It's time the British Government repealed the 1807 Slave Trade Abolition Act.

I thank you for the good bit of humor this morning, your imagery toward the end made pleasant what was a tragedy in the beginning. The story of the girl in Aberdeen was very touching. To think of such a condition I could not imagine, but I do have to ask one simple question: in all of this story did any one stop and offer a hand and say "Come find warmth and shelter I will feed you and in return you can do chores and help me in my home?" Was there also no church that would accept her in, or a nunnery which she could join? You see, the options are out there for survival and though tragic as her story is, there have been those in much more perilous conditions who where able to survive and I do not believe that because a few are unsuccessful at survival we should go around snatching up everyone we see who is scruffy on the street and force them into slavery. You speak of the majority of vagrants being unfit mentally or unable to make a decision based on addiction and with that I would wholly agree, however who do you propose would want a mentally ill person running about in their homes. If they are unfit for work to begin with, and usually that is the reason why they end up on the street, then how productive would they really be in advancing society forward. If they are truly so far gone as you say that they do not think enough to able to enter into a contract with another to survive or improve their lives than are you truly "improving" their lives? I have given much thought to the possibility of leaving the slavery of society and actually being able to do for my self and live off the land if hell where to break loose and another depression where to happen, would then I be rounded up and forced into slavery simply for a life choice of where I want to live? I am of sound enough mind to either choose to survive in the open as we did for over hundred thousand years before civilization or choose to survive in a society where one is defined by wealth and his status. I feel that while it is a problem dealing with them in your city and suitable areas should be allocated where they will not find access to easy drugs (unless they cultivate pot) or the booze and let nature take its course. Obviously some will not be able to make it and some will, eliminating bad seeds from the gene pool. I still have not heard any description of exactly who qualify as a slave. I take it to assume you mean ALL of them. What are the requirements for those who actually have a family that are living with them on the streets? Are they to be split up as was the case here in American history. I have the feeling by your tone you do not actually believe in this argument but do so for contention which I commend you for, but please understand that coming from a country where slavery was ended over 140 years ago the scars still run deep to this day though I wish would could get past it. Slavery was a horrible blight on our nation and I believe what you propose is a slippery slope that does and has created a hatred of ones captures especially if unwilling to go quietly. I do not know how you would propose that we break them and domesticate them but I imagine it involves corporal punishment. And as for the foxhunts using humans I don't see how hunting them improves their lives at ALL. As for your argument regarding the Seminoles they are busy managing thier Hard Rock Cafe & Casinos world wide and are for the most part no longer living deep in the swamps on the run from the government even though their as never been a peace treaty declared. Our state just bought back 1.6million acres of US Sugar land and now are proposing how to use it and convert it back to the way it was or at least be able to properly return the drainage back to the everglades. We have much unused land in this country and what I propose as a compromise to your idea is that in return for their efforts in community projects and certain amount of time laboring for the state you earn a chunk of land.