October 2, 2013 at 9:25 P.M. Harassments and interferences at my home lap-top make it unclear whether I will be able to continue writing. I will do my best to continue writing at these blogs.
October 2, 2013 at 2:45 P.M. Continuing sabotage attempts at NYPL, #7, Morningside Heights, have been ineffective (so far). I will do my best to continue writing from this location and other library branches.
I have never been to "Facebook" (nor do I have a Facebook or Twitter account); there is no Division of Consumer Affairs action pending against me, no genuine "Final Order" of any kind, nor is there any criminal action, charges, or history in my life now nor have there been such actions or proceedings at any time.
Whatever lies may be posted on-line to the contrary, I will be happy to post a link here to such a bogus site for persons to investigate or witness, at no time have I been "arrested" nor have I ever been served with any kind of restraining order by anyone in any jurisdiction. The smear campaign is a little absurd by now, Mr. Menendez. ("John McGill, Esq., The OAE, and New Jersey's Corruption" then "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "Sexual Favors For New Jersey Judges" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
Dan Friedman, "House of Turds: Taking U.S. to the Dark Ages," The Daily News, October 1, 2013, pp. 4-5. (A ghastly spectacle in Washington, D.C. and no hope in sight for any resolution.)
Nathaniel Popper, "Markets Assess the Impact of a Federal Shut Down," The New York Times, October 1, 2013, p. B1. (The fledgling recovery gets destroyed if this shut-down continues for much longer.)
Ashley Parker, "Conservatives With a Cause: 'We're Right,'" The New York Times, October 1, 2013, p. A1. ("Ashley Parker" is also "Manohla Dargis," part of the Right-wing Republican brigade -- including the Miami Cuban-Americans -- who are "throwing America under a bus." Regrettably, these ignorant people have a stranglehold on the Times.)
Jonathan Weisman & Jeremy W. Peters, "U.S. Government Is Shutting Down in Fiscal Impasse: House G.O.P. Demands Curbs on Health Law -- 800,000 Face Furloughs," The New York Times, October 1, 2013, p. A1. (How will these distressed people live with such uncertainty? We don't care about them? "They're collateral damage," Republicans say.)
Joe Nocera, "Those Banana Republicans," (Op-Ed) The New York Times, October 1, 2013, p. A25. (The petty egos win the day; Americans lose; the global community observes this spectacle with fascinated horror.)
As I contemplate the sorry spectacle of New Jersey's imploding legal system, a failed and corrupt judiciary with organized crime controlling many of the agencies of state government and serving as a shadow authority acting against elected officials (who nominally run the state), I begin to understand how it is that I have fought a 26-year war for the truth and justice which the law says I am entitled to receive "with all deliberate speed." ("New Jersey's Failed Judiciary.")
The law is now irrelevant and pretty much ignored by everyone in the Garden State. I will continue to fight for the truth about my life from New Jersey's bosses. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
The current national shut-down seems to pose a similar dilemma for Americans. Powerful political bosses have chosen to ignore the law out of arrogance as well as the unwillingness to accept defeat in debate. ("Why I am not an ethical relativist" and "John Finnis and Ethical Cognitivism.")
What is at issue in this very ugly episode of America's political drama is nothing less than the viability of our democracy and/or the people's mandate in an age of polarization and division along racial and class lines.
Even if the wealthy few do not like it, America should be a democracy, a society in which the interest of the majority of the people counts as much (or more) than the interest of the 1% who are represented by lobbyists and are least likely to depend on federal disability payments.
Republicans LOST the fight over Obamacare; LOST the challenge to the law before the U.S. Supreme Court; LOST the recent presidential election that was partly a referendum on Obamacare as well as upon Mr. Obama's presidency. Incidentally, "Obamacare" and "The Affordable Health Care Act" are the same law.
Republicans have decided to simply ignore the democratic process and legality (like the OAE in New Jersey!) by refusing to comply with the law -- or even to provide a budget for the federal government -- unless a health care statute they dislike is postponed or repealed. Evidently, computer crime and sabotage have contributed to the web problems for "Obamacare." ("How censorship works in America" and "More Censorship and Cybercrime.")
This is a form of political terrorism or blackmail by our Conservative friends. Such tactics are worthy of military juntas in Latin American "Banana Republics" -- like Mr. Pinochet's Nixon/Kissinger-controlled Chile or Argentina under the generals -- but I have never seen them used in Washington, D.C. by either of America's political parties.
There is no allegation of fraud or perjury in the process that led to approval of Obamacare, which would allow for a Constitutional attempt to revisit the decisions -- as in my situation vis-a-vis New Jersey where there clearly was (and is) fraud and a cover-up! -- there is simply a demagogical refusal to obey the people's will. ("Mr. Boehner's Disgrace" and "Presidential Debates.")
Republicans refuse to provide a federal budget that will allow for continued operation of our government, unless a law they dislike is postponed or repealed, regardless of what has been determined democratically. ("Images and Death.")
Right-wing Republicans -- many Tea Party members read the Bible, literally, even as they read little else -- are willing to halt or destroy America's stagnating economic recovery shattering the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans, whose finances depend on their federal paychecks (to say nothing of the millions of persons relying on social security checks or disability payments), in order to hold the nation hostage to their bizarre medieval ideology and bivalent view of the world.
America has "sinned" by voting for an African-American president guilty of being smarter and better-looking than his Republican opponents. Now the nation must be punished, so sayeth not the Lord, but Mr. Boehner.
Obviously, racism is part of this situation and has been from the first day Mr. Obama arrived in the White House.
"The first shut-down of the U.S. government in 17 years began only Tuesday as Congress bickered and bungled [stumblebums?] an effort to fund federal agencies due to a bitter ideological standoff over Obamacare." (Daily News.)
I am reminded of a judge's comment that America is a "country that does not work anymore."
Polarized opposition between rival views of our reality will not allow for coexistence between the rivals nor for recognition of all the complexities of the so-called "real world."
Complexity is a dirty word for "True Believers" on the lunatic fringes of the political spectrum who are always unwilling to detect subtlety or "layers" that undermine their dogmatism: "We are good; they are evil."
What is endangered is our very democracy and fragile Republic that was once based on the rule of law and not of men. This is to ignore the additional threat to billions of persons observing this sad farce from the sidelines as the global population that is affected by America's actions -- but is without a say concerning what happens in Washington -- begins to despair that sanity has been lost, permanently, in this country. I concur:
"The shut-down would keep 800,000 federal workers at home on Tuesday and inconvenience millions of people who rely on federal services or are drawn to the nation's parks and other attractions. Critical workers, from the border patrol to air-traffic controllers, would remain on the job, unpaid."
If there is a silver cloud to this storm it is the likely devastation of Republicans' fortunes in future national elections, including the next presidential election, when the news films of Mr. Boehner's speeches this week -- like the rants of a spoiled child! -- together with the inarticulate ravings of his angry, white male G.O.P. co-religionists and their "cookie-baking" women folk ("Manohla Dargis, Lizette Alvarez, Iliana Ros-Leghtinen), are replayed for voters appalled and horrified at this dismal episode in American politics. Must we be governed by Ricky and Lucy Ricardo? Or the Beverly Hillbillies?
The Dow Jones average has already slipped 128 points or 0.8% in one day even as the collapse continues on Wall Street:
" ... A CNN poll released late Monday found that just 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 87% disapprove. ... Americans are blaming the Tea Party [as well as ALL Republicans] and its no-holds-barred-against-Obama stance for the crisis -- the party had its lowest favorable rating in its five year history at 31%."
Approval rates for Republicans -- including persons like Lyndsey Graham and other "leading lights" of the party (Rand Paul) -- are plunging to comparable levels reflecting Americans' disgust with their arrogance and bigotry.
If the debt-limit is not extended and America defaults on its debt obligation, then you may expect dire global economic consequences that will result in the financial devastation of millions of lives of persons from all nations.
I was amused and shocked to see Mr. Diamond meeting with the president to discuss these possible economic consequences only one day after meeting with the Attorney General to resolve JP Morgan's "issues" with the Justice Department. No one is going to send someone with Mr. Diamond's economic clout to prison in America, no matter how many economic crises result from Wall Street's "shenanigans." Right, Mr. Corzine? ("Justice For Mumia Abu-Jamal" and "So Black and So Blue in Prison.")
Mr. Christie, this situation (shut-down) certainly will not help your future prospects. Why not give Mr. Boehner a call, Governor Christie?
Democrats in New Jersey will fare no better with Ms. Buono heading for a well-deserved defeat in the gubernatorial election and Mr. Menendez facing a Senate Ethics Committee hearing and more wars against the F.B.I. that is looking, finally, to indict the man from Union City, even as Mr. Ferreiro's crimes taint all of New Jersey's Democrat "gang that can't shoot straight." ("Law and Ethics in the Soprano State" and "New Jersey's Politically Connected Lawyers On the Tit.")
Please stop lying and tell me the truth, Mr. Rabner and Mr. Menendez. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" and "No More Cover-Ups and Lies, Chief Justice Rabner!" then "Does Senator Menendez have mafia friends?" and "Is Menendez For Sale?")
Please stop playing games with people's lives, Mr. Boehner. Everyone is entitled to health insurance.
