23A028 June 19th, and All That by Jim Davies, 7/11/2023

Lots of pressure to join the celebration, on that date, of Lincoln's 1863 proclamation that slavery was to end. Hey, who can deny that ending slavery is good? Not I.

And if slavery had been ended, in 1863 or 1865 or at any time since, I'd be delighted to parade and wave a flag or even write a Blog. But it hasn't.

Curiously, while many Conservatives have denigrated the clearly racist propaganda to rub White noses in the Proclamation on "Juneteenth", none of them that I've seen have made that very obvious point. Apparently, they failed to read the May 28th 2019 ZGBlog, Styles of Enslavement. Shame upon them! Nobody should miss a single Edition.

To summarize it: defining slavery as the theft of a person's labor, and noting that in 1861 Blacks made up 18% of the US population, it follows that in that year America was enslaved to the degree of about one-fifth. Today, everyone's labor is taxed (ie, its fruits are stolen) to the degree of about one-half. So we are 2.5 times more enslaved now than Americans were then.

While we're on the subject: Lincoln did not, repeat not, free black, chattel slaves. Take a look at what is carved over his famous memorial: there's no reference to that subject. It says rather that he "saved the Union", and that's correct. At the appalling cost of half a million lives, that President did preserve the political artefact called the "Union", and so kept power centered in D.C. That was his war aim.

He proclaimed "emancipation" in 1863, half-way through that War to Prevent Secession, in the hope of sowing discord in the South. In the event not one Southern slave was freed by it (for Lincoln had no power there) and not a single Northern one was freed either (for while Congress had the power, the Proclamation applied only to the enemy!) As well as being hopeless, it was deeply hypocritical.

Black chattel slavery was ended instead by Amendment 13 in 1865, but that too is not when Whites first ended the odious institution. That took place, rather, in 1833 when the British government made that kind of slavery illegal in the whole of its Empire; and that was the first time in history that the prerequisite government support had been withdrawn from the wicked fiction of the "ownership" of a human being. Thousands of years of the practice all over the world were brought to an end in that large domain, due largely to the persistence in London of William Wilberforce.

Ironically, then, American Blacks would have been emancipated three decades earlier if the colony had never broken free of British rule.

It's enlightening to watch Candace Owens present a short history of slavery; the video takes only 5½ minutes and she shows that Whites were the first to end this 5,000-year-old obscenity, yet today there are still 700,000 people enslaved - all in non-White countries. I didn't know that.

To maintain and enforce slavery is child's play, for any government. All it need do is to deny the slave all access to any kind of justice system, and to establish a network of detectors to catch and return any who escape. Once people have learned in such as TOLFA which way is up, however, so that nobody will work for it any more, those facilities will vanish.

Slavery is perfectly consistent with the premise upon which governments exist; namely that it's quite okay for some people to rule others. That's an absolute denial of the Self Ownership Axiom, the bulwark of anarchism. For as long as government exists, therefore, slavery may arise; only in a zero government society will it be impossible.

I favor making it so. You?