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Old 12-25-2012, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Most likely a hoax.
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Old 12-25-2012, 05:07 PM
 
Location: where you sip the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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I don't buy it. I realize that conditions in their factories are terrible enough to induce quite a few suicides, but this particular note is written in better English than TexDav can muster up, and I think someone with that good a command of the language wouldn't be stuck on an assembly line.
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Old 12-26-2012, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Earth Wanderer, longing for the stars.
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My husband and I travel and neither of us have any inclination to go to China. We read other web comments and many place that country way on the bottom of the Asia list of where to visit.

Purported plea from Chinese labor camp found in Halloween decorations | Fox News

The note is printed in the article and it has misspellings and uses improper English in places.

Homeland Security Investigations said Tuesday that it is looking into the letter, The Oregonian reported.
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Old 12-26-2012, 06:16 PM
 
Location: Barrington
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The cursive writing style suggests the writer is likely someone other than who they claim.
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Old 12-26-2012, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Dublin, CA
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My husband and I travel and neither of us have any inclination to go to China. We read other web comments and many place that country way on the bottom of the Asia list of where to visit.

Purported plea from Chinese labor camp found in Halloween decorations | Fox News

The note is printed in the article and it has misspellings and uses improper English in places.

Homeland Security Investigations said Tuesday that it is looking into the letter, The Oregonian reported.
Just went to China in April for 3 weeks. Loved every minute of it. Didn't see any sweatshops and the history, museums, and culture were outstanding. I kicked myself for only staying such a short time.
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Old 12-26-2012, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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slavery is alive and well. It has merely been outsourced.
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Old 12-26-2012, 06:42 PM
 
Location: City of Angels
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china prolly has the best labor protection laws in the developing world. this is most likely a hoax.
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Old 12-26-2012, 07:27 PM
 
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Woman finds note from person locked in Chinese labor camp inside Halloween decorations:

Halloween decorations carry haunting message of forced labor | OregonLive.com



Truly, truly sad. If everyone really cares about other human beings, please stop buying Chinese goods!
This is what NAFTA and China most favored nation trade status brought to the world.

Thank you, Bill Clinton. Ross Perot was right, and most American voters laughed at him. Keep in mind, however, that American voters just re-elected Obama as well.
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Old 12-26-2012, 07:33 PM
 
Location: Houston
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It is a hoax. Sweatshops is a step on the road to progress. It beats dumpster diving, or in poor countries landfill scavenging. Sweatshops are a good thing.

I know a gal who immigrated from China. She was a banker there. After ten years in this country her written English is still lacking compared to that note by a sweatshop worker. What will be the next BS post?
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Old 12-27-2012, 10:10 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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Yeah. We have outlawed sweatshops in the US just to move the slave labor to other countries.

You know, more and more we can see the need for a one world government, although that in itself is an awful thought and open for abuse. At least we need world wide environmental controls and labor laws, no?
I can buy your first point. But an absolute NO for a one world government. What we need to do is stop doing business with that country. PERIOD!!!
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