RE: Slavery exists, is endorsed, is legal, inside the U.S. - Con-Sourcing is alive and growing...
"WE DON'T HAVE LABOR CAMPS IN THE US!" says the news reporter talking to Rodman about North Korea. :3
I have to admit though I was completely unaware of the points you touch. I always thought your high prison number stem from misguided laws and were so to say an 'accident'. But them being used for cheap labor makes a lot of sense. Guess the war on drugs was not only to demolish the hemp industry.
In Germany it is different! I heard people can get educated in crafting jobs and can get a non-college degree, that helps a lot when they are released... But a small google search revealed that it is the same problem here in Germany:
Billiglöhner hinter Gittern = cheap workers behind bars.
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/arbeiten-im-gefaengnis-billigloehner-hinter-gittern-a-1143147.html
My older articles I linked have examples including links to their actual catalogs (at only a few places) so you can see some to the types of products and services they provide.
"WE DON'T HAVE LABOR CAMPS IN THE US!" says the news reporter talking to Rodman about North Korea. :3"
There's truly no comparison, though, between U.S . prison labor conditions and North Korean labor camps. I've read many accounts of former prisoners, including a book by one called "Eyes of the Tailless Animals."
It sometimes left me in a daze of horror at the brutality, which at least equaled the Nazis. It very much reminded me of the Holocaust, and that's the overwhelming conclusion of people who research it. From the UN, where North Korea should be brought to the International Criminal Court:
"the gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world".
"unspeakable atrocities" which amounted to "crimes against humanity".
And this from the UN leader in charge of investigating North Korea's atrocities:
"Mr Kirby said that the descriptions he heard reminded him of Holocaust abuses.
"He said: "I never thought that in my professional life, my life as a judge or as an officer of the United Nations, I would sit there and hear descriptions that were so similar to the descriptions of what went on in those places.
"I thought we had said as a world community, 'never again'.
"I thought that was what the charter of the United Nations was about. I thought that was why in the charter it speaks of international peace and security and the protection of universal human rights together."
Whenever I think of those North Korean camps, I think that right now, under the same sky of this planet that I'm looking up at, there are people being constantly and most cruelly tortured in dozens and dozens of horrific ways.
http://news.sky.com/story/north-korean-defectors-harrowing-stories-10407270
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Tailless-Animals-Prison-Memoirs/dp/0882643355
still that doesn't undermine anything i said. A labor camp is the same as a prison where people are forced to work. Sure labor camp has the connotation of torture and death. But it's like saying a car is not a car anymore, just because it is always breaking down and pretty much a death trap on four wheels. It is still a car. Everything else would be a from of euphemism (dysphemism to be precise).
Of course I dont want other people to suffer, but there are countless atrocities committed all over the world. cough Guantanamo Bay cough
I dont trust the defectors stories. Remember the girl speaking in front of the UN about the atrocities in Iraq that led to the 1st Iraq war. Her statement was an act, but she still convinces me to this day , when I watch the video.
I will post an article about Rodmans visit to NK in about 10 minutes if you are interested ;)