Amendment XIII:
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This Amendment contains a loophole so large, you can drive a convoy through it. Once the slaves were set "free" in the mid-1800's, all the white establishment had to do was pass a law declaring any homeless or unemployed person a criminal: a vagrant. And then they could be locked up in work camps once again. One hundred years later, these laws have been re-examined. Or have they simply changed shape? Who is in prison now?
What this should read is: No Exceptions. However, let us find a way to work with what we have. Non-exceptional persons shall not be reduced to slavery nor involuntary servitude. Ordinary people. Standard-issue people. And what is slavery? How about... going to a job that you hurts you and goes against your grain, but you have to do it, just to keep a roof over your family's heads? We are tapped by "the system," living inside the company store. We are indoctrinated to buy our way into happiness but instead we buy our way into debt. Stuff breaks and doesn't satisfy. Secret slavery is built into the normal arrangements people fall into with mortgage, insurance, and credit card companies. At home, the household chore that you cannot do without having some kind of emotional breakdown. You would really rather not do that chore ever, right? But you have to. The state of slavery is one where your spirit is not inside the actions you take. Your heart is not in it. You are externally compelled. The human standard is this: your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are in congruent alignment, carried forward by your continual first amendment activity, born out of your relationship with your own center, your own soul. Liberation of the soul is the Human Standard. |
SECTION. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. |
In the Human Standard an "Act of Congress" is when many people concur and act together. It is not necessary to ask the majority whether a small group can try something new. Just find the relevant minority and act along with them. You have an Act of Congress in every group participation project.
It is a group participation project to enact the values of our Constitutional Human Rights as visible expressions of our daily lives. It is a group participation project to discover the hidden talents and strengths in an otherwise overlooked people, in the overlooked parts of yourself. It is a group participation project to lovingly discover each other's burdens of abject slavery and act together so that they shall no longer exist. |