The Slave Nation

When Julius Caesar and his Roman Legions invaded Gaul, Germania, and Britannia, millions were murdered. It is estimated at least 2 million barbarian people perished in his decade long racial genocide, which left western Europe almost empty and devastated. In one of the battles of this successful campaign against the Celtic and Teutonic tribes of Europe, Julius Caesar exterminated 400,000 men, women and children in a single day. Moreover, after this unquestionable act of evil, he invaded Germania and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Germanic tribes just to scare them away and make them think twice before invading the western Roman provinces.
Because of Caesar's harrowing acts of cruelty, the famed Cicero and Cato and many more Roman Senators denounced him and threatened to remove him from his office and army. Embassies and leaders from the tribes Caesar had destroyed visited Rome and pleaded the Roman Senate to spare their women and children from him, while he continued to plunder and burn their villages unchecked.

Yet, many would have none of this temporary peace, as they valued their freedom more than Roman commerce. Generations later, many German tribes stood their ground against the Legions of Varus and Germanicus and earned their freedom through sheer and indefatigable willpower. Seeing this, the powerful Romans learned to fear the German tribes and decided to leave them alone - a fatal mistake because many centuries later, the German tribes grew strong enough to invade the Roman Empire and sack the eternal city herself.

It makes you wonder, why many historians throughout history have transformed Julius Caesar into a much admired historical figure like Alexander the Great and Napoleon. Kill a man and you are a murderer. Kill a million men and you're a Hero!

Thus, there came a point in Roman history when there where at least three Roman slaves for each Roman in the Italian Peninsula. The slave markets of the eternal city, Campania, and Tarentum were flooded with thousands of slaves for sale whenever the Roman Legions won battles and wars in the east and west. The Roman Legions in the frontlines sold captured slaves "wholesale"to the Roman Equestrian merchants, who a acting as middle men, then sold these poor souls "retail" in Roman cities. Consequently, slave nations, comprised of Gauls, Spaniards, Carthaginians, Africans and more, unwillingly served wealthy Roman whorehouses, latifundias, public baths and sweatshops.
So what!?
Well, as I have said, the Roman slaves 2000 years ago became slaves unwillingly. They were forced out of their homes, made to walk a hundred miles, and the were forced to plow the fields of wealthy nobles.
Slavery of the 21st Century, on the other hand, has not changed one bit!
Filipinos living in the world today are also forced to work thousands of miles away from their homes and family. Promised with a better life abroad, they unwillingly perform menial work for foreigners, foreign organizations, and foreign companies who pay them meager wages. Filipino dancers,pipefitters, sailors, carpenters, janitors, maids, and cooks earn less than their Western counterparts in most countries, for the simple reason that they are Filipino.
Yes, the Filipino Nation has become a SLAVE NATION - a nation of blue collared workers.
Do not get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with blue collared work for work, as long as it is moral, exemplifies the dignity of a person.The issue here is why Filipinos today allow themselves to be paid less than their western counterparts whenever they work abroad, even if they are better workers than foreigners. Since when did less pay become a competitive advantage for job seekers?
Allowing yourselves to be underemployed is the worst form of slavery! And your children suffer for it!

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