Her hands were shaking as she punched in the numbers on her phone… Brring brring it started ringing…. ‘Rizzo here’ the gravelly voice at the other end growled. ‘If you have something to say, say it fast cos you must have something goin’ on that’s why you got this number’… Er er… ‘Spit it out lady I haven’t got all day’… he snarled impatiently…. ‘I would like you to teach someone a lesson, and I understand that you have ways of doing this’…. ‘They don’t call me Mamona Rizziconi for nothing… anything money, I’m your man… I can help you make it, lose it, give it away, or be forced to give it up… so whatchyouwant?’ ‘Well this person has been very mean to me, he has a duty to give me money and to care for me, but he doesn’t do it and he prefers to spend his money on HIS clothes, his cars and his toys so I want you to help him lose his money’. ’Well, it’s gonna cost you’ Rizzo said. 'I’ll pay you!’ She said quickly. ‘I don’t have a lot of money like I said, but I’ll give you whatever I have’. ‘How’d you get my number anyhow?’ Rizzo asked. ‘My friend Offencia gave it to me. ‘Ahh Offencia she has sent many a one my way, and I have taken care of all of them’ he snickers evilly. ‘Don’t you worry Rizzo’ll take care of things...I’ll call you back with the details and I’ll tell you how it will go down…. Don’t call me. I’ll call you.’. Click.
Do you recognize the voices on this recording? The Defendant’s attorney asked Flan who sat in the docket and just kept on weeping with her face buried in her hands… 'How could she have done such a thing?' She thought. How could she have exposed her family to such evil? How could she have known that Mamonia Rizziconi would befriend her husband and lure him into a gambling addiction? How could she have known that they would lose their lovely home and have to withdraw their son from the school he was so excited to have been admitted into? How could she have trusted someone like Offensia? How could she have been so stupid as not to realize that she not to be trusted and would give her up and spill her guts at the slightest sign of trouble? How could she have gone on to hire a man whose business card had read – MAMMONA RIZZICONI – RELATIONSHIP KILLER. ‘THROUGH THE LOVE OF THE DOLLAR WE MAKE AND BREAK EM’ how could she???? ‘Please, answer the question ma’am’. Flan just kept sobbing… The lawyer said: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present:
THE FIRST WITNESS:
OFFENSIA VALERIA – THE FACILITATOR, ALIAS OFFENSE
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love makes up for all offenses.
Matthew 18:7
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
Romans 16:17
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Offense
1.
a. The act of causing anger, resentment, displeasure, or affront.
b. The state of being offended.
2.
a. A violation or infraction of a moral or social code; a transgression or sin.
b. A transgression of law; a crime.
3. Something that outrages moral sensibilities: Genocide is an offense to all civilized humans.
4. The act of attacking or assaulting.
Source - The free online dictionary
THE SECOND WITNESS:
MAMMONA RIZZICONI – RELATIONSHIP KILLER #1: AKA MAMMON
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:9
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Mammon: Etymologically, the word is assumed to derive from Late Latin 'mammon', from Greek 'μαμμωνάς', Syriac 'mámóna' (riches),[1] and was an Aramaic loan word in Hebrew meaning wealth[2] or possessions,[3] although it may also have meant 'that in which one trusts'.[4]
The Greek word for "Mammon", μαμμωνάς, occurs in the Sermon on the Mount (during the discourse on ostentation) and in the parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16:9-13). The Authorised Version keeps the Syriac word. John Wycliffe uses "richessis".
The Christians began to use the name of Mammon as a pejorative, a term that was used to describe gluttony and unjust worldly gain in Biblical literature. It was personified as a false god in the New Testament.{Mt.6.24; Lk.16.13} The term is often used to refer to excessive materialism or greed as a negative influence.
Source - Wikipedia
Please allow us to take part in your deliberations based on the evidence presented in this singularly disturbing case. Members of the jury?
© OluPero Mettabel Okulaja, July 8, 2012
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