The 13th Amendment
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
It’s kind of like starting a statement with, “I’m Sorry, but…” means that whatever follows, will not be an apology.
This Amendment did not abolish shit, except maybe our national honor. Even worse, it isn’t even the real 13th Amendment. More on that later , but to make the point click here
Now about that Glorious War to End Slavery that led up to this Amendment.. Well…
This is my argument against claims that the Civil War was anything but a war of aggression against the Southern States. I am not claiming that the South were heroes. This nation does not produce heroes, even when fighting with itself or its siblings.
I am merely saying that this belief in the nobility and righteousness of wholesale human slaughter and suffering still poisons each and every one of us to this day and taints everything we do. We must face our evil past and current evil ways if we ever wish to have the capability of producing a hero or even just to take a pause for a moment from being the most fucked up humans ever.
Here is the Straw Man argument I’m working against- "You think states’ rights were the cause of the Civil War, even though slavery was mentioned 80 times in the articles of secession. "
It does not matter why the Southern States seceded from the Union. The Civil War happened because the North invaded the South and waged a war of aggression and subjugation. The South did not invade the North. They just split. Here’s an analogy that I think fits what happened nicely
A Rough Goodbye
A man and a woman were married for a bit. As time went by, it became readily apparent that she was an alcoholic. She drove drunk with the kids in the car, endangered the family, etc. Basically, she was a total cunt who cared about nothing but herself. They started fighting about her drinking and the marriage was soon on the rocks. (My god, I almost apologize for how cheesy that was.)
After a few sloppy seasons and a series of really big fights, she woke up one morning and told him that it was over. She screamed in his face. Declared that both Jose Cuervo and Jim Beam were better lovers than he was. She then grabbed her newest friend with benefits, Jack Daniels, the kids, and moved across town into her mother's house. While living there, she divorced him.
The man stewed on this for about a day before he started plotting shit. First thing he did was to send 5 of his friends over to his Mother In law’s (MIL) place. He told them to camp out in the old tree house he‘d helped her build when they first got together. It was nice and roomy and he had some scummy friends, so they moved in and started having huge parties in that treehouse.
She suspected they were spying on her and repeatedly asked them to leave. She even asked him to come get them. The MIL finally called the cops to have the squatters removed from her property. A huge fight broke out and the cops ended up shooting his friends.
Well, that was the last straw as far as he was concerned. He called up the rest of his friends (oddly enough, mostly men who had recently gotten their citizenship after immigrating from Ireland) and told them to meet him near the mother-in-law's house.
When they got there, they blocked off the whole neighborhood, killed any of the neighbors who showed any signs of opposition to their invasion, and told everyone outside their little blockade, that it was none of their business.
After a few weeks of bloody back and forth, he finally got the upper hand. He pulled the MIL out of her house and executed her in the front yard. At the same time, one of his friends who happened to have a CDL and a gassed up Peterbilt with him, slowly drove through the house, killing the dozens of neighborhood pets and kids unlucky enough to have sheltered in his path.
After that extra wide path of destruction was finished, dude dragged his ex-wife out of the house. He beat the shit out of her in front of everyone, including her few surviving kids, put a gun to her head, and forced her to swear that she'd never leave him again.
Do we blame the alcohol for this tragedy? I mean, really, was any of this caused by her drinking and driving?
Now what if I told you that as soon as she gave him her word that she would never leave again, he popped a bottle of Vodka open, chugged most of it and shared the rest with her in celebration of their marriage conflicts being resolved, and then drove home with the kids in the car.
In fact, neither of them ever sobered up again.
So, the blame for this entire cluster fuck can be squarely placed on Alcohol and her consumption of it, right? No? ok.. Then I really don't think you can blame the Civil War on slavery.
If the war was fought to end slavery and the side wishing to end it was also the side that was victorious, why did they not abolish slavery at the conclusion of the war?
Everything everyone believes* about this time in history is backwards to what happened in regards to both intentions and effect. How did this happen? Well, control of information. To be more specific, total spectrum control of all the information being forced onto us 247 365. Not total control of all the information people can seek, but instead just the information that aggregates passively into people as they go about their daze in this county.
Next time, we’ll learn about hypnagogic learning techniques, aka Prime Time Programming.
*To this day we are the the most enslaved population in history and our entire industrial base is built on this system of forced labor and slavery. Just Google Unicor. Well, maybe not google it. Duckduckgo it instead.