Free Commodities and the Slavery Ethos...

Without understanding what FREEDOM is, it’s impossible to really know what SLAVERY is either.

Freedom is NOT “license” – The ability to do whatever we’d like.

It is also NOT “free stuff.” It is most definitely not “free stuff,” as free stuff/commodities, actually ALWAYS results in the antithesis of true freedom - a universal slavery for all.

FREEDOM is merely self-ownership. That’s all.

FREEDOM is hard. Freedom is the more difficult, risky and arduous path. FREEDOM is NOT the preferable path of most people.

People who don’t understand what freedom really is, always ultimately wind up opting for slavery...for “free stuff,” free protection in exchange for ownership over themselves.

The same poor dolts who believe “the poor should get their health-care at the expense of others,” are the SAME idiots who claim things like, “Health-care, like FOOD, CLOTHING and SHELTER are “basic human rights,” and as such, no one should make money of those things.”

The FACT IS, that health-care, like FOOD, CLOTHING and SHELTER is a COMMODITY. As a commodity, it is produced by people and those people MUST BE paid for their labors and health-care workers are relatively HIGHLY PAID workers. NO ONE has a right to any commodity at the expense of another person….that’s called SLAVERY (one person being entitled to the fruits of another individual’s labors).

One person CAN’T be entitled to another person’s property (income or the fruits of their labors) WITHOUT either themselves, or the State OWNING that other person.

Those who make such arguments and support “NEED” conferring “entitlement,” are according to those very arguments, spoiled, self-centered, "ME-FIRSTERS."

They routinely become outraged whenever the government finally does the correct thing and looks to keep scammers and freeloaders from getting over on everyone else, for instance “senior citizens” who seek to divest themselves of their homes, cash and other assets within an allotted time period, before sliding onto the government dole (Medicaid) in their a-hem "Golden Years."

That indeed is the crux of many such people’s arguments IN FAVOR of the current health-care overhaul.

Ironically enough, within the 2,000 pages of the current monstrosity, there's absolutely NOTHING that would undo what the Deficit Reduction Act did to expand the “Lookback period!”

For instance, the current Pelosi Bill was written almost ENTIRELY by lobbyists, including the INSURANCE Co. lobbyists.

Those insurers want all those younger LOW-COST customers, paying HIGHER premiums, to pay for the older, more expensive customers.

The slavery-supporters want others to pay for their “free stuff,” and that (looking to entitle themselves and others to what others produce) makes them SLAVERY-supporters...and that’s disgusting to ANYONE who believes in freedom/self-ownership.

Personally, I have a much better....a much MORE Conservative idea....Let's all start bucking up and fending for ourselves a little more and stop looking to make the young and naive pay for the whole party! Let’s just all be at least a little MORE FAIR and little LESS “Me-FIRST” about such issues.

Contemporary Slave-master Bastards...

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Two stories bring to mind the continuing scourge of chattel slavery.

It’s vital to note that while Britain, America and Western Europe eradicated chattel slavery over a century and a half ago, it STILL remains the rule, rather than the exception in most places around the world...and all too often, in the hearts of men.

In the Arab Mideast, in large tracts of Asia and throughout sub-Saharan Africa, chattel slavery is alive and well TODAY.

According to the Associated Press, Lassissi Afolabi, a man from the West African nation of Togo has confessed his role in the smuggling of dozens of young women who were forced to work at hair braiding salons in New Jersey (one of the salons is pictured above).

Mr. Afolabi pled guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiring with his ex-wife and others to commit forced labor and related crimes in Newark and East Orange, where he lived.

Mr. Afolabi has been held without bail since his arrest in September 2007.

Prosecutors claim that between October 2002 and September 2007 at least 20 young women were taken from Togo using fraudulent visas and brought to Newark, NJ, where the girls were forced to work six or seven days a week and to turn over all of their earnings to the defendants.


AND this from the bowels of California, where Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy (both pictured above), were arrested after the bizarre abduction and forced imprisonment (sexual slavery) of Jaycee Lee Dugard, when she was just eleven years old.

Garrido, held Ms. Dugard prisoner, hiding her in various tents in his large backyard. He impregnated Jaycee Dugard when she was barely fourteen y/o.

Jaycee Dugard was freed after the arrest of the Garrido’s. She is now 29 and the mother of two children, by the pedophile, Phillip Garrido.

According to the AP, Phillip and Nancy Garrido are in jail, suspected of abducting Dugard 18 years ago and subjecting her to nearly a lifetime of torment in a squalid backyard compound. They pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.

Saturday, three police agencies on Saturday searched the Garrido’s home to see if there is evidence linking him to other open cases in the area, including the unsolved murders of prostitutes.

The invest igations are "preliminary," said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, east of San Francisco Bay. He declined to discuss what cases were being reviewed. My ONLY question is, "Why did they take these two ALIVE?"

Both these cases highlight the depths of human depravity.

And it SHOULD serve as an instructive lesson to those obsessed with American and Western Europe’s shameful role in the practice of chattel slavery. America and Western Europe eradicated that practice OVER a century ago, while it’s still going strong in many regions around the world, including, ironically enough, in sub-Saharan Africa!