Where would a worker making this little money learn to speak English so well?

Took an online class?

What are the chances a charity worker in Oregon would find it? Makes one wonder.

In the AF museum in Dayton they had (and may still) a Nazi rocket plane with messages written inside the structure by the slave labor that was forced to build it. Kind of chilling.

Perhaps I should read the whole story. Nah. Don´t buy it.

Not buying much these days, actually. Everybody lies.

I encourage everyoe to at least examine the letter before deciding it´s a hoax.

It´s not like the Chinese aren´t known for human rights violations. I don´t doubt the validity of it for a moment.

Can´t be true. China is a "progressive paradise"!

It sort of reminds me of cases where a black person claims that a noose was placed on his or her doorknob, but when surveillance tapes are reviewed, he or she put the noose on his or her door.
So I am skeptical.

I was skeptical at first. Now I see the WSJ clarifies some things here http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=716848
That ratcheted my skepticism a bit.

While hard to justify its authenticity, the letter is entirely believable.

English is the #1 most widespread "Second Language" in the world, and it´s entirely possible that the note-writer was a student before he/she became a slave laborer.

Dissidents of all education levels have always been sent to the labor camps as punishment for their beliefs #1. It is a favorite tactic of some governments in Asia. Remember Cambodia? They went for the highly educated professionals especially. Labor camps aren´t just for the povertystricken. You would be more likely to find those types in a Nike factory than a labor camp. The Chinese government can´t survive in its present form if independent thought is allowed to percolate through society.

Some Chinese people spoke to me on the street in China. One woman said to me, "Everything fresh" as we stood in front of a restaurant where fish were swimming in washtubs. A man asked me for a dollar bill and I gave him one. He said, "Thank you, American friend." It was illegal for me to give him American money, so we both broke the law. As I was leaving China the man checking me out at the airport read the Chinese writing on my tee shirt and said, "So, you climbed the Great Wall?"

While there I learned a few words although those words changed from province to province.

Half the prisoners are Falun Gong members, many of whom are highly educated.

We are used to cheap goods and like to be bale to buy the things we need instead of make them ourselves or buy them from people we know who make them.

As long as we buy instead of make our own, people such as these will remain in slavery and jobs will go overseas.

We should learn to live with less.

...and we should do it by our OWN choice...not because our own government, self-righteous morality "experts" tell us to. They really don´t want us to anyway.

Whatever would they do if Americans really did decide to stop buying Chinese?