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Americans Fund Slave Labor Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comWASHINGTON – Americans during the past Christmas season shelled out millions for merchandise made by slave labor. It was “the season to be merry,” as Americans unwittingly snapped up bargains on the backs of prisoners whose only crime was to question the authority of their communist masters. Often they were beaten and literally worked to death without adequate food or health care. Chinese dissident Harry Wu has exposed the goings-on behind the “Bamboo Curtain” in the book “Troublemaker,” published by NewsMax.com. It is against U.S. law to sell goods made by slave labor. Wu shows how the Chinese dictatorship hides the fact that slave labor makes much of what you buy. It’s that “Made in China” label you see on sweaters, hardware, toys or whatever at your neighborhood shopping mall. At least at the mall, the shopper can look for the label and decide whether to buy. What frustrates some shoppers is that it’s often difficult if not impossible to find anything they want that was not made in China by slave labor. And it’s getting worse. The author cites official reports showing that China’s exports to the United States in 1985 were $3.8 billion. By 1994, China was exporting $31 billion to America, while the U.S. was selling only $9 billion in goods and business to China. That money is aiding China in its military buildup to crush the United States. The plot has been fully documented in the book “Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Plan to Destroy America,” also available from NewsMax. That book is the Chinese army's secret strategy, translated from the original Chinese documents, written by a top army official. Wu compares the Chinese slave camps to the Nazi concentration camps (more on that in a future report), all to produce goods for the American market. The communist regime in Beijing is using the profits from American shoppers to build the military machine to destroy the freest society on Earth — a prosperous society enjoyed by those same American consumers. The authorities have names for the stages in the slave camps. Harry Wu went through three stages, first for 19 years and then a second time when he risked his life to go back to China so he and his associates could document (often through film smuggled out of China) the stomach-turning conditions to which the Chinese have subjected their slave laborers.
Wu calls the entire system “laogai.” He estimates 50 million prisoners have been sent to the system since the communists grabbed power in China in 1949. Laogai – the phrase burns Wu’s soul, makes him crazy, makes him “want to grab Americans and Europeans and Australians and Japanese by the shirt and scream, ‘Don’t you know what’s going on over there?’ I want the word ‘laogi’ to be known all over the world in the same way that ‘gulag’ has become synonymous with the horrors of Stalin’s prison system.” Wu witnessed two Public Security officers beating a prisoner with a construction beam. The rumble of mine cars drowned his screams of pain. “In the dark pits,” he writes, “the dust billowed from the face of the mine, where men cut the coal. The floor of the mine was wet, with an evil odor. The prisoners bent forward, knowing they would have to work for twelve hours, until they had achieved their daily quota.” Soon, Wu thought, he would be back in California “with my nice shower, the fresh hot water, the soap, the thick towel, but these guys were condemned to live like this for the rest of their lives … minute by minute, day by day, year by year.” And remember, America, you’re paying the bill for this. Those millions of freedom-loving Chinese are forever living under the jackboot of butchers who are building a military machine to kill millions of us. Is this living hell comparable to the infamous Nazi concentration camps? According to Wu, you bet it is. NewsMax deals with that next. Get a $5 discount from NewsMax on "Troublemaker: The Story of Chinese Dissident Harry Wu."
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