oscaralbert Review of What Price Safety!

What Price Safety! (1938)

This entry in the nefarious "Crime Pays" series . . .

[6/10 · 27 July 2021]

. . . has been blamed during the past month for inspiring Florida's high-rise apartment collapse, which slew 98 people (mostly unsuspecting foreigners and other minorities). WHAT PRICE SAFETY! Teaches mobsters how to make humongous profits by rigging the system, using shoddy materials and haphazard construction methods and then being able to duck the blame for the inevitable mass casualty tower collapses--such as the one pictured in this film. During the past 90 years, every so-called "red state" has used the pernicious Crime Pays how-NOT-to offerings as a blueprint to set up fiefdoms that are NOT American, nor rational, scientific, humane, Progressive, logical, sensible, considerate, pleasant, tolerable or safe. When Florida fired its pandemic dashboard computer lady for whistle-blowing, it was the exact sort of anti-inspection, anti-health, anti-people, anti-the-Common-Good anything-goes move taught during WHAT PRICE SAFETY! Tyrannical red states MUST be purged ASAP, or all of America will perish at the paws of greedy mobster money hoarders and their deluded rabble of gun-toting core supporter insurrectionists!