Slavery

I'll bet the first thing that comes to your mind is the Civil War and black slaves. Well, there are many kinds of slavery, in many colors and many disguises. Be wary.
No one thinks about being a slave to computers, Black Berrys, IPods, Cell Phones, emails, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs,etc. - but how many people do you know, right now, that are slaves to most all of those. They can hardly get through a day without constantly attending to their masters (the above electronics). SLAVERY! Heavens no, I am not a slave to those - they serve me. Oh! really, think again.
If we lose our freedoms of opinion, the media, and speech (without fear) are we not slaves? You bet! Yet, we give away more of those every single day. The inroads are clever, hidden, inching along day by day. When something like the Health Care Bill scared us half to death, we began to wake up and notice - but is it too late? Have we waited to long to protect our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution?
Women, for centuries have been slaves to house work - mostly because they love their families - but when they were needed in WWII to fill in for the men who had gone off to war, they were suddenly liberated. They were productive, they learned, they were independent and making money, yet still taking care of their families. After the War they were all expected to return to the home and forget everything they had attained. Who became the slave then? But they had tasted freedom and wanted more. So they went on to combine job and home and what happened? They were soon slaves to both. They wanted it all, but couldn't balance all of it without losing something.
So when you think of slavery today, you need to remember that there are all kinds, and our Constitution can no longer protect you from any of them if you don't wake up and save it, for all of us. Congress will not help you. They are slaves to politics and its demands. Each of us must look to our own vote and use it wisely.