antw. mddm (ch. 62): universal slavery
lorentzen-nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Mon Jul 22 07:43:32 CDT 2002
recently i stumbled into a local coffee-shop where they sell drugs ... there
are more than hundred all over the city, and in lots of them you can not only
buy cannabis yet also stuff like speed, xtc or acid ... me - believe this or not
- just wanted to have a coffee before the movies and hadn't had realized at
first glance the shop's true purpose ... anyway, i came to talk with the people
and understood soon that this was one of the dives run by the russian mafia
(who is, by the way, not without influence in local hamburg politics) ... while
the guy doing the drug dealing was quite talkative and witty, the girl who
served, perhaps 18 years old, didn't understand german at all ... related to
this she often brought people the wrong drink which didn't really matter because
consumers weren't in for the beverages at all ... the russian girl, when she
didn't bring things, kept looking to the floor most of the time ... now, she
didn't have blue spots in her face or anything but it was obvious that it wasn't
exactly her free will to serve there ... smuggled into the country these women
do, more often than not, have to work sooner or later as prostitutes against
their own will ... no passport, no foreign languages, no friends ... just pimps
& arms dealers ... these women - and of course the albanian mafia and other
international cooperations of organized crime are doing it just the same - are
the european slaves of the 21. century ... no heroic dixon deed of the dude
writing this here today ... kfl
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