Comparing the Old and the New

The New 21st Century slave traders are now doing essentially the same thing the original slave traders did. True, they are not importing slaves involuntarily in ships. They are using their power and influence to thwart and hinder law enforcement, then allowing the new slaves to migrate to the labor market on their own. The New Slave employers are getting a better deal than slave owners of old because they don't have to feed, clothe and house the New Slaves for life (and part of the costs are shifted to taxpayers). The New Slave Traders are attempting to arrange by law (the proposed Amnesty bill) to bring in a larger resident labor pool to exploit, so the New Slave Users can pay them wages below what legal Americans would accept. As Jeffrey describes them, "a resident subclass of laborers constrained by government to work for wages so low no American would accept them."

There are varying levels of involvement now just as there was with the original slave traders. Noted authors such as John Locke and Voltaire, who denounced the slave trade for years, actually drew income from it. The elites have always been able to invest through third parties to draw income from various less savory enterprises and yet keep their hands and perhaps their consciences clean. Others, like the operators of the slave ships, knew all the dirty details about transporting human beings like livestock cargo. It was a nasty and horrendous business.

Today's equivalent is the contractor who hires a Spanish-speaking foreman to hire and manage illegal laborers. These laborers are often uninsured and if they get injured performing dangerous work, the taxpayer often ends up with the tab. The Contractor's customers get the job a little cheaper (than competing bidders with legal laborers) and he pockets much more profit which represents the lost wages differential to an American worker. This contractor is hands-on involved.

The less hands-on but equally guilty version of New Slave User includes 99% of us. We go to Walmart and buy cheap foreign-made goods formerly manufactured in the U.S. (it's not entirely by choice...American made goods are getting hard to find!). See Joe Smith's American Job Search to get the picture more clearly.

Illegal Immigration is just the domestic 'onshore' version of "Outsourcing," "offshoring," "globalization" and "free trade"... whatever euphemism you prefer; we are, in effect, hiring slaves and displacing American workers at alarming rates. High tech as well as blue collar jobs are being "outsourced" to foreign countries; the New Slave Traders are enabling the sale of American jobs by way of Expensive Trade Agreements (e.g., NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA, etc.). Economists and politicians (Slave Traders) call them "Free Trade" agreements. Mike Crane is a leading Georgia writer on "globalization."

Just like the original slave traders, the elitist New Slave Users are driven by greed, their worship of Mammon, their materialism that puts the pursuit of profit above all else. The New Slave Traders are driven by their lust for power; selling their influence---though technically unethical and illegal----is the generally expected and almost universally practiced standard of their profession. The New Slave Traders and Elitist Users don't care that massive immigration is destroying American culture. They view the American populace as nothing more than a "labor pool" and one that is too pricey for their tastes. Most Americans want a decent wage with government's minimum wage as the floor. The New Slave Trader elitists want to eliminate the American middle class and put all of us on the wage level with the new imported slaves.

Some New Slave users are competing in a world market and they need slave labor rates to compete with China, Indonesia, India and the third world labor markets. Walmart is leading the way in selling goods manufactured in China, Korea, India, and elsewhere in the third world. The low pricing of goods is driving American manufacturers out of business. Their only way to compete on price is to import slave labor that will work as cheaply as the Chinese.

The only thing obstructing the New Slave Trader's plan to reduce the American middle class to a slave labor force is the millions of Americans who oppose amnesty and open borders. Will those Americans stand up and prevent the sellout? Will those Americans allow the New Slave Traders to sell their jobs down the river and convert them to slaves ?

Bush and the Senate slave traders of both parties are out in public attempting to sell the scamnesty on behalf of the New Slave users. Those pesky American conservatives started making noise, getting rowdy and resisting. Dang it! They were supposed to go along with Bush because he's a Republican and the prevailing myth is that 'Republican' means 'conservative' and trustworthy. Ha!

All the rhetoric, guilt-tripping, innuendo and outright name-calling reached a crescendo last week when President Bush decided to attack all conservatives who oppose illegal immigration on principle. He basically called all of us who oppose illegal immigration "bigots" and "racists" among other choice words and then he questioned our motives and patriotism. That was a boneheaded political move, and I think it really opened a lot of eyes---awakening conservatives who have heretofore supported Bush despite his non-conservative behaviors (extravagant spending, growth in government, encroachments on the Bill of Rights, et al).

Conservatives can now clearly see (those who refused to see it before) that Bush and the GOP leadership have abandoned conservative principle long ago. Follow the money. Look at their behavior and ignore their words. Jim Dean, Peggy Noonan and many others have been abuzz since Bush gave conservatives and all amnesty opponents "the finger."

The Democrat Slave Traders, of course, want open borders in order to import millions more potential Democrats, a downtrodden and oppressed slave labor class who they imagine they can demagogue and recruit to vote for and empower the Democrat slave traders. By one method or another, they plan to get drivers licenses for illegals and eventually the vote depite their non-citizen status. And of course, their children born in the U.S. will become defacto U.S. citizens unless we repeal part of the 14th Amendment. Social Security benefits are already in the bag for illegals granted amnesty; when they start raiding the "fund" in large numbers, it will go bankrupt far sooner than projected. See the NumbersUSA video, Immigration by the Numbers for more details.

The more government dependents the better in the Democrat's way of thinking. Since the New Slave Traders want to eliminate the American Middle Class, the Democrats view that as a political win-win for them since they view themselves as the champions of the poor (they are champion exploiters!), whose votes they can buy with promises of more government benefits.

So the question remains, will legal Americans allow our politicians, the New Slave Traders, to sell America down the river in chains? America as we know it is on the proverbial auction block.