
Revisionist sophistry and ex-military credibility-enhancements aside, it is an absolutely moot point in the United States of 2017, to blather on about “symbols of slavery” while the Internal Revenue Service remains open for business. Taxation of personal incomes on a coercive and punitive basis, and the mountainous quantities of personal information demanded, secured and stored in the process, flies in the face of any meaningful concept of “liberty.”
No one who willingly collaborates with the treasonous gangster cartel calling itself “IRS” has any ground to stand on while making silly and pointless, and fashionable, outbursts about slavery as embodied in old works of sculpture or names of places. Slavery in terms of actual bondage as personal property may have been abolished as the political expedient Lincoln had said all along that it was, but in the bargain a federal regime was built into a mass juggernaut spreading its claims across the land and increasing its powers systematically with every administration of either party for the next century and a half.
And the anchorage of this new bondage, this new impossibility of real freedom ever being a threat to federal power ever again, was to invasively and coercively seize portions of every citizen’s private livelihood, and to demand as well reams of information about what each person does to make their way in life and how they go about it. This new process of enslavement replaced the concept of human beings as personal property, with the absolute demand that every person become state property.
It just rings hollow and hypocritical, an epidemic of Stockholm Syndrome such as may have never been witnessed in history, when people who allow the state to invade and interrogate and monitor and levy against their very livelihoods try to sound credible, when talking about “slavery.”
No such thing as freedom, in any genuine form, will exist in this nation so long as this rogue gang IRS has the absolute powers it does to command the economic life and activities of an entire nation. Either repudiate its grasp outright, serve it notice that its presence will no longer be tolerated in one’s life (as I have since 1999 and have made no attempt whatsoever to live or earn or spend in any way but openly, ever since), or just go ahead and admit that what you are, is a slave to a regime.

