Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Slavery Message-ID: <1013@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 10:19:57 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1013 Posted: Fri Mar 8 10:19:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 06:15:19 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 28 >> And, let us not forget, the whole thing star- >>ted when whites enslaved blacks, took them OUT OF THEIR HOMELAND AGAINST THEIR >>WILL and forced them to work their land, with NO PAY, with NO HOPE of freedom. >>They were OWNED by their masters, treated as CHATTEL, sold at the master's >>wills, families split up, some were raped, some were killed trying to escape >>(I digress ...). >>Greg Skinner (gregbo) >>{allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo > > Guess what??? We are ALL slaves now. Did you know that an average American >tax payer pays total taxes of 45%? The return on slaves in the pre-Civil War >South was only 12%..Wow!!! Yep, it all started when the IRS took us out the >wilderness and forced us to work for them until June 12th of each and every >calendar year. So how does it feel to be a slave? ;-) > > Clare This really isn't very funny, even with the smiley face. Who was the last person beaten to death by the IRS? Who's been forced to have sexual intercourse with anyone from the IRS? Put on a ship of death to a foreign country by the IRS? I'm sure the folks in net.music don't need to read stupidity like the above. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752