• Mafia king on the straight and narrow. Henry Hill is back on the streets in his old neighbourhood after 30 years in the witness protection programme. What does it all mean?

• Reality TV, Surveillance and Organised Crime. Tenant management is worse than organised crime. How else has nearly a decade of 24/7 surveillance technology abuse been sustained?

1. Mafia king on the straight and narrow. . There's no such thing. Although Goodfellas told it like it was, the film still glorified the violence especially for those who revel in such things. What is interesting about Henry Hill concerns the fact that he was at the centre of it all and turned them all in. That's what happens in the criminal mobs. The least likely one will betray the others to save his/her own skin. Who will it be here? Lt Harry Bird, BS or someone else?

BBC News Saturday, 29 March 2008, 00:07 GMT

Mafia king on the straight and narrow

Hill can now revisit old stomping grounds without fear of retribution Henry Hill's story

GoodFellas was the definitive mafia film - and it is the story of one man, Henry Hill, one of the only survivors of a ruthless gang of robbers and killers.

Hill walked the streets of New York as a king - an associate of the Lucchese crime family. He stole big, he spent big and took vast quantities of drugs.

Then he got caught and spent 30 years in the witness protection programme, telling the police all they needed to know to put his mafia bosses behind bars.

"I couldn't walk around this neighbourhood ten years ago," he says standing, smoking outside Junior's diner in Long Island City. "There'd be bullets flying all over the place."

Mafia king on the straight and narrow

2. Reality TV, Surveillance and Organised Crime. In the Email below I very briefly compare and contrast my experience in a tenant managed environment currently with that of a reputed Mafia owned and operated residential building during the 1980s on Manhattan's upper eastside. Tenant management is worse than organised crime because it is the government, supported and sustained by the government, has the ability to use surveillance technology to attack human activity and destroy life and worst of all wipes out the ability to address these problems legally and properly in the legal justice system as has occurred. Therefore, I write about what is happening exercising my freedom of expression as best I can.

There are a couple events from my 1980s experience which are relevant here that I left out of the Email below. Antisocial behaviour which led to the death of an 18-year-old youth when he was clubbed with a baseball bat on a New Year's Day at an arcade that was not supposed to be an arcade in one of the building's built and owned by this reputed Mafioso landlord. It's the same kind of antisocial behaviour permitted here in this environment 20 years later by tenant management that can easily lead to a similar murder. These events are not unfamiliar in the UK today.

The reputed Mafia landlord who built and owned the building in which I lived in the 1980s with all its false documentation created to skim rent and gain a tax abatement created a situation where the building was almost blown up. I believe that he tried to do just that and failed to cover up the reality of what he had done. He changed the fuel oil to the boiler to a natural gas source. The boiler was so designed to be able to take either fuel. But, he did not set the mixture correctly so that it burned with incomplete combustion with the smell of natural gas prevalent continuously inside and outside all around the building.

One Saturday night there was a huge explosion that shook the building. Those of us at home went out onto the street to see the damage that had been done; windows were smashed including some huge one's in a nearby high rise and manhole covers were blown out of the street some under parked automobiles. Fortunately, no one was injured. The fire department next door (engine and ladder companies) rolled out their equipment into the street and taped it all off. I believe that the accumulated natural gas from the building's boiler had finally been set off by something underground.

Within days the smell of natural gas returned to the building and outside all around the building. I called in the gas utility, Con Edison, who shut down the boiler and gas supply locking the latter when he found the incomplete combustion in the boiler. There was supposed to be a key in a glass case for emergency access to the boiler room next to the boiler room door or instructions where to find it. There were neither. The Con Edison employee was just about to get the fire department next door to smash open the boiler room door when the porter walked into the building and ran to get the key.

The gas was not turned on again until the boiler's settings were adjusted properly. Not long after that the landlord replaced the boiler without a permit, signs or certified plumber doing so. He tried to hide the evidence about what really happened. These examples of this kind of undermanagement that put the lives of people at risk go on and on for this particular landlord. I've found the same to be true for tenant management. It's a deliberate disregard in each instance. The reason why I address problems is to make certain that people's safety and health are protected as much as possible.

The great problem with this tenant managed environment is that the local criminals are allowed to use surveillance technology to destroy my collection of information and its reporting as best they can. This has gone on and on nonstop for almost the last decade 24/7. My efforts to address this activity in the legal justice system seven years ago this month were destroy by this abuse from these same people using the surveillance technology. For this reason tenant management is far worse than organised crime because it is the government doing this while they are supposed to be maintaining fundamental standards and preventing everything that has been happening to me.

"Henry Hill" and all this comrade thugs are alive and well in North Kensington a short distance from the BBC who turns a blind eye to it all.

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Subject: Watching reality TV 24/7 365/6 is a possibility, e.g., Big Brother, Celeb Big Brother. Goodfellas (actually Wiseguys) and celebrating organised crime.
Date: Saturday 29 March 2008 13:10
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk, e24@bbc.co.uk

I found your reporting and comments on these aspects of "entertainment" interesting. Here's why.

1. Reality TV

"Are reality shows killing TV?" Response: "They are likely to keep going along the lines as before but will change to disguise itself in the future."

In the meantime reality TV in its many manifestations is fascinating to people like crowds attracted to an accident. Have you ever seen a mindless crowd standing silently around an accident victim laying injured in the street? It's a sickening sight to see.

The great problem with reality TV like Big Brother is that it creates the disposition and exploits the psychological problem of people regarding the invasion of privacy and demented need to watch what another human being does all the time no matter what it is. Reality TV is a comment about the viewer. Why would anyone want to watch such drivel?

Reality TV is helping to create the surveillance society by establishing a standard that it is OK to observe people in their private lives 24/7.

I have been subjected to surveillance technology abuse 24/7 for almost a decade in the hands of those whom I reported for child abuse in early May 1998. In their revenge and retaliation against me they managed to get surveillance technology installed in mid-August 1998 which was put at their disposal.

Since that time hundreds of people have participated in watching me inside my own home continuously. This has included all those living around me and many others from the general public. "It's better than TV" was a comment at one point. All that is needed are some fabricated allegations and a sadistic disposition from those in positions of authority to allow surveillance technology to be used like this by those who were reported for crimes.

This continuous monitoring has consisted of abuse carried out second-by-second around the clock, 365/6 days a year for almost ten years against everything that I do no matter what it is. This reflects the essence of sadism on the part of all involved in this continuous abuse that has no other objective other than to derive pleasure from inflicting pain on others while completely dominating and controlling the life of another living being.

You will see that Big Brother reality TV also caters to this aspect of the base side of the human character as surfaces in the news from time to time.

Even the television programme House with Hugh Laurie has included the process whereby medical staff break into patients' homes to determine the truth. If people want to work for the fictional character Gregory House, they have to do this on his orders. A recent line by the hospital's administrator had her asking him "Have you even ever read an ethical guideline?"

Spying and criminal acts are thereby justified by the end which they serve. It is all too easy to pervert this process where the end justifies the means so that people manufacture false allegations to justify brutal and unlawful means. In House we are meant to consider the ethics of the outrageous acts that he carries out, but in Big Brother reality TV there is no such consideration.

What is missing: television's coverage of the reality of reality TV.

2. Goodfellas, Henry Hill and all glorified crime

I am quite concerned about what people take away from the organised crime films including Goodfellas and believe that there is as much an element of celebration of the criminal as there is horror of the brutality and destructive character that is depicted whether fiction or based upon fact.

It you've lived in an organised crime environment like New York, you will begin to appreciate the horror and destructiveness and repudiate any such celebration. Organised crime dominates and controls New York and just about every other major city in the US. No one can escape the impact of organised crime in New York or elsewhere. Thugs abound and are free to act as they please.

Thuggery permeates every aspect of life. Organised crime muscles in on everything legitimate and rule by means of fear because they simply kill people who oppose them as an example, and everyone else goes along.

There have been the sensational murders in the various restaurants. One was initially out in the open at the Columbus Day celebration in Columbus Circle with its famous retaliation at Umberto's Clam House. But, the local restaurants feature in mob hits too. People disappear, and no one sees anything. One of the top bosses was killed outside Spark's Steak House on the pavement.

These are the ones that make the news, but anyone in business who refuses to do what the mob tells them, e.g., take the ubiquitous mob controlled rubbish collection, disappears for good. Anyone owning a restaurant has to accept certain products from mob controlled businesses at a higher cost.

When they've collected or are making a lot of money, they turn to property and develop residential buildings in the community which are then subjected to substandard management and maintenance. No one dares complain. Organised crime owns the community no matter where that might be. Here's my direct experience on Manhattan's upper eastside in the 1980s.

I lived in a reputedly Mafioso owned building for about six years and found out that there were multiple layers of skimming from the rent that occurred. The documents filed with the City of New York were false along with flats rented to friends to re-rent unlawfully. The management was deliberately deficient and crime was high. The point was to turnover tenants to increase the rent to destabilise and destroy anyone or any group who chose to try to address the problems. This was explicitly forbidden by law, but organised crime could care less.

I contacted many organistions in government and elected officials at the City, State and Federal level. I pursued complaints through government departments. I had the local Crime Prevention Detective meet with the tenants. Later the Community Patrol Officer Programme (CPOP) was involved and checked the building daily. There were several attempts made against my life (window shot out; tried to run me down with a truck; tracked for pick up off the street) where the final one resulted in the gangland murder of someone who looked exactly like me.

I even went through the local courts (Landlord and Tenant Court and the Civil Court of the City of New York) and tried to get the problem into Federal court all to no avail. I had been defrauded of $6,000 [in two years] and was entitled to collected triple liability damages due to the fraud ($18,000) but was never able to do so [despite extensive efforts].

The New York City government lied about the law and fought me. My appeal to New York State was upheld. The head of the law firm representing the landlord got an "ex parte" order against me by lying. I took it upwards into appeal and got it stayed. I subsequently met with a Justice in his chambers and exposed this law firm head as a liar which resulted in his being instructed "no more 'ex parte' orders." He couldn't be trusted. The lower court judge overturned his own order.

Everything changed with respect to getting help and assistance during the 1980s. It was all made more difficult and people in positions of authority were stopped from doing what they had done before. The New York City Housing Department was so corrupt that it was taken over by New York State, but the same employees were brought along so that nothing really changed. The guy in charge of the Harassment Unit who had a spectacular reputation was caught on film by the FBI taking bribes from landlords to fix harassment cases.

The great problem with the organised crime films is that they do not portray the total impact of organised crime on every aspect and every person in the community no matter where it is. There is too much of celebration and sympathy toward organised crime which thrives on fear, intimidation and killing at the drop of a hat.

3. Big Brother reality TV is spawning organised crime in the community in the UK

My experience for the past decade in the Lancaster West Estate near the BBC in North Kensington has been far worse than my six years of living in an organised crime run building on Manhattan's upper eastside for six years in the 1980s where this reputed Mafioso went from one to twelve residential buildings which he constructed and owned in the community between 1980 and 1990.

It is worse now in London because it is the government who supports the criminals in this environment by giving them surveillance technology to silence anyone like me who would dare report serious problems. The result is that antisocial behaviour and crime continue and increase.

Those using the surveillance technology can observe everything that I do and attack me and what I report which has resulted in sustaining their surveillance based abuse for almost a decade.

This also sustains a corrupt tenant management in Kensington & Chelsea. By keeping me isolated, alienated and subjected to continuous abuse, tenant management preserves a false image that does not exist with respect to solving problems.

Recently, it came out that Board Directors of the TMO were elected by fraudulent voting. Two of those involved were on a disciplinary panel judging the person(s) who brought the fraudulent voting to light. Two directors including the one who exposed the voting fraud were dismissed as directors and TMO members.

This is a corrupt organisation trying to sustain its image by fraudulent voting of directors and wiping out those who bring the matter to light. This is exactly my experience from the last decade of tenant management. The criminals are cultivated who are only too willing to carry out crimes and attack those who report crimes, antisocial behaviour and management problems.

This is far, far worse than the organised crime that I experienced directly in New York in the 1980s because it is the government who has turned to the methods of organised crime only using surveillance technology as a lethal weapon to both protect itself and kill.

If people want to keep their jobs in the various government departments, they must behave in a criminal manner just like on "House" and go out into the community to totally invade a person's privacy and carry out unlawful and criminal acts that will destroy human activity and life.

4. This is the real impact of Big Brother and organised crime films on the community

There are those who are only too wiling to carry out unlawful and antisocial behaviour thereby creating that standard in the community.

This is what has happened which I've documented for the past decade.

What you are not considering when you review and report on reality TV and organised crime films and their film festivals on TV is the fact that there is a fundamental pandering to the basest of human characteristics which lead to this becoming the standard in the community.

This is not speculation. It has actually occurred in my direct experience for the past decade.