antw. mddm (ch. 62): universal slavery

[Otto]

Hi Kai,

"these women (...) are the european slaves of the 21. century"

agreed, but how is it possible that the local police doesn't know about
these places?

Otto, asking from provincial Oldenburg

----- Original Message -----
From: "lorentzen-nicklaus" <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: antw. mddm (ch. 62): universal slavery
>
> 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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