[Teralogos News] Esperante Executive Assasinated

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Esperante Executive Assasinated
 
LAGOS, Nigeria/Teralogos	Feb 3, 2101  
  
Acting on an anonymous tip, police found the body of corporate executive 
Henrik Muller in a back alley this morning.  
  
Muller was discovered bound with cufftape but otherwise unmarked. The 
cause of death was determined to be massive nervous damage due to 
"scrambler" nano. "His cerebral cortex had been reduced to 
a featureless jelly," said Dr. William Gemade, medical examiner for 
the Lagos municipal police. "If he had any plans to become a ghost, I'd say they were decisively ruined. The worst part was that he was probably conscious when the process began."  
  
Muller, who was reported missing on December 26, was a senior executive 
with Esperante Enterprises, a Lagos-based corporation specializing in 
development projects in poor Third Wave nations. Esperante Enterprises has 
long come under harsh criticism from human rights advocates for its 
alleged cooperation with corrupt local regimes and exploitation of local workers. While Esperante is a major employer in many developing nations, it mainly employs unskilled VT workers, who follow rote instruction from their virtual interfaces, which are not owned by the workers but rented to them.  
  
Lagos police reported that they had received an anonymous email, routed 
through Free Net, from an individual claiming to be Muller's killer. The 
email denounced Esperante Enterprises, and promised further direct action 
"on behalf of the victims of global capitalism." At present, 
authorities are treating the death as a politically-motivated murder.  
  
- filed by Jon F. Zeigler