Disco Inferno

A recent newspaper article, which I'd assume is from API or UPI, and was buried on the 18th page of my local paper, totally floored me.  I'll quote the title verbatim : "Investor allowed to open disco near Auschwitz ". Anyone with a decent knowledge of the WWII era would have to be appalled. For those young enough to have had high school history courses that skip WWII in favor of, say, the 1960's civil rights movement, I should point out that Auschwitz was the site of the most notorious of the Nazi death camps. Approximately 1 million people were killed there, either by injection of phenol into the heart or by cyanide gas. Some of the camp buildings and structures have been preserved, more or less as a memorial to those killed, and as a reminder to future generations of what happens when goons like Janet Reno are given unchecked power. It is, or was, unthinkable that anyone would try to exploit the site for commercial profit. 

The Polish name for the town is Oswiecim, the name that appears on current European road maps. The town's administrator is Adam Bilski, who is quoted in the article about the disco : "One can consider whether it is moral or not, but that's another matter." Well, duh, I have considered it and I think it sucks. Just recently I flew to Warsaw on unrelated business ( arranging for the purchase of surplus small arms and ammunition for my employer ) and wound up having a few days to kill at the conclusion of the negotiations. I decided to rent a car and drive to Oswiecim to see whether the club really existed and, if so, to try to learn more about it. Folks, it is not a pretty picture. 

The disco is located in a former tannery that employed slave labor from the camp. Although the club's Polish name, Dyskoteka Smierc, is on a neon sign on the roof, what caught my eye was a reproduction wrought iron gate with the inscription ( in German ) "Arbeit  Macht Frei" over the gateway. Knowledgeable readers will recognize this as the same inscription on the actual front gate to the death camp which has been preserved all these years. A loose translation is "Through Work, Freedom". I arrived in the late evening in time for the second floor show. ( Two floor shows each evening intermix with the usual DJ and public dancing.) This floor show was the most tasteless display of public obscenity I've ever witnessed.

The featured "musical" group this evening used the English name "Nat Negritti and His Nasty Nigger Nazis". I wish I was making this up. The group consisted of 5 extremely faggy black males who wore nothing but crotchless lavender leotards, Nazi armbands, and SS Officers caps. Between mincing and strutting about the stage they belted out horribly accurate versions of 1970's disco vomit like "YMCA" and "Disco Inferno". The latter number included a stage set where effeminate young Jewish boys ( local talent ? ) were fed into a mock oven by members of the band. Needless to say, I left early. 

Next morning I was moaning about the revolting act to a Polish associate. He reproached me saying that Americans were the largest investors in the club. I couldn't believe it, and asked him to get a listing of the investors backing the club. ( In Poland, a small bribe will buy any government or banking information. ) That afternoon, he gave me a computer printout with 20 or so corporate/investment group names on it which I had time to glance at on my flight back to the U.S. 

The printout did not list the dollar amounts of the investments, just names and addresses. All but one were European. The one U.S.entity was T.E.I of Little Rock, Arkansas. It didn't ring a bell,  so I forgot about it for a couple of weeks. Then I got a tip from a more or less disreputable private investigator from Arkansas I'd done business with before, telling me I should check out T.E.I. Well, hold onto your hats. T.E.I. turns out to be Tyson's Entertainment Investments, an Arkansas company headed by Tyson of Tyson's Chicken fame - the same puke who made Hillary's cattle futures account blossom illegally. After much pain and agony I obtained a list of the top 5 shareholders in T.E.I. ( drum roll ):

1) Donald Tyson

2) Hillary Rodham Clinton

3) Steven Spielberg

4) Barbara Streisand

5) Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Have the Clintons no shame at all ? What would Hillary's N.Y. Jewish constituents-to-be think of her latest investment ? The other 4 people on the list are known crooks, moral defectives, and flatulent gasbags, but surely the N.Y. citizenry deserve more from their future Senator, no ?


George Kranz,
Dachau-on-Hudson, NY