a POW by any other name

A P.O.W. BY ANY OTHER NAME


A minion finished my thoughts the other day, mentioning that slaves would be included as a “surplus energy” strategy. I’m sure I would have thought of that in a week or two and I would have been putting my hand up in the air and waving my arm back and forth and indiscreetly clearing my throat and perhaps even throwing in a “Mr. Kotta” in a Brooklyn accent, and you all would have given me a nasty look and I would have just slunk away instead of trying to explain to you that I finally finished my thought so it’s a good thing said minion stepped up to the plate and saved me from myself. So, besides being a little smarter than a tree hugger, because while its plenty nice to give Gaia a big wet sloppy kiss I don’t think we should get carried away with it because she is a nasty whore, killing off any surplus population on a whim like wiping out all those cute ol Bambi’s just to create an equilibrium but if I bring it up I’m a vile monster, don’t friggin practice permaculture to the exclusion of protecting yourself against anti- sustainable marauders, and think about owning a few slaves.

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Oops. That is politically incorrect. And who has told us that we shouldn’t bring this up, talk about it, or should get a brain wipe for doing so? The PC Police, liberal yuppie scum sucking commie pukes. The same ones that leech off the taxpayer tit. The tax collector that runs the federal government. The same government that used to say, hey, no problem dudes, a black man isn’t counted as a full human, so go ahead and keep them and slaves but do us a solid and keep that stuff down south. And the same government that then said, oops, our bad dawg, since you want to be independent of our rule and think that a state can voluntarily leave a union it voluntarily joined, now we have to change our views on slavery after all and call foul. And the same government that then left the blacks alone to be discriminated against down south, using the excuse of “state laws”, the same laws it choose to supersede earlier for the War Of Gottdamn Yankee Puke Aggression. We love you, fight the Brits for us and you can keep slaves. We hate you, we’ll make your laws for you, slaves are not allowed. We love you, do as you please with the blacks as long as we don’t get blamed. My God, the federal government is like a damn women, can’t make up their damn mind. My point is NOT that slavery is okay, just that when folks preach against it they usually have another agenda. And if slavery had benefited them, it would have been approved. Slavery has been used as an excuse to invade and enslave economically the South for 150 years. No one says, you can’t usurp states rights. No, all they say is “ends justify the means”. And, before you say slavery is much worse than the feds taking all the power for themselves, are you talking about the same government that was busy in a war of genocide against the Indians before and after the Civil War?

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So please don’t preach against slavery as a holier than thou position. I don’t like slavery, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be one, but it is normal throughout history and will be again. Morality takes a very long nap as soon as someone wants to eat or get wealthy. People are not “more enlightened” now, they just got to trade in human slaves for petroleum slaves ( my guess, for less than 150-160 years ). People are asshats, period. The best you can do is join a tribe that collectively treats others outside the group badly, and spares you if you join in the fun with them. It is natures way to slowly starve Bambi populations when they become overpopulated, and it is in human nature to exploit their own race to survive. But, fine, I can see the tears welling up in your eyes. You are about to get all butt hurt and spew last nights dinner. Fine. Tell you what I’m going to do. We shall call our slaves P.O.W.’s. Or, if there are no handy wars going on, we’ll call them criminals that must perform manual labor. Ooooh! Don’t you feel so much better now? We’re all just and moral and out-friggin-standing wonderful human beings. Baby Jesus will kiss our ass and church going women will swoon at our feet. And speaking of those fine church folk, if it was their tribe doing this, they would be punishing blasphemy and cursing and “loose morals” to provide their slaves. No one is better than anyone else at this crap, some just have much better propaganda.

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But you know what? I don’t think you should abolish slavery because it’s the right thing to do. I think you should abolish it as a winning strategy. If you release POW’s, or offer them citizenship, you will have an advantage over the enemy. If he refuses to release your soldiers from slavery, you have an excuse to smite him. If you take sensible precautions to avoid spies, and offer something like a work-for-citizenship ( you really want to get them motivated? Offer your women an incentive to marry the POW’s, such as free land or something, and the enemy will be looking at opportunities to surrender ), you won’t be invading foreign lands but liberating them. Your war is half won before it starts. Limited slavery, with realistic options for escaping the yoke, works for you better than just beating them like cattle and working them to death. It creates motivation based on the carrot rather than the stick. And believe me, you’ll probably be the only one around being that “enlightened”.

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