Slavery could be seen as a spectrum of limitations to freedom
Dictionary definitions of slavery might talk about things such as being the legal property of someone else and being bound to them. Seeing as the numbers on our birth certificates are traded on the stock exchange and we are all bound by laws created by a propertied elite we are all slaves under the dictionary definition
Aldous huxley who was privy to the thinking of the fabian society which is made up of powerful and influencial people wrote his novel 'A Brave New World' in which humans learned to love their slavery
So if slavery is a spectrum then at the more severe end could be seen people who are being traded like cattle at gun point and those at a more comfortable end of the spectrum could be people in the west who are copletely unaware of how they are truely perceived by the elites who control them but live under an illusion (or perhaps delusion would be more appropriate) that they actually have some say in the decision making process
Its been suggested in this thread already that people who aren't happy with the system can opt out! For example it has been suggested that they can buy land and start a community. However there are limitations with this approach.
I live in Scotland. We have a beautiful stretch of beach in the North East that is important to bird and plant life and to all the people who enjoy the peace and tranquility of the place. The US business tycoon Donald Trump wants to build a golf course for the super rich global elite in this area and applied huge financial/political leverage to get what he wants. Some locals did not want to sell up their land to the scheme but the government exercised a law called a 'compulsory purchase order' which means that the government bought out the people even though they didn't want to sell.
I put it to the people here who doubt that they are slaves that the British 'crown' actually owns all the land in the UK and that buying land doesn't really give you ownership of the land but rather a temnporary lease of it that can be taken off you at any time by the powers that be. Further to this citizens of the UK are not born free but must register their children after birth to the birth register following which they are issued with a birth certificate the number on which is used as collateral by the UK government.
When a worker dies through the negligence of their employer, the government fines the company through 'criminal' law before the relatives of the worker can sue through 'civil' law. I want to stress what this means. If a worker dies, his/her family may be left without a bread winner and maybe in need of financial remuneration to feed and house themselves, however before they may sue the negligent employer the government takes their cut first which may of course leave little or nothing left for the familly to get when they sue. The reason for this is becuse the worker is deemed by the government to be their property; this is why the government demands remuneration FIRST
To summarise:
- Legally the crown owns all the land
- Legally the crown owns the people
If US citizens think they are any freer than UK citizens they are failing to understand how the system works. Their birth certificate numbers are also traded on the stock exchange. The reason their situation is the same as those in the UK is because both countries are controlled by the same powers.
The powers i'm talking of have a symbol that embodies their position. This symbol is an eye on the top of a pyramid. The pyramid is the hierarchical system that they are at the top of and the all seeing eye is their declaration that they are the ultimate power in the land. They have the eyes to see.
This symbol is on the back of the US dollar bill which is printed by the 'federal' reserve bank which is privately owned by global investors (who also own the bank of england). The symbol is also seen at the top of the emblem of the British secret service (MI5) shown here:
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Of course the crown is depicted as well because as all UK law students will know the crown is the source of all British law.
All the recent banking scandals that have been in the media for example the LIBOR rate rigging have all been going on in the district of the 'City of London'. This is an area within the wider city of London that is the cities banking district. it also hosues the 'temple' which is the law courts. these got their names from the knights templar who used to own these properties.
The city of london has special status. it is a seperate entity within the UK. Ity has its own government and its own police force. It is much like the vatican city and the District of Columbia in Washington which also have special status within their respective countries.
At 15:00 in the following clip there is an interview with an ex policeman who used to work in the UK police anti-fraud department. He tells the listener quite clearly that the city of london is protected by the government. No policeman can investigate any fraud in the city of london without the permission of the secretary of state (who will of course deny the permission!). link to interview below:
http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-354-max-keiser/
So what we're looking at here is a banking district that breaks the law and is at the centre of every scandal from Bernie Madhof to IHBC's drug money laundering but is sitting in its own enclave protected by the british government who are themselves under the watch of a secret service that has the same symbol on its emblem that the US dollar bill has!
Where else does that symbol appear? Its also on the supreme court building in Israel called the knesset which was paid for by the Rothschild banking family. here's an image of a pyramid incoporated into the design of the building:
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The Rothschilds have a banking house in london and they have shares in the central bank. Their agents own shares in US banks and in the federal reserve
If anyone is wondering why no one has gone to prison for any banking fraud it is because they are protected by the system; this is because the system itself has been usurped by the global investors. These people very much see us as their property and they have a plan as outlined by Aldous Huxley to create a centrally controlled state economy which they will run. Much like the Nazis did away with any pretence of democracy and formed a totalitarian dictatorship, these people also want to do away with the current pretense of democracy and just control things direct without having to go through the whole facade of elections
Someone mentioned human trafficking earlier in the thread and thought that the system was againts it! The truth is that the system tolerates human traffikcing. in fact if you look into the history of the US and UK it becomes clear that they have always depended on slave labour. Nowadays they have sourced out some of that slave labour to poor countries where there are no trade unions to protect the workers, resulting in 'sweat shops'. Human trafficking is alive and well in the US and UK and much of which is part of the sex industry where people are kidnapped and raped into submission before being prostituted out
The third country i mentioned was Israel which itself has a slave class of people it uses for menial tasks: the palestineans which has lead to one of the brightest minds in the US, Noam Chomsky, equating the state of Israel to ancient Sparta which also had a slave class made up of a people called the Healots. Instead of doing the work themselves the Spartans did national service like modern day Israelis do so that they can physically control the slave class
Here is some slave management being carried out by the israelis...the modern day spartans
[video=youtube;5po__L6Oanc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5po__L6Oanc&feature=relmfu[/video]
here's another clip showing a israeli soldier beating children and barring them from going through what is clearly to most people a fence resembling ones around prisons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdbA2Ka3Bo
R for most of it, but I think you are on to something with the spectrum concept. Example would be house slaves who were seen as more privileged and at least got to be out of the weather for much of the day; i.e. they are more comfortable than working in the sun pulling cotton. Im sure there are other perceived positive aspects of that form of slavery.