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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (26809)12/24/2007 11:48:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 218276
 
They aren't quite slaves Elroy. It's more that they are so lacking in value that they are dependants stuck with earning no more than a bit of food.

There's a song about "You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another year older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter don't you call me coz I can't go. I owe my life to the company store."

That's the same idea and people talk about wage slaves in the 'free' world.

It's just worse and harsher in places like Brazil.

Citizens are more like slaves than those people, because we legally have no means of escape and must do and not do all that the proprietors say. They say PLENTY.

Our very own buddy here, Tobago Jack, is in favour of shooting people and children in the back who try to escape. He is in favour of murdering Taiwanese if they try to expand their escape into true freedom meaning telling Hu Jintao to go to hell.

But almost nobody likes the idea of tradable citizenships. It's not that they even understand the idea; just as slaves have trouble with the idea of freedom = people think what they are suffering is normal and even like it, like Stockholm Syndrome and beaten wife syndrome.

It's hilarious TJ going on about "freedom" in Hong Kong. Yes, compared with other countries, there is freedom, but it's still far from free in a meaningful sense of the word. The PLA didn't go driving in with trucks full of guns because it's "free".

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