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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 20:30:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 20:30:00 1986
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>/* lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) /  7:52 pm  Feb 28, 1986 */

>Please don't forget the long-standing tradition in the American South
>of using forced prison labor on road-building projects, as well as on
>private property, where the owner leases these workers from the state.

Provided it is not accompanied by cruel treatment of prisoners, this is
an excellent way of getting prisoners to compensate their victims.
After they had worked a sufficient amount of time, they should be
released.

>Isn't this the same sort of slavery we criticize the Soviets for?

Hardly.  In the Soviet Union being a slave to the state is a birthrite,
here, at least in theory, one must earn it.

>larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

Mike Sykora