Keep our slaves safe

From a moron writing in The Denver Post

Reggie Rivers is a former Denver Bronco football player that should have stuck with football.

Our military is one of the last bastions of slavery in the United States. At the moment, our slaves are stuck in a combat zone, getting killed and maimed, and there's nothing they can do about it except hunker down and pray.

Not quite Reggie. They can and they do stand up with courage and patriotism and fight for their country. What they don't do is sit on their ass back home in a cozy safe place like you and write crap like you. You could use some of their backbone.

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.

So, according to Reggie, not only are they slaves but they are idiots as well. And what is this bullshit "our slaves"?

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.

The 13th amendment has nothing to do with the military you moron. Slavery is about owning other people; the military does not own people. Military personnel are allowed to vote Reggie or did you forget that. They can write to their representatives if they feel victimized. If you had ever been in the military and defended your country you would know that.

Well now which Reggie is talking here? The Denver Post Reggie or The Advocates Reggie.

History shows that free people can be counted on to defend their homes and their country. But the draft is slavery, and slaves make lousy defenders of freedom. I like knowing I'm being protected by people who are in the military because they want to be there, not because they were forced against their will to be there.

Tell us, Reggie, are they "slaves" or are they good "defenders of freedom"?

Can you believe this guy? "I like knowing I'm being protected...". By "slaves" Reggie?

For a black person to use slavery as an issue to further his agenda is about as low as you can get.

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