I know that you have a problem with my preoccupation with government
computers, but let's get over it with the Holiday spirit...
Pic: Biking in Berlin Unter den Linden last year.
Pics: US Marshal Service in action...
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Catching up with US Deputy Marshal Darcy Smith, who was charged with apprehending me in April 2010 in Los Angeles, California... After I failed to appear for an "interview" by the "Threat Unit", she sent an armed gang to get me. Luckily I was out partying (it was Saturday night for heaven's sake!). When I returned on Sunday morning, the neighbors were scared. They said that the federal agents looked trigger happy, and asked me to turn myself in, before the gang returns, since they were concerned that they would get hurt in the shooting... In US gov parlance it's called "collateral damage" - unrelated persons, killed in the action. You don't bother to count them...
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Pic: Biking in Berlin Unter den Linden last year.
Pics: US Marshal Service in action...
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Catching up with US Deputy Marshal Darcy Smith, who was charged with apprehending me in April 2010 in Los Angeles, California... After I failed to appear for an "interview" by the "Threat Unit", she sent an armed gang to get me. Luckily I was out partying (it was Saturday night for heaven's sake!). When I returned on Sunday morning, the neighbors were scared. They said that the federal agents looked trigger happy, and asked me to turn myself in, before the gang returns, since they were concerned that they would get hurt in the shooting... In US gov parlance it's called "collateral damage" - unrelated persons, killed in the action. You don't bother to count them...
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Hi Darcy,
Happy Holidays!
How are you doing? How is your
career going? I hope that the fact that you never got me didn't register
as a negative evaluation in your file...
I've been doing great. This past year, 2015, in particular, has been uniquely productive for me:
* A book I brought to press with
the largest publisher in Israel, "The Mill of Life" by Yitzhaq Shami
(1888-1949), has just won the 2015 "Masterpiece" award by the Minister
of Culture.
* My report on fraud in the US
federal courts was received, reviewed and incorporated into the 2015 UN
Human Rights Council report on Human Rights in the United States, with
the note:
HRA NGO
recommended restoring the integrity of the IT systems of the courts,
under accountability to the Congress, with the goal of making such
systems as transparent as possible to the public at large.”
It is my
third report that is accepted. The first one, in 2010, was the one that
irritated the US gov, then there was the 2013 report on Israel, and now
the 2015 report on the US federal courts.
* Lectured in Zurich, Switzerland
and in Portsmouth, UK in European conferences on e-government and fraud
by government on the people in the courts and prisons...
* Just this past month I've
received two other speaking requests from European conferences, but I
decided not to travel for some time, stay home, focus, and write a book
chapter for a textbook on e-government.
I know that you have a problem with
my preoccupation with government computers, but let's get over it with
the Holiday spirit... :)
Over the years since we parted, I
have become kind of international expert on e-government and computer
fraud in the courts. A textbook on "Machine Learning" found my
application of data-mining to Human Rights research among "Notable
uses", and summarized it as follows: [i]
Data
mining of government records - particularly records of the justice
system (i.e., courts, prisons) - enables the discovery of systemic human
rights violations in connection to generation and publication of
invalid or fraudulent legal records by various government agencies.
[ii,iii]
I've also been writing on current
affairs, often for OpEdNews.com. Separately, I wrote a few times on
literature in the respectable Israeli Haaretz literary supplement...
In short, I am busier than ever...
The armed gang you sent to get me in April 2010 was indeed a wake up
call for me, that it was time to move my shop out of LA.
I must admit that the weather in
Tel-Aviv can't compare with the weather in LA. The winters here are
nice, I still swim my daily 2-3 km in the open-air olympic-size sea
water pool on the beach in the middle of the winter. But the summers
here is more like Florida, hot and muggy. Such is life, full of
compromises... But overall, I am having fun...
Looking forward to hearing from you. Any adventures that aren't classified and you may share from land of the free and home of the brave?
Don't overwork yourself, and remember to save some time for fun...
Best wishes for 2016! And keep in touch!
Love,
Joe
UPDATE:
UPDATE:
Joseph Zernik Dear
Coleen: I've been writing to my friend Darcy on a regular basis,
telling her all about my life, my computer hobbies, and my feelings.
Two years ago, she wrote to me "fool me once...", and since then she
wouldn't answer my emails. What should I do? Swimmer in TLV Coleen Rowley
Coleen Rowley It's
always nice to send annual updates and keep the lines of communication
open with people you encounter on life's journey! And kudos on all your
varied efforts at educating and informing others!
