Via Reuters, the communists will turn on one of their own occasionally:
Chinese people have rescued 31 people forced to work for a year as slaves — given only bread and water and no pay — at a brickworks run by the son of a local Communist Party official, state media reported on Friday.
Eight of the workers were so traumatized by the experience they were only able to remember their names, the Beijing News said, citing a report in the Shanxi Evening Post.
One laborer was beaten to death with a hammer for not working hard enough, before police swooped to set the others free, the newspaper added.
The survivors had bruises, wounds and burns all over their bodies, having been made to carry uncooled bricks and walk barefoot in the kiln, it said.
“The grime on their bodies was so thick it could be scraped off with a knife,” the newspaper added.
They were guarded by dogs and “thugs” at the factory, near Linfen in the poor inland province of Shanxi, and the boss was only allowed to get away with it because of his political connections, the newspaper said.
“Local villagers said, had Wang Dongji not been Party Secretary, this brickworks which had no paperwork would have been discovered a long time ago,” it said, referring to the father of boss Wang Binbin.
Here in America, we only let diplomats get away with owning slaves.
Meanwhile, I walked into a clothing store today and saw that every single one of the suits they had for sale were from either China or Vietnam, another workers’ paradise.
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I don't think you linked to the right story, Bill. The link above goes to an <i>International Herald Tribune</i> article about Chinese officials destroying "contaminated" U.S. goods in what sounds like a tit-for-tat over recent measures by the U.S. government to block imports of pet food and toothpaste from China. Here's <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/08/china.workers.reut/index.html">a link to the story</a> you're talking about.So … it's a bad thing that the Chinese busted this slave operation, shut it down, rescued the workers and arrested several of those involved in running it? When an American run sweat-shop or sex-slavery prostitution ring gets busted, does that prove that our system is completely corrupt and tyrannical as you suggest applies to the Chinese?