Slavery Becoming Savoury
While bankrupcy laws slowed slavery down parental laws kept it alive and ready for its new rebirth.
Blog, February 14, 2006
Geoffrey Hamilton
Over the door of Auschwitz hung the motto, "Work Shall Set you Free". The irony is not only
that it was a deception to keep
inmates calm before they were killed, but that that whole situation describes our own
forms of slavery today and for all times. It all begins with how parents use their children, but it extends
from there and it is only kept in check today by bankruptcy law.
Bankruptcy law seems to have nothing to do with slavery, but it was the growth of that protection for debtors
which gave legal and societal redress for all parties when debts could not be repaid. Up until these laws
were created the only redress was legal slavery in one form or another. And no segment of the world's population
ever saw a problem with using slavery to force debt repayment.
Socrates and Plato saw no problem with slavery. Aristotle
even considered to be made a slave implies you're not even human. A common Greek idea
was that paying one's debts is justice. It sounds familiar, as in paying one's debt to society, or as in the
litigation that goes on for millions of dollars as payment for any old crime. Most slaves were only debtors.
The trick was of course, they were
rarely set free. Always the
'company store' kept a running tab which put them further into debt.
Some societies made rules which allowed slaves to pay off the debt, but this was the exception. While
war slaves formed a significant element, slavery was for eons
universally maintained around debts.
When slavery became unsavory for powerful elements of various nations (due to their own game
playing reasons), and slavery was outlawed, forms of
slavery continued under various laws. The work house and plantation systems, along with the
company store scams
and various serf systems, kept the spirit of slavery going. Eventually the power of world wide
Marxism scared the bankers and elite to ease debtor laws and make bankruptcy laws instead. This development
killed open slavery and the rise of Marxism where ever it took hold. But there was one area that
slavery found a final refuge: parental customs.
Parents
have a whole host of problems surrounding their situation which I will leave aside. However
one relevant problem that keeps slavery alive is how parenting is viewed by parents - through money.
Parenting always has had an economic aspect. The children are
bought and sold at birth
and at
marriage, forced to work in the fields or at chores, and expected to give love to their keeper. The whole
time parents are pretending children are not really human and so cannot decide anything for themselves.
Kids are manipulated and often punished. The parental program is to force kids to be
alive even though it is just to die.
Kids are not thought of as human until their
debts are symbolically paid
at 18 or at some other arbitrary age. The vote is denied them and, as a result, this allows for all
kinds of laws to be made against them by parents so they can always be the master. Parents
often claim the debt is never repaid and expect their kids to service the debt endlessly.
All this is true of the nicest and weakest
parents as well, no matter how they view themselves. Slave owners have
always had weak and kind ones amongst their
order.
Parents often claim these children could not survive without their version of
the 'company store', but
street kids survive all over the world and very well. Then parents say street kids become criminals
who get abused. They say this because they are forgetting it was their inhuman laws that forced
them to steal and be mistreated because they had prevented
kids from getting human work
and equal wages (today kids can legally be paid half what adults get paid for the same job).
Every argument parents use circles back to them and their own abuses. All this is to show that
parents are self-made masters of slaves.
Now parenting is where slavery began and is its constant training ground and repository.
Former slaves have no qualms about owning slaves, so the desire to parent is passed on and can
thrive anytime. That is all parenting is - a desire for slaves. Now we come
back to ordinary insolvent debtors.
This year
Brazil reports over 200,000 slaves in that nation. These are mostly men put into debt by local businesses.
Sex slaves are in the
millions
around the world at any one time. Last week a
PBS Frontline
documentary showed how it
is done. First, women, sometimes even with children and husbands watching out for them,
are tricked into leaving their
home country. They get their passports taken so that they first look like illegal immigrants to any honest
local police. Quickly, they are
forced to work as sex slaves to pay off the debt
incurred from their own abduction. Florida, today, has the problem of
slavery through
the company store.
In some parts of central Africa now you can rent girls in an open air slave market
and in other African
industries
slaves are still being made use of. These
are only a few examples. This is only the beginning of a new growth spurt in the slave trade.
But this is not the only trend showing slavery is on the rise. The TV show "Desperate Housewives"
had a slave made out as a joke,
and when the slave was freed she was manipulated into a new kind of slavery.
With the demise of Marxism (as ridiculous as it was), or any other kind of opposition to the
optomites of today, the poor have no power left and the elites know it. The rich have changed law after
law to favour their perceived interests in every area including bankruptcy law. First they made the law
favour them and their entities with Chapter 11 type schemes, now they are making bankruptcy
harder and harder for the poor to get.
The future trend for regular debtors seems to be down hill: jail
terms, work houses, indentured servitude,
and finally full blown slavery are coming. But a taste for slavery is already current due to parenting rules
which makes death camp slavery out of the whole world. The trend of the elites
could be to dispense with the foreplay and rush to proclaim:
"Work Shall Set you Free"
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