More Torture Photos!

June 23, 2010 at 12:04 P.M. In a number of words, in several essays, letters have been inverted or altered in their placing, overnight. I am unable to access many of these essays. I will try to re-post the essays that have been altered whenever possible. This is part of the "induced-frustration" effort. Please see "Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory" then "More Cybercrime and Censorship" and "What is it like to be censored in America?"

Persons in Cuba and other countries wondering about the reality for dissidents in America may wish to examine these essays and come to their own conclusions concerning "freedom of speech" in America. Feel free to contact the U.S. media yourselves to determine whether there is (or can be) coverage of this sad spectacle within this country.

June 23, 2010 at 11:25 A.M. A number of obstructions have made writing very difficult this morning. I cannot say how many essays or other writings have been vandalized, again. I will certainly do my best to make necessary corrections. It is sad as well as frightening that this level of computer crime and cyberharassment, forced impoverishment, abuse -- taking place publicly -- continues to go unpunished in a nation with a Constitutional commitment to freedom of speech.

Efforts to discomfort or silence me are irrelevant to the merits of my arguments or the logical validity of the propositions contained in those arguments. The evidence of catastrophe in Iraq and Afghanistan, economic implosion, increasing totalitarianism at home is overwhelming. The censorship and harassment you are witnessing at these blogs was once impossible in America. The U.S. media's silence in response to censorship was also once unthinkable.

The cooperation of "liberals" in these crimes -- based on ethnicity, gender, or sexual-orientation of corrupt officials or victims -- was inconceivable not so long ago. 9/11 is not enough of an explanation for our plunge into madness. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.")

June 22, 2010 at 4:14 P.M. Access to the first ten articles or writings in this blog is still obstructed. Computer crime and censorship are daily realities. I can never be sure of being able to write from one day to the next. As they say in Trenton, "business as usual." "Errors" in my Derrida essay are fewer than I expected after one day. Incidentally, today's New York Times confirms the pattern detected in this essay. (June 22, 2010.)

Helene Coopper, Thom Shanker, Dexter Filkins, "General's Job Is in Doubt In Exposing Afghan Rifts," in The New York Times, June 22, 2010, at p. A1. (This situation is cruel to our service people.)
Dexter Filkins, "U.S. Money Financing Afghan Warlords for Convoy Protection, Report Says," in The New York Times, June 22, 2010, at p. A4. (We are paying protection money to the people attacking the U.S. convoys, sounds like New Jersey.)
John F. Burns, "British Deaths Rise to 300 From War in Afghanistan," in The New York Times, June 22, 2010, at p. A6. (Why?)
Alissa J. Rubin, "Drug Use Increased in Afghanistan, U.N. Report Says," in The New York Times, June 22, 2010, at p. A6. (We are also financing the opium trade and heroin which will reach our city streets soon.)
Paul Schemm, "Al Qaeda Taunts U.S. With Peace Offer," in The Star Ledger, June 21, 2010, at p. 7.
Liz Sky & Usama Redda, "Second Attack in a Week on Iraqui Bank Claims 27," in The Star Ledger, June 21, 2010, at p. 6.
Dexter Filkins, "Bomb Kills 3 Near a Bank In Southern Afghanistan," in The New York Times, June 21, 2010, at p. A12. (Blasts at two-day intervals increasing in intensity during the entire summer may be expected in Iraq as well as Afghanistan.)
Anne Gershon, "White House Affirms 2011 Pullout in Afghanistan," in The Star Ledger, June 21, 2010, at p. A1. (Taliban wins? Nice of us to tell them when we're leaving.)
Raymond Bonner, "Former Inmate Says Photos Show Abuse at Guantanamo," in The New York Times, July 7, 2009, at p. A9.
Dan Frosch, "Court Upholds University's Dismissal of Professor Who Wrote 9/11 Essay," in The New York Times, July 8, 2009, at p. A15.
Shaila Dewan, "State G.O.P. to Censure Governor Over Affair," in The New York Times, July 8, 2009, at p. A15.
Rachel Donadio, "Pope Urges Forming New World Economic Order to Work for 'Common Good,'" in The New York Times, July 8, 2009, at p. A12. (Christian Socialism.)
Salman Masood & Pir Zubair Shah, "Drone Said to Kill 16 Militants In Pakistan," in The New York Times, July 8, 2009, at p. A8. (Suicide bombings at two day intervals since 2008, every summer, in response to robot bombs.)

During the past several days coordinated attacks in the form of bombings in Afghanistan -- and, at least once, in Iraq -- have made it very clear that the U.S. cannot defeat the Taliban in this kind of protracted guerilla conflict. Hence, various political and military leaders as well as intelligence agencies in the area are looking to make their own deals with the Taliban behind the back of the Americans.

Military commanders in the region are trying to express these concerns indirectly, as they see young men and women DYING in a conflict where success is undefined and the mission is ambiguous. We have anounced our pending departure seemingly without regard for the lives placed in greater danger by that anouncement.

This secret "deal-making" may involve providing intelligence assistance to the Taliban against the Americans until they pull out to maximize the casualties and make us reluctant to return. Since we have now ANOUNCED that we are leaving in 2011, there is no incentive for negotiations. This anouncement is blood in the water for the enemy.

If this conflict has been lost, then I think we can thank the Bush/Cheney torture policy for creating a catalyst for the enemy's recruitment efforts, also for involving us in this sort of an unwinnable conflict in the first place. Mr. Obama is wise to look for ways to get us out of this nightmare and stop the bleeding while he still can. $1 BILLION per month and counting -- reminds me of an oil spill for some reason. ("A Report Card for Barack Obama.")

American society is perceived by the global community as trapped in an irreversible tailspin while falling to earth. I continue to hope that this is not the case. I am struck by the contradictions of American actions that do not seem to trouble our corporate and politically coopted media. All of the stories discussed in this essay appeared over two days in America's "leading newspaper," which has been plagued by typos and bad grammar, incoherences, lapses in judgment and poor editing for weeks and months.

What is going on in The New York Times? Is the editorial staff on drugs or are they leading "a parasitical life while doing nothing"? ("Nihilists in Disneyworld.")

"A former inmate of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was released to Britain this year, has asked a federal court in Washington to preserve 'photographic evidence' that he says shows him being 'savagely beaten' while a detainee." ("Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")

Mr. Rabner and Ms. Milgram, Mr. Christie and Ms. Dow, I am renewing my request for all video- and audiotapes of interrogations or so-called "therapy" sessions, together with all reports or records of any kind of all "interviews" conducted secretly, at any location, by any alleged "therapist" and/or others on behalf of (or with the knowledge of) New Jersey government in any form or fashion from 1988 until today. ("What is it like to be tortured?")

I am requesting the names of all persons present at all so-called "sessions" when I was questioned under hypnosis by Terry Tuchin and/or others. I am requesting any "deleted" items, hidden documents, including records of any payments made to any persons for testimony, or other reasons (i.e., to lie about me) in cooperation with or concerning interrogation sessions, including fees paid to Terry Tuchin and/or Diana Lisa Riccioli during the period from 1988 until today by any N.J. state entity or feds, whether secretly or not, for any reason whatsoever. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

I am renewing requests made to Governor Christie and Attorney General Paula Dow: turn over the torture files. Do the right thing, New Jersey. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?")

"In an affidavit filed in June with United States District Court, the former inmate, Binyam Mohammed, said that video and still cameras had documented his abuse, and that he had seen some of the images, which he said were in the possession of his lawyers."

"He said in an affidavit that in May 2006 a guard 'slammed my head down on the concrete floor,' and another 'grabbed my testicles and punched me.' ..." (Again: "Is Senator Bob 'For' Human Rights?")

"Later 'another guard slammed me and my Koran into the fence,' Mr. Mohammed said. He said soldiers had strapped him down and shaved half his beard, and they then performed a humiliating anal cavity search,' although it was patently obvious that there was nothing to find. ..." ("Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes" and "Washington Days and C.I.A. Tapes.")

"Under the rules for lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees, Mr. Stafford-Smith said, the government has ordered [Mohammed's lawyer] to DESTROY the photographic evidence now that Mr. Mohammed has been freed. It added that it had made similar requests in other cases of released detainees." ("America's Unethical Medical Torturers" and "American Doctors and Torture.")

The U.S. government is asking a lawyer to destroy the very of evidence of criminal conduct by government officials which his former client is now seeking, knowing that this act could make the lawyer liable for obstruction of justice as an accessory to a criminal conspiracy to violate his own client's civil rights. If the lawyer refuses to comply with this instruction, then he may be disbarred for a breach of ethics rules requiring compliance on the part of members of the bar with all rules and regulations of a tribunal. If the lawyer complies with this request, he will be indicted and may be sent to prison. ("Legal Ethics in 2009.")

This schizoid reaction on the part of the U.S. government: 1) to appear more moral and legalistic than the rest of the planet by pretending to an absurd and false public morality (hence, the pretense at outrage at the affair of a married politician); while 2) committing Nazi-like atrocities at concentration camps, hiding the truth in the form of photos and other evidence of beatings, rape, theft, assaults, and hideous medical experiments on mostly innocent and falsely held as well as untried persons, government LYING or perjury, cover-ups, theft of public funds in the billions of dollars (as in New Jersey), as well as the most corrupt and sold out judiciary in the world, also in places like New Jersey.

A jurisdiction like New Jersey is precluded from raising questions concerning anyone's ethics since members of the judiciary are so lacking in ethics themselves. Tell the truth about the tortures, Mr. Rabner. Victims deserve to know. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

This contradiction results in puzzled stares from political leaders in other countries when U.S. officials visit, then offer a list of practices deemed to "violate human rights." We lack standing to comment on the human rights violations of other countries because we have forgotten our own fundamental commitments with regard to human rights issues.

Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama, Vice President Biden and a few others are trying to do what they can to reverse years of disdain for international law, world opinion, human rights of persons under U.S. jurisdiction and to cope with an economy gutted by the previous administration as we bleed money and lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and soon in Pakistan -- or India -- if we are not careful. Amazingly, the federal government cannot control the criminality of New Jersey's power-structure. However, we presume to dictate the behavior of other national governments. This is to appear ridiculous on the world stage.

"Two missiles fired from a remotely piloted American aircraft struck a militant base on Tuesday in the South Waziristan tribal region, killing 16 militants" -- some of these militants are probably 9 years-old -- "according to intelligence officials and residents reached by telephone."

Any alleged "resident" that the journalist could reach by telephone is an intelligence agent. "Collateral damage" has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians that blame the U.S. for these attacks. We are creating our own opposition in Pakistan. Pakistan is a nuclear power in danger of falling to fundamentalist Islamic forces.

The Pakistani government is unpopular with its own people because of cooperating with the U.S., a nation which has made many military officials in Pakistan wealthy, even as ordinary people are suffering and increasingly forced into exile. These drone weapons are creating "collateral damage" in the millions while leading survivors to join revolutionary forces under the dreadful Taliban leadership. At least the Taliban look you in the eye when they shoot you. ("Fidel Castro's 'History Will Absolve Me.'")

"Opposition politicians, on the other hand, vociferously oppose drone strikes and see them as a major cause of public disatisfaction."

"Three months after a jury ruled that Ward L. Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor, was wrongfully terminated for his political views, a judge on Tuesday refused to give him his job back."

Some token arguments concerning academic merits notwithstanding, this termination (perhaps Mr. Churchill will be found "unethical"?) is a direct result of his cogent and scholarly criticisms of American torture and war policies. I am sure that this professor was fired because he spoke the truth to power. I will continue to speak the truth to power in this country. No wonder my writings are censored and suppressed. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba.")

"What is really a shame here is that a jury said Ward Churchill's free speech was violated, and yet Judge Naves goes on for almost 50 pages, saying in so many words, 'Too bad.' ..."

The U.S. has expressed concerns about rights of free speech in Cuba, China, Russia and elsewhere. The response to the daily violations of free speech rights of an American dissident is apathy. Too bad. ("What is it like to be censored in America?" and "How censorship works in America?" then "More Cybercrime and Censorship" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

Mr. Obama, this censorship must be unacceptable on your watch.