April 21, 2014 at 3:09 P.M. I will add further items to the list of sources accompanying this essay soon. No damage to any personal property of mine will intimidate me, or prevent me from continuing to write at these blogs.
I can only hope that persons who cooperated with efforts to violate my rights will make no effort to communicate with, or "spend" time, with me. I suggest that you call your friends at the OAE if you need company during the holidays.
I expect, soon, to see the ladies and gentlemen at the OAE -- also the attorneys working at that office -- in order to resolve these matters.
France Robles, "Prisoner to Face Parole Board as Questions Grow About His Conviction," The New York Times, April 14, 2014, p. A18. (One of fifty persons convicted of crimes as a result of frauds by one, allegedly, racist and dirty cop. Many of the victims of this policeman have served years in prison for crimes they did not commit. All of the victims are African-Americans.)
Christopher Baxter, "Cops: Heroin Mills Busted in Paterson," The Star Ledger, April 2, 2014, p. 21. (Alleged Bob Menendez supporter, Juan Perez Guerrero, was among the men arrested as part of a heroin operation that may have included police and prosecutors on the payroll. This would not be the first such operation in Paterson. "Is Menendez For Sale?" and "New Jersey's Child Sex Crisis.")
Joseph Berger, "2 Men Get $18 Million Each In Wrongful Conviction Case," The New York Times, April 18, 2014, p. A18. ($18 MILLION awarded to two persons who were wrongly convicted as a result of "police error" and the withholding of exculpatory evidence from the defense: "Prosecutorial Misconduct.")
Frances Robles, "Prisoner Whose 1988 Conviction is Under Review Is Granted Parole," The New York Times, April 19, 2014, p. A15. (Robert Hill was falsely convicted because of the actions of a "crooked cop." Mr. Hill is an African-American man.)
Jim Norman, "Teen Charged With Sharing Child Porn," The Record, April 16, 2014, p. L-2. ("Teens" are often used to "front" private networks of adults who are smart about legal standards and interested in New Jersey's tons of child-porn and/or -prostitution.)
Mary Deduch, "Hackensack Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Girl," The Record, April 16, 2014, p. L-3. (Darion Benbow charged with sexually assaulting a 14 year-old girl.)
Michiko Kakutani, "Etwining Tales of Time, Memory and Love," The New York Times, April 18, 2014, p. A1. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez established the "boom" generation of Latin American novelists -- and his own work -- as among the best in the world. Along with Borges, Fuentes, Vargas-Llosa, Paz and Carpentier, he will be remembered as one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. "What is Memory?")
Kate Zernike, "Scandal Prompts More Changes For Christie," The New York Times, April 18, 2014, p. A17. (This is about protecting against future scandals rather than dealing with the underlying problem of corrupt and brutal politics in New Jersey.)
Joe Malinconico, "Sealed Criminal Record Exposed: Ex-Councilman Says Filing is Politically Motivated," The Record, April 18, 2014, p. L-1. (Former Councilman Aslon Goow Sr. was arrested and/or convicted 15 times for robbery and managed to expunge his record, even though expungement is not usually available to repeat offenders. This man is expected to serve on the ethics committee of the bar association and may become a rabbi.)
Charles Stile, "Christie Embraces an Embattled Samson: Stands by 'General' Amid Ethics Questions," The Record, March 29, 2014, p. A-1. (Mr. Christie's willingness to "embrace" an utterly despicable and unethical attorney, David Samson, disgraces N.J.'s governor who is the state's former U.S. Attorney. "David Samson Resigns!")
John Brennan, "One Last Deal Ends En-Cap Probes: Founder Sees All but One Charge Dismissed," The Record, April 1, 2014, p. A-1. (William Gauger, contributor to both parties in New Jersey, will see most charges against him dismissed and will not go to prison after paying a $5,000 fine. The loss of public funds in the En-Cap scam -- and in the Meadowlands "projects" -- is in the millions of dollars.)
David Giambuso, "Report: PA Broken by DEBT, Pet Projects -- NYU Study Says That Agency's Original Business Model is No Longer Sustainable," The Star Ledger, April 2, 2014, p. 17. (After David Samson's departure, the extent of the financial catastrophe at the PA is beginning to be seen, including allegations of missing funds and "pet projects" grossly over-budget at the people's expense. "David Samson is On the Tit!")
Colin Moynahan, "Lawyer Will Plead Guilty to Impeding the I.R.S.," The New York Times, April 14, 2014, p. A18.
Defense lawyers have become targets for the federal government. Numerous government agencies are used to injure radical or politically active lawyers, such as Lynne F. Stewart, Esq. and Stanley L. Cohen, Esq., or to prevent them from fighting vigorously for their clients' civil rights -- which is also to fight for your civil rights. ("Lynne F. Stewart, Esq.'s Path of Thorns.")
"Stanley L. Cohen, a prominent lawyer who has represented Lower East Side squatters, political activists and terrorism suspects, announced on Sunday that he is planning to plead guilty this week to a charge of impeding the Internal Revenue Service. ("Aaron Schwartz, Freedom, and American Law" and "Justice For Mumia Abu-Jamal.")
Several attempts to charge me for something, anything, have faltered, perhaps due to the fact that I have not committed a crime in my life. As a result of NOT committing a crime, I am accused of "failing to cooperate" with efforts to charge me with "something." ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
I doubt that Mr. Cohen has committed a crime, except aggressive lawyering for the least powerful members of our community, which may have become a crime for the NSA as well as the OAE. ("New Jersey Lawyers' Ethics Farce" and "NSA Spying is Illegal.")
No doubt New Jersey officials are still trying to charge me for something this week. I doubt that they will succeed. ("New Jersey's 'Ethical' Legal System" and "New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics.")
It is a frightening climate of intimidation of defense lawyers that leads to violations of privacy, censorship, forced impoverishment, threats and assaults that are secretly orchestrated by legal authorities against defense lawyers and many others, together with trumped-up, or framed-up, or bogus charges that destroy people's lives. ("John McGill, Esq., the OAE, and New Jersey Corruption.")
The real crime committed in America by radical lawyers is speaking truth to power -- truth concerning racism, corruption, incompetence and worse in the American legal system. ("Freedom For Mumia Abu-Jamal" and "Have you no shame, Mr. Rabner?" then, again, "Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture.")
Mr. Cohen stated: "I have elected to end this particular witch hunt and harassment. ... These trials [for alleged taxes due] would have made the work that I love and live for, namely resistance and the support of resistance, ineffective for the foreseeable future."
Mr. Cohen embodies what I understand by legal ethics. New Jersey's OAE represents the opposite of legality and ethics. Computer crime, Mr. McGill? Censorship? ("Manifesto For the Unfinished American Revolution.")
Contributing to the civil rights struggle and providing representation for the poor and marginalized becomes impossible, if lawyers' lives are turned into hell unless they accept unjust rulings and look the other way at corruption. Illicit control of lawyers undermines everyone's Constitutional rights. Shame on you, Mr. McGill. Shame on you, I.R.S. (No doubt I can now expect to be audited.)
Massive control is the point of legal and illegal harassment efforts by government agents (or quasi-agents) that are usually directed against politically radical lawyers.
Harassment is something that I have experienced which has made me MORE committed to the struggle for the truth in my life and for social justice. ("Psychological Torture in the American Legal System.")
Many persons are severely damaged by prolonged subjection to harassments of various kinds -- usually surreptitious ones -- taking place with the cooperation of law enforcement. ("What is it like to be tortured?")
Richard Nixon spoke of using the I.R.S. against his enemies. The Justice Department under Bush/Cheney as well as Obama/Biden has done exactly that: targeting political radicals for I.R.S. scrutiny and making use of law enforcement efforts to criminalize dissent. Thank you, Ed Snowden and Glen Greenwald. ("Glen Greenwald's Partner Detained" and "The FBI Wants Assata Shakur.")
The result of these control efforts by government is our National Security State (NSS), where civil rights and due process of law are traded-in for an illusory security. Americans can be killed today for secret reasons never made known to them on the secret order of the president; drones may kill civilians anywhere with impunity; billions of phone calls are recorded, secretly, and privacy rights of persons from all over the world -- including U.S. citizens -- are routinely violated by law enforcement agencies for any reason (or no reason) that is communicated to any victim. Judges do nothing to protect persons' rights. ("Foucault, Rose, Davis and the Meanings of Prison.")
Persons continue to be incarcerated and tortured in Guantanamo, and elsewhere, without being charged for any crimes. ("Is America's Legal Ethics a Lie?" and "America's Torture Lawyers" then "American Doctors and Torture.")
No one who understands what it means to be a lawyer can remain silent in the face of such state crimes and atrocities by law enforcement. America's NSS is the true offense against the Constitution and legal ethics in America:
"In 2012, Mr. Cohen was indicted in Syracuse on a charge of obstructing the I.R.S."
Not surprisingly,
"Mr. Cohen will lose the law license he has held for 31 years, he wrote, but can reapply for it after he is out of prison."
The only real crime in this situation is committed by a government that has become increasingly fond of charging political Leftists in the legal profession with crimes. This policy is meant to intimidate lawyers into providing the appearance of a defense without actually doing much for clients.
Many of those clients are often charged (falsely) with serious crimes for political reasons, and their rights are violated, routinely, by the state. Without lawyers pursuing the claims of the least powerful individuals and offering their best legal arguments to tribunals, such persons are essentially defenseless against overreaching by the state:
"Some of Mr. Cohen's earliest cases involved issues on the Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s. There, he defended a needle-exchange program, an anarchist newspaper, and the right of the homeless inside Tompkins Square to keep warm using fire lit in metal barrels."
