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White restaurant manager who enslaved black man with disability for years gets 10-year sentence
It is quite possible, as with all the news items I comment on, that there is more to this story than meets the eye. However, I respond to the story as told since that's how it reaches public consciousness. If the publisher in question objects then their stories should include all the relevant details. Otherwise I suggest we all need more fully researched publications. For now, this is what we have.
There are glaring omissions from this bizarre story. Why didn't the 'enslaved black man' simply walk out the front door? This is what the 'vulnerable person' had to say: "I want him to go to prison, and I want to be there when he go,". So he was quite capable of appreciating what was being done to him. How many years did this abuse go on for? Was it more than 10?
One thing is immediately apparent. The line between actual physical violence and 'other coercive means' is quickly blurred as usual. This is important to anyone who wishes to perpetrate injustice. Initiating physical aggression against another can rarely, if ever, be easily justified. However, after that, anything else opens up endless debate about various emotional states and whether they constitute provocation, 'slavery' etc. If it could be proved with reliable evidence that this white man physically assaulted his employee, such as to cause physical injury, then any system of justice, Agorist or otherwise, may well step in to right the wrongs. Under the Statist system that would usually involve an assault charge attracting a prison sentence of less than a year, if at all, and a fine. A similar, such outcome may well occur under a privately, voluntarily contracted, system of justice enforcement in an Agora.
So where is the justification for the other 9 years prison time? All that's left once the violence has been accounted for is 'emotional abuse whenever the victim made a mistake or failed to work fast enough'. On that basis almost any employer and teacher in the country, at one time or another, would have committed this 'heinous' crime. Should they all be locked up too?
Let's be clear. Going to prison is far more akin to 'slavery' than anything this white man could have dreamt up for his employee. There a clues, like armed guards, walls and an entire system waiting to ensure that no-one escapes.
Where is the evidence for any of these things in this case? When sentences are out of all proportion to the 'crimes' committed the first question to ask is if it's politically motivated. As is apparent from the comments section of the title article 'divide and conquer' is effectively working on the minds of all. White vs Black is an old favorite. Whilst we're all focused on those hackneyed old debates that some of the more intelligent black commentators like Walter Williams are also getting tired of, the principle of politically motivated (in)justice is quietly being perpetrated on us all, with the 'People' exclaiming their approval (again read the comments).
Consider an exuberant black business owner who happened to behave similarly towards a 'vulnerable' young, white employee? 'Justice for all' would demand that he too receive 10 years for 'white slavery'. It won't happen today, or tomorrow, but one fine day, when we're all truly 'emancipated', 'justice' will be completely color blind.
The State has an instinct for pressing home the advantage as the comments from it's enforcers make clear. Quoting history about which they have no real clue and hypocritical self-righteousness in the pursuit of their tax payer funded careers.
Statist education systems ensure that most citizens have no real appreciation of the principles embodied in their own Constitutions, to the extent, as Lysander Spooner understood a long time ago, that it becomes worse than useless as a mechanism for protecting genuine Rights (it turns out, only we can do that). Perhaps it was the real slavery that we all live under that confused this 'vulnerable' black man into not fully appreciating how outrageous his employer's behavior was and simply walking.
When these Federal agents (or agents of any State) extort value from you in the form of tribune they are turning a part of your productive life into slavery, to the State. 100% tax is 100% slavery. 0.00001% tax is 0.00001% slavery. Slavery is wrong in principle. People have generally been so confused about this that it is possible for these agents to attempt to gaslight us by declaring that it is they who fight to save us all against 'slavery', when it is, in fact, they who are the enforcers (the whip wielders) for the true slave masters (their masters) sitting at the top of the 'plantation'.
Slave management has changed a little in form
but not in substance
It could hardly be more perverse. Which is one of the underlying reasons for the ridiculous prison sentences that are being meted out to black, white (and, in fact, all) who don't conform to the State's all pervading strictures all over the World.
Today they whip this white man. Tomorrow there will be plenty of black men to whip as well. Nothing's changed on the 'plantation'.
They hope to create enough fear, desperation and confusion among the 'vulnerable' slaves that they turn on each other in righteous indignation instead of standing back and understanding how we're all being played and undermined by these dynamics.
Like this 'vulnerable' black man, I suggest we all learn how to recognize the slavery in our own, State created, minds. Then we can come to the obvious conclusion - just walk away ...
