Chi-Coms Reward Concern with Jail

Here's another reason to boycott Chinese products:

BEIJING, Aug 19 (AFP) - A Chinese man who spoke to foreign reporters about severe radiation poisoning affecting local residents has been detained and accused of crimes related to state secrets, a rights group said Friday. Sun Xiaodi, a former employee of the Gansu No. 792 Uranium Mine in northwestern China, met journalists on April 28 while he was in Beijing to petition authorities about what he said was serious pollution from the mine. He said residents near and downstream of the plant suffered a high incidence of cancerous tumors, leukemia, birth defects, miscarriages and other afflictions. A day after the meeting, Sun was bundled into an unmarked car near Beijing's southern railway station and has not been heard from since...

This is routine in China. If a citizen reports government corruption or safety violations, he's just swallowed up by China's massive labor camp system, sometimes forever. Another civil rights violation commonly practiced is the seizure of private property by developers, with little or no compensation to the owners. Those who protest are arrested -- or bundled into an unmarked car. Of course, that could never happen here......oh...wait....well it USED to be that it could never happen here. But since the liberals on our Supreme Court destroyed the right of eminent domain some weeks ago, your land CAN be seized by developers. And if you resist, you WILL be arrested. And if you resist violently, you will be shot. Maybe I should boycott American products too. Or maybe we need an addition to our labeling laws. "Warning! This product produced by liberals!" Think about it the next time you're tearing into that container of Ben and Jerry's.