Many people are becoming vexed by a form of slavery that has long since been vanquished by Britain in a victory that took up until 2014 for the British people to finish paying for. The wannabe Brownshirts of the Left are tearing down statues and demanding that Britain rewrite its history to suit their twisted ideology but these same Leftist Brownshirts are being remarkably quiet about slavery that is happening in the here and now.
Although Pakistan has officially criminalised slavery and bonded labour, it is still a fact of Pakistani life as can be seen from the Deutsche Welle article that I’ve taken an excerpt from below.
In the Kot Momin town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, farmers work round the clock picking and processing a variety of oranges. The produce from the Sargodha district’s orchards dominates the domestic market, as well as the country’s major export destinations like Indonesia, the Middle East and Russia.
Among those who toil Kot Momin’s fertile lands is Ansar Ali. As a tenant on a farm, both he and his wife work around 16 hours a day, seven days a week, to make ends meet.
While Ali spends most of his time working on the farm and looking after the cattle, his wife works as a domestic help in the household of the landlord who employs them. The landlord has provided them a two-room brick house. Together, they are paid 3,000 rupees ($20, €18) per month, which is hardly sufficient for the family.
The only way for Ali to put food on the table is to regularly borrow extra money from the landlord. In times of desperation, like a medical emergency or other family obligations, the landlord lends him additional funds. Ansar can’t read or write, so he just puts his thumb print on the accounts ledger maintained by the landlord.
Over the years, the family’s debt has increased manifold, and Ali has no idea how he is ever going to repay it. “The deeper you get into the debt trap, the less hope there is you can ever get out of it,” he told DW. “It’s a life of slavery I will probably never get out of.”
This is indeed slavery. Mr Ali cannot walk away from his position to find a better job in order to support his family and he has no rights to compel his employer to treat him fairly or justly. He can’t read, something that advantages the employer, and is kept in not just virtual but actual serfdom.
Maybe if all those who are loudly expressing condemnation of a form of slavery that is long dead directed their attention to the sort of slavery that Mr Ali is living under, then maybe the BLM/ Marxist gobshites may actually be directing their energies to doing something good and proper for a change. However I doubt very much that we will be seeing the BLM/Marxist gobshites gathering outside the Pakistan embassy any time soon as brown people oppressing and enslaving other brown people doesn’t fit with their twisted narrative. It’s also far easier for the BLM/Marxist thugs to destroy a nation’s warts and all history than it is to actually do what is needed and free the likes of Mr Ali from enslavement. I’d like to end this piece by asking the BLM/Marxists a question based on a famous anti-slavery campaign slogan: Is Mr Ali and the many more like him, not a man and a brother or is his enslavement the sort of enslavement that you in the BLM/Marxist camp hypocritically ignore?
