What is it like to be plagiarized?

January 12, 2010 at 3:51 P.M. "Errors" inserted and corrected since my previous review.

October 28, 2009 at 9:04 A.M. My computer's clock is still set back one hour; t.v. is inoperative; harassing calls are common. ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!")

June 7, 2009 at 11:04 A.M. I am still experiencing harassment and obstructions to posting essays at blogger. Images are still blocked.

January 18, 2009 at 4:05 P.M. Hours of obstructions and cyberharassment make it impossible for me to write at my MSN group, Critique. I cannot say whether essays have been vandalized. I am sad and surprised to discover that ideas that I set forth and defended in reviewing the original Shaft movie were, I believe, PLAGIARIZED in an article by Manohla Dargis & A.O. Scott, "How the Movies Made a President," in The New York Times, January 18, 2009, at p. 1 ("Arts & Leisure").

I received no acknowledgment, despite the "copyright" and "all rights reserved" notice in this group. How can any journalist be a part of censorship and plagiarism? The New York Times?! Furthermore, I believe Ms. Dargis visited my sites to read my comments on her work in "The Reader': A Movie Review" and "'Revolutionary Road': A Movie Review." Those essays are regularly defaced or vandalized. "Daniel Mendelhson" seems to have plagiarized my review of "Brideshead Revisited" in The New York Review of Books. ("'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.") For purposes of comparison, see:

A.O. Scott, "Wasn't it Pretty to Think so? Bright Young Things in Love and Pain," in The New York Times, July 25, 2008, at p. E8.
Daniel Mendelsohn, "Evelyn Waugh Revisited," in The New York Review of Books, October 9, 2008, at p. 18. (Word-for-word, over numerous paragraphs, this review is identical to my previously posted essay: "'Brideshead Revisited': A Movie Review.")
Caitlin Flanagan & Natasha Vargas-Cooper, "Sex & Porn in the Age of the Internet," in The Atlantic Monthly, January/February, 2011, at pp. 87-105. (Plagiarism? Compare this published article with "Sex, Race, and Incarceration in America" and "Not One More Victim.")

You need not acknowledge or respect the creative intellectual work of someone you consider sub-human, according to the Times. You can even plagiarize and try to destroy that person's work because you feel no need to accord the minimal respect to which every person is entitled to those members of minority groups (like me) who have the temerity to write well or freely. Under the circumstances, talk directed at me of free speech or ethics is absurd. I am blocking, among other hackers:

http://www.msnusers.com/common/js/1576564590... (NJ?)

David Kocieniewski, "U.S. Attorney Steps Down in New Jersey, With a Record Disproving Early Critics," in The New York Times, November 18, 2008, at p. A25.
"Gambling With Lives," (Editorial) in The New York Times, November 18, 2008, at p. A26.

November 19, 2008 at 9:09 A.M. Interference with my television signal leaves me with a blank screen. No updating of my security system is possible. Another television signal displays interruptions in the picture. Phone calls at all hours. Nothing unusual so far. Univision?

November 10, 2008 at 2:15 P.M. I am unable to back-up files at this time. This usually means that essays have been damaged. I will continue to try to back-up and protect these writings throughout the day.

November 7, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. This essay and several others were vandalized last night, presumably during the hours when I was unable to regain access to Critique. I hope that I have made all necessary corrections. This process of inserting "errors" in the texts may continue indefinitely. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")
November 4, 2008 at 4:50 P.M. -- Several attempts to back-up files leave me with a message that "no Internet connection is available at this time, try again later." This looks like one of the bogus messages from "Google" or "MSN," or the possibly genuine warning that MSN Groups is "closing." This is a perfect way to end a week that has featured mutiple defacements of texts, "errors" inserted (numerous times) in the same essays, obstructions and difficulties in accessing my sites, together with other harassment aimed at suffocating communication -- and me.

This cybercrime amounts to cutting off the oxygen supply, periodically, to a person relying on an artificial respirator in the form of a keyboard and Internet connection or other technology. I will write about Union City's municipal corruption next. ("What is it like to be tortured?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.") The goal is to convey a sense of enclosure and isolation to the victim. I will not allow these tactics to succeed.

I doubt that rational argument or discussion will have much effect on the institutions and persons responsible for this disgraceful trashing of America's Constitution, along with my freedom of speech and your right of access to my words. These tortures that I have experienced (and that at least some Internet readers have seen) are barbaric and evil. This is true regardless of what you think of my political opinions or me. Furthermore, these crimes take place publicly. If they are not punished, then America has abandoned any claim to being a law abiding society before the eyes of the world.

I cannot accept or even respect the charge that anything that I have done -- or even thought of doing -- justifies an American jurisdiction's nearly life-long, well-organized, professionalized harassment aimed at me, harassment which is now being seen by many people in many places in the world. I hope. Deleting a letter from an essay has little effect on its merits, especially when it is clear to everyone, including its author, that this process of inserting "errors" is only about causing harm. I am the target of these attacks, but you are killing something vital in the American spirit through these censorship and psychological torture efforts that are intended to harm me. This is not how you prevail in debate. Brutality is a confession of having lost a debate.

For this reason -- because I expect brutality or the Internet equivalent of violence -- I do not wish to engage in "discussions" with fascists, biggots and other New Jersey attorneys. In a structured environment, where the solution to a discussion is not to silence or, say, kill or maim an adversary, I welcome discussions. I want to do my writing in my own way. I have a Constitutional right to think and write or speak in peace, even when criticizing the government. I do not care whether you like or approve of me or my opinions. I probably think less of you than you think of me -- and with better reasons for low opinions and disgust. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Is Senator Menendez a Suspect in Mafia-Political Murder in New Jersey?")

"I have read Brideshead Revisited at least a dozen times and have never failed to be charmed and moved, even to tears." Anthony Burgess writes in Ninety-Nine Novels, The Best in English Since 1939 (London: Allison & Busby, 1984), p. 35. Burgess adds: "It is appropriately a seductive book. Even the overblown metaphors move and charm. ... This is one of those disturbing novels in which the faults do not matter." I concur. I appreciate that others may feel differently. I think that it is possible to be more right than wrong in such matters. I cannot believe that truth is merely relative or some such nonsense. I doubt that anyone really does believe such absurd views. When asking a doctor if tests show that we have cancer, an "interesting" as opposed to true answer is not enough for most of us. ("Why I am not an ethical relativist.")

My own essay reviewing "Brideshead Revisited" which appeared first was, as I say, "echoed" by Daniel Mendelsohn -- any relation to Manohla Dargis? -- in "his" essay published in The New York Review of Books. I am amazed at the similarities between the two works. ("Martha Nussbaum on the Vindications of Love" and "The Heidegger Controversy.")

New Jersey's legal system and ethical culture has the equivalent of cancer. Nihilism, denials of morality, wallowing in the mire is trendy nonsense that is always popular with the young. This is the true immaturity, not my lack of reverence for what deserves no reverence, together with my undeniable and dazzling charm, wit, and humility. Reverence is something I reserve for what deserves reverence, like the Constitution of the United States that is violated by New Jersey officials or with their assistance on a daily basis.

New Jersey's legal system is, obviously, devoured by mafia factions of various sorts. The people in positions of power in the Garden State -- I am afraid that this includes legal officials -- are corrupt or inept, maybe both, with little regard for the rights of others, including children and old people -- like my family members. The opinions of such people concerning my ethics (or anyone's character) are difficult for me to take seriously. Any objective and neutral person reading the essays compiled in my blogs and MSN group will come to the conclusion that there is something profoundly wrong -- a spreading "cancer" of corruption and criminality -- that has taken over the legal institutions of the Garden State. Bystanders who allow this evil to thrive are equally guilty and diseased.

Mr. Christie's decision to step down as U.S. Attorney in New Jersey may encourage the Jersey Boys to persist in their efforts. A Democrat is unlikely (they believe) to continue Mr. Christie's anticorruption efforts. I hope that they are wrong about that. We'll see. For the sake of residents in New Jersey, I am glad that Mr. Christie is running for governor. I hope that he is elected. Change is needed. Otherwise, the culture of corruption and cruelty will continue. Whether Governor Christie can do something about this situation is difficult to say. There is clearly a power-structure in New Jersey that operates outside the boundaries of law.

I am providing a public demonstration of some methods used in the Garden State. Over 140 N.J. public officials indicted and convicted, when peripheral players in the various scams are added to the list of felons the total number of convictions rises to over 200. This may have put a dent in New Jersey's political mob, even if it has little effect on the harassments I deal with every day.

An editorial in the same newspaper is less than encouraging: "Asked to choose between the casinos and the health of the people who work in them, Atlantic City [government officials] sided with casinos." As usual, local government is at the service of the money interests and gangsters at the cost of the public good. New Jersey is a state that is nothing less than a humiliation to this country. ("Jim Florio and the Mafia in Atlantic City.")

New Jersey is not in a position to judge my ethics. Besides, I am not a member of the bar in the Garden State. I do not live in New Jersey. I have the right to express my opinions on any subject whether New Jersey authorities like it or not. I also have the right to say what many people in the Cuban-American community believe (but are afraid to say) that the fascist-like tactics of extremist segments of the Cuban-American community do not reflect mainstream views and are not in the interests of the American or Cuban people. To allow a legal result produced by criminality to stand is to perpetuate the evil. However, that is a decision for others to make. Insistence on my rights is my decision. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Threatening to "beat me up" or kill me because I call for an end to the embargo against Cuba suggests that much of what the Cuban government says about New Jersey's and Miami's Right-wingers is true. More attacks against my writings are threatened. Bought and paid for political protection from the likes of Bob Menendez may allow you to get away with your crimes, but it does not make you any less guilty. Committing heinous crimes to bring "ethics" charges against a person for behavior produced by out-of-control "social modification techniques" is ludicrous and self-contradictory. (Again: "What is it like to be tortured?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

I will not legitimate torture. I do not know why Terry A. Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli are permitted to do what they have done and may still be doing. I do not understand why my requests -- made in writing years ago and renewed almost every day, publicly -- for the truth concerning my life, Tuchin's and Riccioli's reports and all torture files, are ignored. This disgraceful torture-censorship method continues to be deployed, potentially destroying good intellectual work and valuable books that I might be contributing without this pointless torture that causes further harm, pain, and damage not least to New Jersey's own fatally tainted legal system. I will not be deterred or stopped in this effort. I will not "adjust" to exploitation and cruelty.

To speak to me of "ethics" under such circumstances is ridiculous. To obstruct my Internet access, deface my writings, tamper with my creative work and interfere with my family's service providers, steal personal information, engage in a deliberate harassment campaign involving phone calls and Internet messages, deliberately inflicting further emotional suffering in order to discourage all communication is gross abuse of power, even when it goes unpunished. This emotional assassination effort, unfolding over nearly two decades now, is more than "unethical." I will not stop confronting you with your guilt in Trenton, while attacking the tainted legal proceedings and institutions of the Garden State wherever I go. Continuing harassment helps to prove my point, morons. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

I do not know whether Cuban media wishes to interview me. However, I will be only too glad to provide such an interview and discuss any of the topics about which I have written in these blogs, including my experiences of torture and censorship in America. ("Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")

My relationships are my business. My opinions are also my business. I know that I am a feminist, socialist, intellectual and that I can write reasonably well. Destroying my work and delivering insults to me will not change those self-assessments. I know my faults and talents. I am not interested in your opinions of me nor in your incoherent advice concerning how I should live my life. I object to the invasion of my privacy and all disregard for autonomy and human dignity. I do not need Full Frontal Feminism. Gray's Anatomy is a mediocre soap opera. Most popular novels today are drivel. Oprah is not and will never be the god I pray to, although I like her show and book club. The word "whatever" is not a profound philosophical statement.

Holding such views does not make me an "elitist." These opinions only make me an ordinary educated person and highly sane -- perhaps regrettably sane. Violence has not been and will never become acceptable to me. Impoverishing a person does not invalidate his or her opinions. Poverty and illness are not moral faults in persons. These conditions are often produced by injustice and deserve human compassion and assistance, not hostility and moral censure. Publish America? Lulu? ("How Censorship Works in America.")

Billions of us are poor, hungry, oppressed, silenced as the price for your SUV and full refrigerator in South Beach. This is not about "envy" for your lifestyle or yourselves. It is an attempt to awaken what remains of your sense of human compassion and solidarity for the afflicted masses in the world, including those who suffer in Cuba. Hurting me has no bearing on this reality. (Again: "Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")

Psychobabblers and anyone else who needs to get the message should get off my computer, stop hacking into my files, or dialing my home number from dummy numbers or call marketing centers. These actions affect others, many others, and will continue to do so for years. The OAE in NJ is a corrupt legal agency -- responsible for the criminal violation of my rights -- which owes me an apology and maybe some of the money stolen from my office, assuming there is any of it left, or some compensation for the many crimes still committed against me and others. All of it is going to charity or others, including New Jersey's legal improvement efforts. ("An Open Letter in to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

Every one of you at the OAE, "put together," cannot sustain a successful argument against me in an impartial setting -- despite the censorship and illegal harassment I face -- in connection with any of the philosophical or other issues discussed by me, including legal issues. I suspect that you already know that, which explains the resort to criminality. Any questions, boys and girls?

Cybercrime and Harassment:

November 12, 2008 at 9:41 A.M. I just managed to post a new short story at Critique, then I lost access to the site and was unable to complete my review of e-mail. I received an e-mail purporting to come from a reader in the UK, which seems bogus. I continue to experience hacking, interference, defacements and alterations of my works. I will spend the rest of today seeking to regain access to my sites. I will continue working on criticisms of N.J. corruption.

I will write my essay on Union City corruption, focusing on bribery and payoffs in the Municipal Court as well as further allegations of corruption in New Jersey's judiciary. ("More Trouble for Menendez -- Tapes!" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

November 10, 2008 at 11:40 A.M. efforts to access news stories on-line were frustrated just now. I continue to experience many difficulties reaching my e-mail account. Important news stories have appeared:

"Reputed Capo Coppola Faces Racketeering Indictment," November 3, 2008, Newsday, November 3, 2008. (62 year-old Genovese family capo and alleged Menendez " supporter" facing indictment after being on the lam, allegedly.)

Any relationship between Mr. Coppola and N.J. Justice Jaynee LaVecchia remains unspecified at this time. (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" as well as "Is There a New Jersey Mafia Informer?")

Larry Anderson, "How Stupid is Senator Menendez?," http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008 (alleged videotaped failure of New Jersey's junior Senator to grasp the difference between personal income and capitol gains taxes.) "On the one hand, but on the other hand ..."

November 8, 2008 at 3:56 P.M. I am unable to access my hotmail account. However, I did get to my group this morning. I'll keep trying.

November 7, 2008 9:10 A.M. "Errors" were inserted in this essay at Critique. Unfortunately, I was just obstructed in my efforts to reach that site this morning, which usually means that more errors are being inserted in essays. I will struggle to make corrections in any damaged essays as soon as I can get back to Critique. Indictments?

The "error" which appears in this essay at MSN does not appear in this version, at blogger, which was copied from the same file at my home computer. Mysteriously, the "error" only appeared at Critique. (See "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?" and "Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

November 6, 2008 at 11:30 A.M. All efforts to reach my MSN group, so far, have been obstructed by N.J.'s hackers. I am unable to change my image or update my daily report from the Western Front. I will do my best to reach that site. Ironically, these crimes are committed as Barack Obama's election to the U.S. Presidency provides a glimmer of hope that, someday, the rule of law will be restored to America and the Internet. Meanwhile, we must continue to struggle and hope. I will keep trying to reach my group.

"Sarah Palin in 2012!" Signs in Alaska bear this slogan as the prodigal governor returns proving that Alaska's residents have a sense of humor. Richard J. Codey's gubernatorial fantasies hover at the edge of memory? Fortunately?

November 6, 2008 at 10:05 A.M. I am unable to reach either my e-mail account or Critique. I will continue to run scans and struggle throughout the day to reach my sites. If I am unable to do so, then I will write at blogger until I can find an alternative location to reproduce my MSN group. I am currently at work on an essay examining political and legal corruption in Union City, New Jersey.

"Cruelty is the worst thing we can do."-- Richard Rorty.