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Slavery
by Jim Davies, 1/18/2011
I should not allow M L King Day to slip away without comment about slavery in America. Underlying this Zero Government Blog is a premise: that every human being is his or her self-owner. That is so self-evident as to be undeniable, and is therefore an axiom - for any attempt to deny it would require one to assume implicitly that it is true; the very act of asserting "I do not own my self" can not be performed, for if it were true one would have no right to assert any opinion about anything at all without one's owner's permission. That fundamental axiom is however denied in practice every time any government does anything. Human society will remain discordant until that gross anomaly is removed, ie by the abolition of government; garbage will continue to come out, until garbage stops going in. Hence, this Blog.
In his 1996 book
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
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Nowhere is self-ownership more fully
denied than in chattel slavery. The garbage-in of kidnapping and enslavement
of blacks in the 17th and 18th Centuries from their homes in Africa,
for transportation here in appalling conditions, has produced the garbage-out
of racial conflict that lasts to the present day, and which Martin
Luther King tried hard to soften. A century after
"emancipation", the white majority was still using the
power of its government to keep the black minority as an
underclass; and the changes since he died have not so much
corrected as reversed that injustice; racial preference is now
often expressed against whites, on behalf of blacks, all
by the force of government law. Government permitted and enforced
slavery, by denying blacks access to its courts and by having its
agents recapture and return those who escaped (hence, directly
kidnapping them again) and now government permits and enforces a form of
revenge for slavery, by requiring that blacks be favored
in hiring etc, other factors being equal - so perpetuating the conflict.
Force, ie government, is never the answer. 
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel perfectly described the partial emancipation of 1865.
Yes, the status of Blacks was made legally equal to others, but at the same time the status of
everyone became that of partial slavery to political masters in the Federal capital. Then, 10% of the population was 100% enslaved; today, 100% of the population is 50% enslaved by taxation alone. That partial slavery has increased, and is still increasing, and it will never stop increasing until government, the source of it all, vanishes from the human scene. Many reading this are already taking the simple, cost-free action required to cause that. Those who aren't, are again invited to 
