4.29.05 UDHR Article 4 Institutional slavery and Patriotica
Which brings us to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights article number 4:
"No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms."
Tell it to the marines. And to the army, the navy, and the air force, since as Michael Schwartz reports:
"Last fall the military embarked on a Herculean set of efforts to [find enough military bodies to ship to Iraq].... The most dramatic of the new measures were aimed at inducing (or coercing) personnel to remain in the military beyond their enlistment contracts. Tom Reeves, author of The End of the Draft and longtime observer of draft policy, reports that 40,000 soldiers have already been retained by using the notorious "stop-loss" system, which allows the Army unilaterally to keep soldiers for up to 18 months beyond the date their enlistment is scheduled to terminate. This is essentially a more bureaucratic and politer form of the old British method of "impressment," also known as Shanghaiing. There is now a Congressional investigation into persistent reports that short-timers -- those with less then a year or so left on their enlistment contracts -- are being told that re-enlistment will guarantee a non-combat assignment, while refusal to re-enlist will lead to an Iraqi deployment during the remainder of their service."
And then there is the ever present scourge of wage-slavery that all us Dimslows constantly live under. Of course a Dimslow and the Dimslow nation (that includes just about all y'all, y'understand?) is just about as free to opt out of wage slavery as a Dimslow would then be free not to starve to death. Good luck eating air!
So while in utter violation of the law, the military conducts its ongoing slavery and slave trade operations, and while the United Corporate States of Patriotica continue to wage wage-slavery across this wide land of ours, and war across this broad globe of ours, one John Doe Dimslow can only wonder where in the world the military and corporate states' fabled respect for the law can possibly have come from? Could this fabled respect have been propagated by the United Corporate Media of Patriotica? And the Mil-Cor-Gov of Patriotica itself?
Paul Revere, where are you when we need you now?
