China's gulags....socialists sure love their gulags....

[2aguy]

Here is a story about the current Chinese gulag system for political prisoners....those who love big, central government always end up with gulags....why is that....?

China s Slaves National Review Online

The camps are called “laogai,” a contraction of “láodòng gǎizào,” which means “reform through labor.” They were conceived under Mao; unlike Stalin’s gulags, they never closed — though the CCP has tried to abolish the name “laogai.” In the Nineties, it redesignated the camps “prisons.” The conditions, though, don’t seem to have changed.

Our picture of life in the laogai is murky, but here’s what has been reported: The prisoners are given uniforms and shoes. They have to purchase their own socks, underwear, and jackets. There are no showers, no baths, and no beds. Prisoners sleep on the floor, in spaces less than a foot wide. They work 15-hour days, followed by two hours of evening indoctrination; at night they’re not allowed to move from their sleeping-spots till 5:30 rolls around, when they’re woken for another day of hard labor. Fleas, bedbugs, and parasites are ubiquitous. The prisoners starve on meager supplies of bread, gruel, and vegetable soup. Once every two weeks they get a meal of pork broth.

The camps currently billet between 3 and 5 million convicts — real criminals along with thought criminals guilty of opposing Communism, promoting freedom, or practicing religion — though the process doesn’t wait on conviction; Chinese law permits the police to hold anyone for four yearsbefore judicial proceedings. At any given time — according to the Laogai Research Foundation — 500,000 Chinese citizens are in “arbitrary detention.” If a prisoner does get a hearing, he enters a legal system controlled, capriciously, by the Communist Party.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Here is a story about the current Chinese gulag system for political prisoners....those who love big, central government always end up with gulags....why is that....?

China s Slaves National Review Online

The camps are called “laogai,” a contraction of “láodòng gǎizào,” which means “reform through labor.” They were conceived under Mao; unlike Stalin’s gulags, they never closed — though the CCP has tried to abolish the name “laogai.” In the Nineties, it redesignated the camps “prisons.” The conditions, though, don’t seem to have changed.

Our picture of life in the laogai is murky, but here’s what has been reported: The prisoners are given uniforms and shoes. They have to purchase their own socks, underwear, and jackets. There are no showers, no baths, and no beds. Prisoners sleep on the floor, in spaces less than a foot wide. They work 15-hour days, followed by two hours of evening indoctrination; at night they’re not allowed to move from their sleeping-spots till 5:30 rolls around, when they’re woken for another day of hard labor. Fleas, bedbugs, and parasites are ubiquitous. The prisoners starve on meager supplies of bread, gruel, and vegetable soup. Once every two weeks they get a meal of pork broth.

The camps currently billet between 3 and 5 million convicts — real criminals along with thought criminals guilty of opposing Communism, promoting freedom, or practicing religion — though the process doesn’t wait on conviction; Chinese law permits the police to hold anyone for four yearsbefore judicial proceedings. At any given time — according to the Laogai Research Foundation — 500,000 Chinese citizens are in “arbitrary detention.” If a prisoner does get a hearing, he enters a legal system controlled, capriciously, by the Communist Party.

Great for the economy #republicans

 

[buddhallah_the_christ]

So, Chinese tortures Chinese. Nothing new. Socialists torture fellow citizens we torture foreigners. The whole world is against us and we are against the whole world. There is nothing new. Now America is on the crossroad and information about Chinese gulag system for political prisoners is not important. We have the same stuff.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

“Here is a story about the current Chinese gulag system for political prisoners....those who love big, central government always end up with gulags....why is that....?”

It has nothing to do with the 'size of government,' whatever that's supposed to mean.

It has to do with the fact that China is a one party dictatorship completely devoid of the rule of law, where the inalienable rights of the people are ignored by a government that affords its citizens no manner of actual due process, no right to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and no right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The cautionary tale that is China has nothing to do with 'big government' or whether its 'centralized' or not, it has to do with what becomes of a people when they allow their government to criminalize diversity, dissent, and expressions of individual liberty.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Those are the lucky ones who lived long enough to get as far as a prison cell or slave labor camp.