We’re Number One!

theCL  2011-03-01  America, Government, Police State

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  • republicanmother March 2, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    I would add the caveat that China is known to use slave labor in lieu of officially jailing people. I know of a Sunday School teacher working in an illegal church who is forcibly working in a cigarette lighter factory 18 hours a day. They call it "reform through labor" according to American University Law school:

    The PRC 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."

    Perhaps our day is coming...

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  • Corinthian Scales March 5, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    Hmmmm,

    The U.S. population is some odd 310 million and 2.3 million are incarcerated, of which, roughly 28% of the incarcerated are illegal aliens, so that brings down actual U.S. Citizens incarcerated to 1,656,000 or, 0.53% of U.S. Citizens.

    99.47% of America walks freely.

    Oh, yes! America most certainly has become the great gulag of the former Soviet Union.

    Drama much?

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