Enslaved

 

What has made America such a fantastic place to live is our political heritage bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers, setting up a constitutional republic, so that the people could enjoy maximum personal liberty within the legal framework of strong but limited federal government to protect and preserve their liberty and rights.

 

The American experience is predicated upon setting up a legal, economic, and cultural way of life that is the antithesis to tyrants and elites running things, and the common people enslaved under the boots of their overlords.

 

The ancient Hebrews did not live in a world of constitutional republicanism, and this again points out how blessed we are to live in America.

 

Read below from The New American Bible how the Pharaoh and his cabinet plotted to enslave the exploding population of Hebrews that they had become afraid of Exodus 1:11-14: “Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. Thus they had to build for Pharaoh the supply cities of Pithom and Ramses. Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread. The Egyptians then dreaded the Israelites and reduced them to cruel slavery, making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick and all kinds of field work—the whole cruel fate of slaves.”

 

This famous biblical account of a people that were free, or relatively free if foreign subjects of a king, and then his descendant took away their rights and freedom on a whim, capriciously Such was the life of the average citizen in these ancient tyrannies. It still occurs in most of the world today.

 

What seems obvious is that humans have long been enslaved by tyrants, kings, and elites. What also seems obvious is that humans normally suffered tyranny and enslavement from the rulers of society, and in the same instance, people everywhere yearned to be free. So, to live in a modern democracy or republic is a rare blessing, and it should be preserved by the citizens even if they have to take up arms and revolt to preserve it or reinstate it. This also points out that all people everywhere require the right to bear arms as individuals and as members of a citizen militia to be able to push back against thugs and bullies out to crush the common people.

 

Now let us review this same quote from the Holy Bible, (KJV): “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Ramses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.”

 

One thinks of the black slaves in America seeking freedom and relief from bondage and abused as did the ancient Israelites before them.

 

I take note of the biblical description of the world taskmaster as a dreaded, hated synonym for slave overlord.

 

I would like to offer an assertive version of the Golden Rule, based upon the evil done to humans by taskmasters: Live so as to be taskmaster over none, and allow none to lord it over you as your taskmaster.