Mafia Shenanigans in Bergen County Calls for Feds.

May 7, 2010 at 6:18 P.M. A previously corrected "error" was reinserted in my essay, "Immanuel Kant and the Narrative of Freedom." I cannot say how many other essays have been damaged. The following advertisement was attached, again illegally, to this blog:

"Learn Real Hacking Skills, Major in Network Security UAT, Masters, Bachelors, Associates. http://www.hackdegree.com/ "

These so-called security experts "protect" web sites offering child porn, globally. Are you proud of that service? ("New Jersey is the Home of Child Molesters.")

Regrettably, I will be required to associate soon with persons I know to have betrayed my trust and cooperated in the violation of my rights. I will hold those persons responsible for each inserted "error" at these blogs. I will convey my disgust and anger to those persons on each occasion when I am compelled to associate with them, until New Jersey acknowledges, in writing, responsibility for these matters.

May 7, 2010 at 1:11 P.M. A message conveyed by an advertisement attached, illegally, to this blog is that New Jersey's mafia-municipal forces do not care about the "legalities" or niceties. As one municipal judge expressed it: "We run New Jersey!"

"NJ Web Design, Custom Web Design/Development Free Consultation -- Call Today! http://www.computerimages.com/ "

May 6, 2010 at 6:32 P.M. An advertisement was attached to this blog without my consent that is falsely attributed to "Ads by Google":

"Laughing Through Illness, Humor Helps With Depression Awareness Through Wit and Sarcasm."

John Brennan, "Outdoors Store has an Out: Cabela's May Use Exit Clause if Xanadu Stalls," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. L1. (Xanadu's alleged mob retailers want to take the money and run. "New Jersey's Xanadu Mess.")
Ashley Kindergan & Nick Clunn, "Zisa Arrest Satisfies Many Residents: Some Question Appointment of Successor," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. L1.
"Editorials: Out of Bergen -- Attorney General Should Take Over Zisa Case," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. A12.

Mr. Holder, New Jersey's legal nightmare is a Kafkaesque horror requiring a federal solution. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")

Calls for removal of the Zisa matter from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office are insufficient. Organized crime's contamination of the legal system is pervasive in a jurisdiction that makes Naples and Palermo look like Switzerland. ("Is Union City, New Jersey Meyer Lansky's Whore House?" and "New Jersey is Lucky Luciano's Havana.")

"Bergen County is a big place. But it is filled with small towns, and small town politics."

Have you been to Hudson County? Essex? Union?

"We can think of no better example than the downfall of ousted Hackensack Police Chief Charles 'Ken' Zisa. Anyone trying to track the complicated details and map all of the connections emerging from this troubled department needs to buy a bigger scorecard."

A "scarecard," you mean:

"Here's what we know so far:"

"Ken Zisa was charged with insurance fraud last week by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. City officials stripped him of his post and put him on paid leave. Then the department's second-in-command, Zisa's brother Frank, Jr., suddenly retired." (emphasis added)

Alleged Gambino affiliations with the Hackensack Police Department are "strenuously" denied. We hope. ("Mafia Influence on New Jersey Law and Politics.")

" ... Ken Zisa is a former Democratic state assemblyman with a reputation for playing political hardball. He's on the county board of elections. His brother and father both served long mayoral terms in Hackensack. A cousin, Joseph, is currently city attorney."

They never take sides with anyone against the family.

"The Hackensack Police department has been in turmoil for at least a year. Zisa is named in five civil lawsuits filed by 15 current and former officers, who allege that he shook them down for campaign contributions for himself and his cronies."

Hey, that's called "lobbying." Isn't that right, Idida Rodriguez?

"The department is now led by Acting Officer in Charge Tomas Padilla" -- allegedly, a former bag man controlled by Bob Menendez -- "a police captain who is also a Democratic freeholder in Bergen County. [No conflict of interest? Will Mr. Padilla show the same zeal when investigating fellow Democrats as opposed to Republicans?] ... "

If Padilla is a lawyer, then he already has a doozy of an ethics problem:

"[Padilla] was selected by the city and says he'll step down as freeholder in June. [Mr. Padilla should not be Acting Police Chief until June.] Critics say he is too politically connected to Zisa to make much difference."

Do they know what they're doing in Hackensack?

"The city and county are working so closely together, we can't be sure who is in charge of whom. [That's the problem in New Jersey.] The monitor [sic.] works for the county prosecutor and is monitoring a county freeholder? The top law enforcement officer's wife leads a county-run department where the chief's former girlfriend works?"

"Works" what? Is Kathleen single now? I think this situation goes beyond the paralyzed and underfunded Attorney General's office in Trenton. New Jersey's residents need federal protection from their local governments. Paula Dow is the latest in a long line of politically controlled New Jersey Attorney Generals: Peter Harvey, Zulima Farber, Anne Milgram, now Paula Dow -- no one can be a political animal and a fully effective Attorney General in Trenton.

The top law enforcement officer in any jurisdiction -- this includes Alberto Gonzales, Esq., who was a disappointment in the position of U.S. Attorney -- MUST be independent of politics. In New Jersey, this independence may be impossible for anyone. Eric Holder, Esq. is the best U.S. Attorney General I have seen in a very long time.

The U.S. Attorney needs to step into the New Jersey MORASS -- the emphasis is on the last three letters of that final word.

Everybody's got something under their fingernails in New Jersey. Geez. "Fat Tony" says he don't know what's what!

N.J. Supreme Court's Unconstitutional Politics.

Lisa Fleisher & Chris Megerian, "Constitutional Clash Over Pick for High Court," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. A1.
Karen Sudol & Deena Yellin, "Libraries Brace for 74% Cut in State Funds: Sharing Deals, Access to Computers May Go," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. A1. (Includes law libraries.)
Richard Perez-Pena, "Vow to Block Court Nominee In New Jersey," in The New York Times, May 5, 2010, at p. A25. (Get rid of the bum.)
Mark C. Alexander, "Justice's Denial of Tenure: A Dangerous Precedent," in The Record, May 5, 2010, at p. A13. (Moron.)

"The New Jersey Senate will block Gov. Christopher J. Christie's appointment of a state Supreme Court justice by refusing to vote on whether to confirm the nominee, the Senate president said Tuesday, escalating a partisan clash between the governor and the legislature."

"On Monday, Mr. Christie broke with tradition and said he would not reappoint Justice John E. Wallace Jr., ["pass the doobie on the left hand side!"] the court's only black member, whose seven-year term is about to expire. Since the current system of reviewing justices after seven years was adopted in 1947, no justice had been refused reappointment."

This crisis is about a governor trying to change "business as usual" in Trenton. The New Jersey Supreme Court is a POLITICAL entity in a way that no other state court in America has ever been or is likely to be today. Hence, accusations that Christie is "politicizing" the appointment process (or the court) are hypocritical at best. I believe the N.J. court is also corrupt and unethical. ("Sexual Payoffs For New Jersey Judges.")

Not only is the N.J. Supreme Court political, but it is highly partisan in its politics and fond of "legislating," notably in the disgraceful setting aside of the law to allow an 11th hour substitution by Menendez for Torricelli as Democratic Senate candidate. This was worse -- in the sense that it was more obviously illegal -- than the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Bush v. Gore.

This brazen, biased, liberal legislating and politicking, often done incompetently -- as in the well-intended but disastrous Mount Laurel and Abbott decisions -- brings discredit to the adjudicative process in the most disgraced jurisdiction in America. New Jersey's paralysis in the matter that concerns me reveals the levels of corruption and criminality in a system devoured by secrecy, "favors," cronyism, and organized crime. Shame on you, Mr. Rabner. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

If you care about New Jersey law, the legal profession, judiciary and/or legal ethics, then you should welcome Mr. Christie's efforts and demand that the soiled New Jersey legal system deal with or respond to, say, my critique fairly. By the way, I am anything but a Republican. Any more "errors" to be inserted today, "ladies and gentlemen"? ("Maurice J. Gallipoli and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

"New Jersey," the Wall Street Journal said, "is America's Italian problem" and "corruption nightmare." ("Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in America" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

"Mr. Christie nominated Anne M. Patterson, a corporate litigator. The governor did not directly criticize Justice Wallace, but he has repeatedly said that he intends to change the historically liberal court, which he has accused of overstepping its authority."

"On Tuesday, the Senate president Stephen M. Sweeney, a Democrat from Gloucester County [Norcross man?] said he would not allow confirmation hearings, a committee vote by the full Senate on Ms. Patterson's nomination."

That's what I call politicizing the judicial appointments process! Is this Sweeney guy "connected"?

"A vacancy does not prevent the court from functioning."

The New Jersey Supreme Court would function much more effectively if all seven justices were "vacant" -- which they may be even when physically present. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

" ... 'This governor has injected politics deeply into it,' Mr. Sweeney said. 'The message to judges was Do as I say or you're not going to be around.' ... "

This is more like the N.J. mafia-Democrat machine's message to the world: "We don't care about nothing!"

The governor's press secretary, Michael Drewniak, said in a statement: "The Senate's constitutional duty is to provide 'advice and consent' through a hearing for the nominee, followed by an up-or-down vote in the full Senate. That's all we ask. So we would be surprised if the Senate president is willing to simply abandon the New Jersey Constitution and refuse to consider a qualified judicial nominee.'"

These are your elected officials in New Jersey. Are you proud of them in the Senate and Democrat clubhouses? Have they done a great job for New Jersey? I don't think so. I am not overwhelmed with admiration for the so-called "ethics" of these self-styled "superiors" of the likes of you and me. Are you?