tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post3839993065806713428..comments2024-02-23T11:23:45.971-05:00Comments on Lost Motorcyclist: Owning a Cat is Not A Type of SlaveryLost Motorcyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873504561959138792noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-72110502024129172132014-03-09T11:02:14.914-04:002014-03-09T11:02:14.914-04:00Our cat certainly made ambitious plans to escape, ...Our cat certainly made ambitious plans to escape, and often did. But after two hours roaming the neighbourhood and getting in fights with other cats, he would be back at the door trying to get in. <br /><br />There are two other cases that come close to slavery in the USA, possibly Canada too. One is illegal aliens, who have no citizenship rights and therefore can easily be abused. The other case is among the 2 million incarcerated prisoners, some of whom are alleged to be forced to work with the threat of solitary confinement, longer sentences, etc.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_camp<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRCe_7qemEs (letter from Texas death row inmate.)Lost Motorcyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08873504561959138792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-54772742513235469142014-03-09T08:20:25.896-04:002014-03-09T08:20:25.896-04:00Difficult to obtain statistics on the extent of ca...Difficult to obtain statistics on the extent of cat slavery, but my hunch is that there is a secret feline <i>Underground Railway</i>, spiriting those slaves away. <br /><br />However, estimates of 60,000 slaves in modern day America are rather disconcerting :-(<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/17/this-map-shows-where-the-worlds-30-million-slaves-live-there-are-60000-in-the-u-s/Madeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593933575568389288noreply@blogger.com