What's wrong here?

What on Earth is up with Austria?

"Clever" Austrians have engineered sex slave dungeons ... twice in the past few years. This one, involving a man raping his daughter for 24 years, siring 7 children by her ... all the while living with his wife upstairs.... And the "found" three of their kids, dutifully adopted them with his wife and raised them, while 3 more were downstairs in the dungeon. One died in infancy.

A few questions, then: how did the wife and mother of the sex slave not know? It is one thing to say that the dungeon was well engineered and sound proofed, it is another, however, to ignore the food and other supplies that must have been funneled into the basement? Did the wife never go down there in 24 years? How could Mr. Fritzl have fed and cared for those captives for so long without detection? Is she a functional idiot? 70 IQ? .... An accomplice? Could a mother watch that happen to her daughter? What relationship does she have, exactly, with the children sired by her daughter and husband -- is there a word for this? AAAAaccckkkkK!

Natasha Kampusch was held for 8 years by another Austrian, Wolfgang Priklopl, in his cellar in Vienna. He made an error of attention and she escaped. Within hours of her escape, he threw himself in front of a train to commit suicide. What is remarkable, is that in her final bid for freedom she appealed to numerous people to call the police and that she had been kidnapped and was running for her life. Nobody did. Only when she knocked at the window of a 71 year old neighbor did that person actually call the police.

Easy enough, then, to write Austria off as a land of perverts and such. Mr. Hitler came from Austria. Arlbert Heim -- now top of the list of the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- a Mathhausen concentration camp doctor -- was/is Austrian. Joerg Haider -- present day far right whacko.

But Austrian law protects privacy in ways that reflect the secrecy of the people. You can't just look up who applied for a building permit. You can't find out who placed a want ad "for whites only." You mostly don't know the first names of your neighbors. Various Africans caught working illegally have died during the deportation process -- no officials have been prosecuted for these deaths, or as far as we know, even investigated for them.

Priklopl had been identified within weeks as a primary suspect -- the van in which she was abducted was searched but they "bought" he statement that he used the van to transport rubble from a project at his house. Yeah, building a dungeon under his garage! Priklopl had also been known as a figure in an S&M scene in Vienna. Strangely the now-deceased Interior Minister of Austria appears to have suppressed the evidence and reason why the investigation tailed off. New investigations have revealed that the initial investigation was botched so they simply shut the case rather than reveal the extent of incompetence which might lead to scandal.

Ever been to an Austrian town or village past 7pm? Every, and I do mean EVERY house has steel shutters firmly shut over any window exposed to the public. Ghost town. Post-apocalyptic. Strange. And a place where awful things can happen. Screw the cuckoo clock, this is demented. Fritzl was a convicted rapist prior to the events leading to his daughter's servitude. Yet, with his daughter missing, they let him "adopt" three children that magically appeared on his doorstep from his wayward daughter? And his wife? Huh? Can't go into those things officially, because of the data protection laws.

Reminds me of Belgium -- remember Dutroux? And how the police bungled and rebungled that one?

Which brings me to thinking about various parts of AMERICA. Instead, we have some patriarchs who OPENLY run slave internment camps and screw 12 and 13 year olds. Which reminds me, another of the teenagers gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. FLDS .... And how many whacko sects may we have lurking out there or similar slave-owners. They just busted a family of them in Florida which ran work camps for latinos.