mayor David Delle Donna, 49, of Guttenberg, a tiny town wedged into populous Hudson County" -- home base for the multiethnic Mafia in America, together with corrupt politics and law -- "surrendered to federal agents in Newark. He and his wife, Anna Della Donna, 58, appeared and were released on $100,000 bail." Each?

"Errors" will be inserted repeatedly in this essay. I wonder why?

Neither of them make a lot of money in their jobs. It is amazing that they were able to "save" so much cash. Thrifty, I guess. Mayor of Guttenberg pays about $28,000.00 per year, or less. It was even less when these two were up to their old tricks. Bobby Menendez was making about $28,000 as a Union City politician and became a millionaire in "real estate." Again, amazing that coming up with $100,000.00 was not a problem for each defendant.

"They are accused of accepting ... gifts and money from a bar owner in exchange for political favors."

Do you think that inserting "errors" in my writings or forcing me to make corrections many times does anything but emphasize the criminality in New Jersey's legal world? I don't.

Go ahead, tamper with my work. I'll keep struggling. It just pumps me up more to have imbeciles hacking into my computer to destroy my writings. How you doing, Jaynee? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

As I write this, I am prevented (once again) from accessing my MSN account to work on a draft of an essay. More harassment and obstructions are a daily reality for me. This is part of a deliberate effort to: 1) frustrate and discourage communication efforts; and 2) inflict further psychological harm by means of using state government technology and computers, psychological techniques, harassment, to frustrate and damage an already damaged human being, stolen from, assaulted by these same crooks enjoying legal protection in New Jersey. I will choose to regard these efforts as a stimulus to further criticisms of New Jersey's caudillo.

"... Earlier this month, 11 officials were indicted on bribery charges, accused of trying to influence the awarding of public contracts. Included in that group were the mayor of Passaic, two members of the General Assembly and five members of an Atlantic County school board."

"This case is unrelated to the others. [Allegedly.] Mr. Delle Donna, who is also a Democrat, and Ms. Delle Donna, a member of the board, each faces up to 20 years in prison on both counts and a fine of $250,000."

There are rumored investigations unfolding in Union City and North Bergen, so stay tuned to this channel for more developments soon. Can Jersey City and Hoboken be far behind? No. In a territory where a former municipal judge in one town (Union City) was fond of deliveries of cash, allegedly, in brown paper bags, nothing should surprise us. Right, Senator Bob?

Incidentally, the true number of visitors to this blog and my books is estimated to be much higher than the figures actually shown at these sites. For some reason, I seem to have trouble accessing my books at Lulu, which continues to refuse to distribute my second book. ("How Censorship Works in America.")

"From 2002 to 2005, according to the indictment, they helped the bar owner smooth over problems she was having with the local police and other officials involving matters like fights outside the bar and alcohol board violations. In exchange, the bar owner provided Ms. Delle Donna with $2,000 for cosmetic surgery and several thousand dollars for gambling in Atlantic City, according to the indictment, $1,000 in gift cards to a department store and $1,000 for dog accessories."

I don't have "accessories" totaling "$1,000"! That's some dog. Guttenberg Municipal Court, which is where low level criminal matters and traffic cases in town are heard, was (and is?) one of the best in the state. So the "fix" did not take place there. I don't believe such an accusation, if any is made, concerning that court. Probably "deals" were made outside the legal process.

The Guttenberg municipal prosecutor -- Charles Daglian, Esq. -- in my experience, was always an excellent attorney, tough and fair. Even the judge, I thought, was generally willing to listen, giving you a reasonable chance if you tried a case. This was rare open-mindedness in Hudson County. North Bergen and Union City were and are -- by well-deserved reputation -- far worse places, dismally tainted tribunals where anything is rumored to be possible for a not so small fee.
"The bar owner, Luisa Medrano, 51, was not named in the indictment, but officials have confirmed that she was the individual in question." Guess who the informer is, boys and girls? Anyone?

Ms. Medrano has been linked, allegedly, to the "importation" of "dancers" (12 to 14 years-old?) to her tavern, but she got a walk on felony charges earlier this year -- charges downgraded that played out at the "non-custodial level." In other words, she didn't have to go to prison after being hit with some serious charges. I wonder why? What organization, if any, is Ms. Medrano "with"? Do they have a lot of friends in New Jersey government and the courts? Are they international? What can they "arrange" in New Jersey?

Driver's licenses, identification papers, public jobs -- all are for sale in the Garden State, just like politicians and judges. No wonder they are obstructing my writing efforts. Inserting errors in my writings is intended to exhaust me and persuade their fellow racists not to heed these words. These sabotage efforts are having the opposite of the intended effect.

"What is clear is that the conditions surrounding trafficked women and children include all the classic elements traditionally associated with slavery: abduction, false promises, transportation to a strange place, loss of freedom, abuse, violence, and deprivation. Those involved are isolated, controlled by various emotional and physical techniques" -- like hypnosis and psychological torture -- "made dependent on drugs and alcohol, duped and terrorized into submission."

Caroline Moorehead, "Women and Children for Sale," in The New York Review of Books, October 11, 2007, at p. 15.

How many other international organizations -- if any -- have "friends" among New Jersey's politicians and judges? How's Senator Bob doing? Quite a few organizations, I'd say, have influential friends in Trenton. You think that's a good idea when the U.S. is waging a war on terrorism? I don't. (One new "error" discovered so far. January 16, 2008 at 6:22 P.M.)

Is that coziness between criminals and politicians or judges "ethical"? How about it Stuart? Did we wake you up? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Hey, Anne Milgram, in between saving whales, this might be an issue to look into. Nah, they're too busy trying to destroy my writings, altering, defacing my prose in violation of criminal laws and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ethics? You want to talk to me about how "ethically superior" you judges in New Jersey are to the rest of us mere mortals? Give it a try. ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

"The indictment alleges that Mr. Delle Donna illegally diverted campaign funds from various contributors. How much money was diverted was unclear, Mr. Calcani said."

"... Ms. Medrano had previously been the subject of an unrelated federal investigation involving the trafficking of illegal immigrant women from Honduras, some as young as 14, who were forced to dance and drink with patrons, according to federal officials."

Dance and drink? More than that, probably. Again, in New Jersey, human trafficking may get you a small fine -- if you pay off the right people. However, if your skin is dark, you'll do time for urinating on the sidewalk. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

"Mr. Delle Donna is paid $6,700 [the salary is higher today] a year as mayor and is also the coordinator of maintenance at the Hudson Schools of Technology in North Bergen. ..."

Amazing how the Delle Donnas came up with $200,000 like nothing. Cash? All of this is only a small part of the routine criminality and corruption from "alleged" lowlifes, who then like to judge the "ethics" of others. Maybe the "lowlife" part is not just alleged. No more "errors" inserted today?

More New Jersey Officials Arrested in Corruption Scandal!

December 5, 2007 at 10:52 A.M. more interference with my cable signal, insertions of "errors" and removal of letters from several essays by New Jersey officials or state police.

September 12, 2007 at 7:58 P.M. a new attack on my security system requires me to run scans 24 hours per day. I will do my best to keep writing. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Senator Bob?)
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600... (Jersey Boys?)

September 16, 2007 at 5:55 P.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Geez!)
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600... (Watta-ya doing?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3671.B21210...
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3671.B21210

On September 10, 2007 at 10:52 A.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Again?)
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600... (Liberals?)

On September 10, 2007 at 11:55 A.M. -- a visit to the Lulu site indicates that my book, Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006 is listed as being "published by Lulu" or Lulu is listed as "publisher." This same publisher refuses to send my book to Bowker's or on-line booksellers because my book is not "published by Lulu." The nonsense concerning listing the thirteen digit ISBN number is belied by the fact that many other Lulu titles, which have been and are distributed, have no such listing. http://www.Lulu.com/content/567258 What is the connection, if any, between the Lulu site and N.J. politics or politicians? (I just corrected an "error" not found in earlier versions of this essay.)

The true number of visitors to my sites is not reported accurately. It is estimated that the nearly 5,000 visitors to my blogs, more to my MSN group, and comparable number of hits at my first book's site is a gross understatement of numbers that are really much higher than this.

David W. Chen, "New Jersey Officials Arrested in Corruption Scandal," in The New York Times, September 7, 2007, at p. B1.
David Kocieniewski, "Charges Against Trenton Legislators Inspire Bipartisan Surprise," in The New York Times, September 7, 2007, at p. B4.
Robert D. McFadden & David W. Chen, "Lawmakers Accused in Bribery Sting Poised to Quit," in The New York Times, Metro Section, September 9, 2007, at p. 41.
"TRENTON: Legislators Resign After Charges," The New York Times, September 11, 2007 at p. B4.


"TRENTON, Sept 6 -- Eleven current or former public officials, including two members of the State Assembly, were charged Thursday with taking thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for promising municipal business to undercover officers posing as insurance brokers in the latest federal probe into New Jersey's rampant political [and legal] corruption."

"... The investigation initially focused on the Pleasantville Board of Education, which runs a tiny, impoverished school district near Atlantic City. With 13 superintendents in the last 10 years, the district has been plagued by turmoil and is now working with a state appointed monitor."

It is fortunate that, unlike the Teterboro School District that receives several hundred thousand dollars per year for its budget, Pleasantville actually has schools and students. Teterboro doesn't, but they spend the money anyway. (An "error" was inserted by N.J. hackers in this text overnight. I have now corrected it.) I'm sure they'll come up with some bullshit to explain this absurdity. Most people call it good old fashioned "theft."

Any New Jersey appointed monitor will be worthless if your goal is to ensure the legality of public institutions and processes. This is because anything that matters -- government committees, bar association "spots," judgeships -- will be contaminated by the state's corrupt politics and mob influence. Anyone appointed to such a position will be a "known guy or gal." Such a person will know how to "go along in order to get along." Don't ruffle feathers, make only small waves, so it looks like you're doing something, then it's "business as usual." Also, it helps to kick back loot to the higher ups, probably including corrupt judges and justices or New Jersey's traditionally corrupt Attorney General.

Under Debbie Poritz, corruption was easier than ever because she was known to lawyers, unaffectionately, as Ms. "out to lunch." Naturally, lawyers would deny this publicly. In other words, Poritz was either distracted or stupid when it came to administrative matters, so the mob had a field day -- the consequences are visible all around us. By the way, Poritz was also a mediocre or worse judge. Any other judge speaking in Atlantic City, at a podium bearing the logo of a casino, would at least have been "spoken to" about decorum and the appearance of impropriety. A minority judge would have been executed. This is the kind of hypocrisy and double standard by Poritz that makes her years as "Chief Justice of New Jersey" (and her life's work) a dismal failure and a lie. Poritz will be remembered as a fraud who never should have been appointed to the position that she disgraced, especially if she had anything to do with the unconstitutional and criminal methods used against me since 1988. I will not pretend that "nothing happened."

Debbie's alleged "lesbianism" is incidental and irrelevant, of course, unless it was used as a means either to threaten her with "embarassment" or to influence her with the promise of introductions to willing young women. Both possibilities are plausible or even likely.

"But then unexpectedly Pleasantville officials led investigators on what Christopher J. Christie, United States attorney for New Jersey, described at a news conference here as a 'corruption tour' of New Jersey by referring the fake insurers to other parts of the state."

"That tour, prosecutors said, ranged 125 miles north to Passaic and Patterson, two gritty towns just outside New York City known for rough politics, as well as to Newark and Orange. And the way it transpired resembled the New Jersey of Hollywood as meetings unfolded in parked cars, rest stops on the Garden State Parkway, restaurants and hotels."

At 42nd Street, between Bergenline Avenue and JFK Boulevard, in Union City, New Jersey (Bob Menendez turf!) meetings take place betwen mob capos or cartel jefes, local elected officials, mayors, judges and prominent members of the bar -- "allegedly." At a comfy little diner in Hoboken, on election day, local "committee men" chuckle merrily over the votes being cast by names taken from grave stones in local cemeteries. No wonder Hudson County Democrats always win. To have such persons decide that one is "unethical" -- after one's rights have been criminally violated by them -- amounts to a hideous, Kafkaesque farce. For some reason, I experienced difficulties accessing this essay today. You think they don't like me in New Jersey? I wonder why? (An essay concerning the conduct of Superior Court Judge Mark Baber is coming up, then Judges Tolentino and Schaeffer.)

I recall one elected official, who has since been indicted, alluding to his friends in the local prosecutor's office. I understood him to say that he would get "a heads up" on any state investigation, which is why New Jersey law enforcement -- and many honest people trying to do their jobs -- is mostly neutralized by the mob families that run the state. I wouldn't talk to any New Jersey police or prosecutor, if you can help it, about possible corruption charges against state officials. Go to the feds with any information about corruption in the Garden State. (An "error" was inserted, brazenly, in this essay posted only hours ago.) New Jersey lawyers and courts merit no respect as they are corrupt and incompetent in the vast majority of instances.

"But even Mr. Christie said that he was stunned by the business-as-usual boldness uncovered in the most recent investigation, which the F.B.I. dubbed Operation Broken Boards. Mr. Christie noted that one of those charged, Assemblyman Mims Hackett Jr., is the chairman of the State Government Committee, which is responsible for government rules and oversight, including ethics legislation."

New allegations concerning rape -- yes, RAPE -- by several state police officers in New Jersey (no judges?) were reported in network news programs on NBC yesterday, December 11, 2007. Not so long ago a Superior Court judge from Camden County was arrested for having sex with a minor, as a so-called "sex tourist" in Russia, or was it "elsewhere"?

Judges and political bosses have been reputed to do much worse in the Garden State, for years. I am looking forward to discussing allegations against many members of the N.J. judiciary in the months and years ahead, together with my own recollections of gross incompetence and shocking stupidity on the part of persons still affiliated with the bench and politics in that soiled legal system.

New Jersey "Justice" Jaynee LaVecchia, for example, is said to have many friends in the real estate and construction business. (Yet another "error" was inserted in this last sentence, after my twentieth revision of this essay.) Her buddies are, thus, into "cement." In every sense. Allegedly. Right, Jaynee? Many of Jaynee's friends find that their nuckles graze the ground as they walk. But enough about Jaynee's colleagues on the New Jersey judicial bench. New insertions of "errors" in these writings may provide further confirmation of these accusations. They have, as a matter of fact. (See "Let's Ask Jaynee La Vecchia About Corruption in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Let us continue to hope that "Cheech" and the boys, along with other prominent members of the New Jersey Bar Association from the North Bergen area will continue to cooperate by demonstrating their true colors, while leaving electronic bread crumbs behind. Never underestimate the stupidity of political criminals from New Jersey. Profiles of several New Jersey "judges" and leading members of the bar are coming up. You won't want to miss them, especially when I get to New Jersey Superior Court Judges Gallipoli and Tolentino. By the way, Ms. Tolentino is not Italian-American. This a source of relief and joy for Italian-Americans.

Is it true that "Jaynee" was behind the recent charges against her "colleague" Mr. Rivera-Soto? Inquiring minds want to know. How about it Jaynee? By the way, do you know Diana? Are you two gals "bosom-buddies"? How close are you two "gals"? Is my mention of Jaynee enough for hackers to insert "errors" in this essay? If so, as I say, then they're proving my point. If I find new "errors" after this, then I'll be sure to discuss "Jaynee" at greater length in the future. Based on new "errors" discovered this morning, I have decided that "Jaynee" (New Jersey's favorite former cheerleader) merits further discussion. How does someone like Jaynee get to be a judge anywhere, much less on a state Supreme Court? Pull? (See again: "Let's Ask Jaynee La Vecchia About Corruption in New Jersey.")

This is hypocrisy and fraud on a cosmic scale. Zazzali's and Veniero's participation in racial profiling (no hypnosis for them?); Rabner's splendid isolation, even as colleagues conspire to get ethics charges filed against one another; Poritz's visible incompetence and laughable spectacle in accepting her portrait and tributes as the New Jersey legal system is plunged into a latrine of corruption, cruelty, discrimination, injustice and fraud. Ethics? You want to chat about ethics? Go ahead. (See "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "How to be a Politician or a Lawyer in New Jersey" as well as "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")

How do you judge others and wear judicial robes knowing about the crimes committed by your tribunal and its minions against people like me? Hypocrisy? Tell me how vastly morally superior to the rest of us are the members of New Jersey's judiciary and Supreme Court. Come on, Debbie. Let's hear all about Debbie Poritz and that moral exemplar, her pal, Diana. I'm sure that you two gals are very tight. In the most racist, crime-infested, politically-warped state legal system -- where the ethics-enforcement process is tainted and besmirched by political influence and (probably) cash or other "favors" for functionaries -- the very word "ethics" spoken by people like Poritz is sickening to listeners and a ridiculous lie.

New computer troubles and difficulty updating my system on November 2, 2007 at 2:45 P.M. I wonder why? My cable signal was illegally blocked on December 5, 2007 at 10:55 A.M. I am running my second scan this morning. You think that such harassment will stop me?

How about Tuchin? Is Tuchin "ethical"? "Irreconcilable conflict" between therapeutic and forensic roles, right Terry? No questioning of impaired persons by any so-called "psychiatrist" for the benefit of the state or any persons whose presence is unsought by a non-consenting victim is anything other than torture. How does it feel, Tuchin, for a Jew to become Mengele? (See "What is it like to be tortured?") Is it O.K. if the victim is a Muslim? (See "Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.") I suspect that Terry began his professional life as a torturer of Palestinian Arabs.

Is Tuchin Debbie's "friend"? What kind of scams did you two pull to milk insurance companies and the state for money in exchange for torturing me, secretly? Face-to-face, Terry. You like Ridgewood, New Jersey? "White man's country"? Where are those reports, Terry? Did you file them with the New Jersey Supreme Court or with the OAE? 1988-2008, I want all of them. Both places got the reports? How come I didn't get or see them? What were you doing going through files in my office for years before the first grievances were SOLICITED against me? Did you or some "others" prepare letters and documents -- for years -- items purporting to come from clients, without identifying yourselves? What is a "fiduciary" relationship, Terry? Whose homes did you enter under false pretenses, Terry? What did you steal from those homes? Who else was subjected, secretly, to questioning under hypnosis? What legal right did you have to do that questioning? Is the OAE a conspirator to the violation of civil rights and other crimes, then to a cover-up of those violations and that conspiracy? Take another look at your rule book, John.

What were you, Terry, doing at the OAE offices when I was there to review what they laughingly called "discovery"? Terry seemed to find my predicament "funny"? Are you laughing today, Terry? What was Diana doing in my office? Why was Diana at my computer? Stealing? Where are those videos? ALL of them? Preferably unaltered. Should the OAE disclose exculpatory material, like, hypothetically, exchanges with translators unable to decipher the contents of alleged "tape recordings" being told what their conclusions should be by OAE officials not speaking the language to be "translated"? How would they, those OAE officials, "know" the contents of such alleged tapes?

Go ahead, take a letter out of what I've written. I'll put it back in the sentence. It'll be like ping pong. We'll keep going back and forth, proving my point and piling more feces on New Jersey's high court. I've got my shovel. I hope you have yours. At this point, it's all good.

Is this standard practice? Secret crimes committed by agents of American "Supreme" courts that can be denied publicly? Or is that only New Jersey's practice? Shouldn't a person who writes and files a grievance against an attorney actually speak and read the language in which he allegedly "wrote" this document that is to be evaluated by persons who secretly wrote it in the first place? Does it comport with the OAE's notions of due process to have their agents, unilaterally, alter transcripts with the consent of a decision-maker who is paid by the the same agency -- the OAE -- employing one of the parties to so-called "litigation"? Inquiring minds want to know. How many other victims are there, Terry?

Any tribunal worthy of the name -- aware of criminal violations of the U.S. Constitution's guarantees to which I and so many others have been and are subjected -- should act, forthwith and sua sponte to take remedial and meliorative action to halt the on-going tortures and injustices, censorship, destruction of written work, and cover-ups. Have your law clerks look up sua sponte. Perhaps Mr. Rabner will need to borrow some testicular fortitude from judges in another jurisdiction. Don't tell me that Rabner still "demurs"? How you doing, Anne? Got your gifts for the holidays? I wonder whether those two, Stuart and Anne, visited "The Philosophy Cafe"? I am available for further debate any time, boys and girls.

The actual response is ... silence, greed, indifference and daily betrayals of their judicial office and oaths as state Supreme Court "justices" along with all semblance of legitimacy for New Jersey's feces-stained courts. Perhaps hackers will seek to delete letters from this essay, again, or affect the spacing between paragraphs. In fact, they already have defaced my work today. (See "America's Holocaust," and again: "What is it like to be tortured?")

Censorship, violence, threats and frame-ups are the typical response to criticisms from persons entrusted with enforcing the U.S. Constitution, along with attempts to alter and destroy written work that is protected by copyright laws and the Constitution. (This last sentence was also altered since my previous reading of this essay earlier this morning.) Again: How do you live with yourselves or call yourselves "justices" in New Jersey's bemerded high court? Ethics? How about destroying manuscript files at my home computer? I will write that book with my own shit on the walls of your court house, metaphorically speaking. Christopher Christie stated:

"... 'It's been six years doing this job, and I thought I could no longer be surprised by a combination of brazenness, arrogance and stupidity, 'but the people elected in this state [by names on gravestones?] continue to defy description.' ... "

Yep, Mr. Christie's right: "... corruption is a disease in New Jersey." Wait till you see what most judges are like in that horrible state legal system. This has nothing to do with party affiliation. One of those arrested was a Republican. Democrats have enjoyed one party rule in New Jersey for too long, which is unhealthy for any democratic system. Tragically, the Jersey Syndicate is influential in both parties. Latinos were well represented in this little shin-dig in the form of Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic. This isn't ethnic, it's greed-based. Right, Senator Bob?

The most honest people in New Jersey politics happen to be African-Americans (I'm excluding you, John, or anyone employed by the OAE) because: 1) African-Americans were kept out of real power in the state for so long that arrival, to some extent, has been with great caution; and 2) African-Americans receive a hell of a lot more scrutiny than anybody else -- especially if they are brave enough to risk their lives by getting on the Parkway when there are state police officers around. A Corey Booker Governorship would take gradual steps to increase real ethics enforcement, appoint a qualified and diverse judiciary, and bring money back to a jurisdiction that looks like Capone's Chicago to investors heading for the hills when they see Turnpike signs. I don't blame them.

Efforts must be made to redress some heinous injustices that stain the institutions of New Jersey and will continue to do so until something is done to balance the scales of justice. A New York lawyer explained to me that he once owned property in New Jersey and went to court to evict a tenant. After reading the New Jersey law, he appeared and was unable to describe what he experienced as a legal proceeding of any kind. For some reason unknown to him, his tenant was eventually evicted. He sold his New Jersey property, vowing never to leave Manhattan again. Wise man. Appeals in a corrupt and mafia controlled legal system are a waste of time and money.
"TRENTON, Sept 6 -- In the ethically murky realm of New Jersey politics, where it is common practice for state lawmakers to collect multiple government paychecks, Assemblymen Alfred E. Steele and Mims Hackett Jr. are known as minor players who have refined their skills at working the system to find job opportunities for themselves and their relatives."

It becomes very clear that former Newark mayor, Sharpe James, should not be used as a token or sacrificial lamb by the New Jersey political establishment and mob (which is the same entity) because his offenses are minute and pale compared to the routine criminality and incompetence in New Jersey government. Codey, Roberts, and any backstage Svengali or as the New York Times described him "power-broker" (GEORGE E. NORCROSS, III) should also get some scrutiny. I have a feeling we'll find many of these people have "visited" my sites. I also have a feeling that we're going to find out, very soon, just who's been eating my porridge. I bet some commentators at "The Philosophy Cafe" will love having their own statements read back to them.

"Under pressure by Gov. Jon S. Corzine and other Democratic leaders in New Jersey, two assemblymen, the highest ranking of 11 current or former public officials charged with taking bribes in a federal sting investigation, signaled yesterday that they would resign from the Legislature tomorrow."

Where is New Jersey's attorney general? What is Anne Milgram doing about the cancer that is devouring New Jersey law enforcement, politics and law? Nothing. Ms. Milgram is in way over her head. I have posted evidence of what appear to be New Jersey government computers being used to commit cybercrimes, allegedly, cyberstalking, harassment, infliction of MORE emotional distress and interference with economic advantage, slanders and destruction of legally protected creative work. I have raised the issue of a conspiracy to violate civil rights (which is criminal) and of another conspiracy to cover up such violations (which is also criminal), together with many other crimes and far worse over years. (Oh, a new "error" since my last visit!) All of this takes place, publicly, every day. Nothing happens. Take a look at your ethics rules, John, see what it says about OAE officials participating in a criminal conspiracy. I bet that's a no-no.

I have requested, also publicly -- so the requests won't "disappear" -- any and all reports, videos or recordings of any kind ever prepared by Tuchin or Riccioli filed with New Jersey's Supreme Court or government, or elsewhere, of which I am a subject or even mentioned or relevant since 1988. Nothing happens. I am legally entitled to all such medical records and discovery from the OAE, including all files withheld from me, unconstitutionally, and all communications between that office and its torturers, including material known to be helpful and exculpatory. Forgot, fellas?

Who was behind the successful effort to destroy "The Philosophy Cafe" at MSN? Why would New Jersey's powers-that-be not want my writings read by the people of the Garden State or the world? You think that it's a good idea to have N.J. government agents deciding on whose writings and opinions will be permitted? You want lawyers and other whores of a corrupt system like New Jersey's caudillo evaluating philosophical essays to decide who gets to post writings on line and who doesn't? Most of them are not capable of understanding a complex philosophical or legal argument. I don't want and won't accept censorship from the likes of "Jaynee" and "Debbie," or their chums. I will not be silenced by anyone. This has nothing to do with whether they, Jaynee and/or Debbie, are "gay" or "friendy" with Diana. Maybe they're just switch-hitters?

"A Corruption Tour of New Jersey."

"New Jersey 'Corruption Tour' Nets 11 Public Officials," BREAKING NEWS, September 7, 2007, at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20637957/
Elizabeth Dwoskin, "Judge Gives New Jersey a Week to Fix Voting Machines," in The New York Times, September 6, 2007, at p. B3.
Trymaine Lee, "Reputed Gambino Figure Sentenced in 92 Deaths of Mob Antagonists," in The New York Times, September 6, 2007, at p. B2.
Dvid W. Chen, "New Jersey Police Win Praise for Efforts to End Profiling," in The New York Times, September 6, 2007, at p. B1.
"Corzine Expected to Extend State Oversight of Camden," in The New York Times, September 16, 2007, at p. 32.

"... 11 public officials arrested in New Jersey Thursday -- 2 lawmakers, 2 mayors, 3 city councilmen," and others, each of them with judges in their pockets and friends in the local prosecutor's offices. This is further evidence, if any were needed, of the incompetence of Anne Milgram and the New Jersey Attorney General's office and of New Jersey's disgraced Supreme Court. Corruption, criminality, fraudulent legal proceedings, influenced or bribed judges are the norm in New Jersey. No wonder they don't want you to read these essays. U.S. Attorney, Christopher Christie said, with visible disgust (which I share):

"Today, we witnessed another example of the disease of public corruption that spread like wildfire from south to north. ... The arrests on Thursday just scratch the surface of the corruption that goes on here." (emphasis added)

Ethics? How can you even speak the word in that filthy, morally despicable turf known as New Jersey's legal-political culture? I plan to devote a longer essay to this topic, naming offenders and drawing on my own recollections of life in America's legal toilet. (I expect more attacks on my computer, anonymous slurs and slanders, threats, insults and the usual responses from persons entrusted with enforcing the Constitution.)

"TRENTON, Sept. 5 -- Eight years after New Jersey acknowledged that troopers were focusing on black and Hispanic drivers at traffic stops, federal monitors said on Wednesday that the New Jersey State Police had made so much progress [irony?] in its attempts to eliminate racial profiling that it no longer needed federal supervision." (emphasis added!)

"The monitors concluded in a report that in periodic reviews during the past eight years, the police had shown significant improvement in procedures and training."

There was nowhere to go but up.

"In a consent decree signed in 1999, the state agreed to allow the federal Department of Justice to oversee how traffic stops were conducted, along with other State Police activities."

"... Governor Jon S. Corzine appointed a 21-member committee last year to determine whether to ask the federal government if the consent decree should be lifted. This report does not eliminate the federal supervision by itself, so it is up to the state to file a request with federal officials to have it end."

Any committee of New Jersey Bar Association big wigs will conclude that New Jersey's secret torture practices, racial profiling, theft of public funds is hunky-dory. The state sanctions theft, assault, torture, rape by its house shrinks and other political whores, who probably supply judges with sexual favors or payoffs. The reason "connected lawyers" are appointed to such committees is so that they will draw predetermined convenient conclusions, then find a way to justify them. It is a political appointment -- like the ethics committees that are usually staffed by the most unethical attorneys and political bag men and women -- as corrupt as most institutions or committees in the Garden State would have to be.

How's Debbie doing? Is it true that Debbie's really "chummy" with Diana? That would explain a lot. New Jersey is a state that is so saturated with racism, mob control of government institutions, judicial incompetence and failures in law enforcement that it was necessary for the federal government to "supervise" law enforcement. Now the state "takes pride" in a committe of their own made members' suggestion that, maybe, it'll be o.k. not to police the police? Wow, that's quite a boast to make. As Anne Milgram remarked: "Totally awesome, dude!"

Hackers and insertion of "errors" in my text proves my point. As I write this, I am unable to use my printer, which has been blocked, numerous obstacles afflict my computer again. I am blocking: http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac00172... (Senator Bob, sadly deprived of the Babe. I commiserate with you, Senator.)

Any request to terminate federal supervision of New Jersey police should be viewed with great suspicion and denied "forthwith."

"NEWARK, Sept 5 -- A New Jersey county judge in a ruling in a lawsuit on Wednesday gave the state one week to figure out how to create a paper trail for its 10,000 electronic voting machines, saying that under the current system they are vulnerable to tampering" -- probably from the same people tampering with my blogs and sites, no doubt also preventing my publication efforts -- "the state attorney general's office said."

"Penny Venetis, a Rutgers law professor who is representing the plaintiffs, said she was pleased with the ruling. 'The state was poised to spend $40 MILLION on faulty printers,' Ms. Venetis said. 'A 9 year-old could break into these machines.' ..."

That's what they want, Professor Venetis. Whatever machines they install in New Jersey, the Democrat machine will tamper with them, so as to corrupt and steal elections. And speaking of corruption and stealing, convictions in Brooklyn of a reputed Gambino crime boss are rumored to be only a small part of a massive federal investigation involving agents in several states -- including New Jersey -- that will result in additional indictments "in due course." I can't wait.

The arrests and charges of mafia figures in Orange, New Jersey -- Richard J. Codey turf -- has confirmed my expectations. I would not be surprised to see more FEDERAL arrests, including Cuban Mafia figures in Hudson County and Miami 'connected' to Trenton politicians.

"CAMDEN, N.J., Sept. 15 (AP) -- Gov. Jon S. Corzine was to sign a bill extending a state takeover of this troubled city's government during a visit on Sunday morning, according to a senior Corzine administration official."

The city's "books" were kept (and cooked) in pencil. "Its easier to steal that way," one local political veteran explained. Members of Camden's political-criminal organization are reputedly unhappy, threatening to send Mr. Corzine a horse's head or a free trip with one of their drivers on the Parkway or Turnpike. Corzine, wisely, declined both offers -- allegedly.

Saying Goodbye to Luciano Pavarotti.

Unfortunately, new attacks against my computer may preclude me from continuing to write at this site. I am fighting to continue doing so, running scans -- my security system has been breached -- and hoping to hold on to my access to these sites. I cannot access my books on-line and do not know whether they are still available, but I hope they are. I am blocked from Lulu, probably by New Jersey hackers.

I was fortunate to experience Luciano Pavarotti's magnificent voice, in person and without amplification or distortion, at the height of his vocal powers. I heard Pavarotti sing what he described as the most gripping, emotionally difficult, and painful role in his repertoire, "Riccardo" in Un Ballo in Maschera. This Verdi masterpiece was recorded by Pavarotti several times in his career. Pavarotti's interpretation ripens and deepens with the passage of the years. Both the Opera and Mr. Pavarotti's performance are not to be missed.

There is a famous recording of this work with Joan Sutherland and Sherill Milnes, the best baritone I ever heard (and I've heard a lot), who is an American singer. Mr. Milnes was a member of that generation of American singers who took the initiative away from Europe, in terms of the quality of singers. All of the following were roughly contemporary singers, enjoying overlapping careers: Marilyn Horne, Richard Tucker (who would be the best tenor in the world today, by far), Robert Merill (great baritone), Leontyne Price (rivaled only by Tebaldi, Scotto, Caballe, Freni, Fleming and surpassed by none), Beverly Sills, the best coloratura soprano I ever heard, also many others.

Pavarotti's voice was -- no, it will always be -- brilliant, sparkling in the upper registers, make your knees wobble beautiful, expressive and rich with all the colors in the rainbow. He was not a great actor on stage, partly because of his size, but his voice was a great actor. Hence, Pavarotti recorded really well. Not all good singers do. The subtleties in Pavarotti's interpretations are often missed by people only listening for the high notes. The video and recording in the late sixties of Karajan's Verdi "Requiem" (with Price) is one of the glories of recorded music, rivalled subsequently only by Jessie Norman and Jose Carreras under Muti's baton. Both of those tenors are unforgettable in the "Ingemesco ..."

In Ballo, Pavarotti's "Riccardo" is torn by complex emotions, loyalties to a friend, passionate love for a woman (the role of "Amelia" is best sung by Leontyne Price -- and I've heard everybody sing it), political issues concerning the responsibilities of power and need for liberty are woven into the score and libreto. The recording with Ms. Sutherland is very good. If you can find a recording of Pavarotti with Price, even if they're singing the yellow pages, get it.

Both Domingo and Pavarotti mentioned Leontyne Price as one of the very best sopranos they had the good fortune to sing with during their careers -- and they weren't kidding. Ms. Price always looked beautiful on stage, tall with a comanding presence. In Aida, she was never a slave, despite her status in Egypt, because she knew herself the daughter of a king -- and so did you in the audience.

Pavarotti's voice will be heard forever, along with Caruso, Callas, Di Stefano, Corelli, Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Milnes, Domingo, Caballe, Carreras, Kraus, Nilson, Melchior, Price, Scotto, Freni, Fleming and (I think) Salvatore Licitra and so many others. A good way to say goodbye to Luciano -- sending him our love -- is to play his recordings today. I will do that, ignoring those who find an interest in Opera "weird."

My recomendations for your listening pleasure are: From "London Records," the Decca Record Company compilation "Luciano Pavarotti -- Great Tenor Arias," from 1969-1982, and the "Duet: Ballo in Maschera," Pavarotti/Price, closing The Metropolitan Opera Centenial Gala, October 22, 1983, with English subtitles, available from Bel Canto, Paramount Home Video, CD/DVD from Metropolitan Opera. Finally, an encore of a favorite Pavarotti aria from that collection, whose final word should be on Luciano's grave stone:

"Nessum Dorma ... Vincero!"

Political Corruption and Incompetence in New Jersey, Torricelli and Milgram.

Raymond Hernandez and David W. Chen, "Now a Lobbyist, Ex-Senator Uses Campaign Money," The New York Times, August 24, 2007, at p. A1.
Kareem Fahim and David W. Chen, "Police Voice Concerns Over a Directive on Immigrants," in The New York Times, August 24, 2007, at p. B5.


"When he was running for the United States Senate from New Jersey in 2002, Robert G. Torricelli collected donations from thousands of people who apparently wanted to see him re-elected. They might be surprised to see how he spent a portion of their money."

"Mr. Torricelli, a Democrat who was one of the Senate's most flamboyant personalities and prodigious fund raisers, abruptly quit the 2002 race amid allegations of ethical misconduct and became a lobbyist. Since then he has given $4,000 from his campaign fund to Puerto Rico's non-voting member of Congress, $10,000 to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois and more than $40,000 to Nevada Democratic Party organizations and candidates linked to the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid."

Torricelli was (and is) reputed to be a saint compared to Menendez. Is Harry Reid the Jersey Boys' protection in the U.S. Congress? I hope not.

"All of those politicians had one thing in common: influence over Mr. Torricelli's, or his client's, business interests."

"In early 2006, for instance, Mr. Torricelli contributed $10,000 from his Senate account to the mayor of Trenton and his slate of City Council candidates, just as city agencies were reviewing an ultimately successful proposal by the former Senator to develop retail and office space in the city."

Torricelli's application was successful? What a surprise. The article hints at an unsavory alliance between Mr. Torricelli and Mr. Doria, a well-known political enforcer in Hudson County, New Jersey -- which is home base for mob activity in the U.S., allegedly. I wonder why things are so cozy for the mob in New Jersey? Badda-bing, badda-boom!

The rest of this long front page article is a depressing litany of examples of Torricelli purchasing personal business advantages with political contributions through a loophole in the laws allowing for candidates to make political contributions with campaign money, but prohibiting use of that money for personal expenses. The campaign funds are spent on buying the influence that translates into filthy lucre for Torricelli and his clients.

What else is new?

Menendez gets his buddies jobs with big developers who are benefitting from federal generosity, then some of that generosity probably comes back to papa under the table or through some legal rubric that preserves the letter of the law while violating its spirit. "I'm for all the people," Senator Bob said.

Meanwhile, New Jersey's baby attorney general (Anne Milgram) is losing what little respect she had with law enforcement professionals through incompetence, as in her recent immigration notice proposal: "One local police chief called it a publicity stunt. In a sheriff's office, the directive was passed out at roll call, by officials anxious to quickly comply. [Irony?] Another chief -- one of many who spoke on the condition he not be named for fear of ruffling the feathers of the state's top law enforcement officer -- said it seemed like a recipe for racial profiling."

Intimidation of persons considering whether to make use of their Constitutional rights is also routine in the Garden State.

"A day after New Jersey's attorney general, Anne Milgram, ordered local law enforcement agencies to start inquiring about the immigration status of the people they arrest, local officials and advocates for immigrants across the state began grappling with how the edict would change the already complicated relationship between the authorities and immigrants on the streets they patrol."

My guess is that cops will not be pressured to worry about the immigration status of people from, say, Norway. Probably, it is only brown and black people who will get the magnifying glass treatment.

"... Many expressed particular concern about the consequences for victims of domestic violence, who are often already reluctant to report their partners to the police."

The rest of this article contains no surprises and offers little that had not been expected by police officers who regard this attorney general, Anne Milgram, as yet another political hack and well-educated moron, placed over them for "show" purposes, who is (and will remain) mostly irrelevant to the realities of law enforcement in New jersey. (Alterations and insertion of "errors" in this essay will help prove my point.)

Unless Anne does something quickly to dispel this notion that she's an idiot with a nice degree, this will become a self-fulfilling prophecy for Ms. Milgram, who will someday be the next Nadine Strossen -- if she's lucky. My fear is that residents will wind up with yet another mediocre or worse judge on the Superior Court bench. Is Corzine also increasingly irrelevant to real power in New Jersey? I suspect so. You can say what you want about Speaker Roberts, Senator Codey, or "Prince of Darkness," Norcross -- those guys ain't stupid.

"Whatever, duh." Ms. Milgram said to a passing microphone.

Is Science the Last Religion?

August 18, 2007 at 4:51 P.M., letters began to be deleted as I was working on this draft, frustrating attempts to make progress on this essay. I do not believe that a person can refute my arguments by obstructing and frustrating my efforts to set them down in writing. This continuing censorship and psychological torture through frustration efforts (combined with so much worse) is the opposite of the scientific and philosophical spirit of inquiry. It may be a kind of admission of intellectual bankruptcy.

Spacing in this essay has been affected by hackers. Over the past 336 days 73,631 viruses have been aimed at my computer. Close to 1,000 intrusion attempts per day have been made during some weeks over that same time period, nearly all of them coming from New Jersey, some from government computers, perhaps assigned to judges or justices. The same "errors" have been inserted and corrected by me in some essays as many as forty to fifty times.

The goal of these efforts is not only to discourage writing efforts by me -- after torture and rape makes such efforts essential to emotional survival -- but to destroy a set of opinions challenging a false and pernicious world view that is dominant among America's so-called "educated class." These censorship efforts will be combined with forced impoverishment (an "embargo"?) and slanders intended to destroy personal and professional life. Objections to such treatment will allow for labelling me as "antisocial" or "in denial" and "hostile." A desperate effort will be made to discover or create offenses against political correctness by me that will serve to legitimate these crimes and atrocities.

August 31, 2007 at 9:24 P.M. numerous attempts to enter my msn account have been obstructed by hackers. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/MON/iview/msnnkss07600
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90

What are you afraid of? There is never a guarantee that I will be able to write again. If I am unable to do so -- if my computer or access to any other computer becomes a problem -- then I will do my best to write somewhere, somehow, even if it is only on a brick wall. I live in a society that, publicly, guarantees freedom of expression and human rights to everyone, where political and legal officials nevertheless, secretly, use psychological techniques, technology, and mass marketing "methods" to manipulate and control persons -- preferably without their realizing it -- and sometimes, in the worst places, they do much more terrible things.

I believe that these dangers to American liberties are every bit as worrisome as international terrorism. They are a kind of terrorism, even when corrupt officials happen to be Democrats. If you have ever seen the almost sexual bliss distorting the features of a person deliberately inflicting pain on another human being, you will never be the same again. If you have the misfortune of being the victim on whom that pain was (and is) inflicted, then you will never be entirely free of it. However, you will always prefer even that suffering to the condition of the person inflicting suffering on others for pleasure. (Numerous errors have just been inserted into this text and corrected.)

What I feel is not so much frustration as sadness and bewilderment at the pointlessness of so much human cruelty.

September 4, 2007 at 10:37 A.M. I find new "errors" inserted in this essay since my last reading of it a few days ago. I will do my best to make the same corrections as often as necessary. Regrettably, this will slow down other writing projects. My discussion is based, mostly, on the following sources:

Mary Midgley, Science and Poetry (London & New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 1-19, 79-88.
Charles Hampden-Turner, Radical Man: The Process of Psycho-Social Development (New York: Anchor, 1971), pp. 1-213.

A Hermeneutics of Freedom: "Hot Chocolate, No Whipped Cream."

I roll out of bed planning to head over to my local Dunkin Doughnuts coffee emporium. This elegant establishment is about a block away from my New York residence. I ask Jeeves, my butler, to lay out my weekend attire. We take turns in the butler role. I opt for soft khakis, a polo shirt with a discrete and minute emblem of an ape defecating on my chest (it's my own label), placed just over my heart. I slip on my leather loafers leaving the socks at home. Dark glasses -- to discourage autograph seekers -- complete the outfit. I purchase my newspaper with all the news that (liberals believe) is fit to print along with The Wall Street Journal, for the editorial page and display purposes.

During my one block morning stroll there will be dozens or hundreds of messages delivered to me, not all of them friendly or simple and easy to decode. A woman's perfume, as she stands next to me at the bodega ("What's a 'bodega,' Charles?"), her hair cut, even her shorts tell me: First, she's from the mid-west or "elsewhere" and is probably a student or young professional in New York; second, she has a graduate-level education and comes from a good home ("thank you, that's fine"); third, she's visiting a strange planet with weird brown people because, back in Wisconsin, everybody knows everyone else and looks the same; fourth, she likes this visit, because she's interested in anthropology; fifth, all of the magazines on the shelves are screaming messages about America's paranoia and sexual obsessions, which she pretends not to notice. Such things are not discussed in pleasant company back in Wisconsin or Idaho.

I am not surprised that Jack Finney's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about to appear in yet another movie version, this time starring Nicole Kidman. Communists have been replaced by terrorists, we know, but the deeper subtexts in that very disturbing work will be ignored by reviewers, also undiscussed will be the philosophical issues that the movie reflects and addresses. "There is no philosophy in The Matrix: Reloaded," opined David Demby of The New Yorker.

We are fortunate indeed to be instructed by such learned people about cultural and political matters. Naomi Klein's recent lecture carried on "Democracy Now" (one of my favorite news programs) brought tears to my eyes. Adam Gopnik's article discussing Philip K. Dick is best passed over in silence. Francis Fukuyama has nothing to worry about since Ms. Klein failed to understand what he said in his first book or why he said it. Anybody been to Long Island this summer?

Directly ahead of me is a huge sign on the side of a bus -- "Jason Bourne is back in New York!" The most significant religious symbol for many people in contemporary America is immediately ahead of me, the "Golden Arches" of McDonald's hamburger heaven, evoking the tablets of the law carried by Charlton Heston -- I mean Moses -- down from Mount Sinai: "So let it be written, so let it be done."

Huge signs invite me to sue my neighbors, using the services of "Mr. Rosman" ("litigation with a smile!"), a church down the street has a cross-shaped relic of the 9/11 tragedy on the front lawn. I always nod my head out of respect when I see it. As I cross the street, I see beautiful garments -- often much more beautiful than things sold in very expensive stores -- garments from India or China, Africa and Latin America -- placed on display in sidewalk stalls.

To see a woman I adore in one of those dresses made in India or China, in those colors and that inexpensive sidewalk jewelry, as we head off for a lunch in the park before attending a free performance of a Shakespeare play, then coffee in a special coffee shop with classic Opera recordings playing background music is a dream that never leaves me. The entire evening may cost no more than $20.00. The average couple sharing an evening together in Manhattan will spend that much or more on a cab ride to their destination. ("God is Texting Me!")

These inexpensive and lovely clothes are made, mostly, by women. They come from factories found in the poorest parts of the world. They are filled with the sweat of those lives and with their creative energies, as artifacts. However, because they are not expensive, they are not valued. I bought my daughter a small purse made by African women in Israel, sold at the wonderful Jewish Community Center (JCC) -- I think that's what it's called -- in Manhattan. You don't have to be Jewish to visit. She loved it more than any other handbag or purse I have ever given her. It is simple and beautiful with a residue of the life-hopes of the woman who made it.

A homeless man opens the door to this "Doughnut Paradise," offers a cheerful comment on the weather. He gets some money from me. Most people ignore him. I find it fascinating to ponder the semiotics of this encounter. This man has adopted the form and manner of the New York "doorman." All the fancy buildings in the city, especially the great hotels, feature splendidly attired doormen in uniforms worthy of German field officers in World War II, doormen whose mission in life is to bow and offer pleasant tribute to the thin and bejeweled matrons (of both or all genders) entering their multimillion dollar "homes" in Manhattan or equally pricey hotels.

Many of these doormen or -women are African-Americans or Latinos and Latinas. They tell me that the money (and sometimes other perks) can be really solid in that job, and "it ain't gonna kill ya." This homeless guy has figured out that people want to feel important, like those Upper West or East Side swells, so he behaves like the classic New York doorman. His tactic pays off. He gets good money in that spot. Perhaps it says something about his society and what has brought him to such visible agony that it is this humble and somewhat grotesque role that he is expected to play in life: "Yes, sir. Lovely day. You looking fine!"

My friend, Sam, has become an organ grinder's monkey because it is what he has been taught that he is by a racist society. At some point, this man stopped fighting the bullshit and died, spiritually, and now something that looks human, some small remnant of what used to be a person opens doors and smiles, commenting on the weather for us "rich people." Most of the censorship I am struggling against is aimed at turning me into something like that man. ("'The Stepford Wives': A Movie Review.")

No doubt my homeless friend is now fully "adjusted" to the role and status allotted to him in America. Unfortunately, I will not be adjusted to such a prescribed role, not even if it comes with the "status" of an "attorney." I will not bend or break or abandon my views because you -- America's or New Jersey's political-criminal elite -- have decided that my opinions and the learning and reasoning justifying them are not permissible for someone "like me" to put on display, usually at the cost of your far less "well-reasoned" and well-informed views. No wonder this essay and essayist are under attack. My greatest offense has always been who and what I am. Tough. My identity is not negotiable. My selfhood cannot cannot be tortured out of me.

He catches my eye. We smile. The message is: "I'm doing what I have to do with these people." My unspoken response is -- "me too." I dig in my pocket: "Here's some of what I have and thanks for not putting on the act with me. I think and feel what you think and feel." I know that he understood every word of that unspoken message. The sadness briefly seen in his features is a reversal of the mask of cheerfulness that he wears most of the time. That mask must get heavy on his face. He knows that he doesn't need the mask with me. There's just silence and a painful smile. We both say, silently: "I know what you're feeling." There are a lot more like us out there, getting angrier by the day. Closing off opportunities for expression may not be wise. (See my essay on the philosophy of Charles Taylor and the problem of recognition.)

I will never become violent or commit a crime because I will not give my torturers the pleasure of inducing or producing such conduct in me, despite their best efforts. Racists wish to produce violence in you, as a minority male, so they will be confirmed in their opinions of you and in order that their crimes against you may be excused in their own minds at least. Be a model citizen. Speak daggers to them, but use none. It helps to remember that the moral level of torturers and government censors is always roughly equal to what you scrape off your shoe, especially in New Jersey. In fact, in New Jersey much the same may be said of Superior Court judges. (See my forthcoming essay "Mark Baber and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Dunkin Doughnuts' employees have been issued new uniforms designed by someone with the old ABC tv show "Happy Days" in mind. A retro-faux-fifties-happiness is conveyed by mostly Latina and Indian women in tan polo shirts and paper hats, like children at a birthday party in 1957 caught in a time warp and placed in this demented setting: "America runs on dunkin!" Right. (An "error" was inserted in this last sentence since my last reading of it only a few hours ago.)

Two posters greet us as we enter this establishment: on my right is a woman smiling like an idiot and offering us a doughnut (vagina); on my left is another woman holding an ice cream cone, two scoops (penis). Charming. Pornography with your coffee and doughnut?

On my way back home, I stop at the Botanica downstairs at my building, catering to all of my spiritual needs. I purchase a small wooden statue of Ganesha, also a crucifix. I often see archetypal images from different parts of the world (some are very beautiful). I read the messages conveyed by those images. Sometimes these messages mean the exact opposite of what the proprietor supposes. I don't have the heart to tell him any of this. Some of those statues and images are meant to convey very unpleasant wishes. Perhaps I will send some of these art objects -- the ones conveying curses -- to New Jersey's well-fed judges. Visits to the MET museum should feature pauses at the famous canvases containing multiple messages, some of which are deliciously nasty.

"Primitive man had to see himself surrounded by a circle of forces -- demons, gods, friendly forces, impersonal forces. If I think of a primitive walking through a forest, I expect his movement to be different from ours. If we pass through the woods on an easy trail, we walk; if it's not open, we bushwack. But the primitive may have stopped before a certain tree and bowed. Before another, he may have lain prostrate, even abject, on the ground; where there was familiarity with a relatively modest divine force, just a nod of the head as he passed by. That was no more than was required unless the tree gave an indication that it was annoyed. How did it speak? By many shades of distinction in the rustling of its leaves."

Norman Mailer goes on to point out:

"If we accept these suppositions, then consciousness had to be more intense for the primitive. He was always a protagonist. His day was heroic or ghastly. For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself. Terrified and heroic, it is no wonder that the life span of primitive man was shorter than ours."

The Spooky Art (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 148.

Most people are oblivious to these signals and symbols, except for the obvious commercial ones, which are ignored. Many New Yorkers seem to be sleepwalking. The more educated people claim to be, the more likely it is that 90% of what is communicative or symbolic around them will be ignored or not seen at all. Life will be ignored. Art will not be seen or appreciated, especially when it is found in unexpected places. People make themselves stupid. Incidentally, in an era threatened by terrorists, this lack of feeling is the opposite of intelligence. Most of what the CIA will need to know about people who mean to harm us will not be found in a lab report. This information will not be detected by a satellite. Luckily, we can rely on the wisdom and astonishing intellects of persons like Anne Milgram, Esq. to keep us all secure. ("Another Mafia Sweep in New Jersey and Anne Milgram is Clueless.")

The so-called scientific approach in the social sciences and professions is about not being distracted by the "irrelevant" (like life), in order to focus on discrete, atomic propositions, usually directed at specific "issues" and "problems" to be dealt with in a "professional" manner. "What's the bottom line?" "What's on the bar exam?" "What is the specific research agenda?"

There is an ideology, falsely associated with science, of exclusion and diminution instilled in young people by the educational and political establishment. This is part of what is meant by the suggestion that "scientism" -- a kind of religion of science which is destructive of the spiritual and aesthetic capacities of humanity -- is now triumphant in America. Hence, the wars against traditional religions. The result is adding both to the unhappiness reported by Americans and to our troubles in the world. This is something else that is not seen. Our dominant methodology in the social sciences works for some purposes, not for others. American scientism is producing a condition, among a materially and culturally rich people, of spiritual destitution.

Unfortunately, hackers have altered the spacing of paragraphs in this essay as proof of America's undying commitment to free political expression for all dissidents, everywhere -- except New Jersey.

You cannot understand the mind and emotional core of a person, even when they are captured in art, by placing such items under a literal or figurative microscope because your relation to what you seek to understand is part of what you must appreciate. You getting this, Tuchin? Is Diana busy raping an unconscious woman? Have New jersey's judges been interrupted in their thievery? Please feel free to carry on.

"The existential knower cannot by definition practice the traditional scientific detachment. He is studying relational facts, and the attempt to detach himself could destroy these. Even where he is observing the mutuality of others, the source of his insight will run dry with the source of his concern, since his own feelings and powers of identification are important clues to the shared human condition. If man exists he inevitably influences what he studies, and his only choice is to become aware of what he contributes to the relationship and to ensure that it facilitates the developmental process in which he himself is involved." (Radical Man, at p. 33.)

The response to these accusations will be a quotation from Richard Dawkins and the shout: "I am against the war!" Me too. I am also against theft in New Jersey politics and many tortures in that state that has been controlled by Democrats since long before Iraq and Abu Ghraib. I am against interference with religious or other philosophical expressions of people by party hacks or "experts" presuming to tell others what to believe or how to live. I don't like people destroying my written work. Curiously, I object to being tortured. Finally, I have a reservation or two about mafia/mob involvement in politics, whether it is Cuban-American or Russian organized crime is irrelevant. Italian-Americans have mostly moved on to the much more evil work of making movies and lots of money in business.

I don't want your opinions of me or your approval in New Jersey's legal circles. I don't want your friendship. I don't want to associate with you. I don't want to "cooperate" with you. I am not interested in your opinions on any subject. Your hypocrisy at the New Jersey Supreme Court sickens me. I want my rights.

Millions of people are saying exactly this in every way that it can be said to American officials: "We respect and want science and technology; we also respect and need religious wisdom and meaning." Any questions? The judicial robes that you are wearing on the New Jersey Supreme Court are a lie. New Jersey's justices are living a lie. Every day that the cover-up of these atrocities continues is a further befouling of your oaths and the institution that you serve. Ethics? You're kidding, Mr. Rabner?

I will comment on the new scientism, which has reached epidemic proportions today, offering some suggestions about what we can do to improve things, only to return to Dunkin Doughnuts for a "croissant" by way of conclusion. A hermeneutic circle? As New Jersey's new attorney general (Anne Milgram) might say, "Whatever."

"Scientific materialism asks us to believe in a world of objects without subjects -- and since we are subjects asked to do the believing -- that proposal makes no sense." (Mary Midgley)

I am not an electrical appliance. I am not exclusively a material object to be fixed from the outside by replacing external visible parts. To be sure, I am a material entity. I have a body. This body needs maintenance and repair. I am, however, more than this body. I am conscious, aware, sentient. It is certainly true (as far as we know) that without my body, there will be no sentience; no awareness; no experiencing nature. However, it is a profound error to suppose that my experiencing nature or the rich technicolor subjectivity that I am, as a freedom in the world, is reducible to what is observable, externally, and therefore alterable from the outside.

An "error" -- previously corrected by me -- has been reinserted in this essay. I have now corrected it once again. I want you to have a feel for my writing experience.

To view another human being in exclusively external terms, as a thing, is to dehumanize that person. It is a terrible insult and injury which is also stupid if your goal is to understand him or her. Among the "things" that I am is a moral subject with legal rights and fundamental dignity, including autonomy. Rights and dignity, however, stand in the way of scientific "control." I am not something to be "controlled" by you or anyone in a free society. The essence of the scientific religion is the assumption by self-professed "scientifically rational" types of authority to control, improve, instruct defective or inferior non-criminal "others." The same error is committed internationally, at the level of foreign policy, with disastrous consequences which we see all around us. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

"When science spreads its mantle of prestige over all of those aspects of social life which lend themselves most easily to observation, then outward behavior and appearance are elevated above inner conviction. It is no use for Martin Luther King to declare movingly, 'I have a dream that one day men will be judged not by the color of their skins, but by the content of their characters;' as any proponent of the scientific method will explain, content of character and dreams are extremely inferential and represent at best 'soft data.' In contrast, skin color, ethnic group, income position and role in the organization, property and concrete behavior are all visible, measurable and therefore the potential ingredients of a science. There are twenty research programs which deal with physical externalities for every one that attempts to explore the depths of human feelings and experience."

Notice the key point:

"We know from the every day social judgments that we make of people that their external appearances are not only misleading, but often trivial compared with deeper knowledge of their character."

Radical Man, p. 10.

Science focuses on such externals and quantifiable material, then dismisses or denies (at least, some "scientists" do) the importance of all that is excluded by this so-called scientific approach, such as purpose or meaning. The glories of scientific achievement and the world-view accompanying science that made those glories possible must not obscure the equally glorious achievements in the non-scientific realms of subjectivity (humanities, religion) leading to very different objective truths.

Science must not lead us to forget all that art and religion have accomplished. Yes, religion has caused warfare and inquisitions. But then, science has created gas chambers and nuclear weapons. In both instances human choices are to blame for the evil to which each kind of knowledge has been put. The fault, dear Brutus, is in ourselves -- not in our stars, microscopes, or libraries.

Much the same may be said today concerning behaviorist psychological techniques and all externalist social science which, perhaps with good intentions, have become instruments of hideous tortures or ways of misunderstanding human beings that are brutally destructive of human psyches: "The habit of scientific analysis has led investigators into the 'Humpty Dumpty dilemma.' ..."

What is the "Humpty-Dumpty dilemma"?

"... Humpty Dumpty not only labeled social reality unilaterally and arbitrarily, 'the question is which is to be master, that is all,' he finished up in thousands of fragments which no one could put together again."

Radical Man, p. 12.

"Humpty Dumpty' is the external material subject postulated by contemporary social science in America: a body with a brain, but only the illusion of a mind; conditioned by advertising and political slogans; molded by economic pressures and sociological categorizing; subject to complete comprehension and control in terms of stimulus and response. I suggest that this construct is a far more unreal and much less useful model than Kant's "transcendental ego." It is also unlivable and evil because of its brutal reductivism. ("Behaviorism is Evil.")

This so-called "scientific" image of what persons are and of the scientifically rationalized society horrifies millions of people in this country and all over the world. I can see why so many feel this way. America is not best thought of in such terms. America may best be found in its organic documents, like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The American idea is that you are not a "thing" to be conditioned from the outside by paid "experts" in torture chambers, but a priceless locus of rights and dignity whatever your economic status may be. American foreign policy reflects these values in foreign aid -- which was just offered to Mexico after terrible storms -- and (paradigmatically) in the post-World War II "Marshall Plan." That's the United States of America, Marshall Plan not Abu Ghraib. I hope. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.")

The homeless men and women in our city streets are a powerful criticism not of those values at the heart of the society, but our failure to live up to them and (often) of the cover ups and hypocrisy that accompany such failures. My subject is science as religion and the ominous spread of scientism. What is scientism? What objections can be made to the universalizing of scientific method, particularly in the areas of human subjectivity? I will focus on three issues: 1) neutrality; 2) observation; 3) control.

A. Scientism.

William Barrett comments:

"What is this peculiar phenomenon we call scientism? It is not science, any more than the shadow is anywhere identical with the substance of a thing. Nor is science ever evidence of scientism. At most, science merely serves to heat up the imagination of certain minds -- and they are not few -- who are too prone to sweeping and unqualified generalizations in the first place. Scientism is pseudoscience or misinterpreted science. Its conclusions are sweeping and large, and therefore sometimes pretend to be philosophical. But it is not a part of philosophy, if by philosophy we mean the effort to think soberly within the restrictions that human reflection must impose for itself. No; scientism is neither science nor philosophy, but that peculiarly modern invention and malady -- an ideology. [A religion?] And as such, along with other ideologies that beset us, it has become part of our modern culture."

Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer (New York: Doubleday, 1986), p. xv.

1). neutrality.

The posture of detachment, "professionalism," indifference adopted by self-defined scientific types is helpful when examining the objective processes of nature, but inhumane when observing the meaning-systems and all products of the "life-world," especially when such entities exist to injure people. This scientific attitude is the indifference of the observer at a trafffic accident who takes no action to help victims because by observing and taking careful notes, he can learn exactly how long it takes the victim to die and how that dying takes place. "We can learn from ya." Right, Tuchin? ("What is it like to be tortured?")

For any healing professional to adopt such an attitude is the negation of the concern and empathy dictated by medical tradition for centuries in every civilized society. This Mengele-like scientific "observer" of human suffering is a new horror in the contemporary world that arrives with the totalization of scientific control in the nightmare societies of the twentieth century and beyond. Even worse are persons -- like Tuchin and Riccioli -- who cause suffering to victims or collectivities in order to "learn" how persons suffer. Worse is any judge or tribunal allowing such cruelty to take place or making it possible for others to be brutalized in such ways in order to perfect methods of social control. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Only one newly-inserted "error" is not too bad. 

2). observation.

The omnipresence of observation is the death of privacy. Technology has intruded the observing eye of Big Brother everywhere in our societies. If you can see the Empire State building in Manhattan, then you can be sure that you are on screen in a tape being made somewhere, by one of the hundreds or thousands of cameras capturing people's lives (without their consent) every day, from every angle, for the benefit of government agencies and corporate masters. America is a reality show and every single person in the country is Kate Winslet or Leonardo Di Caprio -- not for fifteen minutes, but 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

Every casual conversation, kiss, weekend plan made in a whisper on the sidewalk can be captured on videotape and replayed by men and women in blue suits and uniforms for purposes that have nothing to do with you or your life. Persons are raped in institutions, tormented in indescribably horrible ways for purposes never disclosed by "scientists" incapable of the minimal decency of an introduction or explanation. The resulting emotional damage is discussed in seminars by these monsters. We find ourselves living inside a moral dungeon derived from nightmares shared by Kafka, Orwell, Foucault and maybe, Peter Handke. Apes do not seem to object, so why should we? Are we not apes of a larger growth and nothing more? Are we not "rats on a carousel"? "Sacks of protein and water," Larissa? "Slaves?" ("Master and Commander.")

I am sure that my Internet research and writing is monitored. I have lost count of the number of hackers and government computers accessing these blogs. No consent, warrants, identifications are needed. Welcome to the People's Republic of the United States. Incidentally, these enhanced security methods are accompanied by criticisms of other countries, like China and Cuba, as violators of human rights. ("Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")

3). control.

Science as religion -- like all political ideologies -- is aimed at controlling or eliminating the inner lives of persons, total dominance, absolute subjectivation or acculturation. Persons are to be molded to purposes which are not their own in order to achieve "socially desirable objectives" as defined by these faceless and nameless "others." Spirituality and creativity are powerful and uncontrollable forces in the human psyche. Hence, they are to be eliminated or directed in harmless paths -- towards pop culture, obscenity as opposed to erotic art, mindless consumption.

Spacing has been affected by New Jersey hackers again, as new "errors" were inserted and corrected. ("Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me'" and "Babalu and Free Speech Too!")

The Grand Inquisitors of the scientific-corporate-governmental establishment aim at creating a Winston Smith-like servile, sub-human subject, grateful for his conditioning, thoroughly defeated and submissive to the instructions of power, never presuming to ask annoying questions or challenging authority. Ironically, civil libertarians and liberals in America are often the greatest defenders of this ideology of scientific control, usually without realizing what they have unleashed on the world. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

"The scientists and the promethean engineers, these lieutenants of the technocracy have done the most to transform our culture into the push-button Tower of Babble we inhabit. They have habituated us to apocalyptic vistas."

Theodor Roszack defines the new scientific-religious notion of "reality":

"Matter, we have learned, is a vibrant jelly of energy; the universe a burst balloon of galactic fragments; thought itself a mere feedback in the cerebral electronics; life a chemical code soon to be [and by now] fully deciphered; all seeming law nothing but the large-scale likelihood of basic chaos. No absolutes. Nothing sacred. Any day now homunculus in a test tube -- cyborgs made to order -- interstellar tourism -- the doomsday bomb. [Oh, joy!] Why not? What is possible is mandatory?"

Sources (New York: Harper-Collophon, 1972), pp. xv-xvi.

Efforts to write this essay have been obstructed by hackers, difficulties with my security system, letters deleted from this essay as I worked on earlier drafts have become routine aspects of my writing experience. (I just corrected another "error" inserted in this last sentence.) Uncertainty and anxiety as well as disgust accompany my efforts to create my work, every day, because I expect unwelcome company at my computer. I think this proves much of what I am saying. ("How censorship works in America.")

On August 20, 2007 at 9:13 A.M. I am blocking, once again, http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (NJ)

People engaging in these efforts to censor and destroy protected speech in deliberate violation of criminal laws in order to further injure a person, who has been deeply hurt already by such tactics, will no doubt go home and pet their dogs, read their newspapers in the evening, enjoying "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" on television without detecting any moral issues arising from their oppressive conduct. (Spacing has been affected again.)

What have you become? What are we not seeing about the moral reality before our eyes and why are we not seeing it? Is morality an illusion, for you, only because morality is not quantifiable? Are you or your relationships "quantifiable"? Does this explain your antipathy to religion, romantic love, or all altruistic ideals? What do we not see that the rest of the world sees all too well about Iraq and Guantanamo, also about ourselves as a nation? How would we react to efforts to condition our reactions and national policy on the part of other nations pursuing their national interests with disdain for our self-determined goals and values?

One more "error" to be corrected today. Words removed and restored.

"If the choice is between a clenched fist, machines, gold, or Christ -- I choose Christ." (Malcolm Muggeridge)

An old-fashioned humanistic psychiatrist interviewing Herman Goering at Nuremberg was struck by what was missing in the personality of the "Reich Marshal" (Unfortunately, spacing has been altered, again):

"... Goering was a 'brilliant, brave, ruthless, grasping, shrewd executive.' He also found Goering charming, persuasive, intelligent and imaginative. The one characteristic that set Goering apart from the urbane personality ... was his complete lack of moral discrimination, his absence of any sense 'of the value of human life.' [human suffering?] In this Goering was as candid as in all else. When [the psychiatrist] asked him why he had ordered the murder of his friend Ersnt Rohm during the purge of the SA on 30 June 1934, Goering stared at him as if he were 'not quite bright,' and replied, 'But he was in my way ...' "

Richard Overy, Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands (New York & London: Penguin, 2004), p. 149. ("'The Prisoner': A Review of an AMC Television Series.")

Goering's engineering bakground had prepared him for such instrumental challenges. Murder was simply a "means and ends problem" of a technocratic sort to be "resolved" without squeamishness. From a scientific perspective "valuing" neutrality, there is no basis for disagreeing with this attitude. At the point when scientific method reaches this level of disconnection from human meanings and purposes in order to become totalizing, science has become a kind of religion.

If science is to compete with traditional religions and ethical systems -- not as a means of providing knowledge to serve human values developed elsewhere in the culture, but as the only source and legitimator of action in the State -- then I will opt for more traditional value systems to guide meliorative efforts. Better flawed religious institutions and attempts to face honestly the mysteries of life than the denial of those mysteries by self-professed "scientists." As an agnostic and free person, I will choose the example of Christ over Dr. Mengele any day. ("An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

I apologize to readers for the deformations of this work (and of my life) by hackers or "experts" affiliated with New Jersey's mafia-controlled government. This form of censorship and induced frustration is a crime and unconstitutional. This is known to the authorities. The applicable laws are simply not enforced. Please see again: "What is it like to be tortured?"

More Incompetence and Unethical Conduct in New Jersey!

"Trenton: More Than 600 Arrested," in The New York Times, August 15, 2007, at p. B7. (Feds)
"Trenton: Tracking Sex Offenders," in The New York Times, August 15, 2007, at p. B4. (NJ)

Gee, I wonder why I am having so many problems seeing my second book distributed to book sellers and why the numbers do not seem to match up with the actual visitors to that site? Probably just a coincidence.

August 19, 2007 at 2:42 P.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/MSN/iview/msnnkhac00172
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn_cusa/B2 (Cuban American National Foundation?)
http://www.unc.edu/~cshowden/mx/839.gif (Howard Dean?)

August 18, 2007 at 4:51 P.M. I am blocking hackers and spyware:

http://view.atdmt.com/MON/iview/msnnkss07600
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90



In the paper there are two items placed on the same page and next to one another that are very revealing of the situation on the ground in New Jersey law enforcement. The stories were found in close proximity so that readers might assume that the federal successes belong to New Jersey's attorney general, Ms. Milgram. (This last sentence was just corrected after hacking last night.) First, a story detailing yet another success for the United States attorney (the feds), Christopher J. Christie:

"Federal agents arrested 626 people yesterday as part of a sweep seeking sexual offenders, violent criminals and gang members."

These are the kind of arrests normally made by state law enforcement everywhere else. Zulima Farber, as New Jersey attorney general, made numerous such arrests. No wonder they had to get rid of her. However, Ms. Milgram -- who has very little or no criminal experience in the state system or anywhere else -- has made no such sweeping arrests. No wonder they appointed her. A judgeship is next for Ms. Milgram. Maybe a spot on the Supreme Court, if she proves her loyalty to the powers that be in Trenton -- which she will -- as Stuart Rabner did. How come Ms. Milgram missed all of these crimes and criminal organizations? We do not know. She does not know.

"The operation arrested 35 people wanted on sex offenses, 244 on drug charges and 36 on weapons violations, officials said. ... 118 suspected gang members were also arrested. Christopher J. Christie, the United States attorney, said the investigation had lasted about a month."

Ms. Milgram's office is probably looking into the possible use of the "b-word" by high school seniors throughout the state. Offenses against political correctness are taken very seriously in the Garden State. Doesn't New Jersey have laws against cyberstalking and Internet crime? Oh, they don't care about real crimes -- especially when such crimes are committed by persons affiliated with the Trenton government. Second, here's what law enforcement is up to in New Jersey -- hang on to your hat:

"The operators of the social networking Internet site 'Facebook' have agreed to cooperate with a request from New Jersey officials to help identify convicted sex offenders who MIGHT be participating in online chats. ... Last week [New Jersey's attorney general, Anne Milgram] sent a letter to Facebook and 11 other meeting sites asking for THEIR help finding sex offenders online."

Ms. Milgram wants to go on a fishing expedition for persons who MIGHT be sex offenders, violating everybody else's civil rights at Facebook (whatever that is), so that maybe, just possibly, somebody from one of these sites can help her to find someone online who MAY be a sex offfender. Any sex offenders who read the newspapers will now take off and never again be "seen" at Facebook. "Whatever," right Anne? Anybody, including Ms. Milgram, MIGHT BE a sex offender. There are other crimes out there, Anne -- like political corruption. Duh ... Here is what should concern the boys and girls in New Jersey government:

"More than one-quarter of New Jersey's 2,430 public schools were cited yesterday for failing to meet federal education standards after too few of their students passed state reading and math tests this spring, state education officials said yesterday." [sic.]

Maybe the 51 MILLION dollars that disappeared last year from programs for children with special needs, never reaching those needy children, has something to do with this little problem. You looking into that issue, Anne? Even among those who pass such a test, achievement is low and morale among teachers is dismal. No amount bullshit "spin" placed on these facts diminishes in any way the shameful disgrace of this disclosure, which is surpassed only by the grotesque levels of corruption and incompetence among New Jersey judges and legal officials of all sorts -- including Anne Milgram. You can imagine the number of innocent persons convicted and guilty persons set free (or made judges!) in New Jersey:

"A total of 618 schools failed to meet annual testing benchmarks established under No Child Left behind, which was a slight improvement over the 643 schools [left behind] the year before."

Winnie Hu & Ford Fedessen, "New Jersey Schools Show Small Gains in Standards," in The New York Times, August 17, 2007, at p. B5 and Winnie Hu, "New Jersey Education Dept. Has Problems, Audit Finds," in The New York Times, August 18, 2007 at p. B2.

Yes, I'd say New Jersey education has a few problems. But then, the entire state of New Jersey has "problems."

The solution is not to have more p.r. nonsense spouted by Washington or Trenton bureaucrats. It is not to try to silence critics, like me, with illegal censorship tactics. This is a generation of Americans ill-equipped to compete with rivals in the industrialized economies, something which is already evident to many corporate employers. Things will get worse before they get better. True, New Jersey's legal system is the very bottom of the barrel. Other states are also much better at educating their children. However, the problems are pretty universal.

One step towards a solution is to pay teachers salaries appropriate to their professional status. Pay teachers what judges make. Get rid of paperwork as much as possible, allow teachers to make professional evaluations and set up educational methods and goals, collaboratively and without interference from politicians. Concentrate the money and effort where it is needed, with minority children, make the university education of African-American children a national moral obligation. It is the least -- and I mean the least -- we can do at this point in history for those children.

The solution, as I continue to insist, is not to commit further crimes against me, not to hack into my computer to delete letters from my essays. It is time to deal honestly with these issues and try to cope with burning problems with something other than insults, threats in the media against rival politicians, destruction of professional lives of critics, or any of the other tactics used by the mob in New Jersey government. Let's all stay off the Garden State Parkway and wear our seatbelts, after criticizing New Jersey's powerful machine politicians or we will live to regret it. Right, Anne?

Lots of luck, Anne. No wonder they made her attorney general. New Jersey's precious resources are spent in worrying about and violating the protected political expressions of dissenters. In a state where so-called "forensic psychiatrists" (like Diana Lisa Riccioli and Terry Tuchin) torture victims and sell their services to the highest bidders -- including "offenders" of all kinds, especially if they work for the government -- this is not only laughable and absurd, but sad and dangerous. Where are those reports, Terry?

What have you become, Stuart Rabner?

More bad news for New Jersey!

"A man was sentenced yesterday in Federal District Court to two and a half years in federal prison for making false bomb threats concerning the Hoboken PATH station, prosecutors said."

Once again New Jersey was "a day late and a dollar short," as the saying goes, missing the operations of this defendant. If his threat had been genuine, thousands would have died. New Jersey's attorney general is concentrating on J-walkers in Trenton, especially if they are males. Thank God, the feds are on this.

The citizens of the Garden State would be at the mercy of those 600 or so criminals arrested only by the efforts of federal law enforcement officials, who are the only people interested in punishing theft among New Jersey politicians. ("Errors" have already been inserted in this last sentence and corrected by me.) New Jersey's Anne Milgram heads an office with nearly twice the staff of the federal prosecutors, but only a tiny fraction of the fed's competence and no achievements at all to speak of -- except for censorship efforts aimed at critics, perhaps -- and more politically correct bullshit for the newspapers. (I expect letters to be deleted from these essays on a daily basis.)

I bet you're really "chummy" with Diana, right Anne? You two "pal around" a lot?

The New York Times, August 22, 2007 at p. B6.

"Former Mayor Sharpe James says he does not have enough cash to hire one of the high-profile lawyers who represented him at his arraignment last month, according to court papers filed yesterday."

The New York Times, August 22, 2007, at p. B6.

If Mr. James does not have enough money for his defense, how do you think the average person can defend him- or herself in a criminal case against the resources of the state? Not very well. Public defenders are understaffed, underpaid, grossly deprived of resources to do what they are expected to do -- and people's lives are on the line. No wonder New Jersey's legal and political system is a travesty and den of thieves. Politicians can get away with crimes because nobody has the time to notice what they're doing. They may be in for a surprise. The only person who won't notice what's going on is Anne Milgram.

Time for a competent attorney general and some honest judges for a change at the New Jersey Supreme Court. For now, like Stuart Rabner, we can only "demur."