Why would a Black president want slavery?

November 11, 5:57 PMDallas Libertarian ExaminerGarry Reed

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Free citizens or King Obama and his subjects?
(source: thebiblerevival.com)

Why oh why would the first black president of America allow, and perhaps even encourage, yet another form of slavery in our nation? Has Barack Obama forgotten the African-American side of his own heritage? Doesn’t he know that compulsory community service is just slavery by a different name?

The controversy over coercing young people into national servitude to their political masters emerged almost as soon as Obama named Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff-in-waiting.

J.D. Tuccille, Civil Liberties Examiner for Dallas Examiner.com was one of the first to point out that Emanuel co-authored a book that calls for compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25.

Compulsory is just another word for slavery.

So what about chief of staff Rahm Israel Emanuel himself? By all accounts he’s Jewish. Which raises a parallel question: has Rahm Emanuel forgotten his own Jewish heritage? The Jews of Europe who escaped Adolf Hitler’s killing camps toiled and died as slave laborers in his war factories. Why would this man want to impose his own version of slavery on America’s youth?

Judges already assign community service to lawbreakers in lieu of jail sentences. Now we’re going to assign community service to free citizens who have done nothing wrong in lieu of living their lives? This isn’t patriotism, this is punishment.

Maybe Obama thinks there’s only one kind of slavery that’s wrong. White Southern cotton plantation owners have no right to enslave black people, but it’s perfectly okay for government to enslave any race and color and creed of its own citizens whenever the power drunk politicians wish it so.

If the people of America choose to ignore the libertarian message on every other subject, they must heed this one message or forever be consigned to Third World peasantry: forcing free and peaceful people to do the bidding of politicians is slavery. Period. Taxation is slavery. Military conscription is slavery. Involuntary public servitude is slavery. Groveling before local government bureaucrats for permission to start a business, erect a storage shed, convert a garage into a room, paint a house any color other than white, and on and on and on - these are all the little forms of slavery that add up to one big grotesque national form of slavery.

Calling slavery anything other than slavery is cowardly. All the jingoist parsing, the circumlocutions, the political spinning, the talking in circles, the denials and exceptions and excuses, the pushing aside of reality for grandiose theorizing and sloganeering does not turn slavery into voluntarism. It doesn’t make slavery patriotic. It doesn’t make slavery Godly. It doesn’t make slavery not slavery.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: the Community Service Gulag of the USSA.

Involuntary servitude is not patriotic. Enforcing the Constitution, which every president swears to do with hand flattened firmly atop Bible on inauguration day, is patriotic. President-to-be Obama should read the document he’ll be promising to uphold, and the Bill of Rights while he’s at it. Then he can do the patriotic thing by shutting down Rahm Emanuel and his nascent Department of National Slavery.

We already have a Drug Czar and a Copyright Czar. We don’t need a Slavery Czar.