"You give us three minutes, we give you the world."

September 25, 2010 at 7:33 P.M. "Errors" were inserted in several essays, including "Nihilists in Disneyworld." I have done my best to make all necessary corrections.

September 20, 2010 at 3:26 P.M. The cable signal to my computer was blocked as I attempted to scan my system at about 2:00 P.M. today. I will try, again, to run a full scan of my computer. I do not believe that this level of computer crime is possible without governmental protection for and cooperation with computer criminals.

Any attention that you can bring to this situation is greatly appreciated. My requests for information continue to be ignored by Trenton officials. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")

September 20, 2010 at 12:16 P.M. Five essays seem to have been defaced overnight through insertions of "errors." I have done my best to make all necessary corrections.

September 17, 2010 at 10:13 A.M. Several attempts to reach this blog were obstructed this morning and it was necessary to restart my computer in order to get here. All efforts to run a security scan of my computer result in blocking my cable signal and shutting down my computer. I will try to scan my system, again, today.

I believe that I am experiencing content-based censorship with the cooperation of state government in America. I cannot explain American media silence in response to censorship and suppressions of speech, torture and rape. Who will be silenced next -- minorities, radicals, skinny women dressed in black? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "How Censorship Works in America" then "Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")

Despite copyright protection, "errors" are inserted in these writings on a daily basis, alterations, defacements and other criminal violations, publicly, of U.S. Constitutional law are committed with the assistance of U.S. officials in New Jersey and elsewhere. ("What is it like to be tortured?" and "What is it like to be censored in America?" then "What is it like to be plagiarized?" and, soon, "What is it like to be raped?")

Barbara Williams, "Heroin Spreads: Deadly Drug Growing Problem for Suburban Teens," in The Record, September 19, 2010, at p. A-1. (N.J. is a center of heroin distribution in America, where the lethal drug -- 60% purer than in the eighties and nineties -- has invaded the suburbs in affiliation with child-prostitution and other businesses, including the Asian-based identity theft industry, since most of the new or "gold" heroin comes from Asia through Miami's Cuban-American and other distributors. "Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes.")
Charlie Savage, "U.S. Weighs How to Block Suit on Targeted Killing," in The New York Times, September 16, 2010, at p. A10. (President, allegedly, claims power to murder U.S. citizens without trials.)
"The Administration's Press Censorship," (Editorial) in The New York Times, September 18, 2010, at p. A20. (Mr. Obama's government imposes "intolerable limitations on journalists covering the trials" at Guantanamo.)
AP, "Iran: In Video, a Prisoner Says She Was Not Whipped," in The New York Times, September 16, 2010, at p. A13. (Iranian woman may be stoned to death for adultery, but not whipped.)
Erik Eikholm & Katie Zusima, "Strategies Take Shape for Trials in Bully Cases," in The New York Times, September 16, 2010, at p. A19. (Phoebe Prince was "cyberbullied" to death.)
Elizabeth Malkin, "Cuba's Public-Sector Layoffs Signal Major Shift," in The New York Times, September 14, 2010, at p. A1. (Cuba, after complying with all international human rights criteria, experiments with opening and diversifying its economy. All political prisoners in Cuba have been released.)
Joseph Ax, "Apprehension Over Pensions: Christie Plans Upset Public Workers," in The Record, September 16, 2010, at p. A3. (New Jersey may be a lost cause.)
AP, "Ex-Perth Amboy Mayor's Corruption Trial Begins," in The Record, September 16, 2010, at p. A-3. (Joe Vas "wets his beak.")
Scott Fallon, "Ready to Retire 2 Years Later: Meadowlands Chief Wanted to Oversee Landfill Cleanups," in The Record, September 16, 2010, at p. L-1. (Bob -- "the Undertaker" -- Ceberio is in charge of the bodies buried in the Meadowlands, allegedly. Will we find Jimmy Hoffa near the stadium?)
Nick Clunn, "Deal Made to Save Jobs of 2 Police Officers: Rutherford Approves Limit on Extra Pay," in The Record, September 16, 2010, at p. L-3. (Consequences of years of Democrat mafia machine theft are still being felt in New Jersey.)

It is difficult to know whether Americans appreciate the dangers to civil liberties created by our "war against terrorism." I doubt it. Government usurpation of power to curtail or circumscribe civil liberties and fundamental rights is as frightening, to me, as terrorism. In fact, such actions by government constitute a kind of "state terrorism." It is one thing to grant special powers to government in an emergency; it is quite another to remove those powers once the emergency has passed.

The president claims the power to order the assassination of any American citizen for secret reasons which may not be disclosed to the victim. The victim may be denied notice, charges, and/or the opportunity to confront witnesses in a Debbie Poritz-like nightmare/farce of abuse of government power. I can relate to the feelings of absurdity on the part of victims of such Kafkaesque proceedings. ("American Doctors and Torture" and "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

There is no difference that I can see in secret murder determinations, without trial, for Americans based on SPEECH -- or nothing at all that is made public! -- and Stalin's behind-the-scenes murders of dissidents and potential rivals for political power. Perhaps there is more hypocrisy in our policies since we presume to judge the "ethics" of other nations. ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?")

"The Obama administration[,] fresh off a victory [irony?] in persuading federal judges to dismiss a torture case for fear of revealing state secrets, is divided over using similar tactics to try to block a lawsuit over government efforts to KILL an American citizen accused of ties to Al-Qaeda." (emphasis added)

This appears, to me, to be a defeat for the Constitution and human rights. This alleged "tie" to Al Qaeda is inferred from statements ostensibly made by this individual -- statements which are not quoted in the article -- by an individual who has not been charged with any crime under U.S. law.

Mr. Anwar al-Awlaki has left the U.S. (I can't say that I blame him) based on concerns that agents of the American government will assassinate him for his opinions. It was once deemed unconstitutional and even criminal for the U.S. government to kill people because of their statements or opinions. There was an era in American history when censorship and alterations of legally protected texts was illegal.

An "error" was inserted in the foregoing paragraph since my previous review of this essay. I have now corrected that inserted "error." Regrettably, as more men and women die for our rights under the Constitution, American legal officials continue to defecate on that priceless document to the indifference of law enforcement agents who must be witnesses to this hideous farce of cruelty and fascist censorship that is my experience of cybercrime.

This gentleman's father has brought a lawsuit in federal court seeking enforcement of First Amendment and other alleged Constitutional rights for himself and his son. Efforts will be made by Mr. Obama's Justice Department to dismiss this lawsuit based on issues of standing. Can the father of Mr. al-Awlaki raise the legal concerns of his son in American courts? Mr. al-Awlaki will not come to court as he would prefer not to be murdered. ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")

Mr. Obama's lawyers "do not want to concede that judicial review is appropriate for executive branch decisions on targeted killings."

Never? The administration will also argue that responding to this lawsuit -- or even a hearing on the merits of these allegations -- "could reveal classified information." This is an unpersuasive claim for several reasons: 1) judges are competent to make determinations in camera, as a sidebar to arguments offered as an explicit part of the public record, which would not be revealed publicly, thus sheltering any sensitive information from potential enemies; and 2) judicial determinations should be based on full disclosure of information to colleagues or higher courts, information subjected to the tests of cross-examination and confrontation -- not necessarily publicly -- by affected parties, allowing for criticisms of judicial reasoning, also not necessarily publicly, and when required reversal or overturning of case opinions.

The "War Against Terror," by implication, is extended not only to Yemen -- the current location of this expatriate American -- but to any country where a person, including American citizens enjoying the alleged protections of the Constitution, expresses an opinion that is deemed (secretly and by unidentified officials) "favorable" to Al-Qaeda or "encouraging" of terrorist acts against the United States of America. What this means is unclear.

No sane person condones terrorism. No decent or ethical human being approves of the murder of innocents. For this reason, many persons in the world disapprove of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have resulted in the killing of millions of innocent persons in those countries. Innocent persons were traditionally defined as "persons who had committed no crimes of which they were convicted in a court of law." This definition would include Mr. Anwar al-Awlaki as an innocent person. Incidentally, this definition also includes me. ("Burn Notice.")

The president claims the power to order the execution of Mr. al-Awlaki without disclosing his reasons for that order or permitting the designated murder victim to offer a public defense of his unquoted statements that, allegedly, justify his murder at the hands of American agents. This sort of secret use of unexplained power was known as "tyranny" to America's Framers of the Constitution. If this is the power claimed by the President of the United States of America, then we have abandoned our Constitution. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.")

Cuba has released all political prisoners, initiated a number of measures that are intended to increase civil liberties available to citizens, and is trying to diversify and privatize more sectors of its economy. All of Cuba's economic difficulties could be resolved and/or eliminated, while preserving the gains in social legislation, with the elimination of the decades-old embargo and other punitive measures taken against the embattled island nation. Billions of dollars would flow into the economies of both countries with the end of the embargo. This money would improve, dramatically, the lives of millions of persons in Cuba and within the United States. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba.")

The U.S. government is reported to spend $74 million dollars per year disrupting and seeking to undermine the Cuban revolutionary government and injure the Cuban people. Cuba is not at war with the U.S. and has not engaged in terrorist actions against American targets. The U.S. has not declared war against Cuba. Criticism of human rights abuses in Cuba and anywhere would not be affected by elimination of the embargo.

Improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba would make cooperation on human rights issues easier and more effective. One human rights issue on which both countries should agree is to call for the release of New Yorker, Lori Berenson, from a Peruvian prison where she remains with her two-year-old son, Salvador. Our thoughts and good wishes go out to Ms. Berenson, every day. Women in Peruvian prisons who give birth are permitted to keep their children with them for three years. ("A Plea for Lori Berenson.")

Mr. Christie, continuing sanctioned criminal harassments or computer crime aimed at me and stonewalling or cover-ups of now obvious criminality against me in the past by New Jersey agents is unwise and damages not only the Garden State, but also America's credibility on human rights issues before the people of the world. These crimes committed against me are being seen by many persons in the world. Censorship, cover-ups, lies by government officials do not speak well for New Jersey's legal ethics. ("What is it like to be tortured?")

Fidel Castro has removed all insignia of office from his uniforms with the relinquishing of power, speaking as a "simple soldier of the revolution" to suggest not that socialism is unworkable, but that socialism can work in Cuba -- in terms of human values -- even if specific economic policies may be ineffective and will need to be replaced. Despite Cuba's security concerns and the embargo, increasing protection of civil liberties is taking place in Cuba. ("Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes.") Elizabeth Malkin, "Cuba Details New Policies On Budding Entrepreneurs," in The New York Times, September 25, 2010, at p. A7.

Mr. Obama, please be on the side of positive change in Cuba. Ms. Clinton, please make sure that America is seen as being on the side of these positive developments in Cuba. I have requested that my name be included in any appeal by Cuban writers and dissidents to the U.S. Congress for an end to the embargo and that I be listed as an "American dissident." To my knowledge, none of the authors of such appeals in Cuba have been murdered secretly by the Cuban government. None has been raped. Very few, if any, Cubans have been subjected to the horrors which I have known because of their opinions or face a daily war to express those opinions nor the hourly alterations of their on-line writings.

The model of economic development for Cuba, as a socialist society, is China. China's successful diversification of its economy, while retaining its commitment to the socialism for which a painful revolution was fought by an earlier generation, is working. China's model is an effective and pragmatic form of socialism for the twenty-first century. Cuba's revolutionary socialism can move in a Westerly direction and retain social justice commitments. All that is required in Cuba's situation is an end to the hostilities from the United States. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba.")

Mr. Castro recognized, publicly, and accepted personal responsibility for policies aimed against gays in Cuba early in the years of the revolution. Castro pointed out the threats to his government and the Cuban people at the time that these measures were taken. Nevertheless, Castro said these measures were mistaken and further recognized that gays, along with all persons, may be good revolutionaries and also valuable to society. ("Strawberry and Chocolate.")
"In perhaps the clearest sign yet that economic change is gathering pace in Cuba, the government plans to lay off more than half a million people from the public sector in the expectation that they will move into private businesses, Cuba's labor federation said Monday."

Think of the idea of "private businesses" in Cuba. Think of the Cuban government encouraging private businesses in Cuba. We should support these developments and discourage further hostilities against the Cuban people, hostilities that are often motivated by hatred and greed on the part of many Cuban-Americans. The same persons committing crimes against me and seeking destruction of my writings favor the brutal embargo against Cuba. These people will not bring democracy to any land, including Florida. ("Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes" and "Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me'" then "American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles.")

Meanwhile, back in the "ethical" Soprano State:

"Prosecutors said the Middlesex County Democrat [former Perth Amboy Mayor Joe Vas] engaged in a scheme with a political advisor to funnel money through people who were given funds to make contributions. Vas faces separate charges of using his political influence to further a real estate deal that netted him nearly $300,000, of getting Perth Amboy to pay medical bills and a $58,000 catering bill that was not put up for bid[,] and of having a contractor do free repairs on his home." ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")

New Jersey is not a "model of good government" and respect for human rights for the people of the world. New Jersey is associated with the opposite of "ethics" for most people, including many who live in the state. Will we place an embargo on New Jersey? Much as I would hope so, I doubt it.