IamA Kaur Kender! I'm a writer who is being charged for literary fiction because of exposing the fentanyl situation in Estonia! AMA!

How the fuck are you potentially getting charged for child pornography? Regardless of what you wrote, that is stupid, but what did you write about sexual abuse against children?

EDIT: I do think his writings are fucked up, but I don't think it should be illegal. In Estonia it is illegal, not much he can do.

I'm an author of 11 books. Most of them transgressive. I wrote about junkies, perverts, murderers mostly. This story is about Estonian Psycho. He is a rich national Estonian who is addicted to internet porn and sex. So as his addiction goes worst he escalates raping, killing senseless amount of people and kids. So this is grotesque satire of Estonian society. It's horror story by design. But as PEN International said: this is all political persecution

I've heard that the Estonian authorities haven't caught a single shipment of Fentanyl, how is that possible?

TRUE! They've been telling us 15 years that fentanyl is produced in Russia. But there is no fentanyl epidemic in Russia! It's the same absurd situation as Germany produced Mercedes but you found Merc's ONLY in Poland roads.

How did you end up so fascinated by these situations? Is it just that you wanted to make your country better?

I don't really care about countries, but I do care about people. I've seen quite a lot young people to die. And I got three sons, growing up on the same streets in Tallinn where fentanyl reigns supreme.

Have you or your family been threatened in any sort due to your actions and how do you manage it?

I was warned many times by "kindly ones" that I should make a deal with prosecutors that my case will not go away and I will be found guilty. I didn't. So court will start May 2th.

Hi. We're you shocked to find out how the world works? Or rather, how it doesn't work? Can you emigrate or otherwise leave?

Check this-https://www.reddit.com/r/hbt/comments/45ky2k/volare/

Short thread that starts off topic but gets there fast, linked to another shortish thread. Takes guts to get thru both but if you can, use it to Fuck those assholes right back.

Hah, I've been often asked that why don't I leave Estonia. Mostly by enemies but lately more and more friends ask about it. They are worreid. But I think that if Estonia becomes even more like fascist Hungary and neo-nationalist hyper conservative Poland they will just kick me out one day.

So how's the pushing of HAT going? I'm also Estonian and served 6yrs in prison for picking up a gram of trimethylfentanyl which was ment for my OWN PERSONAL USE! But no one believes you when you have enough doses in your pocket to kill more then a thousand intolerant people. Because in the eyes of the law, there's no such thing as tolerance. I love the fact that you speak what you have on your mind, stay strong brother!

Türa, ma saan täpselt aru mida sa mõtled ning ma olen jälginud läbi meedia, kui absurdsete asjadega sind üritatakse nikkuda. Fiktsiooni eest vangi? NAHUJ?

Thanks man, new minister Ossinovski clearly hears what we are talking and I'll have soon meetings with TAI and other people. It's baby steps but we are moving. Also, please write your story to nihilist, stories like this hel this fight a lot. Fucking 6 years is crazy. No one should be in prison because of any substance use.

Tegelt ka: kirjuta, nihikasse, sellest oleks kõva abi. Mul sõber Aednik tuli just välja, tõukas Tallinnas, ütles, et üle mõistuse palju on nüüd fentaga istuvaid. Ja arutud pikad srokid olematute koguste eest.

How has your opinion changed about Jaak Madison after that funny incident on Twitter, where he tried to teach you through his weak insults?

haha, it was fun! I really liked the chance to tell him that it was Stalin who bullied Hitler to death!

I had my own no-so-great experience with the Estonian legal system recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4efdam/estonia_now_officially_worst_country_in_eu_for/

Do you see any parallels with your case? Why do you think Estonian officials start these cases that clearly are bad for the reputation of the country? Do you believe the Estonian court system is really independent or do they just seek to find a way to justify whatever the state does? Will you take the fight on to the European Court of Human Rights?

I know your case very well and this is clear example of Police State in action. And Courts just rubber-stamping almost anything (95%) that comes to their tables. But I thinks Estonian state deserves bad reputation. There are great people in Estonia. But very corrupt and stagnant elites and officials. And I will take my fight to anywhere it takes, yes.

Have you "technically" broken any laws, or will prosecutors try to interpret your work as criminal when it is not?

Do courts in Estonia have the power of judicial review?

Will you be heard by a jury of your peers?

Do you think prosecution and conviction will give you greater platform on which to raise awareness?

Best of luck to you.

Thanks, all very good questions! There is no Jury, only Judge. In some perverse way ti is great platform but i wish noone such an platform, not even my haters.

I have not technically broken any laws. Literary fiction is free art.

What made you want to study Semiotics, and how has experience in that discipline affected or influenced what you are doing now?

My parents took me to walk when i was very little kid, maybe 4 or 5 and there was this guy with the huge mustache and my parents told me: "this is the smartest person in Estonia and one of the smartest in the world, and he is a "semiootik"!" This man was Yuri Lotman, he lived not that far form where we lived in Tartu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Lotman

So when after some 20 years I found out that his son Mihhail Lotman is professor of semiotics it was no brainer.

Twist of fate is that now one of my best friends is Jüri Franciscus Lotman, son fo Mihhail.

Does Fentanyl get you high? My understanding is that the reason it was a popular medication is because it's slow release and doesn't have much of a peak: maximum pain relief for minimal high.

Also I understand you get fentanyl lolipops and fentanyl skin patches. Neither sound that useful or convenient for a junkie. How do they use them? Can they be boiled up?

high as a kite yes. but high is very quick and tehcno, or so i've been told

Have you ever tried any opioids?

Yes. Codeine, Heroine.

What is the current drug situation in Estonia like?

here we go: http://world.time.com/2013/01/21/why-europes-healthiest-economy-has-its-worst-drug-problem/

"Beginning in 2015, Canada has seen a widespread issue of fentanyl overdoses country-wide. Authorities suspect that the drug is being imported from Asia to the West Coast by organized crime groups in powder form and being pressed into pseudo-OxyContin tablets.[64] - Wikipedia.

"Primary Canadian exports to Estonia include machinery, lumber, toys and seafood and fur products. These exports totaled $22.9 million in 2012. Canada mainly imports telephone sets, mineral and chemical and food products, as well as fishing articles. These imports totaled $48.4 million in 2012." -http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/baltic_states-pays_baltes/bilateral_relations_bilaterales/estonia_relations_estonie.aspx?lang=eng Woah....wonder if this is related. Canadians could be getting the source of the drug wrong?

Edit: I'm not one for conspiracy theories but still kind of intrigued

Chemists tell me that producing fentanyl is not that difficult. All you need are good precursors and one magnetic mixer and patience. All relations happen in 30-60c and in 48 hours you'll have your first fentanyl. I never tried. But that would explain why border controls never catch any fentanyl in Estonian borders.

Mis sa arvad, kui suur on tõenäosus, et sa kinni lähed?
Oled sa mõelnud kunagi mõne oma raamatu filmiks teha või on sulle pakutud sellist varianti?
Mis su lemmik videomäng on?

juristid ütlevad, et 95% keissidest, mis jõuavad kohtusse mõistetakse süüdi. nii et ma ei tea. aga kui mind selle looga süüdi mõistetakse siis on mul 100% kinniminek varsti. esiteks on mul ju selliseid lugusid veel. ja mis sa arvad, mida ma siis edasi kirjutama hakkan? tseki seda: see on ju sama haige kui U12 - http://nihilist.fm/inim-inetus/

Would you rather fight 1 horse sized duck or 25 duck sized horses?

Bonus round: they're hopped up on fentanyl.

Ducks and horses and people who do fentanyl are most peaceful kind, they don't wanna fight. They wanna nod and nod and get another hit.

First, I just want to thank you for your amazing bravery, the world needs more like you, wheredo you find the strenght to continue everyday, despite knowing the risks you're taking?

Secondly, what can I, a European citizen, do to help you out?

Thanks for the kind words!

Maybe contact your local PEN and tell them about my fight, maybe they can show some support!

http://www.pen-international.org

Are videos on /r/watchpeopledie coming from your country and if so, why? Why do villages just decide to murder anyone on the street and get away with it?

I don't know. what i do know is that people who should get and punish these criminals -police, prosecutors, courts - are busy with me.