[Gabe Luci]

My problem is that I see this business as fundamentally exploitative on
every level.  First, some poor 12 year old girl in Thailand probably makes
the shirt at some ridiculous slave wage, then we buy it tacitly supporting a
sweatshop industry.  On top of that, if you are trying to support the dead
firefighters, say a prayer or take out a child of a disadvantaged family.
The money from these proceeds are a) marginally benefiting the families of
victims of the sept. 11 tragedy b)greatly benefiting people who exploit
third world labor to make cheap products (as we saw when bbc had all the
pictures of Chinese workers sewing American flags) and c)exploiting your
emotions.

OK, so now I have said you cannot buy your way into heaven.  How can we
support these heroes?  Maybe a good start would be to try and make ourselves
more like them through consideration of others.


gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu
[mailto:powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Peter Scott
Poitras
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:04 PM
To: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: [Powderworks] FW: [Powderworks]NMOC: Wear What The Heroes
Wear!


Well said.  I agree wholeheartedly.

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu
[mailto:powderworks-admin@cs.colorado.edu]On Behalf Of Glitch
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:31 PM
To: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: [Powderworks] FW: [Powderworks]NMOC: Wear What The Heroes Wear!


Gabe, you're just digging yourself deeper.  These people gave their lives
for their fellow citizens, there is no two ways about it.  That makes them
heroes in my book and in the same way that we buy gear to support our other
heroes, be it sports figures, musicians, or Jesus, so people are buying gear
to support them.  What's your problem?
Sorry for the NMOC.
--Glitch

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From: Craig Jacobson <cjake@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 18:45:37 -0500
To: Gabe Luci <gluci@yahoo.com>
Cc: powderworks <powderworks@cs.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] FW: Wear What The Heroes Wear!

Gabe Luci wrote:

>  Was I right or was I right?  You are all dumb gits.

Um, what is it you were right about?


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