July 12, 2013 at 2:10 P.M. Ronald Dworkin passed away on February 14, 2013. I was not aware of his death. I did not see the obituary which must have appeared in the Times. Professor Dworkin was America's foremost philosopher of law at his death. There is simply no one at his level of achievement with a comparable global reputation. He will be greatly missed. I see Dworkin's passing as symbolic, tragically, of the death of many of the hopes and efforts of an entire generation of legal scholars devoted to civil rights struggles on a national as well as international level. We have arrived at a legal reality that is quite different from what was envisioned by the men and women who came of age after the Holocaust. Professor Dworkin's final book is entitled Religion Without God. The work is scheduled to be published by Harvard University Press in 2013. Please see Ronald Dworkin, "Religion Without God," The New York Review of Books, April 4, 2013, p. 67.
July 11, 2013 at 1:31 P.M. Printing services are unavailable at computer #14, NYPL, Morningside Heights. Hackers have altered the connections that would allow patrons to make use of the library's printer. Perhaps this is the work of "Mr. Chesney" at the IRS? ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "American Lawyers and Torture.")
Erica Goode, "Miami Police Are Linked to Pattern of Force: U.S. Inquiry Finds," The New York Times, July 10, 2013, p. A11. (Miami police subjected to federal accusations of racism and excessive violence against African-Americans. How about computer crime?)
Russ Bultner & William K. Rashbaum, "Bonano Crime Family Members Are Accused of Branching Out Online and Into Pills," The New York Times, July 10, 2013, p. A21. (Mafia family with alleged North Bergen and Clifton connections "branches out" online: "Diana's Friend Goes to Prison" and "Celeste Carpiano Likes Da Shore." I wonder how many of these persons and their friends have visited my sites?)
Hannan Adeley, "Ex-McGreevey Aide in Hackensack Deal: He Quit Governor's Office in Billboard Flap," The Record, July 9, 2013, p. L-1. (How much is coming back to politicians under the table? "Connected" insurance broker will get taxpayer money to provide "policies" for government agencies?)
James M. O'Neill, "PVSC Asks $800 MILLION For Upgrades: Sewage Plant Was Crippled by Sandy," The Record, July 9, 2013, p. L-1. (How much of this money will vanish into the pockets of N.J.'s mafia-controlled labor unions and corrupt politicians? 50%? More?)
Monsy Alvarado, "Measure Clarifies Town's Stance On Paying Legal Fees: Ridgefield Acts After Suarez Case," The Record, July 9, 2013, p. L-3. (You will be paying for the once-indicted Mayor Suarez's legal fees. "Suarez Gets Off.")
Deena Yellin, "School Drug Tests a Growing Trend: Some Parents Skeptical of Success Stories," The Record, July 8, 2013, p. A-1. (Children's privacy rights are taken in order to prepare them for loss of privacy in adulthood.)
"IRS Net Expands: Agency Targeted Liberal Groups As Well," (Editorial) The Record, July 8, 2013, p. A-11. (Use of the IRS by politicians as a weapon to target their enemies has become widespread. People -- like Menendez -- have friends at the IRS who will target dissidents, perhaps, for a small fee. "Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" then "Menendez Gets Over on the Feds!")
Abbott-Koloff, "Cancer Claims Peddler of Body Parts: Dies at 49 While Serving a 30-Year Term," The Record, July 9, 2013, p. L-1. (He was "successful," right Manohla?)
Among the most colorful operations of the New Jersey mafia -- America's notorious "gang that couldn't shoot straight" -- was (probably still is) the selling of body parts.
Colorful Jersey characters (like Michael Mastromarino of Fort Lee, a one-time dentist), whose enterprises included harvesting kidneys and livers for those in desperate need, tend to drop like flies, only to be replaced by even worse sleazebags.
"He pleaded guilty in 2008 in New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn to body stealing and other charges related to a $46 MILLION enterprise that authorities said involved harvesting bone fragments and flesh from bodies at funeral homes in Brooklyn and elsewhere [N.J.] without the knowledge of the victims' families. Authorities said the parts were then sold, without being properly inspected for diseases, for transplants and medical research." ("Jaynee LaVecchia and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary in New Jersey" and "New Jersey is the Home of the Living Dead.")
What allows this operation to continue today, which it does, is the protection of corrupt political figures who get a piece of the profits from persons desperate to save loved-ones, including children, from lethal illnesses.
To exploit such afflicted persons is truly worthy of New Jersey's mob. Organized crime lawyers and politicians disapprove of my ethics. I think they are subhumans. You decide who is right. ("Mafia Influence in New Jersey Courts and Politics" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
The Bonano crime family's connections to New Jersey are well-known. ("North Bergen, New Jersey is the Home of La Cosa Nostra.")
The trouble in New Jersey is the pervasive presence of organized crime in the judiciary, law enforcement, and especially among the Garden State's many corrupt politicians whose legal fees are paid by you. ("Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Industry.")
The mafia controls such entities as the legal ethics establishment through its politicians and their appointed judges as well as others on the take, including witnesses paid to lie by OAE lawyers. Shame on you, Mr. McGill! ("New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics" then "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "New Jersey's Politically-Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")
Next time you are on the turnpike in N.J. and wonder about the unbearable stench near the Meadowlands, I can assure you that the smell is produced in equal "parts" by decomposing bodies from which organs are extracted and Hudson County's moral rot. ("New Jersey's Legal System is a Whore House" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
