"Freedom is Slavery!"

January 4, 2010 at 11:33 A.M. A previously corrected "error" was reinserted in the text. I have now corrected that "error." I expected much worse.

December 5, 2009 at 2:57 P.M. A letter was deleted from a single word. I have now restored that letter.

November 19, 2009 at 11:26 A.M. Cybercrime and harassment from New Jersey continues, every day.

November 2, 2009 at 12:48 P.M. Obstructions, cybercrime, harassments made accessing these blogs difficult and will (probably) result in vandalisms and defacements of writings, once again. Has Senator Bob been indicted yet? Are the Grand Juries hearing the Menendez matters still "out to lunch"? This spectacle now disgraces the Senate of the United States of America which is contaminated with the presence of an "alleged" bribe taker. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

Timothy Williams, "U.S. Fears Iraquis Will Not Keep Up Rebuilt Projects," in The New York Times, November 21, 2009, at p. A1. ($53 BILLION in Iraq may have been wasted.)
Taimoor Sha & Alissa J. Rubin, "Suicide Bomber Strikes Afghan Market, Killing at Least 15 People," in The New York Times, November 21, 2009, at p. A8.
Elisabeth Bumiller, "Gates Says U.S. Could Cut Aid if Afghans Fail to Curb Corruption," in The New York Times, November 21, 2009, at p. A8. (BILLIONS OF DOLLARS are being wasted in Afghanistan aid that is stolen.)
"Hunger in the United States," (Editorial) in The New York Times, November 18, 2009, at p. A34. (" ... a record number of households [49 million] had trouble getting sufficient food at one time or another last year." Were such households filled with starving Americans "secure"?)
Noam Chomsky, "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours," in Boston Review, September/October, 2009, at p. 25.
Neil MacFarquhar, "Disagreement Over Goals At a Meeting On Hunger," in The New York Times, November 17, 2009, at p. A13.
Jason DePearle, "49 Million Americans Report a Lack of Food," in The New York Times, November 17, 2009, at p. A14.
Sarah Sewall, "Do the Right Thing: A Genocide Policy That Works," in Boston Review, September/October, 2009, at p. 33.
David W. Chen & David M. Halbfinger, "In New Jersey, President Makes Case for Corzine," in The New York Times, November 2, 2009, at p. A1. (NJ has $8 BILLION deficit, much of it due to theft of public funds by lawyers, judges and politicians who disapprove of my "ethics.")
Carlotta Gall & Jeff Zeleny, "Out of Race, Karzai Rival Is Harsh Critic of Elections," in The New York Times, November 2, 2009, at p. A1. ("Carlotta Gall?" Is this "Manohla Dargis"? "Ginger Thompson"?)
"The Press Association: Call for 'World Food Crisis' Action," http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTDrp0EYuBzqvYQNapDYiFOev0ng
Adam Liptak, "Inmate Count In U.S. Dwarfs Other Nations'," in The New York Times, April 23, 2008, at p. A1.
"Ban on Genetic Bias Advances," in The New York Times, April 23, 2008, at p. C1.
Elizabeth Drew, "Molehill Politics," The New York Review of Books, April 17, 2008, at p. 12.
Stephen Holmes, "Is Defiance of Law a Proof of Success? Magical Thinking in the War on Terror," in Karen J. Greenberg, ed., The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 118.
George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1949).
Johanno Strasser, "1984: Decade of the Experts?," in Irving Howe, ed., 1984 -- Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century (New York: Harper Perennial, 1984), p. 149.
Uviller, "Evidence From the Mind of the Criminal Suspect: A Reconsideration of the Current Rules of Accessing and Restraint," 87 Columbia L. Rev. 1137-1212 (1987). (It was inconceivable to this author that the techniques deemed dangerous for use in criminal litigation would become common in civil cases or non-cases, handled secretly, in an American jurisdiction.)
Joan Didion, Fixed Ideas: America Since 9/11 (New York: NYRB, 2003).

"Errors" were inserted in this essay. They have now been corrected, again. January 11, 2009 at 4:17 P.M.

You are a little early for your job interview at the U.S. State Department. Adjusting your nice suit, you sip from a Starbucks mug, place your briefcase at your side, make yourself comfortable at this pleasant and unexceptional government office. You wore your good suit -- the blue one, made by Brooks Brothers -- a nice white shirt with button-down collar sets off a gray silk tie. Polished black shoes and a neatly folded handkerchief in your pocket convey the right message: "attentiveness to details is assured if you hire me."

The government official who interviewed you last week greets you right on time. You are ushered into this person's office, take your seat, and are informed -- with an affectation of concern -- that the U.S. government cannot hire you because (based on genetic testing) there is a 40% risk that you will commit an infraction of some kind within the first 10 years of employment. ("'The Island': A Movie Review.")

With a smile, this "generic person" further informs you that, on the bright side, there is only a 15% chance that you will be arrested or convicted for a crime, whether or not you commit one. America can no longer wait for such things to occur. The policy now is to take "preemptive action." ("'The Stepford Wives': A Movie Review" and see Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report.")
Potential criminals or those capable of an impermissible thought will not be hired. Perhaps they will be deemed "unethical," long before there is any proceeding required to make such a determination, confirming what is already decided. True, this policy seems to exclude EVERYONE from employment.

Persons who may commit crimes are also eliminated or excluded from polite society, of course, before they have an opportunity to take a costly misstep. In this way, everyone's civil liberties can be protected and the American way of life guarded from the terrorist plots being hatched, even as we speak, in the deserts of Arabia. We must protect the public! 1988-2010? (One new "error" inserted and corrected.)

There are some lingering technical problems due to the fact that many of those who are not hired go on to be very successful. Mysteriously, others who are given important positions, commit crimes for which there was no genetic predisposition. American scientists are baffled at this state of affairs, insisting that no one at all should be hired in the future. Furthermore, the entire population of the United States should be incarcerated or equipped with ankle bracelets to provide electronic monitoring in order to protect our civil liberties and guarantee our freedoms.

"The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners."

Feeling safer in the "land of free and home of the brave"?

"The United States has, for instance, 2.3 MILLION criminals behind bars" -- many of whom are former elected officials and attorneys from N.J.! -- "more than any other nation, according to data maintained by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London." ("Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes.")

In the event that anyone is confused about this matter, allow me to make it clear that I have never been charged with or convicted of a crime, even in a jurisdiction that manufactures criminal accusations for political reasons. Unless I am framed for something -- which is always possible in New Jersey -- I doubt that I will ever be charged with a crime.

Time to remove another letter from one of my words, again. Many harassments were experienced today, including deletion of an essay I wrote dealing with the Cuba issue. New "errors" have just been inserted and corrected in this essay, once again, allowing me to start another year and administration on a familiar note with New Jersey's corrupt officials.

"China, which is four times more populous than the United States, is a distant second, with 1.6 million people in prison." ("Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meanings of Prison" and "Havana Nights and C.I.A. Tapes.")

In light of this reality, many people in China are baffled at American officials' public expressions of concern about civil rights in Beijing. Yes, there are civil rights issues in China. There are civil rights issues in America. There are civil rights issues in every human society. Furthermore, these issues are understood differently in the various cultures of the world. "President Obama in China: Economy, Security and, Yes, Human Rights," (Editorial) in The New York Times, November 16, 2009, at p. A24. (Is China or America likely to be "pressed" into adopting one position or another on a controversial issue?) Michael Wines, "China Writer Fights Penalty Over Charter On Rights," in The New York Times, January 5, 2010, at p. A6. (Was Liu Xiaobo raped or stolen from in China? Was he slandered to friends and family members by persons affiliated with the government who refused to identify themselves or speak to him "face-to-face"? Was Mr. Liu starved or denied the truth concerning actions taken against his life?)

Another "error" was, apparently, inserted and corrected in the foregoing paragraph. (Soon: "Is Joel T. Leyner, Esq. New Jersey's Slimiest Fixer?" and "Debbie Poritz Likes the Ladies!")

How is it possible for U.S. officials not to see the absurdity and contradiction in U.S. calls on China to release a person held for 2 years on a state secrets charge, when we have held persons for longer than that -- until recently, on NO charges? Keith Bradsher, "U.S. Presses China in Case of Oil Geologist Held for 2 Years on State Secrets Charge," in The New York Times, November 21, 2009, at p. A4. (In a way, I am being "held" on no charges, since my rights are violated, publicly, along with your rights of access to my writings.)

Mere diversity of population in the U.S. is not enough of an explanation for this phenomenon of excessive imprisonment. Certainly, our celebration of violence -- equating physical cruelty with masculine achievement in sports and military life -- may have something to do with this alarming situation. Far be it for me to suggest that sexism may be a social pathology associated with such things as criminality. ("What a man's gotta do.")

The cult of expertise and mortal dread of the undetermined and creative experimentation in life and loving resulting from liberation of gay and alternative life-styles is a source of concern to government agencies seeking to control "deviant behavior" by suppressing the freedoms of everyone. It is important for government to control how and with whom you have sex. Theft of public funds and torture in New Jersey, on the other hand, is nothing to worry about. I continue to insist that Mr. Rubio's homosexuality -- if he is a homosexual as so many people say -- should not preclude him from marrying or holding elective office in Florida. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks.")

"[The U.S.] has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. (If you count only adults, one in 100 Americans is locked up.)"

What is the rate of incarceration in China? Cuba? It is my understanding that, in both Communist countries, the rate of incarceration is lower than in the United States.

Given this reality and the madness of continuing violations of the spirit and letter of America's Constitution by government agents, it is difficult to believe that there are many of our civil liberties left to protect from "the enemies of freedom." In this struggle to preserve the spirit of this great nation, you -- especially, young people -- are "either with us or against us."

What are the consequences of spending $70 BILLION on prisons and $800 BILLION on weapons and defense-related costs when you factor in the expense of the war(s) in which we are involved? Is anyone in America's political circles insane enough to wish to provoke a military confrontation with China? How will we pay for such a conflict if China does not lend us the money?

"On June 11 [2009] the Financial Times reported, 'the United Nations' World Food Programme is cutting food aid rations and shutting down some operations as donor countries that face a fiscal crunch at home slash contributions to its funding.' Victims include Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and others. [Like Cuba, which is not harming us in any way, but whose people will suffer from the U.S.-created global credit crunch.] The sharp budget cut comes as the toll of hunger passes a BILLION -- with over one hundred million [persons] added in the past six months -- while food prices rise, and remittances decline as a result of the economic crises [largely atributed to Wall Street greed!] in the West." (Chomsky, p. 25.)

An exclamation mark is highly appropriate in the statement enclosed within brackets. Perhaps this is a good moment for Mr. Menendez or New Jersey to insert another "error." ("Manohla Dargis Strikes Again!")

New Jersey faces $32 BILLION in unpayable debt; $1 BILLION in tax increases for 2009-2010; BILLIONS in fraud and theft as well as misspent public funds, including the $2 BILLION Xanadu scam, as President Obama "makes the case for Mr. Corzine." (The state deficit is now at $11 BILLION.) Say goodbye to your N.J. state pensions. Ethics? How many lawyers have been involved in these various elaborate frauds? How many lawyers have rationalized and covered-up torture in America's and New Jersey's prisons and jails? Do you speak to me of "Ethics," Mr. Rabner? New Jersey symbolizes the opposite of legal ethics and legality to the world as the only American jurisdiction in all of our history to be sued by the SEC for fraud. ("No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!")

The statistic used to be 25-50,000 deaths from hunger in the world per day. When these financial realities hit the Third World, we will ensure that twice this number of persons will die of starvation and thirst. 100,000 people per day by 2010-2011 may starve because Wall Street became obscenely greedy and needed a "bail out."

How do we live with ourselves? Who wants to talk about "ethics"? Is the answer to have hackers insert "errors" in my writings and prevent me from publishing my writings? Do you wish to threaten a child or one of my aged relatives in order to intimidate me? Is this how America demonstrates to the world its commitment to free speech? I doubt it.

Sadly, after writing the foregoing statement, I discovered newly inserted "errors" that are not found in previous versions of this text. ("Roberto Unger's Revolutionary Legal Theory" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

You must decide whether you wish to live a free or an utterly "safe" life. Freedom comes with a little risk. It may be more honest today to dispense with the Constitution, declaring elections and democratic processes suspended, indefinitely, in this state of emergency. The risk-warning code for today in New York is "orange." I can only hope that it will not be purple by tomorrow. No one that I know in this city knows or cares what this color-coding system means, if it means anything, which I doubt.

Does the love-life of your neighbors concern you to such an extent that you are willing to grant to the state and federal governments the power to criminalize some sexual relationships, but not others? I hope not. Is any person's inner life or the fleeting impressions and sexual thoughts of a person the business of the state? Are these things to be examined and discussed without a victim's consent by a group of officials extracting information, like a woman's ovaries, as the victim is kept "unconscious" of abusive hypnosis techniques to which he or she is subjected without consent or acknowledgement? Is a society that does such things, secretly, then lies about it -- moral? (See "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")

Are we in a position to judge the "ethics" of other countries? Do we still believe in freedom of speech?

Discussions and evaluations of the candidates in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania centered on whether Mr. Obama wore a flag pin on his lapel. It is preferable to discuss, seriously, whether what that flag symbolizes is endangered by new legislation granting oppressive powers to government. ("Manifesto for the Unfinished American Revolution.")

America cannot accept ranking 17th among industrialized nations in scientific and philosophical literacy among university graduates. I am told that this number from the late nineties is now even lower and test scores are worse. ("Nihilists in Disneyworld.")

The primary source of information about the world consulted by my fellow Americans is "The Colbert Report," others opt for David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart. Regular readers of newspapers is down in New York and the rest of the nation. Less than 5% of Americans, allegedly, are aware of the looming hunger crisis, or the number of casualties in Iraq, the fact that Toyota is the number one automobile manufacturer in the world, or the continuing economic crisis facing the U.S., while less than 2% of Americans are regular readers of serious books of any kind. Political debate in America has too often been reduced to snide ad hominem character assassination. Last Sunday's New York Times was a disaster such as I never imagined possible in an American newspaper:

"Global action was demanded to tackle the 'silent tsunami' of the world food crisis amid warnings that more than 100 MILLION people faced being plunged into hunger." ( See Chomsky, above.)
In 2009-2010, again, the number of hungry persons in the world is approaching 1 BILLION. About the same number of people face misery and death from thirst and denials of access to clean drinking water. These people will be at your doorstep, if these problems do not generate the serious attention of the global community. (Spacing was affected in this essay since my previous review and other inserted "errors" are always expected.)

"Greed and Obesity" are the words most often associated with your country (if you are an American) by the world's peoples, followed closely by "cruelty," "selfishness" and "stupidity." New Jersey, for example, is equated with political and legal corruption, torture, theft or waste of public funds and silencing of dissidents, mutliplying pollutants and cancer. Billions of dollars in the hole as a result of mafia and other criminality in the government and courts of the Garden State. (See "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's Feces-Covered Supreme Court.")

The reelection of Mr. Corzine, if it happens, will have no effect on the poisonous machinery of Democrat politics and the infamous mafia-government partnership in Trenton. Care for a Jersey tomato?

Do these matters concern you? I am involved in a daily struggle to speak as a free human being of the experience of torture and censorship. I am guaranteed this right to speak under the U.S. Constitution, which is (or so I was taught) the Supreme Law of the land. That same Constitution tells me that I have been tortured by hypocrites who have the nerve to speak to me of "ethics." ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")

The response to what I say is further cyberwarfare, hackers, obstructions of my efforts to communicate. The solution to criticism in Trenton is to beat up the critic. Threats against me or my family members will not solve your problems in Trenton. ("Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey" and "How Censorship Works in America.")

We find ourselves involved in a military campaign that seeks to resolve a set of intractable political and cultural divisions in an artificially-created nation, without a tradition of democratic institutions, with a population divided on religious as well as secular grounds, where "success" and "completion" of America's mission is undefined and vague. The challenge in Iraq is not, primarily, military. 5,000 and more American service people have died, so far. Hundreds of thousands of others have also died. No one has defined what constitutes "victory" in the region.

Why are we in Iraq? Well, part of the answer is 9/11, of course, and the residue of the Gulf War. Another answer is found in our recent history, which no one bothers to read:

"We not only expect them [political leaders] to use other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics but encourage them to do so. After the April 1961 failure of the Bay of Pigs, John Kennedy's approval rating was four points higher than it had been in March. [Will Cuba be next on the invasion list? Iran? North Korea? Pakistan?] After the 1965 intervention in the Dominican Republic, Lyndon Johnson's approval rating rose six points. After the 1983 invasion of Granada, Ronald Reagan's approval rating rose four points, and what was that winter referred to in Washington as 'Lebanon' -- the sending of American marines into Beirut, the killing of 241, and the subsequent pullout -- was, in the afterglow of this certified success in the Caribbean, largely forgotten." (Joan Didion, pp. 33-34.)

Should we sacrifice Constitutional principles for "expediency," Mr. Obama? Does the Obama Administration believe in freedom of speech? Does Mr. Obama oppose slavery? Please close the guantanamo facility because it is hurting America's credibility each day that this "concentration camp" (Susan Sontag) continues to exist.

Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli Tortures in New Jersey.

May 23, 2009 at 10:23 A.M. Computer attacks and harassment makes addition of images impossible at this time. My security system cannot be updated. New Jersey's hackers make it necessary for me to focus on the sex lives of Superior Court judges in essays that are coming up. I will not "stop." I will not "adjust." I will not legitimate the atrocities committed against me and covered-up by the corrupt and/or incompetent Ms. Milgram or Mr. Rabner. I will continue to rub their faces in the excrement that is their state's legal system. Spacing may be affected in this essay by New Jersey's hackers.

I will focus on Ms. Milgram's alleged "lesbian loyalties" (Debbie Poritz?) leading to a betrayal of her oath as N.J. Attorney General. Cyberobstructions and harassment:

February 18, 2009 at 2:17 P.M. and February 26, 2009 at 4:08 P.M. Access difficult.

November 6, 2007 at 1:20 P.M. Access to my sites is blocked. Updating my security system is obstructed. I will run scans all day.

I spent an exhausting several hours coping with hackers and destruction of written work. 826 intrusion attempts on May 30, 2007; 866 on June 1, 2007. I am unable to change the image in my profile, on a regular basis, run a full scan, or navigate easily from one location to another. If more than two days pass without a new post from me, then please believe that my silence will not be voluntary. I will keep trying to access my sites throughout the day. Letters may be deleted or other "errors" inserted in this text at any time. As of July, 2007 I am averaging between 500 and 1,000 intrusion attempts and hacks per day, by my estimate, based on past figures and daily damage to my system. These blogs have been indexed at the following sites:

http://www.indexmaster.com/news.php?item16-36k
http://www.methodman.posters.com/-95k

How is the spacing of paragraphs in this essay? Monica Scislowska, "Newfound Documents Shed Light on Lives of Notorious Death-Camp Doctors," in The Star Ledger, March 23, 2010, at p. 2.

I.

I live in a society that tortures people. I do not mean only that people in secret prisons are tortured. It is becoming increasingly clear that this secret torture must be a matter of policy at some level. Also, ordinary persons in the United States are routinely subjected to horrible physical and psychological tortures in prisons and jails, sometimes in their homes. I live in a society that censors and suppresses political speech. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "Censorship and Cruelty in New Jersey.")

Persons are secretly subjected to questioning under hypnosis and in a drugged condition -- made to endure frustrations and stress for purposes of "observation" -- all of which is clearly illegal under existing U.S. law. They are assaulted, sexually violated, stolen from and worse by government agents acting with apparent authority on behalf of state agencies. The information obtained in this manner is used against them by some state governments -- like New Jersey -- even in civil proceedings, provided that officials can later claim to have obtained the information from some "other" source. They say: "It might have been for your own good." Right, John? OAE? Anne Milgram?

One therapist-torturer explained that he is "a patient advocate." Terry tortures people "for their own good." Do you still make such a claim, Terry? Many victims of psychological torture will not be told the truth concerning what has been done to them nor by whom they have been tortured, or even raped. The reality of harm done to them -- for life -- will be ignored, so long as "plausible denial" (a believable lie) can be maintained by the very authorities who then judge the "ethics" and legality in the actions of victims and others. These liars will insist that others tell the truth. Requests for information will be denied in violation of due process and statutory law.

Once again, publicly, I am requesting any and all reports filed with any and all agencies or entities of New Jersey's government and courts by Terry Tuchin and/or Diana Lisa Riccioli, or by any other so-called expert, at any time, from 1988 to date in which I am mentioned, whether by name or under a pseudonym or code, for whatever purpose or reason, whether such report was filed "secretly" or not, or for any purpose, by any so-called investigator (or anyone on behalf of an investigator or "expert") making use of "expert's information," including all recordings or memorializations in any form whatsoever, created for any purpose whatsover, at any time during that same period, and/or since my last residence date in New Jersey.

"... a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks" -- and used secretly well before then! -- "are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable."Scott Shane & Mark Mazetti, "Advisers Fault Harsh Methods In Interrogation," in The New York Times, May 30, 2007, at p. A1. For an updating of these realities, see Philippe Sands, Torture Team: Rumfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (New York: MacMillan, 2009).

A person experiencing such surrealistic torments is expected to find some way to reconcile long-held political and legal ideals with the reality of daily and cynical betrayals of those ideals by politicians and judges. Ethics? Whose ethics? Is the American legal system a lie?

"... hypnosis might be used to seduce young women ... and individuals under hypnosis might be compromised and blackmailed." Robert Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (New York: Dell, 1988), pp. 194-195 (referring to 16,000 declassified CIA documents and other intelligence sources in the U.S. effort to formulate "mind control" techniques, which have developed substantially since this book was written). See, for example, Rebecca Lemov, World as Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men (New York: Hill & Wang, 2005), pp. 71-125 and Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), pp. 151-188. (The parallels between the techniques described by detainees at America's secret prisons and methods used illicitly against persons like me, including many African-American revolutionaries, are too many to be coincidental.) Finally, see Assata Shakur, "Prisoner in the United States," in Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries (New York & Paris: Columbia-Semiotexte, 1993), pp. 205-220. (" ... trying to turn us against each other, trying to scare them to death so that they would be afraid even to have a relationship with me.")

The partnership between intelligence agencies or tactics and mafia/organized crime methods is understandable and common in parts of the country, especially in crime-infested jurisdictions with plenty of corrupt politicians and bribe-taking judges, such as New Jersey: "Referring to the CIA-mob relationship, author Robert Sam Anson says, 'It was inevitable: Gentlemen wishing to be killers gravitated to killers wishing to be gentlemen.' ..." (p. 204.)

Are these the "gentlemen" admired in New Jersey's legal circles? (See "Jaynee La Vecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Victims must find a way to keep from throwing up when contemplating overfed types sporting judicial robes over "brand new" suits from Sears, along with shaky and insincere smiles for newspaper cameras in the ultimate example of cognitive dissonance that is now, much too often, the truth concerning many of America's judges. Politicians are no better. In fact, politicians and judges tend to be the same people in Trenton. (See "Peter G. Verniero and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "James R. Zazzali and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")

Mr. Sands details the news conference at which Mr. Rumsfeld explained a rationale for the Iraq invasion as the only response to "torture" which "is systematic in Iraq, and the most senior officials of the regime are involved." (Sands, p. 14.) Mr. Rumsfeld made these remarks one day after secretly signing the memo by Mr. Haynes calling for "aggressive interrogation" and "enhanced methods" which amount to identical tortures to those complained of in Iraq. Censorship prevents my use of photographs from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. If my MSN group still exists, I urge readers to visit that site and examine the photos attached to my posts there. I am prevented from accessing my sites or using images.

In New Jersey -- the worst jurisdiction in the country in terms of corruption and judicial incompetence -- Senator Robert "Bob" Menendez: "... is widely seen as a machine politician from a corrupt urban county." Thomas B. Edsall, "The Menendez Mystery: Jersey Barrier," in The New Republic, October 30, 2006, at p. 10. (New "errors" were inserted and corrected at my msn group today, March 20, 2008 at 12:54 P.M. I will continue to struggle.)

Menendez is "one scandal away from becoming the next Bob Torricelli." Ibid. Members of the state Supreme Court, legislators, local officials and judges -- all swim in the same sewer. Mr. Rabner, you are aware of these tortures and of my daily demand for the truth concerning what has been done to me and by whom it was done. I demand, again, all records of the tortures/"treatment" to which I was subjected, secretly, and recognition of my legal rights. I am making this demand publicly, again, and before the world. I have no confidence in New Jersey's legal institutions or in persons, like yourself, found in those institutions. ("Stuart Rabner and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")

Ethics? In New Jersey? What do you say to yourself, Mr. Rabner, that allows you to live the lie that is your judicial oath under these circumstances? How many others have been tortured in New Jersey's prisons? How many persons are sitting in prisons or hospitals not knowing that their rights were violated by New Jersey's forensic psychiatrists questioning them in an impaired state? Do you remember the words of the oath that you took to enforce the Constitution? In fact, do you remember the Constitution? If so, how is it possible for you to betray that oath every day? Fear? Why is it permissible to seek to censor or suppress my writings in violation of the U.S. and N.J. Constitutions? Also fear?

Let's get Anne Milgram in on this case. Ms. Milgram, does your alleged lesbianism prevent you from pursuing an investigation that may result in indictments of persons sharing your sexual-orientation or whom you have, as it were, "known"? Diana? What exactly is your relationship with Diana Lisa Riccioli? Debbie Poritz?

Menendez is said to be the "best" Democratic candidate available for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Horrifyingly, this claim may even be true. However, I doubt it. None of these claims are undermined by attempts to censor or silence critics. In fact, censorship efforts directed against me are the best proof of much of what I am saying. (See "What is it like to be tortured?")

What happened to Donald M. Payne? Why didn't he get appointed to the Senate after Torricelli's departure in disgrace? Are Democrats taking African-American voters for granted? Democrats may be in for a surprise. When pondering the abundance of chemical poisons in New Jersey's atmosphere -- which is comparable to the moral rot found in its legal institutions, especially the state Supreme Court -- it may help to focus on the inability or incompetence of those entrusted with the authority to punish polluters and clean up waste, especially in minority communities. (See "America's Holocaust.")

It is, sadly, quite possible that they are exactly as inept as they seem: "First came news of a day-care center in South Jersey in a former thermometer factory. Then came criticism that unlicensed consultants had been hired by developers and polluters to determine how to clean up contaminated waste sites."

Notice this important paragraph:

"And environmentalists expressed concern that the [N.J.] State Department of Environmental Protection did not know which contaminated sites needed cleaning the most, even though it was required by law to do so."

Tina Kelley, "New Jersey Vows to Overhaul Environmental Cleanup Work," in The New York Times, October 24, 2006, at p. B.2. (The situation is worse in 2009, see below.)

"The superintendent of the Paramus schools resigned on Monday night, following criticism of her actions after the discovery of contaminated soil at the Green Brook Middle School last year that eventually forced the school to close in May. The superintendent, Janice Dime, who had worked in the district for 22 years, will resign and receive $212,000 in salary for the coming year, plus $20,000 in medical benefits, said MARIO V. SICARI, the school board president."

Tina Kelley, "Paramus: Superintendent Resigns," in The New York Times, August 29, 2007, at p. B6. (Friend of Joe Coniglio? Hush money?)

Another "error" was just inserted and corrected in this essay. March 20, 2008 at 12:59 P.M. Coincidence?) Harassment continues May 23, 2009 at 10:56 A.M. Further federal investigations are about to lead to new indictments in New Jersey, allegedly.

II.

There is more than one kind of New Jersey contamination. Forensic psychiatrists (from Clifton or Ridgewood? Paramus?) selling their opinions to the highest bidders may have contributed to the following:

"The principal of a Passaic County middle school was acquitted yesterday of charges that he molested a thirteen-year-old girl [13!] in his vehicle while riding home from a New York Jets game three years ago."

"Newton: Acquittal For a Principal," in The New York Times, October 20, 2006, at p. B4. (See "New Jersey Judges Protect Child Molesters in Bayonne" and "We don't know from nothing.")

When asked about corruption and extortion in New Jersey politics, will Democrat Bob Menendez answer -- "On the one hand, but on the other hand?" Based on inferences from a recent article in The New York Times, there is reason to fear that this is likely:

"In a written question from an audience member, Mr. Menendez was asked why he supported Mr. Lamont. Mr. Menendez said that his support of Mr. Lamont was a 'mischaracterization,' adding that he 'supported Mr. Lieberman's run as an independent candidate.' ..." This was at Temple Beth Shalom in Livingston, N.J., but then --" yesterday morning after the two New Jersey candidates' comments were posted on the 'Empire Zone,' a New York Times political blog, a spokesman for Mr. Menendez called this reporter and asked that the Senator's comments be changed."

" ... 'What he was meaning to say is that he has enjoyed working with Mr. Lieberman and looks forward to serving with him should he be re-elected.' " Despite Mr. Menendez's statements ON THE RECORD at the synagogue,"... his [Menendez's] official endorsement is for Lamont, and he supports the party." (Bob Menendez is "for all the people.")

Jennifer Medina, "A Nod to Lieberman (for a While at Least)," in The New York Times, October 20, 2006, at p. B6.

As they say in law schools, "was he telling the truth then? Or is he telling the truth now?" Perhaps therapists may help Bob to sort this out. Is it unethical for a member of the bar to lie about an important matter of policy or position? Hacking into my computer and inserting "errors" in my writings will only serve to confirm an association between such tactics and the subjects of these writings. Harassing me will not make Mr. Menendez any more truthful or honest. What the hell, huh? If I repeat this often enough, there is a slim hope that the New Jersey Mob will get it. Why is access to my sites being obstructed? Who is associated with this "Lulu" site? Or the mysterious and frequent interloper identified below:

http://view.atdmt.com/iview/msnnkhac001728x90xWBCBRB00110msn/direct;wi.728;hi.90/01How about this? (Only two "errors" inserted in this text since my last reading of it. You Jersey guys are slipping.)

http://ad.doubleclick.net/adi/N3271.Scientific_American/B2473889.7;sz=728x90;ord=[timestamp]? (Is censorship an example of "scientific method"? Are these two sites "connected"?)

Here is another problem for Bob. Questions are being asked about the Bayonne waterfront project (remember the Brando movie about the mob in Bayonne?), made possible by $30 MILLION in "seed" money "procured" by Senator Bob from overburdened federal taxpayers -- in other words, "the chumps." What a hell-of-a-guy Bob is, huh? Where's that federal pu-pu platter, Bob? Tax payer-provided "tostones," eh? Have a cigar.

It turns out that many good friends and contributors to Bob's campaign, including Mr. DONALD SCARINSKI and Ms. KAY LICAUSI (a very close buddy of the junior Senator from New Jersey), have received lucrative positions and "substantial compensation" for work on this project. Voters wonder whether these friends have or will show their "appreciation" to Bob. "You take care of me, I'll take care of you." ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")

No wonder I discover new typos each time I read these essays -- typos not found in my printed versions of this same articles. Frustration tactics are intended to cause psychological harm. I have been forced to correct numerous "errors" inserted in a long essay on the writings of Raymond Chandler, only to find them reinserted the next day. This experience may have the opposite of the desired effect on me.

My second book is still suppressed. Is Senator Bob affiliated with Publish America? Lulu? Is Bob a secret partner in Scarinsci's and LiCausi's lucrative efforts? Oh, boy! More "errors." Inquiring minds and federal Grand Juries want to know. No wonder the assault on my computer takes place daily, with impunity. See David Kocieniewski and Ray Rivera, "Waterfront Project Reflects Two Images of a Senator," in The New York Times, October 29, 2006, at p. A1.

Allegations of chromium at that site are adding to the pressures on Bob. Voters would prefer not to get cancer, Bob. Allegations of an impending indictment against Senator Bob cannot be confirmed or denied at this time. In fact, no one can say or deny anything, ever, at any time -- except Tuesdays. Are these really the best people we can find in New Jersey to put in high office or appoint to the judicial bench? Ethics?

If you become an attorney hoping to find Brennan, Brandeis, Holmes, Cardozo, Douglas, Bazelon, Marshall or any of the other great jurists associated with U.S. legal decisions that you studied in law school, then you are in for a major surprise and disappointment when you finally get into a law practice anywhere in the Garden State. Most of the time, you will encounter political hacks and former "C" students in law school, who are now wearing judicial robes and pompous smiles in county courthouses. It is your job to pretend that each of them is Oliver Wendell Holmes, something which they secretly (or not-so-secretly) believe anyway.

These disgusting realities are known to state appellate tribunals producing legal opinions, ostensibly concerned to protect Constitutional rights of citizens -- rights which those same tribunals ignore every day. Much of American law has become an elaborate FRAUD, seemingly designed to deceive or persuade a population (in Orwellian terms) that "slavery is freedom." Politicians in the Garden State are fond of saying: "Nobody ever lost a dime underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

For those of us who continue to believe that the U.S. Constitution is the best document of its kind in the world and that much of the case law interpreting that text is magnificent, the only possible conclusion is that we live in a dual reality: a pretense at compliance with Constitutional provisions is given lip service publicly; even as a private and well-known reality of torture and secrecy, denials of access to information and exploitation is winked at by powerful officials growing rich on the people's money, while wielding disproportionate power. This is certainly true in New Jersey.

$300,000 in rent paid to Mr. Menendez by tenants who get federal money, thanks to him. Coincidence? Or quid pro cuo? Why do we put up with this situation? Where's the OAE? Menendez is a lawyer, right? Ethics Committee? Is it possible that there are (it couldn't be!) double standards in the ethics enforcement system? Horrors! How shocking all of this is for me. What does your rule book say, John?

Much of this cruelty and exploitation is only made possible, I surmise, by a stupefied and apathetic population which feels no need to keep faith with the men and women who have died to preserve our Constitutional guarantees. So long as the Constitution exists as a hope, if nothing else, this is not a situation which should be tolerated. I won't tolerate it. Neither should you. That's your money their playing with.

My free speech rights are not a gift of political bosses or something I have to bargain or beg for, least of all from criminals. These rights are part of my natural moral endowment guaranteed to me (and YOU) under the U.S. Constitution, a guarantee for which American men and women have died in every generation. They will not be surrendered. We owe it to the men and women who have fought America's wars -- especially to many who have died or been injured doing so -- not to be intimidated by anyone in expressing our opinions. Citizens in a free country must be as brave as the men and women who defend that country, every day. Are you a guilty bystander to censorship and torture?

It is time to hit the streets again with a little protest, sixties-style. It must be possible for Americans to recognize the horror and obscenity of this grim reality. The idea that torture is O.K., if it is done secretly (which I call the "Tuchin/Riccioli" torture method, at least in New Jersey), must not be allowed to succeed, not even in that unfortunate state:

"Should we create a professional [squad] of torturers, of interrogators who have been trained in the techniques and who have learned to overcome their instinctive revulsion against causing pain? Medical executioners were [traditionally] schooled in the arts of agony. ... Should there be a medical sub-specialty of torture doctors, [they're called 'behaviorist psychologists'] who ensure that gasping captives don't die before they talk? Recall the chilling words of Sgt Ivan Fredericks, one of the abusers at Abu Ghraib, who saw the body of a detainee after the interrogation went awry: 'They stressed the man out so much he passed away.' He was referring to Manadel Jamadi, whose ice-packed body was photographed at Abu Ghraib before the CIA spirited it away. ... Who should teach torture doctoring in medical school?"

How about New Jersey's own forensic/torture "specialists" Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli, who also likes a little sex with her victims -- perhaps when they are unconscious or under hypnosis, right Diana? Professor David Luban asks:

"Do we really want to create a torture culture and the kind of people who inhabit it? The ticking bomb distracts us from the real issue, which is not about emergencies, but about the normalization of torture. Some might argue that keeping the practice of torture secret avoids the moral corruption that might arise from creating a public culture of torture. But concealment does not reject the normalization of torture. It accepts it, but layers on top of it the normalization of state secrecy. The result [is] a shadow culture of torturers and those who train and support them, operating outside the public eye and accountable only to other insiders of the torture culture."

There must be a few people looking for those dirty shrinks, Terry Tuchin and Diana Lisa Riccioli. No wonder my computer is under attack. Remind the politicians and judges that they work for you. (I use the word "work" to refer to most New Jersey politicians' and judges' lucrative activities with some irony intended.) Tell them, as fans of the movie "Network" will recall, that after a disastrous war and occupation in Iraq, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Katrina, widespread corruption and mob involvement in state governments (like New Jersey's hopelessly tainted institutions), rising oil prices and diminishing expectations: "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!"

Additional Periodical Sources:

"The Torture Debate: The Missing Voices," (Editorial) in The New York Times, May 7, 2009, at p. A32.
"The Torture Debate: The Lawyers," (Editorial) in The New York Times, May 7, 2009, at p. A32.
Atul Gawande, "Ordinary Torture," in The New Yorker, Mar. 30, 2009, at p. 36. (Routine use of solitary confinement and other psychological techniques to induce psychosis or suicide of victims in American prisons.)
Philip Gourevich, "Torture on Trial," in The New Yorker, May 11, 2009, at p. 33. (Lawyers, tribunals, America's legal establishment is complicit in "crimes against humanity" committed against "little brown people.")
Mark Danner, "The Secret Red Cross Report on US Torture at Black Sites," in The New York Review of Books, April 9, 2009, at p. 69. ("Black sites" includes many more prisons than Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, including some within the United States.)
Mark Danner, ed., Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2004).
Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: NYRB, 2004).
Karen J. Greenberg, ed., The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Andrew Sullivan, "The Abolition of Torture," in Sandford Levinson, ed., Torture: A Collection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 307.

Juan Galis-Menendez, "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?" http://Critique@groups.msn.com/ (MSN Groups has closed, I am told, depriving me of the use of images. Defacements, hacks, suppressions and censorship of these writings are routine.)

"A Despicable Enemy," in The New York Post, July 12, 2008, at p. 20. (Editorial documenting torture of American soldiers in response to U.S. torture tactics.)

The following essay has been reprinted without permission by a person or persons unknown to me at: http://www.myepilepsy.com/?q=node/961275 (Discrediting efforts on the part of the OAE?) Unless an essay bears my name and/or an acknowledgment, it should not be attributed to me, since it may have been taken from this site, illegally, and falsely ascribed to me in an attempt to discredit my views. I am not an epilectic nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party. I am not with Al Qaeda. I do not have cancer or AIDS. I am not a Mets fan. I am "independent," politically speaking.

A focus for one's sense of outrage at the failures, or worse, of the U.S. legal system may be found at: http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/supreme/images/justices.jpg (N.J. is the most corrupt legal system in the nation.)

What do judicial robes mean to the people who wear them? How can anyone put on such robes, be aware of and/or ignore torture? See Nina Bernstein, "9/11 Detainees Describe Abuse Involving Dogs," The New York Times, April 3, 2006, at p. B1 (concerning torture of persons accused of crimes and presumed innocent in Passaic County, New Jersey).

Dr. Harold Mandel, "Psychiatry and Psychology Have Become Abusive Disciplines," http://www.topix.net/content/cj/140298183753272823 (Psychiatrists sell their services and violate fundamental human rights of victims subjected to illegal questioning or rape under hypnosis.)