At least we don't kill in cold blood.
The late Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong ranks right up there with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler because of the way he methodically damaged an entire people.
So says Chinese dissident Harry Wu. He should know. He was a prisoner of Chinas labor camps for years. His book Troublemaker gives the reader a chilling expose of the butchery that goes on in those camps and the elaborate methods used to disguise them so as not to attract attention in the Western world.
MODERN Indian style "massacre"
After all, American consumers are paying for this at shopping malls. And many self-styled consumer advocates in this country are not lobbying for full disclosure on the imported slave merchandise. More often, they prefer to save their energies for the harassment of American companies that pay taxes to Uncle Sam, as do their workers who are often getting union-scale wages.
Mao killed just as many people as Hitler, maybe even more, Wu says. He intentionally sought to destroy the traditional Chinese family system because it is inherently subversive to the collective Communist utopia. Moreover, Mao was responsible for millions of deaths as a result of his lunatic agricultural policies.
Hitler carefully used euphemistic phrases such as final solution (extermination of the Jews). Maos code language was Take Revolutionary Action.
Harry Wu knows firsthand what that meant. Translated, it was an order to the Red Guards on the night of Aug. 18, 1966 to go rampaging through the city, killing whoever displeased them, 1,741 in all, just in that one day alone.
The rationale was: My neighbor is a capitalist? Torture him. Kill him.
Wu says he felt a terrible link with the Jews whose lives were destroyed on Kristallnacht and during all other official pogroms.
The photographs of Hitler, that terrible sneer on his face, his eyes bulging out, were a warning to the world that he would kill anybody in his way.
The difference between Hitler and Mao?
Mao Smiled as Millions Starved
One never saw Mao with an ugly expression on his face. No, you see, With a sweet smile on his face, he was responsible for millions of deaths from starvation [and for] millions being banished to camps, for many being executed, Wu tells us.
There. Now doesnt the sweet smile make you feel better about Mao vs. Hitler?
The leftist opinion molders in the U.S. have convinced some of the populace that Mao was somehow beneficent. Thats how we get books with cute little Sayings of Chairman Mao and such. One can only imagine the uproar that would greet any implied respect for Mein Kampf, which was a version of what might be subtitled Sayings of Der Fuehrer.
Harry Wu has done an in-depth study of the Holocaust, including the death camps at Buchenwald, Dachau and Sachenhausen.
When the Chinese dissident visited Dachau, he noticed a slogan on the iron grillwork of the front gate: ARBEIT MACHT FREI. Tanslated, it means Labor makes [you] free. How ironic! In China, the slogan for our camps was Labor makes a new life.
Wu saw the dormitory at Dachau where the prisoners slept, crowded together, 500 or 600 people who were given five minutes a day to use the so-called bathroom and then get out. Just a sink and water. Hundreds of people waiting for dirty water.
These conditions were no worse than ours were, he thought.
Extermination of the Jews?
One passage in Troublemaker says, In China, we did not have Hitlers gas chambers, but in a racial sense, we do put Tibetans and Uighurs and other minorities in a special category. And we put our troublesome people, our class enemies in camps and make them work. I have no doubt that if war came, the Chinese would kill people in the camps if they could not use them. The Chinese have created an enemy, a separate class, a prisoner class.
The Nazis would subject prisoners to human experiments.
The doctors did not want to experiment on their own airmen, so they would talk to the camp commandant and say, Hey, can I have someone. Those experiments often led to death.
The Chinese would traffic in human organs. At one time, he confronted a Chinese doctor who had participated in taking kidneys out of prisoners like me.
The doctor was offended when Wu called him a murderer. Like the Nazi doctors before them, the Chinese physicians saw sacrificing the lives of prisoners as a necessity to achieve a higher good.
How many Americans at the mall during this past Christmas season gave a thought to all this when they saw the label Made In China?
