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DRY TOWN. COPYRIGHT NOVEMBER 2024

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A man pulls into a gas station, walks inside  and asks the attendants

 “So where’s a good place to eat.”

Attendant 

“Try ‘Chips,’ over on second street. Tell the bartender the gas guy says hi.”

A few minutes later The man pulls into a parking spot in front of Chips and walks in. He Takes a seat at the bar and asks the bartender for a bottle of beer. Being in a new place he looks around. After a few minutes and a couple of beers the man notices not many people are drinking.

Man

“Seems like not too many  people are drinking tonight, huh? AA meeting?” With a chuckle.

Bartender

Well, For most of us in here it’s not really allowed anymore.

Man takes another sip of beer and puts his bottle on the bar

MAN

Not allowed…. anymore? Whats up with that. Free Country.

BARTENDER puts both hands on the bar

Bartender

Ever hear of the Dry Towns?

Man

I thought Dry Towns were all conspiracy. Like the FEMA concentration camps crap.

Bartender Leans forward and nods to the man to look around.

Bartender

Look around. Most of the folks in here were in the Dry Towns but got released after the new federal COMPASSION law was passed.

Man

Whoa! Back up the truck. Dry towns? New compassion Laws. Care to explain that, young man?

Bartender

All of us in here were users…. fentanyl, crack, coke, crank, you name it. And the punishment was – used to be- to sit in a prison and rot. Get abused all the time. Prisoners would get beaten, raped, extorted, mocked. It was constant. And when we got out, we’d go right back to the drugs. Dead mans cycle. Cuz we couldn’t get jobs. No one hires felons.

Man

Well, drugs are narco-terrorism. Using drugs is supporting terror. Literally. In fact, the Department of Defense declared the drug crisis in America has got so bad it was destroying military age men and women. Unfit for service. Troop counts suffered. Let alone the money we spend on those drugs fueled cartels, gangs, sex traffickers, pedophile groups, all the bad people.

Bartender

That’s right. But the prisoner abuse got so bad NGOs got word of it and stepped in and demanded a more civil form of punishment. We all know we did wrong. Criminal wrong stuff. But every life has the hope for forgiveness and a second chance. Like the second chance Jellyroll sings about.

 

Man

OH! So the feds let you work in a cute little restaurant and bar. Free to go anywhere you want. How the hell is this punishment?....as he circles his hands around his head.

Bartender

Cuz were all chipped. And punishment doesn’t work for us. We’re not violent. Just users. After years of crunching data the feds realized that Education and compassion works. It’s why the number of users are going down. And all of us in here who are chipped are helping reduce the number of users. We’re all over the country. A community really.

Man

How do you guys make money to live on?

Bartender

It costs about $300 a day to keep one person in prison. That adds up. Big time. So the users get fed funds to open businesses. Bars restaurants buncha stuff. Some driver UBER too. But we get a $100 a day stipend. Gives us enough to live on.

Man tapping his little finger on the bar

Chipped? Hmm. Looks like I need another explanation.

Bartender turns around to the man and pulls up his shirt and shows scars on back. 

Bartender

See the scars?

Man

Yeah so?

Bartender tucks his shirt back in

Bartender

Well, i got busted using for fentanyl, meth, and some other shit few years ago. Was my second offense. So Judge gave me option : i can stay in the dry town for rest of my life, which is hell, or i can get chipped and be allowed to live on the outside. Maybe help others.

Man

Tracking chips!!? OK, so they know where you are. But how the hell do they know if your using or drinking?

Bartender:

They put in at least two chips—that we know of. Could be more. At least that’s what everyone figures.  One tracks ya….

Man

And the other? Or others?

Bartender

The others…..Hmmmmm. Cus if you use cocaine, fentanyl , crack any of that hard shit, the other chip detects it. 

Man

So the feds know you’re using. So they find you and take you back to dry town.?

Bartender

Nope. The second chip detects drugs, or booze, and it releases a big ass lethal dose of fentanyl…..and you die. Almost instantly. So sure, we’re not in the dry towns any more, but imagine the temptations we face. Honestly, most of us in here got over the addiction though.

Man

You just OD? But how did you get over the addiction?

Bartender hands the man another beer and nods.

Bartender pointing his finger at the ceiling

Then….then they harvest your organs. Gotta sign authorization to organ harvest before leaving dry town. And authorization that you allow chipping. There were over 200,000 ODs last year ……we know of. Organs are a big market. But the feds only report about 70,000 OD per year. Frankly, all of us think drugs are the feds way of culling the herd. De-population. Oh yeah, they take about half of your assets too.

Man

OK, But how’d you get over the addiction?

Bartender

Jesus Christ. Don’t laugh. Dead serious.

Man, making the sign of the cross in acknowledgement.

Man

What happens to the sellers? The pushers?

Bartender

The sellers are the scum of the earth. They go to dry town till death. No escape.

Bartender opens a bottle of water for himself and takes a drink.

Bartender

Funny thing about the dry towns.  There are no walls. No cells. Just Quonset huts. Food n beds. The pushers are in a separate dry towns. Never mix with the users. Because the users would kill them all.

Man

So why don’t people just walk away?

Bartender

Because the dry towns are in the middle of desolate areas. Hundreds of miles from anywhere. Much as we can figure the towns are in deserts or mountains. No one really knows. But It’s suicide to leave. Real slow suicide.  In fact, when the buses pull up to the dry town and unload the pushers, the first thing the guards say is if you want to walk away and try and leave… you’ll die in the middle of no where. Maybe you’ll be eaten by the animals, or rot and fry in the heat… up to you. Your choice. We Don’t care.  Then they slam the doors and the bus pulls away. 

Bartender continues

They used to take the big dealers to the dry town and chain them in the middle of the desert and let them bake in the sun until they died. But the churches and NGOs said that was inhumane and that the dry town were playing God. To let people die is saying that there’s no hope for these people to rehabilitate… and like it says in the Bible Isaiah Chapter 1; “all sins are forgivable.”

Man

What else have you heard about the dealers’ in the dry towns?

Bartender

The food they give you is shit. Same every day. Bread water and cheap bologna every damn day. Maybe pasta with watery sauce. Prison guards tell the dealers that the shit you push has destroyed countless lives. The users lives. Their loved ones lives. And you’re destroyed Their futures too…all gone. You are worse than murderers. You are torturers.

Man

What happens when people get sick?

Bartender shaking his head

If the dealers get sick, the feds don’t help them much, they’re done. Cancer? You get pain relievers. No surgeries. No anti ancer meds.

And The pushers don’t bury the bodies, just throw them in the desert. Far away.

Man

Has anybody tried removing the chips??

Bartender

Some tried. They all died. The chips’ll detect it and they’ll release enough fentanyl or toxins that you’ll die on the spot. 

Man orders a burger from the waitress

Man

So the people in here who aren’t drinking have all been chipped, right?

Bartender

Yep. Well, we can’t drink, smoke, Use marijuana or any drugs whatsoever, oh, and we’re all sterilized.  But at least we’re on the outside. At least got Some Freedom! The chips are a total method of conformity. But they also offer choices. We could leave the planet anytime we want by using again.

 

Man

Not much of a choice.

Bartender

Just so you know,  there is a positive spin on being chipped.  We are helping other people to not use use .  And we tell them about the dry towns. Tell people Our stories, about using and the hell we and our loved ones had to endure day after day after day. 24/7. Like I’m telling you the story. It’s about finding God. Knowing Jesus Christ. I know this sounds like an eyeroll kinda’ comment but it’s real. We’re alive because we gave our lives to Christ. Simple.