Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Amazon Reviews of The Unicorn's Secret - Part 2
And now the conclusion of the book reviews that was started in the prior segment. Amazon has a bunch of fools, but these fools read the book that Ira doesn't want you to read. Of course it just depends on who you care to give your trust. Levy's book damning in more ways than one...
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, August 28, 2000
Maniacal Ira Einhorn Still Hides In France . . ., May 12, 2000
Hard to believe that I was about 5 years old in a suburb of Philadelphia when Holly Maddux's body was found in a trunk in Ira Einhorn's apartment . . . even harder to believe is that he managed to escape and has been living in France for all these years. This book is fabulous . . . I was totally engrossed in it from page 1. Being from the Philadelphia area, I was somewhat familiar with the case, but reading this book opened up so much more to me about Holly, her family, and this monster, Ira Einhorn. He was a small-town nobody, the founder of Earth Day who thought the world revolved around him. What a shame that Holly got involved with him and could have been so naive and easily fooled. The pictures are disturbing -- she was such a beautiful girl, and Ira such a fat, disgusting, ragged-looking oaf. It does not seem to make sense. Then again, it shows how manipulative and sneaky Ira really was. Fascinating story, May 4, 2000 This is a gripping story, made all the more tragic because Einhorn remains free in France. It paints the picture of why liberal activists are so often not benevolent, but selfish, sometimes psychopathic. People with huge egos like to pat themselves on the back, which is what fuels their activism: selfishness NOT selflessness is what so often fuels the public liberal. Einhorn is a (very) extreme example of that. Sometimes the scum, and not the cream, rises to the top (as Einhorn did for a time). France should be ashamed of themselves for harboring him. To read more about psychopaths (of which Einhorn almost certainly is) read the nonfiction WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. Reading that book will help you spot true evil before it happens. Maybe Holly would be alive today if she'd had that book.
Now you can e-mail murderer Ira Einhorn!, December 21, 1999
Ira Einhorn's e-mail address is User886114@aol.com (for the time being while he skulks in France). Let him know what you think of him....before I take him in my fingers....
Excellent, November 30, 1999
Intersting Subject Badly Written, July 8, 1999 I watched the miniseries to this story and was fascinated so I went out and bought the book. However I was extremly dissapointed in the book. It takes the author foreve to put Maddux and Enihorn together, and when he finally does he only leaves them together for a hundred pages or so. Very well researched, June 3, 1999
I saw the movie and it sparked an interest in the story. I was pleasantly surprised at how good the book is. It is well researched and paints a very clear picture. I can't put it down.
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, By A Customer
This book is far more than a whodunit. It is a wonderful history of the politics and pop-culture of the 1960s and 1970s and it provides in-depth character analyses of all of the central players. This one really puts "The Age of Aquarius" in perspective! Was the Unicorn a murderer or framed by secret operatives? The revelations in the last chapters provided an unequivocal answer for me. Maniacal Ira Einhorn Still Hides In France . . ., | By | "lisadiva" |
Even though I knew how the book was going to end, I actually found myself applauding Holly as she began to discover her strengths and pull away from Ira and resolutely decide to remove herself from his life. What if she had been able to do that? How wonderful (for everyone) if that had happened . . . but Ira would not let anyone leave him. He considered Holly to be his possession, and was not about to let anyone get away from him so easily. It amazes me that he was able to escape detection for so long, and that his friends and acquaintances actually trusted and believed his stories . . . even after Holly's body was found. How does one explain that? A body is found in your apartment and you expect everyone to believe you had nothing to do with it? That there was a conspiracy against Ira Einhorn? Get real! Ira was a nobody -- no one would waste their time conspiring against him. The book was fascinating and frightening at the same time. Much better than the TV movie about the case (which, I admit, sparked my interest and convinced me to buy this book). I recommend it to anyone who is at all intrigued by the case, or anyone who is a fan of the true-crime genre. It is a page-turner, a tale that will sicken and sadden you all at once. Unfortunately, it is a story without a resolution, since Einhorn is still in France and has not been brought to justice -- and that will make you seethe with anger.
Fascinating story, Now you can e-mail murderer Ira Einhorn!, | By | The Angel of Death (just over Ira Einhorn's shoulder) |
Excellent, | By | Robert Platt "montraville" (NY NY) - See all my reviews |
This review is from: The Unicorn's Secret (Onyx) (Paperback)
Reviewers below think UNICORN'S SECRET was too tedious and didn't get to the point quickly enough. I disagree. The book is as much about the 60's as it is about Einhorn and Maddux. You need this background to understand the characters, especially Einhorn. You learn Einhorn's will to power actually played a more substantial role in his politics than any altruistic or ideological motivations. Einhorn was addicted to the leadership role, and let politics define who he was in a way that truly twisted his personality. We see this over and over again, even today, in such movements as the Christian Coalition, and Leonora Fulani's "social therapy."
UNICORN'S SECRET, along with David Harris' DREAMS DIE HARD (about another tragic murder of a 60's radical) help more fully define the decade for history.
Intersting Subject Badly Written, What the author seems to focus on is Enihorn's philosphies and promiscuity. This gets extremly tedious and boring.
I give the book three stars because it did give some intresting insight into who Holly was. The miniseries made her seem so sweet and inconnent and the book really described her. That was interesting.
Very well researched, Thursday, November 4, 2010
Amazon Reviews of The Unicorn's Secret - Part 1
So where better a place to find out the public perceptions of Ira Einhorn than Amazon? I thought it would be fun to include a bunch (one dozen in all) reviews of Steven Levy's book that he compromised his soul to produce, The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius.
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, August 28, 2000
True Crime in the Age of Aquarius, March 20, 2010
The Ira Einhorn/ Holly Maddux murder story. This is a pretty interesting and compelling true crime because the main characters are quite interesting. Ira Einhorn could have succeeded in many professions but chose to pursue a "career" as a hippie activist involved in activities such as the first "Earth Day" event. Einhorn, a smooth talker, managed to ingratiate himself not only with the counterculture but also with numerous businessmen who saw him as a useful conduit for information on market trends and creative thought. (Isn't it nice that we have the Internet to find those nuggets now, so people don't have to rely on the likes of Einhorn and his packages of media clippings?) Holly Maddux, the victim, actually was a fairly self-sufficient woman who had traveled the world on her own and held down a physically intensive job in a Buddhist bakery. When she finally got tired of Einhorn's ego and assorted shenanigans and began a relationship with another man, Einhorn couldn't take it. Soon her body was found in a trunk in his closet and he had the gall to claim the government framed him for the murder, then jump bail and flee to Europe with the help of his rich friends. Fun fact: Einhorn's attorney at this point was none other than Arlen Specter. Although not reflected in the edition I read, Einhorn was eventually extradited (after the case was featured on shows like "America's Most Wanted" for years), tried and is now serving a life sentence.
I realize the 70s were a prime time for mistrust of the government and wacky thinking in general, but it's hard to see how people could be so naive as to buy into Einhorn's act. Indeed, some of the silly ideas set forth in the book made me want to laugh out loud though murder is hardly a humorous subject. I gave the book only four stars because it's not really clear what the "Secret" is until you get almost to the end of the book - you think it's the body in the trunk, but it's not - and also because, while you do get some sense of dynamics of Einhorn's and Holly's relationship from things like diary entries and a few friends, I really didn't get a good sense of why these people were together as long as they were. Holly could easily do a lot better for herself and it's hard to believe the portrait painted of her as somewhat insecure because it contrasts so much with her other life experiences described in the book. Did she get a kick out of being the mate of a seemingly powerful man? Did he blubber and tell her he needed her? It just wasn't really clear. I would have also liked to hear in detail from a few more of Einhorn's other women.
Unicorn killer book, March 11, 2009
Most of the times the book is better than the movie but in this case I think that the movie was better. I liked the parts of the book best that discussed Holly & also her relationship with Ira. Some of the parts of the book that discussed Ira's views & beliefs did not hold my interest all that much. Ira's views and beliefs are really out there.
Decent Book, The Real Story, June 19, 2007
This book has every detail you could ever want on Ira Einhorn and the murder of Holly Maddux. Given the evidence the author presents, it's difficult to see Einhorn's innocence.
But the book is fair-minded. Holly Maddux is not portrayed as a totally naive innocent. In many ways, she is shown as a selfish decadent child of the late 1960s. It's also proper to note that Holly repeatedly returned to Ira over the years, despite the objections of many caring people in her sphere. Was Ira truly manipulating her? Not according to this book.
The seductiveness of Social Movements, May 16, 2004
THE UNICORN'S SECRET: MURDER IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, August 4, 2002
I have no doubt that the material contained in this book is as factual as the writer portrays. I did find it difficult to keep up with the changes in time, setting and circumstances of the characters. Perhaps the writer feels that this is a way of sustaining the suspense, but I found it distracting. Overall, I was interested in this man who was recently brought back to the US to stand trial for the murder of his girlfriend. I did learn a lot about him and that is good background for what will inevitably be Court TV material soon. It might have been helpful to the reader to have a psychiatrist's view of Holly and why she did not leave Ira when she was obviouly drawn to another man. I almost gave up on this book before reading the "secret" revealed in the last chapters. Good account of Ira Einhorn who was evil before he killed Holly.
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, August 28, 2000
Maniacal Ira Einhorn Still Hides In France . . ., May 12, 2000
Hard to believe that I was about 5 years old in a suburb of Philadelphia when Holly Maddux's body was found in a trunk in Ira Einhorn's apartment . . . even harder to believe is that he managed to escape and has been living in France for all these years. This book is fabulous . . . I was totally engrossed in it from page 1. Being from the Philadelphia area, I was somewhat familiar with the case, but reading this book opened up so much more to me about Holly, her family, and this monster, Ira Einhorn. He was a small-town nobody, the founder of Earth Day who thought the world revolved around him. What a shame that Holly got involved with him and could have been so naive and easily fooled. The pictures are disturbing -- she was such a beautiful girl, and Ira such a fat, disgusting, ragged-looking oaf. It does not seem to make sense. Then again, it shows how manipulative and sneaky Ira really was. Fascinating story, May 4, 2000 This is a gripping story, made all the more tragic because Einhorn remains free in France. It paints the picture of why liberal activists are so often not benevolent, but selfish, sometimes psychopathic. People with huge egos like to pat themselves on the back, which is what fuels their activism: selfishness NOT selflessness is what so often fuels the public liberal. Einhorn is a (very) extreme example of that. Sometimes the scum, and not the cream, rises to the top (as Einhorn did for a time). France should be ashamed of themselves for harboring him. To read more about psychopaths (of which Einhorn almost certainly is) read the nonfiction WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. Reading that book will help you spot true evil before it happens. Maybe Holly would be alive today if she'd had that book.
Now you can e-mail murderer Ira Einhorn!, December 21, 1999
Ira Einhorn's e-mail address is User886114@aol.com (for the time being while he skulks in France). Let him know what you think of him....before I take him in my fingers....
Excellent, November 30, 1999
Intersting Subject Badly Written, July 8, 1999 I watched the miniseries to this story and was fascinated so I went out and bought the book. However I was extremly dissapointed in the book. It takes the author foreve to put Maddux and Enihorn together, and when he finally does he only leaves them together for a hundred pages or so. Very well researched, June 3, 1999
I saw the movie and it sparked an interest in the story. I was pleasantly surprised at how good the book is. It is well researched and paints a very clear picture. I can't put it down.
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, By A Customer
This review is from: The Unicorn's Secret (Onyx) (Paperback)
This book is far more than a whodunit. It is a wonderful history of the politics and pop-culture of the 1960s and 1970s and it provides in-depth character analyses of all of the central players. This one really puts "The Age of Aquarius" in perspective! Was the Unicorn a murderer or framed by secret operatives? The revelations in the last chapters provided an unequivocal answer for me. True Crime in the Age of Aquarius, | By | Privacy, Please (Maryland, USA) |
I realize the 70s were a prime time for mistrust of the government and wacky thinking in general, but it's hard to see how people could be so naive as to buy into Einhorn's act. Indeed, some of the silly ideas set forth in the book made me want to laugh out loud though murder is hardly a humorous subject. I gave the book only four stars because it's not really clear what the "Secret" is until you get almost to the end of the book - you think it's the body in the trunk, but it's not - and also because, while you do get some sense of dynamics of Einhorn's and Holly's relationship from things like diary entries and a few friends, I really didn't get a good sense of why these people were together as long as they were. Holly could easily do a lot better for herself and it's hard to believe the portrait painted of her as somewhat insecure because it contrasts so much with her other life experiences described in the book. Did she get a kick out of being the mate of a seemingly powerful man? Did he blubber and tell her he needed her? It just wasn't really clear. I would have also liked to hear in detail from a few more of Einhorn's other women.
Unicorn killer book, | By | Mary A. Fabry (Green Bay, WI United States) |
Decent Book, The Real Story, | By | Marko Vuckic (New Hampshire) |
But the book is fair-minded. Holly Maddux is not portrayed as a totally naive innocent. In many ways, she is shown as a selfish decadent child of the late 1960s. It's also proper to note that Holly repeatedly returned to Ira over the years, despite the objections of many caring people in her sphere. Was Ira truly manipulating her? Not according to this book.
The seductiveness of Social Movements, | By | Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn) |
This review is from: The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius (Hardcover)
Ira Einhorn was a child of the Age of Aquarius. He was not only a child, though, he was an instigator, planner, creator of that weird era. He became leader of a social movement and no story better illustrates the power of such media-driven movements. First of all, they have the ability to make ordinary people interpret the world in terms that differ from reality. Thus, we are subjected to daily litanies of the awful environment while the US (again) tops the UN list of nations with the cleanest water and safest food.The other power of social movements is the manner in which all sorts of crimes are permitted for the "good of the movement". Ira was a showman who not only caught the leading fads and trends but created them. Thus he joined New Age idiocy (UFO's, ESP, conspiracies at every corner) with ecology where he was the instigator of the preposterous "Earth Day", a celebration that has now become a financially successful cottage industry. Add to that radical politics, drugs and sex and one has the recipe for a disaster. Repeatedly he outwitted politicians who attempted to cash in on the latest craze. Through sheer showmanship and continual media self-promotion he established himself as the man around town.
Around this time enter one Holly Madux, former high school cheerleader from Texas and susceptible to his many charms. Five years later she "disappears". Skip forward and her body is found in Ira's apt, he is arrested and with the help of Arlen Specter (R-PA) he is released on a $40,000 bond and skips the country. He resurfaces in Ireland only to disappear again. Finally, in 1997 he was caught in France, still proclaiming his innnocence.
Friends felt he had deserted "the Cause" though he is fondly remembered for his power as an organizer, facilitator and power broker - perhaps his true calling. His private life was, of course, much different from his public persona and apparently involved cruelty toward his lovers. In his latest interviews one almost gets the sense of entitlement for commission of a crime due to his past actions. A sad, touching, horrifying, eye-opener of a book.
THE UNICORN'S SECRET: MURDER IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS, | By | CAROL DENHAM (West Greenwich, RHODE ISLAND United States) |
Gripping, Informative, a Real Page-Turner, By A Customer
This book is far more than a whodunit. It is a wonderful history of the politics and pop-culture of the 1960s and 1970s and it provides in-depth character analyses of all of the central players. This one really puts "The Age of Aquarius" in perspective! Was the Unicorn a murderer or framed by secret operatives? The revelations in the last chapters provided an unequivocal answer for me. Maniacal Ira Einhorn Still Hides In France . . ., | By | "lisadiva" |
Even though I knew how the book was going to end, I actually found myself applauding Holly as she began to discover her strengths and pull away from Ira and resolutely decide to remove herself from his life. What if she had been able to do that? How wonderful (for everyone) if that had happened . . . but Ira would not let anyone leave him. He considered Holly to be his possession, and was not about to let anyone get away from him so easily. It amazes me that he was able to escape detection for so long, and that his friends and acquaintances actually trusted and believed his stories . . . even after Holly's body was found. How does one explain that? A body is found in your apartment and you expect everyone to believe you had nothing to do with it? That there was a conspiracy against Ira Einhorn? Get real! Ira was a nobody -- no one would waste their time conspiring against him. The book was fascinating and frightening at the same time. Much better than the TV movie about the case (which, I admit, sparked my interest and convinced me to buy this book). I recommend it to anyone who is at all intrigued by the case, or anyone who is a fan of the true-crime genre. It is a page-turner, a tale that will sicken and sadden you all at once. Unfortunately, it is a story without a resolution, since Einhorn is still in France and has not been brought to justice -- and that will make you seethe with anger.
Fascinating story, Now you can e-mail murderer Ira Einhorn!, | By | The Angel of Death (just over Ira Einhorn's shoulder) |
Excellent, | By | Robert Platt "montraville" (NY NY) - See all my reviews |
This review is from: The Unicorn's Secret (Onyx) (Paperback)
Reviewers below think UNICORN'S SECRET was too tedious and didn't get to the point quickly enough. I disagree. The book is as much about the 60's as it is about Einhorn and Maddux. You need this background to understand the characters, especially Einhorn. You learn Einhorn's will to power actually played a more substantial role in his politics than any altruistic or ideological motivations. Einhorn was addicted to the leadership role, and let politics define who he was in a way that truly twisted his personality. We see this over and over again, even today, in such movements as the Christian Coalition, and Leonora Fulani's "social therapy."
UNICORN'S SECRET, along with David Harris' DREAMS DIE HARD (about another tragic murder of a 60's radical) help more fully define the decade for history.
Intersting Subject Badly Written, What the author seems to focus on is Enihorn's philosphies and promiscuity. This gets extremly tedious and boring.
I give the book three stars because it did give some intresting insight into who Holly was. The miniseries made her seem so sweet and inconnent and the book really described her. That was interesting.
Very well researched, Wednesday, October 27, 2010
More on Sarfatti's theories about the Einhorn Affair
Among the many related issues to the claims that Ira Einhorn was framed for the
murder of Holly Maddux to silence his activism in areas threatening exposure
of corrupt interests of the real parties responsible for this murder, the UFO
issue and related mind control and advanced weaponry aspects have been quoted
in media articles along with reference to the physics discussion list of Dr.
Jack Sarfatti, a longtime Einhorn acquaintance and collaborator, whose [now,
very old] email list included former and present CIA science authorities.
One recent post from this theortetical physics list is forwarded below as
reference to Sarfatti's informed opinions on ignored factors in the "Einhorn was framed"
thesis.
From: "Dr. Jack Sarfatti"
--[see more on Sarfatti from his stardrive.org website at end]--
To: "Arkadiusz Jadczyk"
Subject: Re: Flat Star Gate Portals in UFO Phenomenon
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:13 AM
Yes, thanks for this useful link. Jacques Vallee has been acting covertly and
inconsistently lately re: UFOs. Publically, he is no longer involved, yet I
know for a fact he is still actively involved with a key well financed UFO
investigative organization. One reason for this, I surmise, may be his
intimate collaboration in the 70's with Ira Einhorn on matters UFO and also
the ARPA net precursor to the Internet. Einhorn is now in Vallee's country of
origin, France, protected by the French government for a horrendous capital
crime that IMO he did not commit. My own informed guess on what really
happened in Philadelphia in 1977 was that Holly met her death not by Ira, but
possibly by an overdose, maybe self-administered, may be not, as was common
in that crowd at that time, e.g. book Edie by Jean Stein and George Plimpton.
Ira has been quiet about relevant sordid details partly to protect Holly's
reputation. Ira had pissed off Mafioso Mayor Frank Rizzo and his corrupt DA
and police homocide goons who formed Central American style Death Squads. See
the film "The Thin Blue Line" for the true story of what was going on in the
City of Brotherly Love back then. Ira, away most of the incrediblly long 18
months between Holly's alleged death and the finding of her remains in a
storage room outside Ira's actual apartment, was clearly framed. He was tried
in absentia by a Kangaroo Court by a judge who personally hated him and
should have recused himself from the case. Fortunately the French Government
who approved the COMETA UFO report are not stupid.
Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2000
Organization: Global Advanced Intelligence Agency (GAIA)
His basic position that the phenomenon is not simple nuts and bolts tin
cans moving through space in the ordinary way like our NASA space craft
do. He alludes to "extradimensional" aspect.
"Alluding" is not yet a model! See
http://www.cassiopaea.org/quantum_future/vallee.htm
Best wishes,
Ark
murder of Holly Maddux to silence his activism in areas threatening exposure
of corrupt interests of the real parties responsible for this murder, the UFO
issue and related mind control and advanced weaponry aspects have been quoted
in media articles along with reference to the physics discussion list of Dr.
Jack Sarfatti, a longtime Einhorn acquaintance and collaborator, whose [now,
very old] email list included former and present CIA science authorities.
One recent post from this theortetical physics list is forwarded below as
reference to Sarfatti's informed opinions on ignored factors in the "Einhorn was framed"
thesis.
From: "Dr. Jack Sarfatti"
--[see more on Sarfatti from his stardrive.org website at end]--
To: "Arkadiusz Jadczyk"
Subject: Re: Flat Star Gate Portals in UFO Phenomenon
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:13 AM
Yes, thanks for this useful link. Jacques Vallee has been acting covertly and
inconsistently lately re: UFOs. Publically, he is no longer involved, yet I
know for a fact he is still actively involved with a key well financed UFO
investigative organization. One reason for this, I surmise, may be his
intimate collaboration in the 70's with Ira Einhorn on matters UFO and also
the ARPA net precursor to the Internet. Einhorn is now in Vallee's country of
origin, France, protected by the French government for a horrendous capital
crime that IMO he did not commit. My own informed guess on what really
happened in Philadelphia in 1977 was that Holly met her death not by Ira, but
possibly by an overdose, maybe self-administered, may be not, as was common
in that crowd at that time, e.g. book Edie by Jean Stein and George Plimpton.
Ira has been quiet about relevant sordid details partly to protect Holly's
reputation. Ira had pissed off Mafioso Mayor Frank Rizzo and his corrupt DA
and police homocide goons who formed Central American style Death Squads. See
the film "The Thin Blue Line" for the true story of what was going on in the
City of Brotherly Love back then. Ira, away most of the incrediblly long 18
months between Holly's alleged death and the finding of her remains in a
storage room outside Ira's actual apartment, was clearly framed. He was tried
in absentia by a Kangaroo Court by a judge who personally hated him and
should have recused himself from the case. Fortunately the French Government
who approved the COMETA UFO report are not stupid.
Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 28 Nov 2000
Organization: Global Advanced Intelligence Agency (GAIA)
His basic position that the phenomenon is not simple nuts and bolts tin
cans moving through space in the ordinary way like our NASA space craft
do. He alludes to "extradimensional" aspect.
"Alluding" is not yet a model! See
http://www.cassiopaea.org/quantum_future/vallee.htm
Best wishes,
Ark
Monday, October 25, 2010
Email from Sarfatti in 2001: "Bush about to intervene in the Einhorn Affair"
From: "Dr. Jack Sarfatti"
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: The Einhorn Affair
Thanks re: rumor from Dick Farley that President Bush is about to intervene in the Einhorn Affair.
Note that Senator Arlen Specter was Ira's original defense attorney and that Ira claims he was framed
because of his work with Colonel Tom Bearden and others on alleged Soviet psychotronic "hyperspace
weapons" and "UFOs" around the Uri Geller situation that was very much in the limelight in the mid-70's when CIA, DIA etc. was funding paranormal remote viewing research that Ira, working with Jacques Vallee, Arthur Young, Andrija Puharich, Sir John Whitmore, Joyce Petchek, Brendan O Regan, Esalen's Michael Murphy and others was very much in the thick of at the time. Einhorn was also deeply involved in Serbian affairs around the Tesla Archive in Beograd, and the nephew of the Shah of Iran. He was also the book agent for "Space Time
and Beyond" that I coauthored with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben dedicated to Carlo Suares in Paris. The Plot thickens.
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: The Einhorn Affair
Thanks re: rumor from Dick Farley that President Bush is about to intervene in the Einhorn Affair.
Note that Senator Arlen Specter was Ira's original defense attorney and that Ira claims he was framed
because of his work with Colonel Tom Bearden and others on alleged Soviet psychotronic "hyperspace
weapons" and "UFOs" around the Uri Geller situation that was very much in the limelight in the mid-70's when CIA, DIA etc. was funding paranormal remote viewing research that Ira, working with Jacques Vallee, Arthur Young, Andrija Puharich, Sir John Whitmore, Joyce Petchek, Brendan O Regan, Esalen's Michael Murphy and others was very much in the thick of at the time. Einhorn was also deeply involved in Serbian affairs around the Tesla Archive in Beograd, and the nephew of the Shah of Iran. He was also the book agent for "Space Time
and Beyond" that I coauthored with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben dedicated to Carlo Suares in Paris. The Plot thickens.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Specter: Just doing my job as his lawyer
I couldn't find the date of this one, but I'm guessing it's around 2000, possibly 1999. It is another article but has some worthy quotes from Arlen Specter, Ira's lawyer in 1979.
He was only doing his job.
He was only doing his job.
That was how U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter described his role as a private lawyer 20 years ago in getting low bail for Ira Einhorn, launching the hippie guru into 16 years on the lam in Europe.
Lawyer and radio talk-show host Michael A. Smerconish asked Specter yesterday if he had any regrets about his role in freeing Einhorn after Einhorn's arrest in 1979 in the killing of his girlfriend Helen "Holly" Maddux.
"I was doing my job as a lawyer," Specter said on the call-in show. "That's what a lawyer is supposed to do."
Einhorn, then 38, was arrested after Maddux's battered body was found in a trunk in Einhorn's apartment. She had been dead about 17 months, police said.
At a bail hearing before Common Pleas Judge William M. Marutani, Specter asked for bail for Einhorn of $5,000.
The district attorney's office asked for $100,000.
Marutani compromised and set bail at $40,000. Einhorn made the required 10 percent, was turned loose and soon fled the country.
That was the only time Specter represented Einhorn, who could not afford Specter's high fees.
Specter suggested that his successors in the DA's office have been less than diligent in going after Einhorn.
"The law has to be very tenacious in pursuing him and bringing him back to justice," he said.
"When I was district attorney, I didn't ask anyone else to do my job," Specter said. "The district attorney has a lot of power and a lot of leverage. I would be interested to know what kind of surveillance Einhorn is under." 
- John F. Morrison
Friday, October 22, 2010
Who is Jack Sarfatti?
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness. He is known for his iconoclastic ideas, and is interested in what he sees as the breakdown of the paradigm that posits science and the humanities as separate disciplines, arguing that physics — which he calls "the Conceptual Art of the late 20th Century" — [ [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id773/pg1/ weird science] ] has replaced philosophy as the unifying force between science and art. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
Sarfatti's main interests lie in Timothy Leary's "SMI²LE" program of space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension. [ [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id773/pg1/ weird science] ] His views include Colonel Phillip J. Corso's speculation that UFOs may be of extraterrestrial origin or could be "terrestrial time ships" originating from our own future; that parapsychological phenomena may be real; that "retro-causal" (future-to-past) faster-than-light communication may be possible; and that space travel could be achieved by a controlled, possibly "psychokinetic" (mind manipulating matter), local warping of "emergent curved and torsioned" spacetime. [ [http://stardrive.org/ufos.shtml UFOs and the New Physics] ] in "the fuselage of the flying saucer using nano-engineered 2D quantum wells with anyon condensates" ("Super Cosmos").
He is the author of the self-published books "Super Cosmos" (2005), "Destiny Matrix" (2002), and "Space: Time And Beyond II (Dark Energy)" (2002), and co-author with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of "Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable" (1982). He is a frequent contributor to Usenet [ [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3ASarfatti&qt_s=Search Google Groups search] ] and has set up a website where he discusses his ideas. [ [http://stardrive.org Stardrive] ]
Academic background
Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hyman Sarfatti, an Italian Sephardi Jew from Macedonia and his wife Mildred. [ [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/si05.html UFOs and the New Physics] ] [ [http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=15653 Stephen Schwartz lies] ] [ [http://www.stardrive.org/Jack/dad.pdf My Story by Hyman Sarfatti] (pdf)]
He completed his B.A. in physics at Cornell University in 1960, where he wrote an honors thesis under the guidance of Hans Bethe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. His first published paper, "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," appeared in 1963 in "Nuovo Cimento", the journal of the Italian Physical Society.
He obtained his Master's, also in physics, from University of California, San Diego in 1967, and in the same year, "The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect," which he co-authored with Marshall Stoneham, was published in "Proceedings of the Physical Society of London", and "Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity" in "Physics Letters". [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1967-71, he worked as an assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University, obtaining his Ph.D from University of California, Riverside in 1969, where he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Fred Cummings. In 1970, he and Cummings co-authored "Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium," which was published in "Physica Scripta" in Switzerland. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1971-2, he was employed as a research fellow under David Bohm, the American quantum physicist, at Birkbeck College, London. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1973-4, he worked with Abdus Salam, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
He then left academia. In 1975, Dr. Sarfatti founded the "Physics Consciousness Research Group" to do research on parapsychological phenomenon such as telepathy. This research group was funded by Werner Erhard.
Thereafter, he worked at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. In 1999-2000 at Joe Firmage's ISSO exotic propulsion group in San Francisco with a budget of several million dollars. [ [http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/12/planetary.executive/index.html CNN - Silicon Valley CEO continues alien quest despite skeptics - January 12, 1999 ] ] Fact|date=February 2007
Observation of Uri Geller
On June 21, 1974, Sarfatti was one of a number of scientists and other interested parties — a group that included Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, John G. Taylor, Bernard Carr, [ "Can Psychical Research Bridge the Gulf Between Matter and Mind?" Bernard Carr "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Vol 59 Part 221 June 2008 ] and John Hasted — who conducted observations of Uri Geller while the latter displayed what he said was telekinetic energy.
Sarfatti was initially impressed by Geller, and commented: "My personal professional judgement as a Ph.D. physicist is that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birkbeck, which is beyond the doubt of any reasonable man, under relatively well-controlled and repeatable experimental conditions." ["Science News", vol. 106, July 20, 1974, p. 46.] He later revised this opinion after discussing the matter with James Randi. He wrote in a letter: "On the basis of further experience in the art of conjuring, I wish to retract my endorsement of Uri Geller's psychoenergetic authenticity." ["Science News", December 6, 1975, p. 355.]
Bernard Carr on Jack Sarfatti
Bernard Carr makes the following comment that outlines some of Jack Sarfatti's ideas regarding the relationship of quantum theory and consciousness:
**"More generally, Jack Sarfatti [ Jack Sarfatti, 1998, with M.C. Levit, [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9704029 "Are the Bader Laplacian and the Bohm Quantum Potential Equivalent?"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics" (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 353-358. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0 ] has argued that signal non-locality could still be allowed in some form of ‘post-quantum’ theory which incorporates consciousness. He regards signal non-locality as the micro-quantum limit of a more general non-equilibrium macro-quantum theory. The relationship between micro and macro quantum theory is then similar to that between special and general relativity, with consciousness being intrinsically non-local and analogous to curvature. His model involves non-linear corrections to the Schrödinger equation and may permit retrocausal and remote viewing effects (2002)." [ "Can Psychical Research Bridge the Gulf Between Matter and Mind?" Bernard Carr "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Vol 59 Part 221 June 2008 Page 30 ]
Publications
Written works
*Sarfatti, Jack. 2008, [http://mail.df.unipi.it/~elze/DICE2008.html "Emergent Gravity as a Macro-Quantum Coherent Vacuum Field"] .
*Sarfatti, Jack. 2006, [http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602022 "Emergent Gravity: String Theory Without String Theory"] , ArXiv.org.
*----, 2004, [http://scienca.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 "Einstein Gravity with Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Sakharov Metric Elasticity"] , "GR17 Dublin 2004: 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation: Book of Abstracts", p. 181.
*----, 2004, [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:hBNHazh3zTkJ:www.qedcorp.com/London/03-Sarfatti-P.pdf+%22Wheeler%27s+World%22+sarfatti&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 "Wheeler's World"] , "Developments in Quantum Physics", Nova Publishers, pp 41-84. ISBN 1-59454-003-9
*----, 2003, [http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR03/baps/abs/S5150006.html "Macro-Quantum Origin of Gravity and Quintessence"] , Papers at APS Austin & Philadelphia published in APS Abstracts for those meetings. "Bulletin of the American Physical Society", Vol 48, No 1, Part II, N35-6, p. 832.
*----, 2002, "Space-Time and Beyond 2: Dark Energy", AuthorHouse. ISBN 1-4033-9022-3
*----, 2002, [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002gchr.conf..419S&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format= "Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory"] , "Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale" (Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol 126), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 419-430. ISBN 1-4020-0885-6
*----, 1998, with M.C. Levit, [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9704029 "Are the Bader Laplacian and the Bohm Quantum Potential Equivalent?"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics" (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 353-358. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0
*----, 1998, [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/vigier/slides/Vigier1.htm "Beyond Bohm-Vigier Quantum Mechanics"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics", (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 403-410. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0
*----, 1991, [http://www.physicsessays.com/toc.asp?nmb=04 "Design for a Superluminal Signaling Device,"] , "Physics Essays", Vol 4, No 3, Sep 1991, pp 315-336.
*----, 1977, "Higher Intelligence is Us in the Future", in "Spit in the Ocean", Fall 1977, No. 3, Ken Kesey, pub., Tim Leary, ed.
*----, 1975, "The Physical Roots of Consciousness" in Mishlove, Jeffrey, "The Roots of Consciousness", pp 279-290. ISBN 0-394-73115-8
*----, 1975, "Space-Time and Beyond", with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben, E. P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-47399-8
*----, 1974, "The Dirac Equation and General Relativity," "Foundations of Physics".
*----, 1973, "Regge Trajectories as Rotation Black Holes in Strong Gravity", "Collective Phenomena", H. Frohlich & F.W. Cummings, eds.
*----, 1971, "On mini black holes", short note in "Nature Physical Science".
*----, 1970, "Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium," with Fred Cummings, in "Physica Scripta" (Switzerland).
*----, 1969, [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1969PhLA...30..300S&db_key=PHY&data_type=HTML&format= "Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated 4He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of 4He with Bose-Einstein Condensation"] , "Physics Letters", Vol 30A, No 5, Nov 1969, pp 300-301.
*----, 1967, "Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity", "Physics Letters".
*----, 1967, "The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect", with Marshall Stoneham, "Proceedings of the Physical Society|Proceedings of the Physical Society of London] ", cited as a major paper in "AIP Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics", 1980 (done at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks).
*----, 1963 "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," "Nuovo Cimento" (journal of the Italian Physical Society).
Broadcast
*Paramount Pictures "Star Trek IV" DVD has commentary on time travel by Sarfatti: "Time Travel: The Art of the Possible" runs eleven minutes and 14 seconds and provides information from 'three prominent quantum physicists'. We get comments from Dr. Nick Herbert, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, and Dr. Jack Sarfatti." [ [http://dvdmg.com/startrek4se.shtml Star Trek IV commentary] ]
Mention of Jack Sarfatti in books by other authors
*Sarfatti's ideas on physics and consciousness have been cited in a number of popular and scholarly books, including "Cosmic Trigger" by Robert Anton Wilson, "Bohemia" by Herbert Gold, "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension" by mathematician Rudy Rucker, "The Oxford Handbook of Free Will" edited by philosopher Robert Kane, "White Holes" by physicist John Gribbon, "Rocket Dreams" by Marina Benjamin, books by Stanislav Grof, "Dancing in the Light" by Shirley MacLaine, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav and "Exo-Psychology" (Reprinted in second edition as "Info-Psychology") by Timothy Leary. Sharon Weinberger, an editor at Aviation Week, mentions Sarfatti in her book "Imaginary Weapons", in reference to his early work with Hans Bethe at Cornell on the idea for a nuclear isomer gamma ray laser.
Notes
Further reading
* [http://destinymatrix.blogspot.com/ destinymatrix ] Sarfatti's blog -- Read his new draft! Amazing.
*Rothman, Milton. [http://www.csicop.org/sb/9609/internet.html "Reality check"] at CSICOP site
*Zukav, Gary. "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics", 1979, ISBN 0-06-095968-1
* [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/sar.html A webpage about Sarfatti at qedcorp]
*Talbot, Michael. "Mysticism and the New Physics",1993, revised, updated, ARKANA, Penguin, pp 2,25,28-9,36,40,42,56,57,59,67,87,89,97,122,125 on "behavior of particles", "consciousness". "fields", "gravitons, "participator", "quantum principles", "time ordering", "wormhole connections."
References
*Burns, Alex. [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id773/pg1/ "Weird Science"] , "Disinformation", January 28, 2001
*Rodrigues, Waldyr. [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0602111 "A Comment on Emergent Gravity"] , "arXiv.org", gr-qc/0602111
*Schwartz, Stephen. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL "The Universe, as seen from North Beach"] , "San Francisco Chronicle", August 17, 1997
Sarfatti's main interests lie in Timothy Leary's "SMI²LE" program of space migration, intelligence increase, and life extension. [ [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id773/pg1/ weird science] ] His views include Colonel Phillip J. Corso's speculation that UFOs may be of extraterrestrial origin or could be "terrestrial time ships" originating from our own future; that parapsychological phenomena may be real; that "retro-causal" (future-to-past) faster-than-light communication may be possible; and that space travel could be achieved by a controlled, possibly "psychokinetic" (mind manipulating matter), local warping of "emergent curved and torsioned" spacetime. [ [http://stardrive.org/ufos.shtml UFOs and the New Physics] ] in "the fuselage of the flying saucer using nano-engineered 2D quantum wells with anyon condensates" ("Super Cosmos").
He is the author of the self-published books "Super Cosmos" (2005), "Destiny Matrix" (2002), and "Space: Time And Beyond II (Dark Energy)" (2002), and co-author with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of "Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable" (1982). He is a frequent contributor to Usenet [ [http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3ASarfatti&qt_s=Search Google Groups search] ] and has set up a website where he discusses his ideas. [ [http://stardrive.org Stardrive] ]
Academic background
Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hyman Sarfatti, an Italian Sephardi Jew from Macedonia and his wife Mildred. [ [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/si05.html UFOs and the New Physics] ] [ [http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=15653 Stephen Schwartz lies] ] [ [http://www.stardrive.org/Jack/dad.pdf My Story by Hyman Sarfatti] (pdf)]
He completed his B.A. in physics at Cornell University in 1960, where he wrote an honors thesis under the guidance of Hans Bethe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967. His first published paper, "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," appeared in 1963 in "Nuovo Cimento", the journal of the Italian Physical Society.
He obtained his Master's, also in physics, from University of California, San Diego in 1967, and in the same year, "The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect," which he co-authored with Marshall Stoneham, was published in "Proceedings of the Physical Society of London", and "Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity" in "Physics Letters". [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1967-71, he worked as an assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University, obtaining his Ph.D from University of California, Riverside in 1969, where he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Fred Cummings. In 1970, he and Cummings co-authored "Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium," which was published in "Physica Scripta" in Switzerland. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1971-2, he was employed as a research fellow under David Bohm, the American quantum physicist, at Birkbeck College, London. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL The Universe, As Seen From North Beach] ]
From 1973-4, he worked with Abdus Salam, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
He then left academia. In 1975, Dr. Sarfatti founded the "Physics Consciousness Research Group" to do research on parapsychological phenomenon such as telepathy. This research group was funded by Werner Erhard.
Thereafter, he worked at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. In 1999-2000 at Joe Firmage's ISSO exotic propulsion group in San Francisco with a budget of several million dollars. [ [http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/12/planetary.executive/index.html CNN - Silicon Valley CEO continues alien quest despite skeptics - January 12, 1999 ] ] Fact|date=February 2007
Observation of Uri Geller
On June 21, 1974, Sarfatti was one of a number of scientists and other interested parties — a group that included Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, John G. Taylor, Bernard Carr, [ "Can Psychical Research Bridge the Gulf Between Matter and Mind?" Bernard Carr "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Vol 59 Part 221 June 2008 ] and John Hasted — who conducted observations of Uri Geller while the latter displayed what he said was telekinetic energy.
Sarfatti was initially impressed by Geller, and commented: "My personal professional judgement as a Ph.D. physicist is that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birkbeck, which is beyond the doubt of any reasonable man, under relatively well-controlled and repeatable experimental conditions." ["Science News", vol. 106, July 20, 1974, p. 46.] He later revised this opinion after discussing the matter with James Randi. He wrote in a letter: "On the basis of further experience in the art of conjuring, I wish to retract my endorsement of Uri Geller's psychoenergetic authenticity." ["Science News", December 6, 1975, p. 355.]
Bernard Carr on Jack Sarfatti
Bernard Carr makes the following comment that outlines some of Jack Sarfatti's ideas regarding the relationship of quantum theory and consciousness:
**"More generally, Jack Sarfatti [ Jack Sarfatti, 1998, with M.C. Levit, [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9704029 "Are the Bader Laplacian and the Bohm Quantum Potential Equivalent?"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics" (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 353-358. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0 ] has argued that signal non-locality could still be allowed in some form of ‘post-quantum’ theory which incorporates consciousness. He regards signal non-locality as the micro-quantum limit of a more general non-equilibrium macro-quantum theory. The relationship between micro and macro quantum theory is then similar to that between special and general relativity, with consciousness being intrinsically non-local and analogous to curvature. His model involves non-linear corrections to the Schrödinger equation and may permit retrocausal and remote viewing effects (2002)." [ "Can Psychical Research Bridge the Gulf Between Matter and Mind?" Bernard Carr "Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research", Vol 59 Part 221 June 2008 Page 30 ]
Publications
Written works
*Sarfatti, Jack. 2008, [http://mail.df.unipi.it/~elze/DICE2008.html "Emergent Gravity as a Macro-Quantum Coherent Vacuum Field"] .
*Sarfatti, Jack. 2006, [http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602022 "Emergent Gravity: String Theory Without String Theory"] , ArXiv.org.
*----, 2004, [http://scienca.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 "Einstein Gravity with Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Sakharov Metric Elasticity"] , "GR17 Dublin 2004: 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation: Book of Abstracts", p. 181.
*----, 2004, [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:hBNHazh3zTkJ:www.qedcorp.com/London/03-Sarfatti-P.pdf+%22Wheeler%27s+World%22+sarfatti&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1 "Wheeler's World"] , "Developments in Quantum Physics", Nova Publishers, pp 41-84. ISBN 1-59454-003-9
*----, 2003, [http://www.aps.org/meet/MAR03/baps/abs/S5150006.html "Macro-Quantum Origin of Gravity and Quintessence"] , Papers at APS Austin & Philadelphia published in APS Abstracts for those meetings. "Bulletin of the American Physical Society", Vol 48, No 1, Part II, N35-6, p. 832.
*----, 2002, "Space-Time and Beyond 2: Dark Energy", AuthorHouse. ISBN 1-4033-9022-3
*----, 2002, [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2002gchr.conf..419S&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format= "Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory"] , "Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale" (Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol 126), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 419-430. ISBN 1-4020-0885-6
*----, 1998, with M.C. Levit, [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9704029 "Are the Bader Laplacian and the Bohm Quantum Potential Equivalent?"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics" (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 353-358. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0
*----, 1998, [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/vigier/slides/Vigier1.htm "Beyond Bohm-Vigier Quantum Mechanics"] , "Causality & Locality in Modern Physics", (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 403-410. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0
*----, 1991, [http://www.physicsessays.com/toc.asp?nmb=04 "Design for a Superluminal Signaling Device,"] , "Physics Essays", Vol 4, No 3, Sep 1991, pp 315-336.
*----, 1977, "Higher Intelligence is Us in the Future", in "Spit in the Ocean", Fall 1977, No. 3, Ken Kesey, pub., Tim Leary, ed.
*----, 1975, "The Physical Roots of Consciousness" in Mishlove, Jeffrey, "The Roots of Consciousness", pp 279-290. ISBN 0-394-73115-8
*----, 1975, "Space-Time and Beyond", with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben, E. P. Dutton. ISBN 0-525-47399-8
*----, 1974, "The Dirac Equation and General Relativity," "Foundations of Physics".
*----, 1973, "Regge Trajectories as Rotation Black Holes in Strong Gravity", "Collective Phenomena", H. Frohlich & F.W. Cummings, eds.
*----, 1971, "On mini black holes", short note in "Nature Physical Science".
*----, 1970, "Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium," with Fred Cummings, in "Physica Scripta" (Switzerland).
*----, 1969, [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1969PhLA...30..300S&db_key=PHY&data_type=HTML&format= "Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated 4He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of 4He with Bose-Einstein Condensation"] , "Physics Letters", Vol 30A, No 5, Nov 1969, pp 300-301.
*----, 1967, "Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity", "Physics Letters".
*----, 1967, "The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect", with Marshall Stoneham, "Proceedings of the Physical Society|Proceedings of the Physical Society of London] ", cited as a major paper in "AIP Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics", 1980 (done at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks).
*----, 1963 "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields," "Nuovo Cimento" (journal of the Italian Physical Society).
Broadcast
*Paramount Pictures "Star Trek IV" DVD has commentary on time travel by Sarfatti: "Time Travel: The Art of the Possible" runs eleven minutes and 14 seconds and provides information from 'three prominent quantum physicists'. We get comments from Dr. Nick Herbert, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, and Dr. Jack Sarfatti." [ [http://dvdmg.com/startrek4se.shtml Star Trek IV commentary] ]
Mention of Jack Sarfatti in books by other authors
*Sarfatti's ideas on physics and consciousness have been cited in a number of popular and scholarly books, including "Cosmic Trigger" by Robert Anton Wilson, "Bohemia" by Herbert Gold, "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension" by mathematician Rudy Rucker, "The Oxford Handbook of Free Will" edited by philosopher Robert Kane, "White Holes" by physicist John Gribbon, "Rocket Dreams" by Marina Benjamin, books by Stanislav Grof, "Dancing in the Light" by Shirley MacLaine, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zukav and "Exo-Psychology" (Reprinted in second edition as "Info-Psychology") by Timothy Leary. Sharon Weinberger, an editor at Aviation Week, mentions Sarfatti in her book "Imaginary Weapons", in reference to his early work with Hans Bethe at Cornell on the idea for a nuclear isomer gamma ray laser.
Notes
Further reading
* [http://destinymatrix.blogspot.com/ destinymatrix ] Sarfatti's blog -- Read his new draft! Amazing.
*Rothman, Milton. [http://www.csicop.org/sb/9609/internet.html "Reality check"] at CSICOP site
*Zukav, Gary. "The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics", 1979, ISBN 0-06-095968-1
* [http://www.qedcorp.com/pcr/pcr/sar.html A webpage about Sarfatti at qedcorp]
*Talbot, Michael. "Mysticism and the New Physics",1993, revised, updated, ARKANA, Penguin, pp 2,25,28-9,36,40,42,56,57,59,67,87,89,97,122,125 on "behavior of particles", "consciousness". "fields", "gravitons, "participator", "quantum principles", "time ordering", "wormhole connections."
References
*Burns, Alex. [http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id773/pg1/ "Weird Science"] , "Disinformation", January 28, 2001
*Rodrigues, Waldyr. [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0602111 "A Comment on Emergent Gravity"] , "arXiv.org", gr-qc/0602111
*Schwartz, Stephen. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL "The Universe, as seen from North Beach"] , "San Francisco Chronicle", August 17, 1997
What Smell? By Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn has maintained his innocence since 1977 when Holly went missing and pigs and outsiders began pointing fingers. In every conversation I've ever had with people on the topic, which is about 3 who know the story-in-brief, the problematic questions I present get the *sigh*. " Move on. The retrial's constitutional destruction is... uhmmm... meaningless to you? " Shouldn't be. "DNA? Whattya..whattya ... ya ... ya ya thinking he didn't do it?" The reactions are weird and unsatisfying for me, but maybe that is because I know a lot about a case that was successfully stopped from continually resurfacing. Is Ira, to this very day, full of shit? It's information that should be heard in a retrial. Again. Maybe if you read all the posts you'll get more of an idea why that is the point of view this website stands for. The murder is the legal imperative as it should be, and Ira's chances of being believed are tiny at best, but his last trial was not a laughing matter as the judge made it seem.
Friday, July 07, 2006
In dealing with my case, the media in the United States have rarely reported the ‘facts’ or questioned them. What they have done is parrot the DA, as I dared to challenge a system that has become a political pathway, on the backs of defendants, often innocent, for aspiring DAs.
This short note is an attempt to clarify a particular aspect of my case: the smell that was associated with my apartment building, NOT MY APARTMENT, during the fall of 1977.
I have no idea what the smell was. One hypothesis was that of a dead animal trapped under the floor.
If Holly Maddux had been killed when the DA insisted she was killed for over twenty years and put into a trunk that was then stored in a closet just ten feet from my bed no one would have been able to live in that apartment while the body was decaying, as the smell of a dead body – human or animal – is overwhelming and permeates everything.
Yet, during that time period there were people in my apartment for long periods of time.
I counted eleven people, mentioned in my diary, who spent at least a number of hours with me.
Two women who slept overnight in the apartment, one for a weekend, shortly after the purported death, testified at my trial.
They smelled nothing, as there was no smell.
Holly was seen alive, on at least five separate occasions, months after her supposed death. Information that the DA tried to suppress.
She was supposedly killed in a manner that would have sprayed blood everywhere. No blood was found in the apartment.
No blood was found on her clothes which were conveniently lost.
So the SMELL is a red herring, and the judicial authorities know it to be so, for after hearing all the evidence, Judge Mazzola very pointedly told the jury to ignore the time of death.
An outrageous act given the fact of two decades of DA insistence on the date of death and a defense totally based on such an insistence.
June 2006
Ira Einhorn
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Care to debate facts anyone? PA, you reading?
The Smell
So much of the enormous media noise around the instant case has to do with the smell of a decaying body which both the prosecution and the defense agreed in court was impossible to sustain for any period in time, let along months and months.
Yet the closet in which the body was supposedly decaying was about 4 feet away from the room in which all the activity (reading, sleeping, love making and desk work) took place in the apartment.
Two women testified to having spent extensive time in the apartment during the time when others reported a smell outside and in other parts of the building.
They were not restricted in their movements in any way. They smelled nothing.
Many other men and women, including a police detective, were in the apartment subsequent to the time that the Commonwealth has always insisted that the death took place.
They were not called to testify, by the defense as the time of death was fixed in stone by the indictment and their testimony would not have added anything to the situation.
There was no smell in the apartment itself.
Impossible, if a body had decayed there.
Also not a drop of blood was found in the apartment or on Holly’s clothes.
Add all this to five sightings of a dead woman 6 months after her death; The withholding of these sightings:
A judge who says ignore the time of death.
Also, during the trial, a long discussion about a fire escape next to the door – a red herring – as the actual fire escape door, in the kitchen, was left off the drawing of the apartment, by the man who spent eighteen hours in the apartment.
And the real kicker: Holly was found with keys to the apartment in her pocket.
There was no problem about bringing a body into the apartment as the deceased had keys to the apartment on her person.
The smell, as with so many other aspects of the case, does not point to the defendant, but into other directions that the neglected and now lost fingerprints reinforce.
So much of the enormous media noise around the instant case has to do with the smell of a decaying body which both the prosecution and the defense agreed in court was impossible to sustain for any period in time, let along months and months.
Yet the closet in which the body was supposedly decaying was about 4 feet away from the room in which all the activity (reading, sleeping, love making and desk work) took place in the apartment.
Two women testified to having spent extensive time in the apartment during the time when others reported a smell outside and in other parts of the building.
They were not restricted in their movements in any way. They smelled nothing.
Many other men and women, including a police detective, were in the apartment subsequent to the time that the Commonwealth has always insisted that the death took place.
They were not called to testify, by the defense as the time of death was fixed in stone by the indictment and their testimony would not have added anything to the situation.
There was no smell in the apartment itself.
Impossible, if a body had decayed there.
Also not a drop of blood was found in the apartment or on Holly’s clothes.
Add all this to five sightings of a dead woman 6 months after her death; The withholding of these sightings:
A judge who says ignore the time of death.
Also, during the trial, a long discussion about a fire escape next to the door – a red herring – as the actual fire escape door, in the kitchen, was left off the drawing of the apartment, by the man who spent eighteen hours in the apartment.
And the real kicker: Holly was found with keys to the apartment in her pocket.
There was no problem about bringing a body into the apartment as the deceased had keys to the apartment on her person.
The smell, as with so many other aspects of the case, does not point to the defendant, but into other directions that the neglected and now lost fingerprints reinforce.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: The Einhorn Law
If you want to get anywhere, you gotta start somewhere. Take the unconstitutionality of Ira's retrial. The weirdness kicks in to over-drive, so read and remember to question authority. It's the only way. You can accept what happened and the version you know, but does that truly mean the legal system has not failed at least in some areas? The Einhorn Law is a perfect starting point because it backs off the main point just long to wonder, consider, think critically about how and why something went afoul.
1. The Einhorn Law
The law should apply to [Ira Einhorn]. It should apply not due to the fact that [he's] a good guy or a bad guy. It is applied to [him] as a citizen who lives under the aegis of a written constitution. To violate the Constitution in the way described in this article is to destroy the covenant that exists between those who are elected or hired to serve, for our benefit, and the people as a whole. It threatens the very fabric of our lives and it demeans the union of the people, by the people and for the people that so many have bleed to preserve.
It is Tyranny.
When the American political system was formulated in the Constitution, one of the strongest enabling principles was the separation of powers.
It is a principle reinforced in an early Supreme Court decision: Marbury v. Madison. It has been held as the LAW of the land since that time.
Ira Einhorn was tried in absentia in 1993.
His decision became final in 1995.
Only a court can open a final decision.
A legislative act can’t tamper with a final decision as it violates the separation of powers and makes nonsense of judicial finality.
The Einhorn Law is a travesty of American Justice.
In addition it violates the jurisdictional nature of a PCRA (Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association). Thus any decision it makes is without jurisdiction and a nullity.
The arguments put forward in response to these facts by the judge and the DA’s office have been puerile.
The Superior Court wrote a decision on the Einhorn Law that was based upon an outright lie, and so twisted a judicial principle that everyone who has looked closely at the reasoning has said: “It isn’t law.”
The Superior Court avoided a decision on the merits of the challenge to the constitutionality of the Einhorn Law by claiming that they could not grant the remedy, therefore they would not rule on the merits.
A first year law student would say: “Duh”.
One only looks at a remedy after one has made a decision on the merits.
This is how the law functions 100% of the time.
For a court to refuse to rule on the merits of an issue declares that due process does not exist for Ira Einhorn.
Pariahs need not apply.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the final arbiter of law in Pennsylvania, has twice refused to rule on a controversial issue of outstanding public interest.
The case has received more publicity than any case in modern Pennsylvania history. It is sheer avoidance, Chief Justice Castille must be vociferously reminded that there are sins of omission as well as commission – to avoid ruling on the Einhorn Law is to diminish the meaning of law in Pennsylvania and to spatter mud upon his recent pledge that justice will be done in Pennsylvania courtrooms.
From Nayer's Blog
1. The Einhorn Law
The law should apply to [Ira Einhorn]. It should apply not due to the fact that [he's] a good guy or a bad guy. It is applied to [him] as a citizen who lives under the aegis of a written constitution. To violate the Constitution in the way described in this article is to destroy the covenant that exists between those who are elected or hired to serve, for our benefit, and the people as a whole. It threatens the very fabric of our lives and it demeans the union of the people, by the people and for the people that so many have bleed to preserve.
It is Tyranny.
When the American political system was formulated in the Constitution, one of the strongest enabling principles was the separation of powers.
It is a principle reinforced in an early Supreme Court decision: Marbury v. Madison. It has been held as the LAW of the land since that time.
Ira Einhorn was tried in absentia in 1993.
His decision became final in 1995.
Only a court can open a final decision.
A legislative act can’t tamper with a final decision as it violates the separation of powers and makes nonsense of judicial finality.
The Einhorn Law is a travesty of American Justice.
In addition it violates the jurisdictional nature of a PCRA (Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association). Thus any decision it makes is without jurisdiction and a nullity.
The arguments put forward in response to these facts by the judge and the DA’s office have been puerile.
The Superior Court wrote a decision on the Einhorn Law that was based upon an outright lie, and so twisted a judicial principle that everyone who has looked closely at the reasoning has said: “It isn’t law.”
The Superior Court avoided a decision on the merits of the challenge to the constitutionality of the Einhorn Law by claiming that they could not grant the remedy, therefore they would not rule on the merits.
A first year law student would say: “Duh”.
One only looks at a remedy after one has made a decision on the merits.
This is how the law functions 100% of the time.
For a court to refuse to rule on the merits of an issue declares that due process does not exist for Ira Einhorn.
Pariahs need not apply.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the final arbiter of law in Pennsylvania, has twice refused to rule on a controversial issue of outstanding public interest.
The case has received more publicity than any case in modern Pennsylvania history. It is sheer avoidance, Chief Justice Castille must be vociferously reminded that there are sins of omission as well as commission – to avoid ruling on the Einhorn Law is to diminish the meaning of law in Pennsylvania and to spatter mud upon his recent pledge that justice will be done in Pennsylvania courtrooms.
From Nayer's Blog
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Article from 2002 ReTrial
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:23:04 -0700
By Michael A. Fletcher
And now for the toughest part of the story. Read below and insert theory as Fletcher does:
"Maddux left Einhorn in Europe and returned to the United States. Eventually, she met a new beau. When Einhorn returned home, he called her repeatedly. Finally, prosecutors say, Maddux told Einhorn that she wanted to end their relationship. He demanded that she come back to the apartment, prosecutors say, threatening to throw her belongings into the street. When she returned, she and Einhorn went to the movies. After that, she disappeared. "
By Michael A. Fletcher
"If Einhorn has changed with the times, so too, has his defense. His prominent friends have long abandoned him, and nobody seems to be buying the idea of a government conspiracy against him.
In Einhorn's new trial, Cannon plans to focus on the holes he sees in the state's case, which, he acknowledges, is substantial. "The victim's body was found in the defendant's apartment. It is the major hurdle," Cannon said. "There is circumstantial evidence of major dimension."
And now for the toughest part of the story. Read below and insert theory as Fletcher does:
"Maddux left Einhorn in Europe and returned to the United States. Eventually, she met a new beau. When Einhorn returned home, he called her repeatedly. Finally, prosecutors say, Maddux told Einhorn that she wanted to end their relationship. He demanded that she come back to the apartment, prosecutors say, threatening to throw her belongings into the street. When she returned, she and Einhorn went to the movies. After that, she disappeared. "
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Listserve and The Unicorn - Part Seven
And finally... this 7 part series comes to an end with a comment by our loved DC Williams. David is a stellar human with a fantastic charm.
From DC Williams....
From DC Williams....
"The only policy that will enable this corruption and skullduggery to be resolved is
by a "Truth Commission Amnesty" program analogous to what happened in South Africa
after the end of apartheid where instead of prosecuting as war criminals the
perpetrators of apartheid genocidal policies, those who accepted corrected ethic,
renouced their previous actions, and agreed to work together for the good of the
nation -- these people were pardoned and were able to apply their positions of power
and influence towards creating a better nation in the future. In America, not only
should the nonviolent victims of the drug war now imprisoned be pardoned, but also
the murderous corrupt perpetrators of the bogus drug war must also be given the
chance to change the errors of their ways and acknowledge the truth of their
misdeeds and reapply their talents and skills to solving today's global social
and environmental problems before it is too late to save all life on Earth from
otherwise impending destruction not only from accelerated climate change and the
dangers of nuclear conflagration but from the increasing ozone layer depletion that
1988 Project Earth climate modeling predictions deemed on-target as of 1997 say
will destroy all the oceanic phytoplankton (over half of Earth's oxygen supply) by
solar irradiation by the year 2008. http://www.projectearth.com To solve this
emergency we must quickly move away from fossil fuel power towards the suppressed
and available new-energy ("free-energy") technologies such as cold fusion, LENR,
ZPE, rotating magnetic systems, oscillating magnetic systems, etc etc, that can
provide power without fuel by mechanisms demonstrated but yet to be fully
understood due to corporate media and government scientific suppression. We need
a New Manhattan Project, but an open public one, to quickly implement this new
energy economy as per Science and Technology in Society and Public Policy list
posts at url below. Very important we also need to revive on a global emergency
scale level the USDA 1941-45 Hemp for Victory program to grow this most useful
and bioefficient plant everywhere possible on Earth as soon as possible for its
economic value and its superior bioefficiency per acre for biofuels applications
to replace fossil fuels, to save the forests and heal the atmosphere reducing
carbon dioxide and reoxygenating it to enable the ozone layer made from atmospheric
oxygen to be replenished in time. This is an essential Global Emergency Alert
Response. David Crockett Williams, C.L.U.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
The Khazarian Conspiracy Video Series: Part 1 of 12
All 12 parts of this video are up and available on Youtube. It offers tremendous background information on this very relevant situation vital to the world on so many fronts...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Listserve and The Unicorn - Part Six
Was Ira naive to all of these happenings? Certainly, he was not as well verse
publicly, but there might have been deeper connections that he wanted to avoid for
sheer fear. Just speculating on this but will certainly be a part of this blog for
sheer interesting factor.
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/080300/cs.cover3.shtml As the summer of 1996 wore
on, Philadelphia's small community of criminal defense attorneys smelled blood in the
water when it came to getting old BNI cases overturned. In a frenzy of filings, one
motion followed another in rapid succession, each requesting that a past conviction
be thrown out and a prisoner released because the individual's arrest had been tainted
by the mere presence of BNI personnel at the scene. When the District Attorney's
Office did not contest the motions, the convicts went free. Before it was all over,
by McLaughlin's estimation, 85 defendants had been let go, people from whom BNI had
confiscated a total of $1.2 million worth of heroin, crack and cocaine, not to
mention dozens of illegal firearms and motor vehicles. Another attorney who has
frequently handled drug cases, Louis Savino, showed remarkable candor about the
situation when he told the Inquirer, "It made my job easier. I don't know about
the general public. They're just letting people skate.. These are allegations of
significant amounts of drugs." Most other defense attorneys were more sanctimonious,
making public claims about their clients' innocence, even when their court motions
merely claimed they had been caught improperly. The scandal hit at a time when
the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office was already in a state of general turmoil.
The elected AG, Ernie Preate, had gone to prison for campaign finance corruption.
The acting AG, Thomas Corbett, was a lame duck, a mere seat warmer who would be
replaced in early 1997 by the winner of the November 1996 election. Nonetheless,
soon after the prosecutors started dumping BNI cases, Corbett appointed his deputy
attorney general Eric Noonan to review the cases and file a report on fixing the
problems with the Philadelphia BNI office. Noonan's report was never made public,
but a draft has been obtained by City Paper. In it, Noonan's exasperation is evident
as he lays out the inability of the prosecutors to articulate just what they found
so offensive about McLaughlin and his crew. This is where he accused the
prosecutors of failing to provide any specifics beyond "a general 'gut feeling' of
discomfort" with BNI cases. As best as Noonan could tell, the prosecutors had
three very general criticisms of the arrests made by McLaughlin, Micewski,
McKeefery and Eggles: The BNI agents often entered houses without warrants, they
reported seeing drugs in plain view with a frequency that defied credibility and
the "recurring fact patterns" in their cases, as claimed by Guy Sciolstuff up.
As head of the Drug Strike Force Legal Services section, Noonan was already well
versed in search and seizure law. After reviewing hundreds of BNI files, however,
he concluded that while the bureau could sharpen up some of its procedures, he
could find nothing about its work that was improper or not credible. For one
thing, law officers can enter a house without a warrant if they reasonably suspect
contraband may be in danger of being destroyed. The allowable procedure is to
"secure" the property first and then request a warrant to actually search the
building. Noonan found BNI agents had always given their explicit reasons for such
"prior entries" in their search warrant requests, and had never tried to conceal
them. To test the credibility of the "plain view" arrests that the prosecutors
complained about, Noonan took a tour of the Dominican-controlled drug corners
where the BNI agents had done so much of their work. "During slightly more than
an hour of driving through the various neighborhoods, our vehicle was approached
no fewer than three times by street corner dealers who readily displayed various
types of drugs to the driver." Noonan witnessed five other drug transactions,
some within view of uniformed police officers who "had very little impact on these
street dealers' temerity.. [B]ased on the foregoing, it appears their recurring
ability for such plain view observations is quite believable." Finally, on the
matter of Sciolla's "recurring fact patterns," Noonan wrote that he found no such
patterns that were "incredible due to their frequency." Forced to state the obvious,
Noonan wrote that some recurring patterns are "not unforeseeable" with drug
arrests, given the organized and routine nature of narcotics dealing and trafficking.
Although Noonan's report made some suggestions about how BNI agents and supervisors
could improve their reporting methods, he found nothing that would warrant the
treatment that McLaughlin, Micewski, McKeefery and Eggles received at the hands
of the prosecutors. The report, completed in July 1996, would have given
Philadelphia's BNI crew some much-needed moral support, but no portion of it was
ever made public. Instead, acting AG Tom Corbett continued to make occasional
disparaging remarks about the agents, perhaps attempting to put the bureau's past
behind it. McLaughlin, Micewski, McKeefery and Eggles were pulled from the streets
for good, and a new supervisor was assigned. On May 17, 1996, with the four agents
no longer permitted to make arrests, the District Attorney's Office announced it
would start handling BNI cases once again. On July 1, 1996, Dr. Jose Francisco
Pena Gomez lost the runoff election for the Dominican presidency. But he and his
Dominican Revolutionary Party didn' t have to worry about drug investigations any
more. Soon after Pena Gomez's fundraising visit to New York several months earlier,
the DEA had shut down its investigation. And Pena Gomez's supporters kept active
in politics. In October 1996, prominent members of Dominican drug trafficking
organizations - people assigned special DEA identity numbers - attended a fundraiser
for the New York Democratic Party at an Upper West Side tavern. The guest of
honor that night was Vice President Al Gore. In the fall of 1997, when they filed
their federal civil rights lawsuit, the careers of McLaughlin, McKeefery, Micewski
and Eggles were mere shadows of what they had been 18 months earlier. For more
than a year McLaughlin had been reassigned to a desk job, while McKeefery worked
in the motor pool, signing out vehicles. Micewski was reassigned to do paperwork
in a BNI office in northeastern Pennsylvania, while Eggles took an extended leave,
eventually deciding to retire. All were still officially under investigation by
the FBI. In September, a Housing Authority police officer named Harry Fernandez
called McLaughlin to tell him he had FBI troubles of his own. Fernandez had worked
frequently with McLaughlin's BNI crew on drug investigations in the past. Now he
was facing federal charges for lying about a search he did on a car in 1994. He
had recovered more than three pounds of cocaine in what was said to be the largest
street bust in city history, but he had falsified some details in the search and
some fellow housing officers had given him up. Fernandez told McLaughlin that the
FBI was offering him immunity in exchange for information about the BNI. But it
wasn't until Fernandez's 1998 trial, when he got a transcript of Fernandez's
Sept. 23, 1997 FBI interview, that McLaughlin could see just how badly they wanted
to nail the Bastard Squad. FBI: Look, let's cut the shit. You know those guys at
BNI are dirty. They planted drugs on people[,] stole their money. We want you to
tell us about that. Fernandez: I'll tell you whatever I know, but if you're
looking for illegal shit that those guys did. I do not know anything about it.
FBI: Why do you keep protecting these guys? Fernandez: I'm not protecting them
but if I don't know anything illegal about them how can I say anything? FBI: This
is your only way out. Do you understand that anything you say here can't be
used against you[?] No matter what illegal thing you did and tell us we can't use
it against you. That's a hell of a break. Fernandez: I would tell you if I know.
I'd give up anybody in order to benefit me. But unless you want me to lie I don't
know anything. Fernandez was eventually acquitted of three of the four charges
against him. He received a two-and-a-half-year sentence for lying to a federal
officer. The lawsuit filed on October 17, 1997, with all four Bastard Squad
members as plaintiffs, listed 16 co-defendants including Stiles, Gordon, a State
Department assistant secretary, three CIA employees, two FBI detectives, five
members of the Attorney General's chain of command, two New York drug traffickers
and, finally, the candidate himself, Pena Gomez. Pena Gomez has since died, and
several other defendants, including Arnold Gordon, have successfully sought to be
dropped from the case via a summary judgment. Gordon was covered by prosecutorial
immunity, which forbids people from suing prosecutors for their legal decisions.
Stiles, however, has had his summary judgment request denied by a judge, partly
because there is some evidence he encouraged the Attorney General's Office to
order all the Bastard Squad members removed from the Essington Avenue office.
In 1998, Donald Bailey filed a second lawsuit on behalf of McLaughlin, McKeefery
and Micewski, alleging that Attorney General officials had responded to the first
lawsuit by retaliating with "harsh, uncompromising employment and travel burdens,
all in order to punish the plaintiffs for using the civil rights laws to protect
their rights and redress their grievances." (Eggles, having retired, was not a
plaintiff in the second lawsuit.) Not until October 1998 did Stiles inform the
Attorney General's Office that the FBI investigation of the Bastard Squad would
not result in any indictments. He finally made the announcement that the FBI
investigation was complete in February 1999, nearly three years after it started.
Although the number of convicted felons set free in the BNI scandal rivals that
of the 39th District scandal, there remain some serious differences between the
two affairs. In the 39th, the city eventually paid out $3.5 million in settlements
to falsely arrested defendants. By contrast, none of the civil cases filed against
the Bastard Squad was settled, and none ever made it to trial. Each was thrown
out by an appellate judge, including one who noted tartly that "Plaintiff does
not dispute the basic facts. that he was driving an automobile which contained
over 2,000 vials of crack cocaine." And yet, just two weeks ago, another repeat
offender drug dealer, one who was serving four to seven years in state prison,
was granted a new trial simply because the arresting officer was Sparky McLaughlin.
The District Attorney's Office immediately moved to nol-pros, and the man, who is
still awaiting trial on two unrelated assault charges, went free. McLaughlin,
Micewski, McKeefery and Eggles remain possibly the only unindicted law officers
anywhere to be essentially blackballed by the prosecutors they were obliged to
work with. But they are no longer the only cops to have their investigative careers
interrupted or destroyed under strange circumstances involving Dominican drug
traffickers and their pricey private lawyers. One highly effective Philadelphia
Police narcotics squad was suddenly shut down and pulled off the streets in 1997.
They were told death threats had been made against them. Only later did they
learn the FBI was investigating them because lawyers for Dominican drug dealers
were complaining the squad was making unconstitutional searches. After three
years, the FBI had nothing to show for their trouble. But the narcotics squad,
which had been arresting an average of 30 dealers a week, was dismantled. Some
have filed formal grievances against the police department for unfairly reassigning
them to desk jobs. Two other cases in New York City follow a similar pattern
in which successful teams of narcotics agents have been pulled from duty after
drug lawyers made allegations of misconduct that inevitably proved groundless.
Could it be that the attorneys for Dominican drug traffickers have hit upon a
reliable method of undermining the entire justice system by simply driving a
wedge of suspicion between the cops and the prosecutors (two cultures which are
prone to mutual mistrust in even the best of circumstances)? Way back in April
1996, that's exactly what BNI supervisor Mike Lutz thought had happened to
McLaughlin, McKeefery, Micewski and Eggles. That eloquent memorandum defending
the men who would soon become the Bastard Squad contained this very well-reasoned
paragraph: "Is it not our agency alone that is making a consistent pattern of
arrests, confiscating large amounts of drugs, money, cars and guns in these areas?
How best to defeat the efforts of the Law Enforcement Agency that is wreaking havoc
against this organized drug ring[?] Put the spotlight on them. Put them in retreat.
Initiate an investigation. Make false and unfounded allegations. It will stop them
in their tracks. And it did. "The scheme worked, [the Dominican drug traffickers
and their lawyers] paralyzed an entire Law Enforcement Agency and at the same
time ruined [its] credibility. How in God's name could their broad brush associate
us. with the 39th District scandal? They did."
Friday, October 15, 2010
Breaking: Einhorn Gives Interview After 8 Years of Media Silence
It has been a long time since we heard about the goings on in life of The Unicorn. Ronnie Polaneczky, Philadelphia Daily News Columnist, was tracked down by the 70 year-old and was interviewed for a newspaper piece. Guess what, we also get to see him, sorta, in a 2009 headshot.We'll hit the comment thread in a little while, lets give it some time to get shaking.
In the meanwhile, I just had a look at this new article. By the lack of quotes it seems to be probable that Ira took Ronnie to task -- and without the aid of any modern day recording devices -- as she was left jotting down a few quotes that she feels equal her hatred for the man. And her words are now reaching out to Philadelphia as if the hatercade has arrived and the information is good because Ira sits rotting! Wow, good luck with that, Mrs. Polaneczky. Somehow, she managed to write the same article we read four hundred and fifty time 10 years ago. A few background details, and two or three updates, personal interjection annnnndddd CUT. That's a take. Hard to argue that he deserves more, but her tone was no different than the courtroom. At least we have come to expect snark from a journalist.
But there is more. A bonus that does include Ira's point and it all starts to make sense now. One article for Ira, and one from the Philadelphia angle. Whew, I feel all grown up now because I can figure such things out on my own! Ronnie wasn't about to let Ira's article be left unprinted, a key bone she throws, and the result is interesting.
From Ira,
SINCE MY ABRUPT return to the Pennsylvania Prison System in 2001, I have had numerous conversations with shocked former citizens who have repeated the same words to me, in different form, again and again: "I never dreamed that people caught up in the judicial system could be treated so unfairly, with such lack of concern for their rights.
Listserve and The Unicorn - Part Five
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/080300/cs.cover2.shtml
But it's also fair to ask why, when faced with two tried-and-true options for
addressing their worries about BNI's credibility, the District Attorney and the
U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia independently chose to take all of the pending BNI
cases and, as the cops might say, "shit-can" them. It was a unique, scorched-earth
approach that was also, the BNI agents claim, the only prosecutorial measure that
would ensure a quick and permanent demise for BNI's investigation of Dominican
narco-politics. Neither Stiles nor Gordon would comment for this story. Both,
however, have given accounts of their actions under oath, either through sworn
depositions or in criminal hearings. Arnold Gordon, however, had a history of being
dissatisfied with certain BNI cases, one that pre-dated the bureau's problems with
the CIA and Pena Gomez. Gordon had complained about BNI arrests to Attorney General
officials on at least two occasions in early 1995, raising questions about the
facts concerning a total of eight separate cases. In April of 1995, McLaughlin's
diary records that Gordon had asked for disciplinary charges against McKeefery,
alleging he had admitted in open court to searching two drug houses without a
warrant. The subsequent internal investigation cleared McKeefery. Then, in May
1995, Gordon sent a letter to the then-acting Attorney General, requesting a review
of seven cases that prosecutors for both his office and the U.S. Attorney's office
found troubling. Five of the cases directly involved McLaughlin, McKeefery,
Micewski and Eggles. In one case, Eggles and McLaughlin had arrested a man caught
running with a kilo of cocaine, and the assistant U.S. attorney assigned to the
case expressed fears that the arrest had been too simple and, therefore, not
credible. Another case had been thrown out because the judge found no probable
cause for searching a property where drugs were found. Although the May 1995
letter would later be used by defense attorneys as evidence that the BNI agents
lacked credibility, Gordon has never invoked the cases mentioned in that letter
as a reason for his April 1996 decision to nol-pros every case involving McLaughlin
and McKeefery. At a preliminary hearing in November 1996, after he agreed to drop
53 BNI-related cases, Gordon explained to a judge "the reason for nol-prossing
these fifty-three cases was because Officer McLaughlin did something which one
could characterize as lying in a search warrant.. We chose not [to put McLaughlin
on the stand] solely because of what had occurred with regard to that one search
warrant." A month later, before a different judge, Gordon claimed he was only
using "his best prosecutorial judgment" in deciding to drop all of McLaughlin's
and McKeefery's cases. "Although I've taken this action, I may be wrong and they
may be right. In other words, I don't know that those officers lied in a search
warrant. In fact, I may be unfairly stigmatizing them, by the action I've taken
in these cases." In February 1995, just a few months before Gordon's first
complaint against McKeefery, a federal grand jury had indicted five Philadelphia
police officers, charging them with planting drugs on defendants and stealing from
them. Less then a month later, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office started
dropping charges against people convicted on the five officers' testimony. The 39th
District scandal, which ended up freeing more than 100 defendants, was supremely
embarrassing to the District Attorney's Office. Then, in the spring of 1996, just
weeks before Gordon announced his decision to stop taking BNI cases, the five
police officers were all convicted and received prison sentences up to 13 years.
News of the district attorney's dumping of BNI cases broke on KYW-TV Channel 3 on
April 23, 1996, followed by a front-page Inquirer story the day after. Both
reports, as well as follow-up news accounts, were quick to draw lines of
similarities between BNI and the 39th District scandal. It was an unfair
comparison, which became increasingly obvious as the months went by, since the
BNI agents had never been charged with anything. Just the week before, five rogue
police officers from North Philadelphia's 39th District had been given sentences
of up to 13 years for offenses that included framing suspects, beating them and
extorting money from them. More than 100 cases involving the five officers had
already been overturned - but only after they had been indicted and charged with
crimes. Reporters focusing on the similarities of the tossed-out cases could just
as easily have pointed out the district attorney's sudden interest in not
prosecuting cases of officers who hadn't been charged with anything. Instead,
the newspapers quoted unnamed law enforcement sources as stating that the joint
city-FBI corruption probe that caught the 39th District police was now expanding
to include the Bureau of Narcotics Investigation. By May 16, the head of BNI's
Philadelphia office was replaced and McLaughlin, Micewski, McKeefery and Eggles
were all reassigned to desk jobs. In late June, the State Senate's Judiciary
Committee rushed to Philadelphia for hearings that had promised to examine why so
many drug arrests by a state agency were being nullified by federal and local
prosecutors. However, by the scheduled date, June 21, it had already been well
established that the FBI was looking into BNI's Philadelphia office. The
prosecutors and the Attorney General's Office begged off on attending the hearings,
stating they were duty-bound not to discuss matters under criminal investigation.
Rather than shed light on the decisions of the District Attorney and the U.S.
Attorney, the hearing became a one-sided affair in which defense attorneys
complained vocally about the persistent problem of police "corruption," lumping
together BNI's problems with the criminal behavior of the 39th District cops. At
the hearing, Miguel Torres gave teary-eyed testimony accusing McLaughlin of beating
him and stealing cash. He did not, however, accuse McLaughlin of planting drugs
on him. State Sen. Vince Fumo grabbed that day's headlines by imploring Torres
to sue the state for McLaughlin's alleged conduct. He was quoted as saying, "I hope
you hit us for at least a couple million bucks." (Years later, Torres would sue,
but he would never get his day in court. Appeals courts denied he had grounds for
a false arrest complaint and just this year the Supreme Court refused to hear his
final appeal. McLaughlin had long since passed a polygraph test clearing him of
Torres' charges.) Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez
won the first round of elections on May 21. News reports considered him the leading
candidate for the final runoff election on July 1. Two very different kinds of
lawyers represent narcotics defendants in the Philadelphia justice system.
Defendants with no money get public defenders assigned to them by the courts.
On the other hand, defendants who can afford to pay for a defense hire counsel
from among a small coterie of experienced local criminal lawyers. Among Dominican
drug defendants, one of the top attorneys of choice is Guy Sciolla. Guy Sciolla
doesn't do TV ads. He has a tiny one-line entry in the Yellow Pages. If you've
never heard of him, then you're probably not the type of person who'll ever need
him. Years ago Sciolla was on the other side of the fence, as a prosecutor in
the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office. Back then he counted among his
colleagues in the homicide unit the very two prosecutors who would shut down the
BNI crew - Michael P. Stiles and Arnold Gordon. The Philadelphia legal community
is a very small place. In the weeks and months before Stiles and Gordon decided
to stop taking BNI cases, Guy Sciolla was working up a motion to spring a former
BNI arrestee from federal prison. Miguel Tapia had been caught by McLaughlin and
Eggles with a brick of cocaine in his car. Tapia had been set up by one of BNI's
informants, who told the agents to wait for Tapia to make a delivery at a corner
store at Fourth and Annsbury Streets. Tapia drove up in an Oldsmobile, parked and
entered, where McLaughlin was waiting for him. Eggles later testified that he,
meanwhile, recovered a brick of cocaine from the floor of the car, after spotting
it peeking out from under a newspaper. Tapia was arrested on the spot, though it
would be some hours before it was revealed he had lied about his identity and that
his real name was Anci Liriano. Eggles was able to seize the cocaine without a
warrant under the "plain view" provisions of search and seizure law, which allows
police to take action when they see something they can "reasonably suspect" is a
controlled substance. The informant's tip was critical to the legality of the
arrest since it provided the reasonable suspicion needed to look inside the car.
A jury found Tapia/Liriano guilty and a judge gave him a 63-month federal prison
sentence. Sciolla's legal brief on behalf of Tapia was filed just two weeks after
news of the BNI scandal hit the papers. It made no claim that Tapia/Liriano was
innocent of anything. It did not allege that the agents had planted the cocaine
in his car. If anything, Sciolla's Tapia brief is a somewhat unique court document
in that it drips with innuendo and sarcasm. It backhandedly doubted Eggles'
credibility by claiming that a series of past BNI arrest reports, few of which
even involved Eggles, displayed "remarkable and repeated fact patterns." It went
on to question the very existence of BNI's confidential informant. Years later,
in a sworn deposition, U.S. Attorney Michael Stiles would recall the Tapia case
as one of the main reasons he determined the entire Bureau of Narcotics
Investigation was unfit for future federal prosecutions. In recounting the facts
of the Tapia case, Stiles' version was similar to Sciolla's, in which doubt was
cast on whether McLaughlin and Eggles' informant had ever existed and little
connection was found between Tapia and the Oldsmobile. But other investigative
agencies, including the DEA, had long ago confirmed they were using the same
individual as an informant, and a civilian witness in the store had testified
for the prosecution that Tapia tried to throw away the keys to the car.
(Tapia was set free in July 1996. Seven months later, Delaware State Police
records show he was stopped for speeding on I-95 and that $31,000 was found
hidden in his car's false-bottomed gas tank. The car and the money were seized,
but Tapia was let go.)
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