Initial provocation had come from an employee of Securitas, the security firm employed by the library. While I may have been mistaken, I thought that on one occasion I noticed my old friend, Pat Carlini, at the downtown library wearing a security guard uniform. For more about Pat, see an earlier section in this article. I wasn't able to obtain information about Pat's possible employment at Securitas from that company.
It developed that, in addition to that firm, the library had several other men employed by the library itself whose title indicated a "security" function. I thought: if these gentlemen felt that their main job is to prevent people from entering the library, perhaps the library could make do with fewer of them on staff.
At a hearing in early 2009 in Court 24, the Prosecutor's office was represented by a woman who was supposed to read aloud the charges to which I'd agreed to plead guilty. But she became so emotional about the whole thing that she couldn't in fact manage to read them. The reading ceremony had to be performed by another woman who was part of the court staff.
What was the cause of that display of emotion? I don't really know, but Indiana's economy was falling apart. Many people were being hurt; and my story as I've told it in this article was part of the explanation for what was happening.
To summarize, based on my experiences, one of the main causes of the collapse had been a failure of the media to provide enough of the transparency required for the functioning of a democratic, capitalist society. The print media had simply been too timid, while some TV journalists had been guilty of intimidating fearless free-lance journalists like me. The intimidation came with other illegal behavior. The TV journalists in question should rightfully have been disciplined by employers, who instead were overly-indulgent or chose to look the other way.
So, on this site, I've tried to provide some of the information that my friends in broadcast journalims have withheld.
I suppose I'm an egoist--as opposed, I hope, to an egotist.
I'm not that much different from everyone else. But my case history does seem to have developed into a matter of unique significance to the economic crisis that began in '08.
Because, you see, that crisis could have been avoided had I been better treated.
There had been an earlier crisis, the Savings & Loan Crisis. After that one, I'd published a newsletter suggesting the use of a kind of deferred stock to prevent repetition of similar unfortunate events. Alan Greenspan was then still Chairman of the Federal Reservce, however, and many people found it convenient to pretend that I didn't exist. And, as descirbed earlier, I also received a lot of actual abuse. I was a sad sack. I was an omega male chimp. I was sub-sub-sub-dominant. Why should anyone want to pay attention to me? So my suggestion regarding deferred stock was almost totally ignored.
That was most unfortunate, because, although larger, the crisis of 2008 was similar to the Savings and Loan Crisis. Reforms made after the Savings & Loan crisis were entirely inadequate. The stage was thus set for the later collapse. By clicking at left, the reader may view a scanned image of the newsletter I've mentioned.
Will adequate reforms be put in place as the result of the crisis of 2008? One can at least hope. And use of deferred stock will be needed in recovery efforts, particularly in restoring nationalized banks and other entities to the private sector.
The newsletter also disclosed mathematical problems with the Electoral College. Had I been able to communicate the substance of that matter to the Democratic Party, it would have been possible for them to have defeated George Bush in 2000. The country could have been spared a lot of grief.
While I've never intentionally plagiarized the work of other scientists or journalists, or been accused of plagiarism, I've often had another problem which has been somewhat the opposite. I've been able to find things to write about which, while indeed having been important, haven't seemed so to others. The matter of Electoral College math didn't seem important, but, because of it, the US was led into an unnecessary war followed by economic collapse.
(And, by the way, that Electoral College matter still needs to be tended to.)
It happened in 2008 that I developed severe skin rash. It itched and made it even harder for me to sleep. My sleep was already being disturbed, as has been described earlier, by my friends at NBC and other unknown friends. ("Friends?" Will Rogers said that he never met a man he didn't like. I try to at least pretend to have that mentality. I also try to work, by means of articles such as this, toward a state of affairs that will put me in a better mood to observe the more sublime side of human nature.)
I consulted a doctor and tried to follow the advice I was given, but the rash didn't go away.
My friends at GE made medical scanning devices. It occured to me that components from those devices might be adapted for surveilance purposes inside apartments such as mine. The new Indianapolis airport employs a scanning device which can see through the clothing of individuals boarding planes.
Did GE play any role in the construction of that airport device?
I didn't know, but the reader may click at left to learn about GE's medical imaging technology.
It is one thing to be hit momentarily with a burst of radiation when going through screening at an airport. But suppose an individual were being subjected to that sort of thing night after night?
Could such a person develop a severe skin rash?
It seemed to me quite possible that he could.
It happens that I've done work on a related subjects--irradiation of food, irradiation of mail, and the biochemical "big bang." Discussions of those subjects may be viewed elsewhere on this site.
I'm aware that there are a certain number of people who don't like me very much. I've been told that people think I'm too serious. And perhaps, at times, "being too serious" can indeed be a personality problem.
But in early 2009, collective America seemed to be facing problems that had resulted from not being quite serious enough.
Now, Americans have gone through various mood swings over the decades. During World War II the collective mood was certainly more serious than it has been recently. I therefore conclude with a poster from that era in hopes of thereby promoting economic recovery.
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