Crimes
Many crimes in Mega-City One are controlled by flamboyant mob bosses:
- Blitzers: hitmen with self-destruct bombs implanted inside them which detonate if they surrender when apprehended.
- Body-sharking: loaning money to people willing to put a loved one into cryonic storage for collateral.
- Chump-dumping: conning aliens into believing Earth is a paradise, taking their money, and then dumping them into space.
- Face changing crimes: the illicit use of face changing machines to commit crimes and fraud.
- Futsies: People who can no longer handle the fast pace of life begin to suffer from "Future Shock," become psychotic and begin to commit crimes.
- Numbers racket: buying computer passcodes for industrial theft.
- Organ leggers: those who cut up citizens and sell their organs on the black market.
- Perp running: transporting felons off-world.
- Psycos: telepathic protection rackets.
- Stookie glanding: butchering Stookies, an intelligent alien race, for the anti-aging drug they produce.
- Umpty-baggers: pushers of umpty, a candy that tastes so good it forms an instant psychological addiction.
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“... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars
to escape writing of the worst thing of all—
not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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To be taken, to be seen,
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“It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.”
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