THE WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST: EXPLOITER OF THE MUNCHKIN PROLETARIAT OR CAPITALIST MARTYR?: It still amazes me that people like The Wizard of Oz. The notion that parents would allow their children to watch the assassination of the Wicked Witch of the East and then cheer about it is perverse in the extreme and should cause the child welfare authorities to remove the children from the clutches of these people immediately. It is now known beyond any possibility of dispute that the Lollipop Guild, then as now one of the most powerful and corrupt labor unions in Oz, had the Witch eliminated in order to prevent her from installing new Japanese lollipop technology that would have increased production at the Munchkinland lollipop plants several times over and ended organized crime’s hold on the Guild.
The Mafia’s control over the Lollipop Guild is a fact so well documented that I won’t bother going into the slimy details at this time. From control of the hiring halls to sabotaging new labor saving equipment to siphoning off funds from the Guild’s pension fund, the Mafia in the Emerald City has for years done everything in its power to keep the honest lollipop worker downtrodden while at the same time proclaiming its great and altogether hypocritical concern for the welfare of the workingmunchkin.
The mob’s tentacles reach everywhere in Munchkinland; one need only look at the quick and shoddy coroner’s inquest and the authorities’ near hysterical demand that Dorothy go down the yellow brick road and out of Munchinkinland in order to muddy the evidence and prevent any sort of official inquiry into the Witch’s death. It now seems entirely possible that the Mob conspired with Aunt Em, an old labor organizer for the Communist Party USA, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, to have the house dropped on the Witch of the East in order to preserve the Mob’s labor racket in Oz. Dorothy was the patsy of the piece, a naif to be handed over to Ozean authorities for flying houses under the influence in the event that plot did not succeed and the witch lived. In any case, this glorification of gangsters is not a fit subject for children and it speaks volumes about the vicious mindset of today’s Hollywood that they glorify this sort of outrageous criminality.
The Mafia’s control over the Lollipop Guild is a fact so well documented that I won’t bother going into the slimy details at this time. From control of the hiring halls to sabotaging new labor saving equipment to siphoning off funds from the Guild’s pension fund, the Mafia in the Emerald City has for years done everything in its power to keep the honest lollipop worker downtrodden while at the same time proclaiming its great and altogether hypocritical concern for the welfare of the workingmunchkin.
The mob’s tentacles reach everywhere in Munchkinland; one need only look at the quick and shoddy coroner’s inquest and the authorities’ near hysterical demand that Dorothy go down the yellow brick road and out of Munchinkinland in order to muddy the evidence and prevent any sort of official inquiry into the Witch’s death. It now seems entirely possible that the Mob conspired with Aunt Em, an old labor organizer for the Communist Party USA, and Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, to have the house dropped on the Witch of the East in order to preserve the Mob’s labor racket in Oz. Dorothy was the patsy of the piece, a naif to be handed over to Ozean authorities for flying houses under the influence in the event that plot did not succeed and the witch lived. In any case, this glorification of gangsters is not a fit subject for children and it speaks volumes about the vicious mindset of today’s Hollywood that they glorify this sort of outrageous criminality.
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