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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Gamble, Reincarnation - July 13th, 2005.

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:10 PM

Some high brass of Indonesian police force has made an extravagant claim that he is ready to wipe out gambling (which is have always been illegal) in Jakarta in less than a week. A bold claim, I might say. To them who knows the real underground gambling world, the claim can be considered either as empty words or suicidal note. Empty words because gambling has been fattening some of the dogs in the police force, and it will be unlikely that those dogs will not be barking, clawing, or biting some forms of defense inside the police force themselves, because they have chains around their necks that will be their deathstring of gambling's grandmasters will them to be.

It is a suicidal note because gambling already has its roots and claws everywhere in the city. Gamblings and all form of nightsins (stripteases, drugs, alcoholics, murders) are presents in Indonesia, and they live mostly together. They have form an industry that gives HEAVENLY revenues each night. And like all those movies, they will pull out their claws and start ripping apart anyone who dares to disturb their presences. It will not be easy for the bragging brass to wipe out this well established dens of evils, it will take months to detect, locate, chase, and close any ventures while resisting resistances from the enemy or from within themselves.

Three days seems to be an impossibility.

Or perhaps it is possible to do it. Perhaps it's just a lipservice. Perhaps the brass and gambling has made an agreement and arrangement on how and when they will play a drama of "Big Gambling Termination". Perhaps it will just be a jargon soon forgotten, like every jargons before it.

Perhaps we can still see hope...


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have a nice 13th