December 31, 2013 at 8:47 A.M. Sadly, on the last day of the year, I am required to state, yet again, that I face harassment in writing from my home. I cannot be sure of being able to return to these blogs in order to continue my work.
For as long as I live I will continue to confront New Jersey's legal system with examples of the corruption and lies that define the state's courts. I continue to demand the truth to which I am legally entitled. I continue to point out the criminality and unethical conduct of judges and ethics officials.
That a lesbian with a fondness for very young women, Lourdes Santiago, who may have had sexual contact with Marilyn Straus while Ms. Straus was under hypnosis, who now admits lying about me and slandering me behind my back as well as stealing clients and fees from me, is listed as a judge or lawyer anywhere in the U.S. is a disgrace for the American legal system. Women exploiting sex workers are not "feminists."
So much human suffering may be prevented or ameliorated -- something lawyers and judges are ethically obligated to do is to relieve the effects of injustice or unethical conduct by attorneys and all officials -- if New Jersey will simply tell the truth in my matters, finally ending the cover-ups, lies, and stone-walling. Shame on you Maureen Manteneo. ("Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?")
Since I continue to experience obstructions when seeking to write on-line, I must point out that I may be prevented from writing further, against my will, at any time. Threats and other attacks should be directed against me, not my family members.
Primary Sources:
Ian Austin, "Canadian Court Strikes Down Laws On Sex Trade," The New York Times, December 21, 2013, p. A4.
Rich Shapiro, "Hard Times of 'El' Gal: Hooker Reveals Brutal Spitzer Tryst," Daily News, December 30, 2013, pp. 4-5. (Ms. Rebecca Woodard describes brutal Spitzer sex habits, also being made into a sex slave by prosecutors insisting that Ms. Woodard continue to work as a prostitute, gratuitously, while they targeted her madam. Is this prosecutorial conduct ethical?)
Jeanne MacIntosh, "'Spitzer Hooker' Also Blows Whistle [As It Were!] On Prosecutor," New York Post, December 30, 2013, pp. 4-5. (Prosecutors in New York decided that "boys would be boys" when the govenor at the time, Mr. Spitzer, was violating the law. The "hookers" and their "madam" were prosecuted.)
Alan Blinder, "Prosecutor Asking Again For Tougher Rape Sentence," The New York Times, December 22, 2013, p. A18. (Austen S. Clem will NOT go to prison for multiple rapes, including the brutal rape of a girl who was 13 years-old at the time of the incident. Mr. Clem is a politically-connected white male in America. Who is protecting Diana Lisa Riccioli? Terry Tuchin? John McGill, Esq.?)
Javier C. Hernandez & Michael M. Grynbaum, "De Blasio's Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse," The New York Times, December 21, 2013, p. A22. (Ms. Chiara De Blasio should be New York's mayor or senator, someday, and should realize that she is not alone in coping with the stresses of adolescence for young women.)
Peter J. Sampson, "Ex-Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking of Boy," The Record, December 20, 2013, p. L-3. (Edward M. De Sear, Esq., 67, former member of the N.J. Bar Association's Ethics Committee, allegedly, and prominent partner at an elite international law firm in New York and New Jersey, residing in Richard Nixon's old neighborhood in Saddle River, New Jersey -- only one of the prominent attorneys and, maybe, judges involved in a private network through which images of child pornography were distributed and trysts with boys and girls arranged -- pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in connection with the "purchase" of a young boy for sex slavery purposes. Mr. De Sear was acquainted with the Honorable Judge Ariel Rodriguez and Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, allegedly, as well as Senator Robert Menendez. Is this distinguished member of the bar, Mr. De Sear, my ethical "superior," Mr. Rabner? "New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System.")
Andy Newman, "Al Goldstein 1936-2013: A Publisher Whose Dirty Magazine Made No Pretense of Class," The New York Times, December 20, 2013, p. A1. (Al Goldstein may have been a First Amendment hero for telling the truth about national sexual practices rather than perpetuating America's lies about sex. The nation's Puritan legacy usually results in public condemnations of Americans' behavior that is indulged-in privately.)
Secondary Sources:
Angela Davis, An Autobiography (New York: International Pub., 1974).
Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class (New York: Vintage, 1983).
Susan Estrich, Real Rape: How the Legal System Victimizes Women Who Say No (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1987).
Duncan Kennedy, Sexy Dressing Etc.: Essays on the Power and Politics of Cultural Identity (Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1993).
Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath It All (New York: Harper-Entertainment, 2003).
Lois McNay, Foucault and Feminism: Power, Gender and the Self (Boston: Northeastern U. Press, 1992).
Every society creates a demonized class of persons who are deemed fitting targets for abuse and exploitation, usually including sexual exploitation.
The history of witchcraft is largely the story of this process directed against "dangerous" women over a period of centuries. A central strand in the history of our civilization and society has to do with the rape and enslavement of vulnerable persons, notably all women and most children. Efforts to protect persons in these groups are recent and faltering and still far from effective. ("What is Magic?")
To engage in the common practice of rape and exploitation of any group of persons, mechanisms of dehumanization automatically kick-in: For example, women are both hyper-sexualized as well as blamed and/or ostracized for their sexuality; children are assigned to a category of the innocent and pre-sexual in popular culture in perpetuation of Victorian-Dickensian Romantic myths and in "denial" of Freudian allegations and/or discoveries about the pervasiveness of sexuality ("latency periods" not withstanding) even as children are also targeted for abuse; members of despised minority groups are classified as "pseudo-intellectuals" and bogus scientific terms designate persons as "intellectually" or otherwise "inferior" as compared with others in the inside group, who are often far worse human beings, as well as intellectually inferior in practice, but who are deemed "superior" in law and practice. ("Not One More Victim!")
Accordingly, in America, African-Americans and Latinos as well as a few others are privately described as "sub-human" even if public rhetoric requires that "sub-humans" be legally equal.
Perhaps nowhere in our culture is sanctioned victimization more welcome and acceptable to most people than when it comes to sex-workers and prostitutes (not always the same category) who may be raped or beaten with impunity, it seems, by criminals in America, sometimes by criminals holding elective office or a judgeship. ("Ape and Essence.")
As the symbolic representatives of America's contradictions on the subjects of sex and the status of women, or the "feminine" in relation to the "masculine" (a point which is not gender-specific), there is no way that prostitutes, especially women, could escape the witch-like label of "unspeakable and evil outsider" even as they set the standard sought by most women when it comes to sexual power or desirableness. ("Judith Butler and Gender Theory.")
Young girls, consciously, dress like the very women our society literally "demonizes," even as all women seek through thousands of books and films created for the purpose, to be "whores" in the bedroom and "successful" in the boardroom.
Needless to say, this dual ambition is a prescription for schizophrenia for many -- often very young -- women trapped in America's absurd paradoxes and hypocrisies and, thus, made targets for sadists and abusers of all varieties. ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "Diana's Friend Goes to Prison!" then "Marilyn Straus Was Right!" and "Menendez Consorts With Underage Prostitutes.")
My observation on this issue is borne out by decades of social science research which has led civilized societies to legislate or enact protections for prostitutes with severe sanctions for rapists as well as sexual abusers of every variety, together with destigmatizing and legalizing the sale of sexual services, while providing access to health care, counselling, education, alternative employment options, and assistance (when necessary) to ensure the safety of women and many men who are employed as sex-workers.
I am sure that Mr. Spitzer -- who prosecuted women for prostitution as he was making use of their services -- would approve of these reforms. ("John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
"OTTAWA -- Citing a Constitutional right of prostitutes to security, the Supreme Court of Canada voted unanimously on Friday to strike down the country's laws governing the sex trade."
In speaking for the court, the Canadian Chief Justice, Beverly McLachlin, stated:
"Parliament has the power to regulate against nuisances, but not at the cost of the health, safety and LIVES of prostitutes." (emphasis added!)
Criminalizing prostitution is an example of punishing the victim rather than dealing with the social structures that construct or create women and many men as "whores," usually through viciously brutal and violent rapes and beatings early in life. ("Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meanings of Prison" and "Abuse and Exploitation of Women in New Jersey.")
As with the drug trade and pornography, demand has something to do with the thriving "success" of these industries. Prominent officials (Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Menendez, recently, along with many others) make use of the services of prostitutes while publicly deploring the industry that provides those services and insulting its professionals. ("Senator Bob, the Babe, and the Big Bucks" and "Is Senator Menendez 'For' Human Rights?")
Prostitution, pornography, drugs are multibillion dollar industries because, aside from all the hypocrisy and lies, they have become as mainstream and middle-class in America as Diet Coke-Cola and Disneyworld. ("Nihilists in Disneyworld.")
It follows from all of this that physical abuse and rape of women is also as American as "apple pie" or "burgers and fries," or even "racism." ("America's Holocaust" and "The FBI Wants Assata Shakur.")
Rape and physical abuse are feminizing activities in our society. These are ways of making persons into "females." There is no way that any of these gender concepts can be understood apart from our notions of power. Similarly, our ingenious society has found ways to make persons into "negros" regardless of what their skin-color may be. ("Is Western Philosophy Racist?" and "Carlos Fuentes and Multiculturalism.")
These categories of sub-human "others" have become Derridean "free-floating signifiers" applied to designated outcast groups, like Muslims, depending on society's needs at any given time. ("Jacques Derrida's Philosophy as Jazz" and "Michel Foucault and the Authorship Question" then "Not One More Victim!")
Along with Canada's Supreme Court and many legal academics, I cannot avoid the feminist conclusion:
" ... of the eroticization of domination. This is the notion that the regime of patriarchy constructs male and female sexuality so that both men and women are [aroused] by experiences and images of male domination of women [females] ... Abuse plays a central rather than peripheral role in our mode of sexuality. Sexuality plays a central rather than peripheral role in male domination." (Kennedy, p. 122, emphasis added.)
This aspect of American culture may be seen in areas which we assume are non-sexual -- like our politics and in court proceedings -- as in government "shut downs" led by "angry white males" and "torture" policies at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Domination and sexual delight in wielding power (or in cruelty) run very deep in us. ("American Doctors and Torture" and "Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?")
" ... The question then is whether it is possible for straight men and women to be sexual, to experience pleasure within the regime, without collaborating in oppression." (Kennedy, p. 122.)
The jury is still out on this issue. "Denial" will not help, New Jersey. Three laws were overturned in Canada that are largely identical to American statutory prohibitions concerning the sex trade:
" ... the first prohibited the operation of a bawdy house or brothel, usually interpreted to include a prostitute's residence. The second banned 'living on the [earnings] of prostitutes,' a prohibition aimed at pimping [Diana Lisa Riccioli?] but that also prevented prostitutes from hiring security guards. The third made soliciting or communicating to [sic.] clients illegal." (Times, p. A4.) ("Wedding Bells Ring For Menendez!")
Similar cases challenging prostitution laws exist today in America, laws allowing for the criminal punishment of young women when their clients, often older and more powerful men -- like Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Menendez -- walk away without any criminal penalties. It is this disparity, hypocrisy, and lie that must be ended if women are to be protected in America or anywhere.
"At the extreme, the legal system's role in the abuse of prostitutes by johns, pimps, and police seems to be more than mere toleration. The system generates the conditions for the abuses that it tolerates by criminalizing prostitution without trying to abolish it. Legalization might make it easier for prostitutes to use the legal system against rape, battery, and sexual enslavement. Legalization might also lead to a great increase in the amount of the activity and to a proliferation of its forms, including forms little better than what we have now. But it remains [true] that the abuse of prostitutes is a direct consequence of the particular balance the society has chosen, rather than of 'human nature' or the 'limits of social control.' ...[Hence, society is responsible for the damage done to women through criminalizing the sex trade.]" (Kennedy, p. 137, emphasis added.)
