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Involuntary Servitude Returns to America
The American Thinker ^ | 4-16-15 | Jack Golbert

Posted on 04/16/2015 3:06:58 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

A confession: Many years ago, I was an ultra-left liberal, a Marxist, in fact. As a newly minted attorney at law in New York, I joined the ACLU and volunteered serve as one of their lawyers. About six weeks later, they asked me to represent an American Nazi accused of inciting to riot. I refused. They were mightily put off, horrified in fact. They remonstrated. “But he has a right to counsel.” I said, “Maybe so, but he doesn’t have a right to me. I’m protected by the Thirteenth Amendment.” (The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.)... “It doesn’t protect only former slaves. It also protects Jewish lawyers.”

~snip~

It took me ten years of mulling over the matter to realize that the right to competent counsel is not the right of the accused. It is our right. We are the ones who have the right to insist that the accused be represented by counsel. That is to protect us, the society at large, from the terrors of a Star Chamber. Like all civil liberties law, it is based on the bedrock notion that what the government does to him today, it can do to you tomorrow. And it will. Therefore we have the right to counsel representing the accused. In his case, I am willing to waive that right. In my opinion, we have the right to decline to even share the planet with Nazis. I know they feel that way about me. We can surely turn a deaf ear to his plea for counsel to defend him when he incites to riot against me.

~snip~

In the realm of non-legal services, these are some of the reported cases of people being penalized for refusing to provide services for events celebrating homosexuality for religious reasons.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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KEYWORDS: business; customers; gays; homosexualagenda; religiousfreedom; service; starchamber
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•A 70-year-old florist, Barronell Stutzman, was fined by the State of Washington for not providing flowers for a "gay" wedding. Now her home and personal savings are at risk. The state and the plaintiffs propose to bankrupt her personally and the court has ruled that her personal property is available to execute any judgment. They intend to render her destitute in her old age.

•Photographer Elaine Huguenin was ordered by the State of New Mexico to give a lesbian $7,000 for declining to photograph her same-sex wedding.

•Bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein were fined $150,000 by the State of Oregon for refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding based on religious objections.

•Blaine Adamson was ordered by the city of Lexington, Kentucky, to undergo 'sensitivity training" for refusing to print T-shirts for a gay pride festival.

1 posted on 04/16/2015 3:06:58 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Sounds like involuntary servitude to me.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 3:18:12 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What else would one expect from the party of slavery?


3 posted on 04/16/2015 3:20:34 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Oh. I thought this was an H-1B thread.


4 posted on 04/16/2015 3:33:36 PM PDT by null and void (He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I predict that the next front in the battle to accept ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ or any form of marriage other than traditional one will be against DEVOUT CHRISTIAN chaplains of the military ( ignore the liberal chaplains who have already sold out ).

Chaplains are COMMISSIONED OFFICERS of the military and receive a salary. Therefore, it will be but logical in the eyes of the gay lobby to target this institution using the standard tactic they’ve already used for bakers, Florists and photographers — GOVERNMENT COERCION.

If a devout chaplain refuses to perform a gay wedding, he will be stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged.

Once this front is defeated, the next front will then be the Christian churches.

How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!


5 posted on 04/16/2015 3:36:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SandRat

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.


6 posted on 04/16/2015 3:37:31 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: sauropod

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7 posted on 04/16/2015 3:45:33 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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FReepers! Let's go!
Everyone needs to help!


Please contribute today!

8 posted on 04/16/2015 4:02:43 PM PDT by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: Hardens Hollow; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; Foundahardheadedwoman; ...

CWII Spark Ping — Old news, but perhaps examined from a different perspective than usual.


9 posted on 04/16/2015 4:12:48 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Once this front is defeated, the next front will then be the Christian churches.

How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!”

I think that one is right around the corner.


10 posted on 04/16/2015 4:25:18 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Geez.

I was going to open a spice business. Maybe not now.

The socialists/communists are doing all they can to destroy the entrepreneurial spirit. After all, the owners didn’t build their own businesses - the government did it for them.


11 posted on 04/16/2015 4:29:47 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: null and void
Oh. I thought this was an H-1B thread.

So did I ...

12 posted on 04/16/2015 4:56:17 PM PDT by clamper1797 (I'm a Tea Party Conservative ... in my opinion that makes me "Politically Correct")
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To: Hardens Hollow

It’s already been proposed by some LGBTEIEIO activists.


13 posted on 04/16/2015 5:02:04 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!”

Good. Then all Christian churches will be able to speak out without having to tow the government line. It was satan’s snare anyway.


14 posted on 04/16/2015 5:27:47 PM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (If you haven't figured it out, there is a great falling away...happening before your eyes.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

Churches dont need irs tax exemption letters to be tax exempt. Churches predate the federal government and most state governments. Those very same churches had pastors give sermons and then take of their frocks and underneath were wearing their military uniforms, with swords and srms, asking for volunteers from the congregation.

Research Liberty Counsel. They have an excellent legal pamhplet explaining this.


15 posted on 04/16/2015 5:35:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Children in high school must now perform mandatory volunteerism in order to get their diploma.


16 posted on 04/16/2015 5:56:14 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Just an extension of the 100+ yrs of involuntary servitude called....the 16th Amendment; not even getting into the 4th, 5th, etc.

Add in the ‘War on Welfare’ and most income tax payers are slaves in all but name.


17 posted on 04/16/2015 6:24:44 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
It took me ten years of mulling over the matter to realize that the right to competent counsel is not the right of the accused. It is our right. We are the ones who have the right to insist that the accused be represented by counsel. That is to protect us, the society at large, from the terrors of a Star Chamber. Like all civil liberties law, it is based on the bedrock notion that what the government does to him today, it can do to you tomorrow. And it will. Therefore we have the right to counsel representing the accused.>/>

That's exactly right. I've been a criminal defense attorney for many years, and I have had a few real scumbag clients. But I don't defend my clients. I defend the Constitution of the United States. Making sure that even the lowest of the low are represented by competent counsel is one of the things that keeps the wolf of tyranny from our door.

I should add that a large majority of my clients aren't scumbags - they're just folks who acted like idiots on a particular day. Drank too much. Lost their temper. Let a loved one talk them into something stupid. In this criminal defense game I find myself saying "there but for the grace of God" about 100 times a day.

But some are real bottom feeders. I represent them, too.

18 posted on 04/16/2015 7:20:54 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: Gluteus Maximus
It took me ten years of mulling over the matter to realize that the right to competent counsel is not the right of the accused. It is our right. We are the ones who have the right to insist that the accused be represented by counsel. That is to protect us, the society at large, from the terrors of a Star Chamber. Like all civil liberties law, it is based on the bedrock notion that what the government does to him today, it can do to you tomorrow. And it will. Therefore we have the right to counsel representing the accused.

That's exactly right. I've been a criminal defense attorney for many years, and I have had a few real scumbag clients. But I don't defend my clients. I defend the Constitution of the United States. Making sure that even the lowest of the low are represented by competent counsel is one of the things that keeps the wolf of tyranny from our door. I should add that a large majority of my clients aren't scumbags - they're just folks who acted like idiots on a particular day. Drank too much. Lost their temper. Let a loved one talk them into something stupid. In this criminal defense game I find myself saying "there but for the grace of God" about 100 times a day. But some are real bottom feeders. I represent them, too.

19 posted on 04/16/2015 7:22:34 PM PDT by Gluteus Maximus
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Involuntary servitude is just the beginning...


20 posted on 04/16/2015 8:03:59 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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