Endtown by Aaron Neathery for August 31, 2018

We have quite a conundrum here, the chief is right, how do we deal with this. The only real choice is to sort out the ringleaders and deal with them. This is a close parallel to the days of prohibition in the USA, you have to sort out the bootleggers from the customers. There was no way possible to stop the bootlegging by arresting the customers. You have to stop the manufacture and distribution, we now have the same situation with the drug cartels in the present day. Wow it is a frightening parallel when you think about it.

Karma will eventually hit them.

If your mutation is a pig, everyone looks like bacon lovers..

Jacob made a similar observation as regards to a “total crackdown”. ( https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2018/05/02 ) But he’s between a rock and a hard place—Endtown residents “misbehaving” and Security. I don’t think the Chief is aware of the threat from Security.

The chief is correct and isn’t any more happy with the conclusion than Officer Moffat. There’s no place to jail everyone involved, mass executions would demoralize the entire community, and mass exile would threaten the safety of the community. Topsiders would surely notice a sudden influx of “vermin” on the surface and seek the source.

Erwin’s right — this closely parallels the days of Prohibition and the drug cartels of today. If the butchery stops, the customers will quietly do without. Which is a good thing. Maybe a few high-profile arrests to set an example and (hopefully) prevent a recurrence, but not everyone can be brought to justice.

There’s still the administrative person (or people) that are involved in the plot. Someone had access to material to forge the false food documents. Someone is messing around with the housing records. Someone has access to construction crews to build the “stealth ventilation” to hide the smokehouses. I’m hoping the that person will be brought to light. Many folks seem to think it’s Velda…but I just can’t see it. She seemed as shocked as Jacob was by Mavis’ revelations. She did NOT know Mavis was in the plot, but figured it out after seeing Cooper’s picture in the paper.

Could the chief be in on it?

Just like the end of the Third Reich. There were calls to punish all members of the Nazis. All members just because they knew or accepted what went on or benefited in some way. Moffat assumes because neighbors did nothing to stop it they were part of it……not necessarily true. Fear of reprisals if reported, explanations that this was necessary for survival, and even given payment for silence could be reasons neighbors said nothing. But it would serve no purpose other than destroying Endtown in an internal bloodbath if justice went after them. Chief is right……going all out for justice will like a poison kill more than it justifies.

Grout: “And whatever you do, don’t do it where Velda can see you.”

As someone who thought the arc ended last week with the death of Walt, time to revisit that thought?

At the end of the day, at the end of the arc, it is decided that the best thing to do is nothing at all?

Still won’t mind a couple bacon slices.

“As little as possible.” “What’s that? What’s that? You wanna do your partner a big favor? Take him home. Take him home! Just get him the hell outta here! Go home, Jake – I’m doing you a favor.” “Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.”

I think the chief is thinking about what happened to Heather Hoss with that last comment. It was a wolf seeking “justice” that started things on the downhill lemming run.

hopefully the supermarket effect mentioned before still holds, a large portion of the town was willing to EAT the meat, but killing and butchering their neighbors would be beyond them, so without that one psycho cutting the bodies apart the more delicious citizens will be relatively safe.

Arm everyone. Bullet holes will tell you who is guilty.

It saddens me to say that the Chief is right. But Moffat is right, too. Something has to be done. But even if Moffat was to go P.I.(G), he can’t do it alone. He’s going to need all the help he can get.

And then there’s Jacob… I choose to believe that he’s at least feeling bad about what happened to Walter Trimble and Portia Porter. His latest plan to shut down the Butcher Shop failed miserably.

Perhaps the two of them should put their heads together, and maybe… just maybe… they’ll come up with a better plan.

Saw it coming, if everyone is a villain of sorts who you gonna root for?

Well, unbeknownst to the chief, someone already has the list, and came to the same conclusion. We know from the brain scan that there are, in fact, thousands – enough to leave Jacob in despair and send him off on his hare-brained scheme to root out the butcher. Whether that will be enough is hard to say. Supply and demand, baby: someone may yet rise to fill the niche.

Someone planted the fake news stories about a food shortage, started a whispering campaign and created a silent panic over a purported lack of protein in the local diet. It was a well executed campaign that built up slowly over time. A very efficient and well-run conspiracy that was abetted by people who, for whatever reasons, kept silent. A long range strategy.

The chief is on the take

What a load of shit. Anyone who was involved should be exiled, even if it did take a thousand.