Slavery wasn't about having to work. Slavery was about not being able to walk away.

Protest marches are impressive because they involve people taking back the streets, alleys, byways and, yes even parks, with their feet.

What the authorities want is for people to be in cages -- either at home (stationary cages into which they lock themselves) or strapped into their vehicles (mobile cages with wheels). The propaganda has been so successful that most Americans have come to equate the automobile with freedom. But, the fact is that, while public officials have to have probably cause to interfere with a person's mobility, encased in a vehicle, the person has given up the right not to be stopped (arrested) in exchange for the right to operate a potentially lethal machine. A permit to drive is ipso facto consent to be stopped in one's tracks at any time. Never mind that the route from point A to point B is defined and restricted by the right of way. The process involved with the license to drive has proved so useful to authoritarians that it has now been transitioned into the financial realm when individuals need to borrow to purchase that residential cage. No longer do mortgage notes merely assert the debt is to be paid back. Now getting a loan is conditioned on agreeing to giving up one's civil rights to judicial review whenever a default is alleged. People can become homeless overnight on the word of a financier. And everybody knows homelessness is to be feared because walking around on one's own two feet or lying under a tree or bridge to sleep is illegal.

The law is no longer about justice. The law is about ruling. The law is being used to insure that the people neither rule, nor take any liberties on their own two feet.

Never mind free speech. Free the feet.

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