Sad thing is that we may soon find ourselves in the position of envying even the positions of slaves back then... our government has become a monster that follows no law yet deceitfully clothes its lawlessness in legal speech and ‘rules’ and ‘regulations’: the citizen has NO protection from “the law.”
Just today I went to the municipal courthouse, there on the door in big bold letters is posted “NO WEAPONS;” this in direct opposition to the State Constitution which, in its Bill of Rights, says “No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.” When I inquired of the security-guard about it he said “It’s the judge’s decision” and that I’d have to talk to him about it. (This disturbs me to no end: how is a mere judge, in a municipal court which is authorized by the State Constitution, able to place himself into a position above that selfsame Constitution? Madness!)
“Sad thing is that we may soon find ourselves in the position of envying even the positions of slaves back then”
I certainly hope not. I mentioned Williamsburg above, there and similar historic re-creations show that slaves were usually very poorly treated. House slaves charged with (white) child care slept in hard bins with thin blankets. Then there were the field workers. Then there is the food. And the constant reminders that you are subhuman, inferior, and property. An entire societal apparatus designed to “keeping them down”. The depth of slavery really can’t be easily grasped today, even as we work for more than half the year for our masters.
We have a long way to go before we are subjected to that. Nobody in the next 50 years will be punished for being able to read.
I agree with everything else you said, though- being a “citizen” now is clearly not what the Founders fought and died for.