DEMAND AN END TO INSIDIOUS SLAVERY IN THE USA
A simple definition of slavery would be a good start.
SLAVERY:
n 1: the state of being under the control of another person
There are several ways to be under the control of another person:
The most obvious is to be in chains, on a leash held by that person, this is the typical image of slavery that may come to mind, the bondage of one person by another.
A more insidious form of slavery, but every bit as wrong, would be to take the efforts & labors of another in his own behalf, to provide for him and his family, and take them at the point of a gun. You would in effect be stealing part of his life represented by his property. This is the government sanctioned, and widespread form of slavery in the USA currently.
Property laws were created long ago, as it was clearly understood, that a man had the right to keep the fruits of his labors. The reward for a lifetime of hard work and labor was the property you could purchase with what you earned from your labors. No man had a claim on what you earned; "Thou shall not steal", sound familiar? There is a similar saying in every language.
No man has a right to take what another man has worked so hard to earn. This is why stealing is a crime. As Socrates wrote thousands of years ago, it is a natural law, not a regional law. It is universally accepted as wrong worldwide.
The Islamic nations enforce this natural law with some very harsh punishment indeed, to let all know publicly how wrong this crime is. Public severing of hands for thief' is still common. In the USA it was not that long ago that men were hanged when they were caught stealing the cattle, sheep or other property of another man.
Here in Georgia to reaffirm the property rights of motorists who were under siege by gangs of carjackers, a law was passed protecting the legal rights of motorists who use extreme prejudice in response to carjackers. This means it is now legal to shoot and kill those attempting to carjack you in the state of Georgia. Overnight the problem disappeared.
The 2 major political parties in the USA, both believe in, and actively support slavery, in the insidious form, by the ever increasing size of government, that needs more and more taxpayer dollars, to feed it's ever growing appetite, due to it's wasteful nature and refusal to function as any legal regulated business that is accountable to those who own the business, the shareholders, or in this case the "We the people".
Not only do they fail to operate their business in a transparent nature, meaning openly with full disclosure to those who own and support it, but they actively make the mechanism of government more complex each year, so not only can the common man not see what is going on, but if we do get a glimpse, we cannot understand what is going on.
Add to the refusal of full disclosure, the addition of a collection service, backed by the full support of the government, meaning legal resources with unlimited financial support, and a small army of compliance officers named the IRS, who unlike any business in the USA, can force you to participate in their business by sending Federal agents to your door armed with guns to get you to comply to their wishes.
Their wishes involve surrendering a large portion of your life to them. In this case your life is represented by taking a large portion of your life's efforts and labors, represented by the property you earned in exchange for your effort and labor. Money is a representation of your life's efforts as is the property you might trade or exchange the money to acquire.
We can all agree what was done in the past involving slavery was wrong.
It was wrong when the Greeks abducted the blond haired blue-eyed Slavic enemies and forced them to serve their needs forcing men to work or fight on their behalf and raped their women and forced them to bear children for their Masters.
It was wrong when the Egyptians enslaved the Jews, many of whom were forced to build the pyramids to honor their African Masters.
It was wrong when the African tribes sold captured members of warring tribes to those who brought them over to our shores.
It 's amazing that today, there is a flourishing black market for sexual slavery of children in the Middle East and Asia. and that the world is aware of and not irate over African slavery, still protected and permitted in some places on that continent.
Even the only currently serving former Klan member in the US Senate, the high-ranking Democrat Senator Byrd, now finally agrees slavery is wrong.
The fact that we all agree slavery is wrong makes insidious slavery that much more offensive as it confirms that governments are OK with slavery as long as it profits them, there are no visible chains to make them look bad in the press before the next election.
Could they at least send a cute blonde to kiss me before they screw me out of 30% of my life's labors for the past year?
Sorry, too much caffeine.