Anthony Chiappone (D), N.J., Guilty of Theft.

June 28, 2010 at 10:09 P.M. An inserted "error" was corrected from a public computer earlier tonight. More fun and games.

June 27, 2010 at 3:09 P.M. Several essays were vandalized overnight. I will do my best to correct all inserted "errors." More N.J. mafia computer warfare must be expected.

Michael Gartland, "Plan to Divvy Up Town Put on Hold: Teterboro Proposal to be Studied Further," in The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. A-1. (Democrats caught trying to steal "ratables.")
Susan K. Livio & Chris Megerian, "Lawmaker in Plea Bargain: Faced Charges of Stealing Aids' Pay," in The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. A-3.
"Guilty of Vagueness: Retool Honest Services Law," (Editorial) in The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. A-9.
Michael Gartland, "Dems Watch Ferreiro Case Warily," in The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. L-1. (Political crooks in N.J. may get off because they are not seen as "prostitutes," except by me.)
Mathew Van Deussen, "Fired Cop Fights to Regain His Job," in The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. L-1. (Cop getting money for "connected" organ seller, Mastromarino, tries to get back on the force.)
Michael Gartland, "Ruling May Turn Verdicts Around," in The Record, June 25, 2010, at p. A-1.

Several essays were disfigured overnight in the continuing effort to use these violations of free speech, induced frustrations, computer crime and daily harassments to discourage or intimidate me so as to forestall future writing efforts, also to suppress or censor criticisms of N.J.'s legal and political brothel. Several conclusions become possible for observers of this shameful farce.

This organized and persistent censorship and civil rights violations requires and implies state government participation and protection for the criminals. I believe N.J. state and county governments are directly involved in the commission of these crimes. Furthermore, I believe that this criminal effort to hurt someone has to do with my substantive views and not with any allegations of infractions or crimes made against me.

If this effort to silence a dissident goes unpunished, then the men and women who have died for our freedoms have died in vain. New Jersey's mafia-political machine thrives on censorship and other behind-the-back attacks where the victim is unable to respond to the accusations. A lot of U.S. politics has become this kind of evil destruction of people's lives through frame-ups or dissemination of vicious lies.

Hundreds of essays drawing on thousands of newspaper articles from many newspapers should make it abundantly clear what N.J.'s legal and political system amounts to. Whatever is done to me, however I may be injured and despite what I have lost in my life, I have no regrets about my loves, learning, or political opinions.

Only one new "error" since this morning is less than I expected. N.J. is getting winded. "Gentlemen," you are letting me down. ("Sybil R. Moses and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Trenton's Nasty Lesbian Love-Fest.")

I invite the reader to draw his or her own conclusions on this matter of New Jersey's "desirability" as a community to raise a family and lead a safe as well as healthy life. I welcome your comparison of my ethics with the ethics of my adversaries. New Jersey's officials and other models of integrity have made their "virtues" obvious. ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

Despite the efforts against my writings -- despite being a victim of protected criminal efforts directed against me and my work -- I do not associate these crimes with any one race, gender, sexual-orientation, or ethnicity, nor any religious group. In fact, it pains me to say that my own ethnic group is most represented in these criminal efforts against me, partly from a misguided assumption that my support for an end to the embargo against Cuba makes me an official of the Cuban Revolutionary government. I have criticized that government and the U.S. government, equally, for human rights violations. ("Time to End the Embargo Against Cuba.")

If you write on-line or anywhere, if you have been plagiarized or censored, if you have been a victim of torture and rape, then you should be as troubled as I am about what this continuing cruelty and illegality says about America or New Jersey. I hope that Cuban dissidents are aware of this horror.

Who will be the next victim of these tactics? Whose opinions will be deemed unacceptable in the future? Who will presume to make these decisions for our entire society? Two items from the newspaper underline New Jersey's continuing problems with integrity in government in a soiled legal system:

"The irony of a Supreme Court ruling that will apparently benefit some especially controversial boldface names is not lost on us. But the appointed justices were given their power to protect the Constitution, no matter how unpopular the result. They [who?] played their role. Luckily, congress has a role to play, too. In their decision, [the] justices called on lawmakers to retool the 'honest services' law to make it stronger and more specific -- for example, by establishing a threshold for conflicts of interest that must be disclosed."

Furthermore,

" ... prosecutors must do all they can to secure clearer examples of the cookie jar behavior that has become so commonplace in New Jersey it is nearly a [banality.] They've done it before: in Operation Bid Rig, investigators used an informant to great effects, catching politicians making big promises while accepting illegal campaign contributions." (The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. A-9.)

Finally, today's newspaper provides another depressing story of political corruption in the Garden State:

"Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone" -- I am told that "we ain't seen nothing yet!" -- "accepted a plea bargain Friday that will allow him to stay out of jail after he had been charged with stealing the paychecks of his legislative aids and using the cash to help finance his 2005 reelection campaign." (The Record, June 26, 2010, at p. A-3.)

Business as usual?