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To: Sub-Driver
I’m glad he didn’t take this route. It would not have solved the problem and it would have just justified the continual traffic of humans as commodities.
3 posted on 03/05/2008 11:26:53 AM PST by mnehring ("Ronald Reagan has made Jimmy Carter look like a conservative..."- Ron Paul)
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To: mnehrling

Not if he had closed the ports of entry at the same time.


35 posted on 03/05/2008 12:08:48 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: mnehrling

Paying the owners worked for England when they freed their slaves and when Russia freed the serfs.

Of course they didn’t kill hundreds of thousands in a war. But Americans did because too many thought it was immoral to pay a slave owner for his property.


58 posted on 03/05/2008 1:24:08 PM PST by Swiss
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To: mnehrling

...but of course, you weren’t killed during the Civil War.


68 posted on 03/05/2008 2:31:46 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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