October 26, 2008 at 4:16 P.M. A number of essays were vandalized, again, at Critique -- including "The 'Galatea Scenario' and the Mind/Body Problem" which was corrected yesterday. I will correct and post it again. I will then post a revised version of "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary" and "Does N.J. Justice Wallace Smoke Weed?"
More essays examining Union City's Municipal Court and the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office are coming up.
October 24, 2008 at 12:53 P.M. Access to MSN was obstructed just "now." MSN Groups, according to a notice I received, is scheduled to "close" in February, 2009. I wonder whether this is true. Why would someone send me a false notice? I will struggle to correct any "errors" inserted by hackers during this time when I am unable to reach my group.
October 23, 2008 at 11:17 A.M. I was unable to reach my group just now. This sort of struggle is not unusual. Several essays have been altered in small ways -- missing captions for photos, letters or words deleted. I will try to make corrections when I can return to my MSN account.
October 22, 2008 at 8:56 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group this morning, being obstructed each time I reach the site. I will run scans and do my best to post new work or make changes at some point during the course of the day. This struggle will prevent efforts to write new essays or stories. I will keep trying to write on-line. This is routine harassment.
October 21, 2008 at 12:20 P.M. I am struggling to return to Critique, after being denied access to that site at approximately 11:08 A.M., still running scans.
October 19, 2008 at 8:41 P.M. I am again unable to return to Critique. Apparently, intrusions have resulted in alterations of my desk top icons. I will struggle to return to MSN and to repair the harm done to these writings. Several more essays have, apparently, been vandalized. Trenton?
October 19, 2008 at 6:16 P.M. As of this time, I have been unable to regain access to my MSN group. I cannot say how many more essays have been vandalized or defaced. I will continue to struggle to get back to that site. Cyberharassment and crank calls continue on a daily basis. (See "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
October 19, 2008 at 4:57 P.M. efforts to reach Critique are obstructed by cyberattacks. The essay which appears below was altered at my MSN group. The corrected text cannot be posted at that site at this time. I will spend the rest of the evening trying to post that essay, then I will try again tomorrow to continue writing at my group.
Allegations of marijuana use against New Jersey Justice Wallace remain uncorroborated, if also undenied by the state justice. No person using Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) should be a judge in the Garden State. I wonder why I encounter cyberattacks on a daily basis? Is it possible that such censorship efforts are content-based and associated with New Jersey government officials abusing public authority? I shudder to think that such a thing is possible.
New Jersey's "cowardly legal lion," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner (D) and A.G. Anne Milgram (D) seem incapable to examining the accusations against N.J.'s legal system. Cyberwars continue. October 18, 2008 at 7:50 A.M. New "errors" inserted and corrections made. October 19, 2008 at 4:38 P.M.
October 4, 2007 at 9:23 A.M. I am unable to access my MSN account to continue working on an essay dealing with the Jena 6 case. I will spend the rest of the day trying to reach my MSN account. Maybe there are more swastikas being posted in fields near police stations in New Jersey. Spacing may be affected in this essay. At 9:52 A.M., I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/Jaction/ko/msn_MSNBC... (NJ)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnbc/B229... (NJ)
Richard G. Jones, "New Jersey Agrees to Settle Trooper's Harassment Suit," in The New York Times, October 2, 2007, at p. B2.
Jeremy W. Peters, "In New Jersey, Corruption May Alter Politics. Or Not," in The New York Times, October 3, 2007, at B1.
"NEWARK, Oct. 1 -- Officials with the New Jersey attorney general's office said on Monday that the state had agreed to a $400,000.00 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a former state trooper who said that he was beaten and harassed by members of a secret group of rogue officers within the State Police."
Any "settlement" offered to me will be will be substantially donated to 9/11 victims and other charities. You can't "buy" me. An organized crime group made up of State Police officers -- how do they feel about swastikas? -- terrorizes law enforcement officers in alliance with big time criminals or selected politicians in New Jersey, allegedly, doing the dirty work for the Trenton Syndicate, knowing that they will never be prosecuted or charged in the Garden State for their many crimes.
It is unknown, at this time, how many members of the Garden State's discredited Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) are subject to the influence of these rogue cops or "made members" of this state police mafia group.
Now you know why federal supervision of police was needed (and still is vital) in New Jersey. No wonder good old Stuart Rabner (who can't be as dumb as he looks, since no one could be that stupid) is afraid to act on what is now an obvious pattern of gross criminality, professional incompetence, and worse (Tuchin and Riccioli), as well as continuing conspiracies to violate civil rights and then cover-up the violations. Maybe the Lords of Discipline have a squad of cybercriminals. (More "errors" have been inserted in this text since last night.)
"The former trooper, Justin Hopson, filed the lawsuit in 2003. In it, he described a series of beatings, threats and acts of vandalism that he said occurred after he refused to support an arrest by another trooper in 2002."
"Mr. Hopson said he was attacked by members of a loose-knit group within the State Police known as the Lords of Discipline. For years, minority and female troopers have complained that they have been harassed by members of the group."
Sexual harassment of female officers and women drivers is a routine perk claimed by these guys, probably with the eager assistance of so-called "therapists." Tuchin? Riccioli? A little hypnosis and you're all set.
"In 2005, the state attorney general's office issued a report that found seven troopers guilty of harassing their colleagues. The troopers received punishments ranging from reprimands to 45 day suspensions, but the attorney general's office said it found no evidence that the Lords of Discipline existed within the State Police."
Everybody in New Jersey government, including Stuart Rabner and Anne Milgram (unless she is even more incompetent than even I have thought) knows that the Lords of Discipline exists and is scared shitless of being targeted by the "boys." A lot more than 7 officers are involved. Soon federal prosecutors and judges will be designated for destruction, through illicit, behind-the-back character assassinations and economic warfare. The "rogue" troopers are viciously racist and homophobic, probably connected to Garden State mafia families and subject to bribes.
No wonder there is so much racial profiling and a grotesque history of frame-ups in the legal system of New Jersey. These guys must be related to the people who "got" Mumia Abu-Jamal. Please send any amount you can afford to the legal effort to free Mumia. The address is available on-line. Anyone subjected to "evaluation" by a forensic psychologist or psychoanalyst in New Jersey will be tortured for information, under hypnosis probably. (See "Jaynee La Vecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
"... Mr. Hopson, 33, filed suit after the March 2002 arrest of a woman for drunken driving, which he said was improper because the woman had not been behind the wheel. At the time of the arrest, Mr. Hopson had been on the job 11 days."
Fabricating criminal charges, filing false police reports, lying to investigators -- are all crimes. Not one of the troopers responsible for these actions, allegedly, has been charged or even been investigated for these offenses.
I wonder who is providing political protection for The Lords of Discipline? Richard J. Cody, Speaker Roberts, Bob Menendez, or others? Probably, it's all of the above.
Ms. Milgram through her spokesperson, David Wald, is lying (in my opinion) by denying the existence of this organization and knows that she's lying. The OAE exists "under" the attorney general's office, so there is no danger that these lies will result in ethics charges or any other difficulties for those offering them to the public with a straight face.
Ms. Milgram will probably end up as a judge, requiring people to swear to tell the truth in her courtroom. She won't be disciplined or disbarred when these statements concerning the non-existence of the Lords of Discipline are shown to be blatant lies. And they will be. There are rumors of federal investigations soon to result in more indictments.
Efforts against (more "errors" and corrections?) Mr. Hopson began with psychological torture: "When Mr. Hopson refused to endorse fellow troopers' versions of events surrounding the arrest" -- was the young woman who was arrested physically attractive? -- "a campaign to silence him began. First, there were threatening notes left around his station house in the Troop A region, which covers much of South Jersey."
If the young woman was attractive that would be a reason to arrest her and have some fun with her in the station. If she objects to such treatment, then she'll fall and hurt herself on the way to jail. Ms. Milgram's continuing silence is complicity in such despicable behavior by her state police officers. Sex workers are subjected to harassment, theft and rape by cops and also by criminals. This exploitation would end if commercial activity for money were legalized.
"Then, Mr. Hopson said, his car was vandalized. By the time he sued the state in December 2003, Mr. Hopson said that he had been the victim of a series of beatings at the hands of another trooper."
"Mr. Hopson's lawyer, William H. Buckman, said that the Lords of Discipline is part of an unseemly subculture within the State Police."
"The agency is operating under the auspices of a federal monitor because of findings that it had improperly targeted drivers for moving violations [and parking tickets?] because of their race."
New Jersey's Supreme Court and the state's Attorney General, Anne Milgram, as well as Governor Jon S. Corzine must bear ultimate responsibility for these crimes, taking place for years, suggesting continuing, humiliating indifference to and complicity in police criminality on the part of the state's legal institutions. The whole world is watching.
Ethics? Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? How does a Jew become Mengele? Or Eichman? Swastikas are O.K., Stuart? Who do you think will be next if these unconstitutional tactics become widespread? Have you no shame about the daily violation of a person's civil rights taking place before your eyes and the world thanks to the actions (and inactions) of New Jersey officials? (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
In response to this disgraceful episode of criminality among law enforcement officials and corruption in high places, New Jersey's tainted legal authorities say that voters may not care about corruption since they will assume (correctly, in New Jersey) that politics is always corrupt.
"This could be the year that corruption dominates the political debate and Republicans wrest seats from the Democrats, who have controlled both houses of the Legislature since 2004. But political experts say they do not see that happening, not in a state where Democrats dominate the Legislature and occupy the governor's office and both United States Senate seats. And not in a state where voters have grown callused about government corruption."
Take a look at your children -- if you live in New Jersey -- and ask yourself whether MORE government and judiciary by the mob is what you wish to see in their future. Any indictments this week, boys? Senator Robert ("Big Pappa") Menendez said: "I am for all the people."
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
You Can't Fix Stupid!
October 18, 2008 at 3:22 P.M. I am unable to access my MSN group to post a new essay on Bernard Williams' philosophy. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text, as I continue to correct them. I will persist in my efforts.
October 18, 2008 at 8:19 A.M. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text. I continue to make corrections. Have a good one! A good day, that is.
October 17, 2008 at 12:28 P.M. I have been unable to reach Critique, so far today. But the day is young. I will keep trying to do so. Perhaps I will receive another visit from the "Independence Party" or "Publish America." Calls from 760-526-8513 at 11:06 A.M. Several essays at MSN have probably been vandalized. I will do my best to make all necessary corrections as quickly as possible. Calls from Time Warner, but no answer when I pick up: October 17, 2008 at 10:53 A.M. from 718-358-0900; 6:59 P.M. from 718-358-0900. How curious?
October 16, 2008 at 7:23 P.M. I just received a call from 917-822-2142 in connection, I was told, with the effort to stop the city from moving the wonderful Center School Middle School from its present location -- an effort to prevent that move that I support. Attempts to reach my group immediately after this call (when I provided my e-mail address) resulted in denials of access to my group at MSN. I am sure that this is just a coincidence. I will struggle to return to my site and correct any defacements or vandalism of my writings that have suddenly appeared in my work. (Please notice carefully whether damage is done to these writings while I am away.)
October 15, 2008 at 6:39 P.M. After three attempts, I am unable to access my MSN account and group. I will persist in my efforts to do so. I will continue to run scans, struggling to write every day. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
October 15, 2008 at 12:02 P.M. I was obstructed a couple times in my efforts to reach MSN. I will continue to struggle to do so. Writing an essay on Bernard Williams under such circumstances is very difficult. I will continue to write it anyway. Please see "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey," also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey." Hackers may access my accounts to tamper with these writings at any time.
October 14, 2008 at 8:03 A.M. My cyberwar with the N.J. Mafia continues, as the final Presidential debate is telecast tonight. (Tomorrow ?) Latinos can count on a talking dog from Beverly Hills in recognition of our political status. We have finally arrived. I was denied access to the Internet or "Ethernet" from about 10:00 A.M. until approximately 1:00 P.M. Only two essays at Critique appear to have been altered, so far, but I will keep checking to see what other damage has been done today.
October 13, 2008 at 7:03 P.M. A notice was just posted in my building indicating that cable service, affecting my computer, would be interrupted tomorrow, from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., which is surprising since I never received a call or written notice from Time Warner informing me of this interruption. Regular maintenance? Probably just a coincidence. In the event that I cannot regain access to my sites, I will try to find a public computer.
October 13, 2008 at 11:21 A.M. a new attack against my computer system requires me to run scans for the second time this morning. I will try to reach my MSN group later to determine what damage has been done, how many essays have been vandalized, then to make all necessary corrections. Perhaps those new indictments in New Jersey will finally be anounced. (See "Ethical Newspeak in Lucky Luciano's Havana" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
I do not know whether I will be able to continue writing for a while. However, I will try to do so. Call received this morning from 760-204-8405 at 10:55 A.M.
October 12, 2008 at 1:11 P.M. Several essays at Critique were damaged, apparently several at this blog also, with the goal of maximizing frustration in order to induce collapse. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "The Long Goodbye.") I will struggle to make all necessary corrections as soon as possible.
October 8, 2008 at 4:22 P.M. Efforts to reach my MSN group were obstructed just now. I will continue to attempt to reach that site throughout the day today, then again tomorrow. I can never say whether I will be able to write again. If I am able to do so, then I will examine the U.S. decision to grant a special license to Ramon Raul Sanchez Rizo to send supposed "humanitarian assistance" to Cuba.
Cuba has classified Mr. Sanchez Rizo as a "terrorist" after several incidents in which Cubans and Cuban interests were victims, including the destruction of a civilian airliner, allegedly, in which 73 persons on board were killed -- including Americans. I expect that N.J.'s protected hackers will try to destroy my computer, probably by using N.J. governmental resources or Florida facilities. I will do my best to continue writing.
In the event that I experience an unfortunate "lethal accident," please see "Denuncia concession de Estados Unidos a terrorista anticubano," http://www.prensa-latina.cu/print.asp?ID={c9F89683-4878-4F92-8C8B-7E2C34EBED08})&language=... (Accents are not available on this keyboard).
If these allegations against Mr. Rizo are accurate, then the U.S. decision is comparable to Pakistan making Ossama bin Laden a special envoy to the U.S. for humanitarian assistance. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not prove you are correct about something by preventing a person from speaking or writing on-line. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" at my much-attacked MSN group, Critique.)
October 8, 2008 at 10:26 A.M. I am always concerned that cyberstalkers will prevent my regaining access to these blogs, especially after a week such as this. I will do my best to continue writing from somewhere. Any assistance that you can provide to federal authorities concerning corruption in New Jersey government and law will be deeply appreciated.
As Garden State state workers' pension funds disappear into the "Twilight Zone," jobs vanish -- along with public revenue stolen by crooked politicians and judges -- while N.J.'s hapless victims of corruption trudge on to the Turnpike and Parkway where tolls are rising, even as service as well as maintenance is declining, thanks to more corruption in state politics and tainted courts. The place just takes your breath away -- literally, from all the putrid stench escaping from the N.J. Supreme Court's chambers.
"New Jersey -- Come See for Yourself!" N.J.'s "slogan" cost $250,000 and was used for 6 months. For $20.00 and all the doughnuts I can eat, I'll give them a better slogan. They can use it as long as they like: "Did something die? Or are we in New Jersey?" Badda-bing, badda-boom!
"Playing Into Mr. Morales's Hands," in The New York Times, October 7, 2008, at p. A30.
Alfred W. McCoy, "Propagating Torture," in CIA Interrogation -- From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), pp. 60-107, especially pp. 80-87. (Development of psychological torture in Latin America by CIA-trained forces that are now used in the so-called against persons in the U.S., I believe, and in the "War on Terror.")
As I write this essay, I've spent several days frustrated by cyberstalkers enjoying the protection of an American jurisdiction in the commission of their crimes against me -- crimes like suppressing and censoring a tortured dissident's speech. Today, obstacles and hackers prevent me from accessing my hotmail account or MSN group, Critique. I cannot post images at these blogs. My books will not be sent to online booksellers. I do not know whether I have valid ISBN numbers for those books.
I will continue to struggle against all forms of cyberstalking and -warfare. Eventually -- either from my home computer or a public computer -- I'll get to post my writings and images online. Years of this kind of frustration and stress- or anxiety-inducement, combined with well-planned economic and social harm, allow a person to develop superb resistance skills -- if one survives.
Many persons do not survive emotional torments for long. Such tactics have become a routine feature of life for inmates in America's prisons and for many others in society who are deemed sufficiently "interesting" to warrant torture. Genius, unusual creativity, or just "abnormality" is are categories of guilt in the United States of America or at least in New Jersey. American psychologists are experts in the techniques of hurting and (perhaps) even killing people by means of psychological methods. The persons who do such things for money disapprove of my ethics. I disapprove of their ethics. Did you torture many Arabs, Terry? Still like the ladies -- especially unconscious ones -- Diana?
The devastation and long-term emotional harm suffered by victims (I shudder to think of what is done to women inmates, routinely, in American women's prisons) is a matter of indifference to the monsters experimenting on unwilling and powerless persons. You have no ethics at N.J.'s OAE. Hence, your opinions of my character and ethics are, and will remain, of utter indifference to me. The people I am dealing with -- N.J.'s government lawyers, I believe, and social scientists -- don't care that state action to suppress speech and conspiracies to violate a victim's civil rights happen to be federal crimes and unconstitutional. These crimes continue to be committed, publicly.
As long as N.J.'s minions can claim "plausible denial," meaning that they can LIE and hope to be believed, they have no hesitation about resorting to such despicable tactics. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, A.G. Anne Milgram, Gov. Jon S. Corzine -- all seem incapable of "controlling the situation" or halting the abuse and daily human rights violations, taking place PUBLICLY. Such officials may even cooperate with these efforts to undermine my Constitutional rights, which is also to undermine every other person's rights.
This continuing situation is a sad comment on the hypocrisy and lie that is now, too often, America's legal system. Each day that this nightmare scripted by Kafka continues, New Jersey's legal system and befouled judiciary will suffer a further denigration and loss of respect. No wonder there is so much unfair and dangerous antiamericanism in the world. This is not what the U.S. legal system was intended to be. How does someone like Anne Milgram become "Attorney General" anywhere?
It may help to illustrate the flawed reasoning in all efforts at "conditioning responses" based on behaviorist methods that are still popular with U.S. government officials and so-called intelligence agents, like the men and women who should have prevented the 9/11 attacks, to focus on U.S.-Bolivian relations:
"Bolivia has become markedly less cooperative with American counternarcotics efforts, as evidenced by a large increase in coca cultivation. And Mr. Morales regularly stokes anti-Yankee sentiment to undercut his opposition and divert attention from his government's poor performance." -- A poor performance for which the U.S. probably bears some blame! -- "Last month, Mr. Morales expelled the American Ambassador Philip Goldberg."
People resent the American "kick in the ass" approach to eliciting desired conduct from victims. Even when leaders appear to be cooperating or smile to our faces, they are assisting America's enemies from behind the scenes, hoping to harm us as pay-back for such "conditioning." Pakistan? I certainly resent brutality and censorship, or other "conditioning" when it is directed at me, why should we be surprised when others feel the same way? 18 or 20 intrusion attempts today, so far, 10 viruses or security risks identified, obstructions and more cyberwarfare. (For my experiences with N.J.'s version of Dr. Mengele, see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
I will continue to resist and struggle against such efforts, redirecting them at the criminal legal system from which they come. I wonder who is getting indicted next in Trenton? Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe it'll be Senator Bob. To suggest that my non-criminal "weird" behavior ten years ago that was generated, deliberately, by such torturers somehow excuses these crimes committed against me, today or even then, is absurd. On the basis on "transferred intent" in criminal law, it makes N.J.'s culpability against me and others, much worse. Distraught effects are predictable in a torture chamber and attributable to torturers, not their victims. Even those pretending to cooperate with such conditioning will act, secretly, against would-be conditioners. For example, Latin America is on the verge of exploding against U.S. interests:
"Mr. Morales doesn't tire of saying that Bolivia will neither 'retreat nor submit' to Washington's will, and he has been [developing] relations with Iran and Venezuela. After Bolivia was classified as 'uncooperative' with American anti-drug efforts last month, the government in La Paz said it would seek help -- and military helicopters -- from Russia instead. Last week, it rejected an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over Bolivian territory."
Antiamericanism is increasing in Brazil, Central America, even Mexico. Will it take a tragedy for people in the U.S. to understand that you cannot "condition" persons into opinions or actions that you like, certainly not for very long? I hope not. The long-term effects of such efforts at conditioning will always be much worse than the original problem that you are seeking to resolve. You will CREATE ENEMIES by using these tactics. How much has N.J. spent on torture efforts against me since 1988? Millions?
Mysteriously, even though I am one of those unintelligent Latinos, my writings may be suggestive to thinkers in a number of fields. One sentence that sheds new light on a difficult problem or set of issues justifies my writing effort. By censoring me, suppressing my books and/or seeking to "destroy my mind" (Tuchin, Riccioli), a message is sent to the world that the U.S. is as totalitarian as any other country when it comes to dissidents in American society -- unless such dissidents are coopted graduates of, say, Yale University.
You make America's championing of free speech and human rights in the world as well as the U.S. Constitution a cruel lie by continued tortures and censorship aimed at me. I will never stop fighting for my rights. I will not be censored nor will I sanction the crimes committed against me by Trenton officials and/or their hirelings. I will continue to write.
October 18, 2008 at 8:19 A.M. "Errors" continue to be inserted in this text. I continue to make corrections. Have a good one! A good day, that is.
October 17, 2008 at 12:28 P.M. I have been unable to reach Critique, so far today. But the day is young. I will keep trying to do so. Perhaps I will receive another visit from the "Independence Party" or "Publish America." Calls from 760-526-8513 at 11:06 A.M. Several essays at MSN have probably been vandalized. I will do my best to make all necessary corrections as quickly as possible. Calls from Time Warner, but no answer when I pick up: October 17, 2008 at 10:53 A.M. from 718-358-0900; 6:59 P.M. from 718-358-0900. How curious?
October 16, 2008 at 7:23 P.M. I just received a call from 917-822-2142 in connection, I was told, with the effort to stop the city from moving the wonderful Center School Middle School from its present location -- an effort to prevent that move that I support. Attempts to reach my group immediately after this call (when I provided my e-mail address) resulted in denials of access to my group at MSN. I am sure that this is just a coincidence. I will struggle to return to my site and correct any defacements or vandalism of my writings that have suddenly appeared in my work. (Please notice carefully whether damage is done to these writings while I am away.)
October 15, 2008 at 6:39 P.M. After three attempts, I am unable to access my MSN account and group. I will persist in my efforts to do so. I will continue to run scans, struggling to write every day. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")
October 15, 2008 at 12:02 P.M. I was obstructed a couple times in my efforts to reach MSN. I will continue to struggle to do so. Writing an essay on Bernard Williams under such circumstances is very difficult. I will continue to write it anyway. Please see "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey," also "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey." Hackers may access my accounts to tamper with these writings at any time.
October 14, 2008 at 8:03 A.M. My cyberwar with the N.J. Mafia continues, as the final Presidential debate is telecast tonight. (Tomorrow ?) Latinos can count on a talking dog from Beverly Hills in recognition of our political status. We have finally arrived. I was denied access to the Internet or "Ethernet" from about 10:00 A.M. until approximately 1:00 P.M. Only two essays at Critique appear to have been altered, so far, but I will keep checking to see what other damage has been done today.
October 13, 2008 at 7:03 P.M. A notice was just posted in my building indicating that cable service, affecting my computer, would be interrupted tomorrow, from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., which is surprising since I never received a call or written notice from Time Warner informing me of this interruption. Regular maintenance? Probably just a coincidence. In the event that I cannot regain access to my sites, I will try to find a public computer.
October 13, 2008 at 11:21 A.M. a new attack against my computer system requires me to run scans for the second time this morning. I will try to reach my MSN group later to determine what damage has been done, how many essays have been vandalized, then to make all necessary corrections. Perhaps those new indictments in New Jersey will finally be anounced. (See "Ethical Newspeak in Lucky Luciano's Havana" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")
I do not know whether I will be able to continue writing for a while. However, I will try to do so. Call received this morning from 760-204-8405 at 10:55 A.M.
October 12, 2008 at 1:11 P.M. Several essays at Critique were damaged, apparently several at this blog also, with the goal of maximizing frustration in order to induce collapse. (See "What is it like to be tortured?" and "The Long Goodbye.") I will struggle to make all necessary corrections as soon as possible.
October 8, 2008 at 4:22 P.M. Efforts to reach my MSN group were obstructed just now. I will continue to attempt to reach that site throughout the day today, then again tomorrow. I can never say whether I will be able to write again. If I am able to do so, then I will examine the U.S. decision to grant a special license to Ramon Raul Sanchez Rizo to send supposed "humanitarian assistance" to Cuba.
Cuba has classified Mr. Sanchez Rizo as a "terrorist" after several incidents in which Cubans and Cuban interests were victims, including the destruction of a civilian airliner, allegedly, in which 73 persons on board were killed -- including Americans. I expect that N.J.'s protected hackers will try to destroy my computer, probably by using N.J. governmental resources or Florida facilities. I will do my best to continue writing.
In the event that I experience an unfortunate "lethal accident," please see "Denuncia concession de Estados Unidos a terrorista anticubano," http://www.prensa-latina.cu/print.asp?ID={c9F89683-4878-4F92-8C8B-7E2C34EBED08})&language=... (Accents are not available on this keyboard).
If these allegations against Mr. Rizo are accurate, then the U.S. decision is comparable to Pakistan making Ossama bin Laden a special envoy to the U.S. for humanitarian assistance. You cannot beat up ideas. You do not prove you are correct about something by preventing a person from speaking or writing on-line. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" at my much-attacked MSN group, Critique.)
October 8, 2008 at 10:26 A.M. I am always concerned that cyberstalkers will prevent my regaining access to these blogs, especially after a week such as this. I will do my best to continue writing from somewhere. Any assistance that you can provide to federal authorities concerning corruption in New Jersey government and law will be deeply appreciated.
As Garden State state workers' pension funds disappear into the "Twilight Zone," jobs vanish -- along with public revenue stolen by crooked politicians and judges -- while N.J.'s hapless victims of corruption trudge on to the Turnpike and Parkway where tolls are rising, even as service as well as maintenance is declining, thanks to more corruption in state politics and tainted courts. The place just takes your breath away -- literally, from all the putrid stench escaping from the N.J. Supreme Court's chambers.
"New Jersey -- Come See for Yourself!" N.J.'s "slogan" cost $250,000 and was used for 6 months. For $20.00 and all the doughnuts I can eat, I'll give them a better slogan. They can use it as long as they like: "Did something die? Or are we in New Jersey?" Badda-bing, badda-boom!
"Playing Into Mr. Morales's Hands," in The New York Times, October 7, 2008, at p. A30.
Alfred W. McCoy, "Propagating Torture," in CIA Interrogation -- From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), pp. 60-107, especially pp. 80-87. (Development of psychological torture in Latin America by CIA-trained forces that are now used in the so-called against persons in the U.S., I believe, and in the "War on Terror.")
As I write this essay, I've spent several days frustrated by cyberstalkers enjoying the protection of an American jurisdiction in the commission of their crimes against me -- crimes like suppressing and censoring a tortured dissident's speech. Today, obstacles and hackers prevent me from accessing my hotmail account or MSN group, Critique. I cannot post images at these blogs. My books will not be sent to online booksellers. I do not know whether I have valid ISBN numbers for those books.
I will continue to struggle against all forms of cyberstalking and -warfare. Eventually -- either from my home computer or a public computer -- I'll get to post my writings and images online. Years of this kind of frustration and stress- or anxiety-inducement, combined with well-planned economic and social harm, allow a person to develop superb resistance skills -- if one survives.
Many persons do not survive emotional torments for long. Such tactics have become a routine feature of life for inmates in America's prisons and for many others in society who are deemed sufficiently "interesting" to warrant torture. Genius, unusual creativity, or just "abnormality" is are categories of guilt in the United States of America or at least in New Jersey. American psychologists are experts in the techniques of hurting and (perhaps) even killing people by means of psychological methods. The persons who do such things for money disapprove of my ethics. I disapprove of their ethics. Did you torture many Arabs, Terry? Still like the ladies -- especially unconscious ones -- Diana?
The devastation and long-term emotional harm suffered by victims (I shudder to think of what is done to women inmates, routinely, in American women's prisons) is a matter of indifference to the monsters experimenting on unwilling and powerless persons. You have no ethics at N.J.'s OAE. Hence, your opinions of my character and ethics are, and will remain, of utter indifference to me. The people I am dealing with -- N.J.'s government lawyers, I believe, and social scientists -- don't care that state action to suppress speech and conspiracies to violate a victim's civil rights happen to be federal crimes and unconstitutional. These crimes continue to be committed, publicly.
As long as N.J.'s minions can claim "plausible denial," meaning that they can LIE and hope to be believed, they have no hesitation about resorting to such despicable tactics. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, A.G. Anne Milgram, Gov. Jon S. Corzine -- all seem incapable of "controlling the situation" or halting the abuse and daily human rights violations, taking place PUBLICLY. Such officials may even cooperate with these efforts to undermine my Constitutional rights, which is also to undermine every other person's rights.
This continuing situation is a sad comment on the hypocrisy and lie that is now, too often, America's legal system. Each day that this nightmare scripted by Kafka continues, New Jersey's legal system and befouled judiciary will suffer a further denigration and loss of respect. No wonder there is so much unfair and dangerous antiamericanism in the world. This is not what the U.S. legal system was intended to be. How does someone like Anne Milgram become "Attorney General" anywhere?
It may help to illustrate the flawed reasoning in all efforts at "conditioning responses" based on behaviorist methods that are still popular with U.S. government officials and so-called intelligence agents, like the men and women who should have prevented the 9/11 attacks, to focus on U.S.-Bolivian relations:
"Bolivia has become markedly less cooperative with American counternarcotics efforts, as evidenced by a large increase in coca cultivation. And Mr. Morales regularly stokes anti-Yankee sentiment to undercut his opposition and divert attention from his government's poor performance." -- A poor performance for which the U.S. probably bears some blame! -- "Last month, Mr. Morales expelled the American Ambassador Philip Goldberg."
People resent the American "kick in the ass" approach to eliciting desired conduct from victims. Even when leaders appear to be cooperating or smile to our faces, they are assisting America's enemies from behind the scenes, hoping to harm us as pay-back for such "conditioning." Pakistan? I certainly resent brutality and censorship, or other "conditioning" when it is directed at me, why should we be surprised when others feel the same way? 18 or 20 intrusion attempts today, so far, 10 viruses or security risks identified, obstructions and more cyberwarfare. (For my experiences with N.J.'s version of Dr. Mengele, see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
I will continue to resist and struggle against such efforts, redirecting them at the criminal legal system from which they come. I wonder who is getting indicted next in Trenton? Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe it'll be Senator Bob. To suggest that my non-criminal "weird" behavior ten years ago that was generated, deliberately, by such torturers somehow excuses these crimes committed against me, today or even then, is absurd. On the basis on "transferred intent" in criminal law, it makes N.J.'s culpability against me and others, much worse. Distraught effects are predictable in a torture chamber and attributable to torturers, not their victims. Even those pretending to cooperate with such conditioning will act, secretly, against would-be conditioners. For example, Latin America is on the verge of exploding against U.S. interests:
"Mr. Morales doesn't tire of saying that Bolivia will neither 'retreat nor submit' to Washington's will, and he has been [developing] relations with Iran and Venezuela. After Bolivia was classified as 'uncooperative' with American anti-drug efforts last month, the government in La Paz said it would seek help -- and military helicopters -- from Russia instead. Last week, it rejected an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over Bolivian territory."
Antiamericanism is increasing in Brazil, Central America, even Mexico. Will it take a tragedy for people in the U.S. to understand that you cannot "condition" persons into opinions or actions that you like, certainly not for very long? I hope not. The long-term effects of such efforts at conditioning will always be much worse than the original problem that you are seeking to resolve. You will CREATE ENEMIES by using these tactics. How much has N.J. spent on torture efforts against me since 1988? Millions?
Mysteriously, even though I am one of those unintelligent Latinos, my writings may be suggestive to thinkers in a number of fields. One sentence that sheds new light on a difficult problem or set of issues justifies my writing effort. By censoring me, suppressing my books and/or seeking to "destroy my mind" (Tuchin, Riccioli), a message is sent to the world that the U.S. is as totalitarian as any other country when it comes to dissidents in American society -- unless such dissidents are coopted graduates of, say, Yale University.
You make America's championing of free speech and human rights in the world as well as the U.S. Constitution a cruel lie by continued tortures and censorship aimed at me. I will never stop fighting for my rights. I will not be censored nor will I sanction the crimes committed against me by Trenton officials and/or their hirelings. I will continue to write.
Friday, October 3, 2008
"Eagle Eye": A Movie Review.
October 7, 2008 at 9:38 A.M. As of this time, all efforts to reach my MSN group have been prevented by cyberstalkers and obstacles of one sort or another, I will spend the rest of the day struggling to get to my sites. I am running scans at this time. I will attempt to repair any damage done to writings at Critique at my earliest opportunity. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
October 6, 2008 at 7:08 P.M. A massive attack against my security system makes it impossible for me to update my system or to apply updates. I am attempting to back up files. I will then try to run a comprehensive scan, again, even if I cannot update my system at all.
The goal of this effort is to prevent accessing my sites, in order to allow for new attacks and defacements or vandalism of my writings in a society that CRIMINALIZES interference with free speech rights. This is part of the cyberstalking I deal with every day, emanating from New Jersey's government computers, usually just before the indictment of prominent members of the bar and judiciary.
Tell your friends in law enforcement about this fascinating spectacle. I will try to protect my writings and to make all corrections of inserted "errors," as quickly as possible. I will continue to search for public computers in order to write. Any assistance that can be provided will be appreciated. (See "The Long Goodbye" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Anne Milgram? Shame on you.
October 5, 2008 at 8:30 P.M. The past half hour has been spent seeking to access my essays at Critique. At this time, I am unable to do so. I will try again later. Then again tomorrow and the next day, from this computer and other computers, until I can continue to write at my MSN group. If I am unable to write at MSN, then I will create another blog elsewhere. Unfortunately, I cannot control or determine what damage may be done to my writings at MSN tonight. I will correct any harm done to my work at such time as I am able to return to that site, if I am ever able to do so. Otherwise, I will reproduce every essay at that site elsewhere on the Internet. Most of them are available at these blogs.
October 5, 2008 at 7:56 P.M. A new computer virus or other form of cyberstalking has resulted in slowing down and otherwise obstructing my access to my sites. As a result, I am unable to reach Critique at this time. I will try again tomorrow. I will focus on more profiles of corrupt or questionable N.J. judges. I will examine allegations of cash payoffs for public services in New Jersey's Municipalities, using "objective" published sources. I will also make a trip to the Garden State to research legal issues pertaining to MORE allegations against members of the bar and judiciary. If I am unable to post essays at Critique, I will create a new blog from another computer. I am unable to back-up files at this time.
October 5, 2008 at 5:56 P.M. Due to cyberstalking and harassment, no images can be posted at this blog. Call received from 818-663-9452 at 5:51 P.M. on October 5, 2008. Probably just a coincidence. Numerous essays have been vandalized at Critique. I will do my best to make corrections at the earliest opportunity. (See "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Efforts to obstruct my Internet access or opportunities to reach my sites are a daily experience for me. I will do my best to continue writing. (See "How Censorship Works in America.")
October 3, 2008 at 3:05 P.M. I am unable to post this essay-review at Critique. My efforts during most of the day to post this essay -- or even to reach my sites -- have been frustrated by N.J. hackers and obstacles that I can only describe as cyber-crimes and -warfare. I am deeply saddened and hurt by these experiences, not so much for myself as for the U.S. Constitution. I am concerned about the society in which my child will live her life. I hope that you are also concerned. I do not know whether I will be able to reach my MSN group again. I cannot say what damage has been done to my MSN essays. I will struggle every day to reach my sites and continue writing.
Eagle Eye (2008), Dream Works, Steven Spielberg (Producer), D.J. Caruso (Director), John Glenn & D.J. Caruso (Script), Shia LeBeouf (Jerry), Michelle Monaghan (Rachel), Rosario Dawson (Agent Perez), Billy Bob Thornton (F.B.I. Agent to the Stars).
I am the perfect audience for this biting and perceptive Swiftian satire of America under the Bush Administration's "War on the Constitution." New Jersey's Democrat-Mafia machine is way ahead of the feds in this effort to curtail our civil liberties. Trenton has already eliminated most of our rights, secretly, while proclaiming (publicly) continued adherence to the rule of law.
Jerry is a struggling "copy associate" who has decided to take a leave of absence from Stanford University in order to travel and "explore himself." This alone makes him suspicious to the feds. Why would anyone wish to see Asia? Anybody who goes to a foreign country is already a potential terrorist. Guys impressed by the discussion among rocket scientists playing poker with Jerry early in this film should note: Do not take that special gal to "Red Lobster" or "The Olive Garden." Either it's McDonald's -- so she'll know you care -- or you bite the bullet and spring for some chi-chi bistro in your town where you'll cough up $100.00 for lettuce bearing a French name. The French name for you -- as the much-sought patron of such an establishment -- is "asshole." Women like to see you suffer for love. So do fancy French restaurant owners.
Jerry's foreign adventure results in the all-too familiar struggle against poverty in America's demoralized urban centers. The hunt for rent money briefly transforms our hero into yet another minority male, a "white negro," looking forward to a pleasant encounter with the police. Suddenly, Jerry "encounters" a large deposit of cash that has materialized in his bank account. I almost never have that problem. He then withdraws some of this cash, receiving the first of several calls from a mysterious female voice urging him to escape the premises before the arrival of the F.B.I. The Morpheus-like calls in the Matrix are obviously invoked in this gesture of recognition for the Watchowski brothers of Chicago. All I can say is "Whoa ..." (See "'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")
The buzz surrounding the Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle, "Inception," is intense. Di Caprio is in a James Bond-Matrix concoction that is supposed to be both a date movie and edge-of-your-seat thriller with ideas for the geeks thrown in -- like butter on your popcorn cupercombo, plus twizzlers. Mega awesome.
Jerry finds himself brutally arrested in his own apartment. Can you imagine that? Security forces entering a person's home without a warrant, probably, just like in those totalitarian countries that we read about? It can't happen here, right?
Jerry's apartment is suddenly filled with what looks like the inventory from a local Home Depo that turns out to be the ingredients for building a bomb. This immediately makes our friend, Jerry, a "terrorist" to the F.B.I. man, played with efficiency and professional zeal by Mr. Thornton of Arkansas. Hey, "Billy Bob" what are you doing in this movie? Making money?
Rachel is a divorced single mom who receives an equally puzzling call from the same female voice threatening her child's life if she fails to cooperate. Government officials engaged in these clandestine social control efforts -- which are always denied publicly by other government officials -- are ruthless and sadistic, savoring the opportunity to cause pain and destroy lives as signs of their "thoroughness." I wonder why there is so much anti-Americanism in the world today? (Feel free to write "antiamericanism" or "anti-Americanism," both are correct.)
Probably the hostility to us is coming from irrational little brown people, who do not attend Smith College, even as they envy us our precious bounty. Thanksgiving is coming up. Don't forget to say "thank you" to President Bush for all that he has done for you.
Billy Bob Thornton is unrecognizable in the role of an F.B.I. "fancy-cop" with a sense of humor and very little trust in human goodness. He doubts our hero's explanations and is annoyed by distractions, like the 6th and 4th Amendments' requirement of a Miranda warning -- requirements which are ignored in this movie as they are, routinely, in American life. Suspects are subjected to custodial questioning without issuing any warnings, also in denial of 6th Amendment rights to counsel and 5th Amendment rights to silence. What the hell? Aren't you against terrorism?
If Jerry's skin were a little darker, he'd be tortured by our boys in blue. I suggest that Jerry sue the U.S. government. Of course, these days, they'd throw out the law suit and execute Jerry, clandestinely, at least they would -- and probably do all the time -- in New Jersey. (See "Why U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
Did I mention that I cannot access my MSN group today? Hackers are preventing me from posting essays at MSN -- again. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?") The movie turns into a mega-chase sequence -- as Jerry gets out of jail unfree -- with tributes to great predecessor films, such as The Fugitive and The Matrix.
The tongue-in-cheek irony is on display in phone calls warning of forthcoming effects and crashes as, more ironically, Spielberg's masterpiece A.I. gets a nod in the junkyard scene. Machines pick up and destroy other machines, all orchestrated by a mechanical intelligence that is both unfeeling and out of control. Metaphor? Or grim realism? I'm dealing with a very stupid human version of that computer that suffers from the same lack of affect. Diana?
The absence of affect makes the supercomputer in this movie idiotic, blind to the moral consequences of "her" actions, including the human suffering that she produces. This artificial intelligence is an autistic version of Kubrick's HAL in 2001, A Space Odyssey: "Open the pod bay door, Hal ..."
The computer "defense system" -- in a nice ironic touch worthy of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell -- has decided to assassinate the President of the United States (disappointingly depicted as a gray-haired generic white male), because "he" has undermined American security and the Constitution. The point being made is that our hyper security-minded culture and all of the new legislation of "surveillance and control" (Michel Foucault) may be creating the very horror they were designed to protect against.
Calls received from 610-915-5214 (Trenton? D.C.?) at 1:08 P.M. on October 3, 2008. Coincidence? More calls. More harassment. More viruses, spyware, intrusion into my computer. I am so surprised at these tactics. Somebody must be getting indicted in New Jersey. Keep your fingers crossed.
Maybe, if I am lucky, tomorrow I will be able to reach my sites despite all the new obstacles. The allusion to the Declaration of Independence is meant to remind audience members of what government in a free society should be concerned with -- protecting civil liberties and enforcing your rights to privacy, freedom of speech and autonomy, while ensuring that no action is taken upon your life by any of the mechanisms of the State without due process of law.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men [persons] are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with CERTAIN [inherent and] inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty" -- LIBERTY! -- "and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that wherever any form of government BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles ..."
Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence," in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York: The Viking Press, 1975), p. 236 (July 4, 1776).
Was Thomas Jefferson a "terrorist"? Did Jefferson fail to "adjust"?
Dr. Strangelove is another source for this suggestion of security mechanisms and operatives out of control and confused concerning the identity of the real enemy. No one seems to give a second thought to the planned assassination of an alleged "terrorist" and whoever accompanied him at the start of the film, despite the fact that this person (let alone the others with him) has, evidently, never been tried and found guilty of anything, even as the officials involved in this operation may be mistaken about what this person has done or who he is. "Mistakes make themselves" when it comes to security forces and State terrorists. New Jersey?
Mr. Caruso is clearly a Spielberg and Kubrick fan. Me too. I am also a fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights that once guaranteed all of us freedom of expression as well as access to controversial ideas and those who create them. Denial of my right to free speech is also obstruction of your right of access to what I say.
Mr. Caruso's bitter finale before the "Committee" where he acknowledges the deaths of so many good people resulting from "mistakes," little "boo-boos" made by government officials, is an insistence on accountability and apologies from those responsible for destroying so many brave American men and women, along with millions of others in poorly defined and failed military actions, or as a result of pointless imprisonment and torture. No wonder I cannot reach my MSN group or post essays today. These are dangerous thoughts.
In October, 2009 the death count in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed the 5,000 mark; the total number of American and non-American deaths, military and civilian, has been placed at the one million mark, after the two Iraq wars.
Denial of access to my own work in violation of my right to speak, publicly, of such issues is a way of "protecting" my civil liberties, allegedly, or for my "own good." Orwell explained it so well in Goldstein's Manual in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is slavery." Huxley concurred when he saw the uses to which technology might be put. Foucault defined "Panopticism" as the "principle of surveillance upon which contemporary totalitarian nations would thrive." Arriving at the same response to this horror that we live with, every day, are Kurt Vonnegut in Harrison Bergeron and Yevgeny Zamyatin in the classic dystopian novel, We:
" ... Zamyatin says: This is where we are going. Stop while there is still time. Throughout the poetry and the mockery, there is great warmth -- for Russia, for man -- and profound grief over the particularly insane ordeals they were to suffer in our century of terror, so uncannily foreseen in the novel, [as they are in this allegorical film, which is not to be taken literally concerning what is technologically feasible] and so profoundly faced. For Zamyatin, himself to such an extreme degree a victim of these ordeals, is remarkable in his utter lack of cynicism or bitterness. Anger, mockery, rebellion -- but no self-pity and no bitterness, [directed at] all who attempt to force life into a rigid mold: You will not, you cannot prevail. Man will not be destroyed."
" ... We is a warning, and a challenge, and a call to action. It is perhaps the fullest statement of Zamyatin's intellectual philosophy and emotional concerns. [The novel is a protest against] the totally controlled society ... where emotion is banished (yet survives), where every moment is lived according to schedule in a glass-enclosed city of glass houses and absolute straight lines, where even lovemaking is done on scheduled days and scheduled hours. ...
Mirra Ginsburg, "Introduction," in Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (New York: Anchor, 1972), pp. v-xx.
Zamyatin would have been horrified at the nihilism and torture that has been accepted in U.S. law under the impression that these things liberate us from intolerance and dogmatism in society, when they are merely the latest example of both, as well as an absolutist rejection of the Absolute or God, together with abandonment of basic human values and dignity -- values which must be rooted in "nature and nature's God" (Thomas Jefferson).
Censorship, secrecy, government paternalism are steps in the direction of the gulag -- even when they are rationalized with talk of "security needs." Compare Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (New York: Pocket Books, 1987) with John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control -- The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York: Dell, 1988). See also Ian I. Mitroff & Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Stephen Labaton, "Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk," in The New York Times, October 3, 2008, at p. A1. (Wall Street has been America's greatest "unreality industry.")
These anxieties have found expression in several recent films where insecurity is given imaginative form: See, for example, Tell No One (2008). France is picking up on many of these themes and adding a philosophical twist. Also recommended is Richard Matheson's 7 Steps to Midnight (New York: Tom Doherty, 1993). Matheson's masterpiece anticipates Eagle Eye by more than a decade and must be considered prophetic after 9/11 gave birth to the "National Security State."
Michelle Monaghan's charm always captures my heart. If you are being chased by the F.B.I. and other mysterious and dark powers, then Michelle's "Rachel" is definitely the gal to have with you. She doesn't mind getting her hair messed up. If she is asked by a supercomputer to murder you, she'll feel really "terrible about it." Plus Michelle is definitely a babe. Mr. Le Beouf is a pleasant "Jerry" who seems to have his heart in the right place. Wounded and bloodied but unbowed, Jerry is nice to children and promises to return to Stanford in order to attend law school, thus becoming "responsible" at last.
Jerry gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rachel gets Jerry. Spielberg and Caruso get your money. The cash will allow these men to open a fancy French restaurant to which you can imagine taking Michelle Monaghan for an expensive dinner -- where she will laugh at all of your jokes while wearing a low cut black dress and that exploding crystal necklace to increase the danger during your evening of seduction.
The movie rocks with plenty of explosions for those who do not wish to think too much, usually because they are (happily) incapable of much thought. In other words, I am referring to men. The invasive camera angles (derived from recent Russian cinema) adds to the "coolness" factor. I gotta see this movie in IMAX. A few more moments lingering over Rosario Dawson's "Agent Perez" -- who would have been fascinating in the lead! -- would not hurt.
Also, I would prefer that Billy Bob Thorton's F.B.I. official not die. Thornton's character should be nominated for the Presidency in a possible sequel, where he debates the supercomputer on ethics and political issues. Melanie Griffith as the supercomputer debating the protagonist concerning the logic of utopia would have been fascinating. Let actors be the ultimate "special effect."
Thumbs up for this fun-filled action-romance-thriller that is number one in the box office this week. Very cool.
October 6, 2008 at 7:08 P.M. A massive attack against my security system makes it impossible for me to update my system or to apply updates. I am attempting to back up files. I will then try to run a comprehensive scan, again, even if I cannot update my system at all.
The goal of this effort is to prevent accessing my sites, in order to allow for new attacks and defacements or vandalism of my writings in a society that CRIMINALIZES interference with free speech rights. This is part of the cyberstalking I deal with every day, emanating from New Jersey's government computers, usually just before the indictment of prominent members of the bar and judiciary.
Tell your friends in law enforcement about this fascinating spectacle. I will try to protect my writings and to make all corrections of inserted "errors," as quickly as possible. I will continue to search for public computers in order to write. Any assistance that can be provided will be appreciated. (See "The Long Goodbye" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Anne Milgram? Shame on you.
October 5, 2008 at 8:30 P.M. The past half hour has been spent seeking to access my essays at Critique. At this time, I am unable to do so. I will try again later. Then again tomorrow and the next day, from this computer and other computers, until I can continue to write at my MSN group. If I am unable to write at MSN, then I will create another blog elsewhere. Unfortunately, I cannot control or determine what damage may be done to my writings at MSN tonight. I will correct any harm done to my work at such time as I am able to return to that site, if I am ever able to do so. Otherwise, I will reproduce every essay at that site elsewhere on the Internet. Most of them are available at these blogs.
October 5, 2008 at 7:56 P.M. A new computer virus or other form of cyberstalking has resulted in slowing down and otherwise obstructing my access to my sites. As a result, I am unable to reach Critique at this time. I will try again tomorrow. I will focus on more profiles of corrupt or questionable N.J. judges. I will examine allegations of cash payoffs for public services in New Jersey's Municipalities, using "objective" published sources. I will also make a trip to the Garden State to research legal issues pertaining to MORE allegations against members of the bar and judiciary. If I am unable to post essays at Critique, I will create a new blog from another computer. I am unable to back-up files at this time.
October 5, 2008 at 5:56 P.M. Due to cyberstalking and harassment, no images can be posted at this blog. Call received from 818-663-9452 at 5:51 P.M. on October 5, 2008. Probably just a coincidence. Numerous essays have been vandalized at Critique. I will do my best to make corrections at the earliest opportunity. (See "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Efforts to obstruct my Internet access or opportunities to reach my sites are a daily experience for me. I will do my best to continue writing. (See "How Censorship Works in America.")
October 3, 2008 at 3:05 P.M. I am unable to post this essay-review at Critique. My efforts during most of the day to post this essay -- or even to reach my sites -- have been frustrated by N.J. hackers and obstacles that I can only describe as cyber-crimes and -warfare. I am deeply saddened and hurt by these experiences, not so much for myself as for the U.S. Constitution. I am concerned about the society in which my child will live her life. I hope that you are also concerned. I do not know whether I will be able to reach my MSN group again. I cannot say what damage has been done to my MSN essays. I will struggle every day to reach my sites and continue writing.
Eagle Eye (2008), Dream Works, Steven Spielberg (Producer), D.J. Caruso (Director), John Glenn & D.J. Caruso (Script), Shia LeBeouf (Jerry), Michelle Monaghan (Rachel), Rosario Dawson (Agent Perez), Billy Bob Thornton (F.B.I. Agent to the Stars).
I am the perfect audience for this biting and perceptive Swiftian satire of America under the Bush Administration's "War on the Constitution." New Jersey's Democrat-Mafia machine is way ahead of the feds in this effort to curtail our civil liberties. Trenton has already eliminated most of our rights, secretly, while proclaiming (publicly) continued adherence to the rule of law.
Jerry is a struggling "copy associate" who has decided to take a leave of absence from Stanford University in order to travel and "explore himself." This alone makes him suspicious to the feds. Why would anyone wish to see Asia? Anybody who goes to a foreign country is already a potential terrorist. Guys impressed by the discussion among rocket scientists playing poker with Jerry early in this film should note: Do not take that special gal to "Red Lobster" or "The Olive Garden." Either it's McDonald's -- so she'll know you care -- or you bite the bullet and spring for some chi-chi bistro in your town where you'll cough up $100.00 for lettuce bearing a French name. The French name for you -- as the much-sought patron of such an establishment -- is "asshole." Women like to see you suffer for love. So do fancy French restaurant owners.
Jerry's foreign adventure results in the all-too familiar struggle against poverty in America's demoralized urban centers. The hunt for rent money briefly transforms our hero into yet another minority male, a "white negro," looking forward to a pleasant encounter with the police. Suddenly, Jerry "encounters" a large deposit of cash that has materialized in his bank account. I almost never have that problem. He then withdraws some of this cash, receiving the first of several calls from a mysterious female voice urging him to escape the premises before the arrival of the F.B.I. The Morpheus-like calls in the Matrix are obviously invoked in this gesture of recognition for the Watchowski brothers of Chicago. All I can say is "Whoa ..." (See "'The Matrix': A Movie Review.")
The buzz surrounding the Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle, "Inception," is intense. Di Caprio is in a James Bond-Matrix concoction that is supposed to be both a date movie and edge-of-your-seat thriller with ideas for the geeks thrown in -- like butter on your popcorn cupercombo, plus twizzlers. Mega awesome.
Jerry finds himself brutally arrested in his own apartment. Can you imagine that? Security forces entering a person's home without a warrant, probably, just like in those totalitarian countries that we read about? It can't happen here, right?
Jerry's apartment is suddenly filled with what looks like the inventory from a local Home Depo that turns out to be the ingredients for building a bomb. This immediately makes our friend, Jerry, a "terrorist" to the F.B.I. man, played with efficiency and professional zeal by Mr. Thornton of Arkansas. Hey, "Billy Bob" what are you doing in this movie? Making money?
Rachel is a divorced single mom who receives an equally puzzling call from the same female voice threatening her child's life if she fails to cooperate. Government officials engaged in these clandestine social control efforts -- which are always denied publicly by other government officials -- are ruthless and sadistic, savoring the opportunity to cause pain and destroy lives as signs of their "thoroughness." I wonder why there is so much anti-Americanism in the world today? (Feel free to write "antiamericanism" or "anti-Americanism," both are correct.)
Probably the hostility to us is coming from irrational little brown people, who do not attend Smith College, even as they envy us our precious bounty. Thanksgiving is coming up. Don't forget to say "thank you" to President Bush for all that he has done for you.
Billy Bob Thornton is unrecognizable in the role of an F.B.I. "fancy-cop" with a sense of humor and very little trust in human goodness. He doubts our hero's explanations and is annoyed by distractions, like the 6th and 4th Amendments' requirement of a Miranda warning -- requirements which are ignored in this movie as they are, routinely, in American life. Suspects are subjected to custodial questioning without issuing any warnings, also in denial of 6th Amendment rights to counsel and 5th Amendment rights to silence. What the hell? Aren't you against terrorism?
If Jerry's skin were a little darker, he'd be tortured by our boys in blue. I suggest that Jerry sue the U.S. government. Of course, these days, they'd throw out the law suit and execute Jerry, clandestinely, at least they would -- and probably do all the time -- in New Jersey. (See "Why U.S. Courts Must Not Condone Torture" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
Did I mention that I cannot access my MSN group today? Hackers are preventing me from posting essays at MSN -- again. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?") The movie turns into a mega-chase sequence -- as Jerry gets out of jail unfree -- with tributes to great predecessor films, such as The Fugitive and The Matrix.
The tongue-in-cheek irony is on display in phone calls warning of forthcoming effects and crashes as, more ironically, Spielberg's masterpiece A.I. gets a nod in the junkyard scene. Machines pick up and destroy other machines, all orchestrated by a mechanical intelligence that is both unfeeling and out of control. Metaphor? Or grim realism? I'm dealing with a very stupid human version of that computer that suffers from the same lack of affect. Diana?
The absence of affect makes the supercomputer in this movie idiotic, blind to the moral consequences of "her" actions, including the human suffering that she produces. This artificial intelligence is an autistic version of Kubrick's HAL in 2001, A Space Odyssey: "Open the pod bay door, Hal ..."
The computer "defense system" -- in a nice ironic touch worthy of Aldous Huxley or George Orwell -- has decided to assassinate the President of the United States (disappointingly depicted as a gray-haired generic white male), because "he" has undermined American security and the Constitution. The point being made is that our hyper security-minded culture and all of the new legislation of "surveillance and control" (Michel Foucault) may be creating the very horror they were designed to protect against.
Calls received from 610-915-5214 (Trenton? D.C.?) at 1:08 P.M. on October 3, 2008. Coincidence? More calls. More harassment. More viruses, spyware, intrusion into my computer. I am so surprised at these tactics. Somebody must be getting indicted in New Jersey. Keep your fingers crossed.
Maybe, if I am lucky, tomorrow I will be able to reach my sites despite all the new obstacles. The allusion to the Declaration of Independence is meant to remind audience members of what government in a free society should be concerned with -- protecting civil liberties and enforcing your rights to privacy, freedom of speech and autonomy, while ensuring that no action is taken upon your life by any of the mechanisms of the State without due process of law.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men [persons] are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with CERTAIN [inherent and] inalienable rights; that among these rights are life, liberty" -- LIBERTY! -- "and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that wherever any form of government BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles ..."
Thomas Jefferson, "The Declaration of Independence," in Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson (New York: The Viking Press, 1975), p. 236 (July 4, 1776).
Was Thomas Jefferson a "terrorist"? Did Jefferson fail to "adjust"?
Dr. Strangelove is another source for this suggestion of security mechanisms and operatives out of control and confused concerning the identity of the real enemy. No one seems to give a second thought to the planned assassination of an alleged "terrorist" and whoever accompanied him at the start of the film, despite the fact that this person (let alone the others with him) has, evidently, never been tried and found guilty of anything, even as the officials involved in this operation may be mistaken about what this person has done or who he is. "Mistakes make themselves" when it comes to security forces and State terrorists. New Jersey?
Mr. Caruso is clearly a Spielberg and Kubrick fan. Me too. I am also a fan of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights that once guaranteed all of us freedom of expression as well as access to controversial ideas and those who create them. Denial of my right to free speech is also obstruction of your right of access to what I say.
Mr. Caruso's bitter finale before the "Committee" where he acknowledges the deaths of so many good people resulting from "mistakes," little "boo-boos" made by government officials, is an insistence on accountability and apologies from those responsible for destroying so many brave American men and women, along with millions of others in poorly defined and failed military actions, or as a result of pointless imprisonment and torture. No wonder I cannot reach my MSN group or post essays today. These are dangerous thoughts.
In October, 2009 the death count in Iraq and Afghanistan has passed the 5,000 mark; the total number of American and non-American deaths, military and civilian, has been placed at the one million mark, after the two Iraq wars.
Denial of access to my own work in violation of my right to speak, publicly, of such issues is a way of "protecting" my civil liberties, allegedly, or for my "own good." Orwell explained it so well in Goldstein's Manual in Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Freedom is slavery." Huxley concurred when he saw the uses to which technology might be put. Foucault defined "Panopticism" as the "principle of surveillance upon which contemporary totalitarian nations would thrive." Arriving at the same response to this horror that we live with, every day, are Kurt Vonnegut in Harrison Bergeron and Yevgeny Zamyatin in the classic dystopian novel, We:
" ... Zamyatin says: This is where we are going. Stop while there is still time. Throughout the poetry and the mockery, there is great warmth -- for Russia, for man -- and profound grief over the particularly insane ordeals they were to suffer in our century of terror, so uncannily foreseen in the novel, [as they are in this allegorical film, which is not to be taken literally concerning what is technologically feasible] and so profoundly faced. For Zamyatin, himself to such an extreme degree a victim of these ordeals, is remarkable in his utter lack of cynicism or bitterness. Anger, mockery, rebellion -- but no self-pity and no bitterness, [directed at] all who attempt to force life into a rigid mold: You will not, you cannot prevail. Man will not be destroyed."
" ... We is a warning, and a challenge, and a call to action. It is perhaps the fullest statement of Zamyatin's intellectual philosophy and emotional concerns. [The novel is a protest against] the totally controlled society ... where emotion is banished (yet survives), where every moment is lived according to schedule in a glass-enclosed city of glass houses and absolute straight lines, where even lovemaking is done on scheduled days and scheduled hours. ...
Mirra Ginsburg, "Introduction," in Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (New York: Anchor, 1972), pp. v-xx.
Zamyatin would have been horrified at the nihilism and torture that has been accepted in U.S. law under the impression that these things liberate us from intolerance and dogmatism in society, when they are merely the latest example of both, as well as an absolutist rejection of the Absolute or God, together with abandonment of basic human values and dignity -- values which must be rooted in "nature and nature's God" (Thomas Jefferson).
Censorship, secrecy, government paternalism are steps in the direction of the gulag -- even when they are rationalized with talk of "security needs." Compare Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (New York: Pocket Books, 1987) with John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control -- The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences (New York: Dell, 1988). See also Ian I. Mitroff & Warren Bennis, The Unreality Industry: The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Doing to Our Lives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Stephen Labaton, "Agency's '04 Rule Let Banks Pile Up New Debt, and Risk," in The New York Times, October 3, 2008, at p. A1. (Wall Street has been America's greatest "unreality industry.")
These anxieties have found expression in several recent films where insecurity is given imaginative form: See, for example, Tell No One (2008). France is picking up on many of these themes and adding a philosophical twist. Also recommended is Richard Matheson's 7 Steps to Midnight (New York: Tom Doherty, 1993). Matheson's masterpiece anticipates Eagle Eye by more than a decade and must be considered prophetic after 9/11 gave birth to the "National Security State."
Michelle Monaghan's charm always captures my heart. If you are being chased by the F.B.I. and other mysterious and dark powers, then Michelle's "Rachel" is definitely the gal to have with you. She doesn't mind getting her hair messed up. If she is asked by a supercomputer to murder you, she'll feel really "terrible about it." Plus Michelle is definitely a babe. Mr. Le Beouf is a pleasant "Jerry" who seems to have his heart in the right place. Wounded and bloodied but unbowed, Jerry is nice to children and promises to return to Stanford in order to attend law school, thus becoming "responsible" at last.
Jerry gets the Congressional Medal of Honor. Rachel gets Jerry. Spielberg and Caruso get your money. The cash will allow these men to open a fancy French restaurant to which you can imagine taking Michelle Monaghan for an expensive dinner -- where she will laugh at all of your jokes while wearing a low cut black dress and that exploding crystal necklace to increase the danger during your evening of seduction.
The movie rocks with plenty of explosions for those who do not wish to think too much, usually because they are (happily) incapable of much thought. In other words, I am referring to men. The invasive camera angles (derived from recent Russian cinema) adds to the "coolness" factor. I gotta see this movie in IMAX. A few more moments lingering over Rosario Dawson's "Agent Perez" -- who would have been fascinating in the lead! -- would not hurt.
Also, I would prefer that Billy Bob Thorton's F.B.I. official not die. Thornton's character should be nominated for the Presidency in a possible sequel, where he debates the supercomputer on ethics and political issues. Melanie Griffith as the supercomputer debating the protagonist concerning the logic of utopia would have been fascinating. Let actors be the ultimate "special effect."
Thumbs up for this fun-filled action-romance-thriller that is number one in the box office this week. Very cool.
Monday, September 29, 2008
New Jersey Continues to Disgust and Shock the Country!
October 3, 2008 at 10:07 A.M. I am unable, after several hours and scans of my computer, to write today at Critique. I planned to review a new movie. I will draft that review in pencil, then find a computer where I can post it. Hackers prevent me from accessing my MSN group, once again. Intrusion attempts and viruses on my computer are uncontrollable. I have decided to write from more computers and to persist in my efforts.
I was reminded of Lillian Hellman's observations when she found herself in a similar situation, during the McCarthy era, dealing with nearly identically stupid and brutal fascists:
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. But there were very few -- How can you, Mr. Rabner, be a part of this? -- who stood up to say so and there were almost none even now to remind us that one of the reasons we know so little and guess so badly about China is that we lost the only men who knew what they were talking about. Certainly the good magazines, the ones who published the best writers, should have come to the aid of those who were persecuted. ...
Scoundrel Time (New York: Ballantine, 1975), pp. 82-83.
I am not a slave. I am not a laboratory animal. Censorship and violations of citizens' Constitutional rights -- including rights of ACCESS to information and opinions -- that go unpunished are threats to national security. I expect that "errors" are being inserted in my essays at MSN.
October 2, 2008 at 2:54 P.M. My security system was frozen in mid scan. I will attempt to restore it. At the moment, I cannot access my security sytem at all. If I am unable to do so, I will attempt to reboot my computer.
October 2, 2008 at 12:39 P.M. Three attempts to reach my MSN group have been unsuccessful. I will persist in my efforts throughout today. Then I will try again tomorrow. Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?"
October 2, 2008 at 10:24 A.M. Attempts to reach Critique at MSN were frustrated this morning. Scans were cancelled because my updating feature has been disabled, again. I am unable to post new essays or change my image at my group or blogs. I will spend the rest of the day struggling to run new scans and to continue writing, somehow, if necessary from a public computer.
October 1, 2008 at 6:43 P.M. harassment, defacements and obstructions again make it impossible for me to reach my group. I will keep trying throughout the evening and all day tomorrow. There is always a danger that I may be unable to continue writing from this computer. I will try to find another in order to continue writing. It is also likely that more vandalism of essays and other damage to my writings is taking place. Calls received at 6:00 P.M. from 877-504-1031; at 10:01 A.M. from 315-445-4300; numerous calls, at all hours, from "Anonymous."
October 1, 2008 at 2:31 P.M. I was just obstructed and denied access to my MSN group, Critique. This usually means that "errors" will be inserted in my writings, other vandalism and computer warfare must be expected. This could mean that more indictments are forthcoming in the Garden State. I will do my best to make timely repairs of damaged essays.
"New Jersey in Denial," The New York Times, September 26, 2008, at p. A24.
"7th Case of Legionnaire's Disease in N.J.," http://www.msnbc.com/id/26906427/ (September 27, 2008).
"The latest scheme to raise money for New Jersey's transportation system is an admission of defeat by the Corzine administration and a victory for the spineless legislators unwilling to confront the state's budget crisis."
Not only are legislators "spineless," so are the members of the state's befouled Supreme Court and Attorney General's office, especially the disgraced Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE). New Jersey's OAE is short of real lawyers and even more lacking in genuine "ethics."
Fittingly enough, 7 more cases of Legionnaire's Disease have appeared in the so-called "Garden State" which may be related to unprecedented levels of poisonous waste -- both medical and chemical waste -- throughout the state and in local beaches. (See "Double Standards and Medical Waste in New Jersey.")
It is probable that pay offs to N.J. state officials have allowed for these astonishing levels of life-threatening pollution to flourish in the Garden State. Many more than 7 cases of horrible diseases produced by this rot are hidden from residents or "covered-up," allegedly. Trenton is good at "cover-ups."
"Facing a staggering $32 BILLION deficit" -- also as a result of corruption and waste, mostly -- "Gov. Jon S. Corzine last winter boldly proposed significantly higher tolls and other measures that would have paid for transportation improvements while cutting the deficit in half."
Corzine, apparently, had not received instructions from George E. Norcross, III or Richard J. Codey when making these proposals. Some say the deficit is $36 BILLION -- but what's a few billion dollars among friends or family members, if you know what I mean?
"[Corzine's] latest proposal, which calls for much smaller toll increases, contains $10 billion to widen congested sections of the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway" -- there is no truth to the rumor that African-Americans will be barred from these roads since this would deprive South Jersey cops of future torture victims -- "repair roads and bridges and kick-start a new rail tunnel to Midtown Manhattan. But there's not a penny for debt reduction. The reason is a toxic combination of public resistance and the Legislature's cowardice." (emphasis added)
The judiciary is more cowardly, corrupt, inept, failing in its duty to protect your rights if you are unfortunate enough to reside in the Garden State. I think the Times is sending a message, despite the psychobabble title of this editorial.
New Jersey's powers that be must deal with the state's responsibility for avoidable human suffering, tragedy resulting from government criminality, and grotesque incompetence on the part of persons like Tuchin and Riccioli, not to mention many others in Trenton.
The Garden State is, literally, DISGUSTING to decent persons who care about good government and the American legal system. (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
"Mr. Corzine's original plan would have raised tolls by 50 percent every four years between 2010 and 2022, at which point it would cost $48 to drive the length of the Turnpike, compared to $6.45 now. ..."
That's just more money for the Jersey Boys to steal. $50 bucks to go to work every day. It is likely that both Corzine and Norcross, along with many others, will be hurt by the market meltdown and the prospects of a new recession. Government investments -- including pension funds, if they still exist! -- may be dissipated, creating another level of crisis for retired persons and those on the verge of retirement who have been paying into the system for years based on the absurd assumption that N.J. officials were at least slightly honest.
What will you say to those seniors about where their money "went," Mr. Corzine? Perhaps you should call Mr. Norcross for advice.
Even more absurd, it seems, is the assumption that people committing crimes in New Jersey's power-structure would actually be prosecuted by someone in the state law enforcement system. Not very likely. Everybody's on the tit. Thank God for the feds. With half the personnel, federal officials have obtained more than twice the number of convictions for political corruption than the current A.G., "Clueless" Anne Milgram, has managed to get during her entire tenure. "Whatever," right Anne?
Is there no one in New Jersey (other than voters) ashamed and disgusted by what the state has come to represent to the nation and world? Do you really believe that attacking my writings on-line is the best response to these criticisms? Isn't cyberstalking a crime in New Jersey?
Mr. Rabner, your tribunal and your legal system are objects of loathing and ridicule, deservedly, as a result of your state's and your own visible and most obvious dishonesty, unethical lawyering, and "judging." You and your disgraced predecessors must bear great responsibility for this situation which is hurting the residents of New Jersey and will continue to do so.
Have you no sense of shame, sir? Are you not concerned to live an ethical life, Mr. Rabner? Continuing apathy is unacceptable in a "Chief Justice" of a failed and even criminal legal system. You, Mr. Rabner, have lost the right to claim respect for your tainted decisions, for yourself, or for the N.J. legal system, as you continue to wallow in deliberate ignorance of heinous criminality by the very public entities entrusted with abiding by and enforcing the law.
The New York Times editorial arrived at the only possible conclusion: "The Legislature cannot duck this forever."
I was reminded of Lillian Hellman's observations when she found herself in a similar situation, during the McCarthy era, dealing with nearly identically stupid and brutal fascists:
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. But there were very few -- How can you, Mr. Rabner, be a part of this? -- who stood up to say so and there were almost none even now to remind us that one of the reasons we know so little and guess so badly about China is that we lost the only men who knew what they were talking about. Certainly the good magazines, the ones who published the best writers, should have come to the aid of those who were persecuted. ...
Scoundrel Time (New York: Ballantine, 1975), pp. 82-83.
I am not a slave. I am not a laboratory animal. Censorship and violations of citizens' Constitutional rights -- including rights of ACCESS to information and opinions -- that go unpunished are threats to national security. I expect that "errors" are being inserted in my essays at MSN.
October 2, 2008 at 2:54 P.M. My security system was frozen in mid scan. I will attempt to restore it. At the moment, I cannot access my security sytem at all. If I am unable to do so, I will attempt to reboot my computer.
October 2, 2008 at 12:39 P.M. Three attempts to reach my MSN group have been unsuccessful. I will persist in my efforts throughout today. Then I will try again tomorrow. Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?"
October 2, 2008 at 10:24 A.M. Attempts to reach Critique at MSN were frustrated this morning. Scans were cancelled because my updating feature has been disabled, again. I am unable to post new essays or change my image at my group or blogs. I will spend the rest of the day struggling to run new scans and to continue writing, somehow, if necessary from a public computer.
October 1, 2008 at 6:43 P.M. harassment, defacements and obstructions again make it impossible for me to reach my group. I will keep trying throughout the evening and all day tomorrow. There is always a danger that I may be unable to continue writing from this computer. I will try to find another in order to continue writing. It is also likely that more vandalism of essays and other damage to my writings is taking place. Calls received at 6:00 P.M. from 877-504-1031; at 10:01 A.M. from 315-445-4300; numerous calls, at all hours, from "Anonymous."
October 1, 2008 at 2:31 P.M. I was just obstructed and denied access to my MSN group, Critique. This usually means that "errors" will be inserted in my writings, other vandalism and computer warfare must be expected. This could mean that more indictments are forthcoming in the Garden State. I will do my best to make timely repairs of damaged essays.
"New Jersey in Denial," The New York Times, September 26, 2008, at p. A24.
"7th Case of Legionnaire's Disease in N.J.," http://www.msnbc.com/id/26906427/ (September 27, 2008).
"The latest scheme to raise money for New Jersey's transportation system is an admission of defeat by the Corzine administration and a victory for the spineless legislators unwilling to confront the state's budget crisis."
Not only are legislators "spineless," so are the members of the state's befouled Supreme Court and Attorney General's office, especially the disgraced Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE). New Jersey's OAE is short of real lawyers and even more lacking in genuine "ethics."
Fittingly enough, 7 more cases of Legionnaire's Disease have appeared in the so-called "Garden State" which may be related to unprecedented levels of poisonous waste -- both medical and chemical waste -- throughout the state and in local beaches. (See "Double Standards and Medical Waste in New Jersey.")
It is probable that pay offs to N.J. state officials have allowed for these astonishing levels of life-threatening pollution to flourish in the Garden State. Many more than 7 cases of horrible diseases produced by this rot are hidden from residents or "covered-up," allegedly. Trenton is good at "cover-ups."
"Facing a staggering $32 BILLION deficit" -- also as a result of corruption and waste, mostly -- "Gov. Jon S. Corzine last winter boldly proposed significantly higher tolls and other measures that would have paid for transportation improvements while cutting the deficit in half."
Corzine, apparently, had not received instructions from George E. Norcross, III or Richard J. Codey when making these proposals. Some say the deficit is $36 BILLION -- but what's a few billion dollars among friends or family members, if you know what I mean?
"[Corzine's] latest proposal, which calls for much smaller toll increases, contains $10 billion to widen congested sections of the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway" -- there is no truth to the rumor that African-Americans will be barred from these roads since this would deprive South Jersey cops of future torture victims -- "repair roads and bridges and kick-start a new rail tunnel to Midtown Manhattan. But there's not a penny for debt reduction. The reason is a toxic combination of public resistance and the Legislature's cowardice." (emphasis added)
The judiciary is more cowardly, corrupt, inept, failing in its duty to protect your rights if you are unfortunate enough to reside in the Garden State. I think the Times is sending a message, despite the psychobabble title of this editorial.
New Jersey's powers that be must deal with the state's responsibility for avoidable human suffering, tragedy resulting from government criminality, and grotesque incompetence on the part of persons like Tuchin and Riccioli, not to mention many others in Trenton.
The Garden State is, literally, DISGUSTING to decent persons who care about good government and the American legal system. (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
"Mr. Corzine's original plan would have raised tolls by 50 percent every four years between 2010 and 2022, at which point it would cost $48 to drive the length of the Turnpike, compared to $6.45 now. ..."
That's just more money for the Jersey Boys to steal. $50 bucks to go to work every day. It is likely that both Corzine and Norcross, along with many others, will be hurt by the market meltdown and the prospects of a new recession. Government investments -- including pension funds, if they still exist! -- may be dissipated, creating another level of crisis for retired persons and those on the verge of retirement who have been paying into the system for years based on the absurd assumption that N.J. officials were at least slightly honest.
What will you say to those seniors about where their money "went," Mr. Corzine? Perhaps you should call Mr. Norcross for advice.
Even more absurd, it seems, is the assumption that people committing crimes in New Jersey's power-structure would actually be prosecuted by someone in the state law enforcement system. Not very likely. Everybody's on the tit. Thank God for the feds. With half the personnel, federal officials have obtained more than twice the number of convictions for political corruption than the current A.G., "Clueless" Anne Milgram, has managed to get during her entire tenure. "Whatever," right Anne?
Is there no one in New Jersey (other than voters) ashamed and disgusted by what the state has come to represent to the nation and world? Do you really believe that attacking my writings on-line is the best response to these criticisms? Isn't cyberstalking a crime in New Jersey?
Mr. Rabner, your tribunal and your legal system are objects of loathing and ridicule, deservedly, as a result of your state's and your own visible and most obvious dishonesty, unethical lawyering, and "judging." You and your disgraced predecessors must bear great responsibility for this situation which is hurting the residents of New Jersey and will continue to do so.
Have you no sense of shame, sir? Are you not concerned to live an ethical life, Mr. Rabner? Continuing apathy is unacceptable in a "Chief Justice" of a failed and even criminal legal system. You, Mr. Rabner, have lost the right to claim respect for your tainted decisions, for yourself, or for the N.J. legal system, as you continue to wallow in deliberate ignorance of heinous criminality by the very public entities entrusted with abiding by and enforcing the law.
The New York Times editorial arrived at the only possible conclusion: "The Legislature cannot duck this forever."
Thursday, September 18, 2008
More New Jersey Democrats Accused of Corruption!
September 17, 2008 at 5:49 P.M. I was just obstructed, once again, in accessing my MSN group. I will continue to struggle to post my essay dealing with George E. Norcross, III and N.J.'s corrupt politics. Any word from the Menendez grand jury? I will do my best to repair any harm done to essays during this interval.
September 17, 2008 at 4:08 P.M. an earlier message was somehow lost. Difficulties today have made it impossible to write. Essays have been vandalized, several times, and access to the Internet has been affected. Attempted revisions of this work could not be posted. My home e-mail is obstructed. I receive an "error" notice as drafts are altered at my computer. I received a call as I was working on this statement at 12:55 P.M. on September 17, 2008.
Probably just a coincidence.I will now repeat my earlier message of concern for the victims of the hurricane in Cuba. The U.S. offer of $100,000.00 with strings attached was rightly rejected by the Cubans, who continue to insist on their independence. They would prefer to purchase the equipment they need to make necessary repairs themselves. With a lifting of the embargo for six months, they could do all that needs to be done. I think the embargo should be lifted permanently.
Unfortunately, saying this means further censorship and attacks against these essays from N.J. government computers and state agencies. However, this truth must be stated. Right-wing anti-Castro groups can only offer Cuba much worse than what exists on the island today. The sadism directed against me made possible by N.J. corruption makes this clear. You cannot beat up ideas. Threatening me will not alter these facts, taking letters out of my sentences or other alterations of these writings will not change these facts.
September 16, 2008 at 9:45 A.M. I spent about thirty minutes trying to post a revision of an essay at Critique -- a revision required by the reinsertion of a previously corrected "error" in that essay. I was prevented from doing any writing by obstructions and harassment. I will fight to get back to my MSN group at some time today and to do that revising. Meanwhile, I will post this essay about a recent federal bust of more New Jersey Democrats for corruption as part of ongoing federal investigations.
Senator Bob is reportedly next. We'll see whether Bob gets indicted. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Anybody seen the New Jersey state pension funds? New Jersey state employees probably will not see them. Right, Richard J. Codey? George E. Norcross, III? A second attempt to work at my MSN group (10:25 A.M.) was also unsuccessful due to obstructions. I will devote the rest of the day to working on and finishing my essay on George E. Norcross, III. I will then spend the day -- or week, if necessary -- trying to post that new essay at Critique.
Whenever I am denied access to my own sites by hackers, it means that errors are inserted in Constitutionally- and copyright-protected writings. I will make corrections of whatever essays have been damaged this morning as soon as I am able to regain access to my group. Please tell your friends in law enforcement about these crimes committed, publicly, by (I am sure) the authorities in an American jursidiction, N.J., which is now the most CORRUPT place in the United States of America. This hideous public spectacle degrades and dishonors the nation and all who have given their lives for the freedoms protected by the Constitution betrayed by men and women in judicial robes near Trenton, New Jersey.
Do you wish to obstruct my Internet access now? How about taking a letter out of something I've written to induce frustration? I will keep fighting.
"U.S. Accuses 2 in Bergen Of Corruption," in The New York Times, September 10, 2008, at p. B5.
"NEWARK (AP) -- The influential chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization and a party lawyer have been indicted on federal corruption charges.
"Hey, that's not unethical," according to the OAE. Corruption is peachy-keen in New Jersey. This politically-connected lawyer is not a minority solo practioner who challenges the political boss system. We don't care about that guy. We'll also let Paul Bergrin slide and look the other way at possible child molestation when it comes to Neil M. Cohen, Esq., or the alleged participation in "shenanigans" by the juiced-up De Cottiis firm. Right, fellas?
What's a BILLION DOLLARS "lost" to the taxpayers? Nothing. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
"United States Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced the indictments of party chairman Joseph A. Ferreiro, and Democrat lawyer, Dennis Oury, on Tuesday."
I remember Dennis. I believe we may have some mutual friends, Dennis. (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" as well as "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
"The eight-count indictment charges them with conspiring to defraud the Borough of Bergenfield and using the mail to further their scheme."
That's an old trick in New Jersey. I wonder whether these guys are challenging Hudson County for corruption capital of the state and nation? If so, they have a long way to go in Bergen County. The Bergen County courthouse is the biggest "clubhouse-courthouse" in the state.
See "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" as well as "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester."
In Bergen County Family Court some lawyers strolled into the judge's chambers and enjoyed ex parte chats with the same judges expected to decide controversies "on the merits." Some firms seemed to have "access to the backstage stuff"; other firms did not. Political favors? Cash in envelopes? A little of both?
No wonder I am prevented from accessing my own web sites this morning. They don't want you to know this stuff."
The investigation focused on their dealings as partners in a firm, Government Grants Consulting" -- the name says it all! -- "that did business with a number of local governments in northern New Jersey.
"You getting nervous, Alex? Senator "Bob"?"
The indictment charges that the two men conspired to conceal Mr. Oury's interest in the grant-writing firm from officials in Bergenfield, which employed Mr. Oury as borough attorney. His dual role posed a conflict of interest, prosecutors contend."
You're really getting nervous, huh?"
Federal agents raided the law offices of the two men last month, carting out boxes of documents."
Where's Anne Milgram? Jon S. Corzine? "Chief Justice" Stuart Rabner?"
Mr. Ferreirro is a partner at the law firm of Scarinsci Hollenbeck in Lyndhurst. [emphasis added! -- right, Senator Bob?] Mr. Oury works at a law office in Hackensack. Mr. Ferreiro took a leave of absence as party chairman last week, citing legal difficulties."
There's some legal difficulties coming for more of you in Trenton and Hudson as well as Bergen Counties, very soon."Mr. Oury and Mr. Ferreiro are to surrender to the authorities on Wednesday."
Hey, Senator Robert "Bob" a.k.a. "Roberto" Menendez. (How's the babe, "BobbyM"?) How's it shaking "Big Pappa"? $1,500.00 still help to smooth the "process" in Union City? $2,500? I wonder why I can't write at my MSN group in peace? You would be amazed at what I have gone through to post this essay.
The boys are represented by some pretty good mouth pieces. Joe Hayden, reputedly and allegedly, himself a political animal who is not averse to "public legal work" is going to (as lawyers say) "come up with something to say" for Ferreiro. Gerald Krovatin, attorney for many "alleged" underworld figures, will put in a good word for Mr. Oury. Cash up front, fellas. These guys ain't gonna walk.
New Jersey's judiciary may be the most corrupt in the nation, "looking the other way" at daily censorship efforts against little-old-me along with the destruction of the old "Philosophy Cafe," judges often accept bribes and sexual favors for doing nothing. They're good at doing nothing.
OAE? DRB? AG? Naaa ... These crooks are contributors to the Democratic Party in N.J. Nothing happens to them.
September 17, 2008 at 4:08 P.M. an earlier message was somehow lost. Difficulties today have made it impossible to write. Essays have been vandalized, several times, and access to the Internet has been affected. Attempted revisions of this work could not be posted. My home e-mail is obstructed. I receive an "error" notice as drafts are altered at my computer. I received a call as I was working on this statement at 12:55 P.M. on September 17, 2008.
Probably just a coincidence.I will now repeat my earlier message of concern for the victims of the hurricane in Cuba. The U.S. offer of $100,000.00 with strings attached was rightly rejected by the Cubans, who continue to insist on their independence. They would prefer to purchase the equipment they need to make necessary repairs themselves. With a lifting of the embargo for six months, they could do all that needs to be done. I think the embargo should be lifted permanently.
Unfortunately, saying this means further censorship and attacks against these essays from N.J. government computers and state agencies. However, this truth must be stated. Right-wing anti-Castro groups can only offer Cuba much worse than what exists on the island today. The sadism directed against me made possible by N.J. corruption makes this clear. You cannot beat up ideas. Threatening me will not alter these facts, taking letters out of my sentences or other alterations of these writings will not change these facts.
September 16, 2008 at 9:45 A.M. I spent about thirty minutes trying to post a revision of an essay at Critique -- a revision required by the reinsertion of a previously corrected "error" in that essay. I was prevented from doing any writing by obstructions and harassment. I will fight to get back to my MSN group at some time today and to do that revising. Meanwhile, I will post this essay about a recent federal bust of more New Jersey Democrats for corruption as part of ongoing federal investigations.
Senator Bob is reportedly next. We'll see whether Bob gets indicted. (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Anybody seen the New Jersey state pension funds? New Jersey state employees probably will not see them. Right, Richard J. Codey? George E. Norcross, III? A second attempt to work at my MSN group (10:25 A.M.) was also unsuccessful due to obstructions. I will devote the rest of the day to working on and finishing my essay on George E. Norcross, III. I will then spend the day -- or week, if necessary -- trying to post that new essay at Critique.
Whenever I am denied access to my own sites by hackers, it means that errors are inserted in Constitutionally- and copyright-protected writings. I will make corrections of whatever essays have been damaged this morning as soon as I am able to regain access to my group. Please tell your friends in law enforcement about these crimes committed, publicly, by (I am sure) the authorities in an American jursidiction, N.J., which is now the most CORRUPT place in the United States of America. This hideous public spectacle degrades and dishonors the nation and all who have given their lives for the freedoms protected by the Constitution betrayed by men and women in judicial robes near Trenton, New Jersey.
Do you wish to obstruct my Internet access now? How about taking a letter out of something I've written to induce frustration? I will keep fighting.
"U.S. Accuses 2 in Bergen Of Corruption," in The New York Times, September 10, 2008, at p. B5.
"NEWARK (AP) -- The influential chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization and a party lawyer have been indicted on federal corruption charges.
"Hey, that's not unethical," according to the OAE. Corruption is peachy-keen in New Jersey. This politically-connected lawyer is not a minority solo practioner who challenges the political boss system. We don't care about that guy. We'll also let Paul Bergrin slide and look the other way at possible child molestation when it comes to Neil M. Cohen, Esq., or the alleged participation in "shenanigans" by the juiced-up De Cottiis firm. Right, fellas?
What's a BILLION DOLLARS "lost" to the taxpayers? Nothing. (See "One of New Jersey's Highly Ethical Attorneys Has a Problem" and "New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House.")
"United States Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced the indictments of party chairman Joseph A. Ferreiro, and Democrat lawyer, Dennis Oury, on Tuesday."
I remember Dennis. I believe we may have some mutual friends, Dennis. (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" as well as "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
"The eight-count indictment charges them with conspiring to defraud the Borough of Bergenfield and using the mail to further their scheme."
That's an old trick in New Jersey. I wonder whether these guys are challenging Hudson County for corruption capital of the state and nation? If so, they have a long way to go in Bergen County. The Bergen County courthouse is the biggest "clubhouse-courthouse" in the state.
See "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" as well as "New Jersey Superior Court Judge is a Child Molester."
In Bergen County Family Court some lawyers strolled into the judge's chambers and enjoyed ex parte chats with the same judges expected to decide controversies "on the merits." Some firms seemed to have "access to the backstage stuff"; other firms did not. Political favors? Cash in envelopes? A little of both?
No wonder I am prevented from accessing my own web sites this morning. They don't want you to know this stuff."
The investigation focused on their dealings as partners in a firm, Government Grants Consulting" -- the name says it all! -- "that did business with a number of local governments in northern New Jersey.
"You getting nervous, Alex? Senator "Bob"?"
The indictment charges that the two men conspired to conceal Mr. Oury's interest in the grant-writing firm from officials in Bergenfield, which employed Mr. Oury as borough attorney. His dual role posed a conflict of interest, prosecutors contend."
You're really getting nervous, huh?"
Federal agents raided the law offices of the two men last month, carting out boxes of documents."
Where's Anne Milgram? Jon S. Corzine? "Chief Justice" Stuart Rabner?"
Mr. Ferreirro is a partner at the law firm of Scarinsci Hollenbeck in Lyndhurst. [emphasis added! -- right, Senator Bob?] Mr. Oury works at a law office in Hackensack. Mr. Ferreiro took a leave of absence as party chairman last week, citing legal difficulties."
There's some legal difficulties coming for more of you in Trenton and Hudson as well as Bergen Counties, very soon."Mr. Oury and Mr. Ferreiro are to surrender to the authorities on Wednesday."
Hey, Senator Robert "Bob" a.k.a. "Roberto" Menendez. (How's the babe, "BobbyM"?) How's it shaking "Big Pappa"? $1,500.00 still help to smooth the "process" in Union City? $2,500? I wonder why I can't write at my MSN group in peace? You would be amazed at what I have gone through to post this essay.
The boys are represented by some pretty good mouth pieces. Joe Hayden, reputedly and allegedly, himself a political animal who is not averse to "public legal work" is going to (as lawyers say) "come up with something to say" for Ferreiro. Gerald Krovatin, attorney for many "alleged" underworld figures, will put in a good word for Mr. Oury. Cash up front, fellas. These guys ain't gonna walk.
New Jersey's judiciary may be the most corrupt in the nation, "looking the other way" at daily censorship efforts against little-old-me along with the destruction of the old "Philosophy Cafe," judges often accept bribes and sexual favors for doing nothing. They're good at doing nothing.
OAE? DRB? AG? Naaa ... These crooks are contributors to the Democratic Party in N.J. Nothing happens to them.
Friday, September 5, 2008
How Censorship Works in America.
September 15, 2008 at 11:53 A.M. As of this time, I have not been able to write at my MSN group nor to change the image in the "Welcome" greeting due to frustrating obstructions, hackers, and other cyberwarfare or cyberstalking. I will try throughout the day to reach that site and to do what I can when I get there. This obstruction and denial of access is usually indicative of vandalism of the writings. I will struggle to make corrections. Frustrations are designed to bring about a collapse or paralyzing despair. Frustrations are also methods of censorship and silencing. I will continue to struggle. ("Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory.")
September 14, 2008 at 5:19 P.M. I was obstructed and denied access to my MSN group, as I struggled to post a revised version of an essay that was vandalized overnight -- an essay dealing will illegal medical experimentation in America and New Jersey. I will run scans for the rest of the day, struggling to overcome censorship efforts to write at Critique.
September 13, 2008 at 11:18 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group, again, due to obstructions and illegal blocking of my cable signal this morning. I will keep trying throughout the day to write somehow and somewhere.
September 12, 2008 at 3:35 P.M. I was just obstructed, again, as I tried to reach my MSN group. I will try throughout the day to return to my hotmail account and group. This sort of obstruction usually means that "errors" are being inserted in my essays. I will do my best to make corrections as quickly as possible. (See "What is it like to be tortured?")
September 11, 2008 at 1:44 P.M. I was just obstructed as I was writing at my MSN group. I will struggle to get back to that site. I am still unable to post images at blogger. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ, Senator Bob?)
September 10, 2008 at 9:28 A.M. access to my MSN group was blocked, an essay was duplicated. I was prevented from making corrections. Harassment value is the goal, I guess. I will spend the rest of the day seeking to regain access to Critique. I will try to continue writing under these circumstances.
September 9, 2008 at 1:33 P.M. My cable signal was illegally blocked moments ago, denying me access to MSN. I will struggle to return to my sites and continue working on essays today. This usually means that more writings have been defaced or vandalized. I will do my best to repair the harm done, eventually.
September 8, 2008 at 9:05 A.M. I was just blocked from accessing my MSN group, which is not an unusual censorship and harassment tactic. I will spend the rest of today trying to get back to my group to repair the harm done to essays at that site. I will do my best to continue writing, somehow, although much good work may be lost because I may be unable to do it under these circumstances. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
September 5, 2008 at 2:52 P.M. After numerous attempts to post this text at my MSN group, I will struggle to post it here. Hackers prevent me from posting this work at Critique. New Jersey's $36 BILLION dollar "short-fall" resulting (partly) from theft due to corruption necessitates a sharp increase in toll costs on the Turnpike and Parkway. I cannot print an article discussing these developments, but I can refer the reader to that article. Spacing has been affected by hackers. No images can be posted at these blogs due to obstructions. Won't they steal the toll money?
http://wwww.msnbc.com/id/26550468/ 9-5-08. (Tolls and fees to rise in New Jersey.)
I sent a manuscript to a small publisher I found on-line. I have decided to post a copy of my cover letter. I expect "anonymous" messages to this publisher about what a terrible person I am, which is bound to indicate that the book is likely to sell many copies. This essay has also been altered and defaced. Anyone wishing to express an inclination to purchase thousands of copies of this immortal work should feel free to do so. A novel is next. I will find some way to put this essay collection out there, somehow. Calling me a terrible person only means that I am like every other author. Nice people may have little to write about.
It is very weird to discover that the publisher I found on-line two days ago, apparently, no longer exists. My submission was just returned to me. This is very discouraging and frustrating, of course, but there are other publishers and on-demand printers out there. I will keep searching and trying to put the words "out there." My daily war against cyberstalkers and censorship has made me pretty determined and indestructible in my efforts to communicate my anger and outrage at these injustices.
Does anyone know what happened to "Mr. Rodney Ohebsion" at http://www.immidiex.com/ or http://www.immidiex.com/ ? What is http://www.doubleclick.com/? Why is Norton Security blocking them all the time? I also never received an explanation from "Mr./Ms. Prather" at Publish America. Is there such a person? I wonder why the book was rejected? Probably just not right for them, I guess. "Alina Falcone?" "Howard Masia, Esq.?"
I have just sent an e-mail to "T.Ratliff" asking for an explanation. I am looking forward to his/her response. I finally managed to upload my manuscript to Lulu, despite all kinds of obstacles. Several attempts to purchase an ISBN and a copy of the book have been unsuccessful because of problems of one sort or another. I have received an e-mail from "Pay-Pal" asking for personal information to "verify" my account. I do not have an "e-bay" account. I do not have a "Pay-Pal" account. Why would they want my personal information? Do you think that New Jersey lawyers and politicians can be behind these tactics? Besides, the thefts and rapes and other crimes that one has come to expect from many members of the N.J. bar.
Letters have been removed from my manuscripts at Lulu during my "revisions phase" in order (I believe) to frustrate posting efforts. I can not know whether the books have survived as I wrote them or are still available. I cannot know whether my ISBN number for my second book is valid. They kept the money for it.
I have resubmitted my manuscript by e-mail to http://publishamerica.com/ Let's see what happens. Nothing so far. I am simply ignored. Weird, they were so enthusiastic and suddenly -- for no discernible reason -- they rejected the book. Now, no response. My e-mails seem to take so long to arrive at their destination. I wonder why that is? Is Publish America affiliated with one of the major parties? Maybe they "know people" in New Jersey? Have they been "reached," as they say in Trenton? Why are my Internet transactions obstructed? Perhaps I will receive another threatening letter from Trenton. (See "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!")
Efforts to renew my security service are a war every year. Ethics, Mr. Rabner?
Dear Mr. Internet Publisher:
Attached is my manuscript for Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006. This collection divides neatly into metaphysical, political, ethical and religious concerns. Some of the essays have been published previously. This is indicated in footnotes when appropriate.
I have published one previous book Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Freedom (Lulu: 2004). This work is available on-line, where it has received close to 10,000 hits to date. This is an estimate. It is also selling reasonably well, as best I can determine, considering that it is available for free. As with my previous book -- though I wish to retain the copyright -- I will donate all proceeds from sales of this collection to the publisher to promote Internet publishing opportunities for ordinary people. I will advertise the book myself and seek to obtain reviews. I may even sell copies of it on Manhattan's subway trains. One author sold 15,000 books that way. I will create links to the book and publisher's sites at my blogs. Give me a decent-looking book and I will make it worth your while.
I am a writer living in New York. My profile is available on-line. Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome, even if you choose not to publish the book -- whether for safety reasons or any other concerns -- I will be grateful for your critique.
Thank you for your time and attention to my work.
Maybe I should say that I went to Smith College and attended a "Bread Loaf Conference" in the mid-west? Nah, I don't think so.
This experience of not being published is significant. This is true whoever represented him- or herself as "Publish America" in those mysterious e-mails sent to me soliciting the manuscript. Senator Bob? We'll find out. I am describing this episode in detail because it is reflective of something ugly that I am trying to capture for those who have not experienced it. A lifetime of insults and condescension, trivializing dismissiveness and "instruction" directed at me, usually by middle-brow types (or worse) in positions of authority in academia and the legal system. Too much of American culture is the blind leading the sighted, provided that the blind reside in suburbia and are "nice." Race and ethnicity may not be entirely irrelevant to such experiences. (See "What a man's gotta do" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
People who have read a fraction of what I've absorbed will recommend books on feminism, politics, history and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy (I want that one!) without realizing how much I have read or how intensely and for how long I have been studying these issues. Patronizing, insulting condescension becomes almost a daily feature of life -- for some of us, not all of us. Why me? I am so nice to children and dogs. The challenge is to cope with fury at insulting dismissals of one's thoughts by persons incapable of understanding them and the contradictions of a corrupt, racist, ethically tainted legal system. Millions live with this level of rage and hatred produced by such treatment, rarely as much criminality or hypocrisy as I have experienced. I hope and expect that any lawyers (or teachers) who have participated in this effort at psychological torture will lose their professional licenses in whatever state they dwell. "Ethics?"
We have not been well-served by energetic and self-important mediocrities in high places -- law, literature and philosophy in America have also not been well-served by such people. They are the gate-keepers of culture and political power. The culture police. They seek out non-threatening, dull-witted minority types, persons who will strive only for their own self-enrichment and further personal power, if elected to office or given an "opportunity" to lead. You know who those people are. Minority officials who do not play that game, simply get passed over.
I wonder why Donald M. Payne was not appointed to the Senate by New Jersey's Governor Corzine? Racism, ethnic and religious rivalry will be detectable in these decisions or so-called "evaluations." Persons who will be deemed to write well will really churn out the tepid, lifeless prose that is reflective of tepid and lifeless "situations." Anger, even rage, fury, the experience of evil, struggle, violence and hunger will make rare appearances -- except in fraudulent forms -- in the safe and sanitized writing of our times. (See "Senator Obama and 'The New Yorker'" and "Skinny People Dressed in Black.")
Why is Amiri Baraka not sufficiently appreciated? Real literature and philosophy may well take place "elsewhere." No longer in American mainstream literature -- with all exceptions granted -- will we find that music produced only by Apollo's Lyre. These intellectual provinces where writing still happens will be a locus of struggle and pain, of love, redemption and hope. It is there, in that struggle, where you will find broken lives, true, but still human lives. Not on Park Avenue, but in Brooklyn or Alphabet City, in the West Village or Inwood, even in Texas or Indiana there is somebody working on the "Great American Novel." Philip Roth has already written "The Great American Novel," several times.
The message delivered by a culture that has mastered the art of indirection is that you do not matter. What you say is unimportant. What we have done to you -- however terrible it may be -- is therefore insignificant. Reading ten times more books and writing better prose will guarantee you nothing in the competition for cultural recognition. It will not matter if you have something to say, that you say it well, or that we need to hear it. The rewards will go to what is safe, familiar, dull and to those who embody those qualities. The consequences of this can be seen all around us. We get both the culture and society that we deserve. Scary. Worse, excellence and originality become categories of guilt that, somehow, justify criminal censorship and suppression of creative work. This may explain the journalism of Rafael Pi Roman.
I will continue to write. I will also record my adventures in publishing in this space. I fully expect more hackers and alterations of this text as the only response to what I say.
What a pleasant surprise to receive an invitation to submit a short story:
GinoskoEditor@AOL.com
Monday, June 18, 2007; 2:01 P.M.
Sent to me at: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Heading: SUBMISSIONS.
Juan-
Accepting short fiction & poetry for the 5th issue of the literary journal ginosko.
Editorial lead time 1-3 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints; receives email & postal submissions. Length flexible. Copyright reverts to author.
Publishing as semiannual ezine--summer & winter. Moving towards printed version to be distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Selecting material for anthology.
Downloadable issues on website: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/ezine circulation 2200+.
Also looking for artwork, photography, CDs to post on website and links to exchange.
Ginosko (ghin-oce-koe)
To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth by experience.
GINOSKO LITERARY JOURNAL Robert Paul Cesaretti, PO Box 246, Fairfax, CA 94978
Isn't it nice that this e-mail -- from what purports to be a literary journal asking for a short story from me -- was addressed to me on a first name basis. The return address listed, once again:
Ginosko@AOL.com;
date: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 2:01 P.M.;
recipient: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com;
heading: SUBMISSIONS.
How curious that there is no such journal? Why send me a request for a short story from a non-existent literary journal?
In a letter dated September 27, 2005 bearing the signature of "Bonnie Williamson," identified as "Assistant Acquisitions Editor," the following was communicated to me: "I would like to invite you to send your complete manuscript to us." I still have this letter. This was after I identified the text as a collection of previously published essays. The following information was provided for "Publish America," the alleged "publisher":
Publish America, LLLP.
http://www.publishamerica.com/
Incorporated in Fredrick Maryland
Member of the Association of American Publishers
Baltimore
USA: P.O. BOX 151
Frederick, MD 21705-0151
Phone 301-695-1707
Fax: 301-631-9073
Is Publish America really Bob Menendez? Is engaging in Internet fraud something a U.S. Senator should do? I doubt it.
On December 1, 2006, after submitting my manuscript, I received this e-mail:
From :PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent :Friday, December 1, 2006 3:31 PM
To :gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject :Your submission has been rejected
Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:
Thank you for your submission of "Why I Am Not an Ethical Relativist: Collected Essays 2000-2006" to PublishAmerica. I have reviewed it today, December 1, 2006. This work does not currently fit our requirements. We cannot consider previously published works, including works published on the Internet. Please do not take this [as] a setback to [for?] all your hard work as a writer.
We wish you the best of luck.
Sincerely,
Acquisitions Department PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
After several months, I have been told that Publish America does not want my book because several of my essays have been published or "linked" previously in scholarly journals, like The Laing Studies Journal, Philosophy and/or Applied Ethics, New York Press, Massdensity. Thus, the fact that essays were considered publishable by scholarly journals and periodicals was deemed detrimental, preventing publication of my work in book form. These persons are going to "instruct" me on the issues and writing. O.K., fair enough.
Why did Publish America invite my submission of this manuscript KNOWING that it was collection of previously published essays in order to reject the essays because they were previously published?
I will struggle to put this essay collection out there, somehow, and I will save enough money to purchase an ISBN number. I can't do this work until after Christmas. This allows me to make additional corrections to errors that have "surfaced" suddenly in the text. Gifts for my loved-ones (including someone I may not see again) come first, especially her gift. I will continue to make corrections -- sometimes the same corrections, as I say, dozens of times -- after hackers alter these texts, while ignoring insulting e-mails, numerous anonymous phone calls at all hours, together with other harassments. (Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Ethics, Stuart? Is this what they call "disconfirmation of identity and feeding back a negative self-image to the victim"?
How does one respond to a deliberate illegal attempt at dehumanization and denigration from persons who comment on one's ethics? These people are New Jersey lawyers, judges, politicians who disapprove of my ethics. You decide who is "unethical." Who has the money stolen from my office? How about my watch? Stuart? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
Politics has a lot to do with these determinations, I am sure, and (naturally) the political-organized crime group in New Jersey does not like me for some reason. I don't know why. No doubt they are influential with the "politically-affiliated" media. I am afraid they will like me even less in the future. Henry Miller was unpublished for twenty years. Now his books do very well. True, he's dead. But I am sure that Miller's happy to know -- wherever he is -- that while his sins were scarlet, his books are read. ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!" and "The Heidegger Controversy.")
Dozens of memoirs from people who got laid last summer (or so they claim) in the Hamptons are in the publishing pipeline. I can't wait to read them. I'm rewriting and revising the book, before assigning an ISBN number to it. I'll keep writing. (See "The Long Goodbye.")
My second submission to "Publish America" was rejected. I wonder why?
From :M.N. Prather
Sent : Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:45 PM
To : Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject : Query Letter Followup
Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:
Thank you for your query concerning "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays," on 9/27/2005 BW. We requested [Why?] your submissions package on the same day, but have not yet received it.
If I can be of any further assistance, please contact me.
I look forward to receiving and considering "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays soon."
Best regards,
M.N. Prather Executive Director PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
Numerous "theoretical" expressions of interest from persons seemingly already familiar with my writings, suddenly resulted in fear and rejection.
The following web sites are being blocked as I write these words:
http://adfram.mediaplex.com/ad/js/198-43498-20 (NJ, JS? "Superior Court Judge"?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/N2992.MSN.com_/... (NJ, Doubleclick?)
My most frequent attacker, as of my last scan, is computer #82.165.24351. NJ Government? Judiciary? How strange.
Words of Wisdom from a publisher:
From : PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent : Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:28 PM
To : "Juan Menendez"
Subject : Juan Menendez: Status
Dear Mr. Galis-Menendez,
I apologize for the wait. Due to the large number of submissions we receive [punctuation?] we have not yet had a chance to review your book. We review manuscripts in the order they are received and we should be getting to yours shorty. [Is that last word an insult?]
Thank you for your patience in this matter. Let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Tim Ratliff [What an interesting name.]
Acquisitions DepartmentPublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
Is it possible that persons paid by taxpayers have spent their time (and your money!) illegally harassing and committing crimes against me -- like stealing from me -- because my opinions are not popular among the Mafiosi in New Jersey government or because they don't like me? We will find out. 1988-2010. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks," then "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System."
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, federal criminal law, copyright law, interstate laws designed to prohibit spreading of illegality -- all have been violated, for years, by my cybertormentors/cybercriminals and the Jersey Boys, with impunity. I wonder what they're all so worried about? Why do my writings alarm you? These are the people who judge my ethics and character. I consider most of them worthless scumbacks, some from Ridgewood, New Jersey. ("More Trouble for Ridgewood, New Jersey.")
Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? Anne Milgram? No more threatening letters from Trenton today? See again: "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" Is silence from the A.G. complicity in this criminality? Where is America's "independent" media? No wonder people around the world laugh when we speak of a free press.
My essay entitled "Is this atheism's moment?" has been submitted to Quodlibet, an Internet journal of theology and philosophy, allegedly, but it was returned to me unopened for some reason. "David Foutz" is identified as the editor of this journal. How curious? Perhaps I will try again. http://www.quodlibet.net/misc/howto.shtml and http://www.quodlibet.net/ ("Carol Mateo? Larissa MacFarquahr? Patricia Cohen? Ginger Thompson? Manohla Dargis? Caitlin Flanagan? Are these names all used by the same person or persons?")
I resubmitted the essay. I have received no response. To ensure that a distorted version of this essay does not appear, I will retain and republish the original for purposes of comparison.
On May 22, 2007 at 2:30 P.M. there were 639 intrusion attempts against my computer and 106 web sites were blocked. The day is young. Main attacker computer #24.192.174.68. (NJ Supreme Court?)
On May 24, 2007 I cannot print out items from my msn group. This is the sort of insult and crime that may help to illustrate my argument in this essay. I only get a blank piece of paper with the following address on it:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N2998.MSNAdDirectResponse/2304119.3;sz=728x90;ord=159625831?cli... (December 18, 2007 at 11:11 A.M. I am blocking this same site.)
June 9, 2009 over the past 24 hours or so, in addition to numerous calls from "anonymous," I have received these and many other calls: 6/9/09 at 11:54 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/9/09 at 11:04 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 4:32 P.M. 000-000-0000; 6/8/09 at 3:05 P.M. 800-285-4812; 6/8/09 at 11:49 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 11:07 A.M. 800-285-4812.
Allow me to make something clear to New Jersey mafiosi: If you are involved in hurting children or any young women, I will do my best to lock you up for a very long time. Won't it be a million laughs to discover that some of the people involved in hacking into my computer are involved in Internet porn? I think so. You know what is even funnier? A lot of those people are now on the agenda of their local FBI offices. Mazeltov.
I have reason to believe that the true number of visitors to my books' site is not recorded accurately. On May 27, 2007 at 6:07 A.M. there were 743 intrusion attempts against my computer, 130 web sites blocked and numerous illegal connections to my computer and spyware, which I will detail in a future post. The number of visitors to these blogs is also not recorded accurately -- not even "approximately." 25-50,000 hits at blogspot?
If you care about the First Amendment, then these crimes committed against me over a period of years, on a daily basis -- probably with the blessings of the authorities in at least one state -- should trouble you. Today, it is me who is censored, stolen from, raped, assaulted, destroyed professionally. Tomorrow or next week, it will be you or someone you love. This is not what the Framers envisioned for a free society. Do you want to chat about "ethics," Stuart Rabner? My opinions will change as a result of these tactics.
New Jersey's forensic psychiatrists make use of modern questioning techniques, hypnosis, secret drugging, anxiety, and far more unpleasant methods against persons who have often committed no crimes. These methods often make young women available for sexual assaults. Frustration and economic devastation, sexual humiliation -- all are said to be very popular with these "highly ethical" agents and information-gatherers of the Garden State. (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")
How does a Jew become "Mengele"? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Who do you think will be next? ("R.D. Laing and Evil.")
Access to my MSN account is blocked. Numerous obstacles make writing very difficult today. Hackers have affected the spacing of these notes and will insert "errors" repeatedly. I was obstructed while trying to work at my MSN group today. September 4, 2008 at 1:19 P.M. My security system has been attacked and is flashing a red warning. September 4, 2008 at 1:40 P.M., then August 31, 2007 at 7:31 P.M. I will continue to try to regain access to my msn account. I am blocking all of the following:
http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnnkcpc01800http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210
...
What follows is a slightly edited (for clarity) correspondence between myself and Lulu Press, which is very enlightening. There are many more e-mails exchanged on this issue. Mysteriously, I have received a response to my latest inquiry before posting this essay. I am now advised that this is all a computer "glitch." No one intended to remove or disable my download feature which will be restored immediately. I just checked this morning, the book is still not downloadable. Eventually, the book will be downloadable, for free.
The book should be sent to book sellers. I can not determine at this time what further damage has been done to these copyright protected books, whether they are still available as I wrote them, or whether they are available for free download on-line. I hope they are. All I have to do, they tell me, is change the title to my book -- requiring a new ISBN number (presumably) -- upload it again (with a new title page and separate copyright page, indicating that the book is published by Lulu, listing the ISBN number that will no longer apply!), which will result in the book being kicked back and not being distributed, yet again. Frustration?
Frustration tactics, combined with an all-out assault on self-esteem and disconfirmation of identity; feeding back to a person who reads as much as I do, that I am not well-read or intelligent; destroying social relationships for the victim and others (providing further disconfirmation of identity); adding stress from daily defacements and vandalism of written work; denigration of one's views, opinions, mind, more theft, when combined with additional threats and anxiety, like destruction of economic relations -- along with other harms, naturally -- can devastate a person very nicely. "It is a real job" not allowing such crimes to alter one's sunny disposition. Luckily, I continue to be the epitome of charm.
Ideally, efforts should then be made to instill and use guilt and other humiliations as weapons. I suggest a careful reading of the biography of Paul Robeson. Government experimentation with the use of social science as a "weapon" to control populations should worry you. Philosophy Cafe? See Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York: Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Alfred W. McCoy, CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), then "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and finally, "What is it like to be tortured?"
I can't wait to see you, Terry Tuchin? I am asked, in effect, to purchase a new ISBN number, or a new proof copy, or both; to add a new title page, or copyright page, or both; after changing the title, requiring a new ISBN number. Meanwhile, my first book has been distributed to Amazon, along with Barnes and Noble, without a separate copyright page and has received close to 6,000 hits so far. I suspect the number of visitors to my blogs and books is greater than I am told. Perhaps, 25,000 + readers/hits.
My ISBN number for this second book is ISBN #978-1-4303-2393-8, 9000; Lulu is already identified with its logo next to that number and there is a Lulu id number #567258, since Lulu is already the publisher of this book and has been for some time: Why are these new difficulties created? Who is responsible for this confusion? Or is it deliberate? Why is the book still not available for download? Has this ISBN number been registered? If so, on what date was it registered? A revised version of the text listing the ISBN number has been uploaded to the Lulu site. Nothing happens. Decent looking versions of these two books would sell thousands of copies.
I suspect that, if I were dealing with a Japanese firm, I would receive a somewhat higher level of customer care. I wonder whether Lulu employees are subject to "influence" (i.e., cash) from the Jersey Boys? Maybe they are the Jersey Boys? Hackers have altered the spacing of paragraphs in this post. I wonder why? Maybe they object to a single reference to Fidel Castro in my collection of essays which would constitute "content-based" censorship with "state contacts." This is an actionable offense and a crime.
Letter No. #1:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:13:00 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Approved:
Published By Lulu Distribution Service
Dear Juan,
I checked with accounting, and Lulu does not retain anythng [sic.] out of the ordinary from the sales of your books. We are not keeping your royalties. Wheyour [sic.] book sells retail copies, there is no royalty, so neither you nor Lulu make profit. However, if you look at the pricing section of your book(s), you'll see that there is a royalty if the book sells on Lulu.co, rather than in retail settings. This means that if someone were to purchase your book from Lulu.c you would receive a royalty. If you don't want one, [one what?] you may choose to donate your royalties to a cha; many Lulu authors do this. [sic.]
Alternately, you can make your books unavailable on Lulu by setting them as Private Access. This won't affect their availability witother retailers. [sic.] lease ensure that your pricing is set the way you want bef approving the book, because you will have to pay a revision fee to change the price later. [sic.]
We have not required you to change your older boo to reflect our IBN-on-the-copyright-page requirement because we did not find it necessary to force established Lulu authors to revise their books, so we grandfathered those books. [sic.] Since Lulu is working to estalish a whole new method of publishing, we have had to adjust as we go to meet the demands of the existing industry.
What I can confirm for you is that if your book meets all o Lulu's Mandator Requirements for distribution, found here:
http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements, there will be no other obstacles to distibution. [sic.]
Thank you very much.Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Regards,
KatyD (Lulu support) [Irony?]
Letter No. #2:
Dear KatyD, et al.:
What I can confirm for you is that when books are sold, money is paid to the publisher. When Lulu is the publisher, then Lulu receives the money. Whether that money is called a "royalty" or a "profit," or "cost," is irrelevant to the receipt of the money by Lulu, which will not happen for long if Lulu were losing money on these transactions. Hence, my guess is that Lulu makes good money, then pays taxes on what it classifies as "profit" (a small portion of the money actually received), and not on total sums received. Relax, I am not the IRS.
["Errors" were inserted in this text since yesterday by hackers.]
I have asked for and receive no royalty. My "charity" is Lulu. You have "changed your policies," you tell me. However, previously published books without the ISBN number are not affected and may be distributed to book sellers. If this is so, then the "requirement" in the industry is not such a "requirement" after all -- since books that do not meet that "requirement" are publishable in America and sold on line, today, still, every day. This includes numerous Lulu titles.
Hacking into my computer to alter this text will not change the idiocy of Lulu's response and stance.
At this time, you cannot confirm what are those new Lulu requirements that I must "meet" or what they will be, since my request for such a confirmation is denied. As a result, after I place my ISBN number on a new title page and purchase a new book, I may well find that "requirements" have changed (once again), so that I will be "required" to remove the thirteen digit number from my title page and purchase another proof copy -- but only to have the process repeated after that, da capo, forcing me to include the thirteen digit number on yet another title page. Such a process might become a tiny bit frustrating.
[More "errors" were inserted since yesterday in this message. I will do my best to continue making corrections.]
I will stay in touch.
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #3:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Published By Lulu Distribution Issue (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:35:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Dear Juan,
I was reviewing your title, "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006," for Published By Lulu, when I noticed there was no ISBN on your title's copyright page. The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution ( http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements ) states that all titles submitted to Published By Lulu must contain a copyright page displaying each title's correct, 13-digit ISBN.
I have set your title to Approve/Deny status, so you may edit your title without incurring a revision fee. (You will find your Approve/Deny status link, to create your new revision under the "Publish" tab under your title's listing.) Please take this opportunity to look over The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution and make all the changes necessary to make sure your title meets up [sic.] to Distribution standards. When you have done this, please upload your newly revised files to your project's account, then complete all the publishing steps.
Finally, purchase a proof copy [another one?] to make sure there are no adverse printing errors that have occurred as a result of the edits you have made to your files.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Letter No. #4:
The item below purports to come from the IRS:
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.30. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
A Note with irony detected by me:
Imagine that, the IRS sending me "regards"! Isn't it a crime for someone other than the IRS to claim to be the IRS? I am blocking:
http://atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90 (Senator Bob?)http://view.atmt.com/iview/msnkhac001160x600 (NJ Government?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn_Cusa/B2 (Cuban American National Foundation? CUSA? Commerce Department under Bush Administration Secretary Gutierrez?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnfmm.com (Doubleclick?)
My access to the site where my books are located is obstructed as of September 8, 2007 at 1:02 P.M. As a result, I cannot determine whether my books are still available, check my downloads, or make any alterations. The goal of these frustration efforts is to silence and censor Constitutionally protected speech and to induce further frustration.
Having already generated over a thousand dollars for Lulu's greedy owners, this policy of censoring and obstructing the distribution of my work -- together with inane and insane justification efforts -- is foolish for this on-line publisher.
This experience with "customer disservice" is indicative of some troubles in American commerce these days -- stupidity and short-sightedness, for example.
I am looking for other publishing "options."
Letter No. #5:
I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/msn/iview/msnnkhac00178x90 (Senator Bob and/or Staff?)
Dear Mr. or Ms. "Distribution Services":
I will not change my title. I will not pay for a revision or new ISBN number. I could not have listed that number on the title page before purchasing it or uploading the text, since I did not know what the number would be. Otherwise, I will try to see to it that the book meets with all specifications for distribution. I notice that you have now abandoned the request for a separate copyright page, new title, or new ISBN number.
Why do I already have a Lulu id # if this work is not published by Lulu? Lulu itself has listed the work as "published by Lulu." Incidentally, I did not list the thirteen digit number in my previous Lulu title before that book was distributed and this "non-listing" was not a problem. The book is available everywhere. Incidentally, I appreciate the "personal touch."
Can I speak to the manager?
"Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
P.S.: I published our exchanges in my blog. I hope you don't mind. Think of it as free advertising!
September 21, 2009 10:10 A.M. spacing in this essay was altered by hackers since my previous review of this work. Apparently, police departments in New Jersey towns operate as private armies for local bosses "targeting" enemies or persons they dislike to the indifference of the Attorney General and state police.
Letter No. #6:
From: "Distribution Services" orders@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:37:02 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service
Dear Juan,
Since Lulu is a self-publishing site, we do not alter your text block or make changes to your book for you. It is your responsibility to do so. In addition, I can assure you that Lulu's profit in this scenario comes from the 20% that we keep of your royalty. All other costs are base printing costs or retail markups, which Lulu does not keep.
You recieve [sic.] the remaining 80% of the royalty.
It is very clear in the Mandatory Distribution Requirements that the ISBN must be included on the copyright page of your book before it can be fed into distribution channels. This is an industry standard that is not required when you sell only on Lulu, but is required for outside retail sale. Please see the Mandatory Distribution Requirements here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements.
You may also look over the Published by Lulu License Agreement, the terms of which you accepted when you purchased the package, here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=pbl_agreement.
All that has to happen at this point is that you need to put your ISBN on your copyright page and upload this corrected version during a revision to your book. Gary has already reset your book to Approve/Deny status so that you can make these changes with no revision fee. Then, since you have made a change to the book, you will need to purchase a new proof copy to ensure that it still prints correctly. [emphasis added]
I know you don't want to do this, but had you met all Mandatory Requirements for Distribution [I did!] before ordering your original proof, this would not be necessary. I'm sure you understand. [I sure do.]
Hopefully, this clarifies the issue, and I sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding about what is required for distribution that may have occurred previously. [Huh? Who had the stop sign?]
Thank you.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Regards,
Katy DLulu Support
Letter No. #7:
Dear Gary/KatyD/Distribution Support:
Since I have donated 100% of my royalties/earnings/proceeds of sales to Lulu, your profits are not "20% of the amount that would normally be distributed to an author as royalty" but ALL of the proceeds from the sale of the book. I have asked for and receive no royalties of any kind whatsoever.
My previous book was distributed without my inclusion of the ISBN number on the title page, including distribution to Barnes & Noble and Amazon, even though the agreement I "signed" then is identical to the one signed now. My first book is STILL BEING DISTRIBUTED AND AVAILABLE THROUGH BARNES & NOBLE, WITHOUT THE ISBN NUMBER ON THE TITLE PAGE, as are other titles from Lulu. I should not be required to purchase a new copy from Lulu. These difficulties should not arise at this point.
I have uploaded a revised version of the book with the ISBN number, which may be invalid since the money I paid for that number has (apparently) been stolen by Lulu.
Is Lulu "connected" to New Jersey in any way? Why is this so difficult when so many other titles from Lulu are being distributed without the ISBN number on the title page? Don't you want to work with me to generate fees for Lulu?
Is there no one capable of making an honest effort to resolve this matter that will put money in your accounts?
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #8:
Dear Lulu/Price Support/KatyD/Gary:
I do not receive royalties. All sums earned from the sale of my books are retained by Lulu as per an exchange of e-mails. It doesn't matter what my "royalties" are "set at." Both my first book and quite a few Lulu books today are available through distributors without an ISBN number on the title page. Now you are telling me that, although this is true, Lulu has changed its requirements, so that I must add my ISBN number to my title page and purchase a new book, before I will have the book distributed.
[An "error" was inserted and corrected in the foregoing paragraph since my previous review. January 4, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. The thirteen digit ISBN number is already printed in the published copy by LULU, which I have in my possession.]
Will you please confirm that these new requirements are the only remaining obstacles to distributing the book?
I think I have my answer concerning New Jersey's politicians. Thank you for your invaluable assistance.
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #9:
From: distro@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:33:09 -0400
Thank you for approving "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006."
You have completed your portion of the Published By Lulu process. Your book information will be sent to Bowker's Books In Print and once approved by Bowker, Lulu will upload your title to our distribution network. Should there be any problems with your title in Books In Print, we will contact you. This process is generally completed within 2-3 weeks. You can expect to see your book listed on Amazon and other online retailers within the next 6 to 8 weeks.
Regards,
Lulu SupportMessenger Café — open for fun 24/7. Hot games, cool activities served daily. Visit now.See what you’re getting into…before you go there
Letter No. #10:
From: Juan Menendez
Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Sir/Madam:
This is the third time that I have approved this book, assuming it is the book that I wrote and of which I have obtained a copy [with ISBN number!]. My download of this text was first available for free; then only for a fee; and now, not at all.
Although my purchase of the ISBN number and approval of my book took place months ago, it is still not being distributed to booksellers online and there are concerns that it may be altered or tampered with before distribution.
My recent notes in response to several previous e-mails thanking me for approving the same book, with the single ISBN (I have a print copy in my possession, so that future copies should be identical to this one and not mysteriously "damaged"), are copied below.
Why are there so many problems about this? How can this be such a problem?
Please advise concerning what "boss" we need to speak to in order to resolve these difficulties.
Very truly yours and "Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #11:
To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK91-----.)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:07:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91------.
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Juan,
We have sent you emails regarding your book, on July 31, and again on August 8, telling you that we could not process your book because it is mandatory to add your ISBN number to your copyright page. Also, it is mandatory that the copyright page must be separate from the Title page.
[None of this was or is necessary or "mandatory" with my first book. Many Lulu books by other authors TODAY are not subject to this requirement and are distributed to on-line booksellers.]
Letter No. #12:
RE: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK----.)
Dear Anne Marie C:
I received a written message indicating that the book would be distributed and no new title page was required, [and] without my consent, the download feature was disabled, the book has been approved at least three times.
Isn't it possible to do a little better than this? Is there a supervisor (or "boss") we can speak to about this problem? Does Lulu have anything to do with New Jersey politicians?
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #13:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:11:30 -0400
Reference number: LTK91 --.
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Juan,
I apologize for any inconvenience. I see you have another ticket open where you are communicating with Gary regarding CID 56 ---. So, before we go any further, can you specify if this ticket is regarding the same CID?
[What "ticket"? Which "ticket"? Are we "going" somewhere? Clearly not. I refuse to go anywhere with my ticket "open."]
If this is about the same CID, then the issue, as I see it, is that your book does not meet the mandatory Distribution Requirements http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements
I understand you have already bought a proof copy, but you must meet the requirements. [Say what?]
Please edit your book to meet the requirements. All that includes is adding an ISBN to your copyright page and having a seperate [sic.] title page.
I would like to help you, but we will not do this editing for you. Since these changes are substantial enough, you will need to order another proof. However, I'd be happy to refund your proof copy order once you place it.
I'm not sure I understand the issue about your downloads, but please let me know whether you would like it enabled(price?) or disabled and I'll make sure it stays that way.
[What is "it"?]
If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.Regards,Mo TLulu Supporthttp://www.lulu.com/helphttp://www.lulu.com/serviceshttp://www.lulu.com/forums---------------Original Message---------------
Letter No. #14:
Dear "Anne-Marie C" and/or a.k.a. "Gary":
I need something else. August 30, 2007 I visited the Lulu site to enable the download feature of my second book. This morning, August 31st, the book "Why I am not an Ethical Relativist 2000-2006" is still not available for free download nor is it available for download at a fee.
["Errors" have been inserted in this text since my last review of it. No doubt more will be added in the future.]
I have tried to make it clear to Lulu that ALL fees are to be kept by the publisher. It is in your interest to be helpful (not the opposite) in this matter. No explanation was offered by Lulu for why the download was disabled, without my consent, in the first place, or at whose order this was done. This has nothing to do with an ISBN number on the title page.
After my receipt of your first note, I received another note from Lulu informing me, yet again, that my book was in fact being sent to Bowker's for distribution to book sellers. Hence, the contents of your note suggesting that I am required to repost the entire manuscript of my book in order to change the one line on the title [or a new copyright] page to say "Published by Lulu" -- something I was told I could not do when I initially uploaded the text -- and then to purchase a new copy, or new ISBN number, seems very bizarre and irrational to me. My printed copy of the book already indicates that the work is "published by Lulu."
There must be some other way to deal with this situation. This is especially true since lulu prints this information that you are now asking me to supply on its published copy of my book -- as I say ad infinitum -- something which Lulu has already done, since I happen to have a published copy of my book in my possession with the published by Lulu ISBN.
You have represented to me that you will be responsible for ensuring that the download of my book is available. I will hold you to that promise. I will also publish the exchange of letters between us for the benefit of any persons considering Lulu, as a P.O.D. publisher. If this is the experience of someone putting a thousand dollars and more, so far, in your coffers (whether this sum is called a "profit" has to do with avoiding taxes, probably), I shudder to think of what others have experienced.
I am somewhat less than blissfully happy with my "Lulu Adventure." I look forward to your response. Curiously, e-mails I have received -- allegedly from the IRS -- tend to have the same closing as your "notes." I wonder whether the IRS signs off on letters with the word: "Regards"? Despite the cruel humor of IRS agents, I think this is unlikely.
Strangely, the same patterns appear in my correspondence with "Publish America" as in my letters to and from "Lulu." Incidentally, I already have a separate title page and an ISBN number. But what the hell?
Have a lovely day and don't take any wooden nickels.
"Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner is a so-called "champion of free speech rights." Does that include my rights to free speech, Mr. Rabner? How do you feel about freedom of speech, Ms. Quinn? City Council Speaker? Will any light be shed on this mystery?
September 14, 2008 at 5:19 P.M. I was obstructed and denied access to my MSN group, as I struggled to post a revised version of an essay that was vandalized overnight -- an essay dealing will illegal medical experimentation in America and New Jersey. I will run scans for the rest of the day, struggling to overcome censorship efforts to write at Critique.
September 13, 2008 at 11:18 A.M. I have been unable to reach my MSN group, again, due to obstructions and illegal blocking of my cable signal this morning. I will keep trying throughout the day to write somehow and somewhere.
September 12, 2008 at 3:35 P.M. I was just obstructed, again, as I tried to reach my MSN group. I will try throughout the day to return to my hotmail account and group. This sort of obstruction usually means that "errors" are being inserted in my essays. I will do my best to make corrections as quickly as possible. (See "What is it like to be tortured?")
September 11, 2008 at 1:44 P.M. I was just obstructed as I was writing at my MSN group. I will struggle to get back to that site. I am still unable to post images at blogger. I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01 (NJ, Senator Bob?)
September 10, 2008 at 9:28 A.M. access to my MSN group was blocked, an essay was duplicated. I was prevented from making corrections. Harassment value is the goal, I guess. I will spend the rest of the day seeking to regain access to Critique. I will try to continue writing under these circumstances.
September 9, 2008 at 1:33 P.M. My cable signal was illegally blocked moments ago, denying me access to MSN. I will struggle to return to my sites and continue working on essays today. This usually means that more writings have been defaced or vandalized. I will do my best to repair the harm done, eventually.
September 8, 2008 at 9:05 A.M. I was just blocked from accessing my MSN group, which is not an unusual censorship and harassment tactic. I will spend the rest of today trying to get back to my group to repair the harm done to essays at that site. I will do my best to continue writing, somehow, although much good work may be lost because I may be unable to do it under these circumstances. (See "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
September 5, 2008 at 2:52 P.M. After numerous attempts to post this text at my MSN group, I will struggle to post it here. Hackers prevent me from posting this work at Critique. New Jersey's $36 BILLION dollar "short-fall" resulting (partly) from theft due to corruption necessitates a sharp increase in toll costs on the Turnpike and Parkway. I cannot print an article discussing these developments, but I can refer the reader to that article. Spacing has been affected by hackers. No images can be posted at these blogs due to obstructions. Won't they steal the toll money?
http://wwww.msnbc.com/id/26550468/ 9-5-08. (Tolls and fees to rise in New Jersey.)
I sent a manuscript to a small publisher I found on-line. I have decided to post a copy of my cover letter. I expect "anonymous" messages to this publisher about what a terrible person I am, which is bound to indicate that the book is likely to sell many copies. This essay has also been altered and defaced. Anyone wishing to express an inclination to purchase thousands of copies of this immortal work should feel free to do so. A novel is next. I will find some way to put this essay collection out there, somehow. Calling me a terrible person only means that I am like every other author. Nice people may have little to write about.
It is very weird to discover that the publisher I found on-line two days ago, apparently, no longer exists. My submission was just returned to me. This is very discouraging and frustrating, of course, but there are other publishers and on-demand printers out there. I will keep searching and trying to put the words "out there." My daily war against cyberstalkers and censorship has made me pretty determined and indestructible in my efforts to communicate my anger and outrage at these injustices.
Does anyone know what happened to "Mr. Rodney Ohebsion" at http://www.immidiex.com/ or http://www.immidiex.com/ ? What is http://www.doubleclick.com/? Why is Norton Security blocking them all the time? I also never received an explanation from "Mr./Ms. Prather" at Publish America. Is there such a person? I wonder why the book was rejected? Probably just not right for them, I guess. "Alina Falcone?" "Howard Masia, Esq.?"
I have just sent an e-mail to "T.Ratliff" asking for an explanation. I am looking forward to his/her response. I finally managed to upload my manuscript to Lulu, despite all kinds of obstacles. Several attempts to purchase an ISBN and a copy of the book have been unsuccessful because of problems of one sort or another. I have received an e-mail from "Pay-Pal" asking for personal information to "verify" my account. I do not have an "e-bay" account. I do not have a "Pay-Pal" account. Why would they want my personal information? Do you think that New Jersey lawyers and politicians can be behind these tactics? Besides, the thefts and rapes and other crimes that one has come to expect from many members of the N.J. bar.
Letters have been removed from my manuscripts at Lulu during my "revisions phase" in order (I believe) to frustrate posting efforts. I can not know whether the books have survived as I wrote them or are still available. I cannot know whether my ISBN number for my second book is valid. They kept the money for it.
I have resubmitted my manuscript by e-mail to http://publishamerica.com/ Let's see what happens. Nothing so far. I am simply ignored. Weird, they were so enthusiastic and suddenly -- for no discernible reason -- they rejected the book. Now, no response. My e-mails seem to take so long to arrive at their destination. I wonder why that is? Is Publish America affiliated with one of the major parties? Maybe they "know people" in New Jersey? Have they been "reached," as they say in Trenton? Why are my Internet transactions obstructed? Perhaps I will receive another threatening letter from Trenton. (See "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!")
Efforts to renew my security service are a war every year. Ethics, Mr. Rabner?
Dear Mr. Internet Publisher:
Attached is my manuscript for Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006. This collection divides neatly into metaphysical, political, ethical and religious concerns. Some of the essays have been published previously. This is indicated in footnotes when appropriate.
I have published one previous book Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Freedom (Lulu: 2004). This work is available on-line, where it has received close to 10,000 hits to date. This is an estimate. It is also selling reasonably well, as best I can determine, considering that it is available for free. As with my previous book -- though I wish to retain the copyright -- I will donate all proceeds from sales of this collection to the publisher to promote Internet publishing opportunities for ordinary people. I will advertise the book myself and seek to obtain reviews. I may even sell copies of it on Manhattan's subway trains. One author sold 15,000 books that way. I will create links to the book and publisher's sites at my blogs. Give me a decent-looking book and I will make it worth your while.
I am a writer living in New York. My profile is available on-line. Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome, even if you choose not to publish the book -- whether for safety reasons or any other concerns -- I will be grateful for your critique.
Thank you for your time and attention to my work.
Maybe I should say that I went to Smith College and attended a "Bread Loaf Conference" in the mid-west? Nah, I don't think so.
This experience of not being published is significant. This is true whoever represented him- or herself as "Publish America" in those mysterious e-mails sent to me soliciting the manuscript. Senator Bob? We'll find out. I am describing this episode in detail because it is reflective of something ugly that I am trying to capture for those who have not experienced it. A lifetime of insults and condescension, trivializing dismissiveness and "instruction" directed at me, usually by middle-brow types (or worse) in positions of authority in academia and the legal system. Too much of American culture is the blind leading the sighted, provided that the blind reside in suburbia and are "nice." Race and ethnicity may not be entirely irrelevant to such experiences. (See "What a man's gotta do" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
People who have read a fraction of what I've absorbed will recommend books on feminism, politics, history and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy (I want that one!) without realizing how much I have read or how intensely and for how long I have been studying these issues. Patronizing, insulting condescension becomes almost a daily feature of life -- for some of us, not all of us. Why me? I am so nice to children and dogs. The challenge is to cope with fury at insulting dismissals of one's thoughts by persons incapable of understanding them and the contradictions of a corrupt, racist, ethically tainted legal system. Millions live with this level of rage and hatred produced by such treatment, rarely as much criminality or hypocrisy as I have experienced. I hope and expect that any lawyers (or teachers) who have participated in this effort at psychological torture will lose their professional licenses in whatever state they dwell. "Ethics?"
We have not been well-served by energetic and self-important mediocrities in high places -- law, literature and philosophy in America have also not been well-served by such people. They are the gate-keepers of culture and political power. The culture police. They seek out non-threatening, dull-witted minority types, persons who will strive only for their own self-enrichment and further personal power, if elected to office or given an "opportunity" to lead. You know who those people are. Minority officials who do not play that game, simply get passed over.
I wonder why Donald M. Payne was not appointed to the Senate by New Jersey's Governor Corzine? Racism, ethnic and religious rivalry will be detectable in these decisions or so-called "evaluations." Persons who will be deemed to write well will really churn out the tepid, lifeless prose that is reflective of tepid and lifeless "situations." Anger, even rage, fury, the experience of evil, struggle, violence and hunger will make rare appearances -- except in fraudulent forms -- in the safe and sanitized writing of our times. (See "Senator Obama and 'The New Yorker'" and "Skinny People Dressed in Black.")
Why is Amiri Baraka not sufficiently appreciated? Real literature and philosophy may well take place "elsewhere." No longer in American mainstream literature -- with all exceptions granted -- will we find that music produced only by Apollo's Lyre. These intellectual provinces where writing still happens will be a locus of struggle and pain, of love, redemption and hope. It is there, in that struggle, where you will find broken lives, true, but still human lives. Not on Park Avenue, but in Brooklyn or Alphabet City, in the West Village or Inwood, even in Texas or Indiana there is somebody working on the "Great American Novel." Philip Roth has already written "The Great American Novel," several times.
The message delivered by a culture that has mastered the art of indirection is that you do not matter. What you say is unimportant. What we have done to you -- however terrible it may be -- is therefore insignificant. Reading ten times more books and writing better prose will guarantee you nothing in the competition for cultural recognition. It will not matter if you have something to say, that you say it well, or that we need to hear it. The rewards will go to what is safe, familiar, dull and to those who embody those qualities. The consequences of this can be seen all around us. We get both the culture and society that we deserve. Scary. Worse, excellence and originality become categories of guilt that, somehow, justify criminal censorship and suppression of creative work. This may explain the journalism of Rafael Pi Roman.
I will continue to write. I will also record my adventures in publishing in this space. I fully expect more hackers and alterations of this text as the only response to what I say.
What a pleasant surprise to receive an invitation to submit a short story:
GinoskoEditor@AOL.com
Monday, June 18, 2007; 2:01 P.M.
Sent to me at: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Heading: SUBMISSIONS.
Juan-
Accepting short fiction & poetry for the 5th issue of the literary journal ginosko.
Editorial lead time 1-3 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints; receives email & postal submissions. Length flexible. Copyright reverts to author.
Publishing as semiannual ezine--summer & winter. Moving towards printed version to be distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Selecting material for anthology.
Downloadable issues on website: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/ezine circulation 2200+.
Also looking for artwork, photography, CDs to post on website and links to exchange.
Ginosko (ghin-oce-koe)
To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth by experience.
GINOSKO LITERARY JOURNAL Robert Paul Cesaretti, PO Box 246, Fairfax, CA 94978
Isn't it nice that this e-mail -- from what purports to be a literary journal asking for a short story from me -- was addressed to me on a first name basis. The return address listed, once again:
Ginosko@AOL.com;
date: Monday, June 18, 2007 at 2:01 P.M.;
recipient: Gilligan2_@hotmail.com;
heading: SUBMISSIONS.
How curious that there is no such journal? Why send me a request for a short story from a non-existent literary journal?
In a letter dated September 27, 2005 bearing the signature of "Bonnie Williamson," identified as "Assistant Acquisitions Editor," the following was communicated to me: "I would like to invite you to send your complete manuscript to us." I still have this letter. This was after I identified the text as a collection of previously published essays. The following information was provided for "Publish America," the alleged "publisher":
Publish America, LLLP.
http://www.publishamerica.com/
Incorporated in Fredrick Maryland
Member of the Association of American Publishers
Baltimore
USA: P.O. BOX 151
Frederick, MD 21705-0151
Phone 301-695-1707
Fax: 301-631-9073
Is Publish America really Bob Menendez? Is engaging in Internet fraud something a U.S. Senator should do? I doubt it.
On December 1, 2006, after submitting my manuscript, I received this e-mail:
From :PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent :Friday, December 1, 2006 3:31 PM
To :gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject :Your submission has been rejected
Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:
Thank you for your submission of "Why I Am Not an Ethical Relativist: Collected Essays 2000-2006" to PublishAmerica. I have reviewed it today, December 1, 2006. This work does not currently fit our requirements. We cannot consider previously published works, including works published on the Internet. Please do not take this [as] a setback to [for?] all your hard work as a writer.
We wish you the best of luck.
Sincerely,
Acquisitions Department PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
After several months, I have been told that Publish America does not want my book because several of my essays have been published or "linked" previously in scholarly journals, like The Laing Studies Journal, Philosophy and/or Applied Ethics, New York Press, Massdensity. Thus, the fact that essays were considered publishable by scholarly journals and periodicals was deemed detrimental, preventing publication of my work in book form. These persons are going to "instruct" me on the issues and writing. O.K., fair enough.
Why did Publish America invite my submission of this manuscript KNOWING that it was collection of previously published essays in order to reject the essays because they were previously published?
I will struggle to put this essay collection out there, somehow, and I will save enough money to purchase an ISBN number. I can't do this work until after Christmas. This allows me to make additional corrections to errors that have "surfaced" suddenly in the text. Gifts for my loved-ones (including someone I may not see again) come first, especially her gift. I will continue to make corrections -- sometimes the same corrections, as I say, dozens of times -- after hackers alter these texts, while ignoring insulting e-mails, numerous anonymous phone calls at all hours, together with other harassments. (Please see "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Ethics, Stuart? Is this what they call "disconfirmation of identity and feeding back a negative self-image to the victim"?
How does one respond to a deliberate illegal attempt at dehumanization and denigration from persons who comment on one's ethics? These people are New Jersey lawyers, judges, politicians who disapprove of my ethics. You decide who is "unethical." Who has the money stolen from my office? How about my watch? Stuart? ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
Politics has a lot to do with these determinations, I am sure, and (naturally) the political-organized crime group in New Jersey does not like me for some reason. I don't know why. No doubt they are influential with the "politically-affiliated" media. I am afraid they will like me even less in the future. Henry Miller was unpublished for twenty years. Now his books do very well. True, he's dead. But I am sure that Miller's happy to know -- wherever he is -- that while his sins were scarlet, his books are read. ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!" and "The Heidegger Controversy.")
Dozens of memoirs from people who got laid last summer (or so they claim) in the Hamptons are in the publishing pipeline. I can't wait to read them. I'm rewriting and revising the book, before assigning an ISBN number to it. I'll keep writing. (See "The Long Goodbye.")
My second submission to "Publish America" was rejected. I wonder why?
From :M.N. Prather
Sent : Wednesday, August 23, 2006 1:45 PM
To : Gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject : Query Letter Followup
Dear Juan Galis-Menendez:
Thank you for your query concerning "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays," on 9/27/2005 BW. We requested [Why?] your submissions package on the same day, but have not yet received it.
If I can be of any further assistance, please contact me.
I look forward to receiving and considering "Why I am not an ethical relativist and other essays soon."
Best regards,
M.N. Prather Executive Director PublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
Numerous "theoretical" expressions of interest from persons seemingly already familiar with my writings, suddenly resulted in fear and rejection.
The following web sites are being blocked as I write these words:
http://adfram.mediaplex.com/ad/js/198-43498-20 (NJ, JS? "Superior Court Judge"?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/N2992.MSN.com_/... (NJ, Doubleclick?)
My most frequent attacker, as of my last scan, is computer #82.165.24351. NJ Government? Judiciary? How strange.
Words of Wisdom from a publisher:
From : PublishAmerica Acquisitions
Sent : Wednesday, November 22, 2006 2:28 PM
To : "Juan Menendez"
Subject : Juan Menendez: Status
Dear Mr. Galis-Menendez,
I apologize for the wait. Due to the large number of submissions we receive [punctuation?] we have not yet had a chance to review your book. We review manuscripts in the order they are received and we should be getting to yours shorty. [Is that last word an insult?]
Thank you for your patience in this matter. Let me know if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Tim Ratliff [What an interesting name.]
Acquisitions DepartmentPublishAmerica http://www.publishamerica.com/
Is it possible that persons paid by taxpayers have spent their time (and your money!) illegally harassing and committing crimes against me -- like stealing from me -- because my opinions are not popular among the Mafiosi in New Jersey government or because they don't like me? We will find out. 1988-2010. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks," then "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System."
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, federal criminal law, copyright law, interstate laws designed to prohibit spreading of illegality -- all have been violated, for years, by my cybertormentors/cybercriminals and the Jersey Boys, with impunity. I wonder what they're all so worried about? Why do my writings alarm you? These are the people who judge my ethics and character. I consider most of them worthless scumbacks, some from Ridgewood, New Jersey. ("More Trouble for Ridgewood, New Jersey.")
Do you speak to me of ethics, Stuart Rabner? Anne Milgram? No more threatening letters from Trenton today? See again: "A Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" and "Another Letter From the DRB, in New Jersey!" Is silence from the A.G. complicity in this criminality? Where is America's "independent" media? No wonder people around the world laugh when we speak of a free press.
My essay entitled "Is this atheism's moment?" has been submitted to Quodlibet, an Internet journal of theology and philosophy, allegedly, but it was returned to me unopened for some reason. "David Foutz" is identified as the editor of this journal. How curious? Perhaps I will try again. http://www.quodlibet.net/misc/howto.shtml and http://www.quodlibet.net/ ("Carol Mateo? Larissa MacFarquahr? Patricia Cohen? Ginger Thompson? Manohla Dargis? Caitlin Flanagan? Are these names all used by the same person or persons?")
I resubmitted the essay. I have received no response. To ensure that a distorted version of this essay does not appear, I will retain and republish the original for purposes of comparison.
On May 22, 2007 at 2:30 P.M. there were 639 intrusion attempts against my computer and 106 web sites were blocked. The day is young. Main attacker computer #24.192.174.68. (NJ Supreme Court?)
On May 24, 2007 I cannot print out items from my msn group. This is the sort of insult and crime that may help to illustrate my argument in this essay. I only get a blank piece of paper with the following address on it:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N2998.MSNAdDirectResponse/2304119.3;sz=728x90;ord=159625831?cli... (December 18, 2007 at 11:11 A.M. I am blocking this same site.)
June 9, 2009 over the past 24 hours or so, in addition to numerous calls from "anonymous," I have received these and many other calls: 6/9/09 at 11:54 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/9/09 at 11:04 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 4:32 P.M. 000-000-0000; 6/8/09 at 3:05 P.M. 800-285-4812; 6/8/09 at 11:49 A.M. 866-849-3243; 6/8/09 at 11:07 A.M. 800-285-4812.
Allow me to make something clear to New Jersey mafiosi: If you are involved in hurting children or any young women, I will do my best to lock you up for a very long time. Won't it be a million laughs to discover that some of the people involved in hacking into my computer are involved in Internet porn? I think so. You know what is even funnier? A lot of those people are now on the agenda of their local FBI offices. Mazeltov.
I have reason to believe that the true number of visitors to my books' site is not recorded accurately. On May 27, 2007 at 6:07 A.M. there were 743 intrusion attempts against my computer, 130 web sites blocked and numerous illegal connections to my computer and spyware, which I will detail in a future post. The number of visitors to these blogs is also not recorded accurately -- not even "approximately." 25-50,000 hits at blogspot?
If you care about the First Amendment, then these crimes committed against me over a period of years, on a daily basis -- probably with the blessings of the authorities in at least one state -- should trouble you. Today, it is me who is censored, stolen from, raped, assaulted, destroyed professionally. Tomorrow or next week, it will be you or someone you love. This is not what the Framers envisioned for a free society. Do you want to chat about "ethics," Stuart Rabner? My opinions will change as a result of these tactics.
New Jersey's forensic psychiatrists make use of modern questioning techniques, hypnosis, secret drugging, anxiety, and far more unpleasant methods against persons who have often committed no crimes. These methods often make young women available for sexual assaults. Frustration and economic devastation, sexual humiliation -- all are said to be very popular with these "highly ethical" agents and information-gatherers of the Garden State. (See "An Open Letter to My Torturers, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")
How does a Jew become "Mengele"? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?") Who do you think will be next? ("R.D. Laing and Evil.")
Access to my MSN account is blocked. Numerous obstacles make writing very difficult today. Hackers have affected the spacing of these notes and will insert "errors" repeatedly. I was obstructed while trying to work at my MSN group today. September 4, 2008 at 1:19 P.M. My security system has been attacked and is flashing a red warning. September 4, 2008 at 1:40 P.M., then August 31, 2007 at 7:31 P.M. I will continue to try to regain access to my msn account. I am blocking all of the following:
http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnnkcpc01800http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N361.msn/B21210
...
What follows is a slightly edited (for clarity) correspondence between myself and Lulu Press, which is very enlightening. There are many more e-mails exchanged on this issue. Mysteriously, I have received a response to my latest inquiry before posting this essay. I am now advised that this is all a computer "glitch." No one intended to remove or disable my download feature which will be restored immediately. I just checked this morning, the book is still not downloadable. Eventually, the book will be downloadable, for free.
The book should be sent to book sellers. I can not determine at this time what further damage has been done to these copyright protected books, whether they are still available as I wrote them, or whether they are available for free download on-line. I hope they are. All I have to do, they tell me, is change the title to my book -- requiring a new ISBN number (presumably) -- upload it again (with a new title page and separate copyright page, indicating that the book is published by Lulu, listing the ISBN number that will no longer apply!), which will result in the book being kicked back and not being distributed, yet again. Frustration?
Frustration tactics, combined with an all-out assault on self-esteem and disconfirmation of identity; feeding back to a person who reads as much as I do, that I am not well-read or intelligent; destroying social relationships for the victim and others (providing further disconfirmation of identity); adding stress from daily defacements and vandalism of written work; denigration of one's views, opinions, mind, more theft, when combined with additional threats and anxiety, like destruction of economic relations -- along with other harms, naturally -- can devastate a person very nicely. "It is a real job" not allowing such crimes to alter one's sunny disposition. Luckily, I continue to be the epitome of charm.
Ideally, efforts should then be made to instill and use guilt and other humiliations as weapons. I suggest a careful reading of the biography of Paul Robeson. Government experimentation with the use of social science as a "weapon" to control populations should worry you. Philosophy Cafe? See Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York: Straus & Giroux, 2005) and Alfred W. McCoy, CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), then "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and finally, "What is it like to be tortured?"
I can't wait to see you, Terry Tuchin? I am asked, in effect, to purchase a new ISBN number, or a new proof copy, or both; to add a new title page, or copyright page, or both; after changing the title, requiring a new ISBN number. Meanwhile, my first book has been distributed to Amazon, along with Barnes and Noble, without a separate copyright page and has received close to 6,000 hits so far. I suspect the number of visitors to my blogs and books is greater than I am told. Perhaps, 25,000 + readers/hits.
My ISBN number for this second book is ISBN #978-1-4303-2393-8, 9000; Lulu is already identified with its logo next to that number and there is a Lulu id number #567258, since Lulu is already the publisher of this book and has been for some time: Why are these new difficulties created? Who is responsible for this confusion? Or is it deliberate? Why is the book still not available for download? Has this ISBN number been registered? If so, on what date was it registered? A revised version of the text listing the ISBN number has been uploaded to the Lulu site. Nothing happens. Decent looking versions of these two books would sell thousands of copies.
I suspect that, if I were dealing with a Japanese firm, I would receive a somewhat higher level of customer care. I wonder whether Lulu employees are subject to "influence" (i.e., cash) from the Jersey Boys? Maybe they are the Jersey Boys? Hackers have altered the spacing of paragraphs in this post. I wonder why? Maybe they object to a single reference to Fidel Castro in my collection of essays which would constitute "content-based" censorship with "state contacts." This is an actionable offense and a crime.
Letter No. #1:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:13:00 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Approved:
Published By Lulu Distribution Service
Dear Juan,
I checked with accounting, and Lulu does not retain anythng [sic.] out of the ordinary from the sales of your books. We are not keeping your royalties. Wheyour [sic.] book sells retail copies, there is no royalty, so neither you nor Lulu make profit. However, if you look at the pricing section of your book(s), you'll see that there is a royalty if the book sells on Lulu.co, rather than in retail settings. This means that if someone were to purchase your book from Lulu.c you would receive a royalty. If you don't want one, [one what?] you may choose to donate your royalties to a cha; many Lulu authors do this. [sic.]
Alternately, you can make your books unavailable on Lulu by setting them as Private Access. This won't affect their availability witother retailers. [sic.] lease ensure that your pricing is set the way you want bef approving the book, because you will have to pay a revision fee to change the price later. [sic.]
We have not required you to change your older boo to reflect our IBN-on-the-copyright-page requirement because we did not find it necessary to force established Lulu authors to revise their books, so we grandfathered those books. [sic.] Since Lulu is working to estalish a whole new method of publishing, we have had to adjust as we go to meet the demands of the existing industry.
What I can confirm for you is that if your book meets all o Lulu's Mandator Requirements for distribution, found here:
http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements, there will be no other obstacles to distibution. [sic.]
Thank you very much.Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Regards,
KatyD (Lulu support) [Irony?]
Letter No. #2:
Dear KatyD, et al.:
What I can confirm for you is that when books are sold, money is paid to the publisher. When Lulu is the publisher, then Lulu receives the money. Whether that money is called a "royalty" or a "profit," or "cost," is irrelevant to the receipt of the money by Lulu, which will not happen for long if Lulu were losing money on these transactions. Hence, my guess is that Lulu makes good money, then pays taxes on what it classifies as "profit" (a small portion of the money actually received), and not on total sums received. Relax, I am not the IRS.
["Errors" were inserted in this text since yesterday by hackers.]
I have asked for and receive no royalty. My "charity" is Lulu. You have "changed your policies," you tell me. However, previously published books without the ISBN number are not affected and may be distributed to book sellers. If this is so, then the "requirement" in the industry is not such a "requirement" after all -- since books that do not meet that "requirement" are publishable in America and sold on line, today, still, every day. This includes numerous Lulu titles.
Hacking into my computer to alter this text will not change the idiocy of Lulu's response and stance.
At this time, you cannot confirm what are those new Lulu requirements that I must "meet" or what they will be, since my request for such a confirmation is denied. As a result, after I place my ISBN number on a new title page and purchase a new book, I may well find that "requirements" have changed (once again), so that I will be "required" to remove the thirteen digit number from my title page and purchase another proof copy -- but only to have the process repeated after that, da capo, forcing me to include the thirteen digit number on yet another title page. Such a process might become a tiny bit frustrating.
[More "errors" were inserted since yesterday in this message. I will do my best to continue making corrections.]
I will stay in touch.
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #3:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Published By Lulu Distribution Issue (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 13:35:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Dear Juan,
I was reviewing your title, "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006," for Published By Lulu, when I noticed there was no ISBN on your title's copyright page. The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution ( http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements ) states that all titles submitted to Published By Lulu must contain a copyright page displaying each title's correct, 13-digit ISBN.
I have set your title to Approve/Deny status, so you may edit your title without incurring a revision fee. (You will find your Approve/Deny status link, to create your new revision under the "Publish" tab under your title's listing.) Please take this opportunity to look over The Mandatory Requirements for Distribution and make all the changes necessary to make sure your title meets up [sic.] to Distribution standards. When you have done this, please upload your newly revised files to your project's account, then complete all the publishing steps.
Finally, purchase a proof copy [another one?] to make sure there are no adverse printing errors that have occurred as a result of the edits you have made to your files.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Letter No. #4:
The item below purports to come from the IRS:
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.30. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 days in order to process it.
A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons. For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.
To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
A Note with irony detected by me:
Imagine that, the IRS sending me "regards"! Isn't it a crime for someone other than the IRS to claim to be the IRS? I am blocking:
http://atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90 (Senator Bob?)http://view.atmt.com/iview/msnkhac001160x600 (NJ Government?)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3285.msn_Cusa/B2 (Cuban American National Foundation? CUSA? Commerce Department under Bush Administration Secretary Gutierrez?)
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3016.msnfmm.com (Doubleclick?)
My access to the site where my books are located is obstructed as of September 8, 2007 at 1:02 P.M. As a result, I cannot determine whether my books are still available, check my downloads, or make any alterations. The goal of these frustration efforts is to silence and censor Constitutionally protected speech and to induce further frustration.
Having already generated over a thousand dollars for Lulu's greedy owners, this policy of censoring and obstructing the distribution of my work -- together with inane and insane justification efforts -- is foolish for this on-line publisher.
This experience with "customer disservice" is indicative of some troubles in American commerce these days -- stupidity and short-sightedness, for example.
I am looking for other publishing "options."
Letter No. #5:
I am blocking:
http://view.atdmt.com/msn/iview/msnnkhac00178x90 (Senator Bob and/or Staff?)
Dear Mr. or Ms. "Distribution Services":
I will not change my title. I will not pay for a revision or new ISBN number. I could not have listed that number on the title page before purchasing it or uploading the text, since I did not know what the number would be. Otherwise, I will try to see to it that the book meets with all specifications for distribution. I notice that you have now abandoned the request for a separate copyright page, new title, or new ISBN number.
Why do I already have a Lulu id # if this work is not published by Lulu? Lulu itself has listed the work as "published by Lulu." Incidentally, I did not list the thirteen digit number in my previous Lulu title before that book was distributed and this "non-listing" was not a problem. The book is available everywhere. Incidentally, I appreciate the "personal touch."
Can I speak to the manager?
"Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
P.S.: I published our exchanges in my blog. I hope you don't mind. Think of it as free advertising!
September 21, 2009 10:10 A.M. spacing in this essay was altered by hackers since my previous review of this work. Apparently, police departments in New Jersey towns operate as private armies for local bosses "targeting" enemies or persons they dislike to the indifference of the Attorney General and state police.
Letter No. #6:
From: "Distribution Services" orders@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
RE: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service (LTK91018985193X)
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 13:37:02 -0400Reference number: LTK91018985193X
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Approved: Published By Lulu Distribution Service
Dear Juan,
Since Lulu is a self-publishing site, we do not alter your text block or make changes to your book for you. It is your responsibility to do so. In addition, I can assure you that Lulu's profit in this scenario comes from the 20% that we keep of your royalty. All other costs are base printing costs or retail markups, which Lulu does not keep.
You recieve [sic.] the remaining 80% of the royalty.
It is very clear in the Mandatory Distribution Requirements that the ISBN must be included on the copyright page of your book before it can be fed into distribution channels. This is an industry standard that is not required when you sell only on Lulu, but is required for outside retail sale. Please see the Mandatory Distribution Requirements here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements.
You may also look over the Published by Lulu License Agreement, the terms of which you accepted when you purchased the package, here: http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=pbl_agreement.
All that has to happen at this point is that you need to put your ISBN on your copyright page and upload this corrected version during a revision to your book. Gary has already reset your book to Approve/Deny status so that you can make these changes with no revision fee. Then, since you have made a change to the book, you will need to purchase a new proof copy to ensure that it still prints correctly. [emphasis added]
I know you don't want to do this, but had you met all Mandatory Requirements for Distribution [I did!] before ordering your original proof, this would not be necessary. I'm sure you understand. [I sure do.]
Hopefully, this clarifies the issue, and I sincerely apologize for any misunderstanding about what is required for distribution that may have occurred previously. [Huh? Who had the stop sign?]
Thank you.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.
Regards,
Katy DLulu Support
Letter No. #7:
Dear Gary/KatyD/Distribution Support:
Since I have donated 100% of my royalties/earnings/proceeds of sales to Lulu, your profits are not "20% of the amount that would normally be distributed to an author as royalty" but ALL of the proceeds from the sale of the book. I have asked for and receive no royalties of any kind whatsoever.
My previous book was distributed without my inclusion of the ISBN number on the title page, including distribution to Barnes & Noble and Amazon, even though the agreement I "signed" then is identical to the one signed now. My first book is STILL BEING DISTRIBUTED AND AVAILABLE THROUGH BARNES & NOBLE, WITHOUT THE ISBN NUMBER ON THE TITLE PAGE, as are other titles from Lulu. I should not be required to purchase a new copy from Lulu. These difficulties should not arise at this point.
I have uploaded a revised version of the book with the ISBN number, which may be invalid since the money I paid for that number has (apparently) been stolen by Lulu.
Is Lulu "connected" to New Jersey in any way? Why is this so difficult when so many other titles from Lulu are being distributed without the ISBN number on the title page? Don't you want to work with me to generate fees for Lulu?
Is there no one capable of making an honest effort to resolve this matter that will put money in your accounts?
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #8:
Dear Lulu/Price Support/KatyD/Gary:
I do not receive royalties. All sums earned from the sale of my books are retained by Lulu as per an exchange of e-mails. It doesn't matter what my "royalties" are "set at." Both my first book and quite a few Lulu books today are available through distributors without an ISBN number on the title page. Now you are telling me that, although this is true, Lulu has changed its requirements, so that I must add my ISBN number to my title page and purchase a new book, before I will have the book distributed.
[An "error" was inserted and corrected in the foregoing paragraph since my previous review. January 4, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. The thirteen digit ISBN number is already printed in the published copy by LULU, which I have in my possession.]
Will you please confirm that these new requirements are the only remaining obstacles to distributing the book?
I think I have my answer concerning New Jersey's politicians. Thank you for your invaluable assistance.
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #9:
From: distro@lulu.com
To: gilligan2_@hotmail.com
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:33:09 -0400
Thank you for approving "Why I am Not an Ethical Relativist and Other Essays 2000-2006."
You have completed your portion of the Published By Lulu process. Your book information will be sent to Bowker's Books In Print and once approved by Bowker, Lulu will upload your title to our distribution network. Should there be any problems with your title in Books In Print, we will contact you. This process is generally completed within 2-3 weeks. You can expect to see your book listed on Amazon and other online retailers within the next 6 to 8 weeks.
Regards,
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Letter No. #10:
From: Juan Menendez
Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Sir/Madam:
This is the third time that I have approved this book, assuming it is the book that I wrote and of which I have obtained a copy [with ISBN number!]. My download of this text was first available for free; then only for a fee; and now, not at all.
Although my purchase of the ISBN number and approval of my book took place months ago, it is still not being distributed to booksellers online and there are concerns that it may be altered or tampered with before distribution.
My recent notes in response to several previous e-mails thanking me for approving the same book, with the single ISBN (I have a print copy in my possession, so that future copies should be identical to this one and not mysteriously "damaged"), are copied below.
Why are there so many problems about this? How can this be such a problem?
Please advise concerning what "boss" we need to speak to in order to resolve these difficulties.
Very truly yours and "Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #11:
To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK91-----.)
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:07:09 -0400
Reference number: LTK91------.
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.Subject: RE: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Juan,
We have sent you emails regarding your book, on July 31, and again on August 8, telling you that we could not process your book because it is mandatory to add your ISBN number to your copyright page. Also, it is mandatory that the copyright page must be separate from the Title page.
[None of this was or is necessary or "mandatory" with my first book. Many Lulu books by other authors TODAY are not subject to this requirement and are distributed to on-line booksellers.]
Letter No. #12:
RE: Thank you for approving your book! (LTK----.)
Dear Anne Marie C:
I received a written message indicating that the book would be distributed and no new title page was required, [and] without my consent, the download feature was disabled, the book has been approved at least three times.
Isn't it possible to do a little better than this? Is there a supervisor (or "boss") we can speak to about this problem? Does Lulu have anything to do with New Jersey politicians?
Regards,
Juan Galis-Menendez
Letter No. #13:
From: "Distribution Services"
To: "Juan Menendez"
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:11:30 -0400
Reference number: LTK91 --.
Please use this ticket number in any correspondence with us.
Subject: Thank you for approving your book!
Dear Juan,
I apologize for any inconvenience. I see you have another ticket open where you are communicating with Gary regarding CID 56 ---. So, before we go any further, can you specify if this ticket is regarding the same CID?
[What "ticket"? Which "ticket"? Are we "going" somewhere? Clearly not. I refuse to go anywhere with my ticket "open."]
If this is about the same CID, then the issue, as I see it, is that your book does not meet the mandatory Distribution Requirements http://www.lulu.com/help/index.php?fSymbol=distro_requirements
I understand you have already bought a proof copy, but you must meet the requirements. [Say what?]
Please edit your book to meet the requirements. All that includes is adding an ISBN to your copyright page and having a seperate [sic.] title page.
I would like to help you, but we will not do this editing for you. Since these changes are substantial enough, you will need to order another proof. However, I'd be happy to refund your proof copy order once you place it.
I'm not sure I understand the issue about your downloads, but please let me know whether you would like it enabled(price?) or disabled and I'll make sure it stays that way.
[What is "it"?]
If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!Please use this link to rate the response you received in this email.Regards,Mo TLulu Supporthttp://www.lulu.com/helphttp://www.lulu.com/serviceshttp://www.lulu.com/forums---------------Original Message---------------
Letter No. #14:
Dear "Anne-Marie C" and/or a.k.a. "Gary":
I need something else. August 30, 2007 I visited the Lulu site to enable the download feature of my second book. This morning, August 31st, the book "Why I am not an Ethical Relativist 2000-2006" is still not available for free download nor is it available for download at a fee.
["Errors" have been inserted in this text since my last review of it. No doubt more will be added in the future.]
I have tried to make it clear to Lulu that ALL fees are to be kept by the publisher. It is in your interest to be helpful (not the opposite) in this matter. No explanation was offered by Lulu for why the download was disabled, without my consent, in the first place, or at whose order this was done. This has nothing to do with an ISBN number on the title page.
After my receipt of your first note, I received another note from Lulu informing me, yet again, that my book was in fact being sent to Bowker's for distribution to book sellers. Hence, the contents of your note suggesting that I am required to repost the entire manuscript of my book in order to change the one line on the title [or a new copyright] page to say "Published by Lulu" -- something I was told I could not do when I initially uploaded the text -- and then to purchase a new copy, or new ISBN number, seems very bizarre and irrational to me. My printed copy of the book already indicates that the work is "published by Lulu."
There must be some other way to deal with this situation. This is especially true since lulu prints this information that you are now asking me to supply on its published copy of my book -- as I say ad infinitum -- something which Lulu has already done, since I happen to have a published copy of my book in my possession with the published by Lulu ISBN.
You have represented to me that you will be responsible for ensuring that the download of my book is available. I will hold you to that promise. I will also publish the exchange of letters between us for the benefit of any persons considering Lulu, as a P.O.D. publisher. If this is the experience of someone putting a thousand dollars and more, so far, in your coffers (whether this sum is called a "profit" has to do with avoiding taxes, probably), I shudder to think of what others have experienced.
I am somewhat less than blissfully happy with my "Lulu Adventure." I look forward to your response. Curiously, e-mails I have received -- allegedly from the IRS -- tend to have the same closing as your "notes." I wonder whether the IRS signs off on letters with the word: "Regards"? Despite the cruel humor of IRS agents, I think this is unlikely.
Strangely, the same patterns appear in my correspondence with "Publish America" as in my letters to and from "Lulu." Incidentally, I already have a separate title page and an ISBN number. But what the hell?
Have a lovely day and don't take any wooden nickels.
"Regards,"
Juan Galis-Menendez
New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner is a so-called "champion of free speech rights." Does that include my rights to free speech, Mr. Rabner? How do you feel about freedom of speech, Ms. Quinn? City Council Speaker? Will any light be shed on this mystery?
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