"The 13th
Amendment - Repealed In
Secret"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Copyright Sunday, November 10, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, November 13, 2013
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he
broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke
their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But
he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has
rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no
matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on
earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which
the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
Any Rand, from her book, Anthem
That slavery existed throughout man's
civilized history is undisputed. Most civilized countries recognized
slavery and it wasn't just limited to the black race. Those that were
designated slaves by kings, labored in service to the king (emperor) or to
recreation for the King (gladiators). Slavery in exchange for debt was
also prevalent and such slaves were known as bondservants under the name of
indentured servitude. Many English subjects and Europeans entered America
as indentured slaves in exchange for their passage and worked off their debt
here in America.
Slavery was even embedded in the language of
the U. S. Constitution where Whites were granted a whole
number 1 for the purposes of the census count, but non-whites were only to
receive three-fifths of a whole number in the count. Many of the Founding
Fathers owned slaves. Tolerated and sanctioned slavery of the Black race
existed for almost 80 years after the ink was dry on the Constitution.
Apparently the phrase in the Declaration of Independence that
said .....
"We hold these truths to
be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness"
..... applied to everyone but the
black race and other designated so-called inferior races, as decreed by the
White race.
It has always been a huge disconnect
in the early days of America's history that the concept of freedom only applied
to those who wrote the words.
The debate over black slavery in the
Halls of Congress heated up in the years leading up to the Civil War, with most
Democrats opposing the abolishment of slavery and most Republicans promoting
it. The governors and legislatures of the southern states were dominated
by Democrats and they vehemently resisted legislative efforts to free the black
slaves by the North.
With President Lincoln's wartime
Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, the move to free the slaves had
begun. Finally, after a huge legislative battle, with President Lincoln
applying pressure on the Democrats by virtually any means, including bribery,
the 13th Amendment was passed and ratified by the states in December of
1865.
13th
Amendment:
Section 1: Neither slavery or
involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist with the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2:
Congress shall have the power to enforce this aricle by appropriate
legislation.
The history of freeing the slaves
after the 13th Amendment and reconstruction after the Civil War is mired in
dirty politics, graft, corruption, fraud and even wholesale murder. Many
slaves, although now free, were subjected to what was called the Black
Code. Under the Black Code, especially in the Democrat-controlled south, a
draconian unwritten code of conduct and behavior specifically applying
to the freed slaves was in effect. In one Supreme Court decision the
court decreed that the freed slaves were free, but codified into law the
doctrine of separate-but-equal. It wasn't until the civil rights period of
the 1950's and 60's that separate-but-equal was abolished in America.
"The High Court overturned its decision
in Plessy v. Ferguson and outlawed the separate-but-equal doctrine (brown v.
board of education of topeka, kansas, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S. Ct. 686, 98 L. Ed. 873
[1954])."
"Congress enacted a number of statutes to enforce the provisions of the
Civil War Amendments, [including the 13th Amendment] but by the end of the
nineteenth century, most of those statutes had been overturned by the courts,
repealed, or nullified by subsequent legislation. For example, Congress enacted
the civil rights act of 1875 (18 Stat. 336), which provided that all persons
should have full and equal enjoyment of public inns, parks, theaters, and other
places of amusement, regardless of race or color. Although some federal courts
upheld the constitutionality of the act, many courts struck it down. These
decisions were then appealed together to the U.S. Supreme Court and became known
as the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 3 S. Ct. 18, 27 L. Ed. 835 (1883). The
cases involved theaters in New York and California that would not seat African
Americans, a hotel in Missouri and a restaurant in Kansas that would not serve
African Americans, and a train in Tennessee that would not allow an African
American woman in the "ladies" car." (source)
Are Blacks free today as compared to
the days of Black slavery? The fact is, way too many Blacks live below the
poverty line, live in black-on-black crime-infested urban neighborhoods, have
large high school drop-out rates and large out-of-wedlock births, where the
"daddy" is but a shadowy figure in a one-night stand soap
opera. A high percentage of Blacks are totally dependent on the
government, as they drown in the cesspool of victim-hood and the
ambition-killing perception of long-past discrimination. Is this life
they now live freedom, or just a different form of institutionalized
slavery? Did the 13th Amendment set them free, or just lock them in a
self-induced servitude of their own making? Will the Black race
ever shed the mantle of White discrimination and chart their own
course in this land of opportunity? Did they get a raw deal, you bet, but
as long as they continue to buy the government mantra that they are
victims, they have no chance to break their invisible chains.
Does slavery and indentured servitude
still exist in the world today? Absolutely! Young boys and girls
from many countries are captured by force and taken to other countries as sex
slaves. Poor people from Central and South America, Africa and Asia, eager
to come to America, illegally of course, are offered a ride to America for a
price, where the price is paid in hidden-from-view indentured servitude to the
providers of the transportation. And the price is steep.
But blatant and notorious control of
one person by another person or a government can be accomplished by methods
other than the act of institutionalized slavery, indentured servitude, or
force. Since the ink was dry on the U. S. Constitution, representatives of
the people, at all levels of government, have been passing laws, laws that, in
some form, restrict the behavior of people or businesses. Many of the
laws that are passed have no basis whatsoever in the Constitution but are never
challenged and allowed to stand. Most laws are passed at
the insistence of some special interest group, with their
foundations lodged in the political agendas of those in power, such as
buying votes, or special treatment for their party "friends".
NOTE: Since 2008, lobbying in Washington DC by special interest groups has
exceeded $3 Billion dollars every year. (source)
Just in the U. S. Congress alone,
where 5,000 to 7,000 bills are introduced each year, a running average
of 758 bills are passed into law. This does not include presidential
executive orders (frequent), constitutional
amendments (rare) and ratified treaties (less rare).
Then there are the federal
bureaucracies that promulgate thousands of laws (they call them
rules) that never see the light of congressional oversight, as
required by Article 1, Section 1 of the U. S. Constitution. These
bureaucracy rules are in the hands of the executive branch of government
and can be promulgated on the whim of the president. As an
example, Obama, using the power of the president and his
cabinet to unilaterally promulgate more rules and regulations, is aggressively
fighting the boogey man of man-caused global warming with billions
in taxpayer dollars and ever-tightening legislation, in spite of mounting
evidence that the planet isn't warming. Obama is well on his way to
earning the title of resident dictator who gives short shrift to the Congress
and the Constitution.
Every one of these laws, amendments,
treaties and rules, restricts, limits, alters, modifies and controls the
behavior and thus further erodes the freedom of individual Americans. The
passage of the 16th Amendment creating the Federal Reserve and the IRS made
every single taxpaying American an indentured servant to the debt owed
to the Federal Reserve and the foreign
nations that buy our debt. Your social security number is the loan
number on your part of the debt. In a recent article on
the Sovereign Man website, a single chart shows how the Federal Reserve
controls all of us through the manipulation of the money supply, printing
money and interest rates. Clever
these central bankers. (source)
The social laws passed in FDR's three
terms did more to wrap the people in chains than all previous presidents
combined. He wrote over 3,500 executive orders in those three terms,
each having the force of law, circumventing Congress. It is hard for
people to understand that each new law, rule, or executive order limits the
right of the people's free choice. The more laws there are, the less
freedom there is.
The producers in America have been
tapped to pay for the non-producers, where the non-producers have a claim,
sanctioned and enforced by government, on the producers' sweat, blood, tears,
income and property. That is indentured servitude by any other
name. It is the antithesis of freedom.
The larger, more complex the law, the
greater the restrictions on the individual. As more social laws are passed
each year by Congress and given to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to
enforce, the greater the power of the IRS and the greater the indentured
servitude of the people to the IRS. That is slavery by any other name,
especially given the 10's of thousands of undecipherable, complex and
contradictory rules contained in the IRS code that no one understands.
It was just revealed that the IRS
paid out almost $4 Billion to identity thieves in 2012.
"The IRS sent a total of 655
tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone
address in Shanghai. In the U.S., more fraudulent returns went to Miami
than any other city. Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta
and Houston." (source)
So much for their fiduciary duty to manage our money. Why can't
they catch these obvious frauds well before they are paid?
NOTE: Are you fighting the IRS? So are we! Check out our
special IRS website to learn what you need to know HERE.
Environmental regulations have
provided an excellent avenue for government to control the people even more, in
the name of allegedly saving the planet. What is controlled by
environmental regulations? Just about everything from land, to energy, to
food, to water and to the very air we breath. Rural landowners are special
targets for government-mandated environmental regulations and the thought of
living free on the land has become a faded memory from the early days
of the Republic.
NOTE:
You rural landowners, do you want to fight back? Check
out our Rural Landowner Handbook HERE.
Now comes Obama Care. The right
of free choice has been so decimated by this law as to render freedom a shimmery
mirage on a distant horizon. As millions of people end up in the no-man's
land of having no health insurance, or being forced onto Obama's
hopelessly-flawed website as the portal to the disastrous Health Care exchanges,
the chains of slavery wrap ever tighter around their necks. Those clueless
folks that voted for Obama now feel betrayed, even though it was clearly pointed
out to them before Obama Care was passed, that the system built up around Obama
Care was so unwieldly, so complicated and so financially unsound, that it had no
chance of success and is now in the first stages of collapse. The damage
Obama Care will do to the economy is immeasurable at this early stage, but the
damage will be horrendous. Worse than that, the damage Obama Care will do
to our freedom and free choice is but the whisper of the coming death of our
Republic.
So, ladies and gentlemen, the door
you heard clanging shut on the jail in which you now reside, was the
unmistakable sound of the repeal of the 13th Amendment, where slavery and
indentured servitude, once outlawed, have now been embedded in American law
and institutionalized in the culture through public education, legislation and
the courts. The chains of slavery tighten every day while the people
whimper and wine, the fight for freedom having been replaced by irrational fear
of their own government. It is readily apparent to
this author that all Americans have become involuntary slaves and
indentured servants to the almighty federal government and the 13th
Amendment has been effectively repealed.
The quote by Ayn Rand at the
beginning of this article is right, but it is only right if the people are
willing to defend and preserve their freedom and free choice ..... by any
means. For the last century, the people of America have not shown
what it takes in large enough numbers to preserve their freedom and
maintain the Republic in liberty. What most Americans have done is to
allow themselves to be lured into the freedom-killing trap of
government dependence.
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