“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.“
— Al Capone

It’s always a pleasure to understand what the ramifications are after a new law is institiuted. Or, for that matter, after there is a new mandate (or interest in) an old law. For example, take the recent zeal in ridding America of immigrants, legal or not, from those pristine beaches, beautiful lawns, and grandiose mansions which require a great deal of labor — in the Hamptons.

Unfortunately, there seems to be some difficulty in finding workers these days. One wonders why those hard working Black and Spanish people who (according to the NY Times and Newsday) formerly and currently live in the woods as well as rental houses or houses they’ve bought but don’t want to leave — even for food.

What we have now is a whole other level of paranoia.

The new Catch-22 is that Southampton and East Hampton have laws on the books instituted in 2008 which require landlords obtain a rental permit for any property rented to others. Under Home Rule the politicians and Code Enforcement Police can either be indifferent or draconian towards property owners who rent to immigrants. While the original intent was to identify who was living in rental houses so it did not appear to be racist or retaliative (in order to punish certain landlords) — it certainly played out that way. But, then things quieted down for the simple reason that local folks needed workers. The fact that I was prosecuted and imprisoned was due to the fact that I was exposing corruption as well. You know, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press and all of that anachronistic stuff. Simply renting to immigrants now only exposes property owners to legal extortion in the Hamptons.

But now the shit has hit the fan since the war on immigrants has started for real.

Immigrants have again becme a favorite subject. Followed by the American version of Stasi.

ICE is doing a great job. And, as a result, workers don’t want to leave their houses OR the woods. And, local homeowners have been busy ratting out their neighbors. Regardless of whether they have permits and are legallly permitted to inhabit (or rent) a house — snitches, rats, whistleblowers, collaborators — are turning in their neighbors for renting to Blacks or Immigrants who don’t have papers. Or, even if they do.

So, as the Zelensky-Trump-Vance imbroglio plays out and the New World Order is divided up into America, China, and Russia– we now have an idea about how the Germans felt when Stasi-trained citizens began turning in their neighbors. That’s what is now beginning to happen in the Hamptons. Those who rent to the hiding workers are being turned in to the police for referral to ICE.

Of course, by paying $5 million they could get fast-tracked to citizenship.