5:51 A.M. Wednesday, September 07, 2005 -- The narrator's voice was upper crust British, the subject was the present day market for slaves in West Africa -- particularly the marketing of children destined for the cocoa plantations.

Just about anything run on this station, the flagship station of Portland, Oregon PBS affiliate, OPB, will when examined be found to have a lie at the core of the presentation. That, I think, is why this bunch promotes the idea of estate donations so rapaciously.  Dead people never come to their senses. The specific program under the microscope here is called "Reporters BBC," which surprises nobody who keeps an eye on that network and this station. Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto while living in England.  That nation is riddled with stinking pockets of the philosophy.  For example, the BBC.  Its explanation for 21st Century child slavery is the poverty resulting from 19th Century colonialism on the dark continent, plus the ignorance of modern chocolate consumers in the rich countries of the northern hemisphere. 

It is, you see, the giant corporation, and thus capitalism, which is the cause of slavery. (For history buffs, the roots of the modern multi-national corporation may be observed within the British East India and Hudson Bay companies. One of the key secrets is the ability to mimic a government-style bureaucracy.)

Many who regularly watch programming on the public network have been themselves so well programmed (taught what to think instead of how to think) by our public school system that they sit there like nodding-head dashboard dogs, bobbing away blank-faced, questioning nothing.  If you know one of these intellectual drones, and can engage them in conversation about their slavish loyalty to public television, try the following on them.

"Since all remotely inclusive historical records of Man's existence on this planet provide testimony that slavery was one of the earliest inventions of our species, and since our species evolved in and came thence out of Africa, how is it that a program on the subject by the BBC could blame the hideous modern practice in that continent on an economic unit that itself was invented only recently?"

In other words, if the "corporation" is the cause of slavery, how did slavery exist before the corporation?

This, of course, leads us to the gigantic vulture looming over this program.  The giant elephant in its living room.  The powerful emperor parading naked within it.  If the corporation is the cause of slavery, why is slavery so rare in rich northern hemisphere nations?  Because laws have been passed banning it, you say?  Yes, that sounds right.  Well, then, why don't the nations of Africa pass laws against the practice?  They have laws, you say, but because of the leftover influences of colonialism, these nations are too poor to enforce those laws. 

Really?

So, the people in Africa who sell, buy and use slaves are as much victims as the children they buy and whip to work on the cocoa plantations?

We are here at the heart of the intellectual lunacy of liberalism.

To the morons who promote this ideology, anything which is bad is the result of a failure to forcefully redistribute wealth.  Economic distress on the national level is present in all socialist political structures because as long as one capitalist economy remains on the planet, it is the rotten apple that spoils the entire barrel.  The utopia of social justice can only be realized when the last capitalist is safely six feet underground.  Then the world will blossom into a social justice utopia consisting of a proletariat, or main population, sans a middle class, which lives simply and happily in government-owned forced (for the good of all) labor agricultural communes.  All malcontents will be denounced by the unit political officer, and sent to the gulag for re-education.

But wait.  The program here is about slave labor.  How can the solution be a political system that practices slave labor? 

Nearly everything you see or hear on public television or radio is a lie, folks.  (That is, a socialist truth.)  In the case of the program under discussion here, the governments of nations where child labor slavery exists today, are by the BBC held to be victims, not participants in the act. 

To the BBC, the solution to all evil in the world today is the elimination of capitalism.  As Marx said, the key to the elimination of capitalism is the elimination of private property.  (Both actual land, and personal possessions.)  The odd thing about this line of thinking is the actual results of socialism where it is tried.  Irony of ironies, where capitalism  is erased, most become slaves. Except for the top bureaucrats of course.  The leaders of the one party for which citizens are allowed to cast votes, endowed with the title to all property of any kind within their borders, plus perfect control of the lives of the populace, become kings. 

When the govenment owns everything, that means it also owns the giant capitalist corporations.  Instead of a lot of capitalists, there is now just one -- the government, itself.  To review a recent example of this absorbtion process, spend some time exploring national socialism in Germany in the 1930's.  You will see that the actual result of the liberal "solution" to slavery is the creation of slavery.

And, once you understand that, other assumptions you have made become subjects of questioning.  Be careful if you begin this process.  Thinking can cause problems for you.

(LL)

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