1Declaration: Free Markets, Free People, Free Minds

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. The relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption. It is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality -- the man who lives to serve others -- is the slave. If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit. The conquered slave has a vestige of honor. He has the merit of having resisted and of considering his condition evil. But the man who enslaves himself voluntarily in the name of love is the basest of creatures. He degrades the dignity of man, and he degrades the conception of love. But that is the essence of altruism. --Ayn Rand

Enslavement to the Crown

American history has a rich heritage of the enslavement of people of all races, cultures, and genders. The first slavery was servitude to the crown of a tyrannical government. Read the Declaration of Independence from start to finish and analyze the document. You may be surprised if you have never read it before in this context. The Declaration of Independence was a Declaration from Enslavement from big and oppressive government to allow all people to chose their own individual path of success free from the tyranny government brings.

Today most Americans do not realize the enslavement capabilities of a big government that was supposed to be a beneficial dictatorship. This was the first story of slavery in American history. Americans like Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and the like fought to overthrow the enslavement of men to the oppressive British crown. Because of their resistance to the enslavement of man to a tyrannical and oppressive government we have had the opportunity to devise our freedom today.

Black Slavery

The second enslavement is where men and women were forced to work without compensation or mercy. This was the forced servitude of blacks. This time is an embarrassment in the history of the United States and violated the founding principles of our country in which "all me are created equal" and of individual liberty. The end of formal forced servitude was not the end of slavery.

Blacks were forced to like separate from society at the hands of a government that said forced separation and discrimination was fine. The leading from of this enslavement was from liberals and progressives. Blacks were still enslaved but this time it was a slave to law that prevented equality. Blacks and other groups have fought for and achieved a climate where equality is the norm today. Denying that forms of racism and prejudice still exist is idiocy, but by in large, minority groups in the United States have the freedom to choose their own path and live in freedom.

Dependency

Today's enslavement is perhaps the worst in American history. Today we have politicians such as Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, and many others who have enslaved themselves to the idea of dependency on government to increase their power. These people enslave the masses with fantastic oratory and rhetoric about change, a 'Third Way,' or hope.

Breaking this idea down. "The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. The relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption." Barak Obama clearly lives for others preaching for equality. Barak Obama's equality is not equality in treatment or under the law but instead equality of wealth and possessions. He has become a parasite feeding off of the masses to acquire power and votes whom he enslaves to lives of dependency and fear.

In turn the people become parasites on societies enslaved to government handouts at the hands of those who work hard and make coherent choices in their lives. These people voluntarily enslave themselves to lives of dependency: mentally, financially, and spiritually. Take an objective look at any Barak "The Messiah" Obama rally with people fainting in his presence and believing every word of his hope and change by creating a United States of Dependency and Oppression. Barak Obama (or any other dependency loving politician) and his faithful masses have become corrupt. The live on the idea that government and society owe them their living. Living for others "is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality -- the man who lives to serve others -- is the slave."

Ayn Rand concluded, "if physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit. The conquered slave has a vestige of honor. He has the merit of having resisted and of considering his condition evil. But the man who enslaves himself voluntarily in the name of love is the basest of creatures. He degrades the dignity of man, and he degrades the conception of love. But that is the essence of altruism." Barak Obama (or any other politician preaching dependency) has enslaved himself and consequentially enslaved the masses that follow him. The masses have not resisted but have succumbed to ideas of servility Obama preaches. They have not resisted and have not considered that they are willingly relinquishing their freedoms. These people are degrade their dignity and degrade American principles of indivuduality, small government, and freedom of choice.

Billions of people around the world live in governments where they have not freedoms and are willing to fight for their freedom. Iraqi's are fighting for their freedoms after decades of tyranny and in some cases acts of benevolence to buy their acquiescence. Afghani's are doing the same. Citizens of Venezuela are becoming increasingly disgusted with the control-all dictator Hugo Chavez. Millions of people in the countries in the Middle East North Africa region have offered their citizens many of the same benefits that the Democrats and some Republicans, I should just say liberals, are preaching today to solidify their power.

Forced enslavement of man is no doubt evil but those who are forced into servitude have at least resisted. Those who enslave themselves to the whims of politicians have given their mind, spirit, and soul to those who seek only more power. Those who have enslaved themselves to the rhetoric of politicians along with those who enslave them are the clearest definition of a parasite. Each entity leeches off the other. Both become increasingly corrupt as they feed off of the benefits of the other and of society at large.

You make the call, "If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit?"