Why Detention and Trafficking Are an American Tradition

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The recent news revolves around Liam Ramos, who was abducted from Minneapolis and shipped down to Texas in a trafficking effort that was run by ice, and that garnered national attention. And now Liam Ramos has been freed along with his dad and is back in Minnesota. And the rallying cry across the country is that this is not something that

under the orders of probably [: 00:01:00

And it's also done in the shadow of the Epstein scandal, which has indicated that rich white elites across the globe have been engaging in these sorts of activities where they're abusing kids and trafficking kids of all stripes all around the world, and probably disappearing them after they've been quote unquote fully depreciated.

This is in the DNA of the white elites. And in fact, once you start looking at history, this is baked into the history of the Europeans and it's also baked into the history of the founding of the United States.

When you think about the history of concentration camps and work camps and detention centers, this has been baked into the DNA of the US all the way back to when the first Europeans landed in the country.

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When it became inconvenient for indigenous tribes to be trafficked, that shifted to the African continent and seeing how many people could be trafficked from there, enslaved and forced into labor camps. The entire infrastructure of the US and all of the wealth and economy of the US was built on human trafficking and child labor. All of the wealth that the US has accumulated over its 250 years can be traced back to the trafficking of indigenous people and the trafficking and enslavement of Africans for hundreds of years.

iteral slave labor, and that [: 00:03:00

And when slavery was abolished, what you saw was a shift in the language of how slavery was defined. You can no longer fully enslave people in the pre-Civil war era sense, but you can certainly enslave them through the prison labor funnel.

In the post Civil War era, slavery in the sense of chattel slavery was eliminated. That doesn't mean that slavery ended, it just changed forms. What you saw in the Jim Crow era South was masked armed mercenaries in the form of the KKK, enforcing a two class society across the south.

that the Nazis used in their [: 00:04:00

when you're thinking about the American tradition of forced labor, of trafficking, of child, abduction, of rape, gangs, of dehumanization,

it is woven into every decade, every century of the us. And just about no one has been free of that risk. During World War ii, you saw the Japanese end up in the crosshairs of the American government. They were shipped off into concentration camps.

During the Red Scare, you saw all sorts of quote unquote muscular foreign policy that was shipped all over the globe.

tation of genocide. And when [: 00:05:00

That also had a side order of genocide and extermination and work camps and death camps baked in.

It just didn't happen under the US flag, but you had all sorts of US governmental agencies contributing to the cause to benefit the wealthy white elite of the US business machine.

So everything that you see today happening in Minneapolis and everywhere else, all this is, is the newest form of business as usual for the us.

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This is the American playbook. That's now turned on. Its citizens and the fact that people are just waking up to it right now indicates how woefully uneducated and uninformed we are as a country. And the first step in changing the narrative is to be accountable and understand what our real history is, and then bring forward actual chains that not only owns up to that history, but also.

Make sure that those damaged by our history are made whole. That's the only way forward.

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