Let's say for the sake of argument that you grew a crime scene cleanup company in Orange County, California, your home county. After a couple years your experience shows beyond doubt that your county's government has crony employees. Their corruption resides in the coroner and administrator's offices, death's administrators for your county.

Meanwhile, your business does poorly, although you work hard night and day. You spend tens of thousands of dollars marketing.

You treat others as you would have them treat you. You grow older and realize that you have started your last decade. Now you begin to think more about Orange County's coroner's employee abuse of crime scene and suicide victim's families, the tax payers. The public good now means more to you than words in a big book. You understand that a good life has as much value as the good you place into life.

Now you enjoin the fight against corruption in local government as if you received this mission from God. But how do you know about corruption in your local government? How do you know you're not on a mission for a demon, a la René Descartes?

You must decide whose side you are on from these facts:

Let's say that over the course of 6 years something like the following occurs.

1. Your county coroner's office assures you that their employees "never" give the public referrals to crime scene cleanup companies.
2. You advertise in the Yellow Pages.
3. You build hundreds of web pages and for most of 6 years you dominate the highest and near highest ranking (organic) web sites. Your web pages grow.
4. During these six years you clean fewer than twenty death scenes, total, in Orange County, California, and most of these came your first two years
5. Orange County crime scene cleanup calls that do reach you do so on New Year's Eve and Christmas.
6. On one July weekend you receive two calls referred by the coroner's office within 24 hours. No more calls follow in this manner. You are perplexed.
7. Somehow over the years you receive five times as many crime scene cleanup calls from a county nearly 400 miles away; calls also come from around the country. In fact, you receive more telephone calls from Miami Beach, Florida for crime scene cleanup services to clean after homicides and suicides than from Orange County.

During these years you have conversations and read email about crime scene cleanup business in Orange County, California.

A competitor claims that he observed a county administrator congratulate a sheriff's employee for winning county referred opportunities to bids. Your competitor then sends you and the coroner's department a letter as a testimonial to his observations. Your friendly competitor must go out of business because of cronyism in Orange County.

Orange County's corruption hurts your feelings and sense of justice because you expected better from your so-called "free country."

A newly arrived cleaning company's spokesperson assures that he has contacts in the coroner's office and will have no trouble receiving referrals from the coroner's office. It happens that you literally were called to help clean with this person that you earlier befriended, unaware that you were to take part in growing corruption in Orange County. It happens that you refused to break a county administration seal on the death scene door. You are saved from joining corruption in Orange County by your own belief in abiding by Orange County's ordinances and laws.

So now you know about corruption in the coroner's office.

Another time an Orange County Sheriff's Deputy, lady, calls you and seeks business advice as well as training information for her daughter. You ask, "But how will she find work?", to paraphrase. The deputy exclaims, "Well, I know people in the coroner's office," to paraphrase.

Over the years you receive one or two jobs a year in Orange County cleaning after suicides and unattended deaths. You never receive multiple death scene referrals from your hundreds of web pages or the Yellow Pages.

Over the years numerous murder-suicides and numerous homicides take place in single homes and apartments throughout Orange County. You never receive a call to clean any of dozens of multiple death scenes; yet your prices remain dirt cheap.

Repeated, but well spaced, telephone calls to the coroner's office produce different explanations about the coroner's referrals.

• At first employees claim 3 telephone numbers for specified area codes are handed out to the public to choose a company. This helps to explain why you received work the first couple years, then so few later.
• Later, the deputy coroner swears the above never happened, and that coroner's employees never give referrals to crime scene cleanup companies. Either you or the deputy coroner has an integrity issue at this point.
• Your wife makes similar calls to the coroner's office and receives different answers.
• You receive a job cleaning after an unattended death within 4 miles of your home in Orange County, September 28, your wedding anniversary. The caller states that a coroner's employee gave him a competitor's telephone number. The competitor wanted much more than he, the caller, could afford. So he found you on Internet, of course.
• Your efforts are in vain and you now understand that cronyism will remain and grow in Orange County, California. Your suspicions of creeping fascism are no longer suspect. You now have reasonable suspicion to believe that you live in a fascist county.

You know there's more to this story than you can remember. After all, you know that you're not paranoid. You know that your wife witnessed your experiences over the years. You know that others give feedback affirming your business experiences.

You learned long ago through many hours of reading and study that fascism is the imposition of capital through government manipulation and force. Now you know that Orange County's government has fascist elements in its death administration offices. You reasonably suspect that Orange County's cronyism, fascism, has long roots. (See Crime Scene Cleanup and Right-wing Conservative Politics.)

You wish that you were wrong and a simple explanation exists, but the facts over the years scream corruption. You know too well that many of Orange County's tax payers were gouged by crime scene cleanup companies because cronies in the coroner and administrator's offices chose the dark side of life, Mammon.

You know now whose side you are on; you're on a mission from God.

For the bereaved and the tax payers,

Eddie Evans, Crime Scene Cleanup

 

 

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