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RE: Abolish Slavery!?!? Don't Be Crazy! (How to Short Circuit a Common Statist Defense of Government)
Slavery still exists. The 13th amendment outlawed slavery for anyone not convicted of a crime. If you're in jail, you're free game for slavery.
I interpret that particular law as to provide a way to force prisoners to grow their own food and not be a burden on society. Not slave them out to corporations.
I wish our country likewise interpreted it that way. The private prison industry, replete with fill quotas, exists. Those people are slaves. And it's a tragedy.