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Word came through my peer group that Bill A's father shot himself in his head New Year's eve. He worked for Vernon's Police Department. I had seen him, but never talked with him. I was glad that I hadn't. I had never come so close to a suicide victim, never wanted to. This whole idea gave me a spooky feeling until I reached Vietnam. That's another story, though.

I had actually started a page on police suicides and then a bogus Internet company lost it. I had written a short piece on Robert Smith's suicide. At age 25 this New York police officer committed suicide, I read somewhere. A little more reading about police suicide and I learned that police have a high suicide rate.

If police officers are unhappy because of their work, we all need to think about what we can do to help police officers. I do have one simple answer to remove a great deal of their stress and discomfort, legalize drugs and thereby end our drug war.

We might imagine a great amount of stress in a police officer's life. The last multiple homicide I cleaned after had 3 dead and 2 wounded by an AK-47. An AK-47, if you did not know, fires a 7.62 mm slug of lead. It happens to share the same nomenclature as our US Army's M60 machine gun.

Both AK-47s and our M60 machine gun were favorites during our US incursion into Vietnam. Today, police officers now do combat shooting against the world's most highly chosen weapon, a commie AK-47 assault rifle. If you were unaware, most "combat shooting" on our streets takes place at a distance of 3 to 10 feet.

I miss my own point here. It's not just a police officer's level of on-going stress from job related stressors, it's the idea that assault rifles exist on our streets. If we could somehow factor in stress related suicides to actual officer deaths by assault rifles, suicides would by far command statistical averages. Most, if not all, police officers must handle, cope with these on going stressful concerns.

Terrorists, drug cartels, and both Chinese and Russian Armies use AK-47s as their standard weapon. Let's not forget Taliban terrorists and their various want-a-bees.

Now, at last count, Mexican drug lords had solid footholds in 250 United State's cities. Would it matter if I said some Taliban have "solid footholds in 250 United State's cities"? How much would it matter? It matters not to a cop (Constable on Patrol) facing down a barrel of an AK-47.

We don't know what possesses a healthy, young, competent police officer to commit suicide, besides so many undue stresses. In 1994 Smith was New York City's 11th police officer to commit suicide in that same year. So something's going on because things have only gone downhill for our nation's police officers. A suicide epidemic reached our "thin blue line." We can imagine many police officers give suicide a thought because there's something terrible among their ranks.

In 1994 our number of police suicides in New York City doubled from the

Currently, we know that police officers face emotional and external environments with many ups and downs. Their hours alone create great stress. Every public contact carries some risk. There's no getting rid of bad thoughts and feelings because "complacency kills." Police officers don't go on patrol thinking, "I'm OK - You're OK." They think more like, "I'm OK - You're not OK." Anything less becomes suicidal, ironically.

If you don't believe me, spend some time between Pico Union and 3rd Street in Los Angeles. Spend some time in Detroit with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. As a police officer you won't last long.

Soon after becoming a police officer, many lose their peer group. Then they become close to other officers as a means of socializing. A "them against us" mentality develops as it must. After all, wearing a uniform signifies something different about a person. As a result, public contacts remain on an objective, professional level, at best. One does not gain emotionally through such interactions.

I will grant that police officers become police officers because they do care about helping others. It's not just a middle-class life-style made available to high-school graduates.

Whatever reinforcement they receive by stopping bully's' violence against our weak and defenseless citizens, they lose stopping motorists. As authoritarian role models in our society, every police officer receives less-than-mutual respect throughout their day. Traffic control alone results in negative feedback from self-centered drivers. Live with this type of interaction every day and it's bound to leave emotional bruises.

Then there's a hierarchy, which isn't always user friendly. Some police officers built body armor (emotionally speaking) early in life. They may be proficient and expert marksmen, but poor emotional leaders. This person alone causes stress for their subordinates. Subordinates do not think of their sergeant or lieutenant as someone to confide in. In fact, those of us familiar with government and corporate hierarchy's know something special. We know someone in the hierarchy must take a hit for another to move up a promotion ladder. Damage a career to advance a career. Career jousting goes way back.

Suicidal behaviors may be triggered by a situation or event that a police officer views as overwhelming, and they need good feedback from peers and superiors. It doesn't come when they keep to themselves. Perhaps they become ostracized for poor judgment. Or perhaps they're perceived as being "too soft" or perhaps as "thumpers." Either way, they become "too" something and over compensate at times. They too reflect human frailties.

When we look to a police officer we see someone "in charge," judgmental, and a flack catcher when something goes wrong. Usually we find someone ready to help, ready to take charge, and ready to write down what went wrong.

As I've written before about suicide cleanup and white males, they carry extra social and cultural baggage we're not finding in other demographic groups. What ever leads this demographic group to commit 73% of suicides in our United States, add stresses of police work. Then stand back and take a serious, objective look.

When we add policing stresses, we can find suicide occurring in inordinate numbers from within their ranks. Robert Smitch cannot tell us why. Neither can thousands of other police officer suicide victims.

Today sociologists tell us our drug war does not work. They tell us that our drug war created self-serving institutions in our city, county, and federal governments. These organizations became self-perpetuating. Their mission became survival first. A successful drug war would mean an end to their existence. So we're not likely to see any success in our drug war any time soon.

If I must guess what a future of drug prohibition looks like, it looks like Mexico's drug gangs and cartels will continue to spread. Eventually police officers will dies as a result. Other police officers, like in Mexico and elsewhere, will go along to get along. We see the same thing on coroner and medical examiner cronyism: go along to get along.

Crime scene cleanup's future as suicide cleanup increases among our police officers must grow too.

Police officer suicides rank near the bottom of my suicide cleanup job satisfaction inventory. I don't know how many I've cleaned after, more than 2, less than 5. That's a lot in 8 years, going on 9. Ironically, fortunately, none were in Orange County.

Now, with our economy in shambles, and no one in particular to blame, suicide behavior has increased. At least, my calls for suicide cleanup have increased. Then there's "suicide by police officer." Add this one to our stress factors. Policing becomes more difficult in these economic times.

Policing not Easier

We should expect more suicide across our United States as our economy plummets. More police officers must come in contact with suicide victims. More police officers also respond to domestic violence calls more often as jobs go down south and evaporate as obsolete. Think about it. Domestic calls rank as the top call for police officer deaths.

Forget Obama. Capital's crash started long ago, as anticipated. It simply did what it does best, defer an inevitability and pass on more suffering to labor, citizens. Now it reaches worldwide in a single step.

If we were to look for a president or two as expediters for today's growing economic crisis, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton would fill these shoes. Be that as it may, capitalism's ups and downs go way beyond presidential powers. Presidents set capital's tone when they have congressional help. Otherwise, capital does what it likes, grow and consolidate. Capital's police forces exist. Police forces to protect us from capital do not exist.

 

Our Economic Crisis in a Nutshell

This time around looks like our crisis in 1970. One form of it was structured by our last one. Off-shoring, Reagan, Thatcher, neo-liberalism in general, led to capital's success worldwide. By 1985, capital's access to world labor settled its problems with labor. We should not forget Bill Clinton's role in NAFTA and capital's jump across the Rio Grande, then to Korea, Vietnam, and finally China. With the gloves off and deregulation, capital proved it rules as an empire on its own terms, and off-shore.

Remember, had George Bush captured our inadequate social security system for private capital accumulation, what did exist for labor would no longer exist for labor. Since 1970, real wages have fallen, including China's real wages. Chinese capital grew in American holdings as our United States funded our Iraq war. Bush kept our wars' price tags unseen, unfelt, and un-criticized; not a fair way to treat our next generation. Obama shows a similar lack of concern for America's next generation.

Chinese finance capital solved many problems for capital consumption in these United States. Since our American working and middle-classes lost real wages, credit fulfilled consumption needs and wishes.

Over the next 40 years fiance problems arose with diminished wages, while credit soothed lumpy roads in capitals movement from continent to continent, often remaining off-shore. So capitalism never solved its problems in total; it simply moved them around.

We know at least two fundamental truths about capital. It has limits to its growth. It also circumvents, transcends, barriers to its accumulation. Nothing works so well today than ephemeral movement of capital over our Internet. Hundreds of millions of dollars secured and exposed over milliseconds place us all at risk.

However much capital transcends its barriers through gifted derivative tools and such, capital still relies on buying labor power. Production of commodities and selling commodities for a profit remains a truth of capitalism.

Barrier problems arise because finding financial innovations, like derivatives, and getting the right stuff to the right place sometimes exceeds finance engineers' brilliance. We know as early as 1980 on, American industry got screwed to benefit finance capital's labor cost barriers.

So instead of white collar crime scene cleanup we bailout rich financiers responsible for capitals wild meanderings across our planet.

It now appears capital's brilliant field goals between continents reached its limits. But do we have crime scene cleanup technicians outfitted to cleanup these worldwide, white collar criminals' deeds?

It's not all ugly. Leading hedge fund owners got 3 billion in 1 year. Too much went to the top. Too little reached bottom where buyers need goods, commodities. No one has a solution to our growing economic problems, but we do have ideas about what's going on.

It seems apparent to this writer that we need a department of white-collar crime scene cleanup. We also need a department for Sheriff-Coroner Department's crimes against citizens. This department ought to be called, "Crime scene cleanup for corrupt sheriffs."

Orange County suicide cleanup will soon host more on these topics.

So we don't have solutions, but we have an idea of the problem. We know our current media discussions feed us crap, absolute crap. Is it any wonder people have so few correct ideas about our economic crisis?

For now, I must run off. I'm behind on my public education work against cronyism, speaking of cartel threats to our cities, and such. TOP

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Suicide Narrative

What I write below has little if anything to do with crime scene cleanup. I write it for the sake of personal clarification and the interest of anyone reading this far. I try to clarify the suicide act so that I can understand it better, not that I really will understand it.

A suicide cleanup narrative written in English by a native English speaker must confess to a narrow perspective. What I write here cannot begin to unravel suicide issues in Japan, other than calling death in combat for their motherland "altruism."

To begin, suicide by Asians, to generalize, usually occurs by hanging. Poverty, shame, guilt, and loneliness (alienation) should fulfill more obvious motivators.

Hanging also qualifies as a preferred method of suicide in European countries among white males. In fact, white males worldwide commit suicide at a much higher rate than any other demographic group. I should add that third world countries do not have a tracking means or methods that an industrialized nations share. I'm generalizing of course.

Emile Durkheim's seminal work, "Suicide," brought empiricism to new heights in industrialized nations. To expect colonialists in third world nations to measure suicide among natives misses a big point in colonialism, resource accumulation for a greater glory of God as the "white man's burden." To this day many African countries have problems feeding their populations, let alone counting those who die by suicide. We might suppose a number of suicides among starving and disease-ridden to reach horrific numbers.

I'm reminded of my sociology and psychology professors warning against generalizing our social sciences to the third world nations. Even more ludicrous, an application of "humanist psychology" models to a third world makes about as much sense as sending Christmas trees to a starving nation.

Preventing Suicide

So what I write about here belongs to our United States, its various demographic, ethnic, social, and cultural groups.

When we speak of "preventing suicide" in our US, we need to clarify a big question: Should I ask him/her if she/is thinking about suicide? (See below comment on A. Alvarez and Sylvia Plath)

We might phrase it, "What's on your mind?". "You've been noticeably different and I hear you saying things that worry me." Whatever it takes to get this issue out, do it. If the subject does indeed contemplate suicide, nobody will stop them once their goal has become part of their big plan.

Still, we never know when intervention will change their plans. The truth about suicide is that counseling seldom works as well as environmental changes. To change behavior and attitude, change environment.

Look at these venerable seven risk factors for suicide in alcoholics (Murphy' 1992 research, quoted in COMPREHENSIVE TEXTBOOK OF SUICIDOLOOGY, Ronald W. Maris, Alan L. Berfman, Morton M. Silverman, page 370)

At risk alcoholics drink heavily (a form of suicide itself), may have a major depressive disorder, little or no social support (one of seven types of alienation), unemployment (definitely a strong motivator in a strong work ethic person), living alone (elderly), suicidal thoughts or communication, and serious medical illness.

So many of these indicators point to older white men that we should expect their numbers to reflect the highest incidence of suicide, and they do. We would expect loneliness, hopelessness, and poor health as motivators for suicide in this population. Alcohol and drug abuse play a lesser role, although depression may operate as a motivator.

What I find important in Murphy's study stands out pointedly. Murphy's research showed that underlying psychiatric disorders coincided with alcoholic suicides. I would expect psychiatric disorders to operate as suicide motivators in younger, demographic populations than older suicide victims.

In two different studies of alcoholic suicides using his risk factors, Murphy came up with 69% and 76% positives when the dust settled. These figures show significance for anyone involved in the study of suicide and alcoholism. Remove the depressive disorder and the self-medicating may come under control with fewer alcohol and drug related suicides.

It happens that the alcohol and other substance abusers self-medicate to place a handle on their depressive disorder. From society's perspective, these alcoholics are "drunks," not sick. When these alcoholics live a "depressive lifestyle" we find a strong trigger for their alcohol and drug abuse, and suicide for some.

In other places I write about white males, The Six Gun Mystique, and suicide. From the perspective of non-whites, white male suicide must seem perverse. G.K. Chesterson attacked suicide as the sin of sins because the "man who kills himself kills all." Suicide wipes out the world and in so doing insults all of life's beauty. Chesterson notes that at least the thief lives satisfied with diamonds, complimenting the diamonds and their source. The suicide victim exits the world insulting it and everything else.

Then the suicide victim's folks take an insult from county government fraud artists. Can you image looking the parent of a 15 year-old suicide victim. Then, saying something like, "Here's a list of suicide cleanup companies?" All the while knowing the list contains crony companies, if not your own company.

There is no way to weed these people out of public service. What we can do is educate the public to their presence.

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Don't date or marry an abusive person.

Outcome Control

Why abusive behavior? Failure to control outcomes may lead to abusive behavior.

The failure to control outcomes finds others as the cause and then target of externalized frustration and rage. "Every time you do that you make me mad!" means frustrated actors punish others to displace their own failure to control outcomes. In short, frustration experienced through negative outcomes becomes externalized rage as abusive behavior.

Imagine the desperation experienced by toddlers as they fail to please their parents, their care-givers. A generalized feeling of dread envelopes their attitude toward new experiences and ideas. Parents with poor parenting skills soon destroy the toddler's quest for self-actualization, learning to learn, and an assertive, non-aggressive place in the world.

In the United States schools routinely promote "failing" students. As a consequence failing behavior becomes a rewarding behavior in an ironic twist. Failing behavior becomes a means of controlling outcomes. "Why try?" becomes an attitude toward learning new behavior and ideas because there's no risk of frustration and chastisement.

Looking back to hunting-and-gathering societies, life may have had more external dangers and little material wealth, but controlling an individual's outcomes for thought and practice remained within the reach of most actors. Simple technology and simple customs allowed most actors to control the outcomes of their thoughts and practice. Most people would find plenty to reward their efforts without frustration. Rage and frustration existed, and we must imagine some sense of control over outcomes existed. Where such control failed, sympathetic magic would arise in response to perceived powerlessness.

Time and conditions change. In hunting-and-gathering societies outcome control remained in reach, but behaviors similar to today's stealing, lying, cheating, and abusive behavior existed. At the forefront of their emergence, these conscious behaviors probably began through deception. Women and children learned to hide surplus food from dominant males, deceiving their patriarchal leadership for simple survival. If the reader prefers, Adam and Eve deceived one another and begot Cain, the masterful agrarian deceiver of his parents and herding brother, the first homicide victim.

Lies, counter lies, deception, and homicide remain part of the human condition. Rage and abusive control, as in the beginning, remain part of the human condition. Where outcome control fails early in life, early frustration and rage become filtration mechanisms, selectively filtering socialization for no good. A barrier to ridding society of barbarism grows with abused toddlers and others.

Eddie Evans

Writing for Florida Crime Scene Cleanup.

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Writing Exercises

Usa a dictionary for defining words.

Crony writing lesson for students

I recommend this writing exercise for students interested in knowing how to edit their own work. Copy this exercise and keep it. You will want to share it with others.

I color coded this writing exercise for transitions, parallelism, and active sentences. It will serve as a model paragraph for future reference. I recommend that you take it seriously for writing and you will be glad that you have done so.

Active words (blue) - Transition Words between paragraphs (red) - Parallelism (green - parallelism means running together, like train tracks) - Active and Transitions - - Some words serve two or more jobs in sentences and paragraphs. These have two colors.

Eddie Evans 

Cleaning Professionals Against Cronyism (CPAC) seeks to end cronyism between local governments and crime scene cleanup companies. CPAC shares this information for the benefit of independent crime scene cleanup companies and the general public's awareness. Read on to learn more about your future without us.

You know now why you must join with us or ignore us. Join us and belong to the solution. Ignore us and your silence equals complicity with cronyism.

Do you have the crony option? Some of your competitors receive the crony option. As a result these crony companies receive the more lucrative jobs from county employee referrals. As a result, the public gets ripped-off.

Unlike your crony competitors, you have competition and must work hard for referrals. You do not bid on high paying jobs. You have few if any opportunities to bid on high paying jobs. If you receive crime scene cleanup jobs, you drive far. You clean apartment death scenes and other free enterprise death scenes, each one a single death scene, usually. You receive hundreds of dollars in return, or a small fraction of what your crony crime scene cleanup competitors receive. Your local government ignores your pleas for equity.  

Unlike you, your crony competitors do not compete for high paying jobs. These they receive from crony government employees. Your crony competitors work nearby home. Your crony competitors' rip-off their grieving clients (tax payers) for tens-of-thousands of dollars. Your local government looks the other way while some of its employees receive kickbacks.

Your clients receive service from a competitive company that owes its life to its clients. You will clean your best while knowing your next job may not come for a long time.

Your crony competitors belong to a quasi-monopoly and have no fear of losing jobs for poor cleaning. Their business receives guaranteed jobs from their local government. Your local government and their local government prefers silence for the sake of public ignorance.

You belong to a meritocracy. You earn your place in the crime scene cleanup business and pay local taxes. Your crony crime scene cleanup competitors receive local government referrals, welfare.  They pay local taxes with money ripped off from grieving tax payers. They belong to the aristocracy. They need cronyism. 
 
Now you know who needs cronyism and who needs CPAC. Do you need CPAC? The public does.

 

Crime Scene Cleanup Model Paragraph

Bloody Marry - How do I know what to write about?

Most students know how to write a crime scene cleanup paragraph in their beginning 4th grade class. Some do not. Some students do not begin writing crime scene cleanup paragraphs until after their college years.

What this crime scene cleanup paragraph does.

Students of crime scene cleanup need to write clear paragraphs with a beginning, middle, and ending. If this sounds familiar, like writing crime scene cleanup stories, it should. Both stories and paragraphs usually have a beginning, middle and ending.

Crime scene cleanup paragraphs build the crime scene cleanup story. Some students learn to think of their paragraphs in terms of length. Their public school teachers said, “A paragraph in this classroom has five sentences.” This instruction made sense for then, but times change. A crime scene cleanup paragraph sticks its words together. This means a paragraph's words belong to one another and nothing else.

Example:

Bloody Marry Cutting Tool

The bloody marry cutting tool serves the crime scene cleanup technician very well. With its sleek design, red finish, and easily changed blade, the bloody marry catches the fancy of many young crime scene cleanup technicians. Other cutting tools for crime scene cleanup technicians exist, but none match the bloody marry for its affordability and utility. Before leaving for a crime scene cleanup job, the diligent crime scene cleanup technician ensures their supplies include at least three bloody marries and plenty of new blades.

We see from the above paragraph that its words stick together. This paragraph's subject, the bloody marry, zeros in on the bloody marry while using the words crime scene cleanup, cutting tools, blades, and more. These words serve the bloody marry idea by expanding on it. Note the use of yellow coding. This code shows connecting words between sentences.

How do I know what to write about?

I used the bloody marry example because the bloody marry cuts so well and remains easily found at the Home Depot for a good price. I recommend buying 1,000 blades, which cost less than $15 a package.

Your choice of paragraph subjects comes from real world experience and reading. Reading remains the key for learning new ideas to write about.

Read this paragraph about cutting safety and the bloody marry. Note the connecting words between sentences.

Following cleaning for toddlers, the crime scene cleanup technician's safety follows in importance. By thoroughly scrubbing and rinsing repeatedly, highlighting areas before and after cleaning with hydrogen peroxide, the crime scene cleanup technician shows her affirmative attitude. The apparent significance of the crime scene cleanup technician's safety proceeds all actions, and the toddlers' hygienic safety comes first.

The toddler paragraph connects the hygienic safety for toddlers and safety. Note the yellow code words connect sentences for sentence sense. By making sure each sentence connects to those around it, the writer avoids aimless confusion. More importantly, by connecting sentences with these connecting words, the writer finds a way to create the following sentences.

Writing fluency with a knack for sentence building leads to coherent, focused paragraphs.

Crime Scene Cleanup sentences for students.

  1. An apprehensive dread follows poor crime scene cleanup work.
  2. A lingering death order proves poor cleaning, but the death odor may have permitted fabrics, papers, walls, carpets and carpet padding.
  3. Asserted cleaning, an awakened curiosity, and decontaminating as cleaning continues destroys baseless assumptions about crime scene cleanup's risks.
  4. The appropriate designation of personal protective equipment (PPE), rather than arbitrarily imposed rules, avoids annoying complications for the professional cleaner.
  5. Belittling concerns for crime scene cleanup methods and hazards leads to astounding mistakes.
 

A Brief History of Western Suicide Ideas

As a free enterprise suicide cleanup business owner (not a crony coroner company), I have an idea about suicide and our economy. From my experience, it does seem that suicide cleanup calls increase in poor economic times.

Yesterday, (July 30), I received a suicide cleanup calls from Fontana and one from Winston, California. Of course, I've received zero from Orange County since 2005. Anyway, suicides calls from around these United States have gone up.

Homicide and unattended deaths remain about the. I can imagine that some of my unattended death calls were actually suicides that decomposed. So with this surge in suicides, I thought a brief history of Western suicide would be in order.

Everyone considers suicide sooner or later. Everyone since our beginning of time gives suicide a thought, at least, unless they're very young. Imagine our world today had Adam committed suicide instead of serving as our archetypal homicide victim. How would we view suicide?

For sure, pre-Socratic philosophers

 

Until modern history began, after 15th century modernism began, "Self-murder," "self-destruction," "self-killer," "self-homicide," "self-assassin," "self-slaughter, " were used for suicide. We can see suicide as an abstract, latinate word. In Latin, su refers to self, and of course cide means the as it does in homicide and insecticide.

As we would expect from early Greek history, silent grandeur and quiet nobility, moderation guided philosophic discussion of suicide. As with other weighty subjects, suicide found lively debate within boundaries of proportionately detached, balanced discussion. Wanton disrespect to gods exceeded Greek "balance and nothing to excess" principles.

In moderation, Plato would argue, a more rational justification for suicide arose as many find today. Inescapable pain from disease or intolerable oppression gave cause for suicide under reasonable conditions. Zeno's crowd, his Stoics, came to see suicide in more favorable terms then we care to think about today. For them, suicide because a most reasonable and desirable way to exit.

Image early Christian followers influenced by these same and similar ideas. Add Jesus Christ's willingness to die on a cross, and we can see early Christians finding peace before their time. Add baptism to this notion of joining God, and suicide becomes a great promise of freedom. Once baptized, some motivation for a quick exit arose to cash-in on a newly cleansed life-slate.

Before a reader casts doubting glances at these ideas, remember, just because pre-modern ideas gained popularity long ago, does not mean they vanished. An inquire ring, disquieted young mind may find so lice in such ideas.

Besides many variations on so many suicidal thoughts and patterns of thinking, there's an internalization of suicidal justifications. Whether or not one should follow personalities to their grave, bravery, dignity, and style became concerns. In the later Roman Empire, suicide reached intoxicating heights:

"Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. o see that yawning precipice? It leads to liberty. You see that flood, that river, that well? Liberty houses within them. You see that stunted, parched, and sorry tree? From each branch liberty hangs. Your neck, your throat, your heart are all so many ways of escape from slavery . . . Do you enquire the road to freedom? You shall find it in every vein of your body?" Seneca

This beautiful rhetoric becomes a pace setter for ages. To die nobly topped-off a nobly lived life, all under a controlled, rationally derived plan. Freedom followed freedom to chose one's exit, and under rational conditions.

At an extreme opposite, we suicide to escape slavery and irrational conditions. Deep in slave ship holds of colonial slave traders, black slaved's died in crowded, sewage like conditions. Like canned sardines in unspeakable quarters, taking one's life became a rational choice, if we can all it a choice. Thousands of Jews at Matsuda shared a similar fate by cheating attacking Romans from enslaving their city.

 

 

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