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… and give us our daily dose of fascism

While I was in Italy before x-mass my bank pass gets blocked without any request by me. It seemed unlikely to their security computers that i might be spending money in Amsterdam and the day after in Viterbo. It took 3 days to get it renewed in Amsterdam, only redundancy in plastic saved my ass from having to ask money to friends. At the desk in the bank a quite unfriendly lady examined my passport. She decided that the photo was attached by me (so the document was fake). I explained that she could check the photocopies they asked me to do in the same bank when i subscribed, plus they had my signature… solved after complaining with the sector that sells to company, happening that i have a business account.

Months ago I asked my driving license to be renewed. Is a italian driving license but can be renewed into a dutch one. It took me two trips to the office, one to the consulaat, another two mails and 50 euros. Yesterday I receive a letter from the driving license authority with my driving license inside: the fascist responsible for giving me my new license had decided that the original document had to be signed. No signature was ever asked me for the 4 years I had used it to drive. Actually, nowere in the document was written I had to sign place 7.a.

So I had to send it back and that I could wait another 10 days to have it back, maybe. In the mean time I am not supposed to drive.

Yesterday, having to go back to Berlin, I bought on line a train ticket. The process of payment stopped after payment, and before I could receive my printable ticket. I call the service number (10c a minute). After the customary 10 minutes (1 euro)on the line I get jumped to the usual list of obnoxious people till I get to the right one. He gives me the number I need to take the ticket, confirms me that the ticket exists (so to say that I have payed for it) and tells me to go to pick it up at central station. It takes me 30 minutes bike to go to the station this morning. Is cold. I arrive and a caring woman tries to retrieve my ticket from the machine for me. “do you have the 4 cipher code?” – “what code?”, “the 4 cypher code!”… “I don’t know what you are asking for”. “go to the counter”.
I wait my turn and go to the counter.
The big middle aged woman there had already called 3 persons in a row with her button system ’cause she could not wait for them physically to get there. Obviously we are not customers but idiots. I try to explain my problem. She say I have to put the 4 cyphers in the computer and get lost. I insist. After insisting kindly but firmly for 3 times and avoided the adrenaline rushes when she insults me implying I was a thief a layer or an idiot with her remarks, she agrees to check my reservation on the computer and, off course, there it is.
- “Were is your ID?”
- “Why should you see my ID to give me my ticket?”
- “No ID I cannot give you your ticket!”.
At this point I show the monster a “vordeelcard”, a card that allows you to have discount on the train line, that they issue with a picture and personal. it’s even rfid inside, to be sure to control where you have been in the last month. She does not accept it. I have to come back period.

Now I get out of the station and I am quite angry. The meaning of society of control never been more clear: my life is in the hands of fascist idiots that know better and that stands behind a counter or in a cubicle and faulty computer software.

I am still going back with my bike at hand and I see a green light and start to cross the road. I realize I made a mistake when I see that there is another segment of rod for which the light is red, and a big bus is coming full speed over me.
I move back fast and manage to take my bike out of the way. At this point the bus has stopped, 2 meters over the place I was standing. The driver makes me a gesture. I realize clearly he did not stop to avoid me, but to insult me. He would have killed me if anything was wrong, just because “he was right” and my light was “red”. Being “right before the law” could make me just a piece of shit to kill with his bus.
At this point I freaked out.
Luckily the guy started fast and did not stop and no cop was around.

The worst fascist, those that call the police for some noise before midnight, those that hide between the immigration papers, or in between the letter of the law, The small government officer that practice mobbing on his colleagues and the law enforcement agent with the citizen. The sum of small evil deeds and designed stupidity.

Not a line of difference from those who denounced the jew neighbor in 1933 to buy his house and steel his furniture, those who gave the list of the citizen to the occupant in 1940, proudly and in time, with “religion: jew” well stated…

Feel like finding a cave and hide in it.