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Underground eXperts United
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[ Godfather Dad ] [ By Russel Hallberg Jr ]
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Godfather Dad
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Russell Hallberg
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Ralph Smitherson Jr didn't mind that he had been wrong. He minded what he
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now knew to be true. His father had originated the contract! Jane had gone
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to his parents, that night she stormed out of the house. Sheila had been
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only a link in the organization, not the mentor.
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His father had been considered above reproach. Nearing retirement age,
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his father was Logistics Coordinator for the Templeton Factories. His father
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managed the shipping of parts and supplies between six plants. He controlled
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a fleet of sixteen tractor-trailers. He influenced the use of dozens more
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trucks from suppliers.
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The plant had faced near bankruptcy eight years earlier. Templeton
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Industries had been faced with a barrage of fines, from different agencies.
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There were labor safety fines for not having "certified" fork lift
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operators. There was an obscure forklift operators' certification program
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that had been mandated at the discretion of the inspectors.
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The environmental regulations were nearly the Coup de Gras. Forty-million
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to stop offensive odors from reaching Elizabeth! A US Geological Survey
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study, vintage Earth Day 1970, had shown that geographic conditions made
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Elizabeth an unsuitable place to build a city! The air quality was the worst
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in the nation on some days. Yet Templeton was held responsible for
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offensive, but nontoxic odors.
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Then, as if by magic, Templeton's finances stabilized. After some
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"downsizing", the company began to show a profit again. Ralph Smitherson Sr
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had suffered a demotion, yet his salary remained untouched. He was even able
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to attend night school. His job became easier, his salary secure, yet
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Templeton had suffered a 40% reduction in its workforce.
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Ralph Jr understood. He understood how his father, who had liberated Nazi
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death camps, could become just as gruesome a murderer as the Nazi guards.
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How much blood must be on his father's hands? Manipulating highway traffic
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to stage fatal accidents! His father had become so addicted to the power of
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killing, that he sold his own son's life!
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His father had controlled the situation from the beginning. Ralph Jr had
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asked his father's help to escape from Jane's attempts to coerce him to
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cause his own fatal accident. That allowed his father to be certain that
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Ralph Jr had no friends to turn to at that time. The fatal accident
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insurance fraud contract was secure. There would be no one to cry "foul"
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after Ralph Jr's death.
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But Ralph Sr had underestimated his son. His son had found a new woman,
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who loved him deeply. She introduced him to whole new set of friends. They
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were rural manufacturing workers, who resented the ostentatious "New Age"
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suburbanites. Ralph Jr had pieced together the evidence, to finally
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understand his father's role. And Ralph had written fiction.
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Fiction had broken through the wall created by corrupt law enforcement. His
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accusations about Jane had been met with a month in a psychiatric facility.
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But, there was no doubt in the minds of the readers of his fiction. They
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knew that fatal accident auto insurance fraud was a real crime. They knew
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that all of Ralph's accusations were plausible. They had little doubt that
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the crime syndicate could be successful. It could be especially successful
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by using people who were known as moral leaders. These people could commit
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crimes of mutilation and murder of their own children, and then attend
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church with the surviving family members.
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This was not paranoid delusion, but the ancient tradition of merging
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corrupt government and organized crime. It had happened in many societies
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before. This was also a product of electronic communications, and a cowering
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public.
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And Ralph Sr had forgotten the Sr at the end of his name. So had Ralph
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Jr. Ralph Jr omitted the Jr when he authored his fiction.
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Ralph's brother's email had been the final clue. His brother had
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chastised him for writing such libelous fiction. His estranged wife might
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sue him! His brother had also requested that Ralph display the Jr in his pen
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name. His brother didn't seem to care about Ralph Jr being murdered in an
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automobile accident, only embarrassing the family.
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Then, all of the clues fell into place! The secret he had not dared to
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tell himself became painfully obvious. His father had somehow been
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threatened because of the published fiction! The crime was real! The loose
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knit fatal accident fraud syndicates had become a threat to Ralph Sr!
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Some of the relatives were offended, and some smiled. Ralph Jr danced away
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from the graveside, at the end of his father's funeral. It had been a closed
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casket ceremony. It was such a shame that such an honorable man should be
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killed in a highway accident.
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uXu #544 Underground eXperts United 2000 uXu #544
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