Technology and Privacy in America.

April 9, 2010 at 9:40 P.M. An advertisement was attached to this blog, again, without my consent:

"Find Sex Offenders, See Sex Offenders On a Map & Access Their Crime Profile and Reports. http://www.life360.com/ "

I have never been accused of any crime. I have no desire to find or have anything to do with sex offenders. I am against any injury of any kind to young people, especially sexual violations. I trust that New Jersey's slander machine has been exhausted at this point. Is this the same advertiser that claimed to be "Barack Obama's Official Website"?

Being a victim of sexual violation, this so-called advertisement is not "funny" to me. Will we be surprised to discover that the people engaging in cybercrime against me -- thanks to political connections in New Jersey or Florida -- are involved in the Internet child-porn industry? Will it come as a shock when those people are arrested by the feds thanks to the electronic trail they have left at these blogs over the past several years? Morons.

April 8, 2010 at 9:07 P.M. "Errors" inserted and corrected since this afternoon. More allegations of lesbian child pornographers in New Jersey may have something to do with it. Like the "little girls," Debbie Poritz? Neil M. Cohen, Esq.? ("Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Neil M. Cohen, Esq. and Conduct Unbecoming to the Legislature in New Jersey.")

April 8, 2010 at 3:17 P.M. In an expression of contempt for persons all over the world and for the events discussed in this post along with several others ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?"), an advertisement was attached, illegally, to this blog, falsely claiming to originate with "Ads by Google":

"Official Obama Website, Barack Obama Needs Your Help to Change Washington. Sign Up Today! http://www.barackobama.com/ "

I doubt that this is an "official" Barack Obama website. I am sure that there is an official White House website. The goal is to direct hostilities against the American president. Sadly, I believe this advertisement and effort is the work of Right-wing Cuban-Americans. It is a crime to represent oneself as the President of the United States of America. ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

April 8, 2010 at 10:03 A.M. The writing of this essay was obstructed. Spacing was affected several times before posting efforts succeeded. Harassment and vandalism must be expected from New Jersey government computers. I cannot say how many other essays have been damaged or plagiarized today. I will do my best to make all necessary repairs of the harm done to my work. At any time I may be unable to write further and my works may be destroyed. My second book is still suppressed in America. ("What is it like to be plagiarized?" and "How Censorship Works in America.")

"We Can't Tell You," (Editorial) in The New York Times, April 4, 2010, at p. 8.
Elizabeth Mumiller, "Video Shows 2007 Air Attack in Baghdad That Killed Photographer," in The New York Times, April 6, 2010, at p. A13.
Mike McIntire, "Ensnared by Error on Growing U.S. Watch List, With No Way Out," in The New York Times, April 7, 2010, at p. A1. (Eventually, everyone will be on a U.S. watch list.)
Kirk Semple, "At Last Allowed, Muslim Scholar Visits," in The New York Times, April 8, 2010, at p. A29. (Welcome Tariq Ramadan.)
Edward Wyatt, "U.S. Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic: Oversight Role Denied," in The New York Times, April 7, 2010, at p. A1.
James B. Rule, "1984 -- The Ingredients of Totalitarianism," in Irving Howe, ed., 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. 166-179.
Lionel Rubinoff, The Pornography of Power: An Inquiry Into Man's Capacity for Evil (New York: Ballantine, 1968).
Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: NYRB, 2004). (Includes torture photos, major documents and reports on "touchless tortures.")
Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006).
Rebecca Lemov, The World as Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005).

The use of technology in the "War on Terror" has produced a situation not only of constant monitoring of many Americans (admittedly, my situation is unique), but also of reliance on computers and other "impersonal and objective processes" to make decisions concerning who merits inclusion on watch lists or is dangerous. I suggest that we observe, very carefully, the movements of Dick Cheney or anyone with whom the former Vice President may come in contact. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

I suspect that the "error-insertions" to which my writings are subjected are the work of a "far Right faction" affiliated with the Republican party and some Cuban-American politicians -- possibly people with intelligence experience -- still actively fighting the cold war. The title of my essay "John Searle and David Chalmers on Consciousness" was lowered at my blog list this morning and several other "errors" inserted overnight were corrected before 11:00 A.M. These repetitive and criminal torments are far from unusual for me. They take place with the cooperation of New Jersey government officials.

Quasi-military "anti-Castro" organizations (Cuban mafia) have been involved in the drug trade and other criminal activities in Miami for years. You don't get to commit crimes in America because you are "against Communism." You will go to prison if you hurt Americans, especially children, regardless of your politics -- and you should go to prison. If you kill people on an airplane for whatever reasons, you should be punished for it forever. ("American Hypocrisy and Luis Posada Carriles.")

The goal is to continue to inflict emotional and nerve damage with the hope that I will collapse at some point. This collapse is unlikely. However, the damage to New Jersey's -- and maybe to America's -- legal system will deepen as it becomes more pervasive. More sadly, the Constitution is covered in feces each time an error is inserted in these copyright-protected writings. Tell your friends in other countries about this spectacle. Most people subjected to this level of harassment will experience severe emotional consequences and life-long psychological harm, especially when these tactics can be combined with surreptitious economic or professional devastation. ("Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes.")

Happily, thanks to the ACLU, Tariq Ramadan was permitted to enter this country to lecture on topics concerning politics and Islamic scholarship, thus upholding rights of access to speech held by Americans, like you and me. Mr. Ramadan is a British scholar, affiliated with Cambridge University (I believe), who has nothing to do with terrorism and is not a "fundamentalist" nor an "Al Qaeda" operative. However, under no circumstances should Stephen Hawking be permitted to enter the country.

I have given up hoping that the American authorities -- who are well-aware of my situation -- can control the persons responsible for these tactics. Fidel Castro looks good by comparison with these people. I am sure we can expect further vandalism of this essay after I post my comment. I cannot say what other writings have been damaged today. The Cubanazo partnership with the feminist lesbian brigades in New Jersey is weird. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. I wonder whether anyone has ever made that observation?

It used to be that one would have to wait for hours to reach the person in charge of a data system or administering a "procedure" for security. It is now often true that, below the highest levels, there is no single person in charge since mysterious and "impersonal" security "processes" have been put in place. The possibilities for grotesque errors are many. The results in terms of the destruction of lives are great because no one will ever assume responsibility for such dismal failures and human catastrophes. The problem of reification has grown exponentially. The systems and networks of defense have taken on a "life" of their own.

Cinema always articulates these anxieties concerning out-of-control systems before they become widespread. This is not grounds for dismissing such anxieties. In fact, just the opposite is true. ("'Eagle Eye': A Movie Review" then Bruce Willis in "Surrogates.")

"For more than 20 years, it was settled law, born of bitter experience, that the government may not eavesdrop on people in the United States without a warrant."

This concern with civil liberties must have been a source of dread to Mr. Cheney:

"Until, that is, after the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to ignore the law. When The Times [sic.] disclosed the [illegal] spying in late 2005, Mr. Bush argued that the attacks changed everything: Due process and privacy were luxuries the country could no longer afford. Far too many members of Congress bought this argument. Others, afraid of being painted as soft on terror, refused to push back. In 2008, at the White House's insistence, they expanded the government's ability to eavesdrop without warrants."

"Even that was not enough for the Bush administration, which insisted that targets of the earlier, illegal spying could not sue the government because what happened was 'too secret' even to be discussed in court. The Obama administration has embraced the secrecy argument and has used it to block several cases."

I am sure that so-called "psychologists," like Terry Tuchin, make use of their hypnosis skills to extract information, illegally or criminally, from designated African-American revolutionaries (while indulging in a little theft on the side) and with the knowledge that nothing will happen to anyone caught in these operations. Terry claimed to be a physician working for the C.I.A. I think an F.B.I. affiliation is more likely for Terry Tuchin of Ridgewood, New Jersey. ("What is it like to be tortured?" and "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")

" ... The chief judge of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, Vaughn Walker, ruled last week that the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was the law of the land for Mr. Bush and that when the government failed to get a warrant to wiretap, it broke the law. He also said that the government could not evade acountability with absurdly broad claims of state secrets."

All attempts to bring the matter to court were frustrated by persistent and increasingly absurd claims of state secrets. The other alternative is stonewalling silence combined with continuous harassments as well as threats which seems to be New Jersey's method of coping with my critique. Also, surreptitious or covert censorship and cybercrime directed against Internet writers is favored by Trenton officials. There is not one day at these blogs when I can avoid spending hours correcting "errors" inserted overnight in these writings in order to discredit me or destroy my work.

Witnesses to this daily spectacle find it difficult to accept that government is without blame in this matter. To allow such evil to continue over a period of years is to defecate on America's Bill of Rights and over the graves of men and women who have died for those rights. Do you speak to me of "ethics," Mr. Rabner? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

Have you no sense of shame, Mr. Rabner? Licensing harassments and brutality by "off-duty" rogue state troopers will not absolve New Jersey of responsibility for these great crimes committed against me and others, probably, nor will I be intimidated from raising these issues. Responsibility for these atrocities must be acknowledged, Mr. Rabner, and some effort should be made to make amends for the harm your state's legal system has caused to many victims. In the true meaning of the word, this effort at amelioration is an "ethical" obligation. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

"Judge Walker's ruling also provides a chilling account of the relentless efforts by the Bush administration and then by the Obama administration to kill the civil lawsuit filed by an Islamic charity in Oregon called Al Haramain. The group was subjected to warrantless surveillance and then declared a sponsor of terrorism in 2004."

The government's disdain for the warrant process and all inquiries from the judiciary was expressed in the form of a blanket claim of secrecy. Government acting "secretly" on the lives of victims selected for undisclosed reasons beyond the protection of all laws is dictatorship. I doubt that raping detainees with broomsticks will make us safer. New Jersey also has overwhelming jurisdictional problems in continuing to harass me ten years after I left the state. ("Morality Tale" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

"That reminded us of the movie 'Animal House' and the college dean who puts a fraternity on 'double-secret probation.' [This is probably what New Jersey decided to do to little-old-me in 1988 because of my "scary" opinions.] It doesn't know the rules, or even that it is on probation, so it can never get out of it. Judge Walker more politely called the government's defense 'argumentative acrobatics' that took a 'flying leap' and missed 'by a wide margin.' ..."

This out of control and reified technology -- almost all of the defense systems and information networks, not surprisingly, are given female names (our space exploration and observation satellite is called PAMELA, I believe) -- is combined with a gee-wiz computer game distancing by operatives from the human consequences of their actions. A recent video posted on http://www.wikileaks.org/ depicts an American helicopter pilot "shooting and killing a Reuters photographer and driver in a July 2007 attack in Baghdad."

The irony is found in the boyish tone of exchanges among young soldiers not all that distant from computer games and pinball machines who are seemingly oblivious to the reality of human lives -- including the lives of children -- that they are ending through their pushbutton "game-playing." Game theorists are sometimes almost autistic in their disconnection from moral reality and the suffering of persons reduced to "chips" on a game board. Whatever. ("Richard A. Posner on Voluntary Actions and Criminal Responsibility.")

"Reuters had long pressed for the release of the video, which consists of 38 minutes of black-and-white aerial video and conversations between pilots in two Apache helicopters as they open fire on PEOPLE on a street in Baghdad. The attack killed 12, among them the Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and the driver, Saeed Chamagh, 40."

Given the ethnicity of these victims, I am sad to say that officials like Stuart Rabner and Deborah T. Poritz, Mr. Margolis at the U.S. Justice Department and Sybil R. Moses, perhaps, or Senator ("You have a friend in Bob!") Menendez and Anne Milgram may not be all that disturbed at their deaths. However, a pattern does seem to emerge suggesting ethical unawareness and dullness not only on the part of soldiers on the ground or pilots in the air, but even more of officials abusing secrecy powers and technologies of surveillance and control to enhance their own authority, also to shelter themselves and their friends from all liability for their crimes. Little brown persons are "unethical," perhaps. ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?" and "An Open Letter to My Torturers in New Jersey, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli.")

If you are hoping to elicit an anti-semitic statement from me based on insertions of "errors" in my writings that (allegedly) are the work of Jewish attorneys from New Jersey, I am sure that you will be disappointed. Most of the "culprits" I am dealing with are Cuban-Americans. Angering me by means of these cybercrime and censorship methods is irrelevant to the Constitutional issue that I am raising. However, such tactics certainly say something about the character and "ethics" of their proponents. ("Cubanazos Pose a Threat to National Security" and "Miami's Cubanoids Protest AGAINST Peace!")

" ... the video does not show hostile action. Instead, it begins with a group of people milling around on a street, among them, according to WikiLeaks, Mr. Noor-Eldeen and Chamagh. The pilots believe them to be insurgents, and mistake Mr. Noor-Eldeen's camera for a weapon. They aim and fire at the group, then revel in their kills."

This is one unintended result of violent sci-fi on 3D-cinema screens. ("'The Matrix': A Movie Review" and "'Shoot 'Em Up': A Movie Review.")

" ... 'Look at those dead bastards,' one pilot says. 'Nice,' the other responds."

"A wounded man can be seen crawling and the pilots impatiently hope that he will try to fire at them so that under the rules of engagement they can shoot him again. 'All you gotta do is pick up a weapon,' one pilot says." ("Pulp Fiction.")

"A short time later a van arrives to pick up the wounded and the pilots open fire on it, wounding two children inside. 'Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle,' one pilot says."

The same anomie and disconnection from actions depicted in the Abu Ghraib photos on the part of the torturers and guards is found in this video that provokes only a yawn from American t.v. viewers accustomed to much worse. Perhaps the victims' pants were "too big for them." Right, Bob Menendez? ("Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

Ironically, fundamentalist forces outraged at images of nudity on screen are absolutely delighted at the blood and gore routinely seen in obscene colors at movie theaters and on television today. No wonder we are firing robot weapons and drone bombs at Pakistani villages while disregarding collateral damage in the form of murdered "little brown people." Why should we care about those people? Aren't they computer-generated "extras"? They won't be in the sequel anyway. ("Drawing Room Comedy: A Philosophical Essay in the Form of a Film Script.")

Pondering George Orwell's increasingly optimistic view of totalitarianism based on mid-twentieth century technology, it seems clear that more recent dystopias are far more frightening than what Orwell envisioned. Philosophers today suggest that we worry not about a "boot stomping on a human face forever," but about a machine doing so. Worse, the machine may be us. Hence, James Cameron's "Terminator" films would have have been even more brilliant if the "Terminator" wore a suit and worked for the IRS. "I'll be back ..."

"I call these new information processes," James Rule writes, "'mass surveillance' -- the monitoring by large organizations of large numbers of ordinary people. Obviously mass communications and mass surveillance have much in common; both involve direct relations between central powers and large numbers of individual citizens. But in some ways the two are also diammetrically opposite. For mass surveillance enables organizations to respond to the fine detail of each individual's situation. ["Torture with you in mind!"] Where mass communications entail bombarding individuals with identical and undifferentiated stimuli, mass surveillance involves attending to the peculiarities of the individual with tailor-made organizational action." (Rule, p. 176.)

As these systems increasingly go out of control or beyond human hands, the likelihood grows that more attacks will be aimed at the wrong persons and groups. This will produce asylum-like absurdities and suffering on a grand scale that will be made even worse by its sheer pointlessness.

Each day the cover-up continues, Mr. Rabner, is a renewal of painful tortures for many people as well as a further disgracing of your tribunal and yourself. Any more "errors" to be inserted today? ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

"With the development of television," Emmanuel Goldstein said, "private life came to an end."