China Slave Labor Floods NAFTA Marketplace With Cheap
Goods
Posted by chinaview on August 23rd, 2006
by Jerome R. Corsi, HUMAN EVENTS, Aug 21, 2006–
The NAFTA marketplace unrestrained in the pursuit of cheap labor has driven
an increasing volume of manufacturing off-shore to Communist China, where
slave prison camps offer a cost of labor that is hard to beat.
Chinese made goods ranging from electronics to toys and clothes are daily
sold in mass marketing retailers such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, K-Mart,
Target, Lowes, and dozens of other U.S. corporations. Cheap goods from
Communist China increasingly line the shelves of the NAFTA marketplace under
marquee product trade names that bear no relationship to the Chinese slave
labor that manufactured, produced, or otherwise assembled the goods.
Key to this thriving under-market is a flagrant disregard for human rights,
on the part of the Communist Chinese, who still permit the exploitation of
slave labor. U.S. capitalists and consumers as well turn a blind eye to the
human suffering and abuse involved in producing the under-market cheap goods
flooding the American retail market from China.
The Chinese slave labor camps set up first under Mao in the 1950s are known
as Laogai. Writing for the Human Rights Brief at American University’s
Washington College of Law, Ramin Pejan explains that the Laogai system
consists of three distinct types of reform: convict labor (Laogai),
re-education through labor (Laojiao), and forced job placement (Jiuye). The
political nature of these Chinese prison labor camps is clear.
The PRC (People’s Republic of China) uses Laojiao to detain individuals it
feels are a threat to national security or it considers unproductive.
Individuals in Laojiao may be detained for up to three years. Because those
in Laojiao have not committed crimes under PRC law, they are referred to as
“personnel” rather than prisoners and they are not entitled to judicial
procedure. Instead, individuals are sent to the Laojiao following
administrative sentences dispensed by local public security forces. This
vague detainment policy allows the PRC to avoid allegations that the
individual’s arrest was politically motivated and to assert that they were
arrested for reasons such as “not engaging in honest pursuits” or “being
able-bodied but refusing to work.”
Pejan notes that even though they have completed their sentence some 70
percent of the prisoners are forced to live in specifically assigned
locations where they continue to work in the prison camp. In a cruel slogan
that brings to mind the “Arbeit Mach Frei” entrance to the Nazi
concentration camp at Auschwitz, Penan notes that Laogai is an abbreviation
for Laodong Gaizao which translates from Mandarin as “reform through labor.”
( details from HUMAN EVENTS)
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