HBO’s “China’s Unnatural Disaster, the Tears of Sichuan Province” is a powerful documentary about Chinese communist officials who allowed Chinese corporations favored by the communists to build public schools while ignoring safe building construction standards. When the 2008 earthquakes struck, hundreds of students died when the newer constructed school buildings collasped. See http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/chinasdisaster/index.html for a recommendation summary.
After the disaster, the families of deceased students learned that the building cement was substandard or missing. The favored Chinese corporations had convinced communist officials that the old public schools were not safe and negotiated non-competitive contracts and handsome rewards for building schools before the 2008 earthquakes. The older “unsafe” schools (then rented to Chinese corporations at bargain leases by the communists) managed to withstand the 2008 earthquakes with little damage.
Such evil is easily understood by almost every world citizen. Unfortunately, it is an evil that flourishes in many nations including the United States of America. How can advocates invent word descriptions of such evil?
“Communist” is a word that carries powerful negative emotions in the USA. It is a favorite authoritive word used by American corporations to avoid regulation, responsibility, and morality while permiting many corporations to kill, cheat, and engage in massive greed.
It can be said that our present American economic depression was caused by “communist plots” borrowed directly from communist China. If advocates of the rule of law could make the communist label “stick” to greedy corporations, such advocates might effectively curb excessive corporate influence in the United States.
