Are you a domestic terrorist?

[kandrathe]

The big problem is the historical comparison.

The idea that wage slavery is equal to chattel slavery is not a new thought. Cicero, Marx, and even Chomsky make the same comparisons as I do. Charles Edwards Lester, confessed that "he would sooner subject his child to Southern slavery, than have him to be a free laborer of England."

Somewhere in the early 1900's in the battles between the uber capitalists, and the progressive socialists, the notion of individual liberty was lost. What was sold out for collective bargaining has now become collective subservience. Capital has crushed labor, and you would have me be grateful for the scraps I'm fed. No, I'm not starving, as long as I get up and go off to that job every day. They get to tell me which days I work, and which days I do not. They tell me when I can take my vacations. And, in these modern times we willingly wear a leash (cell phone, PDA or pager). So the bosses can expect you to be at their beck and call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What is so wonderful about a life where you leave for work before your children awaken, and you get home in time to eat dinner with them and then send them to bed? Sometimes I have some free time on the weekends to spend with them. Hallelujah.