Did your ancestors come from Europe? If so, there's a good chance your ancestors were slaves in a feudal system. Instead of slaves, they called them serfs.

Serfs could never afford to buy land and had to live off the land of a Barron, Duke, Noble, Count, King, or other such form of Aristocracy -- paying taxes and otherwise having to adhere to the strict tenants of their respective lords.

This system we romantically perpetuate in media as fantasy actually was every bit if not more oppressive than the systems of slavery here in the United States. Slavery by another name is still slavery, and its common perpetuator is Tyranny. Tyranny being defined as such:

1. Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.

In other words: "Do what I say or else!"

Tyranny follows no logic or reasoned excuse for overbearing interest into the lives of the individual. It is purely from a source of misplaced authority that people wield power like whips to keep others doing their bidding. Slavery, therefore, is almost always enforced by tangible punishment and the deprivation of rights.

But, more to my point, this system of caste serfdom has taken many forms in the United States, with our understanding of black slavery being merely the most propagandized. This propaganda stems from the Civil War as an excuse for it from a place of moral superiority on behalf of the Northern Union forces. Often times, you will find, Lies proceed War as it is only the Victors who write History.

Now, I don't want to go into the Civil War here, so I'll carry on...

Examples of these various forms of tyranny include: Indentured Servitude, Tenant Farmers, Peasantry, Serfdom, Plantation Slavery, Company Stores, and Patroonship.

There are more, but I want to talk specifically about Patroonship here, as I have a readily available depiction of those struggles.

Patroonship

Patroonship is the Dutch Trading Companies' variation on the idea of slavery. First, we must admit, that some people prefer slavery as the safety net it provides in otherwise inhabitable frontier lands and territories often leaves it as the only option for survival. By living within the protections of an aristocratic lord, you are afforded a bare-minimum standard of living such that your labor meet the interests of the land-owner.

Patroonship, like any of the above, provided those protections in the early days of the American Frontier. Those subservient to the Patroon were exempt from taxes, but had to pay the Patroon (the often Dutch land-holder) a rent in either the standard currency in circulation or more likely a percentage of their yield, the value of which is determined by the Patroon himself. Like dogs are "slaves" to their masters, there is a mutual relationship which lays the foundation of any servitude dynamic.

Which leads to the problems in the system and its devolution into Tyranny.

As time passed, farmers carried on into the double-digits of generations and the Patroon's control and perceived usefulness started to wane. Patroons began to be viewed as well as fulfil the role of a parasite.

Farmers who tended to the land never earned enough to buy the land for its true value, even if the Patroon permitted them as such, because a careful Patroon would always demand they pay rent in quantities that the farmer would never be able to gain independence from the Patroon. Additionally, the Patroon would wrack up debts based on frivolous charges and offences he could just make up on the spot. Being the sole arbiter of justice on his own estate, the Patroon could be held to no account other than by the outcry of the tenant famers themselves -- seeing how the provisional governments extending even past the Revolutionary Period permitted the practice of Patroonship well beyond its necessity.

We can see this period of time in the novel and movie Dragonwyck, starring Vincent Price as the Patroon Nicholas van Ryn, who is going through a tumultuous period as his tenant farmers are demanding they be permitted to buy their land they've worked on for generations from him.

While these pictures painted may not be as gruesome as Plantation Slavery has been portrayed, the oppression dynamic is identical.

• If you don't work, you are punished rather than allowed individual autonomy.
• You will never be able to afford to buy your own land without threat of seizure.
• Debt ensures you are not allowed to leave freely.
• Payment for labor, if it is provided, is often not recognized by the official government.
• You are not permitted to practice the religion of your choosing.
• You are not permitted to voice your concerns freely, at threat of losing your situation.

It is with this, and all previous iterations of the caste and servitude systems, that I can say that I, a white man, am due reparations every bit as much as any other race, be they black, asian, latin, or otherwise.

At some point our ancestors were ALL slaves to tyranny.

Are we therefore not due reparations on there behalf?

My Demands for Reparations are more than Reasonable

My ancestors came from Europe. They were serfs and then indentured servants.

Now, I too, recognize that I am under the heel of a Slave State. Income Tax and Property Tax are nothing more than another apparatus, a reinvention of the wheel, to excuse the practice of Tyranny on behalf of an Elite Caste of Aristocrats (now termed Technocrats) who wield power and oppression as their tools to further their own interests at the DIRECT detriment of my own.

Because I am not properly represented due to the rigged elections, I have no alternative to declare I am in a position of slavery. My labor is going directly towards my own oppression by way of predatory policies which prohibit the exercise of my God-given Rights.

Echoing the sentimental words of my forefathers, "No Taxation without Representation!"

We are slaves, deprived of the freedom afforded by and benefits of our own labor, and as such bear every bit the same, equal, entitlement of reparations as any other slave demographic in our past history.

Personally, I will accept reparations in the form of all and any Income and Property Tax being discarded as the foul and deceptive tools of Tyranny they have always been -- never again to be permitted in the Government Of The People, By The People, and For The People my forefathers who bloodily cried "No Taxation without Representation" founded all those generations ago.