Shopping in the Panic Society. Shopping during the 20th Century was a very dangerous experience. If you wanted anything, it was necessary to shop for it. You had to shop around to avoid paying too much for something. There were many ways to shop. You could go down to the mall, you could go to the corner store, a salesperson could come to your house, you could shop by phone or mail order. There was even a shop by the TV channel. All those methods were very dangerous. You could end up paying too much and get junk from any of those methods. Going to the mall or corner store was very dangerous. People could get injured of killed on the trip down or back. People were robbed, mugged, murdered, raped, etc. even in those stores. They were often pushed, shoved, spit on, cussed, and often had to talk to rude, dishonest salespeople. You could slip and fall in the stores. People brought along their spoiled kids. You could have your kid kidnapped or molested by someone while at the store. You could also be accused of molesting or kidnapping someone elses kid. One Saginaw resident was accused of shoplifting and spent 2 1/2 years in prison. He never left the store with the items he was supposed to have stolen. After he was cleared by appeal, He was retried on the original charges 4 years later. Eli Bradley Jr. of Jackson, Mi. was arrested for sampling grapes at a produce counter in a supermarket. He was convicted as a felon on that charge. A little girl was badly injured in a K- mart when a pipe bomb hidden in a toothpaste carton exploded. (April 17, 1989 Indianapolis, Ind.) The stores themselves were dangerous to be in. Many people were injured in a store in Texas when the roof fell in on them. Several shoppers were badly injured January 30,1990, when the roof of Dexters Dept. store in Maine fell in on them. A woman was killed and 12 other people were injured when the ceiling of a croissant shop fell in on them. In New York, on October 30, 1989 many shoppers and store personnel were injured by gangs of teen boys that broke windows, assaulted shoppers, and generally trashed the stores. This attacks occurred during daylight hours. In Sacramento, California, 4 people were killed and several injured when they were taken hostage by gang members in a local electronics store. The products themselves were also dangerous. Several people died when they bought Tylnol capsules that had been tampered with. Hundreds of people in the Chicago area got salmonella poisoning when they bought and use the milk sold at their local supermarket. Milk was found to contain traces of sulfa drugs and antibiotics that had been fed to the dairy cattle. Perrier Bottled water was found to contain traces of Benzene, a cancer causing chemical. Grapes imported from Chile during January of 1989 were found to have been poisoned with cyanide. Over the counter medicines were tampered with. Food was found spoiled. Glass and other hazardous things could be found in baby food. Packaged clothing are filled with sharp pins. 34 people got very sick and 2 died after they caught Legionnaires disease from the produce counter. This happened during the fall of 89 at the supermarket at Bogalusa, La. When the Legionnaire disease report was released on January 10,1990, all the store managers panicked and pulled the plug on all vegetable misters. (The original problem occurred from failure of that store to follow the manufacturer's instruction of proper maintenance and cleaning of that unit.) Over 15 Diet Pepsi cans were found to contain syringes in June of 1993 all over the country. The evil company got out of this when they convinced authorities that the people making the claims tampered with the cans themselves. Sales people often came to the door or called you on the phone and tried to pressure you into buying something that you didn't need. Their products were often of poor quality and extremely overpriced. When something went wrong with those products, they were nowhere around. People could pose as a salesperson. Once in your house, they could rob, rape, or kill you. Even worse, was the following events that happened one week in Saginaw in December 1989. Delivery men from a company called United freight started knocking on doors to deliver parcels from some pre Christmas contest. Once the homeowner stepped outside, the delivery men turned out to be police who then hauled off those people to jail. The gifts were nothing more then bricks in the boxes. Shopping by mail order was very hazardous. Merchandise was offered at a bargain price. It often took six weeks or longer to get delivered. Sometimes, it never came at all. On those cases, the company took your money and vanished into bankruptcy. In many cases, the stuff was junk. Sometimes, the purchase and, or possession of the merchandise being offered is illegal. Often, the police were minutes behind the delivery trucks with a warrant for your arrest. Hundreds have been arrested for possession of pornographic materials minutes after they had received such materials through the mail. A lady in California faces prison charges for using coupons that she had bought through a mail order company. She did not know that the coupons were fake. July, 1993 found a lot of people trying to sell fireworks in Michigan. They had legally bought them through the mail, or, purchased them out of state. Police in Genesee county promptly raided all of the stands, declared their fireworks illegal, and arrested everyone. In some foreign countries it was even worse. In the communist nations such as Russia, people had to wait in long lines for hours just to buy basic food staples. Often that food was of poor quality. It was a common practice to have to use a ration card to buy any of that garbage. Black marketing and bribery were common practices. It was very easy to spend money on any of those methods of shopping. The preferred method of cash was quite dangerous as someone could rob you of all of your money before you had a chance to spend it. Personal check was a difficult method of paying for something. You had to wait in long lines and go through embarrassing credit checking before your personal check was approved. The credit card was the most preferred. With it, you could go on wild spending sprees. Many shoppers did just that. Then, they were faced with a huge bill that had anywhere from 18 to 22% interest charges tacked onto the balance. A lot of people went bankrupt due to those loanshark rates charged by the credit card companies. In the Panic Society, no one ever has to go shopping. Your shopping is done for you through your computer. Since there are few things needed, there will be no confusion deciding which item will do the job or if it's needed. Quality and prices are fixed by Your Glorious Leaders. You do not need to shop around for quality and price. The only items ever needed are, food, water, recyclable clothing and your Super Safe House. Everything is delivered to your super safe house by robo units. Is this all possible? Yes, with cable or phone shopping, you could buy everything you need by mail order or phone. In Russia, there is no confusion over quality and price over hundreds of brands. Just like in the Panic Society, There is one brand, one price. Quality, brand and price are controlled by the central government. The price is fixed, the items are scarce, and the quality is poor. This includes all basic staples such as bread, meat, potatoes, etc. Socialism doesn't work. Ask the people in the Communist nations about the poor quality and shortage of consumer goods over there. Yet, Your Glorious Leaders insist that "The right people were not in control."