#3 AFKAN | 2007-09-21 19:01
in (partial) reply to Dave:
You made two particularly cognizant points I would like to quickly address.
One, you wrote:
<i>Taxation prevents the opportunity for the slave to buy his way out, as the opportunity to "buy your way out" must exist for the institution of chattel slavery to be sustainable.
Otherwise, all parties to the chattel slavery transaction are trapped.</i>
in reply:
Taxation has moved into new, more direct areas, and, yes, indentured servitude <b>WILL</b> return.
Look for the term "body writ" to appear, and look for the only rational economic solution be to join, say, the Armed Forces - where your paycheck will be garnished until your writ has been extinguished.
Under the five year rule of the bankruptcy law, your house just became a de facto debtor's prison, in the name of market stability... (Incidentally, you will be hearing reports of people who drop the keys to the house off at the bank, while holding on to their credit cards. This happened in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and banks made sure that wasn't going to happen again. These people just don't realize it. Yet.)
So, new classes of indentured servants - those with capital resources but are illiquid, and those who will never have capital resources - have been created.
To the second class, your body is the collateral, under the doctrine of body writ.
The only way out is the same it was for the indentured servants who fled to the hills and mountains of Appalachia.
I suspect this option will become foreclosed, all too often, all too soon.
Two you wrote:
<i>But racial purity is the next big trend.</i>
in reply:
I have been thinking along these same lines for the past week, with the opportunity to meet with my nephews and talk with them for hours...
A past issue of Chronicles featured a piece on a family that used the estate law, and entity law, to develop a legal mutual aid and support bulwark for the family structures they chose. This supports the family, and the family supports this system.
This family's business plan goes out fifty to one hundred years.
<b>MOST</b> families I know have a hazy idea about next month, maybe, and that is if they are interested in long term planning.
The closest I have seen to this is certain families in the Mormon Church, who are referred to as Mormon Royalty, one and all heirs of the "Trek of '47."
As Family is the microcosm of Race, and Race is the macrocosm of Family, I suspect defining issues in terms of "THE Family" will be the functional equivalent of defining issues in terms of Positive Racism, and Social Eugenics.
Oh, by the way, I told my nephews that EVERY conversation will be turned to the issue of Race, and I will give them lectures on this pretty much continuously.
At least part of my Family can be saved...
More to follow.