Florida Oranges
02-01-2005, 05:23
An Introduction
For the past five decades, the Sunnyside Orange Juice Company had been the top seller of juice products throughout the entire nation of Florida. Its clever commercials, which featured celebrities like Carrot Top and The Rock wearing orange juice mustaches, were hugely successful corporate devices, and the taste of the juice itself was light years ahead of anything the competition had to offer. Within a dozen years of existence the Sunnyside Orange Juice Company had become the wealthiest corporation on the east coast of the former United States, and still is to this day. However, what most people don’t realize is that the beloved company, which at one point had its own cartoon series (a tremendously short-lasted one at that), has a government regulated secret ingredient.
Slavery.
The barbaric practice had been in circulation in Florida for years now, though the public had always been unaware of it. Machinery was too expensive and rarely efficient enough to get the job done, and orange picking wasn’t exactly a highly sought after occupation. What’s an orange grove owner to do? Simple. Drive a bus into the ghetto, round up as many illegal immigrants as you can, put shock collars on the mother fuckers, and put them to work in the groves. And that’s precisely what’s been done the past few generations.
What about the government, you ask? A laughable question at best. President Edison Pryor couldn’t give two shits what you did with an immigrant; you could mug his ass right outside the Capital Building and Pryor wouldn’t bat an eye lid. He’d always hated immigrants anyway. As long as it helped the Floridian economy and the public didn’t know about it, the Orange administration allowed it. Hell, they encouraged it! Pryor had made his bones in the orange juice business (and mowing down swampland, but that’s another story).
Which brings us to the matter at hand: the Orange Grove Massacre, a tragedy that will forever etch itself into the history of the Armed Republic of Florida Oranges. You can’t hide a thing like slavery for long no matter how hard you try. Sooner or later, other nations are bound to find out. And the discovery of such a disgusting act could easily lead to the destruction of even the mightiest of empires.
For the past five decades, the Sunnyside Orange Juice Company had been the top seller of juice products throughout the entire nation of Florida. Its clever commercials, which featured celebrities like Carrot Top and The Rock wearing orange juice mustaches, were hugely successful corporate devices, and the taste of the juice itself was light years ahead of anything the competition had to offer. Within a dozen years of existence the Sunnyside Orange Juice Company had become the wealthiest corporation on the east coast of the former United States, and still is to this day. However, what most people don’t realize is that the beloved company, which at one point had its own cartoon series (a tremendously short-lasted one at that), has a government regulated secret ingredient.
Slavery.
The barbaric practice had been in circulation in Florida for years now, though the public had always been unaware of it. Machinery was too expensive and rarely efficient enough to get the job done, and orange picking wasn’t exactly a highly sought after occupation. What’s an orange grove owner to do? Simple. Drive a bus into the ghetto, round up as many illegal immigrants as you can, put shock collars on the mother fuckers, and put them to work in the groves. And that’s precisely what’s been done the past few generations.
What about the government, you ask? A laughable question at best. President Edison Pryor couldn’t give two shits what you did with an immigrant; you could mug his ass right outside the Capital Building and Pryor wouldn’t bat an eye lid. He’d always hated immigrants anyway. As long as it helped the Floridian economy and the public didn’t know about it, the Orange administration allowed it. Hell, they encouraged it! Pryor had made his bones in the orange juice business (and mowing down swampland, but that’s another story).
Which brings us to the matter at hand: the Orange Grove Massacre, a tragedy that will forever etch itself into the history of the Armed Republic of Florida Oranges. You can’t hide a thing like slavery for long no matter how hard you try. Sooner or later, other nations are bound to find out. And the discovery of such a disgusting act could easily lead to the destruction of even the mightiest of empires.