antw. mddm (ch. 62): universal slavery

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on 7/22/02 10:08 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

> 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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Hi Otto,

At the risk of sounding cynical, of course the local police know about these
places.

Peace
Joe