Elisabeth Fritzl Locked Up For Smoking

When Marta read that Josef Fritzl’s reasons for imprisoning his daughter included her vile, disgusting habit of smoking she could feel 80% of the western world relaxing a bit – feeling less hostile towards the man, agreeing with him that locking her up for a while was probably the only thing he could do to help rid her of the nicotine demon – and she believes that half of that miserable PC lot is probably capable of understanding, too, how Elisabeth’s new smoke-free locked-up vulnerability aroused forbidden desires in him, the unleashing of which unfortunately prolonged her incarceration.

“Fritzl’s PC reasons for locking up Elisabeth are being used shamelessly by his lawyer to garner sympathy, and it’s working, and it’s making me so angry that I want to shake some sense into all of the PC infected sheeple out there,” explains Marta. “I am not using Elisabeth’s pain to push the smoking barrow. The issue at stake is Elisabeth’s freedom – not just her physical freedom but her freedom to smoke, to drink and to live her life according to her values, not her father’s or anyone else’s. Get it?”

“Locking up ‘bad’ people is what our culture does – other cultures use other means, such as stoning them to death,” explains Marta. “Being locked up is the penalty we pay for behavior that offends others and Josef Fritzl – with or without his wife’s collusion – was way ahead of his time for locking up 18-year-old Elisabeth in 1984 for daring to smoke (and drink and do things that all teenagers do) because the next step in the war against smoking is to do exactly that and to hell with the ‘freedom’ our culture is supposedly based upon.”

“Lock up the filthy dirty smokers is a common war cry from the Nicotine Nazis,” sighs Marta. “And they’re called Nazis for a very good reason – they, like Josef Fritzl, have a psychotic belief that their values trump all others, that their physical being is superior to all others and that the way to deal with inferior people is to lock them up and humiliate them. We saw this sort of behavior exhibited in Abu Ghraib, but it happens within families, too.”

“I’ve often heard parents discussing locking up their kids – in their bedrooms, or in a basement, attic or cupboard – for refusing to comply with whatever draconian decree they wanted to enforce,” says Marta, “so the initial act of imprisoning Elisabeth to save her from a partying lifestyle –smoking, drinking and staying out late – is something a lot of parents can sympathize with if not actually do.”

“They euphemistically call it ‘time out’ but we all know what it really is.”

“When you impose your will on anybody, especially a child, for their supposed good, you are behaving like a monster,” says Marta “Parents who claim that they are nothing like Joseph Fritzl should take a good look at themselves, and governments that claim they are nothing like Hitler’s regime should do likewise.”

“One monstrous step often leads to another, more diabolical, as it did in Joseph Fritzl’s case,” explains Marta. “And I’d go even further than this to assert that people who have a need to control and punish others for not doing their bidding are psychotic – which just about describes everyone in positions of power.”

“I think the best way to raise children is by setting a good example – and by that I mean being a good person,” says Marta. “Good people come in all packages, and can be smokers, drinkers, drug takers or whatever and can believe in any number of gods, or not, and what makes them good is their tolerance, their acceptance of differences in others and their ability to live their lives and do their thing without hurting others, or allowing others to be hurt.”

“I would say that less than half of the world’s population is ‘good’ by my definition and much fewer than that in the western world and that is why I have yet to decide whether or not I want to marry and have children,” says Marta. “Being a smoker, it will be incredibly difficult for me to be myself and yet conform to what the western world now expects of mothers. I can’t hide my smoking in the same way that Fritzl hid his unholy vice and remained a pillar of society, can I?”

“In this sense, blaming Fritzl’s neighbors and the authorities for being too stupid or uncaring to see what he was doing in the cellar is unfair – it was done secretly with every contingency covered,” says Marta. “I do, however, think that the Fritzl family should shoulder some blame for colluding with his tyrannical ways.”

“It appears that Elisabeth was the only member of the family – including all of the aunts and uncles – who refused to buckle to the man’s tyranny and for this bravery she was sacrificed by the lot of them.”

“Fritzl said that he intended to release Elisabeth after he broke her desire for vices such as smoking and drinking, but having given reign to his lusts he was as much trapped as she was.”

“Knowing that Elisabeth would have him locked up for what he did to her, her fate was sealed for 24 years and it was only in his old age, with diminished desires, that he showed some compassion for his captives – a compassion which will no doubt earn him redemption in much the same way as his ‘regret’ for a previous rape and arson charge earned him the right to a respectable existence that was used as a cover to perpetrate another and far worse crime.”

“With a healthy nicotine-free body and a comfy jail lifestyle – with ready access to the medical and dental treatment he denied his captives – this monstrous man will probably live for another 30 years in good health at the Austrian taxpayers’ expense, outliving all of his victims and inflicting upon those of us who remember him and were wounded by what he did, a never ending litany via his legal representatives and a willing media how much good he is now doing as a drugs counselor for fellow inmates, fighting the good fight against tobacco and other filthy drugs.”

“He will probably become a beacon of redemption, do speaking tours and maybe have his own television show,” sighs Marta. “Our PC society never fails to reward the redeemed, to make martyrs out of monsters. I can see it all now, and it makes me physically sick.”

“Like all good people, my soul is wounded by the enormity of this man’s crime – it is a crime that truly robs us of any semblance of pretence about homo sapiens being a superior species,” sighs Marta. “And, I am further wounded by his reasons for it – Elisabeth’s bad habit of smoking is clearly stated in his confession – because, as a smoker, I can imagine a time when I, too, may be physically locked up by the Nicotine Nazis for my filthy, dirty habit – rather than being emotionally locked out of ‘respectable’ society and the best jobs, like I am now.”

“I would imagine that after 24 years of incarcerated brain washing Elisabeth may have lost her desire to smoke as well as all of the other desires she once had,” says Marta. “But, being the incredibly strong and magnificent woman she is I would not be surprised if she maintained mental freedom throughout her 24-year ordeal and that being the case she is likely to buck the incredibly PC world she has re-entered and demand her right to smoke be restored.”

“Will 80% of the western world deny her that right?”

“You know what?” says Marta, “I believe they will – for her good, of course, and her children’s – because they don’t want to see the similarities between this sort of thing and being locked up in a cellar.”

“Welcome to the PC prison of 2008, Elisabeth,” adds Marta. “Unfortunately, you’ll find that it’s ruled by people very much like your parents, all shiny do-goody respectability on the outside and rotten to the core inside, and most of the brave young people growing up around you in 1984 are now pathetic sheeple incapable of doing anything without first consulting their PC manual – which, amazingly, is very much like George Orwell’s novel describing the very year in which you were incarcerated (for your own good, of course).”