November 4, 2011 at 1:20 P.M. On several occasions I have been greeted by a bogus MSN site when I sign-in at NYPL computers. I surmise that efforts are underway to obstruct my access to these blogs in order to prevent me from writing on-line. I will continue to struggle to write freely. If you can help to identify the persons involved in these criminal activities, please feel free to contact the authorities or any of the organizations listed at these blogs with information leading to their arrest. I have reason to believe that these blog entries are being read in Cuba, China, and in many other places where much US media is not well received or deemed credible on International issues. I am grateful for this attention and moral support. ("How Censorship Works in America" and "What is it like to be censored in America?")
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The decision to request Pakistan's assistance in bringing the Haqqani network to the negotiating table gives new meaning to the word: "hypocrisy."
The U.S. State Department as well as other branches of the American government have complained, for years, that Pakistan's primary intelligence agency (ISI) is complicit in the crimes of the so-called "militants" in the region. U.S. robot bombs have targeted persons in Pakistan (including many civilians killed as what we call "collateral damage"), while the outraged Pakistani government and military have been dismissed -- probably accurately -- as "corrupt and evil."
Much the same is said of New Jersey's soiled legal establishment even as, increasingly, the federal government needs and demands Pakistan's help in the war effort and more action by New Jersey to control corruption. In relation to both (allegedly) failed jurisdictions -- sections of Pakistan and all of New Jersey -- the U.S. federal government is pursuing a divided or schizoid policy that is not likely to succeed.
None of this tension in U.S. policies and actions is seen as problematic: It is O.K. to kill people in a country whose help the U.S. will request after insulting, publicly, the leadership and military of that country because, strangely enough, they object to the murder of their citizens.
Likewise, New Jersey is recognized to have committed crimes against me and many others (Ms. Shakur, Mr. Wright), with judges and lawyers acting unethically in these matters. However, the Garden State wishes to legitimate all actions of the legal establishment while presuming to comment on my ethics -- with my help. Irony? Or madness? A little of both, maybe.
Can we expect cooperation, assistance, or "good faith" from Pakistan? If we recognize that there is intense hatred of America in the region, for excellent reasons; that Afghanistan is seen as an "unwinnable" war for America, both in the South Asia zone and world community; that the U.S. war effort -- like New Jersey's tactics against me and many dissidents -- is rightly perceived as criminal, then the short-term hostility to the U.S. by Pakistani officials will be viewed as not only logical and tactical, but also likely to succeed from their perspective. The key word in this foregoing paragraph is "succeed."
The Americans will soon be leaving Afghanistan, where suicide bombers have taken the lives of 12 U.S. personnel this week, bringing the total casualties in that country to close to 2,000 in addition to the nearly 7,000 killed in Iraq and (roughly) 100,000 wounded. The Haqqani family and its associates, Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, will remain in the area long after the U.S. military is gone. Everybody will have to find a way to deal with the "militants."
This need for a local solution is especially true in Pakistan where 100 nuclear weapons sit perched on the edge of a major confrontation with India (from one direction) or with Western powers (should the weapons fall into the proverbial "wrong hands").
Accordingly, Pakistan's diplomatic problem is to smooth over difficulties with an unruly population regarding their national authorities as too close to the detested Americans, a population which is more than sympathetic to the "revolutionary fighters" against the U.S. presence, while at the same time not allowing extremists to take over the government and those nasty nuclear weapons. We are not helping the Pakistanis (our gallant "allies," remember?) to achieve this worthy and difficult goal with our robot bombs.
The U.S. should try to make it clear to all parties that, for that very reason (i.e., the urgency of the threat), it is in everyone's interest to resolve all difficulties NOW, when maximum concessions can still be extracted from the so-called "militants" and everyone can manouvre for the post-U.S. departure scenario. It will be nice to know that U.S. troops will be missed. Without America in the neighborhood, there will be no one to blame for the region's troubles except the local inhabitants.
The publicity explosion is coming, New Jersey. It is better to get ready now. A list of sources detailing further corruption and incompetence in New Jersey and more news of the world will be attached to this essay in the days ahead.
" ... 'People around the world constantly ask why the U.S. says one thing and does something totally opposite'; why the standards it wants to impose on others do not apply to the U.S. itself. How can the United States claim to be the repository of Goodness yet have such disdain for the poor and deny them the basic right to food and water? People dying of AIDS in sub-saharan Africa wonder why Americans can afford super computers and stealth bombers but cannot help them afford AZT and other drugs. People living in and around tropical rainforests cannot understand American criticism of their management of their crucial resources while Americans continue to trash their environment, from destroying their wetlands to increasing emissions of global warming gases such as carbon dioxide. Europeans cannot fathom why the United States does not support global environmental protection, land mine treaties, or strong provisions to control biological and nuclear weapons or why the United States insists on selling Europeans meat and grains that are tainted with steroids and the result of genetic engineering. Russians and East Europeans do not understand why America insists on imposing economic measures on their countries that increase inequality by every criteria known to humanity. Canadians rue the import of American culture on their society. ... "
Sardar & Wyn Davies, Why Do People Hate America?, p. 199.
Sources:
New York and the World:
Eric Schmidt & David E. Sanger, "U.S. Seeks Aid From Pakistan in Peace Effort: Derided Spy Agency is Now Asked to Coax Militants to Talks," in The New York Times, October 31, 2011, at p. A1. (We have killed, conservatively, 30,000 persons in our robot bomb campaign in Pakistan, strengthening the Haqqani network's support among Pakistanis -- the "ordinary Muhammads," Iliana -- as we insult the ISI, but now we "demand" that Pakistan force "militants" to the negotiating table. Good luck.)
Pir Zubair Shah & Carlotta Gall [Congresswoman Iliana Ros-Leghtinen], "For Pakistan, Deep Ties to Militant Network May Trump U.S. Pressure," in The New York Times, November 1, 2011, at p. A4. (The Haqqani network and others enjoy the support of Pakistan's people, whose hatred for America has become very intense as well as understandable. Ms. Ros-Leghtinen, you will not be the GOP's next Secretary of State; Mr. Rubio, you will not be the GOP's next Vice Presidential candidate. I hope. Mr. Rubio, is it true that your brother-in-law is a convicted drug dealer?)
Peter Latjman & Nelson D. Schwartz, "In Corzine Comeback, Big Risk and a Steep Fall," in The New York Times, November 2, 2011, at p. A1. (What's $700 MILLION gone the way of New Jersey's pension funds? FBI involvement in Mr. Corzine's adventures now seems likely. New Jersey residents want to know whether Mr. Corzine wore a seat belt at his Wall Street office.)
Adam Liptak, "Lifelong Death Sentence," in The New York Times, November 1, 2011, at p. A16. (33 years on death row is in itself "cruel and unusual." "Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Unconstitutionality of the Death Penalty" and "Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal.")
Michael Mendes & James Baerson, "Telling the Story of 41 Years On the Run," in The New York Times, October 29, 2011, at p. A16. (George Wright is facing a U.S. extradition attempt from Portugal, which will not happen if: 1) Mr. Wright will face the death penalty in the jurisdiction to which he is transported; and/or 2) will be forced to appear in a "corrupt or racist jurisdiction where a fair trial is impossible." New Jersey is the jurisdiction that seeks this man's extradition. New Jersey is universally regarded as a failed state with a corrupt legal system to which I hope and believe that Mr. Wright will not be extradited.)
Ravi Somaya, "British Court Says Wikileaks Founder Can Be Extradited," in The New York Times, November 3, 2011, at p. A14. ("Mr. Assange has hinted that he believes world powers" -- i.e., the United States -- "might be behind the sexual abuse charges [DSK?] seeing them as a way of silencing him and halting embarassing leaks." This strategy may also explain the starvation of funds to Wikileaks and slander campaign against Mr. Assange, individually, as part of a CIA "behind-the-back" assassination effort.)
New Jersey's Continuing Nightmare:
Evonne Coutros, "Internet Shifting Sex Trade to Suburbs: Police Note Rise in Prostitution Arrests," in The Record, October 24, 2011, at p. A-1. (Ridgewood, New Jersey is one center of the suburban sex trade that is, allegedly, protected by Cuban-American politicians on the payroll of organized crime.)
Andrew Taylor, "Study Finds Wealth Gap Widens Over the Past 3 Decades," in The Record, October 27, 2011, at p. A-3. (New Jersey's wealth disparities are growing. Luckily, people in Ridgewood are doing well.)
Erin O'Neill, "Judges Have Best Benefits, Lowest Costs," in The Star Ledger, October 27, 2011, at p. 21. (New Jersey's judges protect their own fat wallets at the expense of other public employees.)
Jorge Castaneda, "Dodging Debate On Immigration Could Haunt GOP," in The Star Ledger, October 27, 2011, at p. 15. (Marco Rubio's brother-in-law was convicted of drug dealing and/or possession of Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS) feeding rumors of Mr. Rubio's support among the so-called "Cuban Mafia." These Miami and New Jersey organized crime figures, unlike the Italian mob, are heavily involved in child-prostitution and -pornography. Mr. Rubio's anger at UNIVISION and attempts to intimidate the television station for its coverage of this issue may result in a ban on the Republican debate in Florida. In America, Mr. Rubio, public officials should not be involved in attempts to censor the media or Internet writers. I wonder whether Mr. Rubio is affiliated in any way with the persons committing cybercrimes against me and/or seeking to censor my writings? Iliana Ros-Leghtinen? Bob Menendez? All of them? "Does Senator Menendez Have Mafia Friends?")
Mary Ann Spoto, "Former Client Testifies Bergrin Solicited a Hit," in The Star Ledger, October 27, 2011, at p. 21. (Paul W. Bergrin, Esq. claims that, probably, it was Stuart Rabner who called for the hit because Mr. Bergrin did no such thing. Stuart Rabner will no doubt blame Deborah T. Poritz. "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey.")
Mary Ann Spoto, "Christie Dealt New Setback On Judicial Benefits," in The Star Ledger, October 27, 2011, at p. 10. (Linda Feinberg says "she don't care about nothing." Christie may not like it, but Feinberg and her fellow judges will never cough-up benefits or lose a dime from their salaries, in addition to any cash received from bribery, of course, which usually "goes south.")
