Tuesday, July 16, 2013

What the fascist state truly values.

The apartment complex I was living at is a large complex of multiple units and had by my guess about 1,000 units.  It had the usual requisite swimming pool and laundry facilities.  A pass through the parking lots showed that most cars there were compacts to mid-sized cars and were on the average about 3-10 years old.  By all external appearances this was a lower to middle class complex.

My first clue that all was not well in paradise was when I went up to the pool and noticed that all the pay phones (yes this is still the late 1980s) had been removed from the adjacent locker room facility.  I learned that the phones had been removed because prostitutes had been using them to conduct business! My second surprise occurred one morning when I went out to get the morning paper and saw that the passenger side windows had been broken on all of the cars parked in front of my apartment building.  For once, I was thankful that I did not have a car.

During the one year I lived at that complex, there were two murders, one by stabbing and one by drug overdose, drug sales and two residents were arrested for robbing a bank.  And this was at an apartment complex that was about two blocks from the high school.  Obviously I started looking for a new residence to move to when my one year lease expired.

I also learned that the business which owned the apartment complex(wish I could remember the name), had some sort of arrangement with the government that allowed bus loads of young people to reside in some of the apartments during the summer.  I don't know anything about the program, but I am sure the business owners made money off of that deal.

With all of the above going on, you can imagine my surprise when I received in the mail a notice that the apartment complex would not renew my lease for the coming year!  No specific reason was given for not renewing my lease, but the letter stated that management thought I should find another place to live.   This complex welcomed murders, drug dealers, prostitutes, and bank robbers, but I, a person who was not politically correct, was not welcomed!!!  That is a true reflection of what the fascist state values.

I read in the book Democracy For The Few that inmates in prison could get in fights, be involved in prison killings and could use drugs and they would not be put in solitary confinement, but if the got caught reading a book on Karl Marx or socialism, it meant instant isolation in solitary.  Again, a reflection on what the system really values.

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