Today's Badges and Incidents

I quote from Link to Amdt13.S1.2 Defining Badges and Incidents of Slavery

In the consolidated Civil Rights Cases, the Court held that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibited slavery and its incidents.3 However, the Court determined that the Thirteenth Amendment’s concept of prohibited badges and incidents of slavery did not encompass private racial discrimination that denied a person access to accommodations.4 Instead, the Court explained, the badges and incidents of slavery included: (1) compulsory service for another’s benefit; (2) restrictions on freedom of movement; (3) the inability to hold property or enter into contracts; and (4) the incapacity to have standing in court or testify against a White person.5

So above, they list 4 badges/incidents.

As part of slavery, there were others, though I have not found them called out yet:

• 5) the trading of the laborer as chattel and trading of their service. Superficially, this looks like the auctioneer's podium at the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans. Keep holding that picture; we will come back to it.
• 6) the separation of parent and child as part of that trading, denying the child that parent's influence in the raising, and the parent's consortium with the child. That's back at the St. Louis Hotel, where the auctioneers pull that child.
• 7) registration of slaves in registries. Over there where the record keeper is dilligently writing that name down, along with skills.
• 8) the marketing and selling of slaved services by the owners. A posted bill, a gang of 47 people, with a blacksmith, a brick layer….

The government perpetuates 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 to this day.

Let's look at the 1860's.

• 4 is every father in family court from 1980 to 2024; the statistics make this bias clear. In 1860's, a slave had no legal recourse in court, cases would not be heard.
• 5 in the 1860's, looked like an auctioneers podium and men in coats and hats buying livestock in a town square or the St. Louis Hotel.
• 6 in the 1860's was also at the auction, as the auction staff tore children from their fathers. Parted, right there.
• 7 in the 1860's was there as well as the entry was written in the ledger, including the slave's skills and capabilities.
• 8 in the 1860's was a posted bill, advertising the services of a blacksmith, a brick layer, a cook. All involuntary servants.

And today, what form does it take? What are today's badges and incidents?

• Today, the badges and incidents of slavery take the form of a modern-day computer server, quietly whirring in the agency's data closet, billing and reporting, its electronic ledgers noting the enslaved, their names, their skills, and what the Title IV-D agency can harvest from them, and reporting where they live to federal and other state governments.
• Today, it looks like the Title IV-D agency collecting names and cases into spreadsheets and reports to send to the US Department of Health and Human Services to harvest $2 for every $3, $0.66 for every dollar gathered.
• Today, badges and incidents looks like a statute compelling a judge to take any action necessary to maximize the amount of federal funds available under the Title IV-D program¹.
  • Today, it looks like transmuting the Father-child relationship for judge's compensation.
• Today, badges and incidents looks like Expanded Standard Schedule, and first, third and fifth Fridays, for harvested children of fit and willing fathers.
• Today, slavery looks like nearly every family court in this State of Texas and other states, all enforced at gunpoint and full force of law…all of it seemingly "legal", as long as you don't think about it.

The point at which our path turns from "legal" prisoner slavery to a clear violation of Amendment XIII, is the transmutation of the father/child relationship to a debt against the will of father who is fulfilling his fatherly duty, is present in their child's lives, or is trying to inspite of family court,…and this transmutation done for profit.

The US Federal Government and State governments are complicit in the crime and profit from it.

This can and will change.

expanded from a fb post [2024-08-18 Sun].