SLAVERY AND CHILD SUPPORT

by Adrian Banks, 11/09/00

"Slavery was not only a moral question, it was a political one, the province of men who dealt in propaganda." - Jean Fritz, Harriet Beecher Stowe & The Beecher Preachers

"Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy the spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. And let me tell you, that all these things are prepared for you by the teachings of history, if the elections shall promise that the next Dred Scott decision and all future decisions will be quietly acquiesced in by the people." - Abraham Lincoln

One thing I did not find in any of the volumes of weekly press from the 1920's and 30's was that there was a problem with child support. The phrases "deadbeat parent" or "child support" did not exist. The label of "taxpayer" did not apply to working people in the sense that they filed and paid income tax on their labor. The servitude of garnished paychecks did not exist because there were no paychecks to garnish. People at that time received their pay in a pay envelope in cash with no deductions, or in gold and silver coin. After studying the subject of slavery I can now see that any fee imposed by law on the money a worker is paid for their labor is a servitude. It is interesting to note that one branch of the old Roman law was dedicated to the servitudes.

It only stands to reason that there would be problems with collecting child support when all forms of taxation take around half the worker's bread and the divorce rate is around 55%. For example, the average wage in America, according to the Secretary of Labor, is $12.50 per hour. However, all forms of taxation diminish the worker's pay to $6.25 per hour. This would equate to around a $1000 per month take home pay. In a typical divorce situation with two children involved, the court ordered child support would be $200 per month per child, or $400 per month. This would further diminish the worker's pay to around $600 per month. Would any politician or judge place such a yoke around their own necks? Of course not. For example, a congressman's salary is around $141,000 per year. A typical worker, after taxes and child support, may be left with around $7,200 per year to live on if he complies with all taxes and other fees that are imposed upon his labor. The child support will logically suffer because the fees the politicians collect for their purposes are taken out first. The masters always have made themselves first in line by being the ones in power. That way the force of the law is on their side since they write it and place the judges in the courts to enforce it. Masters never have desired to accept the same yoke that they place around the necks of others. Child support is a miserable slavery, and those who are the masters of labor have chosen to structure the laws so that they pay nothing while enjoying the use of the labor of around 200 million human beings so that they can experiment with American society.

The laws that have developed over the past few years in reference to child support enforcement are important - very important; because they can give you some idea of what is in store for your children, for they will be the ones who will support the baby boomers and perhaps yourself if you make it to old age, and it will not take the additional burden of child support to make all fees imposed upon their labor to reach around 70% or so by that time. The child support laws are but the beginning of a greater despotism to come, and as we shall see, are actually the restoration of laws that applied to slaves in pre civil war America, Medieval times, and Roman times.

First of all, where is the authority in the Constitution which gives courts the authority to order child support? It is a fee imposed upon the labor of a human being with the force of law behind it. Simply stated - slavery. The 13th Amendment only allows slavery or involuntary servitude to be imposed upon someone after the party has been charged with a crime and has been convicted in a court of law. The courts of the country are progressively becoming an enslaving force; and as the politicians need more money, the judges will get meaner and meaner, for the master will have his Mammon, and masters who are cannibals will pass the expenses of masters off onto the backs of others. The slavery that develops as the cannibalism spreads can get pretty mean.

The picture at the left is that of a Hungarian Jewish child with its slave identification number (SIN number) tattooed on its arm; compliments of the Nazis. Perhaps today if social workers were equipped with tattoo kits and made daily rounds in the hospitals tattooing taxpayer identification numbers on newborn children, the people might awaken to the fact that our children are being enslaved at birth. But when it is done quietly by simply placing the number on a birth certificate and conditioning the minds of the people to accept the procedure as a normal function when issuing the birth certificate, nobody sees what is happening. But rest assured that if nothing is done to change things the politicians will begin taxing the child's labor when it comes of age to work and the politicians will shun all of the expenses of raising the child until it comes of age to labor. Like the Nazis, they want the profits but not the liabilities.

In the past few years, many states have enacted laws the revoke driver's licenses for delinquent child support. One of the liberties that we are supposed to have is the right of locomotion, where we can move about in pursuit of our lawful concerns. That is primarily done today in automobiles. This also destroys the right to labor, since the ability to get to work and back home is essential to working. In other words, it is now illegal to exercise your rights. The law has made you a criminal if you do exercise them. In the Dred Scott decision, we can see that those who were slaves were forbidden to travel without a pass from their masters. Those found without a pass were arrested by the police and were taken before a judge. The only difference today is that there are no masters who pay the fines, it merely becomes an additional servitude to the slave.

"What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson

In South Carolina, it is a common practice for judges to simply throw "deadbeat parents" in jail. And while in jail, the child support still continues to be charged against the person's labor, even though being in jail prevents them from laboring and making money so that he could even pay the fees. This is madness sanctioned by the force of law. Here we charge a fee against your labor, and then jail you so you can't work and submit to the yoke! This is not justice, this is tyranny. The master did not buy the slave to throw in jail and be supported by the taxpayers did he? It should also be noted that imprisonment for debt was a common practice in medieval times when the laws of feudalism prevailed and the people were serfs. In Roman times the right of using the labor of another human being without his consent was called the right of usufruct.

Effective October, 1997, a federal law went into effect that denies and revokes passports of those alleged to be delinquent in child support. In the Dred Scott decision we can see that the Secretary of State refused to give passports to slaves in pre Civil War times. Isn't it ironic that these new laws are merely restoring the old laws that applied to slaves?

Another law that passed in 1998 was the "Deadbeat Parents Act." This law makes it a felony to cross state lines to evade child support. Think about the fact that around 65-70% of the laborer's bread is taken from him when the burden of child support is added to all forms of taxation. Herbert Hoover, in 1934 - before the income tax was imposed upon American workers - stated that "economic oppression is servitude." This law, which passed the House 402-16, was a Fugitive Slave Law in disguise specially designed for this class of persons. Promoting the welfare of the people through massive and expanding social programs may have sounded appealing on the surface decades ago, but the reality is that as millions add themselves to the rolls, the more working people must pay to support them. If the politicians are going to treat this class of people whom they have branded as "deadbeat parents" as slaves held in bondage in the laws they write, perhaps they should buy them at a fair market price. Adjusting for inflation, each of the "deadbeats" could fetch around $100,000 on average. This would more than cover all back child support, in most cases, with some to spare, and the politicians would have themselves some domestic servants and have to accept their responsibilities as masters. In addition, all these servile laws and the expenses of their enforcement would be eliminated.

In pre Civil War times, it was not uncommon for the child of a slave to be sold, and the father of that child would never see his son or daughter again. Today some men, to escape the yoke of slavery child support has placed around their necks, try and emancipate themselves by moving to another state; and some never see their children again. This is the greatest robbery of all when it comes to slavery, for no matter in what form it develops, it robs children of the love of their parents and destroys the family. The most insidious thief there is comes to you robed with the authority of law and robs you with righteous intent.

"All the powers of earth seem rapidly combining against him. Mammon is after him, ambition follows, philosophy follows, and the theology of the day is fast joining the cry. They have him in his prison-house; they have searched his person, and left no prying instrument with him. One after another they have closed the heavy iron doors upon him; and now they have him, as it were, bolted in with a lock of a hundred keys, which can never be unlocked without the concurrence of every key - the keys in the hands of a hundred different, and they scattered to a hundred different and distant places; and they stand musing as to what invention, in all the dominions of mind and matter, can be produced to make the impossibility of his escape more complete than it is." Abraham Lincoln