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March 7, 2024 (Gregorian Calendar)
Thursday, Yekatit 28, 2016 (Ethiopian Calendar)
27th Adar, 12/6006 *Enochian Calander)
March 11, 2024 (International Fixed Calendar)
Solar Moon/Moon 9 (Perpetual 13 Moon Calendar)

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“Willy Wonka’s golden ticket was a scam to allow Wonka to get away with multiple incredibly serious crimes.

“Willy Wonkas chocolate factory is the most successful in the whole world, so profitable in fact that it is driving all other chocolate manufacturers out of business.

“What is the secret to Wonkas success? Is it the quality of his ingredients? Not exactly. Is it his whimsical and innovative chocolate making processes? Maybe, but not entirely. The real reason Willy Wonka has been able to operate his factory so incredibly profitably is that he has been exclusively using slave labour.

“The Oompa Loompas are apparently here of their own free will, Wonka claims to have rescued them from their native lands and they live peacefully in his factory, however we only ever hear this from Wonka himself, and the factory is effectively a prison, which no one has been allowed to enter or leave for decades.

“The original Oompa Loompas weren’t orange, whimsical fellows, in the original version of the book they were explicitly described as black African slaves. From Jeremy Treglown’s Roald Dahl: The Biography:

“In the version first published, [the Oompa-Loompas were] a tribe of 3,000 amiable black pygmies who have been imported by Mr. Willy Wonka from ‘the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before.’ Mr. Wonka keeps them in the factory, where they have replaced the sacked white workers. Wonka’s little slaves are delighted with their new circumstances, and particularly with their diet of chocolate. Before they lived on green caterpillars, beetles, eucalyptus leaves, ‘and the bark of the bong-bong tree.’

“In the film and later editions of the books, the Oompa Loompas are orange instead of black, but their circumstances are exactly the same, they are effectively Wonkas slaves.

“Since Wonka imported an entire village full of slaves over in the 1950’s, Labour laws have become tighter in the U.K. and people are asking the wrong sorts of questions. The powerful unions are demanding answers as to why the workers at Wonkas plant are never seen or heard from. Wonkas competitors such as Slugworth have maybe even uncovered Wonkas secret and are about to report him to the authorities.

Now, having been silent for decades, Wonka suddenly throws a massive competition to allow some children into his factory, with the secret prize being the ownership of the factory itself. Almost all of the children are either seriously injured or killed on the tour, but Wonka doesn’t really care, he does the bare minimum to show that he is attempting to stop each incident whilst clearly enjoying it immensely.

“At the end of the tour, he has found the perfect patsy in Charlie. He gives him the factory, and buried in the very small print of the contract are the necessary provisions which make all the slavery and child endangerment issues Charlie’s problem now.

“Gee – thank you Mr Wonka!”

“Don’t mention it Charlie, I just know you’ll do great,
and I can’t wait to hear about how you deal with all these child endangerment lawsuits!”

“Um…. what?“

“And what’s this I hear about you owning slaves?”

“Wonkas deal with Charlie was for him to get the factory and all its associated issues – not Wonkas money. Wonka is going to abscond in his Great Glass Elevator with his fortune and leave a poor 12 year old to deal with multiple serious crimes and a slave revolt or two.

“Oompa Loompa Doompady Doo! We’ve got a score to settle with you!”

Even for Roald Dahl, that is dark.
Source: movie and entertainment sphere (Facebook)
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Yet another book I’m going to have to read and add to my collection

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“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children’s novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. The story was originally inspired by Roald Dahl’s experience of chocolate companies during his schooldays at Repton School in Derbyshire. Cadbury would often send test packages to the schoolchildren in exchange for their opinions on the new products.” (wikipedia)

About the Author: “Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World’s No.1 storyteller” (Amazon)

192 pages, according to Amazon

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