Ocassionally, Just Ocassionally, The System Works

Second Millionaire Gets Prison in Slavery Case.

In the United States, the contemporary perpetuation of slavery must be punished very harshly. Because the crime is so egregious, much worse in many ways that an instance of violence, and it is economic in origin, I would have preferred the law to allow all the assets of the couple to be seized. It is the deepest crime of the powerful against the weak, and opposed to what I consider to to the greatest historical promise of the United States : the essential equality of all human beings.

We failed this promise badly, and our whole history as a people has been poisoned by by slavery and it's legacy. Such an infinite waste of human experience spent on a questionable economic advantage, invariably wrapped up in vacuous assertions of class or ethnic superiority. We cannot oppress others before we first dehumanize them. *

Yet the strength of the idea of equality is such that we do transcend our failings.

It is among our highest duties as a nation to end this- estimates of current slavery in the U.S. start at 50,000 people.

Here is an area of law enforcement that I want to be a consistently top priority, but it frequently isn't, and Coastal U.S. cities in particular have tolerated too much of it.


*And this is why I am so opposed to the trans-human or enhanced human neo-eugenicists- their foundational intent is to create their own intrinsic superiority. Ego will flow much stronger than whatever enlightenment might emerge, and when that has happened historically, the result was, and is, slavery. If they succeed, or more likely create the illusion of success, only massive social misery can follow.