From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com'" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>,
    WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] RE: [wsfa-forum] Giant step backwards in time (Not!)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:07:01 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

    While the FBI did arrest someone for enslavement in 1985, that was a
freaky exception to the rule.  A Pakistani couple imported a "servant" to
Miami, FL and kind of forgot to tell him about the civil rights of
immigrants to the USA.  Classical slavery is not making any comeback
anywhere in the USA.  Forced labor as a punishment for crimes is a
recognized part of the criminal justice system and is subject to various
legal safeguards.
    It makes NO sense for sheriffs to arrest able bodied persons and to
hire them out to "fat cats" since free labor is always more efficient than
forced labor.  U.S. Grant married into a slave owning family (the Dents).
He persuaded his wife, Julia, to free her 4 slaves and hire 1 free woman.
Julia was certain that the household would go to heck in a handbasket.  To
her astonishment, the 1 free woman produced more work than the 4 slaves
because the free woman had a stake (wages) in her own work.  Further, if
forced labor were cost effective, the Communist world would have outproduced
the socialist world which would have outproduced the capitalist world.  The
opposite happened because free people will beat the crap out of slaves who
are indifferent at best to their masters' success in anything resembling a
fair contest.

-----Original Message-----
From: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com [mailto:wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Madeleine Yeh
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 6:23 PM
To: WSFA members; wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] [wsfa-forum] Giant step backwards in time

I think that slavery seems to be reappearing in the U.S.
Look at this article about prison labor in Louisiana.
I thought this practice was abolished decades ago.
   It starts making economic sense for sheriffs to arrest
as many able bodied people as possible and various fat
cats get rich from not paying wages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/us/05prisoners.html

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