For Late John Dewey Professor, Sidney Morgenbesser

For his moral grave noble soul, moral responsiblity, and espistemological commitments and the philosophy of the logic of applied probality and statistics in the social sciences.
Your penned letter nearing your departure from this world in trying to advise my doctoral research in philosophy of social science of criminological research, though I had no sense of your stature was that of a Rabbinical Sage, and saint was a signature of my naivete and true ignorance. You should have ignored me, and casted me out into the nonsense rhyme of 19th Century English poets. Requeim IN Pace, Good Noble, Sir!

I thank Dr. Adina Schwartz for introducing me to you and your works.

As I quote you-"Yeah, Yeah, Right!" In sure good sense of the most proverbial sense of wisdom in the Spirit of Hillel and RAM BAM.

Post Fall 2009 Forthcoming---Issues

Commentary On the Status of Cyber-Attack, Military Defense Systems, and Infrastructural Vulnerabilities

Jacques Ellul's magnum opus on the TECHNOLOGICAL BLUFF in relation to Cyber Security Act

North Korean Terrorism

Cyber Organized Crime

On Minamoto's BOOK OF FIVE RINGS & the Rule of Orthodox and Unorthodox Strategems of Swordsmanship as Metaphor for Asymetrical Terrorist Warfare

Pascal's Fiery Triangle,
Zen mathematical logic of non-attachment, emptiness as fullness:
emptiness is form, form is emptiness,
neither emptiness is form, nor form is emptiness,
and neither there is emptiness nor form,
there is no mind, yes, indeed-not even this:

for those who suffer, but give and lend a helping hand
& to Ruth, M.S.W. Abbhidharmist, and Zen analyst, St. Vincent's Hospital

Paradox of the Excluded Middle: "Nothing can be taught."

180 x 0= 180
3 x 3= 9

f(x)=1/0 x 0= 1

2 millenial Sutra of Kayaspa, Nargajuna, Boddhidharma, Sextus Empiricus, Hui Neng, Anthony and Mary of Egypt, Ram Bam, Won Hyo, Wang Gyun (Tae Jo) Shakespeare, Ko Bong, Dogen, Nicheren, Tagore, John Donne,William Blake, G.M. Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Huh Sook, Geum Soon, J.M. Synge, W. Stevens, Seung Sahn, Shinryu Suzuki, Martin L. King, Jr., Mu-Seong, Thich Nhat Hahn, Rev. Fr. James LeBar, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus-Cardinal Kung (R.I.P.) inter alia Wagner's-Goedel (Wittgenstein) PARSIFAL

MANY GREAT AND HEART-FELT THANKS TO OUR READERS: Editorial & Advisory Board on Sabbatical

Dear Readers, thank you very much for your readership and interest in SCP--Blog Bulletin. Our readers are vey important to us for the interest, craft, and concerns and aims for the issues and topoi of our on-line publication.
Many great thanks!

The Editorial Staff, Writers & Advisory Board of SURVEILLANCE, CRIME & PHILOSOPHY are on Summer Sabatical, and would like to thank ALL our readers for their interest and support.

Our post will continue in early and late in the Fall 2009.

Love all people, or try to--- we tell ourselves---and the rest will follow with the peace and calm of a good conscience with solidarity for all who labor for what is good in the sincerity (in Sino-Korean: Jin Shil Ma-Eum, Sino-Japanese: Ma-Koto) of honesty and humilty of hope, as we search for the golden fleece of truth and happiness. Perhaps, we may hear the whispers of truth in rest of our waking hours in our reflections, contemplations, prayers, and in all our struggles and labors to seek peace and love in our neighbors, in ourselves, and in ONE GOD of all which is within and transcends Us, and of Creation----we may without fault honestly doubt, or not know this; but may THIS not destoy the love of common humanity, universal love and compassionate understanding for all living things.

Thank you, Readers!

-----Editors, Staff, Writers and Advisory Board

Sanskrit: ATYAVARACARYA---"transcending the mind of logic and the logic of mind."

Until, we proceed further, then, we pray and hope for PEACE In World, Agape, Ubi Caritas, Shalom, Assalumm Ailakim, let us go

Negative Recursives to a Decision Analytic --IN MEMORIAM SENECAE QUI EST EXEMPLARQUE FORTIS MAGISTER RATIONIS VIRTUTIS

It is a conditional proposition that in a classical trilema we can only opt for one choice out of 3 factors, that are least favorable, among one choice which is by necessity the only choice. In regard to privacy interests, civil liberties and national security--eliminating any two factor for one out of necessity is a significant form of decision analtyic impassse, and fox-hole. The alternative may be a tetralemma of Nargajuna in which each factor is in tandem affirmed and negated simultaneoulsy to reach a state of equilibrium to off set the tyranny of one set of conditions over or versus the other.

A hint ABOUT WHAT A NEGATIVE RECURSIVE IS: "WHAT DOES THE DEAF MAN HEAR, WHEN HE HEARS SILENCE?"

Toward a Fundamental Decision Theoretic Grid of Risk and Cyber Threat

What is the greater probality that a cyber attack will occur versus that it will not occur as a random event which cannot be predicted, outside of fully secured intelligence data (that is "bullet-fool" proof, parlance.) This cannot be done outside of cyber-intrusion, and detection of assessing the the threat level to which there may be an attack. 1-->0--->1, in binary, odds/even probalistic ratio on a Baysian subjective logical view that an attack will occur or not-- in contradistinction to its converse relationships. This is the limits to which we can order any estimation of a decision theoretic model than any attack can happen or not happen, at any time, any place, any where. Can we prepare for such a assault on the any type of epistemological-logical reasoning in relation to cyber-Intelligence, and surveillance, if we are under cyber-attack?

An Analect and Riddle for Our Times

What is the sound of a dog barking,
if and when he or she can no longer bite?

Is it a dog's dream to satisfy his or her hunger for morsel and grub?

"Tum intelleges qui voluptatem maxime sequantur, eos mimime consequi; iucunditatemque
victus esse in desiderio, non in satiete"

--Cicero

Global Surveilllance, Cyberterrorism, and Hobbesian Collective Soveign State & War

The nature of the classical political philosophical doctrine of the "State of Nature" has been in criminology of conlict theory of indiviuals and collective groups, which on a social level is not able to cohere into an unified organizaion, a political formation or state of individuals.

The universal global forces of internet does not render any boundaries to which there can be any legimated, or multi-laterally agreed upon jurisdiction of enforcing international law. It is an anarchic enteprise, and one without borders to which cyberterrorist attacks can hapen in any parts of the world--at worst war.

The regression into a form of nuanced Hobbesan collective security by de jure lure Executive & Military powers to address this great travesty and instabiity that may lead to cyberwarfare and terrorism; which is seemingly the very much the emblematic staple and symbol of Hobbes's "Christian Atheism." Post-Fall, and after the the Medieval and Rennaissance Period-we are tempted to believe that we can no longer believe in God, or a Supreme Benevolent Power of Justice or Good. Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare and if there is not a defeat against Radical Jihad may be a prelude to a demise of Western liberal (civic-republican or libertarian) Democracy with all its hallowed traditions.

But to be contrarian, or offer a counter-hypothesis: what are the viable aternatives, as we are shuffling a deck of cards on the table?

Global Cyber Espionage & Warfare from Zen Angle

In Memory of Teresa of Avila, C.S. Pierce, William James, Gustav Mahler, John Von Neumann, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, M.K. Ghandi, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Walker Percy, Huao Wang, W.B. Yeats, R. Tagore, and in honor of Hilary Putnam, Henry Feingold, Barry Latzer, James P. Levine, F. Warren Ned Benton, John I. Kleinig, Mary Gibson, Christina Czechowicz, Adolf Soto, Nicholas Birns, Rev. Kazmierz Kowalski, Lucy & Thomas Tucker, Roger Lee Deakins, Robert Kelly, John A. Maynard, Dorothy Bracey, Antony Simpson, Andrew Karmen, Adina Schwartz, Rhoda Fisher, Karma, Grace K. Kim & Greenburgh Police Department



HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS CONTRA CORRUPTION OF THE LATE TANG AND SILLA COURT,
2 CLANS OF RIGHTEOUS SPYS AND A SPLINTERED RESISTANCE IN FRAGMENTS:
WHO KNOWS WHAT SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR MEANS?
A TREATISE OF SECRETS WITHOUT SECRETS,
WHO CAN EVINCE AND PRACTICE THE TRUE WAY OF THE TAO?
WHAT IS THERE TO KNOW?
TO NOT KNOW.
IT READS: "WEAPONS ARE A SIGNS OF ILL OMEN."
33rd PATRIARCH OF ZEN BUDDHISM: HUI-NENG, A PEASANT WOOD-CUTTER.
THERE IS NO DUST IN THE MIRROR OF THE MIND TO CLEAR, WHEN THERE IS
NO MIND, OR MIRROR.
IN THE CONTEMPORARY TEXT OF GREAT ZEN MASTER SEUNG SAHN-JUST "DON'T KNOW."
THE WAY OF DHARMA COMBAT.
DO I KNOW OR DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE ELECTRON WILL MOVE UP OR DOWN, LEFT, OR RIGHT, Backwards or Forwards in a Shape of a Diamond: THE QUANTUM LOGIC OF PROBALITY AND SIMPLE FAITH.
OR WE RETURN TO THE TETRELAMMA OF NARGAJUNA'S "MIDDLE WAY."
FREEDOM, SECURITY AND PRIVACY, AFFIRMATION AND/OR NEGATION. THE PROPOSTION AMONG THE VARIABLES OF TWO CONDITIONS IN FOUR ALTERNATIVES IN TANDEM.
WHO IS SUVEILLING WHO IS THE QUESTION OF THE MATTER, WITHOUT FACTS OF THE CASE?
T.S. ELIOT: "DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?"
The smile of the half lotus mudra of Maitryea!
An eternal sword of justice lays upon chrysanthemum bed of lilies in a River of Death and Glory,
what accursed mortal will claim this throne, heretofore after, saecula saeculorum!
We must wait in silence in the fnal hours of star-light and dawn.
Pray for the redemption of all for this is the Way & the Light, which has come into World.
The teaching of Lao Tzu: "For he who takes on the scum, wreckage and refuse of the world on one's bare back is True Person of the Tao."
I who have alway been guided by my primordial Mongol-Indo Chinese Spirits, and fear their Wrath of the Emperors in unknown tombs of their divine mysteries.
"When I was I was hungry, you fed me gruel; when I was naked, you clothed me; when I was in prison, you visited me." When I was held captive, you ransomed me. "When I was thirsty, you gave me drink."
Even Christ taught honor among thieves for which I have become an afflicted fool.
O Prajnamparamita, Cano arma virumque, Pax Vobiscum! Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus!
Tis who I honor are as spiritualis of blood folk which transcend culture, race, lineage, and clan & ancestral tribe. The Heart of this yearning beautiful earth, AMERICA!
In a land of exile, and strangers, a prophet is truly without honor.

What is Sovereign Immunity and Cyber Security Act?

An Anodyne Close Reading of legal policy implications in re Masse global cybersurveillance with the most powerful diminuition of 4th Amendment privacy interests on a fortissmo scale. Jewel v. NSA has been not been dismised, and the hearing for appeal with be heard by Chief Justice Walke in 9th District Court. The Cyber Security Act gives immense power under the exclusive authority of the President, and powers mandated to the Depts. of Commerce and Defense. It is being debated in both Houses the proposed Bill. We may be moving toward a a greater cybersurveillance industrial state if one or the other ruling loses and Bill passes, without Federal and Political Ovesight. As a mater of prudence, much has yet to be seen. There are no crystal balls, or tea leaves or I-Ching coins to divine or predict the future!

Gangster of the Lotus of the Rose

Manchuria 1910, occupied by Japan.
Mr. Kimitake enslaved to work in the coal
mines with more than 4 millions resisters in Korea & China to the Land of the Rising Sun.
In Japan, he sold radishes, until he was falsely accused
of
robbery by the Police. Innocence.
So many he met like himself in the temporal miserific vision.
No way to survive at all after his incarceration.
Violence, casino, loan sharking, prostitution with the Yakuza.
In the late 60's he became Boss of real estate ventures.
The others engaged in global sexual slavery-he was in league because he was head.
A slave girl from N. Korea became innured to become Madame.
She confesses to a Holy Priest in Pusan. He is committed to the sacramental seals of confession.
Kimitake monitors her, and says he will kill the Priest.
Madame re-sells her self into slavery to Amsterdam to save the life of Priest.
Kimitake wants out of the trade.
He confesses to the Priest. He preaches the Divine Mercy. Thus, the Boss is assassinated by another Oyabun.
It is reported in the news. The Priest becomes a hermit on Diamond Mt. and takes a vow of silence. What is Truth?
The slave girl dies of AIDS, and is buried in potter's field.

Hans Jonas, Ethics of Responsibility of Surveillance Modalities

Hans Jonas, one of the seminal thinkers on the ethics of technology, whose philosophy is that of the future cautionary view of the universalized effects of how technology can impair, or destroy humanity by the purely utilitarian grounds of technology which has no limit, other than the functionalist purposes to unharness new powers to control human nature.

He writes: "The univeralization is a thought experiment by the private agent not to test the immanent morality of his action. Indeed, real consequences are not considered at all, and the principle is one not of objective responsibilty, but the subjective quality of self determination."

If we consider the growing mass industrial effects of surveillance and cybersurveillance machinery and its effect on society, politics, criminal justice and the global intelligence community, we must consider how much qua freedom does one exercise through collective agency or personhood, if we are under the watch of a surveilling eye. The crux of matter--- society or the individual has become more observed under the surveilling eye of technological powers that does not manifest in itself in a matter of public accountability or transparency.

On a final note, Jonas writes: "This consumation of [his] power, which may well portend the overpowering of man, this final imposition of nature, call upon the utter resources of ethical thought, which has never been faced with elective alternatives to what considered the definite terms of human condition."

In this regard the theme of "Techne" of Heidegger, Ellul, Jonas and Foucault resonate in a polyphony of a precautionary conondrum and perplexity. We are left to ponder and reflect upon such difficult questions in a dark cave seeking light.

R.S.Y. Kim

Foucault's Neo-Humanism in DISCIPLINE & PUNISH

Michel Foucault was not a professional criminologist, but observed the history of prisons and incarneration (notably-Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, which was never fully constructed).
The Panopticon prison aims to surveil all its inmates through cells within a radius of a circumference of a circle.

If we look at how police patrol or CCTV on the streets, or residential complexes surveil not just targeted offenders, but the vast population who pass by them, or who under the eye of the police investigations-the dire ambivalence of a surveillance society can either be anticipated with promise to control crime, at its best-or that we no longer have the right to anonymity and privacy in public spaces.

Foucault never prescribes a way out of this vortex of technology of surveillance, which has become gargantuan.

R.S.Y. Kim

Fouauldian Neo-Humanism on DISCIPLINE & PUNISH

Michel Foucault was not professional criminologist. He wrote D&P from an hermeneutic, historiographical epistemologist of Europe, the Western CLassical world, religion and institutions.

Technological Legal Philosophy of Electronic Surveillance

The byzantine mazes of judicial decision making in respect to the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (1986)--ECPA--has not been conclusively decided other than controversy of the Wire Tap Act (Title I) and its skewed relation with the Stored Communication Act (Title II) in U.S. v. Councilman. The controversial case, U.S. v. Councilman is not all together clear as to what e-mail transmissions are protected in contradistinction to when it is stored in ISP storage. The technological legal jurisprudence is very much lacking in drawing the line between the Wire Tap Act provisions and Stored Communication Act Provisions. Since there have been no landmark Supreme Court precedent in regard to Electronic Mail Interception, the courts have been left in murky, if not "swamp" lands to provide legal remedies in which there is no 4th Amendment protections for search and seizures, and legal remedies. This is an uncharted, and yet to be seen area of contest between the state, and all who seek a shield for privacy protections. It is coin toss in the technological jurisprudence of computer surveillance.

R.S.Y. Kim

FORENSIC THEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS

“Analytics of a Paralytic Crown: Alarums of Love”

[philosophia cordis]


Jeden Teil des Satzes, der sienen Sinn charakterisiert,
Nenne ich einen Ausdruck (ein Symbol).

Die operation kann verschwinden (z. B. die Verneinung
In “~~p”. ~~p= p).

- --Ludwig Wittgenstein


To
Rev. Fr. K.. Rev. Msgr. P.C.,
Rev. Canon J.K, JIK, ML, AS, R.R.S.


I


Chrysanthemum wine
and pitted pomegranates on table laid
bare--


in Caesar’s colonnade and garden
cracked vessels, water.

Mikhail’s spear.
severed wings
in the desert: Impenetrable
shelter of Octavia in blind
avenues without signs,
that only a perverse
generation wouldst seek.


II


Fig leaves built on stilts—the castle of heaven.
I am no castle lord,

But a diseased supplicant.
No, a penitent of sorts.
To whom I give alms---


Awakened, were you to sip loose tea leaves.
The cypress trees that cover and provide shade
from congenital heat.


A Serial-Sexual Homicide, dysthymic
Mental pulse.

The wheel comes full circle toward none.
Shall not enter my rest.

And for my crime.

Just gods have severed my limbs.

Ac hoc enim est—meum corpum.

Blood spatter, no DNA trace.

Ricard, a loathsome fool of murderous lusts,
Repeated the word of his father-“I-M-I”-

III

Does he now dare to forget
the curse of Adam’s dust.
Down trodden, sterile heath.

Felix Culpa.

Does heaven descend
Now upon the earth,
Of the den of opium
And monstrous visions
and recursive accidents.

Aggrieved and sorrowful;
Await the palm of a slain
and resurrected King for no day
too soon.

The sword of Maccabeus,
& Judith, shavo (a) d
of Davywid,

a throne unbeknownst
only to heart of the cosmopolitan masses,
but on the hillside in remote land—

of harvest of millet, barley and wheat,
the unveiled scabbard of Juan Shellei-Hopkins,
pressed upon his synoptic purple ink,
spraying seed on peeled, parched papyrus sheets.

IV

And the children weep embracing an olive branch;
They who remember with joy,

Sancta Papa Joannes Pablo II wearily made pilgrimage from Krakow,

To the springs and viaduct of the blood of Rome & Iona,
@ Central Park, 1995.

The coliseum, a spectacle, festal Broadway of
forgotten past times.

And the narrow the way, to forestall the razing open pit of destruction,

Whether I can ever surmise the race of Genghis preferred to eat good ole country-style BBQ, or the bellied intestines of whom they conquered, or lick with relish the moist tendon and clavicle of Missionary trespassers?



V


The sacramentalist Oxford script of Nikolai Blake & Edwardian Church of England-transmitted in triadic vagaries of space in Village-Square:
at Spellman Hall, and she said:

Da-mitzvah & the Police.

herein the Bronx, mi probeza,

El Senor Diego!

a fallen spirit cast out, like a chink
of a chain, from thine eyes torn, by hearing
the holy Cardinal Dulles in whispers,
and Fr. K, philosphe, of the laurelled Fiorenza poet,
and Jaspers, unworthy am I to listen to their words
in silence.

gazing at the lofty, terror, trembling off

VI

(the cliff aside Mon Salvatt and Mt. Tae-Baek, pray in spirit,

a holy delirious fool doth pray- have she met him and felt- untidy, foul despicably grotesque, rat-faced beggar, in-deed, as always given in too much talk

in nakedness of conscience and Law unbending the fastening of

the frail incendiary body and flesh given).

Both were first evicted, and then convicted, and made a solemn act of contrition in jail,
While passing a false yearly $10, 000 check, to pay off their debts.

stricken by a whip and cane of discipline,

AND by the ALARUMS of LOVE

with only a dry, hardly feverish kiss, enamored was he by a cheap cheap peck.

none other the gift of peace of the cross ,
of an unrequited dream world of observance.

Security, Stasis As Equilibrium in Surveillance Policy

There are certain conceptual, legal and philosophical difficulties and goals of the relations between privacy, liberty and security. I believe there needs to be a "stasis" (in contrast to balance), an equilibrium in which only if there is clear and present danger that there can be a trade off of privacy for public security. Because governmental surveillance can range from decoding cryptography through concealed viruses, and surveil vast populations--whereby policy, operations can claim claim the cover of state secret privilege--it may be a fatal effect to our privacy protections.

R.S.Y. Kim. I would like to thank Dr. John I. Kleinig (CUNY Graduate Center and Australian National University )for his reading parts of the forthcoming manuscript.

Poems

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Untitled: Cell & Prison

Where is the sun and the stars which glimmers in the

dark, hollow Corridors of the Cell & in Prison block 69?

Solitary confinement for stabbing an inmate for attempted

Rape. What was the loss of your mentally afflicted Zen practicing

Mother, And your deceased beloved Father. an aggrieved Episcopal Methodist

Pastor who committed suicide.

Only to be deserted into the blind alleys without no family.

A magnate high school pupil in the Bronx living in the ghettoes,

Selling heroin and crack abandoning a foster home.

Here I stand waiting judgment for parole for 7 years in a cell.

A very late DSM VI borderline, bi-polar monitored through

A digital bracelet, the mode of disciple and surveilng.

Dr. Feinstein, his psychiatrist, an Orthodox Jew, had said

Exorcist ritual prayers in silent whispers. The vortex of his Afro-Asiatic

mind meditated on the Heart Sutra of emptiness, and suffering-- yielding

To compassionate healing of the Doctor’s rehabilitative treatment.

Even his love of the crack whore flower was illusory void to which

He was enlightened of mortality and curse of dust.

Liberation and freedom came to alas as a janitor at Penn Station, and

Public works volunteer on the weekends.

Blaine F. Parkson studied Psychology of Religion & Creative Writing at SUNY Purchase College

Eyes as fallen Pearls

for J.M. & R.L.D, J.L.

The jewel of the vanishing twilight

I can never speak of,

Until I rest to rot and spoil.

And wish the very worms

Will have me consumed, the ‘pearls

That were his eyes,’ devour

My poisoned kidney and liver;

disemboweled in frost and snow,

Whereby, that very dagger,

My spleen, severed my tongue,

Which my ancestors said of chin-mook

Of silence that speaks, by never saying

anything at the drop of a dime.

Maidens of youth, were I ever

to love; I can’t ever say that I have-

Or is it a lie told by

the “God haunted,

Cruel Talent of Russ,”

Which has become the truth?

Tell her if you see him, he remains dead

And buried on a fragrant bed of lilies.

The sisters of Mercy and Terror

of Retribution, shall know, wielding

staff and sword, for a remnant of

seven thousand reserved from

the annals of time, vanguard those

who are left dead in tawdry barber

and salon shops--- far corners of

the metropolis, pilfered lots---

the fallen tropical torrential rain,

was shot when she repented

and confessed,

The rackets of the flesh.

The mercenaries of beasts,

sold her pound for pound,

Flesh for flesh, picked their teeth

with a mint deck of laminated

Chosun cards, with the soft

metallic polish of finishing nails.

Circles and Spirals of Light,

The gentle cadence of broken sibilants,

Deferred gutturals, which cry

Out from the hidden fount and portents

of creation of primeval sorrow and glory,

dusk, shadow and tempest.

The ubiquitous dawn, now, let us arise

and go.

O Rider of the raging seas

of lies, perennial doubt, and the

illusory devils, demon gods,

overthrowing my enemies.

You stretched out your shriveled

hand to save my child from drowning

by the salty shores at bay across

the fishing colony.

Sovereign divine you sold yourself

into slavery to set captives free.

One’s eyes, awaken, to hear,

The pupils and retina burnt by

the Sun, no longer burn with the passion

And pride of life, and lust of the eyes,

but fulfilled in the hope

Of the eskaton of the return,

Of divers dominion, times and deadly straits

reported, but the sequence of the

Actual left unsaid.

Kristavara & Ann [a] ya-mariam wanted it that Way,

a resident of the Eastern Isle Prefect

via Diamond Junction.

She remembered the discourse of the pre-eminent

Theologist who scripted: “She Who is,” and

read while drinking chrysanthemum tea, the novelle,

just released translation of Lombroso’s La donna delinquente

by the renowned City historian.

Luxury and the high life of thieves were all too much

a bane; she figured that it was mass bankruptcy or

global robbery?

And the woman was blessed though the breaking of chains.

Would you deceive yourself to be an auditor

of the wise, when your folly and idiocy, has twisted

And breached upon what was never said?

The flame burned in my heart,

which cried out in exhortation and admonition:

[“sancta mea amor crucifixus est”]

Father Juan, tortured and kidnapped,

a night of consecrated purgation;

wherefore, ascending the ladders of suffering,

did not confound darkness with the light,

light from the darkness, thick smoke from fire.

So did I fall prey to the imprisoned conundrums

of hallucinatory and spiritual vertigo, not like Father

John,

She the Mystical Bride to whom

De La Cruz was wed.

---------------------------

at the shrine in Tagaste. . .

the martial mind of calm of the Tatagatha [aside]

history, culture and philosophy.

It is snuffed at the break of day to chase demons away,

Though rekindled within a lamp at nightfall…

Come l’augello, intra l’amate fronde,

posato al nido de’ suoi dolci nati

la notte che le cose ci nasconde,

For the world has become a stone pitted cherry.

-

Dehydrating, and rushed to the hospital, in steed of rails and barbed and quartered

Fenced halls, where I soon owe much more to time, than I shall ever know.

This the wager of Pilgrim’s Regress?

,

ora pro……

R.S.Y. Kim

---

[1] In Sino-Korean characters means “silence.”

[2] The traditional name for ancient Korea.

BULLETIN

The Blog Bulletin aims to focus and discuss the concerns and problems of surveillance in criminal justice, enterprise crime (cyber-security studies, terrorism, CCTV, and correctional programming) policy, technological philosophy (analytic, continental, and global) culture & forensic investigational theology. We look for short article submissions, commentary, and book reviews, which address this subject matter. The forthcoming date of the Bulletin is late 2010.


The approximate length for an article should be no more than 3,750 words, and for book reviews and commentary no more than 875 words (all in 12 point font).

The rule of citations should follow the APA Manual of Style.

Pkease send submissions to roselotos38@optonline.net





The Impact of Surveillance, Technology, Fighting Crime & Terrorism

The impact of surveillance technology has become exponentially evolved from cybersurveillance tools such as Carnivore (now disbanded, once used by the FBI) and Magic Lantern, and NARUS. All surveillance tools have the potential to monitor en masse surveillance target populations to combat crime, transnational global syndicates and terrorism.

The questions of technology, one may ask what are the limits to which such surveillance tools may infringe on civil liberties, whether there is encroaching "Death of Privacy," as David Rosen has said several years back.

But is it a question that that technology (or techne) has become a "Leviathan"--to which no a posteriori necessity can circumvent a surveillance society in monitoring terrorist threats, offender and penal monitoring, and battling transnational organized crime.

Is it what Heidegger predicted that "techne" will lead to encompassing dehumaniziation of political, legal and social machinery, which there is no escape as technology advances to escape from its entangled web of the advance of surveillance technology (since Post WW II)? Or what I conclude that it is a sharp a "double edged" sword, which has an instrumental effect--and not a clearly legitimized totalization or programmatic one of a hyper-alarmist en masse surveillance society, if we read the works of Jacques Ellul, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Ram Bam, Hans Jonas, Kurt Goedel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Jaki, Edmund Burke, Carl Hempel, Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyeraband, Hans Urs Von Balthazar, Karl Barth, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hilary Putnam, Alan F. Westin, Joel Feinberg, Reinhold Niebhur, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, Mary Gibson, David Garland, Jerome Skolnick, John I. Kleinig, Todd Clear, Robert Kelly, Ko Lin Chin, Barry Latzer, and Jurgen Habermas, among others.

R.S.Y. Kim, John Jay College, Law & Police Science Department

A General History of Surveillance in the U.S. in a Nutshell

Surveillance has always been a tool of governance during times of national crisis – whether prompted by threats of war, social unrest, foreign subversion, or rampant crime. The forms taken by such surveillance have followed technological developments in modes of communication and data storage. Postal monitoring occurred during the colonial period, telegraphic monitoring developed during the nineteenth century, telephonic wiretaps and bugging devices were implemented in the twentieth century, and now, more recently, various forms of computer surveillance have been designed and employed. Although these forms of surveillance have been defended in prospect of assuring national security , their use has nevertheless generated an ongoing and increasing public debate as various civil liberties – and, particularly, privacy – have been seemingly compromised.

Significantly, the issue, here now, being addressed is that there was no major official alarm for the violation of privacy until the mid to late 20^th Century until landmark Supreme Court cases legally addressed privacy concerns as a paramount 4^th Amendment issue. It was not after the advancement of modern surveillance technology and violation of police authority that the violation of privacy of unwarranted, and illicit monitoring could come to the forefront of how powerful the capacities to surveil could manifest itself.

R.S.Y. Kim, John Jay College, Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration Dept.

Advisory Board & Editorial Staff

Editorial Advisory Board

Dr. Nicholas Birns, Eugene Lang College and New School
Dr. Barry Latzer (Ex Officio) John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center, Gautama Ramakrishna, M.D. Virginia Commonwealth University, Fellow (Mayo Clinic Research Group), AH-CA.


Co-Founders and Editors--R.S.Y. Kim & Charles Lieberman (post Spring 2009), John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY)






[I pay profound, sincere respect, gratitude and homeage to Steve and Bok Yun Kim, Dr. Barry Latzer, Dr. Roger L. Deakins, Christina Czechowicz, Dr. John A. Maynard, Dr. Nicholas Birns, Dr. Mary Gibson, Dean James P. Levine, Dr. John I. Kleinig, Dr. Robert Kelly, Dr. F. Warren Benton, Dr. Adina Schwartz, Dr. Andrew Golub, Dr. Michael Jacobson, Dr. Todd Clear, the late Dr. C. Wiedemann (R.I.P.), Lucy Tucker, Dr. Stephen Krason, Rev. K. Kowalski, Dr. Adolph Soto, Dr. Henry Feingold, Dr. Richard Gallagher, Dr. Patricia Miller, Dr. Carol Weinstein, Dr. Gautam Ramakrishna for their Mentorship, counsel, assitance; and would like to thank Benjamin Liu, who resides in Princeton, NJ for the launch of the technics of this blog & John T. Choi for his early, youthful Pascalian influence of Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

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