Slavery (Repost)

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For many years(1970-1985) besides my homes in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, NC, I owned a co-op apartment in New York City at 12 Beekman Place. This was just 2 blocks from the United Nations headquarters.  Many of the world's consulates were located in this general area where strict securities were  observed.  Since I was a well traveled, somewhat odd, blind former army officer and was known as a conversationalist I was invited to many of the consulates for various social events.  Also, across the FDR drive and directly next to the East River there was a nice park where I would often go for sun and fresh air.  It was either at one of these events or at the park that I first met a Russian diplomat who became interested in my life story and world travels, Particularly crossing Europe and Russia on the Trans-Siberian railroad, my trip across the Gobi Desert on train, and my intrigue of restricted photographs I had made of the Russian missile silos in the Gobi.  In an attempt to get these photographs he proffered restricted information to me (knowing a blind man could not identify him in case of entanglements) about the shooting down of the Korean airliner 007 on September 1, 1983 when 289 persons including Lawrence Mcdonald, a Georgia congressman, and the international backbiting which resulted when very little of the plane or its contents were recovered. He told me that the victims of this crash were recovered, many alive, and that they were then probably as now in Slavery at Vladivostok.

That it all had been a fixed up piece of international diplomacy. Later, at the South Korean consulate, located across the street from me, directly across the home of Irving Berlin, I asked a South Korean official if I should exert my American patriot responsibility to go to those who should be concerned and reveal what I had been told. He said ' You will not be telling anyone, anything, that they do not already know. You can be sure that a third World War will not be started over the shooting down of one airplane, and they do not consider slavery very important.' In considering this for many years, was I right or wrong, is my nation right or wrong, we know that there are 20 million human beings in the world today in absolute slavery and bondage.

In my world travels, not just in Communist(China and North Korea) countries, not just in police-state controlled countries (Seychelles Islands or Congo), or poverty stricken nations such as India, Ghana, and many others where most of the world's poverty exists below the 30th Parallel. We find slavery almost as humanly debilitating as in Eastern North Carolina where most of my life cotton mill towns, tenant tobacco farms, and bigotry towards human beings because of skin color and class discrimination almost to the extent of the Caste system in India, was accepted by people that proclaim that this is the land of  'Justice for All'  One of my ancestors, Robert Morris, wrote the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States (We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.) Later, as Ambassador to France, He said he was embarrassed as a human being to see dead naked men being dragged through the streets of Paris. Yet we as American patriots seemed little concerned when dead American soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu (1993) in the First Battle of Mogadishu, dead US soldiers shot down from a US Black Hawk were dragged through the streets naked.

When our blessed lord, just after his Baptism, was tempted by Satan to turn stones into bread,'If you are the son of God, tell these stones to become bread' He replied that 'man must not live on bread alone' (Matthew 4:1-11) We as Americans, now possess patriotism which only suffices to patronize our personal self-confidence.  Our personal comforts have been totally forgotten, particularly among the younger generations, who do not realize that matches were not developed until 1826, that the first indoor plumbing in the White House was 1833 during Andrew Jackson's presidency. Most university students have never seen an outhouse, smokehouse, milk-house, chicken-house, or any of the other necessities  of every day living when I was  a child. Most university students do not realize that 630,000 young Americans were killed during the Civil War in this nation's battle against slavery.  Most university students, who spend most of their time talking on the telephone (invented in 1876) and most American university students do not realize the first telephone with the number 1 was in the White house in 1879.

With this nation's euphoria and reliance on drugs both, legal and illegal, we have little time to identify ourselves as slaves to sin (this is the world's most unpopular word), to laziness, to lust (Playboy Magazine has 2.9 million subscribers according to recent statistics) and gluttony (63% of all Americans suffer from obesity).


The greatest Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (who died in 1837 at the age of 37) even before he knew the horrors of Stalin's Russia but could see what was developing in his nation, leading eventually to slavery when Karl Marx stated that the 'people of a country only exist for the benefit of the country'. Pushkin said ' Graze on ye sleeping cattle and sheep'