The Story



The Story

(I) INTRODUCTION 2

(II) THE FAMILY IN INDIA, PRIOR TO AMERICA 2

(III) THE BEGINNINGS OF THE FAMILY IN AMERICA 6

(IV) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 2:

Through AJ completing Graduate School 11

(V) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 3:

Through AJ’s Frauds on the Family 19

(VI) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 4:

Through SS’s arrival in America 31

(VII) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 5:

Through AJ’s First abduction of SS 43

(VIII) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 6:

Through AJ’s (and NJ’s) Second abduction of SS 53

(IX) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 7:

The Aftermath to SS’s second abduction XX

The Story

(I) INTRODUCTION

“… And till my ghastly tale is told,

This heart within me burns.”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1, 2)

This is the story of a family that immigrated to America in the present generation. Its story is told within against the backdrop of all that has gone horribly wrong in this country of late, something America has been evolving (1, 2, 3), almost inexorably, towards for the better part of the past three decade and perhaps more. This ‘all that has gone horribly wrong’ translatable, essentially at its core, in terms of the value system crisis, slip and slide, that preceded its outside skid in tangible terms, most prominently erupting as the dense self inflected injury, known as the 2008 economic tsunami. The incurably dragged out abomination, euphemistically labeled the ‘Great Recession’!

The family story is incapable of being severed from its backdrop, for not only did it unfold topically in America as its physical setting, but is attached to it through an umbilical chord described by both family and non-family members, bearing the stamp of contemporary America’s ‘soft’ value system currency, wrecking unholy havoc for it. As such, while ‘Rome burnt’ in America at large, another ‘Rome burnt’ inside the family, torched by insider(s) and outsiders alike.

Fact that such torching(s) of, a combination of intended and effective, design, the eternal situational outrage unspeakable in both cases! Extending, the damning legacy of all the perpetrators involved both ways.

The irreparable and lasting damage caused, most frivolously and gratuitously, the over-arching corresponding tragedy supreme respectively. Either and both ways, America coming out to look as bad as can be, as rotten as can be!

This Awful Thing We Do! - MIDWAY

Both elegy and warning, Midway explores the interconnectedness of species, with the albatross on Midway as mirror of our humanity.

(II) THE FAMILY IN INDIA, PRIOR TO AMERICA

The Sud family (“family”) comprising the father (“Dad”) and four children (Oldest sibling/“OS”, Ajay/“AJ”, Sanjay/“SS” and a sister/”SIS”)! The mother (“Mom”) having passed when SIS was a baby! SIS was raised by her siblings, since Dad worked and had to work. Since, AJ and SS were themselves not old enough really, this effectively meant OS, who raised AJ and SS too.

Since Mom was not well for some years, OS raised his siblings even while she lived. In the year after she passed, coinciding with his final year as an undergraduate at college, he completed same degree without ever attending classes. Merely taking exams at the end of the year, having studied all by himself at home. He had to be home with baby SIS, then in the very early afternoon(s) be there also for the other two returning from school.

Particularly after Mom’s passing, family servants could not be trusted without supervision. In fact, for a time when they were, OS would come home from college to find baby SIS invariably crying. Then she would be fine through the rest of the day. He was to eventually find the servants selling away the baby’s milk and other household staples too. Reason why baby would be crying, when he returned home, on account of having been kept hungry all morning, by the servants having ‘disposed’ off her milk!

However, even before she passed and his final year of undergraduate studies, he was unfailingly home for the three siblings past his morning classes at college, Never attended any afternoon classes ever. It was the same during his Masters/Graduate level studies in India. No afternoon classes ever taken there either, to be scrupulously home in time for the sibling kids returning home from school. By the time he ascended to his Masters years, he did not have to stay home all day, since baby SIS had started school by them.

All this was no mean sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) on OS’s part, for he was no casual college student, attending India’s leading undergraduate college. The family was very serious about education, all four siblings attended prominent New Delhi, British public school prototype, institutions. Unlike most schools in America, these were single stretch schools, kindergarten through high school in one place itself. OS’s Graduate school in India a serious matter too, but he did what he had to do – all his college years in India, thus, spent studying on his own at home, without ever being able to fully attend classes on his college or university premises ever.

Dad on his part raised his children by himself over a long haul, without their mother being around. Always a serious family man, he picked up his part of the slack following his wife’s passing. Long before it became fashionable in America for men to routinely go into the kitchen, Dad did so in the Indian culture so, utterly so far removed/remote from such roles. Starting out as a downright disastrous cook he evolved his way up to become quite, quite proficient, where before and at one time, per very rigorous culture dictates, he knew precious little about any household chores at all.

From the moment he returned home from work, as a senior civil servant, he was first in the kitchen, next all evening with the children at their study/homework table (with the TV firmly off) all evening as if foreshadowing President Obama’s recommendations to American fathers so many years later beginning 2008, later in the night supervising readiness of school uniforms and books scrupulously packed by the kinds for the next day, … fifteen minutes with his newspaper before retiring for the day close to midnight. Up at 4 AM, preparing breakfast, supervising bathing and uniform perfections, packing three kinds off to school, … then himself to school, … he did that with soldierly precision and adherence for years and years, with OS’s help in all the remaining areas. OS, who was always at the family dining table and more, without fail all his college years in India; never ever out with friends once the whole time.

AJ through middle school was an average and even a most mediocre student. A highly diffident, self doubting and, even, withdrawn individual, besides! Physically of a worrisome scarecrow thin build, after the fashion of President Kennedy’s skeletal and haggard looks when he was a Congressman in excruciating pain over his back problems, especially as he ascended into high school. It would not ne an exaggeration to state, he existed closer to a famine victim’s physique than away from it.

All through his growing years, known for being hypersensitive and a brooder of sorts! Very easily took things deeply but deeply to heart every time. Everything bothered him, down to his soul promptly. Upon learning of his mother’s passing and then again at her funeral, went blue and limp in sheer unspoilt grief unfiltered. Going so distressed, stricken and into convulsions as to bitingly choke! Family elders, Dad and OS, had to administer to him, hold him and thump his back to restore his breathing, bring back the pink to his face/cheeks. He was amply fleshy then, with resplendent dark curly hair galore, a gorgeous round and abundantly ruddy face, big round eyes better suited to female beauty, … to go to his gaunt and haunted look in the next few years to 9th grade in high school. He was a handy source of worry, thus, to Dad and OS all the time.

OS was to take AJ more directly under his wing as he ascended to this 9th grade in high school. No doubt his mother’s passing affected him, for he would speak of it in certain retching terms often. Beyond Dad, OS was very attentive to his associated needs. Apart from supervising his studies, even more OS directed himself to encouraging him, assuring him in terms of being there for him dedicatedly without fail, talking him though all his fears and ‘demons’, building up his self-esteem, … he was demonstrably sacrificing for all his siblings always anyway. Placing them before himself at all times.

The boy blossomed promptly and rapidly. In almost no time, he began making quantum leaps in his academics, scaling heights not to be anticipated ever before. His outlook and health picked up very significantly too. OS was strict about academic expectations, while providing every kind of support assurance anyone would need.

AJ sailed through high school maintaining high momentum, entering OS’s undergraduate college. OS, while letting AJ learn how to do things for himself, was always there right beside him. Often enough, ahead in watching out for him, especially where key pivotal areas at stake! Thus, OS was at the college with Dad the late evening AJ’s name went up on the board as having been accepted, in advance of the acceptance letter arriving home. It was OS who ensured that AJ took a prestigious scholarship examination, more a high honor than substantive money. OS in his time had earned the same scholarship, one of only two offered nationally, for physics, AJ was to nail down one of two for history.

So scrupulous OS’s caring watch over AJ, he went out of his way to ensure the latter had a pair of levis jeans to wear to college. An American product highly coveted among the college going, hard to find in India then. Scarcely to be found in Russia too, those were the days when levis jeans adorned American [hippies] would be accosted in Moscow and relieved off them in the streets. Could anything more caring and underscored in OS batting for AJ.

To fast forward a few years! After finishing his Graduate studies in India, OS shaping for studies in America, accepted the first Ivy League business school (“B’school”) he was accepted into. It was a highly punishing year long campaign, not unlike the exhausting hoops for the US Presidential race, from eight thousand miles away from America. It was the mid 1970s.

Four months before he was due to join B’school in America, fall 1976, OS calculated taking AJ with him to America. To make matters easy for Dad, who was retiring that year. One less kid for him to manage and settle, OS would handle that in America as far as AJ concerned. Four months before the same Fall in the year was hardly any sensible time frame to begin on AJ’s applications to American schools. A minimum of a year’s lead required even for those applying locally from within America itself.

In addition, AJ’s transfer application to run up against a stiff rule at accredited American schools not to accept students from abroad on transfer if they had sound first degree taking arrangements in their home country. India certainly was more than certifiable so. As such, OS maybe accused of being delusional or even deranged in going for the near impossible, but in his mind was the simple maxim he has forever lived by, viz. ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’. As the upcoming years were to show, the family was to benefit immensely and prosper only on the strength of this operating philosophy, in OS’s wielding, exclusively.

OS, not AJ ever, called for four, Ivy League, applications for AJ! From Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth! Except for appending his signatures, clerically, to all four in the end, AJ’s application prepared by OS alone! He never had to jump through any of the hoops that OS had to for his application campaign for attending school in America, benefitting directly from all that OS had learnt for himself in the past year’s hard, punishing learning regimen. It was like a subsequent US President running a campaign smoothened over wrinkle free by a previous President’s experience(s).

Hard as an application is from within America, an application made from abroad infinitely more challenging. Infinitely more complex and winding to negotiate! Infinitely greatly studded with adversity to be overcome! Infinitely more demanding in terms of requiring advanced organization, anticipation, innovation, juggling, pursuit, following through, … general thoroughness, maturity, finishing skills. Infinitely more taxing in terms of staying error poor, miserly, resistant, averse, unfriendly, shy… even free! Infinitely more challenging, by way of knowing what American schools looking for! … In the end, the entire process, on the whole, infinitely more enamored of, needing personal enterprise and drive.

None of which was AJ in the least, quite the reverse! He had and still has none of these cross-sectional qualities or skills, even remotely. Above all, could not and still cannot say ‘boo’ to his, own, shadow! Running from adversity, life at the drop of a hat his foremost forte! Needing 100% guarantees of success, before his paralyzed inertia would and can even begin moving. Good for merely shuffling his feet in one spot, spinning his wheels uselessly. Bawling came and still comes to him spontaneously upon any reverse merely sighted. Fright his most frequent reaction facing any real life.

Since OS wrote all his essays et al., it was only his go getting and other personality reflected in all of AJ’s applications. Since OS and AJ such vastly different people, barring the grades, the rest of the application was all OS alone. … Especially, since these applications were short order and stiff rule confronting transfer applications, to Ivy League schools no less, the real, consummately defeatist, AJ allowed to reflect through would have summarily sunk them where they stood.

As it is, once the applications, supremely well organized in the end even unto their outermost edges, ready, packaged securely in dispatch envelopes, they were handed by OS to AJ for the mere low end and clerical task of mailing them out at the post office. A week or so later, OS looking for confirmation of such mailing safely carried out, was bowled over when told they had not been sent out.

Upon inquiring as to ‘why not’, core AJ surfaced to explain ‘because he did not think he was going to get in anywhere!’ Vintage, self doubting, AJ, to the last! OS appreciated the thought of going to far off America petrified him in and of itself, but most of it was his damn, Teflon incurable, self doubt and sheer defeatism plumb at the starting line itself. … So, OS had to personally complete even the end point clerical task of actually mailing out AJ’s applications himself. A mere three months and less ahead of the new Fall semester in America for that year.

This episode is significant, for not only does it capture the real AJ intact and in full bloom, but he was to repeat this very same ‘escapade’ over and over again in the future. Two weeks later, OS was at his uncle’s home in New Delhi one evening, when AJ arrived unexpectedly to hand the other his admission letter from Columbia College, New York, N.Y., USA! He had enough decency and honesty in him then, to state and acknowledge to the other that an impossibility had been pulled off, riding the coattails of someone’s ability to step up squarely to life/

Eventually, Yale and Dartmouth were to say the greater expected ‘No’ to a challenging, transfer, application. Harvard gave deferred admission for the following year. A 50% record nothing to sneeze at all, only deserving of a resounding hip-hip-hurrah for taking life handily by its horns. Otherwise, since OS planned to take AJ with him the same year, Columbia was, without any reservations possible, accepted. Harvard’s offer for the next year, politely, respectfully and still gratefully, declined.

Now that admission had been secured, AJ’s application protocol ready to make an application for financial aid, no doubt always most dicey for foreign students to expect to go through successfully! Once again, OS and AJ were to find themselves at the opposite ends of the ensuing debate. OS would make the application, AJ going the other way merely because it had no or very tenuous chance of succeeding! The most absurdly frail and weak-kneed argument possibly to stand upon.

It goes without saying that OS duly made the financial aid application, now less than two months ahead of the Fall 1976 semester in New York. Some two weeks or so later, AJ was to sheepishly bring a successful financial award letter from Columbia to OS, who cocked an inquiring eye quizzically up at the standing AJ beside his sitting self. People in the family owing so much, everything to OS’s ‘Can Do’ spirit, attitude in life!

Yet, it was not a full ‘victory’! AJ had been given only partial aid, where OS was looking for full aid. It was not easy to fund American education from India even then, except by the very rich. Americans can understood this more fully now, when practically all of America cannot afford college in this country sans muscular assistance. To fund two in America from India simultaneously, even with the partial award, an unachievable stretch!

Since, AJ had only a year to go to finish his undergraduate degree in India, it was decided to defer Columbia to Fall 1977. In this manner, only OS would and did travel to America in 1976, AJ stayed back to finish his undergraduate at home, before joining Columbia College in Fall 1977.

Before OS left India, a family Joint Venture (“JV”) pact was made amongst all of them, including AJ, for family operations to be in America. This will come up in the story ahead, but it is best described here, compactly, in terms of the principles of Collective Responsibility and Shared Sacrifice spoken of most prominently by President Obama in America since 2008.

Its significance in having been formed/forged in India, derives itself from the status of the ‘Statute of Frauds’ as it exists in the law of the land there. After Victorian England formulated this Statute it was duly part of English law enforced all across its colonies, but only a short few years later, taking stock of rooted Indian cultural habits of routinely making onerous contracts of duration greater than one year entirely on an oral basis, Victorian Imperial government itself exempted India comprehensively from the sway and application of this Statute. This state passed seamlessly into Indian law upon the country’s independence in 1947, making it possible for its courts to enforce oral contracts exceeding one year duration.

(III) THE BEGINNINGS OF THE FAMILY IN AMERICA

In his first year (1976-77) at school in America, OS’s, extra-family sourced, funding for tuition unexpectedly flopped on its face back in India. Having paid for the first semester, he was up the river without a paddle for the remaining semesters. He could not go back, unless he wanted to abandon his studies. MBA programs do not award financial aid, for the most part and anyway certainly not at his school. With OS personally not back in India, Dad and AJ on their own had no capacity to fix this problem. …To cut this story short, OS had to really hustle and innovate the rest of the way in order to raise funding locally to finish. Major, major effort required, accomplishment to cross the finishing line on securing this degree.

He could have made life easy for himself by canceling AJ’s coming over. Would have provided him with the equivalent of one semester’s tuition worth of family money, saved as AJ’s travel expenditure to get to America! Dad having retired, did not have much more to spare and supply, converting steeply into American dollars. Even past AJ, he had two kids to look after in India for a good bit of time to come. …

The summer of 1977, OS spent coordinating AJ’s trip over. Frequent calls, at $100/3 minutes, to India required all through that summer. OS’s summer campus earnings (on the student F1 visa, not allowed to work off-campus), needed critically for his own bills/tuition, used up so, variously taking care of AJ’s affairs, even before that summer over.

It is to be a recurring theme in the story within, if OS did not handle something, it would not be attempted or never got done/finished. Sure enough, a week before AJ was due in NYC for the Fall 1977 semester, OS gets a wire stating AJ’s trip stood in jeopardy. Apparently, between Dad and son, AJ’s financial aid application for 1977 was never renewed. Columbia had sent reminders, AJ never even alerted OS all year to take care of it for him and was something he could /should have settled directly himself. To OS’s point of staying error niggardly, small mistakes can cost lifetimes!

OS could not budge Columbia from his distance, so he had to dash down to New York, burning precious funds he needs elsewhere for his own needs, which were family needs too through him obviously. He was to install himself in one of the financial aid offices, refusing to leave until AJ’s papers processed. Columbia continuing to maintain that it was too late in the day, for AJ to defer, yet again, to 1978. OS, too wise to life even for his young years, knew anything could happen in a year and to study at Columbia a rare, to be coveted chance …

As the financial aid office, relenting a trifle under OS’s full face stubbornness, raised the objection of AJ not being present transact the necessary paper work … OS offered to fill them out on the spot, since he was in command of all the necessary information. The solution to be, Columbia would then hold this paper work for AJ to sign when he arrived, but immediately send out all papers (I-20 for the F1 visa or DSP-66 for a J1 visa or …) necessary for him to procure his visa in New Delhi. In this manner, OS with his characteristic pedantic thoroughness, sure-footedly, one precious bead at a time strung together the family’s founding footing in America.

AJ arrived in America two days before opening day of the Fall semester. OS came down to Columbia and the City, to get AJ settled. More money spent that he did not have to spend away from his own needs. In the year since he had seen her, AJ was back, without his older brother around him in New Delhi, to being a highly worrisome gaunt scarecrow again. A very gaunt scarecrow, worse than OS had ever known him to be!

So much so, OS questioned the wisdom of bringing him to America to face all the hardship lurking ahead. He got him settled in one of the not so very happy buildings on 114th Street. More worry and heartache for OS leaving him there, so! OS spent two or three whole days with him, to break his transition to a new country and rather harsh, stark conditions of mid-1970s NYC. OS was simply heartbroken leaving him, when he had to head back to his college.

In due course, AJ was to find a $26/week job in the Columbia libraries. He would pay his landlord $25/week, buy an ice-cream with part of the remaining one dollar and then call his older brother collect from the pat phone right outside the shop. Such collect calls were several every week, only those who have traveled so far from home truly know the full blast of the pain, almost palpably physical, of home sickness especially those first few years,

He retrieved a half-broken mirror from the garbage dump to use for his shaving. On the fifth floor, the church’s clock, right across the street on 114th at the same height, was his time piece. The rest was just a rickety bed and unsteady study desk in his room. Where OS lived on his campus, in a co-op, he had the leeway to hold back paying his mess bill until the end of the semester. Same money, he sent down to AJ for his eating needs at Columbia.

Family friends visiting him at his college, traveling to NYC subsequently, OS was able to send his small music player and a number of other household items down to AJ, for his comfort, through them. And OS worried furiously, gearing breakdown in AJ’s physical and mental health, for undergraduate studies at American colleges far, far tougher than graduate school studies. Among other things, he did not come from any inordinately rich home in New Delhi, but he came from a family with very comfortable circumstances. He was not used to slogging life out in the least, more than that he did not have OS’s mental tenacity and toughness in the least.

He had been sent to exclusive private schools in Delhi, India’s leading college, the prestigious St. Stephen’s/“SSC”, in the Capital itself. He was a shoe-in candidate to enter the Indian Administrative Service/“IAS” or the Indian Foreign Service/“IFS”, the elite civil service cadres of his mother country. Even though OS came from the very same track, AJ was somehow by nature not made for the rough and tumble of life that OS could handle infinitely better. So, OS had to worry and worry endlessly, not much respite for him atop endeavoring to finish the second year of his MBA not knowing ahead how and whether he would be able to pay for his third and fourth semesters or not. Past his first, paid for by family money, for his second he had already expended considerable ingenuity raising what needed.

Fortunately, Columbia happened to be a school that allowed AJ to carry tuition balances through the four semesters it took him to secure his undergraduate degree from there in two years, on transfer basis. So, he carried such balances all through, beyond what the partial financial aid covered, OS later paying a good semester and a half plus’s equivalent, from his earnings, so that AJ could have his Columbia diploma in hand enabling Graduate school in 1979. All part only of OS’s designing, push forward constantly, … through some highly rugged and intimidating terrain. AJ could, would never have stood firm on his own to negotiate such white hot waters, hairy bends.

Upon AJ finishing his first semester, he spent the winter of 1977 for a month with OS at his college. OS had the entire co-op premises to himself, all his, 19 other, roommates away home or traveling for the duration! The pantry was extravagantly stocked, AJ had the run of the place! HBO, as yet in its infancy, ran from 6PM in the evening through past midnight, tabling a slew of, 3-4, movies, to form a luxurious topping for AJ’s elaborate vacation celebrating a successful first semester (otherwise effectively his fifth, considering he was a Junior year insert as a transfer student from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, India). It was an indescribable balm for OS, to see him ensconced so, NYC can be brutal on the toughest of us!

By the same token, it was that much more of an immense tug at the heart for OS to have him leave for NYC for his second semester in the Spring of 1978. However, he was braced by the knowledge that he would be joining AJ in NYC just a few short months later, upon finishing the bulk of his MBA studies. In his fourth semester OS had to tax his highly resourceful ingenuity like never before, to come up with funding to cover tuition for it. Some drill extraordinaire that OS answered to, in order to fund three-fourths of his MBA on the trot, in a foreign land.

Otherwise, particularly his third and fourth semesters, were also spent feverishly interviewing for employment placement. OS was such an intense and prolific excavating beaver with respect to it, he acquired some kind of legendary reputation over it across his entire B’school. Persisting and chasing shy OS had never been, with respect to anything at all. Indeed, a school alumnus he interviewed with at a major money-center bank in NYC, praised him lavishly in terms of never having seen OS’s kind of persistence and enterprise ever in life.

Against the grain, OS even managed to plunder several final stage headquarter interviews with prominent American and International firms. Each time, the lack of the pesky but nifty green-card/US permanent Residency spoilt the broth in the end. OS’s real problem was time, he was a man in an enormous hurry. He had to nail down a job as if yesterday, with AJ needing him right there in America and a retired Dad, with two OS siblings still relatively early in pipeline as yet to finish processing through, back in India needing support as soon as possible. OS had no luxury to take his job search, anything, in any paced manner at all, ever! Always having to sprint breathless, with the bogey of family responsibility forever snapping purposefully at his heels!

Promptly past his fourth semester, he was down in NYC. With a small part of his MBA still unfinished, he had no room of his own to stay back on his college campus to finish same without having to sprint and lap his own self! So, it was immediate hustling in NYC and settling for an off career track opportunity, to begin pulling in income for the family. Most of all and first for AJ, the priority of his education, safely seen through, breathing down OS’s neck the most restlessly!

Thus, AJ was to get tangible cover from OS, plus everything else by way of the latter being all the wind behind the other’s back, that OS never had in the least for himself. Including, OS keeping AJ scrupulously clear of all worry, concern and preoccupation of any kind over the family needs in India, to leave him able to focus exclusively on his studies, But for OS sparing him so and everything else he did for AJ, the latter would never have had the opportunity to excel at school for taking himself to Graduate School, Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) as he did later. It was always OS who cleared the brush clean ahead of AJ to simply coast forward through,

OS hunkered down into the first, off career track, job, he found. Putting his finger in the dike for the family, keeping it there stubbornly for the necessary duration! Why our, quietly sacrificing and giving, mothers have always been the real, yet unheralded, heroes of every society on earth. Thiers is the kind of performance and contribution which never gets into the papers, never gains enough view to find any kind of overt recognition. OS of course never gave birth to anyone, comes no where close to any mother who ever walked this earth!

It was a straight many, many years of pure hell OS was to endure so. The pay only tolerable, so he had to hustle mightily at multiple jobs to gather enough to meet all the family’s needs, here in America and India combined. So much so, he was to reach making more money than he did once he entered his first career track employment instance. However, there was back breaking work even if figuratively, long hours, raw exploitation and indignity heaped on by those who knew not only he was without a green-card/US permanent residency but a whole line of family to support.

Some part of that family to support in the strategic circumstances of the completion of education imperatively, as a source of salvation to the entire clan. Then there was the strain of servicing debt piled high in disproportion to OS’s entire gamut of earnings. Continuing on, OS never had enough left for himself and often enough none, so it was not unusual for him to go hungry, be without scope for replacing his run down clothes, … suffer personal privation in other words.

However, he at all times kept everyone else in the family fully and perfectly funded. Though he may himself live in one room, be working so many hours as to have no time to make it even to the grocery store anytime in the week. Working Sundays too, naturally! Year after year, hand over fist! Early on in this game also finishing his MBA remotely, all at the same time! Finishing the tail end left, which for a time, included traveling to and fro between his college and NYC! Everything piled on OS exclusively.

Once AJ finished Columbia College (1), he was promptly ready to bolt for India. Once again, his Graduate School could not be done, his evergreen song. After OS moved down from his college to BYC, took up a job, he and AJ lived together. There were many, many more tough days to come, but not really for AJ. He did not have to worry about food or paying rent, anything really except attend to his studies. OS’s presence beside him, moreover, a huge psychological boon and boost to him.

Why OS had hurried to move down after college, for fear of incurring breakdown in AJ’s frail physical and/or mental health. Ever the one not to miss any beat, during AJ’s second (and last) year at Columbia, OS had duly rolled out the campaign for his Graduate school studies in America, as needed in advance. So that when nearer AJ’s graduation from Columbia (1),, as he began gearing up for bolting home to India, the flag for his Graduate school campaign was fairly well unfurled in OS’s handling.

Of course, it was only OS preparing those Graduate school applications. Besides school, AJ was too busy silently scheming his, cowardly, flight to India. No other way to describe AJ’s incurable skittishness in life. Otherwise, even this late in the day he still had to be the one to be preparing AJ’s applications so by himself, continuing to remain committed ahead of AJ to AJ’s career making. Moreover, only handling everything, he had to be the only one around with the slack time to do so.

AJ pulled out the stopper on his old tricks again. Entrusted by OS again with the task of mailing out his applications, fully prepared and packaged by OS, he again put the scuttle on them. This time, on account of only being convinced, certain, he would not get financial aid anywhere! Then later, after OS’s personal handling of the mailing, when the first rejection came, from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), je was literally bawling his eyes out silly, exclaiming and lamenting ‘what was going to happen to his life!?!’

However, OS was focused mainly on The Fletcher School/“Fletcher” for AJ (not being proficient in math, no B’School application was made for him; though after joining Fletcher he was to take cross-listed math intensive courses at the Harvard Business School/“HBS” to fare just fine). Fletcher initially sent him a wait listed acceptance letter, which came as a great surprise to OS, considering AJ’s strong academic record.

Then, OS, not AJ, was to realize the wait-listed clip to AJ’s acceptance letter was on account of his admission application being embellished by requested financial aid, as a foreign student. So, OS had AJ send out a letter to Fletcher withdrawing his financial aid application. And ‘boom’ came back an unencumbered acceptance letter, by return post. Very clearly, if OS had not spotted matters as described, AJ would not have attended Fletcher and who knows where fate might have taken him.

To point again OS’s life working principles, small errors and slips can cost dear and even everything. Sometimes only one train arrives at our personal station, getting on and failing to do so to make the difference between a successful and failed, entire, life! AJ never had to pay for his lousy life habits, only because OS’s responsible habits ran all his pivotal affairs all his life. OS watching out for him with his beagle eyes, very straight, simple and slam dunk direct!

Fletcher admission secured without any financial aid, it was only OS’s work beginning again! Not AJ’s! Never AJ’s! AJ just did not know how to do anything, ever! …

It was too soon after school for OS to have had any time to build any credit history in the American market place. Not to make his job easy. But not to discourage or intimidate his sense of enterprise in life! He simply bent to the task, putting his head down to tackle yet another challenge for the family. Make a bee line for the hustle demanded.

Like that running back who keeps his legs moving for extra yards, even after the first hit delivered by the defense, OS kept relentlessly after the bunny he needed to catch. Gay in and day out, no matter he had no green-card/US Permanent Residency, what the daily reverses, … Until the dam broke abruptly, then on one single day he had $10,000 in heavenly credit in a single lump-sum event. The amount exactly constituted four semesters of tuition funds needed for AJ at Fletcher. An unmixed door opener!. Such the quality of OS’s selfless interest in AJ, the family, to this day, three decades and more later, OS can still clearly see the lady-banker, who made this possible, in his mind’s eye.

So, AJ was ready to head for Fletcher. Without doubt, OS exhilarated and soaring, very easily ahead of AJ himself. Only because he loved life and family! Understood life and what family really meant to it. Otherwise, because it was a pure labor of love! Moreover, he carried enormous and unending respect for life. He knew how to be grateful, truly how to feel humbled. Be awed by life, but without ever being intimidated by it.

OS had always been very clear headed about life. Understanding that there is no life without family, people! No family without love! No love without sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6)! No sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) without courage. No courage without zest for life, in full closed circle.

Life not about money, but only people! Money not about hoarding, but only the good to be done with what would otherwise be mere, lifeless pieces of inert paper. Reason why current greed and embrace of vulture Capitalism in America has not only bred the evil eye of gushing corruption, but throbbing cowardice majestic in its wake. The ruination of America from within, of its vitals going rotten and decaying ravaged by a value system crisis that equates to pestilence consuming the standing crop inexorably.

AJ went to Fletcher, aware and made aware again of the operating family JV. OS to hold the $10, 000 exclusively for him, but he was to go and fight for financial aid, in the fashion OS always did, once at the school. In this manner, every dollar of aid he picked up OS would release an equivalent number of dollars to augment what he remitted each month to the family homestead in India.

AJ squeaky and scrupulous clear, in principle such aid to be only de facto JV funds, for having been procured pursuant to family pooled/JV funds deployed as ever present contingent backstop. In other words, JV funds held in the background as funds expressly and always available, for front end enabling enterprise to secure admission and financial aid standing on it.

The family JV, skeletally described, comprised direction to all siblings that it was a legally binding instrument, under whose auspices they were to pool their resources for successively educating all four of them through Graduate School in America and then marriage as a culturally held family responsibility. Same was erected in order to address risks and limitations to be faced by all four, on the way to securing residency and citizenship status in America.

All kinds of immigrant groups, use such ‘collective’ methods to combat special risks encountered while immigrating and until residency, citizenship status attained. So, the family arrangement within nothing novel at all, except it had been formally converted into binding legal shape and form. There were further specific provisions, made clear and clear to all the participating entities, including understanding individual earnings were only JV funds, as JV investment returns. … The family to hold together!

(IV) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 2: Through AJ completing Graduate School

OS went up to Medford with AJ, to settle him in. Part of it, as it turned out, came to consist of having to scrub floor(s) on knees and submit to some ‘elbow grease’ intensive cleaning chores, before he could be ensconced in, off-campus, acceptable living quarters. A beautiful, comfortable, study room carved out for AJ, not expensive, but clean, cozy and tasteful. When OS returned to NYC, he had some light furniture sent up to AJ. Since, AJ had started in some truly raggedy quarters at Columbia, OS wanted to make sure here and this go around.

Studies apart, there was no enterprise to be found from AJ. This was the entire family’s foot forward to get settled in America, but only OS working it, putting the foot to pedal for it, stretching and pushing for it, sacrificing for it, being humiliated over it, losing sleep over it, … doing anything and everything for it, reaching all across the globe and around it to catch his own ankles so to anchor it. Sustaining a solitary, indefatigable fight over it! If OS did not do something, it simply did not get done.

As such, AJ was no going to put himself in any posture or protocol to go fight for financial aid, when every penny to the JV mattered. He could not even bring himself to talk to the school abut it, pride and false prestige got in his way! ‘It was like begging’ he said to OS, standing on all that was worthless and vacuum to the JV looking desperately for go-getters to give OS working allies, instruments within the scope of its operating mechanics.

So, OS had to remotely and by making trips up to New England to bell the cat, open and establish financial aid revolving dialogue personally with Fletcher. AJ was simply too shy, tongue tied, reticent, … to even visit the financial aid office, much less even open his mouth over it. The mere thought of asking for aid paralyzed him where he stood. Having him follow up, after OS had even opened the gambit himself, an impossible tug of war! Veritably pulling teeth! He was so utterly useless and inept, OS had no choice but to conclude at each step of the tussle with him, that it was easier and economizing of his inordinately over-extended energies to simply do something, everything himself, in the very first instance.

The long and short of this side of AJ’s passage through Fletcher is that pushing and energizing by himself, between JV funds and aid raised by him, AJ was safely serviced all the way through to his degree made possible without any hitch. Truth be told, if there were to be a way for AJ to have OS study for him, then simply pick up his degree at the other end of the pipeline, he would have happily check marked that option only. Yes, it was that bad! He was, smack on the nose, that bad!

What was even more remarkable, he freely confessed to being so. Not quite saying, of-course, he would have OS study for him, but everything just short of that. He always unhesitatingly and unequivocally admitted, all that he was squarely and exclusively on account of OS! Made no bones in the least about it! More to the point, had no compunctions about it either! Leaning any amount, all the way on OS, no matter how piled on and without reserves he was already. Then, he did have OS study for him too, as will be told in due course below. …

AJ’s forte was ‘having fun’! Mercifully, he took care of his studies; otherwise, he would have simply vaporized the OS mule dead cold where that workhorse stood! The greater Boston area and the immediate vicinity, which is home to a surfeit of schools, including perhaps the mecca, in Harvard (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) at the apex among all present and counting, of spoilt young people, provides more than abundant playing ground and company of the scions of 1%er families for decadent, hedonistic self-indulgence, pleasure seeking, abandon, …

Its says something about the rot of the contemporary American milieu, its toxicity, virulence, infecting potency, when it can affect, envelope and convert AJ, as an import from abroad, so rapidly as it did. Of course, this is not to exculpate AJ in the least, his susceptibilities and proclivities very much in play, to blame. Still the American landscape is red hot diseased. Swallowing whole domestic and foreign prey, with nary a belch!

Story of AJ’s friend, Spiro (1, 2), from an affluent Greek family in Greece, illustrates the loaded point in muscular fashion. Ultimately, it was not even the scions of affluent American families first, but rather Pakistani affluent families (at Fletcher, Harvard, MIT, …), who AJ hung out with, to receive the pointed finger. As longer as that finger pointed always at AJ first! He all but lent actual utterance to the hitched on complaint why he had not been born to the British Royal family. The stork not to be his favorite in the animal kingdom! Particularly envious of his Fletcher classmate, Mahnaz Ispahani (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)

All said and done, the local, American, color decadent could not be held exempt, merely because AJ corrupted in the immediate vicinity by his Pakistani circle. After all, AJ lived in an America that provided permissive green-light to all kinds of summarily prohibitive pursuits. Robustly sanctioned a rabidly intemperate and toxic value system everywhere he operated, later on Wall Street when he went to work there after Fletcher. His peers constantly these juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) oversized(s) aplenty, something along the lines of so many women holding ‘Men do not grow up juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), they only grow taller!

One of his roommates Mansoor or Mansur/“Mansoor/Mansur”, who dated educated American/Western women openly, profusely and aggressively, slept around with them with a vengeance according to AJ, while attending Fletcher, then in utter tame surrender, self betrayal and reduction in ways, returned to Pakistan, reportedly marrying an uneducated woman in copious traditional fashion. AJ himself was to do the latter, incidentally ‘hitching up’ with a Pakistani woman too, as a comprehensive and perennial/all season insecure hombre, fellow, most shallowly to better control whatever kind of union forged in overall cowardly fashion!

One Zeba Hyder/”ZH”, related to Mansoor/Mansur, was AJ’s most frequent and omni-figuring, platonic, fellow reveler at Fletcher. Per AJ’s accounts from Fletcher, the two, for instance, attended the ‘Rocky Horror Show, a few gazillion times! Otherwise, AJ disparaged her viciously to OS as a mindless party animal, irresponsible and giddy to the hilt, lacking seriousness steadiness and poise, unfit for all and every family context/forum, undependable, not any sound householder material, …

This was from Fletcher, the impression given OS, barring the ‘Rocky-Horror Show, excessive, escapade, he was not part of the rest of her zany, compulsive, over-the-top frequently occurring partying and cavorting. Then, when he moved home after Fletcher, he gave no evidence in years of being in touch with her. Yet, after he defrauded/1 (2-3. 4-5) the family, severing from it, ZH appeared returning front and center into his life/circle.

Indeed, she seems having ‘supplied’ the woman AJ now ‘hitched’ to, reportedly related to ZH. Since, AJ pulled a similar, hide-and-seek, gambit over another, Wall Street, friend, Cheng Yen Teh/“CYT”, it would seem as long as he needed OS/the family/JV, he posed to be serious and responsible. Hence, hiding his true closeness to irresponsible, unserious, … people like ZH, CYT, … (by his own assessment and averments alike) for fear of incurring OS’s ire/wrath and more properly fearing losing his credible supporting presence.

There were other episodic incidents in Boston, showing AJ up as highly dysfunctional in chronic fashion. OS, for the longest time, continued to soft-pedal AJ’s, abundant and numerous, vulnerabilities as ‘growing pains he would eventually overcome. Particularly, since OS knew he had been over-and even hyper sensitive as a child, he remained willing to give AJ extra rope. Otherwise, what was he really supposed to do, anyway!?!

AJ worked the graveyard shift at the Harvard libraries, returning home around 4 AM! On the street near his apartment, he was accosted and peppered with the epithet ‘n****’! OS was to get a prompt call at home in Princeton, NJ, in the middle of the night, with a bawling and seriously convulsing AJ. No ordinary breakdown this, he was monumentally wounded. Reflecting a very thin veneer of resistance or intervening skin, high insecurity! Though OS tried to shore him up on the sport, AJ was inconsolable.

Before OS went back to sleep, he ordered a round trip rail ticket to picked up by AJ at Bay Station, Boston, to come home as soon as the sun was up. He spent a couple of days with OS in NJ, being composed, before returning to Fletcher. He could have asked for quitting school up in New England, came as close as could be without actually saying it. Poor OS thankful it did not come to that, he could ill afford undue complications within the hairy ‘empire’ he presided over under great challenge, enormous burden, precious lack of respite, …

At the end of his first semester, upon the invitation of a friend (earlier a Rotary Fellow at Columbia and proposing to join Fletcher the following year) in Paris, France, AJ found the opportunity to travel to Europe. OS hardly in any situation to entertain such incremental trimmings to AJ’s education, still went with it so as to give AJ the opportunity to explore such employment possibilities as the UN High Commission for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland, …

The trip also meant OS having to ‘finish off’, at the very tail, one of AJ’s group papers due at HBS. OS had to interface and collaborate with his group mates, one from Uganda and another from Chile, just to collect all the raw work. Then, assemble, lay out, type, package and dispatch to HBS, … which in the end he did using FedEx’s good offices. The problem was, he did not really have time for it, between work and other family duties, had to hyper-extend to get it done. Otherwise, AJ was at all times provided with extravagant opportunities and accommodation, always at the cost of OS stretched, taut and then way beyond, on the ‘rack (torture)’. None of which OS ever could have for himself, besides.

OS does not recall ever interviewing for anything at Fletcher. In any event, he can recall a solitary instance, where AJ one evening spoke of being scheduled to interview with Citibank the next morning. OS cogently asked AJ to call him as soon as he finished his interview. All day next day no call! OS tried tracking the other down all day, without success. Even late in the evening, it was only OS initiating, finally reached AJ. To be told, in very cavalier fashion, AJ had overslept and simply missed the interview.

To OS’s inquiry why he had still not called all day, dumb silence alone at the other end. OS could almost see that wild-eyed, blink-free, mouth ever so open, doe like look of forced innocence pasted on AJ three hundred miles away in his Boston suburbs. This is what OS had to contend with, endlessly. Here he was lying still with his fatigued finger in the dike for the nth year, forever opening doors for others to walk through, slogging and hustling away mercilessly for everyone but himself, looking for nothing more than nominal responsible proportions, … AJ had nothing to offer but an idiot stare back, even which OS had to trap in his mind’s eye across hundreds of miles!?!

OS never had to be told what others in the family needed, forever being ahead of those others in forestalling them. By the time 1981 rolled around, AJ’s fourth and last semester at Fletcher, sighted ahead, he knew Dad, back in India, was seriously itching for OS not seen for over four years and simultaneously not for closing on four years. Even though, a parent’s heart not difficult at all to read, still it was OS who anticipated it was time for one of the brothers to visit home.

Not merely for Dad’s sake, but also to assess the situation there with personal eyes. Takes a serious householder to manage so, without being prompted! OS could not go, since he was in process for his green-card/US permanent residency, a family asset for sponsoring everyone, including AJ. Could not break any related thread and continuity, securing his residency so important and everything to him, once again more for all the others in the family than ever for himself with the same weight.

Besides this obvious, collective, importance, OS had invested a great deal of energy and time into it. Among other things, lost close to $25.000 plus (in the money of that time) with two, less than effect and caring, attorneys, one of them the nation’s leading practitioners. So, it had to be AJ headed home, for OS. A minor pause, how many things was OS supposed to finance, at once? With him not even in any settled or sound career, financial or immigration shoes!?!

AJ, accordingly, was scheduled for this trip for the winter of 1980-81, between his third and fourth semesters. These little, episodic, stories are important, in order to draw out AJ’s character, instrumentally critical for analyzing his frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5)s on the family, of viciously and rabidly biting the hand that fed him, to come later down the turnpike.

On his trip, AJ was to route himself through a short stopover in London (UK), in order to take care of some business vital for him. But first, how OS funded this trip, takes some telling which will not, however, be told, in the interest whatever brevity can be found within. Otherwise, the business AJ had to transact in London for himself, was as ever at the point of OS playing, unprompted, thorough defense for him, carefully covering his ‘backside’ for his comprehensive safety meticulously anticipated and provisioned for. Further, AJ was pointedly cautioned not to be extravagant or careless with his spending in the UK, instructed, cautioned and prohibited specifically down to not running up any hotel bills unduly. He carried a subsidiary American Express/“Amex” Gold Card for OS’s account.

Sure enough, not only did he plant himself in the London Hilton, but the super-expensive one at the airport itself. As such, he had not even made it all the way down to India before Amex had already had the related, whopper of a, bill to OS back in the States.

Years later AJ was to, more clearly, reveal his penchant for expensive hotels and stretch limousines et al. as aspects of embedded mental disorder of sorts. These were supposed to self-esteem boosters, in other ways reassuring platforms and distractions for combating his primal fears. Much more of this was to escape out of him later, once he had front loaded, uncorked massive and gushing frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5)s on the family in the upcoming 1980s.

Still, OS was grateful for his trip, on account of Dad and all his parental sentiments. For the first hand account he brought back for OS on every family member in New Delhi. Years later, SIS was to tell OS how AJ spent most of his time on this trip, not being with the family as OS was to invariably and entirely do on his trips, but with his friends, showing himself off in order to stroke his insecurities. This tendency too was to emerge ahead more robustly, as AJ’s narcissism allowed to surface and emerge freely on the heels of frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5)s committed on the family with unrestrained, uncaring and brazen abandon.

That picture of him to be permitted to break indiscriminately into the open later. For now, it was back to Fletcher, finish the fourth semester and graduate. However, the murky side his of character was already beginning to seep out, occasionally with increasing frequency and to OS’s awareness, spot and notice. Since, all these were really small incidents almost entirely, AJ got away with still fairly muscular dressing-downs alone from OS.

Soon after AJ had graduated from Fletcher, OS home in NJ was burglarized pursuant to the front door being bashed in with artless and uncomplicated design. As an aside, the stolen items were almost immediately recovered, but the door could not be repaired for a few days ranging to week. Leaving OS, as the only family bread winner, unable to go to work! No way for him to be able to stay away from work for that long, on account of onerous work waiting his prompt attention in office.

Since, AJ was done up in Medford/Boston, OS called asking him to promptly head home to babysit the homestead, so that OS could attend to his office. AJ to take the earliest Greyhound out the very next morning, OS scheduling himself to be in office in the afternoon! Not only no AJ down by the expected time, no call and no trace of him either in response to OS’s calls up to his apartment in Medford. The entire day passed, OS beginning to entertain other c thoughts, pertaining to AJ’s safety et al. Of course, no question of OS being able to make it to office that day at all!

Yet again, OS unable to pin AJ down until late that evening! The man more than quite blasé about not keeping his appointment for earlier that day and then not even bothering in the least to call proactively to notice, explain anything. Letting the entire day slide further, even then with no plans or action to touch base with OS! Bad, rather slipshod, disorganized, passive, averse, skittish, bolting, as he had always been on any number of fronts always, … deceitful, conniving, callous, hurtful, disorderly. … he had never been until very lately, at least never by design. Something new seemed emerging on the cusp of his most recent graduating time.

First he tells OS, he and ZH had planned a post-graduation driving trip up through Maine. As soon as he heard ZH’s name, OS knew the two had been out all day kicking it up, celebrating AJ’s graduation. Yet, graduation, just an excuse for partying, for ZH had not graduated and then from all that AJ had described her at length, repeatedly to OS over the past two years, she was an inveterate party animal distilled. With not a serious or sober bone in her body, according to AJ as well.

There were others like Fauzia, her husband Babbar, … mentioned to by AJ as those who he hung out with, but ZH was the one constant, frequent, endless, … mention. Mansoor/Mansur, but it always came back to ZH as his regular side-kick. Accompanied by severe and even scathing criticism of her too, as also the enemy of and poison to serious and sober society, incapable of being allowed anywhere studious family life, affairs, matters, … being conducted. She was sure to bust it, her flippant levity sure to wreck it, … On and on … by AJ/

Since, AJ took care of his studies and knowing his nature more than well over any number of years, OS had gathered the impression, over the past two years, that he occasionally/proportionately (notwithstanding the “Rocky Horror Show” gazillion visits) gave ZH, described as alone and lonely, company. In the process, letting himself have outings in a disciplined and controlled way. But, here was OS getting vibes AJ himself turning into some kind of a reveler and party caperer! ZH, her light sitting head, … rubbing off on AJ.

For, here was AJ demanding to be allowed to proceed on his driving Maine vacation with ZH. Apart from fact that OS needed AJ to be home promptly, to do sentry-duty at the homestead, so that he could attend office the next day, but AJ had an integral part to play in the JV and a serious role in the lives of his younger siblings. There could be no Maine vacation, even though OS known for being reasonable and not dogmatic or prudish about anything. As long as AJ could demonstrate that he could be a serious, responsible grown-up on his own steam and discriminating management, OS did not have opposition to any Maine vacation per se.

So, AJ was firmly ordered home, he did duly turn up in NJ the next afternoon. There was enough about AJ’s adult proportions lacked, OS was not about to take kindly of the other’s showing he did not know discrimination enough to stay clear of frivolous, ,,, people, friendships! As an epilogue to this episode/event, whether ZH proceeded to Maine immediately or at some other point, she was flagged down, speeding mercilessly, by a Maine trooper on a scrupulously empty, straight and long stretch of the state highway somewhere.

Fluttering her eyes at the public servant, ZH then proceeded to protest that she was merely “flowing with the traffic”. The poker faced country bumpkin to ZH, suppressing his incredulity cold in its tracks, silently slow-walked his eyes first up the highway to the one horizon and then down the other way to the other, finally as quietly writing out the ticket for the zany heavy-foot before him, left without uttering a word, except at the very outset calling for the identification papers followed with revealing the charge.

In an America now, where our sense of ‘freedom’ as a concept has managed to go horribly warped, we abuse all our freedoms freely, overflow our boundaries on almost everything routinely without even realizing it or its import, … among so many ‘disorders’ developed as a consequence, we even interfere in the personal lives of others with certain impunity. OS has no doubt that ZH hoisted, foisted her advocacy of ‘having fun’ and ‘to hell with family (/anything responsible in life)’ on AJ, who in keeping same opaque from OS still managed to drop broad clues as to he impart, influence so.

CYT did it, as we will discover below, with devastating effect; her ‘free-base variety’, gratuitous reasons, to floor any one the least bit serious and sober in life. Then the authors once had a neighbor stridently tutoring SIS against OS, so that she could secure her exclusivity as a girlfriend to her. Even the NY Appellate Court holding that CYT, knowingly, undermining the performance of AJ’s JV duties by him, where life settlement issues of siblings at stake, not an issue outrageous enough to ruffle our society’s sensitivities, exceeding limits tolerated by it.

There is something prima facie wrong with a culture/its ‘value system’, pronounced upon no less by our courts, which would say this. Which would say it is all right to interfere in another family’s affairs, causing havoc amidst it, most especially where the downside loaded and fraught with life settlement bearing implication for that family’s up and coming young ones. Further, a struggling immigrating family!?! Where and when the authors within grew up, in India, the mere whiff of such cross-over into another’s, another family’s, affairs, even without the prospects of causing damage, such an abiding, mere etiquette intensive, ‘no, no’, faux pas as to earn a stern and ringing spontaneous ostracization.

Here the NY Appellate Court to have us believe CYT’s, headstrong and willful, meddling, not to shock and disturb American society, especially in the given circumstances. Authors simply do not believe so, even with all that gone wrong here, the greater part of America is highly, sensibly moral, without this nation having washed away into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. . But, if true, then something grossly but grossly wrong additionally with the, American, society! Otherwise, most of the judges occupying American judicial benches from the baby-boomer generation, highly correct in certain ways and yet the one that also brought runaway narcissism (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. 22) as mainstream, to the local society.

When the US Supreme Court/“SCOTUS” itself today sways unreliably as much as it does, what can be said about the rest of the American judiciary, the state of the Rule of Law/1-2 (3-4-5-6 7, 8-9-10-11,-12-13-14-15) held by it, in our times. Otherwise, Justice Ginsburg, quoting Reverend King in connection with the strike-down of, the preclearance, Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act/“VRA” said it all: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” University of Pennsylvania’s motto, reinforcing. ‘Leges Sine Moribus Vanae ("Laws without morals [are] useless’)” Does not offend our society’s sensitivities, exceeding limits tolerated by it, indeed!

Sez who, one might ask our ‘learned’ judges on the NY Appellate Court forcefully? Have we really become so inert and impotent in America now? So licentious, insipid as well as cowardly!?! So jaded and uncaring, sucked dry of balanced judgment, as an immigrating family upended whimsically not to trouble us at all, enough!?! So decoupled from any sense of real justice, reduced merely to a set of banal administrative rules!?! So devoid of essential and elementary wisdom holding the scales of justice in America!?! The authors and their family summarily rejecting the implied brand of understated value system and any justice, standing, predicated upon it! Justice so, in anyway, diluted, justice at once ‘arbitrarily, unreasonably and capriciously …’ denied!

We have, just above, indexed narcissism, mushrooming as it enervates, bankrupts and scoops/hollows out America we live in now. A suitable juncture to similarly identify and index other ranking maladies afflicting and bleeding us dry today in America-we all love. But first, a look at comparable India, snapshot captured as: The Problem With Delhi’s Rich Kids.

We will start our, sordid, roster, past narcissism, with galloping greed/1, 2 (3,.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)! Followed by the Decadence of Entitlement/1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (6)! Next we encounter the tendency to be Best of All Worlds junkies (1, 2, 3, 4)! We have already passed spoilt/1/ 2, 3, 4 (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) at least once, above/supra. And we have covered juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) above/supra. Then, we handle self indulgence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8, 9).

Shame/1. 2, (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32) together with self-respect wielded to keep ourselves in line and suitably corralled, went copiously out of American lives, electing to proliferate corruption around the entire ballpark. As a people, in America, we have become rights clamoring to the pointed exclusion of attention to duties/1, 2, 3, 4! We are personal discipline/1, 2, 3, 4 averse, opposed to staying bounded, which is our grounding, sanity, our protection, … working order in our lives, preserving the natural order even in the cosmos all around us, our insurance for return good results to ourselves for Garbage In only kicks back Garbage Out! Responsibility/1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is a commodity that has become copiously foreign to us in America. …

No mean stepping off the ledge by Americans, America. All reality, capturing as it truly figures America we live in today, no literary flourish there and no by product of any rhetoric, figure of speech, compositional creativity presented. No figment of any sort! As given, honest to God, America of our times/

So, in this cesspool of a severe value system drought, corruption thrives and abounds, wrapping circles around all of us. Bush ‘41’s one time sleaze-runner captures this condition/state of affairs (1, 2) the best:

“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring - acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.” - Lee Atwater (Life magazine, February 1991)

What AJ was to do shortly to the family, the same as what done to America by those must be singled out, at minimum! Worse in fact, if we factor in nothing less than family, the hand that fed him, victimized and vaporized! The family viciously, willfully defrauded/1 (2-3. 4-5) and so much more, for nothing greater or higher than unjust self-enrichment! His crimes are America’s crimes too, for not only were they committed within the four-corners of its geography, but suborned pursuant to his foul transformation in this country. At the, Ivy League, schools he attended in America, with Wall Street forming his, blighted, finishing school.

AJ is a supreme coward, as all corrupt people, consummately and exquisitely, are and have to be! Cowardice breeds corruption, which in turn sponsors stepped-up (or down) cowardice, in a never ending, tight, vicious, helpless circle that knows no end. Sanity handily eludes him, just as we see constant sparks of insanity discharging around America today, wherever like AJ, acting up it stoops to pollute/defile, cause mayhem. Whether it is AJ or the larger America, what else is the chaos of soiled actions/deeds/supposed to do but breed bad Karma/insanity or a mental whirlpool/merry-go-around?

Where is the ‘Wax on, Wax Off’ (The Karate Kid) kind of rigorous, constructive drill and discipline in any of AJ and America’s rotten pursuits, for any good to come out of them anywhere, anytime? They say in India, when bad times in the offing, ants grow wings! Alternatively, when such times welcome, the mind/Buddhi the first thing to go! Then, in western thought too: “Quem deus vult perdere, dementat prius (Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad)” - Prometheus, in The Masque of Pandora (1875) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The victims, as the obvious innocents, the sole objects of tragedy! The family in the AJ case, targeted and disaffected America in the other. Then, why should not predator(s) AJ and those poaching sectors of America be found psychopathic, even as Bernie Madoff/1, 2, 3, 4, (5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 ) was? Just the value of the backstop.1, 2, 3 4 supplied AJ by OS/the JV was priceless, invaluable. OS/the JV did much, much more for him besides, both preciously tangible and intangible.

The saga of AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) and other predatory escapades sighting the family, properly and fully, unfold further down below! It is a horrendous story of damage at the family’s end and another story of the ‘Dance Of The Utterly Pusillanimous’ at AJ’s! For no one falls prey to corruption quite like a weak creature, no one plays dirty like one too! If AJ can do what he did to the family/JV, particularly to OS and everything he did for him, then it is/must be indeed true, what Judge Judy is extremely fond of intoning at the drop of a hat, “No good turn ever goes unpunished!”

(V) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 3: Through AJ’s Frauds on the Family

While OS, in school and after, had interviewed and pushed for employment like a busy beaver, AJ by contrast acted as a strolling prima donna. There was that and the rest was his retiring problem of asking anyone for anything, as a ruffle to his, false and inflated, prestige. Talking to people/strangers itself a problem, soliciting a patently insurmountable hurdle! Where OS innovated, stepped-up, pushed, persisted and persevered, gave chase, … , perhaps like Patton, who could not abide having to pay for the same tract of dirt/earth a second time, AJ only, invariably ran in the opposite, wrong direction. A fine advance/vanguard for the family in America, covering and contributing flank hopeless besides OS! Waiting for AJ to (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) wearing mighty thin indeed, even for OS!

Returning home to NJ, OS had an over-educated couch-potato on his hands in AJ. Following an, out-of-the-blue, American win in hockey at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, AJ majoring in diehard fan –pursuit of the New York Islanders a trifle inland. Also in flipping the TV channel dial to PBS’s ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘Benny Hill’, … while continuing to play general comedy with actual life too. The only item not on his ‘dance card’ looking for a job, he just did not know how go about it! Life as a whole, in fact!

Obviously, the pendulum swings yet again the good old, reliable and default standard-bearer, OS way! The problem obviously, it was always, only this default entity and beyond OS the family enterprise abruptly, promptly truncated. Fell off! Every time, every without exception time! OS not doing it, will not get done, the favorite and old stand by family tune.

So, OS to the typewriter or whatever typing machine in vogue back then, rolling off a master copy of AJ’s resume bound for the xerox machine. Who else but OS to the covering letters too, at the end of every employment opportunity excavated? Mailing! … Then the tug-of-war with, prying out and away of AJ to the poor crop of job interviews presenting themselves, for harvesting, sans the green-card/US permanent residency, again. … Left to AJ, the given environment and terrain, just too hostile, discouraging, … to entice, get him off the couch!

With OS’s relentless pounding, shoving and coaching, in a few months AJ landed an opportunity with Citibank International, for posting in Asia. On ‘local’ or non-US dollar denominated salary, not of much immediate help to OS buried under oodles of US dollar debt for the JV/family. Yet, a career forming and building opportunity for AJ. Afforded on OS’s head and something OS was never given the time or other leeway to rustle up for, then avail of himself.

Precisely, the idea of the JV, if everyone played their role honestly, successive siblings to be settled, as defined by that JV, quicker and still quicker, in facile and still more facile fashion, … to return and restore each of them to their individual and independent lives, as soon as possible, completing the JV agenda. Thus, this JV arrangement loaded with the enormous wisdom, maturity, finesse, … of the ages, which the Ayn Rand thinking and socialism mistaking laden America of our times simply does not have the eye to appreciate/1, 2, 3.

OS had run, ridden himself ragged and driven himself hoarse, running the JV with impeccable honesty, honor, for the family’s benefit at the very head and for himself as a very distant second. His selflessness palpably evident at all times! His struggles painfully and obviously solitary! … If AJ had been a fraction of all that OS, demanding from himself, was able to be, the Sud family’s JV would have carried it to dizzying, rarified heights in America, of OS’s dreams, with no trouble at all. …

As it is, in returning to the story we have to rejoin at the point of AJ headed for a career in International Banking. He was to soon report at the Bank’s training center in Athens, Greece, relocated from Beirut, Lebanon caught up in successive conflicts, domestic and foreign entities involving, through 1990. Just for the, six month, duration of the program of the he was to be paid in US dollars, which OS asked him to carefully save, in particular, for lightening the JV debt, making better room for the JV’s future operations.

"Character's the only thing I got to give you. Be a man." says the character Hud Bannon in the 1963 movie ‘Hud’, quoting his screen grandfather. AJ, after being cogently turned down by OS for an air ticket, Athens - Greece to New York - USA, merely to see the New York Jets in the 1981-1982 playoffs, during the winter time off from the training program, still purchased one on his own to be unexpectedly at home in New Jersey with OS for the single game the team played before being eliminated. While OS sacrificed/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) and stood the yeoman’s sentry duty at his post, here was AJ spoilt and tainted with the rather strong brush of entitlement.

“Just that, Hud. You don't give a damn. … That's all. That's the whole of it. … You still don't get it, do you? … You don't care about people. You don't give a damn about 'em. … That's the shame of it 'cause you don't value nothing. … You don't respect nothing. … You keep no check on your appetites. … You live just for yourself and that makes you not fit to live with. … [To Lonnie Bannon] [Hud} ain't the only one. Just about everybody around here is like him. … That's no cause for rejoicing, is it? Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. … Maybe. Old people get as hard as their arteries sometimes. … [To Hud Bannon] You're just gonna have to make up your own mind one day … about what's right and what's wrong.” Homer Bannon in the movie Hud (1963)

Just one more stop, for sure to watch a Bill Maher video bearing a telling soliloquy, before resuming our story. Finishing the training program, where he topped his batch, instead of reporting promptly to his post in Asia, AJ routed himself through NY-NJ, USA, home with OS for s flying 3 or 4 days.

Basically, to bawl (actually and veritably) before/to OS about not wanting to work in and report to Asia! “I want to live in the US!” he said to OS, interspersing his heaving bawling. Particularly galling to him was fact that one of his batch-mates, who had performed near the end in the program, was headed to Saudi Arabia on an expat (aka “hardship”) salary at a rate one-and-a-half times the New York benchmarks(s). While AJ to make a far less “local” salary in Asia!

Initially, OS asked AJ to go and take same up at Citibank headquarters /“HQ” in New York. When HQ told him to report to Asia for now, they will “in due course” consider and take-up his working his way back to the US or even Saudi Arabia, AJ was back bawling even louder back home before OS. And this was not just a matter of refusing to go to Asia, but OS had to find him something “suitable and acceptable” yesterday, before his immediate Asia join date.

Another, family and JV, gun to OS’s head! To cut a long story short, OS arranged a job for AJ, on Wall Street, within the available 3-4 day practically no-window. OS, stuck in queue for his green-card/US Permanent Residency, meant for the family - including AJ - first in OS’s mind, could not transition himself, but able to arrange a job for AJ in this, super accelerated fashion, in the super competitive NYC market no less.

Incidentally, AJ picked up his job offer letter the very same morning Dad due in the US later in the day. He had waited over five years for OS to come home to visit, could wait no longer to see him. Otherwise, AJ had so done better than nearly all of his Fletcher and so, so many of his HBS classmates. As yet and still a “foreigner” to this country, an acknowledged realization for being duly sober and grateful in life.

Courage comes but only from truth, honor, … stepping up to all such things, frontally without reservation, equivocation, deceit, retreat, … peppering self with a healthy dose of flinty sense of self and self-respect preserved! Of doing what it right, always right! Standing for something when it is the most difficult to do! With all due respects to Mr. Gerald O’Hara, “… land is [not] the only thing … worth dying for, …”Our principles too, perhaps first!

“Well, the answer to that is "survival as what?" A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult!

Before the people of the world, let it now be noted that here, in our decision, this is what we stand for: justice, truth, and the value of a single human being.”; Judge Dan Haywood in the movie Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Verdict [Scene/1, 2]

“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts" - Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind (1939).

If the world had collective conviction and will true to in fact act together, the outrage and rarified sin by the Syrian Government/Assad regime, “delud[ing itself] into the commission of crimes so vast and heinous that they beggar the imagination (Judgment at Nuremberg) or merely being callous and cruel true to stay in power, unloading chemical weapons on its own citizens would not stand for any length at all. If AJ were a “degraded pervert” (Judgment at Nuremberg) and “sadistic monster and maniac” (Judgment at Nuremberg), yet he is all of those things in action and effect, then all his defrauding et al. (see below/infra) misdeeds, “… would have no more moral significance than an earthquake, or any other natural catastrophe.” (Judgment at Nuremberg),

Whatever else wrong with him, AJ has always been aware of the wrong he has done, as patent wrong only. Along the way, whether partially “deluding” himself but never really into his commissions or willfully brushing aside what he knew to be right or … or all of these things compacted/fused together, he always knew right from wrong. Always knew what OS had done, acknowledging it freely forever. Always knew the family JV a valid legal arrangement.

As AJ went to work, for the fist time in four years, six years since coming to America, OS had some meaningful assistance. Until AJ to commit his frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) ahead, his register worthy earnings pooled with OS’s, for the JV continuing to be [part] performed to that point, as bulwark against the invocation of the Statute of Frauds.

Later that year OS was to receive his green-card/US Permanent Residency. OS, thereafter, to face the kind of discrimination the long-term employed face today. Having been in off career track employment for the previous four years, breaking through into it full of formidable impediments! By early the following year, with his characteristic doggedness, he had brought matters very close to securing a position at Bank of America. Just them, a crisis in India intervened and he had to travel home.

Returning, SIS “accompanied” him to America, a fortnight later. To take a gander at schools in America, which she was to join in the Spring semester the following year. After satisfying herself she was interested in pursuing undergraduate studies here versus back in India, but also to give OS time to gear up financially for it.

In all the years OS handled family affairs, his honesty and thoroughness, despite tenuous underlying circumstances, ensured no mishap ever occurred. He never missed any beat, everyone’s, time sensitive and otherwise sanctified, interests impeccably advanced and protected. AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5), to come, the first time mishaps began occurring, then too not without stout fighting from OS, if only because the laws of physics, pertaining to how far OS could be stretched, simply not to be able to accommodate any incremental elasticity, having run out of all possible runway to give. OS never to be found wanting!

Accordingly, SIS’s applications, with cogent contribution from her in India and unlike AJ’s corresponding bankrupt case, as ever processed impeccably too. This time, OS gave them to AJ to prepare, believing him to be responsible and grown-up enough, in his mid-20s. For the third time they never went out, in fact AJ never even started on them, later pleading SIS was not fit to attend school in America (as if he himself ever was)!?! OS understood this gambit better and fully much later, after AJ had unleashed his frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5). Very simply, the blackguard had a blackheart. Never minded leaning on OS any amount and forever, in turn did not want to give off himself for his younger sibling(s), the sniveling coward and p**** (pusillanimity bound).!

On a Friday night, after work, OS sitting down himself, working through the weekend without a wink of sleep, had all of SIS’s applications, twenty odd, ready to be mailed out first thing Monday morning. OS was just too honorable in life to admit of dishonor in anyone easily. Not even in AJ, betraying himself in small doses all the time. However, one day he was to reveal the real hulking swine he was, in full resplendence and brazen naked audacity. Just as the previously demurring GOP have been doing, increasingly after 2008!

Once, on a weekend (in the days before ATMs, if one forgot to pick up cash at the bank in NYC, one would be stuck in the suburbs), finding himself without cash, OS asked AJ if he had any for a pack of smokes. To which AJ responded in the negative. Monday morning, when AJ was at work, OS with the day off, while cleaning house and emptying AJ’s suit pockets (he had a habit of leaving clothes, everything strewn around) before hanging the piece in the closet, found cash in it. AJ would play such games with OS!?! … OS for a long time overlooked such incidents, as AJ’s immaturity that would go away. Repeatedly giving him the benefit of the doubt!

At another time, out of the blue, AJ told OS he would like nothing to be charged on his credit cards. All family credit and physical credit cards remained held centrally. In fact all of AJ’s credit held in unused reserve. With two incomes, OS making much more than AJ, there was no need for additional credit to be drawn upon. Indeed, OS running a tight ship, steadily paying down JV debt held in his name. Strengthening the JV balance sheet so, his was a no frills operation, run with scrupulous honesty and no waste whatsoever.

However, it was bound to occur to OS and did, AJ was all right running up all kinds of bills on OS’s head, but wanting to keep his own nose clean. Mitt Romney needing to be noticed it was AJ who was being a taker without being any maker ever … just like his fellow 1%ers taking much more than they so-called ‘made’. Acting without equity! "I'm not talking legality, Preppie, I'm talking ethics. You guys have five million books. We have a few lousy thousand." - Jennifer Cavalleri, Love Story (1970). AJ did not want to share in the sacrifice(s)/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) (s), risk taking, pain, … staking only the benefits. OS giving him the benefit of the doubt once again!

It is the spoilt state of mind. When OS first visited Harvard, crossing the Charles River, he encountered a sprawling campus. Asking a young lady on the lawns outside where HBS was, he was told, with an elaborate wave of her arm, all of it. OS’s B’school was a very modest single building. She then asked OS in turn whether he was there interested in gaining admission. When OS told her he was happily installed at another, Ivy League, B’School, she smugly intoned “O here to visit the mecca!?!” Right there the attitude and value system rooting that was to go on to destroy America in our times.

AJ’s insanity America’s insanity, particularly via the Ivy Leagues et al. and Wall Street, America’s insanity AJ’s! No life serious or sober footprints anywhere there. No understanding or deliberate overlook of real life proportions! No care for others, not even for self-protection, for life is corporate/collective first before it can be successful individually! … Just straight narcissistic horsing around galore, now comes the pied piper to exact a punishing price for going horribly unnatural!

SIS was to be accepted to multiple ‘Seven Sisters’ and other leading schools in America. So much for AJ’s self-serving antics belittling her prospects and her! Criminal! Life thrives on positive projections/outlook and of stepping up to it. If OS were anything like AJ, latter would/should have been buried dead back when and based upon palpable mediocrity in middle school academics, even after excelling in high school and college in India, but for OS would never have found his was to excel in America. To close the door behind on other, after passing through and worse still after being handily helped by another/others to do so, no crime greater and ingratitude supreme!

During SIS’s second semester, OS had to go home to India, taking care of Dad and SS. Dad had been in harness by himself for nearly twenty years, nearly ten past his retirement, raising children by himself. SS in a tizzy about being taken to America, especially when SIS had leap-frogged to go first. The JV had called for the boys having their first degree in India, SIS, as the only girl and daughter, the only one to be enabled to have all her education in America.

Where OS was scrupulously attentive to every member of the family, AJ to turn out hoary callous to them! Mind you, OS had still not found his way to career-track ascension, but still he went back to spend some months and time with Dad and SS. While headed to India so, making sure to leave a full year’s tuition on deposit carefully for SIS’s school, even though he did not plan to be away for that much time! Incidentally, according to Indian customs, he has already safely assembled and built up SIS’s dowry too. AJ might have been installed in career-track employment, but it was OS hustling to make much more money than him outside, amidst so much exploitation and impediments faced while without a green-card/US Permanent Residency for most of his past several years, since B’School.

Just before he left, the entitled AJ sprung the case for permission to attend Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). OS turning him down summarily, then he wrangled out permission from him to secure admission, but not to leave until the JV could spare him. His looking to Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) plans predicated upon the emerging ills in 1980s America of a herd mentality towards making obscene amounts of money as if yesterday, lawyers starting to cull together even obscener charge rates in the range of $250-400/hour and a bunch of AJ’s friends from affluent families headed next for Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) never quitting school to enter life. The inglorious 1920s “gilded Age” was back on with even greater vehemence and abandon, recklessness, as the antics of the weak, self-indulgent and the forever restlessly bolting!

When OS returned, Dad accompanied him. So that he could take care of SIS, OS freed a trifle to get his, long patient, career going finally. SS was left in the care of extending family and friend to finish his undergraduate in India. No sooner had he landed at Kennedy Airport, OS saw evidence of AJ’s high irresponsibility.

SIS was a holy mess on its face, her neglect by AJ apparent to see. She plainly looked unkempt, her clothes shabby an understatement, that she had not had a haircut in months quite evident too. Reaching home, OS was to find she had been kicked out of her bedroom and relegated to some kind id an army cot besides the dining table, AJ taking over her bedroom entirely. SIS was to tell OS, she was left alone at home most nights, while AJ attended LSAT classes after work.

AJ supposed to only work towards admission to Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) on a contingent basis, which did not translate into pursuing same at the cost of running the household properly. All the months OS was away, SIS with no facility to make it to the hair salon, Laundromat, … by herself, on her own! On weekends, he would drag her away to visit with her friends (e,g, his friends from Boston Fauzia-Babbar in Ossining, NY, Arnie Mansdorf in Brooklyn, NY, … etc.), part of his restlessness running to something and away from ever fermenting insides, disrupting her schoolwork. …

His fermenting restlessness, together with all his weak and dodging ways, had given AJ the habit of regularly kicking OS’s shins under the dining table out of his frustrations at life, life’s gamesmanship that he could not cope with. Before SIS had come to America, there had been an episode at home between AJ and OS. Acting up one afternoon and with OS fed up with AJ’s endless juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) incorrigibilities, forever soft pedaled on by him, when AJ sought to jump him, OS decided to teach him a lesson! Pinning him down on the couch, he refused to let go of AJ until he promised to behave in the future. Once let go, AJ convinced he could not get the better of OS in any scuffle, instead elected to go after everything in the sitting room.

Wrecking it, he destroyed the TV, the record player, the display cabinets with their contents … all of it. Always temperamental, he had a Teflon strength bug in his head. OS was not even his father, yet he forever made room for AJ’s tantrums, all kinds of running dysfunctions endless! Affectionately and patiently! Waiting for him to sort himself out, grow up (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)! AJ will grow up (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) once he has finished college! Once he has found muscular employment, he will feel secure enough in life to settle down! … Actually, it never, never happened! OS bending destiny to success for the family, forever tirelessly alone in what was supposed to be a collective struggle.

Otherwise, soon after returning to America, OS finally got career-track bound, Wall Street installed. Only seven years following B’School, nine years after arriving in America. Even though, he would be making less money than he did before. Two family members well educated in America itself too, the third on her way, two solid jobs in the family with a combined income exceeding hundred thousand dollars of the 1980s very far going money, OS’s green card/US Permanent Residency as an anchor for all the rest in the family, …

As such, nine years was nothing for such footing found in a new country, even though the entire price exacted out of OS’s hide alone. So much, much to be grateful for, millions of people all over the globe would give their right arm to get to the same place, so soon too! Hell, millions in America itself too. Except for the spoilt and the entitled, a source for soaring grace, inspiration as well as eternal gratitude, to find the American dream so. For those like AJ re-doubly so, for OS having paid all the price for it for him. As the authors write today, it is August 28, 2013, fifty year anniversary of the freedom march to Washington in 1963, with the President giving the keynote speech.

OS resumed charge with Dad of SIS, emphatically peeling AJ’s less than half-hearted interest off. She traveled to school now with OS, bifurcating at Port Authority in NYC to go uptown to college, while OS headed downtown. In the evenings they would carefully and vigilantly synchronize, meeting at the 42nd Street terminal again to travel home to NJ together. If OS occasionally leaving very early and/or returning too late, Dad would be at the bus-stop in NJ boarding and taking her off, always be home with her in the evenings. OS and the family/Dad did not believe in playing any probability games with safety at all!

Once when she was commuting so by herself, a young man latched on to her in the tunnel that connects seventh avenue to the Port Authority terminal at eighth avenue-42nd street, stalking/1, 2, 3 her while passing sexual remarks constantly. At the terminal itself, followed her into the ice-cream parlor which OS had designated as the safe haven to meet him within, before being chased away by the owner of the parlor. Accordingly, when OS himself arrived at the parlor, he was to find SIS talking to a policeman just outside, surrounded by a sizable crowd also in attendance.

A second similar incident occurred soon after, this time with AJ present. Passing through the very same Port Authority, SIS and AJ were chatting together behind OS, as they headed on the upper level towards the escalator which would take them to the platform to catch the bus to NJ. OS had gone up the escalator, then walked all the way to the end of the corridor to the door leading to the waiting bus, when he heard some commotion behind him. Swiveling he was to see AJ and another man crouched ready to mix it up at the, top, end of the escalator, with SIS somehow trapped on the last step, of the upward moving machine.

OS yelled from his distance to alert AJ’s adversary that he was not alone and then dropping his briefcase began sprinting towards two crouching gladiators. Realizing he was outnumbered, AJ’s adversary promptly took off, flight. Apparently, in getting on the escalator, instead of ensuring SIS got on first, vintage AJ in carelessness and with head always in the clouds, got on himself to leave SIS bringing up his rear. The man who got on behind SIS, then crouched low to look up her skirt as the escalator went up. AJ noticed and the sparks flew! …

First, no excuse for not ensuring SIS got on the escalator first, matter of elementary precaution as well as chivalry whenever accompanying any woman. Second, AJ should have cleared out safely with SIS promptly, instead of engaging the perpetrator, to SIS’s as well as his own jeopardy. Needless to say he got more than a earful from OS. Not the first time such foolishness in super dangerous NYC.

Once while accompanying OS, just off eighth avenue on 39th street the two ran into a robbery in progress on the street, With knives and clubs in evidence, a bunch of thugs in the act of swiping a rack full of clothes, As OS cleared out rapidly, he was to turn back to find AJ standing stupidly watching as if some street performance in progress. He had to run back to drag AJ away, resisting the urge to administer him a swift kick in the pants on the spot, for being street foolish dense!

OS has had a twenty dollar bill snatched out of his hands just like that at Port Authority, while in queue to buy his weekly bus pass. Had ladies of the evening chase after him, on eighth avenue, just outside the bus terminal. At the old Broadway-Nassau Street stop (below 1 Chase Plaza, now the Fulton Street Stop), OS was given to standing at a known/same spot on the platform where he knew one of the doors to the subway opened directly in front. One evening, the doors opened and he waited patiently for everyone to get off. Once an empty chasm yawned before him and he moved to step in, a gentleman, with his little girl, realizing late that he had to alight, came barging out. OS side-stepped nimbly to give way and continue heading in, while the other two exited, simultaneously, with enough room!

Once on the platform, the other turned around to yell at OS, for not backing out to let him get off first, even though he had been way late coming out … Then he did not like that OS kept walking to his seat without answering him, per force taken as a deliberate slight offered him. Fortunately the doors closed and the train began moving, still he ran along the train to catch up to the window across from where OS was sitting, Banging on the glass of the moving vehicle, threatening on his fast trot outside on the platform alongside the galloping train.

NYC streets are not the Harvard, a college campus. Too many educated people misfits for life/at large. Perhaps because they acquire the tact and habit of looking for real life answers in books! But, AJ a hulking misfit even without the education factor!

In that year, AJ did not get into any Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) he wanted to attend. Any really good school, in other words! The first rime he had attempted college applications on his own, since OS was in India and otherwise not in supportive. Even Dad told AJ it was time and priority for the latter to get married and settled down. Growing up, provide support to, real leadership in the family, sharing with OS, lightening his burden. OS also impressed that AJ should spoken up before Fletcher, he could have attended Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) instead with OS in the yoke an additional year for it. A beleaguered immigrating family simply could not afford members spending lifetimes in college, AJ already had three college degrees and moreover handsomely employed as well.

The younger two siblings had to be given a fair and equivalent chance to get equally well educated. SIS has a ways to go. SS was clamoring back home for a chance in America. OS, who had already sacrificed/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) so much and more than enough, had his own life to forge. In fact it was AJ’s turn to sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6), he had had a jolly good free run all along/ He could not stay juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), spoilt, entitled, … especially like the current “ugly American”, as yet the most intense and pronounced version of such ugliness incarnated.

As such, AJ gave a renewed undertaking to only seek admission and not actually leave to attend until formally released by the JV. OS found same quite absurd, asking AJ to wait to gain admission too. He had promised to get him into any Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) he wanted to attend, if he maturely stayed to advance the JV agenda to a safe point of stability. Separately, get married sensibly, showing proper life maturity and sobriety. … He agreed to both, reiterating not to leave without being formally released by the JV and duly getting married immediately (formerly opting for the Indian route of an arranged marriage and pointedly asking OS/Dad to begin looking for a girl), but insisting he would feel good about himself if OS could assist him in getting admitted to a good Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) right away.

OS helped, AJ picked Columbia Law School (1) if only because he wanted to create happier memories on that campus than the ones he retained from his undergraduate days there, full of the grinding struggles if a newly arrived immigrant even unto the family in its fledgling stages too! OS began the onerous and time consuming task of canvassing for girls for AJ’s marriage, as if he did not already have enough on his plate. As if was still not the only one pursuing and managing the JV agenda all by himself, AJ as ever still showing the back of his TV watching head and never proactively taking up any of his JV duties.

Always a tug of war to get him to do anything, then too it would not get done properly, OS suffered re-doubly taking a chore away and back from him, for he had to first detangle what AJ had messed up before completing it properly. After a lifetime of such invariable repeats from AJ, OS naturally to reach the conclusion it was safer to handle everything himself. Now he had a career to take very seriously too, it was no longer just a matter of simply/blandly hustling to make as much money he could for the family/JV.

OS, as such, had serious catching up to do in his career, starting with a significant deficit, as he did, on Wall Street! And make up he did too, while carrying his entire portfolio of considerable family responsibility. He received accelerated promotions, offered a very important job in London, UK, which he, however, turned down mainly on account of SIS still needing him in America. Dad at some point had to return to India, she was still too young to be without a supportive home in her vicinity.

AJ played games with OS on his marriage matters. Letting OS raise “leads” and negotiate matters a good way, before repeatedly saying no in the end, abruptly! Wasting his time he just did not have! When OS still had too, too many things to do in the family, of course by himself! Everything but everything, clearly, depended on him. Everybody too! Mainly, most of all AJ, … no brainer by this time in the story!

Just around this time AJ received his own green-card/US Permanent Residency, from work sponsorship. Traceable to OS, who got him employed on Wall Street! Work sponsorship being a much faster track than the family sponsorship route. Strangely and yet not so, the same US prominent immigration firm that had taken OS for a ride, as AJ’s firm’s retained attorneys for the purpose, had AJ simply sail through in no time at all.

AJ was also lucky in the boss he had, who never held the sponsorship over his head. All over America, so many employers, otherwise, given to stringing employees along for years, using the bait of sponsorship to hold on to them shackled in dragged out fashion. AJ’s boss, Sorbonne educated and in the social register, previously from the US Foreign Service, Hamptons bound every weekend of the year, with a name like “Skip”, … either too wrapped with himself or too above the small and niggardly or …, providentially never to rag on AJ in anyway. Precisely what AJ was supposed to do, make thing even easier for the younger siblings, so that the JV could be wrapped up with so much greater expedition, for everyone to be restored to their independent lives, barring the normal collective demands of family and extended family life.

OS had never seen one like AJ, so utterly weak, helpless and frightened of everything. Frightened to distraction and personal paralysis! Then, he abruptly began taking to the kitchen, cooking, quite seriously and regularly. Being overly solicitous of OS! … But, this puzzle was not to remain intact for too long! Soon enough, he began badgering OS for being allowed to begin attending Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) the same year itself. Getting his green-card/US Permanent Residency had changes him in ways, making him belligerent, but without making him courageous!

Obviously, with that critical flag down for him, he further needed the family a little less than before. Giving him a little more room to be a cad and for flouting, defrauding/1 (2-3. 4-5) it … Aspects of the supreme opportunist, AJ was to go on ahead to show himself perfectly capable of biting the hand that fed, peremptorily shutting the door behind him on his younger siblings, the family. His cooking routine, for OS, only as a means to secure his permission for attending Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) immediately! With all his insecurities and self-doubt, not sure of what might happen with his Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) enterprise, he was not yet ready to break open wide, quite just yet! What if his enterprise tanked and he needed the family, particularly OS, again!?!

So, despite securing his green-card/US Permanent Residency, he was still not entirely ready to thumb his nose at the family fully. So, bending laboriously, to secure OS’s permission, was really for the straddle of the Best of All the Worlds skullduggery, of being able to launch Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) immediately and also have the family goodwill in his hip-pocket. Should Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) not turn out as desired and he needed the family, i.e. OS always really, to bail him out in anyway, to position himself to be able to do so. An insidious game plan, for preventing arousal of any invidious reaction anywhere in the family!

Only a very weak person’s desperation would give excavation and shape to such twisted plotting, with family to boot, no less! A truly courageous entity comes frontally, out of abundant self-respect, honor and dignity, even in combat. Leave it to any consummate snake, rat to invariably come from the rear, behind, even at family and creating an adversarial situation precisely as a consequence thereof.

Of course there was no way to secure OS’s permission, no way for AJ to be excused his JV duties under given circumstances. Moreover, AJ especially in his loony and convulsive state, needed to simmer down, mature and grow up (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), … getting serious and sober, time for him to first get married and settle down, learning to raise a responsible protocol finally for life. Quit horsing around, most of all quit his crazy “Americanization”. Be and become a man (poto mitan or central pillars or our mothers, ever the silent, real heroes or wo-men 1, 2), instead of high maintenance child!

As AJ’s campaign for Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) immediately continued with dysfunctional insistence, showcasing his entitled excesses, things were bound to get ugly in his refusal to, reasonably and sensibly, dismount. Responsibility for the actual precipitation his and entirely his alone, to be nailed to his solitary door! He had already been told, over and over again, if he did not agree with the family’s decision disallowing, he did not have to stalk it, but quietly retire to pursue Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) unilaterally. However, like the crazy Tea Party, his “derangement” just had to exact and crowbar permission out of the family.

The pertinent evening in question, as he opened his quest yet again, to be turned down by OS and Dad as ever, he demanded SIS’s opinion on the matter. Initially turned down by both OS and Dad together again, SIS as a teenager too young to participate and needing to be spared focusing only on her studies, AJ was finally even allowed to canvas SIS.

However, when even she said ‘NO’, that he needed to get married, standby the family and forget about Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), all hell broke loose. Somehow, OS to blame also for SIS’s opinion! According to AJ, she “parroted” OS’s opinion merely because she was very close to him. Dad too! Whereas, if they were close to OS, the only reason he could divine, the responsible role he forever played in the family … A highly obtuse and entirely illogical position for AJ to assume!

Be that as it may, he rushed into the kitchen to retrieve a butcher knife, to come after the, all purpose, villain OS with it. When Dad, standing on his way to OS, collared and grappled with him, in the ensuing struggle Dad to fall backwards, hitting his head on the large bookshelf behind him. Seeing Dad fall prey so, AJ promptly dropped the knife. Imagine all this for LAW School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), to quench the greed of the 1980’s, new found, earning capacity to be plundered through associated career making. And such rapacious appetite/lust for grubby money making, in an immigrant no less, how perverting, corrupting did America have to be!?! Though in an awful ingrate of an, very sloppy and slippery immigrant!

Needless to say, AJ received the old heave-ho, following that very loaded evening, out of the homestead. It was a place that needed its sanity to keep doing its serious business of the life building of young people. It already had enough built in taut, from the challenging circumstances within it was endeavoring to complete its JV agenda. Lastly, if AJ could explode, lack self-control to the extent of whipping out a butcher knife, he was just not safe to keep.

Before this fateful day, OS had to the very last day and moment endeavored to persuade AJ from taking the final, one-way and irretrievable, step of resigning his position on Wall Street. To no avail, of course! Otherwise, he was still very much in contact with the family, of his own volition, from his apartment, near the Columbia campus, taken and occupied a little earlier than he had otherwise expected. But, this was not a well puppy at all, indeed very sick to the contrary, all the time rendering himself worse with all his mental anguish, angst, turmoil and whirling he subjected himself to while uniformly running from himself blind.

But, there is never to be any solution for one who will not stop hurtling headlong. Ever stop to confront himself stoically, with register and commitment. If the game merely to run incessantly, upon a hair trigger, before one’s insecurities, self-doubts, primal fears, … the whole topical gamut, then no cure or solution ever to be found. Not even with the help of a professional. If one never to stop long enough to take stock of one’s condition with any degree of thoroughness, never to stay put further for any possible treatment to be even attempted, … the patient not wanting to get well the only, logically, safe conclusion to be allowed to emerge.

Some years earlier, OS suddenly revealed he had been seeing a psychiatrist, a prominent professional on Park Avenue in New York City. Everyone in the family had been told, should there be any medical/health problem, to always tell, involve, … family for abundant care and out of safety considerations. OS went to see this doctor to weigh for himself what the other had to say was ailing AJ. He met a venerable old gentleman, very effervescent and yet studious, dead serious, penetrating, analytical, thorough, full of common sense too, …

On the whole, what he said “wrong” with AJ was, like so many of his peers at Ivy League type Schools across several past generational overlaps in America, to certain epidemic proportions, he was horribly self-spoilt. Wanted life and nature to conform to him, rather than the other way around, as is! Life to come to him all cooked and made up to his taste, his not having to advance towards life, meeting it at least half-way! Was horribly self-pitying, Generating and creating problems for himself, where none existed.

As a way not to have to square up to life, he and his peers given to birthing problems for themselves to blame and use as excuse. Little, feeling sorry for themselves, rabbits forever chasing their tails to no avail. Graduating from one problem to another, handily churned endlessly. People who went looking for such trouble brewed, in order to continue avoiding facing life.

They would rather stay self-made “ill”, than breakout and live like normal human beings. AJ, during the course of his manufacture, had also conjured up sexual problems for himself, that did not exist all. … On and on he went the doctor, even getting a trifle hot under his collar at the number of such spoilt young Americans gratuitously creating problems for themselves and everything, everybody around them. He was to even remark, what business did AJ have coming to him, when he had such a “strong-minded” brother at home to do therapy with. Reserving his most colorful “kicker” for the very last, when OS asked to pay his bill for that day’s visit, he replied “You are not going to pay, I am going to bill that S.O.B. (meaning AJ) himself.”

Thus, this doctor had plainly concluded what OS had been telling AJ all his life, his problems merely psychosomatic! OS had also told AJ, his salvation lay in putting a productive/purposeful anchor-into-life, as in bending to uplift someone else’s life to take the focus off the self. Just get busy so and run with it. Stop churning everything to death in his head. Stop second guessing life at every blighted step. Stop being frightened of everything and anything. Stop looking for impeccable guarantees before making any move at all. … Stop, stop and stop already! … Take some faith and get on with it, leap-of-faith taking at the margins integral to life!

Once, OS and SIS met AJ outside Port Authority in NYC, after he had been ejected from the homestead in NJ, because he wanted to meet for something. Turned out this was something he wanted from them, big surprise! He came dressed in denim jeans and jacket, ankle high boots which having given him a blister had him limping painfully and laboriously. Looked like a street hoodlum or at best a flaming rock-star!

Precisely his problem, he was trying to look younger than his years. All round personal insecurity his most constant companion. Why OS’s calls for him to sober and grow up (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), were the older brother’s “fuddy-duddy”! AJ had uniformly run from himself, adversity and life, why not from his advancing years into his late-20s too! Of-course OS told him to get clothes better suited him.

Mental torture inflicted on himself at every juncture, had long since given him acute peptic ulcers. He had been ingesting milky products, to coat the lining in his stomach, for years. Once he went for an endoscopy procedure, for his stomach, contrary to family rules without informing anyone in the family. Given a muscle relaxant for the purpose at the doctor’s office, on his way back to the office afterwards, he blacked out on the subway, in the end to find himself walking around like a zombie in Grand Central Station. Even as a child, his first few years of life studded with medical problems, including falling off a playground ride to injure his head on the first day of school and to be out for the rest of the school year, … at one stage scaring the living daylights out of his family hovering on the edge of death for a time. Soon after his parents had just lost an older child, a daughter immediately behind OS.

But would he listen, Mr. Know-it-all lately who did nothing and nothing right at all, ever!?! There was a reason for OS’s carefully laid safety rules, of taking someone with you to a doctor’s appointment for any procedure. Of informing someone, while making a visit to the doctor. … Just carry on in life, with his head high in the sky invariably, … freely forging problems for himself and others, most gratuitously indeed.

After he had to be ejected out of the homestead, following his resort to wielding a butcher knife, the family was to discover literature, left behind in his desk, about the teachings of a prominent cult organization. Made at least connective sense, AJ, in his own warped way, looking for solutions to all his confidence lacking ways, which had plagued him all his life! Cults are known for their obsessive advocacy on assertiveness, bordering on the raw, even hooliganism and are otherwise preoccupied with control. Misunderstanding courage, which is soft, honorable, positive, constructive, even suffering, benign, other respecting… not confrontational, hostile, overbearing, ugly, narcissistic, other disparaging, … where AJ trying to find his confidence in life ended up.

With all his bogeys, never addressed or cured, there was no way for AJ to find any true courage and personal confidence. Those things cannot be found staying frightened and petrified in life. What he acquired, it is assumed from his cult “following”, was a plastered on façade that can be best described only as turning hooligan and to hooliganism carried on his sleeve. The hallmark of any courageous pursuit is adherence to doing the right thing, knowing how to stay bounded and in control of oneself, being able to sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) and act for others, being in healthy esteem of oneself, … all the things AJ could not be farther from.

His inherent fragilities, topped by all the wrong ways in which he went for stunts, instead of genuine and brave reformation from within, to cure himself and not excluding endless mental spinning intensely, he only managed to exacerbate his dysfunctional state. In the process, falling prey to demonic bouts of ever escalating anger/1, 2! When OS complained his time was being wasted looking for a bride for him, given that AJ would at the end of the former’s long investment developing “opportunities” inexplicably turn them all down shut repeatedly, he confessed to some serious sexual dysfunctions, confusion.

In his new found aggression uncensored, forgetting all family pertinent social delicacy and decorum, he solicited family help relatedly, but impossible for it to get involved in. Once in his apartment by the Columbia campus, he ordered a sitting OS off “his” sofa, no matter the latter had just donated it to him. … There is no question in the family’s mind that AJ had learned his nascent “confidence” from some very questionable source(s)! Without question his unvarnished belligerency rocking heavy, wild and downright crazy. Loud, obnoxious and scary, most of all for his sake!

As such, the household, where most critically SIS had to study, not only suffering the consequences of serious financial destabilization from AJ’s abscond, but also the muscular reverberations from all of AJ’s incremental shenanigans, abundantly served.

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions.” Suddenly, Dad had to rush back home, SS had fallen dangerously ill. More expenditure for OS, already submerged under unmanageable debt. Plus the worry over SS himself, added on. SS had by this time been alone, without core family around, for nearly two years, further incessantly percolating over not having been moved across to America. It was mostly the latter and his rotating same intensely in his head, which had caused this breakdown of the moment.

Here was urgent reason for AJ to quit Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). If was a function of OS’s extremely sensible and honest management of the JV, AJ had been enabled to save a tidy sum in Thrift Incentive Plan/“TIP” at work, the proceeds of which he had received on leaving his employment. It is recognition, in heart of heart, by AJ that he had no business leaving for Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), when he turned over the amount to the family/OS! But, this was a no consequence drop in the bucket, OS/the JV was turning wicked deficits each month, Bleeding red profusely, not unlike the American Treasury post 2008 and for the next five years through the current 2013.

When AJ would still not quit, created an ever widening chasm with the family! When the shoe clearly on his foot, AJ not only the one generating resentment but acting it out. He broke into the homestead, stealing liberally from it. OS had to refer himself to the local police in NJ, bur carefully refrained from making a criminal complaint. He could have easily ended AJ Law career cold right there, but only asked his town’s police Chief to, personally and officially, serve a deterring warning on AJ.

Separately, AJ took to stalking/1, 2, 3 SIS meaningfully on campus, even manhandling her quite a few times when she indicated she did not want to deal with him. As this continued to escalate, even beyond OS serving sobering notice(s) on AJ, something had to give. SIS found herself weeping on so many time at the end of AJ’s willful harassment, unmindful of all the cease and desist demands made just by her alone. Eventually, several co-workers/fellow students too at her work in the Columbia libraries had to gang up to serve warning that AJ would sit up and take notice of, before all this nonsense stopped months and simply months into it.

(VI) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 4: Through SS’s arrival in America

SS hovered near death on multiple occasions in the next year or so. Dad was like a shrieking banshee in OS’ ears, from eight thousand miles as if in the same room. For one, scoops of funds for his health costs running off at the mouth. Then it was for getting him to America asap, once he was well.

Somehow, SS had taken into his head that OS was not going to take him over. Then also, it was like OS should as if, now the family chant every time, by yesterday. Hazards of all leadership roles, no one wants to know the limitations, just about getting their job done any which way possible. OS’s head everyone’s favorite target for putting their gun to, no holds barred and no listening to, appreciating the physics he was genuinely constrained by.

At his end, the truly trapped and helpless OS, still having all the time to deal with the specter of something precipitate happening to SS. All but having nightmares over it! He knew himself to be comprehensively hogtied, even that poor consolation in the end. AJ had also been cautioned as to not play Russian roulette with the family, but he was too busy playing the “ugly American”. … It was an all round intractable situation, threatening to boil over anytime.

Amidst all this tumult, OS had to keep his office intact. His was the only earning source in the family, yet again. Who knows where OS came up with the reserves to keep plodding on? SIS too in her own corner, the integrity of her studies held together only more of the same for OS! An impossible situation that was also outrageous at the same time. A veritable minefield for SIS and OS alike, first! Then also for Dad and SS too, next! All because of one rotten apple, who hoisted all the world’s lawlessness, to study law at Columbia Law.

Creating a matter of heavy-lifting over elongated time, destroying but no time at all! “It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.” tells rancher Homer Bannon in the movie Hud (1963). The World Trade Center towers pancaked in 102 and 56 minutes respectively. AJ in no time opened the flanks of the family enterprise, it took OS a decade to assemble and hoist singlehandedly on highly but highly challenging foreign soil.

Otherwise, the battering that OS fielded, before and after this bloodletting by AJ, impossible to absorb without a strong sense of faith in and about life! In and about family! In and about human possibilities! In and about enterprise! In and about all around fair-play and equity for all! … In the end in and about money only worth that can be done with it, the last thing we all will be taking with us at the end of our respective earthly innings.

Once there was Nero who “fiddled while Rome burnt.” Then, in our story within, AJ excelling at Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) while the family burnt, through SS’s deathly sickness most particularly! To find such warped wherewithal is to be an unmitigated debauch. For AJ to find it in himself to excel so, on the ashes of the family, to be a no vanilla monster! Death would not overtake before anyone at all ever stood tall upon the family’s carcass, it has to be said!?! Then what is left of any integrity in human affairs? No way for AJ to enjoy any fruits, for any length of time at all, of his ill begotten Law career and still remain of human kind.

AJ was to do much more and worse to cancel his membership to the human race without question. Alternatively to be plumb found for advanced mental malfunction, albeit being able to distinguish right from wrong at all times. Otherwise, his mental instability an indistinguishable integral part and parcel of the insane sector of contemporary America in high uproar! AJ not ordinarily disturbed, nor the segment of America that bred him bold! He is sick as only an intensely sick segmental America could make him. Does not belong out and about in society, even as so many of America’s business leaders, politicians, judges, citizens assorted and sundry deserve to be forthwith locked up. …

OS’s, equipped with such thin resources and margins, able to see the family safely through to its first plateau, for more facile second stage launch towards higher perches, testimony to the quality of his robust all around management and gimlet eyed vigilance kept on the JV operations simultaneously. A labor of love, acumen, vision and heart, crudely hacked down, butchered by AJ’s castrated cowardice in the most unholy fashion possible. Laid waste to by AJ’s no consequence lack of all stature and character in life. The sullied work of one who must be the devil and a no good outright low-life! Mo matter what bred such depths as he displayed.

The measure of man, if you like, to rise to the occasion as demanded. OS was only in his early 20s when he assumed stewardship of his family in foreign “waters”, successfully navigating it without excuse or retreat. Once his mantle assumed, simply staying stubbornly determined and steadfast at his post! Not ever taking his eye off the ball or letting it drop. Today’s America, in too many quarters, not to believe in these principles, but there is decidedly something in life such as rising to whatever challenge thrown one’s way. Give oneself no choice but to acquit. How OS did it, for family and invoking it, AJ’s chicken only self directed would, could not. He could only commit sacrilege, having the abundant wickedness, villainy to take down what was already built! What OS had built with his blood, sweat and tears, if you like!

At the end of his first year at Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), AJ finally agreed to quit. Acknowledging both, he was patently wrong in abandoning his JV duties as well needing to sort himself out straight. Simultaneously, yet again, agreeing not to return to Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) again at the expense of the JV, if ever. Focus on assembling his personal life, including prioritizing marriage and related settling down at the very head of the queue, for its own sake and to emerge as an optimal family person effectively. …

He was to move back to India, for its salutary effect promptly. For its strong faith based emphasis, faith not to be misunderstood as religion but rather taken as firm grounding in the concept of strong generic belief allowed to transact life based on a committed, invested, well disposed, positive, constructive, kinetic, embracing, unafraid, collegiate and associative, … outlook developed with respect to it. As such, learning to believe in life for itself and in terms of seeing it as purposeful, promising, capable of being molded suitably to whatever point/extent, amendable to some significant managed direction, worth stepping up to, requiring a measure of ‘leap of faith at all times, assuredly returning at least fair results for enterprise and pluck, needing to be befriended, … In a manner, to go back to his roots, for renewal and retooling!

Most of all, for getting away from toxic and convulsing America, which just could not be good for immigrants when it was pointed towards not being good for its own natives. OS had anticipated and sniffed out the coming value system crisis in America, with it all the ensuing repercussions, well in advance of the 2008 eruption and subsequent unraveling unceasing. Living in America was not for the weak or faint of heart, character, those who could not say no to the robustly bullish tug of all its considerable dysfunctional straying. Clearly, it was not for AJ, without being suitably reinforced in muscular bulk and protective solidity.

AJ in India was to be good for SS. Good for Dad. Even as they were to be good for him! Outside of that, India’s slow and paced life, with all its stark problematic going ons intermixed, still harbors the capacity to exercise great bracing effect on the mind. Of family, extended family, friends as no less extended family and even family! … In more than a few ways it knows how to just stop and stare, to be pleasing not just to AJ, but W.H. Davies too!

With all its faults, something about its air and aura that puts a weary head promptly and peacefully to sleep on the pillow! Then, for AJ, there was all the, reassuring, familiarity of an indigenous culture, spelt out in terms of all the myriads of ways it is bound to be comforting and soothing, especially after being away for a time. In New Delhi, the warmth of straight and spontaneous slide into deep intimacy with a place where one was born, grew up, attending school and college, creating favorite haunts in emerging youth and first adulthood alike, … whose sounds, smells, … forever locked in the head for instantaneous release anytime summoned or not even summoned at times, retrieval while visiting it, …

A visit home food for the soul, drawing strength from whose imposing sentimental attachment value, a powerful, powerful thrust beneath anyone’s wing!. India and New Delhi to have such a brawny influence and effect on AJ, this is what OS had in mind for him.

Sure enough, AJ began reporting feeling better, much, much better. OS, who made two trips to India to personally check up on him, was otherwise, with AJ’s own ticket funded too, was continuing to rack up a higher and higher debt burden. SIS was still in school. SS’s medical bills ongoing, though out of danger he was still far from fully well! The long illness had taken a terrible toll of him, with long-term implications. There was a time, when even his doctors were, in panic, strenuously demanding he be promptly removed to America, in order to find him well.

Dad was to introduce AJ to a number of girls, out of the family’s social circle in New Delhi. One in particular “caught his fancy”, so to speak, within the context of India’s arranged marriage system! She was the daughter of a prominent military officer, then studying in England and later to attend Harvard Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) in America. All good and promising signs!

Then, quite suddenly, AJ ducking “slipped out” of India and was back at Columbia Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). And all bets off, yet again. Just like that! So, there was not just the first initial, Big Bang, fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) on the family but any number of subsequent mini-frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5). Having the family, of-course mainly OS, yo-yoing in incremental buffeting galore! Something the family worn thin could ill afford, indeed not afford at all.

This is as much a story about America, as it is about AJ. When he left, per force, for Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), deprived of family permission, he had to come up with creative ways of justifying going. As such, his Wall Street career became a second rate career. As if, making upwards of $50,000/per annum in 1980s America with vast promising prospects ahead, for an early 20ish person and immigrant person in particular, could be so.

He claimed he should not have to settle for a second rate career, merely to support the family’s extravagant life style. Investing in family/1, 2 was being extravagant? Then, he should have spoken up when OS was spending on him, when every dollar to the latter had an astronomical, hard-earned and opportunity cost intensive, value. Otherwise, OS/the JV was swimming in debt up to at least its chin, if not higher! OS on his own or as the JV custodian never, never spent on anything except strictly JV projects. Before and after he began full employment, alike!

Then, there was “if OS wanted to play Daddy to him, what of it?” from AJ. As if, trying to pretend the JV and its legal formality, imperatives for him, did not exist!?! Also, disingenuously, he had a moral but not a legal obligation to the family, without ever answering why he would flout the moral duty itself, in turpitude!?!

Why did “we” (topical family members) have to help their siblings, no one else did it? Never squeaked so, when he was being helped up, with OS doing everything for him! SS and SIS can do it by themselves. The JV’s answer to that, “… just as you did it, you comprehensive incompetent, you …!” SIS always assisted OS infinitely more as he assisted her, under the JV agenda, than AJ ever, remotely, even raised any finger for himself … This was a, Teflon strength, weak and pathetic creature talking, precisely why he slipped so grievously in America’s foul and dysfunctional “value system” landscape, without being able to anywhere stand for himself or anything upright, honorable, truly worthwhile, …

America did not want to handle responsibility and play all the time, so AJ, predisposed, was bound to pick this up. Lap it all up! How vicious narcissism and licentious freedom came to make a cozy home in America! How texting personal pictures to the public and indeed the term “selfies” came to be coined only in these very United States of America of ours. It is also where “twerking” invented too, action and term side by side!

Americans talk tall about their, constitutionally guaranteed, freedoms, but too many know nothing about how to preserve them, not abuse them. Do not understand, how discipline, including respecting the freedom of others, needed to keep them working soundly. Young girls in NJ malls, carrying foul-mouths that would even make a sailor blush, may not know anything at all about American social and political studies content, but, chomping chewing gum and tossing their curls, will tell you about their First Amendment right(s) to pedal even smut profanity!?! AJ’s was the loose transformation in such a set-up, only because he has forever stayed a horribly weak and vulnerable creature all his life, contrary, indeed pursuant, to all the “hooliganism” anyway he exhibited alone! Hooliganism is no courage of manhood in any discriminating person’s dictionary!

Americans simply do not understand, in themselves too many, they sit atop a volcano capable of erupting and consuming them in the blink of an eye. For, as AJ destroyed the family within, too, many dysfunctional Americans ever poised to take America out, lock, stock and barrel! By its very roots! Nature had already served warning in 2008 to pay heed; so far it has not been taken at all, indeed densely ignored!

Upon “smuggling” himself back to America, AJ was discovered, by OS and SIS, sliding again into personal deviant and aberrant behavior. Dad, who had to leave a still unwell SS in the hands of strangers for a short while, summoned to America, more needless expenditure for the fast sinking OS/JV! OS and SIS dropped Dad outside AJ’s apartment on 114th Street and Broadway in NYC, with the plan to pick him up some two hours later.

Far from agreeing to go back to India with Dad, AJ did not even let Dad in. OS and SIS were to find him shivering on a bench, without a coat, those two hours later; since this was before the cell-phone era, Dad handicapped to call them in for picking him up earlier. … Thus, began the forward history of the family’s permanent schism with AJ; indeed he barricaded himself shut, in protection of his Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) studies.

Even without such barricading, the suffering family, taken for too long, bumpy and twisted a ride by AJ, had had enough. If only to be able to focus, as well as it could, on its JV responsibilities and agenda exclusively! Beyond AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) and of leaving the family finances in convulsive ruins, wrestling with him had already taken too much attention away in the past years. Besides, all of AJ’s muck and mire, misdeeds of terrible scale hardly healthy for anyone’s sane faculties, sanity.

Otherwise, such zealous protection of his unlawful pursuits, while thrusting and leaving the family, illegally, way out there in the cold … This has to be called the state of American manhood, for AJ in his given incarnation was baked, lawless and turpitude, silly in this country, these United States of America of ours. The problem with AJ of-course, even as he forever ran from responsibility, all adversity and indeed life itself, he ran the same way from any endeavor to cure himself too. Both frightened him, both too much because they demanded something from him, both failed to give full guarantees for impeccable success up ahead at the starting gate itself, … no scope anywhere in real life for such an elusive and twisted pretzel.

Needless to say SIS’s studies disaffected, as she was made to whirl crazy too within a home simply lurching and hurtling, for all the reason squarely at AJ’s door alone. OS himself to find himself out of his depths, also on account of the other. The debt situation horrendous, SIS still with another year to go in undergraduate school, he himself had been operating beyond full steam and flying all directions for close to a dozen years, … But for his mental and philosophical sturdiness, stamina, tenacity, acquired in India, he could never have lasted any fraction of this length of tumultuous time and eventful content.

In the next several years, OS all but choked on the mountains of JV debt on his head. If he did not choke dead, it was not because of not of summary choking quantum, but only because of his ever stoic attitude. Safely seeing SIS through her first degree, during which he invariably put in all-nighters with her every time, typing papers as she wrote them … With everything else, aplenty, swirling around, courtesy AJ’s dysfunctional existence. He was unable to send and have SIS finish Graduate School until a decade later, which not only compromised her professional life but took out her marriage interests too.

AJ graduated from Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), having the wherewithal to excel while trampling family underfoot only a mark of insanity and inhuman proportions. Joined the New York Law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore/“Cravath”! No great accomplishment at all for reasons of securing same atop the family’s suffering and immense damage arranged, but also because it was a house’s second storey built atop the first storey and more built for him by OS ahead. Even he was to acknowledge, ultimately, that even Law career devolved only to OS’s credit alone.

But first, in his state and tenor of forced justifications, for a long time he was to rationalize, as an empty, still only narcissistic and easy-going, assuaging of his conscience after-the-fact, he could have passed successfully through the tough jungle of his early years in America without OS and his hatchet cutting a clear path ahead for him. Without his procuring his green-card/US permanent Residency, made ever so and utterly facile for him by OS, he could not even have been able to begin contemplating Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6).

Far from returning, voluntarily and honorably, to his JV duties, giving assurances of his bonafides when he has had a highly colorful and checkered, indeed downright foul and unreliable, record from the past, his first order of business was to renew stalking/1, 2, 3 SIS again. This time on the phone from Cravath, SIS was still at Columbia University, AJ had her number from earlier on.

SIS handled this go around by inserting a friend as a shield between AJ and herself, whenever he called. But he was not to stop until SIS finally left Columbia. His reason for calling SIS, to break her away from OS and fracture the family! Dirty, stinking, pusillanimous rat, too harsh a verdict and too much to call him!?! Otherwise, it was an incorrigibly weak, by this late stage utterly contemptible, creature readily recognizable once more!

Around this time OS was to discover, quite by accident, the friend and colleague, CYT, also known to AJ, had, on designed sly, helped him financially to finish Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). This while knowing the family’s entire story, knowing it was trying to get AJ to quit Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), dealing with OS and SIS, having them baby-sit her mother-in-law when she and her husband were business traveling simultaneously, OS was her sole, forever dependable “buddy’ for frequently turning to whenever she was in trouble and the world never obliging to make itself available, …

This, another face of vicious Wall Street, bad behavior, habits. She had issues with her own family back in Singapore, to which she had frequently alluded over the years to OS. She had attended Wellesley and the Columbia Business School, before trucking herself to Wall Street. As a double minority, woman and Chinese, had been funded free through both degrees, yet ungratefully called Americans so stupid as to deserve having their money taken and then be called names. Otherwise, a flaming snob and incurably elitist!

Disappointed with her career advancement and bearing a deep grudge against her corporate employers, she bad mouthed all of corporate America while dichotomously being the most corporate la-di-da behaving. Putting on her corporate acts, pretense her high act constantly, she would often tongue-lash subordinate and other peons/minions at her firm, just to feel important, good. In the gambit go too far, get into roaring trouble, with those “little people” themselves taking her apart on-the-spot and/or HR later, separately. Then she might threaten HR, pivoting on her double-minority status. Otherwise, whenever in trouble, she would call around for comfort, especially on short notice, only OS responding each time, invariably. Yet, she mindlessly, tangibly, stabbed him in the back, playing her eternal and infernal games in life.

Hers was a law-unto-herself personality. Ticked with her family circumstances and also deeply frustrated at her blocked career prospects, she would on the one hand tell OS to jettison the family in favor of rabid personal focus alone and on the other to also get out of Wall Street, corporate America, post-haste, all together. The same with AJ too, he told OS, with the only difference that while OS “blew her off” out of hand and she knew OS to be a tough nut to crack on anything, AJ a much more destabilization prone commodity. Years of gratuitously pursuing AJ so, a definite contributory factor in stampeding him relatedly! Wanting to leave, look to Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) … The most egregious part of this all, she never quit and take off half-cock herself, to the detriment of her own family.

Not to know to refrain from interfering in another family’s business, fishing in foreign waters for fear of unknowingly doing damage!?! And, here she was perfectly noticed and advised of doing damage, to another’s family. What kind of America do we live in, for like AJ she too an over zealous and over-the-top convert? What do they really teach people at Wellesley and Columbia(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), one constrained to say? Hell in Asia, such messing around in another family’s affairs a summary “no-no” and faux pas, very severe trespass! CYT more than familiar with general Asian culture from Singapore’s palpable diversity, including the Indian from that very source too!

It is undisputed that she pursued and destabilized, AJ, long, hard and relentlessly, as stated, merely to discharge her own gun rested on his shoulder repeatedly. Not that AJ blameless. Moreover, she knew what she was doing wrong, because she was studiously clandestine helping AJ through Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). Her husband, Jerry Hillenbrand/“Jerry”, was to, in a manner, drag her to OS and SIS’s home, after OS had confronted her in writing, She was supposed to apologize, but never did. When OS relayed the entire story to Jerry, even as he started to, CYT got up to join SIS cooking in the kitchen.

Later upon leaving her dinner practically untouched, when she abruptly to go down and out of the apartment, OS looking out of the window spotted her crying hot tears with heaving body action. OS had known her for too many years not to know what same was all about. This was a very headstrong human being, thoroughly law-unto-self, the tears were tears of humiliation at getting caught, then confronted which she was bound to take as, unwarranted (sic), humiliation. Her whole enterprise in question reeking of elementary adult seriousness and sobriety cogently missing! CYT’s saga so covered in OS and SIS’s proposed book on the subject matter enclosed.

So this AJ, CYT, … and America, where they were manufactured or more accurately, they ripened to produce the kind of irresponsible conduct that is the, specific and general, premise of the story being told within.

OS plugged on for another few years under his great weight, chipping away at the huge mountain of the JV debt, now nearing the 16th year of being the family’s thoroughly abused mule. AJ too busy with his hedonistic, jet-set life-style, … pursuits, to even think of his JV duties lying unattended for nearing a decade. These pursuits were his misplaced therapy, apparent balm for his insecure, skittish, scared and fear ridden, … life journey. Opulent hotels and long stretch limousines, suspiciously like the playpens of the insanely self indulging Wall Street CEOs made known to the American public properly in 2008, a horribly weak man’s stick to, as if, beat even death away with.

Insouciance towards [legal] duty and family responsibility, as if shiny material things could really heal gnawing insecurity interminable and the reeling self that goes with it! Since he would not step forward himself, OS thrust the responsibility for funding India on AJ by the simple expedience of terminating his own dispatches and informing AJ of it. In no way OS’s way of doing things, especially pertaining to family care and upkeep, but under the circumstances, beleaguered without any breathing space as he was, this might as well have been an involuntary knee-jerk! Only some years later (see below/infra), he was to learn, not to his inconsiderable upbraiding of himself, what a horribly and unconscionably neglectful job AJ was to do with this sanctified assignment.

Around this time, things to finally start catching up with OS! From the inordinate stress fielded incessantly and unremittingly across 16 consecutive years, he was to begin experiencing mild hand tremors. To graduate and escalate to finding difficulty thinking, especially completing correlative thinking, all fairly mild too. Then noticed, also very mild, speech impediment instances coming on! … First backing away, purposefully, from succumbing to intense worrying, shortly thereafter he left Wall Street for full rest over some, short but still decent, time.

Authors within will not spend an inordinate amount of time over the family’s suit against AJ and CYT, brought to the bar around this time. It is covered more thoroughly in the proposed book. Suffice it to say, the NY trial court as culturally handicapped, impaired as all those and so, too many Americans who cannot grasp socialism as a concept properly. When Americans have not been able to come together, advancing Collective Responsibility and Shared Sacrifice, in five years past 2008 to rescue themselves, in terrible hot waters, how are they to be expected to easily cotton on to the sophisticated tenets of the family JV? Judges no exception, after all they are part of the American cultural milieu too, from the baby-boomer generation!

When the gravamen of the charges in the family’s complaint revolved and the centered around the JV, if it could not be understood then the complaint could not be understood. Most of all it could not be understood on direct cultural grounds, It would not be wrong to say and this is not meant as any vilification, but the American culture has, as yet, simply not evolved enough distance to appreciate all the subtle aspects of joint action(s) fully. This requires acceptance of, really and truly, any amount of sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) for a joint cause, subjugating the individual will and reward alike. It is a hurdle hard for the American mind to grapple with, much less overcome and accept.

No matter that it can intellectually grasp the concept of Collective Responsibility and Shared Sacrifice, the American psyche can still not fully relate to the actual act of sacrificing individual good for the combined one. With all its ramifications of accepting less individual rewards, so that everyone can have some reward. Why Americans have recently been having so much problem with the notion of the redistribution of wealth. Speak of socialism in such horrified terms, failing to grasp that between distilled socialism and vulture Capitalism lies balanced and equitable Capitalism, as capitalism still for the most part still, but made more humane and democratic by weaving in socialistic principles for good measure.

Very simply sibling were required to pool their resources, as reinvested returns, until married, After marriage they and their spouses would have the option to be stay in as is or be given a discrete charter describing specific contributions to be made upon calculations of equitable share responsibility suitably calculated. AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) were committed cogently banking on the American culture and courts not fully appreciating the JV’s great wisdom, verve and legal coherency, which he understood perfectly otherwise. As such, the NY courts in question did not show the courage to extend themselves to accept and incorporate something that may have been only trifle new in their experience, then too mostly in terms of having been actually transacted in some groundbreaking way in America.

American courts, obsessed as they are with Administrative rules, do not actually focus on the audacity to do justice in fact. Where most of the strategies of technical and coerced/intimidated dismissals come from, in American courts! An America which cannot balance socialism and capitalism woven together to come out with a democratic scheme of economics, at the height of a most problematic passage especially since 2008 has been playing partisanship gone wild, … is still too juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to be sufficiently evolved in any direction one may choose to examine it.

In the [NY] Appellate Court, OS acting Pro Se forced a special hearing, where unknown to his fledgling legal acumen to that point the court considering the family’s rights under the theory of quantum meruit. According, when the bench quizzed OS on how much he had spent under the JV to-date, instead of giving them a “number” he, for his inexperience, said “Everything!” Pro Se litigants are, no matter what, never treated seriously, at the other end also treated as fully qualified legal professions.

Despite holding the hearing predicated upon quantum meruit, signaling the underlying JV arrangement accepted as a legally enforceable instrument/agreement, in the subsequent adjudication revived the bat of the Statute of Frauds, when it was inoperable under Indian Law and otherwise part performed in America, Likewise, in confused or worse mishmash, excused CYT, when the family’s complaint/pleading clearly stated her torts committed down Wall Street in NY and thus her personal residency in NJ irrelevant, NY long-arm statutes still able to grab her without escape.

As for her “torts” not rising to the standard of “act[s] so outrageous as to exceed all bounds tolerated in a civilized society”, this was outright laughable! Otherwise, an acute American cultural failure, but not one abroad and outside America! A very sorry depiction, unpeeling the short outer limits of American justice too! American culture and American justice, alike, not presented in very flattering terms at all! At least, OS very nearly got his law degree chasing down this action at bar.

CYT was defended by attorney Jonathan Nelson/“JN” (1, 2, 3, 4), AJ’s classmate from Fletcher and obviously given her by him. JN was a super dandy, who spoke with an assumed English accent that broke down constantly to betray him, to the family’s assessment a hack and superficial fluff, who at the outset tried to intimidate the Pro Se OS in his papers, only to abandon same in a super-accelerated hurry when OS returned the favor with due and deserved muscle. OS, flying high, too had threatened the family attorney, from whom OS took over personally, with disbarment from Cravath.

At the sanction hearing against OS, he had in his inexperience had filed an amended complaint as a new complaint under a new docket et al. a very strident and combative CYT, put up by AJ to flatten the family cold so that it could not come after anyone, on the witness stand petered out in no time under/before OS’s cross-examination. JN tried to get uppity with Judge Crane, only to fall back promptly as a punctured balloon when the Judge asked if he would like to ascend the witness stand in lieu of yelling at the bench from the floor. At the [NY] Appellate Court hearing too, JN, upon instructions from AJ in the UK was initially groveling before OS outside the courtroom, offering a settlement which OS could simply not accept. At the sanction hearing, these people were looking for a mammoth amount to be lowered on OS (and the family), getting only a token $300 alone.

Around the middle of the 1990s, at an old phone number at OS and SIS’s home that AJ had from back when, now coupled to a fax machine, they abruptly received a highly disturbing fax from AJ. Re-doubly disturbing for the way worded: “If you want to see Dad alive, call me in India at ____________. Ajay”

Upon calling and speaking to AJ in New Delhi, OS and SIS were to learn that Dad was in a coma. Apparently, he had been suffering from prostate cancer, had never divulged same to OS and SIS. While OS was preoccupied with the financial mess left behind by AJ and the latter in charge of managing the India household, OS spoke very sparingly to Dad, though he saw him briefly on his relatively short regular visits to America in connection with the requirements surrounding his green-card/US Permanent Residency. Otherwise, Dad aware of the fine mess OS had been unfairly left in and alive to his phenomenal headaches as a consequence, deliberately hid his condition from OS (and SIS)!

As OS was to learn soon enough, AJ neglected Dad and SS viciously. He would even go and see them sometimes, from London (UK), but only when he needed his own emotional sustenance from them. Otherwise, he severely underfunded them, left them in pig-sty conditions in their home in New Delhi (seen with his own eyes on visits, but callously ignored: locating himself during such visits at Delhi’s ritziest hotels) as a consequence, never took any interest in Dad’s illness that he had all along known about, … AJ very definitely, by design, a callous and uncaring monster to others, focused only on himself and his self indulgence as a way to fill whatever life void made him the insecure and empty vessel acute and extraordinaire he has always stayed.

Dad got no proper treatment in Delhi, again because AJ underfunded. To expect AJ to take Dad to UK (or the US) for such competent treatment, to ask for the moon from a very sick one! So, Dad’s illness progressing, effectively getting no treatment, seriously impaired his health. The enlarging prostate pushing against/crowding the bladder caused his urine to back into his kidneys, sheer criminal neglect headed by AJ. All this allowed while AJ sunk in his jet-set style in the UK. The resulting urea poisoning in his bloodstream sending him into a coma overnight a day or so earlier!

Providentially, AJ had happened to call just that morning, to be told by SS Dad still sleeping, When he called again, New Delhi time in the afternoon, to be told Dad was still asleep, he had SS raise an alarm summoning neighbors and Dad forthwith removed to the hospital in the nick of time. SS, himself unwell, somehow as a result missed the cue on his own, when Dad sleeping away through half of that day. AJ, at the other end, now dashed to New Delhi \, on the relatively short hop, from UK. Soon enough the fax went out to OS and SIS.

OS being OS, he was very nearly in New Delhi even before AJ had put the phone down at his end after speaking to OS from America. OS was not AJ, the world’s sorriest and most outrageous criminal. Arriving in the Indian Capital in the middle of the night, he headed for his friend’s place located on the other side of town from Dad’s residence and nearby hospital. As such, it was nearly noon, the earliest he could reach the hospital, fighting off the morning office crowd across the considerable distance involved from his friend’s place.

AJ was to meet him right at the top of the stairs on Dad’s floor, strangely belligerent to the ceiling right off and strenuously demanding where OS was all morning. Though perplexed at AJ’s behavior, OS inquiring whether AJ was looking to be forthwith tossed down the stairs, circled around him, without saying anymore, headed for Dad’s room/Dad.

It was to occur to him later that this was AJ’s cult cultivated assertive thing/ He knew perfectly of his vicious neglect of Dad, was running scared of being blamed and called to the mat over it, particularly Dad ending up in a coma, by OS. So, top of the stairs mixing it up with OS his way of preemptively wresting initiative to intimidate before OS himself pounced on him for his unspeakable excesses. Minutes after OS arrived in Dad’s room, AJ was to inform the former of needing to head back to London right away, since he had left on short notice!

So he left, feverishly promising to be back in a day or two, after settling and handing over things at his office/ OS knew he would not be returning and he did not. It was a dump, as always a dump in OS’s lap. Otherwise, all concerned knew he was also running away because he did not want to have his head taken apart by OS, once the latter had a chance to do so. The hulking and despicable coward, criminal too!

Inside in Dad’s room OS was to find a suffering and writhing skeleton. Woe is the day when thankless children born! A hex on the head of such ungrateful children who would torture their parents! AJ’s neglect had done some number on poor Dad, not to go unpunished in the heavens. Shame on such weakness and cowardice, indeed very life, as would obstruct the advent of courage consequent to the suffering of any human being, much less family. Parent, who bore, raised and made us all that we are? Where indeed will AJ go to pay in the end, one shudders to even think!?!

The urine backup into the kidneys though cleared out, it had left irritating urea crystals inside. Causing him great pain, as they say kidney pain one of the worst! His doctors did not want to administer morphine, to suppress the pain. too frequently, lest Dad developed dangerous immunity to the drug/medicine! So, OS had to watch a literal skeleton writhe in pain for most of the next two-three days. AH, living it up in London, allowing Dad to be reduced in rampant neglect to bare bones, to be judged as a “war crimes” equivalent outrage by special tribunal in the heavens.

Visiting Dad’s home was to witness a veritable hovel! OS had imposed privation on himself, but never allowed any family member of his to want for money or his full attention for that matter. When he had first started working and was making very little money, before he stepped up to his hustling to start making good money even in excess of what he was to earn going career-track, half of his money went to the India household each month. Here was AJ making oodles, dodging his legal duties to elude paying for the JV expenditures and mounted debt, he could not take care of Dad and SS’s needs, converted from US dollars to Indian Rupees amounting to nearly nothing, adequately. His intentions bad, reserving special punishment for him up high above!

There was a little time’s consideration whether Dad should have his surgery in America or in India, after same was settled in favor of the latter, it was quickly completed. Leaving Dad in a whopping state of incontinence! OS had to be in India for long stretches and the number of times he had to fly in from America to so stay not even funny. No substitute for personal attention when needed by family, any other human being. OS was not the scum AJ, the abiding coward and self-server!

There was high expenditure for OS to bear in India so. After his own “mini” health scare related hiatus, he had gone back to work, on a high galloping career trajectory. But, all the JV debts, still not gone, totally! Dad had to be kept in a high priced convalescent facility for an extended period of time. Partly for delicate care, the rest because his home being renovated!

OS had the inside of Dad’s home gutted and refitted anew. Everything new put in, refrigerator, TV, air conditioners, drapes, custom made furniture, … a car for the household besides too. Dad already had a dedicated maid-servant, to cook and clean for him/the household. No effort spared to arrange comprehensive comfort for Dad.

A “funny” thing happened while he was still in his nursing home. One very early morning, when OS with the help of the maid was getting ready to take Dad’s breakfast to his nearby location, Dad called urgently demanding where OS was. OS assuring he was on his way, reminded him that the doors of the nursing home would not open to visitors in the AM for another hour or so. When OS finally arrived, seeing him Dad promptly broke into heaving sobs, not ever easy to see one’s father, especially, crying.

As OS dashed up to him, fearing he had some bad medical news, he found him muttering something to the effect OS was the only real son he had. OS could not help cracking a smile. The long and short, apparently AJ had connived a will from Dad leaving his estate to AJ and SS only, cutting out OS and SIS all together. Dad now wanting to change it, including OS! OS told him no big deal, he did not really want anything from him.

AJ, the rat and snake who slithered, was now forever busy setting family members against each other in the abundance of his pusillanimous character, where OS had always set the pace for strong caring and sharing within the family. Unable to ever find any courage in his legs and oomph to reform, he would instead compare SIS to an aunt, who in setting one brother of hers against another was in fact more like AJ, the conspiracy monger, himself, than anyone else.

When Dad persisted, wanting to include OS in his will, the latter calming him down assured he would arrange it. Then, while Dad was only talking his three sons, OS asked him about SIS!?! Dad, this bastion of liberal thinking and one who had always held loudly his only daughter would be educated as well, if not better than his sons, then to be found telling OS that SIS was to get married for relocating to another family, she did not need to be included and left anything …???????? OS was not to have none of that and stated not wanting to be part of any such arrangement, in fact at his urging Dad was to leave 75% to SIS and only 25% to be split three-ways between the boys. Two nursing home staff taken as witnesses and Dad had his new will sometime later that same day, his hurry not OS’s!

Since Dad had to convalesce, post surgery, for a few months, he could not be removed to America immediately. He was transferred to his own residence, from the nursing home, to await fitness developed to travel overseas.

Providentially, SS’s green-card/US Permanent Residency, simultaneously SIS’s in America, in the offing, Dad would never have traveled leaving SS alone in India again. Dad had received his own green-card/US Permanent Residency some years earlier, upon OS’s sponsorship as an American citizen. He had, in turn, sponsored SS and SIS, OS never missing any beat had also sponsored them directly himself for the longer wait, in abundant precaution. A new immigration law coming out soon after was to delay SS and SIS getting their residency until then by a few years. Had same not have happened, Dad would have been in America permanently with OS earlier and his massive neglect at AJ’s hands shortened. His illness caught and treated earlier …without the mishap AJ allowed! Such the travails and hoops jumping for immigrants to endure!

Dad had received his green-card/US Permanent Residency the same year AJ graduated from Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). During his associated trip to America, as ever funded by OS as also all the sponsorship expenditures, OS and SIS, never wanting to come between a father and his son, urged Dad to visit AJ even though he was not keen. OS and SIS dropped Dad off with AJ in NYC for half-a-day’s visit, but AJ to forcibly keep him for several, disaffecting other business Dad had to transact and complete before returning to India. AJ’s graduation ceremony those number of days away, Dad, who too deadly opposed to AJ’s Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), coerced to attend. AJ’s cult based aggression and general disorderliness at work, the rest contemporary American general licentious bearing.

Waiting for Dad to get stronger, OS was to make a single day’s flying visit to New Delhi from America, merely to personally accompany SS to the American consulate for his green-card/US Permanent Residency related interview there. Dad would not leave until SS’s Residency so was “in the bag”, plus OS wanted to be thorough for SS’s sake directly too. OS’s thoroughness in sharp contrast to AJ’s slippery record of either abdicating his responsibilities or at best “shadow-boxing” with them, attempting them in a manner set from the very outset to fail. In this manner, repeatedly, assuage his conscience and feel good, but in the end never having to actually carry those responsibilities. The “I tried, but matters just did not pan through” showcase syndrome!

In this manner, AJ volunteered to convey Dad, when ready, to America, paying for his passage too. In his frail condition, to break his journey in UK to recuperate, before taking on the trans-Atlantic as a rested second leg! Assuredly, AJ had eons of guilt carried over cheating and abandoning the family fitfully, not the least of which latest! Of rolling the dice neglecting Dad’s health, while chasing his hedonistic portfolio compulsively.

Meanwhile, Dad’s convalescence took a detour, on account of his surgery and the precise ailment, he began retaining water in his legs! They were to painfully balloon up, relegating him even to a wheelchair. India is a hard country to live in, until then with all the slow developments occurring. Dad now needing to be brought over forthwith! OS and SIS waiting on AJ to get going with it! AJ stringing the process along from every other day to another!

Until, they realized AJ was in a blackmail mode! Not satisfied with wrecking the family, this would not be the first time he would attempt to use his financial wellbeing and the family’s struggling one to pivot, coerce his way back, unrepentant and unreformed, into it. How far did this nefarious/1 have, want to fall, even stoop to deploying Dad’s illness and precarious condition as crowbar to find his way back into a family he savagely violated and sent up in smoke?

Among other forced justifications for Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) (see above/supra), he had also argued wanting to see life with his own eyes, mere code for diving into his hedonistic cesspool, banishing all honor, Rule of Law/1-2 (3-4-5-6 7, 8-9-10-11,-12-13-14-15) everything good and sanctified in life, in fact family itself. He had also pleaded seeing what happened to OS in the service of the family and not wanting to go the “same way”, glossing over “what happened to OS” precisely because he himself was so inept and such an abiding craven creature, requiring OS to tale in the entire slack, left unattended by AJ, all to himself. Spineless and gutless! Even then, still not to make an honorable and courageously repentant, restituting, … return, but only on the horns of more dysfunction, insanity, nonsense .bedecking his blackmail missile assembly.

He had done so numerously before, articulating his blackmails openly. As in telling SIS he would not help her fund education as long as she was with OS, the latter would use it for something frivolous and other. When OS gave everything he ever earned only to the family, depriving himself to the point of privation, always prioritizing the education of the siblings at the very head, … so AJ speaking with a forked tongue on the face. This time he did not articulate it, but Dad’s departure inexplicable held up stretched in pregnant circumstances, spoke louder than even all the Sounds of Silence/1, 2, 3 to be ever found!

AJ indeed banked on OS and SIS being utterly bankrupt, so that he could wield and grind his, sordid and low-browed axe, weaseling his way back into the family on his own one way tilted terms. Others did not want him back, if only to keep their working sanity, for AJ was bound to helplessly bring back all his unwanted baggage sapping the family dry running from within again.

Once OS and SIS had made up their mind what AJ was decidedly up to, they were to act with prompt dispatch. AJ was still, very reluctantly, asked, if he remained willing to give Dad his much needed stopover in London, but they already knew what his response would be. He made some inane noises about his place not being suitable, even though earlier he was the one to give the idea, something about his bathroom not being on the same floor … OS and SIS had long since stopped listening. Scum after-all, sorry to say, can only remain, incorrigible and inveterate, scum!

OS alerted some friends in New Delhi to get Dad ready, he was coming. As an invariable honest broker and doer, he was in the Indian Capital two days later, scooped Dad up and was forthwith back home in NJ the third day. On the way, a 17 year old young steward all on his own offered to be Dad’s caretaker, something AJ would not do for his father. Dad’s incontinence was horrendous but horrendous, but this young lad ministered to him with uncanny love, devotion, care, … all the way to America, in a single unbroken passage. Dad’s seat-cushion had to be disposed off, it was so badly stained!

Handed to the care of the young Dr. Cannon in NJ, a regimen of diuretic treatment, a fortnight later Dad was out of his wheelchair and negotiating quite robustly all on its own. Though with the help of a cane, but that was a concession to his four score but two years really!

SS was to follow a little while later, air ticket expenditures coming out of OS’s ears. So ended, OS’s mighty and punishing, around two decade long, odyssey, single-handedly conveying all his family to America! If OS did not do something, it never got done. If OS did something, it always got done! Except, if a worthless and useless interloper such as AJ injected his narcissism to spoil the broth! Despite experiencing the just above mentioned curtain-fall, this story to go on, still and below! To be no less compelling than before! Merely on the fulcrum of a single, major, villain, the one guess AJ.

(VII) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 5: Through AJ’s First abduction of SS

Dad was to have a simply marvelous, marvelous summer. SS too, years of physical illness intense had left even his mental faculties badly pounded and quite frail. SIS, also receiving her green-card/US Permanent Residency, directly through Dad’s sponsorship and indirectly through OS’s, finally entered, with the said delay, Graduate School in the Ivy League. OS quit his job, to work for himself from home, Dad needed great amount of care OS simply did not wish to delegate to any outsider. Figuring, once Dad was stronger, SS too and settled in, he would return to Wall Street.

There was eating out and trips around the American east-coast corridor for both Dad and SS. They needed to heal in both body and mind, AJ’s upkeep of them so horrendously callous and neglectful, as to summon the Gods! Very angry Gods, not to be any exaggeration! American upper echelons, business and GOP, being indifferent towards the 99%, thrusting and delivering them into the ugly embrace of unprecedented inequality, poverty, one thing, but to do same thing like that to family, made of debauchery, degeneracy in a special league all by itself. One day punishable in the most drastic fashion imaginable.

Both Dad and SS spent long lazy afternoons under the summer sun in the local parks. But it was mainly OS’s reassuring and solicitous presence, in contrast to AJ’s callous, absent, neglectful, demanding rather than giving one, which made the most difference. OS’s office was right next to Dad’s bedroom, he spent day with Dad, working only evenings and late into the night! SS also had his own bedroom, while OS and SIS bunked on the carpet in the living room at night, their sleeping area connected to Dad’s room by a baby monitoring device. From a sallow color, both Dad and SS rapidly converting to ruddy facial complexion of blossoming back health.

The sheer injustice and degradation of it all, AJ’s mistreatment of his own people! What else left of life then? How did, does he do it? How does what is going on in America, in terms of callous indifference to poverty and suffering in fact arranged for so many, happen? It must be some wretched sickness, possessing AJ and sweeping over present day America too! To be stripped clean of heart and soul, all humanity, sense of social equity, how indeed does such a thing happen? Sinking, allowed to happen by humans, in themselves? How do they permit themselves to become unspeakable monsters?

Psychopathy/1, 2, 3, 4 the obvious reflected answer, but still does not explain the H-O-W? Not even the professionals can explain it, how Bernie Madoff came about!?! How the rest of that crazy American cadre? And now the “eminent” AJ!?! … So, we are left with a technical definition, but not much else! … Left with an over-heated America slipping off-the-deep-end! With its tongue hanging out (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10)!

Towards the end of that year, Dad’s health problems returned, mainly in the form of a re-blocked urinary tract. He had to enter the hospital, possibly for surgery. The only saving grace, barring the kidney pain from the backup into it due to AJ’s callous neglect, he was never in any pain, ever. But, he suffered!

Since, Dad had been, effectively, labeled “terminal”, OS, SIS and SS felt AJ be informed and invited to come and see his father. Personal exception and disgust apart, never to enter God’s domain if you like, once more not to come in-between father and son! Dad was not particularly keen to see AJ, in fact terribly ashamed of him even opposed. The other three overrode him, whatever that means!

So, AJ was called in the UK, in the process also given Dad’s hospital bedside number. Right after speaking to AJ, right after, the family had to call Dad, but to very inexplicably find his number “engaged”. Dad received calls from no one, knew no one who could be calling him. After repeated tries to get through and some good fifteen minutes later, when they finally got through, it was only AJ. They were all a trifle surprised that AJ would call like this, without waiting even any sizable seconds.

Dad was terribly annoyed for AJ had harangued him, mighty and solid. Asking him to break away from the rest of the family, … his old tricks and nasty deployed with SIS, to be used with SS ahead. Not to win people over by deeds, but by device, … this is what he had reduced himself to, permanently! Quite evidently, by ever mounting evidence, the man had lost himself. He was sick in his head, to get even worse ahead. …

When he came, he was accompanied by some girl/”SC”, off handedly and sketchily introducing her in terms of having met her at work or working with her or … or something along those lines. From her obsequious, even “mousy”, demeanor and bearing, the family could only assume she was his secretary, accompanying him for some business reasons. Presumably AJ having made his trip a business cum personal one, bracketed!

Later, when someone in the family, in talking to AJ in some family context actually, referred to SC as his secretary, AJ began to jump all around and getting nasty. Even then did not really explain who she was, then telling OS, who had just stepped-up to see what going on when AJ began getting bent out of shape …, to be very careful with her, she was given to being very sensitive and defensive about herself, her lack of any education or other qualifications, …! So, the mystery only deepened.

Shortly, thereafter, AJ presented her to Dad for his blessings, all in a very muted and mumbling manner. Even Dad was perplexed, left wondering what blessings being asked from him???????? Eventually, as it was to come out, this was a girl he was planning to marry, someone he had scrupulously hidden all this time, was now springing in the most gauche way possible, on a trip dedicated to Dad’s illness … Once again thinking only of himself, he was concerned Dad might pass without according his blessings … so spring her, with all the awkwardness displayed too, at that inappropriate juncture after hiding her in the closet. Sort of bamboozle and stampede Dad into giving his blessings so … but one does not live nearly four score years to be carried away in any such fashion! He was not to give his blessings!

After the two left for the day, Dad was hopping mad right there in the hospital. At what a, first rate, wimp and sissy AJ had really turned out to be. Could he not see this was an exploitive arrangement, AJ picking this girl, so utterly unqualified in her own right and below his, only so he could control her kept pinned to the floor, as in wrestling? A spontaneous insult to, all, womankind! Mankind first, as in questionable manhood manifested! Did AJ really think his father would even remotely associate with something as shabby? Is that all he understood about him? Is that all he had learnt from him? …

It was a first class rant and tirade all right. The man deeply offended, and disappointed, to his core, at the pathetic and contemptible defeatist, recreant, AJ had turned out to be. One who would even deign stooping to forge such a relationship, predicated upon utterly shabby and demeaning motives. AJ’s reasons personally repugnant to him. He was soundly shaken, hurt, humiliated, that a son of his had such low standards, no standards for himself. …

It was the Mansoor/Mansur syndrome, all over again! Why not, after all she was, somehow, related to ZH, as the family was to be enlightened by AJ himself at some point later? Reason why AJ was all tongue tied and floundering introducing SC to the family, he himself was ashamed of her, what he was contemplating forging and “AJ”, belying even his hooliganism laced, false, persona. This, as perhaps nothing before, indexed how truly timid, diffident and insipid he was in life. Finally explained why, despite liking her immensely, he had dropped that girl, from Cambridge and later Harvard Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), cold. …

Next morning was Dad’s surgery, the “illustrious” couple conspicuous by their absence. To be found later by the family, sightseeing and shopping in Manhattan through that evening, when they finally elected to turn up at the hospital. In a giddy holiday mood, unconcerned about Dad’s prognosis, … otherwise trying to pass themselves off as horses, when … The family just could not recognize AJ, be able to identify as one of its own. The attributes just not there, none! He was not recognizable even as a mule.

In the morning, the operation theater staff overlooked getting Dad’s written consent to surgery before they put him under. So, OS was asked to wait for the surgeon in pre-op, to see of he would under the circumstances accept OS’s signatures. The previous surgery ran over by a couple of hours, so OS had a long wait there in pre-op. Anything can go wrong in a hospital. Shopping in Manhattan just cannot be any priority for any concerned and sober family member with another going under the knife.

Dad basically in and out of the theater, no surgery performed, The disease metastasized too far, locally though, for surgery to do any good. Otherwise, he was too “old” and frail to be subject to chemotherapy. A permanent catheter installed for performance, otherwise the urinary tract blocked. … He could be taken home immediately, no reason why he could not live two-three years, up to five.

In the parking lot, as OS, SIS and SS were headed home with Dad, the two visiting from UK signed off with. Barely a few feet later OS stopped the car, consulted with SIS whether to let visit their home so that he could spend some more time with Dad for both their sakes … This was entirely with respect to God’s realm, where things get simply too big for [the social] “man” to tinker. OS and SIS did not want AJ in their home, still they went back to pick them up and take them home with them. Out of pure decency and of staying copiously clear of God’s business.

The two UK visitors stayed a couple of hours, but could not help themselves. Their dirty stuff, muck and mire! After they left, SS reported to OS and SIS, SC finding herself alone with him began urging his to break with OS-SIS and would he like to be AJ bound (whatever that meant, because by common knowledge AJ would never bunk them in his own home) …? AJ tutoring, SC, the henchman, executing with alacrity! …

It had been apparent to the family even short of this revelation and upon merely interacting with her cursorily, she had no proper upbringing worth speaking of. Hell, AJ had lost all relevance of what he had been taught, all his life, in the family; she seemed not to have been taught anything in hers, straight up. It was a skin crawling experience, even after she had left. They had left!

The mind merely goes back to AJ’s psychiatrist from a few years back, who had spoken to OS about the Ivy Leaguer et al.s, who, needlessly and gratuitously, only create problems for themselves and all around them. It is a sickness, of sorts, in people who have lost themselves to nothing more fundamental than the missing will to engage life, uphold any standards and B-E-H-A-V-E! All they know is to give into every easy whim and fancy of theirs, all over their lives! Live off others, then dump on them unceremoniously!

Use others as their emotional crutches for their outlandish existence, but available to no one in turn. Parasites! On individual people and society as a whole, alike! Mitt Romney needing to really take note of such, real and worthless, “takers”, especially when, since they abound in frightful numbers proportionately among the well-to-do! Awfully thin-skinned and juvenile (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) too, as Jamie Dimon’s whining (1, 2) would bear out. …

Before AJ left, in response to his inquiry, he was cogently told that while he could visit Dad, nu decent and dedicated advance appointment, when OS and/or SIS were present in their home, he was for all other purposes emphatically persona non grata for their home. In response to his follow-up inquiry as to when again, OS and SIS told him in a month’s time, since they were headed out on an overseas trip. OS and SIS were to regret telling AJ this, fact they were going away on a trip, for it was to spawn mischief from AJ to cost them dear, Dad’s life.

While on the New Delhi/India leg of his trip with SIS, OS was strangely contacted, where he was staying, by an uncle living in town, when no one in the extended family knew yet he and SIS visiting! It was to be found out later, this was initiated by AJ making sure OS and SIS still safely abroad. So he could make what he hoped to be a clandestine visit to see Dad and SS, without OS and SIS present. Of course in order to incite the former to break with the latter, his old misplaced agenda incorrigible.

While leaving OS and SIS had made elaborate arrangements, particularly for Dad’s comfort and safety. A nurse of course, but also local friends to visit Dad and SS regularly! One of these friends, calling OS and SIS abroad, to tell them when she went looking up she found AJ inside the house visiting with Dad and SS. Upon their return home OS and SIS to learn from SS that AJ had threatened him with litigation if he did not open the door to him. SS, skittish because of his life problems and otherwise not versed in the law, allowed himself to get intimidated and opened the front door to him.

Separately, OS was to ask AJ, when he came attending Dad’s funeral, why he had made his, meant to be, clandestine visit, when he had been cogently noticed he was not to ever be in OS and SIS’s home without them being present. His answer, since Dad and SS lived there, they had a right to invite him (which was anyway not the case) in! When OS told him same was a specious argument, for Dad and SS were guests who paid no rent; AJ had been noticed by OS and SIS directly not to be there. At best a tenuous argument, did AJ come with some kind of an overriding court order, he then shut up like a clam.

It was part of AJ’s flaunted false macho, a/k/a hooliganism, to wield his legal credentials related, to intimidate and mislead. In other words, wield his legal license as ready-made instrument for licentious purposes. So acutely conscious was he of his insecure and diffident real self, as such so bent to dispelling it with what he tried to pass off as his courage and assertiveness, but was only empty “hooliganism”, he just did not know how to stop himself relatedly.

Even though, over and over again, OS told and showed him he could not put one over him. Not even with respect to the law. OS had a deep and innate sense of the law, even without a law degree, AJ no matter from an Ivy League Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) (including a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar at Columbia), could run circles around the other. Warned AJ often enough not to cross the 11th Commandment, of not ever b***s******* thy father! Trying to be smarter than your father!

Getting back to the sequentially told story, OS and SIS spoke to Dad on his, 79th, birthday from abroad. A few days later headed home, since traveling west, arrived in America on the same date as they had left overseas. They called home from Newark airport, speaking to SS told him they would be home in fifteen. SS met their cab at curbside, in bare feet despite snow on the ground. To tell them Dad was in some kind of crisis upstairs.

OS dashed up, to find Dad in his armchair, with his head thrown back and his eyes rolled back into it. He picked Dad and put him in his bed, while SIS called Dr. Cannon. The doctor divining Dad may be dehydrated, advised feeding him some water. But, when OS gave water so, with a spoon, it all drooled out of the corner of his mouth on account of his ever so slightly tilted head, over the side of his chin and onto his shirt. Administering the second spoonful OS simultaneously yelled for Dad to swallow, he struggled but swallowed. A few more spoonfuls and decreasing response, even though OS continued to shout to Dad in accompaniment! He was sleeping by then, breathing shallowly it seemed.

A second call to the doctor, Dad ordered to be taken to the hospital. In the ambulance he slipped into fuller coma, as the attendants put it. At the hospital he went into the emergency ward and spent the night there. Dr. Cannon came and looked him up. OS, SIS and SS maintaining the all night vigil outside that emergency facility!

Next morning Dad was to be moved to the intensive care unit/“ICU” and life support. Towards the afternoon he passed away, with OS just making it to his room after he had been summoned to it. As he walked in he was told Dad going fast, upon entering the room as he looked at the monitor the line went flat in front of his eyes. He patted Dad’s, rubbery, inert cheeks, recalling he had left without speaking to anyone in the end.

When OS and SIS returned home, they were to find OS’s home office rifled, turned upside down and so utterly vandalized; AJ’s doing. He burglarized liberally from the rest of the homestead too, beyond OS’s papers stolen. This was to be his third so, the second one earlier prevented by SIS returning home before he could abscond and stopping him from leaving with his “loot” so to speak. The first one, of-course, soon after he had been ejected and had just started Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), discussed above/supra.

Not only something very wrong with AJ, but an integral part of so much wrong with America, out there, as a whole. America just does not know how to be serious anymore, in too, too many quarters by now. Its permissiveness its bane, to be its death in the end! AJ’s inability to stop his hurtling self, a rooted part of America’s own lack of knowhow with respect to how to apply its brakes, So burgeoning insanity flourishes and gets worse, AJ should have known better having grown up in India, where the very first life teaching, restraint, only restraint and even more restraint. Giving “green light” everywhere a “red light” in order, a sure fire recipe for only going “poof”!

AJ invited to the funeral. Dr. Cannon paid rare homage by attending, a strange friendship had formed between this relatively young man and Dad, a highly reserved and old British style “stiff upper lip” type of commodity. Dad was a right down good, though sometimes weak, man, who did not deserve some, at leady one, of his children. The highlight of the event, a protrusion/bump, brought out by the chemicals used to “prepare” him, noticed, on one of his temples.

It served to “explain” the coma he inexplicable slipped into. OS and SIS only know it had something to do with AJ’s endeavored clandestine and forced visits with Dad, and SS. Something else AJ did on these visits, to be spoken of in sequence below/infra, to shed partial light on this matter, but they were never to really find out how/what from Dad died ever so abruptly. Only their suspicions linger on, even so many years later. And, their lasting, comprehensive and justified, disgust of AJ, naturally.

One of Dad’s brothers was, contrastingly, to send a condolence letter to OS, worthy of enshrining in some way for all to see and read. OS went alone to India to complete Dad’s final rites on the banks of the river Ganges, on the way with good omen encountering, at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, KLM planes dubbed “Ganges” and “Vision of Asia”. In the holy city of Haridwar, in two minutes received the names of eight of his sequential ancestors, on his father’s side, from the family’s ancestry book (as done for all other Indian families too) maintained there, on the banks of the Ganges. Recorded the names of Dad’s three sons, but SIS’s name, meant to be recorded with the family she gets married into, not to be taken in here.

Back in America, SS to have his massive breakdown! It was not merely losing a parent 1, 2, 3, 4, (1, 2, 3, 4) but he had been with Dad the longest, during his recent illness had gone through a whole lot with only Dad by his side for the most part. The long illness having already impacted both his physical and mental health, while AJ “fiddled” and neglected the Indian household viciously those long years, Dad’s passing was a blow registered on already “softened” and vulnerable faculties.

For his treatment he started attending, on a daycare basis, what was then called the Englewood Mental Health Center/“ECMC” later “evolving” into the Vantage Health System/“Vantage”, at 93 West Palisade Avenue, Englewood, NJ 07631, with quite scuzzy looking quarters along the main throughway of Englewood, NJ’s main market place. His tumble so mean the end of OS’s plans to go back working on Wall Street, he continued to work for himself from home.

The family had just bought their own home nearby, just before OS and SIS left on their overseas trip. A two family, single level, house, expressly for Dad’s benefit! So he could access his own private garden, without having to negotiate any staircases. … He was never to move into it, passing unexpectedly for whatever reason he did.

ECMC/Vantage was, then, run by this stentorian woman, Darlene Felgner/“DF”, who the family’s experience was to find to be a highly questionable, even corrupt entity! SS was treated by one Dr. Boyajian/“Dr. B”, originally from Armenia, who practiced medicine aided by a healthy dose of good old common sense, reserve and restraint! Unlike the kind of highly aggressive, charging, cookie-cutter styled, tests and drugs filled, no chance given for the body to heal on its own alongside, … kind of medicine practiced in too many quarters in America.

Dr. B prescribed Risperdal as medication for SS, but even more importantly ordered a parallel, imperative regimen of one-on-one therapy with him. For good measure even included family in the therapy sessions. Good and the latest psychiatry insisting on medication invariably coupled with individual, reinforced therapy, plus also the involvement of family necessarily as well. Both OS and SIS would sit in on SS’s therapy sessions very often; OS more regularly, since SIS had school to attend.

SS’s counselors were something else, indifferent and lax. Either because of personal nature or had too many charges to handle. There were other difficulties, which had more to do with the idiotic way that American runs along so many channels. SS would sneak out to smoke cigarettes, clearly not conducive to his clinical health and treatment. OS and SIS would ask the counselors to keep an eye on to stop him, but they would quote SS’s First Amendment Rights back to the family.

Especially, where nicotine clearly interfered with and undermined his clinical treatment, related health and ability to get well, quoting the bar of SS’s constitutional rights to the family an obvious attempt to evade duty accommodating personal convenience. There seemed to be too many patients being handled by each counselor, it seem to the family.

Further, too much co-mingling of patients with different levels of illness and disability, for proper individual attention and therapy to be possible in the charge of present counselors. But most of all were all these rules, including laws, not very sensibly conceived in the first place and then in application further not very sensibly applied. Too, too often such application used to either evade duty or to protect/provide cover for the institution. Rather than serve the best and optimal interests of the patients. Speaking to the counselors, including DF and other administrative staff, but excluding Dr. Boyajian!

However, despite all these troubling factors present, SS’s family, as elaborately reasonable people, held their peace at all times. So as not to create any undue ripples, as long as SS was, on the whole, receiving acceptable treatment! After all, this was the local community facility, usually handicapped by less than fully available and supplied resources. OS and SIS prepared to wait and, continue making their assessment of Vantage over some decent time.

One day, the “family” called in by SS’s counselor, one Maryam Khansari/“MK”. As is the custom in the health industry, indeed any institutional inquisition, there were two people present on Vantage to meet with OS and SIS. Coming right out of left field, OS and SIS were cross-examined about abusing SS at home. They answered the questions put them reasonably, but were also outraged at the topical stage. When they queried the counselors as to what had occasioned that day’s platform, the two on the other side only demurred. Hiding behind the old standby, they could not disclose on account of SS’s privacy rights.

OS in particular no novice at all that goes on out there in society, He was well aware of the patient (elderly, mentally handicapped, … other vulnerable(s) and dependant on others) abuse that goes on various kind of assisted care facilities all the time. Of overzealous, vigilante variety, driven and passionately over-the-top do-gooder types, … pernicious healthcare people, who in one way or another get-off or because they are straight corrupt thrive on eliminating families, separating family and family member-patients for all kinds of nefarious ends.

He was alive to patient’s privacy rights routinely used to protect institutions themselves through stonewalling any kind of outside look in, inquiry, … while in fact, actually, outraging patient’s rights, persona, … whatever else of theirs they can lay their hands on. Even of judges and courts involved in related abuse, corruption, … without heart, caution, care to judicial ethics. … In the book authors compiling, enough examples, of each of these scenarios, given, highlighted

So, coming home from that very troubling meeting, OS warned SS to be careful and scrupulously on guard! Always! Come home and scrupulously tell the family everything that happened with him at Vantage any given day. Most of all if anything serious happens on Vantage’s premises, to call OS/SIS immediately and consult! If anyone tried to take him anywhere, refuse to go until he had given himself the chance, without fail, to call and speak to OS (or SIS) F-I-R-S-T.

America did not arrive at its current state, of super charged and exploding, corruption overnight. It has been building towards it for a long time now, thirty years at least. First, the human or citizen character corrupted in too, too many numbers. Then business, politics, sports, … every facet of national life, … including human and health care also sent tumbling into a cesspool expanse.

One particular day, soon after, OS was sitting working at his desk in office at home, when he receives a phone call. It is the “eminent” DF at the other end. Tells SS has been taken to the hospital. OS at first thinks SS hurt. When he asks what injury sustained by SS, she just does not answer. When he asks what hospital, she says Bergen Pines (now Bergen Regional Medical Center/“BRMC”), located at 230 East Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652, (201-967-4000), the known local abomination and outrage. Where people died, committed suicide!

When OS asks DF why SS taken to BRMC (1), out comes the old song and dance about being constrained by SS’s privacy rights from saying any more, then her abrupt and unilateral ring off! As soon as OS had heard “privacy rights” and witnessed ducking behind it, he knew some big hanky-panky afoot. Otherwise, not only was DF overbearing and curt, unmannerly and bullying, pushy and taunting, gross and crass, … on the phone, but also with an unmistakable hint of positively enjoying herself solid.

As the family was to get to know her even better ahead, this one unmistakably to be found a downright combustible, malevolent, rabid, corrupt, disorderly, egotistical, charged, relentless, spiteful, vengeful, … woman, who did not shrink from zealously applying all the abundance of this rich negative vein to her holier-than -thou escapades either. One of so, too many people the family was to find manning healthcare positions in Bergen County, NJ (1), who had no business being even remotely allowed anywhere near anything to do with taking care of people, particularly the vulnerable who by first definitions have to rely on others. Nasty, very nasty piece of work, this DF of Vantage! And the place, simply swimming with her ilk!

The family went to BRMC (1) with an attorney, Steven M. Greenberg. Even with an attorney in tow, BRMC’s (1) corruption and stonewalling obvious! These institutions forever well versed in the art and science of such, foul, tactics. We talk, in America, about “Iron Curtains” with respect to communist and autocratic regimes in other countries; we have enough such bulwarks and abominations here in America, with mushrooming corruption, itself! Family and Greenberg told SS was medically unfit to be disturbed, once again recognizable language designed to fetidly stall and obstruct.

The problem of course, milked by all crooks, people unable, at the very outset, to be able to easily afford attorney services! Then attorneys, concerned about malpractice, obliged to tip-toe around a great many issues. Greenberg having to tell the family unless SS could be reached to contact and “hire” him directly, not much he could do to represent SS, SS’s predicament. Precisely what BRMC (1) going for, blocking SS’s contact scrupulously from the outside world, just by itself indicative of piping mischief afoot. The healthcare industry, including the insurance business, teeming with corruption today!

The next morning when the family went to see SS, strategically without Greenberg, there was a notation at the front-desk itself not to let OS and SIS in. “SS did not want to see them!” (sic), as they were quoted and told. The plot thickens, BRMC’s (1) tactics betraying itself bare! For, there was no way SS would say that, N-E-V-E-R! Never, never!

Particularly to seeing OS, never! He trusted OS even more than Dad. OS, who had sacrificed/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6) for the family, the only one who done anything and everything for the family. In many senses he was closer to OS than his Dad, very close since the latter’s passing. AJ, now that would be different, He could not abide AJ, did not want to see him for the rest of his days. He had said so repeatedly, with particular bite, all the times. Just as he had repeatedly attested to his undying vote, if you like, for OS! Plus, SS was a solid and unshakable family man! BRMC (1) playing this tactic, of shutting the door in the family’s face so, could not have given itself away more evidently.

A fortnight went by, without OS and SIS being able to break through directly to SS. They just did not know how and where to contact SS personally. In that interim they wrote a strong letter to the BRMC (1) CEO, letters to their Congressman and Senators. No one to make any mistake, BRMC (1) and its ilk did such things routinely, too often. Call it vigilantism, call it over-zeal, call it outright corruption, … call it anything, such unlawful things happen and are done routinely across America.

At the end of that fortnight, the family by chance was to come in possession of a stray telephone number at BRMC (1), not knowing at all what it was or where it would ring. They dialed, someone picked up, they asked for SS and there he was talking to them. All by pure accident, all of a sudden! Providential!?!

They asked SS to call up Greenberg’s office and “hire” him as his attorney. The alacrity with which he did same, ready testimony he was never taken of his own free will. Indeed, handily abducted, as more information trickling out was to demonstrate unequivocally (see below/infra). BRMC (1) jarred loose by these developments, whatever was the effect of the family’s writing(s) to its CEO and their representatives in Washington D.C.

A meeting was scheduled for a few days later almost immediately. OS and SIS went to it with a panel of their witnesses, Greenberg did not even accompany them. BRMC (1) was represented by a panel of staff, including SS’s ward doctor, Dr. Lauren Laporta and his good-for-nothing social worker. Then present too, the two Vantage crooks, DF and MK. All this contact with Vantage and BRMC (1) to leave a single lasting impression on the family, not healthcare agencies at work but only rackets. Great, looming and ugly racket operations!

Dr. Laporta started the proceedings with some ponderous performance making, in demeanor and sounding alike. OS interrupted to quiz, where SS was, why he was not present!?! To be told he would be there “in due course”; OS refusing to let the meeting go on without SS produced first and promptly. So, SS let in!

Before anything could resume, SS voluntarily piping in without ado and on-the-spot, he wanted to forthwith go home. The entire, classic, crux to the related corruption, gag the patient somehow and by any means, then, against his/her will effectively, do what one pleases, pursuing ulterior agenda(s), to his/her detriment. Nothing more needed saying, the meeting was plumb over. SS wanted to go home.

Dr. Laporta could do no else but to order his summary release, while DF and MK, in front of everyone, vociferously vexing her armpits to keep SS per force at BRMC (1). Laporta could only wave them away, almost swatting, as if they maybe annoying flies buzzing. DF and MK were at best vigilante crooks, but crooks nonetheless. In the family’s estimation more crooks than the underlying reasons for acting corrupt or excessively or over-zealously … holier-than-thou, donning “do-gooder” garbs!

Capable of stooping to anything in their pursuit, after all the integrity of the pursuit process contaminated to matter too. Dangerous people to have in any care circumstance or position, too and much too many such predators lurking all over, through our healthcare corridors, facilities, duty rosters, … One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12¸13, 14/14, 15) depictions in ways a pale copy of what stalks out there in the present now!

So, over DF and MK’s continuing corruption, Dr. Laporta compelled to discharge SS. Stated he needed to have an exit interview, by himself, OS could have said “No”, had SS say “No”, … but let it go, so as to leave no procedure short-circuited and have it come back to bite SS in any, unforeseen or weird or crazy or … way later. It took some time, but OS and SIS took SS home with them that morning.

The first thing SS spoke to, on the way home itself, was about the incorrigibles pressurizing him even in the just concluded exit-interview not to go home. The rest of the, horrendous, story to come out between SS talking at length at home and his file(s), from both Vantage and BRMC (1), summoned very shortly after he returned home.

The whole sordid episode had been triggered, remotely from the UK by no other than AJ. Reads like a veritable crime novel. In the first place, during AJ’s intended clandestine visit with Dad and AJ, when OS and SIS were away abroad, he was to secure a term Power of Attorney each, favoring him, from both Dad and SS. He had Dad’s, who could not travel to NYC and no one came to him per SS, instrument notarized by JN, without Dad being there.

SS, he took to NYC on the pretext of treating him to lunch there, then called JN, who met them in the lobby of his Law Firm’s Park Avenue office building , ahead. Right there in the lobby, JN notarized SS’s instrument, after AJ had sternly asked SS to sign it, but without reading it. SS never got any lunch on that day. SS never mentioned any of these matters to OS and SIS, forgetting them in the process of Dad’s passing as soon as OS and SIS returned from abroad, until he was reminded upon being quizzed by OS and SIS. They had found copies of the two instruments in the SS’s file(s) received from Vantage and BRMC (1).

Otherwise, the family suspects and surmises that Dad was somehow injured resisting AJ’s attempts to get his signatures on the pre-prepared, term, Power of Attorneys he had brought with him for his and SS’s signatures. We will never know what actually happened, but this certainly makes a all points closed sense.

AJ had met Dr. Cannon at Dad’s funeral/ After Dad’s passing, OS and SIS had taken SS to the doctor after he had injured himself. During which visit Dr. Cannon had learnt from them of SS’s mental breakdown and where he was receiving treatment. AJ stalking/1, 2, 3 the family as ever, had called the doctor, who unthinkingly and inadvertently gave away SS’s Vantage location to AJ. OS and SIS received personal confirmation of same from Dr. Cannon, who apologized for so betraying SS’s privacy, to AJ.

Next, AJ contacted Vantage, falsely telling them SS was being abused at home by OS and SIS. Faxing the two Power Attorneys he held from UK, as proof of his right to figure in SS’s affairs. The likes of DF and MK dangerous not only because they were corrupt, but also on account of being rank stupid. When SS lived in NJ with OS and SIS, did it not occur to them how AJ, in far off UK, held SS’s attorney powers???????? Moreover, did no red-flags go off in their heads observing AJ acting in studious on-the-sly???????? The corruption of vigilantism and holier than thou aspects too powerful for them to resist, the only sensible conclusion left to make!

This is how they came to invite OS and SIS in to discuss the “abuse” issue. In the papers received from Vantage and BRMC (1), OS and SIS found not a shred of any physical evidence gathered by either institution so substantiating the alleged abuse. None, nada! Just proceeding blindly and recklessly on AJ’s averments, probably because he was an attorney! Their file(s) not even to show they had ever talked to SS himself, to even secure his corroboration. Otherwise, SS had to be the first complaining party in law.

DF and MK had stalked and pestered Dr. B for months and months, all unknown to OS and SIS contemporaneously, for signing off on removing SS from OS and SIS’s home. He refused strenuously for over the extended period of nine months, knowing OS and SIS personally and well from their close, inextricable, concerned and constant involvement in SS’s treatment.

Dr. B was to retire on a Friday in December of that year. On the following Monday, Vantage’s crooked DF and MK securing his successor’s signatures, abducted SS the same afternoon. SS had asked to call home to speak to OS, not only was he refused but misleadingly told Vantage had already spoken to him … Naked daylight abduction and irregularities, no “Iron Curtain” similar disappearances in America???????? Hardly better!?!

DF-MK and AJ had still not had enough, not yet satiated with their “mischief making” meal(s)! Sent Adult Protective Services/“APS” (Maria Aberasturi/“MA”)/ “APS-MA”, after the family, the palpably innocents OS and SIS.

When the APS-MA representative visited the family-SS at their home and asked for interviewing, further interviewing him by himself and off-the-premises, they could have declined but did not. Never did, in fact the representative to commend OS and SIS for their elaborate co-operation. Then, she was to share that her office had received the underlying call from AJ himself, quoting the DF-MK names together with their location at Vantage. She further stated being perplexed, in the call AJ had promised to follow-up with incontrovertible evidence in support of his-DF-MK’s combined complaint. She was more than perplexed in fact, for far from returning with the promised evidence, he simply disappeared into thin air! She had contacted/called on DF-MK, they had no such incontrovertible or any other kind of evidence, either!

Obviously, this story of broad daylight abduction, possible in good old and “squeal clean” America, far from over! A second installment and repeat, more vicious and dysfunctional, awaits us, as captured in the segment to follow immediately below/infra. Otherwise, even without the benefit of the story being told within, enough Americans already know, especially in the post-2008 era, what a sizzling cauldron of corruption America has catapulted itself into in our times. Some even saying, something very evil about it all! But, surely it is an America, at the very least very twisted, tainted, truculent, torrid, temperamental, testy, toxic, tumultuous, timorous, … For cowardice breeds corruption, only to have it birth even greater cowardice in turn! In that never ending spiral downwards, called searching one’s depths, all the way to discovering the buried cesspool!

(VIII) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 6: Through AJ’s (and NJ’s) Second abduction of SS

In the ensuing years, SS to attend a succession of daycare facilities! Their significance two-fold! In the first place, to revel the practice of turfing/“turfing” (To turf -verb: to find any excuse to refer a patient to a different department or team; 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). A term the family was introduced to by Dr. Xavier Amador, who has spoken often as to the very regular, routine and widespread practice of turfing mentally handicapped patients. In the second, to establish the family accused of abusing SS only when AJ in evidence, in tandem with Vantage and BRMC (1) in the past and again with BRMC (1) to come (see below/infra).

The upshot of the first point of significance above, OS and SIS to successively observe SS being uselessly turfed, from one institution to the next, in these next three-four years spoken of. As soon as reached any crisis, off he was palmed off to another institution. He complained bitterly about these places not just doing anything for him, nothing. This was the family’s independent observations and assessment too. No one really interested in getting him well, but just keep in the system, chugging along, as a revenue source. SS and the family not even sure their diagnosis, of schizophrenia, correct and well founded,

The old schema of having patients work in some productive capacity had been discarded, those “work farms” long since” closed. Sanjay’s illness had started with being allowed to go to work on a career, taken to America to finish his studies and bend to some productive pursuits. He had chaffed at the delay in same happening, thanks to AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5), narcissism and all the rest of the tumult further hoisted on the family.

SS first fretting intense, to send himself into physical illness, the length, intensity and tenor of which to take a severe toll of his mental faculties too! Leaving him vulnerable to his collapse upon Dad passing! He just wanted to get well enough to get on with the business of his life, not to be trapped as a guinea pig by the system looking to protect its income stream ad infinitum at his expense! There was no therapy in his treatment protocol anywhere, far from individual (and reinforced) not really any meaningful group either.

What he had were his caretakers merely checking boxes for their show of compliance, but supplying no real or cogent therapy. OS and SIS had no capacity to afford him, super expensive, private treatment, what he was getting was all the public ”dole” route was going to provide. In the end, his treatment deficiencies, year after year, themselves became his bogey. The family tried speaking to his caretakers about putting him to some productive work for healthy self-esteem and concurrent salutary effect, even on a volunteer basis, as the best therapy possible. But no one to listen, SS continued to be treated as a “lifer”, meant to be merely kept in the system interminably.

Not that anyone said anything like that, it was just apparent from SS’s daily regimen. Of doing little more than spending the day at his daycare(s) being fed, then returned home in the afternoon! Some vague and weak activities, if they were even formally held to be any therapy treatment. Talking to his staff and doctors produced nothing but circular talk, sooner or later to only result in turfing. In other words, year upon year SS sinking, out of sheer disappointment and the weight of piling years going waste getting heavier with passing time! The void within him, ever expanding, to grow bigger and still only bigger! But, nobody cared, no one had the time for individual attention and therapy afforded him. The system itself had become the major problem, in other words.

At the end of those three-and-a-half years or so, it all began cracking and headed for a crash, SS suddenly beginning to manifest strange behavior. Taking to compulsive eating, as if trying to fill some void! Starting slow, it picked up pace, he was then looking for food incessantly, all day long. Using sharp and dangerous instruments to go after cans of food, ingesting them raw! If he could lay his hands on alcohol, same gone to; without him showing any signs of intoxication, at all! Next came, shoplifting, food and always only food, on shopping trips with the family. Then, raiding the kitchen at his daycare, in between official meal times! Not far behind, shoplifting again, when he and other patients accompanied staff periodically, grocery shopping for their daycare. Bringing up the kicker in the rear, with, all, this chase given food and eating, he began losing weight on a rapid clip, drastically at the same time.

The family spoke to her caretakers and doctors, way early and at the very outset. When the symptoms first appeared! Typical bureaucratic lethargy and apathy, all to be had in response! Next corroboration SS was making raids on the daycare kitchen in between meals. Still further, corroboration he was shoplifting, food, while accompanying staff to the grocery store. … Nothing more! The family even suggested, early, temporary institutionalization. For it was going berserk managing him, staying ahead of all the ways he was endangering himself.

Ingesting huge quantities of alcohol, without showing any intoxication; so, the home “bar” put under lock and key. Using all kinds of jagged instruments, to open cans of food constantly; the home pantry also went under lock and key. Being quite restless and edgy, all the time! Insomnia! Shoplifting food! Continuing to shed weight at a troubling clip! … Nothing but feet shuffling from his caretakers! The standard, inane and imbecilic, refrain, cannot do anything until he actually hurts himself. Three very long months, from August to October of the year, to go by just so, spinning empty wheels.

The family, a very willing and caring family, besides itself! SIS had graduated, with her Masters in International Banking and Finance three years earlier and gone to work in Investment Banking. OS unable to work, as he did as it is from home, with the upheaval of SS’s illness first keeping him totally tied to home to receive him when he returned from daycare in the afternoon and later with the onset of his crisis.

SIS herself was forever having to quit work in NYC to rush home constantly, with this or that pertaining to SS. Eventually to quit to begin working with OS; now even with both working so, neither able to work properly in the face of SS’s burgeoning crisis. OS for years had been burnt at both ends, by AJ, first the frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) to upset the applecart and then all the other shenanigans, so he could not even work properly in order to tackle the mess precipitated by the toppled applecart. Now SIS thrust, sucked into … the same intractable situation, as the domino effect gathered pace to overtake, overwhelm the family all together. The special, first generation immigrant status of the family, never to help this situation!

Three months gone, one day on a grocery shopping trip SS shoplifted once too often and the ship owner decided to press charges. Bang comes a call home to the family, from the daycare. No one takes responsibility for anything these days, anymore! What was the family supposed to do, it told the daycare!?! “You are supposed to be the professionals, will not do anything to help SS …!”, it said in continuation. The family had no power to stop the grocery shop owner from initiating his contemplated, legal/criminal/misdemeanor action.

Then, upon finding itself in some kind of legal jeopardy, the daycare acted. Agreeing to transfer SS, temporarily the family was assured, to BRMC (1). It was, straight and unvarnished, turfing, for jumping ahead, they were not to be agreeable about taking him back. At any rate, for now, the family permitted SS to be taken to BRMC (1), despite its past unhappy experience with it/rather Bergen Pines, in the intervening, four or so, years since SS’s first abduction, latter had been sold to new, private, management and reported in the press to have been revamped, restructured, …

It was a relief to the family. SS should be better cared for and treated at BRMC (1), than at his limited daycare, even though it had its doubts. If for no other reason than, only personal funding could guarantee SS the best available treatment, but also on account of the horrible reputation Bergen Pines had assembled in the community for years, it was not totally sold on BRMC (1) being any great transformation. Still, OS and SIS also looked for some respite for themselves, to put their personal house in order. In tatters and serious disrepair, on account of their attention and time being seriously preempted by SS’s illness bearing chronic!

It should not have held out any such hope, either for SS or itself, for BRMC (1) to turn out to be a mere extension of Bergen Pines, as feared. In fact, the family was to find itself even more beleaguered, as a consequence further distanced from its own work, than before. BRMC (1) might advertise itself on its premises as the “Biggest behavioral healthcare provider of its kind in Bergen County and NJ (paraphrased)”, but for SS and his family it only turned out to be the biggest healthcare hoax, crook, … operating in state, as far as they could tell about “the biggest”

No sooner had SS arrived on its premises, BRMC (1) started off from where it had left off four years ago. The family being told, SS’s problem stemming from family starving him at home! Mighty and spontaneously dense, family told BRMC (1) doctors they did not make sense. The family did eat small portions at home, as has been their custom since India, but SS had been eating such portions at home in America too, for the past five years. Why would he begin having his disorder, suddenly now, starting three months earlier?

Moreover, five days of the week, he imbibed two of his three meals at his daycare, where certainly he was having American, if not Texas, sized portions and meals. It just did not make any sense, the BRMC (1) doctors told unequivocally, there was simply no basis to conclude any “starvation” diet to SS and to predicate/rest his disorder on same, However, this was to remain BRMC’s (1), clutch arrived and easy-sitting, diagnosis. All of it! Great science and psychiatry from the billboard declaimed and self described “Biggest behavioral … in Bergen County and NJ (paraphrased)”. The family suggested SS was wrestling with his career-vacuum related void, trying to stiff it shut with food. At least this made sense, on the face too, but whether these BRMC (1) doctors bit into it or not, who knows?

Then SS being physically abused at home came up, which the family thinks brought up for good measure, from four years ago, when the “starvation” accusation did not seem to stick. The family asked to see proof, but SS not produced. This accusation was to be made uniformly in the two tears to come, without any physical evidence ever to be produced. Ever! Not even during the litigation to come, two years hence, indeed this issue to be mentioned in the opening papers but never pursued, even in passing, through the rest of the proceedings at bar . SS never, ever, corroborated it, It was a pore decoy, merely to harass the family.

For now, the family reminded SS had been brought directly from his daycare. Brought to BRMC (1) pursuant to the grocery shop owner having threatened to press charges upon SS’s nth shoplifting episode there! Could it be, he was “roughed up” either at the shop or even the daycare? At one of his previous daycares he had been once “roughed up” by one of his fellow patients, the daycare not to be even aware of the incident, until the family noticed his injuries at home later that day and alerted it the next day!

Thus, the idiocy stopped, for now, this session of accusations and harassment of the family by BRMC (1) staff doctors. Unbelievable! Something one does not expect integral part of any healthcare facility. Incidentally, the old Dr. Laporta again SS’s doctor, another landmark of things beginning from where they left off approximately four years ago. To her credit, she tried to be semi-reasonable in her approach to things, so the family supposed it was all, the general environment at BRMC (1), which she could not fight across by herself.

BRMC (1) doctors also decided to bilk him up, primarily with very high calorie milk shakes. The family to go along with such fattening of the calf! It was a straight, thick-minded solution, but still not any incisive and sure-footed medical practice. Feeding the body blind, but no psychiatry addressing the problem of the mind! More like hack medicine, no more!

Corruption stops only when some one stops it, rarely on its own! Turfing is a form of vicious corruption, endless in the life of any patient subject to it. Accordingly, a fattened SS, was held ready to be turfed a few short weeks later. No answer(s) as to the disorder that had brought him to BRMC (1), no answer(s) as to his larger problem(s), no cogent idea given as to any well laid out treatment plan for him which did not resemble endless, apathetic, at best semi-formatted, lingering, slow death like, … incarceration uselessly within the “system”, no commitment to supply him vigorous, reinforced, individual, dedicated therapy as repeatedly asked for, nothing more than meandering, vague, tick-off the check list, meaningless, … variety of even loose “group therapy” itself, …

All the signs of his having been marked, written-off without even trying, as lifelong revenue stream for the “system” there for all to see. No designed “exit strategy”, if you like, made known or visible for him. Five years in the “system”, no one with any designed, discernible plan for him to be restored as a productive, any member of the outside society. Once in, forever in. was that it? … If BRMC (1), the “Biggest” this and that in the state could not talk any intelligent, any prognosis for him at all, then who else? Was it to be all about milking the public welfare system ad infinitum deploying poor SS? Others too!?!

As such, the family asked BRMC (1) for a formal “Diagnostic Lay Out and Treatment Plan”/“DL&TP”, (1) per SS’s elementary medical rights deserving, laying out a thought out diagnosis instead of mere .idle speculation and a comprehensive treatment plan to go with it. If BRMC (1), the “Biggest” this and that … of the state, could not do it, who else could!?! An unmixed DL&TP (1) so that the “system” could be held responsible and accountable, going forward! Estopped from simply jerking him and his treatment around, malingering over it, … turfing him to his death.

Thus began the face-off, which was to lead to BRMC’s (1) fabricated (1, 2, 3) litigation initiated two years later, SS’s abduction upon his unlawful segregation from his family as is and atop in order to hide, for the “system” to protect itself, from all the hanky-panky it tendered therein.

In the October of the year (2001) that SS entered BRMC (1), the February prior one day when the family and SS returned home in the evening, there was a call from their next door neighbors, for SIS. Not just neighbors, but their tenants in fact too! Mrs. and Mr. Evelyn and Dick Idzenga/“Mrs. I” and “Mr. I”! It was Mrs. I calling SIS, wanting her to come over to the other side immediately. When SIS pleaded immediate inability, for having just returned home, Mrs. I confided she had AJ in her living room.

AJ had put Mrs. I to getting SIS over by herself on to the other side. Mr. I was a nice, quiet man, in his late 80s and of WWII German occupation of his hometown in Amsterdam vintage. Mrs. I, somewhat younger than her husband, a quarrelsome type (even and most of all with her docile husband), the busybody of wherever she happened to be at anytime, had spent her childhood in a Japanese concentration camp out of her family’s business location in Indonesia/the Dutch Indies.

Instead, OS spoke to AJ on the phone, first asking him to just buzz-off! When he persisted wanting to see the family, OS relented only to get him out of the Idzenga’s side. Since he wanted to stay for dinner, OS had him dismiss the limousine, yes the omnipresent and potent limousine, waiting at the curb in front of the house. OS would drop him off, back at his hotel in the City, himself.

AJ had come to help, because the family’s mortgage was in trouble, feigning concern while OS well knew it was another opportune crowbar trying to get back into the family. But, first he took AJ’s head apart for breaking into the family’s credit reports, violating the family’s privacy. He hee-hawed, hummed, … what else could he do but so acknowledge his unlawful pursuits so? There was not much time to discuss anything else at length, so email addresses were exchanged to carry same on later.

AJ fed dinner and then dropped off at his hotel, in the vicinity of 8th Avenue and 50th Street (very near Cravath’s NYC based headquarters). In fact, OS remarked, to AJ sitting in the back, they were in the vicinity of the Cravath offices, AJ’s studious silence in return confirming what the family had heard, over the grapevine, about his falling out with his first Law firm out of Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6). AJ sitting in the back with SS, was being sickly sweet to him. No surprise to anyone; AJ just did not know how to be genuine! He was there only for himself, the hankering to return to the family was not for the family’s sake.

In the ensuing weeks, he and OS held dialogue via emails. AJ trying to play cute as ever! OS firm, AJ had to sign on to future participation in the JV operations in writing plus restitute the family for past damages. OS told AJ of being alive the latter, as the damage to the family mounted and AJ getting older, he was getting concerned about his afterlife. Fact that AJ deleted his email right after, confirmed this had hit its mark, tellingly. Not that he did not know here was doing gross wrong, but was born too weal to do the right thing in the given circumstances. Beyond the family, how America got into his hair-raising, monumental .troubles too.

Returning to our sequential story, first, BRMC (1) tried to place SS out and away, against his and the family wishes. Tries to do so behind the family’s back, still against SS’s wishes! Ganging up on him isolated from the family, on the sly. To protect himself, SS issues a “directive” for the family to handle his affairs, all decision making with respect to his medical matters as well. BRMC (1), despite fact the directive was signed in front of the hospital staff, claims it illegal for not being notarized. Pish-tosh, of course!

A notary public on the premises denied SS and his family for the purpose, on the prima facie disingenuous claim, meant only for hospital use. SS just had to be stopped from issuing his directive, the family stopped from looking in. It is standard practice, to endeavor holding exclusive control over the patient, to better manage the institution’s risk profile with. As in wield patient privacy rights to block both, people from looking in and the institution having to reveal anything to the outside world. … It is a well perfected racket!

In February 2002, specifically over the weekend of February 23-24, 2002, SS, on his weekend visit home, was to tell OS and SIS that AJ had called him from UK and had even made a visit at BRMC (1), allowed against his wishes by the staff. Simultaneously, Mr. I told the family, same time or thereabouts, Mrs. I, intrigue prone and the local social busybody, had been in touch with AJ in the UK, recently even telling him SS was at BRMC (1)! This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, Mr. I, having admonished Mrs. I in all the preceding months not to divulge anything to AJ, now just had to tell OS and SIS what was going on.

When AJ had made his uninvited visit the previous February, 2001, of course not finding the family home had waited on the Idzenga’s side. Before he moved over to the family side, once it returned home, he had arranged for Mrs. I to act as a listening post for him vis-a-vis the family.

SS came home to the family every weekend, as formal part of his clinical therapy. The family would pick him up Friday evening and return him to BRMC (1) each Sunday evening; with an extremely heavy heart, goes without saying. This Sunday evening – February 24, 2002, when they dropped him off, took up the matter of AJ and his telephone calls being kept away from SS, per his wishes most of all. BRMC (1) denied AJ had called or visited SS. Yet, SS’s medical files speaking to the contrary (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

This is also the last entry, known to the family, recording AJ stalking/1, 2, 3 SS at BRMC (1), And the hospital; prevaricated with respect to it too. Simultaneously, in retaliation, it/Dr. Laporta cancelled SS’s weekend visits home (imperative and integral to his clinical treatment). Same is recorded at (1), as the doctor canceling on date March 6, 2002, immediately thereafter. Drums of SS being abused at home by OS and SIS beaten yet again, as trumped up accusations to retaliate against the family by cancelling SS’s weekend “passes” home! Every time OS and BRMC (1) got together, such charges surfaced. Only when these two corrupt agencies (in the first abduction Vantage included too) came together, never otherwise.

These are not clean healthcare agencies, given to pursuits more akin to those of criminal enterprises. Earlier in 2002, when BRMC (1) tried to force place SS, one of the agencies involved was Dover Woods. Refusing to take SS because he had a “directive” in place! All these healthcare outfits will, of-course, accept a court ordered guardianships, because they cannot say “no” there> But, will unlawfully discriminate against patient ordered assignments, because they would rather not have anyone looking in, over their shoulders, from the outside, lest they are opened up any malpractice risk.

In fact, in the same time period, DF of Vantage stated to the family that while the institution accepted court ordered guardianships, it did not patient ordered directives and powers of attorney. Setting up a prima facie case of legal discrimination, it would seem. It also appears that after his abduction, SS was placed with a Vantage group home (1, 2) in Ridgefield Park, NJ, a slideshow picture of which appears on its website.

The family was to keep a running account of BRMC’s (1) corruption across months in this period, in 2002, filing a formal complaint with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations/“JCAHO”. We have all seen the business of regulating Wall Street, all weak, insipid and semi-collaborative exertions by the very agencies charged as watchdogs. The same with JCAHO, ahead to be also seen with the NJ Division of Mental Health Services’/“DMHS” work! Still others too, including its courts, it simply teems with copious corruption! Everyone loosey-goosey or in cahoots or in collaboration or … with each other, from both side of the aisle! Such things particularly biting and vicious in New Jersey/ “NJ” (1), a/k/a as the “pit of corruption” in America!

Having cancelled SS’s weekend visits home, with no cause or authority do so, in February, they were not to be restored until August. There were no complaints from SS, in fact robust assertions to the contrary. Sheer high-handedness from BRMC (1), for ulterior and nefarious purpose! Either to back off from so waxing illegal or get a court order, if it was going to so outrage SS-his family, violate their rights, … with such length of persistent corruption. On the other hand, AJ was allowed to vex SS, with BRMC’s (1) ready rope allowed hum, to pedal his own corruption, disrupting SS’s treatment. By his unwanted advances foisted, harassing SS’s other elementary rights as well.

SS kept complaining about AJ’s harassment, OS and SIS telling him repeatedly to stand his ground asking him to “cease and desist”! Not take his calls, not come to the phone, if he did not want to take them. Refuse to see him, when he forced himself on him with BRMC’s (1) cooperation and connivance. The hospital, dispensing with having him sign himself in, so that the family would not catch him-it! However, SS kept telling the family he was afraid of AJ’s legal credentials; AJ having told SS he would sue if SS did not speak to him. No amount of the family telling SS, AJ could simply not sue on those grounds or force SS to interact with him would convince the former. Unsophisticated in this area, he just could shake his fear of being so sued or say “no” not to AJ, but really his legal credentials.

As AJ’s harassment intensified, for he was forever increasing his pressure to break from the family and which SS no way wanted to or would do, SS was assisted by the family to sue AJ for harassing for him. Somehow, the case ended up in Family court, instead of the general Civil Division. AJ deputized a NJ attorney to have the action dismissed for wrong venue. SS and the family did not renew or have it shifted to the general Civil Division, calculating AJ , sobered, would “cease and desist” in the future.

As to the parallel criminal complaint, AJ had same dismissed too, by faxing a copy of his, American, passport from the UK, showing he had not traveled to this country since February 2001, when he had visited the family/the Idzengas by accident. This still did not rule out his telephonic harassment, why case never found out. Probably cronyism, but neither SS nor the family, focused on getting SS well, really did not care about litigating, as long as AJ was to stop his harassment ahead.

Otherwise, the family knew AJ had become a [dual] citizen of the UK, through SC, since February 2001 was traveling on his British passport. He traveled to America at least once a month, the family knew, working for an American Law firm. AJ had misled an American court, by design, … SS and the family wanted to focus on the constructive things they were after. America was crazy enough on its own, without SS and his family adding to same at their behest.

In the Two and a Half Men – Release The Dogs (Season 4 Episode 8), the character Alan says paying two alimonies, he would probably have to “turn tricks” to send his TV son (Jake) to college at current astronomical costs, even though he is unfit for it, for a piece of worthless diploma, which Jake will have to convert into a paper hat to work at a fast-food joint, from where he would be promptly fired for stealing french-fries from a customer’s take-out bag! A version of the crazy, crazy America we live in now.

The same episode also speaks of a, crazy, America with “pills” for almost every conceivable human activity! Speaks too about the “family”/show’s psychiatrist having a ATM machine in her office waiting room, to ensure prompt cash payments from her patients. Indeed, the entire premise of the sitcom is to capture abundantly dysfunctional America at its crazy, twisted, disgusting, … worst (1, 2, 3). It is in this very insane, dysfunctional America that SS was abducted by America’s pit of corruption in NJ (1), over ten years ago beginning July 25, 2003.

Even the three young ladies “taken” by Ariel Castro around the time SS was taken too, have managed to escape, but with SS yet to be restored to his family, NJ (1) a worse abductor than Ariel Castro (even he has managed to escape in a manner). SS’s detention by now almost as long as the one served by the longest held prisoner(s) at Guantanamo Bay. Ariel Castro’s sentence ranged to life plus 1,000 years, what sentence should be pronounced upon NJ (1) for abducting and detaining a utterly innocent SS? Separated from his family, unlawfully, for covering up NJ’s (1) own crimes, entirely out of self-serving design.

As stated above/supra, SS’s, clinical treatment imperative, weekend visits home with the family were cancelled, when BRMC (1) had no jurisdiction or reason beyond blackmailing the family, forcing it to take SS away, to do so, in February 2002. Not to be restored until August 2002. During this period, SS, working with the family, so compelled to prepare and issue a comprehensive Power of Attorney/“POA” (1) favoring the family. Transferring the management of all his affairs to it on the outside, the better to fight for his rights more effectively so. When on the inside, BRMC (1) teeming with stubborn and runaway corruption, disaffecting him monumentally.

When SS had earlier issued his directive, one of the tactics deployed by BRMC (1), beyond all those already discussed above/supra, was to endeavor isolating him on its premises and so lean on his to revoke that directive. Today’s healthcare agencies will routinely do just about anything to keep and block any scrutiny from the outside, as part of a very active and affirmative design to manage its risk-profile effectively. We have already, repeatedly, mentioned how they twist patient privacy rights around to their benefit similarly, working them cogently to the patient’s handy-dandy detriment. Not just healthcare givers, but insurance companies in the allied industry, simply gagging on any and all kinds of corruption, for profits and other self-serving protection nefariously arranged/gained.

As such, SS’s POA (1) was prepared with a special feature provision and insertion, the instrument formally providing for his ability to take back his powers delegated so , not at will as normally ordered, but subject to his being able to do so only in consultation with the family/OS-SIS and together with them, Not on his own, by himself. A nifty provision, so deferring his right to take back his delegated powers on his own, as a bulwark protection against anyone coercing him, isolated, to take advantage of him for self-serving design, as BRMC (1) had already done numerously. It also afforded the family comfort, nor only in terms of having SS himself copiously protected, but whenever an unprotected SS was hurt, it had to expend extra/vastly greater time, energy, money having him/ the precipitated situation treated/reversed-repaired than if he were impeccably secured preventing such injury in the very first place.

It was a perfectly sound and legal provision, for SS comprehensively unfettered, under the American Constitution, to delegate his rights and powers as he pleased/saw fit and to the best/optimal orchestration for the purpose of enjoying them, having himself protected, … No one could have any say so anywhere inside SS’s personal domain, not even the courts! In this instance, the blighted NJ (1) courts! It was a closed circle arrangement, restricted only to the strict and impenetrable Privity, as a consequence, forged between SS and his family, alone! Once again, not even available to the NJ (1) courts for piercing in anyway!

The provision not to give rise to any Public Policy objection(s) or action, absent cogent pleading(s) and showing of fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) and/or abuse on the part of the family executing it. It in no way tripped any provision(s) of the Thirteenth Amendment , where by involuntary servitude could be even remotely concluded. In the first place, the underlying arrangement predicated upon SS voluntarily entering it. Secondly, the original purpose and the subsequent execution of the provision copiously benign, protecting SS from all lurking predators. Of which lately, America producing all too many, not excluding the courts and particularly the NJ (1) courts themselves!

To forget any aspersions of involuntary servitude attaching, absent robust pleading(s)-showing of fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) and/or abuse no where even vanilla servitude possible to conclude. Authors quote copious case law (see below/infra) showing this was not even any enslavement arrangement as contemplated by the Thirteenth Amendment originally and as SCOTUS developed its legal definition, scope, contours, … landscape, practical history, map as precedent(s) down the years.

Yet, the trial court (see below/infra), in the body of the supremely corrupt, except for the authors’ largely permitted good mannered pass utterly insult worthy, Former (/recalled(?)) Judge Gerald C. Escala (10 Main Street, # 504, Hackensack, NJ. 07601 - (201)-527-2635), was to prejudicially, on account of being moved by the extra-judicial consideration of needing to serve its paymaster, in NJ (1), and NJ’s (1) super-duper special interest, in BRMC (1)), and wrongly find SS’s POA (1) violating the Thirteenth Amendment (sic). Indeed, fact that his adjudication was as conclusory as any/he could make it and he noticeably/strenuously leap-frogged over the fine distinction, between voluntary and involuntary, distinction(s), codified extravagantly in related case-law history, tell us he clearly knew what he was issuing so was prima facie arbitrary and bogus.

Fact that SS was abducted, then has been detained and kept opaque-severed from his family for the past decade, also testifies/points, boldly and robustly, in that very same direction. First, these powers that be, knowing SS’s POA (1) to be perfectly valid/kosher in law, were concerned the family would re-issue it despite the court’s, prejudiced and arbitrary, ruling; the litigation record (see below/infra) will show, a no less corrupt than anyone else on the opposition’s side and very suspiciously appointed, Guardian Ad Litem, one Ira C. Kaplan-Ira C. Kaplan Law Offices “IK” (190 Moore St, # 430, Hackensack, NJ 07601 - (201) 457-9090), had belabored this very point to Escala more than casually.

Secondly, beyond Escala’s hanky-panky, prejudiced and arbitrary adjudication(s), other opposition parties had uncorked a whole bevy of heavy-duty corrupt acts brazenly all through at bar, not excluding fabricated (1, 2, 3) documents which could be proved to be so. The family/OS, additionally, had created an extensive and threadbare record of all this corruption, including challenging Escala’s extra-judicial escapades aplenty well nigh to his face. So many of those fabrications to be instantly exposed, as soon as SS reunited with his family!

Thus, the length, breadth and quantum of brazen corruption that took place most freely, covering Escala and all opposition parties, came to become a necessary reason for abducting SS, for nothing more fundamental than personal protection sought by all these parties. The qualitative quotient of this corruption by this point measures the length of time for which SS has already been kept, viz. ten years plus, to be continued to be kept away from the family in the future, too!

As advance notice, then perhaps not to come as any surprise at all, AJ to be involved, corruptly. in this litigation too, as expected forever advancing the consummate coward’s “on the sly”! One, who having had his fill, then out and about for spoiling others’ proverbial meal (Panchatantra - Tale of the Camel and the Jackal 1, 2)! First defrauding/1 (2-3. 4-5) and then inventing forced justifications for it, he was also maintain OS getting “too important” for the family’s good and thus needing to be ganged up against by the rest of the family acting together. … It was one hell of a performance, this litigation, by an entire, consolidated, cowardly clan, so to speak.

SS’s POA (1) was prepared professionally, with the help of attorney Adele Rebell/ “AR” of the Bergen County Mental Health Law Project/“MHLP” (1, 2). MHLP (327 E Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus, NJ 07652-4819 - (201) 634-2760), overall part of the Bergen County Department of Health Services/ “BCDHS” (One Bergen County Plaza, Fourth (4th) Floor, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601), which itself summed up to the Bergen County Executive’s Office/“BCEO” (1, 2, 3, 4), at that point the Bergen County Executive/“BCE” Dennis McNerney/“DM”.

MHLP, located just across East Ridgewood Avenue from BRMC (1), effectively serving the latter’s patients for the most part. Lead by Ernest Villa (“EV”)! AR very different from the insidious EV and the other attorney Harry Katz/“HK”! HK by far the worst of this bunch and a thoroughly unscrupulous wretch, summarily beneath contempt. Initially, while dealing, only, with AR, SS and his family not even aware of, sleaze-ball, HK’s existence. That he worked at MHLP too! The family “hiring” MHLP, AR, before SS brought in, just to clarify this sequence.

AR, after some preliminary discussion(s) with SS and the family, drafted SS’s POA (1) by herself, incorporating the special feature, deferring the “take back of delegated powers” at will, normal provision, and holding it deferential to collective action by SS in privity with OS-SIS. She carefully dotted all her “i”s and crossed her “t”s, interviewing SS by himself about his personal acquiesce to all the provisions of his POA (1), before having him sign it and her notarizing it, to give it its full and proper issue effect.

In the lead up to this issuance of the POA (1), around August 1, 2002, once MHLP-AR “hired”, it had the effect of BRMC (1) letting SS come home for his weekend visits home. However, even with AR’s advent, BRMC (1) did not stop conspiring to obstruct formation of the POA (1). When AR and OS-SIS went to see SS in his ward at BRMC (1), latter raised mindless arguments MHLP-AR “hired” by OS-SIS, not SS. As if it had any business speaking to SS’s personal affairs. AR and OS-SIS decided to withdraw from the ward on that day, merely, strategically not wanting to cause any ripples.

Thereafter, AR asked for SS to be let out, during the week, to visit her at her office, after SS personally designated AR his attorney. BRMC (1), well aware MHLP was open only Monday-Friday, would not let him out, even though it, once again, it had no jurisdiction over SS’s personal affairs. How he conducted same. So, AR had to come in to work on a weekend, when SS was home with OS-SIS on his “weekend pass”. How corrupt America’s healthcare industry, including the insurance industry, has become, came out vividly, loud and clear in 2009, during the long, drawn out process attending upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act/“ACA”-“Obamacare”. How predatory and crooked indeed they all had become!

Issuance of the POA (1) was to have no effect at all! So brazen and corruption bold our healthcare institutions, in America, now, the law meant to be flagrantly violated, ignored, … BRMC (1) would claim in words adhering to the letter of the POA (1), in actuality, ignoring it, the hospital did what it pleased. It had the money to outflank most, if not all, of its patients. It had in-state political clout, as a NJ (1) special interest object. As OS-SIS were also to find out ahead, it had the state watchdog, DMHS, firmly pocketed, … No one behaves with the recklessness that BRMC (1) behaved, unless it is assured of the leverage of money, political connections, … et al., firmly buttonholed.

BRMC (1) listened to nothing OS-SIS “ordered” speaking as SS, based on the POA (1). The DL&TP (1) not produced. AJ, distracting SS’s treatment, not stopped. SS not given any individual and dedicated, reinforced, therapy! SS’s weight ballooning pursuant to his obsessive-compulsive eating, SS himself reporting multiple helping/sitting allowed him, … BRMC (1) giving him neither therapy for his disorder nor even carving out decently limited portions for him. The staff just too lazy and unwilling to provide proper personal attention to him, perfectly willing to endanger his health so,

Claimed he went out for walks, which were just limited, irregular Sunday strolls across the hospital lawns. Claimed he went to the gym, when SS reported he did not, in any case there was no accompanying supervision, as to whether he exercised there at all. Claimed too, his medication contributing, when he was still at home and taking medication too, OS-SIS watching his dietary and exercising habits had him well within the American Medical Association’s/“AMA” weight guidelines (1, 2) for his height. …

One chart showed a safe weight of 164-184 pounds for a large framed 5’ 11” male, SS’s weight hovering past 200, at 200-210 pounds consistently. The second chart showing “overweight” at 180 pounds and “obese” past 200 for a 5’ 10” male. While also blandly claiming SS not overweight, BRMC (1) would produce no yardstick for its assessment so. Sheer apathy and inattention towards patients!

By mid-2003 (just before the origination by BRMC (1) of its fabricated (1, 2, 3) litigation and subsequent abduction), by when SS was obsessive-compulsively going to bed at 7 PM (right after dinner), still eating obsessive-compulsively, was withdrawn and staying in his room most of the day, had started to experience serious cognitive (unable to understand what he was reading and watching on TV) difficulties, … (Dr. Laporta had left the hospital by then, one Dr. Primak/“Dr. P”, Dr. Ko/“Dr. K” in charge) … yet BRMC (1) ignored OS-SIS’s demands to attend to and help SS. Nothing done, the doctors and his social worker, as SS cogently communicated to OS-SIS, busy forcibly sitting his down and dictating content to him, to write and sign, to forge fabricated (1, 2, 3) documents out of him, for the litigation just ahead …

This is a medical system so badly corrupted, predatory, SS’s abduction alone should prove it, is anything but any healthcare system. Besides being a racket, full of tactics more reminiscent of a criminal syndicate than anything else. ALL, spinning way out of control! Patients not meant to be treated properly and made productive members of society, but to be just tinkered with for being retained as long-term and endless revenue streams.

By October 2002, SS had been at BRMC (1) for a year, being tinkered with and still no DL&TP (1), which he was entitled to by right. Except, BRMC (1) wedded to its own risk-management more than care for its patients! Already, BRMC (1) had accumulated more than enough malpractice points! More than exposed the underbelly of the American healthcare system!

BRMC (1) then asked for a super-conference with OS-SIS, perfectly aware of running out of all first-cut foul tactics. Obviously concerned about raising the ante on SS and OS-SIS, not without risks to its own self! OS and SIS agreed to it, but only on the condition the hospital’s Head of Administration, the one orchestrating all the foul jerking around of SS-his family, be personally present. BRMC (1) agreeing to her production, attendance.

But of-course, BRMC (1) just did not know how to play it straight. Its Head of Administration ducked out, OS-SIS somehow not surprised. Instead, its internal counsel making an appearance, SS and the family with no notice to bring counsel at its end! So, this was to be an intimidation session, counsel and Dr. Laporta led the charge. Straight, ungloved, demand for placing, really turfing, SS. OS-SIS duly lobbed back with their demand for the DL&TP (1), the law of the POA (1) obeyed, even before SS transitioned out given proper (individual and reinforced therapy, ... et al.) at BRMC (1) itself, his endangerment – weight and other related – stopped, …

Dr. Laporta gave her inane arguments that SS not overweight (without providing any supporting yardstick) and a consequence of his medication, both of which countered handily by OS-SIS. Then she came up with something even more loaded, since SS’s stay funded by Medicare (public funding), he was not entitled to individual therapy. OS-SIS informing her, the last time they had checked applicable law, source funding having nothing to do with anything but the proper, full and optimal treatment to be given at all times. Lest the caregiver be cited for “discrimination”!

As it is, BRMC (1) being paid neatly $200,000/month for SS, no amount to sneeze at, at all. Why American healthcare, grossly spoilt and avaricious too, was as dysfunctional as anything else malfunctioning in America.

As such, the meeting produced nothing. Only because BRMC (1) continuing to insist upon shortchanging SS’s medical and other rights. The two parties agreeing to meet again to continue working through, but BRMC (1) to be too predatory of habits set to play/stay honorable for any length of time, at all.

Suddenly, its blackmail was back on, SS being abused at home on his weekend visits revived. No proof, no showing. His visits home, may the author(s) remind the reader again: integral to his clinical treatment, terminated once more! With SS continuing to deny anything like it happening and demanding his visits home! This time, BRMC (1) betraying itself as it could not have before.

Far from ever showing OS-SIS any evidence of such claimed abuse, BRMC (1) did not even summon AR to witness anything. Neither at the time of the claimed examination of SS when he was returned to the hospital the previous Sunday evening, at the end of his last weekend visit home, nor the following morning or ever. Precisely because there was no injury (or injuries), ever; the whole enterprise bogus and mere mirage erection to blackmail, yet again! Predatory America, American healthcare, at work again!

It was just too pat, besides! BRMC (1) did not get its way at the just concluded meeting with the family, so the screws to go back on again. As simple as that! No fuss no muss, the hospital was more than used to executing such tactics over a long time, resembling a criminal syndicate as such than any upstanding healthcare institution! American Corruption, Inc.! BRMC (1) could put, or omit, anything it pleased into SS’s record at the hospital and did, did not mean all the self-serving stuff it placed therein T-R-U-E. Verifiably true!

BRMC (1) claimed SS did not want to go home on his weekend visits home to the family, handily refuted by its own record-keeping in SS’s files (1, 2, 3, 4). So headstrong was this institution, this go around, it even moved two police (/town) jurisdictions in this connection, the one where it itself was located and the other where the family’s home. Both jurisdictions handily turning it down, for the simple reason, no abuse having taken place, SS would neither corroborate nor file complaint. Likewise, BRMC (1) would also approach APS-MA, being turned down by that institution-individual for the same reason.

Yet, it would not release SS for his weekend visits home, dancing around it and being maliciously bull headed about it. Reason why later, in the fabricated (1, 2, 3) litigation it was to launch ahead, too it did not pursue this matter there. For one because it was a bogus predicate, for another one of its principal tactics in court was to comprehensively-consummately suppress (1, 2, 3) SS’s production and so, otherwise, gag him tight-shut; without SS it could not pursue this cause, because it was never its to pursue independent of SS.

AR demanded restoration of SS’s visits home, BRMC’s (1) corrupt gander raised to “full blast” turning her down too. When the law was all on SS’s side, an index of this hospital’s twisted nature, bearing.

AR left with no option but to sue BRMC’s (1). She prepared an “Order to Show Cause” filing, OS-SIS met with her just before the holidays to go over it with her in detail. At the meeting she told them that MHLP-EV was vehemently opposed to her filing. As such, her outrage at BRMC’s (1) dalliances with SS’s rights so strong, she was prepared to go ahead in court against her boss’s (EV) wishes. EV of course moved by raw cronyism in being opposed to BRMC (1), so AR confirmed to OS-SIS.

She expressed herself utterly exasperated and turned-off by MHLP-EV’s corruption, cronyism and everything else (/politics) driven. Of never doing its job as mandated watchdog over institutional NJ (1) for the vulnerable patients! Merely, playing politics all the time, favoring institutional NJ (1) to the detriment of the patient class it was set-op to protect. OS-SIS parting from AR with her firm and unequivocal intimation, her “Order to Show Cause” would be filed first thing in the New Year (/2003) and as soon as the County (/Bergen County) returned from its Christmas and New Year vacation!

In the New Year, the first thing to happen was the installation of a new County Executive/BCE, from the family’s perspective, the none to palatable, DM. The family was to get to know him ahead, by his public reputation, as quite a vigorous political animal! When OS-SIS called AR in the New Year, someone in the office to tell them the place was temporarily closed, going through a personnel restructuring on account of the ascension of the new BCE.

As it was to turn out, the entire restructuring to comprise AR’s, abrupt, departure! It did not take OS-SIS too long to realize that her “departure” a pure, political, maneuver to stop the suit she planned to file for SS against BRMC (1). MHLP was understaffed as it is, AR had told OS-SIS just a week or so ago in the previous year (/December 2002). EV only handled MHLP’s administrative work, there was “one other” attorney beside her, as AR had informed, pleading “the place” heavily backlogged.

An overstaffed MHLP, thus, could not be any reason for AR being asked to leave. As BCE, DM automatically sat on BRMC’s (1) Managing Board, it and EV must have moved in a hurry to have her removed before she filed suit against BRMC’s (1) “first thing in the New Year”. Otherwise, this could not have been any high priority item, for restructuring, in DM’s new, incoming administration. No sooner than it had come in!

Soon enough OS-SIS told, HK would be handling SS related matters at MHLP. HK not only telling them he would not be filing AR’s suit against BRMC (1), but also that he would not be speaking to them, since SS not “them” his client. Almost immediately, he was to abundantly show, it was not even SS who was his client, but only BRMC (1) alone. OS-SIS’s attempts, further, to lodge a complaint, against MHLP-HK, at the BCEO (1, 2, 3, 4) going totally unattended, falling on deaf ears. AR was definitely fired for moving to file suit for SS against BRMC (1), OS-SIS can imagine her refusing to back-off before the newly minted administration too. It was all cronyism and foul/corrupt politics at work.

Super vile HK was never to even make any pretense of representing SS, openly and brazenly come out swinging and batting only for BRMC (1). No holds barred, straight down the line. He was even to, straight out too, adjudge SS’s POA (1) unlawful, no reason given and “no warming up in the bullpen or nuthin”.

Did not even blink, corruption so deeply rooted in his bones, when OS-SIS inquired whether same meant MHLP , then and since AR worked there when she shaped this POA (1), culpable for malpractice!?! When BCE DM/BCEO (1, 2, 3, 4) backing these shenanigans, NJ (1) special interest BRMC (1) to be protected, … why would not Escala bring his best corrupt/prejudicing game to the bench against OS-SIS, why would this shyster, HK, worry about walking gingerly while slinging all his abundant sleaze around!?!

Further proof that MHLP-EV-HK up to unadulterated corruption and upon orders, AR removed only for stopping the suit against BRMC (1) she was moved by deep conviction to pursue on its obvious merits, … very soon into the New Year, not only did BRMC (1) continue persisting with not reversing to let SS resume his weekend visits home, but it renewed, with certain robust execution, its unilateral efforts again to begin turfing him out again. So much so, it started to issue threats to remove his to a shelter, making sure OS-SIS heard about this, for maximum blackmail effect. Clearly, this was a new campaign, filled with corruption, now encouraged by having lined up the County formally behind itself.

OS-SIS wrote to Governor Jim McGreevy, who wrote back promptly and under his own signatures! He was to begin by educating SS and OS-SIS as to the kind of hot-bed of corruption NJ (1) has been going all the way back to World War II. How same complicated his job immeasurably … Then, he informed, he had forwarded SS’s case to his Commissioner (an African-American lady, whose name not recallable at this point) of DMHS, whose office would have the NJ (1) DMHS area office get in touch with the family. Eventually, one Chuck Nussbaum/“CN” from the Northern NJ (1) area office was to contact the family, as promised by the Governor.

SS’s turfing, included BRMC’s (1) threats to dump him in a shelter, stopped forthwith, as a result of this contact with the Governor’s office. However, the crooks at BRMC (1), MHLP-EV-HK, AJ hiding in the wings, … were Teflon incorrigible, prepared to go to any length of corruption for their nefarious cause.

SS was to call the family one day, saying he had just gone thorough an ordeal with the scumbag HK. He had come to BRMC (1) with a pre-prepared revocation of SS’s POA (1), with BRMC’s (1) connivance cornered SS in a room there. Issued SS an ultimatum, he would not be allowed to leave the room unless he signed the revocation. Thugs, outright thugs, … in America’s healthcare, legal, … “you name it” profession, all summarily belonging behind bars, for life! Including, J-U-D-G-E-S! All hulking cowards, ganging up on a vulnerable, mentally struggling individual, with more courage in his little finger than they had in their entire rotten carcass, isolated from his family promptly on the premises.

Anyone but the ultimate in cowardice, which HK on account of reeking of corruption from every pore of his being decidedly was, would shrink from such wretched undertaking. One seeping all the way, into the soul, rots it out to shreds! It is not by any accident that America is in its current, monumentally, troubled straits. Having gone corrupt in too, too many places, it has, consequentially, gone plumb cowardly in all those places, … to set into motion that giant wheel that alternates incremental corruption with incremental cowardice in a never ending cycle to certain doom.

SS resisted HK for as long as he thought fit, then strategically signing the paper, in order to send the low-life in the room with him packing and on his way, promptly called the family. Even though SS’s POA (1) demanded no one was to contact him without the family on any matter pertaining to its provisions, BRMC’s (1) and HK conspired to do just that very unlawful act. The POA (1) expressly provided that it could not be revoked merely on SS’s revocation alone, yet BRMC’s (1) and HK sought same illegally. …

The revocation obtained by HK clearly meaningless, without OS and/or SIS’s countersignatures. Stull, in abundant precaution, OS-SIS visited SS with a witness the next day and had SS issue a revocation of the revocation HK, wielding muscular hooliganism not unlike AJ’s lifelong pusillanimity given to issuing, had just coerced from SS.

The high point of this visit by OS-SIS with SS was BRMC (1), in the incarnation of the present social worker, Tom Zacharias/“TZ” (1), telling them, after hearing from the hospital administration, SS on that day was no longer mentally competent to sign the instant’s revocation of HK’s POA (1) revocation procured just the day (or two) before. SS was mentally competent a day (or two) before, but slipped out of it just that very day, when he was signing a document not convenient to BRMC (1) and its lackeys. Any wonder America in its convulsive mess, when oafs like these running it!?! Such mighty intellect(s), who do not even know, how to run a minor con game successfully!

Simultaneously, OS-SIS discharged MHLP-EV-HK, SS calling them separately to discharge them directly, to leave no loose ends about it at all left untied. In abundant precaution and care! Fact that MHLP-EV-HK continued to stalk and forcibly him, prima facie disobedience of state law governing rules for attorney conduct for practicing in-state. In fact, this slate of rules expressly including a specific and dedicated prohibition for such in-state practicing attorneys to steer well clear of foisting themselves on mentally handicapped/challenged individuals.

No act of courage involved anywhere in all this, such brazen conduct merely serving to confirm, over and over again, these people had the carte blanche and foul backing of the BCE DM/BCEO (1, 2, 3, 4), itself confident of buttonholing the County justice system, in Hackensack, NJ. Something that was to be proven true in the not so distant future, in the form of the equally cowardly and foul Escala! Corruption can never, never produce courage. Only cowardice, then more corruption/hooliganism, then more cowardice in turn, then … America just does not have any integrity of courage, self respect, character, … left to stop itself, its corruption anywhere.

Meanwhile CN, having established first contact and promising to revert shortly, had not been heard from for weeks. He was not to be found very reliable ahead either, in fact no less corrupt than the rest! BRMC’s (1) utter bunny too. He, representing DMHS, was supposed to be the watchdog, but was all loosey-goosey with the very people he was supposed to watch and monitor. Why should this be any different, do we not see ineffectual monitoring of Wall Street by the watchdogs appointed to regulate and keep it on the straight and narrow!?!

OS-SIS had to chase after CN for weeks, before he made himself available again. It is really sad, all the corruption and all the people not doing their job well at all in America these days. When Governor Corzine came into office, he had to radically overhaul the NJ Division of Youth and Family Services/ “DYFS”, in whose care too many children had been dying/getting hurt just before.

OS-SIS had written to Jon Corzine, just prior and when he was still NJ Senator in Washington, about Escala playing the fool with their family in court. Too many people just do not have the self-respect and courage to take on difficult but important assignments, which they would rather side-step. So, Senator Corzine wrote back to the family instructing it, something it needed no education in, on the Constitutional principles of the “separation of powers”, in order to avoid intervening.

Obviously, Senator Corzine, was conveniently overlooking the “checks and balances”/1, 2, 3 provisions of the same Constitution, because it would have meant his having to get involved. As the North Carolina legislature did in a similar case involving that state’s court and wrong done to a party, who happened to be Indian too (1, 2).

This was CN’s performance, when he had been contacted by the office of the NJ (1) Commissioner for DMHS, the line going backwards from there to Governor McGreevey. Imagine what he might have been like if he had been contacted directly by the family, absent the Commissioner and Governor. Since October 2002 and with mid year 2003 approaching, it was over nine months since SS’s clinical treatment imperative weekend visits home, arbitrarily and without jurisdiction, jammed by BRMC (1) brazenly pedaling blackmail nakedly. Here was CN too dragging his feet and playing cronyism on the side of institutional NJ (1), NJ’s (1) special interest BRMC (1).

Prodding and pushing CN, the family had thought back in October 2001 when SS had gone into BRMC (1) its life would be made easier enough to at least to attend to its personal affairs, a meeting was arranged between the family and BRMC (1) for Friday, July 11, 2003 (or thereabouts). This meeting was a no-starter from the outset, because SS not produced, an old tick by some of the oldest crooks in their business of dirty gamesmanship. OS-SIS refused to stay unless SS produced, so the meeting adjourned to July 18, 2003 (or thereabouts) next week.

However, OS-SIS met some new people on BRMC’s (1) sordid team that day. People, who were to prove themselves ahead as dirty that team was to field uniformly. Thomas Stegbauer/“Stegbauer”, a Minnesotan but no, upstanding, Hubert Humphrey, as BRMC’s (1) V.P. of Administration! An outside attorney, Cynthia Cappell/“CC” (1, 2), with abysmal professional performance to make ahead and otherwise the best adjective which could be applied to her rhyming with “itch” once, then “itch” a second time too! CN, why he has to be held on BRMC’s (1) too, to come out right away below/infra! … These were to prove themselves as some very soiled and sordid homo sapiens, America in its deep trouble on account of their ilk, type! CC (1, 2)

Outside before the July 18, 2003 (or thereabouts) meetings, as soon as SS saw the family, he came over to join it, to stay with OS-SIS until it was time to go in for the meeting. As everyone filed in, SS was lost in the entering throng and shuffle. NOW THE READER IS INVITED TO WATCH AND OBSERVE AMERICA’S HOARY CORRUPTION AT WORK, IN SLOW MOTION. It is worth studying closely, for it is the stuff of which its current upheaval monumental, all, made up of!

Inside in the room, as OS and SIS seated themselves, in adjacent chairs, they were to notice SS sitting way on the other side of the room and table, in a seat next to the sleaze-ball HK. While entering the room, HK had latched on to SS’s elbow and steered him to a seat beside him. It was a prelude showcasing of how SS would be gagged, suppressed (1, 2, 3) and controlled, as due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) to be so hijacked, in the litigation that lay directly ahead. Otherwise, it was an attempt by the scumbag HK to take proprietary control and charge, as a predatory measure, of SS, with OS and SIS sitting right there in the room. After he and MHLP-EV had already been formally discharged by SS himself and OS-SIS separately, pursuant to their POA (1) derived powers.

OS stood up, asking SS to come sit next to him. HK endeavored to hold SS down where he sat, but latter shook the other off and deposited himself in a chair next to OS, on the other side from where SIS was sitting next to OS. HK got up to take the seat on the other side of SS, how much more stalking/1, 2, 3 of a mentally challenged person could be carried out by any NJ (1) attorney, running contrary to NJ’s (1) rules of conduct strenuously prohibiting same. While all this going on, not only Stegbauer, CC (1, 2), … watching in conspiratorial silence, but DMHS’s CN too! They were all in on this, HK merely acting as their, frontend, hatchet-man!

OS was to then exchange seats with OS, so that he was situated between him and SIS. After dealing with HK’s sleaze on the phone, this was OS-SIS’s introduction to him in person. Now finding himself uncomfortable sitting right next to OS, he was to get up and move several seats away from the other. This man so far gone, describing him even as beneath contempt a very mild description of his serpent, yet Bergen County trusting him around its highly vulnerable population in the mentally handicapped patients at BRMC (1) and elsewhere in the county.

Next OS turned his attention to having HK removed from the room. Inquiring what he was doing there when MHLP-EV-HK had been formally discharged by SS-OS-SIS alike!?! Stegbauer then tried to take a high stepping tone and bluster with OS, who made it, unequivocally, clear that no meeting could proceed on until HK heaved out. So, HK, given his marching orders!

But, a hound-dog does not know how to give up. Even as he shaped to leave, HK abruptly turned to OS and SIS, to demand AJ’s address in the UK from them! OS’s ears cocked up immediately, for he knew AJ had always been hiding in the wings for the past two years or so. This was merely a ruse, he promptly sensed, to spring AJ out into the open, while providing him an alibi simultaneously. To dispel he had been hiding in the wings all this while, yanking him out into the open based on exacting his UK address from OS and SIS!

But yank him out for what, flashed through OS’s mind, but he could not deal with same just then, He looked around, very slowly, particularly at Stegbauer, CC (1, 2), CN, all three had the same expression on their faces, with the mouth ever so slightly open in expectation hanging on whether OS (or SIS) would provide AJ’s address in the UK. Most of all then OS knew CN (of the state watchdog DMHS) was in on the conspiracy with BRMC (1) and its entire bad lot. OS and SIS, of course SS too, were to answer HK by ignoring him in palpable silence.

As HK left, CC (1, 2) from the other side of the room got up to and mumbling incoherently left too, not to come back again. In the litigation ahead, OS was to find papers signed by HK and dated that day; CC (1, 2), thus, leaving the room then in order to procure those very same signatures from HK Litigation being plotted by BRMC (1), even as the meeting and its negotiations in process. CN of DMHS also bound to have been alive to all this, bad-faith, plotting going on, but never warned the SS-OS-SIS or dissuade BRMC (1) for doing the right thing.

As soon as HK and CC (1, 2) had vacated the room, an obviously upset Stegbauer, directing himself at OS, expressed exception at the latter’s, as he dubbed it, “antics”. Offering to throw OS off the premises, if anymore repeated. CN, sitting Buddha silent when the real “[irregular] antics” only by the BRMC (1) crooked crowd going on and still with all the body language of being firmly in the other camp alone, suddenly joined in, very animatedly, behind Stegbauer. OS was to inform both Stegbauer and CN, he sure would like to see them do same and advised them to “cease and desist” making any threats. Corrupt cowards back away very swiftly indeed.

Next Stegbauer, with CN piping behind him, wanted to know who the gentleman (Paul (Pahlaj) Chhabria/“Paul”; there as an outside witness for the family) accompanying the family was!?! CC (1, 2) had already tried to quiz the family about Paul outside, pretending she was doing so in order to protect SS’s privacy abundantly. To be told by SS’s family, it was perfectly capable of protecting SS’s privacy better than anyone and without anyone’s help! It was the same old trick, using SS’s privacy rights to their own benefit and to SS’s detriment.

The family told Stegbauer, with him his sidekick CN (of DMHS and thus required to protect NJ’s (1) citizens, not its institutional special interests to the detriment of those citizens), as long as SS was all right with Paul’s presence at the meeting, Stegbauer & Co. had no need to be concerned with who, why, … Paul there. Obviously, Stegbauer and even CN playing crooked were concerned, for reasons obvious, about outside parties being present in the room.

Stegbauer was to persist with his interrogation, wanting to know whether Paul was an attorney, a line of inquiry with which he only exposed himself to the limits. The family was to answer with a question, inquiring from Stegbauer whether he had given the family prior notice before inserting CC (1, 2), had he taken permission from SS (and his privacy rights) before bringing her into his affairs?

The worst in predatory America at work here! Eventually, BRMC (1) was to agree, to providing a DL&TP (1) and restoring SS’s weekend visits home. However, OS-SIS, were not convinced of any bonafides here. Too much hanky-panky had gone on, till the very last, the “capitulation” had came too pat and too sudden! … Still, they were utterly surprised when BRMC’s (1) fabricated (1, 2, 3) litigation came, for who would expect someone with its utterly foul record to dare approach the bar? Somehow SS and his family had not expected American justice to have gone so rotten, as it turned out in Escala’s court; somehow even with its political connections, the family felt BRMC (1) would not want its filthy record to become any matter of public knowledge.

After the meeting, the family hung around long enough for SS to get ready for his weekend visit home with them. When he returned, he brought along the DL&TP (1) letter, issued by Sonia Krupey, BRMC’s Program Director. The contents were absolute and useless nonsense, but OS-SIS, thrilled to be taking SS home after nearly ten months, for just then decided to set aside this DL&TP (1) matter. To be taken up in due course with BRMC (1) and others again.

SS was given the most marvelous weekend he yet had in America, over this weekend, of July 19-20th, 2003, at home with OS-SIS. On Sunday night, he was dropped back off at BRMC (1). Since, he was so anxious, to be home again the next weekend, he told OS-SIS he would complete formalities for it first thing the next, Monday, morning! He called home in the forenoon of July 21st, to say he had duly secured the “pass” for his next weekend’s visit home.

On Thursday morning, July 24th, (2003), SS called, from BRMC (1), in high panic and upset state, saying his weekend visit home had been cancelled. OS-SIS asked him, if he knew ‘why’, if he had asked ‘why’. …!?! “No” and “no” from Sanjay. … OS-SIS tried calming him, telling him they would find out what was going on. They put in a few insistent calls into SS’s social worker, TZ before he called back. To tell the family, SS’s visit home had been cancelled because he was abused again on his previous trip (weekend of July 19-20th, 2003, just gone by) home. When OS-SIS then asked, why was he given an okay on Monday, TZ quickly tried to change his tune, by saying SS himself did not want to go/visit home?!

All through this exchange, TZ was extremely edgy, pulling to get off the phone throughout. His discomfort thick and heavy, even coming across the phone so! When OS-SIS told him, he was making no sense and was simply talking “tommyrot” under the circumstances, he abruptly rung off.

OS and SIS decided they would visit the hospital the next day, letting SS know they would be doing so. In the evening, SS called again, saying Dr. K and TZ had shut themselves in a closed room with him all afternoon, dictating content to him to forcibly write and then sign. These documents were to appear in BRMC’s (1) fabricated (1, 2, 3) litigation just ahead, as purporting to show SS wanting to overthrow his POA (1), accusing his family of this and that, wanting to sever from OS-SIS, wanting AJ back in his life, … since all of which fabricated (1, 2, 3), no way for SS to be handed back to the family even at the end of the litigation coming. But, for right then, OS-SIS told SS they would be visiting the hospital the next morning.

Next morning Friday, (July 25, 2003), when OS-SIS called SS before leaving home, he was no where to be found. TZ not to be found either! OS-SIS left numerous messages at BRMC (1) Administration, no call back. … Nothing like this had ever happened before, even with all the nonsense that BRMC (1) had been churning for the past two years. OS-SIS decided to wait to hear from someone at the hospital, before leaving; particularly hear back from SS.

SS called around 3:00PM to say he had been forcibly taken/coerced to go to HK’s office at MHLP, to make a deposition style statement, with multiple BRMC (1) staff (TZ and other) and EV present. If SS had indeed gone over to the other side, as BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) were to shortly claim in court, why this deposition style transcript preparation for him? Who has ever heard of deposing people on their own side, except perhaps a “hostile” witness, which was no case here?

This was, prima facie, a crude set-up coercing SS to say all kinds of things against himself in writing, then later suppress (1, 2, 3) his production and testimony in court, gagging and preventing him from rebutting all that he had been forced to say on paper for the court. Of course, could not be done without a pre-arranged favorable judicial bench, willing to bend due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18), conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13), … rules, secured (Escala); no big shakes for a county or state to arrange at all.

The point with those trying to be too clever-by-half, they invariably, sooner or later, end up shooting themselves in the foot. In this “deposition” coerced out of SS, presiding crook HK, in a portfolio of questions posed and to which SS required to provide answers given him by his abductors, missed spotting one critical question SS answered honestly and truly, not o dictation. When asked whether during the making of his POA (1), he had understood its contents, agreed with its contents and signed the instrument of his own volition, SS had provided a resounding “Y-E-S” as his answer.

SS also reported that he was also compelled to take a call from AJ, calling from UK, say to him, he wanted AJ to participate in his affairs! Dead give away; no way would SS ever sever from family (particularly OS) and no way would he agree to deal with AJ of his own free will! No way! This was why HK, before being ejected out of the July 18th, 2003 meeting, was demanding AJ’s address in the UK from the family. To set up an alibi to spring AJ out into the open, as OS had suspected on-the-spot on that day itself.

So, here was evidence AJ had been hiding in the wings all of the previous two years, harassing SS as the latter had reported to the family. During the litigation, OS repeatedly challenged the shyster CC (1, 2) to explain how AJ suddenly excavated out of thin air between July 18th and this July 25th, 2003, SHE COULD/WOULD NEVER ANSWER! Q.E.D!

No way would SS have given the crooks, of his free will, any of the writing coerced out of him for BRMC’s (1) patently fabricated (1, 2, 3) action at bar! As his statement given Paul, dated July 29th. 2003 (not 2002) also demonstrates.

OS-SIS told SS not to be upset, they will handle matters. They had hardly put the phone down, when someone called back from BRMC (1) (or CC’s (1, 2) office) to say a suit had been filed that day against OS-SIS and all BRMC (1) staff off limits to them/OS-SIS. Before latter could ask anything, the cradle at the other end dropped in its resting place. Typical cowards!

SS was told immediately. Kept abreast, copiously, ahead! … All this detail, somewhat minute, essential to demonstrate the corruption that occurred, its scale and complexion, … Otherwise, OS-SIS made sure of entering, all the turns and twists of the opposition, Escala, … everyone’s corruption, into the record. Diligently, carefully and in certain copious detail! The more these parties corrupted, the more devoted their campaign to at least key in a full blown and extensive record. OS-SIS’s facts and arguments, merits contested, were to remain singularly undisputed by the opposition throughout.

CC’s (1, 2) would dare not put anything on paper in response to OS-SIS going after her for knowingly bringing fabricated (1, 2, 3) action(s) to the bar. Never ever filed any answering papers, what she filed affirmatively herself mediocre to incompetent, fabricated (1, 2, 3), … She made some weak protests in the nature of “ad hominem” attacks, but when OS-SIS read her the riot act with respect to law(s) of defamation (truth being a spontaneous defense), she retreated. The *itch!

OS-SIS were to have these parties so mired and tied-up in knots, they quite reliably learnt over the grapevine BRMC (1) fired Stegbauer for taking enclosed matters to court and then standing on fabrications alone. Likewise, Escala tried to bridle in fake fashion, endeavoring to impress-intimidate by accusing OS-SIS of disrespecting the court/him, but they simply held firm to their repeated demands for his recusal.

Before we launch into the litigation section, as just immediately below/infra, the story within is a quintessential American story of our times, full of corruption, towering human dysfunction, dripping in predatory excess, toxic to the very touch, … American business, politics, law, … pertinent values, all gone to pot, most of all because the underlying “human commodity” gone awfully sloppy at one end and utterly berserk at the other! Open season for …!

All SS was looking for was someone, who could help, to LISTEN, but see where things taken by those not to behave sensibly, with restraint and free of the fever of being ruled by some branch of avarice!?! Then, who indeed the “crazy” one, SS or America!?!

CASE 1:

This “Case 1” is the SS related litigation, the one we are really concerned with. The next “Case 2”, relating to the family’s home, pertinent on account of (a) the vicious and punitive corruption Escala brought forth here, for OS-SIS standing up to him in case 1 and (b) the continuing high standards of corruption advanced by opposition parties/their attorneys in this action. Both cases very strong contenders for premier slices of America Corruption, Inc. Minute details given only to capture the full flavor of this luxurious fiesta of American corruption.

Right out at the opening bell itself CC (1, 2) earned her title, of b*tch! Once the family received CC (1, 2)/ BRMC’s (1) Order to Show Cause and complaint, around the 28th or 29th instant, learnt of the preliminary hearing for the 30th or 31st, a mere 2 or three days later. CC’s (1, 2) papers were marked, by name, to then Judge Marguerite T. Simon/ “Simon” (1), Head of the Chancery Division.

The family, under the circumstances, asked CC (1, 2) for a week’s adjournment of the preliminary hearing; she was to ask the family for an undertaking to vanish permanently from SS’s life, as her price for agreeing to the requested adjournment. American corruption on display at its very best! Can the family be blamed for finding her for rhyming with *ITCH (pardon)!?!

Otherwise, since Simon (1), no less corrupt, degraded than CC (1, 2), was away on her honeymoon, the case ended up in Escala’s lap/court. With Simon, he made up the, two judge, Chancery Division.

CC’s (1, 2) suit/“BRMC-(1)_suit” was dripping with fabrications, brought to the bar so knowingly, Documents coerced out of SS on July 24th, 2003, with Dr. K and TZ dictating and coercing, figured prominently. As did his coerced “deposition” from July 25th, 2003 morning in HK’s office! … sandcastle erections anywhere except in Escala’s heavily prejudiced court … Then there was the piece de resistance, AJ’s cowardly affidavit falsely accusing the family/OS-SIS of abusing SS! … A regular rat pack, not the Sinatra fun- seeking type either, festival!

“… And, finally, the court is made up of lawyers: Nobody wants to think about lawyers, who, whether conservative or liberal, tend just to obstruct and befoul.” - How to Knock Off a Justice or Two (1, 2)

These were all actual sewer rats, sorry to say, AJ the supreme one for targeting the family, especially when the shoe firmly on his own foot. He stood on another’s shoulder to vault over and across, never reached back to pull the rest/others up with him, never put his shoulder to the family JV wheel, … indeed shut the door behind him on others, as FLOTUS particularly would put it. See also what Justice Sonia Sotomayor has to say on this issue: 1, 2.

AJ’s hooliganism is no one’s courage or manhood! America’s current state no and no one’s civilization!

Escala’s court was at first an unexpected farce, then an expected one all the way to the end! When he became entirely predictable, he was to be at the height of his corruption,

There is no other way to characterize this case but as ready-made travesty of justice. Borne of designed corruption by Escala from the bench!. Conceived and executed in infamy, predicated upon CC’s (1, 2) audacious fabrications knowingly brought to the bar, it was adjudicated dripping with visible corruption designed nakedly by Escala to suit a NJ (1) special and high profile interest, in BRMC (1).

AJ’s predisposed prejudice was apparent from the very outset. Perhaps emboldened by the family’s Pro Se status, he was uniformly audacious and obvious of his considerable extra-judicial agenda from the bench. Indeed, crudely showing his hand so all through. There is no way to mistake Escala as the most potent predator stalking/1, 2, 3 and disaffecting SS and his rights, once the underlying litigation was underway. Escala’s transparency being a protruding insult to the family’s intelligence!

Otherwise, his orgy of due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) suppression (1, 2, 3) and alienation as dastardly as anything to be seen anywhere! Surpassed only by the obscene display of undisguised subversion of justice dished out lavishly by his arbitrary adjudication(s) in the end!

At the opening hearing, on July 31, 2003 or thereabouts, Escala opened his dastardly innings, indiscriminately granting temporary restraints on the operating effect of SS’s POA (1), against established case law/precedent. Patermoster v Schuster, 296 N.J. Super 544 (1, 2) states unequivocally:

Temporary Relief/ “TRO” (1) must be withheld when legal right(s) underlying plaintiff’s claim is unsettled.

Preliminary Injunctions/“PRO” (1) cannot ensue where all underlying facts are controverted, as the case within.

Fact that SS was on no docket at this first hearing, by itself was enough that no TRO (1) should have been granted. After all, his rights were at issue and if he is not on any docket, then no TRO (1) could ensue/ Otherwise, BRMC (1) had to sue SS (not OS and/or SIS), simply because his POA (1) was at issue. Thus, Escala patently wrong in issuing TRO (1): no Guardian Ad Litem/ “GAL”/IK should have been appointed, OS-SIS not have been restrained, Escala should not have said he was not going to get into SS’s treatment matters (when same were at the crux of these injunctive issues and indeed the entire controversy within), he should not have relied on the conclusory statements of BRMC (1) doctors SS was being caused irreparable harm because of BRMC’s (1) restrictive environment but called for independent experts (acceptable to OS-SIS), …

The real reason for delay in SS being discharged from BRMC (1) was first turfing, then its own failure to accept SS’s POA (1) and issue SS a DL&TP (1) he was entitled to by right. Not OS or SIS, but Escala’s own corruption and cowardice from the bench (politically serving its paymaster, NJ (1)), BRMC (1) and its co-conspirators, responsible for short-shrifting SS’s rights. OS and SIS not restrained, BRMC (1) compelled.

No showing of fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) and/or abuse by OS-SIS, why restraints on them and GAL/IK appointed? Why was SS not presented in court to speak for himself (not just here, but vehemently and copiously suppressed (1, 2, 3) all through)? Escala himself certified SS competent and well! SS had no issue with OS-SIS ever. BRMC (1) without standing to ask for GAL …

The real reason why BRMC (1)/CC’s (1, 2) would not sue SS was, it would have meant releasing SS from its grasp, to spill all the beans on all their fabrications and speak contrary to what they were representing his wishes to be. … A regular bitch of an insidious campaign at work!

And boy, were the facts controverted!, for the PRO’s (1)consideration. SS did not want to be discharged from BRMC (1) without a DL&TP (1) and did not want to exit his POA (1), as the documents, manufactured by Dr. K and TZ dictating and coercing SS on July 24th, 2003 (or thereabouts) and knowingly filed at bar by CC’s (1, 2), claimed he did. As the “deposition” style document manufactured in HK’s office the AM of July 25th, 2003 claimed too. AJ’s affidavit was false! … OS and SIS contested all the material facts with bearing on the request for a PRO (1). No PRO (1) should have ensued either.

They stressed to Escala the opposition’s entire foundations of facts forged and fabricated (1, 2, 3) brazenly, SS brought in to testify would clarify, clear same without any problem at all. They also stressed that BRMC (1) was suing the wrong party, needing to sue SS (whose POA (1) was being objected to) and not OS-SIS. Moreover, BRMC (1) out of order, suing on SS’s behalf, since it bore an adversarial/conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) bearing relationship with SS.

When OS and SIS retuned home from this hearing, there was a message from SS on their answering machine. Left in high panic: “Where are you, where are you!?!” When OS-SIS called and spoke to him, he told them he had spoken to TZ about attending that day’s hearing, in order to tell Escala he had authorized no one to move the courts on his behalf for A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G! TZ had refused to facilitate his/SS’s attending court.

While OS-SIS still talking to SS so, there was a sudden/abrupt exclamation from SS and then a loud argument with someone in the background! Then sounds of a scuffle, then SS’s voice receding, … before the phone clicked off. SS trussed up and hauled off so, thanks to Escala’s truculent and indefensible TRO (1). Just the previous day or so/July 29, 2003, SS had called in a statement to Paul, saying things similar to all that he had just said on the phone, which OS-SIS had presented to the rogue Escala in court that day.

DID ANY OF THIS LOOK LIKE HE HAD PROBLEMS WITH HIS POA (1) AND WANTED IT OVERTURNED, WANTED TO BREAK WITH OS-SIS, … the rest of what the BRMC (1)- CC’s (1, 2) crooks saying on his behalf as his wishes (while holding him captive and gagging/suppressing (1, 2, 3) him silly), but actually only theirs! This is the kind of scheme being rolled out in Escala’s court with his ready connivance, diabolical yet transparent and trigger easy to spot! JUST IMAGINE THIS, S-E-E-D-Y, STATE OF EVEN AMERICAN JUSTICE, IN OUR TIMES!

Even for the second hearing (on August 31st, 2003 or thereabouts), SS still not properly on any docket! Opposition did not cure related deficiencies at all in the intervening month since the first hearing. Though BRMC (1)-CC (1, 2)-MHLP coerced a complaint showing SS, captive and coerced, suing OS, SIS and BRMC (1) under a separate docket.

Just to get SS on ‘a”, ‘some’ docket! Yet, this was not the required and inescapable BRMC (1) suing SS, whose POA (1) was at issue. Moreover, this complaint/docket/““SS”_suit”, which was really and not at all SS’s action anyway but BRMC (1)-CC (1, 2)-MHLP coercing a captive SS to issue one for purposes-wishes not SS’s either but actually only their own, pleaded the same five causes of action, only as to OS and SIS, as the earlier BRMC-(1)_suit (BRMC (1) v OS, SIS). However, not by pleading these “five” within the four corners of “SS”_suit (SS v BRMC (1), OS, SIS) but by pointing to them, external to itself, in BRMC-(1)_suit. Thus, making it insufficient as a matter of law, spontaneously dismissible on the spot!

As to BRMC (1), this “SS”_suit, pleaded no causes of action at all, merely setting up an unacceptable “dummy null” face-off between SS and BRMC (1), as no substitute for BRMC (1) needing to inescapably sue SS, amending BRMC-(1)_suit. As such, both BRMC-(1)_suit and “SS”_suit needing to be sua sponte dismissed by Escala, towards which OS-SIS even filed an [unopposed] motion to dismiss summarily, at the very outset.

All these, heavy-duty, convulsion/corruption just to avoid BRMC (1) suing SS, merely to avoid having to cut SS loose imperatively as a consequence. Otherwise combining/merging BRMC-(1)_suit (BRMC (1) v OS, SIS) and “SS”_suit (SS v BRMC (1), OS, SIS) had the weird and anomalous effect of BRMC (1) on the same and opposing side from OS-SIS at the same time, … as an acceptable asymmetry?!

Escala in not dismissing “SS”_suit sua sponte at the very outset, was to be deployed by him to proliferate corruption intra-proceedings for an entire year, before dismissing it in the end. And here is the kicker of corruption galore and freewheeling, even then he dismissed this “SS”_suit, for insufficiency, only as to BRMC (1), but not OS- SIS! How does any bench do that, how can Escala summarily dismiss an action, for legal insufficiency, as to some defendant(s) and not others???????? CAN THERE BE ANY GREATER PROOF OF Escala’s, READY-WITTED AND DESIGNED, PREJUIDICE, CORRUPTION, EXTRA-JUDICIAL AGENDA, ARBITRARY FOOTPRINT(S), …????????

Once more, Escala too went and allowed these apparently, palpably strange, twisted and unlawful pathways was to avoid having BRMC (1) sue SS, replacing OS-SIS, in turn to side-step BRMC (1) et al. having to cut SS loose. Thereby, have him expose all the fabrications that the {wrong] side he was supporting had brought brazenly to the bar; precisely emboldened by favorably pre-assured them by Simon, Escala, the Bergen County, NJ (1) Chancery Division! Even without all this, on account of their opposition to SS’s POA (1), and BRMC (1), MHLP, … bore obvious conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) with SS!

GAL/IK improperly appointed! MHLP prohibited from representing SS, by both the TRO (1) and PRO (1) alike, yet HK allowed to attend all meetings right to the very end! GAL/IK and MHLP/HK go gunning for OS-SIS as heavy-handed hoodlums, while OS-SIS questionably restrained from any contact with them!?! … Whatever the case maybe, all the weird stuff being allowed to proliferate, CC (1, 2) -BRMC (1) running the whole opposition shown, over OS-SIS’s protests of the presence of conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13), due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) failures coming out of the ears in all directions, SS’s interests and rights being represented by NO ONE at all, ….

Was Escala running a bonafide legal/judicial action at bar or a soap-opera, worse still, if not The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A whorehouse in Hackensack, NJ!?! Just take a gander at all that Escala, frivolously, restrained in his little loosey-goosey handiwork of a PRO (1)! Rubberstamping CC (1, 2) -BRMC (1), hook, like and sinker, pedaling unvarnished street level mucky-muck, as far removed from anything resembling the Rule of Law/1-2 (3-4-5-6 7, 8-9-10-11,-12-13-14-15) or the business of justice. Justice simply subverted by connivance and design!

Moreover, no showing, of abuse or fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5), made to disqualify OS and SIS from holding SS’s powers under the POA (1). CC (1, 2) tried to argue OS and SIS’s interested in SS’s negligible SSI, which Escala was to shoot down on his own as patently ridiculous. OS and SIS spent ten times more per month on SS than his SSI worth/amount! The ever fabricating CC (1, 2) even invented purely fictional trust accounts for SS in OS and SIS’s handling, even calling for the imposition of a “constructive trust”, to make same look real before Escala. Even sent her goons (GAL/IK and MHLP/HK) to intimidate OS and SIS into surrendering related information (non-existent), while, knowingly, working a patent ruse!

OS and SIS had to take the battle hammer and tongs, to this far-gone opposition, before its/mainly CC’s (1, 2) escalating intimidation tactics stopped. They had to turn the tables around by putting these crooked parties themselves squarely in the docket. After all the world’s jerking around of OS-SIS, when they caught hold of her tail, she was to go wailing to daddy Escala about ad hominem attacks! Only to be taught a refresher course in the legal definition of “defamation: truth as an absolute defense to it, by OS-SIS.

When there was no showing of any fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) or abuse on the part of OS and SIS, there was no reason or need for appointing a GAL, IK! One of CC’s (1, 2) other “causes of action” was for Escala to appoint MHLP as SS’s attorneys, when both BRMC (1) and MHLP, in opposing his POA (1), bore ready made conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) with SS. Plus they were all holding him captive, all gagged and suppressed (1, 2, 3) back on BRMC’s (1) premises! due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) and conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) failures galore! CC (1, 2) running the entire opposition effort, was a prima facie bogus representation of SS’s rights and interests. No representation!

The idea of all this was to bamboozle and intimidate OS and SIS, erect a fortress, of MHLP as SS’s attorneys (even though they had been discharged by OS-SIS as well as SS) and the GAL/IK controlled as his go-between, to gag, suppress (1, 2, 3) and abduct him right there in Escala’s court. Sever him emphatically from OS-SIS, his only true champions! … Thus, leave his interests and rights, while the opposition co-conspirators, allowed to speak for SS all the way, representing what they wanted as SS’s wishes (sic). … Except they had not expected OS-SIS to put up the very competent, robust and “carry it back to them” fight they did, which put a kink in their dirty works.

Except at this first hearing (on July 31st, 2003 or thereabouts), Escala not knowing OS and SIS’s legal skills, cast a die which would come back to haunt him, but of course he made SS and OS-SIS pay for it (with SS’s now decade long and still counting abduction). By advancing to all his hanky-panky on that very first day/hearing, Escala found himself in a trap of his own making. By the time he found OS-SIS competent in court, though he placed some brakes on himself, basically he had already set his, dirty, course.

So, like the besmirched opposition, he was to spend the rest of the litigation trying to extricate himself, while also pushing the dirty works he was committed to from the very outset. This is what accounts for all the messy events this litigation littered with. Had he been noticed of OS-SIS’s legal acumen from the get go, he would probably have finessed his corruption better, making it less angular and protruding. Less obvious, even though the amount of corruption shoveled by the opposition and Escala combined, hard to disguise under all circumstances.

BRMC-(1)_suit ultimately tabled five “causes of action:

Injunctive Relief: Already discussed above/supra, TRO (1) and PRO (1). Patermoster v Schuster, 296 N.J. Super 544 (1, 2) telling clearly Escala should have ensued. In fact BRMC-(1)_suit sua sponte dismissed since SS, not OS-SIS, needing to be sued; “SS”_suit because same was insufficient as a matter of law, had been coerced out of SS held captive – which needed to be verified by having SS produced and testifying in court (under due cross-examination), this suit having given OS-SIS even greater [legal] powers to have SS deposed and testifying personally (in the TRO (1) and by accepting this action, Escala had found him competent to attend court), …

Declaring the POA invalid: The POA (1) existing in strict privity between SS and OS-SIS! No role in there for anyone, not even for Escala, to interfere in anyway/ In fact, the opposition and Escala, by so interfering, for respective and joint, ulterior motives, the ones who actually toyed with SS’s rights and interests, monumentally. By imposing their own, foul, needs, to bespoil SS’s rights and interests. Letting their narcissism work to his enormous detriment! … Soiling and indeed desecrating the Constitution hugely, in the process, too! No one to unilaterally enter SS’s sanctified private domain or pierce the existing privity!

Yes, BRMC (1), anyone else able to move, for such invalidation, on [genuine] grounds of public policy. However, the, public policy, case the crook Escala made in his final judgment/adjudication (1), a spontaneously faulty and scurrilous one. While we will discuss and argue this more fully below/infra, let it be briefly stated here, the Thirteenth Amendment permits both “servitude” and “voluntary servitude”, what it frowns upon is only “involuntary servitude”(see: final judgment/adjudication (1)). Moreover, the relationship between SS and OS-SIS, within the larger confines of a family context, as further defined by the POA (1) pertinent relationship decidedly does not meet any criteria of [legal] servitude per se either. Escala (and the NJ Appellate Court/“SCNJ_AD” (1), as well) cannot invent his (their) own definition of “[legal] servitude” to suit their arbitrary and corrupt purposes, meant to serve and satisfy their paymaster, NJ (1). SCOTUS has a lengthy and comprehensive case law profile (to be highlighted below/infra) defining what constitutes “[legal] servitude”, what Escala and the SCNJ_AD (1) homespun for their extra-judicial agenda of the instant is not it. They should not have proceeded without consulting and adopting same, but of-course they would, since a scam and hoary corruption alone was what they had sighted, deciding this matter.

BRMC (1) could not ask for this//no standing, in SS’s pure private domain, based on BRMC-(1)_suit/anything. Otherwise, could not either, for bearing an undeniable conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) laden/dripping relationship with SS. Besides, this action worthy of sua sponte dismissal, based on SS needing to replace OS-SIS as defendant on the docket, all these, five, “causes of action’, individually and severally, dismissible on the merits, …. “SS”_suit inoperative and in-actionable, insufficient as a matter of law, could not proceed (even if amended) without SS produced and testifying!

Compelling an Accounting: Escala himself, sua sponte, shot CC’s (1, 2) claims, of SS’s paltry SSI being any sound motivation and incentive for OS-SIS to want to hang on to SS’s POA (1) powers, right out of the sky. OS-SIS holding some actual trust accounts belonging to SS was sheer fabrication and fiction, even though Escala provided for it in PRO (1), this issue was a non-starter, from the outset and throughout, too, Once, OS and SIS had soundly thrashed and beaten back CC’s (1, 2), GAL/IK and MHLP/HK, goons, both the opposition and Escala dropped this issue post haste. Let it die, untouched, where it stood, defeated! Thus, there was, strong and affirmative, showing to be made as to no fraud/1 (2-3. 4-5) or abuse possible to ascribe to OS and/or SIS in operating SS’s powers under the POA (1)! Defeating any need for any GAL/IK, who should not have been appointed in the first place, at this juncture dismissed. Likewise, where there was never any need for appointing MHLP/HK as SS’s attorneys, they had already been discharged, based on their conflicted status vis-a-vis SS they were disqualified at the starting line itself, … now, with OS and SIS proven qualified to represent (yet Escala was never to remove the restraints put on them by both the TRO (1) and PRO (1)), more than ever a case for not only not allowing MHLP/HK to be SS’s attorneys, but actually booting these parties from attending the given proceedings.

BRMC (1) could not ask for this//no standing, in SS’s pure private domain, based on BRMC-(1)_suit/anything. Otherwise, could not either, for bearing an undeniable conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) laden/dripping relationship with SS. Besides, this action worthy of sua sponte dismissal, based on SS needing to replace OS-SIS as defendant on the docket, all these, five, “causes of action’, individually and severally, dismissible on the merits, …. “SS”_suit inoperative and in-actionable, insufficient as a matter of law, could not proceed (even if amended) without SS produced and testifying!

Creation of a Constructive Trust: See “Compelling an Accounting”, above/supra.

Recognizing MHLP for representing SS: In both the TRO (1) and PRO (1), Escala sua sponte denied this. Though MHLP/HK still allowed to attend the proceedings (what happened to BRMC (1)- CC (1, 2)’s concern (sic) and agitation (sic) for SS’s privacy rights?)????????

BRMC (1) could not ask for this//no standing, in SS’s pure private domain, based on BRMC-(1)_suit/anything. Otherwise, could not either, for bearing an undeniable conflict of interest/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (10, 11, 12, 13) laden/dripping relationship with SS. Besides, this action worthy of sua sponte dismissal, based on SS needing to replace OS-SIS as defendant on the docket, all these, five, “causes of action’, individually and severally, dismissible on the merits, …. “SS”_suit inoperative and in-actionable, insufficient as a matter of law, could not proceed (even if amended) without SS produced and testifying!

GAL/IK at this, second (1), hearing, was solidly in the opposition’s camp, one sensibly concludes upon

Escala’s prompting or example …! Judges in American courts can exercise enormous control and sway over attorneys before them, unlike elsewhere, e,g, the UK. He promised to have SS in court, at this second (1), hearing, but abruptly reneged just the day before. Leaving OS-SIS with no time at alternatives!

At the hearing (1), he sat with the opposition block, on the other side of the aisle. Before this hearing (1), OS-SIS had met him in his office, but then did not speak to them. Would not look in their direction, deliberately avoiding …! The whole thing with all the appearances of having been, affirmatively, buttonholed, tight shut! So much for America, the land of the free, political “curtains” only in other countries …! This was the American legal system and justice on display, at its corrupt best …!

All the hanky-panky going on, corruption at SS’s expense, IK did not object to any of it, ONCE! When later, OS-SIS were to take his corruption to task, in their filed pleadings, he was to go so defensive as to reveal their assessment true. So defensive as to begin “talking” gibberish! Since, he had no well known Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) to his name to quote, offered having done some stray coursework at Columbia Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) as his defense! As if attending a major Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) was an acceptable defense whether one prone to corruption or not!?!

GAL/IK was the one, who at this hearing (1) told Escala, standing-up, SS and OS-SIS could not be allowed to reunite! His reasons, given, offering the best clue openly provided, as to why SS abducted and now detained for ten plus years. Tells Escala, if OS-SIS so allowed, they are bound t reinstate SS’s POA (1), even if Escala, strikes same down. Also, the best evidence yet, Escala, and the opposition et al. perfectly informed SS’s POA (1) perfectly valid in law. People giving themselves away in unguarded moments! Judges and other legal professionals not to be concerned so, if they believed and held SS’s POA (1) actually invalid in law.

IK was also to parrot, verbatim, to Escala something inane AJ used to say to the family any opportunity he got. Unable to find anything really wrong with OS-SIS’s handling of SS, he would say, promoting his misplaced agenda against the family when the shoe was on the other foot, they were wrong in advocating “discipline” to SS. This was as much forced quibbling, as it was an excuse to be given himself, for abandoning the “discipline” of his legal, JV, duties.

The “inane” part is significant, the opposition pedaling AJ’s inane gibberish a measurement of how deeply involved it was with him and vice versa! Indeed , OS-SIS quite sure AJ the one who gave the idea of severing SS from the family, an ancient pursuit of his upon being, justifiably, tossed out of the family. Not to reform himself, but to go to such lengths of misconduct and even “insanity”!

Otherwise, discipline was precisely what SS, as well as AJ, needed. SS agreed, he knew his mental problems came from not having made himself mentally tough to negotiate disappointment and adversity successfully, even though AJ’s frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) causing undue delay in SS’s affairs receiving timely handling, AJ of course knew better too, he was, with his inanities, merely milking America’s highly permissive, spoilt, entitled/1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (6), … culture, in order to continue defrauding/1 (2-3. 4-5) his JV, duties, pushing his misplaced agenda and designs of attrition against the family!

Both AJ and SS were physically messy and undisciplined too, as in AJ given to dropping clothes where taken off, highly disorderly study and works table(s), … the whole gamut, where OS-SIS went the other day. … At any rate, deploying AJ’s inane sayings GAL/IK signaled how deeply the opposition involved with AJ, how far prepared to go by way of adopting his rancid campaign, against the family, to its own advantage. As AJ’s pursuits of breaking up the family (using his younger siblings as pawns in his deranged existence, without helping them in anyway either) suited the predatory opposition’s coincidental plans to anyhow sever SS from his family for doing its will with him …!

GAL/IK combining with MHLP/HK, was to act as a goon and intimidating thug, posing to get information from OS-SIS about trust accounts belonging to SS they knew perfectly well did not exist, pursuing “constructive trust” matters based in the residual only on SS’s SSI, ....! All pure bull**** (pardon), in other words, but Escala giving it credence, … actual legs to stand on (sic)? Until OS-SIS to take up a big-stick, even to the rogue Escala, no one to S-T-O-P trying to simply intimidate SS’s family into going away. …

When OS-SIS first complained to Escala about all the corruption afoot, at that point not including him yet, he had the unmitigated temerity to tell them: “As officers of the law, they [CC (1, 2), MHLP/HK, GAL/IK, …] were inherently incapable of corruption!” (sic). OS-SIS could not help reminding him Richard Milhous Nixon was an [top Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6); Duke; otherwise he also turned down Harvard College for Whittier College in account of family responsibility] attorney, Spiro Theodore Agnew (who, incidentally, attended Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6) in the evenings/nights, which AJ asked to do too) one too, as were William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton [from Yale Law] who were “involved” in the Whitewater controversy, All the impeachment investigations of United States Federal Judges (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), …

Escala’s court a regular “Vomitorium”, as coined in the Two And A Half Men - Season: 4 Episode: 15 - My Damn Stalker (1), Later in one of the, upcoming, Case Management Conferences, Escala, frustrated at not being allowed an easy passage for his corrupt disposition of the litigation at hand by face off with OS-SIS showing competent legal skills, was even to say “This case will decide my legacy on the bench (paraphrased)!”(1, 2)! An obvious reference and oblique admission to all his corruption being freely tendered, by way of concern and acknowledgement OS-SIS were going to expose it all bare.

It is a function of CC’s (1, 2) advanced capacity for unadulterated corruption, she obviously used her inside track with Simon (to whom her earliest filings were personally marked) and Escala (who got the case only because Simon was on her honeymoon and was to shortly thereafter resign/retire, leaving him heading the Bergen County, NJ (1) Superior Court Chancery Division), that she would refer to SS’s perfectly legal SS’s POA (1) “a moral and legal outrage (paraphrased)” in her opening papers at bar.

Why she needed to be found rhyming with “itch” itch (1, 2)! When Escala was sweating bullets and expressing elevated concerns about his legacy on the bench! When even the super rogue and wretched MHLP/HK compelled to acknowledge and concede OS-SIS and their court/legal performance “highly smart and exceptional”!

When CC (1, 2) herself waxing less than mediocrity to start with, found herself so terrified/petrified of OS-SIS’s pleadings/argued merits, she would not dispute them at all, would not even file any opposing papers at all at any time, ran for the hills refusing to join issue with them anywhere, anytime, any how, making a beeline for Escala complaining/whining of OS-SIS’s “ad hominem” stock taken of her when only just before she had been oozing distilled hoodlum intimidation tactics showered/rained on OS-SIS (including trying to crowbar their permanent disappearance from SS’s life as a criminal’s price for a few day’s adjournment to the opening hearing, … When GAL/IK, immediately following the PRO (1) hearing was to accost OS-SIS in the courthouse parking lot outside, to say he wanted them to stay scrupulously distanced and away from him!....

These were all cowards, hulking and supercilious cowards! How do we know that? By the size of their runaway corruption! Pussy, pusillanimous cowards! Study of AJ’s, extensively, worthless example and life having made us all gigantic experts and authority figures on this subject of corruption and cowardice going hand-in-hand forever. Never to be decoupled, because they were opposite sides of the same coin, There to be not even any fleeting doubt or reservation, Escala a mighty, mighty cowardly warrior, on behalf of the seething corruption that he occupied exhaustively, too! Corruption does nothing but breed cowardice, cowardice to deliver us nowhere except only into the arms of corruption alone.

What Escala and the opposition enacted relatedly in a courtroom at the Superior Court of NJ (Bergen County Vicinage), 2003 to 2004,, a microcosm of contemporary dysfunctional America at large gone berserk, which was to shortly discharge, scattershot and in all directions like the familiar mushroom cloud more germane to an atomic outburst, in the meltdown which opened up in September 2008 and continues to reverberate to this day. Corruption home to stay, roost in America, making a cozy nest within its folds for the long haul! Of too, too many small and cowardly types, to America’s dismay, consternation and detriment!

SS’s abduction eerily similar to the “Sean Goldman” case! Whereas, cumulatively NJ (1) the abductor in the enclosed case and the maternal Brazilian family in Sean’s case, whereas NJ,, USA (1) courts corrupting the Rule of Law/1-2 (3-4-5-6 7, 8-9-10-11,-12-13-14-15) and perverting justice in one case and Brazilian in the other, … essentially they are similar cases. Rule of Law/1-2 (3-4-5-6 7, 8-9-10-11,-12-13-14-15) and justice subverted not just by the interested parties, but ultimately by the extra-judicial willingness of the courts serving only those, powerful, interests!

Both involve long term detention of the party concerned by brute force and corrupt will, In the end, break through in Sean’s case realized through public exposure and pressure, including the US State Department and even the White House.

No category of corruption left unturned in the case within. On hearing days, while waiting, CC (1, 2) to be found constantly accessing Escala’s chambers, brazenly in the open and full view of OS-SIS, taken as uninformed lay people and country bumpkin. While they could, even without attending Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6), on personal-private scholarship and an instinct for the law, teach the best of admitted attorneys a thing or two about it. No attempt at any boast, but such natural feel for the law presupposes a certain rigorous general honesty and penchant for fair-play in life! Duly aided by a sense of self respect and personal integrity which does not bend to expediency! …

As such, not only CC (1, 2) seeking ex parte contact with Escala, but the slippery latter constantly allowing it. OS-SIS received constant feelings, through the litigation, CC (1, 2) uniformly having such prohibited contact, plotting with Escala. Nothing they could strictly put their fingers on, yet they were also to take note of concrete instances. While Escala reserved high fluted lectures for OS-SIS, not only on this specific subject but the general, elevated, tenor within which law needing to be practiced.

He too took OS-SIS for fools and/or the uninformed, for he also conducted his corruption in full, open, view of them. Not until OS-SIS exhibited their sophistication and insistently climbed on to his dastardly back for recusing back, did he withdraw relatedly and then too while throwing temper tantrums galore in frustration, administering undeserved tongue lashings gratuitously to OS-SIS that properly belonged deservingly only for his own sorry and twisted hide. Author(s) within will relate those “concrete instances” of ex parte misconduct by Escala, even the NJ Appellate Court/SCNJ_AD (1), at appropriate junctures below/infra.

OS-SIS, in their answer/“SS-OS-SIS_Answer” to BRMC-(1)_suit duly included counterclaims, spelling out the entire body of BRMC’s (1), pre-litigation, corruption, amounting to malpractice and more. Included the fabricating misconduct support (SS coerced by Dr. K and TZ manufacturing documents suitable to the opposition) in bringing BRMC-(1)_suit to the bar. The swine Escala was either to pretend being unaware or just completely ignore all of OS-SIS’s filings throughout, even though plainly unopposed and undisputed by the opposition, Escala himself could and did not [dare] ever join issue with, …

He was to at one point, context forgotten, to state “I am not going to get into any of the issues pertaining to SS’s treatment (paraphrased)”, when those issues were at the heart of the controversy pertinent!?! After he issued his crooked PRO (1), out of hand ordering SS’s release from BRMC (1) without holding trial, when OS-SIS put his feet to the fire relatedly and inquired about his sense, point to holding trial when he had already so “let the horse out of the stable”, he merely looked back silently within an owlish, buffoon of an expression on his face.

Other tactics used by him, acting as a very poor “old hockey fake-out” but still deploying of the “oldest trick(s) in the book”, to avoid tackling SS-OS-SIS’s irresistible merits was to sweepingly, in sheer conclusory fashion, label their pleadings vague, incomprehensible, rambling, irrelevant, bloviated, prolific, … For one, Escala was told their papers were prolific, if they were, only because OS-SIS had to preserve everyone’s (Escala, the opposition, … others’ alike) lengthy spate and rash of corruption on the record. However, this piece of copious corruption incarnate had nothing at all to say about the “ten” ton weighing and profusely fabricated (1, 2, 3) bulk of unadulterated refuse CC (1, 2) had filed as her opening gambit, craven and fraudulent/1 (2-3. 4-5), at bar, no P-R-O-L-I-F-I-C occurring to him or figuring in him otherwise loaded vocabulary! This was the very kind of object that the adjective for whom the adjective shyster invented, very purposefully!

Otherwise, the law required of Escala to sift through the pleadings, without making any excuses, to locate SS-OS-SIS’s merits, which were in fact obvious, apparent and irresistible on their face! Lastly, if SS-OS-SIS’s pleadings, arguments, merits frivolous as Escala seeming to imply, why did he not ever formally dismiss them sua sponte!?! But of course, he dare not, would have meant making his prejudice even more apparent than he had already made it, more than abundantly.

SS-OS-SIS_Answer was also deployed to endeavor flushing AJ out. CC (1, 2) would, indeed could, not explain how he was abruptly, with super-speed, excavated between July 18th and July 25th, 2003, in time to supply his false affidavit(s) against OS-SIS and play other hanky-panky in the open!?! Thus, SS-OS-SIS_Answer not only asked he/his corruption be joined as a necessary party to the proceedings, but without referencing the family’s suit in NY against him his present, aggravated and advanced, misconduct be used to order him back to his JV duties. The idea was if he used arguments of Collateral Estoppel and Res Judicata to fend off same, SS-OS-SIS to argue his continued misconduct against the family so shocking as to deny him those benefits, of interjecting those, Collateral Estoppel and Res Judicata, defenses.

No doubt, only this part of SS-OS-SIS’s strategy, rather far fetched, but between flushing him out and putting him on the defensive, something to go by vis-a-vis him. As an, aggressive, defensive measure pertaining to him, if you like!

Similarly, “SS”_suit was answered/“OS-SIS_Answer” to, by way of stressing its inherent insufficiency as a matter of law, issued based on SS coerced in comprehensive captivity actually by the opposition (of-course excluding SS) and not by SS, could not be allowed to proceed a moment further without SS being personally examined in court as to its authenticity, … Escala, once more, making himself totally oblivious to its existence, simply glossing over it/OS-SIS_Answer in toto and entirely! American justice on roll out! American corruption vividly on display!

Escala could never see anything ever on SS-OS-SIS’s side. His sua sponte reserved only for blocking justice deserved by them. He could not see their merits within the “bloviations s et al,”, could label their filings prejudicially so, … but he could see their, justified, rendering of his and the opposition’s corruption and prejudicially label same “objectionable”, … Escala’s entire handling biased and rigged, through and through! Among other things, bearing OS-SIS a grudge, for standing up to him; what else could they do in the face of his intransigent corruption!?! His tyranny and oppression, abusing his power (1, 2), discretion, …! Deliberately miscarrying justice deserved clearly by SS-OS-SIS!

Once OS-SIS had bumped into a long-term employee in the elevator of the Superior Court of NJ (Bergen County Vicinage) courthouse, who spoke to them, at some length, of the pompous and self-important airs of judges as not a problem merely for the litigants, but in some ways even worse off for the court employees, day in and day out. What was the movie “And Justice For All”, all about?

“The film includes a well-known scene in which Pacino's character shouts, ‘You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!’” - And Justice For All

He was not to see (sic) fact CC (1, 2) tried to trade a few day’s adjournment to the first hearing for the family vanishing permanently from SS’s life, all the goon like stalking/1, 2, 3 and intimidation GAL/IK and MHLP/HK were to subject OS-SIS to and in search of SS trust related information they knew did not exist, fabricated (1, 2, 3) documents CC (1, 2) knowingly brought to the bar, … Escala is a regular, con skilled, Molly Flanders/“MF”!

Belongs behind bars, for multiple lifetimes, conning people and justice from the bench, far worse than any con conducted on the streets! The MF a despicable, low lying, dishonorable, self and other abusing, chicken-craven coward , as a social predator and pariah! Who would oppress and traumatize people he was deputed, mandated to protect. Contemptible, as beyond the reach of even minimalistic human calling! Hides behind his robes to do the devil’s work! Black robes not to define him, but rather only his preferred blackguard nature! This was indeed a small, small “man”, insignificant in his worthless existence and calling betrayed alike!

Frank Schaffer wants to tell us: Why is the USA Screwed – Maybe Forever? (1) One way he expresses himself topically:

“When personal responsibility and private taboos crumble on the one hand, and when public responsibility and taboos crumble on the other hand, the mix becomes toxic. Everyone is into what works for ‘me’ but not what works for ‘us.’” - Why is the USA Screwed – Maybe Forever? (1)

America’s contemporary dysfunction is best measured in terms of how much of it and the resultant casualty is out there, the sheer bulk of it all. There is individual misconduct, then collectively there is the medical or healthcare related, political, corporate, judicial, attorney, … no aspect of American life and operations untainted by some form of, heavy-duty corruption.

Escala’s devil was no ordinary player, no accidental corruption his subversion of justice! He tried to manipulate OS-SIS psychology, by telling them, current times so messed up and standing on their head, for all the frivolous litigation Americans went for … While same rather true, OS-SIS were bit about to let him get away with labeling their, largely defensive, litigation anything of that sort. Escala knew, at some point more than knew, … yet also did not want to know … in OS-SIS he was not dealing with people who could not think for themselves, did not know what they were doing, …

Otherwise, he was oblivious to the rigorous thinking capacity and background of scholarship they came from. As scions of the Indian Administrative and Foreign Service, as products of intense scholarship from India and its tough educational rearing which in America has already been left abegging in the wake of its declining educational standards, … none of this by way of boast or somehow posing India as in anyway superior … but to inform only, he had no capacity to put one over OS-SIS in anyway whatsoever. No capability to mislead them at all, stalking/1, 2, 3 his foul extra-judicial agenda.

OS-SIS want him to know, all over again a decade later, they were forever on to him, his low-down pursuits! All, his skunk! … Escala was up to such consummate, exhaustive and sole corruption alone he wanted to keep it contained as far as he could! Manage his risks relatedly. Hence, his tactic(s) and strategy to somehow get OS-SIS to “just go away”, on their own!

It was the same with CC (1, 2), also acutely conscious of leading with unvarnished corruption alone; why she tried to barter a few days adjournment to the first hearing for OS-SIS “voluntarily” vanishing from SS’s life forever! Why she deployed the GAL/IK and MHLP/HK goon tandem to endeavor intimidating them “away and gone”. Escala tried many maneuvers (see: above/supra and below/infra) to so “get rid off” OS-SIS, “shake them off”, … such bent to manipulate their psychology merely one of many, beside his partner-in-crime CC (1, 2) et al. The unmitigated and hulking slime, scum of a human being, filthy judge yo be reserved in queue only behind! Escala to exceed all bounds of judicial impunity!

OS-SIS cogently disputed and refuted every minute disingenuity, fabrication, … every … that alone filled her ten ton bulk of opening filings, CC (1, 2), far from joining issue either with SS-OS-SIS’s defenses or affirmative claims, was obviously apparent being fighting shy of filing any response papers in the litigation, E-V-E-R! Quite evident she was petrified of attempting same, even remotely, for fear of putting her law license to consequent jeopardy.

So pervasive her fabrications, knowingly before the bar! So total and exclusive her reliance on disingenuity! So brazen her frauds/1 (2-3. 4-5) upon the court, which Escala turned a total blind eye to and indeed something she would not have as daringly attempted had she not been pre-assured of Simon-Escala’s prejudice! … Why SS, capable of spontaneously exposing her to her certain “death” if reunited with OS-SIS, just had to be abducted “for good”!

Whereas Case 2 below/infra, even though subject-wise had little (except OS-SIS were to lose their home because of SS’s illness related preoccupations and BRMC (1), this first litigation related corruption) to do with this Case 1, yet in terms of Escala’s heightened (if same possible at all) corruption, meant to punish OS-SIS for standing up to him in this first litigation, there, same forms a yardstick for measuring the size and audacity of his corruption here in this present case. Eventually CC (1, 2) and Escala accumulated so much corruption, covering up preceding layers, that the end, exit could only be super piled on corruption alone!

Where Escala started out (see below/infra) speaking of and promising due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18), once he too had piled on huge quantities of corruption himself, same was to become a total casualty, for self-protection, in his handling too. Such comprehensive denial of all due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) was foremost to take the shape of SS’s production, testimony, … having to be suppressed (1, 2, 3) cold in its tracks! CC (1, 2), who came to the bar knowingly with fabricated (1, 2, 3) documentation, entered this litigation prepared and vehemently designed not to produce SS, under no circumstances.

Indeed, her brazen reliance on such fabrications integrally presupposed, from the outset, not to ever produce SS, even as her audacity corrupting in free-wheeling fashion rested on the pre-assurance of Simon-Escala’s prejudice. Eventually, Escala too was to reach the same juncture, fairly quickly, beyond which producing SS became personally hazardous for his own self as well! … As such, SS was never to be produced, … due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) made an utter casualty in these proceedings under discussion currently.

Escala did not say no to OS-SIS’s demand(s) for deposing SS, most inescapably deserved by right on account of “SS”_suit but no less by BRMC-(1)_suit too, he would first merely side-step responding, … eventually he began to hide from, endeavoring to save face, them all together. A list of hundred interrogatories sent CC (1, 2), brazenly and even jauntily responded to by typing “Interrogatories not couched properly, cannot be answered so” hundred times in conclusory fashion so. Escala playing the same games over OS-SIS’s demand(s) for compelling CC (1, 2) to respond properly, as he did with the issue of producing SS … Could anything be more subversive, also R-E-V-E-A-L-I-N-G!

In this manner matters passed on to the First Case Management Conference, of late December 2003. In the back-ground and away from the court OS-SIS simultaneously losing their home! Otherwise, if everything in this Case 1 had so far gone only the way of distilled corruption pushed meaningfully in one direction only, what indeed to expect from this Case Management Conference # 1???????? More American J-U-S-T-I-C-E to be showcased in a moment, a-la-carte the Escala twist! America Corruption, Inc. watermarked, embossed, sealed and authenticated! Exuding the full flavor of American insanity, latest and the most up-to-date vintage!

However, before gracing this conference, a small interlude! An interesting and instructive detour! Bound to entertain too! Priceless American wickedness and decadence on display!

SIS happened to drop off, serve, court documents on CC (1, 2). The only time personally, at her former office (@ 27 Main Street, # 306, Hackensack, NJ 07601-7081). When she inquired after CC (1, 2) at the front desk, with the receptionist, as to the latter’s whereabouts and availability, SIS told the other closeted with a client and could not be disturbed. Yet, this receptionist went into double-check with CC (1, 2) whether to accept the papers being served by SIS.

The next thing, CC (1, 2) came bounding out to the reception area, barefoot and breathless. Obviously, jumping at the opportunity of having SIS, without OS present! On a mission similar to the one Mrs. I had accepted from AJ, when he came visiting the family, out of the blue, in NJ sometime in February, 2001. When Mrs. I, calling, had asked SIS over to her side! In easily entered intrigue, in order to facilitate, upon his asking, a chance for AJ to speak to SIS without OS present! First Mrs. I and now (/then) CC (1, 2) bent to dastardly undertakings, acting as AJ’s hatchet-agent.

Only CC (1, 2)’s designs far more insidious and invidious than any Mrs. I could have held, executed. While she might have been, on the face, acting/watching out for AJ’s hegemony and foul agenda against the family, it was really the ulterior purpose of exploiting it, wretchedly, to her client’s(/BRMC (1)) advantage she was gunning for.

She was to tell SIS, AJ cared for her … SIS, first disgusted with her interfering deep into the family’s personal/private affairs (of-course outraged at AJ’s cowardice, lack of all propriety, low brow, … despite having been raised properly in the family), then piqued and annoyed by her gauche familiarity, then also repulsed by her core depravity, … gave her withering look to the accompaniment of “Fine way he has of showing it!” Thereafter, a few choice words for CC’s (1, 2) own obscene existence, but without resorting to any vulgarity deserved by the low-life other …

Properly chastised, CC (1, 2) tried to make some-kind of recovery, by trying to give SIS advice on how the latter could save her home. Suggesting court intervention in staying foreclosure proceedings/sheriff’s auction sale … SIS even more irked at such gratuitous liberties taken, CC (1, 2) pretending to overlook her own direct contribution in precipitating that mess, … icily cut her off with “Do not presuppose to know enough law to teach us any!”, before turning on her heels for the exit door out of the place

America has to seriously re-examine specifically, beyond a re-visit with its society’s general value-system underpinnings, what they are teaching people in its Law School(s)l/1-2 (3-4-5-6) Former, Wisconsin Senator, Russ Feingold, already outraged at the Bush administration’s national security policies, feeling further disturbed at the newly installed Obama Administration’s refusal to prosecute related illegalities stated “‘Part of what troubles me are the lawyers – we should see their law school degrees - …’ … Feingold viewed investigations and, perhaps, prosecutions as a key tool to restoring America's moral standing. … ‘It is truly horrifying and unforgivable that anybody operating under the auspices of the United States of America had involvement in any of this,’ …” (1, 2, 3).

“What's so 'good' about business students flocking to finance because 'that's where the money is'? What's so good about them putting all their energy and ingenuity into concocting new ways to gamble with other people's money, instead of creating something beneficial to society?

What's so 'good' about law students flocking to corporate law because 'that's where the money is'? What's so good about them putting all their energy and creativity into helping major corporations cheat the government, their workers, their consumers, and the general public out of what is rightfully theirs?

…

The greed-worshippers have so distorted American values that selfishness is considered a virtue, while any sort of generosity, altruism, or concern for the welfare of the many is considered 'communism'!” - Why Free-Market Capitalism Will Follow Communism Into the Trash-Heap of History (1, 2)

The December, 2003 Case Management Conference was to be the biggest “clown affair”, farce yet! While everyone waited, CC (1, 2) repeatedly making trips to Escala’s Chambers, not even bothering to disguise her ex parte contact with the joke of a bench being dealt with.

What trial, as signaled by the staging of this conference, indeed was Escala headed towards? He had already, unlawfully, restrained the POA (1) in advance of the trial, to let the horse out of the barn by allowing SS to be transferred out of BRMC (1) (issue at the core of the controversy) and without any DL&TP (1) leaving him wide open to endless turfing for the rest of his days.

In its opening papers (the “ten” ton fabricated (1, 2, 3) abomination), BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) had admitted that the average stay for a patient at BRMC (1) was “forty-five days” and SS had already spent a year and nine months there, by July 2003. Making it seem as if this was OS-SIS’s fault, not actually as it was only BRMC’s (1): the “forty-five days” intimation (as if medical treatment could be so measured in terms of quantified, number of days) a confession of the industry’s highly objectionable and malpractice suggesting turfing habits, its refusal to give SS individual and reinforced therapy on the grounds that he was a Medicare patient, discriminating against his POA (1) (not accepting it, while accepting court ordered guardianships), refusing to issue SS his rightful DL&TP (1), …

Ad hominem attacks, a worse fate deserved by them on earth and reserved up in the heavens for such unspeakable sleaze!?! America is a meltdown waiting to happen, next time a real honest to God original one. A ticking time bomb! A pent up volcano, itching to explode! … All the insanity swirling around in the country, including the loony tunes the story within too, if is not reliable Indian smoke signals then what else are they?

“Can we radically transmute? Can we change? Do we really want to change? Are we going to change or are we going to just get back on the train and let it take us wherever it goes? We need to build new tracks, cleaner trains and return to a time of sacrifice and fortitude and grace and beauty. All aboard...?” A Fish Called Denial (1, 2, 3)

“A few years ago, I heard Gloria Steinem give a talk entitled "Leaps of Consciousness." The point that resonated most with me was the idea that it's time for this country to move from the Declaration of Independence toward a Declaration of Interdependence. … I've thought a lot about interdependence in the last few weeks, and it's clearer than ever that all of us on this planet will either swim, or sink, together. … She did it because it was the right thing to do.” - Yes You Can (1, 2)

At the December, 2003 Case Management Conference, Escala pointedly would not produce SS to speak for himself in court, despite finding him competent to do so and freely acknowledging that the family was inescapably entitled to the due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) of examining him in court. Allowing CC and her wicked cohorts to enact their fraud(s)/1 (2-3. 4-5) upon SS and the court alike simultaneously. While, going so far as to say, if Zacarias Moussaoui entitled to all due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) under American law and justice, then OS-SIS decidedly entitled!?!

Just prior to this Conference, Escala refused to accept, in an ever widening display of his tainted judicial integrity, a discrete complaint (“suit_MHLP/HK/EV”) that the family had filed against MHLP/HK/EV. Even though its source and causes were firmly related/connected to the BRMC-(1)_suit and “SS”_suit proceedings already in his handling. In a display of aggressive/aggravating judicial indiscipline and failure, also refusing to give the mandatory explanation for punting in law-unto-self fashion so! BRMC-(1)_suit, full of CC’s (1, 2) known fabrications, “SS”_suit, obviously coerced out of SS held in all-sided captivity and suppression and ab initio insufficient as a matter of law, he would accept blindfolded and alacrity, but not suit_MHLP/HK/EV and simply because it was filed by SS-OS-SIS, against parties supported by his extra-judicial agenda?

Even going with Escala's loaded and prejudiced adjudication(s), finding SS's POA (1) invalid, MHLP guilty of malpractice. For it was MHLP/AR who had prepared that POA (1)!

Playacting, at the conference, Escala expressed being unaware that the family had filed a counter-complaint against BRMC (1) (/BRMC-(1)_suit) et al. (apart from MHLP covered discretely in the affirmative suit_MHLP/HK/EV). He was so immersed in merely tilting the case in favor of BRMC (1) (NJ (1) in actuality, taken as BRMC’s (1) partner and the latter the former’s special interest constituency}, he was to repeatedly also betray that he never even bothered to properly read the papers/pleadings filed by the family, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ESCALA BETRAYED HIS EXTRA-JUDICIAL AGENDA HELD, nakedly while interacting with the family!

He constantly pitched into the family, unleashing a vitriolic and toxic tongue lashing at it. Severe and very severe, while sitting a few feet away from the family at this conference! At the same time interacting very cordially and even in intimate (loosey goosey and thick) terms with the opposition lawyers present. Despite being aware of his obvious prejudice held, the family could not make sense of this immediately, Slowly it gathered, Escala felt trapped. He had dived headlong into prejudicing the case openly, not expecting the Pro Se family to resist and give the highly competent combat it did, then spot him dead accurate too.

Escala paying for his own sins so to speak, but taking it out on the family, for nothing more than that it was unexpectedly standing up to his corruption with competent legal exactitude and formidable substance. He had hoped to scare and railroad it into submission, carrying out all his hanky-panky smoothly. He had expected the family to succumb and combust spontaneously before his “August” and looming perch atop his bench, frightened and petrified alone in court without any legal counsel beside it, as so many lay people do at the mere mention of court appearance.

He had banked on the family not understanding either court civil procedure or comprehending his orders. He had assumed that it could not supply the intricate legal thought required for the brand of combat at hand. He was also to surprise himself finding that it could see through to his corrupt pursuits with the utmost of ease and facility. He simply had not counted on the family’s love for SS as a means to generate a very real and stout push back against his corruption carried out in the most impune, impure manner possible, in tandem with all the opposition parties.

In other words, Escala felt very naked and exposed in his extra-judicial handiwork to that point. Needing the family to capitulate and go away, so that he would not have to extend his corruption and expose himself still further, he so attempted to coerce and scare the family into abandoning SS arbitrarily, to Escala’s relief. .Not at all unlike the equally wretched CC (1, 2) bent also to decoupling SS, by any means possible, from his family for obvious ulterior motives.

When the family far from capitulating before any of all this early trickery, legal corruption as in Escala’s two orders (TRO and PRO) above/supra dripping lustily with justice and due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18)subverted by active design, intimidation as in stalking/1, 2, 3 it with threats to supply the whereabouts of SS’s fictional trust accounts, … instead came back offering formidable combat, in advance of further corruption to be impressed, Escala was left at this conference trying to destabilize the family with face-to-face verbal abuse shot gushingly and liberally at and all over them. No matter what the issue, no matter what the family said or not, … he gratuitously poured and heaped hot lava in ungloved fashion on them, in stark contrast to the undeserved kids gloves elaborately assumed for pampering the nefarious opposition.

What Escala, perfectly informed and conscious/aware, was presiding over was designed subversion and travesty of justice. Mock proceedings and a kangaroo court, actively erected as a dress-up that never fooled the family once or in the least; SS was supposed to be present at both the hearings in the past, but was deliberately and strategically suppressed as an unmistakable gagging device. predatory prowling by parties concerned! Law and justice bent to suit nefarious purposes straight up!

First BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) et al, including MHLP/, take him captive, because they could not either intimidate or befool him into towing their line clearly detrimental to all his rights-and interests. So, in the lexicon of their nefarious antecedents, his person has to be abducted with impunity in broad daylight; then they refuse to produce him in court, bucking inescapable due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18). Predatory, more predatory and only predatory disposals! When law and justice went the way of street criminality!

Escala had already let the horse out of the barn, by allowing SS to be discharged, unlawfully, without any DL&TP (1) at the very outset and ahead of the necessary full blown trial! With equal deceit, he declared he was not going to go into the details of SS’s treatment, which tellingly was the equivalent of saying for a murder trial that all disposition of the deceased body would be copiously excluded. With all his parol exertions extolling the virtues of due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) within any judicial proceeding, he never produced an obviously captive SS for the ongoing hearings-conferences, never actually ordered his availability for deposition or the trial supposed to take place ahead, never compelled proper response from CC (1, 2) to the family’s interrogatories or punished her for toying with them most frivolously, …

The vehemence with which opposition parties, throughout the litigation, resisted SS’s production, is a “writing in the sky” variety of looming, unmistakable and compelling clue, evidence as to the corruption afoot in what that opposition, uniformly, doing. Unadulterated and exclusive corruption leading this litigation, as conducted by these sordid parties and then the foul Escala layering his own impure coat(s) atop! If any part of this litigation had anything at all to do with SS’s own wishes, he would have been produced in the utmost of facile fashion. Precisely because none of these were his own wishes, he had to be suppressed!

Conversely too, since he was suppressed with anal (pardon) insistence and vehemence, it follows and flows naturally, logically the litigation at hand was not in the least of his wishes, seeking. The vehemence so intense, at this Conference, GAL/IK was to suggest he maybe deposed, allowed to testify, … for SS!?! Could anything be more revealing as to where SS’s wishes really lay, the certainty of GAL/IK’s personal corruption, … how ridiculously off-base, loaded this suggestion was! How the potency of this departure from what the due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) rules meant to accomplish, a clear statement of the corruption all abroad in the litigation within!

If OS-SIS had not been so utterly aggrieve, they would have been amused at this state of American justice, reduced to sheer comedy, entire comical proportions. Not even any, lingering, modicum of concern for self-respect with any of these parties, American Shamelessness/1. 2, (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32) in full blown evidence. As if others, OS-SIS, could not read or tell the implications of this wild suggestion, how desperate opposition parties were to suppress SS. How petrified of being exposed if anyway SS reunited with OS-SIS! How crooked America law and justice could be.

Escala freely pouring hot anger, lava on OS-SIS, while simultaneously elaborately coddling opposition parties right there too, could just not be missed either! Not merely because the contrast so striking, but even more because the corrupt parties being well received while the innocent parties given step-motherly or fatherly treatment. Actually, it was his frustrations speaking inexorably. It was the old story, Escala would not direct his anger, properly, at himself, so OS-SIS to be, gratuitously be made scapegoats of his cowardice.

Once again, he wanted OS-SIS to go away voluntarily, abandoning SS, so that he would not have to go on corrupting the action(s) at bar. Thus, continue putting himself to greater and still greater jeopardy! Pedaling heavy-duty petulance and towering salvos fired at OS-SIS, childishly (1/1A-1B, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Escala on one of these occasions was to utter his now famous “This case will decide my legacy on the bench (paraphrased)!”(1, 2)! His conduct mirroring CC’s (1, 2) debauchery endeavoring to trade a few days adjournment to the first hearing for OS-SIS voluntarily moving permanently out of SS’s life!?!

CORRUPTION THY NAME IS AMERICA or AMERICA THY NAME IS CORRUPTION! This country now teems with heavy-duty corruption and sleaze, depravity and decadence in too, too many sickeningly deranged and degenerate hands-minds and quarters. Never more unspeakable, wretched, dastardly and craven,… than CC (1, 2), Escala, … the entire, despicable and contemptible, coterie in their tow. Never more unprincipled and impure than the entire bunch of opposition parties (including, very firmly the no less, super, rogue and MF Escala).

Atoo H. Sakhrani/“Atoo_HS”, whose mortgage related matter Escala had allegedly corrupted, sued (in 2005; 1) the judge relatedly. Including, during the pendancy of this suit (1) held the judge’s house in Tenafly, NJ under Lis Pendens notice! The matter was tried outside Bergen County, NJ (1), resolving fair trial considerations, in next door Passaic County, NJ (1) by one Judge Graziano. Escala represented by Stuart Rabner, NJ (1) Attorney General! Atoo_HS, in personal conversation with OS-SIS, alleged he had a personal conversation with Stuart Rabner, who had allegedly acknowledged that representing Escala was not part of his normal duties, but eventually that is how the state “political cookie crumbles”!

In both, the trial and appellate proceedings, it would seem the core merits never really pierced, Escala’s exoneration largely decided on the basis of judicial immunity/N.J.S.A. 59:3-2 in a certain summary manner. Atoo_HS also initiated impeachment proceedings (1, 2, 3) against Escala, in the NJ (1) Legislature, around October 2005, but then Escala proceeded on mandatory retirement, at age 70, on February 24, 2006. Why such a judge was recalled to the bench (1, 2), January 2011, is beyond any sensible person’s comprehension and may be referred only to NJ (1), the “pit of corruption{‘s}” way of doing business!

Atoo_HS also told OS-SIS that he allegedly had agreement with a NJ (1) TV station to air his story. At the eleventh hour, same was allegedly cancelled, Atoo_HS believing opposing parties leaned on the station to effect, accomplish same, the cancellation!

A NJ (1) elder, Sharon Gregg, alleging in a public posting on the web (1, 2), accused Escala of participating in the looting of her inheritance of her father’s estate. Escala (1) was also accused of possibly having, post retirement, hiring discussions with Herten, Burstein, Sheridan, Cevasco, Bottinelli, Litt & Harz LLC/“Herten” (merged with Archer & Greiner PC on May 2, 2011) in 2005-2006 while trying a case (DeNike v. Cupo, BER-C-194-03) where Herten figured for the winning plaintiff (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The NJ Supreme Court merely administered a meaningless rap on the knuckles to Escala, in terms of the “appearance of impropriety”(1).

Escala desecrated the Constitution! He has implicated himself with his own words! He possesses a dubious reputation around NJ (1), on account of the amount of questionable conduct out there. This was, is no ordinary scoundrel at all, he has been preying on people from the bench for a long time. Fact that he has not been bailed before, perhaps not so much a function of his being innocent, but rather that we operate in the “pit of corruption NJ (1)!Otherwise, even if in all the above/supra matters highlighted Escala actually innocent, he is decidedly guilty of misconduct in the case storied within.

At the December 2003 Conference the swine tried any and every device to mislead OS-SIS, including telling them outright they had no case. The problem, for him, was they were not at all dependent on him for assessing the merits of the case within. Even while speaking, hypothetically, of producing SS, he accompanied same with open handed threats of curtailing their cross-examination! An oblique reference to his extra-judicial agenda held, as if saying and in fact saying OS-SIS were barking up a futile tree having SS produced. Even if produced, he, Escala, was going to exert his damnedest to deny them getting what they wanted to get from SS.

OS-SIS were not shy about asking Escala aggressively what conduct of theirs would warrant his, Escala, so intervening and curtailing them? Why would he issue and announce such strictures in advance as he was doing? Suppress due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) in this manner, after rigmaroling it enough already, as before!?! He got OS-SIS’s message so, perfectly, yet he did not, for he had an external agenda to serve! OS-SIS were relentless about demanding SS’s production, telling Escala they would agree to no advance to trial without SS deposed, then produced for testifying P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-L-Y in court.

They also put Escala’s feet to the fire with respect to what he had meant by having SS released in advance of trial, leaving really what to be decided on that occasion? What he meant by “not to get into the mechanics of SS’s treatment”, when same lay at the heart of the underlying controversy? What could be the legal meaning to, sense in restraining their powers under the POA (1) in advance of a trial meant to decide its validity? What precisely did he mean by “attorneys and judges, as officers of the court, were intrinsically incapable of corruption? What indeed was he doing? … As Escala’s agitation grew in the face of such direct confrontation, he only grew angrier still, but rolling back on berating OS-SIS wild!

He also grew increasingly irrational, in his convulsive thrashing even asked OS-SIS if they would be agreeable to his holding an impromptu trial on the spot? An impromptu trial on the spot!?! OS-SIS bent over confused and at a loss. How could he even ask something like this, was this a court of law or Escala’s personal comedy club? Plus, had not they just finishing belaboring, at considerable length, to him they would not participate in any trial that did not first produce SS, per inescapable due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) ensured?

Escala was suffering in the throes of the trap he had sprung on himself. He had no discretionary powers in terms of denying due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) to OS-SIS. Doing so would put himself outside the purview of judicial immunity assured him by N.J.S.A. 59:3-2. He did not want to escalate his corruption, when OS-SIS had noticed they were not to be easily fooled. Not when they also served notice on him that they were prepared to confront his misconduct frontally. Worse still, prepared to make a copious record of all the corruption swirling insanely through the length and breadth of this litigation’s full span!

Be that as it may, by suggesting an impromptu trial on the spot, Escala knew he had betrayed himself monumentally one more time. Together with the GAL/IK, also betraying himself bare, suggesting that he be deposed and allowed to testify for SS, a nexus of not only very weird legal events taking place simultaneously, but one also constituting the lengths to which these corrupting parties prepared to go to suppress SS. W-H-Y!?! Why the vehemence? Such vehemence!?! The proverbial, anal (pardon) vehemence!?! What were they all afraid SS would expose?

The attitude towards mental illness in this country, attention paid towards treatment and wellness for those suffering in this manner, is shockingly abysmal:

“[Former Rep. (RI-D). Patrick] Kennedy said improving treatment -- and ultimately, perception -- of mentally ill Americans is a civil rights issue.

‘I want people to understand these are not these evil, bad people," Dart said. "They're people who have made mistakes in their lives and they're people that, but by the grace of God, could be us.’ ” - State's Largest Mental Health Facility Is A Jail

Escala’s court, as the bastion, dripping corruption, otherwise a hoary joke! Reduction of American justice in this manner, down to such abject and comical proportions!?! But before that, how can any of us feel big or courageous ill-serving the handicapped, vulnerable? God’s children first, foremost! Why Children of a Lesser God resonated with the people, indeed why God is invoked in the same breath as any infirmity of this earth! Sometimes glorified, but at other times perhaps only chastised!

I found Him in the shining of the stars,

I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,

But in His ways with men I find Him not.

I waged His wars, and now I pass and die.

O me! for why is all around us here

As if some lesser god had made the world,

…

- Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King."

OS-SIS were to also raise the issue of the statement SS gave to Paul for the court back on July 29, 2003, wherein he had clearly and unequivocally identified documents produced at bar by BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) as coerced out of him and fabricated, … Escala flippantly replying SS had the right to change his mind, but was left floundering when OS-SIS shot back and retorted with “Is that the reason why so much vehemence from opposing parties in not producing him in court … fear he might change his mind back in the other direction!?!” Otherwise, OS-SIS merely pressing incessant, SS simply had to be produced. Escala with no discretionary powers to deny prescribed due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18)!

This, if it were not bearing such serious matters then utterly comedic, Conference ended on a somewhat upswing note, with Escala issuing an oral order for SS to be produced at the following Case Management Conference, scheduled for early February, 2004. He even bulked it by requiring BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) would have to produce a medical certificate if SS not produced so, which could have been a clever “exit” provision for those parties, but OS-SIS only took this development as a positive note.

No doubt Escala was afraid of not producing SS, even as he was now afraid producing him too! BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) afraid of producing him as he would not only expose his true wishes (contrary to what BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) representing them to be) but also reveal how he had been coerced into producing fabricated documents for BRMC (1)/CC’s (1, 2) ill conceived litigation. GAL/IK wanting to suppress SS because, all, that he was reporting to the court as SS’s wishes was not at all the conversation SS having with him. MHLP/HK, who was not even supposed to be there at all and indistinguishably enmeshed with BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) opposed for the same reason(s) as BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2).

As Escala left the Conference at its termination, the decent and well mannered OS-SIS, mostly for form sake still, threw a “thank you” at his retreating back! This was for his hosting function, out of respect for institutional justice, even some bits of sympathy for an older man in his thrashing personal turmoil though of his own corrupt making, then for ordering SS’s production for the next conference, … Escala, just about to vanish through a door into his Chambers adjoining, turned his neck and with a piercing malevolent look locked on OS-SIS spat out “No, you are not!”

The incredible and hulking sob (pardon), he himself the one playing havoc with SS, OS-SIS, their entire family life, … he should have the temerity to feel sorry for himself, so!?! Did he really think OS-SIS owed him courtesy, in some make-believe and weird world of his mental conjuring, to simply walk away from SS’s life forever, just so that he could now cover his tracks, made by his gratuitous and ill-advised prior corruption, in facile fashion????????

America now is a super predatory society, country, for all its superficial signposts of being a F-R-E-E abode! Of late all we see is, too much, of American citizens trying to devour fellow citizens! Otherwise, places for handicapped, vulnerable people, always a favorite hunting ground for such poachers. Those who lead with viciously controlling other people, on the slightest pretext! We have already dealt, above/supra, with depictions in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12¸13, 14/14, 15)! Then there is a similar depiction in one of the episodes of the “Jeffersons” (1, 2, 3)!

Then there is the scary and dark control exercised on women, the minds of people (1/12) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) within the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints/“FLDS”’s fold! … Goes on and on! … AJ the worst predator of all, ever, for he targeted and victimized the family for his private and misplaced agenda, vengeance. He was supposed to have helped SS get established in America, instead not only did he cause his illness, in the insanity of his mindless pursuits delivered him into the predatory hands of corrupt strangers.

AJ, who has lived his entire life in supersized fear and pusillanimity, trying to prove his macho via the route of distilled hooliganism. Pressing even his legal license in the service of his gushing licentiousness! … In the process misinterpreting real/true courage, Unable to distinguish between courage and hooliganism or being able to distinguish too, but uncaring about it! If he could not produce courage, then generating hooliganism be it …!

Conduct in sharp contrast to OS-SIS’s copious, selfless, sacrifices for SS, which foul NJ (1) would dare defile and commit sacrilege to call abuse of him in some incomprehensible way. They gave their career and life to care for him, so criticism of their conduct by a rabid society, which has forgotten what sacrifice/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6), family and having heart for another all about, outright laughable, even misplaced and cheeky audacity! OS-SIS were getting into so much trouble personally taking care of SS, nothing selfish could have been driving them even remotely, as the opposition, most disingenuously, claimed in their blatantly conjured up litigation! Escala’s House of justice a cabal, a House of ill-repute! America with its value-system dissipated a House of horrors!

There is something very wrong with Bergen County, NJ (1)! With its law enforcement, it would seem! With its court system, Superior Court! Just take a look at: “Developmentally disabled man jailed for allegedly shoplifting.”(1, 2)! Otherwise, something very wrong with America as a whole!

SS had been kept in forced detention and a suppressed state, in America no less, “… the land of the free …” By this time, in December 2003, already for five long months! So held captive, by an American hospital/BRMC (1) no less too, so that its campaign of self-serving corruption and fabrications, especially pertaining to hijacking SS’s core and fundamental rights brazenly, could not be challenged by him in open court and at the point of due process/1, 2 (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-10-11-12-13-14-15-FM, 17-18) duly safe-kept/upheld!

This is our unrecognizable America today and at home, who are we then to lecture others on human rights and righteousness around the globe? What Iron Curtain do we in America dare speak of, in the face of such American Curtain operating at home itself!?! Let us not forget all this free-flowing, naked and abundant debauchery going on in front of America’s judicial system in corruption incarnate NJ (1) state!

It is well known “… This is what pedophiles, predators do. They isolate them from family.”(1). In the case within, the filthy crook Escala was a willing predator and criminal while occupying an American judicial bench, to say nothing of three NJ Appellate Court/SCNJ_AD (1) judges to come later. A whole coterie of others, from the, so aptly advertised corrupt, state of NJ (1), figuring centrally too!

In this interim period leading to the second case management conference (scheduled for February 2004), the family filed two summary judgment motions to dismiss BRMC-(1)_suit and “SS”_suit (“SJM1” and “SJM2”respectively). All of BRMC’s (1) causes were non-starters, as already discussed above/supra, save one. This one, to move on the grounds of public policy, was unavailable too upon failure to show any fraud or abuse by family in handling powers delegated it by SS’s POA (1).

“SS”_suit was dismissible for being prima facie insufficient as a matter of law. To the extent it did purport to assert t the same five so-called causes of action, again it was deserving of sua sponte dismissal, for all the same reasons as BRMC-(1)_suit was. Yet, the benched crook Escala was to simply shut-ignore SJM1 and SJM2 too, as he did anything and everything SS-OS-SIS filed. Yet, he was to dismiss this “SS”_suit, with accelerated and no-pause alacrity, on CC’s (1, 2) motion. Further, dismissing it, on grounds of insufficiency, as to BRMC (1), but not OS-SIS; how indeed can this be!?!?!?!? Could anything be more corrupt?

Could anything be more revealing of Escala’s corruption, behind that of the opposition parties!?! And this not the only instance where these parties, Escala included and combined, gave out such tall and obvious signs of their designed corruption; notching unmistakable betrayal of themselves!

Even the provision that under the terms of the instrument SS could not revoke the POA (1) on his own and without OS-SIS’s permission/recommendation, meant only to combat predatory coercion by the likes of BRMC (1) to get him to revoke his POA (1) against his wishes, was a voluntary act not covered by Thirteenth Amendment prohibitions. Further, there was no relationship established between SS and OS-SIS under the POA (1) likely to lead to Thirteenth Amendment prohibitions. As such, no arrangement of legal or any other kind of servitude, ever contemplated, established or executed. Thus, neither the concept of servitude nor indeed the Thirteenth Amendment controlled the case ab initio.

No where does the Thirteenth Amendment prohibit servitude, which would be voluntary servitude. Otherwise, we would have no maids, waitresses, … so many kinds of menial and near menial work situations. Otherwise, the provisions of the POA (1) did not establish any kind of “servant” relationship between engaging parties. There was not even the remotest hint of anything resembling “servitude”, taken as “the state of being a slave or completely subject to someone more powerful” in the contemplation of and definition by American law, present anywhere therein. Just a family arrangement, voluntarily entered into by SS and continuously desired by him, for the protection of a vulnerable member with already prior history of being constantly hit upon by outside predators to his detriment. …

If SS wanted to be lazy, apathetic, indifferent, … and forever too, … to let someone manage and run his life for him, no one, not even the law, with any unilateral license/public policy permission to object to same. Public policy could not step in without showing of any abuse or fraud by those holding powers for another. No such showing at all within. That SS was being held back, by OS-SIS, in the restrictive environment of BRMC (1) far too long, no where rises to any level defining such “abuse or fraud”. …

Moreover, it was never verified in court, ever and with the necessary legal precision, SS himself wanted to be discharged from BRMC (1); surely he could not subject his own self to objectionable “servitude”. Furthermore, SS stay at BRMC (1) was unduly extended, not by any device of either SS or OS-SIS, but by BRMC’s (1) resort to, unlawful, turfing followed by refusal to produce SS’s rightful DL&TP (1). The real reasons that Escala’s politics, extra-judicial agenda, corruption, … not prepared to access!

SS perfectly positioned, under the American Constitution, to defer any of his rights to anyone, for any reason and for any length of time, … without being objected to or censored, abridged, … by any source within society, … including any court or judge! Absolutely free so, SS, anyone in America, with respect to their rights [voluntarily] delegated, assigned, … deferred! ONLY THOSE SERVING IN ANYWAY TO CURTAIL THIS/SUCH FULL SWAY OF JURISDICTION OVER ONE’S OWN RIGHTS-PERSONAL DOMAIN, as was BRMC (1)/CC’s (1, 2), Escala’s, … corruption, guilty of invalid legal/constitutional conduct.

Thus, it was not the POA (1) which was invalid in law, but rather the corrupt conduct (/adjudications) of BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2), Escala, … endeavoring to limit/limiting SS’s control over his rights/personal domain by reading, upon political corruption, a non-existent public policy right to scrutinize and interfere within same (final judgment/adjudication (1))???????? No such public policy right exists anywhere!

No abuse or fraud concluded on OS-SIS’s part, so no public policy intervention possible. No one else’s rights violated by POA’s (1) provision, whereby SS deferred his take back of same deferral rights to OS-SIS (SS has free rights to voluntarily put himself in that “involuntary” situation which really makes it voluntary, … absent fraud and/or abuse same cannot be objected to for being so “voluntarily involuntary and as such only voluntary”), so public policy cannot intervene once more. ... No basis was established anywhere for the NJ courts to intervene in anyway!

We will carry out this discussion in a fuller way at the end, suffice it to say here that this provision was also meant as bulwark against Escala’s own corruption invalidating SS’s POA (1) unlawfully, to make way for BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) to poach on his rights, all the way to abducting even his person for the past decade … an act assuming criminal proportions, with Escala having knowingly abetted and been an accessory to it! The law might have given SS the right to take back his deferred rights the same way as he had deferred them, but the Constitution also gives him the right to waive that “right to take back”…, just as he might waive away his Miranda rights or Fifth Amendment rights or any other natural or statutorily granted rights …!

As Mr. Patrick Kennedy is quoted saying above/supra , improving treatment of the mentally ill is a civil rights issue! What Escala, BRMC (1)/CC (1, 2) et al. in fact did was themselves, in a corrupt orgy, themselves violate SS’s civil rights… in more ways than one! Escala, even at the height of his corruption, did not have the gumption to conclude “involuntary servitude”, which could not be concluded anyway, since he never had the right legal/Thirteenth Amendment concept of “servitude” itself.

“According to J. David Cox, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, the looming government shutdown would amount to "involuntary servitude" for federal workers who continue clocking in even if government operations go unfunded by Congress.” - Shutdown Means 'Involuntary Servitude' For Federal Workers: Union Chief

AJ, had viciously neglected SS and Dad, for years, when their affairs were in his handling. Suddenly, as soon as OS-SIS rescue them from his sorry and uncaring clutches, AJ is interested in them, all the way to stalking/1, 2, 3 them, on the sly (as he had done with SIS in years gone by and recently through the *itch (1, 2) rhyming CC (1, 2)) until Dad prematurely killed and SS abducted as told, being told within.

AJ’s entire brief of pursuits hardly what any real and genuine “manhood” made of, more reminiscent of hooliganism and rank cowardice. No form of corruption ever any sign of courage (1, 2)! AJ resembles Bernie Madoff nor just in terms of the latter’s psychopathy (1), but even in other terms! AJ did not ruin the family just so, he obviously has deep psychological problems!

No one does the kind of damage he has done just so! He had such, psychological, vulnerabilities starting out, which made him susceptible to America’s current dysfunctional value-system, to emerge into the distilled monster which willfully savaged and ravaged the family. Some of his problems have been directly identified in the story within, others more complex and difficult to unravel, part of the age old “what came first: chicken or egg?” - syndrome!

For him to first defraud the family, then subject it to all the gratuitous inflictions relayed within, as if the shoe was on the other foot, the makings of deep psychological and mental disorder, not unlike the mentally challenged state of all those Americans who rook America down, as viciously and cavalierly as did AJ the family, in our times. AJ, very decidedly and definitely, part of the same swamp and cesspool that toxic America has come to rest at and become (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) )in those very same times of ours’.

“Congressional Republicans have gone directly from conservatism to fanaticism without any intervening period of sanity.” - Why the Upcoming Shutdowns and Defaults Are Symptoms of a Deeper Republican Malady

The other players in the story within, from Escala to CC (1, 2) to …, cut our of the very same cowardly corrupt cloth! There is just no way to be corrupt and not be cowardly! Just no way! If the courage to ‘stop from corrupting’ is not working, to be able to S-T-O-P oneself from doing anything that should not be done, … then only cowardice, as the flip-side to courage, obtains! This is where too much of America, too much of pivotal America, … resides today, why we are in so much, towering and monumental, trouble here at home within the four corners of our geography! …

Why AJ has behaved the way he has, even though he had a different upbringing and was raised in a different, more secure value-system in India (where personal grace and serving others given premium). Instead of being a champion of his family, he turned a rotten corner in America, to consider defrauding and blackmailing family, to be the signpost for his elusive “manhood”! Why the other “Hall of Shame” inductees of our story within all the very same predators and pariahs who saw, some kind of dubious, honor in taking down America, willfully and wantonly, in our times! Why SS was abducted and has been detained for the past decade and more! Woe to our, dysfunctional and draconian, times gratuitous!

1. Case Management Conference of February 2004: Escala reneging on his earlier, oral, order (memorialized on the record), either SS produced or a medical certificate … At this conference strong evidence of ex parte contact with AJ/opposition … SS not produced … next Case Management Conference lobbed to July, 2004 (over OS-SIS’s strenuous protests) – to see if SS could still be “persuaded” to tow their line or come up with a “safe” way to shut-down the litigation while continuing to suppress SS. Since, SS could obviously not be persuaded to tow line, never produced in July either, no “safe” way to be found as exit either … so a crude, forced, arbitrary, … slam dunking of the case, showing open prejudice, prima facie untenable arguments in law/legal arguments … Final judgment to be refuted in detail.! On the way, window into quality of Escala’s corruption: How do you dismiss a complaint for fatal insufficiency as to some defendants and not others??????? How he never processed, at all, any of [SS]-OS-SIS’s complaints, motions, (including first refusing to accept suit_MHLP/HK/EV (defended by Hackensack Law Firm Breslin & Breslin) directly in Chancery, then again upon consolidation out of OS-SIS’s filing in the Law Division)… simply sitting on them and opposition allowed to get away with filing nothing (no answers to complaints/counterclaims or no rebuttal to motions), Escala repeatedly refusing [SS]-OS-SIS summary judgments on unopposed complaints, motions, … even awarded GAL/IK costs: $4,000 to OS-SIS (who had opposed this appointment as another scheme to separate SS and family in order to conduct designed corruption) and $1,000 to BRMC (1) (just a show to cover tracks, OS-SIS had exposed Escala so thoroughly he was afraid to tack the whole thing on OS-SIS, as he would have liked to/would have done otherwise – sure sign of corruption occurring, of parties knowing they were up to it by design, ...

2. Appellate Practice: NJ Appellate Court/SCNJ_AD (1) no less corrupt than Escala, merely rubber stamping him down the line, revealing politics on behalf of paymaster NJ (1) rather than justice again! Sure signs of ex parte contact with opposition parties. If Escala’s Final judgment for a moment and hypothetically taken as “out of incompetence”: fact SCNJ_AD (1) rubbed stamping Escala, with his faulty reasoning on constitutional limits to freedom (public policy can enter to intervene and meddle in personal domain where no one else’s rights being infringed, where holder of POA (1) powers of another can be censored absent any showing of abuse or fraud by those parties, …), the relationship between SS and OS-SIS via the POA (1) in anyway constituting any legal relationship involving “servitude”/a “servant” on one side, vanilla plain “servitude” (versus involuntary servitude) constituting a Constitutional/legal prohibition, … only shows both Escala and the SCNJ_AD (1) acting politically, corruptly, Lastly, SCNJ_AD (1) uses R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E) strategically as garbage dump (in the same manner as Escala hiding behind OS-SIS’s filing’s to be too prolific, … ) for OS-SIS’s undisputed, never even remotely joined issue with by the opposition, … merits. … Down the line C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N!

During this Appellate passage, SS managed to contact Paul at his store in Englewood, NJ! Twice, in person, at Paul’s store (in Englewood, NJ, down the block from Vantage), telling him to contact OS-SIS for him and asking them /OS-SIS to get him out of his “bondage”! This is how OS-SIS surmise, SS with Vantage … their Group Home in Ridgefield, NJ … These two incidents were mentioned in the Appellate practice underway, another reason why SCNJ_AD (1) known to be in full blown C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N!

SCNJ_AD (1) dumped these facts down the R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E), all purpose, garbage dump it was never intended to be, too.

On the contrary, SS was never to make another appearance at Paul’s store again!

Ultimately the greatest proof to ALL the C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N: SS had to be ABDUCTED, then scrupulously HIDDEN, … last 10+ years!????????!

CASE 2:

1. To show the full extent of Escala’s corruption, victimizing SS-OS-SIS further, as carry-forward from CASE 1 and for OS-SIS standing up to him there. This case has to do with disposition of OS-SIS’s home … (CASE 2 Reference).

(IX) THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, Phase 7: The Aftermath to SS’s second abduction

This, Aftermath, segment, to be covered in 3 parts:

1. Sarah Mitchell (“SM”) of DRNJ/NJP&A, Trenton, NJ:

See: AFTERMATH.

DRNJ/NJP&A was contacted, in January 2008, upon the recommendation of NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness! On sight meeting, in Trenton-NJ and in the shadows of SCNJ_AD (1)/Richard J. Hughes building, with social worker - given story orally and in writing! Worked with him for a few months, kept saying he was having difficulty with his management. Abruptly left (he was a retired person, doing this on a volunteer basis – probably left in disgust). OS-SIS contacted DRNJ/NJP&A director Sarah Mitchell (“SM”). She would first not answer OS-SIS’s e-mails, when they persisted, it was the same old trick from her too: due to SS’s privacy rights she could not disclose DRNJ/NJP&A’s “findings”. DRNJ/NJP&A is federally funded and operates under the auspices of the NJ (1) Governor’s office. OS-SIS could have demanded the results of these findings under FOIA. SS’s personal information may be private, but not any findings of DRNJ/NJP&A upon the requested investigation. Moreover,

2. AJ-CC (1, 2):

See: AFTERMATH.

Around the same time as above, friends of OS-SIS researching for SS found out AJ was working as Special Counsel for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development/“EBRD” in London, UK. They were even able to locate his email address in office (suda@) and sent him a message inquiring "WHERE IS SANJAY?”

Soon after, OS-SIS received a letter, out of the blue, from rhymes with *itch (1, 2) CC (1, 2)! Now she was SS’s attorney, having messed with his POA (1), rights, person, life, … for the other wise and receiving a fat fee from BRMC (1) for doing so in late 2004, as soon as Escala’s corruption in the trial court complete with his so-called Final judgment. Immediately moving her practice to Hackensack, NJ’s swankiest building (which houses a swanky office for the NJ Appellate Court/SCNJ_AD (1) too), … without so much as any decent pause taken!

She (1, 2)was even AJ’s attorney now, in fact writing mainly on his behalf. According to Ms. rhymes with *itch (1, 2), AJ did not want anything to do with OS-SIS! Obviously, he can stalk and infiltrate anyone, anywhere, misusing his legal credentials to access their privacy for no reason at all, but others tracking him down through public records cannot contact him for legitimate reasons. Here it was not even OS-SIS doing do, only their friends on their own initiative. Naturally, AJ was concerned for his job, He was to quit EBRD soon after, go still deeper under cover! Not to behave honorably in life, but to procure things (/Law School/1-2 (3-4-5-6)) the wrong way, then try justifying same by bullying (/abducting, …) others, … do all kinds of crazy and insane things, while being an admitted attorney (so much again for Escala’s corrupt hypothesis of attorneys and officers of the law … being naturally incapable of corruption …), … then have to go into hiding! Worth it!?! Is it not better to B-E-H-A-V-E? … AJ so desperate to hide, despite not working at EBRD since 2008/anymore, he still, with designed illegality, gives their London/wrong address to the NY Appellate Court for renewing his NY license. What else does all this deep, vehement and purposeful hiding indicate, other than decided culpability!?!

The second part of rhymes with *itch’s (1, 2) reason for contacting OS-SIS was to misinform and decoy them as to a permanent injunction by Escala prohibited the family/OS-SIS from forever having no contact with SS. Without SS’s production no such discrete permanent injunction could issue! Here, it does not follow from the PRO turning “permanent” upon the issue of Final judgment. This Final judgment did not speak to or so/finally decide any of these issues, those pertaining to contact between SS and OS-SIS ...

No such permanent injunction exists, all designed endeavor to mislead OS-SIS, where they cannot be! Rhymes with *itch’s (1, 2) is thoroughbred corruption incarnate.

3. POTUS:

See: AFTERMATH.

POTUS got involved while running for the White House in 2007-2008. Contacted Senator Menendez’s NJ (1) office, who promised then Senator Obama it would take necessary action to reunite OS-SIS and SS. Senator Menendez’s office in Newark then told OS-SIS to contact Lee Birkey (“LB”) of DMHS , Trenton, NJ. LB assured them he would revert latest in a week, informing too he had assured Senator Menendez’s office he would take care of the matter … Never reverted, then would not return the family’s calls, Senator Menendez’s office similarly went dead silent too … Senator Lautenberg’s office briefed too, OS-SIS not to make any headway there either! Obviously, political NJ (1) putting the shutters down!

OS-SIS , after these repeated NJ (1) 2008 incidents, convinced they had to move things from outside the state (1)! Otherwise, such purposeful and firm dropping of shutters to mean only one thing, NJ (1) feeling awfully vulnerable. Feeling so vulnerable to mean only one thing, it full knew (/knows) it was (/is) guilty of corruption, et al. … at various levels!

OS-SIS contacted the NJ (1) Star Ledger, the editor sent SIS a special Super-bowl edition of the paper for the NY Giants win early that year/2008, but could not help with the SS case, because he did not have any investigative journalism budget worth speaking of! There were a couple of PBS programs, who also pleaded not having enough investigative journalism budget … to do this story.

In keeping with realization, in order to find and be reunited with SS they will have to move things from outside NJ (1), OS-SIS kept in touch with, by them POTUS, Obama. His office told OS-SIS in 2008, on account of Senatorial courtesies then Senator Obama could not interfere within NJ’s (1) affairs. OS-SIS contacted the White House in August 2009, to be told POTUS would again look into the SS matter after the ACA-Obamacare legislation related mighty battle had been taken care of. OS-SIS waited four years to remind the White House, waiting for it to contact them and with all that POTUS facing at the point of Washington DC vicious, dysfunctional, … politics, did not have the heart to disturb. They wrote to POTUS again in June 2013 (1, 2), topically as the White House held a mental health symposium on the premises. Now, OS-SIS are waiting to complete their book and get their public campaign going in order to assist the White House help them in this matter. Presumably, the White House does not have the staff to process this case thoroughly as it needs to and be able to be of real help to OS-SIS, locating SS and be reunited with him. …

If this story shows anything, how easy it is to abduct someone in America, someone’s family member, someone’s handicapped family member, … In America! In America, folks! … Can be anyone’s family member!

“Vole, you have made a mockery of English Law. … The scales of justice may tip one way or another, but ultimately they balance out. You will pay for this!” Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Witness for the Prosecution - 1957)

It is so on this earth and especially so in the heavens! So, let it be said and so let it be written.

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Escala: AJ’s inane refrain (significant inane refrain, quoted verbatim): SS only sibling, not a child or spouse that the law should recognize their closeness. Ex parte contact evidence (AJ not even party).

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