Slavery as a Repub issue

[AlienGirl]

I've noticed what looks like Republican "feelers" being put out about slavery, even prior to the latest * speech. The Repubs were talking about Carole Moseley-Braun receiving money from "slave-owning nations" and saying that liberals have done nothing about global slavery. (Untrue, btw; most human-rights organizations are, by definition, liberal~!!)

Do you think they're seriously running this up the flagpole as a potential campaign issue (and/or pretext for invading "slave countries" to "liberate" them) and if so, what's the best strategy against it?

Tucker

[patdem]

1. Well, they have very little to 'run up the flagpole' otherwise!

sex slavery....gee do people sit around the kitchen table and talk about the blight of sex slavery around the world...I think not!!!

[rogerashton]

2. Slave Owning Nations?

Those would be on the Arabian peninsula, no?

[Yupster]

14. Northern Sudan

taking slaves from Southern Sudan is the biggest slave trade extant I believe.

[chookie]

3. "Operation Bamboozle Blacks"

smirky covers up for racist policies by window dressing his adminstration with Colin Powell and Condi Rice. That's all he has. If Condi was not a black woman, and hence a "role model" of how the pigs at the trough want the modern darky to act -- based on her performance as national security director, she should be fired for incompetence. (Unless smirky can't tell the difference, or really wants the world to go to hell.)

Remember smirky's 15 minute photo op in Senegal, Gorrey Island, "honoring" those who had left there as slaves to work the plantations of the new world? That was another tactic to steal the issue of civil rights and conditions of black Americans from Democrats, and even black activists. "Compassion for Liberia" was yet another cynical example.

So now we are supposed to believe that only His Chimperial Highness cares about modern slavery. I agree with you that he will attempt to use this issue as a justification for further imperial conquests and occupations. But I think he is trying to bamboozle African Americans into thinking that he is "really" the guy who cares about civil rights and opportunities for African Americans.

African Americans -- COndi Rice excluded -- are too smart for this bullshit, and have seen through this venal little lying bastard from the start. They have been, as a demographic group, WAY ahead of the curve in knowing what Bush is all about and what he is up to.

With polls sinking, smirky is desperate to woo black voters -- that is, the ones he won't be able to disenfranchise! I will go as far as predict that Dick Cheney will not serve another term as VP -- that Condi Rice will be chosen, in an unbelieveably cynical strategy to win the Lily White House again for the fratboy.

[AlienGirl]

5. Here are some quotes...

Quotes from a forum that skews highly right-wing:

One poster says:
When President Bush mentioned the teens sold into slavery around the world most had no idea what he was talking about. The new issue of National Geographic has a stunning 24 page article on slavery around the world. One Democratic Presidential candidate, Carol Mosley Braun actually receives money from a nation that allows slavery! No leftist will dare criticize her. Most leftists and liberals consider slavery a non issue. 40 Million read the National Geographic -- it is the first time they have read how large the problem is. For more information and to find out how you can help go to:
www.freetheslaves.net

Let's wipe out slavery in our lifetime. I don't know how the worldwide peace movements stopped the war on Iraq, but wouldn't it be nice if they marched for an issue they could actually make a dent in? Or abolish?

Another replies:
Slavery has begun in Iraq, with Christian girls being the primary target. Before it was safe for them. I agree that we have to stop it, but how?

Notice the emphasis on "Christian girls" being sold, presumably as sex-slaves, presumably to Muslims.

Tucker

[rman]

11. oh goody

the repubs knew about this and they never told us?

[Deja Q]

18. I wonder what they'd say about slave wages & American sweatshops...

:shrug:

Many Americans are slaves of a different sort...

[freepotter]

4. If they are serious

they can start by checking out the 6 cases of slavery prosecuted in Florida in the past 5 years as reported in the Sept. 2003 National Geographic. These people are just too stupid to be believed!





Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it, I feel no concern from it;
but I should suffer the misery of demons were I to make a whore of my soul."
--Thomas Paine

[linazelle]

6. I see the attempt to make the association too...

but in a different way.

They are separating the liberal party into two types: elititists and entitlists. The elitists are the "masters" and the entitlists are the "slaves" according to the Limbaughs (Rush and David) who have been drilling the elitist theme into their listener's/reader's heads for quite some time. Look to hear it soon.

[noiretextatique]

7. perhaps trent lott can comment on this

:eyes: i would love to hear his views on the subject of slavery

[Jerky_LeBoeuf]

8. Racists used to smear Jackson over "doing nothing" for African slaves...

Why am I not surprised that the Republicans would have that particular card up their ass- I mean sleeves?

[screaming_meme]

9. Free the slaves once and the Repugs never let you forget it

Soon they'll start comparing Bush to Lincoln. In FACT, count on Bush to make a speech announcing the US will take an active role in eradicating slavery around the world. Talk about a safe stance to take. Will make the Shrub seem righteous and Licoln-esque.

[Yupster]

15. Curtailing civil liberties during wartime

sounds like Bush and Lincoln both.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

10. Brother Neil

Wasn't it revealed that he traveled to Thailand and "made a contribution" to the sex tourist trade? Does anyone know some details about this? Since WHEN has Shrub ever cared about this issue? He's being mighty transparent about his motivation for mentioning this. Any idiot with half a brain cell can spot this.

[frank frankly]

16. good point about Neil

oh how wonderful it would be to see Neil Bush become infamous nationally. the bastard. i hope those girls were praying/concentrating on his destruction while he raped them for money.

[rustydog]

12. Bush mentioned the sex-slave trade at the UN and NO ONE

said...
Bush, you F***ing liar, there were no WMD in Iraq. You murdered tens of thousands of innocent people.
Instead, they are saying: " Why in F**k did he mention sex slaves?"
"What does sex slaves have to do with it?"
Once again, Bush and Rove control the content of the debate.

[charlie]

13. Let's see them cancel all Dynacorps contracts

and insist on divestment of Dynacorps holdings from their rank and file.

Not gonna happen.

This sudden slavery crap is a measure of their uncertainty that their grand Imperium Americum adventure has the legs to carry them through the elections.

[Solomon]

17. Its time to attack people with oil who can't fight back.

They have no weapons of mass destruction so we create thisw slavery issue and - voila- reason to invade. And the beauty is, this time, they won't be able to fight back.

[salin]

19. Wonder from which foreign countries Carlyle is making its money

wonder why they don't worry about the bloody conditions around certain gold and diamond minds.