From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 13:44:32 MDT
In a message dated 8/11/2003 2:24:15 PM Central Standard Time,
robblin@thetip.org writes: Maybe. Perhaps the very fact that we us American Money commits
us to using slave-labor. I know it commits us to wars and economic policies
that are predatory.
##Robbie, it sounds as if you have an agenda that you haven't put
before the house. In addition you are making gratuitous statements without
offering either evidence or basis.
### Then you continue to quote me, "Perhaps sometimes there is no
alternative but most times there seems to be." And you continue with your reply,
"You do what you can, no doubt, but this doesn't make the overarching problem
magically go away."
###Did I mention magic? I suggested that you have here a collection
of very intelligent and knowledgeable people. These people can spread the meme
of not buying the products of slave labor. They also can keep up with who
the slavemasters are.
###And once again you quote me, "In my opinion when we knowingly buy
these products we are only the Morlocks of H. G. Wells. world living off
someone elses misery." And you reply, "Definitely, assuming we could reasonably be
expected to KNOW that we are and that we have a CHOICE in the matter." I know
of nothing that prevents you from knowing that products from particular
countries are from slave labor products. I am sure a phone call to any
international union headquarters would get you a list that would be astounding for its
completeness. As to your insinuation that we don't have choice I have never had
a salesclerk point a firearm at me and dictate what product choices I should
make.
At one time time in my misspent young adulthood I worked for a
manufacturer of ladies hairrollers and orther hair care products. We knew that a
shyster had sold a bunch of hairrollers of a particular color in Arizona and that
as a result Arizonians just wouldn't have anything to do with a hair roller
of that color.
Now if an American Hairroller company can be that sensitive to the
color of its product in certain markets then people that do purchasing for retail
outlets can be just as sensitive and in fact they are. So the last thing we
need is another layer of big brother looking out for us. All we have to do is
remember we are leaders and start being leaders.
Ron h.
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