http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2007/06/08/even-more-irony-from-the-wokers-paradise/ Media and news from the original river city Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:28:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2007/06/08/even-more-irony-from-the-wokers-paradise/comment-page-1/#comment-89082 knight in dragonland Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:07:22 +0000 http://peoriapundit.com/blogpeoria/2007/06/08/even-more-irony-from-the-wokers-paradise/#comment-89082 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? 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?

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