Teabagger would vote in favor of reinstating slavery

[thoughtful]

Here's my test for any of these asshats who favour reinstating slavery: If they like the idea so much volunteer themselves AND their entire family to BE slaves. So if they do pass a law legalizing slavery - the first people enslaved should be the people who voted that law into practice. We'll see how much they like slavery then.

Seems fair to me. Let's see how they like it.

Thanks for the book recommendation, Peas n Carrots -- just ordered it from the library, where it will be Reserved for me, like Raquel is for her future spouse. :D

[docmom]

Here's my test for any of these asshats who favour reinstating slavery: If they like the idea so much volunteer themselves AND their entire family to BE slaves. So if they do pass a law legalizing slavery - the first people enslaved should be the people who voted that law into practice. We'll see how much they like slavery then.

In fact, I think something like this should be a constitutional amendment. We could also add that anyone signing a bill that advocates for the forced return of US citizens to their country of origin should be at the head of the line. I will apologize to Europe in advance for the influx of teabaggers but suspect that their influence will be greatly diminished in the "European socialist states".

[Palimpsest]

"African Americans would not be in the U.S. were it not for slavery"

O RILLY? I must be losing my mind then, because I have a couple Black friends who are first generation Americans (originally from the Caribbean) and to my knowledge, they came here as college students, not slaves. I've also worked with a lot of African immigrants over the years--waiters, dishwashers, customer service reps, I.T. Professionals...no slaves though. But if this guy says that there would be no African Americans if it weren't for slavery, then it must be true. Or not. What a jackass.

Edited for riffles.

I certainly agree with "direct from Africa" African American immigrants in the U.S. today, but I'm about to be very pedantic and OT. Sorry.

Your Black, originally from the Caribbean, American friends' ancestors were almost certainly slaves too, so would not be in the U.S. today were it not for slavery. The British and French West Indies were built on slavery. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1833. For France (thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte who reinstated slavery in 1802 after it was abolished in 1794) slavery was not finally abolished until 1848. Not bad, compared to the U.S.'s 1864 for the 13th Amendment.

Still, don't have any illusions, slavery is still very much alive and kicking all over the world today. Teabaggers voting for it or not.

http://www.freetheslaves.net/page.aspx?pid=375

[doggie]

The idiot would be willing to abandon the constitution for his voters? Well that has never stopped the GOP so I guess it is ok. He should get michele bachmann as his running mate.

[Talitha Cumi]

Honestly, I can see how this would happen in one or more ways:

1. Bankruptcy laws would be changed so that people (but not corporations!) who go bankrupt would be forced to work off their debt. This could, of course, be stretched out indefinitely.

2. Even non-bankrupts could be given the option of selling themselves into slavery to get money for their families. Cause personal choice and individual responsibility and if-they-didn't-want-to-be-slaves-they-shouldn't-have-spent-money-they-didn't-have.

3. People in prison could be "hired" to do all sorts of jobs, paid at 10 cents per hour. Prisoners would line up for these jobs, because at least it's something. Oh wait, this is already happening! :angry-banghead:

[salex]

Honestly, I can see how this would happen in one or more ways:

1. Bankruptcy laws would be changed so that people (but not corporations!) who go bankrupt would be forced to work off their debt. This could, of course, be stretched out indefinitely.

2. Even non-bankrupts could be given the option of selling themselves into slavery to get money for their families. Cause personal choice and individual responsibility and if-they-didn't-want-to-be-slaves-they-shouldn't-have-spent-money-they-didn't-have.

3. People in prison could be "hired" to do all sorts of jobs, paid at 10 cents per hour. Prisoners would line up for these jobs, because at least it's something. Oh wait, this is already happening! :angry-banghead:

And if my husband's BIL who is usually the one talking this talk goes down the "slavery would be fine" trail, I'll remind him that he took bankruptcy a few years ago.... so He'd be right at the top of the list.

He loves The Pauls (ron and rand) and I dismiss them out of hand, which he will never understand.

[lizziesmom]

The idiot would be willing to abandon the constitution for his voters? Well that has never stopped the GOP so I guess it is ok. He should get michele bachmann as his running mate.

The only part of the Constitution tea baggers see as untouchable is the Second Amendment.

[Handmaiden of Dog]

“If that’s what they wanted, I’d have to hold my nose, I’d have to bite my tongue and they’d probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah, if that’s what the citizens of the, if that’s what the constituency wants that elected me, that’s what they elected me for,†he said. “That’s what a republic is about.â€

Funny how he just happened to use that particular example. And what if his constituency wanted him to vote for rounding up all the Jews and putting them in camps? Would that be all right? Would he "hold his nose" and do it? Because if history has taught us anything it has taught us that the wrong people in government can lead to hell on earth.

I feel 100% comfortable in saying that the Tea Partiers are the wrong people in government.

[Mela99]

I'd vote in favor of reinstating mob justice and beating the shit out of people like this.

[BravaAmica]

I can attest that Civil War culture is alive and well here in Dixie. In fact, it never really left. Why somebody wants to hold a 152 year old grudge is beyond me. Let it die.

I was born and bread in NC. I moved away as soon as I could. Every time I go back, I think to myself, the US fought a long and bloody war to keep all y'all part of the country? Whatever for?

[thoughtful]

The Colbert Report featured this story -- video isn't up yet, but it was pretty good (and quite similar to what we had to say!).

[thoughtful]

Here's the Colbert video:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... avery-vote

I keep thinking of the dramatization of Lyman Hall's dilemma in the musical 1776. He says that he is in favor of independence, but his constituents aren't.

When he decides to vote in favor, he says: "In trying to resolve my dilemma I remembered something I'd once read, 'that a representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.' It was written by Edmund Burke, a member of the British Parliament."

[lizziesmom]

Thoughtful: That is one of my favorite quotes ever. I've watched the movie every 4th of July just for that scene.

[thoughtful]

Thoughtful: That is one of my favorite quotes ever. I've watched the movie every 4th of July just for that scene.

We have the same 4th of July tradition!

That show is a sentimental favorite of mine.

[littlemommy]

Thoughtful, I love you! That is the first thing I thought of when I read this article also. 1776 is one of my favorite movies. (The DVD has deleted scenes!!)

[thoughtful]

Thoughtful, I love you! That is the first thing I thought of when I read this article also. 1776 is one of my favorite movies. (The DVD has deleted scenes!!)

"To the right . . . ever to the right . . . "

:D

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[Vex]

and that African-Americans would not be in the U.S. were it not for slavery.

And what a fucking tragedy that would have been for them. Nobody to make whitey tea or lace them into their corsets! :angry-banghead:

[FloraKitty35]

Stephen Colbert suggested that his constituents tell him to punch himself in the balls.