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To the Honorable Members of Congress Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, and Maxine Waters.

THIS CAN HELP GET VOTES TO GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW!

CONTENTION/ARGUMENT: The Iraq War Violates the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution.

The War in Iraq is in violation of the Thirteenth (13th) Amendment of the United States Constitution (1865). That’s the amendment we were taught abolished chattel slavery after the Civil War in America (1860-1865).

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.

Focus is on the fact that the slave punishments of tortures, renditions, imprisonments, murders, hangings, maiming of men, women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan are slave punishments – without being “DULY CONVICTED, and those punishments have been committed…any place subject to their (US) jurisdiction”. And, absolutely, for the past four years the United States Executive office has gained and maintained jurisdiction in Iraq.
The massive expansion of prison constructions in Iraq exposes the fact that Iraqi imprisonment was far lower (4,000 to 10,000 prisoners) under Saddam Hussein; and is now over 16,000 prisoners under George Bush. That is a direct expansion of slave punishments within Iraq, but without being DULY CONVICTED.

This violation commits the grievous expansion of slave territory, it tramples on the Thirteenth Amendment, and it makes all of us tax-paying shareholders in slavery. A vote to bring our troops home is a vote to stop, to halt this expansion of slave territory, and a vote to continue in Iraq is a vote for slavery. Only slave masters and liberals will support the continued expansion of this “peculiar institution” by this once great and honorable nation.

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Notes:

Proposed UN Petition:


UNITED NATIONS PETITION TO ABOLISH PRISON “SLAVERY…AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME…
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY PLACE SUBJECT TO THEIR
JURISDICTION”.

I hereby sign this United Nations Petition to Abolition Prison Slavery in support of changing the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution so as to remove the offensive exception for “slavery…as a punishment for crime…in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”; with the return of citizenship, labor and human rights for all.

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 4:
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave
trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”.

Article 5:
“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

Article 23:
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (1865)

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, EXCEPT AS A PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME
WHEREOF THE PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN DULY CONVICTED, shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.

So as to read:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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Respectfully Submitted,
Lee Wood
Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery (CAPS)
prisonslavery@yahoo.com