Word: slaving
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President Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign pledge to abolish the Congressional Slave Act, euphemistically called Selective Service, has turned out to be just as big a phony as was his promise to end the Vietnam War, which he extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium...
...days of space ships, compulsory military service becomes ridiculous and dangerously absurd, as well as obscene. Our involvement as an aggressor in Indochina is a prize example of this danger. Without this Congressional Slave act, this nation could not have, in my judgment, been led by its pactomania mad-men into a war of naked and raw agression upon a peasant people who have never threatened this nation's security in any way and could not, even if they wished, which they do not. Our youth are much too intelligent and sophisticated for such utter nonsense...
...neck for days. Another, who was suffering from dysentery, was denied medical assistance and finally suffocated in his own excrement. For those well enough to walk, there were endless work details. Army Major William Hardy, captured in 1967, figures that the Viet Cong "treated me like a slave" because he is black and "they believed all they heard about Negroes still being treated like slaves...
Fanon's books, though not highly original, gain an undeniable authenticity because they spring so intensely from what he lived and observed. He had read Hegel, who wrote in the most abstract way of the distorting effects of the master-slave relationship on the psychic life of the slave. He had also read and been deeply influenced by Sartre, who (in Anti-Semite and Jew) gave Hegel's master-slave analysis labyrinthine new twists. Hegel was not a slave, however, nor Sartre a Jew. But Fanon was black. His most significant work came out of his sudden realization...
...they merge into one. Byron is submissive to the female surgeon Pauline, but their interdependence is mutually satisfying. Byron is also dependent on the copyist, who, though blind, is the final historical record of Byron's thoughts and deeds. It is as the copyist himself says, the story of slave and master...