Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.

Attacks against my computer and disabling my security system makes it possible to insert new "errors" in essays such as this one. I will do my best to make corrections as they are needed. (See "Steven Schaeffer and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Justice Wallace Smokes Weed!" and "More Illegality Among N.J. Judges.")

"Errors" will continue to be inserted in essays at this group as part of an induced frustration and stress campaign that hasn't worked for some reason. Cyberwarfare and cyberstalking will continue to be my daily reality. In response, I will focus on New Jersey's vanishing pension funds and corrupt judiciary in the months and years ahead. Waves of new attacks against my computer makes it impossible to tell whether I'll be able to get back to this site. I will keep trying. I will run scans 24 hours per day. I am unable to work for long on a short story I am writing due to interference. I will struggle to make some progress each day until it is finished.

Due to the continuing harassment today, I have decided to return to Judge Tolentino. Described as "pulling decisions out of her ass" by a promiment Hudson County prosecutor, she was regarded by members of the bar as one of the most stupid lawyers in the state. Baber was described as a racist; Davis was regarded as comatose; comments on other prominent members of the judiciary and bar in the Garden State are forthcoming.

A huge swastika was cut into a field in Washington Township, New Jersey, in the Trenton area. Swastikas were also found cut into corn fields in the area in 1998, 1999, and many times before then. The New York Times, September 26, 2007, at p. B3. Ethics? Message? More "errors" were inserted in this text since my last viewing of it. "Errors" not found in my previous print version of this essay. Superior Court judges were among the rumored Nazis in New Jersey. I certainly believe it.

My essay entitled "Jaynee La Vecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" mysteriously disappeared from my files. I have reposted a duplicate of that essay from another source. Where are the $300 MILLION that disappeared in the HIP deal?

October 7, 2007 at 10:42 A.M. I will make these corrections once again. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Senator Bob and the Jersey Boys?

September 29, 2007 at 11:37 A.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/AST/iview/msnnkatm00100... (NJ)http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Back again?)

September 27, 2007 at 9:29 A.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnnkhac01800... (NY)http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (one more time?)

September 26, 2007 at 8:50 A.M. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnkcpc01800... (NYC)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3754.site.msn.com/B... (NJ)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N1727.msn.com/B21... (NJ)

On September 25, 2007 at 3:29 P.M. I received annoying calls from 757-962-8857. Probably just a coincidence. (Spacing of paragraphs has been distorted by all of the cyberattacks.) Hundreds of daily calls from telemarketers are probably only a coincidence.

More of the same, September 27, 2007 at 1:26 P.M. 800-475-4460. (A new "error" was just corrected in this last sentence.)

October 1, 2007 at 11:05 A.M. another call from 800-475-4460. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (NJ)http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac00160x600... (NJ)

September 12, 2007 at 7:58 P.M. a new attack on my security system requires me to run scans 24 hours per day. I will do my best to keep writing. Spacing has been affected, again, in this essay by more hacking and other computer troubles coming either from Trenton or the Brennan Courthouse. Ironically, Justice Brennan was a champion of free speech. Free speech is what the Jersey Boys hope to deny me because it is one of the few things that I have left. For the same reason, they will deny the merits of my work, suppressing or destroying publication efforts, while continuing the harassment campaign. I am still averaging hundreds of intrusion attempts per day against my computer, most of them from New Jersey government. I am blocking:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (Senator Bob and/or a "friend"?)http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac00160x600... (NJ)

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

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90... (My old pal?)http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001160x600... (NJ)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3671.B21210... (212)http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/N3671.B21210... (212)

September 17, 2007 at 8:16 A.M. I am blocking:

http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N296.msn/B2385667... (NJ)http://view.atdmt.com/NYC/iview/msnnkccs03400... (NY? Friends of the Jersey Boys? Bribed officials?)

New Jersey is America's legal shit hole. This cybercrime proves much of what I saying. It is actually helpful to me. New Jersey is a place governed, mostly, by organized crime -- through corrupt public officials or "made members" of the family-like organization running things, who are placed on the judicial bench by "bosses." Many of New Jersey's judges are paid off, one way or the other -- which explains why laws prohibiting conspiracies to violate civil rights are unenforced. Who cares what they did (or do) to you? Nobody. You're nothing. You're not one of us. We're the annointed of the Lord ... or at least, of the Hudson County Bar Association. Think of that "N-word."

"I have to kill two birds with one stone," a moronic New Jersey lawyer said that to me, not realizing that the bird he was killing happened to be the Constitution of the United States. Luckily, as usual, he missed his target. I was revolted that a few Latinos were willing to lend themselves to legitimating the disgusting bias in law enforcement and court proceedings in New Jersey. Regrettably, or maybe fortunately, I am not as "ethical" as so-called pillars of the community I once knew in New Jersey's legal sewer, like Gallipoli -- most of whom have since been indicted -- pillars of the community who expressed vile and detestable political opinions, when I knew them, about persons from "different" ethnic groups, usually to the amusement of Trenton's top officials. Swastikas? No wonder.

Is that "ethical," John? I was deemed an appropriate "secret" experimental subject by Trenton officials (now hiding from this truth) to be turned over for questioning to the likes of Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli, who is probably a member of the same "crew" as Gallipoli. Last night I was driven past the Brennan Courthouse (I've just corrected a new "error" inserted in this essay) and I thought that a sign should be painted on that white marble building saying: "This courthouse is a lie. What goes on in here is a fraud. This structure has been turned into shit by some of its inhabitants."

I am struggling against a daily onslaught of cyberattacks, hackers, viruses and spyware emanating from New Jersey's government cesspool. Rumors have linked "Jaynee" La Vecchia to the ... shall we say, "cement" industry for years. Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez is reputed to be"tight" with Miami's Cuban drug cartels. Senator Bob finagled $300,000 in rent money from an organization receiving federal funds, thanks to his efforts, even as $30 MILLION in taxpayer greenbacks is called "seed money" used for a development deal in Bayonne that is spreading over territory, allegedly, contaminated with buried chromium deposits and worse poisons. Bob doesn't care if the suckers get cancer as long as he makes a profit with taxpayer money, allegedly. ("Senator Bob Loves Xanadu!" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

Hey Bob, is your friend "Ms. LiCausi?" Or is it "Ms. Luchese?" New Jersey Senator Joseph Doria -- a well-known political enforcer -- was the "go-to" guy on this deal. So what if people buying new homes get cancer? A New Jersey politician once said to me: "Who cares about the suckers?" New Jersey's Supreme Court sure doesn't. It won't be Bob who gets sick. He'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Front persons -- who are "friends of Bob" -- like Ms. Li Causi, will make huge salaries "serving" the interests of entities subsequently receiving federal money.

How much do these friends kick back to the junior (in every sense) U.S. Senator from the swamplands of Secaucus for his help in getting that federal pu-pu platter, if anything of course?

I know, I know ... they're going to assassinate me. Let's have some fun before they do. (See "More Problems for Menendez -- Tapes!" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")None of this "problem with corruption" or continuing criminality against me is confirmed or denied by any persons, at this time, allegedly. There must be other victims. The rest of the state's system is an equally depressing felons' parade: 200 convictions of legal and political players; "funny numbers" with state employees' pension money, which amounts to billions of dollars disappearing under mysterious circumstances; tainted Supreme Court justices filing ethics complaints against a Latino colleague, allegedly, through cronies of the Camden Democratic machine; a former Chief Justice who was an architect of the racial profiling policy on the state's highways (Zazzali should have resigned or been disbarred if he had anything to do with racial profiling or knew of it and did nothing to stop it).

The same goes for Debbie Poritz if she approved of the tortures against me. This is true even if Poritz was rewarded with introductions to sexually available young women. Was Diana supplying you with young ladies, Debbie?

New Jersey may be the only state where federal supervision is required of police departments so corrupt and racist that they could not be trusted to enforce their own state's laws. Meanwhile, the OAE -- which is supposed to enforce legal ethics -- is controlled by mobsters and political machines, reputedly, then used as a weapon against "overly independent" attorneys who criticize and challenge the system. Compared to New Jersey, Moscow is Switzerland. See "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE)."

What is the New Jersey judiciary doing about this? How do judges respond to charges of torture and theft by state forensic psychiatrists along with evidence of conspiracies to violate federal and state civil rights as well as criminal laws, publicly, on a daily basis? Nothing. They could not care less. Anne Milgram is on the case. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. (See "Even in New Jersey There Comes a Time When Silence is Betrayal.")

Maurice J. Gallipoli, for example, was and (apparently) still is the civil assignment judge in Hudson County (one of the worst venues for political corruption and, not surprisingly, for cancer in the country). Gallipoli is a man with no self-esteem problems of any kind. In fact, Gallipoli is blessed with an overwhelming abundance of self-esteem, bordering on self-adoration. Gallipoli is said to experience orgasmic bliss when encountering his own reflection in the mirror as he shaves every morning. Maybe that's most New Jersey judges. (Compare my forthcoming essay "Mark Baber and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" with "Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Gallipoli is, in his own estimation, a great wit. Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward have nothing on him. At the old weekly cattle calls on trial days or when disposing of the motion calendar, Gallipoli would inflict his "humor" -- I use the word loosely -- on members of the bar. Attorneys hoping to avoid unfriendly judges and rulings smiled, painfully, at the judge's bon mots. (Hackers continue to prevent me from altering the italics in this text at my MSN account, the attacks are probably coming from Gallipoli's computer. I'll try to post this essay at blogger first.)

Gallipoli was detested by more than one young lawyer who enjoyed cursing him out in the hallways between sessions. I will be happy to name individuals and quote from conversations with low-life scumbuckets, who are now prominent members of the bar and judges in New Jersey. This disgust that Gallipoli inspires must still be true. To know Maurice is to dislike him; to know him well, is to detest the man.

Naturally, the powers that be in Jersey City will trot out a minority lawyer or two who will swear that Gallipoli is "a hell of a guy." Ass-kissers are a dime a dozen in Jersey City. He sure is a "heel of a guy." Sold-out minority lawyers will be rewarded with a judgeship, after making a contribution ($25,000?) -- I knew several such people -- so there will be no shortage of house slaves willing to discharge this loathsome task of rationalizing and justifying arrogance as well as the standard torture, rape, violation of rights and cover-ups for "ethical" reasons. Defacing these texts is their only response. This harassment has the effect of proving much of what I am saying, boys and girls. Publish America?

I remember a Latino lawyer, who still practices in that county, telling me that Gallipoli cut his fee in a big case, several times. Another Latino lawyer -- who is now retired and had a very successful personal injury practice -- also had his fees reduced, despite the effort that went into that recovery and even though the fees charged were well within the amounts allowed by statute. I wonder whether Mr. Ginarte (not one of the two I mentioned) has any accounting problems these days?

Naturally, both of those lawyers will deny this publicly. Latino lawyers got screwed by Gallipoli on fees, rarely his old cronies or people from the big defense firms. I wonder why? The lawyers who were promiment members of the state bar had no problems since they had obviously "earned" their exhorbitant fees by sharing them under the table with politicians, also (probably) judges, fees which often certainly did exceed the amounts prescribed in state statutes were "permitted" upon application to a judge when supported by an affidavit:

"I worked really hard, Maurice, and I'm not one of those little brown lawyers."

Well, what the hell then? Here you go.

Gallipoli quickly earned a reputation for screwing over Latino lawyers, especially young ones. He was a product of one of the connected law firms contributing quite a few members to the local judiciary -- a firm with a few minority associates as window dressing -- a politically "connected" firm enjoying a really chummy relationship with the Supreme Court and OAE. "Mark" at the old Philosophy Cafe? Joel? I wonder how many of my interlocutors at The Philosophy Cafe were members of the bar in New Jersey doing a little favor for the committee by harassing me. The strategy is to silence dissidents, inducing collapse through frustration, destruction of creative work -- most of the techniques are outlined in the so-called "torture manuals" that have become public recently. They have been experienced by people "like" Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

How many of your victims are minority group members, Terry? How does a Jew become Mengele, Terry?

Naturally, Gallipoli's old firm did a lot of civil defense work and its members benefitted, routinely, from little perks and invitations to "chat" in the judge's chambers. The backscratching problem in New Jersey is a big one. A little favor for the "Committee" may include betrayal of a friend or (even better) a family member.

If somebody from one of those firms didn't show up on a calendar call, Gallipoli's law clerk would put in a phone call to the well known "firm" to remind them, not to hurry of course, but to try to fit the trial into their busy calendar if at all possible. As a young, outside-the-club lawyer, your case would be dismissed if you were twenty minutes late getting there from another courtroom -- even if you called and said you were on your way. After all, it's not like you were "Joe" or "Bill." Geez. Some people just waltzed into the county clerk's area and got them to do "little favors." No Latino, to my knowledge, enjoyed this sort of welcome from court staff. Now they -- judges and their acolytes -- don't get a welcome from me.

"You can't be in two places at once? Then we'll charge you a fee in both courts for being late. Then we'll pocket the cash," say the judges. Gallipoli prided himself on his vast erudition. Despite my best efforts, I never detected this enormous learning and scholarship. Occasionally, Gallipoli let fall from his lips "pearls of wisdom" that the rest of us might gather. The opinions and insights into great books or interpretations of cultural or legal issues imparted by Gallipoli were sometimes interesting, occasionally moronic, often based on erroneous or non-existent reading of the sources.

I always smiled, appreciatively, making it a point to thank the "Honorable" judge for his insulting comments directed at me. Most judges spoke not "to" me, but only "at" me. Terry and Diana picked up some good habits in Jersey City. I was assured by a judge that I am not and could never be a "gentleman." Well, if Maurice is what they regard as a "gentleman," then I only hope not to be one. I also hope never to display the rude and offensive attitude to the "little brown people" that came so easily to good old Maurice. Admittedly, I liked the little Polo emblem on his shirts. I will do my best to be rude and offensive to the people who delight in being rude and offensive to others who come before them.

A friend who was among the first Latino lawyers in the state, a man who sued and won against the Hoboken police department for their cruelty to a defendant, was told by a judge shortly after he was sworn in -- because he unbuttoned a top collar on a 90 degree day -- "button your shirt and act like a lawyer!" This was a judge with vintage spaghetti stains on his clothing. The attorney who represented Hoboken and lost, a former prosecutor, was made a Superior Court judge. The Latino attorney who won that trial against her and the city was targeted for destruction. He was "unethical."

Judge Moses likes to explain her loss in the Dr. X case to one of the best trial lawyers in the state, Ray Brown, Sr., as "unfair" tactics. No wonder Judge Moses remains visibly disdainful of minority men and attorneys in her courtroom. I would not wish to be an African-American defendant in most courtrooms in New Jersey, especially her courtroom. Many defendants may never know that they were probably questioned under hypnosis by one of the state's torturers. How do you like it? Is it better for you if I say these things while wearing a shirt with a little Polo player on it? Do you think that taking a word or letter out of what I have written, every day, will stop me? Isn't it more likely to do exactly the opposite?

After so many years, there may be little more that can be accomplished by such means that become ends. One becomes harder than steel and driven to speak truth to power. Nothing can be more sane or ethical than insisting on justice. (I have just discovered today's inserted "error" and corrected it.) Gallipoli assumed that, given my name, I must be an idiot. He would say things, in a ponderous tone of voice, while looking down at me from a plush leather chair to see whether I fully absorbed the breathtaking genius of his remarks. I nodded to assure him that I certainly did.

On one occasion, Gallipoli explained to a Muslim litigant that "we" -- all of those judges were thrilled to use the royal "we" -- "are not rug merchants." (Gallipoli's exact words.) I will never forget that comment. Muslims are "rug merchants" for Gallipoli. This Gallipoli comment was discussed by me at the time (extensively) with another attorney, who heard and repeated the remark by the good judge. This was well before 9/11. A Middle Eastern litigant did not find the comment all that "witty." I bet Poritz and Rabner will chuckle at it. Poritz and Rabner probably hate Arabs and all "the little brown people."

If I were a Muslim, I would not want to be a litigant before Rabner, or any New Jersey judge. (This is about the twentieth time that I make the same corrections in the foregoing sentence.) Although I am not a Muslim, I would not want to be a litigant in any New Jersey courtroom -- unless I know which mobster owns the specific judge and territory where I am placed -- so I could have a chat with him before the case started, bringing cash for the necessary bribes. Judges in New Jersey should wear price tags. Maybe they do. I have never (and will never) bribe anyone.

Unethical? It is unethical to refuse to bribe judges in New Jersey, John? Anne Milgram? Whatta-ya say, fellas?

Maurice still sits in the same courtroom where Justice Brennan presided early in that great Supreme Court justice's career. (A new "error" was inserted in this sentence posted only hours ago.) What a falling off was there. What would Justice Brennan say about the deliberate torture of a human being through daily destruction of his communicative and creative efforts, in violation of criminal and Constitutional law, with the objective of inflicting further frustration and harm upon that person? What would Justice Brennan say about lawyers and judges doing such things with impunity for years? Bribes? Would he approve? Would Justice Brennan think such behavior is "ethical"? Would the so-called "character" of the victim make any difference in Justice Brennan's assessment of such conduct? Why not? ("New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")

How do you answer these questions Chief Justice Rabner? Do you "demur"? What does Mr. Rabner's silence say about his character? How about Rabner's ethics? Does Rabner have any ethics? How can you, Mr. Rabner, remain a guilty bystander to the trashing of the same Constitution that you have sworn to uphold? How is it possible for New Jersey to condone torture, theft, assaults when they occur, allegedly, "on behalf" of the "legal ethics enforcement system"? Do such words have any meaning in New Jersey? Ethics? You must be joking. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

If I am framed for something or find myself in such a situation against my will, as a New jersey litigant -- if I experience an unfortunate accident -- I wish to leave these comments on the record. They will be deleted or hacked away, quickly enough, I am sure. "Errors" will be inserted in what I write every day. How's the spacing of paragraphs in this essay? That's how censorship works in New Jersey. Maybe beyond New Jersey these days. The U.S. Constitution does not mean much to these people. These are the very people (I cannot begin to understand this imbecility or absurdity) who swear to uphold the Constitution, as they carve a swastika into a corn field, while urinating on that priceless document and on their judicial oaths.

Mr. Rabner, where are you? Lost on the Turnpike? Now tell me how ethical you are. Tell me again how "superior" you are to the likes of me. In a group I once had at MSN, destroyed by New Jersey lawyers and officials (I believe), who disapproved of my opinions, an interlocutor described himself as my "superior." I was unconvinced by that claim then, even more so now. What makes you my "superior," Mr. Rabner? The "Smear Machine"?

Copy this essay immediately when it is posted, before it disappears or is defaced again -- like Deborah T. Poritz's picture at the Atlantic City casino where she spoke, which vanished from my msn group under mysterious circumstances. (Dozens of "errors" have been inserted in this essay, are corrected by me, then reinserted overnight by the Jersey Boys. I will have to continue making the same corrections. Frustration is an old weapon in the torturers' arsenal. No wonder I am experiencing so many obstacles this lovely day.) I prepare myself, mentally, for war when I get on my computer in the morning. I am rarely disappointed.

No doubt Gallipoli is a big fan of the Abu Ghraib methods of dealing with persons who have done nothing that has been proven against the U.S., who are not tried or convicted under any laws in our pursuit of the "War on Terror." Maybe what they did to me is O.K. for the same reason. I am routinely denied the humanity, dignity, and rights guaranteed to every person under the U.S. Constitution. A cop in North Bergen, New Jersey, as I recall, once explained that "the Constitution doesn't apply in this town." Boy, was he right. (An "error" was inserted in this sentence since I last read it a few hours ago, even as I continue to struggle to defend my "security system." Please see "What is it like to be tortured?")

You are a litigant for the first time in a U.S. courtroom and have the misfortune to appear in New Jersey before a large, comfortable, well-fed white male judge (whose shirt is worth more than your entire wardrobe) and this person says to you: "We are not rug merchants" when you try to explain why your herniated disk might be worth as much as a white man's pain. I tried a case in Union County, New Jersey. My client and her partner happened to be African-Americans. We prevailed on all issues, liability wasn't a problem. How much was their pain worth?

Identical injuries for whites received compensation approaching $100,000. My clients received $15,000. No explanation. An African-American's pain is worth 15% of a white person's pain in New Jersey. (A new 'error" was just inserted and corrected in this last sentence.) I am told that things are worse now, legal sycophants will deny it. (See "America's Holocaust" and "How to execute the Innocent in New Jersey" as well as "Driving While Black (DWB) in New Jersey."

This was a consistent pattern in New Jersey personal injury cases, differential compensation for the pain of non-whites. What do I say to these people about the wonders of the New Jersey legal system? New Jersey will blame me. I am "unethical" -- they say -- so torture and any crimes committed against me are permitted, especially when it produces the conduct deemed "unethical" which is then used to justify the torture. Ever heard of transferred intent? A workers' comp judge and client were lied to about me in a case where I took no fee and ensured the clients' receipt of medical attention. I wonder why? I also wonder why the persons doing this lying never apologized to me nor to my former client and the court? Terry Tuchin? Lourdes? Why was I not informed concerning their lying and secret statements that were intended to damage my reputation with colleagues and clients? Do you speak to me of "LIES," Mr. Rabner? Maurice? How are the Polo shirts, Maurice?

"We will pretend that nothing happened." (See "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.") Slavery? Rape? Many New Jerseyans believe that there is a lot to be said for slavery. Does all of this help to explain why we are in Iraq? Does it explain New Jersey's swastikas?

I am not a real human being, like Gallipoli. So it is O.K. to hack into my computer, every day, obstructing my communication efforts, to deface and destroy my writings, to withhold records of tortures to which I have been subjected, then to allow the OAE to LIE about contacts they had with Tuchin or Riccioli and other crimes committed in "getting" me. Right, John? (See "New Jerey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.") Meanwhile, people who actually commit crimes are ignored by New Jersey's "ethics" police. Probably this is because many of the criminals are the police or so-called "judges."

How do these people sleep at night? How do they speak of "ethics" with a straight face? Ethics? In New Jersey? You people claim to be the "ethical superiors" of sub-humans, like me, superior to all "rug merchants" from your perch of power and privilege. "I am not convinced," as Gallipoli used to say to plaintiffs' lawyers, of your alleged "ethical superiority" as dwellers in the corridors of power of the Garden State. I prefer the company of those unworthy of associating with you distinguished judges and so-called "justices," New Jersey's "elites" -- New Jersey and "elite" may be contradictory terms -- whose portraits are painted (badly and expensively) for posterity to admire from a suitable distance. Gallipoli is the kind of American official responsible for Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, in my opinion, and he probably likes it that way.

I will choose to make the distance between us as great as possible, even as I spend part of every day for rest of my life attacking that befouled legal system in New Jersey and the trolls wearing suits that crawl around in it, like vermin in feces. Go ahead, take another letter out of this essay. Schaeffer is next, then Tolentino and Baber. The stink of moral corruption escaping from New Jersey is still overbearing as far away as Manhattan.

"Look," I was told by a friend, "Gallipoli figures he's smarter than you. He's better looking, wears nicer clothes -- so why should you make more money than he does? Why should you make any money at all?" Why indeed.

"Gallipoli can accept that white guys and gals who wear nice suits, being among the best and the brightest (like himself) are entitled to life's rewards, not someone like you. Gallipoli detests having to associate with the little people. He hates the thought of a person, like you, presuming to converse with him as his moral equal. After all, you are not so different from a 'rug merchant.' ..." How true. I prefer the description of "rug merchant" to being anything that Gallipoli might be. Next, they will apply another description I heard used for Muslims in New Jersey to the victims of power, like me: "Camel driver." Am I a measly "camel driver"? (A new "error" has appeared and been corrected.) Better that, any day, than a "gentleman" like Gallipoli.

"Viewed in this light, the garish scenes of humiliation pouring out in the photographs and depositions from Abu Ghraib -- the men paraded naked down the cellblock with hoods on their heads, the forced masturbation, the forced homosexual activity, and all the rest -- begin to be comprehensible; they are in fact staged operas of fabricated shame, [New Jersey's so-called 'Ethics Proceedings'?] intended to 'intensify the prisoner's guilt feelings, increase his anxiety and his urge to cooperate.'... [Frustration and destruction of needed or cathartic creative work, along with insults and threats, preferably against family members, will also be used against victims.] While many of the elements of abuse seen in the reports from Iraq, particularly the sensory deprivation and 'stress positions,' resemble methods used by modern intelligence services, including the Israelis and British in Northern Ireland, some of the techniques seem clearly designed to exploit the particular sensitivities of Arab culture to public embarassment, particularly in sexual matters."

Mark Danner, "The Logic of Torture," in Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2004), p. 31.