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05/28/2004 Archived Entry: "Keep our slaves safe"

Posted by steve @ 05:19 PM EST [Link]

I'D PUNCH HIM IF HE WASN'T A LOT BIGGER THAN I WAS: Former Denver Bronco Reggie Rivers argues in a column today that America's soldiers are slaves.

Yes, our slaves signed up of their own free will, but most of them were as misled about their job as the rest of us were about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

And I don't think "slave" is too strong a word to describe someone who is not permitted to quit his job no matter how dangerous it becomes or how much he hates it. For most of us, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and guaranteed that we have the right to withhold our labor. It doesn't protect soldiers.

At the risk of blowing our PG rating, WTF? The ironic thing is that Rivers' father served in the US Air Force. I'd rant but this essay just fisks itself.

Read on.