Monday, October 25, 2010
Email from Sarfatti in 2001: "Bush about to intervene in the Einhorn Affair"
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
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?
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?
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
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
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. "