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Slavery: Opinions or Claims vs Official Statements
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Kazzzi
Heathen Legion
Iron Men of the Hood
#61 - 2011-09-22 20:44:55 UTC
Speaking off my spies, finally they bring some good news. Here's the latest transmission they have intercepted from Imperial sources:

Mission briefing
During a high-level security assessment, a decoy maglev train designed to mimic the regional governor’s chartered train was destroyed by unknown saboteurs while traveling at very high speed. Our investigation has yet to uncover the traitors; however, we are confident that a prompt scientific examination of the wreckage will provide the clues we need to resolve this internal security matter. We are sending a team of senior investigators to the wreck site so that they might help determine the identities of the attackers. We are counting on you to fly them to the designated station.


Amarrian traitors destroying Imperial maglev trains! Our cause spreads like wildfire! Our insurgency cannot be stopped! For the rebellion!
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#62 - 2011-09-23 14:51:00 UTC
Edaine Numenor wrote:


Amarr Labor Reeducation Centers (LRC)
The Amarr Empire, realizing many centuries ago that it could not simply work slaves to the point of death, instituted a number of improvements to worker conditions in an effort to prolong the usable lifespan of its slaves. These changes were not universal across the Empire, due in large part to the Empress’s unwillingness to create what might have amounted to significant friction between slave -based companies. Therefore, these decisions were largely left to the Five Heirs and their subordinate regional offices. Thus, we can state here that history has shown a lack of consistent application of these worker improvement programs across the Empire. Those Amarr systems that have chosen to incorporate these adaptations have, however, consistently derived greater revenues due to these enhanced and ongoing pacification efforts.

These shortcomings led directly to the establishment of Labor Reeducation Centers (LRC). An LRC is designed much like a multilevel prison, with facilities for low, medium, and high risk inmates. The inmates are those slaves who consistently exhibit defiance or even outright hostility towards the managerial staff at the mine, construction site, or other location to which they are assigned as slave labor. Once we have identified these persons they are immediately removed from their job site and taken to the nearest LRC for corrective behavioral conditioning. This conditioning can include a wide variety of attitude modification methodologies, from intensive drug assisted counseling, to religious indoctrination, and from advanced torture techniques and a concurrent system of rewards - the so-called “carrot and stick approach” - and any number of programs in between. In this way, we break the individual slave’s will so that he may be returned to the workforce as a docile and useful component in the labor pool.


I have followed this thread with interest and though Edaine has pretty much left the discussion, I wanted to bring back part of his original post to place the focus back on the fact that not all Amarrians have slaves for the purpose of redeeming them from "spiritual ignorance." This information from Amarrian corporate interest shows that bad old fashioned greed is behind the worst treatment of slaves. While I have learned not to stereotype all Amarrian Holders in like shades, the original post exposes the presence of some very disturbing truth.

As Disciples of Ston, our abolitionsist efforts are fueled by such realities. We will work in the hope that one day, slavery will be abolished and that all who serve others without compensation do so only out of an informed free choice.

The Disciples of Ston bid you peace